The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 30, 1918, Page 4

FOUR BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCH: Q-. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Emtered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class M: ISSUED EVE! GEORGE D. MANN Cie eS @. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, | Special Foreign Representative. | NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marqnette Bldg; | BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.;| MINNHAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use feation of all news credited to it or not other- 54 iin this paper and also the Wpcal news pub- | Msned herein. | ‘All rights of publication of special dlapatches herein Baditor | MBE AU DN fuss U Ob CIRCULATION. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCi | Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month .. . Daily, Evening onl: » Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month . Morning or Evening by Mail in North FOOT nrcsseceen Morning or evening by mail outs! 90) Sunday in Combination with Evening or mail, one year ..... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) EE SD | SELF-KICKING GOOD MEDICINE The United States senate’s sudden outbreak against delay in our war production was undoubt- edly largely psychological. This can be said with-| out prejudice to the facts or the arguments pro and con, in the matter. Washington has been, for many months, under tremendous mental strain. The investigations into the war management departments and the expos- ures of undoubted but perhaps unavoidable weak- | nesses and failures, here and there, have not | contributed to mental poise. | On top of this condi-; tion was piled the fact of Germany’s astonishing progress in her great drive, and it is not at all remarkable that Washington's mental equilibrium | ‘was upset. | Indeed, the country in general was more or less “rattled.” The folks had so well known how) much ‘depended upon them, they had worked so hard, given so much, and yet, when the great drive came and the armies of Britain and France fell back, mile after mile, America apparently counted | so very little in the matter! Many a good patriot felt like going out behind the barn, or into the! garage, to weep, or to curse every man or measure) that has contributed an hour to America’s delay. “Too late!” said the kaiser, upon our declaring war. That has yet to be demonstrated. But,.even in the great.drive we were not altogether too: late. We were init. Our engineers, our railroaders, our munitions, our wheat helped the allies when they fell back in good order, backed them when they made a stand and held fast. We were actors onthe stage without speaking parts, as it might be put, but we were in it and our part was important and glorious. Let us, as does the United States ‘senate, “kick ourselves, good and plenty, ‘over the fadtithat we were not. in it with all our. might and main! It will speed us up. “The blues” is a psychological condition. Nothing is better for it than for a fel- low to take himself by the hair of the head, look squarely into his own eyes, figuratively speaking, and ask himself why he hasn’t hustled instead of laying down. oe Certain United States senators are kicking about the delay of war work. One of the biggest causes of delay of such work has been the United States senate. That body may hereafter recognize and grant necessary war legislation more prompt- lasting damnation in American opinion, or it is a/ lof the carnage, or gloat on human suffering and truth the establishment of which demands the ax for every department head that has gone wrong. | The truth, Woodrow Wilson, the whole truth and nothing but the truth! The truth hurts only | those who plot and work in the dark. | THAT FRIZEFIGHT | Our beloved sons, brothers, husband, sweet-| hearts, by the thousands may be filling the shell- holes of war-torn France with their life-blood. Other thousands may.roll, scream, plead, in agony, upon the hospital cots ,over there. The lines of | corpses of our boys may be of horrible length. Hate may so rage, Death so reap, that even merci- | less Mars shall cry “Enough!” 1 Bat. at this nee one cannot see the blood ruu or the bodies stifien, or smell the peculiar odor defeat. In short, one canont fully enjoy the horror and torture, there’s so much lacking to satiate the Hun that’s in one. So, on our next glorious national birthday an- niversary, July 4, a prizefight for the heavyweight championship is staged. If enough blood runs,j it will be satisfactory. If one of the contestants is beaten so cold that he canot arise while one counts ten, it will be a complete success. With- out either of these, it will be a fizzle, and no man in the audience with one particle of the real Hun in him but will regret the price of admission he paid. The excuse for it is that it promotes the manly art of self-defense, is conducive to the phys- ical vigor of our youth. The boys in Europe fight- ing and dying in the manly art of defending moth- ers’ honor, children’s lives and human rights must | share, for weeks, the press attention, the public concern with Mr. Fred Fulton, who is guaranteed | $20,000 for taking the blows of Mr. Jess Willard, who is guaranteed 75 per cent of the net profits of the show. | On July 4, many of us who have been on wheat- less, meatless, heatless, sugarless days without a whimper, will have paid our income tax. Our chil- ‘dren will have put every cent they could beg or earn into War Thrift Stamps. We will have dug deep for third Liberty Loan bonds. We will have pinched and scraped to the bone and, maybe, taken the very marrow from the bone, to help out the glorious Red Cross, Ordinary taxes, higher bread, higher meat, higher shoes, higher everything— it’s only “Trust in God” with many of us! And the empty hands grope for more to sacrifice and give that the heroes in the trenches may not go) % cold and hungry, while facing death for America’s} | sake. Twenty thousand dollars for Prize-fighter Ful- ton; 75 per cent of the receipts for Prize-fighter Willard! It is so written in the bond. And along comes the U. S. government for which those boys in Europe suffer and die, for which we all pinch and save, and asks 1 cent for every 10 those prize- fighters take in! Under the income tax law, a prize-fight is taxed, as “a public performance for profit,” ten |per cent of the admission price. Before July 4, |1918, congress should put prize-fights in a speci- |fied class by themselves and raise the tax to 50 \pér cent or more of the:admission fees. We hope to see a member of congress brave; sensible: and |patriotic enough to put such a measure’ through. | peeceeeerennn nnn nen nnn nn nnnnnncenn enone iy | __WITH THE EDITORS Da cen rensesawecececsees | ile THE SELF-SATISFIED ENEMY The reports of the reichstag and reichsrath meetings at Berlin and Vienna respectively, show | the enemy governments basking in the warmth of | | general congratulation over their peace with the! | ly and courageously. Report of a German gun shelling Paris 75 miles distant “dum American orditance de partment,” says a angtC itch,‘ Well, sir, we'll bet the kaiser a dollar, and put up the eash, that he can’t lick us by dumb-founding our ordnance department. It’s been in a state of dumb- found for about 50 years. TURN ON THE FULL LIGHT OF PUBLICITY! The last week in February, Secretary Baker is- sued a statement to the effect that American airplanes then were en route to France five months ahead of schedule. The second week in March, there was issued from Washington the following authorized state- ment as to aircraft production: “All immediate requirements for train- ing planes having been met the number of fighting planes delivered will mount rapidly each month. Before the middle of April, shipments of combat planes will be moving by carloads, and by the middle of May they will be moving by trainloads. There is every reason to expect that before midsummer our supplies of planes in France will more than provide a machine for each trained aviator we can have and that by late sum- our machines in France will almost double the present total of German, English, French and Italian machines combined.” General Wood returns from the fighting front and testifies: that our boys are practically without airplane protection. Senator New, member of the senate military committee, testifies that instead of delivering - 12,000 combat airplanes in France by July 1, we will be able to deliver 37; that we hadn’t one single battleplane in France up to March 25; that Ger- man planes are attacking our boys so low that the / ag are trying to beat them off with revolver ire. : Senator Lodge, another member of the military affairs committee, declares that we have no heavy guns in France, save a few old coast guns. Senator Johnson, with a son in the expedition- ary forces, rises'to demand “pitiless publicity” in this matter. He is absolutely right. Every father with a son, every wife with a husband in uniform demands it. This time the counter-charge of partisan poli- tics will not be accepted by the people as. genuine. This time democrats, republicans and progressives, who are in position to know whereof they speak, speak at the risk of being set down as mere. ardly calamity-howlers. dieing ‘oodrow Wilson, somewhere in een thias reak-down, due to senil- Ukraine and their prospect of successfully coercing; | ‘Petrograd. The Polish indignation against the allotment of a slice of Russian Poland to the remiblic seems to be slightly mitigated; by promise oi a Polish-Ukrainian commission! to report on the precise delimitation of the new; | ifrontier. The promise clearly does not amount to; ‘much; and the keenness of the Ukrainians to re- tain what they have been given may be inferred 2 out it they could not have been induced to sign} peace. The new offensive to coerce Great Russia levidently excited misgiving at first, especially in ' Austria; but the prompt and abject surrender of |Lenine and Trotzky and the great hauls of booty |made by the advancing German troops seem to be fast dissipating it. Already at Dvinsk the Ger- mans claim to have taken hundreds of guns, which | will presumably appear next on the western front; and our special correspondent, Dr. Williams, ex- presses the fear that Reval may yield them even richer spoils. The arrogant and cocksure tone of Herr von Kuhlmann before the reichstag may be | profitably pondered by those who fancy that Prus- jsianism has as yet been chastened by events.— London Chronicle. BOLSHEVIKS’ PROMPT SURRENDER Re sheviks very accurately. Twenty-four hours of a German offensive, which captured Dvinsk and {Luck without opposition, have resulted in an ‘abrupt climb-down by Lenine and Trotzky. They | have issued a manifesto, in which they say that their government “regards itself as forced to de- jclare formally its willingness to sign a peace upon ithe conditions which have been dictated by the] cl delegations of the quadruple alliance at Brest- Litovsk.” These tonditions, according to Mr. Soviets, included “disguised indemnities” (prob- ably disguised as reimbursement for the cost-of | prisoners’ maintenance) to an amount of eight to ten milliards of roubles, or (at the pre-war rate of exchange 800 to 1,000 millions sterling). They also, of course, involve recognition by the Bolshe- viks of the German and Austrian annexations in|!¢ Poland, Courland, Esthonia, and Lithuania. After all the sonorous protests, that Bolshevism would never acquiesce in such iniquities, not even the farce of “non-recognition” now remains. We imag- ine that the central powers will grant a formal a ‘n be assumed that their forcible intervention in|in Russian affairs is at an end. They will probably | of .\give it as far as possible the shape of a response] agers * <~| North Dakota, in1906, Hammond, Thus their interventions in| ¢ep1eq the nomination against Mc- to local invitations. Finland and the Ukraine may be expected to go| forward till the Red Guards are driven out of those d.the war management’s ' gent, the mm the whole territories; and any similar invitation received from Herr von Kuhlmann’s declaration that with- JONES OF ROCK North Dakota’s Best Known| persistent and best known office-seek- ers of the not long ago, when men: sought the offices, and offices did not} chase around looking up the men, are pleased to Mont., dispatch that George P. Jones, county attorney of Wibaux county, has been named judge of the Fifteenth Montana judicial district, vice Judge | The Germans seem to have gauged the Bol-|<. jeachment proceedings were in pro- gress in the Montana legislature. The rppointment came from Governor Sam Vv. Stewart and is said to be generally yopular in eastern North Dakota. LaMoure., other for prodably every office within che ken of man in North Dakota, in 2arnorship, and at least one for a Unit- ed States Trotzky’s report to his central executive council of) Rock’ Teapot into) tame, whenes te in Minnesota, quite a number of years ago. only broad enough to hold his clothes together, red-headed, and possessed of a voice like a fog-horn. Back of the voice was ability to say things and make them stick, and before he barrister of u North Dakota’s most habitual office-| seeker, Jones of Rock already had won was candidate for, clerk ofthe su- preme court, candidate for “congress, peace under these circumstances; but I must not) .;atic convention in St! Louis in 1904. foe, and beat i : political job in North Dakota was the atate’s attorneyship of ‘Hettinger coun- handed him in HE’S THE BOY WHO- WILL PUT ’EM ACROSS HOME GUARD RALLY SONG (Tune Marching Through Georgia) (1) Come on my boys, we’ll guard our homes from treason and the Hun, - well done. - We'll guard them, if the need shall be, till God shall say, We'll rout the hosts of German spies-unto the setting sun, While they. are fighting.o’er yonder.’ CHORUS Hurrah! Hurrah! We're in’ this‘war to win, Hurrah! Hurrah! We've got the wheat and tin, And if you.don’t believe it; take a look into our bin, Whilé they are fighting o’er yonder. Come on my boys with eagerness to get’ into the. fray, To guard the wives and sweethearts of the boys that’s gone. away, . And earn ‘their everlasting gratitude from day to day, While they are ee yonder. ; . The only way to win this war, is stand by Uncle Sam, " And put your: shoulder to thd ‘wheel and push just all you can, che: And God will give us victory, if we.stand man to man, While they are fighting nee yonder, Come on my: boys to victory, Old Glory leads the way,. And Uncle Sam is beaconing, you can not go estray, The Lord of Host is watching us to see what part we play. While they are fighting o’er yonder. Dedicated to the _ MRS. SIDNEY SMITH, Steele, N. D. 4 ARR ARR eee FINALLY GETS HIMSELF A JOB! Office-Seeker Lands in | Montana Berth ‘Hundreds or trienas of “Jones of ock,” one of North Dakota’s most learn from a Wibaux, L. Cram, who resigned while im- “Jones of Rock” made his home in He ran at one time or an- luding a couple of tries for the gov- senatorship. ‘Jones of Jones was six’ feet long, ft Minnesota to become a leading! name for himself as a politician. He Minnesota; delegate to the demo- Minnesota Jones was'a close friend the late Governor John A. John- mn, The very year Jones moyed to leary, Jones’, gnclent., goperestions! Home Guards by vhen a democrat counted for littl jome years ago he moved to Wibaux sounty, Montana, where he at last has \ job in keeping with his aspiration See ee eee ee ae wee LETTERS FROM SOMEWHERE i i IN FRANCE Somewhere in France, March 6, 191 Mrs. Rebt. Stebbins, 409 Fifteenth St., ‘Bismarck, N. D. My Dear Mothe I think it’s about time for me to I have not drop you a few lines. heard from you for some time. do not think you are addressing my letters right. I know it takes quite while for mail to get here, and as long for it to get back to the States agai and you want to write whenever you get a chance and I will do the sam‘ | It can’t be letter for letter now as there is so much mail to handle over here, and there is so much. that has to come before it that it is hard to I have been on mail trucks several times, and as you go through | the streets you can hear the boys say, “There goes the mail, and-T’'ll wait. bet I got a letter from home.” We have got things a lot better than we expected, and everyone is satisfied, We are getting good meals and have good sleeping quarters, and. that is about all we are about, I! j { | | i | | | i | | 1 i WAR anyone got the kaiser it would be the Americans, because they are not afraid of anything, and all they think about is eats, and he was about right. 1 |We haven't been up to the front yet, | |and it will be some time before we ' | get there, but we want to get there. || .1 am, learning to talk French and | getting along.O0. _K The people here | | | heard a British soldier say that if | i treat us fine. I: am going’ to send you a souvenir of France, .and T' want {| you: to let me. know. if you get.it. I | | think .I, will have to. close, for, this | | time. Hoping to hear from, you -soon.| | My address..is as follows: . | vf} ° Sort W. Stebbins, | , Co. A, 168th V. Inf., A. BE. b, via New York. Your son, ° ROBT. W, STEEBINS. ‘POETS CORNER LIBERTY DAY. | | Let every loyal heart today t+ From hamlet, town or square. | | | Pay. homage. to this noble..cause {| In. deeds ‘and. solemn prayer. | || Oh do not loiter on the way | } \ | | it | i I Or idly stay at home... + Tat come and give a helping hand ''To our boys across the foam | i \ | You can help them if you will » a t ha You can hel pthem if you try t ‘And victory shall be theirs | | i With the help from you and I. 1 Come gather around this dear old flag. As our heroes did of old. From every graceful-fold. For your liberty and mine. s.! And soon the star of peace shall rise ‘| Through. future years to shine. %| You can help them etc. i ——O, S. Lamberson. ‘4 PEOPLE'S FORUM f AN APPRECIATION. * Bismarck, N. Gentlemen: I! Thru the columns of your valuable paper, we. wish to express our sincere a' appreciation for the splendid address made in our town on Tuesday evening in, | by Mr. Keniston, as representative of your Commercial club. His address e, | was a inasterpiece of. patrotism, and of inestimable value to this commun- ity. The Bismarck Commercial club is to be congratulated for having a real man as its secretary. They are doing a wonderful good to the state and nation. Heping that we may again have. the honor of having Mr. Keniston with us at an early date,-we are - y Very Sinverely, The Beulah Commercial fA Club. A. D, BROWN, Secretary. that is ahout at ye ee eee : | “GO TO WORK OR GO TO JAIL” eccc cece cen ece enone coo w nce sooserennesceretocwerenens “The best way to draft farm la- r | bor,” Assistant Secretary of Agricul- LaMoure \ county and tare Clarence Ousley said not long ago in an address before the Texas legislature, “is for you to amend your vagrancy law so as to include within its terms. every able-bodied man who does not do six days’ work each wee! as a rule.” In many states-of the union, either by state legislation or local action, taken or plans are under. way to require idle men to go to work. Farmers know they can fot increase their food-crop production es’: first | unless they have ‘more labor. Town jare at @ point. where every man’s la- people know they will suffer, incon- or want and have to pay es for the reduced ra- Q bu: b steps have ‘bi veniences very, high termining that this is not a time, nor theirs a place, for the toleration of idlers. For instance, a few weeks ago the. sheriff of Grayson county, Texas, a thickly populated and highly produc- k|ed proclamations: that “every man must go to work.” This sheriff didn’t wait for the state legislation to enact new laws. The old ones are strong} enough to suit him. | “Go to work or go to jail,”-he said‘crisply. “No man will be allowed to: loaf around this town or in this county, because we bor-is seriously needed for the farms.” |MINNESOTA tive agricultural section, announced | in the ‘Sherman papers and by post- t RAIL BOARDS TO GOTO MAT. ON COAL RATE: | Little Delay Will Be Suffered in Bringing Lignite Ques- tion to Crux LIKES FUEL |Moorhead Favors Use of Slack in Automatic Stoker Fur- naces for Economy Schedules of proposed new freight rates on lignite to Minneapolis and South Dakota’ points will. be submit- ted at an adjourned conference of the railroad commissioners _ of the three states to be held in St.’ Paul” as soon as the proposed tariffs are completed, it was decided at the con- ference held at the Waldorf hotel, Fargo, this week. The effort on the part of the repre- sentative of one of the railroads to delay “until the situation “could: be studied” did not meet with favor; and the lignite producer's were told to | prepare rate schedules for Minnesota points and the Sauth Dakota com- missioners agreed to have, their schedule ready to present at the, adjourned meeting, ‘ £ » It is probable that the suggestion of A. L. Flynn, rate clerk of the Minne- sota commission, will ‘be followed in that state. Mr. Flynn suggested ‘the establishment of rates that apply to both sirés ofthe river at Fargo and Moorehead, Grand’ Forks and East Grand Forks, Wahpeton and Brecken- ridge. - Rates. from the river points to increase at the rate of 1-2.cent a ton a mile on the zone system. This would make the rate from the mines to the twin cities $2.80:a ton based on .the $1.60 rate to the Fargo. cross- ing of the river. The present rate $7.80.’ On the same basis . Detroit would have a rate from. the mines of $1.84 in place of the present. one of $2.65. The railroad commissioners in dt- tendancé were unanimous in. the opinion that lower rates are neces- sary and new tariffs .will. be recom- mended as soon as the schedules .are prepared. While there is no authority with the state commissioners to en-, force rateg it was decided at ‘the aft- ernoon ‘session of thé conference, yeé- terday, to carry, the, recommendations to Director ‘General of Railroads Mc- Adoo and; Federal Fuel Administrator. Garfield ‘if -the. railroads refuse. to make. the ‘proposed.. tariffa :effective,. ‘A.J. Warner,; superintendent’ of the Moorhead electric. light ‘and water works. plant, told at the: con-, ference yesterday of: the .experiments . in. the.use of-lignite made..at, the, city, plant. - Superiritendent . Warner ..sa/d, the tests showed: that, one pound ot: lignite will evaporate. ».4.5°. pounds, ‘of water. and:one pound-of bituminous, 8.5 pounds. -By mixing 15. per. cent of .bituminous| screenings with, ‘the’ j crushed lignite the. evaporation «is increased to 5.5 pounds of water for each pound of the. mixed fuel... -An- other.important feature is that lignite. .| seréenings considered . little. . better. ‘ than waste at the.mines can be-used in the Moorhead: - plant where.- auto- ;| matic stokers feed the, furnaces.. An additional drayage charge .of. 25. cents. a ton.:to the -cost of delivering coal chat the plant is paid under the pres- ent freight schedules ‘as, the lignite. is hauled: from the: Fargo railroad yards instead of Moorhead where the price is 50. cents a ton. tty : The discussion yesterday. afternoon brought: to the surface the old rate And pray: while streams of valor flow: contests in North Dakota and) the | various phases of the numerous. dis- le.) And here to day pledge heart and putes between the lignite producers and | and the railroads. ; the part of the railroads that a reduc- It was urged on tion in rates at the present, time might have some effect upon. the Holmes and Howell case now in. the courts. This argument did not worry the commissioners who told the rail- road representatives that the changed conditions warrant .a lowering of rates and. a .change-at the present time will, have no bearing onja suit hegun before there was. necessity for | lower rates. : Bismarck Tribune, | se ‘ mission urged that Judge Mills of the Minnesota com- the. relief. | be provided at once .so the miners can make: arrangements with their help. Commissioner. M. J. Johnson sug- gested the appointment of a com- mittee, representing .the three com- missions, the miners and the rail- roads to agree upon rate schedules and_ report, to. an adjourned confer- ence. i Commissioner 0. [. Sweet of South Dakota said the proposed’ rates for that state would be scheduled by the ‘commission's rate. expert on the basis of the, information ‘received from the producers the railroad repre- sentatives: and .knowledge_ of. condi- tions in that state. s It was then ‘decided to adjourn the conference for about two weeks when it: will be reconvened in St.-Paul aft- er thé proposed schedules have been prepared; and. J. W..Deemy of the North Dakota council of defense re- turns from Weshington where he will go this week for ‘a. conference with ‘Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield. eee Sore Throat, Colds Hamlin’s Wizard Oil is a: .and effective treatment ened Aer aut chest colds: Used as a gargle for soré throat it brin relief. 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