The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 1, 1918, Page 4

SMARCK TRIBUNE red a foatoffice, Bismarcl . Dy, as Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - - - = itor jal Forei, epresentative NEW YORK, Prifth ‘Aves Bldgs CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchan; 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 in, : A eka of publication of special dispatches herein Y reserved. rai All rights of publication of special dispatches herein TEMBER At 0 _OF CIRCULATION AUDIT BUREAU 0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year. $6.00 Daily wy mail per. year.. a very Daily by Lest per year AY state) iad . 4 ide O} 01 al ° eooee GI Pa by mel SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One year by mail #4.00 Six months by mail aft Three months by mail re we $5.00 2.50 » 1.25 5.00 00 ne ss One month .........- o THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Bastablished 1873) ip THE CAVALRY OF THE AIR In the meantime American production of air- craft goes on. The quantity-production stage has been reached, and before next spring thousands of American airships will be in France,- with plenty of well trained American fliers to man them. ‘ | Then we may expect a new phase of the war.: The artillery may shell the Hun trenches, but whole armies of airplanes will fly over the trenches and get at the German soldiers behind. They will bomb their ammunition dumps, cut loose with machine guns and make ready for the infantry to follow along and clean up. With the cavalry of the air all ready for the big part it must play, the spring drive of 1919 will start the march to Berlin. Then the cruel Huns will get a dose of their own war medicine. The fighting will be on German ‘soil. And the end of it may mean the perpetual internment of the whole Hohenzollern family. With the disappearance of “penny papers” here comes the advent of paper pennies in Belgium. FOOD ADMINISTRATION © Like the tax collector’s job of Biblical concep- tion, the food administrator’s service is liable to stir up:'more resentment than commendation. He “hits the: bread basket daily, and, whatever. glory, there may be in his service, the public is too prone to overlook and to underestimate. -The Tribune would be remiss in its duty were it to pass over the service being done by O. W. Roberts of this district. He has-used good judg- ment in handling the food administration. North Dakota is probably under stricter regulations than any other state. Federal Commissioner Ladd has stopped. up every possible leak, and he is well rep- resented on the Slope by Mr. Roberts, whose only motive and whose only compensation in this work is to carry out the instructions of his state and national chiefs. . There should be the most earnest cooperation, Anyone who reads intelligently the news from Europe knows that food is the scarcest commod- ity in the world today and that it is only through the closest kind of economy. that a world-wide famine can be averted. , ; Don’t cuss the food administrator. Just remem- ber. that the small sacrifice you may make at home is insignificant in comparison to the full measure of devotion poured out by the boys over there. . @ Paper supply to German newspapers again is cut. To save space, they might confine news solely to accounts of German victories! WE’VE LEARNED OUR LESSON Governments by the people have been charged with a short memory. Critics have said that democracies are ungrateful. eS ‘. Forty years or so after the Civil war it became modish to declaim against the pension system. Maybe the ‘pension system was imperfect. Still we, the younger generation, make the mistake of confusing the worth ofa scheme devised for the recognition of great public service with the worth ‘of the service itself. We were not content simply to denounce the pension system; we discounted the very sacrifices of those boys of ’61. And about the same time we began. to amuse ourselves with an effort to prove that the feet of our national heroes, after all, had been clay. | And went about the baiting of our great with the methods of. Germany’s higher criticism. John Paul Jones, Paul Revere, even the great Washington, were raked over the coals of scandal. The Boston tea party was set down as an incon- sequential play to the gallery. Public speakers could ‘declare Washington’s soldiers at Valley Forge a gang of ragamuffins and get away with it. “. We wonder if, perhaps, German propaganda, as well as the historical method German univer- sities taught American college faculties, didn’t help to breed in us Americans the cynicism with which we had come to regard the glories of our republic’s past. No matter. We have learned our lesson. And ‘when those’ boys over there come back over here, bringing with them security for America’s free- dom, there can never come a day when the least of them can charge that America’s democracy is ungrateful. There can’t, can there? Altogether now: NO! —-————-—_——_. AIMED AT JUDGES Senator Owen has reintroduced the child labor bill and added to it a section forbidding the ques- tioning of the law by any court, forbidding the 'appellate power of the supreme court, and for- |bidding any inferior judge from permitting the constitutionality of the law to be raised in his court. 4 This prohibition does not make a precedent, eral instances, recognized the right of congress to forbid it to exercise appellate jurisdiction, in certain cases. Nor do we see that it furnishes a sure way by which the people can get legisla- tion they want despite the supreme’ court. ' Sup- pose that some “1: 1 constitutionality of this measure to be raised in his court. The matter would then have to go to the United States supreme court, wouldn’t it? It is said the kaiser’s board, even on state occa- sions, was never bounteous. Now, when he has a banquet it must be a basket party! But then you can’t really blame Hindenburg for feeling ‘a bit under the weather. Probably Kaiser Bill isn’t feeling very well himself. Germany has arranged for a Bolsheviki guard at the German embassy in Petrograd. Better name for these Prussian kameraders would be BOCHEviki! Kaiser’s half brother held in New York as a so long deciding to cage this bird of plot-and-prop- aganda plumage! Huns now organizing film trust for after-the- war monopoly. No matter how well “screened;’ their operations won’t “get by” allied anti-Teuton trade censorship, which “sees all, knows all.” | WITH THE EDITORS. | THE SOCIALISTIC MENACE ; . There has recently been brought to: public at- tention a remarkable prophecy ‘as’ to the dangers of radical socialism in Russia and the United States. . It- was written 10‘ years’ ago by H:°G: Wells, the English socialist. Mr. Wells’ prophecy with regard to socialism runs in part as follows: =» >, $2 why ‘Social “democracy. may conceivably become. a force that in the sheer power of untutored faith may destroy. government and not replace it. I do not know how far that is not already the case in Russia. | 1 do. not. know. how far this: may not ultimately be the case in the United States. . “Untutored faith that may destroy government and not replace it,”-is.a phrase singularly descrip- tive of the Bolshevist debacle in Russia. Yet a decade ago Mr. Wells foresaw that condition. Even more remarkable was his coupling of Russia and the United States in his forebodings. For Mr. Wells: is a theoretical. socialist who is enamored of the dream of a society existing under such envisioned conditions, but who: has a lively sense of the dangers involved in a blind effort to actualize the dream through sudden revolu- tent in France has been. conservative. It has aimed at bringing about changes gradually, through practical experimentation in. remodeling institutions. The Fabian society of English so- cialists, of which Bernard Shaw is a bright exem- plar, takes its name from that famous Roman gen- eral who won campaigns by a studied policy of delay. : i } But Mr. Wells perceived that Russian socialism was of a different temper, and he feared precisely what has happened—the. overthrow of orderly government without the capacity to replace it with anything but anarchy. He wrote: “Suddenly and instantly to deny and abolish private property would be—I write as a convinced and thorough socialist—quite the most dreadful catastrophe human society could experience.” The Bolshe- vists have made good his prediction in Russia. There is alsé the significant circumstance that in the United States, which Mr. Wells coupled with Russia in his. prophecy, the socialist. organ- ization has fallen into the hands of Marxian rad- icals, men who boldly advocate the abolition, of private property, and who propose precisely what: the Bolsheviki proposed and attempted to bring about with such disastrous results in Russia. And not only is the American socialist organiza- its corollaries of disloyalty and fostering of class hostility, but American socialism has also brought forth such menacing by-products as the I. W. W. practicing the destruction of property through seeking to achieve its confiscatory purposes through acquisition of. political power. and Hillquits and Bergers the making of Lenines and Trotzkys, if opportunity should <ever. offer. What Wells feared for Russia, has come ‘about: What he feared for the United States can be pre- vented. But to prevent it requires popular edu- cation in the real nature and: putposes of Ameri- since the United States supreme court has, in sev-|. inferior judge” does permit the), dangerous alien enemy. Strange that we've been|- tion. Socialism in England and to a certain ex-|[ -QUR LAW. OF EXISTENCE ‘By PANNIE’B. WILLIAMS, | “When: Btérnity breaks: in‘its splendor he secrets of life there unfold, “the records of Time have been ‘opened Andthe scroll of our being unrolled, , Shall’ find that each life has a: mission . ‘each soul has a law of its own, — ¥ Abie hie ptr that winds up to. a summit ¥ > Must! Bé trodden ‘at wil! “and“alone. \- “<<: We may crave for the strength of our fellow As we seek the advice of a friend; ’. ‘We. may: wish the bright’ sky:of‘another . =. .Oler”our.-own’ darkened ‘pathway. to. bend}. * But. our. own’ law: of being: must’ guide’us*” F hgr can yield .us,his. strength ;. im, of existence will. reach* us ght-on our own path at length. ae k If we seek:a ‘world-echoing plaudit “And so-turn to what others have done, y, As we probe to the deeps for their triumph, And ‘the secret of how: it’ was won, We shall find that. the guerdon. was granted As each his own path nobly trod; ” Fora soul to)reach: all of life’s: meaning Must fit to the plan of its-God. tion thus committed to extreme radicalism with |. and the Nonpartisan league—one teaching and}. sabotage and other forms of violence; the other]: Thus we have in our Haywoods and ‘Townleys|. COME In, SiR—— AT WON'T BECONG! | lost his hearing has no sense of. mo- 4 Chamberlain when he “blew in” there can socialism,—Minneapolis. Journal. 2 J4n-her own strength, and ultimately tri- | | | | | | | | | | \ Sarrerne eo * | DEAF MUTES MAKE IDEAL AIR FIGHTERS ; Successful Experiments at Min- eola May Result in Their Be- ” ing Allowed to Enlist, ~ “Army officers of the Mineola avia- don field believe that the ideal air fighter has been found—the deaf. mute. As a result of tests made with recent graduates from: the New York Insti- tution for the Deaf and Dumb it is be- Meved that the war department will, soon authorize their enrollment in the flying service and that a ew field of war endeavor will be opened to thou- sands of young men all over the coun- try. ‘ Curlously enough it has been’ dis- icovered that deafness eliminates one of. the most dangerous factors in the training of military aviators. The man who. was born normal but who. has tion, so-it is explained by Maj, William H. Van Tassell, assistant principal of the institution. As. a result he loses the fear and the feeling of dizziness which a great altitude often causes in the normal man. “A number of our graduates have been tried out in airplanes at Mineola for several Sundays past,” said Major ‘Van Tassell, “and the tests have been 80 successful that it is quite likely they will be allowed to enlist. It will de- pend upon how further experimenta- tlon, which is now in progress, turns out. “The deaf have no sense of motion. If they lose the sense of hearing, after once having possessed It, they cannot tell, for instance, whether they are swinging in a hammock or whether it is stationary. They never become sea- sick or dizzy in high altitudes and lose all sense of dread, such as is expe- rienced by normal persons, The ex- Plosions of airplane engines are entire- ly unheard by the mutes, although in all other respects they are exactly as keen as anyone.” : —— ATE SIXTEEN PIECES OF PIE Chamberlain Also Consumed a Lot of Other Things—Waiters Work in. Relays, South Bridge, Mass—A check for $2.75 doesn’t mean much in a “Cafe de Luxe,” but in Wesson’s lunch it repre- sents many mouthfuls. That was the size of the check tendered Theodore recently, after working without cessa- tion for two days. Teddy said he was hungry. Head | Waiter Moses Monette couldn't main- tain the necessary speed, s0 some of his waiters helped ont in maintaining the guest’s commissary department. Chamberlain weighs only 123 pounds, but no German ever taken prisoner: displayed such munching propensities, Here is what Chamberlain put away in exchange for his $2.75; Two dropped eggs on toast, several griddle cakes, four muffins, two large cups of coffee, one glass of milk; three sections of strawberry shortcake fol- lowed, and then he asked for a piece | of custard pie.. He asked for another and another. When he finished he had eaten 16 ‘pieces of pie. Chamberlain topped his lunch with a draught of ice water and said® “Well, I ain’t as hun. gry as I was,"® as Binet eS Who'd. a Thought It? Reform is the work of renson slowly awakening from the lethargy of igno- Tance, gradually acquiring confidence ik dver‘the dominion. of preju- dice and custom, WAR; WORK’ REAL * TEST OF WORTH Only Pure-Gold Man or Woman Remains. s FRIED EGGS FOLLOW FLAG American Boys In France Demand Home Eats Early and Late—Much More Drudgery Than Glory for Vol- | ynteer in This War—Writer Shows One Side of What Work Means Over There—it’s Work That Counts, By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER, War work in France 1s a. erucetble, Thousands who have gone abroad .vi- stoning themselves as herole figures &t the very battle front, only to find that there Is much more drudgery than glory for the volunteer, have stood the test, Somé, who were insincere in thelr purpose, have weakened. They have been sifted out and ptobably are back in America, Only the: pure-gold man or woman ts permitted to remain and do the hard, prosaic work whieh will help the men jn khuki to win the war, ; H Just to show one side of what work j means over here, take one of the: con: ventional Y. M. C, A. huts outside the war zone. Up at the front, of course, there is plenty of exeitement.to‘leaven he-toll) the drudgery ; but until’a man or woman has been tried out and found able to make good, the red triangle is chary about sending that man or wom- an there, And go they are. tried out where there is nothing but work—just work, Dr. Charles Park's cafe for soldiers at Tours is such a place; The oume of the establishment 19 the Old Port Duquesne canteen, Originally it was a@ cafe,.one of those big flyblown, smelly buvettes so char- acteristic of this part of France, In | January last, when Doctor Park, @ resident of Santa Barbara, Cal, went there. the cafe was going out of. busl- ness, The war had put a crimp in its trade, The location was Just the one Doctor Park was seeking, so he bought out the proprietor. They Did Much. With the doctor were Mrs, Park, her daughters, Miss Betty and Miss Nancy. They had agreed with the Y, M. GC, A. not only to:pay all-te expenses of the Place, but also to do-all the work. On January 21 last the cnfe opened ite doors, the staff at the time consisting of the Park family and half a dozen paid workers,’ These latter did. the cooking, the dishwashing and the scrubbing of the floors. The Parke did all the rest. ists And what they did. was much... The first meal, breakfast, a regular Amer- foun meal, was' served &t 7 a.m. That meant’ that semeone—the Packs, {t happens—rose every day at'six o'clock or earlier, When breakfast was fin- ished they galloped on,. getting. ready for dinner. “And: when dinner. : was finished that’ did not mean: the day’s work was ended.’ Til ‘ten o'clock: be- lated soldiers from all. over Fyance j kept ‘dropping -in, demanding -fried eggs, fried potatoes, coffee, chocolate and tea, i ‘i The Sunday the writer was at. Tours one had ‘literally to:fight his way. ine side the cafe, Seventeen hundred meals were served that day. “And after It was all over, Doctor Park's two daugh- ters and the six assistants who now wait with then at the tables fell into the nearest chairs, ‘They tiad been ‘on their feet, all of them, anywhere from ten to fourteen hours, ¥ No Romance in War. “Romance?” inquired the older Migs Park. “There isn’t any such aninial— not in this mans’ war, at any rate.” . ‘The other Miss Park shiugged her shoulders disgustedly, “When this war's: over I hope to goodness I never lay eyes on food again. The whole. war's nothing else than foods; eggs, fried potatoes, then me eggs, fried - potatoes, after them ried eggs.” Again she gave “Food! Ugh!” sf pi cites But hardly had she'satd It when she leaped to her feet with a smile arid a quick, cheery. greeting. It was a be lated soldier, a boy -in the transport department, she welcomed. “How. do you’ do, Eddy. . Fried eggs? : Why, certainly.” And off-she sped as gayly And. cheerfully a8 ever, seeking.the ay's last, eggs for a hungry, 1 Tea BE! a hungry, tired lad And there you are, All work and Do play makes Jack a dull boy, and this war over here is ‘flled with that, Just the sane there are a lot of them in ¥rance, all volunteers‘in the work, that get good, sound, honest. joy. out of the. work they are doing, It may not be glorious, that work, but it’s Work that counts, “Most of the fight. ing in thls particular war is belt done behind the lines, a ——_—_ “FLAG THEIR HOME TOWNS” a Novel Stunt at Eagle Hut Cheere Soldiers, 0° P. F. Storrs of the Eagle Hut in London is Tesponsible for a popular Stunt at that cheery’ establishment, He has put up a large scale map of the United States and Canada and adorn: - it pith A request to American and ‘anadian soldier: ¢ their home towns.” prev ise The boys have fallen for there is always a group of Mipay ea lads around the Map, and tn less than @ fortnight it is already dotted thick, Middle Western towns between. the Alleghany mountains and: thé: Missle alppi have been flagged most. rw se | A Fantastical Terror. - “It's curious how soldier uniforms always show on influenceion feminine fashions.” « *sonlied Miss Cay: enne. “But. iwon't kéep.on shortening skirts’ until we “Hégiti' to _. | Imitate the Scottish Highladders,” | ay Nid . ” ie cn od