The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUN! THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Secon Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN : - < 2 G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bidg.; 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. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year... Shake + $6.00 Daily by mail per year... Daily by mail per year (in state)... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES . Editor (In North Dakota) One year . Six months . One month .... wee 5 ‘TH STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1878) <i — UNCLE SAM VISITS ARIZONA It looks as if democracy at last will have a ‘show for its white alley in Arizona. The indict- bent by a federal grand jury of a bunch of Arizo- na’s Jeading citizens for conspiracy to deprive oth- er citizens of their constitutional rights is a hope- , ful sign. _ Its0 happens:that these leading citizens of Ari- “zona' are managers, superintendents and other. of- ficials of mining properties owned by absentee landlords of the east, together with city and coun- ty officials and business men who helped run the mining country for the benefit of the absentee . owners—like some of their ilk ran the Colorado mining country for the Rockefellers. What the high-brow rowdies did was to forci- bly deport about 1200 citizens of Arizona from Bis- bee because these citizens happened to be union miners. “Now Uncle-Sam, through. his Department of Justice, has stepped in, and the leading citizens who have took the law into their own hands will have to ‘stand trial like other criminals with less wealth and influence. ‘ The effect of this action by the governmen' will be wholesome, even though the indicted-men have pull enough in Arizona to escape conviction ; for they can’t prevent the truth about thier out- rage coming out in court and getting to the peo- ple of he United States. ‘And when-the people kriow the truth about the feudal practices of some of our mining barons, Uncle. Sam will put a stop to it. There-is some hope that eventually even West Virginia, Colorado and Michigan may be- come civilized. ew 4S If it’s all right to retire generals on account of age, what’s wrong with retiring senators be- cause of senility? We are still pestered with patriots who think everything England does is all right and every- thing we do is wrong. By the way, isn’t it about time for the Federal Trade Commission to call Heney back to finish » i that job,on the food hogs? We'll gamble a big red apple that if we fill his belly in advance with fatted calf T. R. would al- most agree to be a prodigal son. Uncle Sam, everybody but those who don’t want to pay them, would like to know this year what next year’s taxes will be. Don’t allow glowing reports of a big wheat crop to halt your garden work. They “over there” will ‘need all the wheat we can spare. All a broken down auto needs is a new chassis a new engine, a new body, new wiring, a new mag- neto, a new carburetor and new tires. Which re- minds us of the excess profits tax law. | WITH THE EDITORS | UP TO THE VOTERS. The voters will have an opportunity to decide at the approaching primary election whether So- cialism is to be permitted to continue its masquer- ade under the cloak of Republicanism, and to impose on the state a rule of despotism as com- plete as any that has ever existed, or whether there will be selected a Republican ticket composed of persons who, if elected, will be servants first and last of the state itself, and not of a small clique of politicians who have assumed the right to direct the affairs of the people according to their own notions. The people of the state are pretty well ac- quainted with John Steen. They know him to be a clean and independent man. They know that if he is elected governor he will be governor in fact as well as in name. They know that they need fear, in his case, no such dismal disappoint- ment as they have experienced in the case of the present titular governor. °S'and the people who are associated with Mr. Steen on the ticket are likewise capable and res-, Be; icpitases POEL pectable, in most cases well known, and in every case thoroughly committed to the policy of sane progress in the management of the affairs of the state. In the Seventh legislative district the repub- licans will have an opportunity to send to the leg- islature a man of broad knowledge and tested abil- ity. Mr. Burtness is well known in every section of the county, and he is known everywhere as a man of forceful character and independent judg- ment. If he goes to the legislature he will go as a public servant committed to no interest but that of the people, and’ subject to no domination but his conviction of the needs and desires of the people. No secret caucus will tie the hands or deliver the vote of Mr. Burtness.—Grand Forks Herald. WILDCAT STATECRAFT. The Kensal Progress, a Nonpartisan league pa- per, is having a change of heart, so far as the editor is concerned. We publish Mr. Wasson’s statement in this issue of the Times-Record. In his article he makes it very plain that he will not stand for the disloyalty that has been so rampant among the socialist league organizers and.he is going to repudiate the bunch until such time as the league purges itself of the stigma. That is the whole thing in a nutshell. People generally believe in the aims of the league as a whole, but they will not stand for the disloyal attitude of its organizers, nor the blue sky proposition to amend the constitution as outlined in House Bill 44 to give unscrupulous men a chance to loot the state treasury and plunge the state in debt through wildcat business methods. Mr. Wasson is not alone,in his attitude. Others are doing ie same thing.—Valley City Times-Record. SAFE AND SANE MEN. The candidacies of George Sorber and Orman- zo A. Brown for the State legislature is meeting with almost universal approval of the voters of Stark county. Both are men of sound judgment favoring a safe and sane administration of the state’s affairs. Although members and support- ers of the Nonpartisan league, these men do not believe in Townley, but rather advocate that the farmers of North Dakota run their own league without Socialistic and I. W. W. influence. They are of the-opinion that the present critical war times do not warrant the stirring up of class hat- red, man against mat shploye against employer, farmer against. merchant. We are all working to win the war, fighting to the last ditch,-if neces- sary, for democracy. This‘is*no time to fight among ourselves. The need of all of the people of North Dakota are identical, whether they are merchants, farmers, lawyers or bankers. What benefits one, benefits all. It is true we must co- operate to resist the war profiteer, the grain and food gambler, the eastern city shark who pro- fits on something he did not produce—something whith never caused any ad orfhis brow. We all] d want terminal elevatrs, jé wapt rural credits, we want stat lil surance, vey want ‘packing lants—but’ whén gét them™Wwe want them to benefit. the people who have paid for them— not some Socialist schemer who has never pro- duced a real, hard-earned dollar in his life.—Dick- inson Press. WORK OR FIGHT. “Work or fight” is the oder to every American of draft age. These are the alternative duties that. confront not only young men between twen- ty-one and thirty, but every mother’s son and daughter of us. They are really variants of one supreme duty, for working is fighting, and fight- ing is only one form of war work, though perhaps the most arduous and certainly the most danger- ous. \ The order of Provost Marshal General Crowder is fresh reminder that, when the Nation is at war, when our institutions, our freedom, our very civilization are at stake, every individual in the Nation must bear’ his share of the burden, must strive to the utmost and in the most effect- ive way to help win the war. The purpose, of course, is to hasten along the flow of labor into the war industries. This flow has been going on naturally and steadily, but it is not rapid enough. There has been talk of the conscription of labor to man the vital war indus- tries. But the difficulties in the way of this are tremendous. . So the Government now says to the young man of draft age who is engaged in any of certain oc- cupations deemed non-essential: “Take a job in the service, or in a war industry.” It is not to be hastily inferred that there is here involved any necessary condemnation of the occupations now listed as non-essential. ‘Gamblers racetrack men, bucketshop employes and fortune tellers are, of course, getting a living by worse than useless methods, whether in peace or war. But store clerks, theatre employes, waiters, el- evator men, hotel and house servants are earning honest livelihoods in useful occupations. There is no reflection upon them in the order to get into some work more directly helpful to the prosecu- tion of the war. They are doing work that can well be performed by women or by older-men in- capacitated for war labor—that is all. But for the idler, whether-rich or poor, there is no excuse. Several States have already enacted laws compellink him to go to work, and the Crow- der order will make the policy nation-wide for all those of draft age. There must be no drones in the American hive. ; Work or fight! After all, is not that an in- spiring.slogan?—Minneapolis Journal. ° | ° David in the Tiger’s Den. Parshall, N. D., May 29, 1918, Editor Tribune, Bihmarck, N. D., Dear Sir: 1 think Editor Larin ought to‘have a “dig.” I am enclos- ing: one,'which if you think suitable you may print. “Decoration day exercises. in ' Krogen hall this aft rnoon.” I am“enclosing here also an eight word announcement clipped from an inconspicuous place in his paper this week, the only word of announcement concerning the Decoration Day exer- cises. Thése things look a little bit Hunnish to me, and I have been won- dering whether there is not some way to bring him*to himself. Dave was an old friend of ‘tine,’ and it grieved me to the core to see him slop over into this hellish Bolshevike propogan- a. " Very respectfully, E. Pluribus Unum. tere’s the Dig. Parshall, N. D., May 29, 1918. Flags flutter from every business place in Parshall—except the build- ing that houses the United States postoffice and. the Parshall (Non- partisan) Leader. Oh yes, David is also United States Commissioner! Yes, between forty and fifty business i ‘Imen are proud to float OLD GLORY above their places of business, but the office of U. S. Commissioner, and the U. S. postoffice,: and the home of the Townley-kept Parshall Leader 9 —three in one— that building, flag- less, stands here in Parshall as a mon- ument to Boss Townley’s influence and whip hand over poor old Dave. We pity. him. That dig:. “educational propaganda fund” hag,so dazzled the moth’s eyes that it hag forgot it ever had a country and a flag. If it can only bask itself in the heart of that “fund” the poor worm-to-be thinks it will forever be happy. babi ses tial MANDAN NEWS | °. New Men to Register. Under the direction of the local board all youths who have attained the age of 21 since last registration day, June 5, will on that same date this year register for military duty with the respective local boards thru- out the county. It is requested that alt concerned register their names for military service with the county board between the houurs of eight and nine o'clock next ‘Wednesday, June 5. To disregard the registration will mean]: a severe penalty. Red Cross. Recital. Mrs, Wheeler’s pupils will give a Red Cross benefit recital, June 1, Sat- urday evening at.the Methodist church the program to commence promptly at 8:15. No admission will be charged but an ofering will be collected for the benefit of the Red Cross. John Rorvig was in Glen Ullin elec- tioncering Tuesday afternoon. Supt. J: M. Devine goes to Center on Saturday to deliver on address. The P. E. 0. sisterhood met Wed- nesday afternoon with Mrs. B. W. Shaw. 92. S. L. Nichols delevered a Memorial Day address at the Bohemian hall Thursday. Judge Crawford of Dickinson was Mandan yesterday afternoon en route home from Bismarck. Secretary Thomas Hall of Bismarck was among the capital city’s distin- guished citizens who were in Morton county seat yesterday. Attorney Jack Murrav of Mott was ia ‘Mandan looking after legal busi- ness matters yesterday. Mr. Murray had’ been in ‘Bismarck attending to legal business matters. PEOPLE'S FORUM ||, oe FRIDAY, MAY 31,1918. TO THE COLORS WAR REPORT CAUSES SLUMP IN STOCKS vids a : New York, ‘Nay 31.—Leaders in the stock market made’ partial improve- ments during the first hour today, but fell back more .extensively later, the reversal accompanying further disquieting war reports. .The few gains of the outset were entirely can- celled, steels, shippings and speciat- ties’ losing 1 to 3 points on increased activity which evidently, included ll- quidation of long accounts. Fractional rallies set in at noon. Liberty .3:1-2's-sold at 99.54 to 99.80; first 48 at, 9410 to 94.12, and the. peccona wi HRs new’ low record on the break from 94.16 to 94, also the 4 1-4’s on the decline from.97.04 to 97. Stocks were again influenced at the opening of today’s ma¥ket news from abroad before making definite commitments. Initial quotations were irregular, showing a majority: of loss- es among industrials, equipments, shippings and specialties, these rang- ing from 1 to 2 points before the end of the first half hour. Union Pacific was the only strong railroad issue, gaining a point while Reading lost that much. Liberty ‘bonds continued reactionary, ‘the 4 1-4’. making the. new low record of 7.02. CHICAGO MARKET. Chicago, May 31.—Fresh low price records for the season were reached today in the corn market. Favorabie weather gave an advantage to the ‘bears, enlarged receipts cqunted also as a depressing factor. Opening fig- ures, which ranged from Wednesday's finish to half cent lower, with June not quoted and July 134 5-8 to 135, were followed by a little rally, and +|then a decided setback. Oats lowered with corn. It was said the larger shorts in the May op- is “PUTTING THE GRIN INTO Hey, you, come on along here. |. Tribune Weat; Ada, Bring Results...... obedience. in, time. of war.is; DEATH?” «<7 DAILY MARKET REPORT | , bass WORKER. AN WITH TH tion had settled their contracts, and were out of the market. After open- ing 1 1-8 cents lower to 1-8 advance, and were out of the market. After opening 1 1-8 cents lower to 1-8 ad- vance, with July 65 3-4 to 65 7-8 the market hardened somewhat, and then. underwent a material sag. ee Provisions: weakened owing chiefly to a decline in hog values. Demand was very slow. Duluth, Minn., May 31.—Elevator receipts of domestic grain—wheat 12,- 800 bushels, Jast: year holiday; barley 8,600. ‘ Shipments: Wheat, 14,900 bushels last year holiday; corn 1,000; flax 5,200. 7 ‘ ; ‘ tae ‘ Duluth car inspection: 1 and 2 northern 6; other’ .spring 2; mixed 1; total wheat 9; flax 3; oats 3; total all grains*15, year ago- holi- day; on track 16. MINNEAPOLIS ‘MARKET. Minneapolis, (Minn., May 31.—Flour $1.55 higher. ‘In carload lots, stand- ard flour quoted at $9.60 a ‘barrel in 98 pound cotto nsacks. i ‘Shipments 46;742 barrels. Rye $1.83@1.85. a Mnjigee Barley $1.00@1.30. ‘ Eran 28.25@33.25. DEMAND SLOW. Chicago, May 31—Slowness of de- mand more than counterbalanced in the hog market today the effect on scantiness of supplies. Cattle offer: ings were much less plentiful than had been looked for. Sellers of sheep seemed to be handicapped by the presence of a number of poor quality animals left over last night unsold. BUTTER UNCHANGED Chicago, ‘May 31.—Butter unchang- ed: receipts 7,903 tubs. Cheese unchanged. Eggs lower; receipts 14,385 cases: firsts 30@ 31 1-2 ordinary firsts 26@ 29; at mark, cases included 29@0 1-2. Potatoes received 34 cars; un- changed. Poultry alive, lower; fowls 27; roos- ters 21. MILWAUKEE GRAIN. Milwaukee, Wis., May 31—Corn No. THE FIGHT” mete Don’t cha know that “dis- 3 yellow 155@1. @1.60; No. 3, $1.50@ Oats standard 73 1-2; No. 3 white 72@73 1-2;°No. 4 white 70@72. Rye No. 2, 185. Barley, malting and Wisconsin $1.10 @1.20; ‘feed and rejected 1.00@1.10. Hay unchanged. G FLAX: PRICES. HAMMERED ON DULUTH BOARD Market Breaks Sharply Under Vigorous Assaults from Bears on Argentine Receipts Duluth, -Minn.,: May. 31—Flax seed prices were hammered heavily today and the’market ‘broke sharply. The receipts of two cargoes of Argentina seed at Duluth to be shipped to 'Min- neapolis, the slump at Winnipeg and an expected. increased acreage to be seeded to flaxt over the northwest were bearish market factors. May close 8 1-2 cents off, July 6 1-2 off and October 3 cents. Oats closed 1 1-4 cents off, and bar- ley 5 cents off at 115 to 130 for gooa to choice. ‘ Closing: Linseed on track, 375 1-2; arrive 375 1-2; May 373 1-2 bid; July 378 1-2 asked; October 352 1-2 bid. ‘Oats on‘track 69@72 cents. Barley on track 115 to 150 good to shoice. Minneapolis, Minn., May 31.—Wheat receipts 241 cars, compared with 169 cars a year ago. yw Corn, ‘No. 3. yellow, $1.45@1.58. Oats, No. 3.-white 70@71. Flax, $3.70 1-2@3.72. dr2.;; Chicago, JIl,, May % orn No. 2 yellow 155@ 161;; No. 3 yellow 150 @ 1155; No, 4. yellow 137 1-2 @ 140. ‘Oats No. 3 white 71 1-2 @ 73 1-2; standard 73 @ 76 1-4. Rye No. 2, nominal, No. 3, 165. Barley 100 @425. Timothy 500 @ 800. Clover 1800 @ 2800. Pork nominal. Lard 2390 @ 2400. Ribs 2085 @ 2135. After dropping more than 3 cents a bushel the market recovered to a moderate extent as a result of spirited taking in by shorts. The close was unsettled 1 3-4 to 2 3-8 net lower, with June 13h 34 and. July 132; 3-4 to 132 RALLIES RESULT IN” MARKET READJUSTMENT. New York, May 31.—Rallies of 2 to 10 points trom lowest levels, led by shippings and rails, effected a read- justment of prices in the last hour. The closing was irregular. Liverty | 3. 1-2's, sold af, 99.54, to. 99.88; first 4's Wheat—Nos. | at.94 to .9412; second: 4's. at 93.88 to 94.16 and 4's at, 96.86 to 97.04. NEW YORK MONEY. ‘New York, May <t—Mércantile pa- per four months 6; six months t. Sterling demand 475.45; cables: 476.16. Frances deritand 571. 3-4; {cables 570 1-4.;, Guilders demand 50; cables. 50 1-2; lire demand 914; cables 911. Gov- ernment, bonds. irregular; raflroad bonds. irregular. Time loans. steady; .60, days and 90 days 5.3-4@6; 6. months. §,asked. Call. money firm; high ruling rate,5; last loan * COTTON IRREGULAR. New York,.May 31—Cotton futures closed irregular July 25.06; October 23.66; December 23.40; January 23.20; March 23.99. al eae LIVESTOCK | * CHICAGO LIVVESTOCK. Chicago, May 31—Hogs receipts 15,000; slow; bulk 16,25@16.60; light $16.30@16.70; _ mixed | $16.00@16.65; heavy $15.35@16.40;"'‘rough 15.35@ 15.70; pigs $14.25@ 16.85. ‘Hogs receipts. 15,000; weak with a shade under yesterday's average, bulk $16.15@16.50; light — $16.25@16.6u; mixed $15.90@16.65; heavy $15.25@ 16.35; Rough $15.25@15.60; pigs $14.25 O Rte 3,001 firm; native steers $10.50@17.75; stockers and feeders $9.25@13.65; cows and heifers $7.25@ 14.90;. calves $8.00@14.75. Sheep:.10,000;. weak; sheep 10.00@ $15.35; lambs $13.25@17.75; springs $14.25 @20.00. .. SO. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK. South St. Paul. Minn., May 31.— Hogs receipts 2,300; steady, range $16.10@16.20; ‘bulk 16.15@16.20. Cattle receipts 1,300; killers steady; steers $7.50@17.00; cows and heif- ers $8.00@14.00; veal calves steady, $7.00@13.25; _stockers and feeders steady, $6.50@11.00. Sheep receipts 10; steady; lambs $10.00@18.00; wethers $7.00@13.50; ewes $5.09@13.00- WASHBURN FIRST OVER Workers are now engaged in se- guring subscriptions for the third hundred thousand of the four hundred thousand dollar fund being raised for ‘| Wesley College at Grand Forks. A - charge in the Bismarck district of the North Dakota Methodist conference was the first one to “go over the top.” The Methodist church at Washburn subscribed $1525, after being asked for only $1500. More than $202,000 has now been secured, and the reports from all parts of the state are highly encouraging. Secretary Thomas Allen Box is per- sonally conducting Corporal Smith's tour. - GEN. TREAT TO ITALY. Washington, D. C., May 31.—Orders detailing Brigadier General Chas. G. Treat to duty in Italy were issued by the war department today. It was said that the orders might be revok- ed ‘as they are contingent to some ex- tent on the final assignment of Ma- jor General Leonard Wood, who tho assigned to command the western de- partment probably will be transferred at his own request to a divisional camp. General Treat is now in command of the western departmefit ‘with head- quarters at San Franciico, eoaos hs eee: <Tribune Want“Ads Bring Results.