The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1918, Page 4

r o T x h t o v 3 a £ o THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE a @ Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Woes Class Matter. GEORGE D-HANN ~~ _- = Etor 7 G, LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, i Special Foreign Representative Roe STON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege “xe. Bldg.;. MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. for republication of all news credited to it or not other- in. sao ghia of publication of special dispatches herein | MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION 8 6. 4 6, by carrier per year Ree ane a mal r year (i! ily yy mail Sitalde of North Dai S3sss (In North Dakota) One year by mail. : $4.00 Six rant by mal. eer 0 ae te toutside of North Dakota) $5.00 : 2 2.50 Z 1.25 $6.00 16 ee } sik (Batablished 1878) oa thought we—“here comes a parent-of the good jectéd. She was very angry. da | it niaybe ‘the attitiide of» other fond: moth- |. leads: us"to. venture a ‘preachment. . : ies i, Té-begin with, we would suggest to’this parent |} and ‘to’ others of: her,type: that the’streets of our} ing city are.no place fora bright lad’ of| 3-o’clock in the morning.. The parent: who alldws:a boy:to gellavant about.the streets at that hoor, usually: has coming everything in the way of notoriety that results. ‘When’ we were a boy of 16-we'didn’t hell around ‘the ‘streets. all night betutise we knew we had a job to attend to the ‘day. We didi’t spend ‘our summer vaca-|¢ tions:sleeping-o’ days and: daubing yellow. paint on.ather people’s- preniises.o° nights. In the first place our parents had old-fashioned notions, and they wouldn’t stand’ for it; ‘in the second place, we had old-fashioned work to do, and.we couldn’t| glorious epic. material’ reniain: 1 ; the pupil. Anyone can recite the exploits of, Israe ent as it is now, but it was the fashion for able-|nam apd Paul Revere; yet these, and their like, bodied boys to work. There was then no demand|were mere parlor adventures compared with the from the farms for help.of any and every kind|heroes of the trans-Missouri fur trade during, the to, save the crops. The average decent, honest-|second and third decades of the nineteenth cen- minded kid just couldn’t see the ‘philosophy. of|tury. ‘ stand it. : y. The need for labor then was not nearly so urg- playing a butterfly life all'summer long while his G fi ism. is so fervent that they ‘simply must get the|Could.so much as one out of-a thousand school |; 4 kaiser, we would suggest that close-range bullets |children recount. the exploits of any, one of these v will:do much more than long-distance volleys of|men?.- And yet it can be shown ‘that ‘they. are n = yellow. paint. ; direct and altogether ‘worthy ‘descend L “If this particular boy were ours we would farm | august epic line, of all. the h "| him out:tomorrow to some poor but honest farmer |race that have been celebrated in. 4 whio; needs.his help. And we .would. guarantee|from Mesopotamia to California! j that after a week with the cows and chickens this| ~The wanderings of this grou 2 | bright youngster would be found where he should |lowing 15 years covered the entire west from the a beat 3 a..m..and that The Tribune and his mother| Missouri to the Pacific and from, Canada to Chi- would -be ‘relieved: of ‘further anxiety as to his;huahua; nor is there anything in the epic. liter- whereabouts and good conduct at all hours. _ |ature of the past that excels’ jn. shéer wonger- pe : : stuff: the bare facfs of their experiences in the . Birmingham has placed.a replica of an old fash-| vast western wilderness. ‘i ae i * ioned pillory where pro-Germans can see it. They| The career of Jedediah Smith a : should build a ducking stool over a municipal pig- | though, unlike most of his comrades, she was a ca . Stye—anid use it. . : Cheeta gentleman, quite’ as..expert: with “his eh = Cee OR) 9 T -|Bible as with. his rifle, and-as just Gees - WAR LABOR ‘ ~ |fearless. -In thé tareer misanitis a 2 After Aug.’ 1 no employer with war business | was truly: Homeric; and he managed to ‘pack into igi wha has a-force-of more than 100 workers ‘will! his brief life enough high adventure to.make an . th be permitted to recruit common labor and all such employers will be required to use the federal em- ployment service. ‘In time it is proposed to extend the .federal agency's employment field to include labor.’ It will from the beginning regulate and.control employment in non-war work by gov- mental control over. raw materials, fuel and transportation. 2 ‘The, new. labor supply. program will: be conduct- ‘accordance wit hthe following four cardinal 1. War work must have men at any cost. 2. Withdrawals: of- workers from: non-es- 3. The volunteer principle will: be followed - in dealing with the individual, worker. 4. Only fit men will be sent to-war indus- . ee This means that ‘the labor resources of the Fifth Ave. Bldg. CHICAGO, Marquette | country-are going to. back up the fighting resources 2 in‘the most efficient‘ and capable..;manner. . —— MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS means the end of wholesale labor “stealing” and x ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use “poaching” that has been largely responsible for wise credited ‘in this paper and also the local news pub-| the disorganization of the labor supply. - No long-| : er will private labor agencies’ reap a ‘profit by : tempting workers in one: part of the country to - Ai rights of publication of special dispatches herein !ianve their jobs and go to another section, pften sre also reserved. ______________ on |far distant, under promises; many highly colored, : (SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE |of higher wages. Inadequate as the immediate supply of unskilled labor is, from 25 to 40 ‘per cent of it has. been SUBSCRIPTION RATES rendered idle because it' has been:rushed from place to:place by the recruiting agents.’ Farmers will:be one of the essential producers to benefit.’ In many sections, notably in the south and east, farms have been:swept:baré ‘of labor‘by |’ private recruiting agents. This practice ‘will be ended.and this year agents will be prevented from)", going on farms and ‘taking away harvest labor at). the’time ‘it is' most needed, ane ans There will be no conscription of: labo compulsory upon the worker's side other than as the “work or fight” order affects those of draft Se os : age, and there will be no attempt made to prevent ‘ A TALK WITH A MOTHER any worker from changing his job’ or ‘applying| /.The editor was composing himself fora well-}for another one. if he wants to. The restraint| earnéd five-minutes rest Monday afternoon when | will be all on side of the labor recruiting employ- there-swept down upon the sanctum an appar-|er. For instance, it will be ‘impossible for a street ently. much agitated lady. With -her was /car company which boycotts its own: employes boy. whom we recognized as one of the gal-|because they wear. union buttons to go out into lant trio who early Monday morning. splashed|the rural districts and coax farm hands out of yellow paint about The Tribune premises. “Fine,”|the food fields. ; ; 7 Another thing, if the wo old Spartan type—the boy will apologize and per-|peals from the United States employment serv- haps do a little volunteer scrubbing.” But, alas,)ice they will know that there is dire need.’ Writ- alack, ‘twas not so. This fond mother: came t0| ing about the employment service, President Wil DEMAND an apology from The Tribune, becauselcon says: “It must also protect labor from. in we had been so thoughtless as to use the name) sincere and thoughtless appeals’ made’ to’ it ‘under of her precious infant in telling of the yelloW/the: plea of patriotism, and assure it that when = paint, outrages to which a number of perfectly it ig-asked to volnteer in some priority industry, | | respectable Bismarck institutions had been sub-|the need is real.” : p ! This is nothing more oy Jess than getting our __Yésterday this fond mother did the talking. To-| war jabor problems: down. to a réal:win-the-war ¢. ‘it is our ‘turn. We. had: resolved. to dismiss arfciéncy, placing war work above ‘all. others, thfsaffair-as a-boyish prank. . The discovery of| where it rightly belongs and where it.must’ stay. ttitude toward the.matter and the knowledge | nii’the day of final-and’ complete vie ; Ly, "moray Wy rkers receive labor ap- ORTH DAKOTA BOY TELLS HOW YANKS SHOWED HUNS REAL FIGHT | Earl H. Toestevin) —With had aman hurt in the bayonet scrap ome off, gassed | with the Heinies. I don’t believe.there c more:than-10 men with him when *9iyear-old {he reached ‘the Germans either.” iectne Masten laughed. Ried but we had i |a good feed that» night. ‘W~ had been hi fi th : States | once in a ‘while we could hear them |interested in North Dakota men, There fthe-Germans that they} outchering cattle or pigs. ,The house were 16 of them;“young fellows: from id“fight; by-demonstrat*}1 hit that ntght had half a pig still) Fargo district. only one of whom was lity: at; Buresches’ Bail: }roasting with the firesstill going. Of! over 20 years of age. Included jn this né. Chateau. Thierry,in|course we got enough to eat in the tight*was the Tower City: basketball company, :corn . woolly. and” hardtack @|later and moved up .to the Bailleul woods. It was there that Mastrud|. AN. UNWRITTEN , ODYSSEY * It is a;fgct, much to be Ff dst national-Heroes are as yet scarcely |; mparatively’small circle of The: reason..is‘ that, when American history,'ag. taught in oyr schools, ve , (corn woolly and red-horse are synony- Tha % Bourésches as the | mous and translated mean corned beef | canes Wyhat Lamegn je, fhat the. here Their canned), but that fresh meat, and hot-|in the fight. ‘These sixteen’ North’ Da- it,.sure|Kotang ‘in ‘the marinés enlisted and ofour Known outside: of a historical specialists.’ ecame. our'jine and then| jist as though. we'd ordered posite’ the town’: of | tasted ding-busted. good.” . “Sorta Shocked Me.” 9 : age oy 2 ‘How'd you ever~get through that}. “Just tell the folks for us that we fire withdut'getting ‘hit?” I asked. F and ‘the.-boy® laughed. the: kgiser wishes -he.was enoyijng the “T-had-ahigh’ explosive--shell|/epace and quietude.of Hell... We, hit my pack, cut. the right: shoulder |none of us, would miss: this.for ‘all the strap and tear it off. .The’ buddy next'-money in the state of North Dakota,” to me got it in seven places in the Well they put a machine bul- j {let through the top and peak. of my| fully, what he said. i helmet, but I never -found that out; There were other Northwestern men until after we hit the town. Course|in the fight, but I have -seen few of it sorta shocked me a bit when I had|them. The buddies. referrd- to in this ag torn off but-I came-to ‘andj Were all enlisted in tl marines. on.” "May: 1; 1917. jo bravado about: the ld. /is: story, jus: ‘ honest, . western his’ luck‘in coming through: it all. ‘Tl me: state and he straightforward.) portionate emphd¥is tothe official expedit: Lewis ‘and Clark and the: exploring trips mont; Whereupon: the interest is ‘again, abruptly shifted to the Atlantic coast, and.a ‘vast body: of i$ unsuspected by ie work. of..taking the ebich |: the Germans Ope little incident illustrates two history. hings, how secure the Germans fan- cied themselves and the inventive or} », , f , Z The Germans had a big herd of cat- > itle in the field over which Mastrud’s Maanty gow hair. Counties caiees on the brave and vi wiht . , {thrilling dash for the machine guns. U ria These cattle were killed. : Wounded | the Cite men made use of;the dead carcasss as Ps “It -was' mighty funny to see “~ Opp san -| those buddies crawling up back: of Qclemericeliatiow, those dead cows. More machine gun arcratn fas bullet» would hit- the dead animals - ; and throw blood all over the wounded.| * fnfarnare HR, EVERETT TRuS, ingenius mind of the Americans. straight at the’ Heinies kept, ff got to-abont. 150 d then they pickéd’ up he spring of 1822, General Ashley and Major dad! arose betimes and beat it: out to win this|Henry of St. Louis set out with two keel boats and dey our daily bread. Ten‘o’clock was considered |a hundred trappers for the headwaters of the Mis- ‘ a‘ respectable bed-time. .We were usually glad to|souri. In the spring of the following year, Ash- ges salute our pillow at that -hour. If we did not, we|ley, having returned: to. St. Louis the previous] 14 other. teltows = kfiew quite well that we would have other. use| fall, led another hundred.men up river. In the for-our pillow after dad’s slipper had beaten taps: |roster: of these two parties are to be found the ‘We Nike to see spirit.and patriotism in a boy.|following names: James Bridger, Willidin Sub- We would like to see that spirit applied to some|lette, Thomas Fitzpatrick, David Jackson, Edward good end, and if the dear young things’ patriot-|Rose, Hugh Glass, Seth Grant and Jedediah Smith. “The Germans, had ‘machine guns in church _ steeple: tl u ‘they | Nad -anipers: all right but we captured 20 machine 1 the: tow! ‘watch: ‘they had been alreddy, Yead ‘the ‘cabled reports of how ‘these troops march- ed right up: to. the ‘machine “guns, grabveu the muzzles with their hands and turned-themsaround: I: Athsttie chap: who: in do- Othrt: put His-hand Dear SIRt— WE_HAVE NOTICED YouR Goon WORK POR SEVERAL YEARS, BUT WE CONSIDER IT A DISGRACE AND SHAME THE WAY YouR “WIRE THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON LONG CNOUGH. IT WOULD BE A GREAT SATISFACTION TO US ANO THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL IF You WOULD’ TRY SOMS OF YOUR PUGILISTIC STUNTS ON MRS. TRUG AND MAKG HER STAYIN A WOMAN'S PLACE. SHE IS SETTING TO BE A REGULAR NUISANCES role HER’ AD INFLUENCE ON Mieveius s JABUSES You. CONDUCT MAS A jew. Wi around... We.aure: got. al soup: Hein: ‘was. typical; se@ men. id ing al at think outavent t GOT THIS LETTER [THROUGH THE MAIC, I WANT To KNOW WHSTHER THS WRITERS AN BS LOCATED & Odyssey. He was. the first’ white tan;to travel PAY Za Y May ee Wy 2 gareene( oe “But say, I found my. pack the next day. It weighed enougk on some of the hikes we were on, I thought, but you ought to have lifted’ it when T found it. I'll bet it had .50 pounds of lead and shrapnel in it.” This force left Bouresches two days and several other boys got theirs. You have heard a lot about this fight.’ Well you could’ not: hear’ too much. Every Buddy had pretty much the,same story.as Mastrud, The boys team. However, it was.a far different | were’ sworn in during’ the, week of {intend to: keep right jon going :yntil said Mastrud, andethe.gleam of his eyes: was ample, proof that he meant So-here you have another little’ bit of BUY W, S. 5, OTHER a central route from: the Missouri to the Pacific, and his wanderings, sometimes with small parties, often alone, reached from the Columbia to the Mojave desert. He. was killed at the age of 26 by a band of Comanches, while hunting-for &/water | hole in the sands of the Cimaron river,. not: far, from the crossing of the old-Santa Fe trail. Until recently, only. the bare outlineefuhie-life was known; but, thanks to the recent discovery of his. manuscript letters ‘and jourrtals ‘by’ Prof, |* Harrison C. Dale of.the Wyoniinig ‘university, we ‘\ate“ now lable to “yet: something like a full-length Apolis Journal. NCE ORIENT PRIDE. Mery Is Now but a Desolate “>: Place of Ruin. re ‘eauite on the City. { New Merv and went We passed: on to Balram named after one of the sons of / which fs the station for Old Mery apd'the demesne of the Murghab, ‘formerly the property of the ‘ ly, Muynard Owen Williams ristian Herald. Buir- “the great pyramids Is. between the desert fe Accompanied by’ the twenty-year-old evmmissar, a remarke | @bly Antélligent’ young Russian upon the dlatrict with a decreasing police force; wé visited the: various ruins whtch mark’ the spots where the suc- céssive editions of Merv-stood. Merv ig‘ mentioned. in, the Zdroastrian books of. wisdom and, like every other old city, owed Ita existence to’a river—the Murghab. Seleucus -Nikator once foundéd 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 elyiiization owes so much, took charge, soon after the death of Mohamet, that Merv. became @ true metropolis. Huge dams were erected on the Murghab and the entire, oasis-was' well watered from the: irrigating ditches, Merv then ri- valed Bggdad ag the greatest city in the orient. -: Five centuries Jater, Jhenghiz Khan, enraged by thé,death of his son before the ramparts Of the queen city of the world, utterly destroyed it, The Arabic writers assert that’ nearly: a million pergous were killed at this time, Arable writers estimated Agures in a:typically, fréehandeéd’ way, , Fog: 200.yeuys Mery was-a ruin, but in. the fifteenth century it: was rebuilt and continued to exist until 1795, when the emir of Bokhara:deatroyed the wonderfal dam at Sultan Bent and thus turned the lovely. oasis {nto a des- ert. Massive as they are, the ruins of Old Merv are devotd of:interest. The young commmissar,: 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, whirled us back through the yarlous sites of ‘ruined, cities to the small town of Bairam All, where'a new system of irrigation isbuilding up.a new city. Otd.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 remaio above the scarred. plala where great, whom devolves the task of governing cities ‘stood, « Shortening: Crackers’ With’Cérn Ol. For - years cratker. bakers have thought that only animal fat:could be successfully used as shortening.in thelr ‘products, it being ‘belléved ‘that’ vege table fats, such’ as lard compound, corn’ ofl ‘and peanut oll would: net make: crackers which would keep ip hot weather. ‘For ten nionths, how- ever, a cracker baking’ concern ia Terre Haute, Ind., has: been ‘making commercial goods ‘with 13 .pounds of corn oll tothe barrel’ of’ flour instead ofan equal weight. of lard, and also using 25 per cent rye flour, to 75. per cent wheat. |, a teas i ; These goods went through’ the hot season last summer “without trouble, thus destroying what: wxs' practically .&. myth of. the cracker-baking trade, The rye-’mixture ,produces..a soda cracker and saitine “in’ no respect darker than a;straight wheat article, according’ to’a ‘bulletin ‘of the United States food administration. _ Barley flour’ is also suitablé for cracker pak ing. hd fe ‘Women Also Serve. While'in the larger cities their work 18 not, so. Hoticeable, ‘Inthe 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 j plants, ‘be- cauge there: are, still ample. nunbers of men available. Hoyeyer,.in plants where. ‘there is; much light’? manufac turing women: are to be found in profu- ston.’ In *stores, *hotels*und* even.‘ 1a’ street cars, American women are tak- ing. ‘the places of men’ with the col- ors, Women soda-water dispensers. and: eleyator..runners are now quite common - in’ most _ cities,—Scientifie American, oi 3 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 Sctence Monthly... It 18:desighed to” protéct the eyes and the upper part of the face from splinters of wood, stdne, sand and metal thrown ‘up by exploding’ shells, The new device ig:merely an: adapta- tion of the chain doors. which have been introduced into metal, ‘chemical and glass works {n recent-years to pro- tect the workers from the heat: of the furnaces and the. splashes of moltén material. It consists of a-fringe of separate short lengths-of fairly heavy chain, which effectively arrests the fly- ing particles... On account of its loose hess, it--does not seriously iatert With ‘the viston, - is “