The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1918, Page 4

————— _ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE fed at the pater rices ismarck, N. D., as second : ‘lass Matter GEORGE 'D/ MANN. : : : GjLOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW. YORK, ‘Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege .Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. x 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 in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. y Tae . ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. sae x All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are-also reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year......---++ 6. Daily ty mail per yen ape aily by mail per year (in state)... i il outside of North Dako Paes °SUBSCRIPTION RAT (In North Dakota) Editor One year by mail.. Six months by mail Three months by mail...... (Outside of One year Six months .. Three months ... One year .....-+ real.communal government, with law and order, are finally demanded and produced. Man will not go right on taking a medicine that makes him sicker and sicker. Russia will finally be ‘for or against Germany. Meanwhile, some Kerenskys, Trotzkys and Lenines will go whizzing off into unknown space. : pC PE eee | WITH THE EDITORS | “THEY SHALL NOT PASS” | If the Lincoln Republican league and its col- laborators had worked until dooms-day they could not have evolved a better state ticket than that which was named at Minot last week. Chief in- terest and whatever chance of success the ticket might have centered in the choice of a candidate for governor, and that is just where a ten-strike was made. John Steen was not only the logical candidate, but there is no man in the state more worthy of gubernatorial honors than he. Steen’s chiefest political distingtion lies in the fact that. he is “the man that beat Casey;” besides that, he}: Six months . Three months . One month ...... ‘ THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. ¢ ‘Established 1878) Cn eaad WE FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT Hip! Hip! Hurrah! we're all “over the top We're eating only 5 per cent as much wheat as. we do in a normal year, says the food admin- istration. Our fighting boys and fighting allies are getting the fighting food. We've got to con- tinue on barley, rye and corn for some time; but we can do it and will do it. . Anybody suffering for want pf the wheat saved? Nobody. Not a soul among us. Some little inconveniences, perhaps, but what’s that when you read of the awful sacrifices our boys at the front are making? And, this year, we're raising crops of wheat, and ‘everything else, that’ will’ make the world stare. » Continued war, and we win! Come peace, and we'feed our brothers throughout the world! Who ‘shall Say: that America is not glorious? ” : While ‘the ‘country was ‘straining’to ‘go over is a genuine “‘on-the-soil” farmer, and so is quali- fied to understand and promote the interests of our paramount industry. But his‘real worth in- heres in his character—in his honesty, his sincer- ity, his sturdy Americanism, his respect for law and order, his sense of justice, his wholesome ideals. John Steen is so independent that he leans backwards. He cannot be bullied or seduced into following any course of action which does not have the approval of his own judgment and con- science. After:a long and intimate acquaintance with John Steen, the writer is indeed glad of an opportunity to pay, this well deserved tribute to the man. Wise and happy. selection of candidate below that of governor was made. The endorsement of A. T. Kraabel for lieutenant governor makes amends for the gratuitous affront offered him by. the Nonpartisan league, and the honor was well bestowed in any cage.’ Many thousands of elec- tors, both men and)women, must rejoice in the fact that Miss Minnie J. Nielson of Valley City was endorsed for superintendent of public instruc- tion. She ought to be elected, and probably will be, iia ; i The Chronicle believes: that, a tactical blunder was made and an act of injustice done by- the con- the top withthe Third Liberty. loan, Senator Me- Cumber: of North Dakota was declaring thatthe war management’ is making :bonfires: of money. rip‘roaring (farce is prosepution jof I. *CAMOUFLAGING JUDGE LYNCH AS A ; In an exclusive-interview-given The ‘Tribune, ‘Attorney,.General Gregory sounds a needed note of warning against the increasiig tendency to appeal to mob law in dealing with persons sus- pected of pro-German tendencies. “Judge Lynch” iano patriot. He is merely a cowatd'and poltroon ‘who desecrates the American flag when he wraps it around'his carcass and commits crime in | holy name of country. It is bad enough that in- nocent persons are often made victims of mob violence. It is bad enough that in the name of justice, the laws should be trampled into the dust. But there is even.a worse side to an altogether bad state of affairs. : be Every atrocity committed by an American mob gives the Huns an’ excuse for added atrocities meted-out to our boys penned up in German prison camps. At best the lot of soldiers taken prisdner by the kaiser is not one to be envied. At worst— and American lynch law helps bring.on the worst the fate of American soldiers upon whom the Huns take reprisals is not good to contemplate. : So that it virtually comes down to this: Every time an American mob lynches\a, German enemy alien it also practically lynches a whole squad of American soldiers who have been fighting for our flag “over there.” pote eee “I notice,” postcards a school teacher, “that the Society of College Teachers, in a meeting in Columbus, discussed the question, ‘What Can Be Done to Relieve Wartime Shortage of Teachers?” A great deal could-be done to relieve my shortage by. increasing my. salary.” LOCATING KERENSKY Editor—Whatever has. become of Kerensky? } A War Student. It is not definitely known, and it does not mat- ter. There were reports of his suicide — also, that he’d fled from Russia; also, that his. succes- sors had put him out of the way. At present writing, Kerensky is certainly in what is called “oblivion.” That’s where straddlers usually land. The fellow who, in these stirring times, is neither “for” nor “against” is in oblivion, be he statesman or shoe-shiner by profession. Ina pe- riod of revolution, Kerensky, posing as the whole wheel, undertook to turn only part way ‘round, and discovered that he was only a fly on the wheel, and flew off into space when the wheel began to buzz. He tried to play part of the Rus- sian people against another part to the pleasure of both. He thought revolution to be a fold of harmless sheep, when it’s a den of hungry tigers. Trotzky and Lenine are playing the same game, only: ina different way. They’re playing ‘the whole of hungry, groping, disorganized Russia against German might and ruthlessness, and, soon- eror.later, as Russia grows hungrier and more an- hiial, they must fly off the wheel into oblivion. of the cures for anarchy is more anarchy, for S|... “The ‘adoption: by: th the slogan, “They ‘shall iy LOOK OUT BELOW! Tn Action, Tells of Trip to the “J, M. Hanley, judge of the Twelfth judicial district, now com- manding a North Dakota battalion in France, and who was ently: vention in its: failure.ty,éuidorse the candidacy of lajiently. wounded'in charging the Hun, writes: his family. from the Georgé’M. Young for ‘congressman in .the-Second district. . The,refusal of the ‘Nonpartisan ‘conven- tion to, endorse P. D. Norton, congressman from |the. Third district, apparently &8'a. rebuke to.his vehement support of. the national ‘administration in its prosecution, of the: war, was: monstrous; the refusal of-the-Lincoln: Republican league 'toendorse’Mr. Young, apparently for no other reason, than\the fact that he had: been endorsed by the’ Nonpartisan league, was childish. The Chronicle believes that all three’ of our congress- men—Baer, Young and Norton—should have been, endorsed by both wat jot convention: of the 8,” was) grand | oF| grandiose, beautiful mbastic, depending upon the point of view. ti Under normal conditions we believe the ticket endorsed at Minot, or any other ticket. which might have been put in.the field against the Non- partisan league ticket, would have not a ghost of a show for success. But conditions are far from normal, and it is unnecessary to point out how. vitally important it is that, every interest—per- sonal; political, economic—shall be subordinated to the supreme cause of winning the, war. It is a time in which.the spirit of self-sacrifice, of unswerving loyalty and of unadulterated patriot- ism should animate every heart. si Now, the: Nonpartisan league has been placed by its leaders in an equivocal position—in the “doubtful'column.” This is unfortunate; it may be unjust, but it is the fact. Mr. Townley, the found- er of the league and its recognized leader, is to- day. under indictment, charged with an act of dis- loyalty against the government. The same is true of Mr. Gilbert, who is, we believe, the secretary of the national organization. A considerable nym- ber of league organizers have been arrested—and some of them have been convicted—of treasonable crimes. Only last Friday, at Red Wing, Minn., N.S. Randall, prominent organizer of the National Nonpartisan league, was found guilty of “utter- ances tending to discourage enlistment in the army and navy.” It is true that newspapers and individuals who would be opposed to: the league under ayn circumstances have made the most of these cases, but the fact remains that these charges of disloyalty in one form or another con- stantly recur, and that a cloud of suspicion and distrust has thus been thrown over the.entire movement, x Here are two indisputable facts: The mem- bers of the Nonpartisan league in North Dakota are in the majority, and they are loyal. Electors who are outside the pale are as helpless as if they had been disfranchised. That ticket will-be-elect- ed which receives a majority vote of the farmers of this state. Unless a certain number of these farmers believe or can be made to believe that the interests of the nation would be-subserved by a change of administration in this state, the Non- partisan league ticket: will be nominated in the June primaries. To convince them that such a: change is desirable at :this,time is the task im- posed upon the Lincoln Republican league and its coadjutors. Humari nature being what it is, we suspect that the job is no small one.—La Moure Chronicle, ‘ French front as;follows: I wish I could give you an account ofjall my, experiences during the past aix weeks but, of ‘tourse, the censor- ship makes regulations which ‘prévent’ :much ‘of “it ‘being¢given. However, there are some: thittgs. that can be said and I take a few nates from! my: diary. As: you “know ky ‘here on February. twenty-tirst and. ar- rived ata ‘place (a } Caniniot be men- tioned)‘ on’ the’ twéhty third, “where we were within sound of the guns and where’ the. Roche (seroplanes’;came| over most. -every~day, and onthe twenty-fourth .of;,March I went into |the trenches at a place which’ also cannot be mentioned,” \1 wrote you on ithe, @yening before'il'started and the ext “morning ‘at.fhree-o'clock. I was up and “on the trip,” The train was packed and we could hardly get a seat. At the destination of;the train we had to stop for the balance of the ‘day in-order to wait for an auto the next morning and that) night T slept in a hotel bed which was’ the first hotel bed I:had been in siice leaving New York.. In the morning at five I started in an-auto with two soldiers and two leutenants.and:we passed many inter- esting sights, one of them being # vil- lage that had been completely destroy- ed by the Boche (shells. It was a beautiful little ‘village and brought home:to us all the terrible suffering which the people France near the firing! line have Deen: going through. The destri{cion seemed more’ com- plete for the reason that all the houses here in France aré:made of stone or cement afd one never sees a wooden dwelling. In going forward I met and talked with for a long while Herbert Ward, who has written’a book on the war entitled, “Mr.'Poilu,” and he gave me a copy of, the book together with this inscription on the fly leaf of the hook, “To Major Hanley with the au- thor’s kindest wishes, Herbert Ward.” It was mighty nice‘ of him and some day I hope to have the book safely re- posing-in the library-et home. J had seen advertisements of;this book be- tore Lleft the States.and perhaps you have seen a copy, He is-an. artist by profession and the book is well filled with illustration.’ His: description of the French soldier, “Mr. Poilu,”* is very true to” life;and I met many French soldiers at the front that an awered: the descriptions perfectly. ~¥}.. forgot:to say’ that at the hotel where we stopped over night we were about the only, American .officers that had been there and a Y. M.:C.’A. secretary | hearing .we were. in town came and looked: us up (these Y. M.;C. A, men seem to be everywhere) and ‘he. ar ranged for our rooms and dinner, ete. At. the dinner there was a French of ficer present in the dining room and. seeing that we were‘American officers he bobght. some champagne and sent it over to our table and of.course in recognition of it I~had ‘to ‘propose a toast to “La Belle’ France” and the 'Y. M: C., A. secretary ‘to show he was @ true sport drank yome of the national beverage of Francg.,.So you see the Y. M. ©. A. hassome, “real men” over ‘here, On ‘our, auto-trip ‘that morning we stoped:at, the headquar- ters of-a French geheral and he invit This ed me'to breakfast with him. was at 11:30 and that is the usual hour of the French breakfast. They liave a Petit Dejeuner’or little: break- fast consisting of a,cup.of ‘chocolate and a piece. of, bread on arising (or mere generally in bed before arising.) Then they have their breakfast or de- jeuner at 11:30 and the dinner at night at seven, And the typical French meal i sure some institution. « It is generally a seven.or eight course af- . ‘Even in the front trenches: the it: forward. ‘front i; i semble: at their. mess,in their best “bb. and: tucker” and, forgetting the shells that maybe flying over the dug: out, spend a delightful hour at their ‘meals''with all trimmings, of.a New York banquet. Ang it is well that it is 80 a8 it. affords.a relief froni the stren- uous work,of the,,trench.,... ,in ‘somewhat the same manner,.,but of Hcourse ‘to: a lesser.degree does the or- dinary French‘ soldier enjoy his meals. Everything {s ‘done to make them as ,comfertable’as’ possible’ and they get the: hest of food.,I inspected one of the men’s kitchens ‘and’ found that they. were. boiling their meat in wine instead (of in» water, {for;which they. could ‘hardly be blamed as/good water over here:is'almost an unknawn;quan- tity. While:on this stibjéctiof eating ‘and’ getting ahead‘of my story a: little Tam going to put in at this-point the menu of:the Easter dinner I ate in the trenches. Here it is: Salade Russe Pate de foie Oeufs brouilles Oeau droise and loives Choux fleurs polonaise Fromage Peaches and sirop Desserts Liquers Bordeaux - Rouge Medoc But to continue. By the auto I ar- rived at the front line where I was to be quartered about noon and I now quote from some notes I made that evening as follows: pes “Il surely have had one wonderful day. It is now 6:15 in the evening and while I am waiting for the order- ly to bring back my muddy boots Cafe (with the mud off them) 1 will write down a few of the happenings before oe 2 My goodness, that’s all that “PUTTING THE GRIN INTO THE FIGHT” : anys se e e ce i Nee - Front—In the War "Till Its Won I go.to. colonel’s ‘mess foi supper. The supper is going to be a French officers’ dinner ‘at’ seven |and: Ido not know. when jt will break up. ‘First of all 1, have been under the,fire of the enemy. ‘Second, I “have been. in’ the’ Aront trench line, Third, I'hayebeen in “no man’s land”. and. have séen’the Boche in his trench are : * ‘Well.:“‘the best laid plans of mice and’ men’! often’ get-upset. I: had in- tended to make this, a Jong letter a number of military. papers just came in that need my, immediate attention and I find; I-must quit:on this letter at this point. However, .in my. next: (as the author. says), Iwill take: up the thread of. my story. I do.not know as | there .is very..much more to. write about my experiences during the week as-I am continually bothered. with the query in’ my. mind as to-just what I can write about and what I can't, And 1 am afraid that I ‘shall have to leave much to your imagination. Sufticien’, to say now that on ‘my return I sent you a’ cablegram announcing that I was safely back, so.you will know by that nothing serious happened. On the trip forward that first morning the place where I stopped for the breakfast with the French general was a city. that was over double the size of Mandan and it had'been con- tinually bombed: and: shelled by the Boche, The railway station was out of business and everything in-the line of merchandise that was used in the city had to be hauled a distance of ten miles by team. When we left there by auto still going forward we wore our steel helmets and had our gas masks ready for instant adjust ment as we were in dangerous ter- ritory and every Short distance‘on the road we were met by sentries to' whom our pass was shown. In the air fora part of the way a Boche aeroplane was traveling in the same direction we were traveling in and seemed to be following generally . the ‘road ‘upon _|er” for mutual protection. which we were going and the opps fer hit’ up a mighty fast pace (as"1 thought with the ‘idea of giving the aeroplane a poor target to shoot at.) . | We passed a number of villages, all of which were about deserted.’ The vil- lages in this part of France seem to ‘be closer together than. farth houses in North Dakota.. In fact, it is the custom of the French farmers of one community to build thelr homes and stables close together, thus forming one little community or village and then they go from these’ places each day to their respective pieces of land for farm work. I suppose the idea or- iginated in the olden days when it was necessary for the inhabitants of the different communities to ‘‘get togeth- tH At any event one rarely sees {golated farm buildings in France. And’ each one of these communities has of course a fine church with tall spire, with:the result that at almost any point in France one can see on the horizon at least two church spires. Imagine a trip from Mandan to Flasher and never: being out of sight of a church: ‘The*streets of the’ cities ‘or villages are rarely straight but are winding, rambling ways and each stde of the streets built up solidly either with bufldings or stone walls. The result is that-they have no alleys and no large ‘front yards such as we haye in Mandan. The buildings are all’ built flush with the streets and each home that has a yard has it back in betwee the buildings somewhat like ‘the: “patio” of the Spanish. The windows of all the homes haye. large iron, or. wooden shutters and at night just ‘about dusk all these shutters are closed tight with the result that no lights are seen shin- ing from ‘windows and ‘one misses the hospitable lights that shine from the homes-in our American cities, This custom, I understand, prevailed even before the war. The little stores and shops: also have thesé shutters’ and. at night all the stores of the cities and villages are locked up within them- selves. The store doors are opened by large iron’ door knobs that are made somewhat in the style of automobile cranks and the proprietor to lock ‘his store simply pulls the door: knob or handle out of its place and carries it away with him and the door cannot be apened. i t But ‘to continue with’ my journey. The roads over which we traveled ‘(ex- cept as to where they weré broken up by shell holes) were excellent maca- damized' roads (almost as good’ as our payed streets in Mandan.) Indeed all the roads of France ‘are: excellently made and well kept up and fine for autoing, although at the present time there are no private'cars operating in Frarice, and the road we travelled that morning reminded me in many ways of the Columbian highway going out of Portles! e ies ; We arii,ed at our destination on the front line just: before:noon and. was given a dugout for.my | ters. 8 about. six feet’ wide anid ten: fee “tone and dug in‘ the, ind .with board floor and: a bunk’ along one end of it and ‘had ‘a little French stove in and strangéas it may seem an: electric light. eid Bie » When we arrived there were:numer- ous shells going over our head but not t|near us and we. could hear. the occa- sional hum of machine guns.so I was introduced. to the firing of the ‘trench- és, rather gradually.,: /.Noon day, meal or thé. French: dejenuer; waa served ~ shortly after I got there in the officers mess which was another dugout: but considerably larger than the ordinary one and twelve officers including my- self sat down to the meal. I sat at the right hand‘of the colonel commanding the sector and we sure had a delight- ful meal (my first in the’ trenches ) Two of the officers.could talk English and I’could talk a litle French so we got along nicely. At the close of the meal the colonel in honor of' an. Ameri- can officer being’ present. had all the officers stand and he extended me a welcome to‘their trenches and’ also proposed a toast to the American sol- dier. J, of: course, had to’ reply and told them that the whole American people were glad to send an army to “La Belle” France not only because we felt that our own civilization was in the balance but ‘also because our people remembered the help that France had given us by sending her troops and ships to us in the Revolu tionary war. (We had been discuss- ign at the meal the report received that day that the Boche had invented a gun that Avas shooting its shells in- to Paris 120 ‘kilometers‘away.)' I ended up’ my little response to them by saying that even “if the d: Boche had invented ‘a gun that: would shoot 240 kilometers it was not going to discourage the! American people and that they were in the war until it was won,” which sentiment they sure- ly applauded.; ‘ Modis After the meal I accompanfed one of the French majors, (in the French army they call a, major'a command- ant) in a tour of part of the firing trenches. ‘We, of course, walked as most of our way..was through com- municating . trenches and we, of course, wore the full trench’ regalia, There is litle I ‘can say of this trip that afternoon’ as it: necessarily in- volves military matters which cannot be written about. - However, there was considerable firing going on all the time both ‘by artillery and ma- chine guns and other arms and I soon learned that the shell which one heard was one that was not coming very close, as. the shell which strikes close to you strikes and doés its execution before the sound of it is heard. It was g thrilling trip and in it I saw some Germans and was in “no man’s” latid and the activity of it all was enough to keep my mind away somewhat from the danger, although I confess ‘there was a little feeling of more s¢- curity when I got back to the dugout which seemed a mighty safe place af- ter being in the places I had that af- ternoon. Our supper was uneventful. We. played a few games. of auction bridge afterwards and I was in bed. by ten and during the night dreamed that 1 was back in Mandan and trying to get ‘| ‘back into the army and join my bat- talion but was continually- prevented from doing so .by. missing ‘trains, In the morning I. was awakened by a 'ter- rific. artillery. bombardment . which started at 5:20 which was the prelim- inary to an attack. But more of that in’ my next, Pa commander ‘says, “FIX BAY- ONETS.”: They seem to be the Most disarranged thing in the army. ‘boarding house at 212 3rd St. Best location in the | city. 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