The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 20, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE FOUR' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN : Editor G. LOGAN PAINE COMPANY, Speci ‘oreign Representative NEW YORK Fifth Ave. Bldg; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 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 news herein. Mader ights of publication of special dispatches herein Y erved, ty All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ew U_OF CIRCULATION EMBER AUDIT BUREA SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year..... pay by mail vor year (in state) aily by mail per ne il outside of North Dakota. Bel ey mee °'SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One year by mail.... a Bix months by mail ths by mail............+ . alec Voutside of North Dakota) gees 333s $33 00 One year . Bix months ae Three mont year .00 One . ‘Six months 00 Three months ... 60 One month .... seceese THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Bstablished 1878) GE5> BREAD CAST UPON WATERS. Theer were times before the world war when the eyes of native American citizens were somewhat blinded to the advantages of democracy and the virtues of a cosmopolitan citizenship. In theory—and in oratory—we heartily en- dorsedd the principle which made America the “Melting Pot” of the nations, and brought to our cities, our schools, our industries and our govern- ment men and women of infinitely varied creeds and colors—and but one ideal—our own ideal of freedom, for all, forever. In theory—and in the sincerity of our secret hearts—we welcomed all’men, but in practice we were not always so cordial and appreciative in our manner toward these voluntary Americans. Most of us were slightly annoyed by their superficial differences of dress, language, and manner, or by theri material prosperity and amazingly large families, or by their poverty and the social and economic problems their very existence created for us. We jostled them a bit when they got in our conquering way, or when we could not jostle we addressed them and teased them by inventing for them half derisive names—wops, guinaes, kikes, bohunks, greasers, hunkies, and a score of other tags designed to emphasize and remind them of their difference from ourselves. It is so long since our “first families” were immigrants too! Here in America we have sometimes regarded the political and religious liberty, the free educa- tion, and the economic opportunities we bestowed upon these newest citizens as “bread cast upon the waters.” We were secretly dubious about its successful return—but nevertheless we cast it forth, praying over it, laughing a little—and won- dering much. AND AFTER MANY DAYS—! Then came the war. The bread of freedom which this nation cast upon the waters—the waves and waves of foreign immigration—is returned to us a thousand fold. "The casualty lists tell the story—the last story of men BORN in all the lands of the earth, men who DIED for but one—our own and THEIR OWN America! What's the use of dreaming about what, we'll do to the kaiser when we land him? Better stay on the job of catching him! THE KAISER’S MEDALS AND YOUR ANSWER A sweet little girl asked it. Just such a child as the Boche in Belgium bayonetted to doors, crippled, and mutilated and scrunched under monstrous foot or tore from mother arms to be stuck through and carried aloft. - ‘ The little one pointed to a picture in the out- spread paper. “How did the kaiser get all those pretty medals?” We thought of the Lusitania and those pieces struck to “commemorate” that world-horror. We thought of the aluminum piece he gives to: every HUN soldier; it bears these words: “Strike him dead. The Day of Judgment will not ask you for reasons.” We recall some of the savageries for which he had awarded the Iron Cross to his butchers and beasts of rapine and atrocity. , And we wondered and answered that we could not answer but decided that the Hohenzollern would answer some day for every one he wore, and every heart he tore and every drop of gore in which his filthy fists had steeped! You can hasten for him that Day of Judgment which WILL ask him for REASONS—by the sim- ple expedient of investment, by “going over the top” with a W. S. S. pledge that will pinch your purse but pinch him worse! If you need nerve to do it, what the Yanks “over there” call GUTS—think of the Belgians, the girls, the babes, the women, and “Fade in” to that pic- ture our girls, our babes, our women! History will sum up the results of German sub- marine warfare with a line something like this: U-boats brought America into the war, and defeat to Germany. ing of the Americans, exclaimed: ‘They tried to catch us with their hands!” New York sets a fine example in sending food profiteers to jail. War Saving Stamps makes.a fine “nest egg” for the “rainy day.” ” Well, if the kaiser won’t tell his people the Yanks have arrived, the boys themselves will spread the news on their way to Berlin. SY | WITH THE EDITORS VILLARD FAMILY STORY RETOLD Oswald Garrison Villard, who is a director of the Associated Press, will now retire from active daily journalism and devote his talents presum- ably, to the weekly Nation. His mother was a daughter of William Lloyd Garrison and thus he Weisbaden, Germany, where his parents were tem- porarily residing, but is a graduate of Harvard and has passed practically his entire life in this coun- try. He worked as a reporter on the Philadelphia Press for a year before taking up his duties as an editorial writer and publisher of the Evening Post. He wrote in 1910 “John Brown—A Biography Fifty Years After,” and in 1910 “Germany Em- battled.” Other notable productions from his pen are monographs on the early history of Wall street and on the German imperial court. Villard was not the original family name, but Hilgard. It was changed by the father, Henry, upon coming to the United States in 1853. He was born in Epeyer, Rhenish Bavaria, in 1835. During the Civil war he won distinction: as a correspondent with the federal troops and during the brief Austro-Prussian war in 1866 served as correspondent of the New York Tribune.. His marriage to a daughter of William Lloyd Garrison occurred upon his return to this country the same year. After the financial panic of 1873 he became the representative of the German bondholders of the Pacific railways. Subsequently he acquired) the interests of the European investors, organized the Oregon Railway & Navigation company, finan- ced and obtained control of the Northern Pacific and completed the main line. He lost for presi- dency and control of this road for a time, having sacrificed a fortune in the enterprise, but regarded it and was chairman of the board of directors from 1889 to 1893. As a railroad builder he was a great factor in the development of this north coast country. He died in 1900.—Post Intelli- gencer. i A RELIC OF BARBARISM. (As others view it.) Even the people of Bismarck are beginning. to believe that there is something in a name—too much in fact. The. other day some young man painted out the name of the town on numerous signs ‘about the city and in the morning residents were greeted by a 60 ft. sign which read “To hell with the blockheaded Hun—what did he ever do for us?” No one has yet arisen to answer the question. 4 Yankee thrift and not German love of father- land fastened upon the capital city of North Da- kota the name of the greatest war lord of the Prussians—a man declared to “smell of blood.” The men who gave the name of Bismarck to Da- kota’s western outpost in 1872 were not German emigrants, but thrifty downeast Yankees and state o’Main folk, and their object was to interest Ger- man capital and not to cater to German patriotism. Bismarck was to be the “New Chicago”. of the west. Its founders, chiefly stockholders, in the Northern Pacific, which had just reached the east- ern bank of the Missouri, and of the Lake Super- ior & Puget Sound Land Co., which owned the townsite along the new right-of-way, had visions of floods of German gold which might flow into the western metropolis if the interest of German capitalists were sufficiently interested. With this object and none other in view the name of the city destined to become the capital of Dakota ter- ritory and the state of North Dakota was changed |from Edwinton to Bismarck, and Bismarck it is likely to remain in spite of opposition and criti- cism which is becoming more intense and bitter with the progress of the war. The Kansas City Star said recently: The citi- zens of Bismarck, N. D., properly feel that the name of their town carries an implication no American town can rest under, and they.want to get rid of it. The citizens of the North Dakota capital never would dream of marching over to Jamestown or Grand Forks, and holding those towns for ransom, yet if the name of Bismarck stands for anything, it stands for.a system and a policy that would regard such action as enter- prising and loudatory. . “Bismarck the statesman, belonged to one age and Bismarck the town, belongs to another. Half a century ago wars of conquest, deliberately plan- ned and carried out, could raise Bismarck to the highest posts in Prussia and Germany and fix shis policy as the policy of the state. Success was the only test applied. If Bismarck’ could rob Denmark, Austria and France, then conquest was a profitable policy, Prussia was a progressive state and Bismarck was a great man. Probably when the North Dakota'town took the name of the German it did so‘as a sort of tribute to success. It saw only the results of a policy, which was all Grins might have got a few pointers from Spain about the fighting quality of American sol- _diers. Twenty years ago a Spanish soldier, speak- the morality of that policy. It wanted to be a Bismarck’s age saw, and did not stop.to examine successful town, ta utsman. County... Press. ~ Bas derives his middle name. ' He.was born in 1872 at! DAY, AUGUST RU 1918. Dear Mother:—I see you now, this minute, ‘although there is a world of’death and destruc- tion before ‘me, homes ground to dust, giant treees splintered into fragments, and great crev- ices in the earth about me., But when I turn my eyes westward I see none of these. mother dear: And because I see to than ever,so: that I may come share the victory you and I have aided our coun- on and ‘fight, to fight more courageously \ “ try to attain. two, serve and I see you, you I am strong back to you to \\\ WN ae Soryenne (p= For you see as I look off there into the west there is the picture of you work- ing, helping on to the goal of our hopes. We strive, you there at home, and I over here where the boche at last is begin- ning to, get his due. God be with you, my bonnie mother—and with me—until I come sailing back again. And if I don’t, well—God be with us just the same. “OVER THERE.” YOUR BOY. im NAT JUDGE AMIDON IN EULOGY SCRIPTION ACT VOICES | ONAL IDEA OF DEMOCRACY There has been considerable mis- understanding as to the intent of John Johnson the Burleigh county farmer, who offered-$500°to the local registra- tion ‘board. © .Judge = Amidon, United States distri¢t: court, has submitted to The Tribune his» remarks when the information came before his recently. In his letter of transmissal, the court’ writes: “In press accounts there have deen some: misleading reports. It has been stated that Johnson offered to pay the board $500 as a bribe. The offer was in the nature of a bounty, to be pajd by Johnson through the board to the United States, as a means: of:ob- taining the exemption of Johnson's son from military service.” The Tribune, which at the time ‘made this point very clear in its re ports, takes pleasure in presenting verbatim the remarks of Judge Ami- don in. the case of the United States vs. Johnson... xX ! It follows: y United States vs: John Johnson. It is the first time that a charge of this kind has been brought before the court, and I wish to:be quite clear and specific in what Ido and say. The charge is this: The defendant, Johnson, is charged with having of- fered to pay the officers of the local board’ $500, to secure exemption of his son from military service. The conduct of the board, from the begin- ning to the end. has been the conduct of clean, high-minded, faithful ser- vants, They resented immediately any such indecent assault upon their integrity: They took the action which was necessary in order to bring the matter to public attention, instead of dealing with it privately, and in that they showed not only their high prin- ciple, but their good sense. These boards must necessarily deal with sub- jects which rest to a considerable ex- tent in the field of opinion, of discre- tion. Shall this man receive a defer- red classification; shall this man. be exempted by reason of physical de- ects? Now, those judgments or con- clusions are in either case a matter of opinion, based upon a careful investi- gation of fact3. The conclusion as to which a just mind ought tg come may vary. People get hold of a few frag- T ments of-truth, and think that some- body’s son has been treated more fav- how. badly they feel about their son, and they: do not-want any favoritism in the matter; and: the slightest sus- picion of , favoritism, immediately re- sults in public accusation. It is a time when we are all ready to have a@vsolute opinions in regard to one an- other ,and in regard to one another's actions, and to say such fierce things about one another, without thought and without knowledge. The time I hope is not far off when wewwill be'in a calmer temper, and less willing to judge our fellowmen with the severity that we do now, with the quick and hasty judgments which we resort to. The Great Teacher said, you remem- ber, ‘He that saith of his brother, ‘Thou fool,’ shall be in danger of hell fire.” And if He were upon earth to- day I wonder what He would say ough to bé done with the man who says of Mis neighbor, “Thou Pro-Ger- man,” “Thou disloyalist.” “thou trait- or.” Some limbo would have to be devised to make men stop and think of the gravity of these terrible, words that they hurl at one another. Board Acted Wisely. “Now to come back to the case that'we have in hand. The board, as I‘said, acted wisely, and as just men. They immediately brught the matter to the attention of the district attor- ney and an information was filed in order that this matter might be han- dled not privately but publicly, and we have looked into it, all’ of us, as well as we can—the board, ‘the United wtates attorney and myself, and I ‘think it is the opinion of Us all that Mr. Johnson, ‘when he made this of- | fer, was acting through ignorance and | misinformation, and without any crim- {inal intent. He is an old man, rather broken in body and mind. He was terribly wrought upon in his emotions by the sf{tuation that was presented to him. He had depended upon this son, who had been called, to take upon his shoulders the burddn which this old man had been carrying, running the farm, and he saw his son going away and the old man left to shoulder \that burden, Then, of course, there was all the moving facts of the possible ight,knows only one. thing—its. duty, orbly. than ‘their son, and they know/ loss. of the only healthy child he had, ‘the only stay and staff that was left to him in his old age. He talked with some neighdors who had very incom- plete information in regard to the majter, and they told him’ that they thought. that by paying some: money, he could get exemption for his son, not by paying money for the purpose of corrupting the board, vut simply by substituting a.money contribution in lieu of his son. And that was what he undertook to do. There is enough in the experience, both of this country and of countries in’ Europe, to leave upon an ignorant mind the impression that such a thing as that could be done. Under the old draft in the Civil War it was possible to ‘do that. It is possible to do it in some of the coun- tries in Europe—to pay a certain con- siderable sum, and thus buy exemp- tion from military service. I am con- vinced that that was what Mr. John- son had in his mind. Only One Way Out. “It was thought best that an in- formation be filed against him, and I myself had not looked into the sta- tutes under which he could be fined and reprimanded and ‘the matter thus dealt with wisely. But when informa- tion was brought before me yesterday and it was shown that the only meth- od of dealing with the matter was to file an information charging the de- fendant with willful and felonious bribery, and then have him enter a plea of guilty to that, it struck, my own mind at once that if the crime was really of that character, ‘it was ; something that could not be dealt with lightly, as that would appear like trifl- ing with what upon the record would always stand as a very grave charge, and that if 1 dealt witha written rec- |} ord here which charged the defendant with having attempted to bribe the ‘board and did not punish him severely, it would be a reflection upon the ad- ministration of justice and a failure to vindicate public right, and a ‘failure to vindicate the board. And so, when I got the matter in my mind in that focus, I saw at once that no plea of guilty to such a charge could be ac- cepted, because there really was no guilt of that kind here. There was no act of that kind here, and the only proper way to deal with-any such sub- ject is to deal with it according to the actual facts, and not simply ac- cording to some legal stagework that may de built up. Commends ‘Local Board. “Now, in disposing of the matter. as I am going to dispose of it, I want first and above all to commend the local board for its action in the matter. They have acted in'a way that becom- eth just men to act, not dealing with it privately, but at once fetching it into a public forum where the light of day can beat upon the whole trns- action. The Doard have not only dealt with the matter as they ought to deal with it, but the board are ab- solutely free from the slightest basis ! of any wrongful conduct either of the | board of any of its members. District Attorney Acted Wisely. also think the District Attorney has acted wisely in bringing the mat- ter into this court where it can be publicly dealt with and where, per- haps, some loose thinking can be cleared up. And now, that is one of the things I want to do this morning. Un- der the present conscription act we are in a field where money cannot en- ter, The son of the rich and the poor stand on a plane of absolute equality under that act. There is no possibil- ity by which wealth can uy exemp- tion from military service under that act, and it is one of the fine things in our country today that wealth has {lat.attempted.te-do, it: It was a wise proyision on the,part pf congress, to put the law ‘in the form. in which it Was put; to say,-here is a common ‘field. The United States.of. America. | every man, need—and it calls upon every son that it has who falls within ‘the age of twenty-one to thirty-one, to step up to the line; and if he is physically able, he must stand on.a basis of abso- lute equality. I think hardly anything has done so much to break down all artificial distinctions of society as that one fact, that here is a field where the poor and the rich stand on a basis of absolute equality. And it is import- ant for the public to understand that that is the character of this conscrip- tion act; that it tdkes no account: of any class. Those artificial divisions which run thrwart our life, of birth, of culture, of education; of ‘fortune, they are all of them sponged out here, and all men stand together in a common service to ieet a common need. If this small case, in some ‘of its aspects, can be made the theans of fetching that sublime fact:'to the thought o% to the thought of the poor and the rich, to the thought of the educated and the ignorant, that this | war has leveled all those distinctions which have counted for’ so mych a our life, it’ will have done a good ser- service. If it shall also have made clear” to everybody that money can- not enter the field covered by this con- scription: law, tgat -there is‘ no such thing as buying favor, either’-y class- ification’. or by exemption, and that any attempt to do it is an attempt to evde the requirements of this statute, it will have performed a good service. Now, that ‘was the capital wrong of Mr. Johnson. He went counter to the whole scope and purpose of this law. He did it through ignorance, ‘but it is 'a fortunate thing that the ‘board by its action, the prosecuting officer by his action, that. the first time’ such ‘a matter has really been attempted, has challenged’ it and.brought it to public notice, and with that perfectly clear, and I hope, fair presentation of the matter. it is easy to know what ought to be done.” ere the court directed his remarks to Mr. Johnson. “I am convinced that you are not actuated by a corrupt purpose in the offer which you made to buy exemp- tion for your son. T am convinced that you ,thought, you could do that by substituting money for your son. You could not do ‘that. ,I do not believe {that you were actuated by any inten- jtion to bribe any member of the board, but that you really intended simply to substitute a sum of money in lieu of your son. That was wrongful on your part.’ I think you did- it in part through poor advice. You did it in part through your ‘overwrought emo- tions. But you have put us all to a good deal of trouble along with your- self, and you have put the board here, who are giving of their time just as bravely as any soldier who is follow- ing the colors, giving their time, not sparing themselves from the most ard- uous labor—you have put them to the trouble of dealing with’ your wrong- ful conduct. .The board has $100 of your money which you put up as part payment. Upon. your contributing $100 more to be: paid in combination with the $100 which the board has, to the local’ Réd’ Cross, 1 will grant the motion of the district attorney, and enter an order dismissing ‘this charge against you.” BUY Wi 8 ——— Valuable’ Brick Material. The slime which accumulates at the various mines in thé Kolar gold fields, in India, is now being: mixed with clay and made into bricks, instead of belhg treated asa waste’product, as hereto- fore, The bricks made in this way are said to be superior to those acquired | from outside sources and are uved ux- tensively in lining circular shafts and other construction work carried on by the mining companies. Later on it is proposed to make fire brick, clay cruci- bles, and artificiat stone—Popular Me chanics Magazine, How Betty Helped, Betty heard her father say at the breakfast ‘table, after having sat up late the night before, writing for a lecture: “I could have filled another page with ease if I hadn’t been so tired, but’ I ‘guéss this will have to do.” In a few: moments “ Betty emerged from the brary with a piece of paper covered with the letter “EB.” “Now, daddy,” she exclaimed, “don't worry; I filled the page for yout” Comb Old Toilet Adjunct. Combs have been used in the toilet since very ancient times. The Greek, the Egyptian snd the Roman ladies used them to arrange and told up their hair; evén ladies among the Swiss lake-dwellers. seem. to have been familiar with them. Some of these were made of wood, some of bone, of horn or of ivory? Spect- mens have often been found in recent years, —_—— 79 You Understand This? ' Not. to perceive is-the gift. which Softens the prospect for man who in his present, in his intimacies, in his necessities, sees more than suits his happintss, but who for his Prospects finds radiance only softening and in its mellowing gaining glory, ‘who looks for his greatest godd in the west and seeks the deep purple with an illue sloned soul.—Chicago Tribune, ¥ Plants Travel by Air. 5 In Porto Rico, where the atmosphere is moist and balmy, air plants often lodge in the most unusual Places and Produce some weird effects while grow- ing. Frequently they estaBlish them- selves on telephone and telegraph Wires. ‘The insulation rots in places and the plants take root) grow and thrive, Robinson Crusce’s Will, . The;“last will” of Alexander Selkirk, the original of Robinson ‘Crusoe,.. was sold at auction in London for $800. The will begins: “Being now bound: out on a voyage to sea, and calling to mind the perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of thig transitory lfe—", ‘* as