The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE at ‘ostoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Class Matter GEORGE D.MANN.- —- ~—- ~~ __ Editor : 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. 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. me All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of are also reserved. ON MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIO: SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year... . Daily by mail per year.. Daily by mail per year (in state). Daily by mail outside of North Dakota. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) publication of special dispatches herein = Ss Deen 33338 838 838 sss One year by mail.. Six months by mai Three months by mai (Outside of North Dakota) One year ... Six months . Three months . Hon mre me One Six months . Three months . One month .... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) Ra THE BIG FIGHT Walter Thomas Mills and his kind are still at it—still keeping their eyes so closely upon the profiteer, the reactionary and the captain of privi- lege at home that they cannot see the horrible fire sweeping over from the land of the world’s most rapacious of profiteers, the most stand-pat of re- actionaries and the most greedy captain of privi- lege, Germany’s autocracy. Yes, there are profiteers in this country. There are men who would plunder. There are men who would rob graves. There are men who would steal and murder. There are men who prey upon the weaker. There are those who wax fat upon special privilege. There are autocrats among us. There are profiteers, autocrats and special privilege seekers in the ranks of the socialist party, probably fewer there than in other poli- tical parties because it is a small minority party. There are profiteers, autocrats and special privelege seekers in all organizations of human beings, in churches, clubs, in all places where hu- man beings dwell. They should be fought. They should be torn up by the root and cast out. All right thinking persons agree upon that. Mills and his ilk are not alone in opposition to human pirates that prey. But at this particular time the house of civi- lization is on fire. Flames are leaping high and higher. The whole fabric of liberty and democ- racy is threatened. There is nothing in all the world so important as this fire raging westward from the Rhine. Beside that fire all petty squab- bles over reactionary politics, petty profiteering and Wall street bankers pale into insignificance. After we have beaten the Hun we easily enough can take care of the profiteer and the home grown variety of autocrat. But if the Hun beats us we can do nothing—but submit to the inordin- ate greed of the Berlin brand of profiteers and the savage brutality of the Potsdam autocrat. The big fight we have to fight is the one against these, not against the puny profiteers and autocrats in our midst. The nation must direct the whole power of its forces against the bay- onets and bombs of the Germans. Any person who interferes with the delivering of that blow aids the enemy, and by the same token is a dis- loyal American and a traitor.’ There are two places, in either of which these war-obstruction- " ists rightly belong. One is Germany, the ‘other is a penitentiary. The only future advances the Germans can make will be peace advances. GERMAN ATROCITIES Of course, our Teutonic friends tell us, even yet, these “German atrocity stories are exagger- ated, BUT, let us read the kaiser’s own official statement, issued under Berlin date line. The kaiser might fib about other things, but surely we may rely upon him to tell the truth about himself and his own: é Berlin, June 6.—The official state- ment from German general headquarters says: “There were successful raids on Red Cross hospitals behind the American lines in Picardy on the 29th ult. Enemy nurses were compelled to retire to cellars and caves, carrying such of their wound- ed patients as they were able to save. Civilians and babies in surrounding priv- ate houses met sanguinary losses from the bombs of our airmen. “On the morning of the 30th, press- ing our great successes earlier in the week, when hospitals back of the British lines. were bombed with losses among staffs and patients of many score, we attacked successfully a Canadian hospi- tal. Large Red Cross signs made the target plain for our uneering bombers. An American surgeon, performing an operation, was among the killed. “On the night of the 31st our gallant airmen made a surprise attack on British hospitals which had been bombed on the 19th, inflicting severe losses on sisters nets ak EFAS and patients, and retiring to base with- out casualty. The aim of our heroic fliers was made certain by a flare lighted by an imperial ace at great personal risk. — “While attacking hospitals at Vill- ers-Cotterets, where five women nurses and canteeners were killed, German avia- tors were treacherously fired upon by French aces. Five German machines were maliciously destroyed.” Have you noticed how proudly his father says, “My son is ‘over there’ ?” A FINE PRECEDENT The Stutsman county council.of defense has established a precedent which would be well for the state council to follow in the interests of har- mony, propriety and good citizenship. The Stutsman county council has re- solved: “That no person who is under indictment by the federal grand jury or by the grand jury of any state, or who has been held to trial, on charges of dis- loyalty to this country, or sedition under the laws of the United States, or of any state, shall conduct, hold or be permitted to speak at any gathering or public meet- ing in Stutsman county; and further, that no person who owns or has charge of any building, meeting place or public hall, shall knowingly lease or rent such place to any such person or permit any such person to address any gathering on his said premises.” Nonpartisan league representatives present at the time these resolutions were adopted op- posed them on the grounds that the council was interfering with the freedom of speech guaran- teed by the constitution. Grave crimes have been committed in the name of freedom of speech. Free speech has done much to handicap the United States government in the prosecution of this war. There is a higher right than that of any individual, and that is the right of the state and the nation. The national constitution is a liberal docu- ment. In times of peace one may go to any ex- tent in criticizing. the national administration and its policies. Little harm usually results from such criticism. These are not peace times, and many things which we could do when we were at peace we can not do now that ‘we are at. war. We cannot eat all the wheat bread we -want; we can- not have all the sugar we would like; we should not eat as much meat as our appetites may call for. We must pay more when we ride on a rail- way train; we pay 50 per cent more for letter postage; we pay. at least 40 per cent more for the bare privilege of existing. Are these infringements on our constitution- al rights? NO! And yet, if we were not at war there would be no excuse for any of these tighter restrictions or heavier burdens. We would be quite within our rights in protesting against them. The war imposes new responsibilities upon all of us. The safety and the lives of the men we have sent over seas to fight for us is in our keep- ing. We can win this war only by working all together toward one end. When any man has so far stepped aside from his common duty as to be indicted by a jury of his peers for sedition or espionage, he may not be guilty until lawfully convicted, but the citizen protests against having this man exhibited before his eyes as a public speaker, in a political cam- paign in which Americanism should be the only issue, and where a man, with even a taint of dis- loyalty, has no business. The North Dakota council of defense has done many things which have shown a patriotic and a progressive and constructive spirit actuated by genuine Americanism. Let it do this one thing more, and the state of North Dakota, which, above all else now, must have harmony, will rise up and pronounce it blest. WE ARE SAVING One thing this war has brought home to Americans is that we must save more money, and that more of us must save our earnings, than was done before the war. We must save, not only for ourselves, but for the perpetuation of civili- zation and the honor of our country. In other days many postponed the acquiring of the sav- ing habit because they saw no “rainy day” close at hand. Now, however, all is different, and every American knows that he must save of his money so that there may be no “rainy day” of defeat for our cause. This has been proven in the Lib- erty loan campaigns, the thrift stamp drives and gifts for war charities. We have invested sev- eral billion dollars of our savings to win the war. But that has not interfered with our own per- sonal “rainy day” saving efforts. “Deposits in our savings banks have been on the increase, so that today these combined deposits represent $10,000,000 more than the entire amount of actual money in the United States,” says Myron T. Herrick, who has spent years persuading peo- ple into thrifty pathways. You notice there’s nothing backward about the boys at thefront. Watch them retreat toward Berlin! Has word of the new tax law yet reached the profit-ears? , , 4 “Me und Rot” will make his next “drive” to Pia ore reset “THEY, TOO, SERVE WHO STAND AND WAIT” The War Mothers of America N WM Gy? a by Y lal "LETTERS FROM | “SOMEWHERE” IN FRANCE| > FROM MONT McCONKEY. Where’ leave ( ) the censor has cut something out’ of the paper. 2. American Expeditionary Forces, |, “May (+), 1918. Dear Babe: .. We reached.a French port just a week .ago this morning, and did not land until Tuesday afternoon. harbor is almost (The censor left out over half a page here) ancient and honorable appearance, moving under sail with unexpécted speed, and little chug-chugging “motor boats darting around liké~ witerbugs. The regiment was marched on to an English barge ‘about 3:00 P. M., last Tuesday; we cheered goodbye’ to the crew of our.-transport, and were landed at a quartermaster wharf. We wore both blouses and. overcoats, and carried our guns and heavy marching order; . believe -me,.after a couple of weeks doing nothing but lie in a bunk, it wds damned hot work hiking up a quarter-mile hill! Little French kids ran alongside of us,,the band played occasfonally, French soldiers saluted, and our tongues hung out further and further, until at the end of a half hour hike we had a few minutes rest. I cant’ begin to tell you the interesting things we passed,—old ladies wash- ing clothes on the stone floor of a porch and hanging them over bushes to dry, gardens hanging on steep hill- sides by the eyebrows, droves of mil- itary police, myriads of dirty little boys begging for cigarettes, two in- credibly old men breaking stone on the road, and many welcoming signs, “Commerce de Vins.” The country back of the city is cut up into little fields of one to two acres each, surrounded by banks of earth surmounted by hedges. I thought at first these were to permit flooding the land, the way they do alfalfa fields in Arizona, but they are only fences. The hoyses are bunched, a number of farmers living together in a tiny vil- Thej lage of stone houses with towering stone chimneys. We landed just before dark in a so-called “rest camp” just outside an old stone barracks filled with other troops. We were in conical squad tents, ten men to a tent, with low wooden platforms to sleep on. The boards didnot seem so hard when I first wentuto bed—especially as I had to sleep on the desk of: the transport several nights on the way over, while on guard—but during the night they progressed through the ten degrees ot hardness, from talc to dismond, and at. least fifteen degrees beyond the scale! And it. was’as cold as a poor relation’s . welcome. Next day I was assigned to a fatigue detail, and, with more than 300 -other men, went down’ in, motor-trucks to the depot. quartermaste?'s: . wharf, where we “rested” all morning level- ing off the site, and all afternoon mov- ing lumber. We. went down by a dif- ferent route, and I saw several mil- lion things. I wanted to tell you about, but have sinceforgotten.' There was a one-legged onch-soldier wearing a croix de’ guerre;women in fine white starched. caps of-lace or linen; “forests” of an acre or two of trees, carefully planted in rows; a park, with a street car litte running around it like Fairmont Park, Philadelphia; a camp of French Algerian troops in red fezzes and bright blue uniforms; a row of one-story wooden buildings with amusement devices in them, like an American country fair; a beautiful park, apparently made from an an- cient fort, with narrow terraces held up by huge stone walls, the road zig- zagging down from one terrace to an- other all the way to the level of the wharves, reminding me of the parks around Lake Washington, Seattle. We didn’t work very hard at the wharf, and had a lot of fun. There was a coal-yard across the street, so we grew blacker and blacker revert- ing from Caucasian to Ethiopian, in a few hour's undoing all the evolu-i tion of past epochs. There were many funny things to watch too,—a drove of men trying to talk to girls from a French munition plant next door: girls dressed in overalls strapped WASHINGTON __* See 11> HOY UP HERE. An employe of the navy department upon arising: Shux, I ee « ‘might as well Jeft;’em on. Th’ only difference igsth’ cgllar. 5. closely about dainty ankles, jumpers and slippers of cloth or leather thrust inside of wooden sabots; a long line of men carrying cross-shaped pieces of timbre from one place to another, while a slightly exhilerated soldier beat time with a shovel and hummed at the top of his voice the Wedding March from Lohengrin, under the im- pression that it was a funeral dirge; and old peddler ladies making their prices do acrobatic stunts. Back we went that evening to the “rest camp,” to find that we were to leave early next morning.” So we roll- ed around on the boards all night, pretending. to sleep, and rolled right on out at 3:30 a. m. We got up in the dark, got more breakfast than we could eat, rolled our. heavy marching order, and were hiking back down the road by 7:30 a.m. We passed a num- ber of mothers taking young girls to communion, dressed in white dresees and wearing beautiful _white,. filmy veils like brides west. Arriving down at the water. front again, we were loaded on a train, forty of us with our equipment in a sattle car twenty feet long.” There were wooden benches in the car, eight of them holding five men each by -dint of considerable squeezing, with our equipment piled up in the middle of the car against one of the doors, ‘to- ether with a big three days’ rations of corned beef, bread, baked beans, tomatoes and jam. We rode in there (Quarter of page). It was not as bad as it sounds, as the engine got tired every little while, and we could get off and stretch ourselves. At first the country was hilly, and stony in places, but apparently very fertile. There were fields of grain, of hay, surrounded by the banks and hedges; there were dairies, and graz- ing lands covered with cattle, and there weer many fine horses, I should think horse-raising must be a prin- cipal occupation there, as I have never seen so many horses of uni- formly high quality anywhere I have been in the States. Gradually the coun- try changed into the vineyard coun- try where we are now, and which I will try to describe next time. () morning we were marched through .an American base city to some stone barracks, where we got breakfast, and were loaded into trucks and hauled out here to this pretty lit- tle village, where we are billeted around. I will tell you all about that next time, too. I must tell, you, though, that my wife is out of luck, as I have found a French sweetheart already. I don't know her name yet, but she sat on my knee for an hour today, and she can speak a little French and I can speak fair English, we got along famously. She is about two years old, with the prettiest black hair and eyes you ever saw, and very proud of a new dress with lace on it. It is too dark to write any more. Your brother, Mont McConkey. ——— avy w. $$ \ MANDAN NEWS | 2 DAUGHTER BORN. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Agaton Larson the first of the week. All concerned are doing nicely. MRS. SULLIVAN RETURNS. Mrs. John Sullivan and son return- ed the first of the week from New York city, where they spent the win- ter months. STUTSMAN TO JAMESTOWN. W. H. Stutsman left Thursday for Jamestown and other points in Stuts- man county to make several speeches in the interest of the Loyalty league. RETURN SFROM LA MOURE. Miss Eulita Crosthwaite returned home Tuesday evening from LaMure, where sohe had held the psition of teacher of music in the public school few months. WILKINSON TRANSFERRED. Arnold Wilkinson employed in the First State bank at Golden Valley for the past year has been promoted to the position of assistant cashier of the Elgin’ State bank. DANCE NETS $105.70. A dance ‘given at the Henry B. Smith home near Schmidt on Saturday evéning netted ¢he Red Cys{$105.70, FRIDAY, JUNE: 21, 1918 The money been turned over to the Mandan chapter. ‘ LEAVE FOR\‘MONTANA. Mrs. H. E. Haggerman and daugh- ter, Marie left Wednesday for White Sulphur Springs,Mont., or a visit with tehir son and brother, Eddie, who is practising law at that place. MRS. RITCHIE RETURNS. Mrs. Earl Ritchie and daughter re- turned Thursday from Ladysmith, Wis., where they spent six weeks with relatives. They visited with friends in Minnesota en route. home. INJURED. ANKLE, ‘Mrs. W. B. Aiken of Fargo sustain- ed a severe injury to her ankle when alighting from a train here the first of the week. It was necessary for her d to stay here for several days before continuing to her home. DEDICATE SERVICE FLAG. ‘The members of the Workmen lodge held their regular meeting Thursday evening with the dedidation of a serv- ice flag bearing eight stars the feature of the meeting. The hall was most appropriately decorated for the occa- sion. POLITICAL ‘RALLY. A record breaking crowd attended the political rally at the Palace thea- tre last evening to hear P. D. Norton, Johnson and Ingles loyalty candidates at the coming primary election. The speeches were given in an out-spoken manner and proved most effective. CHAIRMAN W. S. S. DRIVE. C. R. Robertson of Cummins Thor- berg, Theis Co., has been named as city chairman of the War Savings ‘ Stamp drive which commences next Friday. Mandan’s quota is placed at $125,000, while that of the county is placed at $550,000 or a per capita of 920. $7 FOR THE RED CROSS. At the lawn party given at the home of Mrs. Ed ‘Morck on Tuesday afternoon $7 was made from the sale of refreshments. ' The affair was giv- en fr the members of the Child Con- servation league, and the afternoon was spent doing refugee work. Mrs. Morck was assisted by Mesdames Elmer Carter‘and RoSbert Mackin. — DONATE $500 TO BAND. Pledging $500 toward the organiza- tion of a band for Mandan and pledg- ing their support in the W. S. S. cam- paign were the principal actions at ihe meeting of the Mandan Com- mercial clud the first of the week. The band is to be organized in the near fu- ture under the leadership of Prof. C. Codding. rPesent plans are to ap- point committees in charge of the W. S. S. drive which commences Friday. June 28. FORMAL OPENING OF CLUB. This evening will occur the formal opening of the Mandan Town and Country club for this season. The grounds have been put into first class shape or the gccasion, There will be a reception and dance from 8:30 to ‘ 12 o'clock followed by lunch at the Lewis and Clark. Dancing will con- tinue inthe hotel lobby and dining room after the lunch. Music for dancing will be furnished by the Man- dan orchestra.- : TO ENTERTAIN DRAFTEES. The Mandan Home Guard perfected plans for entertaining the 29 members of the June 28 draft contingent ,at | their meeting held Wednesday even- ing. .A committee in chargé of the arrangements for the entertainment are E. J. Conrad. Dr. A. G. Henderson and B. A, Horwitz. A banquet will be served the members of the contingent at the Lewis and Clark hotel next Thursday evening followed by a pa- triotic talk by John Sullivan. The public will be. invited to attend the dance which will be held after the banquet in the hotel dining room and lobby. _The money to drfray the ex- penses of the banquet will be solicited from the business men. STURRE-PANSKY NUPTIALS. “) [Miss Anna Sturre. sister of Mrs. B- { L. Surface of ‘Mandan, became the | bride of Walter Pansky in Indianap- } olis, at the home of a sister of Mr. Pansky, the latter part of the week, according to word received by Mrs. Surface. Mrs. Pansky spent several years in training as a nurse at the Mandan hospital and since then has spent considerable of her time doing private nursing. Mr. Pansky held the position of engineer on the Northern Pacific with headquarters in Mandan previous to his enlistment in the engt- neers corps of the army. He left here for Ft. eLavenworth several weeks ago and has since been transferred to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind., where he is stationed at present. Mrs. Pansky will reutrn to Mandan in the near future to make her home while Mr. Pansky is in the service. BUY WS Se = IRISH POLICY 18 ATTACKED London, June 21.—Earl Curzon's speech in the house of lords last night, immediately seized up in:the lobby as a1 admission of a breakdown in the government’s Irish policy, indicating, 1 as it did the abandonment for the present at least. of. any attempt to in- troduce a home rule bill, is treated in \ iw * @| the morning's newspapers sensational development and is made the theme of sharp comment. | “Home rule is dead; Irish conscrip- tion is dead,” says the radical Daily News, “and the whole Irish policy of the government has fallen crumbling to the ground. “From the opening to the close of this last wretched chapter in the his- ¥ tory of the Irish question, the govern- ment has been consistently vacillaling and dilatory. Out of it all one result has emerged, black and unmistakable —the destruction of the power of the constitutional party and the enthrone- ment of the anarchy of the Sinn Fein.” The unionist Morning Post says: : “The government once more has } burned it’s fingers very badly by a mixture of rashness and inconsist- ency. What-will be the effect of this € abject surrender to the intransig- eance of Irish discontent and the ar- Togance of the Irish,Catholic hierachy remains to be seen. Every new de- partment and experiment in the Irish Policy brings us back to the bedrock fact—thte necessity and the inevitabil- ity of the maintenance of the union.” The rigidly partisan newspapers are hardly less severe. : “Irish priests and _ bishops have played a leading part in killing both home rule and ay i ed says the 3 & Rally Bxpress, og? &