The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1918, Page 4

THE BISMARCK: TRIBUNE YWntered at the Postoiiice, Bramarck, N. D,, as Second ice, Bismarck, ) as Class eMstts ; ie . MANN : = = G. LOG. ‘A Special Foreign Representative’ NEW YORK, Pritth Ave. Bldg.;. CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bidg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange, ‘MBER 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. are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches hereiu are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year..,. «$6.0 Daily by mail per year. Daily by majl per year (in state). Daily by mail outside of North Dako! SUBSCRIPTION RAT! (In North Dakota) One year by mail. Six months by mal ‘Three months by ay Zoutside of North Dakota) weeee ees 685.00 Six months... oe 2.50 Three months .. teeeenes City “Carrier Service Six months . Fares months’ pe month oe nna canta: THE STATES 0! id me utlisbed ie) MR. BRINTON'S CODE Now that Mr. Brinton has: formally. published his code on'the first page of Mr. Townley’s offi- cial North Dakota organ, the situation is simpli- fied. “There are certain matters,” says Mr. Brinton, “which. can. best be \settled out of court.” H Mr. Brinton has conducted his life along. this; line, but, to our knowledge, he had not previously formally proclaimed his ethics. Mr. Brinton’s method of “settling certain matters out of court” is well. known. /His proclamation will ‘be’ pre- served. 11.60 NEWSPAPER. tate al Austria is shuffling the pack and dealing new generals. Their whole deck hasn’t a winning card, THE REASON WHY Many are indicted and, few are convicted. The average citizen has begun to wonder why. David Lawrence, writing’ in The Saturday Evening Post on “Germany's 3,000- Mile Guns,” offers this: ex: planation: “The treason statutes, as a matter of fact, were drawn in’ the fifteenth century, when no condi- tion. such as industrialism-existed, and the only kind of treason thought of. was an uprising with an armed force in rebellion against the state. But the present war has proved that far’ more damage can be done by propaganda than by. violence. Chok- ing the industrial machinery of the most resource- ful of all the belligerents, America, would be worth a great deal more than the wiping out of a divi- sion of American troops. Splitting public senti- ment and interfering with the whole hearted sup- port of the war both by financial means and with men and money would. le worth more than even the destruction of a few munition plants by bombs. Treason statutes originated under a different type of government, the monarchical kind, when re- bellion against the state could be personal and tangible and obvious. Nowadays we have a gov- ernment by the people. Public opinion is sovereign today, and rebellion against: public opinion, poison- ing it and dissipating it, is as much a species of treason as revolt against the monarchs of old. “But even in the cases of those few American citizens of German descent tried for treason the federal judges insisted that the government here had to prove that a tangible effort had been made to aid the enemy; in fact, had to prove just how the enemy had benefited. The department of jus- tice couldn’t get convictions with such interpreta- tions of the law—unless, perchance, Germany is- sued testimonials describing just what aid and comfort she had received from her efficient agents and champions in the United States. “Of course there is no appeal for the govern- ment in criminal cases, so these could not’ be car- ried: to higher courts. And the only thing to do was to try out other cases in other courts and at the same time ask congress for more law. That decision insisting that the government had _ to, prove that the enemy had been aided was a body blow. to the treason statutes. “But the department of justice was fairly suc- cessful in getting: long terms of imprisonment by prosecutions under the espionage law of June, 1917, which had in it two clauses that were far from satisfactory in reaching propagandists ‘but which-not a few federal judges recognized. One of. these clauses punished by 20. or 30’ years’.im- prisonment anyone who attempted to cause in- subordination in the military or naval establish- ment, ‘and another prescribed an equally severe punishment for those who willfully, obstructed the reeruiting or enlistment service of the United States. About 250 convictions were obtained. But gradually the federal judges in some parts of. the country grew very technical. In one case, in Mon- tana,.a German sympathizer delivered .a seditious harangue: to ‘the effect that he hoped. Germany would;whip the United States, that Germany jhad a right to sink American ships without warning and that he ‘would flee rather than go to war. He was tried and. acquitted. The federal judge charged the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty because, as he argued, it was not proved that in "All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ae line there is:evidence of Irish, German, Polish, 691 ian blood. put the words ‘attempt to obserict’ inthe’ law, and this revised the whole subject ‘of dealing with the propagandists, lynching of Robert Prager in Illinois.” : Berlin has a-typhoid outbreak from poigotied milk. Perhaps that lacteal fluid. was intended for one of the prison camps. THE CASUALTY LIST There’s a big American story in the daily cas: ualty list, if you read behind the names. What is an American? What's in a name? In one day’s list you find ‘Hoskins, Kohlmeier, Maciejewski, Nowanty, Perry, Sullivan, Verdou- kas, Bergman, Laughlin, Beckerle, Doeritwg, Gan-| ski, Murphy, Sparks, Villoto, Szyperki, Cooper, Hutchinson, Foohey, McCue, Schwartz, Stone, Pat- terson, Thomas, Brown, Farrell, Maximovich, Mo- iavity, Walton, Knutson, and so on. Now read behind the names: Figure out where the ancestors of those American boys came from. We can’t tell what countries contributed’ ‘their blood through the female line, but in the male Russian,’ Greek, English, Scandinavian ‘and. Ital, Yet everyone of these soldiers isan ‘Americas | —fighting under the Stars and Stripes. ‘ We have read about the Indian scouts with Pershing’s army. They come of the onjy. original American race. After Columbus came the Span-|’ iards, the English, the Dutch, the Irish, ‘the’ Ger:, mans, the French, the Italians, the Poles, the Hun: garians, the Russians and others.’ All contributed their blood: \ All went into’ the sf great melting pot to come out as Americans—the Americans of whom all of us now are so proud, It ought to prove tq the, world that what hap- pened in America, may’ just as well: happen in Europe—that if the arbitrary and artificial boiind: aries made by foolish, greedy kings and kaisers and czars were blotted out there could be a;new).’ European race of brothers who could/ ‘dwell ::to- gether in comparative peace and harmony. - But first we must help the people over thete— all of them—to get rid of their autocrats: so: thet; : : over there as well as over here there can be gov-|. ernment of the people, by the people | and for. the people. . i Germany has a soap shortage. From, ‘the: ap pearance of the Hun captives. we see, that ‘won't inconvenience them much. : aes ete See! ‘A Berlin band loaded their horns’ ‘with; stolen fruit at a harvest concert. Their harmony was}: probably as much physical “strains” as’ musical ones! : No wonder the German press chariges? British tennis rackets ‘and otherwise torture the ‘poor dears! thd WITH THE EDITORS - * ‘THE PRESIDENT’S APPEAL Lynching is unpatriotic. treason to American principles. j thinks it worth while to address the American|{ minds these self-evident truths. make an end of this evil.” His words are well spoken and opportune: is need, for the American people to consider the| disgrace of mob outbreaks not only as a domestic world opinion. ' ’ We are battling in the world war for the canbe of démocracy. How shall we fight for democraty, as a boon to the oppressed peoples of: Europe, if our own record is. stained by violence apd mob outrages? How shall we convince Europe hat we are disinterested champions of freedom, when we abuse her at home? How shall we meet the Ger- man accusation that the justice which is out- raged in America, is not the sort to force on Euro- pean peoples by arms? And it is‘not only the south, alas, that permits mob outbreaks. We have lynched no one in‘Minne-} apolis—as yet. But we have seen a menacing start made on the road that leads to sacrifice of ed the inability or unwillingness of our law offi- cers*to restrain that spirit and stamp it out. Else- cowardly yieldings to the suddenly stirred paseit of mobs, to the fierce desire to. burn and even in order: to, attain victory .in. controversy,. 0' wage or other differences. If America.is to be the shining champion’ ‘gt j human liberties, of democracy as the best ‘form!’ of government man has yet invented, shall we per-_| mit. her to stand forth with this blot on her sctt- cheon? ‘As the president so forcefully. points out, we have made our own ‘laws. obey them? hall we adopt the debased moral standards of our enemies at home, while striv to overthrow those standards abroad? The president’s appeal should stimulate solgmn reflection in every American mind, and thus bring the case. of any -particular individual recruiting and Giginerl Macetaly been_obst: ofertas about a livelier sense of dis dual responsil lity nal? ?si” thay a situation made acute by the}. : ys doubling: oulr-work me laying it, and : i) oti. ¢] we begin’ to wi i -. | stupid. dg. to, gon up, cruelly treat captives. English society. girls motor eens jude. tae att Hun prisoners around London, provide them with] of 150 cayes, as well ; ‘allow ‘their, ways:|'speeded which’ he \was the first two weeks. df August we all} fortiine. Mob outbreaks are} purpose. to” take a’ good outing, in the Hor arvest fields ‘and to’return, with re-)'~ pewed youth and vigor. Before going may. give you my advance, qvini ile Tax itter of ‘E@peral inter-| ter, England, for cases of rheumatism, : ae Though if:is over worth while to appeal to governors and law offi-/a" an opinion. < given. cers everywhere, as well as to “men and: women ment: phi have “obtain of every community who revere America and.wish peter deo to keep her name without. stain or reproach, ” S01) nold ; eres The president hi people for. the purpose of pushing homé to® their the Motor, He thinks: it) ¢, consideration, but in relation to. the effect on EVERETT. TRUE. she - us THING OF TAKING OFE MY HAT TO life to the unreasoning mob spirit. We have test-| where over this broad country there have been| -. Shall we not then |-’ for. theo! s that too, often, disgrate:us—| “Look HERE, MR. Thompson ! 1 GY A LETTER FROM MY SON RODAY WHo IS AT THE FRONT - The, KIO. WAS BEEN OVER THE: — “Top <::Now. Jusy USTEN WHAT RDAY. EVENING LETTER By ‘Justice E Robinson ‘ \@-laws ‘delays. | dtatricts. The first. principle of taxa- the raha Sor many }tion is that no tax shall he levied only joy. the district or peopt> whe pay it, jand reap the direct benefits. The | Motor: Vehicle tax is laid mostly or} the people of the cities and, villages, |Wwhor are denied any direct. benefit from, the tax, because no. part, of ft) “\iway.be expended in cities or villages. gléndar It is.true that. whatever benefits: the country: may, benefit the adjacent city, | whatever benefits one, man may} fit his neighbor, but that is no taking mon2y out of the of one man and giving it to The fact is het the Motor 3 every SOOLINEMANIS “BADLY HURT IN SPEEDER CRASH William Engle of Bismarck, a well [known Soo lineman, suffered a brox- én.arm and.a-fractured anklé at Wit fon’‘o; nSaturday evening, when a operating @eliberately ;struck’ a. spike which apparently had been driven in at the junction of two} tails, by some - thoughtless: boys. Mr. hEngle was. picked up by. witnesses of got ithe accident and brought to his home 518 14 th street, where he is résting mfortably as could he expected ; Engle’s many ‘friends in Bis- marck and other points along the Soo ine: sympathize with him in his mis- we, were 50 ere le BUY W. S. S.— Novel Treatment. “A whirlpool bath isthe novel: treat- ment applied at a hospital in'Manches- a onth sirice following typhoid and dy: sentery, The gab ni divided! tank; large enough for 12. dhen,con- a reargu-| tains 4-feet of water and is: provided with. seats on: which the bathers are {um feed to thelr necks, The tempes. 5 eis kept at 93.degrees I'ahrenheit, | Just below that of the body. The room is°qulet and dimly lighted, und after fri hour in the bath the men go to By Conde AG ANO.SUCH CEREMONIES DON'T S. THAT— THEY'RE 4 EATERNALS We, WOUNDED BOYS * SHOW AMERICA'S Hope of New w Chance | Is the Dom. inant Note. IN PAIN DO NOT: MURMUR Chief Interest’ Ie in Outcome of Bat- tle'in Which They Were Hurt—Hos- pital Crowded’ With Men From Ail Sections. Who Were Barring the Way to Paris When They Got Their _ Wounde—Teleke ‘With Red Cross, The minute I entered ,the long hos- pital. corridor I was aware. of: a pair, of eyes. They were‘wistful; they were segrehing. They wanted something. ‘This: was one of our, base. hospitals, and I was there becausg it was crowd- ed with ‘wounded : Americans, writes Mary Brush: Williams in’ the Chicago Tribune. Our ‘boys’ had: smelied thie smoke of ‘battle and borne its wounds, Swathed {n bandages, they. crowded the wards. whose swinging doors waft- ed: the heavy odors of fodoform. Not. Bearly all of them could get: into the rooms, and the’ ovetflow lined the cor- | ridors in a lane of cots stretched end | to. end. Men .from the Mississippi basin end the wheat fields: of the Northwest, from California, New York aud Ken- tacky. filled that hosp{tal; and it was Bo ight skirmishing that had brought them there. ‘They were barring the way to Paris when they got their ‘wounds. tn’ a cot Against an fend wall sat {boy whose gaze‘ fascinated me: One leg lay stiffly ‘in: a cast outside’ the bedclothes and one arm swung from & pulley. His’ pallid face ‘was: framed in strong, ‘black hair that reached backward against the upright pillow. Only his eyes showed any animation, }and, although we were fully a half- block apart, they reached “out and spanned the distance, stretching an in- visible bridge between him and me. Yosaid to myself he wanted some thing and that I would go.and fetch it for him. I hurried as fast as I could, . |, which wasn't-very fast, because of the Congestion. of the corridor by blan- keted men on stretchers who. were betrig wheeled along the narrof: path between the cots. Nurses hurried along, :with. thermometers and Red Cross men with cups of grdel. “There’s a good deal of traffic along this boulevard,” grinned-a boy from behind a diagonal bandage with which they had bound his head. fants News of Regiment. All through my slow progress those _|@yes never left my face. They kept «-/ drawing and shortening the bridge be- tween us. As I neared his bed in: the last lap of that trip I pushed past a ‘ {doctor and all but upset a cup of cof- “|fee on a chair besfde a cot, so urgent seemed this one boy’s need. * “Easy, lady!” He threw out his. voice foward me. “Could you possibly. tell me have they got any news of my regiment.’ “Do you know whether they held?”: He made no personal request. As I was: gasping to recover from the “question*:so unforseen ‘another voice re-enforced him. It'came froin @ man lying. fiat-on his back in the the next cot with his eyés bandaged @rawn, unparticipative look -of those ; Who cannot see. “What I want to know is, did they hold the railroad station in front. of —? That {is the important question. If ‘they. did, we're all right, and those >} Boches could never get another foot | Bearer. Paris along that front.” A boy on a neighboring cot made & gesture to indicate to me that this “| anan’s sight, was forever: gone, .Only. supper forehead and his lower jaw ( fe Mitte. beyond the: bandage; but they were. set-and sonare,) “I with ¥ a ‘-bequidn’t have, SPIRIT IN WAR: wei) connecter. MONDAY; JULY :29, 1918: ‘bad got t Paris.” ‘T later’ got his record. He was wile Mam:Myers’ of Louisville“and he trav- eled for his. father, Mi is in the liquor business. + '’ ‘ Avolds Open Fight: * «1m so interested in my regiment,” said.the blind boy. His-neighbor beck oned to: me and whispered that he nev> er thought about anything else, He never talked about himself, nor made & personal request nor asked if his know. {f his regiment had been’ re- lieved. A visitor had come.and asked asked her to. please find out anything she could about his regiment. She read the papers of three consecutive days which mentioned them. ‘Then ‘all news ceased, But'the blind:boy's. only. comment was ‘that ‘they must have been relieved. T' was-invited to sit down and: the conversation became. general. “Those Boches can't fight {n:.the open,” sald Frank Deluca, a boy. from the lung. He: panted “a tittle” talked.- “Thid ‘was an open scrap an I put four of them on the run with my bayonet..:‘They can’t stand’ the sight of & bgyonet Individually, they ain't: © so brave, It's that theyire organized. and go ip: great lots or else. they thy in the woods or in the trenches an under cover, where they are dead sate, “Oughta't you ' stop. talking?” A stigdt ‘ual mopnting bis cheek, “Don'¢ “ you want a‘:drink of water?” ‘His. hand was over the sore spot in hie in: pain?” You know what those Boches do, goatt you?” .Thet is just-about as 1 in conversation you. will ever ge He continued with bis narrative, “Of course you're not supposed, to: shoot when you-see-@-R¢d.Cross on a man’s arm and he :fa, ring @ atretchér, Well, we saw'e lot of them one day and let up/ugéil,all ofp sudden it oe curred’ to ane ol vee that, those, stretch- det: slistpes.”” One of our, be 8. Just took the tip of his bayo- ‘filpped back the gray blanket it. ‘There’was a whole moun- ridges. We uncovered an- other na what do, you’ think, showed rT hse. were regular soldiers, but | you ought to have seen them: take to their’ heels in the scrap that followed. We used to say at home that my: Nttle Sister world ‘cry If you pointed: y finger at her. Well, "let me. tell cide those,Germans will fly if you, bola 8 “| payonet at’ them. It was’a machi gun: that got ;me ‘over: in the woods under cover. ': e were going over, the top.” iu ‘No Need of Brandy. There. “Did they.’give you brandy Lge? you arate give their, men ‘ether be- fore'they sénd'tl ‘tliem:out Into the-open, ‘Americans don’t seem fo, want” anytl You- “don't feel afrajd.when the ‘time comes.’ Americans haven't sense enough to’ be afraid,” grinned a man who lays0’ flat:and heavy: ant plifeless'on his'cot that ‘he’ had not ‘at: tracted attention before. . - One: of his cdtipantons whispered to me’ that. this was Alva’ Ketchum of Tennessee, and that Ke, was something of a ‘hero... “Where: dre. you wounded?” I de manded. “In the back.” he answered, “1 got the bayonet in the back. I was taken prisoner and I went along with them for 4 ways and then I figured It thet Td rather bedead than a prisoner to those ‘people, so I started a scrap. I didn’t: have anything. but my hands, but I knocked two of them down. Then the third. stuck: the bayonet {nto me.” ‘That was all: he voluriteered about him. self. : *John Mater was an -engineer from Rochester, N. b who had fought out in the open and had” gone ovér’ the. top, -he sald, and it was very urudual that!one: in bis, branch of the did so. He. was complaining tl had never been in bed-for a day’ be fore, and he simply could not atand tt. His: wound was in his arm. “Oh, well,” T said, “they'll let you be up ina day. or. two, and they will send you’ home presently, Your contribu. tlon:to your covftry is-made.” + “Don't tell” “thing: ‘ike that. At this timé hot ould be ‘a nice place for'me!", 5 ‘That is the spirit of all of them. All Gager to Get Back. : Presently. I_moved to a different quarter in the corridor and a boy from South Dakota beckonhed.me. Confiden- tiafly, he was worrled about-his leg. He feared.it would have to go, and If it did he would never reacts the front again. His nelghbor wanted me to: write:@ letter for him. His:name was Mike Sullivan and he lived in Wyoming.. He wanted. his father .add smother told that their: letter. to him had: come, but, he. had not. been,,able to read It . because it was hapded”to him before daylight’ just previous to his starting for the attack, and just a-little.after daylight he was wounded and the let- ter got blotted: with his blood. But they. were not to ‘worry, for 1t was-nothing and; he would. be back, at work tn a: few days... Back’ at work meant ‘his )job-in the trenches‘and not ténding cattle An Wyoming. OTHERWISE HE WAS 0. K Internal Organs Have Trans: 3 ferred Places; = Ss ** Sacramento, Cal.—Army doctors,put the -stethorcope to .Oree , Calloway's left breast: but couldn't hear his heart . beat. > Amazed at the siience, ‘they , instl- tuted a ‘search.’ It. was, located: far- ther down on the right side, where the liver should have been. The liver and alae ‘aoKs ood .A¢ iit? thoué Paine: sight was gone forever. He wanted to .- him if. he wanted anything, and he. New York ‘state, who had been shot !n Then’ they're cérefal to pick you off.” - Army 'Docters ‘Find California’ Maw - ‘over and his face wearing the with- | - , a ceareaeaetaretnaa L ~ Re | Qn we \ | | EN { 4 4 & + y ay " 4 r