The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1918, Page 4

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Kittered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second y Class Matter GEORGE D. NN - ete . : Sayecial Foreign B tative’ pec! ‘oreign epresentative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldgs CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg. N, 3 Winter St; DETROIT, Kresege Blag.; IMNEAPOLIE, 810 Lumber Exchange, [BER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use fer republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- herein. - All rights of publication of special dispatches herein eve also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are Teserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year. + $6. Daily by mail per year. Daily by mail per year (in state)... Daily by mail outage, ot orth Dakota, EF eae 83 8888 838 8% RIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) year by mail. . months by mai Three months wy Bat 1 moe One year. Six months Three months oR moe 33383 —_——-——— THB STA’ (Bstablished 1873) 1 ei THE SUPREME JUDGSHIP. Chief Justice C. J. Fisk was jockeyed off the bench two years ago by a servile pandering to the clamors of the mob. There was no case against Judge Fisk, but his political enemies fashioned one from whole cloth, and they molded it to catch the popular fancy of the moment, and as a result one “of the ablest jurists who ever has sat on a north- western bench was lost to the commonwealth. But it begins to appear that North Dakota, hav- ing had time for that sober second thought which always comes, no matter how great the hysteria may have been, will gladly reconsider, and that it will graciously accept the tender of further ser- vice which Judge Fisk has been prevailed upon to make. The return of Judge Fisk to the supreme bench would do more than anything else we know of to prove that North Dakota’s! electorate is. enjoying a return of sanity. The .supreme court needs the upright hon- esty and judicial clarity of mind which have characterized Judge Fisk’s long public career. He is today at the height of his usefulness as a public servant. Matured by many years’ experience as both district and supreme court jurist, quickened by.two years’ closer contact with the people as a private practitioner, Judge Fisk should return to his. high duties capable of stabilizing and restoring to the first tribunal of our commonwealth that dignity in which it has been so sadly lacking dur- ing the last two years. It isn’t a piece of peace we want. NOT UNTIL THEN. We should beware of peace talks now. Rather let us continue talking war. Peace talk has its origin in Germany, and it is the sort of peace that one may expect issuing from beyond the Rhine while Germany holds even one foot of conquered | territory. It begins and ends with: “No indem- nity, no annexation.” | That is not now a basis for peace. . We find a better foundation for peace set forth in a new book entitled. “What We Must Know to Win,” written by a very thoughtful French- eman, Andre Cheradame. He says: } “To the lying German formula, ‘no annexations, no indemnities,’ the allies must oppose the dem- ocratic formula, that is to say: “Expiation for crime. “Reparation for damage. “Guarantees against a renewal of war. “Expiation, reparation, guarantees—these three words constitute the formula of common sense, of justice, and of truth.” Until Germany comes across with peace talk based on her expiation, reparation and guaranty, we shall have to go on fighting—fighting harder, than before, for no other peace will be more than a scrap of paper and will be merely a forerunner of another and even more horrible war. Knowing German rulers we do not believe they will accept such peace terms until driven to their lair—until blood is shed on German soil and the west front is east of the Rhine. Therefore, on with the war, and on to Berlin. Better lend (Sept. 28) to Uncle Sam (Sept. 28) than pay the kaiser. TO END THE WAR. One big wallop to end the war! And the U.S. A. is about to give it. “With an American army of 4,000,000 men in France” says Chief of Staff P. C. March, “we can go through the German line wherever we please!” . The army is now almost two million strong. To get the rest, the Government has let down the bars—men 18 to 45 (both inclusive), except those previously registered, are to furnish the additional strength needed to push the Huns back to the Rhine and free the world of Kaiserism. _>‘A*glorious opportunity! Small wonder that = Registration Day, September 12 will cause such . enthusiasm. For these men were “left out. in the cold” before,—told to sit back while others fought their battles. “Why can’t we fight,” they asked, “we are physically fiit through working in field,” or they hadn’t been back of desks so “had forgotten their manhood.” How keenly they felt being “not wanted”; how they fairly ached to help when they read the casualty lists. ; For native born or alien, they realized plainly what they owe to this country. They realized it wag, time to show their gratitude for all the U. S. A. has meant and done for them—a life of peace, prosperity and happiness among men their equals. And now their chance has come. Thirteen mil- ions of men must register September 12. If they do not register they will not only risk certain. ar- rest and severe punishment, but declare them- selves unfit to be called Americans. When the Draft Boards discard the physically unfit, the ex- empt because of family, the men in war industries, there must rermain more than 2,000,000 men ready for training. These men will give the big wallop that will end the war. Are you between 18 and 45? Present yourself at the Registration Place September 12, proudly—as an American should. As you may have noticed, Heinie can goose-step backward too. WHY? Senator Penrose interferes with the nation’s war business long enough to tell the Senate that he knows “a couple of physicians who are pretty good sports,” explaining that from them he can get prescriptions for liquor if the nation goes “ary.” Now, isn’t that a fine thing, a senator who treats violations of the law as a joke! It isn’t a question of prohibition. If the war prohibition bill becomes law, there’ll be enough attempts to violate it without a United States/ senator pointing the way for law breakers. For years we have wondered why Pennsylvania had a Penrose in the Senate. Most states would rather send to penitentiaries men who attempt to teach others how to break laws. Why send him to the Senate? Why, Pennsylvania? K ’Tis true, Bill Hohenzollern never raised his six sons to be soldiers. AFTER WAR PROBLEMS. Innumerable questions already suggest them-, selves with relation to after-war reaction and re- adjustment. Here are a few upon which you may care to cogitate and ruminate— WILL thousands, be without work through the inactivity of special war industries? WILL those who left private life for war en- deavor to return to their previous pursuits? WILL the number compelled to continue occu- pation through loss of former providers, be for- midable? WILL the places vacated by those who do re- turn to the domestic sphere, be held for the boys pouring back through every port? WILL Uncle Sam guarantee employment to the wounded, crippled byt not completely incapaci- tated? WILL total disarmament of the central powers be one of the allied peace rulings? WILL the problem of the unemployed force down the cost of living? WILL the American merchant marine be turned over to private ownership? WILL government railroad and wire control be a permanent factor? Maybe the HUNS are trying to reach Paris by running round the globe. _“GOD HELP US!” { Falling back before the slow moving but cease- lessly advancing hosts of British, French, Ameri- cans, the German foe prays to God for help. “God help us!” screams the frightened Baron von Ardenne, HUN general. They stand deep in the blood of slaughtered babies, noncombatant men, women, nurses, wound- ed, and beg for God to help them! They stand convicted of crimes unmentionable and pray for God’s help! They wallow in scenes of their horrible de- pravity and cruelty and plead with God for help! They bring the world the most awful of all wars and hope that God will help! They violate their most sacred pledges and call upon God for help! They tear down altars and demolish churches and expect God to help them! They kill clergymen, and violate the sisterhood of the church—and pray to God for help! They steal the graven images from catherdals and cast them into cannon, yet pray to God for help! ‘ They enslave a captive people and beg God’s help! They, torture prisoners and innocent women and children—but pray to God for help! ‘ a they are not repentant, yet pray for God’s elp! They are not willing to end their riot of bar- barian lawlessness but pray for God to help them! The God we have come to know and worship is NOT the accomplice of the murderer, the robber, the ravisher, the HUN! , A French military expert estimates that up to date 1,600,000 Germans have been killed. Gott's will be done! “The wise household tomitiaiider ‘now lays in coal bullets with which to repel the cold attacks of WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4,.1918. THE FORTUNE TELLER “i AAA AR AA All About the Czecho-Slovaks. They come from. Bohemia, Slovakia and adjoining provinces in the heart of the ‘central ‘empires, between Aus- tria proper and Germany. In the middle ages they were a pow- erful ‘independent nation. - When the world war started they made up a part of the Austro-Hunga- rian army because they had to.. The Austrians executed hundreds of the more rebellious. 3 At the first opportunity they de- serted or surrenderéd to the Russians and became either: nominal Russian prisoners or units in the Russian ar- When the’ Germaiis’.advanced into Russia after Trotzky*and Lenine sign- ed the peace treaty they faced execu- tion as deserters, and started, 60,000 strong, through Siberia towards the Pacific, intending to sail for America and from there to the French fighting front. ; : ‘Attacked by armed German-Austri- an prisoners, they postponed their French trip to clean: up Siberia. Fifteen thousand of them, already in Vladivostok, took,.the city from the Bolsheviki' and are now fighting their way back. towards Russia to rescue their'ycomrades, 45,000 of whom are still in. the interior. The latter have taken'two-thirds o. {the Trans-Siberi- an railroad from the Bolsheviki, and are now fighting eastward through Si- beria toward Vladivostok. ‘Allied: military investigators in Si- beria :callthem the finest: soldiers in the world today. EVERETT TRUE — AWD i SAW MRS. L, GOOD BYS. levekrGoDy. ON A tape Correspondent Knisely on Scene of American and| Allied Intervention, Describes Conditions in Russia’s:Land of Prisons and Ice ' juation there!” Kept fromthe Franch front, they | coach. We couldn’t see the lieuten- ts TMIS PORENOON. lov WERE VER' SQiDx qve Mv OH, MONDAY 1 Saws, VACATION AND SHS OF THEM BOT TERRIBLY Sen ee SSABLE “THAT | a YUL SEE You AGAINe You ARE GOING ON A LONG JOURNEY ULL HEVER- RETURN | AND YO SIBERIA LAND OF CONFUSION AND MANY GOVERNMENTS, BUT ALL ALLIES WILL NOW SOLIDIFY ALL AGAINST SHEVIKI AND GERMAN PRISONER ARMY may be the-creators of a new eastern front, an infinitely greater war serv- ees. 4 By BURTON KNISELY. (Stat Correspondent, Newspaper En-| _.. terprise Association.) i Harbin, Manchuria, Sept. 3.—"Go to Siberia! Write full particulars of sit- In Mukden; Manchuria, I got that cable from my. home office in the'Unit- ed States. I had been on my way to Peking.. But—people ordered to Si- beria always “go:* I went! Out of contentment into chaos. » All day’ I traveled, northward over the fertile Manchurian plain in one of the world’s finest trains, the South Manchurian express, pride of Japan’s colonial railway management. Under | the bright sun the Chinese farmers | worked—six, eight. ten to a field. How peaceful that pastoral scene was! An American Outpost in Siberia. By evening confusion and haze be- gan. At Chang-Chun, half way to Har- bin, the rain was a flood. Through it I grasped at a straw, a man in kha- ki. outpost of America, lieutenant in the American railway engineers corps serving in Russia. At midnight I was on “Russian soil” —a Russian railway coach under Rus- sian sovereignty. The lieutenant had fought a way for us through the noisy, twisting mass of Chinese, Russians and Japanese jamming the dimly-lit Chang-Chun station platform. In the coach he had seized a compartment for us—fought for it. It was almost pitch: dark inside the By Conde YY WITH WAR WORK. \ ding! ;and lay down. | late. jarrested? {the rifles of opposing forces. ant's face as we bade him good-bye. A tallow candle, high in a lantern frame, cast just enough light to reveal two bare bunks. No pillows! No bed- Plenty of dirt! i Japanese Order Ends; archy Be We locked the door, folded our wet raincoats into pillows, wrapped in blankets the lieutenant had given us, Japanese and. Korean trains had never been even a. minute This train, made up here, was starting more than an hour behind time. Japanese order‘ had ended. Here began the Russian-run Chinese East- ern railroad, link in the Trans-Siberi- an. The coach was Russia, and Rus- sia was anarchy. Pounding at the door awakened us three times. Twice it was passport examination.. Heavily-bearded Rus- Russian An- \sian officials scowled over our papers. Something was wrong. , They spoke no English, I no Russian. We would be Or just thrown off? They handed back the passport. Safe again! Then other passengers tried to force their way into the compartment. » We pushed them gut by force, locked the |door against them, and kept it locked, no matter who pounded. Chinese Work Between Firing Line. By dawn the train had crossed the Sungari river and was stopping ten minutes to half an hour ate every way- side station. At each\stop most of the passengers got out and walked up and down in groups, talking, like con- spirators. Fine forests bordered wide valleys, wet but now sparkling in the sun, where big herds of cattle grazed. The Chinese farmers were still busy. I have since seen them work between But a strip each side of the track was Rus- sia, which is not. working, and hours late we dropped down on Harbin— Russian city in the heart of the Chi- nese province of Manchuria, then the only quiet spqt in Russia or Siberia, then the only haven from soviet rule and therefore crowded with refugees. NOW Harbin is more. than-a “safe port” in the storm of) revolution. It is a military base, today. Here inter- vening troops of the allies are starting their operations against Bolsheviki and armed German prisoners. Most of the trains just now, from Chang- Chun to Harbin, are troop trains, carrying Chinese or Japanese troops the first stage of their journey to aid the Czech-Slavs wipe out Gérmanism in Siberia. Harbin the Fighting Center. In Harbin today diplomats agree on and military staffs plan army cam- paigns in Siberia. Orders for military stores are being sent, and arrange- ments made to receive and forward them.: ‘Here. General Horvath, gover- jnor of these Russian acres through his’ position ‘as head of the, Chinese Eastern railway, proclaimed himself provisional ruler of Siberia, and from here he sent his army to Grodekovo, onthe Manchurian-Siberian border, jhalf: way to Vladivostok, to link up with the Czech army which captured Nikolsk after taking over Vladivostok. It has' been hard to kee ptrack of the different “Siberian” governments” I have’ seen’ ‘arfse in’ the last ‘few weeks. It is still hard to determine just what will be the scope and who the head of the new order in Siberia now forming out of these various fac- tors. At times there have seemed to be five’of them: : : Siberla’s Five Governments. 1—The Horvath government. 2—The autonomous Sebirian gov- ernment, or “Derber government,” named after its first premier. 3—The Vladivostok government, which for awhile claimed the support of the allied consuls at Vladivostok. 4—The western Siberian provisional government, first announced to have chosen General Alexieff as its gener- alissimo: "~ Z 5—The Czech-Slavs, on whose sen- |sational military successes, one of the |most electrifying campaigns of the present war, which I am describing: in ‘a later story, all the new Siberian units have been built up. But it is my judgment that, when all the rumors in this hothed of rumors are sifted, things simmered down, with ‘allied intervention, to the Horvath group, accused of being somewhat re- actionary, and the autonomous Siberi- an government group, accused by Hor- jvath of being too radical and social- iistic. So. great. and. so general was Rus- sia’s disorganization, even ‘here in comparatively . settled Siberia, that without allied intervention these two factions would probably have remain- ed at sixes and sevens, pulling in op- posite directions, until the results of the Czech military successes, the act- ual, factual basis of the hobe for a new Siberia, had fallen down in the crack between them and’ been lost. Even today full Siberian unity has not bee n‘achieved. But— Why Intervention Now Is Timely. The chief timeliness of allied inter- vention lay inthis: It came at‘the psychological mo- ment to summon: the Horvath crowd and the autonomous Siberia faction to unite with the intervening allied troops and the Cxechs, and present a single front to the Bolsheviki and armed German prisoners, who are the mutual enemy of all these Siberian camps. Only outside force could have amal- gamated Siberians, even when the Czech-Slavs' presented them their re- lease from Bolshevism on a silver platter. On that basis and toward that end the present campaign is being conducted. ” : BUY Wes §--—— FEED FOE BY TUNNEL German Smugglers on: Swiss Border Use Pipe Line. Subterranean Line From House Across the Frontier Is Revealed by Chance. mae Basle.—Hunger {s the mother of Ifi- ventions. German hunger invented: a Breat smuggling device which did a booming business until discovered by customs officers; Some Germans, liv- ing in Baden, near the Swiss frontier, built a pipe Hne across the frontier. It ended in a house rented to a Ger man family. What this family con sumed in. the line of food, clothing, shoes, soap and other necessaries was really astounding. -However, these people bought things in the open mar- ket, which is still possible in Switzer- land, paid cash, never grumbled, no matter how high the price and no questions were asked. One day recently two men were seen digging in the ground near the front- fer. Customs officials became susp!- cious, and nosing around soon made a valuable discovery. The two men were engaged in repairing the pipe line, which had been used for smug- gling. The machinery had become clogged and an opening had to be made to get at the seat of the trouble. The officials saw an opening had been made into a spacious tunnel built ‘of: concrete, Inside the pipe were long. wires. These wires were wee Tound spools at the end stations al could be pulled either way. Goods, such as meat, cheese, hams, shoes, clothing, etc., were tied to. the wire and pulled across ‘the border. through the subterranean channel. The Swiss government is now after the sinugglers. The flourishing “busl- ness” is killed. Everybody’s Business. Every man is a fortune hunter, oth- erwise he wouldn’t be in business.— Idaho Statesman. BY EDMUND OUR FRIENDS VANCE COOKE I hope you've been behavin’ and "Cause you and I are I think I’ve got your "Cause this year you have simply. ‘‘Hello, Mr. Joggerphy, I’m cam “‘Hello, Mr. History, No wonder! for they certainly ar: peing to have the dandiest old fight; umber and ean put you down all right. You've been a syacker long enough; I tell it to your face; If you don’t teach me now, you'll be demoted an disgrace. ‘‘Hello, Mr. *Rithmetic, where you been so long? have come back well and strong, / / “‘Hello, Mr. Spellin’-book; I hope you’re feelin’ well, got toiteach me how to spell. j pin’ on your track; You teach me better than last term, or else I'll break your’ back. You needn't teach me how to bound the German empire though, Cause the German empire’s bound to be un-bound, I guess you know. you're lookin’ rather blue. e doin’ things to you. They're makin’ history so fast in Europe now,. they: say, That history is wrong unless they right it every day. “Ffello, all you other books, you’te lookin’ sort..of -pale, You've. been shut up so tong, I guess. yon thonught-you were im, jail, But now: you're open once again, I hope you’re*feetin’ So-come antl teach ni¢ everythin . Comte ot, nowt make, it an