The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE: | HE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE ‘tered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second __Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY ER D, MANN G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, ; Special Foreign Representative. @W YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg. ; ' BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROLT, Kresege Bldg.; ), MINNEAPOLIS, $10 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS } d Press i clusively entitled to the use : : - - Baditor } shed herein All rights of publication of special dispatches herein © algo reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. ally, Morning Sunday by Carrier, per month ...8 .70 ally, Morning, Mvening and Sunday by Carrier, per month .. : uly, Evening only, rier, sily, Evening and Sunday, per month orning or Evening by Mail in North year fone year wmday in Combination with Evening or j mail, one year .. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) GEO IT WILL SAVE LIFE | The $50 Liberty bond which you may buy will | ) alp save life “Over There.” It will protect 1,000 of our soldiers from small-| P yx and 666 from typhoid. It will assure the safe-| | + of 19 wounded soldiers from the lockjaw, the! arms of which swarm in that battletorn land | ’ here our boys are fighting against the Hun. Your $50 will render painless 400 operations, | ipply two miles of bandages—enough to bandage} ) 55 wounds. Your $50 Liberty bond will care for 160 in-} : aries in the way of “first aid packets.” | It will furnish adhesive plaster and surgi quze enough to benefit thousands of wounded sol- ers. What more could you do with $50? THE HOME What is your idea of the ideal home? | Is it a mansion of brick and stone? A great house filled with servants, oriental igs and blase guests? Is it an apartment where the janitor reigns} ad the elevator sometimes runs? | Maybe it’s a place like this: “A cottage with a front porch and a perambu-| itor on porch; a parlor with’a phonograph in! | ie parlor; pantry shelves with preserves on the anitry shelves, and a potato patch in the back- ard.” That’s the sort of homes a visitor at Dearborn, lich., found, homes scattered around the home of | fenry Ford. Somchow or other we just thought that Henry ‘ould want to live among people who had front orches with perambulators, parlors, phonographs, antry shelves loaded and potato patches grow- 1g. | But Dearborn need not get chesty about its jllection of ideal homes. There are many right ere in Bismarck, and there are babies for the erambulators too. THE TEUTON MADNESS Some weeks ago, there came a cable story to 1e effect that the Germans had captured several mericans and left thei» mutilated bodies in front f the trenches held ' our 3. Now comes a story told in a letter by Adjutant . C. Starbard ofthe Salvation Army, who says aat a wounded sergeant in a hospital told him sat he saw the Germans capture three American yidiers and cut their throats. i dds Mr. Starbard, are perpetrated by brutes espe- ially selected to intimidate by frightfulness It is of high importance that the truth or fal- ity of such reports be established beyond doubt. ; is even worth while that the authorities at Vashington take particular pains to determine | aeir truth or falsity. The continuance of such ,tories is loaded with horrible possibilities, there re so many exposed German throats in this ountry. Moreover, if cutting the throats of American risoners is, indeed, part of the German war policy, >r intimidating purposes cr any other, the fact dll and ought to strongly affect America’s atti- ide toward Germany at the peace table. We Izve amongst us Americans who struggle! J preserve sympathy for the German people as! istinguished from their government, Americans! tho believe that the people of Germany are merely risguided by education and misled by their war} rds, Americans who have a sort of hazy idea iat civilization is sacrificing, bleeding and dying 1 this war partly with the aim of ultimate benefit ) the people of Germany themselves. But a people who, through ignorance, brutish- ess, or subservience as followers of autocracy, or -om any other cause, stands for a government iat butchers helpless captives as hogs are slaugh- syed is without the pale of human sympathy. Such a people is maniacal, and is to be treated 3 such by every nation that sits at the peace table j establish order and justice throughout the orld. A people that believes in and supports de- berate murder as a war policy must be put be- ond the possibility of making war. Moreover, be- ig mad, it should be isolated, confined and con- ned and controlled as are individual maniacs, for ae common good of all other peoples. We mean just exactly that, as a nation partici- ‘ating on an equality with other nations in the orld’s affairs, the nation of throat-cutters should 2 barred, until completely cured of its barbarism. ermany should be interned in Germany. WITH THE EDITORS _. THE NATURALIZED AMERICAN It is a mystery to us why naturalized Germans, | ad particuiarly our citizens of German descent, Hould at this time have any difficulty in being} | hole-souled and whole-hearted with this country against Germany. We recognized that when je United States was considered neutral, the call || the blood would inspire their desire for a Ger- , but as against the country oftheir i from the crushing burden of militarism. Neither in fact nor sentiment is there justification to cherish Germany above the United States, and, above all, should they repudiate the present Ger- man military clique absolutely responsible for the war of nations originally, and the murder of Amer- ican citizens that compelled this country to enter the war. If they so loved Germany, what in the name of heaven are they doing here? Why, at the outbreak of the war, did they not travel back to Germany and fight her battles when there was chance to do so? What kind of people are they that left their native land, took the oath of fealty to this country, and by wavering at this time are true to none ?—Parshall Leader. STUTSMAN FOR JUDGE * There has been a very general expression of ‘hope, particularly since the Nonpartisan conven- 90/tion, that W. H. Stutsman of Mandan, could be in- ‘duced to become a candidate for ass ciate justice of the state supreme court to succeed Chief Jus- \tice Bruce, who, to the general regret of all who ‘know him well, has decided not to run for re-elec- tion. Two years ago a great many friends of Mr. Stutsman urged him to run for this office, for they felt with his ability as a lawyer and his splen- did judicial temperament he would make an ideal judge. Other friends, knowing the great work Mr. Stutsman was doing as chairman of the rail-j road commission, threw their influence with h'm to stand as a candidate for commissioner again, and, prevailing, lost the chance of the state having this man of sterling character and the utmost fealty to duty on the higher bench. regarding such a candidacy, but he can be assured that his entry into the contest would be a great satisfaction to all those who desire a man of the highest integrity and legal ability as the new mem- ber of the supreme court at this time—Fargo Post. WAR REVE TWO PAYMENTS Mr. McAdoo, it is reporied, is opposed to Con- jgressman McCormick’s bill to divide income tax payments in two installments. He is said to be of the opinion that most corporations have made pro- vision in advance to pay the tax, and reference is made to the fact that certificates of indebtedness to the amount of $1,500,000,000 have already been purchased for the purpose of meeting the federal levy. It is concluded, therefore, that there is no necessity of giving relief to the taxpayers. Mr. McAdoo may be perfectly correct in his estimate of the situation with respect to the ma- jority of large corporations, though even in their case a scheme for divided payments would doubt- less promote the national interest. But the situa- tion must be quite different with thousands of business and professional men whose tax may not. texceed a few hundred dollars. They could not foresee definitely what their tax would be, and in the vast majority of cases it is doubtful whether they have laid aside any funds for its payment. These persons will have to draw on their current income. Moreover, as has been pointed out, the pay- jment becomes due at a time when every patriotic \citizen is straining his resources to purchase Lib- erty bonds. It is unquestionable that the burden will be heavy for a large number of people. There is no good reason why the proposed re- lief should not be granted. The government’s need for funds is not so pressing as to require a lump (payment. If the proceeds of the new loan are not sufficient to fill the gap the government can issue ‘certificates of indebtedness to tide us along till the second installment is paid. It is now estimated, moreover, that the federal levy will produce nearly 31,000,000,000 more than the amount which was previously anticipated, $2,500,000,000. Under these civeumstances the government can well af- ford to collect the income tax revenue on the de- ferred payment principle——Chicago Tribune. | KIPLING SAYS TRULY | “Nothing else under heaven matters today ex- cept that the war shall go.on to victory,” declared | Rudyard Kipling here today in a striking and pic- | turesque speech in advocacy of war savings. “The money we loan to the government helps to set our land and our world free,” continued Mr. Kipling. “Our security for our loan is rot only the whole of the British Empire but also the whole of civiliza- |tion which has pooled its resources in men, money jand material to carry on this war to victory.” What is the personal aspect of the case for you and me? Weare fighting for our lives, the lives of EVEL man, woman and child here and ‘everywhere else. _. “We are fighting that we may not be herded into actual slavery such as the Germans have es-. tablished by force of their arms in large parts of Europe. “We are fighting against eighteen hours a day. of forced labor under lash or at the point of the jbayonet, with a dog’s death and a dog’s burial at the end of it. “We are fighting that men, women and chil- dren may not be tortured, burned, and mutilated in the public streets, as has happened in this town and ‘in hundreds of others. And we will go on fighting till the race who have done these things are in no position to continue or repeat their of- fense. _ “If for any reason whatever we fall short of victory—and there is no half-way house between victory and defeat—what happens to us? This: “Every relation, every understanding, every decency upon which civilization has been so anx- iously built up will go—will be washed out, because it will have been proved unable to endure. The whole idea of democracy—which at bottom is what the Hun fights against—will be dismissed from men’s minds, because it will have been shown in- capable of maintaining itself against the Hun. It will die; and it will die discredited, together with every belief and practice that is based on it. ; “The Hun ideal, the Hun’s root-notions of life will take its place throughout the world. Under that dispensation man will become once more the natural prey, body and goods, of his better-armed neighbor. Women will be the mere instrument for continuing the breed; the vessel of man’s lust and man’s cruelty; and labor will become a thing to be knocked on the head if it dares to give trouble, and worked to death if it does not. And from this order of life there will be no appeal, no possibility of any escape. This is what the Hun means when he says he intends to impose German Kultur—which is the German religion—upon the an Aegt o ey the, it gave il it apo pert and oppor- ey ever - any, ‘there should “be the ohtest he " itself’ together to, renist,”—Vattey, City, ‘Times- wussye & Gbrihany‘ to better thelr Condition ; some to escape| It is not known what Mr. Stutsman’s views are|’ mt ALL HE HAS IS DUE qT 7) Y, au van P__ AT CERT(E (Oy RARE TO THE STARS AND STRIPES AND IT IS AT UNCLE SAM’S SERVICE AT ANY: TIME The following opinions v oiced by a veteran of the Spanish- American war is worthy of the splendid son of Erin penning them and every loyal citizen should follow his patriotic action in subscribing for the Third Liberty Loan: Munster, N. D., April 10, 1918. Mr. H. Peoples. Chairman Eddy County Third Liberty Loan, New Rockford, N. D.- Dear Sir and Chairman: I noticed the i " till this war is for $1,000 and I will be in town | to buy Third Liberty Bonds. as much of this world’s goods as some of my neighbors, but all I have belongs to Uncle Sam government is asking everyone * I have not got won and you can put me down Monday and fix it up. What I have is due to the protection of the Stars and Stripes, which I am willing and ready to defend with all I pos- sess, and with my life any,time Uncle Sam wants me. This flag is very dear to me and I know what its protection means. 1 fought the enemy under Old H, First North Dakota, in the Philippine: war. enlist there with Dr. Hotchkiss, then I walked back to Mike Glory when I was in Company In order to who was enlisting officer, and Eugini’s farm. When I was called out by Uncle Sam, I rode in a box car to Jamestown, and I will gladly do it again if needed. Our soldier boys need our help “over there” to-crush the kaiser and his damn Huns, and this we can do if every one will buy all the bonds he possibly can. It means some sac- rifice, but what is it compared to what the boys have to go through at the front, and I know jj). what I am talking about. Our flag must be ' upheld wherever it may be hoisted and this war won, and we can do it and will do it. ¥ | “MANDAN NEWS. CHILDREN FEATURE, oy I o LEAGUE PROGRAM! Interesting Entertainment Held |, | candidate for sheriff, was in Mandan !on Saturday and yesterday campaign- by Conservationists SEES | A highly entertaining program was} given by the Child’s Conservation | seague, in which little children, club; members, E. W. Peterson and Supt. vevine took part at the Mandan Com- mercial club rooms-on Friday evening The husbands of the club members attended, with other members of the families and friends. It is estimated the attendance numbered 75. Supt. Devine gave a very interest- ing talk on “the Home” and vividly pictured in his most gifted manner che home’s relation to the city, coun- cry, state and nation. Twelve little girls from three to six years’ old gave one of the most interesting numbers of the program, “The Hickory Dick- ory Dock drill,” under the dirtction of Miss Georgia Brandenburg. The drill was a perfect interpretation, and -he little tots each carried their parts out most successfully. After the program refreshments were served. - HOME FROM CAMP DODGE Private William Bauknecht Likes Life in the Army Private William Bauknecht, son of! Richard Bauknecht of this city, sta- tioned at Camp Dodge, where he is a clerk in the office of the military po- lice department, is in the city on a tew days’ furlough’ with ‘his relatives: “Bill” is looking’ fine and is ably fill- ‘ng his place in the army. He says that there is nothing like it and he {; anxious to get back. He seldom sees world. This is precisely what the world has | the Mandan hoys located at Dodge but ‘says those he does gee are suet ting along: nicely. Bill leaves t foe Band ‘Dodge ed ey visited i Loyal Americans know their duty. Yours truly, ARTHUR HUGHES. | Jamestown with friends while on his furlough. M’GRATH IS CONFIDENT Glen Ullin Man Believes He Will Clean: Up Olson Orin McGrath, a popular Glen Ullin ing and renewing acquaintances. Mr. iMcGrath says that he is quite confi- dent of election. He wil loppose Os- car Qlson, present sheriff of Morton county, who has served this ‘county ably in that office and who will make anybody “hit the high spots” to get his office. M ‘RECEIPTS ARE SMALL Red Cross Auction Brings Less Than Expected Unfortunately the much heralded ited Cross Auction sale held in Man- dan on Saturday afternoon did not; bear the results that was hoped for, and the amount secured from the sale will figure less than $600. Auctioneer Curtis worked hard to sell the many valuable articles offered for sale, but the “pep” was not apparent in the small crowd present. Mr. Tipper pur- chased the Cary lot on a bid of $260. SOLDIER BOY HOME: Russell Young Making Mark in Coast Artillery Private Russell Young. son of- Ed-| itor and Mrs.\S. A. Young, arrived in Mandan a short time ago from his company headquarters at Camp Pick- ens, Fla, and is spending a few days in Mandan with his parents. Russell is in line for a non-commissioned offi- cer’s berth and will. soon be wearing stripes his many friends believe. He is a former member of Co. F. now en- listed with the coast artillery, and he re} experts:to:ve gent “over there in, ale ed Mountain ‘Tea F future. He. is lookin; jup with the live Rhakes Xcellebt re dy id ee the flower of the wonderful of .what constitutes young manhood in United States army. Mrs. V. J. LaRose of iBsmarck was in Mandan yesterday a guest of rela- tives. ‘ Henry Ouren of Huff is in Mandan for a few days visiting with relatives and friends. —— | Miss Jean Duggan, school teacher, spent yesterday {n the capital city visiting with friends. - Mrs. Ray Bergeson of Lismarck was in Mandan yesterday, a guest of her j Parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Simp- son. Dr. and (Mrs. Franz have returned from several months’ visit in New Or- leans and’ other southern and eastern points. - : Mrs. W. ‘M.: Simpson recently ‘re- turned home from:a several weeks’ visit with relatives and friends. in the twin cities. ; / «Miss Ethel Thompson, school teacher, returned today from Glen Ullin, where. she had been visiting for a few days with her sister. Miss Stella Aughnay has accepted a position in the office of Drs. Kranz & Spielman. She assumed her duties a few days ago and will remain there for an indefinite time. The Ladies’ Altar society of the Catholic church will tomorrow after- noon meet at the parochial school aud- itotium with Mesdames Frank Herder and George Jones. DEALERS MUST KEEP RECORDS OF ALL SALES Survey Under Way to Determine How Much Flour and Sugar Is Being Used . A tightening of the food regulations ‘y North Dakota, which, it is claimed, ave not been so rigorously observed is in other states, is presaged in the tollowing letter from Dr. E. F. Ladd, state food administrator, which. has gone to every dealer in North Dakota: “The time has come when it is ne- zessary that we have a complete rec- ord of the sale of all wheat flour, ‘lour substitutes and sugar. We must now how much is being sold to each and every individual, and the dealers ‘n ‘North Dakota are now required to, see that a record is made of every sale on a card like those enclosed aerewith; the said cards, at.the end of the month, to be returned to the Federal Food Administrator, Agricul- «ral college, N. Dak. ww “you will, . therefore, ‘kindly take | steps to see’ that no sales of any of he licensed ingredients ‘named above fare made without this card being vroperly filled out“by the party mak- ng the sale and signed by the person making the purchase. Itrust that we may have your full co-operation in -his important ‘matter. Beginning With April 15°no sale of flour, flour substitutes or sugar shall be made without: such a card. Parties failing ‘o comply with the regulations will 10 longer be permitted to receive sup- ‘lies from any licensed dealer in the Jnited States. “Appreciating the splendid co-opera- fon that has been extended by. re- tail-dealers throughout ‘North Dakota, iI bespeak an equal support in limit- ing the sale of flour to one and one- half. pounds per person per week, and of sugar to three pounds per per- son per month. i “1 am sending you, herewith, twenty {cards ‘or your immediate use. “Sinterely yours. B. F. Ladd, Fed- eral, Food Administrator.” “Bright ‘eyes, clear complexion, vim. vigor and force, all indicate perfect health; without it you are handicap- ped in the race of life. Take Hollis- h ‘ea or Tablets: .” TLOWER'RATES. MONDAY, APRIL 15/2918... ATH FOR LIGNITE INSISTED ON Reasénable Tariffs Will Enable Minnesota and South Da- kota to Buy OFFER RECOMMENDATIONS ‘Minnesota and South Dakota -con- North Dakota coal during the com- ing year are not to be mulcted an ex: orbitant freight rate for their fuel, if the realway commissions.of the three states affected can help It. Asa re: sult of a recent conference in Fargo, attended by the rail boards of North and South, Dakota and Minnesota; theré will be recommended to the. in- teratate. commerce: commission the extension to our sister ‘states of the state long has enjoyed. Under present conditions, lignite coal from the Lehigh field can be de-- livered in Fargo at a freight rate of $1.25, while to haul the same coal a mile further,\to Moorhead, Minn,,: the railroads. ask , $2.62. _ With stove. size lignite selling, at. the mouth of. the mine for $2.50, this makes. the cost laid down in , Fargo $3:75 the ‘ton, while, just across the river: in Moor- head this coal costs $5.12: The rate continues to increase, unti} a ton: of coal laid down in minnesota:-repre- sents a cost of $10.30; before the re- tailer has taken out his commission for handling. i There is an apparent discrimination against the North : Dakota: lignite tield in favor of Illinois. bituminous, for a ton of coal from the latter can be shipped from Peoria to St: Paul,,a distance of 500 miles, for $1.80, while from Kenmare to St. ‘Paul, only 31 miles further, the tariff is $6 higher, or $7.80 the ton. Mayor George D. Hamilton of De- troit, Minn., reported his experiences in an effort to relieve the coal short- age in his city last winter. He went to Beulah and purchased: three: ¢ar- loads of lignite, two for municipal plants and one car for domestic con- sumptioon. This last car: cost the consumers at Detroit $6.25 the ton, or on a basis of heat units, 79 cents:more than Illinois ‘coal. Although: the: dis- tance from Beulah‘ to eDtroit is’ ‘but 47 miles greater than the distance from Beulah to Fargo, the-freight rate to the (Minnesota town is $2,65 the-ton, while to the North Dakota gate city it ig.but $1.16.. Mayor Hamilton assured the conferees at Fargo*that if ‘the freight rate is reduced on the :basis of the Fargo tariff. bringing lignite Linto. open competition’ with.-Iijnois coal. Detroit *will use from ‘8,000 to -0,000 tons of the’ Dakota: fuel~ this year, e oe Rate, expert James A’ Little of. the North Dakota railway commission ex- plained that an old lignite rate: of '$2 the ton from ‘Kenmare. to’ .the Twin Cities had, been ¢ancelled, in December, 1915. If that rate still pre f+) ast Dakota He ite. comid be ‘delivered on cars,at Minneapolis and’ St. Paul in unlimited quantities at $4.25 to $4.50 the, ton, which, it-ts believed, would make: it papular .for domestic consumption in competition with inferior grades ,of bituminous from Illinois and Indiana. * As a result of the conference, .low- er rates on lignite wil bé recommend: ed‘to the railways serving the North Dakota coal fields, If the railways. de- cline to act on these. recommenda: tions, the demand for ‘better tariff will be carried to the interstate com- merce commission and, if necessary, to Director eGneral (McAdoo. ie Freight, rates. which would enable Minnesota and South Dakota’ to. use North Dakota lignite would moye. dir- estly benefit the railways than any other interest, aside from the lignite producers. The building up if'a big- lignite industry in ‘North Dakota would mean larger mining towns more freight to. be moved in oth direc- tions and more business of all kinds for the railways. ‘ Barly action in this matter is: im- portant, since coal consumers in the states affected are anxious to comply with the directions of United States Fuel Administrator Garfield and fill their bins during the summer months, when there will be a slight reduction in the price of coal, and when all re- strictions on storage wil be suspend: President Wilson’s proclamation re- quiring ~obbers, selling and purchas- tng agents, wholesalers and al others engaged i nthe sale or distribution of coal or-coke, except the producers and miners of coal and the manufac- turers of coke, distributing exclusive their own: product, and retail dealers, became effective April 1. Hereafter, any person, firm, corporation or dsso- ciation, other than those. excepted, who without a license, knowingly en- gages in such business will be Mable to heavy penalties, prescribed in the act of Congress under which Prest- dent Wilson issued his proclamation. Application for licenses must be made direct to the United States Fuel Commissioner upon blanks: : provided for this purpose. LABOR SHORTAGE TO HANDICAP RAILWAYS | ‘St. Paul, Minn., April 15.—A gen- eral shortage of labor will seriousty handicap railroad maintenance and betterment work so vitally essontial to the successful prosecution of the war because of the pressure on trane- portation facilities, according to offi- cials of lines centering in:St. Paul. : . The shortage prevails throughout the nation, is more serious: in districts adjacent to the great manufacturing centers but is a matter. of great, con- cern in the northwest also, these of- ficials declared. . y The shortages ranges from 10: to 69 per cent, the shortage in the north- west being about 20 per cent, ft is said. ‘ ki Marked decreases in the numbre of foreign laborers coming to this. coun- try because of the war, the draft and enlistments and loss of .many/ skilled employes in engineering departments are held responsible for the short: ago. < i i “Essential work will be done but it kK] means a greatly restricted program,” Burt, acting general i e Northern’ Nacitie rallrona, WY ATO