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

SMARCK TRIBUNE THE BI al ‘ostoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN : : 5 : Editor c LOGAN TAYNE COMPANY, special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 8 Wintor St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. Z MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the usé for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- he 5 al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year....... $6.00 Daily by mail per year...... Dally BY mal Susie of North Daict 101 akota. Dally by mail OOS BSCRIPTION RATES (In North, Dakota) One year by mail. $4.00 Six months by mail ae Three ths by mail.............60+ = outside of North Dakota) One year ........- seeeetees Bix months : Three months ..... Six ‘months Three mont! One month .. THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. s (Established 1878) <p 3 ; LABOR IS THE GIANT. No group in this or any other country is making a greater contribution toward winning the war— in shipbuilding and munition plants, on the farm, and on the firing line—than Labor. The world will never know the debt it owes to the wives and mothers in workingmen’s homes who have given husbands and sons to the CAUSE. But Labor will get more out of the war than any other group, for “the fight for democracy” is a fight for the common man. The price of victcry, even though it total thou- sands of heoric dead, is never as high as the cost of defeat. THE KAISER’S JOKE Bill Hohenzollern calls the attention of his “gott” to the war he is “fighting for the little na- tions of Europe,” pointing to the way in which he “freed” parts of Russia. It strikes us as funny. If that “gott” has any sense of humor at‘all, he ought to split his sides laughing. Of course, the kaiser really meant that he was fighting to get the little nations of Europe, fight- ing’ “for” them in the same way the robber fights “for” his. victim’s purse. .That’s how he also} fights “for” Belgium, Rumania, Serbia, Monte- negro, Albania, and whatever other little country he can get’ his bloody hands upon. Yes, indeed, the kaiser fights “for” little na- tions, fights for them like the wolf fights for the lamb! The beastly HUN glows with pride at having sunk another hospital ship. Next to bayoneting babies he would rather kill helpless wounded. . MILK AND BABIES That babies and little children are directly af- fected by the decreased sale of milk reported by dealers in American cities is illustrated by find- ings for Baltimore recently reported by the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. ‘ Of 756 Baltimore children between 2 and 7 years of age, only 29 per cent are now having fresh milk to drink as against 60 per cent a year ago. And only 20, or less than 3 per cent of the chil- dren studied, are having as much as three cups a day. ‘ caer gees Ges idler, the limousine loafer and club-room lounger who is no better than a park-bench bum. ” . -A few of him are left—that ‘kind that buys a Liberty Bond and considers it immunity from further patriotic ‘activity. * Unless , these last remaining members of a “race” in disgrace soon swap their shallow-tails for overalls or khaki, we hope that other and more meritorious clubman, the police officer, will get on their track with a work-or-fight ultimatum. ONLY A SHADOW. This is about a man who had never viewed him- self in the mirror of self-appraisal. p Like that misguided cockerel, Chanticleer, he thought the sun could not rise unless he so willed. One morning this illusioned gent person saw his shadow stretching out before him. “Ah!” he soliloquized, “I’m a giant. Just as in stature'I tower so shall I stand in power!” That morning he set about materializing this coveted condition. He tryannized over those near him and through them passed the oppression to the lowliest of his race. They paid tithes and homage, and their women were as slaves. But he was not content. There still existed lands and peoples beyond the pale of his despotic dominion. He set himself to subdue and subjugate them. He entered into an imaginary pact with certain astral forces and pretended to pal with Deity while he hob-nobbed with Mars. He threw bones of contention to the Dogs of War. He stirred up a-kettle of strife with the ladle of militarism. He lied and spied, plotted and spotted, dreamed and schemed with secrecy and cunning. When~all seemed’ ready to set up his World Dynasty,;. he once bgain gaught sight of- his shadow. It was not.. What easier. resembled the out- lines of Goliath had shrunk to the dimensions of a blot! : = And now the gathering dusk of nightfall is slowly enshrouding Kaiser Bill. Soon Right also will be Might on the West Front. . “Back Beyond Berlin” suggested as appropriate HUN slogan. It’s all right to “spread” war taxes, but spread ‘em thickest where profits are. Headlines declare Getmany scared white. Ger- many couldn’t be “white” no matter how scared! We got ’em over, didn’t we? Wilhelm will “never say dye.” | WITH THE EDITORS | OPS P ene eete Besser eooosososossses AMERICAN EFFORT TELLING With the babies under 2, the Children’s Bureau says the situation is a little less serious. Appar- ently their needs are more generally understood than the needs of the child over 2 years. Most serious is the genera] substitution in the children’s diet of tea and coffee. Of the 575 children who are not drinking milk, 64 per cent have substituted tea and coffee, 24 per cent are “sharing the family diet” which may or may not include tea or coffee, or milk in other foods. Some mothers seem to realize that, milk must be provided for their children at whatever cost, or sacrifice; others who can better afford to buy milk do not understand its importance and let their children go without it. The foreign born mothers, although their in- comes are slightly lower. than the incomes of the native white mothers have more generally than any other group continued to buy milk. Some day the Clown Prince may boast of hav- ing beaten the Americans to the Rhime, for Silly : Willie stays far enough in the rear of his troops to be in front when the retreat comes. CLUBMEN. The world’s first clubman was a prehistoric sav- age. When he wasn’t clubbing his neighbors, he clubbed his wife. He developed by stages through the ages, To- sank his cave is a marble and concrete cliff dwel- ing. Instead of hitching a dinosaurus to a sort of land-raft, he nowadays can’t move about without a four-wheeled gas-palace. ample reserves, luctant witness. self. Those illusions, or pretenses, are now all Allies the necessary margin of man-power. French, as it were, merely going along with ‘it His prototype raised a few bare necessities of =get a little more routette or poker change. These remarks are directed at the wastrel, the! ceptance by the country—New York Post. °. Well Dearie: has happened, but have other FRANCE) FROM SERGT. JACK H. BEN A. P. 0; 725, July. 18, 1918. I know you: will be wondering what 80, as we cgn’t\write every day. We tities and now-I’am busier York and Chicago, in the same season, the occ: f its first production. LETTERS FROM [the ‘pay ‘is said to contain one of 66 99, the. most ingenious plots ever embod- SOMEWHERE tied ita comet, and one that ‘affords I unlimited opportunities for:broad and frollicking fun both ‘in dialogue “and |situation. As much of the plot as has |been revealed concerns the’ romantic. *jescapades of a mild and shy young husband who seeks to live, up to his wife's opinion of him as-a gay Lo- ithario. He elopes with another man’s | wife repairs to a lonely. wayside inn, hires a private suite, and to his amaze- ment finds himself surrounded by a you must not worry a What if we did ship thousands of our soldiers to France in British ships? Any harm in that? England has organized‘a dye combine to render, futile Teuton trade attacks after the war. When the kaiser’s merchant minions ‘consult him as to a good line for their first commercial offensive, Americans today are spared the disagreeable and unaccustomed duty. of bragging! Other na- tions are doing it for them. Several months ago Llody George said; as respects the military situa- tion on the western front, that it came down to a race between Hindenburg and Wilson. Well, the universal testimony ‘is that Wilson has. now won. Both French and British military authorities agree that the arrival of more than 1,000,000 American soldiers in France has redressed the balance of numbers; and assured to Gen. Foch To this the enemy bears re- For long the officially inspired German account was (1) that American troops would not be sent to France; (2) that if they did set sail they would be sunk on the way by German U-boats; (3) that if any American sol- diers did succeed in-getting through, they would be of sych inferior material, ‘so’ poorly trained, that they would amount to nothing-in‘a military sense. dispelled. Even before the recent fierce fighting in which the Americans more than held their own with the best German. troops, intelligent officers of the German army had reported that the Amer- ican units were not to be despised. ‘Since for it- And on the larger aspects of America’s share in the war, more than one German news- paper has confessed that, if numbers are to win the war, the United States is contributing to the It is not at all a case for boasting by the uni- versal Yankee nation. We must keep our sense of proportion right. Some of the military corres- pondents in France’of our newspapers gave the impression, unwittingly, that the recent great vic- tory was won mainly by the American army, the This is not, of course, the view of our general staff or of the Washington administration, nor is it the view of our people. They know very well what is happening. The'long war has given them the true perspective. They understand that the : American military’ role has so far been supple- life, but our clubmen of this era can only raise |mentary and subordinate in the fighting; that we elbow-corns by leaning on mahogany bars. Once |are to pledge our. man-power and. bring it to bear zin a whilg he'll raise fhe rent onhis tenants to|as it may be needed. This is she chief reason for the extension of our draft ages, and its quiet .ac- ‘than ever,:as yebterday iI was made ute. Of ‘course, 1) worry,-too, a little, I wondar if J am doing things *just exactly right. 1 didn’t want the job very badly, as it is hard to keep friends and be a good Top. But the boys all. like me Top Sergeant -andiit seems: as though | i there is something doing. every min-|an “evening. of ‘as rare “and, hilarious and I am going to give-them all a square deal and do the best I can. I have a very good captain and he is good to me. I will write as often as I can. I must)inow tell you ail, the things we did the Fourth and: since. { ‘We celebrated with the French and in the evening we had a wonderful concert. I played mandolin in the or- chestra and we put-.over some big stunts. The next Saturday night we were taken to a nearby town and re- peated the concert and on Sunday my ball team beat the Medics again be- fore a big crowd of French people. I with Muggsy McGraw: You can tell that to Dr. Stackhouse. But the crowning glory of all was on the 14th, or Bastile Day ,the French Fourth. Our colonel is a very good friend of the Frenéh and we par- ticipated in all the ceremonies again. We were all in formation around a large statue and all the troops at this town, both French and Yanks, march- ed and sang the national airs, etc., and when my squadron came march- ing by the girls threw bouquets and cried, “Vive: Amerique!" “Oh, Baby, {nation, also. I was proud. My boys are big men, as most all come from the west, and when we doll up for parade, “oh, you soldier!” Our captain is as proud as he can be, and one of our lieutenants thinks we are the finest in France. You will be surprised when I tell you that old John Haas’ boy, John;.18° at this post but ‘will’ be going soon. Also, a boy that hung around Lambert's; but I think Doris’ sister was mistaken when she said Art. had© been here, as I have been at this post for six. months and there never was ‘any. infantry. here. Johnny Haas fs as fat as a pig. He weighs 166. His father would never know him. “ Our squadron is filled up and can't Ret the state of North Dakota in it, but have a fine bunch, anyway. Never mind the shoes, dear; they will come. Ask old Dick. Hill what a first ser- geant has todo. ~ I, just this minute, had to go and hunt a ‘detail for a captain, and a soldier can find more places to hide than any mouse that ever. lived. I heard from them all.’ Ob, I guess L told you ‘that. A million kisses and a big bear hug from ‘your JACK: avy wis $——— A. H. WOODS’, LATEST COMEDY.. MERE FRIDAY. Do women prefer Don: Juan, to Sir Galahad? “Do \they prefer: the man with the rosy past ‘to tHe. man with the roseate future? No/matter which side of the controversy, you take you will find delight in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” the sensatlonal New York farce hit which A .H.;Woods will pre- sent at the Auditorium Friday, Au- gust 16, direct. from a run of seven months at the Republic ‘Theatre, New York, and an engagement of four months in Chicago. \ “Parlor, Bed- room and Bath,” described as a new tale of a wayside inn, is a fresh, flip- pant, farce comedy in three ‘acts, by C,,W,; Bell and Mark ‘Swan, and bas th Fare" distinction’ of having been the biggest comedy ‘hit in both New bevy of; lovely. but uninvited, women- The complications that entertainment as the title of the play suggests. The splendid: company se- lected by Mr.’ Woods; includes: Eda Ann Luke, Homer Barton, Marguerite Risser, Noette Aimes, Frank F. Moore, Ryder Keane, Eleanor. Martin, Ger- trude Webster, Jack Osterman, Vio- let_ ‘Barney, George Williams, John Fernlock and others. $ BUY W. SL + PEOPLE'S FORUM | Wishek, N. D., Aug. 13, 1918. Editor Tribune: Dear Sir—Permit me a suggestion with regard to the future name of Bis- marck, should a change be made. When this winning fight against the Huns is finished, then there will be pienty of names of the men who have % >. 4 am manager and wouldn't trade places {helped to defeat the Germans from aue ‘promise |"¢py which to select a name for our cap- ital city, Maybe some humble private or officer now, will be worthy that honor whose achievements will have shed glory o nthis, our state, and this, our What more appropriate name than EVERETT TRUE, OF CouRSE You BAW THIS MUD PUDDLE, BUT NEVERTHELESS s| You PLOWED THROUGH IT AND iS 4 SPATTERED ME AND OTHERS FROM HEAD To Foot !! T THINK THIS ONE TRE4TMGNT WILE Cure You OF THE HABIT ' ‘ i 2 a war hero to supplant the man of “blood and iron?” Sincerely, x CONSTANT READER. Cynical Observation. A woman may insist on having the last word in an argument, but even after you've granted her that: you've got to be mighty careful or she'll start another argument.—Exthange, Dally Thought. Browne.. Fresh.” ‘ Fish _Dealer—Fresh, mum? © Why, the’ unfortunate fish breathed: his last Just as it saw you comin’—Baston Eve- ning Transcript, :, 3 ‘The Other Way Round... Either. success or /failure comes to those who stray away from the beaten paths.—Winnipeg Telegram. \Area of Greenland, Corrections made recently 4n maps of Greenland have shown It to be about 150,000 square miles larger than form- erly believed, Old Wood a Sparkmaker. Old wood is apt to send sparks out into the room, but wood’ that is sound will burn without this difficulty, Tribune Want Ads Bring. Rosults. ' By Conde SEVERAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918."' ‘hrot h tthe pene throne stormed’ bart of the. interior decoration of a costly building in’ Delhi, ‘the ancient capital of the Mogul ‘empire in India. The throne had the figures of two peacocks standing bebind it, their tails expand- ed and the whole so Inlaid with sap- phires, rubles, eméralds, pearls and other ‘prectous stones as to represent real peacock plumage. The throne, valiied at several jpitlion dollars, was carried off by Invading armies and now figures,,in a.palace in Persia. preiree "" Beeawax for Cracks. Cracks in furniture may: be filled in with beeswax. Soften the wax until it is like putty, then firmly press it into the cracks and smooth over with a‘thin steel knife. Sandpaper over the surrounding wood and. work the dust into.the wax. This gives a yvood finish or color, and when the furniture is varnished the cracks, will disappear. Beeswax “is better than putty, for putty soon dries, crumbles,’ and falls out. a, Couldn't Have, Werrled: Much. Before he died at the age of ninety- six years,.the oldest. member of the British parliament said that he had no secret formula for*the prolongation of life, except’ it might, be that he never bothered about his health, he smoked and he ate and drank what pleased him most. It’s quite evident that he was on honorary member of the Don’t Worry club. - ———_ Had an Alibi. } A party of tourists were discussing the Darwinian theory, and one of them, turning to the guide, said: “And what, my friend, do you think of the mat- ter?” “Well, sir,” sald the gulde, “you gentlemen may have come from apes, It's not for, me to contradict you. But, as for me, I’can say that my folks came from Wales.” Things Worth Knowing. Guard within’ yourself that treas- ure kindness. “Know how ,to give without hesitation, how. to lose with- out regret, how to acquire without meanness. Know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting in yourself—F. W. Faber. Really Great Victory, =~ It 1s @ conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of cir- cumstances over-which we have no control; but it,{s a greater -xictory when we can make those circumstgnces our helpers,,when we can appreciate the good that is in them.—Lucy [are com, 3 For Postal Card ‘Users, According to decisions of the post- office department, anything written or Printed.on, the address,side of-a.gov- . ernment -postal. .card,; except' the ad- dress itself, that 1s, anything in the nature ofia ssage on the address side, renders the card unmatlable, yen Worryin’, | Mah boss say$s'folks ginally worrles de mos’ bout de,things whut don’ nebuh happen—Ah reck’n da's.right—Ah bin worryin’ de longes’ case he don’ nebuh raise mah wages !—Memphis Commer- clal Appeals ©) 97 >" al ais ‘Friday Day of II! Omen. The Talmud, the book containing the uivil laws wf the ancient Jews, says that. Adam was crented on a Friday, sinfed on a Friday and was thrust out of Eden on a Friday. Re No Appreciable Loss, In New Jersey-a man recently smok- ed cigarettes an entire day without any particular harm resulting. Tie’ only visible effect was the death of the smoker.—Boston Transcript. ‘ be | And the Hobo Left, “Semper fidelis,” announced the ho- bo. “Dat’s me.” “Sic: semper,” chirped the head of the house, and the bulldog promptly responded.—Loulsville Coure fer-Journal. 5 4 1 . British Possessions. The smallest British possession Is Gibraltar, with an area of two square miles; the largest India, with an area of 1,802,629 square miles, i ral Mistaken ‘Feeling. Sometimes we feel like we ‘are real snappy and positive, when we are only’ impatient and disagreeable.—Our Boys’ Magazine. : cs The Only: Time.’ “Some people,” observed Colonel Branfugle, “never stay at home except or election day, and then they overdo the thing.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Pastions, Passtons are likened best to floods and streams, the shallow murmur, but tke deep are dumb.—Sir Walter Ra- leigh, i History, James imparting ‘his knowledge to rigls his younger Sister: “Rome was found- * ed by Romeo and Juliet.” 7 _ Daily. Thought. : Our duty is to be useful, not accord- ing to our desires, but according to. our powers.—Henri Frederic Amiel, nme, Py