The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1918, Page 4

> t | | | pete eee tee FOUR BISMARCK DAILY TRIB “THEY ‘ARE GIVING THEIR. ALL By Josephus Daniels Secretary of Navy The significance of Memorial Day is emphasized on this thirtieth of May in a way that gives it a new sacredness. It will ‘be ob- served this year with a sense ot solemnity and a touch of pride we have not felt in days of peace. As not hitherto in this genera- tion we will gather to do honor to the su- preme sacrifice made by the young men who are laying their all on the altar of their country. ‘ It is not because these men who have given their lives were brave that we revere their memories. Ot brave men:the whole earth is a sepul- chre. The universe teems with stout hearts and courage is the commonest as well as the most glorious virtue among men. If anyone doubts this truth, the abundant display of it or land and sea in the past few months has given conviction and reverence. It is because these young men were animated by the spirit of the Gospel —“Greater Love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life” that we revere them. They have given their lives as yrouf that they love ™ their’ country’ better taan they love life. No man loves anything he will aot die for ‘W: eerect monuments for soldiers and sailors, not because they are bet- ter than men in civil life, but because in giving their lives they were not thinking of themselves but they were thinking of guaranteeing the welfare of those who come after them. As parents mourn the death of the youths who are giving their lives in this country to preserve all that civil- ization and Christianity has won, their grief. will: be. assuaged by pride. ‘Our histories tell the record of the dead, our poets sing of it and we.cele- ‘brate it on Memorial Day. The deed shines as a star in our galaxy of glory. It 1s’ woven into the texture of} our Ppattiotism. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Wnlered “at the” Postottice, “Bismarck, "N."D, “a Second for our country's GEORGE 'D. MANN CAMOUFLAGE PATRIOTISM If “our best people” and “women. of wealth and prominence” ‘who are enthusiastic war. work- ers, wish to register honest patriotism with the|’ ordinary Americans who raise the armies and «pay ‘the bills,.they will have to suppress their “society and fashion writers. Se The teamwork between society patriots and their publicity agents is simply rotten. The average working class mind finds some- thing peculiar in the patriotism of persons who plead “Give! Your all is all too little” while they order their daily lives according to unwritten so- cial laws set forth in journals devoted to society and fashion. The prohibitive price of these smooth and sa- cred pages of society magazaines is supposed to exclude the working class mind but when one such DOES break in, he finds this: 3 “To think now is to bring up a thousand pain- ful things, present and to come, which, in order not to weaken our energies we drive from our minds.” On another page “At Paquin’s, where I stop- ped to order the prettiest coat I have seen this season, a. great many women were ordering clothes from the endless display of successful cre- ations of Mile. Madeleine.” From an article on war time house furnishings are garnered these: “We should be just as wary of permitting our houses to become shabby as we are of per- mitting ‘shabbiness in our costumés.” Then it mentions. where one may obtain very good wall paper at $.50 a roll while calico covered cushions and covers are recommended for “a gate-legged table at $60 and chairs at $17 each.” Curtains or chintz at $5 a yard are also in high favor. From a second magazine, less fashionable, but with equal ambitions, come these Hints for war time costuming: “This year the fashionable woman’s wants will be simplified but her clothes will be no less elegant. To the woman accustomed to being well dressed good clothes are as indispensible as her little lunches at the Ritz or teas at Sherry’s. The well dressed woman must keep herself in trim lest the Red Cross find her inefficient; therefore here are clothes for gold, tennis, week-end parties and motor tours. “Evening colthes? Assuredly, for, as has al- ways been the case in time of war, evening func- tions continue with unabated gaiety; partly, for the amusement of soldiers in town on leave and ‘Editor |" i EPOSENT Les Premiers SouDAts de [i fluatreRepubfique oc Erats-Uwi Combes enterte de Prunee |} PoUR LA JUSTICE ET POURLA LIBERTE — 3 Tlovembre 1917 —~ ; yp om > \ a Wie 4/ This is the grave of James Bethel Gresham, first American ‘to. reach the German ttrenches and first American who made the supreme sacrifice honor and our safety. It lies in a quiet corner of France, untouched by Hun shells. There at the: the foot is the flag—sour ‘Stars and Stripes—for which Private Gresham head is the cross which marks all’graves Over There. ‘At Remem: ering Still the old graves which are hallowed on this day, The old graves long since blending green the erstwhile blue and gray, Yet as u mother, while she‘scants no elder of its share, Still yields the ‘breastling baby of. her first and tenderest care, So now we strain our sight across the far Atlantic's waves And give our tenderest tribute to the naked, new-born graves. Remembering, too the home-graves of the ones. whom death denied The privilege of service in the battle ere they died, Who faced and fought but could not win that combat with disease, But who are equal heroes with their comrades overseas; . Yet half I think no well-kept mound at home but somehow craves pat ‘ To be the close companion of the new-born, naked graves. bor oe PTE) GORDON B. McGREGOR, Halliday, N .D., died of heart disease in France, Nov. 28, 1917, PTE, LYLE B. RICH, Willow City, died November, \ CORP. FRED M. GRUBE, Dawson, died of pneumonia, Dec. 21. THURSDAY, MAY. 30, :1918. gave his life. And on the staff is the inscription placed there by French officials. Translated, it says: “Here lie the first Soldiers of tha illustrious republic of the United States who fell on French soil for ju :tice and liberty November 3, 1917. On either side of this grave are those of Pricate Hay, Glidden, Ia., and ‘Ppriyate Enright, Pittsburgh, Pa., who,with Private Gresham, gave their all. Remembering those who sailed and fought to keep the waters free, And those whose only battle was their struggle with the sea, Whose winding-sheet is ocean-foam, whose head-stone is the sky, Who bravely went to death for us—for us who know not where they lie; Yet we like to think them rescued from the lipping, lapping waves And cradling with their brothers oi the naked, new-born graves. O, tender, newiorn, naked graves, see where the grass has crept And striven to cast its mothering robe above you as you slept! Ah! more those struggling, straggling blades, mayhap, than were it ours PTE. i 1917. PTE. PTE. April 13. ARTHUR STEVENS, Epping, died of To strew you with the largess of our most memorial flowers, For, hapty, in that symbol of the tender-spreading sod We see life lifting from the grave beneath the breath of God! —EDMUND VANCE COOKE. GEORGE WARD of Baldwin, drowned, April 21. , CHARLES L. LOHR, Crystal Springs, died. of pneumonia, Camp Dodge, scarlet fever, in France, May 4. PTE. ARTHUR JOHNSON, Leonard, killed in action, Nov. 3, 1917, i PTE. MELVIN JOHNSON, of Hawley, Minn., member of Company B,’ Fargo, PTE. WM. W. WHALEN, Grand Forks, died Jan. 15. S . killed in action, May 1. PTE. JAS. J. REGNERY, Halliday, killed in action, Feb. 19. é .PTE. ROLLY W. DARLING, Berthold, N. D., died of wounds, May 12. PTE. H. B. SALZMAN, Beach, died Feb. 20. : PTE. Glen BAILEY, Arvilla, killed in action, May 13. PTE, CLARENCE EVINGSTON, Kindred, died of diphtheria, Campi Devens, PTE, EDGAR R. CHANDLER, Fargo, killed in action, May 15. Mass., Feb. 24. PTE. NELSON BURCHETT, Granville, N. D., died at Fort Riley, Kan., Dec. s PTE. LOYD W. SPETZ, . killed im action, March 1. 26, 1917. is f PAT. MATTHEW BREW, Fayette, killed'in, action March 1. oe ae PTE. CHRISTIAN €:"BREKKE, Granville, N.D., died at Camp Pike, Ark., PTE. FRANK MIDAK,-Shaot=kifted in action March 3. ioe at Me Feb. 3, 1918. ! PTE. FRED GARD, Crosby, killed in action March 3. : PTE, SAMUEL /MICH,:Sawyer,,N. D., died of wounds, May 13. PTE, CLAUDE KELLER, Glenburn, killed in action March 3. PTE. CARL ARNESON, QfiGauipe, N. D., PTE. LEWIS OUSLEY, Wilton, killed in action, Feb. 2. monia, if lay 9. Shri shad PETE RURSKO, Bidklksbikited in action, May 19. died at Camp Dodge of pneu- PTE. Ai LL, New Roel ond, died of wounds, March “18.30% °° ‘PTE. PTE. ERNEST’ BRYAN FULKERSON; “Southam, 'N. D., killed ‘by German * PTE. BEN BRAND, Logan, killed in action May 20. shell, March 5. Z PTE. GEORGE B. BOOSALIS, Fargo, torpedoed at sea, May 24. PTE. RICHARD ANDERSON, Wilton, died ,Camp Dodge, April 11. PTE. JOSEPH SHERMAN, Ft. Totten, torpedoed at sea, May 24. PTE. CLARENCE A. LARSON, Rugby, died of wounds, March 20. PTE. EDWARD N. WEBER, Tolley, torpedoed at sea, May 24. PTE. A. G. THIBERT of St. John, drowned, April 21. % PTE. DAVID D. NEHRENBERG, Drake, killed in action, May 27. engage in war activities, but if these sincere workers wish to avoid public scorn and misunder- standing of their efforts they will call off. the society writers who make a joke of them. THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN A NAME); McAdoo township, Barber county, Kansas, is 100 per cent American not only in words but in action. Every one of the 140 persons living in the township able to work is growing food. In the last Liberty loan campaign the town- ship subscribed for $6,300 of Liberty loan bonds or at the rate of $450 for every man, woman and child in the township. If the bonds had been subscribed for in the same ratio to the popula- tion all over the United States the total sub- scription would have been something like $47,- 000,000,000 or more than 15 times the amount asked for by the government. What a jolt that would have been to Bill Hohenzollern of Potsdam! ONE-CENT FARE Until the war ends American soldiers will be carried on American railroads operated by the American government at the rate of ONE CENT PER MILE! So Director General McAdoo has announced. And this in the face of increased wages to railway employes. On the other hand, McAdoo will cut out some of the “conveniences” the traveling public has “enjoyed,” including separate and several ticket offices scattered all over every city, trains-de-luxe, expensive booklets of advertising: material, dupli- cating schedules on competing lines, surplus din- ers and Pullmans, and excess baggage officials drawing huge salaries. Such efficiency and economy carried down through the whole railway system should in time spell one-cent fare for ALL Americans—if the government keeps the roads. : partly for the mental relaxation such diversions afford the people WORN OUT WITH WAR WORK AT HOME.” Beyond doubt there is much honest work and service among former society women who now There’s some difference between speeding up politics and speeding up the war. Newest coal price ruling reduces prices five per cent! has your coal dealer heard about it? By Climton Scollard of the Vigilantes Burn, fires, Upon your hallowed altars! And, winds, attune from all your. patriot psalters Words fiting for our choirs! Today there ‘should be: singing, Not only for the dea@, ry And their upyielded lives of sacri-| fice, ‘ But also for the living in whom lies The self-same spirit as. was theirs _who bled In such unselfish wise, ‘Wherever our brave battle-flag | was flinging Its folds unto the skies! And, too, there should be flow- J ers fpr tletr browd, Those who have taken vows To guard the shrine of Freedom over the seas. Theirs the dark hours, Theirs the stark agonies; | Theirs, it may be, To shed their precious ‘blood | for Liberty. So while we hail those gone with high thanksgiving, Let us acclaim the living! SSeS | | | 4 oe Ancient Watch Tower Still Stands. Al-Mintar, or the watch tower, still exists to the cast of the town of Gaza. It is where Samson Is said to have carried the gates of the city. On‘ the Toad from Gaza to Jaffa are those an- clent olive trees, many-of them more than a thousand years old, with gnarl- ed bark and immense trunks. ‘There ts an old legend which credits Gaza with the invention of the first. mechanical clocks. _ These were perhaps the sand clocks which are still, used in some mosques.—Christian Science Monitor. ee Environment. We are very much what others think us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. A man is a wit and a philosopher in one place who dares not open his mouth and {is con- sidered a blockhead in another. In some companies nothing will go down but coarse, practical Jests, while the finest remark or sarcasm would be dis- regarded.—Hazlett. Tribune Waat=Ads Bring Results. *\OUR REAL HEROES, WRITES LYONS ee, FOR MEMORIAL DAY. FROM FRANCE, ARE THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE COUNTRY’S CAUSE By C. C. LYON. (Tribune Reporter with General Per- shing’s Army in France.) With the American Army in France, May 30.—It’s hard to see one’s friends die “over here.” 3 y ‘Not many weeks ago I wrote a story about the first’ American battalion that was sent into the trenches in Lorraine to hold, permanently, a sec- tor of that front; and in may story. I spoke particularly of one officer who: above every other officer I've met in France, | considered most capable ot leading our iboys in actual battle. In 1898, he was a boy in his early twenties down in Tennessee; and when the call came for troops for the Spanish-American war he volunteerea as a private and was sent to Cuba. At the close of the war he was a ser- geant. In his veins flowed the blood of.a long lino of fighters. He chose the army for a life career and was sent to the Philippines as a lieuten- ant. He had advanced to the grade: of captain in the American army by 1914 ;|when the present great war began. A high British general had had a chance, during a tour of the Philip- pines, to see this American officer on duty at close range and he was so struck by his soldierly qualities that he recommended that a commission in the British army ‘be given him. Captain Blank threw in his for- tunes with the Eritish and: up untii October of last year, when General Pershing induced him to come over to the American army with a commission as major. he had fought in Flanders, France, the Balkans and Italy and hac a total of 17 wounds to show for his more than three years of service. The night he led our boys into the| trenches I stood beside the horse on which he was mounted and talked with him: “These are my people,” he said, in- dicating the endless stream of Ameri- can boys who were marching past him. "I never would have felt right if I had not quit the British army and come over to my own. A man can strike so much harder blows when the interests of his own country are at stake.” ; Lyon Places Wreath On His Grave. Only yesterday I stood beside. the grave of this wonderful American so: dier and placed a wreath of flowers on the rough wooden slab that servea as a head-piece. All that. was writ- .| him Smith). ten on the slab was: Llank, Blank Regiment.” There was no other distinguishing mark—nothing to make it more con- spicuous from a number of other new- made graves that flanked it on either side—graves of privates, corporals, sergeants, lieutenants and a few cap- tains. The colonel had been buried as he would have wished to be buried; with- out ostentation, surrounded by real fighting men—boys who had put up the ‘best fight that was in them without hope of reward or glory. It is not often that we war corres- pondents are permitted to speak of casualties. As if America could go ‘through this terrible war without many of her sons dying on the field of battle! The colonel (he had very quickly been promoted from major to lieutex- ant colonel) had had several of us correspondents lunching with him in hig front line dugout one day and dur- ing the meal he was in gay spirits. Only that morning he had had a let- ter from his good wife “back in the States,” enclosing him a new photo of herself and their two little girls and ‘urging him to be of good cheer and to “stick i out.” “I'm going fo quit soldiering when this war is over,” he told us. “It’s no game for a married man with children. My babies hardly know they have a Daddy, I've been away from them so much. When this show ends and neace comes I'm going to retire to a little farm I have down in Tennessee and ‘be at home with my family every night.” * That was midday. “Lieut. Col. Before 8 o’clock) that same day, the colonel was dead. After sup- per he had stepped from his dug- out for a breath of fresh air just as a big German shell came over and exploded within a few feet of him. He died instantly. How Jimmie Gave His All. And near his grave was the new grave of 19-year-old Jimmie ‘~e'll call Jimmie ran away from a poor home in Michigan early in 1917 and joined the army because he want- ed to be “in on the ground floor in this war game,” as he himself put it. Jimmie was an orderly around head- quarters when I first knew last June when he first came over to France. He wasn't a boy of much education THE TEST AM HAS COME. 10 US By Newton D. Baker Secretary of War There as crucial tests and moral crises in, the life of every nation, as there are in the life of every man. There comes again and again, in every country’s history the recurrent challenge of a great trial that tests the ‘strength of the , National charac- ter and puts it to the proof of a searching choice. Such a test has now come to us, as it came to the men whom on this day we honor as our heroic dead. They success- fully endured the trial and were found true. They elected to stand in defense of liberty and to die thats we might ‘be free: It is our turn, today, to make the same election and to take our place in the ranks where they. fell. It is our turn to make our covenant to them. “Until the. aims -and ideals for which you gave your lives are safe again from the assaults: of tyranny; until democracy has triumphed over autocracy fn this great struggle for the freedom of the world; until we have done our whole duty.as you did .yours, and re-established our heritage of freedom as. you bequeata- ed it to. us—we Americans, your heir, will fight, on, a8 you fought, even if it /ghall be to the end for which today we do you honor.” and he never gave much promise of getting any higher than a private. But when Jimmie’s regiment was or- dered to the front he went to his col- onel and pleadci to be put back in his company. “I didn't come over here to hang around headquarters and open and shut doors,” he said. “I want to fight.” I've’ got as much guts as the next one.” “We want fellows with your ‘nerve and you can go along,” the officer told him. ' Poor Jimmie’ never had ‘a ‘chance to ‘die-an heroic death. “As his ‘company ‘was marching up to the trenches one night a German shell burst overhead and’ Jimmie was the! only boy who died. ah But Jimmie deserves just as much vredit as if he had gone over the tops and ‘had been’ killed’ fighting bayonet to bayonet with the enemy. : His heart ‘was.in the right place and he was feady to take his medicine io matter \whati the ‘dose: A i To ‘my mind the sad part about about this war is that the folks back home will never hear much about the REAL HEROES—the officers and men who GIVE THEIR LIVES in their country’s cause. They're dead and their praises will never be sung except in rare instances which come:under our. pergonal obser- vations. 1 uy For the next 50 years and as much longer as~:there are ‘survivors there will ‘be many. tales of gallantry by those who LIVED. -Some of these tales will be-true and, many will be untrue. But the real heroes/will be brave men like Colonel). Blank and Private Jimmie Smith, WHOSE BODIES ‘LIE | MOLDERING IN FAR-OFF FRANCE. HOW TO USE THE NEW FLOURS, (By N. D. Food Administration.) Buying wheat flour and other cer- eals pound for pound brings us to a consideration of some ‘df these- new products. “Corn flour, fice ‘flour, po- tato flour, barley meal—what shall I do with them?” asks the housewife. Here are some recipes from the U. 8. Food Administration. Wheatless Ple Crust. (Rye, Barley and Rice Flours.) 1% Cups ree flour 1 teanpoon Da kleg % cups. barley our powder flour 4 cup fat ¥% cup water ! Wheatiess Ple Crust. (Rye and: Rice Flours.) 2% enps rre-flour 1, teaspoon salt 1% cups, rice flour 4 cup fat 1 teaspoon baking cup water weder sint flour, salt and baking powder’ together; cut the fat into the flour mixture. Add the water, mixing andf handling as little as possible. Chill’ until ready to roll. Be Cern Flour Griddle Cakes. 1% cups cere four. 1 cup sour mile teaspoon soda 1 exe H teaspoon salt i} ift the dry ingredients together, add the milk and the beaten egg. Mix well ‘and cook on a hot griddle. The batter must be very thin. ~ | Barley Muffins. ! Lcwp whole wheat teaspoon soda flour cups seur milk cup barter meal 1 eee t alt : 4 teseponn. Neklnge tablespoons fat j powder Sift flour, barley meal, salt and baking powder. Dissolve soda in a ttle cold water and add to sourmilk. Combine flour mixture and sour milk. Add beaten egg and melted fat. Bake in muffin pans in a med erate even, NOTHING ELSE LIKE -IT IN BISMARCK There has never been anything in Fismarck with the INSTANT action of simple buckthorn bark, ‘glycerine, etc. as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE ‘SPOONFUL flushes the ENTIRE ‘dowel tract so completely it ‘relieves ANY CASE sour stomach, gas or con: stipation and prevents appendicitis. ‘The INSTANT, pdeasant action of Ad- ler--ka surprises both doctors.and pa- tients.. Jos. Breslow.