The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1918, Page 8

Forced 4 Population, General Prosperity Injured, Speaker Holds aes “Mall order concerns are draining the life blood of North Dakota busi tess. They are taking the thirty per. cent margin that makes for prosper- ity out of the state,” Alex Karr, of JJamestown, editor of “Community Life” magazine and “Spirit” of the Spiritwood Chautauqua, declared in an address before the commercial club, last night. Then he produced the proof, an unwavering of black ar white figures, showing the sales inued, r more than $40. t by mail order con- } ing propoganda. This is represented by postage charges on 1 twenty carloands of catalogs. In + “Here in + “during the la: , 000 has been cerns in adver ~ SBLLAS CHEAPLY AS LOCAL MERCHANTS, KARR DECLARES Land Values and Dealers of North Dakota Have Not the Enormous Penalization of Sedition Woutd| Expense That Catalog Houses are | to Carry THEY DRAIN LIFE BLOOD FROM | COMMUNITY WITHOUT RETURNS Wilson Gives Collinsville, I.,| recent poem, published in a military magazine: ‘It ain't the individual, or the army a whole, but the ever. lasting teamwork of every bloomin’ soul “Sears and Roebuck,” the speaker said, “have doubled their business in the last five years and make the proud assertion that they are going to repeat the performance. Affects Everybody “At least Uhirty cents on the dollar would here if goods were bought in the state. This is the margin that represents the life blood of the com- munity. I make the claim that ie mail-crder business injuriously affects erybody in the Referring to decre: and curtailment of speaker said: Not all young men are cut out for farmers any more than they are cut out for merchants or doctor hous ands of young men who could not sing land values rbpulation, the emy agitation so that the people wo SOLONS WANT "LAW 10 CURB DISLOYALTY | | peace talk later when such discussion | | might be preper. YY of proven disloyal persons. country, | alizin; declarations in favor of Ger- | many's Remove Temptation of Mob Rule at war with Turkey ‘or Bulgaria; ‘al- | though he said ‘we ought to be.” NOT GUILTY OF SEDITION TALK Lynching of Treason Suspect His Attention Washington, D. other bus s Was laid aside by the senate today for denunciation of dis- ny loyalty pacuiti 2 spies nd Denied Pro-German’Charges in he é s of how 2 5 the espionage act should be extended Testimony, and Said He so as to curb these evils and id 7 Was No Socialist mob law. mental liberties of American citi While the senate debated the pe ing sedition bill, carrying severe pen aities for disloyal utterances 2 tempts to obstruct the d loans, President Wilson a inet gave uttention to repor lynching of Robert Prager at Collinsville, IL, last n Members of the cab "court here last Friday. The charge. wards the deplorable inc empha- made under a state law passed by tne ized the necessity for immediate leg- t ature. was based principally | islation that would enable the gove s he was alleged to have: ment to deal with disloyalty and made during a speech at Goodhue, 1 Minn. last mer. not be tempted to take the law int) Vander cross examination today GOODHUE SPEECH TRIAL Red Wing, Minn., April. 6.— rin, Nonpartisan League org d with an attemot to d i found not gui a jurv in ¢ se,en the ‘Ot Hlinois offered one which would} forfeit’ the citizenship and’ property Senator Lodg@, while urging the death penalty for spies and German agents who destroy property in this said the ‘bill’s restrictions upon free speech were too broad and could be used to suppress legitimate i discussion. Senator Hardwick of Geor- gia suggested that thew migh prevent Opposing a provision of ‘the bill pen- | Mayor Says He Freed One, and | ed for the army draft on June 5 last | ", eral Brundage and United States Dis: ML, Jamestown I know of two carloads of make a success on the farm have madc their own hands catalogs ariving recently, which were good in other walks of life, while; Hope for Passage Today. catalogs arriving recently, which were some merchants’ sons have gone Out) Aqministration leaders in the sen- stamps. from the town and made good as farm-/ ate hope to pass the sedition Dill to-) Martin denied that he is pro-German, and declared that he is rot a social- In refuting his testimony the state Use Schools for Abuse “T learned a lot,” said the speaker, “a few weeks ago when a mail-order concern sent debaters of: the Inter- state debating contest, a read-made speech in negative of the question: ‘Resolved: That the practice of mail order houses is detrimental to the best interests of the state of North Da- kota.’ There was twenty pounds of other literature sent for the students to add, in case the typewritten many- paged speech was not sufficient. = ‘I do not feel any malice toward fj mail-order houses, but even the men 4 who, wrote that speech know there f, are lies in it, What impressed me fg more than anything else, however, |, was that. this concern was using the i; educational machinery of the state, supported by the people of the state to'further a propaganda of abuse anc |; misreprenestation against most of i. the business men of the state.” ij = “In their circulars Sears and Roe buck claim the third largest printing Plant in the world, in which is printed sixty-five million catalogs a year, us ing five carloads of white paper a SN es a ea. ae eS te tla ta day: ; i “Sears and Roebuck, according tc ig their own records, paid the freight # on $12,460,646 worth of goods last Mm year, to the customer and back. Yet lj they make the assertion that they fj could not do business more cheaply lg than local dealers, but for the fact that , they seldom have goods returned. They make that assertion in their cir in, culars, meant fcr the eyes of the con ig sumer, but their records of goods re Wj turned are not so puvlic.” Expenses “I am in this campaign because the North Dakota Retail Merchant's as sociation have sent me io tell the truth about firms that are causing slack business, curtailing incre; in i population. and decreasing land val. , ues in this state. } “Advertising Propaganda” The speaker reviewed the methods used by mail-order concerns. “Adver- tising propaganda,” was his manne’ of summing them up. He told hov The Deleniator magazine had refuse: to accept mail-order advertising fo the reason that these firms were ir jurious to business throughout th country, and reflected on their legit mate advertising. He proved through his black an white figures, obtained after a long ir vestigation. that mail-order concern do only $2.65 worth of business o each catalog sent out. The catalo; cost, mailing, together with the m cellaneous magazine and newspane advertising. and circulars, are greate: fy) than the local dealers overhead e: Bi pense on the same amount of bus is ness. “And that leaves out the eno: mous freight expenditures on returr ed goods to the mail merchant. an 4 their millions spent in postage,” h = added. = sey a Advocates Federat‘on he “What North Dakota dealers nee’ ™ to.combat this propaganda of adver Mm tising is—a propaganda of adver ing. The dealers must federate, poo’ ing their advertising expenditures i one great educational campaign. Yo: need orly tell the people the truth and. any man with any intelligenc: will see the fallacy of the mail-orde firms’ claim of cheaper goods. Don’: blame. your farmers for patronizin; mail-order concerns. It was probabl: a-city merchant who told him abou it. And it was townspeople who firs patronized them. Every farmer get: large quantities of Sears and Roebuc! and Montgomery Ward advertising but they don’t get any real advertisin; from their local merchants. Wher they have only one side of the argu ment how can you expett them t know whether it’s true or not? Community Day a Cure “As a means of bringing about fed eration and enlightenment on the mail order house business costs. Mr Karr proposed a community bargait day,-with the schools closed a fev hours; during which time a meetinr in the Auditorium would be held, wher speakers could explain the situation . Lyceum talent would be present tc entertain between speeches. Bargain fiales would be held in all local stores Jie then told of two Jamestown mer jwho broke the mail-order sav le. They advertised thei: for. goods and the prices of the ler concerns side by side i icles advertised by one re av $9 cheaper :and seven: ‘advertised by the other were al ally below the mail-orde: } ia.draining the state's re “hs ers. this country a fair amount of support it makes it possible for more country boys to locate near home than to go to some distant city when they de- cide to leave the farm as thousands of them are doing every year. Most par- ents would like to have their sons and daughters locate near them if pos- sible and if the towns near the farm homes afford sufficient opportunities | large numbers o fthem will. “For years farm papers and other | the population o fthe country is drift- ing toward the city; while originally ‘ited States lived in the coun this | number has declined to approximately 50 per cent while a few big cities have! grown enormously. | “All sorts of plans and schemes are} being suggested for keeping the boy} on the farm, but it is having no effect and along with the boy and girl from he farm to the city there are even} more going from the small towns to ‘he city. The main reason for this i: that the surplus of the country is go | ing toward the building up the cities instead of being used and invested a home. “Probably the most important cau: of the decline of a great natior | through the concentration of all the capital of the country in one or twe | great cities is found in the decline | of the Roman Republic. There ar: | nany other cases where great em | vires declined tor exactly th sa “ : In every case the ize and magnificence while pov | eadily increased in the count ing people to leave the farms such enormous numbers that the coun try was obliged to look elsewhere fo: ‘ts agricultural products.” ‘HENEY RESIGNS | FROMINQUIRY | INTO PACKING, The} April 6. ission’s public into the meat packing indu ch under the direction of Francis Heney developed testimony desigi to show control of stock yards and | ‘ailroads by the five big packers and uleged attempts to influence legisla ors, has been completed and Mr Yeney conecion with the commis | sion has terminated. i Mr. Heney’s departure for his home| | n California several days ago be } ame known tod Members of the | ommission said his term of employ | } uent had expired, after having beer | ended several times beyond the | original date set for his work to end | j They said he had not resigned, bu: | nerely had finished his task. H The packing investigation has been | faced under the direction of Com: aissioner Victor Murdock, who also | vas been named by Chairman Harris! is the representative of trade and bus | ‘ness on the board to which President | Wilson entrusted the task of form | ulating a national policy with regard | to meats. i PIMPLY? WELL, DON'T BE! People Notice It. Drive Them Off with Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets A pimply face will not embarrass you | pat tet pi ga it 5 os, J agree’ with Kipling, in x og morrow, the anniversary of America’s cg sev Boys Leave Farms lentrance into the war. An agreement faving ae “By giving the towns and villages of | for a vote tomorrow, sought tonight by Senator Overman of North Car olina, in charge of the measure, wi blocked by Senator Reed. The Missouri senator s sympathy with the general purposes! was afterwards sued for assault. i of the legislation should not be hastily considered. of the bil were made today though) ing liberty bonds. as we are paying a) there were criticisms that $ !itions against disloyal and seditio! utterances are already too broad. Sen- national publications have noted that) ator Lodge introduced an amendment; aged the sale of liberty bonds and| crim prohibiting transmission through the! that he had named Morgan in connec-| limits. a mails of any matter printed in the tion with a statement relative to the | 85 per cent of the people of the Un-| German language, and Senator I.ewis ‘al witnesses who told of rd him ‘Is there a man here who will shave a pro-German > when he entered a barbershop at Ken- A | yon some months ago, . of Missouri-}” Former representative. J. A. Gates! id he was in! threw Martin out of the shop and but thought it; Others told of a speech at Welch, | Minn., which Martin iS alleged to ‘Several efforts to widen the scone; have said “we must be careful in bu: its prohi profit of $3,000,000 to Morgan. | Four witnesses for the defense de- | clared that Martin had never discour- profits of. financiers before the war.! Following the sun with Vision, for a moment, those beyond the trackless seas — From Arctic ice, to the torrid lands beneath the Southern Cross — From towns tucked in the mountains, to. the busy river’s mouth — WRIGLEYS is there! There, because men find comfort and refreshment in its continued use. if Because of its benefits and because The Flavor and. that. inj, April.1917 FR arrest of a man on a disloyalty charre and his friends assert he was rajlical in his views on. socialism, but/that when the United States entered the war he declared he was ‘all’ fgr Am: erica.” Pe The mob idea had its inception, it was said tonight, in\a saloon on the outskirts of the city wher@ miners from Maryville and Collinsville fore- gathered. ae : Tribune Want ads Bring Results. none is antgpated until-after<the. in- quest Morday. * 2 th, So far ‘as can be learned tonight {the action of the mob was precipitous and no person as yet has stated con- crete instances of disloyalty by Pra- WAS CAUSE OF ger, It is known that he registered as |an’ enemy alien at the office of the | United States marshal. in St. Louis . jon June 27 last. He asked for a permit to enter all barred zones to seek em- | ployment. The permit was granted. It was also discovered that he register- { People Feared a Re- i “allies” Senator Lodge point . f ed out that the United States is not} { petition | 2 | —_——_— ey) ‘PROBE. TO BE HELD SOON! . For Infants and Children. {Mothers Know That ‘Officials Deplore Act, and Will Take Measures to Appre- hend Guilty. L 6.—Formal in- ath of Rovert P| CcUinsville, | Yestigation of t Tro See “ALGOHOL~3 PER GENT. Pra: Friday was hanged folox of disloyalty, will! not be made until next Monday, when {dare ie ,Roy A. Lowe. coroner of Madison i Genuine Casto: Will hold an inquest. At that | Ms = J ra atives of the states, at- repre general and the adjutant gen- " 3 eral be present. prepared to car ANedetable PreparatonfrAs for ures to apprehend those similating theFood by Regul who participated in the hanging. ting the Stomachs and Bowels Governor Lowden, Attorney Gen- \ | Thereby Promoting Digestiot I} Gheerfutness and Rest.Contat®, neittier Opiam, Morphine no J Mineral. Not NARCOTIC trict, Attorney Knott. at Springtield, | ed statements deploring the! act, and asking that the guilty parties be prosecuted, i Asks for Disloyalty Law. Mayor J. H. Siegel, of Collinsville, ed he would launch no investi- gation on his own accord, but that he | stood ready to co-operate with state! and county officials, He asserted he | had telegraphed today to Senator Overman, chairman of the senate jad-! iciary committee. urging immediate passage of the law imposing a severe penalty on disloyalty ‘We arrested a man charged with! loyalty last Sunday” he declared, | but because of insufficient evidence! ; i under the present law we were unable | a to hold him. The crowd last night | 3 evidently believed that another disloy-! alist was about to escape. This de-| tpful Remedy for | * AhelpfulRemed Constipation and Diarthoe: andeFeverishness & Loss oF SLEEP resulting therefrom-in i FacSimile Signature of i plorable act merely emphasizes the | a . f necessity for a drastic la \wto apply} —T" os | in such cases.” ‘ae Gextaun CONTE a NEW YOR! —_— ee SEMI 35 Doors - 350 Pay, i na ae Exact Copy of Wrapper. THE OENTAUR ComPaNY WewvenK er.’ |,” Chief of Police Staten, of Collins- ville, declared today a numberof the members of the mob are known te the authorities, but that the local po- lice wil make no arrests because the was committed outside the city | A day of investigation by county Officials resulted in no arrests and OTHUHANCENANULLONGGNGUUANUGOUUCEEANOUUCOQUOUUUOOENUUOCENQODUNEGUUONONUOEGEONNOGEqUONED Auditorium April 6th Messrs. Lee and J. J. 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