The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1918, Page 4

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Sunday in Combination with Evening or mail, one year ..... THD STATE'S (Es) OLDEST NEWSPAPER. blished 1873) Co — - HITCHCOCK SHOULD BE BEATEN The United States senate, which has had so much to say about red tape and the lack of leader- ship in the conduct of the war, will, within the next few days, have the opportunity to make its actual deeds square with its valiant words. It will have the chance to cast into the dustbin, where it be-|- longs, the rotten senate rule of seniority, and pick a man for leadership not because of his years of service but because of his record and his brains. The death of Senator ‘Stone of Missouri has cre- ated a vacancy in the chairmanship of the com- mittee on foreign affairs. If mere priority counts, Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska is as good as elected. But if sturdy Americanism is to be con- sidered, if great ability is to be considered, if con- stantly displayed friendship for our gallant allies is to be considered, then some man like Williams of Mississippi, or Lodge of Massachusetts, or Borah or Knox will be chosen. The chairmanship of the committee on foreign affairs is going to be one of tremendous impor- tance'to the people of this country, once we win the war. Numberless treaties will have to be writ- ten and considered. Every one of them will have to go'to-this committee before the senate has a chance to act. -Our relations with the world for years to come, our very fate through the centuries, will depend largely upon the spirit in which the chairman of this. committée works with the presidents and meets the suggestions of those countries that have stood shoulder to shoulder with us in the bitter fight for civilization and for liberty. His record abundantly demonstrates that Hitchcock is not the man. His attitude towards the administra- tion has'been such that it would be almost impos- sible for him to work in close harmony .with the present’ president. He not only fought the presi- dent on.such great domestic matters as reform of the. tariff and finance and construction of a gov- ernment owned merchant marine, but he has been a bitter, and in many respects, totally unfair critic and opponent of the administration’s conduct of the war. Moreover—and this is of vital impor- tance, bearing in mind that our boys are today fighting side by side with the valiant British.and the gallant French—it is necessary to remember that in the crucial first months of the war Hitch- cock introduced bills whose main effect, if adopt- ed, would have been to deprive England and France of American money, arms and munitions. If the senate is really in deadly earnest about fighting this war to a victorious finish ,it cannot elevate to the vacant chairmanship a man whose proposed bills and quoted words in 1914 and 1915 so often gave unalloyed delight to every pro-Ger- man in this country. IMMIGRATION HALTED When the present fiscal year ends, June 30, it is highly probable that a new immigration record will be set—the smallest since colonial days. Immigration statistics of the first six months, just published at Washington, indicate that the year’s total may be less than 100,000 persons. For the half-year ending Jan. 1, 1918, only 57,715 came to America, and since then the monthly totals have dwindled to a few thousands. The war ,of course, is responsible. The real dwindling began when the United States entered the war. Since that day, only one country has sent anything like the normal number of immi- grants. That is Japan, which country now leads all nations in sending immigrants to America. Japanese immigration this year will reach 12,000 as against 8,925 in 1917, 8,711 in 1916, and 8,609 in 1915. During the first half of this fiscal year 6,008 Japanese arrived, and they’ve been coming over during January, February and March at the rate of more than 1,000 a month. Italy, which before the war sent over seven times.as many immigrants as Japan then did, this year will send less than a third as many. Mexica, which sent over 16,438 immigrants in 1917, will send less'than 3,000 this year. CORRECT, MR. CHANCELLOR Anyhow, Bonar Law, chancellor of the British exchequer, feels cheerful about it. Last year, Great Britain loaned the allies $2,525,000,000, while the United States loaned them $4,750,000,000. “It is only necessary for us to lean on the United States to the amount the other allies lean on us. In other words, we are self-supporting,” says Bonar Law. _. Passing one’s debts along to a third party surely is a happy process. But Uncle Sam is the Feliable and willing party to lean on, all right. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE folks thinking-of going to Washington to tell how to run the war. More Hobson enterprise against German U- boat bases, if you please, Mr. Geddes! Von Capelle says this is going to be a long war. It is—if the German navy has its way about it. If the British naval forces really did destroy the Bruges canal gate, they certainly punctured the U-boat business. “Another reason for licking the kaiser,” writes K.L., “is that a foul tip in German is “danebenge- gangederschlechtabgetlitzter ball.’ ” And we expect to read sooner or later that some German naval officer says, “When Great Britain forced this naval battle upon us—.” “There is nothing said when rents are low- ered,” says a real estate agent. We'll bite. When are they lowered? Or, when were they lowered? German prisoners in Russia want to stay there. And probably the first thing they'll do if they re- main is to try to have German taught in the schools. Willum’s long range gun killed 118 persons in Paris in 15 days. At this rate it will take the Huns only about 989 years to wipe out the entire population. Violation of Holland by the German autocrats. would surprise nobody. Same as to Switzerland and all other neutrals. Any neutral’s rights are just as safe as Belgium’s were. German soldiers in the great drive are reported to be suffering horribly from “trench feet.” It comes from trespassing on other people’s property and we hope their feet will swell to the size of their heads. Federal trade commission says straw hats are going to be cheap this year because there are so many left over from 1917. We don’t know just how many are left over, but we know where there is one. And we know where there is a scrubbing brush and a bar of soap. On a fence in northern Ohio some fellow chalked this: “Buy Liberty bonds, and keep Ire- land in bondage.” And along came some other kind of a fellow and underneath the foregoing chalked this: “Don’t buy Liberty bonds, and see the kaiser give Ireland self-government.” New York city telephone operators have been ordered not to answer any more “curiosity” calls, such as “What time is it?” The order won’t doa bit of good. The women will call up their favorite jeweler to find out the time. Science has not yet found a way to force a woman to look at her clock or watch when she has a telephone. pocecccccccccceeeo weno cooeoooeooor ores: | WITH THE EDITORS eecccccccccccccccocesoocooooooooosoooss “KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT” The conviction of James A. Peterson, republi- can candidate for the United States senate of Min- nesota, and of J. O. Bentall, candidate for governor of Minnesota on the socialist ticket, of violating the espionage act, followed by prison sentences of four and five years respectively, must be rather disconcerting to persons in Minnesota and neigh- boring states—including North Dakota—who have been arrested and are now awaiting trial on similar or identical charges. Shortly after the United States entered the great war a member of the administration cabinet advised all pro-Germans and those who favored peace at any price to keep their mouths shut. At the time, The Chronicle thought the advice was rather harshly phrased; but since it was given our jails and federal prisons have become pretty well jammed with people who failed to catch the drift of the suggestion, notwithstanding its bluntness. How many hundreds or thousands are congratu- lating themselves that they got the idea right off the bat it is impossible to say. The case of James A. Peterson seems especially tragic. A year ago there was perhaps no man in Minnesota whose staunch loyalty and thorough- going Americanism was less open to question than his. Today he stands convicted of a horrid crime. The verdict of guilt bars his candidacy for an ex- alted office, and he faces loss of citizenship and dreary years behind prison walls. The tragedy of the case lies more nearly in the fact that Mr. Peterson’s offense sprang from motives which would not, under normal conditions, occasion the least criticism. But present conditions are ab- normal, and it is to be deeply regretted that so many good citizens fail to graps the fact that there is but one great issue before the country today: the successful prosecution of the war. Any word or act which tends to retard or militate against this supreme undertaking is intolerable and should meet with swift punishment. Bentall’s offense, while of the same general character as Peterson’s, was more logical in its development. In times of national stress socialism naturally lends itself to disloyalty. And this is so because socialism, in the best sense, is broadly humanitarian. Socialists think in terms of classes rather than of nations; in terms of social justice rather than of patriotism—love of country. And so we find the Bolsheviki in Russia deliberately destroying, constitutional government in the very hour of its supreme peril, and at the same time im- periling the cause of world democracy. And we find their compatriots in this country talking NEWSPAPER MEN BUSINESS TODAY Knights of Fourth Estate Get Heads Together on Pub- licity Campaign DR. MORAN APPROVES IDEA 'Believes Much Waste Effort Can Be Eliminated Through Coordination The North Dakota newspaper men assembled here in war council bucked into the real business of the session at the Commercial chub this morning, where there was a 100 per cent repre- sentation of visiting knights of the fourth .estate in spite of the late uours Wuich they kept at the ban- quet Friday evening. With Governor Frazier presiding, the executive session opened in the Commercial club room shortly after 10 o’clock.. The governor, as chair- man of the defense council, explained «oe purpose for which the conference had been called and read an outline lor a publicity campaign prepared under suggestions from the office of public -intormation and the national council of defense at Washington. To Give Real News. The program as suggested would furnish every newspaper in the state eaco week, dealing with the patriotic work which at the moment appears of carefully edited and presented in form for immediate ~ publication. Every newspaper in the state would be ask- ed to become a volunteer member of their staff as a personal representa- tive, with the assurance that coun- cil of defense publicity mailed to this representative would receive person- al attention. The governor expressed faith in the patriotism and loyalty of the North desire of the council of defense io bind any newspaper politically nor to prevent free and open discussion uerense, ne declared, was absolutely for a cause. to.which-every loyal American newspaper -would be glad to subscribe. The governor urged that each news- paper constitute one member of its staff the official correspondent of the council of defense press bureau, and that this correspondent mail to the oureau any news. dealing with pa- triotic activities in his community, in order that other sections of the state might benefit from the example. Things to Be Done, ‘Some of tne things which the coun- cil of defense hopes to do, the gov- ernor stated, are to so educate the people of North ‘Dakota in the use of lignite coal that we may be prepared fora probable embargo on importea fuel next winter. He/ spoke of the increase in production last year, and of the splendid work done by the newspapers in carrying publicity mat- ter of an educational value, encourag- ing their readers to try lignite. The governor read from a govern- ment bulletin calling. attention to the flax seed shortage. Last year’s crop of eight billion bushels was only one third of normal. We must have a about’a war of “the rotten rich,” obstructing the draft. and preaching their everlasting gospel of diseontent. That may do well enough in time of peace. It bigger acreage of flax this year. The | governor admitted flax great relatively as from the plant of any other crop. ae eee In every. community, BUCK INTO REAL with the well-written, newsy article} the greatest importance to the council. | The matter would be boiled down,} Dakota press; declared ‘ was not the! ‘and honest criticism, The council of; non-political and was working only; Seema egw § SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918. A TOOT ee yet to be broken are to be urged to turn it up and put it into flax. Not only wil this help relieve the flax shortage this year and net the farm- er a good profit, but it will prepare tens of thousands of acres of land for wheat next year, when, if the war continued. North Dakota will be called upon to raise three times as much wheat as it has in any other year. The governor especially commended the feature of the program which rec- ommended education in lieu of scold- ing and criticism for citizens of for- eign birth or foreign. descent who seem lacking in patriotism. He de-. clared the position of this people a hard one, and expressed the belief) that encouragement and_ education will do more to make loyal Americans of them than will the heaping of aouse on their shoulders. He told of; a recent visit to Lefor, a community occupied entirely by citizens who trace their descent to Americas pres- ent enemies, and where the Third Li erty loan was promptly oversubscrib- ed after the necessity had been ex-; plained. Too Much Dope. Editor Peterson of the Dickinson Pres stold what: every.country news- paper man is up against, with bales of publicity matter coming to the sanctum every day. “We haven't time; to read it, and it goes into the waste-| basket. If we did have time to look! it over and publish it, our readers would pay no attention to it. It is too long, and there is too much ot]: it’ He urged brevity and the pre- paration of mater which editors can handle without too much trouble. ~ Council Aspirations Director George V. Halliday of the publicity department of the state council told how the council is ed: cating the people through its wa films, which are showing daily, self- suporting and returning some profit to help defray the expenses of the commission, He told what the coun- cil hopes to do in the lignite educa-! tional propaganda by filming pictures showing the production of lignite and the proper methods of consumption, which would be shown in company with the council’s war pictures. He} spoke of the importance of breaking up every acre, and suggested that were enough sentiment created the state could be induced to purchase a fleet of several hundred low-priced tractors to be placed at the disposal of farmers who are short of men and motive power. Moran in Sympathy Dr. Thomas F. Moran of Purdue university, who attended the meeting as a persorfal representative of Presi- dent ‘Wilson, thoroly endorsed the program tentatively outlined. He ap- proved the plan of adopting .a public- ity program adapted to the needs of the state. This could not be done ‘effectively at ‘Washington, he said, be- CéusU tue Mews agencies there must cover so many districts’ whose inter- ests widely differ. Duplication of publicity work at Washington is una-i voidable, he stated, and he strongly commended the cooperation of the press and state council of defense in a publicity plan such as proposed bien would be pertinent and effec- tive. PIONEER SLOPE RANCHER PASSES AWAY IN CITY Paul Ziner. former county commis: | sioner of Dunn county, and a well; known Slope rancher residing North of Taylor, passed away at a local hos- pital at 7:30 Saturday morning after fife weeks’ illness. The deceased was born in Norway 56 years ago, and practically all of his life had-been spent in America. He located on a Dunn county ranch 25 years ago, and was a pioneer of the Slope country. There survive a widow.and four chil- dren—Eugene, Quentin. Marshall and Pauline Ziner—all of whom were summoned to the bedside of their hus- |~ band and father Friday. Funeral serv- ices will be held Wednesday at the RECALL ELECTION SUIT ADVANCED ONE MORE STEP The suit against the city of Bis- marck in the matter of the attempted recall of Police Commissioner. Bertsch was advanced one step nearer Satur-| day, when.contending counsel succeed- ed in straightening out the issues .in- volved in.stipulating the facts.. After this had been done, the case was con- tinued until May. 14, when the action will be argued. Signers of the origin- al recall petitions, which were rejeci- ed by the city commission on the grounds of insufficiency, after 110 of the original 350 petitioners ‘had with- drawn, are the plaintiffs. They de- mand a writ compelling the city com- mission t6 accept the contention of the petitiners that names cannot be with drawn ‘from a recall petition after such has been filed with the city com- mission. This is’ the only issue m- volved. If the names stick, the peti- ions. will be found sufficient, and a recall election directed. If the peti- tioners’ ‘right to withdraw is upheld, the petitions will be insufficient, and the’ case lost; so far as the original petitions for the recall are con- cerned. GOPHER SAMMY SAYS HE’S LIVELY CORPSE! ‘Minneapolis, Minn., April 27.—List- ed among the missing on the Tuscan-| Sergeant Clarence W. Bowers, Company A, Seventh Battalion, Twen- 4 wugineers, has written to a lo- newspaper requesting that notice of his death be retracted. “Allow me to inform you that I am one of the liveliest corpses you ever saw.” Bowers wrote. “I have been in France for several months but since you included my name among the lost on the Tuscania have no re- ceived a letter. “Really it is no joke to miss the submarines only to be killed by & newspaper.” Sergeant Bowers formerly lived at! OS TREASURE AND TRINKET DAY FOR WING, U.S. A. “Help. the wings of the U. S. A. with Treasure and Trinket Day” is the euphonic slogan which the city Feder- ation of Women’s clubs of Bismarck has adopted for a campaign to be made Saturday, May 4, to procure funds for the aid of the aviation corps. ; The City Federation of Women’s clubs, with the aid of the Camp Fire Girls is planning to make Saturday, May 4, Treasure and Trinket Day for the Capiutal City. The september Women’s Home Companion carried a very interesting account of this move- ment. The idea originated in England as a “Silver Thimble Fund.” Since the campaign began in this country, only a few months ago, thousands of dollars have been raised. The Camp Fire Girls of Bismarck will fire the opening shot in the ‘Treas- ure and Trinket campaign at a patri- otic entertainment to be given Thurs- day evening. May 2, and they wili make a house to house canvass for gold and silver jewelry, trinkets and other discarded articles which are of value on Saturday, May 4. 4 “Please have your contributions ready—nothing is too small to be ac- ceptable,” is the urge of the city fed- eration, whose program is explained as follows: We Do iNot Want Money. But the Treasure and Trinket com- mittee asks for broken, useless un- wanted bits of gold and silves trinkets, discarded jewelry or table-silver, triple-plate. Have you any of these articles? Old gold or silves thimbles, brace- J} lets, brooches, rings, chains or links of chains, cigarette cases, match box- es, scarf pins, odd suff links, studs, gold or silver tops of canes or um- brellas, watch charms, broken spoons, forks or toilet articles in sterling sil- ver or triple-plate, coins in gold or silver which have been monogram- med or punched. What we will do with them What We Will Do With them. Send them to the Aviation commit- tee of the National Aid:Society. How They Will Be Used. All will be melted down and the proceeds used to buy comforts and equip hospitals for the airmen of the American army. CASS COUNTY GOES 72 PCT. OVER. QUOTA ——— j | : Fargo. .N. D., Cass county oversub- scribed. its allotment 72:5 per cént, the rural districts oversubscribed their allotment 53 per cent and the City of Fargo 7% percent with 25 per cent of the population of the county holding Liberty bonds, according to figures announced’ at the office of the county. headquarters of the third Lib- erty loan campaign in Fargo today. SALE OF LAND. Notice is hereby given that, under an order of sale granted by Hon. H.° C. Bradley, judge of the county court of Burleigh county, North Dakota, dat- ed the 27th day “of April, 1918, the undersigned, as guardian of the es- tate of Harry L. Kunze of the town of Lewis in the County of Cass-‘and Staie of Iowa, minor, will. sell .at. private sale to the highest and best bidder, for cash, subject to. confirmation by. the judge of the said county court, tae following described land situate in Burleigh county ,North Dakota, to- wit: An undivided 2-15 interest and estate in the south half of section 22, township 139, range 79. The sale will be made on or after the 10th day of ‘May, 1918, and all bids must be in writing and may be left at Miller, Zuger & Tillotson’s office, Web» Block, Bismarck, N. D., with B. F. Tillotson, the agent for the guara- ian, or filed ‘with the judge of the county court of Burleigh County, N. D., at his office in the court. house at Bismarck in said county and state. EMELID KUNZE, Guardian. B. F. Tillotson, Agent Dated April 27, 1918. 4—27; 5-4 9 Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. 153 Nina Avenue, St. Paul pe EDS meas: » ——————— “ALGOHOL~3 PER GENT. ANééctable PreparationfirAs ; similating theFood by! ting the Stomachs and Bowels INFANTS CHILDREN Norwegian Lutheran church in Tay- and interment will be made’ in SS CASTORIA For Infants and Children. {Mothers Know That For Over Thirty Years WE C2RTAUR Company. NEW VoRR CITY. Use . CASTORIA se