The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 1, 1918, Page 4

FOUR WEDNESDAY, MAY -1,-1918. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE @utdred at the Postoftice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVERY DAY QGRORGE.D. MANN. - - > - - Baitor| G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NW-YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter 8t.; DETROLT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is éxclusively entitled to the use for repnbiication of all news credited to it or not other- wits Yo this paper and also the local news pub- all hte of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. (RIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 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(Bstablished 1873) > OUR HEROES HAVE THE FAITH A reader who didn’t at all like the editorial “With Faith In Him, Hold Fast!” sends in this: Editor: Such phases as “God is love” and “the Lord will provide” are all right in peace time but when that self-same personage fails to intervene in the cause of justice, these Bibllcal injunctions are placed on the shelf and man becomes the materialist that he is and fights the thing out, not with Bib- lical injunctions, but with shrapnel and bullets. , ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE. « O! ye of little faith! Eyes ye have, arid see not Ears ye. have, and hear not. Are our boys in France fighting it out merely with shrapnel and bullets? Have they placed faith in His eternal goodness on the shelf and put reliance wholly on bayonet and trigger? By no Means. To say that our young Americans are over there simply to kill is to say that America is barbarian. Our. soldiers are armed, encouraged and in- spired ‘by a cause that is spiritual, and inspiration moves them as they thrust or fire. Why do they cross 3,000 miles of death-infested ocean to fight? ut ‘That their-brothers may enjoy the rights of free-| dom, justite.and pursuit of happiness in making homes, providing for their loved ones and. wor-; ahiping God.as they please. These rights are the Creator's.cause, and they are the spiritual reward for working or fighting for that cause. + Af-we have armies in France composed of mere head-hunters, armies who have put the Almighty qn the shelf and are without inspiration, let’s have them: home and set them to'killing Canadians and Mexicans, for the acquisition of territory, o1 for other greedy purpose. '. But it is not remarkable that “one who does not. believe” can see naught save the shrapnel and bullets. Why. should one who does: not. believe'in God see anything? He’s made stone-blind by his own conceit, to begin with. He has set himself up as wiser than 99 per cent of humanity, living or. dead, Christian, Jew, heathen and barbarian. He’s smarter even that old Darwin himself, who, in a life time of study and research, failed utterly to find a race or tribe of men, extent or gone, who hadn’t that sixth sense, the spiritual sense, in some degree. And why should one who does not believe con- cern himself in wars, newspaper editorials, life, or himself? He has figured it out, to his own sat- isfaction, that all the sidereal law and order and all the wonders of nature are but an accident ; that the love of man and wife, parent and child is a joke terminated by the end of this little whiff of time called life ;that hope and aspiration, both spiritual and material, are but open traps for the weak- minded; that the total of human progress is not worth while. How could one go blinded see, beside the shrap- nel and bullets, the souls of Americans who fight and die for love of their brothers? How could one so deaf hear the divine command “Love ye one an- other!” as the fighting or dying hero in Flanders hears it? They publish much about the tremendous, un- heard of undertaking of America in this war. She is to transport millions of men, with the arms, food and munitions across thousands of miles of sea. It is an enormois, a grand, a most difficult task, and history tells of nothing approaching it. But the grandest, greatest thing about it is the why of it. It is for perpetual peace ,for human liberty and progress, for the universal brotherhood, for “Peace and good will among men.” That’s spirit- ual and God’s work, not mere shrapnel and bullets. Something’s wrong with North Dakota. The state is out of its stride. A report from George H. Hollister of Fargo, state director for the War Savings committee, tells us that North Dakota ranks 44th among the 48 states of the union in the per capita purchase of thrift stamps. Our invest- ment in March amounted to $220,788.15, a per capita of 33 cents. Nebraska, another farmer state, stood at the head of the list, with $8,000,000 worh of thrift stickers to tis credit, a per capita investment of $6.64 for the month of March. From the beginning of the war savings stamp campaign, North Dakota ranks one point lower—46th among all the states in the union, with a total investment of but $484,494.07 and a per capita of 73 cents. Nebraska, again taking the lead for the entire]; period, is credited with total sales of $14,000,000 and a per capita of $11.06. Let’s wake up, North Dakota, and get back of this thrift stamp game. It’s.a good proposition for us, and it’s a goad one for Uncle Sam. Our thrift stamp committees have been doing their bit. Let’s, now, do ours, by get- ting back of them, by pledging a regular weekly purchase of stickers, and then keeping our word. There are 1,000 people right here in Bismarck who could and should be buying $5 worth of these: stamps every month, and there’s nothing else into which they can put their money which will bring so good a rate of interest nor such quick returns. IT’S A HIT, ALL RIGHT Don’t overlook the fact that China is also fight- ing the Hun. She isn’t putting into it much, if any, man-power or gun-power but she’s striking some heavy blows along the line of high finance. Under her treaties, she was bound to pay Germany and Austria about $375,000 annually, until 1931, as indemnity for the Boxer uprising. Declaring war on the central powers, she cancelled all trea- ties and quit sending the monthly installments of the indemnity. Go to it, China! If you can’t hit the Hun on the head, hit him in the pocketbook! The Tribune notes with pleasure that Francis B. Streeter of Linton, won his commission at the officers’ training school which has just closed at Camp Dodge. Mr. Streeter, son of a pioneer Em- mons county publisher and himself reared at the 00 case and the edtiorial desk, was one of the men most active in this district in stimulating enroll- ments for the first and second officers’ training schools at Fort Snelling. Then he procured en- trance for himself, and he went almost the entire course before he was advised that he would be un- able to qualify for a commission. Nothing daunted, Streeter returned to his home at Linton, wound up his affairs there, put his paper in charge of an NORTH DAKOTA COUNCIL OF DEFENSE preference given farm labor in the se- lective service system; that railroads radiate from, Bismarck to al].parts of North and South Dakota and-eastern SECRETARY BOX THINKS FARMER WOULD BENEFIT Suggests Bismarck Military Post | as Supply Station for Farm Labor | SPEAKS OF ADVANTAGES Central, Location, Freedom From Disease and Invigorating Climate Thomas Allan Box, secretary of the North Dakota Council of Defense, to- day addressed to Secretary of War Baker a letter strongly urging the use of Fort Lincoln, at the outskirts of Bismarck, as a cantonment and train- ing camp. Secretary Box offers in ad- assistant, and enlisted for service in the ranks. Then his chance came with the opening of an offi- cers” school principally for enlisted men, at Camp Dodge. Streeter again buckled into a stiff three months’ course of training; he crammed and he studied until late at night, and he has finally won out. The important thing about Streeter is that his chief desire was that he might serve his coun- try. He was ready to go as a private if he could not get in with shoulder-straps, and he is the kind of material that good officers are made from. Emmons county has a right to be proud of its son. The Huns are growing more reasonable. They didn’t ask the Dutch to move into the ocean. Saeed There are a few men who have hung on to their money so many years that they think: it be- yond draft age. [win tae eprrons | | WITH THE EDITORS CANADA’S REPLY Canada’s response to the demand for men on the western front is an order by which all-unmar- ried men and childless widowers between twenty and twenty-three years of age, inclusive, will be sent into the army after only a physical éxamina-. tion.. No exemptions on account of occupation or }dependents will be granted. . The premier has stat- ed that by the end of April 47,000 mem will have been sent abroad under the military service act. and others are in‘camp; but this new measure the government believes required to fill the contem- plated quota of 100,000 rapidly enough to keep the divisions in France at full strength. If the exigencies of the war and need for reinforcements demand it, men of other ages will be called out under the same emergency orders to disregard ex- emption peals. It is a stern step to take at the very time the farming season opens, and in the face of the use made of exemptions to placate local sentiment hostile to conscription, but it is evidence of Canada’s earnestness.—New York Post. BANISH THE HUMAN PARASITES This is not time for able-bodied human para- sites on the body politic. The man who can work and has a chance to work and yet does not offer his services in some productive capacity should be compelled by law or by public sentiment to de- liver according to his ability. He who eats food or consumes vital commodi- ties, or in any way constitutes a drain on the ener- gies of the America npeople without making what return he can is morally and actually a slacker, an enemy of his own country and a comfort to the enemies of his country. To treat such men as vagrants under the law in the customary way would not lessen the parasit- ical effect they have on the community or the country. Public sentiment, where the law falls short, should be made so hot for them that they would be glad for their own peace of mind and safety of limb to get actively into the game of making the nation fit in every way for its difficult task. These words apply articularly to able-bodied men over the draft age and to boys not old enovgh to be conscripted for military service but too old to be shielded by the laws relating to child labor. It is recognized that many young men of draft age have difficulty finding the kind of employment for which their training fits them because employers too often reject them for the reason, usually unex- pressed, that the government’s claim makes their tenure of position uncertain. No such refuge can be put forth by those over the draft age. There is now on foot in many Minnesota com- munities a healthy movement to impress habitual idlers into some useful productive service of a civilian character. Broadly, the slogan is: “Enlist or work.” Beneficent effects already have been obtained, but there is room for much greater re- sults. Where ordinary moral suasion does not avail, more vigorous pressure is justified by the great purpose held in view. The Minnesota movement reflects a crystalliz- ing sentiment in Washington for a law designed to effect a more comprehensive mobilizatjon of man energy for the civilian end of the war game. Com- pulsion for the end aimed at should not be neces- sary, but the time and its great perils demand a speedy elimination of the chronic human parasite. There js needed work for all physically fit men to do. The saloon, pool room and street corner loafer, is a human anachronism above all previous times. —Minneapolis Tribune. dition to the usual advantages of| healthful climate, good water, excel- lent moral surroundings, with a dry belt from 200 miles to 1,000 miles com- pletely encircling the fort, the fact) that Fort Lincoln is situated in the! heart of America’s greatest coal belt, | where suffering for lack of fuel was ab- | solutely unknown during the past wint- | er, while work at other cantonments, | less favorably situated, was handi- capped. Secretary Box points out that during the last thrée’ months when there has been an epidemic of the most virulent pneumonia at Camp Dodge and in other cantonments sim- ilarly situated, there has not been a single death reported from this cause at Biscmarak, in spite of the fact that} two of the largest hospitals in the} northwest, drawing patients from North and South Dakota, Montana and the provinces to the north, are locat- ed here. Whither pneumonia suffer-| ers, were there any in the district serv-| ed, naturally would come. Box’s Clincher. ‘But Box’s clincher is this: Ten to twenty thousand or more United States national army troops quartered at Fort Lincoln wobld be a splendid reserve supply of.farm labor upon which’ the sericultartts of the great grain belt could 4 during the har- vest-season.. The’government and the | soldiers themselves would be subject: | ed. to comparatively Httle expenditure of time and money. for. transportation and other expenses; the soldiers at no time, would need. be more than, 24 hours traveling from: Fort:.Lincoln to the most distant point in, the wheat belt which might haVe an emergency | need for men; the fact that a large re- serve ‘supply of labor was centrally stationed here would result, the secre-} tary urges, .in the saving of many| thousands of bushels of grain. which! otherwise might be lost for lack of at-/ tention at the proper:time... Mr. Box’'s letter to Secretary Baker follows: Hon. Newton.D. Baker, Secretary of War, Washington, D, C. Dear Sir: In view of the tale that a further immediate increase of American man. | power is ‘under consideration, and j since our present cantonment and/ training camps will not accomodate any greatly increased number of | troops, and inasmuch as the establish: | ment of additional training camps and | cantonments will become advisable, if! not imperative, and whereas exper-; ience has proven that some of these! cantonments and training camps now in use have not been judiciously lo-| cated, owing to adverse physical and | climatic conditions, the North Dakota ; Council of Defense requests your hon-|! ored consideration for the following | suggestions: a Splendid Army Post. FIRST that the !’ederal Government has in Fort Lincoln, at Bismarck, N. D., a splendid army post which should not be allowed to remain idle in this period of emergency. SECOND, that this camp is so lo-| cated that the present government re: ' servation of several hundred acres could be easily increased to as many} thousand, accomodating barracks suf-| ficient to house many thousand men; that the present grqup of buildings could be used for administrative pur- | poses, warehouses, hospitals, etc., with | very little alteration, ana that the heating plant, lighting plant and other utilities could with comparatively lit-! tle expense be enlarged so as to take; care of a much larger establishment. THIKD, that -ort Lincoln enjoys an excellent water supply from the city of Bismarck, where the already compara- | tively pure water is treated under the | direction of state and federal chemists rendering it chemically pure and clari- | fying it; that the Fort is situated in one of the most healthful zones in Am-| erica, where the climate’ both summer and winter is salubrious and invigor-; ating; that this territory; is ‘remarkab- ly free from epidemics of all.Kind; en- | tirely free from pulmonary troubles, | as may be deduced from the fact that during the last two months, when | pneumonia, in a most virulent form, ; was epidemic in many parts of the | middle west, notably at Camp Dodge, | Bismarck’s hospitals, among the larg: | est in the northwest, and serving aj population of more than half a million | did not report a single death from this source; and far from least important, | the fort. is located in a community whose moral tone is exceptionally high, and which is surrounded on| every side by several hundred miles of | Prohibition territory. Abundant Fuel. | ‘FOURTH, that Fort Lincoln is locat- ed in close proximity to the largest | coal bed in America, containing more than 600 billion tons of workable lig-} nite, which is sold in selected sizes at the mine at $2.50 the ton, and that! North Dakota of all north central! states during the past winter suffered | no coal suortage, no restriction of its | | | | | i | | | i industries, no interference’ with its transportation systems and no discom- | fort nor inconvenience to its people. Farm Labor Reserve. FIFTH, that a reserve supply of.farm |, .. labor is essential to. the proper har- vesting of the largest acreage of cereal Thomas Allan Box, Secretary ~~ crops this state has ever tice. An Inspiration, In conclusion I would ‘urge’, upon |your honor the consideration of this |fact: The rural population of North Dakota consists very largely of citi- |zens of foreign birth and’ descent. | They yield to no state in the. union in their loyalty, as you may note by |'North Dakota's record in ‘the’ First, |Second and Third Liberty Loan; in | the Red Cross, Y. M. C, A., Knights of Columbus War Camps, Salvation Army and other drives. To them a-great cantonment, where they could” visit their boys occasionally during the | course of training; where they could see an American soldier in the making and learn for themselves the vast dif- | ference which exists between the mil- itary establishment of the American republic and the militarism with which many of them were familiar in the monarchies from which . they. have sprung, would be a wonderful inspira- tion, and a most important factor in | still further cementing th@ir. loyalty | to this, their adopted country. | Producing as it does, so large a per- ‘centage of all the wheat that comes |from American farms, North Dakota is today one of the vital states in the union. The North Dakota Council of | Defense sincerely belieces that such | recognition as we have urged for the | claims of this state would be a wise land most important war measure, ad- | vancing the efficiency of our arms, pro- moting loyalty, assisting to insure a | maximum production of the most es- | sential cereals; convincing the farmer of the northwest of his Government’s desire to cooperate with him in the production of food stuffs, and serving in a large way the best interests of our nation as a whole. Your very truly, NORTH DAKOTA. ‘COUNCIL OF DEFENSE, Thomas Allan Box, Secretary. Dull, lifeless eyes, colorless lips, sallow, yellow cheeks, give a girl little | chance for a “man” these days. Don’t jlose heart. just take -Hollister’s jocky Mountain Tea—helps to; make you attractive and fair. Don’t de- lay, begin today. Breslow’s. — CASTORIA For Infants and Children sown and!a reserve supply would be a canton-| im Use For Over 30 Years whose proper husbanding is most vital ment of several thousand select sol-; always bears to the success of: American arms in} diers, fresh from the farms of the the — their present glorious enterprise, and | northwest, as a large percentage of Signature of y that the most available source of such | our select soldiers are, in spite of the a 7a A Busines Should be as Big as Its Job If bigness is of benefit to the public it should be commended. The size of a business depends upon the needs which that business is called upon to serve. A business should be as big asits job. You do not drive tacks witha pile-driver—or piles with a tack-hammer, Swift & Company’s growth has been the natural and inevitable result of national and international needs. Large-scale production and distribution are necessary to convert the live stock of the West into meat and by-pro- ducts, and to distribute them over long distances to the consuming centers of the East and abroad. Only an organization like that of Swift & Company, with its many packing plants, hundreds of distributing houses, and thou- sands of refrigerator cars, would have been able to handle the varying seasonal supplies of live stock, and meet the present war emergency by supplying, without interruption: First—The U.S. soldiers and the Allies in Europe by shipping as much as 800 carloads of meat products in a single week! Second—The cantonments in the United States. Third—The retailers upon whom the American public depends for its daily supply of meat. But many people ask—Do producers ; and consumers pay too much for the complex service rendered? : Everyone, we believe, concedes the efficiency of the Swift & Company organization— in performing a big job in a big way at a minimum of expense. Swift & Company’s total profit in 1917 was less than 4 cents on each dollar of sales of meat and by-products. Elim- ination of this profit would have had practically no effect on live stock and meat prices. Do you believe that this service can be rendered for less by any other conceivable method of organization or operation? These questions and others are answered fully and frankly in the Swift & Company 1918 Year Book sent free on request. Address Swift & Company, U. S. Yards, Chicago