The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1918, Page 4

oi eed th Od CS ee coming may mean the least bit of sacrifice, some- thing which we have not been called upon to make, as yet, the most of us, And you will have an early opportunity to show that you are true blue Ameri: can and proud of it, and that you appreciate the sacrifices which are being made by those boys| over there on the firing line and those who are preparing to go, and the mothers and fathers and wives and sweethearts who have bravely held back THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Matored ai tho Postofiice, Bimmarck, N. D., ae Second Cliss Matter 1SSUKD EVERY DAY MANN Oh AYNE COMPANY, — Special Porelgn Representative 6wORIE D. Kaitor NW YORU, Filth Ave Bldg; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg. ; ORTON, 3 Winter Bt; DETROKI, Kroiexs wldg;|the tears when their loved ones went marching a MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Larmbor Bh away. That opportunity is offered in the'the Third MEMBER OF ABSC oY) Liberty Loan. Ly sociuled Press is exclusively entitled to the Be prepared Citizens of the Slope. Let us in , Citiz 5 - tion of all sews credited to {t or not other- f ‘i od in this paper and also the local news pub-|Vvest 80 liberally with Uncle Sam that we never in will be called upon to give one red cent to blood- rhix of publication of special dispatches hereiy| godden Kaiser Wilhelm. for will wis ‘ Mehed he All ¢ are ale LONG TIME LEARNING Successful prosecution of a business requires MOMUFIC AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION, SUBSCIUPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Daily, Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month .. § 70 u f Y Daily, Morndjug, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, definite plans and concentration of authority. You per month , eae 99] cannot even dig a good ditch without lines, and, if Dali ny only, by Careler, per month 60 . rf é rae bs Daily, Hyer nd Sunday, per’ month m\you permit every digger to dig ay widely, deeply Morning or Hyenting by Mall tn North Dakota and crookedly as he pleases, you're more likely one 4.00|to get a swamp than a ditch, The allied nations have been, for nearly four rnin ov eventing by mafl outst ide of North Dakota, Aunday in Combination with Evening or Morning by years, engaged in the business of beating off Ger- gant, one your ; 00/many. It has been, very largely, purely a business proposition. The fighting behind the lines is of preponderating importance, in our times. The has long since passed when the warrior could | ‘ide of bacon on one of his hips and a' STATO OLDEST NEWSPA) (istablished R73) THK a ae Panera Gy ces vor ou (he other and go out and fight indefinite-| THE FIRST YEAR OF Wat Modern warfare is very largely a matter of America today emerges from its tirst year of) ,usiness or industrial skill and endurance. This war, ‘has been apparent to everybody ever since the Ht has been a year marked pricipally by prep-|battle of the Marne, yel it has taken the allies aration. ithree years and more to arrive at an allied council During the twelve-month just past, whose ad-|and a supreme allied command—detinite plans and vent found America as wholly unprepared as it | concentrated authority. General Foch may be all the great things that are said of him. The wsdom of his selection may be as obvious as all the war experts say itis. But the common citizen, who has contributed his work, his funds and maybe his was when the great war broke on the world two| y and eight months before, more than anyone regarded humanly possible, has been accomplished to prepare America to properly play its part in the K y titanie alee sons, cannot help asking, Why not long ago? While A y arms in France have won no ae kala ; great vietori 'y brush with the enemy, our “Fill your bins,” says Doe Garfield. Which Sanimies have given a good account of themselves, |ones, Doc ? Coal or flour? We have half a million splendidly trained fighting men there, and a million more men in training ore soon to go, Never in the history of any na-|say that even the chickens are following the more tion has an army of such magnitude and of go fine|daylight movement. calibre been recruited, equipped and trained in the ————-- Chicago voters buried the anti-loyal socialists Reports from all parts of the United States small space of one year, Doubting Americans have been given proof|and, just for good measure, threw in all of Mayor that the select service principle of building an] Bill Thompson’s candidates. army is correct, and that such selection procures for the military forces of the nation men best suited to serve in that capacity, leaving in the in- dustries and on the farm the men whose labor will be more valuable to their country there. ‘The “draft,” regarded with such horror by certain of our stalesmen prior to the adoption of the. select|clubs.” Some folks don’t like to pay $9 for a pair service act, has encountered no opposition worthy |of leather shoes made out of roofing felt. of the name. The young men selected for distin- we ene tt guished service in the noblest cause for which any Canada’s professional baseball has just about people has ever fought have been proud of the| gone blooey and now, quite naturally, the govern- opportunity presented them. ‘They have come ment has forbidden the ‘importation of diamonds. Five million bottles of pop are to be shipped to the American soldiers in France. But don’t get it into your head that it’s for their guns. Down in Texas they’re reviving the “barefoot back on furlough from our tracing: camps and cantonments thorough soldiers, spiendidly effi-| A Cleveland man has begun his 131st term in vient, thoroughly American ( rkhouse, You can say for him: He must Had Amet during this year dowe nothing bave a good memory. Otherwise he would have} 1 build it mare rmy of 1,500,000 men, it; lost track of the count. : would faeve accomplished more than one ordinarily | Pee cou Towanda, Pa., men have promised to observe d expect trom the chaotic condition in which F ‘tion of waron Germany found us. But | one smokeless day a week. If the Towanda women It has undertaken the wre wise they'll veto it. The men will brag about it for the next 100 year: done much more, building program ever attempted by and is making it a su > it is em- barked Gpen the construction of aeroplanes on a vale never before dvcamed of; it is building muni- (rmanutacturing ammunition on a tremen- | it is producing food for its own soldiers | tel of our allies; it is keeping in the American Red Cross, and the Y. M,C. A.| . A Cleveland woman has sued: for divorce, ights of Columbus and the Salvation | Charging that when her husband takes her to the} ering not only to our boys, but to the! theater he falls asleep. A man who can do that allies; it is loaning its billions to our has no excuse for not going to the theater, nad investing its hundreds of millions in its saat 7 : own war work, Washington has decided that sport eds will not Ant all this has been accomplished with. go| have to pay the war tax at ball games. That's | onfusion that here in peaceful North Da-| right. When a man has to go to every ball game | little koto there are no outward indications to. show] it seems like an outrage to add to the hardship. We still think that Jess Willard’s showing as a financier makes him the best man to handle the Liberty Loan. Can you think of anybody who can iise money any more easily? - ers of ou allies that we twar. Despite Hooverizing, we con-} iascaceep aera tint Ley out three meals each day; despite! U. S. senators have got to mentioning our inyve he fast two Liberty] of fellow members who ought to be ey alrerdy. a vot us. have set aside’aid if this keeps up, they'll soon have to give; the fare vtewhich we intend to invest. in(? hh respeeted senatorial dignity a formalde- Pored Liberty loan. We have put oar pena tdoour dities: cad out do pvomises a two-man tank. Wel ror he means itll take two men! vps fund and the Salvation (i olet it orto ran it. We're suspicious of sueh re honest with ourselves and) {hings ever since we watched four men fail to put onsciences closely we will confess that &P # one-man top. sd ourselves no material comfort and | eollays tao Ww wing YMG aud the Knights of whe California state hospital cow, at Napa, has One y ago there was uncertainty, fear,|btoken the world’s record for milk in a month, doubt. ‘Today there are none of these. We know | With 1897 quarts, but her name is Raphaella Jo- where “we are at.” We have gone through the hanna Aaggie. Now, is that German, or isn’t it? dan, initia! stage of the war and have come before we begin to cheer that cow on, out stronger in every way than we went in. We] caer nats are, most of us, better Americans; we are better! _ Indiana appears to be “dry” while waiting for citizens, better Christians, better friends and | the supreme court to decide whether she’s consti- neig! because we have this universal bond to {tutional about it. If that court takes its time, as we have det tew | FIRST ANNIVERSARY. OF ENTRANCE OF UNITED STATES IN WAR FINDS SATURDAY, APREL /6, 1918 ent neu- | troops there have been some loss to Germany through the ad. ‘notably the Tuscania and the Antil trals. As the war’ goes ‘on, officials: | put the losses of life have Deen for-| say, the work of this organization } tunately small in comparison with the/cannot be underestimated. y ] $ 8 ed, At th AY f war, all officials concede, } RESOURCES COMING INTO ACTION | Seer ot pocamerican, oe tara | nde amoreounitigy and defects, but it}: same working with the British in the than might. sub-'is contended no more i i iz i x01 ve e selves} hav: on ex “ft ‘ ful) Review of Achievements of Year Finds Much) marine zone, nave made them: elves) hive teen expected {rom pesestuly Which Should Be Consoling to Americans Who Have Faith and Pride in Country Washington, April 6.- niversary of the entrance ed States into the war finds the great, become necessary regources of the country just coming ; into the struggle shut rapidly beingiing on the conflict an army of five; prepared. The achievements of the first year are chiefly divided between the army, ‘which has been supplying and, train- ing fighting forces; the navy which| expected in the conversion The first. an-; of the Unit- shonld the war be prolanged and it! a teror to the undersea boats. many of these craft they have ac-,Jasis. counted for remains a military secret. President Wilson in a recent declar- ‘The treasury, concerned with financ-| ation pronounced the present year the® {ing the war, has raised from Liberty; vital one in the winning of the war. Military experts have estimated that) Bonds and War Savings Stamp sales) As the resources of America now be- more than $8,000,000,000,000, and on/ ing gathered, get to the battlefronts this, the first anniversary of the de-| with a mighty rush, they are fully ex- claration of war on Germany, is} pected to carry the Allies through to launching the Third Liberty loan.| victory. ‘ Ti y imates put the expense of the inst year vot the war at “tout FIFTY THOUSAND — $12,099,090,000 exclusive of the ad: AUTOMOBILE TAGS ; 3. vances to the Allies. These advances to all for the United, States to assume the ‘durden of carry-! million men would not be improbable. The immense and sudden expansion of the army has not been without) criticism, but, it is declared this was into a the Allies’ has been hunting the submarine and| fighting foree of a nation traditionally | have totalled, up to the close of March Unusual March Weather Results” convoying troops and supplies Europe, the shipping board which has been building a merchant maring and has be the treasury which has been adyanc- ing credits to the ‘Allies. {n all other departinents of ald of the actual fighting machine, For military reasons it fs not p migsible to state the exact number American troops in France with G eral Pershing's expedition, but. See tury Baker, In recent testimony beforo the Senate Military Committee pre: dicted half a million men would de States went to war, the navy has plac-; ward completion. there early this year and that another million would be ready to go during the year, American troops have taken up sev- eral positions on the fighting line in France and have occupied a sector | man of thelr own northwest of ‘Toul, and | have had numerous encounters with land, now the United Stat statoments | fathan, is a fair example of the ef- shipping twice as from ‘Mritish and German army head-| ficlency and speed with which the nav-| built is the spur which is expected tO! per capita possession of motor cars, quarters have shown that certain Am- orican fighting forces were (hrown in-| When the to the battle brought. on by the great] work of destruction the Vaterland’s | German offensive this spring, the Brit-| commander ish war office first reporting them as° his hat off to the the Germans, Official fighting shoulder to shoulder with British and French troops in the vic Inity of Roye. By retorring to the combined forces his words were national was in running order and since, the given up private interests to serve to be used in the building of better of the regular) army = and to welded to the pursuits of peace. the government there hag been a tremend- ous effort to bring all the force of the country’s resources and power to the 1 ¢4,960,620,000, The United States has expansion of the naval forces! been secured with the ‘bonds or obli-| : n characterized in Congress’ gations of the countries to which the wet y many as praiseworthy. The exact; money was advanced. More than $125,-/ The month of March closed withe | details, here too, are shrouded in | 000,060 of the sum went to Russia be- more than 50,000 automobile registrar us a military measure, but it is; fore the debacle put the country out tion tags “on the job” in North Da- wel known that an emergency war, of the war. What return, the United! xota. April is always a banner month! building program as been pushed, States will get, if any, is considered | for the sale of tags. New cars arey with such rapidity, that the United, doubtful; . ; bought during this. month, and old lates fs well on the way to a place, Chairman Hurley of the Shipping ones placed -in commission, and an in- second only to Great Britain as a nav-|Eoard, in a recent speech in New) crease of 20,000 tags before May 1 al force, and that in destroyers alone’ York at which he outlined the ship-; would not be surprising. Unusually —most proved and deadly weapon of) building program fully for the first: favorable March weather, of course, the submarine--the navy by next! time, declared the great building pro-| accounts for the big March sale to your will have the greatest neet on! gram which is to make the bridge some extent.. There is also to be tak- the Since the United!of ships to France is 28 per cent to-jen into consideration, however, the« He pointed out the fact that Secretary of State Hall has ctically a thous-} magnitude of the task by recalling had some very diligent automobilef that took: that the Shipping Hoard is building in’ sleuths in the field, and the further: Ger-|a year, greater organization than the fact that North Dakota farmers have The in Heavy License Business seven sean. for pre and beside ed contre and ve els, charge of repairing the seized man and Austrian ships damaged by) Steel Corporation has been able tO} found a car a necessity, and they are their crews at the orders of the Ger-| build up in more than twenty years, | buying machines in spite of financial \ h! stringency. The ‘Michigan manufac-- Vater-| admiralty that German submarines} turer of Detroit, } in a recent p Lev-! actually are destroying the world’s; automoile review ranks ‘North Da- ast as it is being) kota as tied for fourth place in the’ government, iThe recent disclosure by the Bri The case of the great Ti F al engineers conducted that work.| put the full force of the country at! with one machine for every 12 inhabi- finished | 4 their) this vital task. }ants. Beside the work of the executive; Jt is anticipated that before this “unarked he would take departments of the government the year closes, if crop conditions are: Americans who year has seen tremendous strides in| normal, one out of evry ten resident§ © could put the ship in shape in time the movilization of labor, industry,! of the state will own a car, which wili to be of any service, | science and invention with, the sole’ mean the registration of 80,000 to 854 | Within six months from the time; aim of winning the war. Hundreds | 930 machines, and a_ total revenue spoken the Vaterland; of business and professional men have from this source of more than $600,000. Germans guard a year ago, and comparing the navy has announced, has caried num-; the government at nominal pay. Busi-! roads. strength of the regular army now, the' bers of American troops and great: ness and manufacture have given the National guard mustered into Federal cuontities of supplies to the fighting service, and the men of the first draft lines in France. - in cantonments, it is apparent that! the total number of ready fighting, increased from hundred thousand men has been meagre two something like a. million and a half,} Marine ( registered | its forces pri under the draft available for calls to| the country with about ten million me to! al Militia, and with the growth of the best of its secrets. Whatever criticism WOULD NOT EXECUTE RYAN | has been made of the lack of co-ordin-| By taking the ships and men of the ation of all these tremendous resourc-, Washington, D. April 6.—Inves- ast Guard into its fleets, by the, es and power, none ever has charged tigators tor President Wilson have that private interest has withheld) recommended immediate commutation them. i | of the sentence of Frank M. Ryan, What is expected to be one of the formerly president of the Internation- mightiest weapons toward winning the al Iron Workers, serving a seven year war is the War Trade oBard, created term at Leavenworth, Kansas, for for the purpose of cutting off supplies conviction in the dynamite case. @) merging of Naval Volunteers and Yav- the navy has expanded cally five times since ent to war. In its immense task of convoying Why Germany Lost In | World’sGreatestBattle © “We are at the decisive moment of the war,” declared the Kaiser on March 21st’ as he lauriched his tremendous armies against fifty miles of the Allied front in France in the greatest battle of this or any war; snd.on the same day he declared that “the prize‘of victory must not and will not fail us,”-and announced warn- ingly that this prize “was no sofe peace byt one which corresponds with Germany’s interests.”” wheh the first impetus of the colossal onslaught had made a-dent: twenty-five miles unbroken battle-line of the Allies, General von Ludendorf, who is said to eral Staff, announced “that victory has been won,” and added ‘significantly result from it.” Wilson Making the Pictures. of But'the victory. was not won, as the best informed war-writers everywhere remind him. the battle line ends, as there is every prospect that it will end, with i Al and in a position as strong as they have ever occupied, Germany will have failed and failed decisively,” de- clares Major-Gencral McLachlan, Military Attache to the British Embassy at Washington. , The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST for April 6th deals with the terrific engagements that are raging on the Western front in France. It summarizes public opinion from all quarters 01 sults to date and on the ultimate outcome. Other articles of very great interest are: WHAT AMERICA HAS DONE IN ITS‘ FIRST YEAR IN ‘ The Literary Digest Has Made an Impartial Investigation of What Has Been Accomplished by the Various Departments at Washington and the Result Is Presented in a Detailed and Stirring Article in ‘This Week’s Issue Ts Our Aircraft Program Lagging? All England on Rations German Press Raging at President Reclaiming Our Manpower for War Handling Coal As a Fluid Books Wanted “Over There” A week later, deep in the bending but be the brains of the German.Gen- “but nobody can see what will “So long as our armies and those of our Allies intact n the re- THE WAR Ireland Drifting Into Anarchy How to Plan School, Community, and Home Gardens vee (Prepared by the U. S. Food Administration) Effect of War on the Next Generation Supplying Candy for the Soldiers Schubert and Schumann Saved to Us Kaiserizing the Public Schools The Million-and-a-Half at the Church Autos Pay for the Roads England’s War-Work Russia’s New Gods Door The Book of Job on the Stage Important News of Finance and Com- Shipyards Gaining on the U-boat merce A Full-page Map of Western Front and an Unusually Fine Collection of Illustrations unite us. We have greater faith in our country, | usual, Indiana's future looks like a desert, alcohol- more love and reverence for our president. is tically speaking. Wilson a democrat? Yes, he was when elected, but the republicans helped elect him, and the re- publicans and the progressives, and the democrats There is one man on the city pay roll to evéry \ ogr 57 persons in New York city. And probably not and most of the socialists and every other party | more than half a dozen out of the 57 know that which is really can have forgotten partisan-| they are paying that one man’s salary. Wouldn’t ship and re for self-advancement in| there be a how! if he called at their residence once support of Wilson, Never has a president of these! a week and collected? United States, not excepting Washington, had such | ae ee undivided support and love and admiration from! The war department recommends against the his countrymen. And this support has made Wil-| soldiers in France voting, on the ground—after son strong to go ahead and do the big things which | you translate the recommendation into.simple.lan- he has done; it has made him a fit ruler for aj guage—that it’s too much trouble. See if you can great people, _ say something appropriate. We can’t think of _ And our neighbors! They no longer are Scan-| anything quite mean enough. dinavians, nor Irish, nor Scotch, nor English, nor German-Americans, nor Russians. If they count for anything at all they are AMERICANS, and At the close of the first week of the German}, drive, London’s newspapers expressed confidence but advised the public to be “cautiously cheerful,” we've come to look upon them as such, because, like as not, Fritz and Mike, and Ole and Angus and| as the danger was not entirely over. “Cautiously Angelo and Ivan all are fighting shoulder , to| cheerful” is good. It. reminds us of that time when shoulder over there with our own plain John) ded hald the 10-penny nail and wé missed it and) ee ey = pine e ae a AMER-; hit his thumb instead. .° ; J ] ‘ANS, and it their time comes, they will die over thete a8 AMERICANS. teens _ the.year whi best with the ad we’ X.Y. sity board of healt after inventgnting bilaiee S WHERE TO OBTAIN FACTS TO RFFUTE ENEMY PROPAGANDA ‘“How much have we done in the War and how well,” is answered this week to the satisfaction of every patriotic American in the article describing the ape of the various departments of the Govern- ment. This exclusive and authoritative survey will thrill and hearten every reader. The article describes the immense additions that have been made to our army ; the ceaseless activity in the Ordnance Department in- the production of munitions of war; how the Quar- termaster Corps is working out the transportation of men and material ; how our soldier boys are fed ; how supplies are bought and by whom; how the health i Fs | | 2 NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK of our soldiers is guarded; what the Aircraft Board has done; activities of our coast artillery ; the grati- tying progress of our navy ‘step by step; how our sailors are clothed and fed; the extent of our wire- less operations ; mobilization of the Marine Corps and the. Naval Reserve; how the State Department is conducting war business; how war expenses are being met; what is being done by the War Shipping Board, by the Food and Fuel Administration Bu- reaus, etc. In fact, all the principal departments of the Government have been investigated. - This infor- mation will effectually refute enemy propaganda de- signed to weaken our war efforts. » —. April 6th Number 01 Sale To-day—All News Dealers—-10: Cents Dige