The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1918, Page 4

t THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Gatered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as Second Class Ma ISSUED EVERY DAY @EORGE D. MANN ate tel es @. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NBW- YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg. ; BOSTON, 8 Winter 8t.; DETROKT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited tm this paper and also the local news pab- shed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches berein are also reserved. ER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Daily; Morning and Sunday by Carrier, per month ~ 8 .70 Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday by Carrier, per month — .......... easseci cceeeetecaer racemes (00. Daily, Evening only, by Carrier, per month ... 50 Daily, Evening and Sunday, per MONth .......- n-ne Morning or Evening by Mail in North Dakota, one 46 of North Dakots, amneeeees 6.00 peimaimnscaidy £°) OLDEST NEWSPAPER. \blished 1873) ad “IMPORTANT!” Under this heading the fly-leaf of our old perennial joke-book friend, “The Anti-Prohibition Manual,” says: “To campaign managers, speakers, writers and plain workers: Be not over-confident in your mes- sages to the public. Remember that one of the secrets of the anti-saloon league’s success is its note of pessimism sounded during every campaign. It tells the workers that unless they get out every vote they are apt to be beaten. Meet the drys at their own game. Ask your people to wire or write members of their state legislature, petitioning them to vote against the ratification of the national prohibition amend- ment. Present petitions to your legislatures. “Always remember this: A legislator is your HIRED MAN. Your votes had just as much to do with sending him to the legislature as did any dry ballot. AND DON’T LET HIM FORGET IT.” Baitor THE STATE’ (Es) That, we rise to suggest, has been just the trouble in saloon territory. The saloons made the legislators and the county officers and the local machine, down to the pettiest ward constable, their HIRED MEN, and they never let them nor the public forget it. Many.a man who had no moral objection to the saloon, and.who enjoyed a drink now and then and appreciated the opportunity for sociability. which a.well regulated saloon offered, helped to. vote them out of business because he didn’t like them .a8'a, political factor. . “King ‘Alcohol was a political boss of the old rule’or ruin type. He-wasn’t content with the making of Jaws; he insisted that it was ever his privilege.to break them. If the local ordinance specified closing at 11 p. m., King Alcohol stole an hour.or two. If the state laws and local ordinances or your sister, or your daughter or your wife. The breath of scandal never has touched her; she has climbed to the highest pinnacle of stage fame without sacrificing a shred of her womanly mod- esty and purity. The whole Slope should see her, and the Auditorium management should be given conclusive proof that the community which it serves appreciates such bookings as Maude Adams. After May 1 there can’t be liquor with singing and dancing in Chicago. That will end most of the singing. Nobody can stnd it without liquor. The kaiser visited Zeebrugge, after the British raid, and was informed by officials that little dam- age was done. This sort of guff may do to stuff Germans in Germany with. But we guess that Bill doesn’t swallow it. “You want to know when a landlord ever re- duced the rent,” writes H. H. “Well, I will tell you. One time when our roof had been leaking for something more than a year, and the plumb- ing had gone blooey, and the floors rattled every time the wind blew, a storm came along and blew down the chimney. And our landlord, a kind- hearted, generous fellow, said that if we would make repairs he would reduce the rent 25 cents a month.” poccececccccecccocoorooe enero cooococccs: | WITH THE EDITORS el THE SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS Of course the country newspaper editors, at the convention in Bismarck Friday and Saturday, pledged their whole hearted loyalty in unequivocal terms. That was to be expected, but they went further. They forgot politics and feuds for the time be- ing in the service of the government. As a rule the country newspaper editor doesn’t think any more about politics than he does about getting three meals a day. It is as natural for him to dip into political affairs, as it is for a duckling to take to the water. But politics was forgotten at Bismarck. knew democrats; which were Nonpartisans and which were not. The editors left their work and paid their own expenses to Bismarck for the sole purpose of working out a practical method of putting their columns at the service of the government. They wanted to devise a practical plan for handling the immense amount of publicity matter sent out by the national and state governments, so that a max- imum of service could be given at a minimum of waste. That plan ‘was most thoroughly discussed and finally. adopted. Its aim is not to reduce the: amount of space given to government affairs, but to increase it; to make the matter more readable and more effective; and to reduce the expense in handing it. : The spirit of the meeting couldn’t have been better. The editors fraternized as in the “good old days.” .We have a feeling that those resolu- prohibited gambling, King Alcohol set up a rou-|tions herald the coming. of pleasanter days for létte wheel and a stud poker lay-out and a crap table or two in a convenient back room, and King Alcohol wouldn’t contribute to any patriotic cele- bration nor to anything else if some special law- breaking privilege was not given him in return. King Alcohol insisted that young people be furnished drinks when the law said they should not have them. Not only was there the direct immediate profit, but there was the future gain of selling, again in violation of the law, large quanti- ties of intoxicants to the red light districts in which these young people later wound up, the one sex as inmates and the other as patrons. . King Alcohol directed his servants to laugh at worry-worn wives and mothers when they came around with their notices prohibiting the sale of liquor to some husband or father or son or brother “who couldn’t handle it.” His money was good as long as he had a dime left to pass over the bar. No, managers of the booze game, do not be over-confident in your messages to the public. You*have abused that public and its confidence until you will continue to need every vote you can master. In the face of your inevitable doom, we have yet to note a sincere effort at reform. In “wet” territory the same old practices are as com- mon today as they were 25 years ago. For thick- headed, obstinate blundering into oblivion you are out-hunning the kaiser. THE GREAT AND ONLY The great and only Maude Adams comes to the Auditorium on Saturday evening. There is only one Maude Adams, and she is great, not only for her consummate art, but because her name has never been tarnished; her reputation has never been besmirched, she never has had an “affair;” she is all that we revere and love and worship in American’ womanhood, and Maude Adams has been on the stage from her early childhood. ‘Miss Adams deserves to be, as she is, America’s most beloved actress. She comes of a well-known stage family. Her mother, Annie Kiskadden Adams, is still a popular favorite in stock, altho she must be near the age of 70. Little Maude be- gan her stage career as a mere babe. She nar- rowly escaped being born on the stage, when her mothr was playing in stock at Salt Lake City, No- vember 11, 1872. The stage was Maud Adams’ school, altho she also attended the public classes in Salt Lake City while taking child’s parts in the stock company of which her mother was a mem- ber. Then, at 16, she joined E. H. Sothern’s com- pany..and went to the great city of New York. "Later she came under the management of Charles Frohman, in stock, and then for five years starred with John Drew. » She was first starred as Lady Babbie in “The Little Minister,” and her greatest successes from that time to this have been in Barrie plays. She has been a star for more than 20 years, and she is today in her prime. She comes to the Bismarck Auditorium next Saturday a consummate actress. Best; of all, as kep ae: North Dakota; days when acrimony will: be re- moved from political affairs; when kindliness and good feeling: will supplant suspicion and. distrust among neighbors and friends in North Dakota;, when communities will not be divided by artificial barriers, but be united in working for the benefit of all; when life will be more worth the living out here in the wheat belt. Speed the day !—Fargo Forum. DECIMAL COINAGE At the annual meetings of the Association of Chambers of Commerce, which begin today in London, a draft decimal coinage bill is to be sub- mitted for approval. We are no far from the centenary of the first agitation of British business men in this direction, and in the kindred direction of the metric system, and it is well over the half- century since the Bank of England gave the move- ment an impetus by subscribing £100 to the funds of the Decimal association. Yet in 1907, when the last metric bill was presented to the house of commons, the second reading was rejected by a large majority. If you give your mind to univer- sal principles you are bound to be a decimalist; the moment the enemy entraps you among the perplexities of local details and special pleas you become again a Brtish chaotist. Lancashire, which somtimes seems to vote for free trade upon the strictest protectionist principle, adheres to the present chaos in weights and measuresson the ground that while anyone can understand the metric system, no one but a Britisher can under- stand ours, and that therefore the Britishers al- ways have the advantage of initiates in an exclu- sive circle. According to the exporters of cotton, the east, which has been admitted to our secret, prefers its dark holes and corners to the stark simplicity of the all-ten' system, and in the eastern market the metric manufacturer is perplexed and lost. But this kind of opposition is the paltriest of special pleading. Enlightenment is all on the side of easy and rapid communications, and even if the whole world were under the necessity of unlearn- ing the British confusion of weights and accounts and learning the all-ten system, the change would be worth while, for the metre and the decimal are time-savers in communication between one busi- ness man and another, though both‘may belong to the same country. : There cannot be freedom of trade until our neighbors understand us and we them with the least possible loss of time, and in regard to this object the all-ten system is almost a universal language of nature. The early Victor- ians who devised the florin and inscribed it ‘“one- tenth of a pound”—a superscription which was abandoned only in the Jast reign—clearly intended to introduce us to the conveniences of a decimal coinage. There would be nothing revolutionary in carrying their reform a little further, and a deci- mal coinage would sooner or later bering metric measures in its train. Both these developments she come,sas a woman who has:kept|of free trade would make for plain dealing, econ- ,a&-you.would have hid:gesr mother; |omy-and increased profits——Londen Chronicle. | - * It is: doubtful if anybody there}! * SOLDIERS WHO | | HAVE DIED | * > Washington, D. C., April 30.—Two casualty lists given out today by the war department contained 156 names. The killed and mising in action num- bered twenty-two. Then officers were named. The first list contained 74 names, divided as follows: Killed in action, 13; died of wounds, 2; died of accident, 2; -died of disease, 10; died of other causes, 1. Wounded severely, 11;-. wounded slightly, 32; missing in action, 3. The second casualty list contained |: 82 names, divided as follows: Killed in action, 5; died of wounds, 1; died of disease, 3;. wounded severe- ly, 14; wounded slightly, 55; missing in action, 1. 1 Missing in Action. Privates Peter F, Crowley, Samuel Darling, James. E, Deady, Davis O. Lawrence, Wm. G. Pierce. Died of Disease. Mechanic Olaf..W. Flink; Privates Benjamin B. Clark, Howard A. Frye. Died of Wounds. Lieutenant Norman F. Hood; Pri- vates Norbert E. Rigby, Enos C. Sawyer, James T. Williams. Wounded Severely. Lieutenant James, J. Parsons; Serg- eants Benjamin J. James, Jack B. Kendrick; Corporal Harold ‘McDonald: Cook Elias Boynton; Privates Mihal Bobelo, Dennis G. Coulchares, Stanley Gosingi, Elmer. N. ‘Holyoke, Wm. Kentile, Charles. H. Patterson, Joseph Ramando, George C. Ransom, Edward W. Smalley. i é The first list folows: Killed in Action. Captain Arthur F. Locke; Sergeants Edward J. Kline, Joseph ‘Sokovich; Corporals Arthur J, Paulson, Walace C. Winter, Jr.; Privates Francis Barnes, Alvin W. Gordon, ‘Mike Kuz- misky, David F. Lindgren, Daniel E. Murdock, Wm. J. O’Brien,’ Melvin F. Rice, John J. Ryan. Died of Wounds. Corporal Charles J, Blankford and Private Gregore Paleologus. ‘Died of Disease. Corporal John Taylor; Cook Lous D. Bisweith; Privates Orval Fike; Iv- ory Gamble, James C. Gardner, Jess2 B. Hewitt, Romeo, Nadeau, Merlin Proctor, Willie Simmons, Arthur J. Stevens. Died of Accident. Privates Joseph Francis Miskell and Frank Osborn. Died of Other Causes. « Privates ‘Max Robert Burke, Frank Doreski, Diego Luis Corretjer, Joe Le- to, Anthony Markareviz, Stanley Kied- eowski, Robin Moore, Thomas H. Musker, Wm. O'Dell, Walter J. Round. MARINES. Washington, D. C.; April 29.—A mar- ine casualty list containing thirty names was given out tonight by the navy department. Three men were killed action; one died of wounds and three of disease; ten were severely wounded and thirteen slightly wound- ed. ‘ Killed in Action. Gunner Sergeant Wm. C. Tarr; Pri- vates Osco Robinson, John L. Shade. Died of Wounds. Private Benjamin J. Lueken. ‘Died of Disease, Corporal Vernon N. Sosthein; Pri- vates Myrtis B. Cargill and Edward E. Wells. Severely Wounded. Corporals Dutton S. Peterson, John Mulchy; Privates Clarence C. McTag- gart, Walter W. -Pierce, Stanley S. Fairchild, Harvey G. Adkins; Corpor- al Azard Bailey; Privates Frank. E. Gess, Thomas M. Underwood, Charles W. Milburn, © Washington, D. C., April-30.—Three casualties sustained: by sailors serv- ing with the. United States marines: in the American expeditionary force were announced today by the nevy depart- ment.. .°- Hospital apprentice. Fred Charles Schaffner, of Rock Island, Ill., died of wounds received in action. Pharma- cists’ Mate Spencer Jay Lewis of St. Joseph, Mo., and Hospital Apprentice Carl D. Kingsbury of New Castle, Pa, were wounded in action. The department also reported to- day, that. Machinists’ Mate Mathew. D. Sullivan, naval reserves, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was lost oveboard from an Am- erican submarine chaser in a heavy sea. TRY PUBLISHERS AS GERMAN PUBLICITY AIDES IN PARIS. Paris, April 30—The trial opened here today of persons involved in the a: affairs of the Bonnett Rouge, a news- paper said to have German. financial backing and to have been engaged in propaganda for the enemy. WILFLEY GIVEN TOGA OF STONE St. Louis Election Commissioner Accepts Appointment Tend- ered by Gardner St. Louis, Mo., April 30.—Xenophon P. Wilfley, member of the St. Louis board of election commissioners and prominent democrat of Misseuri, to- right was tendered by Governor Card- ner the seat in the United States Sen- ate vacated recently by the death of Senator W. J. Stone. Wilfley announc- ed he would acept the appointment and left for Jefferson City to confer with the governor. CGHILEAN SUBS BUILT IN U.S. Havana, April 30—Six submarines built in the United States, for the Chilean government, have anchored in the harbor here after a journey of four days from an Atlantic port. MURDER CHARGE AGAINST GUNMEN FOR TWO DEATHS Coroners’ Juries Hold Hearings - on Slaying of Minot Police- men Minot, N. D., April 30.—Charges ot first degree murder were placed u- gainst. A. L. Buck and C. N. Tocknor for the murder Friday night of Patrol- men DeVaney and Gowin of the Minot police force, -by two. coroner's ju/es tonight after a preliminary hearing. DAILY REPORTS MAY BE ISSUED ~ BY DEPARTMENT Baker Not Satisfied With Pres- ent System of Keeping Pub- lic Informed on War Washington, D, C., April 30.—The whole question of how the American public shall be kept promptly inform- ed as to army activities both abroad and at home is under consideration at the war department. In making this known today Secretary Baker frankly stated that the present system .has proved entirely unsatisfactory. The war secretary would not say what plans are under consideration, but it is known that the issuing of some sort of a daily statement is con- templated. This is regrded as neces- sary now that American soldiers not only have taken units, but also have been brigaded with French and Brit- ish forces in Picardy, where the Ger- mans are still trying to drive their of- fensive forward. CALDERWOOD IS TOGA CANDIDATE St. Paul, Minn., April 30.—Willis ¢. Calderwood of Minneapolis late today filed for United States Senator on the nationalist ticket: Mr. Calderwood, who has been prominent in state and national activities of the prohibition party for many. years, became a mem- ber of the nationalist party upon its recent absoption of the older faction. “BLUE DEVILS” OF FRANCE AND VETERANS OF PERSHING’S ARMY THRILL NEW YORK, MARCHING FOR THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY LOAN ‘New York, Ne ¥S, ‘April. 30—One hundred and five heroes:of the French army, members of the famous Chas: | seurs Alpine Corps, nicknamed “blue | devils,” who arrived ‘here: today, and the fifty veterans,.of, General Persh- ing’s army, who came fiere yesterday from overseas. gave’ New Yorkers a series of thrills today, Le Patriotic: fervor regched @ high pitch when Pershing’s 1 many “of them wearing the Ft hi War cross, awarded for bravery, marched up Broadway from the*battery to the city hall, where they. were .formally re- ceived by MayorHyland: After the ceremony they scattered’ throughout, the city to aid in the. liberty ‘bond Pyval of the French- Gnéxpected. They also came to help the liberty loan cam- paign. Throng Watches. Although there had been no formal announcement of.a parade by the Am- ericans, a great thrdng had lined the canyon ol lower Broadway when the march began. Led by a detachment from the New York state guard, the veterans—many of them mere younths —swung up the crowded thorough- fare with light step, notwithstanding the heavy weight of their full equip- tent, wearing their steel trench hats. Arrived at the city hall, Mayor Hy- land addressed the soldiers from the balcony. “| Frenchmen Warmly Received. :-The city was just recovering trom this outburst of enthusiasm when the visiting Frenchmen arrived. They dppeared at liberty loan committee headquarters on lower Broadway aft- er they travelled through Fifth avenue and several downtown streets on auto- mobile buses from the steamship pier Their reception was only exceeded by that accorded Pershing’s veterans. The “poilus” with their smart blue uniforms, and the Tam-O’-Shanters of TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918. INDIGENT ENEMY ALIENS WILL BE PERMITTED HELP Swiss and Swedish Legations, for Germany and Austria, Given Authority U. S. COOPERATES IN WORK > ‘Washington, D. C., April 30.—With the approval and cooperation of the American government the legations of Switzerland and Sweden, represent- ing respectively German and Austro- Hungarian interests, have undertaken to direct relief: work among indigent enemy aliens throughout the United States. © Relief will be extended to the needy families of interned aliens di- rect from the legation funds, while to aid law abiding enemy aliens who have suffered. on' account of their stat- Us a national committee of Americans is to be organized to cooperate with fhe: leeations and their consular ot- Lansing’s Statement. Secretary Lansing announced the ar- Tangement in this statement: “Inthe interests of safety and wel- fare of this country it has been found necessary from time to time to re- strict the movements and fields of employment of enemy aliens. In some cases these restrictions have worked hardships on enemy aliens who in all respects have shown themselves friendly to the United States, but who owing to the accident of birth and war conditions, have been unable to change their status as such and have of ne- cessity become objects of charity. Likewise the families of these enemy aliens whom the government deems it advisable to “dntern are often de- prived of their means of livelihood and they also become dependent on the charity of others. Swedish Legation in Charge. “In order to meet this condition the legation of Switzerland and the lega- tion of Sweden, in charge respectively of German and Austro-Hungarian int- erests in the United States, have with the approval and cooperation of this government undertaken. to systematize and supervise all the relief that may be given to needy enemy aliens, where- ever and however situated, throughout the country. In the case of the in- terned enemy aliens and their families the legations have agreed to supply all the relief from their own funds, limiting such relief to What is found after carefiil investigation”to be the essential minimum. Committee for Law Abiding. “The case of the law abiding enemy aliens has presented’a more compléx problem. This it is proposed to meet by the formation of a national com- mittee composed of merican citizens which: in cooperation with -the lega- tions ‘of Switzerland and Sweden and the consuls under their: jurisdiction will investigate all cases of distress among this class and will control the collection and distribution of all funds that ‘may be ‘subscribed for the. pur- pose of their relief. | It will, of course, have local ‘committees working under it wherever the need’ of such commit- tees is felt, and will render accounts ct its activities to’ the proper author- ities: 4 fj “TI feel confident that‘ the intelligent and controlled relief of ‘enemy aliens in distress in accordance with “the proposed methods is @ humanitarian measure in accord with the spirit in which we have undertaken to carry out this war.” No Treaty Obligation. There ‘is no obligation in existing treaties for such treatment of enemy aliens as is proposed. In Germany and Austria many such have been de- tained and most of them are largely dependent for support from the food supplies sent in through the Red Cross or other organizations. In the casé of enemy aliens who are now interned the United States is liable for “the cost of their mainten- ance as in the case of any lawbreaker or suspected. The Swedish and Swiss legations may supply them with some small articles or foods not provided HA the internment camps adininistra- tion. The activities of the legations will not extend in any way to the compar- atively few prisoners of war in this country. The Hague treaties provide that the cost of thier maintenance shall be assessed against the enemy countries upon the conclusion of To drive a tank, handle the guns, and sweep over the enemy trenches, takes itrong nerves, good rich blood, a good itomach, liver, and kidneys. When the sime comes, tbe man with red blood in tis veins “is up and at it.”. He has iron nerves for hardships—an interest in his work grips him. That’s the way you feel when you have taken a blood and nerve tonic, made up of Blood root, Golden Seal root, Stone root,Cherry bark, ind rolled into @ sugar-coated tablet and sold in sixty cent vials by almost all druggists for past fifty years as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. This tonic, in liquid or tablet form, is just what: you need this spring to give you vim, vigor and vitality. At the fag end of a hard winter, no. wonder you feel “run-down,” blue, out of sorts. Try this “Medical Discovery” of Dr. Pierce’s. Don’t wait! To-day ia the day to begin! A little “pep,” and you laugh and live. e The best means to oil the machinery of the body, put tone into the liver, kidneys and Birpalstory system, is to first practice a good house-cleaning. I know of nothing better as a laxative the Alpine Corps, made a dashing ap- pearance as they drew up in company formation before the liberty loan head- quarters and marched into the bufid- ing to be photographed and interview- ed as a preliminary step in their ef- forts to aid in the liberty loan. At the headquarters they met some of the Americans and the meeting was the| po’ signal for a demonstration that-lasted, several minutes, than a vegetable pill made up of May- apple, leaves of aloe and jalap. This ig commonly bold by, all druggists as Dr. Pierce’s™ t Pellets, and should /be taken at least once a week to clear the twenty-five feet. of intestines. You will thus clean the system—expel: the R isons aod een at Now ia the mac@xo clean, be ve. yonreel! spring. ous sea _—e gommsnne 4