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

om BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1918. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. Dv, ‘as Second Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - ~___ Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE “COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW. YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg. ; MINNEAPOLIS, 810.1 Lumber Exchange. “MEMBER 2 OF ASSOCIATED PRESS” - The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the u 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 EAYARS IN ADVAN Daily by carrier per year. 00 Daily by mail per year.. 4.00 Daily by mail per year (in state).. 400 aily b; il outside of North Dakota.. Daily by mail OS VBSCRIPTION RATES (In ners Dakota) One year by mail.. Bix months by, mail. ree months by mail (Outside of North Dakots) One year Six month: Three month: RSs sss Hom me ere Bix. months 00 Three months 50 One month ..... . 50 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Batablished 1878) > A BIG MISTAKE Charles Lindbergh, republican candidate for governor of Minnesota, is billed to speak in North Dakota. Whether his defeat will change the schedule does not appear, but it is a monumental political blunder to allow him a forum in this state. His written opinions of the war might have been penned in Potsdam and he belongs to the yellow coterie of campaigners whose actions and utterances are an insult to loyal Americans. The St. Paul Daily News, which has always been an ardent supporter of Townley and the league, has openly repudiated Mr. Lindbergh and suggests also that the league for the period of the war should cease arraigning class against class. It has this reference to Mr. Lindbergh: “In the past, Mr. Lindbergh has appeared to be a sincere, but somewhat visionary champion of popular rights. For some years, however, he seems to have become more and more obsessed with a hallucination about an arch-enemy of man- kind, which he calls the ‘money trust.’ His chief support is derived from the Nonpartisan league, which presents an economic program covering problems which must be faced, and rightly solved, by sane discussion, not by. rabid cries against ‘big biz’ nor by arbitrary, unlawful, undemocratic suppression of meetings. The latter tactics have simply martyrized the league’s leaders. “Mr. Lindbergh’s candidacy, however, must be considered upon another basis—the record of the man himself, and particularly as regards his loyalty. The book which he wrote and published last summer supplies ample reason why Mr. Lindbergh must not be governor. His attacks on the mahagement of the Red Cross, the Liberty loans. and other steps in the war program have convinced thousands that he is, or was, actually disloyal. With all due ‘allowance for Mr. Lind- bergh’s erratic mentality, the kindest thing that can be said of his book is that it is a sad mess of involved language, incoherent and frequently contradictory. It professes loyalty in spots and is badly tainted in other spots. It reveals its author as more fit for St. Peter than for Capitol Hill. To cap the climax, Mr. Lindbergh has accepted the support of the anti-war Van Lear socialists of Minneapolis. He. is unthinkable as governor of this state.” , ee ard rd AMERICA’S FAITH A year ago, when America had not fully buckled down to the job of defeating Germany, there was in this country a certain impersonal attitude toward the Hun, the attitude men take to- ward a burglar whom conviction has brought face to face with punishment. It was not so much the Hun himself that aroused us, but rather his kultur’s breaking in, like a thief of the night, upon the peace of a world. And now, as. America’s part i in the great sruggle grows, our attitude shifts. It turns less impersonal; the Hun ceases to be a symbol of evil, becoming instead evil itself. Yet America must not wholly forget that, af- ter all, it was an idea, a view, or interpretation, of the worthwhiles of life, that plunged the world into the present vortex. But for the nineteenth century’s development of material energies and . the material substance of raw resources, this war never would have occurred. A war might have occurred, but it would have been on the small scale of previous national conflicts. It was be- cause of a century’s world-wide creation of wealth, wealth claiming men’s very souls, that the super- struggle came. f Germany in the development.-of material wealth and the desire for an increased develop- ment thereof failed to preserve that spirituality understand _its uses and its limits. Germany, we which alone can interpret wealth, set it in bounds, must remember, was and is the offender. But we must not forget that the same sore of material wealth had been eating an insidious way into all the nations, America included. We of America seemingly: had deified wealth, had made its creation and progress synonymous. Seemingly we had deserted the old standard of the perfect soul for the new standard of the full pocketbook. Yet through it all somehow we had preserved the faith that quantity was of import- ance only.as it Rerved the ends of quality: That this, after all, proved to have been our faith has surprised an entire world. We, in fact, not Ger- many, were believed in July, 1914, to be the chief worshipers in the temple of materialism. America now must keep her faith burning. She must know that the killing of the Hun is but a means to an end. She must have faith that it is her destiny to establish the doctrine that the creation of wealth is good only in as far as it fur- thers the perfection of man’s free soul. After the military victory is won and the na- tions of the world gather about the peace table, these thoughts must be clear as crystal. At that table America must see to it that the shackles of iron, literal iron, be loosed from the souls of men and nations. And let today’s faith and desire be that the furnace of America’s present trial will loose the last rivet in the shackles that were tight- ening about her own soul. Let her go to the peace table with hands wholly clean. KEEP TRAPS SET A farmer was bothered with rats in his corn crib. He set out traps and sprinkled poisoned food in and about the crib. Next morning scores of rats were dead. For several nights he pursued his anti-rat campaign and then, thinking all were gone, took in the traps and turned his attention elsewhere. But in a short while rats again were stealing his corn. “Guess~l’ll have to keep the traps out every night,” he said. And so it is with these food profiteers, the rats that take advantage of the war to steal a miserable profit. ; The other day one New York sugar concern was fired $20,000 for sugar profiteering last win- ter. Hundreds of other firms and individuals have been fined and have lost their licenses for profit- eering in the people’s food. The food administra- tion, federal trade commission and department of justice are eternally on the watch for these human rats. The government never takes in its “traps” and never neglects to put out the “poison,” but it cannot catch all of the rats the same night. Probably no human agency could catch all of them. They are cunning and they multiply rap- idly. a HON. LYNN Governor of North Dakota, Seeking Renomination on the Repub- lican Ticket as So do not become discouraged when you meet with these food profiteers. Help the government- al agencies catch them by giving the food admin- istration’s representative in‘ this city what evi- dence you have:so that prosecution may be direct- ed against the rat stealing from you. THEY, TOO, CARRY ON “The greatest hero of the war, to‘my mind,” writes an American surgeon “over there,” “is the wonderful stretcher bearer. What fine, brave lads they are. With never a murmur, they carry, carry, carry those. poor ‘lads“who-have been. hit. They have no protection, and by necessity they are forced to travel over all sorts of shell-swept areas bearing their half-lifeless, breathing bur- dens.” We over here are prone to look upon war and see the fighter going over: the top, or the soldier repelling attacks of the Huns. We keep our eyes upon the battle and our ears hear only the bursting of’ shell and the thunder of the cannon roar. That is war, we think. But no, that is not all of war. For here and there in this inferno of death and destruction are the angels of mercy, themselves in constant peril, unknown, unhonored and unsung—the heroic - stretcher- bearers. TUT! TUT! DOC ESTHER! Evidently Dr. Esther Lovejoy, who insists that American women are war loafers, has never attended a Red Cross sewing bee or a war garden party with mother presiding at the business end of the hoe and father on the side lines telling how it ought to be done. And the thousands of nurses? And the farm- erets? Also, the munitionets? Not to make men- tion of the few millions of A-No. 1 soldiers who are saving food in their home kitchens! Doc Esther, you’re wrong. American women are doing more than their “bit” to help win the war. Doubtless there are a few exceptions, and it is possible Doc Esther has been running across more than her share of these. The family that bought its own home isn’t worrying much about rent profiteering. It is hard to-convince the little boy that mow- ing the lawn is one.of those essential jobs. When the final inning is played they'll write it this: way: Bill Hohenzollern out, Britain to France to U. S. A. “Belts are getting shorter in Germany,” says a war writer. And hatbands beyond the Rhine will be! smaller too after the war. Sevén hundred thousand Sammies are “over there,” and that, Bill Hohenzollern, is just.a sam- ple of what the U. S. A. can—AND WILL—do. Senator Harding of Ohio complains because primary elections cost senatorial candidates .so much. Letting the political bosses elect them cost senators less, and the people more. So, on with progress! How to have a thrift vacation: Figure up the total expense of a two-week’s stay at some summer resort; blow it all in on thrift stamps and then have a nice, enjoyable time right here ©. Governor Lynn J. Frazier, endorsed by the Nonpartisan league for renom- ination on the Republican ticket, is sticking to the policy he adopted when inducted into. office eighteen months ago of eschewing publicity. The gov- ernor says very little about himself or in his own behalf, and he never has ‘been greatly inclined to take the press, even of: his own faction, into his confidence. «, Lynn J. Frazier, we learn from his secretary, was‘ born in Pine county, Minnesota, on the shortest day of the year, December; 21, 43 years ago. At the early ag six: he recognized North Dakot jssibilities, and, with his parents, across.the Pémbina county line from ‘Hoople. Theréshe grew up, attending the Grafton high; school as a boy and graduating a%:toys do; then graduat: ing’ from Mayyille normal and finally from ‘the University of North Dakota. Teaching originally appealed to Mr Frazier ‘as aprofession and he fol- lowed: it witht success for two years, when developments called him home to the farm and = made it necessary for him to assume the management of the old home place;-/He has been on that job ever since... His four children were | born on the*farm near Hoople, and there Goverrior Frazier had led~the usual satisfactory but. not particular’ ly! eventful. life of, the Red river valley farmer until ‘two. years ago, when a delegation called ‘him from his plow to the side of the road to notify him that he had ‘been nominated for gov- ernor, About the only change this announ- cement made'in the governor-to-b2 was in his wearing apparel. ed out of his overalls and into Sunday best and returned ta Fargo}. with the committee to accept the nom- migrated to a farm just}, He jump-; is opponent to divide the vote against THE NORTH DAKOTA POLITICAL GRIND. Developments in Flickertail Campaign as Viewed by Impartial Observer in Front Line ; Trenches ; J. FRAZIER a Nonpartisan | ‘EDITOR'S .NOTE.—The Tribune has extended to all candidates tort | contested offices an invitation to use its columns to place themselves | | and their platforms before the people. | both*sides have accepted this invitation, and today The Tribune pre- | | | A number of candidates on | sents a cut of Governor Frazier, with a brief review which the writer | has endeavored to make fair and impartial. | oO the league sought to secure control of boards which were then controlled by Hanna appointees. His veto of the terminal elevator. bill and» other acts of the early part of ‘his gubernatorial. career furnished the opposition with an opportunity to hammer him of which they were quick to avait them- selves. Latterly, Frazier has. display- ed a more complete grasp of the sit- uation, has made fewer mistakes, and has developed greater independence and executive ability. In the conduct of the military affairs of the state he has given Adjutant General Fraser, veteran soldier and an able adminis- trator, a free hand. Some of Frazier’s appointments have been good;.some have been pop- ular; ‘a number have been unpopualr. His recent selection of members of « new council of defense has shown real wisdom an-l has neit +4 the gov- ernor ‘no cens-rc, even from his mosu active political opponents It would not be easy to predict what another two years would bring out in the gov- ernor.. He went into offica.an ama- teur, with practically no previous ex; perience even in the most unimport- ant public office.. His friends insist that in view of this fact his mistakes have been few and of little impert- ance. The more charitable of his en- emies ascribe his most vital »rrors to poor advice from self-centered or scheming advisors, He is going before the people for an endorsement of his administration as a ‘Nonpartisan leaguer. The test is a more critical one than that which he underwent two years ago. Today all opposition to the league is concen- trated on him, and he has only one him instead ‘of three, as was the case two years ago. Governor Fra- ination. He defeated two strong can-,zier has expressed no opinion as to didates ‘for the Republican nomina- tion at the primaries two years ago, and the following fall was elected gov- ernor. by the biggest majority ever ac- corded an office-seeker in North Dako- ta. As governor he has_ generally been found onthe job. He has done some things which have brought him severe criticism and condemnation. Early in his administration he per- mitted himself to become involved in several legal squabbles through which the result.’ Members of his party are confident that he will be reelected. No one will go so far as to predict the extent of his majority, but leag uers contend he ‘will get a bigger vote than he did two years ago. He will need a bigger vote, for Steen, who had no opposition for state treas- urer, at the primaries, polled about 12,000 more votes. then Frazier did, the republican vote on the governor- shipbeing split four ways. / CORN ASCENDS RAPIDLY OWING TO BAD REPORTS Chicago, June. 15.—Corn ascended rapidly in value today owing to re- ports of hot winds in the west. Anx- jety over the possibility of Crop dam- age resulting from excessive heat was evident. Government advices said the temperature was. considerably above the normal and in Kansas had risen higher than. 100 degrees. Opening prices, which: showed from quarter centto 1 1-2 cents advance with July 142 1-2 to 143 1-8 and August 144 1-2 to 145 1:2, were followed by a decided additional upturn. Oats displayed. independent strength. Complaints of ness in Montana and Canada had ish effect. After opening quarter’ to 7-8 sents higher with July 697-8 to 70 1-2, the market scored material further gains. Pro- visions reflected) the advance in ce- reals. Besides:..large shipments of meats were reported. CHICAGO LIVESTOCKK. Chicago, June 15.—Hogs receipts 7,- 000, left over,.3,514; few hogs selling 5 cents higher,: no thuch trading yet. Cattle receipts, 8,000; sheep receipts 7,000. ‘Hogs receipts’ 7,000; 10 cents to 15 cents above esteriay's average, bulk $16.40@16. utchers $16.45@16.75; at home. . mae } packing $¥ 6.40; light $16.65@ a acne ‘ b} ‘ Sy AE me A) eda ES A LEE SONA REGRET SBOE 8 H 16.80; rough $15.50@15.85; pigs $16.25 @16.75. \ ‘Cattle receipts 3,000; half direct, prices unchanged from yesterday. Sheep receipts 7,000; practically all direct. Quotations unchanged. Week closing with very bearish feeling, es- pecially on heavy sheep; several ship- ments of western range stock in sight for next week’s market and freer movement “of Tennessee and Ken- tucky lambs indicated. UNITED STEEL GAINS MORE New York, June 15.—Equipments, motors, and oils were the foremost features of today’s restricted stock market, rails and other investment is- sues being only occasionally quoted. United States steel which absorbed the bulk of the moderate. dealings ad- ded 2 points to its recent advances related shares, especially crucible, Midvale and Sloss-Sheffield steels and Republic iron gained 1 t 03. General motors advanced five points and Royal dutch oil added seven points to yes- terday’s six point rise. The close was strong. ‘Sale approximated 300,000 shares. Liberty 3 1-2’s sold at 99.62 to 99.70, first 4’s at 94.58 to 94.60, sec- ond 4’s at 94.52 to 94.60 and 4 1-2’s at 96.40 to 96.66. ‘Stimulated by further favorable war news, stocks registered many substan- tial gains at the opening of today’s stock market. The advance was again featured by United States, which rose *|000 shares. at the Bismarck The prices at the There were 1,700, SPECIAL © ANNOUNCEMENT} relative to the exclusive showing of TARZAN) Theatre beginning Monday, June 17 First—Reasonable Prices Charged. New York showing of this feature were 75c, $1.00 and $1.50. Our admission fee will be only 25c. Second—Tremendous Advance Sale. The New York advance sale was larger than that of any play presented heretofore. Capacity audiences was the invariable rule at all performances. Third—Story Well Known. 000 copies of the book sold. The story was published serially in over 6,000 magazines. It was issued in 14 different languages. Fourth—Thrilling Production. The picture has 219 distinct thrills. In fact the most thrilling, startling: prising film play ever conceived. Fifth—Has Big Star. : Elmo Lincoln, who played! the part of the blacksmith in “The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin,” has the leading role. The cast includes over 1,000 people. BISMARCK THEATRE nd sur- almost a point on its first sale of 4,- Reading which displayed marked strength in the final dealings of the previous session also had a “wide” opening. Most of the equipments, industrials, motors and allied specialties were ma- terially higher. Liberty bonds: were steady. v RESERVES New York, June 15.—The actual con- dietion of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows that they hold $69,596,530 reserve in excess of total requirements. This is an increase of $25,478,320 from last week. The statement follows: ‘Actual condition: Loans discounts etc. $4,597,312,000; increase $143,593,000. Cash in own vaults members federal reserve. banks (A) $100,018,000; de- crease $659,000. ‘Reresre in federal reserve bank, of member banks $551,967,000; increase $35,877,000. Reserve in own vaults, state banks and trust companies (B) $15,120,000; decrease $61,000. ‘Rererve in depositaries state banks and trust companies $9,903,000; in- crease $732,000. Net demand deposits $3,821, 352,000. Net time deposits $160,267,000; in- crease $4,969,000. Circulation $86, 754, 0005 $410,000. Specia included in (A) and (B - cat te, ) (B) $68, United States $321,439,000. ° Aggregate reserve $576,990,000. ‘Excess reserve $69,596,530; increase| $25,478,320. NEW YORK ogee LisT. decrease deposits deducted Bethlehem Steel “B” . $3 Canadian Pacific 1474 B General Electric 148 General Motors . Great Northern pfd . Great Northern Ore Northern Pacific United States Ste: NEW YORK FINANCIAL. ‘New York, June 15.—Mercantile paper four months 6; six months 6; sterling, demand 4.7535; cables 4.76 7-16, 570. Guilders demand 51; cavles 51 1-2. Lires demand 895; cables 890. Government bonds steady, railroad bonds steady. CHICAGO PRODUCE. Chicago, June 15.—Butter higher. receipts 16,315 tubs; creamery extra i 1-2; firsts 39 1-2@42; seconds 36@ #Cheese unchanged. CONNIE oeaROR A INCREASEIN Eggs, receipts '18,492 cases /un- changed. Potatoes unsettled new receipts 50 cars; Louisiana and Texas sacked tri. umphs $2.50@2.75; Witto whites $2.00 @2.35. Old receipts 27 cars, -Wtscon- sin, Michigan and Minnesota bulk 140 @155; ditto sacks 1.50@160. Poultry alive lower, folws 27 cents. DULUTH GRAIN. Duluth, Minn., June 15.—Elevator receipts of domestic grain—wheat 1,: 263 bushels. Last year, 27,104; Flax 1,016 bushels, last year 4,415. Shipments of domestic grain—oats 5,020 bushels, last. year 16,662. Duluth car, inspection—wheat Nos. 1 and 2 northern 2. No. 3, 1; other spring, 1. \MMixed 1; total wheat 5; last year 18; flax 1; last year none. Oats 1, last year 2. Total all grains 7, last year e, on track 4. MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN. Minneapolis, Minn., June 15.—Flour unchanged. Shipmients 57,003 barrels. Rye 197@199. Barley 90@122. Bran $28.25@33.25. Wheat receipts. 227 cars compared with 157 cars a year ago. ‘Corn, No. 3'yéllow 155@165. | Oats, ‘No. 3 white 75 1-2@78 1-2. Flax ‘392@394: SO. ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK. South St.Paul, Minn., June 15.— ‘Hogs. receipts 900; steady, range $15.95@16.10;- bulk $16,00@16:10. Cattle receipts 300; steady; steers $7.50@17.50; cows and heifers $8.00@ 14.50; veal calves steady, $7.00@14.20; stockers and feeders slow, $6.50@ 13.50. -Sheep receipts 35; $10.00@18.00; | -wethers ewes’ 5.00@14.00. BULGES IN FLAXSEED. Duluth, June 15.—Reports of dry | weather, conditions, in parts of Mon- tana and the Canadian west led to sharp bulges in flaxseed during the late trading today. ‘Buying by crush- ers at the low spots set, was a factor in addition to short covering. July closed 7 cents up; September 1 cent up and October 9 1-2 cents up. WEATHER FFORECAST. Washington, June 15.—Weather pre- dictions for the week beginning Moz- day issued ‘by the weather bureau to- day are: | Great Lakes: region, steady; lambs $7.00@14.50; sauwers (Mon- day and Tuesday and probably last of the week; moderate temperatures. Upper Mississippi valley, generally ae warmer; in: north portion Tues- day.