The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 2, 1918, Page 2

time ator German city in, A launched of Schleswig-! to destroy in Schleswie-ee In the small ing the aviators man young officer, @ arrived at the hs .. gray dawn and onthe 50 feet of the ith . the Zeppelin ha Franca , al escaped withoby mail outside of North BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE , MONDAY, SEPT. 2, 1918. THE B SMARCK TRIBUNE ostoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN Editor G. ial Foreign Representative NEW YO “Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Blag.; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bidg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use fet republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise d in this paper and also the local news pub- in, hts of publication of special dispatches herein R AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION IPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE carrier per year. ny mail per year.. of how \¥ flew dow} ly mail per year (in goad 838s Dako SUBSCRIPTION RAT! (In North Dakota) fleet of E year by mail.. wht onthe by mail. ‘ree months by mail (Outside of North Dakota) 333 & coast. Ca*” ss 22 pn poe 33 So 3 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. bs (Established 1873) E> LOVE BLIND? Our cynical friends tell us that ,‘Love is blind!” It is? Love is the only thing that sees. Where would YOU be today if it weren’t for the fact that someone who loved you saw in you some- thing that no one else saw? When you first saw the light of day, who but your mother ever dreamed that you were “the Srest baby that ever was born?” And why do you suppose she has since knarled « her hands and wrinkled her brow for you? BECAUSE LOVE SAW, And when the best girl in the world accepted you—and her friends remarked, doubtfully: “What in the world did she ever see in HIM?”— why did she take you? BECAUSE LOVE SAW. ‘And when you were down and out—so low down that you had to reach up to touch bottom— 000; RWhen the world laughed and shrugged its should- at you—when even you had a feeling of con- pt for yourself—and a great hearted man or an became your friend—why didn’t they let .t drift until you went clear down to hell? sECAUSE LOVE SAW. There’s something fine and big in every one of 3—no matter how we may have failed or how ‘ten we may have failed or how often we may ~nave fallen. But only those who love can see it. ~ Who then are the greatest in this world? Those vho LOVE—arid therefore see—and understand. THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. J Some of the eminently practical business men .in the Council of National Defense are in grave langer of becoming so eminently practical that it urts. Anyhow, their suggestion that Christmas iving this year be confined to letters and post- pards is needlessly cold-blooded and helpless. ” The people have earnestly responded to all the many demands made upon them to so change their habits of life as to help win the war. Uncomplain- ingly they have done their bit and gone coalless, meatless, wheatless and sugarless in order to help win the war. . There has been little real sacrifice in the food- "a foaving part of the program, to be sure, and the “nation’s health is doubtless better for this war curb on overheating. But the spirit was good just the same, and indicated that the people will as cheerfully make real sacrifice when necessary. But there is no real need of putting the national soul in cold storage just because we are making heroic sacrifices for our war aims. We won't help by pulling long faces, taking the smile out of life and settling down into a depressing war gloom. Nothing worth while is lost by giving the little ones all the Christmas joy we can provide—and the big ones as well. Those who have older boys over there are in a “softened mood that will thaw their parental hearts toward the younger ones who still bless the fam- ‘ily circle. We older ones are thinking nowadays. We are feeling, too. The sacrifices we must make in our own families bring us closer to others who are making the same sacrifices. There is a growing kinship between fathers and mothers where lives never touched before. We are in a kindlier mood, and would save for humanity all of the kindness and gentleness and happiness we may. ; Life need not be all tears even in war time. If we let tender smiles shine through the tears there is no less of sympathy for and appreciation of sacrifice. So away with an over-efficient efficiency, that would hide away the Christmas spirit until the) war is over. Let Christmas come, and with it all the old-fashioned tender, generous, loving Christmas spirit we can muster. f Leave the people alone with their Christmas, and they'll start the new year all the better fitted in morale to go on with the war that may end all wars and push along toward the happy day when the Christmas spirit will last the whole year through. ora yy - Edison, Ford and Hurley had a camping trip. m supplied the electric light equipment.|—Plaza Pioneer. — _ Question—who furnished the transportation fa- cilities, Ford or Hurley? 5 FULL STRENGTH Congress will enact the 18-45 man power bill. This is making it clear to Germany that we’re in the war to the last drop of fighting blood in the last fighting man. It is putting our full strength of manhood into the conflict. Congress should enact a war revenue bill which will collect money.from those who have most to pay. Less than 80 per cent of war profits is not enough and is not fair to other Americans who now carry a too heavy load of high prices. In other words, Congress owes a duty to the people of the United States to conscript money power as well as man power. Both are needed. Without either the war cannot be won. The full strength of American man power plus our full strength of money power spells victory over there. And our full strength of money power cannot be mobilized until Congress drafts the profiteer’s dollars. | WITH THE EDITORS | DOYLE FOR GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA In an effort to rid the state of the political in- cubus with which it finds itself encumbered the real Republicans of North Dakota, have united with the Democrats to defeat Frazier, the Town- ley league candidate for governor. The Democrats nominated S. J. Doyle, United States marshal and a man of unquestionable loy- alty and devotion to his country. Mr. Doyle has been a resident of North Dakota for almost a third of a century and for years personally conducted and still owns a farm in Foster County. As a member of the legislature and the acknowledged \floor leader of the Democratic minority he has a wide knowledge of the needs of the state. The fact that he has been United States mar- |shal for four years and was reappointed this spring for another term by President Wilson in- dicates the esteem in which he is held at the White House. As another evidence of the interest of the na- |tional administration, and indicating the desire of President Wilson and the department of justice to have a reliable, dependable, loyal man for gov- ernor of North Dakota, permission has been granted Mr. Doyle to absent himself from his duties as United States marshal and devote his entire time and energies to conducting an active campaign for election. That the loyal citizens of North Dakota, regard- less of politics, are certain they can elect Mr. Doyle, is demonstrated by the earnestness and en- thusiasm with which the opponents of Townley- ism have begun the campaign. Joint headquarters have been established in Fargo by the Demo- crats and the independent Republicans. A har- mony program has been arranged and all are wholeheartedly united in their determination to put Mr. Doyle over. The Doyle supporters are not frightened at the task before then. They realize the state is, at present, under the complete domination of Town- ley, that he has entire control of the Republican political machinery, the state patronage, an un- limited supply of campaign funds, a trained corps of speakers and numerous unscrupulous workers with a record of not hesitating at anything which they imagine may help their cause. The anti-Townley forces readily admit the great handicaps they face, but they are inspired with a determination to overcome all obstacles, to drive out the socialistic, Godless misfits which have throttled the state, retarded its development for the past two years and which loom so large as a still greater menace to North Dakota’s future. Believing in the justice of their cause and with faith that righteousness will prevail, they are con- fident of victory in November.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. : GOOD FOR GEORGE PLAZA. | Some discusion is going on especially at Bis- marck, regarding the advisability of changing the German name Bismarck to something American. We all remember how silly it appeared to us when St. Petersburg was changed to Petrograd. Changing the name will only emphasize in years to come the smallness of a people. For years the ischool children of the country have learned the capital of the state. Men all over the nation know the name of this capital. To learn it over again will cause kids to stand 90 in examinations that might otherwise stand 100. Its idle time, losing energy and silly to change a name that has stood so long as Bismarck has. We know what Bismarck means to us; it means our state capital ; it means a beautiful and growing city; its name does not effect our loyalty or sig- nify less of patriotism. Bismarck and the state of North Dakota are too big and too enligtened to be concerned about the origin of a name that has sat- isfied them for years. There is no merit in being an impulsive people, a little spiteful shallow think- ing people. Let us be bigger than a moment of the time in which we live. Russia showed her fickleness in changing the name of her capital and she has shown it again by being a quitter. If the name of Bismarck must be changed, let us wait till after the war, let us have a little more mature and calmer judgment. The advocates of the change can hardly insist that it is a-military ad- vantage or necessity to change it now, but it will hinder and cause extra work and extra expense. Soviet Relies More and Y Correspondent, Newspaper En- terprise Association.) Grodekovo, Siberia, Aug. 31—Allied intervention has undoubtedly increas- ed the Bolsheviki’s reliance on armed German-Austrian prisoners. Anything to hold their power! Men returning from the Czech-al- lied front along the Usuri north of Nikolsk inform me’ COMMANDS TO THE SOVIET TROOPS ARE NOW ISs- SUED IN GERMAN. This increase in German organiza- tion and leadership is a decided change from the conditions in the so- viet armies when PF inspected them personally just before the interven- tion. It was in the gathering darkness of eight p. m., after the wonderful, long Siberian twilight, that I first shook hands with Tavarisch Abramoff, then soviet commander on the eastern Man- churian front at Grodekovo. I had tramped ten miles through the Bolshe- vik lines. I was hungry. Tavarisch = Abramoff (tavarisch means comrade, and Ienever heard him otherwise addressed by his men) is now in jail at Nikolsk. There is no longer a Bolshevik front here at Grodekovo. Trains now run where [ walked. The men I saw then in Ab- ramoff’s trenches and camps who were not killed or captured by the Czechs in the battle of Nikolsk over a month ago are now fighting the Czech-allied army north of Nikolsk. There were very few armed prison- ers in the troops I saw that hot, dusty day. They had not then spread that far east, in any great number. In Harbin I had been warned not to go to Vladivostok—almost forbidden. It was “dangerous.” The railroad had been cut for weeks. Only three, all Americans in official position, had made the trip and returned. The Harbin train stopped at Pog- ranitchnaia. At noon we started on “shanks mares” for Grodekovo, twen- EVERETT TRUE TUNE “OVER THERE! IT MAKES ME Nou CAN'T GO ANYWHERS Bt “HE’S OUT!” KNISELY INSIDE RED LINES, TELLS ABOUT BOLSHEVIK! ARMY: More on Hun Prisoners as Czech-Slav Power Grows in Siberia WHAT IS A SOVIETS A soviet is a new chapter in gov- ernment, the distinctive contribution of the Russian revolution to political organization. It the local government body of the Russian revolution, a sort of city council or township board. The cen- tral supreme governing body is the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, and the cabinet there chosen. Since the soviet is the local organ- ization of the peasants’, workmen’s nd soldiers’ deputies, only these vlasses vote for delegates. That's the distinguishing feature of the soviets—they represent working- class rule. The aristocrats and mid- dle class have no vote. | In any district, for example, the | workmen 0 feach shop and trade elect ja delegate, or as many delegates as their numbers entitle them to, to the jlocal soviet. So with the soldiers and so with the peasants in the section surrounding the city. But. the shop owners, the merchants, ‘the bankers, the lawyers, the land- j owners have no vote and no represent- jatives. They have been distranchised. America has Russia's soviet officials. Krasnoscho- tkoff, head of the Far-Eastern soviets ! now opposing the allies north of Vlad- jivostok in Siberia, lived 12 years in jAmerica, graduated from law school in Chicago, where he was known as Tobinson, and was until last spring head of the Workors’ Institute, a sort of settlement school he founded in | Chicago. jty-odd miles away. My companion was Charles H. Smith, American rail- way man, adviser to Railway Commis- jsioner Ostrugoff, under Kerensky. Smith spoke Russian well. The cart containing our baggage followed two. wagons laden with the By Conde WHAT You HEAR THAT EVERY MUTT THAT CAN WHISTLE OR SING OR TEASE Some ftusicar INSTRUMENT, WORKS IT TO DEATH. » TIRED! FoR A UTTLSE WHILE AND fELIEVE YOUR FATIGUE —-AND MING Nien MCT i Se Lr tr furnished many of} jfit-them for army life. few household effects of four shouting Russian families. The old Russian owner and driver of the carts was drunk. Straps and ropes kept the dilapidated carts from falling to pieces. The road was rough—a rutted lane flirting with a brook it crossed every half mile or so. Frequently the carts came apart. Frequently could not pull them up the hills. At every © s all the Russianss—-men, women, children—would shout long and loud. Then the horses would pull. I was sure the carts would never last, and we would sleep in the fields. We neared the Bolshevik trenches. We hoisted a white flag. The boy who shouted loudest carried it ahead. A tall man, rifle on shoulder, stood in the road in front of us. A half mile further on groups of men lined trench- es. I walked in front. The statue-man shouted something. Other men sprang up beside him from the grass. I was sure he had not or- dered them to shoot. I was deter- mined to be first through the lines, teeling there could be no danger. But I looked apprehensively back toward Smith. Smith grinned. “He says, “Take down that flag! We saw you an hour ago.’” Smith yelled up at me. We passed through the several trenches and barbed wire entangle- ments escorted by smiles of good will. Still two miles ahead was a siding where we might get a box car for Grodekovo. Approaching it I ran ahead up a hill. I was just in time. An engine with box car attached was pulling out. I shouted and waved my hands. The engine tender was covered with men. They beckoned at me and called—but in Russian. So these were the Bol- sheviki! 2 “Amerikanski!” I shouted the makic the horses. word. The engine stopped. A man clambered down. He could speak a few words of English. Of this he was very proud. I learned later he was a doctor, a lieutenant in the Bolshe- vik force and, I suspect, an Austrian. I made him understand there were wagons and people back there, stuck in the mud on the hill. He called to his men. Eagerly they ran to help. They carried all those household goods an eighth of a mile to the box car and dumped them in. " The moon was coming up over won- derful Siberian forests as we rode the rest of the way t oBolshevik head- quarters at Grodekovo. Abramoff was on the station plat- torm. He was a Jew—of a race once victims of pogroms in Russian and then, miraculously, LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE in revolution. He spoke English brokenly. He said he had served in the Belgian army and the British navy in this war and was a patriotic ally. I do not know. But I do know he was sincere—a passion- ate idealist. He took Smith and myself to the private car serving him as headquar- ters. He turned out of his own com- partment, his wife and he, over all our objections, and we slept there that night. He got us bologna and bread and made tea. Over the tea we talked with him until one o’clock in the morning. He was extremely courteous. For my sake he used his broken English, most of the time. On ticklish points he broke into Russian, and Smith trans- lated. He was honestly anxious for America’s good opinion, and suspi- cious of intervention. That was the burden of the conversation. His men then were not ragamuffins. They had their old uniforms and were * well equipped. They looked fine spec- imens. Abramoff said he had several score of armed German prisoners in is forces, We did not find even those. Of course, that was before the test, the crisis, in eastern Siberia. A few days later the Czechs put the sovict out of Vladivostok and the allies land- ed. Then General Orloff, commanding the Harbin forces opposed to Abramoff at Grodekovo, was dismissed. Be- cause—Abramoff had been gone from his trenches three days before Orloff knew it. He took his troops to Nikolsk, junc- tion between Grodekovo and Vladivo- stok of the line north to Harbarovsk. There the Nikolsk troops and soviet forces from Habarovsk joined them. There, a week after the capture of Vladivostok, thi echs defeated them badly, taking olsk-—and Abramoff. Once more, after this first experi- ence, I was through the Bolshevik lines, one I guess, of the last group to ¢onsult with these men. After the taking of Vladivostok there was much exchange of and repassing. é But despite this isolation now, tl; impossibility of any more first-hg observation, it seems plain Abr off’s place, for instance, and many ers have been taken by armed pr; ers. This was expected. It will matters. The soviets may fight last ditch. But nothing can save ~—in eastern Siberia. They were asked to join the C in solidifying Siberia against the mans. I heard allied military atte’) ask Abramoff. But his one dreanh, and his face burned and his arms swung as he told it—was of popular rule through the soviets. He claimed he was not a Bolshevik, but a social, revolutionist. He plainly felt it, in the bottom of his heart, that this was an attempt not so much to put Russia back into the war as to overthrow tho soviets and throttle the revolution. Americans know their purpose to be honest. He trusted America. But he couldn't quite take the leap. He chose to fight. So did most of the rest. And apparently, making the in- terventionist army their foe, they have welcomed all the armed-prisoner help they could get. DRAFTED MEN OF 18 TO GO TO COLLEGE By MILTON BRONNER (N. &. A. Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 31—Uncle Sam's plan for 4,000,000 men in France by next year means that he is going to require 100,000 more junior officers, an din order to get them is going to utilize the half billion dollar plant of more than 300 colleges and universi- ties. When it was determined to extend the draft age limits from 18 to 45, it looked as if all college activities. of the country would be paralyzed. But that is where the war depart- ment came in with its plans for the Student Army Training Corps. Young men who have been going to the 300 colleges on the government's list will come back to school this fall as usual, to be given an intensive training to Army officers will supplement the regular, faculty. Young men who are 20 will be giv- en at least three months’ training, those of 19 will be trained until about April 1, and those of 18 will be trained until about July 1. The idea is to pre- pare a reservoir of officer material preliminary to their being sent to a central officers’ training camp. physically fit and who have had a grammar school education may be vol-. ;; untarily inducted into the army and enter upon a course of special train- ing along mechanical lines of miliiary value. Those who prove they are of- ficer material will be transferred to a unit in one of the colleges to be pre- pared to enter an officers’ training camp. Young men who have had at least a high school education will be allow- ed to enter the colleges for more ad- vanced training as officers and tech- nical experts. Those who show prom- ise will be kept in college until quali- fied to enter a central officers’ train- ing school or, to go directly into the army as technical experts. Those who are found not to be com- missioned officer material will be sent to a school for non-commissioned of- ficers, or if they show special tech- nical or mechanical ability will be sent to detachments where men are trained for such work. So they have three chances in all—to be commis- sioned officers, to be non-coms, or to belong to a special technical division. In addition to all this, arrangements are going to be made for transferring Selected men of 18 or over who are|from the depot brigades to units. 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