The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1918, Page 4

‘BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE at ostoffice, Bismarck, N. D., a: Second x Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN : - ana : 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. ASSOCIATED PRESS Editor MEMBER OF 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. All rights of are also reserved. é All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION ° SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANGE publication of special dispatches herein Daily by carrier per year.. ah 00 Daily by mail per year....... 00 Daily by mail per year (in state).. .00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota 5.00 SUBSCRIPTION RATES on 1 (In North Dakota) oo e year by mail...... sot Moactee awa . . Six months by mai 2.00 Three months by mail... 1.00 (Outside of Nor One year .. 5.00 Six months . 2.50 Three months . 1.25 year... $6.00 oe . 3.00 Three months . 60 One month .... 50 THR STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Batablished 1878) <> YOUR HEART’ AND YOUR FACE Here’s the face of Otto von Below, the German general who will probably lead the.next drive against civilization. It is,a typical militaristic face. See this face anywhere, under any condi- tions, and you could readily believe that its wear- er had been educated for war, from the cradle up. The cold, heavy eyes clearly express brutality. The heavy jaws and cruel mouth proclaim the tenacity, selfishness and mercilessness of the bull- dog. It is easy to believe that this man ;was born for war and has thought war all his life. Still, he is, perhaps, not wholly to blame; for the rea- son that he did not order his mode of life or line of thought. 3 ee - ’ It is safe to say.that in the faces of the major- ity of people of Von Below’s age are written their characters and careers. Scowls, brutal thoughts, sensual thoughts, finally make the facial map. Ugly. disposition engraves the deepest lines. Think selfishness and arrogance, and the chances are that you'll get Von Below eyes. Think slaughter, and you're very apt to acquire the beast mouth|, and jaws of Von Below. MENG; And, at this time, we’re all thinking war, war, war! Is it not well that we think about our think- ing? There’s no question but the great San Fran- point that we’re helping, saving our fellow creat- ures who are in deepest need. And for that sort of thought there’s no better stimulant than Red Cross giving. If tt’s efficiency you want, why not send the anti-Saloon League to Austria on ‘propaganda work? : Maj. General Maurice talked himself out of the British army. If we have any major generals who are tempted to be gabby and play politics, let them look at Maurice and then hold their tongue and their horses. . There are rumors that the president may give T, Roosevelt a job of some kind so that he will keep his mouth shut. It won’t work. There is only one job that would force him to keep his mouth shut—diving for sponges. ——— PRESIDENT AND THE KNOCKERS Woodrow Wilson journeyed, the other day, into the very home of those who are most busily engaged in throwing bricks at him and his leader- ship. He went to New. York, where those Roose- velt idolators, the New York Times,.New York Tribune and New York Sun, constantly fling heavy editorials at his devoted head. And in the most polyglot city in the world the president was every- where hailed with wild acclaim. The time of his arrival was not specifically announced, but cheer ing thousands.met him at the railroad station and other cheering thousands greeted him along the busy highways of the metropolis, and a wildly enthusiastic audience compelled him to make a felicitous little three-sentence speech when he at- tended the theatre. The plain people were anx- ious to show him their love and devotion. They were desirous of showing their trust and belief in him. It was their way of demonstrating what they thought of the political bunkum that is writ- ten in New York and drooled in the United States senate. The president is a very busy man, but it would pay him every once in a while to make a trip to some big city—north or east or south or west: It would blow the cobwebs from his brain. It would actually rest him. It would give the great mass of Americans, who have no political or other axe to grind, a chance to pat him on the back, as it were, and to tell him that the knockers knock in vain. : | WITH THE ‘EDITORS weecececoccccococoeccoescocccooocoorss A DEMOCRATIC WHISPER A prominent democrat informs 'the News—in strictest. confidence—that the reappointment ‘of United States Marshal Doyle means that the dem- ATS. Monty Mrs. Peter Reid today received two letters from her son, Private Neil Reid of Co. A, the Bismarck unit of the Fighting First, reported seriously wounded in an assault.on the Huns on May 1. Although the letters were written the early part of April, they. weer not mailed from the army post- office until April 28, two- days prev- ious to the date:on wthich “the \Bis marck boy: was..wounded. ‘Mrs. Reid also’ has a lettér from another son, Private Austin*.Reid, written April 28. Austin is stationed on a’ section of ‘the front. 60 ‘miles distant from that’ pecupied jhy ‘his brogher. Tho jettere follow; i Aprif)11, 1918. ocratic organization in this state will line up for McAdoo for president in the national convention _ lof 1920. Politics ‘is not being entirely lost track of, even in these strenuous war times.—Hankin- son News. 3 NEWS A NECESSITY Gen. Pershing’s first communiques, just pub- lished, to be,followed up by similar bulletins daily, constitute a partial and, on the whole, satisfac- tory surrender to the public’s demand for regular and complete information about the activities of our troops abroad. His messages not only tell, in detail, what our soldiers in the trenches had been doing during the preceding 24 hours, but also convey the agreeable. news that over part of the front, which, no doubt, shortly will be known as cisco fire and earthquake affected the dispositions of children of the coast regions recently born or about to be born at that period. We don’t want a future generation of folks with the Von Below face, do we?. ; We've got to slaughter Germans. We've got to put our brain power on new or more thorough methods and designs for slaughter. In pictures, billboard signs, speeches and other ways we surely are teaching the children to hate. Mature thought and infantile thought are focussing upon slaugh- ter. ig We will see much of the Von Below physiog- nomy in our country, unless we wisely apply, the preventatives. There are such. It is to keep clear and bright the high purpose we have in the war. We sacrifice and fight and slay for our imperilled brothers. No man’s face ever took on the mad- dog look’ through his service for others. We can put into our pictures more scenes of heroic rescue work and less of bombings and bayonettings. We can put upon the billboards less of “To Hell with the Kaiser!” and more of “To the Rescue of Bel- gium!” A dollar in bonds, at 414 per cent profit, means a dollar for slaughter, necessary but none the less laughter. A dollar to the Red Cross means a dollar for succor or salvation of the wounded, sick or needy. No man ever got the Von Below eye of a professional murderer through looking upon sufferers in the character of a good Samaritan. To buy is to perform with the hands. To give is to act with the heart; and our thoughts which spring from our hearts have much to do with shaping our faces. If the Red Cross did nothing more, it’ does much good, great good, in directing our thoughts toward the altruistic features of this war. Millions of our children are working and sac- rificing their little pleasures for thrift stamps. Is it because they see the financial return in 1923? No, God bless them! it’s because ® they feel that they’re helping. And we want the bless- ings of service, not the seams of hatred, to ap- pear in their faces in the years of their matur- “American,” our aviators were keeping busy suc- cessfully. A change of administration publicity policies appears. to be: indicated by this conces- sion in the matter of daily bulletins, and augurs well for an about-face in other directions as well. It seems quite evident that the war, from now on, will grow to be less and less annonymous, and that our government; like those of France and England, will, wherever military considerations do not demand secrecy, begin giving us the names of Pershing’s generals, of. division commanders taking part in battles, and, above all, of the or- ganizations distinguishing themselves in action. Six lines of real news from the front, with names of regiments, will do more to stir up enthusiasm than reams of synthetic write-ups from a Wash- ington bureau.—New York Post. THE MINOT PLATFORM Paragraph four of the Minot platform is .a frank and open acknowledgement that certain far reaching changes in the state government are needed, and it is an effort to sift the wheat from the chaff, throwing aside uncertain and untried measures, and definitely advocating certain tried it a Dear Hor i fe Are Jt recuiven NaC four letters from you and papa. jay, with some picture re sure fine’ and. 1 ‘sur get more. -: like the looks of tt gap and from what, have seen them\do-here I am sure,,that you will gf; igaod service out of it. ’ re tto I thought that I told you all about my jpsurance, put I will ou about it in; I have a ten sand. doi- lar~policy and..it costs—me $6.40 a month, it is an accident policy also atid will be good for some time after the war. Tell papa‘to use his own judg- ment about that other insurance pol- icy and to drop it if he thinks ‘best. I have had a couple of letters from Austin’ and I may be able to see him soon. John Robertson is in the same town with Bob Work and I and we are going to have a photo taken and 1 will send them all to you. I had a letter from Mrs. Mahon and also one from Mrs. Dr. Smyth, I must answer them (both as soon as possible. I also had one from Uncle James Boss- ingthwaite. I am glad that you received the letter about the boots, I hope that you don’t get.a very expensive pur. You can send the camera direct to me anu if it is well packed I will get it. I suppose that Sterling has some time with the horse and Russell with the car; it would be fine for Russell if he could get into the garage this summer; it would: be the kind of work he likes best. |.» It is sure a beautifulcountry whero Iam now. Everything is green and the grain is up nearly a foot in some places. These;Frenchmen are good farmers and their stock is about the best I ever saw. 1 am still back of the lines. I don’t know how long I will be. You must not get anxious if I don’t write for a week or so. I have not written for more than a week now, it was impos- sible to do so, yet I was ‘In no danger or anything like that. ‘Well I will close’ for now, but I will write again very soon. Tell Ster- ling, Russell and papa to write often. With love, NI April 3, 1918. Dear. Mother: It has been quite along time since I last wrote, but: I-h'ave not had an opportunity until now and I am not and tested forms, which stand the test of ‘good sense and justice. . It favors the grading of grain on the milling value of wheat, and urges that prices be regu- lated on the basis of cost of production to insure the farmer a fair profit. The farmer, in the past, has been forced to take three gambles. He had to gamble first on his crop; second, in some mea- sure, on the grade he would get; third, on the price he would be paid. If these measures were adopted, he would be forced to take but one gam- ble, that of getting a crop. If he gets that, he would be assured of a profit, and if he doesn’t get it, no grades and no price would give him a profit. The platform advocates a nonpartisan ballot —not that the word is spelled without the capital “N”—for all state, county and legislative offices. Minnesota has experimented with the nonparti- ity. Let’s think more and more strongly on the san ballot, and it has worked well there in the brief time it has been tried—Harvey Journal. sure that I will be able to mail this letter for some time. * Lam feeling fine and everything is going all right. ‘We are sure having great weather, although it is a little wet once in a while. Everything is getting green the grass seems to stay green all winter. : I had a letter from Austin a few days ago. Everything is going fine with him. He was Sergt. of the guard of honor for Secretary’ Baker and Gen- eral. Pershing. Well, this is just to let you know that: I am all right. 1 will write again later. With-love, } rr NEIL. ‘April 28, 1918. } Dear Mamma: = ., y Well, how is aha at home ian are all getting along fine over here. We'got Sar Rona few days ago, and there were sure some fine ones in the bunch, nice pig draft horses, ——————————————————————— «MAKE IT PART OF YOUR DAILY ORDER. OY epee — OW.YES, AND A THRIET MRS. PETER REID RECEIVES LETTERS FROM SON RECENTLY WOUNDED IN CHARGING HUNS most the last one to pick., Everyone thinks I got a good looking horse; well, it is good looking alright, but not. well broke yet. ‘She does not know what the bridle is for yet. She ‘ only-a-young. horse, but: I like her Ine. * .l.took a nice, trip ie few days ago, about 53 miles‘ ii a’ truck to a. place and got some. beds. . We sure went through ‘some ‘beautiful’ country; up and down big steep hills and into ’als Kinds of “Httle’ towns along’ the road. I’ was out riding most all afternoon Saw Murray Dick. | He is feeling fine. Said he wrote to Allie a few days ago. I got that package you sent with the buttons and candy in it. Somehow, the mail sack got wet. But that.does not hurt what was in the ‘box ‘at all. Have ‘had’no letters ‘from yout’ ‘for a long time now. Write soon and often. Love to all, * . 1 AUSTIN. Sergt, A. P. Reed, ; 116 T..M. B. “Johnny on the Spot”. Farmer. A western farmer dropped fn upon the liberty loan committee in hig town, toward the close of the subscription pe- riod, placed a milk can on the: table, removed the cover and emptied: the contents.\¢That milk can contained the savings of wars, in copper, silver and gold coins and bank notes. When counted, the cash was found to amount to a goodly sum, “I never put my money in bank,” said'the farmer, “but I’ve been thinkin’ {t over, an’ I guess I can trust Uncle 8am.” No doubt he was typical of a much larger element of the population than fs actually know, Christian Science Monitor, ' Airplane Needs Much. Wood. About~ 200--board--feet-ofwood is used in the actual. construction of the average airplane: Td obtain’ this ma- terial it is ordinarily necessary to work over gbout 1/600 ‘feet*of select lumber, which often represents all that can be “used for airplanes of 15,000 board feet of standing timber. the best I ever saw in the army. The saddle horses are pretty good horses when they are fat. I got a saddle horse something like the first one I got before I went to the border, a nice little black about 1050 Ibs. 1 was al- titthiiitiiint at ina WITH OUR SOLDIERS IN TRAINING CAMP A view of an ‘experimental trench passage. These warrens are construct- ed in all seriousness and the boys real- ize something of what winter on the other side will mean. Daily Thought. An act of yours isnot simply the thing you do but it is also the way you | do it.—Wendell Phillips. ‘ " The new select who hogged all the straw for his mattress only to find he had a hill to roll off of all night. ‘ showing an entrance to'‘an underground | - FRIDAY, MAY 24; 1918. ~ a cae! CUARENCE L, SPEED tt "Union Langue Clab'or Chicago. One of the deep, underlying reasons —not just a diplomatic pretext—why we are at war with Germany is that for a generation Germany has been making war on us. Germany has made this war not openly, bravel: or humanely, but secretly, treacherously and persistently. She has sought to create race discord, to corrupt and de- file politicians. and officeholders, and to create separate German communi- ties within our borders. She has pol- soned the minds of children in our schools in an endeavor to make Ger- mans of them insteed of have them grow up into loyal American citizens, She has invaded. the sacredness of the pulpit itself in an endeavor to corrupt our people through the very leaders of morality to whom they are accuse tomed to look for guidance. These. may, be. startling assertions, but they are all true, as you shall see from the documents of the Germans themselves, We all knew that it was a German fleet which stripped for ac- tion’ when Dewey sailed into. Manila bay. We all knew it was the Germans who sought to bring about a European alliance against us when we were en- gaged in the war with Spain. Few of us .relaized,, however, that all these years Germany has been busy within our own borders, through editors, teachers and preachers, seeking to break down our national unity, so that when the time’ came it would be easy to defeat the United States in open warfare, to set at naught our cherish: ed Monroe doctrine, and to seize, in the ‘Western hemisphere, anything that the land grabbing rulers of the German empire might desire. The’ climax of Germany's under handed war on the United States came in 1913, more than a year before the outbreak of hostilities in Europe. This was the enactment of what is known as the Delbruck law, which provides that if an emigrant from Germany who is about to be naturalized makee application to a German consul, he may retain his German citizenship ‘even after he has become a citizen of his adopted country. In plain words, this law, and the ap plication of it, mean just this: A German goes into court in thie country and solemnly foreswears al: ‘legiance to: the ‘kaiser and pledget Tis wrord—the' Peiptation WE)’ > say ||: “of honor’—that-he. will become a loy: al ‘eltigen' of the United Rtates. Ther jhe slips around to the German consu: jand says: cer atlol ('. “You, know 1 didn’t, mean that, at Vall... Those Americans are easy marka and they fell for that stuff right off ;But you just put me down on your list ‘a8 a good, loyal German, and if tht “timie ‘ever comes whén'l ‘can prove it 'you'can count on me.” _ i; So the German consul! puts ‘his name down in the little card index of whict ‘theGermans are.so. fond, and thit in,—this. crea! ho .swears al Teplence to the edly ten giver him/an opportunity ‘to H{¥éla real liv -ing and to become somebody in thit world, and at the same time sweart ‘secretly tobe true to Gethany—it ‘turned loose to: work his wilt} while ‘Americans go careléssly about thelt business and refuse to see the danger in the arrangement. Long before the passage of the Del- bruck law, there was formed the Ve rein fur das Deutschtum im Ausland— ‘the Union for Germanism in Foreign Lands; This organization, officially fostered in Germany, issued a quarter ly magazine, which, in its very first is sue, outlined {ts alms as follows: “The purpose of this union is the preservation and promotion of . the Germanism of over 30,000,000 people of German blood dwelling outside the Gerthan empire.” All it aims to do, you see, is to keep Germans who.come to this country from becoming Amert- cans. 2 Away. back in 1890 the Alldeutschet Verband, or the Pan-German league, as formed. ‘It now consists of 268 ‘chapters of. which: two now are—or at least were immediately before the war “Sin .the- United “States, one in New York “ghd one in San Francisco. To ~-] quote from the Alldenteche Blatter, its oficial publication, “the Pan-German league is founded for promoting Ger- man National interests, both in Ger many and in foreign lands.” Atfew thinking’. Americans knew all-the time what was coming—what must-come. But America, as a whole, went. along in that carelessness and indifference with which it treats all things. unpleasant, and allowed this German war on our. most sacred insti- tutions to continue unchecked. So Germany stands today, with one foot on prostrate Belgium and the oth- er-on the neck of poor deluded Rus- sia; with a bayonet planted in the heart of Serbia, and the point of its sword at the throat of Roumania, while it looks out over the, vassal States of Bulgaria and Turkey to In- dia and the Orient. “And as it stands .thus, it cries to its foes on the west- erp front: y “Kamerad! Why go on with all this killing? Lets havea peace by nego tiation?” and, under its breath, adds, “I’ve got all-I want for the present.” Can we talk of any peace until such a Germany is absolutely defeat- ed? “Shall we negotiate a peace and allow all these German preparations for world domination to go on until the time is ripe for Germany to com plete its eonquests? x cieeeaery Properly Sized Up. “Yes,” remarked a conceited young bachelor, “I have the greatest udmira- tidn for the fair sex, but I never ex- pect to marry—oh, dear, -no!” “In- deed,” a lady remarked. “Then I am to understand that you not only ad- mire women, but you have a sincere re- gard for them as well.” _ Sei ene afi | ‘ { ‘