The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1918, Page 4

-. yours. : THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE te: ‘at the Postoffice, Bismarck, .» 88 Secon Class Matter a Editor GEORGE D. MANN == G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3. Winter St.; DETROIT, 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 in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. Be ns i All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Me 5 All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are algo reserved. » ME 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN outta Daily by carrier per year....... $6 Daily by mail per year...... 4.00 Daily by mail per year (in state). 4-00 Daily b: il outside of North Dakota rae aia SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One year by mail.... .00 Ble months by, mail ; ot e months by mail ‘ a Voutside of North Dakota) ne year Meas sine nodes se eines oe ee ‘ix months . on catty Three months ... City Carrier Service One year .....eeseeeeeeeeee oon 6.00 Six months . 00 Three months . 50 One month 50 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Batablished 1878) E> THE WORK THAT YOU DO EVERY DAY Let the work that you do every day be dedicated to the memory of the babies of France and Belgium who were impaled on bayonets and carried off over the shoul- ders of German soldiers—that your baby may never be in danger of a like death. Let the work that you do every day be dedicated to the memory of the little boys in the invaded districts of Europe who have ‘been crucified—that your own boy may hot’ be in danger of benig crucified. - Let the work that you do every day BISMARCK. DAILY. TRIBUN iy ST. GEORGE AND :THE LION ~ skill than the woman who takes the old man’s salary and makes both ends meet. THE CASE IN A NUTSHELL Frank Day puts the case of the Nonpartisan league in four lines when he says in the Fair- mont Sentinel’: There is no getting away from. the fact that the Nonpartisan league flour- isheth most where white-livered pro-Ger- manism exists. . That. is true. Now if it, the league, is such a loyal institution, how does it happen that it thrives most where disloyalty most prevails? You can’t make a loyal society out of disloyal mate- Olrial. If it were the loyal institution it claims to be, you would not find it appealing for support to pro-Germans, and getting it.—Minneapolis Trib- une. “THE LITTLE LADY IN GRAY” (By R. F. Paine) Here, before me, she lies “in state”—‘the lit- tle lady in gray,” thousands called her, asx they passed through Public square, in Cleveland, and caught her thin, sweet voice rising in hymns, “Major” Etta Knight of the Volunteers of Amer- ica, as a few of the great city’s poor knew her. | Major Knight’s lying-in-state is an extraordi- nary lying-in-state. No fortune has been spent on coffin and its decorations. No soldiers stand like statues at the corners of this major’s casket, in headquarters of this “army.” Headquarters is a wooden benches and chairs, with a small plat- form and simple desk, or altar. There are no great floral pieces of “Gates Ajar,” no “Angels” of white roses, no piles of costly wreaths. In rain, hot sun and swirling snow, Major Knight sang in the Square, in hope that her prom- ‘lise of God’s love and mercy might touch the heart of just one sinner, just one man, or woman, or girl who was balancing between the right and the wrong, and many of the victories this major be’ dedicated to the memory of the little girls of Belgium and France who have been carried into a slavery far worse than death —that your daughter may not be in danger of thus falling a victim to German harbar- jans.., jes _ Let: the work that you do every day be dedicated to the’memory of the mothers of Europe’'who. have’ seen their children slaughtered and their husbands with bound hands. driven away. to a fate. unknown— ‘that themothers here may not see'similar processions in your own streets. 4 Siet the work that. you do. every day. be dedicated to,the memory of the. white haired women of\Belgium and France who Hiave-seen honest men dig théir own graves’ that the white haired. of your family . may not suffer alike agony. y Let the work that you. do every day be dedicated to.the memory of the allied soldiers who have been crucified upon doors because they fought for civilization and jus- tice—that justcie may. be done you :and (3 "Let the work that you do every day be dedicated to the memory of the beauti- ful cities, villages, orchards and fields of Europe, now blackened wastes-—that your own beautiful towns and fields may not be turned into places which men will’avoid. Let the work that you do every day be dedicated to the memory of the. once happy homes in Europe which the Hun burned after murdering the inmates—that your home may not become the funeral pyre of your family. ra Let the work that you do every day. be dedicated to the memory of the nations that have been crushed and scattered—that your own nation may not-be destroyed and that your people may not bé driven forth, like the exiled multitudes who have died in the fields and the highways. Let the work that you do every day be dedicated to the manhood that is in you that you may not desert your brother who has gone to the battlefront, that you may not desert your nation now that. it needs you, that you may not be tricked into im- periling the safety of your wife, your daughter, your mother, when the smooth tongued enemies of your country come whispering to you. \ Let the work that you do every da: be dedicated to the manhood that is’ in you, that you shall have no remorse when broken men come back from the battle- front—so that empty sleeves and sightless eyes shall not as instruments of your own conscience reproach you by day and haunt you by night because you at home failed to support your men while they fought in ~ France. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL) PREPAREDNESS—Henry A. Wise Wood, chairman; Raymond B. Price, treasurer ; James E. Clark, secretary; Metropolitan Life build- ing, 1 Madison avenue, New York city. ~-(Any person desiring to know the authority for statements of German atrocity made in the -oregoing may obtain the information by writing che oe Committee on National Prepared- ness, : ; With due respect we suggest that the man who starts two tunnels from opposite sides of a moun- tain and makes both ends:meet shows no greater S54 Capit ar Ea won were never chronicled.’ By night, the major begged for the poor, comforted the down- fallen and needy. And now here the major lies in state. I last saw her Christmas eve, in this very headquarters. There was a tree, a cheap, starved-looking tree, and ‘about it were two dozen old-faced, half-clad children, needy children from God only knows where, but. happy children, for one‘had got a ‘{bright apple, another an;orange, another a 5-cent toy; this little girl a'red: ‘ribbon, that a wee china doll, and the major was all bustle and cheer and wholesale motherliness. OF gai 9 |, J look into. that coffin and ‘see’a frail, emaciat- ed, plainly clad corpse. “The little lady in gray” does not make much of a corpse. The little chil- dren can bear her coffin easily. But in her face there shines greatness, bigness that’ cannot’ be understood. —. In early boyhood I looked upon the face of old Abe Lincoln, whose body was lying in state in this very Public square’ where “‘the-tittle-lady in gray” sang her hymns. : Old Abe mAsimost) homely but in his face was a glory,-argogdness,.a something that was not to be:hidn they. screwed down bare, cold room, 15 by 30, half filled with hard . “PROCLAMATION : | “RED CROSS WEEK” s | %. WHEREAS, the tion, and é ‘Whereas, its field of activities is|campaign is $407,000, to be raised by not. only for our} popular subscription, world-wide, carin| own soldiers and thetr dependents, but- aslo looking to the, welfare of our al-| North Dakota, I, LYNN J.. FRAZIER, lies. and’ the. many destitute women} in "accordance with the proclamation and children in*war-stricken districts, and ies i Whereas, the ‘specific aims of this organization: atthis time are: 1st. Tc Upon our people the nadessity for con: raise:$100,009,000; 2nd. To recruit and | tinuing to give to this, great. and noble, train 25,000 nurses, and 8rd. To fur-| organization the loyal support accord- nish millions; more.of dressings, ‘band- ages and ‘hospital supplies, and after the. war to proyide'a system of 'voca- tional education.for the maimed to en- able them *to:. Relfsupporting, use- ful citizens, and '‘to.,provide them with appliances “veh ati limbs, ete, and GR ‘Whereas, the; people of. North Dako-} ta haye generously responded to ev- ery appeal for cooperation in all branches of ‘patriotic service, and to * PEOPLE'S FORUM | [ PEOPLE'S FORUM To the Editor of The Tribune: °° the caaket's lid; a radiation; & spirit, a mark, soul, or something that penetrated men’s very hearts and lived in them all their lives. What is it? Is it the indelible glory of service? : You see this thing now, in little Major Etta Knight’s calm, sweet, dead face. You want to know who she was, and they tell you that for 21 years she sang praise of God and served the poor. Where did she spring from? Of what fam- ily was she a part? What sort. of romance, or loss, or inspiration drove her from the ordinary life of woman to public singing in the rain, sleet and snow and fearless, cheerful sharing of the miser- ies of the very poor? It matters not. For 21 long years she served, and only the good she did is to live after her. < Hush! Major Knight is lying in state. Here comes poor Mrs. Carrigan, whose man was killed by a great ore bucket on the docks, last fall. There was that awful night, last winter, when a baby was coming and not a doctor, or: midwife, or friend on hand, and in walked Major Knight with hot gruel and blankets and words of courage and strong, soft hands that comforted. And all that Mrs. Carigan can offer at the major’s lying-in- state is a flood of tears, and a trembling of her body as she looks and passes out. Comes next a little girl, spectacled, and clad in an old shawl, a terribly thin skirt and dilapitated shoes, without stockings. One time, the child was fast going blind. Major Knight begged those fine glasses of the best known oculist in the town. Then come rows of other little ones and grown- ups, too. They've all lost something that money cannot buy, by this lying-in-state of “the little lady in gray.” They behold that un-named thing in the dear dead face, shake their heads’ sadly, weep a little, and then go back into the world, leaving the major-alone in her glory. No great government commissions majors like those who serve as do these unkriown “little ladies in gray,” but I’ll bet that St. Peter saluted when he threw wide the gates for Major Etta Knight. Anyhow, Asquith and his man Maurice make enough of a party to play cribbage. \ A Cleveland ‘man has sued for divorce because he’d had no kiss in 30 years. Why didn’t he hire a cook? i t Washington correspondents might write bet- Int stories if they wrote what they found out in- stead of writing what they think they think. _ For the information of “J. G.” who contributes. a half column on the Irish; Question (issue of: the 10th) permit me to say that there are, 32- counties in Ireland, of which 28 are for Home Rule, Of the four remaining counties, about 35 per cent of the people favor Home Rule, yet “J. G.”: thinks those four counties, ‘ small minority, should “flock by them- selves” and have a separate and ex- clusive form of government.: In other wordg he believes in’ the: principle of. the diminutive tail“wagging the large- sized dog. * : A home rule bill. was passed by the English parliament in 1884, but its op- eration. was,. immediately duspended. Th elrish were not consulted about that suspension, and certainly did no American Red, the needs of the Red.Cross in partic: Cross is in’needof funds to carry on|ular, contributing of both time and its work of merey and. reconstruc-| money, and 2) representing . a~very acquiesce ‘in it. What the Irish want “UPSTAIRS: AND DOWN” C TUESDAY, MAY 14,1918. 3 ‘Whereas, the state’s quota in this Now, Therefore, as Governor of of President Wilson, do hereby. pro- claim the week © beginning May 20, 1918, as.“‘Red Cross Week,” and urge ed it in each }ranch ‘Uf’ endeavor it has. undertaken; \thus /ifiaintaining* the excellént’ record of North Dakota among the states in contributions to upbuild and support the Red. Cross. Done’at the Capitol at Bismarck this'13th day of May 1918. ae LYNN J. FRAZIER; i c Governor. By the Governor: ' ~ THOMAS HALL, Secretary of State. now, as [ understand it, is: the opera~ tion of the home rule law of 1914, and then’ thé same ‘privileg )sertling, for themsélves, as ‘have athe Yaad Aus ttalia, the question | Of Icohistription. Isn't that reasona.le? || in height. The county commissioners ’ In: the’ éonsideration of the entire matter, it may ke well to bear Gn mind that, in proportion to its popu- lation, Ireland has contributed more men to the war than has the United States. This is not mentioned with any idea of minimizing the efforts of the United States, but to-indicate that Ireland has not ‘been entirely passive. AN OBSERVER. Bismarck, ‘North Dakota, May 11, 1918. McLEAN COUNTY TO HAVE A FLAG STAF } CMON, | START °< SOMETHIN as possible its patriotic spirit, by the erection of a flag pole, ninety-six feet have ordered the monster pole from an eastern concern, at a cost of $400. It ig said that the cost of pringing to Washburn by rail will aggregate 300. ‘ if The flag is to be erected on the grounds. of the county. court house, which last fall was completed without a. cent of indedtedness. The money came entirely from the tax penalty fund. SERGT. RH UD HAS RELICS OF’ . ELYING GAME Parts of Machines Which Turned Turtle on Texas Fields Are Exhibited Here Sergt “Hi section of the*signal: corps, who’ is home’ on a furlough from Camp Talia- ferro, Tex., has deposited with The ‘Tribune, be turned over to the staté “Historical ‘niuseum;: sections. of Curtiss .planes! which were wrecked on ‘various flying fields in Texas fields where the Bismarck non-com has served. There are sections of clear cedar struts sawed from ma- chines ‘which fell at. Kelly field in Fehruary and a strip of treated heavy. linen from the wings of a plane which tumbled more recently at. Taliaferro field, near Fort Worth, Tex. 4 These tumbles, Sergt. Rhud states, have alimost always occurred when @ cadet has taken up a passenger for the first time. Flying with these amateur pilots is daily becoming less popular. A tumble does not always mean death or even serious injury, but it is a chance which the recruit, as he be- comes more seasoned ,to the work, does not care, to take. Sergt. Rhud has gone up frequently with exper- ienced pilots, when there, was no dan- ger. The percentage of casualties among veteran flyérs in actual service M./Rhud (of the aviation] — WOULD ENROLL 50,000 WEN IN LABOR RESERVE Council of Defense Cooperating with Departments of Agri- culture and Labor CITY FOLK ASKED TO HELP The North Dakota Council of Defen- se, cooperating with the United States department of agriculture and the bu- reau of labor, is preparing to organize a farm labor reserve cf not less than 50,000 members in the cities and vil- lages of North Dakota. The chair- man of each county council of defense will be ‘asked ‘to recommend some farmer in his county for county chair- man of the labor reserve. Upon his appoéntment by the Wate council the county chairman will be asked to form a county advisory board, to include a farmer, a merchant and a banker, and this advisory board will name sub-chairmen in each town and village, who will undertake the local organization of a reserve. The North Dakota Bankers’ association at its re- cent meeting in Fargo tendered its services in this connection to the state council of defense, and every county labor reserve board will in- clude one banker, whose assistance in this work is. expected to prove of much value. wie It is desired. that every abje-bodied man in North Dakota be enrolled in the federal farm labor reserve. The men will be furnished with pledge cards, which when signed and return- ed to the central. bureau: will be clas- sified, much according to the plan fol- lowed in the military selective service system. ‘Men engaged in the last es- sential ‘business and occupations will be grouped in class.one and will be first called upon. Those whose ‘busi- ness or occupation is such. that. they cannot easily give up some of their time will be given deferred classifi- cations and called only in case of em- ergency. It is probable that businesses which are absolutely. non-essential will be asked to close several days each week during the harvest season, in order. that proprietors and employ- es may help on the farm, at “going wages.” This suggestion comes from ‘Washington and will be adopted if it becomes necessary. ee ; “We never have had a larger acre- age under cultivation; crops were nev- er looked after so well in the plow- ing and seeding and they never havé looked so well at'this:tinte of ‘the:year as they do' today,” said: Secretary» Box” in commenting upon’ the’ importance of a strong farm’ labor: reserve.’ “If we have the bumper crops which:ev- erything’ forecasts, we must have a great’ emergency force of labor ‘avail- able to harvest them." vay |SUPREME COURT. SOLVE John Steen, State of North Da- kota and Des Moines Insur- ance/'Co. Litighte The supreme court is asked to settle a threesided contest €or $1,200 in in- terest earned by a deposit of §25,000 made with the state treasurer. by the Des Moines Mutual Hail & Cyclone Insurance. Co. The state insurance The state insurance laws decree that such deposits in actual money shall be made with the state treasurer as security for policy-holders. The law does not say who shall,have the in- terest. Theasurers have made a prac- tice of | collecting this ‘interest. for their own ‘benefit. The insurance company several months ago. brought suit against State Treasurer John Steen for the recovery of the interes: on its deposit, and Judge Nuessle, in the Burleigh county ‘district ‘court, ruled in favor of the Des Moines (Mu- tual. Now Treasurer Steen in‘his‘own Washburn, ‘N. D., May 14.—McLean is very small considering the danger | pehalf, and Attorney General Langer, county is going to hold aloft as high MAY 23 Scene from Second: Act, The Game of Waste, in atid: Down Heedared: by Oller Manneetis <r aca ous nature of their work. OMEDY BILLED FOR AUDITORIUM ON on behalf of the state, both have ap- pealed to the supreme court, each claiming a right to the interest. In the nature: of the action the supreme court must either affirm’ the district court’s decision, or, if it reverses Judge Nuessle, it then must determ- ine whether Steen may retain the $1.- 290 or whether he must pay it into the state treasury. BILLIE BURKE STARS IN MYSTERY DRAMA _ AT BISMARCK TONIGHT From the very first foot of film “The Mysterious Miss Terry” which is Billie Burke's lat#st Paramount Picture, holds the attention and in- terest at top notch. A mysterious cab is seen appearing out of the gloom of a London fog. It stops before a stately mansion and a veiled lady de- scends, peers cautiously around and enters the house. © y This inscrutable young person per-- forms all sorts of kindly miracles for the people in her boarding house later on in the picture but it is not until ' the final breathlessly absorbing de- nouement that her-identity is discov- ered. Billie Burke in “The Mysterious Miss Terry” is apearing at the Bis: marck Theatre tonight. S Dull, lifeless . .eyes, colorless lips, sallow, yellow. cheeks, give a girl little chance for a “man” these days. Don’t lose heart, _ just take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea—helps to make you attractive and fair. Don’t de- lay, begin today. Breslow’s. alcerb: FOR THROAT AND Lanes "A Calcium ht ‘K cate peggeeate tt ROEM a