The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 26, 1918, Page 2

sbelieve it, and many of them TWO BISMARCK .DAILY TRIBU MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1918. THE TRIBUNE tered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, » as Secon ____Class Matter_ GEORGE D. MANN - : Editor ‘G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, 7 Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Prifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg. ; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber ‘Exchange. “MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ively entitled to the use vedited to it or not other- 1 also the local news pub- The Associated Press is exc for republication of all wise credited in this pap lished herein. All rights of pi are also reserved. All rights of pub. bre also reserved. tion of apecial dispatches herein tion of special dispatches herein MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANGE Daily by carrier per year ‘ . $6.01 Daily by mail per year Daily by mail per year (in state)... Daily by mail outside of North Dakot: SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One year by mail.. Six months by mail ‘Three months by mail (Outside of North Dakota) One year .. o Six months Three months . One year .. Six month Three mont! One month . WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? In the last regular session Mr. Townley did not control the senate. The majority there was “re- actionary,” said Mr. Townley’s then small coterie of newspape: When a bill providing for a state system of grain grading and inspection was drawn up and presented to Senator Walter Welford, one of the Ieague minority in the upper house, he de- clined te introduce it because it had not come through the regular league channels, from Wil- liam Lemke. Patriarchal Senator Drown of Cass, also a leaguer, was a trifle more independent. He put in the bill, but the Townley caucus refused to even. consider it, and had it depended on the league it would have died right there. Then W. K. Mozley of Dickinson, a ["armers’ union leader, not |. over-friendly to Townley’s schemes, came in with a similar idea, and his bi!] was introduced by Sen- ator Kirkeide of Benson, and in committee the two bills were consolidated, and the combined. measure passed ‘he senate with the vote of every “reac- tionery” hold-over member back of it.” In all this time the measure had. attracted,con- siderable attention. The free-thinking farmer be- lieved it a good thing, and he said so. The in- dependent press praised it, and when the bill.final- ly bobbed up-in the Townley-dominated ‘house, there was ico much pressure baek of it for Towh- ley to.siem it, and the house, grudgingly passed it. But the league never adopted the wait as its baby. It lays out on the:cold: doorstep of .the Northwest hotel night after-night, and nobody offered it a canctum in the league’s private cau- cus. For some ‘reason, Mr.: Townley .and : Mr. Lemke and Mr. Coates didn’t approve of it. So, if the elevator men of the state and.the|« Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce have anyone to blame for this, one outstandin; ‘piece of really | . helpful legislation that came out of the list%en- eral assembly it is that standpat majority of ‘anti- leaguers in the senaiv. . Now: comes‘ the’ Courier News, seeking somethir ) the two years” Town- ley. misadministrati h.it'may point with pride, and at this lat it claims: for the league parentage of the givin grading act.’ To those who watched at the bedside during ‘the travail out of which this measure was born,: the. claim-is so ridiculous that they will not. think it worth -deny-| pb, ing. But the followers of Townley aré-expected-to Will believe the tale, and we will find league organizers using this argu- ment as a reason for two years’ more of Town- leyism. There is, of course, still time for the league to enter one of its ready denials which served so handily in the elevator seizure matter and in the Hettinger-Adams land-grab resolution. But just now the league regards the lad.as a likely young- ster and it is proud to claim his as a son. A recent number of the Outlook finds that North Dakota congressmen voted 86 per cent wrong on all issues. We would be interested in an analysis of the batting average of the Townley-Bowen- LeSeuer trilogy from the same source. A NEW RACE OF MEN Doubtless it has been commented upon by many who have witnessed it but we have not chanced to reach it in our scattered reading. We speak now of the effect the firing line has on the young men whom we knew before they went away and who, a few of them, are coming back after a brief and crippling dash into hell. More especially will you note the change in the expression, in the glance, in the indefinable ab- stracted gaze that falls upon so many of them: the removed, detached, set-apart look of those who dwell one place in their souls, and another in their bodies. The casual, “I-give-a-damn,” youth, who dashed into the great adventure over there with as much heed as he gave to picking his previous course in life—which was exactly none wi hatever—he re- turns after a few months and he has blind spots somehcw. He coesn’t respond to the tattle and the talk about him| The small life of the town moves him no more, nor does the heoric splash of campaign patriots, banging the war drum, and J high and low degree to flourish. _|our soldiers can slight their fight’and reach Berlin. ‘and applied a‘few. heels, and: cernented ‘ ‘the: rubbers rarely care to discourse. Medals and decorations, aye even the war news, doesn’t especially arouse them; though they fol- low the important Flanders movements with a grim understanding. You cannot express this thing, but many moth- ers of soldier sons returning will understand, and feel their boy has grown away from them. He has, and he hasn’t; he hasn’t been sundered in any ‘sense that is material; indeed he probably loves her more deeply and sincerely than ever before, but he has come to know the realities of life, and to guess a little at the immensities of eternity, and the blooded trench mud of Flanders has been wiped off a bit on his soul and he wants to puzzle out, perhaps, just what sort of a person this God fellow is anyhow and, perhaps, why He is loafing on the job and letting so many good men have such a hell of a hard time of it. Growth? - Aye, there will be found a mental and moral growth and understanding among the millions of fighting men of this terrible world that will in the reconstruction period. make it difficult for cant and piffle and small mindedness and rascality of We can no more shirk our work and win than THRIFT. Hitherto it has been consideyed “cheap” to be thrifty— Patched clothes, mended shoes, the utilization of anything that has lost its store bloom; .these things have been taboo in this-country— - Except where practiced by ‘immigrants, who somehow managed to live on what American fam- ilies threw away, and, within a generation, to own half the countryside, while young America bar- tered its ural acres for # mess of city pottage and became a wage slave. But thrift today, is something worth getting ac- quainted with; it is.not- only a patriotic duty; it is being rapidly for¢ed:on -the nation by the mount- ing cost.of the: war. ° How thrifty are you? Know anything ‘about an.awl, and a waxed end? Your granddad ‘knew, arid’ the’ kiddies’, shoes: has tested his guiding care. | Suppose you go to any. hardware ‘store and: Spur: chase, for one-third the price. of a pair’ of cchieap shoes, a home cobbler’s outfit. Suppose you read the ‘di tions therein. - Then suppose you buy. a:pair “of half¢soles: to fit one of those half dozen: pair:of Shoes’ in:the: garret. ’ And soak the ‘soles, :pe instructions, . “and: ham: mer ‘them; and punch:them: full of ‘holes with: the: awl, and nail them,:and trim: them, and ‘put: them on and. wear ‘them; and: then buy: three ‘dollars worth of Thtift Stamps that? you: ‘will lave earned: When you‘have done’ this and ‘sewed, with. a| waxed end; all:the seamless: shoes on: the premises, together, and mended'.the’ raincvat, and; ‘put: he ‘gum boats in’ ship-shape,: you can buy’ $10: more in Thrift Stamps. Thrift? This country doesn’t yet faintly ken the word. When’. a -mob : threatened: Townley : at ; Boise; Idaho, it was Sheriff Emmett :Pfost:who came to} the rescue. The state league’ head is W. G. Scholtz. . HOW.DO THEY DOI IT?) % x - We would like'to F h: baker; or, maybe Just al baker’s janitor, ‘and: get i corner, and have himenlighten us as to\how: er’s bread continues light and appetizing and gen- erally digestible under: this wheatless régime. How do they do it, that’s what we want to know? ‘ We would have backed our wife against any baker on earth when it came to bread making, in those happy pre-historic days before “de wah, but by golly sah de ole woman sure is plumb disgusted now.” The good wife has tried barley flour, and rice flour, and rye flour, and all sorts and combinations of these and other flours; and she ‘has tried them on biscuits and griddle cakes, | she has put in mash- ed potatoes and tried to make muffins; she has tried bread of nine different formulas, she has tried doughnuts—DOUGHnuts was right—says she has tried gingerbread and raisin cake and currant cookies and all the rest of the things we once grew fat and charitable upon, and every- thing has been vile. The messes are soggy; they are damp in the center; they are either damp, or so durn dry that they crumble before you can get them out of the pan. The flavor isn’t there; the smell isn’t there, and we contend that the odor of good cookery will be one of the chief delights of a well provisioned heaven. But some bakers continue to hand out milk loaves that appear as white, that heft as light, that taste as right as in the old peaceful days, when you fed wheat to chickens and you received a big sack of popcorn for a jitney. Aye and the baker's doughnuts are about as usual ; and his pies have a crisp crust and his‘ cakes are light and blithesome, but the wife, and every other woman in our neighborhoodso far,'as we can learn—can’t make it rise, can’t make it jibe, can’t coax it to perform in any manner whatso- ever. dying by proxy for their country. He doesn’s care to converse about his experi- ences, tha lly desgended into the We do wish they'll tell us how they do. it. Sure, we read all the recipes; none of ’ ern. work at oumhouse. fa enn eens +|localu daily . papers, which explains ig PEOPLES. FORUM one Willing District, forty-ninth Leg- the league control was more nearly b... A! State, your Family and your Self, that SOMEDING TELLS “ME I: AM GOING TO +tAVE Suct ‘A HEADACHE ! ee THE NAME OF OUR FAIR YOUNG ’ CITY AGITATES MISSISSIPPI Cliff Norton Suggests ‘Hattiesburg Change its Climate’ Before it ‘Asks Bismarck to Take a Tuck i in its Nomenclature Everybody in Bismarck will -be: in, terested in the’ following letter ‘from | Cliff Norton formerly: of the Western Sales Co., now withthe 113th supply train. at Camp ‘Shelby, Miss.: U. §. A. Camp* Shelby, Miss., ‘August, 20, 1918. Bismarck Tribune, Bismarek, N. ‘D. Mr. Mann: 1 endlose a élipping from one of the itself. “Il was"rather : However, the question. of changing the ‘name is not bothering me. halt as much as: the heat: ” Yours. truly,.>* C..R. NORTON, 113 Supply Train:Cyisalty Attach- mene, Camp Shelby. ° CHANGING NAMEs. The suggéstion “that -Hattiesburg change its fame, .or rather the spell ing of, its ‘nate, ‘by addingan “h” the end of the word, is:out a part ot the natural, ang against Stetything Tealonle inevitable reaction cauged ot Yor the greit majority ‘in this. country:that there more Fatherland—there: is only, America. Cha anginis names of cities ‘and towns y ! another ‘URGES’ ‘CAUTION. * New Salem, N. D., Aug. 20, 1918. To the Editor Bismarck “I'ribune, . Bismarck, N. D, Dear Sir: In the Bismarck Tribune dated Aug. 19, 1938, issue, artical called Social- ists of Townley Junta, Want N. D. Land, in part as follows, When State Central Committee Meets Issue of State Ownership of Farms May be Discussed, islative District Believes Program should be carried. to Logica}, Con- clusion, When the republican State central committee of North Dakota, of which William.Lemke of St. Paul, one of A. C. Towiley’s Chief Lieutenants in the Nonpartisan League is chairman, ‘meet sat the Capital September 3rd to frame a platform upon which league candidates for State office will make their campaign, it will find at least one district delegate to the in-/ y, corporation of a plank in this platform advocating the State Ownership of farm lands, horses, cattle and Ma- chinery,: “the same to be acquired on the basis of values for the three years immediately preceding the War,” The 49th Legislative district, com- posed of Hettinger and Adams coun- ties, in selecting Attorney P. B. Gar- ‘berg, State’s Attorney of Adams coun- ty, to be its delegate to the conven- tion, instructed him to advocate the adoption of this plank, it also bound its representative in the State Legis- lature to the same policy, it is believed probable that other districts where absolute, also issued similar instru tions, but that the precince commit- teemen wheer pledged to silence, on the matter. in the 49th district the convention was a rather stormy ses- sion With Hetting County split square throwgh the middlg gon, the publi Ownership proposititn and the news leaked out, Dear Kditor, ‘Above i8 only part. of the article in the Tribune, and I write the above to show that I believe for the good of My State North Dakota and all her People, that I am justified in saying to all our People throught your Trib- une, Dear Peaple, befor election day, lay aside all'ahd’ everything that will] in. any way. fiterfere with you, in thinking what you should ‘best do on election day, in” thé.Way of “casting your Vote, it is. yowr.duty to your surprised ony « redding it to tind ‘that’ my‘ltome town To: hell « [was the subject’ of -éditorial. compient. pl aiidicame ‘out*biit half meh’ in eae SRIERIOH RT CONTE MOMENIICAST T HEAR: ‘SHODOWS BEFORE ITLL BE SOME- KATZENSAMMER, fF over the country from German to Ang- lo-Saxon is universal. One of the most significant is the agitation in Bis- marck, N. D. This city is in the state of intense agitation. For some time; there has been a movement on foot to change the name of the town. Re- cently the movement was accelerated | by some ardent citizen who, during! the night, obliterated the name on the railroad ‘station with’a smear of yel- low, paint, and-set up a sign nearby | reading: : with this - block- headed! Hun! ‘What did he ever.do-for us?” | “Phat: may sound’ rather :harsh; but | in:all, seriousness,’ what did ‘the Iron! Chancellor ever ‘do for, that thriving | little city in‘ North, Dakota?’ Bunildings all around town are.now! plastered’ with si, ‘demanding. that, the ‘name of .the y ‘be “changed to something decent. In view, of ‘the large German; popu- lation in and. about ‘Bismarck, ‘this situation . is significant.’ The..name will very. likely ‘be’. changed, : follow- ing -the precedent ‘of various °Bis- marcks, Berline ‘and other ‘towns, of German nomenclature about the*coun- Hattiesburg. has,an ‘advantage ‘pver most of these German: named commun- rities, in that; it is‘ only. necessary to add the -“h” to the name ‘to convert. it from’. Teutonic to “Anglo‘Saxon:—Hat- tiesburg, - (Miss.) American Annes at this election above. a | others,. that every: true American en to forget the*past and. make: ready for! the fu-4 ture, Don’t let’ any one do your thinking for you, don't read only one Paper, read all papers get the true facts as you see them then think well before you Vote, Remember Your Sons, Brothers, at the Front in France give- ing all they have event to life its self, for their their Country, if thay love Their Country so well, and are willing to back it up even to life, surly you here to home should be willing ‘to save your State for her good, and your Family good also, if you are an Hon- ist and A true American you will-not send to tlie Legislature this Fall, Men that our Country are in War, and only men that will look after the States and People interest, and. not any League interests and our People_are| so busy helping in every way, have but little time for other cares, just the Time for Men that are Selfish and only think of them selves, not their Country, and the People. reason stop and think for : Your Family, and Country, then Vote on lines of Justice to all, the same as Our Dear Boys are doing in France for their Country. Never let the Constitution of your State be changed, so that Any Man, or Party,, can make it one large Corpor- ation, that is what the aboye woula mean, if our State would buy all Farm | land, Horses, Cattle, would you run{ this Property for the State as thay | would have you do, or would you take Your Money and move to town, andj; live Idly on your Money, if all Farm-; ers Moved to Town who would the | State get to run the Farms, don’t you; MOTHER'S FRIEND EXPECTANT MOTHERS MAKES THE CRISIS SAFER SHOE FITTERS MAIN REE? ot KAISER! D Mm think about 75% of the Farmers that sold their Land, would go into some other State where no such laws pre- valed, for My Part I cannot Make My self believe, No Man with his Family would stay in the State after they sell !to the State, if the State failed in hav- ing Men to Work their Farms, the Cre i would aay pe short, so would tates: Bayt ung, be short, Pai out thet & wll Anib*¥oue are up against A Bad one. Be. careful, JOHN BLOODGOOD. BUY W. WOMEN’S AUTO CORPS UNITED Khaki Uniform Discarded For Oxford Gray ——— (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Washington, D. C., Aug 26—Six thousand women are now included in the personnel of the Red Cross Mo- tor Corps serv: Tho motor service in six of the prin- cipal cities of the country that had previously been independent in its or- ganization, has been amalgamated with the Red Cross corps. This en- jables the Ked Cross Motor Corps serv- ice’ to mee the local and inter-local demands for transportation on a na- tionalized basis. The original khaki uniform of this service has been discarded and re- placed by a new regulation uniform of the Red Cross Oxford gray. Commanders will wear three silves diamonds embroidered on their shoul- der straps. Captains will wear two silver diamongs; first lieutenants one and second lieutenants a gilt diamond. Pearl gray tabs on the collars will in- dicate staff officers. Service stripes will be worn on the sleeve. BUY W. 5. 8. Grace: You can’t cover blackheads, pimplés, red spots on the face with powder, they’re bound .to be seen. Why worry and spoil your temper: Take Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea —'twill banish them through the blood —thejonly sure way. 35 cents, Tea or tablets. Breslows. ( oOo —$—$—$—$—_—————— If you are on the market fora eres house see A. J. Ostrander, 9 Thayer Street. 1917 or 1918 auto considered on first payment. Balance on long time to suit the pur- chaser. FACTS ‘Billi ABOUT ards A great many men never learn the game of billiards, They -secure recreation in some: other .amusemi théaters, golf, baseball, automobiling, :ete. « That: is: their style of diversion, while a great many. turn to billiards for the'same reason—some because they could | not enjoy:more expensive. amusements. -liard tables There.are many. that: have. bil- - - in their homes.and belong to. sacial organiza- . tions in which billiard'tables are part of the equipment, but all men‘ do not ‘own billiard tables or belong to organ- : izations that have them, but whalike that form:of amuse- ° ment as well as the other man, and who‘ are “doing: their bit” every: day. . There is over one million dollars invested in: iard . room: equipment in the state of North Dakota. With very few exceptions ‘every billiard room. is owned. and operated by men above the draft agt—the majority: of.them:among _ our, best citizens, and with very few exceptions the'rooms - “are-conducted properly within’ the meaning: of the Jaw, which should be enforced by local authorities. “The man that never played billiards should not be too hasty in his judgment of public billiard rooms. They answer a purpose much better than the general line, of amusements—one cannot play billiards without exercis- ing themselves, mentally as well as physically. ‘The closing of billiard a great many families, as well as property owners. rooms would seriously affect In most instances it would amount to confiscation of prop- erty. If there are any billiard rooms that are not con- ducted properly, or where loafing is tolerated, the local authorities should get. bust and close their doors, but the public should not judge all by the actions of any one. If the police arrested two pick-pockets on the street, that would be no good reason why they should arrest every- body else on the street. “Work or Fight” order. Much has been said against billiard rooms, the most of it spontaneously, without consideration of the facts that govern their operation. rooms are as much of a necessity as any other kind of It will be a sorry day for all of us wheh amusements are discontinued in this country. The Brit- ish and French governments had curtailed amusements of amusement. all kinds for a short time, courage amusements of all version of their peoples. North If one druggist is convicted of violating the law, all the drug stores should not be closed, and this applies to billiard rooms as well as all other lines. When the necessity arises that amusements of all kinds be stopped for-our country’s cause, we believe that the billiard men will be among the first to lock their doors and give their services where needed. The government recognizes the value of billiard tables, as evidenced by allowing billiard concessions in all army camps throughout the country. sions carry as high as 200 caron and pocket billiard tables. Every battery or company in regular posts have billiard tables—no army officers’ club is without them, and no mention was made of billiard rooms in the list of non- essential businesses mentioned in General Crowder’s They since have removed all restrictions and now en- Some conces- Well conducted billiard and found results were bad. kinds for recreation and di- Dakota Billiard Men’s Association ‘ we “ Sh Sit i Ay a fant