The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1918, Page 3

SATURDAY, AUG. 8, 1918. PON Meee Pty) nee BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE anatase CN Ae eel aia bis YL, BANKERS URGE ~ PRESS TO MAKE SURE OF NEWS Committee of State Association Raps False Report Given Newspapers BELIEVES STATE IS HURT Comments Especially Opon the Errors Made by Outside Publications Resolutions censuring the press for the publication of false or misleading reports tending to injure the faith and credit of North Dakota were adopted by the executive committee of the North Dakota Bankers’ association in conference here with the state coun- cil of detense Saturday. The story to which these‘resolutions specifically refer was sent ut by John B. Brown, assistant, secrétary of the state council of defense, to The Cour ier News, at Fargo, league daily news- paper organ, and was carried by the Associated Press and other news agen- cies upon authority given by the mem- ber of the council of defense who drafted the order providing for the taking’ over of all elevators In the state and their operation by the coun- cil of defense. This order was per- snally delivered to The Tribune ana to the local correspondent of the As- sociated Press by a member of the council of defense, and the order was published locally and sent out over the wire verbatim. The following day the authenticity of the order was denied by Assistant Secretary John B. Brown, who had already used the story in his own newspaper, The Cour- ier-News, and this denial was giver: the same publicity in the independent press of the state and the Twin Cities as had been given the original order as reported passed by the council: This explanation is given because the resolutions adopted here Saturday will in all probability be made the basis for further attacks vy the Town- ley organs and organizations in this state upon the independent press of North Dakota and the Twin Cities. The state bankers’ association advises that its resolutions are directed par- ticularly at newspapers published | outside the state which have publish- ed articles with little or not founda- tion in fact and then have proceeded to draw from these garbled stories; their editorial conclusions, to the det- riment of the faith and credit of North Dakota in general and to the injury of the bankers in particular. The resolutions follow: “Whereas certain reports freely cir. culated in our state and in neighbor. ing states by publication in newspa- pers, news items to the effect that tie council of defense had taken over all grain elevators of the state and ord- ered a moratorium on the foreclosure of chattel mortgages, and “Whereas the credit and good name of the state has been seriously in- jured by misapprehension and. mis- statements of the ‘facts in certain newspapers, more particularly those published outside the state, first, as to the taking over of the elevators, and second, as to the intent and pur- pose of issuing a moratorium on the foreclosure of chattél mortgages; “Be it resolved, that we, a special committee appointed, by the executive council of ‘the North Dakota Bankers association to meet with the execu- tive ‘committee of the state council of defense for the purpose of inquir ing into and giving publicity to‘the facts in connection with such harm- ful published statements, and for the further purpose of conferring with the state council of defense in their ef- forts to work out financial problems and policies made necessary by war conditions, do sincerely deprecate the hasty and ill-advised conclusions ar- rived at by representatives of certain newspapers without their having made a necessaryn and proper investigatio which should be made in all cases. “The publication of rumors, garbled news items and wholly false state- ments has done a very serious damage to the credit of our state; reacts di- rectly upon the work of the banks of the state, and hampers their efforts in financing the farming and stock-rais- ing interests of the state, and “Be tt further resolved that this committee pledges the loyalty of the banking and financial interests of the state in a cantinuance of their effort» to finance the farming, livestock and kindred interests of the state and asks the cooperation of the public press in a more careful investigation of ru- mors and items of news, the publica- tion of which without proper investt- gation may be harmful to the credit of and to the financial interests of the state.” The resolutions are signed by W. C. ‘McDowell, C. E. Batcheller, J. J. Nier- ling, F. W. Cathro and W. C. MacFad- den. News Bureau Dropped. To guard against harmful and mis- leading publicity and to assure all of the newspapers in the state impartial treatment in the matter of publicity originating with the council of defense, newspaper representatives from all sections of the state at their war con- ference in Bismarck in April. with Governor Frazier presiding, adopted, at the request of the council of de- fense, a plan of proceedure for the op- eration of a patriotic publicity bu- reau in connection with the council of defense. This bureau was installed, with,a newspaperman selected by the newspaper men’s advisory committee as editor, and a free weekly plate service covering activities of the coun- cil was supplied country newspapers, while a letter and clipping service was supplied the dailies. This bureau continued to operate satisfactorily un- til July 6, when on motion of Attorney General Langer, the bureau was dis- continued. BUY W.S.S UNCLE SAM SATISFIED WITH DAKOTA HIGHWAYS ———— Construction ee on earl high- bs in North Dakota is progress Ee gonerally to the sitisfaction of the federal inspectors, according to Te ports reaching the, state engineer’s ce. F. D. Hudgins, senior niga: | oftic way engineer with the federal office, of public roads, is directly in charge of federal aid highway construction in thi state. BUY W. 8 8. PATROL PLAN TO KEEP OUR HIGHWAYS UP Good Roads Now Being Built, Will Not be Allowed to Relapse If state Engineer Bliss can prevent it, the state highway commission is not going to fall into the rut which has characterized some copnty boards in the past by permitting good roads upon which hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to revert to dust for lack of care. The state high- way commission, announces Mr. Bliss, now is devoting considerable atten- tion to the completion of plans for the maintenance of all reads improved under state or federal aid. The high- way board is attempting to estavusa a patrol system which will be ever- lastingly on ‘the job, and representa- tives of the state engineer's officc now are meeting with county boards in various counties in which work is being done and arranging to contract this patrol duty ‘to farmers. Contracts entered into with “High- way patrolmen” provide for dragging the roads, filling ruts, cutting weeds and keeping culverts and bridges in repair. This work'is to continue from spring ‘until the roads freeze up in .the fall, and is expected to result in perfect highways. BUY W. RED CROSS HANDLES © », LETTERS TO GERMANY Follow Plan Which {sas Spy- Proof as Is Possible to Devise. To prevent the possibility of valu- able information getting into Germany, the American Red Cross, in sending letters behind the enemy lines at the request of persons in this country, is following carefully a plan worked out by the state department to do away: with code. Americans, Germans or others in the United States wishing to communicate with relatives in Germany must now write out their messuges in Red Cross chapters throughout the country. ‘These are sent through the division of- ficers of the organization to national headquarters, Here they are rewrit- ten and the wording absolutely chang- ed to prevent the sending of any dia- gram or secret code. The messuges are given to the censorship board and are passed or refused by them as the case may be. When they reach a neu- tral country, they are translated on other paper und in most cases delivered by the Red Cross of the place, to which they go. The plan is considered as spy proof as It is possible to devise. During the last 25 years the practice has grown up that welfare inquiries and messages shall be permitted be- s. * tween. civilians in countries which are ‘at war with each other. _The promis- cuous sending of letters through or- ganizations in neutral countries could not be permitted because of the large number of enemies in the country. To prohibit entirely the sending of mes- sages would, for example,. prevent a loyal American from finding out wheth- er his sister, unfortunately married to a German, was alive or dead. Pro- hibition was in force for a time and pitiful appeals were received by the Red Cross from. French, Belgians and Italians begging the society to get word for, them as.to whether their peo- ple in the occupied districts were still alive. The state department presented to the Red Cross the present plan in de- tail and asked that the Red Cross put it into effect. As it was purely hu- manitarian work,’ the government could do no more than supervise. the work, Today the American Red Cross is sending an average of 1,300 letters a day to persons living behind the enemy lines. This work is done through Washington headquarters of the Amer- ican Red Cross by the bureau of com- munication of which Edward M. Day is acting director. 3 NON-SINKABLE LIFEBOA’ California Invention Tried and Ap- proved by. Federal Authorities. Built like a raft with passenger com- partments on both the top and bottom so that the craft is always right side up, and equipped with a movable cen- ter welght for stability, with a self- balling device, a “non-sinkable” life- boat recently invented by Capt. Wil- Ham Jacobs of San Leandro, Cal., was tried out by the federal inspectors in Oakland with very satisfactory .re- sults. The boat was launched in the water bow first. It dived under the water, righted itself, and then took a normal position after the bailing valves had emptied it of water. ~The inventor claims, that because of the. self-bailing device the craft cannot sink, ESKIMOS HELP RED CROSS Some in Alaska Sell Furs for Friend to Aid Soldiers. The world war has even extended to the polar regions and jarred the Es- kimo into making some comforts for soldiers, it was learned through Wil- Nam.T. Lopp, chief of the Alaskan dle, vision of the bureau of education. “The Eskimos raised money by sell- Ing furs, cutting Ivory and longshor- ing for ships that visit their isolated homes,” said Mr. Lopp, who has just reached Washington from Alaska. “One village which has been sav- {ng up for years for a sawmill and had accumulated $130, gave $100 of its scanty hoard,” he added, to indicate the way the peaceful Eskimo is sac: tifcing for the savage white man, ses Be eb et, HOARDS WHEAT; FARMER PAYS. | KAISER WILL GOBBLE UP TURKEY IF SULTAN SPLITS WITH BERLIN [BLOCKED | Hol. Turkey, would, block the kai» and the grandiloquentMittel Europa THOUSAND FINE Heavy. Fine ‘Assessed Against a Clay County, Minn., Man to Red Cross Moorhead, Minn., Aug. John Wil-| son, a Kragness, Minn.,, farmer, late} Thursday afternoon paid $1,000 to the Clay county Red Cros and bought $1, 060 worth of War Savings Stamps, that being the penalty exacted of him by Edgar E. Sharp, Clay county food administrator for wheat boarding. Several weeks ago a search of the Wilson farm revealed the fact that] he had 2,836 bushels of wheat in his granaries held in violation of the federal food administraton order requiring that all wheat be marketed by May 15. A week ago, Administrator Sharp gave Wilson ‘the option of paying $500 to the Red Cross and buying $1,000 in war stamps, or facing pros-) ecution. | The time limit within which the al- ternative could be accepted by Wilson expired Thutsday, and he failed to ap- pear. As a result, the penalty was raised from $500 to $1,000 for the Red Cros, Wilson was ordered in, and paid! up. BUY W. 5. 8.~ That Might Help Some. Maid (about to leave)—“Might I ask fer a recommend, ma’am?” Mistress —*But, Mary, what could I truthfully I say that would help you to get another place?” Maid—‘Just say that I know many of your family secrets, ma’am. ‘WAR U. S. OFFICIALS DOUBT THAT PORTE HAS . DEFIED GERMANS (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Washington, D. C., Aug. 3.—The re- port that Turkey has split with Ger- many is believed in Washington to be more German camouflage spreaa broadcast for the purpose of deceiv- ing the allies as to the real strength of the. HUNS and diverting , their minds from military ‘affairs, ©” It is pointed out that it is most unlikely that the Porte has dared to —inie er’ 's “Berlin-to-Lagdad”. railway plan scheme by getting out of the war. CUTTING IN ON STATE HIGHWAY WORK Men Needed in Other Essential Occupations—Projects Delayed The war is cutting in on the plans ‘of the’ North Dakota highway com- mission, As a result of the great shortage of ordine labor of all |kinds, and particularly because of the immediate need for all available labor in the harvest fields, it ’is probable that some of the contractors who have agreed to finish hgthway projects this summer will be unable to keep their promise., There is an occasional proj- ect which will be completed on d ule time, says State Engineer | sécretary of the highway commi but a majority will be late. It is prob- able that a number of the road-buila- ing crews will be released ¢atil after the harvest in order that farmers may have the help of these men in saving their crops.. At present about 200 miles of state and federal aid -high- way are under construction. Of this total, 25 miles are to be graveled road. BUY W, 8. 8. Wayslde Ministries, This is a hurrying age, as we often remind ourselves, and many tasks which we would Iike to accomplish must perforce remain unattended to. But for some things there is always time. Duty can always be done, kindness can always be shown, way- side ministriés néed not be neglected. ‘There is never an excuse for the haste that makes waste; there is al- ways room, in the case of a map who, with divine help, plans his life for @ certain amount of self-culture and social necessity. —Boston Transcript. building yards of the Luders Stamford, Conn. They report close-up-of their. working face: Dr. Stephen S. Wise; nota New York:rabbi and Zionist, and his 18-year-old son are working-as laborers in the ship- at 4:30, getting laborers’ pay. Rabbi Wise and his son moving RABBI A SHIPBUILDER Marine Construction Co. at to work at 7 a. m. and quit The upper picture shows timbers; the lower is a 3, A defy the kaiser, for the simple reason that Turkey today, at least from a mil- itary and governmental standpoint, 1s almost’ as German as Germany her- self. German offisers dominate and dt- rect the Turkish ~eneral staff; Ger- man generajs any colonels lead the Turkish army; German guns and mu- nitions supply it, and even the Turk- ish navy is German. For this reason, even if the Turkish governing, power should get peeved at Berlin and break relations, it would get no support from the army, which would continue to obey the orders of its German officers. American diplomatic and military officials helieve it more likely that the kaiser would side with Turkey in tis dispute with Bulgaria than with Bur garia, The » pan-German “Mittel-Ku- ropa” scheme which aims’ at the dom- ination of Europe and Africa depenas for its success on Turkey, which con- trols’ the railway and trade routes from Constantinople through Asia Mz Nor to India, Therefore, if there has been a sever- ance of relations, it is likely that the kai: will apply the mailed fist to Turkey as he applied it to Russia and make of Turkey another vassal state under complete HUN domination. Ifthe doesn’t do so Turkey is in a position to bar the :pan-Germans’ way to Bagdad and’ spoil forever the pro- ject of a through railway under Ge~ man control from Berlin to the ca.e way of India. ; Turkey cannot afford to quit the war while a British army is holding Palestine and Bagdad. Her elimina- tion from hostilities would hasten vic- tory for the allies, but American offi- cials do not believe it is a fact yet they are‘inclined to the contrary opin. ion that it is German propaganda de- signed to cover up the kaiser’s’ plans for a campaign against the British In Egypt. — avy v. 8. S$ ——— BIGGEST LIFE POLIGY PAID IN BISMARCK Heirs of Nat Prentice Receive : Maximum Sum for North Dakota The largest life insurance policy paid in North Dakota during 1917 was $20,301 to the. heirs of . Nathan F. Prentice of Bismarck. The second largest was for the sum of $18,912, paid to the heirs of the late Congress- man Henry T. Helgeson, at Milton. These are statistics shown in the cur- rent issue of The Insurance Press, which relates the insurance experience jof the United States and Canada for the year 1917. Two policies in excess of $10,000 were paid in Bismarck during the year, the second being to the heirs ot Jay Q. A. Vale, for $11,309. Both Mr. Vale and Mr. Prentice were victims of the Easter Sunday tragedy in 1917, when four ‘well known Bismarck com- mercial travelers lost their lives in an effort to ford the Heart river at Mandan. North Dakota cities in' which heavy policy payments were made during the year were: Fargo, $117,750; Bismarck, $95,750; Grand Forks, $65,000; James- town, $63,500; Milton, $48,250; and Lisbon, 38,250. Glen Ullin, whose population is not over 2,000 received $16,500 an the payment of life insur- ance policies. BUY W. 5, §.——— Polishing Steel. ‘A finely polished lusterless surface can be produced on steel by rubbing, after tempering, on a smooth iron sur- face with some ground ollstone till it is perfectly smooth, after which it should be laid on a sheet of paper and rubbed backward and forward until it acquires a fine dead finish. Tt “BAKING PIES UNDER FIRE As heroié as the-American soldiers in the trenches are the courageous Salvation Army girls who are braving enemy fire day and night to bake pies and doughnuts fer our fighting men. Many of the women are also alding the wounded in hit. established within rifle fire of “Ne Man’s Land.” This picture shows sve of the undaunted workers making the kind “that moth- er used to make,” so that our men can enter battle with more pep and vim. Sper emamenya near sist NEW BARRACKS TO HOUSE 300 YANK STUDENTS Provision to Be Made for “All- Year Instruction to Soldiers PERMANENT STRUCTURES As a result of a conference held this \president of the state university, ana Dr. E, F. Ladd. president of the agri- cultural college, these two institutions soon will have seini-permanent bar ravks and mess quarters for the sol- diers whom Uncle Sam jis training there in varjous mechanical arts, ‘The new buildings will cost about $22,000 apiece, and will be so constructed that after the government has dispensed with them, they can be used in the university and college work. During the summer period, with light summer classes, both of these institutions have been able to accommodate the 250 to 300 soldiers who have been quartered there for special instruction. With the opening of the regular term in Sep- tember, however, all of the usual facti- ities will be required for the standard institutional work, and special provis- ion must be made for.the Yanks. The great need is for housing and drilling quarters. and lack will be supplied by the erection of lang, one-story build- ings, which will offer the maximum amount of shelter at a minimum or cost. At the North Dakota aggie barracks and dining hall facilities will ve pro. vided for 300 student soldiers. The buildings will be so designed that after their period of military service the dining hall can be used for a stock: judging booth, while the barracks wiil «econverted into an implement labor- atory. At the university the prime need is for a drill hall. A huge shelr of a building to be of brick and with an earthen floor will be erected for this purpose. A second class of soldier students will enroll at the agricultural college on August 15 and their course will continue till October 15. The class will consist of 257 men. From Septem: ber 1 to November J an equal number of soldiers will study at the university and if sufficient accommodations are provided at these two institutions classes will continue to be enrolled here throughout the school year. “argo citizens are interested in per- petuating military training at the ag- ricultural college for the period of the war, and $6.9°) already has been sub- scribed ‘oward the cost of a building chere. BUY W, S. S—— BOUALIZERS 10 MEET AUGUST 6 Will Hold Session on Original Date and Set the Hearings Three members of the state board of equalization. will meet August 6 as scheduled to set dates for the ap- pearance of telephone, telegraph, rail- way and express companies and coun- ty officials. The board will then ad- bers help with the harvest. Jobr Steen, state treasurer, already is at Rugby looking after the harvesting of his big crop, while Commissioner John N. Hagan is in Washington in his capacity as a member of the fed- eral agricultural advisory board. The remaining three members of the board | have agreed to spend their vacation! in the harvest fields, and the equaliz-| ors will not really get down to busi- ness before the week f August 019. After this year, the board believes, the assessment of railway, telephone. telegraph and express property will be more complicated, as the United States administration of these utilt- ties will have to be considered. Fed- eral control, however, will not affect the work of the equalization board this year, says State Auditor Kositz- ky, the secretary. ———avy w. s, 3——— KNOX BANKER ARRESTED AND PUT UNDER BOND D. H. Ugland Held to Answer for the Condition of His Bank D. H. Ugland, cashier of the Se: curity State bank of .Knox, N. D., has been arrested on the order of Week between Dr. Thomas fF. Kane, | journ for two weeks while the mem-|" result’ of disclosures made tn the’: state proble of the bank’s affairs, ‘Ugland is now free undér bonds: of” Fano: pending a preliminary, examja- ation, AAR ees, W. H. Shure of Fargo, trustee, ap- pointed at a recent conference of creditors held at ‘St. Paul, who. re- turned from Knox ‘Thursday, evening, said. today that. his, preliminary investigations led him to believe that the creditors wquld get a coniderable return, in view of the fact that Ugland has 17,000 acres of farm Jagds on which there are crops worth betwéen $150,00 Oand $160,000. There are no mortgages against such crops. Mr. Shure returns to Knox Saturday to continue his investigations, —-——BUY W. 8, S.——— WYEATNEW ~ LEIPZIG. TO HELP SLOPE Ridiculous Situation Existing for Many Years Done Away With A reduction of forty to 75 cents per ton in freight rates on lignite hauled over two or move. raj!ways within the state of North Dakoia. becomes. ef- fective Monday as a result of a pro- test filed with the United States rail- way administration by James A. Little rate expert with the North Dakota railway commission. ‘When the railoads in North Dakota made their rate advance on lignite in accordance With the recent directions of Director General McAdoo they took advantage of more boosts than they were ligitimately entitled to in the case of through rates in which two or more lines participated, the rate ex- {pert claimed in his protest, upon the national administatehn took immedi- ate action. One or two minor matters affected alleged exhorbitant charges of less im- portance are stil to be adjusted, but the rail board has won its principal fight, without bloodshe: WUY Wa Se LIBERTY LOAN CHIEFTAINS T0 MEET MONDAY District Conference Is Called by Wesley C. McDowell at Mandan A meeting of district and county chairmen for the Fourth Liberty loan drive will be held for the southwest- ern section of the state ai Mandan on Monday, under direction cf Wesley C. McDowell of Marion, state director. of the Lilerty loan. Chairman Rogers of the ninth regional reserve district at St. Paul will be here for this meeting. A meeting for the eastetn half of the state will be held at Par go on Tuesday, when Chairman Me- Dowell will be joined by Chairman Rogers and C. Van Est of Minneapolis, in charge of organization work for the Ninth reserve district. A meeting will be held later at ‘Minot for’ the northern part of the state. BUY W. S. POPULAR MEETING PLACE : The .canvas. waterbags for water are the most popular meeti places for soldiers in the many cane tonments in America these hot days. Though the bag is only imperfectly shielded from the sun by its scant cov ering, the water is kept surprisingly, cool. ° ie Re BUY W. 8. |the state banking department, as a@ (Signed) Tribune Waut Ads Bring Results. PHONE 176 The Federal Food Laws Will Be Strictly Enforced 114 pounds of solid beef per person each week. All other kinds of meats will be sold the same as usual. Any person found violating this law, I, Wm. Dohn, will not protect, but on the contrary, will help to prose- cute the violators to the full extent of the law. I will stand with my sons in France regardless of. the cost. Wm. DOHN.