The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1918, Page 4

I THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D. as Second ‘ice, Bism: . D., as Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - —- ~—S- ~S-~—Ss«éitor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative 4 inter ay gi MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchat 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 pub- herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are algo reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year...... 6.01 Daily by mail per year. i Daily by mail per year (in state)... Daily by mail outside of North Dakota. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) 3338 R roe 3 333 1 $5. 2.50 1 $6. 8. 1 25 00 00 “50 2) THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1878) <p> THE STATE CONVENTIONS. There was little solace for A. C. Townley ip either of the state conventions held in Bismarck yesterday. The king of the northwestern social- ists failed utterly in his efforts to inject discord into the ranks of the democrats; 41 out of 49 committeemen were actually present at the of- ficial meeting, and all but four of these stood solidly back of Doyle and Bartholomew and Byer- ly. In his own steam-rolled convention, Town- ley as miserably failed to develop any resem- blance of enthusiasm. The Nonpartisan commit- teemen went through their paces without spirit, and the cut and dried resolutions read to them by William Lemke of St. Paul, their state chair- man, were adopted without discussion and with- out comment. Many of the league committee- men drifted from the house chamber and went home ‘long before the end of the session. * * * * * John H. Bloom of Devils Lake and some of the old-time machine republicans who, connived with him in an effort to stampede the democratic state central committee have little to be proud of. Their net bag was three hidebound Nonpartisan members of the committee. Bloom also control- led his own vote. Magnuson, Peterson and Pat- terson and Mr. Bloom represented in the commit- tee meeting the sum total of the’ opposition to Joe Doyle of Fargo and W. E. Byerly of Velva, Doyle’s choice for chairman of the state central committee. Mr. Doyle doubtless will gladly con- cede. Mr. Bloom et al the three precious “demo- crats”. who voted yesterday with Mr. Bloom for Herman Nelson of Ray. * * * * * George A Bangs of Grand Forks showed: his good sense by refusing to listen to the siren song of Mr. Stenvik of Minot, of Home Lumber fame. “We want a man big enough to interest the stalwart republicans as well as the democrats,” Setnvik said when he attempted to induce Bangs to enter the lists against Byerly. Bangs talked it over in a friendly way with Doyle, and the latter promptly drove a spike in the Bloom-Sten- vik-Home Lumber Co. plot to disrupt his party. On the floor of the senate chamber yesterday afternoon George Bangs let everyone within the heach of his voice know what he thought of A. C. Townley, Arthur LeSueur, A. E. Bowen and the rest of John Bloom’s new-found socialist friends. Mr. Bloom apparently suspected what was coming, for he hastily beat a retreat when Bangs was called upon to speak. * * * * * The worst thing Stenvik and Bloom and co- plotters against Byerly could say of the Velva man was that he might be too progressive to in- terest the stalwart republicans. Well, progres- sivism never has been a crime in North Dakota. It has never been known to tose votes for the dem- ocrats in North Dakota. The good God knows that we need some progressiveism today to offset the wildcat radicalism of Townley’s socialistic high-binders. If Byerly is progressive, so be it. That fact will not cut down Doyle’s majority ap- preciably. 2 * * * ~_ The democratic program is. constructive, pro- gressive and forward-looking. It offers in a form which is practical the things for which North’ Dakota farmers have been fighting a quarter cen- tury or more. The platform is backed up by men in whom the people. of North Dakota have con- fidence. It is supported by citizens of North Da- kota, by mén who have grown up in this state, made what little they have here, and invested it here. The voter is not asked to rely upon the word of a bankrupt resident of St. Paul, supported by. the pledges of a few sickly socialists who until now the Nonpartisan league money bags are opened to them have never been known. i * * * * * The league platform, carefully prepared: in ad- vance in St. Paul, is one of the most conceited and assinine public documents that has come to our knowledge. In the face of the well known war record of Governor Frazier, Attorney’ General sident Townley, Arthur LeSueur, Bow- Horst, Randall, Kate Richards O’Hare tors of the North Dakota administration, we find praise for the loy- alty and patriotism displayed by this aggregation. Although the state treasurer’s report shows in cold, irrefutable figures that the Townley admin- istration has increased administrative expenses in North Dakota at the rate of more than $100,000 per annum, the Townley government is applauded for its efficiency and economy. * * * * * The league pulled its usual boner when it de- clined to endorse President Wilson and his war aims, although twice given this opportunity by Committeeman Frazier of Divide county. ‘“‘Poli- tics is adjourned,” says President Wilson, and party leaders in other states, regardless of af- filiation, have agreed with him. Not so Town- ley’s socialistic bund which characteristically plays to President Wilson on the one hand to de- lude the public into a belief that Townley actu- ally is behind America in this war, while on the other hand, as a means of conciliating the pacifi- cist element so generously represented among Townley’s following, it withholds in its state con- vention formal approval of the president, and once more puts North Dakota falsely on record as being wrong. No republican convention would have refused the endorsement of President Wil- Son and his war policies contained in the harm- less resolution which Mr. Frazier of Divide in- troduced in the committee of resolutions and later brought up on the floor of the convention. It re- mained .for Townley’s plunder-bund to reveal itself in its true light by doing this thing, besmirching anew the fair name of North Dakota. * * * * * And, 'twas quite characteristic of Townley and his crew that they should gather unto themselves all the glory; that they should praise without; stint THEIR patriotism; THEIR efficiency; THEIR economy; THH§R, wisdom, quite forget- ting the loyal North Dakota farmer who has achieved a splendid loyalty record for North Da- kota in spite of the stumbling blocks thrown in his way by the Townley bund. It remained for Georg Rose, one of the biggest farmers in Dickey county and who for five terms represented his district in the state legislature, to ask some simple recognition for the farmer. Rose is not a leaguer, but he has not opposed this movement. His eyes were opened yesterday when Townley’s state com- mittee read into the platfrom of the party which Rose has rendered such good service in the past paragraph after paragraph of fulsome praise for Townley’s acolytes without one word of com- mendation for the farmers. “Isn’t it the farmer, after all, who has made possible this big: increase in acreage?” asked Mr. Rose. “Isn’t it the farm- er who has taken the risk and who has assumed the added burdens. And.can’t we say something in appreciation for the businessmen, the store- keepers and the bankers from the towns who have so generously helped the farmer to save his crops? I have just finised one of the biggest jobs of threshing in Dickey county, and I didn’t have a single hired hand on the place. Every one of my helpers was a volunteer business man.” And Chairman Lemke dismissed this “trivial” inter- ruption with the explanation that “we will come to that later and will put in something that will cover your points.” Oh, yes, indeed,the farmer of North Dakota owes a great deal to the Non- partisan league, and some day he will pay his ob- ligation in full. * * * * * It is too bad that everyone in North Dakota could not have sat through the two state conven- tions at the capitol yesterday. There was such a difference in spirit and in sentiment. The demo- crats, as usual, will be handicapped in the cam- paign to come by lack of organization. They have no great slush fund such as Townley has at his disposal. The work that is done will be done by volunteers, but is should be all the more effective. God knows North Dakota has reached a crisis when no one who has the future of his state at heart should hold back and remain idle. There should be no lack of.volunteers, anxious for service, for the duty that calls is only second to that glorious privilege which has called 25,000 of our bravest and best to the battlefields of France. WHAT’S TO COME? In the Southern Pacific railroad shops at Sac- ramento, plans are making for the permanent re- tention of hundreds of women machinists and helpers. Superintendent Williams says: “Many of the women have proven themselves peculiarly qualified for the finer type of mechan- ics. They make excellent core-makers, brass fin- ishers and machinists.” What a change may be coming! If women per- manently in railroad shops, why not in all shops and factories? In the shops and factories, ordin- arily, there are thousands and thousands of jobs that. women are physically and mentally able to fill, permanently. Grant that woman has_ the ability and will to do a thing, and all else depends upon the demand for her performance. War is taking the fittest of our men. How many of them are going to return and seek the “permanent jobs held by women? Is there to be a reversion? Great scholars as- sure us that there was a long, long period in hu- man history, when the female of the species did the hard work, while the male hunted and fished. Mother in overalls; father with rod and gun? In- deed, we may yet thank heaven for that adam- antine trait in woman that sets her strong against doing things she doesn’t want to do. The foe will write this year’s campaign on the SS , y) y 7 Duty of De Tells Stat OF THE UNITB “There may be triots. They are to everyone that slowly forced into ley is registered, ‘ber, insofar as he the I. W. W,, call month of April. tives met _ there, ceived to embraci socialists of the have ‘been landed terms ranging up repetition of these Dakota sixty days Richards O'Hare penitentiary. Th swallowed whole in control of this movement. “The socialists the socialist EVERETT ISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE Fight Socialism, Bangs (Continued From Page One) ANY OTHER NATION. cialists who are at the same time pa- In March, 1917, when it was appareni| vent the sending of soldiers tq the res- socialist party with which A.C. Town-! their power to prevent the sending of he has never denied; the same party of which Arthur Le Sueur is a mem- representatives’ in St. Louis for the broadcast over the United States and the world a platform which they con-| they had.made.their declarations six- ty days later, every one of them would North Dakota—by the men who are/here today, that I might read ‘it to The St. Louis Convention. Louis as had been repeatedly. said by| purge themselves of this poisonous Nonpartisan league or-! doctrine they cannot command appro- ARAN “WE ARE READY TO-COMPLETE THE TASK” “This is the Nation’s war. “To register now for selection for military service is to list yourself as one of the Nation’s manpower units. Every citizen owes it to himself and to his country to make this day a unani- mous demonstration of loyalty, patriotism, and the will to win. “This registration is America’s announcement to the worl that we are ready to complete the task already begun with suc! emphatic success.” , A FLAT TIRE ganizers in this state that this great war which America was waging for \the salvation of democracy and for the relief of all the nations of the world from militarism and the worst form of autocracy had been declared by our good president, Woodrow Wil- son, and by our congress in order that | Big Business might reap greater profit. some self-styled so-! And they pledged their members: to resist conscription; to work against war; to influence legislation to .pre- mocrats to e Committee DSTATES OR OF not true socialists. cue of France and Belgium; and they ‘America was being pledged their members to do all in this war, the same an affiliation which} munitions to our soldiers. who did go to France and to keep supplies away |: from our brave boys, over there, to is not a member of; leave them helpless and_ starving in led a meeting of its| the face of the enemy. THAT’S TRUE’ SOCIALISM, and that is the party with which A.°C. Townley is proud to ally himself. Damnable and Damning. 5 “Never was such a. damnable and damning declaration made by any or: ganized body of men in the history of ,the world. And the men engaged in ‘the work of socialism here in ‘North Dakota with the Nonpartisan league swallowed it whole. They swallowed tbat platform whole, and in May and June of last year they preached: that platform here in North Dakota, at Devils Lake, at Williston and _else- I wish I had that platform And its. representa- and they ‘spread e the principles of United States. If in federal prison for to 20 years. The principles in North later did lead Kate and! others to the| jis declaration was by the. socialists of| where. you; that you might realize all its hell- ishness. nv “Until the socialist leaders of the said there at St.; Nonpartisan league in North Dakota Nonpartisan league WOODROW WILSON. TR Ul M4 VE YOu Can't GET THE "HAND! FoR YouR BUM ACT, DON'T GRAB NAVAN vate wane Pee ac Ma MA bation from any intelligent, patriotic citizen of this state. The only reason they were not voted out of power and driven from the state months ago is because the people have not under- CHARTER NO. 2434 _¢ (THURSDAY, SEPT; 5).1918. - atood.. Jt isfdur sacrédl duty’ (etek (7 ¢ them, understand, . ‘ Socialists Repeat Threat. 1 “A few weeks, ago at Chicago this same party,to which Townley and Le ‘Sueur and others high in command of the Nonpartisan league are proud to owe allegiance met and it found no reason to change its platform as enun- ciated at St. Louis in April, 1917. So- cialism in America still stands for that platform; socialism here in ‘North Dakota, as applied to the Nonpartisan league, still stands for it. A. C. Town- ley endorses that program, ‘because he "has never withdrawn his affiliation with the socialist party and he has never denied that he is an active mem- ver of that organization. A Concrete Example. “We need not go far:for a concrete example of socialism here ‘at home. Only a few weeks ago, in Adams coun- ty, I believe it was, .a Nonpartisan district convention met and pledgea its“lelegate who sits in that conven- tion across the hall is work, for the col- lective ownership of all property. ‘So- cialism stands for, the. state owner- ship of all agencies of production and distribution. They dare not come out at once and “tell the farmer that they intend to seize his land, the first and greatest of all ‘the sources of produc- tion. No. they camaflauge. "They say, ‘We will take over the railways and the factories and the mills and the elevators,’ but the true socialist has his eyes on the land, and in House Bill 44 and the amendments which the league now is seeking to submit to the voters the socialist has the instrument through which he can seize the land. And this is only one phase of social- ism. Socialism means the elimination of all private ownership; it means the confiscation of all private property, here. at home. Nationally, it means disloyalty, treachery. ..As democrats we must fight it (p the last ditch, here in North Dakota and in the nation at large.” iY BUY W, $8. TWO:KILLED. Chickasha, Okla., Sept. 5.—Two men were killed and 45 reported injurec when three coaches, of southmound Rock Island train No. 11 left the rails and went into a: ditch today ‘between Duncan and Comanche, ,Okla., south of this city. ‘ BUY Ww. THOSE, STORM: WINDOWS. Now is the time to have your storm windows overhauled and repaired be- fore we get busy: See Faunce's Fourth street. Also have your auto shields repaired. I have all sizes to replace broken lights. aoe ee uaranteed. Faunce’s Fow street. . 83192W95 RESERVE DIST. NO. 9 REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE e e - First National Bank at Bismarck, in the State of; North Dakota; at the close of business on y, August 31, 1918 ' ‘RESOURCES Loans and discounts, includin, Overdrafts, unsecured rediscounts ... $ 1,754,589.78 105.47 U.S. Bonds (other than Liberty Bonds) but in- i cluding U. S. Certificates of Indebtedness: - U. S. Bonds deposited to secure circulation 3 n (par_ value) “U.S. Bonds and certificate: S pledged to secure U. S. deposits (par value) U. S. bonds and certificates of indebtedness pledged to secure postal saving deposits (par value) U. S. bonds an Liberty Loan Bonds: bt ne Liberty Loan Bonds, 31%, 4 and 4% per unpledged Liberty Loan Bonds, 3%, 4 and 4%4 per cent, pledged to secure U. S. deposits ertificates of indebtedness pledged as collateral for state or other de- posits or bills payable .......+ . $75,000.00 15,000.00 1,000.00 150,000.00 241,000.00 t, $ 82,500.00 42,000.00 124,500.00 Bonds, securities, etc. (other than U. S.): Bonds other than U. S. bonds pledged to se- cure postal savings deposits 6,000.00 Securities other than U. S. bonds (not in- cluding stocks) owned unpledged Total bonds, securities, etc., other that U. Be ease ceeces Stock of Federal Reserve Bi of subscription) .... Value of banking house . Furniture and_ fixtures Real estate owned other «Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank.. (Cash in vault and net amount due from na- tional banks Net amount due from banks, bankers trust companies, other than, included in items 13, 14 or 15 Exchanges for’ clearing house Total of items 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 .. Checks on banks located outside of city or town of reporting bank and other cash items .... War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps actually. owned 68,704.61 73,704.61 9,000.00 6,212.39 120,428.29 117,341.60 and 310,299.38 8,703.51 $ 236,344.49 19,106.97 2,239.47 “§ 2.663,785.77 Total 10... cece evens Capital stock ‘paid in * $ 100,000.00 Surplus fund .. . 200,000.00 Undivided profits vee $24,140.95 Less current expenses, interest and taxes paid 14,412.40 9,728.55 Circulating notes outstariding 5 71,250.00 Net amount due to National banks . . 30,862.40 Net amounts due to banks, bankers and trust COMPANIES 2.2.0... ccc cccee pacecesvessseecs 197,203.28 Total of items 32 and 33 .............- $ 228,065.68 Demand deposits (other than bank deposits) subject to reserve (deposits payable within 30 days): Individual deposits subject to check ...... a 1,475,587 .42 Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other than for money borrowed)... 118,012.42 Certified checks . 8,446.18 Dividends unpaid ............. ss esses eens 524.00 Total demand deposits (other than bank ‘ deposits) subject to reserve .......... + «$1,602,570 .02 Time deposits subject to reserve (payable after 30 days, or subject to 30 days or more no- tice, and postal savings): Certificates of deposit (other than for mon- ey borrowed) 253,463.58 Postal savings deposit: 4,032.31 Total of time deposit: rve $ 257,495.89 Unies: sare Deposits (other than postal sav- ings): War loan deposit account ................ $ 32,800.00 Other United States deposits, including de- deposits of U. S. disbursing officers ....... 14,875.68 47,675.63 U. S. bonds borrowed, including Liberty Loan and certificates of indebtedness, without fur- nishing collateral security for same ...... 17,000.00 Bills payable, with Federal Reserve Banak .. 130,000.00 PRE eee SOS kOe $ 2,663,785.77 * Total o. State of North Dakota, County of Burleigh.—ss. I, Frank E. Shepard, cashier of the above named*bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to th belief. Subscribed and eworn to before , Correct—Attest: 0. N. DUNHAM, ~ C. B. LITTLE, J..L. BELL,~. ’ Directors. oe of my knowledge and FRANK E. SHEPARD, Cashier. me this Sth day of Septenrber, 1918. F. J. GRADY, Notary: Public. ~ wt