The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1918, Page 4

SHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Biemarek, N. D,, as Seco oatoffice, Bismarel ; D., as Second Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN = Sey os Editor G. LOGaS PAYNE COMPANY, ! Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marcuette 2 Mian B STON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege 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 credited in this paper and also the local newa pub- lished in. aT ents of publication of special dispatches herein ed. sp reany publication of special dispatches herein ese A UREAU_OF CIRCULATION — ER AUDIT B SUBSGRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC Dail carrier per year... oo $6.00: Daily oy met per years oe ace i mail per year . Buy by mail Cutslde of North Dakot: 6.00 SUBSCRIPTION RATE (In North Dakota) pes 333 One year by mail. ae | Six monthe by, mal mai seieieie se ai Youtside of North Dakota) 00 One year . $5. Six months 2.50 Three mont 1.25 One year . $6.00 Six months . aot Three months . Hy One month .... : THB STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1878) HEROES OVER THERE. This war has developed some heretofore unex- ampled deeds of daring; glorious episodes of valor ; marvelous exhibitions of courage; heroism and bravery unparalleled in world history. Wherever and whenever possible, nations have acknowledged their indebtedness with suitable shall possess such wholegala mower jf destruction that’ war will be impossible. : Is it too fantastical to imagine an instrument from which a single discharge or flash would an- nihilate the entire human race? A weapon that, at a touch, would blast the breath of life from every animate thing! At least this is certain. ‘For every diabolical Boche contrivance we’ll produce one more “ef- ficient” like it; every fiendish conception of the crazed dupes and demons of kultur will be met by a duplicate more Hellish— Till the Teuton screams for peace and cries for quarter or is blotted from the face of the earth! BRAVE WORDS. “IT would not have had him anywhere else. If he had been at home, with the great need that exists for real men over there, I should have been ashamed of him. I know he died bravely.”— From the lips of a War Mother of America when she first heard that her boy was dead in France. Girls now buy less cloth for frocks and more yarn for socks. Carrie Home is a patriotic woman who never says “Send It!” Among the questions to put to your congress- man: How do YOU stand on taxing war profits? Kaiser Bill doesn’t want his son to be Finnish king, evidently seeing sonny’s finish if he climbed onto the Finnish throne. No German peace treaty will be more than a marks and medals. No longer are these honors and emoluments reserved solely for the sensational and spectacular feats of battlefield prowess. Medals at last are to be struck for the indus- trial heroes. There is now inducement, recogni- tion and reward for the patient, straining, think- ing toiler whose greater skill, Herculean effort or patriotic sacrifice; dexterity, inventiveness, risk of life or loss of limb in the line of duty manu- facturing munitions or assembling machinery. of war distinguishes him—or her. We read of ‘a’ woman filling one hand grenade with high explosives every five seconds. A ship- yard worker makes a record “drive” of more than 6000 rivets in a single day. ® Surely such as they, too, deserve a mark of na- tional apreciation and personal distinction. It is well that we have a “Legion of Honor” for that region of honor bounded by whirr of wheel, clatter of riveter, roar of furnace and sweat of toil! : ‘ 5 A draft delinquent member of one prominent profiteering meat packer family has been arrested and inducted into Uncle Sam’s “gun-packer” family. IN GOOD REPAIR The art of keeping well is nothing more than the knack of keeping in good repair. A bit of timely repair work and a great many insidious disorders and ailments may be readily avoided or at least, indefinitely postponed. Periodic examinations of the body will enable one to take precautious which will prevent almost anyone of the chronic diseases such as Bright’s ‘scrap of paper” unless the HUN war lords dis- arm and agree to arbitrate hereafter. | WITH THE EDITORS BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE AUGUST es “THE WANDERER” AT THE AUDITORIUM THURSDAY For the first time in three score and seventeen years the, spectacle of sheep grazzing upon Boston common was presented when the flock of “The Wanderer” found ‘temporary pasture there by special permission of Mayor Corley. This revival of an ancient custom recalls many quaint histori- cal facts besides the fiction that the streets of ‘Boston were originally laid out along the cowpaths of the com- mon. 5 The original settler at Shawmut— the Indian name for the site of Bos- ton—was Rey. William ‘Blaxton or Blackstone who came from England ‘because he did not like the Lowls Bishops.’ For the further reason that he “could, not live under the Lords Brethren” he sold his grant of about 50 acres to the Winthrop pioneers in : FOURTEENTH STATE. The addition of a fourteenth State to the list of those which have ratified the prohibition amend- ment means little, but that is happens to be Louis- iana is of significance. On May 23 the Louisiana Senate refused ratification, though Gov. Pleasant favored it, and there was evidence that the senti- ment of the majority in the State did so. The Legislature was called in special session a few days ago, with interest again centering upon the amendment. The campaign conducted by the “drys” during the simmer had had its effect, and the Senate at once’ reversed its stand, while the House repassed the ratification resolution by’ an increased majority—New York Post. j e "THE PRODIGAL SON. + From the early days when, the white lights of Tyre and Sidon first lured the sons of Isreal and the abomniations of Baal and Ishtar perverted the followers of Jehovah, the story of the young man who leaves home to seek adventure in high places has ever held peculiar fascination. In every tongue and clime, folk lore tells a tale that corres- ponds with the parable of the “Prodigal Son.” That passionate story of 4 dull country’s drab hills and valleys and the high lights of the city has been wonderfully. well related and. vividly staged in dramatic form as “The Wanderer.” It is Tacoma’s good fortune to’see this Biblical drama unfolded with fidelity to detail and costume. The disease, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, chronic heart trouble, stomach and digestive dis- orders. ; If a person who is feeling run down will care- fully check over his daily habits with a competent physician the latter will in most cases be able to suggest simple changes or correction in the daily habits that will bring a person back to normal. It is one thing to be barely able to drag along from day to day, eking out a mere existence, and that at great sacrifice of nervous energy, pain and discomfort, and another thing to do a day’s work with ease and comfort and have strength, energy and vitality to spare. Such is simply the difference between keeping the human engine iri good repair or in poor con- dition. Who would think of running an automo- bile day after day and week after week, simply furnishing it with oil and gasoline and keeping the radiator filled with water and never paying the slightest attention to the maintenance of the machine? Just as it is cheaper in the long run to have the machine repaired and kept in running order reg- ularly so is it cheay to maintain health by find- ing and checking disease in the human system early. ary Werth, the: disloyal preacher, who faces two years prison sentence, promised the court never to return to his church. Perhaps it wouldn’t, be exactly safe. ' THIS IS CERTAIN. While the HUNS were preparing their gas of insidious propaganda over here, chemists in kul- tur-conceived laboratories had already The Silent Death over there. It first floated down upon and enveloped the Canadians at Ypres. The “gassedly” effect if we may coin a word, is. now historically recorded perfidy. When the allies finally fought with the same weapon, and the wind Proved to be Berlin-béund nine days in ten, the yellow cur, kultur, whined. life of Bible days is revealed again and characters of that time love and hate and’sin and are for- given in the same fashion of folly that they do today and probably will until the end of time. It is plays like “The Wanderer” that calls back memories of a stage before the days of ragtime revues and syucopated sensualism. No sermon that was ever preached begins ‘to have the appeal and moral lesson that this ancient story of a lov- able, wilful, sinning boy holds. . Besides, it is art of the highest type—Tacoma News Tribune. ONE MORE LOYAL “TRAITOR.” A. C. Townley’s “traitor” class soon will become like the gourd into which an angry boy determined to put a nest of hornets, one at a time. The boy handpicked the hornets from the nest-and did fairly well getting them into the gourd until finally the picking hand grew to such size it could not be removed from the gourd. .Then. all the hornets already in the gourd took. turns sting- ing him and he couldn’t let go of the gourd. Sam Yeagarden of Montana, Nonpartisan league candidate for United States senator, has emulated “Townley in politics is a menace to Montana and Rev. S. R. Maxwell in repudiating the league lead- er and he comes out with the flat statement that a stumbling block in the way of economic reform for the farmers of the state.” In an interview in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, he adds: “Townley will destroy the league in Montana unless the red blooded and sound citizen- ship of the state expresses itself promptly in a state convention to take over the organization and to sweep the state clean of political kaiserism and financial crookedness.:. There is. but one issue in this whole matter—patriotism against Townley- ism.” , 1 '@Qquma Evidently Mr. Yeagarden is not one of the rubber stamp candidates of the league. He would appear to be another one of the hornets that Mr. Townley has not yet succeeded in putting into the “traitor” gourd, but the league newspapers now may be expected to classify Mr. Yeagarden Now, American scientists are said to have a gas against which masks will be useless! ‘Some day, man will invent a machine which with Rev. Mr. Maxweéll and “seventeen” others who have repudiated Townleyism.—St; Paul Dis- patch, Ui Se AE ATES eos er 1634 and moved farther on into the wilderness. Blaxton sold the fifty acres for 30 pounds which sum was August 17, 1918. After a-harvesting outing of two weeks, I am now at my post of duty. The other Judges. are all out harvesting and I do not: look for them to return until the end of the month. - And ‘now,/as a Rube fresh from the country, I want to submit a few point- ers concerning my old friend, Town- ley. It-seems, that among a few, ‘of his church deacons and. ex-bishops there is. a kind: of schism. They say that he is a money-grabber and a self-appointed ‘autocrat; but “what of Holy. Moses, :Gerieral Booth of: the Sal- vation Army, and Mrs. Mary, Baker Eddy,. the :Christian Scientist? We read of Moses going up into a moun- tain: and, there conferring with the Lord for some thirty days, so the poor Hebrew’ children constrived to: .pass their hours of idleness by the making of a golden calf... This oo enraged Moses that he caused three thousand of the poor people to be. slain. Then Moses had a scsism among ois elders and deacons. Korah, Dathin and Abi- ram‘ said to him: Wherefore lift ye yourselves above the congregation of the Lord? Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill _us in. the wilderness except thou makest thyself altogether a prince over us. Then Moses was very wroth, and heat once arranged with the Lord to have the earth open its mouth and swallow those rebellious men and their innocent wives and children! Now, our Townley: has never did any- thing Tika that. And General. Booth, you.know how he organized the Salvation Army, ap- pointed-.himself general and supreme commander and: treasurer and ap- pointed all its officers and how he had EVERETT TRUE WAR OR No Ww AN INFIRMARY, HE'S THROUG SATU RDAY EVENING LETTER By, Justice J.E, Robinson | : Scene from the great Biblical Blay, ‘The Wanderer,” at theAuditorium, Thursday, August 22. subscribed by the citizens of Boston i namounts of ‘six shillings..or mcv2 apiece and the ground thereupon ‘be. came “the common” which, was set aside for a “trayning fie.d'and for the feeding of cattell.” Rev. Mr. Blaxton was evidently a cattle fancier for he immediately in- | vested the purchase price of his Jand in a “stock of cows—to his full satis: faction.” The early town records have much to do with the use of the common as.a pasture: Thus in 1648 it is ordered ‘‘that there shall be kept on the common bye the inhabitants of the Towne but 70 milch kine;—that there shall be no dray Cattel yonge Cattell or horse shalbe free to goe on the common this year. — It was also provided ‘that if any desire to kep sheep hee may kep foure sheep in liew of a cow’—which gives ample precedent and pasture for the flock ;of “The Wanderer? numbering over 1100. < Right of commonage was restricted ‘townesmen to be inhabitants” and to encounter schism after ‘schism; ,and Mrs. Mary ‘Baker ‘Eddy, she had her storms upon storms, she had her schisms—her Korah, Lathan ad Abi- ram, who declared that she was in- capable as a leader, and who attempt- ed to supplant her, but. she quietly threw them out of the church which mach she. had organized. “Of course, in a why, General,Booth and Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy were self-appointed leaders and autocrats.. Naturally, they assumed: control,over ‘the, society which they formed and organized, and everyone by joinin’ gthe ‘society’ asl sented to the rule; and so. it is with Townley and his League. - Everyone, by paying his membership, fee and joining the League, has ‘voted. tor Townley as its president and. general manager.. He holds: office — by’ the ananimous vote of every member of the League. Hence, it cannot be truly said that he is self-appointed. How- ever, it is true that he is the pope and the executive head of the League. He employs and pays a whole army of League workers. He says to one, “Go,” and he goeth; and to another, “Come,” and he cometh; and to an- jother “Do this,” ud he doeth it, or he is excused from service. Townley is inker afd a faithful worker and all his time and thought. His avowed purpose is to advance great civic re- forms and to better the condition’ of the people. If he fail to “deliver the goods” he will soof cease to be presi- dent, as the Leaguers will. cease to pay membership fees. Their payment is a free will offering. It is volun- tary. It is not a tax. An ex-bishop of the League who is opposed to all forms 9f autocracy has just written for the St. Paul Dispatch By Conde AR, S HIRE ONLY YOUNG, OFICE NELP BECAUSE I'M NOT RUNNING You KNOW, WHGN A MAN HAS PASSED FORTY* FIVE H. {to “those who are admitted by the] Ieee he'gives to the business of the League} .| am going to try to be a real man over there was appointed a keeper of th cattle receiving “2 shillings a Cowe. Later a shepherd was appointed to | care for the sheep on the common. The right of common pasturage was exercised for nearly a century but apparently sonre énterprising townes- men were inclined to overplay the | privilege. Mayor Quincy the elder dis- covered that one enterprising citizen ‘was pasturing a whole herd of cows, land selling the milk, thereby estab- ishing the first municipal dairy. Thereafter each cow had to bear a tag showing the name of the owner. [Evidently this was too much of an advertisement, for the practice grad- jually fell into disuse, and when Bos- jton became a full-fledged city it was jpractically abolished by common con- sent. Once in a while some old inhab- itant tells of having seen cattle graz- ing on the common, but there, are no official records of such practice since 1830,,and probably such instances iwere probably by special permit of the Mayor, as in the case of “The Wander- er” sheep. a several letters. He concludes by call- ing on the farmers ty assume control | o fthe League and at once to throw off the burden of the autocrat and his machine. He thinks the best way to remedy the defects of the League is to cut off its head, though he does in no way attempt to show how it may be done. If the ex-bishop has a capacity for leadership, the formation of leagues and the advancement of civic reforms, he is free to ‘organize a model league of his own and to show how it can be run without any form of autocracy. In the formation. of leagues, Townley has no monopoly or patent right. The gate ajar stands free toi all Who seek through it salvation. ‘LETTERS FROM . | | “SOMEWHERE” | | IN FRANCE| | FROM JOHN HAAS. Somewhere in France, Jyly 4, 1918. My Dear Folks: Yt ate, We are here at last and this is to jtell you I am well and reasonably \happy. We had a great trip across, but, of course, I cannot give you the particulars of what I saw or things that ‘were doing. Many of the boys were sick but with all of it we had much good fun. I never saw so much water in all my life and, except to get back home, I hope to never see as much again . I would rather ride where I can see a telegraph pole and some trees occasionally and be able to get off the car and, vuy a sandwich jor an orange. Now that we are here, France looks mighty good. This is truly a beau- tiful country and in many respects much different from our own. Here all the iiouses are of stone or concrete, with tile roofs, painted red . One scarcely sees any wood at all, even the very small outbuildings being built of stone or some sort of mixture. Everything looks old, very old and weatherbeaten; but there are flowers and vines everywhere and many beau- tiful homes. The French rather like to live in seclusion, and most places are surrounded by hedges, walls or iro nfences, with most beautiful, big gates. All of the ground is cultivated an deverything is kept in perfect or- der, so that the country looks mighty good. Sometimes, though, the stable is made a part of the house, and that does not look so good. We have not seen much of the towns and cities yet, but see many French people on the road and about the camps. They are wonderfully polite and usually stop to talk, but the only words they know are, “Hello” and “good-bye,” and about all we can say is, “Wee, wee.” The little kids have learned to ask for cigarettes and pen- nies and chewing gum, and all of them stop and salute like little sol- diers. It is warm over here now, but the nights are usually pretty cool . I am writing this at a Y. M. C.-A. hut, where they furnish us plenty of paper and a place to sit down. They have a good canteen here, where we can buy a little of everything, and every night they put on some sort of an entertain- ment. All of this helps out and so far war is not what Sherman said it was, I am seeing lots ‘of. } interesting things and getting a fine experience, but of course I miss you and home folks. However, you must not worry about me, but rather think of me. I will write you from time to time and Tam hoping this will find you all well. Folks, I want you to know that I here. I'll try to be clean and worthy of you folks and the nation for which we came to fight. = Give my love. to all of the folks and my friends at home, and tell all of them to write to me often. Good-bye and good luck. God bless ‘you all. H Your son, | JOHN vex MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918. SABBATH BAYNN FRANCE PICTURED Not What Yanks Are Accustomed to at Home. TYPICAL SUNDAY DESCRIBED Former. Insurance Man Conducts Re- ligious Services and Later In the Day Referees Boxing Match—De- cency and Wholesomeness of Young Americans Impresses New- comer—Mothers Would Be Proud of Them. ° \ By MAXIMILIAN FOSTER. A churchgoer of the ordinary, old- fashioned kind. would be a bit puz- zled, no doubt, if he were to see the way the American army in France observes the Sabbath day: ‘* Sundays over here are not the same sort one is accustomed to at home. ven the most religious among our fighting men have widened , their views regarding the Sabbath. Understand now, this does not mean that our boys have grown un- godly. It is the very opposite, rath- er. The first thing that impresses the newcomer, in. spite of what he may have heard at home, Js the strik- ing decency and wholesomeness of this host of young Americans. France, in fact, has marveled at our soldiers’ tgelf-restraint; for no matter what his- tory has ‘to say of other great, bod- jes of armed men, our boys have con- ducted themselves Jn a way to make their mothers proud....So, even though it be said that their attitude toward Sunday has‘ altered, this does not mean—far from it, indeed—that It has ‘altered for the worse. It means merely that ‘among them Sun- day is not, devoted entirely to re- ligious observances. . Here, if you lke, is a picture-of one Sabbath in Franee, The’ place is up In the Luneville sector. That Sunday the sun was shining, glowing down with a dazzling radiance on ‘he flowering fields and hills behind the lines. Out in front, o bare three kilometers away, was the ugly, scarred zigzag of the front- line trenches, the one blemish on the landscape“as far as thet eye could Bee, Insurance Man Leads. | Near by, the little town, hardly tered by the Huns’ bombs and: shells, lay peaceable and ‘quiet In the morn- ing air. Presently one heard a burst of song, that good old: hymn, “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me.” It tose on the quiet air, propelled from a hundred. or more sturdy lungs. The source of it was'a Y. M. C..A. fleld hut, now tenanting what orice had been a blowsy ‘drinking place. . In- side morning services were going on. The leader of the services was a former Buffalo (N. Y.) real estate and insurance man. . He was not a Preacher, he never had been one, but the war. had. imposed on. him this new duty. ‘The services’ were brief, but they were earnest. | After they had finfshed’ it the ex- tempore pastor. gave them a little talk. There, was, nothing smug about it, nothing mealy-mouthed. It was just a bing-bang sort of an allocution such as might have been heard in an ath- letic field dressing room between the two halves of a ‘varsity football match. “ : AfterWard the amateur pastor gave them his. benedictton, a sort of “Here's luck, fellows,” valedictory. A moment later one saw the insurance man, relieved from his spiritual du- ties, dispensing chocolate, chewing gum and cigarettes at the other end of the hut. ‘ These were the morning's religious services. At one o’clock the insur- ance man was at it again. His chapel now had moved from the former buvette to a bigger, more commodious' temple—nature’s world of out-of-doors. .The insurance man’s talk was a homely bit about the Holy Writ. But the boys—there were 86 of them now—listened with silent interest. “Get it?” inquired the Insurance man. Yes; they got it. The “it” was something about an- other preacher who went upon a mountain, and what he safd to a mul- titude. x Just Innocent Fun. At two o'clock the “Y" man was back in his hut. ‘The hut, by then, had begun to fill. Presently the “Y” man, with a grin, called the place to order. : “The first event on. the: program,” he announced, “will be a four-round bout, ‘Spike’ Anderson ‘versus ‘Bats tling Bill’ Roberts. Shake hands, First round! Time! A trio of buck and wing dancers followed, after which there was a song, a very topical one. Then a recitation, “Olu -Ironsides at Anchor Lay.” The hit; of the occasion, though, was a real, simon-pure glass- enter, a young private from a neigh- boring unit. So, for. three hours passed the Sun- day afternoon. A queer Sabbath some will say; yet what of it? One was certain of its innocence. That night, when the writer was an his way back’'through the town, there rose from within a “Y” hut a rousing chorus. of voices. They Were young, fresh, hearty volces, and what they sang was “The Son of God Goes Forth to. War.” So finished a Sunday in France, avy w. s,s. ‘Tribune Wani Ads Bring Results, more than a village, and now: bat- - oy ro Te ‘ ‘