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

a) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE om TANS M GEORGE: D. MANN my = Ei Editor be 2 Cheat Feraien: Representative : i ‘Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette a 'Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresge 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 crédited in this paper and also the local news lished h ane ‘au ‘Tights of publication of apsclal dispatches barln al reserved. O70 All rights of publication of special dispatches herefu Se TREE At OF CIRCULATION EMBER AUDIT BUREAU 0 » TO UBTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year $6.00 Daily y mail es year.. 4.00 side 0} jor’ a pe slat a “SUBSCRIPTION | (In Nort jakota) $4.00 2.00 1.00 5.00 50 1.25 $6.00 3.00 1.50 60 is ’ THR STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Batablished 1878) : p> : ———™ es CASUALTIES : The. casualty lists are coming in. Considered as a while, and in proportion to the victory, they are not bad. But considered individually, ‘each name set down there brings into some American home a portion of the great world agony. Parents, thinking backward from the grief of | today; say to each other, “Only yesterday, it * » geems, we were buying playthings for his baby hands!” ; And’ rebelliotis hearts question God himself, “Was there no better use for those hands, grown big and strong? Why? Why?” - A new and true atrocity story tells why he had to go overseas to fight, to die. In the first month after the Germans took pos- session of ‘nérthern France, a group of little chil- dren were playing in the street. The Hun-fiends threw- some’ bundles wrapped ‘like’ toys among them. “And thé'children scrambled for them. ‘The “playthings” were BOMBS. which ‘exploded as the children, laughing,’ snatched .at them. Some ‘of ‘Jes petites” were. killed. . And those ‘that lived will never play with toys again for they have lost their hands! . (It is a.comfort to know that many of these children are now supported by American, tandem ace ee fe - Fiends who can contrive such:a joke can never be’ made over. ‘They must: be wiped from the face of theearth ~.. .. 0... : eg The boys numbered on the casualty lists have done their part to stamp them out. Their short soldier lives have “counted” in the noblest cause man-ever foughit for. : ae ‘Mourn for them? Weep for them? We can- not help it. But’ though we who abide safely at home and work for a thousand years, we cannot measure up to the men who die to free the world from the stain of Hun kultur. “Unto each man his handiwork, unto each his crown, y The just fate gives; Whoso takes the world’s life on him and his own lays down, | He, dying go, lives.” ne seamen os ~— ene ee anger yt The kaiser’s idea of hell is a place where there are no women and babies to ‘murder. FACING OUR WAR PROBLEMS : By a Woman We: women sometimes get discouraged, what with “food conservation” and “substitutes” and all the rest of our kitchen problems we are facing these days. Occasionally we even rebel—just a little“and in the privacy of our'secret souls—at all the hrain-racking extra planning and body-rack- ing extra work each added regulation, such as ¢anning sugar cards, entails, BUT— — ——— 5 There is a dear old neighborly custom in Amer- ica that all the rush of our ‘life has not: been able to down. Has your neighbor, for a baking day, never run in with a pie, fresh from the oven, for your sup- &% per ‘table? Have yon never passed a glass. of jelly over your backyard fence? And if there were trouble or sickness or death in any house|" + on your street, didn’t you and all the other neigh- bers vie with each other in sending in thought- ful little comforts and tempting dishes of food? “And when your little boy comes in begging for cookies, do you ever refuse-him a second handful an) share with his playmate? Even if-your giving * depletes the cooky crock to the point of your substituting something else at supper that night? Your son always shares his cookies with his comrade, Your jelly, the glasses with the clear- est of ruby lights in them, is carried to your| ‘neighbor—always. Can’t we women think about the war problems of our kitchens in this same way? There is sick- ‘ ness and death in the house of America’s neigh- bors. England and France and Italy and Belgium; though we have realized our closeness to them only .a little while, need: our friendship. Their ~ Sons are playing the game of war with our sons. : ‘America has moved into the World’s street. The food, we save is. still given to.our boys. to share # wit htheir comrades. It’s carried, truly, just over the way to the sorrowing -house of a friend. - WHEN HALF-GODS GO “Heartily know when half-gods go the gods’ ar- rive.” i 4 Emerson wrote the phrase years ago, but it is today’s own lesson for a world at war. s “Whatever of immediate pain and. sacrifice the war may bring us, it also brings one blessing that endures forever—the destruction of half-gods that the real gods may arrive. “ In days of peace men and women worship the half-gods of selfishness, and make endless ‘sacri- fice at the petty altars of business, pleasure, am- bition, material comfort—to the modern fetish. of “getting ahead.” A man will lose sleep and tem- per over a small defeat by a business competitor, and a woman will burst into tears if her baking fail’ or fret for days over a social slight, But in days of war the half-gods go, .’ They cannot live in the white flame of sacrifice and agony by which the world is tried and cleansed. From France comes Margaret Deland’s story of the young French wife recounting the ‘break-up of her little home when the young: husband was called to war. All the precious furniture ‘was sold. “We bought those things together. “We had to save much to buy them. I:was most ‘happy with my little things. I loved the table and chairs. Now of them I think nothing. I think only of him. Will he come back tome? What matter the chair, the table? Only his life, his life!” _. So we learn that hard lesson, in France, in/Eng- ance of things,’ and the unspeakable glory of human love and life. i034... The half-gods go! And the gods arrive! . value: and million souls: and bodies immolate’ themselves for the dream of FREEDOM, FOR ALL, FOREVER. The half-god of self goes, and the god: of sacrifiee stands beside the white crosses of a, world calvary. Half-gods flee from hospital wards where.women work till they drop from exhaustion—and the,god of service appears. Sag he RET kitchen where men and women forget self in the struggle to produce and save and serve ALL, as. there arrive the new gods of sacrifice, service and brotherhood. : FMA 4 Crops, in Hunland: are ing a record harvest. slim, but Death is mak- . THE JOB.MUST: BE FINISHED |: . Any. military. disaster ‘to’ Germany-is“ generally followed "by. peace offer of some.sort. »Hereto-| fore these peace offensives: have.shown a stupid ‘misconception on the part of their authors of.the allied war aims... * Pa SE af Pasi BA ‘And the latest ‘effort, is’ just’as stupid..as:its 'predecessors.© «|. . 4 te i a . . Evidently: they proceed. on.the theory ‘that:.the war aims of the allies can be satisfied by.-giving up their war gains:in western Europe-in exchange for allied consent to Germany ‘having a free-land in Russia. : Sree There is no possibility for any’ such ‘ticker. Doubtless the German diplomats. understand’ that only for propaganda ,purposes—to give pacifists here and in‘the allied countries something to talk about. There is greater danger in secret negotiations said to be under way between the ‘captains ' of land, in America, We learn the infinite untmpott- | Half-gods cannot live on a battlefield where:a ‘ Half-gods will flee from shop, mine, office and! thoroughly, and. will propose such peace terms) industry of the contending powers. i There have been many indications of dissatis- faction on the part of men like Herr. Ballin ‘and other big business men of Germany with the way things are‘ going. German industry is all shot to. pieces, and her bankers, manufacturers and shippers see long years of trouble ahead even when this war is finally ended. uA Bos They see the industries of Germany, which were making such rapid headway before the war, mak- ing an uphill fight in hostile world markets after the war—trying to re-establish business relations with-a civilized world that had learned to ‘loathe the Hun. Secon et oa And they realize, of course, that the sooner. peace comes the better for them. sistently agree to a peace that:leaves the ‘world; half slave and half free. They can’t throw. Rus- sia to the dogs—or any part of the Balkans—in order to make a-peace that will-last only long enough for4Germany to organize Russia and start another war to conquer the world... 2...» - The chief war aim of America and the allies now is clearly understood. . It is to wipe the’Prus- sian autocratic menace off the face-of the ‘earth and make another such war as. this one impos-) sible. . a The job must be so thoroughly done that ‘no future kaiser, however crazy, will become inspired with dreams of world conquest—so thoroughly done that no people on earth will stand for such mad rulers. London military. tribunalclasses ostrich feath- ers as luxuries. From the ostrich point of view, however, they're still. necessities.; : ee Now showing—the Double Death, or Back from the Grave, with Herr von Hindenburg. . See him mock Charon’s call and swim the Styx! ‘ Still, those “conscientious objectors’’. keep, on wanting to live in'a country born out of war and which now: is being made ‘safe for their children byga few million men not afraid to fight for those lear. But they are too late. “ The allies are not now} fighting for land or for dollars... They ‘can’t con-|" SS SATTERTIELD = is,.Lomorrow,.. even , isto. .be the test of all’business. “work or fight” or yids aisefulness o fthe work maps, engaged As.at-this time;‘there.are preferred li: D Hireetly: on..wa) r ‘onomic fife, both now and when :the~war.is. over, -every,; line of businegs,. to’ justify #tself, must show. that ‘It is, dotg/aer( = Tam‘not assuming? ice, as-the’ atm. u- bank isiness, is ‘new to 48) “however, 80 is .worth our.while ¢ : are. giying the principle ‘vice its ;propex.place.. Nothing nce ‘.of any, Man uow Setaphastzed "and ilfus- : cess, It may *be’shown in the same way that, int imeof peace, service by all means. prosperity and advancement in the community, and that service is the keynote of the. individual's success as well, It is} often argued, and even taught, in: our vexcppoks on econom- ics, that business is. essentially and necessarily. selfish: in its aims and purpose. I ant’ Say to you thar the; greatest. ag: Dusiness success is service ‘rendered.’ Let us-took at.a.few examples, that we may be\suce thatiwe aresthinking about:the @amotthing. . The-first time that I went to NewYork .on a busi- ness‘errand was fora conference with EVERETT. TRUE “GOING TO BANKING AS A SERVICE Pres..Thomas F, Kane of University of North Dakota Before North .Dakota Bankers’ Association at Mandan 7 j'a_ dozen or more individual men, part of them from nearby towns. I se- lected a hotel that was, so far as I anew, the best hotel in the country, so that it would be easy for these men to find.. On stopping there, I was nat- urally curious to know why: that hotel was known all over the United States. ‘I have stopped there.since rather reg- ularly, for a’ number of years, and I got the answer for my’ curiosity out of my experience. and’ observation there. At no time in all: this expe- rience did they ever fail in.-a- single service that made for my comfort or convenience there or the:saving of my ‘time. “Thefr ‘methods of getting tele- grams and telephone calls fresh to your attention, and of finding stran- gers for you,’with whom you ‘are to have conferences, are almost uncan- ny. They get for you-any:informa- tion on schedules, addresses, or. plans of trips and connections thafcan be furnished in’ New York, or anywhere in the country, for that matter. I never, even yet, go-to this hotel. with- out being amazed at their provision to render to their guests every. imagin- able service. Whateyer else enters into the fame of that hotel, without question the keynote is the~service they: render. Bigger the Ba ets: Greater the Ser- vice. 3) Again. you would not be in Chicago long before some Chicago: man would tell you that Marshall Field's is the greatest store in the world. So far as I know, it is. It is certainly great enough for all ordinary purposes, Hearing this, you will go into Mar- shall Field's with somewhat the same feeling of curiosity that I felt ‘when I went to the New York hotel. When you go into that store, you will be space, but next, with the type of serve ice that they give their customers, Every. convenience conceivable is pro- HG Mi Mis if My Mp. VOM oe i MY TMA YEN oi Uy TAY Tay COM fh PUT. NOy ouTON TH [ ALIS, AND IF'You STICK Yo OS. INSIDE THE SYores Berone ST AVS VLU, PERYANGNTLY DISABLE WHEN IAM DOINe Some PRUSSIAN FLOOR: WALKER To BUTT (IN AND : vty ve ah nam (Dy “his <= Ml impressed first with acres of floor; i lvided. Courteous and intelligent treatment is found in every depart.- ;ment. The customer or visitor is made ;to feel at home from the moment he steps into the store. Afterwards, lit- ue matter how long afterwards, if jyou find that there are articles in your purchase that you do not want and would like to return, you can return them, without meeting any argument.’ to identify the goods coming from their house. The goods likewise. are made to measure up accurately and | definitely to thé representations to thé purchaser. : Liberality in Times of Stress. The same principle.is followed in their wholesale stores, I know a, mer- chant in Grand Forks who. was a.¢us- tomer of Marshall Field's at the time of our last: great panic, At about the most depressing time, when. it {seemed a question from day to-day. | whether he could:keep open, he had an unexpected call from Marshall Field in person, Among other feelings that he had.at this call was.the thought that Marshall Field’ had learned of the difficulties he was In and that pos- sibly he was’ there to insist’ on settle- ment of his account.’ When they went into the office together to talk things over, Marshall Fieldspoke,: something to this effect, “A good many of our people are having serious difficulty in this panic and I thought possibly you might be Having some of the same troubles for the same reason. I drop- ped in today to say to you that we have arranged to take care, of all of our customers, and we want you to go ahead in full confidence, knowing that we will see you. through, and your orders: will be good with us just as they have always been, and we have the, same confidence in you and your business that we have had when times were good.” : I am inclined to think that if you were to askthe owner of one of-our best business houses in Grand Forks what carried him through the panic, he would say that it was this attitude of Marshall Field. The constant and intelligent following of. this principle is an essential part of the explana- tion of why Marshall Field's {s the jlargest store in the world, and this |slogan goes-on after the death of its founder. % In the same’ way, 1 can remember, when a child, hearing about the great store of A. T, Stewart of New York. I can remember hearing a man tell my father at one time why that store was the greatest store in New York. It was for the reason, he said, that a child could be as safely sent:to that store to make a given purchase ‘as the | best professional buyer in New York, Why Hill Was So Successful. Let us come nearer home for an il- lustration. The late James J. Hill, I think, Is properly judged the greatest | railroad man of this age. If we were trying to pick out the principles of his railroad policy that gave him suc- | ces#, what principle should we name | | jJrat? 1 should’ take as’ the key ‘to his success the principle which he of- |ten enunciated, that for a railroad to be prosperous the country. through which It passes must first be prosper- ous. In practice, 1 wonder if any elt- liven of the Northwest has done more for ti farmers, ax a part of Its pol- Jeyy than President HIM, He helped |4n Improving the breedy of cattle and horses and sock on the farms, He taught varlety of crops, marketing and farm management, and the various | principles of business that make for suecess Ih Tarining, J aim fot using these IMustrations \for the sake of bratsing these great Wusiness enterprises, or the men re- japoneible Fam simply uaiig them ae proot thal service te the keynote Of business suucass, Por our purpone \3 Heed WO stop to discuss the mo- tyes OF these men or their sincerity in following these principles; "We will [Rerve OF pur poe to estate the (Principle that service tx Necermary to ithe highest success in Wuelnens today, And WIN Ne Ineremeligly © require. Weil Of busines lomnorrow Banking © Vitel Sine of Businens, When we epenk of banking, we are SpeMKIe Of # VM Tine of bhel news, De aly Ace Lm plex Hh praalion [the COMMANNY tH yenurad 6 awry No questions are asked, other than |-reali apable, of giving service amis pret pe Is one of the most in- teresting things observed in the world war, We calinot stand too'much ‘on ceremony in cases of vital importance, tt is‘w matter of absolute necessity that we have dn places of responslbil- ity, {n eonnection with the'war, men who ‘cat give: the: service required. In England, for exdmple, the English people are not asking today, accord- ing to their custom in times of peace, what the grandfather of Lioyd George, a Welshman, could or did-do, or the ancestors. of Mr, Geddes, who was tried; out as a section, hand on an American railroad, or of, Mr: North- cliffe.” By a.severe test that would not be .tmatie, in. peace times, these three. men have been pickd out and put in vital positions, bécause of the confidence, which has proved true that, they could give the service need- One is reminded of the letter of Sec- retary of War. Alger, at the time of the embalmed beef and other troubles~ in the Spanish-American war. The letter, was.to, Senator Depew as made up by Mr.) Daoley. After. telling of his suffering and distress, over insur-* mountable troubles, he summed up the situation by ‘sayjng that the whole thing was a agistake. It arose from the people not‘uaderstanding what he wanted, ‘He wanted tobe secretary of iwar- and’ not gecretary of a war. “it isin England now, in a war vheir the hation’s life is at stake, they must’ have men:who can give te sér- vice. kee : ‘Woertd Mack In Barncst Today. Inithe same way. thie world is dead Yin earnest. today about. the princi- ples of democracy. One million of our countrymen, ‘representing us, -are risking their, all today, that right may be sovereign in’ the civilized world, and wot might, The slogan of Right is Service, Any line of business that cannot meastire up to this standard of service ‘wil lose out, and-any one. in Lany‘ling of business who does not ren- der the service of which tiat line is capable ‘will sooner or later he re- pladed??"* 4 Nd line‘of busitiess is more capable of rendering séfvice' ‘in’ he, business and- economic world ‘than “banking. | Banking ‘is ‘too“often thoughttof as a ‘cold-blooded, calculating form’ of get- ting,"with Sbylock.as an example of bargain ‘dfiving.”’ You men want the inspiration that comes, from :the ‘con- viction’ ‘that there’ is another regord that bas been’ made by bankers, the record. of service, and the “further conviction:that such a record as Sliy- lock’s need never be made by areal banker. : Serviee of Bankers in, War Time. Thete- could not be a time when the service :of our, bankers was more clearly illustrated thain-in the financ- ing of.the-war. . We, as citizens, have hardly,,bad time to catch our breath and. see how great the’ service of the " a is in.these drives, When it is e American people will say anks, practically all’of them, what Charles, Sumner, in ‘the senate of the United States, during the Civil war, said-of the National Bank® of Commerce of New, York, “they are pa- trigtic institutions,”: : This. record, in the‘financing of the war, ought to be a satisfaction to -very, banker in. the land... sagen Seka, oS “J 48, the more. significant for our theme .to ‘note that the’ attitude: of thé. binkers.in.this. war is no excep- tion.» Wefind the same loydl and pa- triolie.service in the ‘Revolutionary -war-and_in.:the‘ Civil war. The first bank, established in this country, char- tered by,-the Continental Congress in 1781,.he. Bank of North ‘America, founded ,in .Philadelphia. by Robert -Morris, gave its first great ‘efforts to- Ward..holding up. the hands of Wash- ington and his'army. Tlie-great- work of Jay Cooke & Co. in support of the government, ‘first in floating at par a +$3,000,000 war..loan for the ‘state of Pennsylvania, whose.credit at the time ‘was-bad? later in having a $600,000,000 issue of. government bonds oversub- sefibed: by’ $11,000,000 after the regu- lar ‘government machinery had broken down in, the attempted sale, and in 1865 again, when ‘there was depres- sion, in, engingering in six months the subscription ‘of $830,000,000 for government notes. This work in the financial problems of the Civil war is a record iu finance marvelous and in- spiring. .. These ‘are récords for the men. ofthe profession to be proud of;, A. recent tasty pamphlet. issued by, the National: Bank ‘of .Commerce of New York recounts still with great pride, the part that their bank took in helying o. finance. the Civil- war. In the..s4me way, the anniversary folder of the First National Bank of New York gives prominence to the part played by that bank in war. loans, and the fact that “during the year 1870. the .bank handled $780,000,000 United States government bonds, com- pletingy. their. receipt: and: deliver without error Or: loss.” j I believe I may assuré. you men that the: serviceof the bankers to the na- tion at this time! wil be remembered. Ht is'a thing Hkewlse which should give- you the great return’ of high personal satisfaction. * ‘Gigantic Problems to Be: Faced. © In ttie- days of reconstruction there will be ‘financial problems in the nd- tions, gigantic beyond ‘the world’s, ex- perience. “Thé' financial skill and wis- dom of ‘the country will be needed. ‘The reconstruction, after the Civil war suggests ta the banks the opportunity for service. i *n ‘ After ‘the’ war, ‘likewise, in ‘the de- velopment of. business, the opportun- {ty will come to the banks: for~ wrat, in. effect, will: be a public , service. For example, we are to enter, into for- eign commerce, on’a scale not. known before. ‘The results affect’ the busi- ness Interests of every ’state. It means additional markets for North Dako- (a's products. For success our mer- chan(s and traders must not be handi- capped, ger, by lack of American facilities in the trade centers world, It.must be as easy for the American. houses to meet terms find arrange credits as those of Eng- Jand.or, France or. Germany. We, ‘in this newer. state, may feel that such a service as establishing banks in forelgn countries is one to be ren- dered by the. great banking houses with large capital. Whether the chance will come to the smaller bank to help, a4 we help with the Liberty Hou, ido not know. But, in- any Cane, UH Wombers of the order, you wait, fo appreciate in. this situation a typleal example, of. an opportunity for Ah to render service of the. highest rier, Hankers’ Service in the Local Field. If wo turn to our own fleld of North Dakota, what sound banklti® princi- We Gan’ wo lay down" tofoltow?: 1 OF the Anneke ot ace "ah hound And Of Renerak ap- NManking in viel, hence ft tue he Aication AW bankitig! the opent en- (Continued KA Page Sin), a k