The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1918, Page 4

AVNER ANC TET THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE al @ Postoffice, Bismarc! » Dy as ni Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - : Editor 6. LOGAN PAYNE COM. PANY, mur rs ial Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Paifth 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- herein. ; a ‘Tights Gy publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ns All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. CIRCULATION MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU 0: SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year..... $6.00 Daily by mail per year pee ily by mail per year in state 1a il outside of North Dakota. ene °'SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One year by mail. Poseeat, adtaeiered peg Six monthe by mia ; a is mail. A Purse men Voutside of North Dakota) i One year ........+ aiese siere ormene weeeee se eeeeenees ne Six months .. 59 333s Three months : One month sees "THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) > OUR NEW DECLARATION When, in the course of human events, it be- comes necessary for the people of a democratic, liberty loving country to fight unto death for the principles they hold most dear, a decent respect to the opinions 6f mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to wage.a win-or-die war. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that, all nations, great and small, are entitled to their place under the sun; that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, whether they live in Belgium, Serbia, France or travel upon the high seas in peaceful ships of commerce; that among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to se- cure these rights those governments of the peo- ple, for the people and by the people, have banded together in one cause and with one purpose against that government and the slavish, subjects of that’ government which seeks to overthrow liberty throughout. the world and to. crush democracy beneath the cruel heel of the autocracy of might. For long and many years this power of military might and inhuman greed threatened the peace of the world and the freedom of. all peoples, but still we were patient and-hoped that the light of justice and honor might break.through the cloak of militarism into the hearts of the Garmin SPA and that reason might come to the German gov= ernment. But. when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinced a ‘design to reduce all other nations and peoples under absolute despotism, it became our right, it became our duty, to fight that ruler, that government, that people with all of our resources “f-meri and money;:food and-bullets. The history of the present kaiser of Germany is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of ar absolute tyranny over all people and all nations. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world: He has committed outrageous crimes against American citizens upon the high seas. He has wilfully and needlessly murdered American women and children. He has tortured and slain prisoners of war. He has violated every known law of war. He has violated every international law which stood in his course of brutalized warfare. He has murdered non-combatants, even in- cluding little babies. ft He has made bonfires and heaps of ruins out of churches and hospitals, He has sunk hospital ships. He has made war upon Red Cross workers. He has fomented plots against the United States while this country was at peace with Ger- many. He has hired destructionists to destroy life and property in the United States and in every other:country which resisted his power lust. He has committed unforgivable crimes against the female population of conquered territory. He has torn up treaties and scorned the rights of humanity. ‘ ~ He has plunged the world into this war, and by so doing, has become the arch-murderer of all time and the slayer of more human beings than all other murderers of all the world within the last several hundreds of years. We, therefore, the people of the United States of America, on this Fourth of July, do solemnly publish and declare, that the United States of America will exert its last ounce of strength, will give its last man, will spend. its last dollar, and will fight to the last day of our existence as a free nation, to the end that our foe, the enemy of humanity, justice and liberty, may be defeated; That the final victory may be so complete, so de- cisive that never again will German autocracy and militarism threaten the peace of the world-nor the liberty of the inhabitants thereof. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reli- ance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other, that we will loan of our savings for War Savings Stamps and Liberty Loans, that we will give of our money for war taxes without complaint, that we will support with our dollars and our time Red Cross and all other ee ee war charities, that we will produce and conserve food as requested by the food administration, that we will not seek one penny of excess profits dur- ing.the period of war, that we who are able, will go “over there” to the trenches of our allies, that we wi utter no word which will interfere with our country’s war aim, and that we will not fail to utter such words as will keep the people’s fight- ing spirit staunch and true and, firm. The signers are as follows: 4 { EVERY LOYAL AMERICAN OF THE 110,000,000 IN THE UNITED STATES. BREWING AT HOME Sumptuary laws sometimes have queer re- sults. A few years ago Oregon decided to quit drink- ing and it enacted a set of bone-dry laws that made it a penal offense to even possess a pint of beer for your own use. Z The laws were and are yet, enforced, and il- legal distilling and illicit peddling of booze never attained much popularity in Oregon. ! But the result has been the opening up, in tens of thousands of homes, of the family brew vat. . Righteous folk, who would never have banged open the swinging door of a saloon; folks who regarded wine as a mocker, persons who just occasionally partook of a dinner glass just to be sociable have discovered: how ‘easy it is to brew your own ale and heavy beers and the home pro- duction of alcoholic beverages has attained gen- eral popularity. The proof is that the sale of brewers’ malt, which is the foundtion of the home brew, has increased so greatly that often the market is bare and bakers cannot obtain supplies: Drug stores, grocery stores, confectionery shops, bakeries, everywhere the few simple ingre- dients for “home grown” ale and ‘arf are to be found, and the demand for them is increasing. The beer produced is said to be of good flav- or, is without adulteration or headache and has made no black marks on the police court records. | WITH THE EDITORS | WHAT KANSAS. DID Something like’ 100,000 men—mayhbe'a few thousand more, maybe ia feivithousand2léss—are out in the Kansas wheat fi¢lds.pr will be. befoxe June and July have passed, harvestipg this year’s war-winning crop. soar aed Where does this army of harvest hands come from? Well, where. does Pershing’s army of fighters. come from ?—from stores and banks and farms and offices and shops, from every trade, every profession, every walk of American life. Just so in Kansas. The army of harvesters comes from the villages and towns and cities—men. of every calling, men of every’ kind, who left their town affairs for a few weeks arid flocked to farms for precisely the same.,xedsons, thf their. elas}; tives and friends came to the colors;;to play a part in winning the war. A p Kansas is using as much outside farm labor as could be secured, of course, but that supply is sufficient to fill only a small part of the need. Kansas is doing what-every other state has done or must do—harvest its own crop with its own MANDAN EDITOR DBFIES DAKOTA DEFENSE BOARD CITES’ SPECIFIC:INSTANCES North:Dakota’ Cougell of Defense, E. ; re labor, for the most part. Kansas towns have “shut up shop,” so to speak, during the heavy period of the harvest. Men from towns and cities have left their comfy | jobs and professions and are putting in a few weeks of the toughest work ever tackled—doing it for sheer patriotism, although, of course, they earn harvest-hand wages—doing it to save a food crop, the saving of which is as necessary as the holding of a sector on the fighting line: It is an inspiring picture of patriotism. First the young manhood of a free people freely march- ing away to fight for the world’s freedom ; now the home remaining manhood leaving desk and shop and turning to the harvest,fields, in order that the fighters, and the civilians sustaining the fighters, may be fed and the fight continue to a victorious end. It really means that the allies have won an- other great battle—that ‘is the true appraisal-of the scene in Kansas, where men from every town and city went into physical training classes for a few weeks hardening, and then swept across the grain fields, toiling determinedly—not because of compulsion, not because of wage inducements, not because of anything under the sun except that they are Americans, and therefore are willing and eager to work until they drop if that will help crush the Hun. : The town women of Kansas volunteered for the harvest army, and so did the boys. And they are working—the women pealing potatoes and washing dishes and cooking food for the har- vesters; the boys fitting in at every sort of odd job for which they are sufficiently strong or use- ful—the men thus being free to devote their en- tire energy to the ‘actual harvest. For months the United States department of agriculture has advocated for every community and county the policy which Kansas has given state-wide application. The people of Nebraska, Minnesota, North and South Dakota plan similar concert of action as the harvest swings north- ward. In every state and for every harvest, or crop emergency, this is the safe and certain and patriotic solution of the farm labor problem— the utilization of town volunteers to the extent that farm labor needs may require.—Harvey Journal. are : WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1918. spect Statement dé to Pro-: -Germiin, Support | Seated at Governor ‘Frazier's elbow Il: memberghip of the. #5000 ..voters who ‘gave; A. Tostevin, published of the Mandan Pioneer, y-sterday afternoon reiterat- ed a statement made editorially last week to the effect that pro-German votes had given Governor Frazier: his 115,000 majority. in the primaries. “I will not retract nor shade that statement In any :way, because I feel it here,” said the Maftan publisher, iclasping -his;-hand over: his heart. the Nonpartisan league i& proGerman. do say, :and- 1 maintaip it, that the Frazier. his apajo ity over tyo years ago Were'pro- and" F&now, that to ‘be’ true so‘far as. Morton county ‘is eépeerned. “The league economic. policies have not changed in-any way during the last: two-years. -Yet we>have-in Mor- ‘ton county, right in Mandan. and in Glen Ullin-and New Salem: business HE erpertences’ of) the Italian Jie varmy in'thelr. aciobs against the Austro-Hungariéhs go a long way toward dispellingthe Idep of some Americans the Austrians. are less brutal yaric’ in. thelr methods. of warfare”than the. real simon-pure Hun of<Germany. If the Austrians entered ‘war-with any men: who were radically opposed .to the ‘league: two years. ago, and. who more humane end sportsmaniike tu- stincts than actuated their burbarous ally on the north. the latter tus ef- fectively crushed them out. The upper picture in the accampany- ing illustration: is a collection of “fin- ishing-off clubs” wielded by the Aus- trian soldiers on the Italian front upon the heads of wounded Italian soldiers. The heavy iron knob swung on the end of the spring steel shank makes ‘openly insulted “our 'flag:- Ic ‘had the : “1 do. not say that: cree” member of} Yy Uf Mh Us No CLOSED SEASON FER- HESE BIRDS ' voted for it last week. This was their way of striking at the American gov- ernment—of showing their disapprv- al of the war. These same men have {lost no opportunity to insult the flag and to show their contempt for Amer- i ican institutions. : |. “In our county. the league’ nominat- ed ‘for state senator a man .who has active support of every, pro-German in Morton county; and. they were pro-Ger- mans .who are, conservative business men in many instancés, and who‘could not have been induced to-vote for the league two years ago under any cir- “cumstances.” . =)? ai suspend the publication of the Pioneer if the cuncil of defense directed. it, as a, war .measure.-’ He denied. that the {Pioneer was ‘one-half so’ responsible } for.’ inciting ».discord. and. distrust as jother newspapers which he mention- a terrible and brutal weapon. It will crush in a man's head as though it were an eggshell. Following a battle, It ts the Practice of squads of Austrian soldiers to roam over the battlefield and “finish off” the wounded with these clubs, The lower picture fs all that ts left of the-wreckage of an Italian gun that had been hit by three high-explosive shells, .} other members of the bi - Mr. Tostevin declared ‘he would not] ° ed. In short, the stood pat under a fire criticism from Gover! ndan’ pifbltdher of questions‘and nor Frazier and oard, and when earing was adjourned for the day, ee rnentiay afternoon, the council and Mr. Tostevin stood exactly where il haa Mr. Tostevin and’ the counc! stooil ‘at the beginning of the hearing. -BUT W, 8. ——— ONCE ORIENT PRIDE Cid Merv Is Now but a Desolate Place of Ruin. Practically Obliterated by the Great Conqueror, Jhenghiz Khan, Whose Son Had Fallen in the As saults on the City. ae j We passed by New Merv and.went ' on to’ Bairam Ali, named after one of the sons of Timur, which-ts the station for Old Merv and the demesne of the Murghab, formerly the property of the royal family, Maynard Owen Williams writes ‘in the Christian Herald. Bair- am All resembics the great pyramids in that It stands between the desert and the town. Accompanied by the twenty-year-old commissar, a remark- ably intelligent young Russian upon whom devolves the task of governing the district with a decreasing police’ force, we visited the various ruins which mark the spots where the. suc- cessive editions of Merv stood. Merv ig mqantioned in the Zoroastrian books of wisdom and, like every other old city, owed its existence to a river—the Murghab. Seleucus Nikator once founded a colony here and for a-con- siderable period It was the home of a large band of Nestorians. But it was not until the Arabs, to whom modern civilization owes so much, took charge, soon after the death of Mohamet, that Merv becan e a true metropolis, Huge dams were erected on the Murghab and the entire oasis was well watered from the irrigating ditches, Merv then ri- valed Bagdad as the greatest city in the orfent. ‘ Five centuries titer, Shenghiz Khan, enraged by the denth of his son before the ramparts of the queen city of the world, utterly destroyed it. The Arabic writers assert that nearly a million persons were killed at this time. Arabic writers estimated figures in a typically freehanded way. For 200 yeurs Merv was a ruin, but in the fifteenth century it was rebuilt and continued to exist until 1795, when the emir of Bokhara destroyed. the wonderful dam at* Sultan ‘Bent and thus turned the lovely onsis intb'a dijs- ert. .Masstye as they are, the riiinstof Old Merv are devold of interest.; Fhe young commissar, in speaking of the ruins, said, “What sighs and: tears these crumbling walls have cost!” .:; Three beautiful horses, furnished by the government: and driven by. a pic- turesque old coachman in a red shirt and sash, black vest and white coach- man's hat, whitled uy back through the various sites of ruined cities to the small town of Batram All, where a new system of frrigation-is building. up.a new city. Old Merv is an interesting proof of the “Sic transit gloria mundi” phrase, but it was built in “sic transit!” style, of, sunbaked bricks, Only a bat- - tered mosque, a great‘convent and sev- eral huge beehive ice-houses’ remato above the scarred ,plaia where’ gréat cities stood. weiacl Seta at F Shortening Crackers With. Corn Oll. For years cracker bukers have thought that only animal fat could be successfully used as shortening in their Products, it being belleved that vege- table fats, such as lard compound, corn oil and peanut ofl would not make crackers which would keep in hot weather. For ten months, how- ever, a cracker baking concern in Terre Haute, Ind., has been making commercial goods with 13 pounds’ of corn oil to the barrel of flour instead of an equal weight ‘of lard, and also using 25 per cent rye flour to 75 per cent wheat. These goods went through the hot season Inst summer without trouble, thus destroying what was practically a myth of the cracker-baking ‘trade. The fye mixture produces a soda cracker and saltine in no respect darker than-a straight wheat article, according to # bulletin of the United States food administration, Barley fore {s also suitable for cracker bake Ing. ——_____. Women Also Serve. While in the larger cities their work {8 not £0 noticeable, in the smuller centers of population. our women are slowly but surely taking over the work of the men who are now in the army, navy and other government service, So far, our women workers have not taken over the heavier classes of work found In manufacturing plants, be cause there are still ample nugbers of men available. However, in plants Where ‘there is much light manufac turing women arg to be found in profu- Sion. In stores, hotels and even in street cars, American women are tak- Ing the places of men with the col- ors, Women scda-water dispensers and elevator runners are now quite common in most cities.—! Maen itles.—Sclentifie —___ Chain Armor to Protect the Eyes, An ingenious: improvement has re cently been made to the already famil- far steel shrapnel helmet in use “over there.” says the Popular Science Monthly. It ts designed to protect the eyes and the upper part of the face from splinters of wood, stone, sand ana Metal thrown up by exploding shells, The new device is merely an adapta- tion of the chain doors which have been introduced into metal, chemical and glass works In recent years to pro- tect the workers from the hent of the furnaces and the splashes of molten material. Te consists of a fringe of Separate short lengths of fairly heavy chain, which effectively arrests. the fly- Ing particles. On account of its loose- Bess, it-does not seriously jatertere With the vision, Rie Gane eens > ~<