The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1918, Page 4

eRe SAS at.fe Mcee re tone oo 2 i Oe : seat THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. 188UED EVERY DAY_ 6tonam D. MANN : Ao LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, pecial Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Ben Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 38 Winter 8t.; “DETROET, Kresege Bldg. ; MINNEAPOLIS, $10 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. Fo Associate) Press is extlusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news credited to it or not other- {ted in this paper and also the local news pub- Editor | eee 2s so 90 ening only, by Carrier, per mont 60 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per month .. - .70 Morning or Evening by Mail in North 4.00 oer. Morning or evening by mal 6.00 5.00 one year .. Sunday in Combini mail, one year .... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1872) E> OUR DAY AND OUR DUTY One year and six days ago the president of the United States came to the congress of the United States—our president and our congress—} and asked that the honor of America and the ex- istence of democracy in this world be defended against the German enemy of liberty and human-! ity. He concluded his message with these words: | “There are, it may be, many months of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It is a fearful) thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, | into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. | But the right is more precious than peace, and we| shall fight for the things which we have always | carried nearest to our hearts—for democracy, for| the rights of those who submit to authority to]; have a voice in their own governments, for the! rights and liberties of small nations, for a univer- sal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all na-! tions and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our for- tunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and peace which ' she ie treasured. God helping her, she can do no uther.” _ One year ago Saturday—in the early hours o' the morning—war was declared and America took} her place shoulder to shoulder with all those other| nations battling against the brutal might of the! autocratic Hun. In the 367 days which have sped by, America yas shouldered a daily increasing burden of war.: But America has not, done enough. «Nothing American can do short of her utmost is sufficient. | Nothing less will send the barbarian foe to his knees and bring freedom, for all, forever! America has gone but:a little way through the | “fiery trial” and what we have sacrificed in the past 12 months is but a drop in the bucket of the eaerifices we must make in the days to come, War is war, and this is “the most terrible and disas- | trous of all wars.” A year ago our president said: “We must fight!” Teday we have just begun to fight. use of those words. y any honest man to belittle, but we do place it that - going to do during the», second year of our war will prove to the foe that way for what America is America had just begun to fight on this the first anniversary of Liberty Day. That, then, is our duty—to fight as we never fought before, to fight as the world never dreamed America could fight! But they whom we send “over there” cannot do all our fighting. Every mother’s son of us and every mother’s daughter of us must fight. Those; of us who stay at home must fight in kitchens, in mines, farms, “gardens, wherever and whenever we can ai our country fighting for its honor and life, and for the honor and life of all nations who prize liberty above all else. Our boys—God bless them one and all !—have gone “over there.” More and more and more and still more will go. They go willingly and nobly and loyally, But they can only die in horrible defeat if we do not do our share of the fighting here at home. Victory or defeat is within our choice; the very lives of these brave boys lie in the hollow of our hands. We can fight half-heartedly and: they die and defeat comes to America and democracy. We can fight bravely every minute of this war, and peace and victory come. “To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes.” It is just as true today as it was a year, ago, and it is just.as needful that we do these things. The dedication of the lives of our boys will be fruitless unless we dedicate our fortunes to this same task. We can do this or hand them over as tribute to the kaiser. For wars are won with money. if This money must be raised. Our. government today asks that we loan of our fortunes, large and and small, but of all, so that this war may be won at the earliest possible moment with the least sacrifice of lives. The bonds of the third Liberty Loan issue pay 4 1-4 per cent dividends. They are safe as any investment in the world. It will strengthen the nation’s financial foundation if these bonds are bought and kept by the. people rather than by banks. There is not one reason why a loyal citizen of this country should:not in- vest his savings in Liberty Loan bonds and there, is every reason why he should. That is one way in which all of us who stay at home can fight. It is the big way, too. And this is the day to begin this fight.. If you have not already subscribed fora Liberty Loan bond of the third issue, there is yet plenty of time for you to do so. If you have subscribed, how wife, © child lessly as the boys “over there” are fighting in the hell of roaring guns and streaming blood! NO SPECTATOR’S GALLERY by!” Though not put in highbrow vocabulary, that has been considered a very high-brow philosophy to live by. Persons who think that they think, pessimists who have discovered that life is a joke, poets dis- appointed in love or a publisher, geniuses who dwell on the relation of the universe to themselves, students who read more than their minds can digest, childless rich women past middle life, half- educated reformers—of this ilk anybody can spot lat least one sample. Usually they feel quite su- perior to the war. They call it “man’s supreme folly.” Such persons consider themselves futurists rather than modernists. They say, “Isn’t human- ity amusing!” while common folks with only com- mon school learning can tell them that Shake- speare, three centuries ago, put the same thing this way: “What fools we mortals be!” Persons who scorn the common lot would not be at all important except that they are everlast- ingly influencing other minds. That’s their one | occupation and today it is an evil job for it kills enthusiasm in the cause of our arms, and thereby it greatly comforts our enemy. Formerly, nobody cared if superior persons /looked on life as a circus performance invented for their private entertainment. In fact, from their} 'elevated positions, “watching the show, ” they |were at least out of the way of useful humans. | But today the world is far from being amusing and there is no place on it any more for a spectator’s! i gallery. The unburied dead on the field of battle cry aloud for the victory of Right over Wrong. The blood of every unknown hero dying there rebukes | all who “watch the war go by,” convinced that they) cannot help it, anyway. “He that is not with me is against me!” Whoever stands aloof from the hard human| experience of today, aids and abets the enemy.| Nobody can feel superior to the war without class-| ing himself with the kaiser and his Gott. So, if you find a friend occupying a position | of detachment on some intellectual fence, no mat-) ter how highbrow his philosophy, give him a jolt | and knock him off. i i Failing to breach the allied lines with guns, the’ kaiser tries peace proposals. You have to admit that it’s cheaper, anyhow. Uncle Sam is to lock his harbors against trade, which serves no war purpose. Well sir, we've, got used to Swiss cheese made in America already, | ‘for one thing. Z | Quartermaster’s department has issued an_or- | der. for 61,000,000 Ibs. of prunes and. dried beans. | Bet they’ve found a site for a boarding house that serves open-faced pie for dessert. Just to make Londoners feel interested, the Germans announced that their long-distance gun !work on Paris was just a trial previous to bom-j bardment of London. Those Germans. certainly, ‘have the mean disposition. | a ee WITH THE EDITORS | | | “Let’s sit on the fence and watch the show go| | BLIGHT OF TOWNLEYISM HITS NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS The hard blow given to the rural credit of | North D rakova br. the recent sced bonding act, put r an league party in the ye. should open the eyes of 3 as to the dangerous leader- vy are following, in trailing after such men President Townley. There was not the slightest excuse for the: North Dakota legislators to go wrong in amending |the county seed bonding act, because there was al- ready a law on the statute books that answered the ;purpose and under which investment houses ‘bought such bonds. The only amendment neces- sary to the old law was to make it apply to feed for livestock, as well as seed grain. There was even less excuse to include the objec-| \tionable clause which made such county bonds a prior lien on the land, instead of stdépping with a first lien on the crop, as the supreme court deci- sion handed down nearly three years ago effec- tively disposed of the prior lien on the land scheme. This decision is reprinted in the legal department | ~~~ of this issue, as it has a special bearing on the situ- ation that now withdrawing from the North Dakota loaning field, when this law was enacted, was followed by most | | investment banking houses, as the publicity given; farm mortgages unsalable among investors.’ The federal farm loan board has attempted to restore some business for the federal land bank by agree- ing to make further loans provided the land bank is protected against loss by means of surety bonds, to be furnished by the borrowing farmer. The matter will not be satisfactorily adjusted, how- ever, until the supreme court of North Dakota has passed on the constitutionality of the clause in question. Unless it reverses itself, such court will declare that section of the law invalid. The fed- eral land bank has taken legal action so that such decision may be had. Whether ignorance, carelessness, or an attempt of German intrigue to hinder food production in | North Dakota, o ra combinatio nof all three, was responsible for this legislative blunder, the danger of Townleyism is strikingly demonstrated., Such leadership stands discredited, when the farmers face the loss of farm credit by such foolish legis- lation. Even correcting the mistake by court decision or legislative repeal act will not entirely repair the damage. The insurance companies and banking houses will not be eager to take farm loans from North Dakota while the constant menace of crazy legislation hangs over the state. The only way North Dakota can restore her credit to its former high standing is through a constructive and sound legislativé and administrative program. ‘This is work that calls for master minds endowed ‘with great executive ability and trained to handle big AMERICANS! ANSWER, WITH ALL GOD HAS GIVEN YOU! meccccccccccccccccccsocoosoosoooosooooooed AMERICANS! What. does it mean to you —this anniversary of our entering the Great War? What does it mean to you—the president’s call to the nation to fight for its honor, for its rights, and for the rights and freedom ot humanity? When he said, “there may be many months of: fiery trial and _ sacrifice ahead of us”—when he said, “to such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything we are and everything we have,” how did his words come home to you? Now, after a year, at this serious crisis of the war, do they burn their way to the heart with a meaning more real, w ith a more imperative challenge? Stern, terrible facts are driving us to ac- tion. The fury and cruel cunning of the enemy are unquenched. Russia is under his heel, bedeviled and plundered. Roumania has been crushed and forced to surrender, Fresh hordes of Huns are being hurled against the western fronts. The greatest battle of the war is raging. The hist of conquest and world-dominion is growing, as it feeds itself with frist one helpless victim and then an- other. New plots are ready, and new agents of devilish propaganda are being sent into France, and Britain, and Italy, and America to destroy them from within as Russia was destroyed. We MUST win, or our fate will be as Russia’s. We MUST win, or our high professions of service to humanity will be a mockery to the name of America through the ages to come. America is awakening; its heart is on fire; it has revealed its soul to a world that did not know it before and now is dazzled by the sight. A deathless purpose to win this war is gripping the American people. The Third Liberty Loan will test this purpose—will give it expression—this month. Already the young men of America have “dedicated their lives,” ad have gone to meet their “fiery trial and sacrifice” on the battle- line in France. Hundreds of thousands of our own boys are now facing the cruel foe. Into the trenches, filled with mud and blood; into the clouds of poison-gas and the streams of liquid-fire, into the iron hail, and the whirl- wind of destruction, they have gone with shining eyes and shouts of defiance, to fight for us, and for a world of brothers. They’ll drive the enemy back—WITH OUR HELP. Now the sternest summons of duty, the holiest call of patriotism, comes to us. for im- mediate answer. We.must not, we can not, evade it. What are'we at home going to do, this year, this month, to: match the heroism and sacrifice of our boys.in France? “How are we, safe and snug at home,.going to “dedicate our fortunes—everything that we have,” to this supreme task, as we are called, now, to subscribe the Third Liberty Loan? : We. are expecting to read of American’ heroism. in battle, of the invincible strength and courage of our armies as they méet the foe. - But heroism and strength, and.sacrifice in. battle are not enough. They, alone, can never ‘win the war. . While we are looking eagerly to our armies, they are looking eagerly to us. They - are expecting us to do our part with as com- plete devotion and sacrifice as they are doing theirs. lt we at home fail our:armies on the battle-line, they will—THEY MUST—fail us, and be swept away in defeat and disaster: This Third Liberty Loan means not:the mere preparation of our armies, but their preser- vation on the battle-line, their very lives, and the victory they MUST HAVE if America and the whole cause of freedom are to escape un- speakable ruin. Day by day we shall scan with throbbing hearts the casualty lists cabled from the American army in the field. The length of that casualty list depends on us. Every one of us is responsible. ‘This'Third Liberty Loan is to keep that casualty list down, Every Liberty bond you buy this month is a life-. saver sént by you. to the boys:in FRANCE. This loan must not fail; it must not even drag. Quick,- eager oversubscription is our only possible action. Buying a few Liberty bonds with money that can easily be spared and lend until it‘hurts. We must square the shoulders, brace the back, grit the teeth, and litt until it strains every nerve and muscle. Every man’s money must burn as hotly with love of country as does the fire in some men’s blood. The Nathan Hales of today will go into the banks and the safety-deposit rooms and count thein money and securities with eager, jealous thought of what they can do of heroic service, and then: will exclaim, “T only regreat that I have but one fortune to give for my country.” Then “this nation, un- der God, will have a new birth of freedom.” Then will our armies be invincible and vic- torious. Then will this war end with the triumph of justice and human liberty, and peace will come to stay forever. Now we must buy Liberty bonds. with our own boys fighting.in the trenches, we must support ‘them to the utmost with our cash and our credit. What good will our money be to us if we allow them to lose? What shall our bank account, or our income, or our borrowing ability profit us if the Huns set their heels on our shoes and fasten their clutches in our throats, as they have boasted they will do? The best time to protect our free land and our homes is now, while we can. The best time to support‘our own armies, and our allies, with ships, and food, and ammunition, and reeinforcements is now, when they will will not now be ‘enough. We must go deeper Now, mean. victory. Miracles of mobilization, equipment, transpotration, and supplies for our own armies and help'for our allies have been wrought by means of the First and Sec- ond Liberty Loans. But the greatest needs, the most imperative, must now be met by this Third Liberty Loan. More and more urgent, the appeals are coming to us from “over there.” A few days ago, this message was flashed across the ocean from one of the high , military authorities of France: “It is not enough that your soldiers are fighting and shedding their blood at our side; not enough that you are moving splendidly with your limitless resources in men and material. You must do bet- ter still. YOU MUST COME WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT AND SPEED. “Think of yourselves as under an im- mediate, terrible, and personal menace, as if a barbarous, .cruel invasion were . coming to occupy your land as it has already devasted ours... That is what it means, and_you will. not ‘be doing your utmost until you see and feel it in those re precise | terms.” 3 “Make no mistake; just such a terrible and cruel: invasion, with all its barbarity and de- struction, actually threatens us if wé do not insure the victory of our. armies: in.‘France. Plans are ready and’ waiting, and insolent threats have'been made again and again by. the Kaiser and his Prussians. ‘They need the wealth of America to pay their own huge war costs, and they will seize it if we ‘do not pre- vent, them. Billions for our armies. and our allies,-but nota dollar for the Hun! Refusal, neglect, insufficient effort to subscribe now for the Third Liberty Loan will be an invita- tion to the Hun to ravish and loot American cities ‘and homes. - President Wilson spoke straight to. each one of us when he said, “The supreme test. of the nation has come.” Subscription, to the point of sacrifice, for the Tihrd Liberty Loan is “a public, duty, a dictate of patriotism, which no one can now expect ever to be ex- cused or forgiven for ignoring.” The Literary Digest has no message of its own so serious, so vital, on this war anniver- sary, to put before its ‘millions of American readers as this call of the nation’s supreme need for patriotism and unselfish service in the purchase of Liberty bonds. low is the time to feel the red blood of manhood and hot in our veins with a single compélling purpose, a single: mastering love, a spirit of sacrifice, that gives all“to America. Heroes at home must stand be- hind the heroes in France to win this war. womanhood beating : p * mfronts North Dakota farmers. The action of the St. Paul federal land bank in|! to the adverse law had made the North Dakota | » There are ponrede of such GROW WHEAT | | An Instance in Which Selfish | | Interest and Patriotic «| ' Duty Are One i The importance of growing wheat from, the selfish, personal ‘standpoin‘ of good business, as well as from the broader and. more patriatic yiewpoin of national necessity, cannot be toc strongly urged, North Dakota is dur for a bumper wheat crop. For thi first time in the history of the farm ing industry, the North Dakota whea grower knows to a fraction: of a cen what: his crop will ‘bring him ‘any time within the next 15 months. Fo: the first time in all of his experience in marketing he has assurance tha’. whether North Dakota nroduces fifty million bushels or 259 million bushels of wheat next fall, his No. 1 northerr hard will bring a certain price deliv ered to his nearest elevator, and tha no power under. the sun can beat tha! price down one penny. The wheat farmer knows that he will be paid on a basis of $2.20 at Chi: cago, and $2.17 at. Minneapolis for No. 1 northern spring, with a premium of four cents or thereabonts for the highest grade of No. 1.dafk northern spring. The price may go - higher. Those who are seeking to convince | congress that $2.50 is a fair price for wheat may succeed in their endeavor. But in any “event. the man who puts in wheat knows he will not get less than a $2.20 base price. ‘Such assurance is held forth to the grower of no other food product. Beei may Ro-down;. the ‘bottom fall out of nork, altho it is not at all Mkely,. That corn, ‘barley, rye'and flax 2k not remain Ugalde tle %'nim of his just profits. 4 ‘slacker You ‘IL alt. in you bi chaks Z ir ec arp the night a slump has followed flooded markets. That is a condition the man who unpatriotically sows rye or bar- ley or corn or rye or flax at the ex- pense of wheat may look forward to, while the patriotic wheat farmer may rest at ease, having Uncle Sam’s, word that no bear movement is going to rob —— | SLACKER I by THINK IT OVER ——————————_——_; slacker, you sit in your easy. chair, Thanking the Lord you're not over there, Vhere the cannons roar and the brave men die, : \nd, dying, perhaps unburied lie; You may have purchased a bond or two, \nd omagine that is enough to do. — Sut some day, after the war is done, 4nd victory by the brave is won, You'll see men sneer as they pass you by, And *you'll wish you had not afraid to die, Yor what is the life of a coward worth, When he hasn’t a friend on the lone- ly earth, ‘ been. But the world may consent to forget some day, ‘And when it has done. 86, what “will you say, To the grandson sitting upon your knee, As he shows you his book, saying: “Grandpa, see ! Here is where, in the Creat world war, We dost @ thousand polilery) or more.”” And when he turns, and.!ooks at.yon. eres ‘Tell me, grandpa, what did LYNCHERS NOT TO BE HUNTED = ‘The Assistant Attorney. General Makes Announcement;. War- rants Unissued Collinsville, I, April 8.—No ap- rests will be made in connection with the lynching of Robert P. Prager, ; an enemy alien Thursday, night, until after the inquest Monday, according to an announcement tonight by As- sistant Attorney General. W. E. Traut- man, who. spent the day investigating the crime. ‘ Coroner Ray A. Lowe, of Madison county, who: had been quoted today as saying that four justices of the peace had refused to issue. warrants for five men alleged to have. been in the mob which hanged Prager, said}. - tonight that some of the justices had refused but that he had not ‘seen all of them. Adam Schroeppel a. justice of the peace who was surrounded in a saloon yesterday and forced to de- clare: his loyalty, said. tonig! not been asked to issue warrants but that he’ was. willing to do so. He also ‘said, Justice: John Wappled was. will- ing to issue warrants. ‘there. was no. evidence tonight in- di¢ating ‘any further disturbances at (Collinsville because ‘of the loyalty agi- tatidn and Mayor Siegel said he fears ho further trouble, City: officials: were today in disclaiming respon- se Weal cea ‘violencesss: 1 he had |, NORTH DAKOTA LEADS IN RED | CROSS READERS. Subscriptions Actually Exceed Majority of Other States in Number ‘North Dakota. with a total Red Cross enrollment of more than, 202)- 000 members, or better than ‘thirty- three and one-third per cent of its | population, is the banner Red Cross i state in the union, is the message to the people of .the ‘state from Harry Curran Wilbur, executive secretary of the state organization, on Liberty or “Win the War Day.” Mr, Wilbur -announces that to. the first Red Cross war fund, raided last summed, the people of North Dakota: gave a total of more ‘than: $146,000. Additional amounts raised since that time has swelled the. total to a ‘sum better ‘than 3600,000, The total ex- pensé of conducting the state head: quarters from July 1, 1917 to March 1918, was $4,342.55. Compared to | tho total amount raised, it means that the total overhead expense of the state Red Cross headquarters’ is lonly seven-tenths of one per cent, A Story. of Sacrifice. “The story of the American Red Cross, in North ‘Dakota, like the story of this wonderful organization every: where, is a. story of sacrifice and service,” said Mr, Wilbur this after, noon. “As the first year of..America's | participation in the. world war closes, ‘North Dakotans have every reason to Hao proud of what their Hed Cross has jone. “When Judge Young and I were drafted to take charge.of the work jn North Dakota and establish the state headquarters, ‘the. central, division at Chicago,: of .which ‘North Dakota was then a part, turned over to us the complete ..record. It ;showed that there was not a single country chap ter organized‘in the state. There were eight auxiliaries at large and seven: ‘teen small chapters, oniy half a doz- en of which were really under head- i way. The total. membership in North | Dakota at that ‘time, July 1, 1917, was about 11,000. ~ * ! Fifty-three Chapters. “There are now fifty-three chap- ters, one in each county of the state, having their headquarters at the coun- ty seats, bearing the name of the counties, and having jurisdiction over all, Red Cross work. within the’ coun- ' ties, . Operating ;under the direction jand supervision of these chapters ‘are more than ‘500 Sranches and aux- iltaries, -and .thére ‘is today a Red |. Cros organization’in every city, town © and village in North Dakota and hun- dreds that have their ‘headquarters -at some rural’schoo} building or church. “The ed Cross | mémtbership,..ex- clusive of’ the: Junior Red Cross, has grown from’ that 11,000 turned over to the state’ headquarters on the first of last: July;‘to °167;000" as: reported ‘at the closé of’ the Christmas member- ‘ship drive: “In other words,’ 27 ‘ner cent of, the popoulation of the state, exclusive of the Junior Red Cross | members are today, enrolled under the Red Cross banner. . “In addition to this; -629 schools |have ‘been orgdhized as school, auxil- ‘Liarfes, with’ $25,282. pupils enrolled: as {members of the Junior Red Gross and at work daily. "Banner Red Cross State. “Addin this to.the figures: for adults, gives North Dakota a total Red Crogs enrollment -of more than . 202,000, ‘or hetetr, than 33/1:3 per cent of, its popu- lation, This makes ‘North Dakota the anner Red Cross state.of the Union, |so. far as the figures that this office can secure show. “Everywhere it is admitted: that the isorth Dakota organization,. for : eftt- ciency, thoroughness, and quick action is the best in the country. “Financial reports of chapters are made direct to division headquarters in ‘Minnéapolis, and not to this office. save when special reports are. calléd for.’ The figures in ‘this’ office: how- ever, do show the following facts: >. $600,000 Is Raised. “To the first Red -Crogs war. find. raised last. summer, the people of North Dakota gave a total of more than | $146,000, The additional amounts raised through membership fees, ‘lonations,: * benefits, ‘and. auc- tions have’swelled the total, as nearly us unis office ‘can: estimate, to. better than $690,000. .This is a very con- servativé estimate ‘and is well with- in the actual ‘figures, “and yet “it makes a ‘showing: of which every North Dakota has every reason to. be 3 is handled by this office, except as it happens: to be sent in here and -we forward it to the-proper officers. The total expense of conducting the headquarters: from’ July 1, 191 March 1,.1918, was $4,342.55, .Thi cludes the. printing bills, which were | necessarily “heavy ‘during’ the ‘first two months; traveling and® hotel expenses of the. executive secretary and speakers sent out iby ‘the state headquarters, rent, light. heet, equipment, ,telephone and telegraph bills, express and freight, steriogra- phic hire, postage, and in fact abso- lutely every expenditure made by the stite headquarters. \More Striking Figures, “Compared to the ‘total amount raised, it means that the total over- head’ expense of the State Red Cross headquarters {s only ‘seven-tenths of one per cent. 1 do not believe it can be: equaled@ anywhere, and this record could: not be made were it not for ‘the fact men and women éverywhere‘ do- nate their services and their time: KILLS SWEETHEART. THEN. SELF, AFTER REFUSED MARRIAGE a deat. ear. had been turned to {his ‘pleadings tor, marriagge, Harry een ton, 22, of Gronigen, rd shot and killed Mabel Rappe, ot this city, ‘then’ committed nil