The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 15, 1918, Page 4

i + |: the selective service regulations! there are on the war department’s “waiting list” Tr E- BISMARCK TRIBUNE e Postoffice, Bismarck, : Class Matter arorte D, MANN : G. LOGAN PAYNE = COMPANY, cial Foreign Representative Spe : ‘ NEW. YORK eritth ‘Ave, ‘Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Besides these 2,000,000—all of them men who Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege registered last year, and who have already filled BH HINREAGOL Ho Lanier, Ese out their questionnaires—it is authoritatively esti- The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to Sheiuke mated that there are another 700,000 or 800,000, tg Feel ie tat nl So ra |YOUNE chap, enuntng out those who are Phys lished here’ cally unfit or who will receive deferred classifica- tion for other reasons, who have turned 21 in the econ’! fit men to fill the gap between what we have now ‘Editorjand what Baker has called for. Half of them will do that. All Tights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year. » $6. Daily. by mail per year. . mail outside of No if SUBSCRIPTION RA (In Reh Dakota) recent legislation. Our grand total of men already in the army cifications of Class 1 of the S. S. regulations is over 4,800,000. Which is 1,800,000 more than Baker says he can use to the best advantage today. Some day we may need all of these men. . Prob- ably we will if the war lasts long enough. But if Six months. hence, that there will be a further reserve of Three months . .. 700,000 or 800,000 piled up! For that’s the rate| we grow them at in this country. These figures are of tremendous, interest to z+ :50/ every man, woman andichild in America. They would be of tremendous interest to Kaiser Bill, too, if we could only get them: to him. How much of America’s man power will.the Huns have to see with their own. eyes and feel with their own flesh—by the bayonet route—be- fore they believe in it? A good deal, is the only safe guess. So our problem, asidé from the man is still the same. Our immediate to equip them One year. Six months. One month THE STATER OLDEST (Batablished 1873 ES TAFT AS. A: GREAT TEACHER For generations one American problem has been what to do with our. ex-presidents. Finally one of them is solving the problem in a simple, wholesome American way. Instead of snarling/ Power problem, i and snapping at.a president who belongs fe the] Problem is to mobilize our millions, 0) ition party, Wm. H. Taft has. calmly an sarieitly tackled any job that offered a chance|to get them “over there,” and finally to support to help wake up America and win the war for | them, to the last dollar and the last limits of sac- democracy. . |tifice “over here.” \ He'has temporarily given up his work of teach- : ing Yale students the law, in order that he might An Illinois mine owner advises coal operators teach'the whole American people how a patriotic not to sell coal for less than the government price. ex-president can make of himself a ‘live asset|Can it be possible that there is an absent-minded instead of a dead liability. coal man in this world? Ex-President Taft now, works at a desk in ; Lo WITH THE EDITORS “| Washington, bringing to bear his ability and com- HE ISN'T WORRY SS33 83s sss aces CS ieee mon sense on one of the vital war problems—| Jaber: That’s democracy. ae Why. not have Everett'True spend his vacation at ‘Oyster Bay this. summer ? ‘ ABSENT AND ‘NOT VOTING” “A movement is on: :foot;to.secure the election’ of a loyalist congress. .”—Excerpt from Washing.) ton’ ‘correspondence. ; a? Yes, y syou can bet your bottom dollar that there is such & movement on foot! . And it’s not, confined to Washington, either. Not by a long shot. It’s on ‘right: heré at home: And jit’s.on’ ‘foot in every’ ‘state, county, village and hamlet inthe. United States. . Thei folks have watched the present congress as they have never. ,watched another. since ciyil war days.“ They have drawn their own, conclu- sions, and they are-in first class shape to'be intel- ligently careful about the next congress—the con- gress that will be elected this fall. ‘All of which means this: that mere “self-as- sessed” patriotism isn’t going to get ‘by. Every man in the house'and the senate now who expects to run again this fall has got to do more than just talk about his loye for his country. He has got . to dig: up his recent record and show what he has done for'his country. ‘The folks will be able to judge what that rec- ord is worth. If it’s a clean one, then there's a good chance for Mr. Candidate. If it isn't—if it \culated:is to the effect that the editor of this paper is hostile to the Lutheran’ church. We However, are getting pretty’ close to the: source f its origi and. ouP next. issue. will” ly ‘disclose’ these men. Of-course, as long-as hi propaganda con- cerns only us, and, not, our Hatt: we should worry.—Golden Valley American. <. -. - HARDY. PERRENNIALS BRS “Like the’ sand. flower on; ie,” says the Fargo Post, “H. H. Aaker bobs ‘up ’ nial. candidate: for office.” No primary election: in this /state’ would be complete without he candidacies of :H. “Hi Aaker, Herman: Mi Frank 0. Hellstrom. These three are tothe coming of a primary election what the first robin is ‘to spring: It is possible that one may{be missing from the| list this year. Frank:@.(Helletrom may ‘not :run. But his place is taken. °S. J. Doyle isia candidate] for governor on the democratic ticket. —Lidger- wood Broadaxe. . . BEGINNING A NEW YEAR Eleven years ago A. L. Lowden established The Bowman County Pioneer in a shack on the north side of what was then the preliminary sur- vey of the Milwaukee road, now the roadbed of the Milwaukee through Bowman. ‘It was the first its ines of fat and ost edema aban business established in Bowman and the first hews- zt i ior in this country, an ti Hee 3: something te figure on maths Pe ae been the pioneer in movements for the betterment ion: A Candidate can’t say simply, “I didn’t vote of thi ti € North Dakota. It h " against the war, the draft, the shipping bill, the Le SAS ana h Dakota. as not been appropriation measures, or the Overman bill.” He the originator of all these movements, but is al- has got to make it more than ne gative. He has ways found supporting them, and while under the got to show what he worked and voted for. He! present management, will always be found do- has got to prove that he has not been an obstruc- ing 80. tionist in fact, even if he has, managed to dodge Ten years ago last week, the present editor the roll call in a number of cases, came out from Lisbon, N. D., and took charge of The practice of certain senators and congress- the paper, and about a year later purchased the men in doing their dirty best to block war mea- interest of Mr. Lowden. Since that time the edi- sures both openly on the floor and in secret “cloak tor has been absent from the office but six times) room’ conferences for days on end, and then duck-| When the paper went to press. . Three years ago ing out at the last minute to avold going on record|e took an automobile trip for a month; another when the vote is taken, has become notorious. The|time he msde a trip to Dickinson on publication country knows all about it. So that “absent and bed upon another occasion he was laid up. not voting” is going to be one of the worst possi- We have chronicled. the news of the vicinity ble alibis this fall. in as truthful a manner as we know how, and left out a lot of things that some few people would liked to have seen in print; and possibly we have published some things, other people would rather we had forgotten to publish. eee { It is reported-The Pioneer has been {n some it, and that without going outside of Class 1 of| political scraps, and from looking over the files, Backing this|we have arrived at the conclusion that the report up, a constant increment of from 700,000 to 800,-|was based upon something more tangible than a 000, new men per year!’ When it comes down to} rumor. man power, Uncle Sam is still the biggest of] But it’s all in a lifetime. We have been at them all. the business more than 36 years—from the Wash- Today’s:story from our Washington bureau, ington hand press to the fast cylinder press and giving the facts as they have been carefully ar-|the linotype. Hobe) See rived at by war department experts, is enlighten-| We are still on the job, and expect to be at it|°% men under Uncle’s orders. This including men|for a good many more years, so we just want to ing. It shows that there are already over 2,187,000} thank our old friends—and enemies if we have recently. called. ‘Some of these last may not be/any—in Bowman, Slope and Harding counties, for in camp yet, but they are all on their way: there.| your support during the past 10 years, and express ‘This means that, following Secretary Baker’s|the hope that you will all stick with us in our plafi for an army totaling 3,000,000, for this year,|efforts to boost this part of the two Dakotas. “have less than 900,000 to go. Here we go for another 10 years.—Bowman Pio-}, Pea Lae Washington correspondent sho shows also that] heer. cm enn snare fee ip “Coal was so exclusive last winter that Doc Garfield is getting that way himself. SPEAKING OF MAN POWER An army of 5,000,000 men whenever we need opel —epoet anecaeenis sntieieemmemtr ieee # sem approximately 2,000,000 Class 1 and physically) last year, and who are/made liable to service by} and those physically fit who come under the spe-| . the day when we do need them comes a year)’ d with the begt war tools that there are anywhere,| The latest bit of pro-German pi cvanda cir- : thousands. of paletace friends as John | !8° ; Dresidene of the, Red TH "4 SY WORKING 24 HOURS > NA DAY tt THE TRENCHES. -50. WELL BUT —) SAMMIES ARE Nor. DOING Quite x Se mud and. mud ‘sticks. $05 your’ .s! *) which adds discomfott in’ traveling - ‘) along. You'll GET I Nouns | Vib The ralhe, here. are something ‘ike the rains in Iowa, when it com- menceg it lasts for. some time, and 20 raincoat will'keep you ary. . ‘We do not. have much time for drill- ing, but I would just as-sgon:drill as do the work We have lined up for us to do for it is somewhat different. than wh at Ft. Lin- coln or even ‘on the Mexican border. ‘still, I would, not of missed’ this) trip over here for anything as I have had a chance to learn a Whole lot and see some country, 1 would not advise’you to publish any of my letters as there is nothing of’any importance in them, but if you want to let the Tribune have any of them it is jake with’ me for I will never have the chance to read the pa it yo you Ry could follow ‘Ambrose around all day you wouldn't think he. was slumbering at all for he has. an oyder- Mes’ job and believe me that is one Job in the-army none of us care to tackle, for it wiere is one thing lo:do there is’a million other, little ertanda to attend to every day. He fell heir to his job:through:8 change in men and seek ‘eh arbontgeis deen’ safe to a bite scrap. A get eine one darned thing’ wie Mh es 80 we all have to make the best of life over here and smile at our task which helps to make ix o é » 2 CHIEF JUSTICE OF TETON-DAKOTA TRIBE, PASSES AWAY.NEAR AGE OF 80 AT HOME ON STANDING ROCK John Sr Treaty Maker and Friend of the Paleface, Called to yee Bear, better known to ‘his Grass, chief uatico of the Dacotah na tion, ig dead at ‘the; little home which| ?|:the ‘United ‘States: government, erected for him just \ acro#s ' the state: line, south of Fort Yates, out of. gratitude for his, many” services to. the whites, Chief Grass had been iil’ for ‘more than 1a year: For months:he was a patient at.the;agency hospital in. Fort Yates, ;| but-he: returned: to’Hisihome late last ‘summer; ‘and {tiwas. there,’ with hie faithful-wife.at dée'Nedaide; that death came to one of. thei. greatest Indian statesmen’. modern »; America -“ has known.’ “It. was several days before ‘news. of:the: chief's death -reached tho | > agency: at Fort Yates, and,, although 'the end came 10), It; did not:.be- come. generally known until Tuesday. 79. Veate. Old. John Grass Aha 8 of the grea: characters’ *: ‘Indians, be- ing of the ‘sihees eton tribe. He was 79 years old. (He had a bright mind, and did all in his power to en- courage ‘his: people ‘to: accept, civ: ilizing ‘methods, . He: was 'a* wonder: ful orator, and in/repregenting his tribe before the Indian commission ers. from: Washington, and in his*ap- pearance before ‘the: officials: at’ the appeals. ‘> Spoke in Bénate. The last. time the: one, of ‘this section had an opportunity “ta” hear him was’ when he madé:an’ address before the state senate during the legislative session of 1911 when he made ‘an’ appeal for.the naming o: Fort Yates as, the county, seat of Sioux county which was: then about to be created. He had abandoned hi» tribal dress and put on white man’s clothes’ when the: ites came: to in- habit the country, ‘atid in his ad- dress at’ Bismarck he called down some of, his.’ tril a came with their paint and fea! * Tribe's. Chief. Ju He had been chigt, justice of the Standing Rock reservation and set- tled all” the disputes of ‘the tribes. He had- always ‘been peaceful and during the troubles of the early nineties ‘when. Sitting Bull, @ medi- cine. man: of the Sioux tribes, led a}. number. of his people, :to. hostilities, e succeeded in :halding:.down...the Jarger pert of his tribe: aid finally|) | restored order with. but. little actual trouble:with the whites, ‘During the earlier. days he ransomed. many whites from other. tribes,. tanning them over. to,‘the authorities: at» Fort Randall.’ ‘One of these: was a woman, [Mary Kelly( a case familiar to old timers, ‘ jopted A. B. Welch. In June, 1913, Chief (Grass adont- ed A. B; Welch, according to the old Indian ‘customs. | This. was a great event, ashe is the only white man who hag aver been’ adopted into the Stoux tribe. It was observed with a great “ceremony “which . lasted: ron dawn’ until sun down and was. attended hy many: white people from as Indiaus from other reservations. oo War ition. ~ Chiet John Grass was from the out- wet of the present. war one of fhe, strongest supportera of the go’ ment, and~ encourage@© many <of his young men to £0, sito service and ‘fight for Uncle Sam.” He; took an: active interest in all the war meas: ures, and.at the time of his death was) in ysl, 1917, when Captain: ‘Welch visited him “hefore “Joa “When I.was a young man,” he said, and now that I am an-ol I not want to fight the ple, ee thee Plays ee and have struck us man should fight if he fs not: peas “When I wag s, young. man and the. saat Hunting Ground After Life of i ‘Conspicuous Service. sang a song tor you in VOU HORDE, It “Do not have a double. mind; i With’ thoughts!of-fear you cannot be brave, 2 sere Do at think, go, ‘much ¢ Qh, your home . Be esa ‘you are seeking’ tor a ‘high: ¥er honor in‘ war!'*od Dow't return withoutohondr. |” ‘That’ song: meats: never to return without ‘honor: i You may ‘tell the people that they Must: fight, hard, with -happy: hearts and that Chief John Grass, the Siissa- pa-Teton, believes. thatour copntrs will; win, with’ honor, ‘because we‘are| sentiaast for the en es 1 LETTERS, no Thom 0m SOMEWHERE i leo sald avndhila tebe path eas | FROM. PRIVATE-A! AWOSERRES 1 Dear Friend: Once ‘more>I: will jpatelan viettemp: to write some letters although dt isi:a or Stout} ving |. went to war my fath me,.. Vath weet hard: thing. for a ‘fellow toi do' when you ‘are’ restricted as to what you write, ‘About all one can say is Hello, Goodbye, for writing on the same ‘sub- ject is getting sort of old ‘and faded. T-hardly know just what we vous do “over: here”: if the Y. M. C. wasn't with us for when we are ott duty there is no other place to'go and spend our time. They have movies about three times a week and other days they find some sort of aumse- ments, there’ is something doing alt the time. Belfeve me, there is plenty: ‘of :ex- citement all day long and some times in.the evening. One can hear a’boom off in the distance then another. rum- ble, connected with a flash then the -whistling and buzzing sound in every ‘direction, so one hardly finds time to Bismarck. and other. points, a swell]: for France, he told. him to, be: brave. Pei eo) “J-was willing to help the: white | rman t san \ we a gat ie a Ra MI w wl’ fo a rn w A LAG “TIMID” BOY WINS ACE HONOR.EARLY it easter. ‘Things ’are popping just ‘pow so. if | make any mistakes and put {p @ few © unnecessary words just think of a shell bursting bulidings al‘around you, 't! you will know why'I have written my letter in short ‘atory long, the ver gang are all O. K. and hope’every one I know or don't know in Bismatck is 0. 'K. From a eriend and Soldier in France. PVT. A. FROM A CONVALESCENT.” Mre, Eugene Decker, ‘Watrous, N.D... .. “Written in jsmarck, Hosp and don’t know If your'e ever ate -where to go, ‘Do as I tell you and tien you'll sure know. Board the train at your. own home town, And tell the conductor you're for Sis- marck bound. Se 2, the big ‘hospital and don't feel ue For there, they’; wil take good cate of a eeha acum » | Dr. Ramstad- 1s both ‘skillful and tind, ‘Lieutenant Paul Bae Ala., the newest’ American ace. of the air, shot .down:hls “quota’ ‘of :five Germans since March: 11. ~In a letter to his father:he says he bas downed seven.Germans since ‘that date but only ‘five are officially: credited. He has also won the Distinguished: Ser- vice Cross. “And his‘father says, smil- ingly, “Paul always -eeemed the most timed of our four children.” Telling of an attack ‘on him by sev- en, boche filters, Lieutenant Baer writes: }‘I pointed. my machine at the closest. one to me,’ and’.as soon as I got right on him, I opened up with my machine gun and down he went. The rest of them came at me and | sure did some ‘scientific Fetreating’.” think of friends in the U.S. A. as he is busy takin” in the sights or: doing his bit to ator the, ‘Dutch trot cross: ing his-pat Tt bas be een somewhat rainy here for) @ couple of weeks which makes’ fel- low cuss, for when it rains it A shel, Ueber don’t think you'll Drs: we abkerman} ‘and Shoresg¢, always ready : To: keep things .in the house, gorg nid steady, our Mise Kibler 1 the sel You Gant ‘beat he It you want''a eal Miss ‘Bradley, Saat come ‘and tend you, ok ever 80 gladly. She'll Peers you ‘all’ over and | sive you & And you'll feel just'as fit as you come Waa some 4 bell en some nurses are gone an 8 keep ringing, Miss Korn is right, there avd an- swers them singing. ‘Then there's Miss. Sinille, 80 happy and gay, Sr ane keeps you feeling good all the long sy. ; Miss Delve is there too, to do’ her work: She is thotfui and kind sha no task does she shirk: .., Then Miss Roseburg. is ‘on duty at night, To ‘give all their pills and turn off the lights. too, When you're hungry: to bring “your tray to you. And when you're all bathed: and feel much’ bettér, Miss Lischman_ will come and bring you a letter, Toward evening Miss’ Sand. will stop at your door, Tell you’ something: or ‘other, which will make you at roer.” Now friend, things there are kept” just so, » The conversation of two water-bugs: : Goin’ over to'the “Y” tonight? It}e good: place you're hunting you'll know. where to’ g0., ‘You know there are good things along. with the bad, And you're sure to. ‘see thing’ .which ‘will make you feel sad. So it is at the: hospital, ‘some fun with the pain, If need .be, you'll be willing: to go back again: Jack’s Friend: tn Need. ‘The néval class was under signal Instruction.’ Most of them had just . come back from leave, and, 39 8 re sult, to some.of. the boys in blue the iostructor’s ‘voice: seemed very far: away indeed: : “A ship in distress,” he was saying. through the Foom spaces, “has several methods, by means of-which she can *|} make known her, condition to other ves- sels <or home: stations. “Name. one, Binks!” “The international code signal N. et ” replied Binks, wakigg ~ dat in Sheet Jenks saried Sollad «Sica “Eh?” ‘he ejaculated. z “What would you do if you wers.tm - distress?” repeated the © signal in- "| structor. “Why,” mumbled tice “Lach my ‘Tribune Wane’ “her ae Raman” pon jear_and. phaking the: VI : Miss Paries and ‘Mestad wil be’ there eb ¢