The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1918, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postollice, Uamarck, ND, as Second ‘os! Ice, ismarcl we Matter _____ GEORGE D. MANN i & to GAN PAYNE coe Special Foreign Representativo NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Blig.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg; BOSTON, 3 Winter St; DETR 'TROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 ber Exchal ; MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for Fepubtieation of all news credited to it or not other- wise cred ited in this paper and also the local news pub- Ushed here! All rs of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION pee ROR TION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC! Lp y carrier per year.. $6.00 pay ily by mail vor year. 4.00 Dally By mall Cutie of North Daioia: "1 oo mail outside 0! jor! jakol oe GA s SUBSCRIPTION RATE (In North Dakota) One year by mail : 64.00 Six months by mall 2.00 Three months b: 1.00 Outside of North Dakota) One year .. $5.00 Six months 2.50 Three months 1.25 Six months 8.00 Three months 1.50 One month . eeeee 50 ——e— THR STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. _(Hetablished 1878) M AJOR AXTON. Preachers preach; army chaplains do more. When our boys leave the shores of America— usually during the night — they feel more keenly than ever the pains of homesickness and loneliness. They come piling out of the trains at the At- lantic seaport and pour into ships that are to take them across. There are no bands _ playing and no friends to cheer them off. Then Major Ax- ton is ready at the docks with an or- ganized bunch of as- sistants giving the boys ‘sups of hot coffee and sand- wiches and what- ever else they may need to bring them comfort. And off they go with the feeling that they haven’t been forgot- ten by the govern- ment — for ‘Major Axton _ represents Uncle Sam. He is chaplain in, gharge atothe port of. em- ; EB. barkation. As we started out to explain, army chap- lains do more than preach. Another glance at the picture—Major Axton doing his utmost to take the cry from baby’s eye—is fine evidence that preaching isn’t all of a chaplain’s job. This picture of the major was taken some time ago down on the southwestern border. The baby he holds is a stray Mexican waif. “Over there” the HUNS would—and DO—cut the throats out of stray waifs—French, Belgian, Serbian. * But the man in U.S. A. uniform is different. Major Axton is typical of the American, soldier. The Yank doesn’t cut out babies’ hearts’ He'd rather gather up in his strong arms a helpless waif and carry it to a place of safety even though the baby be a Mexican—or a GERMAN! Nibbling tactics keep the Germans on anxious bench. Foch is the kind of mouse that. gets the cheese away without springing the enemy's trap. STUDY WAR NEWS. There are still some people who read the war news only in the most superficial way because they | cannot pronounce the names of the French and Russian towns in which the world’s greatest tragedy is staged. They never study the war map showing the daily moves made by the allies and the central powers—without which one can no more under- stand the progress made by either side than one could understand a game of checkers without studying the position of the “men” on the check- erboard—for the winning of this world-war de- pends almost entirely upon the winning of terrj- tory—of getting “across the Rhine” to Berlin! If we are to do our best work toward winning the war, we must be intelligent about the meth- ods adopted and the progress made by our men at the front. The newspapers of the country are spending a Jot of money and putting a lot of work into the job of presenting to their readers the facts about the war—all the facts that may be printed by any- There is no reason why even the average work- ing man may not be as well informed about the problems of the war as the most learned high- brow. YANKS OF ’76. “Sammies”. got its deathblow, “Doughboy” is taboo, and now the south objects to “Yanks.” The words “northerner” and “southerner” no longer define separate sympathies, platforms and prejudices. The blue and the gray are khaki now. Shoulder to shoulder they face a single menace, hold kindred ideals, share travail and triumph, fight, live, eat and win as one. “Yanks” doesn’t date back just to. the Civil War, but beyond it to the Revolution which made pos- sible a north and south. What matter is the word WAS applied to north- ern troops during the conflict of '61. ’Twas only fate, destiny or chance that placed the north instead of the south in line with prog- ress, idealism and development. Not racial but geographical and climatical difference determined that. The HUN takes his daily dose of defeat on the run, VICTORY FLOUR. The food administration asks retail dealers to sell VICTORY FLOUR, and urges consumers to buy that flour instead of wheat flour and a sub: stitute. VICTORY FLOUR is a mixture of 80 per scent, wheat flour and 20 per gent corn or bar- ley flour. Under former ruling it was possible to pur- chase the flours separately and do one’s own mixing. Hereafter the food administration takes no chances on German sympathizers and luke-warm Americans putting a hand in the mixing. And this is the reason: Enemies in our midst (and this includes slacker Americans, too) who could afford it, bought the wheat flour and substitutes, and threw away the corn and barley flour while using pure wheat flour, This was expensive to them, of course, but it was decidedly more costly to the nation. Also, it was unfair to loyal Amerians who conscien- tiously mixed their bread flour. So now when you buy VICTORY FLOUR you are helping to defeat this wheat wasting program of HUNS in America. You seen, they cannot “unscramble” VICTORY FLOUR, and thus corn and barley flours are forced down their throats, much like retreat and defeat are’ being crammed down their kaiser’s throat “over there.” Order VICTORY FLOUR. Insist upon getting VICTORY FLOUR.: Report any grocer who doesn’t sell VICTORY FLOUR. Report any neigh- bor who bakes with all wheat flour. (sncccceaesscoseeeenes | WITH THE EDITORS | MR. EVANS VS. THE FACTS. To a Labor Day audience yesterday, David H. Evans, joint candidate for governor of the new labor party and the Nonpartisan League, said that the working men and farmers of the coun- try have never received a square deal, and that the present is the proper time for them to assert themselves and obtain “justice.” Let us see if this is true. In the first place, this country is at war—a poor time in the judgment of patriotic men, to preach class discontent even if the classes to which Mr. Evans refers were really suffering substantial injustice. But they are not. At the present moment labor, generally speaking, receives a wider recognition than ever before in the history of the United States, and labor itself is being paid more handsomely than in any previous period. Advances in the wage of labor have alone kept measurable pace with advances in the cost of living. And how about the farmer? He is today receiving prices ‘for his products which ex- ceed the widest fancies of pre-war periods. Said President Wilson yesterday in his proclamation ing $2.20 as the minimum price for wheat: “In giving a guaranteed price for wheat one year in advance (the only industry guaranteed by the government) there is involved a considerable na- tional risk.” He went on to point out that peace before the middle of 1920 might cause the gov- ernment a loss of $500,000,000 as the result of this price guarantee. So far from being “unjust” to the farmer, is not this government guarantee of his industry a signal favor to him? Mr. Bvans, as we understand it, is neither farmer nor laborer. He s a prosperous retail hardware merchant of Tracy. He is the owner of a grain elevator there. Has he treated the farmer unjustly in the operation of this elevator? He probably would deny it. Said former justice Thomas D- O’Brien, who addressed the. same audience: “The preceding skeaker (Mr. Evans) seems to think that there is something very wrong with this country. Yet he himself said that he came to America from a foreign land penniless and uneducated. Look at his position today.” Yes, look at it. Here is a man who sought our friendly shores in pursuit of the life, liberty and happiness guaranteed under our constitution. And without the advantage either of money or edu- cation, he has found all three in abundance. He is ‘rich, he has risen high enough in this com- munity to obtain, no matter how, a nomination for the highest elective office within its gift. And yet he is appealing for votes on the ground that there is something wrong with America, that justice is something to be obtained by a favored few, that this country habitually wrongs and op- _ He may have a liberal education on the biggest ‘thing that ever happened. by carefully studying pe daily newspaper—which he already buys—but he now merely reads. presses its numerically greatest classes—farmer and laborer. Mr. Evans’ own career is sufficient refutation of the statement.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. . “Sccehenimrhdiertem scree * WHY SOLDIER'S + MAIL IS LATE | o In response. to-numerous inquiries from its readers as to the cause of grave delays in the transmission of soldiers’ mail addressed to members of the American expeditionary forces in France, The Tribune has taken the matter up with'the ‘postoffice depart ment at Washington and h the na- tional ‘committee’ op -public- informa: tion,and_ it shag received from’ F. W- McReynolds, director of the nationai service buréau, the, following explan- ation, “In reply to your. ‘tavor of the 27th inst:, enclosing letter from Mr. E.-L. brooks, we are enclosing official. bul- letin containing statement ffom the postoffice .of. this city, explaining the delay in delivery of mail to soldiers. abroad. - Every possible step is being takefi by the war authorities to. facilt- tate. the delivery (@{-matl >to the.sol- diers,,‘but ‘since thet etman drive be- gan in Mach last, which was \alniost simultaneous with the increase in the shipment of troops abroad, the demand for cargo space-on the ocean and for raiiroad space in France, for the ship- ment of food and munitions, has been so great that mail has necessarily delayed.” Following is the explanation given; by Otto Praeger, second assistant post master general: y Mail for Soldiers-in Europe. Mail for American troops stationed in England is transmitted by the post- office department to the army postof- fice, London, England, which gives the mail to the proper military authorities for delivery to the addressee. Mail for Americans who may be serving in the English. the Canadian, or the French army is dispatched as foreign mail to the postal service of the: foreign government with which such American is identified. and the delivery of such mail is effected by such government. ‘Mail for members-ef the American expeditionary forces in France. includ- ine civilians and independent organiz- ations attached to the American ex. peditionary forces, is handled. by the EVERETT TBUE HERE'S ANOTHER CASE OF A SO-CALLED FF MAN BEATING VRP is WIFe.. United States army postal serviee, which delivers the mail in bulk to the proper military mail authorities, whe undertake the delivery of the letters, papers, or parcels to the individuals to whom they are addressed.’ All mail tor the American expeditionary forces in France is made up in this country to companies and other units, and un- ler military regulations is delivered vy thé postal autharities in France to the- regular military’ mail orderlies or their agents, who upon returning to the camps: or, stations :of the troops, undertake the delivery of this mail ‘to the individuals to whom it is ad-j dressed,‘ or, if they can not deliver: it, under take to have it sent :.to. such other unit to which the addressees may have been transferred. Should an addressee, not .be known in the regi- ment. his letters are returned: te the postal authorities, who endeavor to at the general military should tha: addressee have been transferred to some. other locate him headquarters. unit: the mail orderlfés @:@ under in- structions to readdress his Jetters to the proper unit. Every effort is be- ing made by the American authorities {in France to effect as promptly as war | conditions admit, the delivery of maii| for our troops. Complaints as to delay of failure to deliver letters, papers or parcels, arise in the main from “ie fact that persons communicating with our troops do not take into consideration that approximately thirty days are re- quired from. the time of mailing for a letter to reach the addressee. owir to the disturbed ocean traffic. far the larger part of the mail is taken to France on the army transports, which of necessity must give ‘preference to men and supplies, and the movement of mail across the water consequently is very irregular. Again, the railroad transportation in France is strained to the utmost to meet military needs. Many persons who have complained.to the postoffice department have; r advised that the mail is reachi: 4 persons to whom it is addressed it By Conde SOMETIMES THAT FISSEMS To BE THE FONLY WAY TO Do — uAYGE SHS NEGHED tT. POR RESORTING To BRUTAL TReAtM AKS HIS PART $s Ucn. cATS satisfactory manner. Their original complaints were due to not allowing sufficient time for thei~ letters to get across and the answers to return. Another cause of comolai~' is due \to ‘the insufficient manver in which letters are addressed. Thousands of communications, as well as_ parcels, reach the military terminals with an insufficient address and weeks must sometimes elapse before it is possible to obtain the necessary information {to complete the address. The. Eng- lish and French government refus to forward letters. which do not carry the complete, address, and with ‘the: steady increase in the volume of mail from this country to soldiers in France, the |postoffice department will shortly. be compelled to follow the same practice and return to the senders all such pieces of mail. OTTO PRAEGER, Second Asst. uated General. Washington, ‘Nov. 27, 9: BUY W. 5 917. oy) GENERAL KINSHIP WITH SEA Fondness for Salt Water Seema to Be *_ a Characteristic of the Whcle tduman Race. A kind of kinship with the sea fs in every one of us, says Boys* Life, the Boy Scouts’ magazine. Nogh built | the ark as a matter of reiitth lous duty, we are told. But {f old Noah could i have written a few lines to go with the half dozen paragraphs of the Bible narrative—not for religious effect but as a man to man, to let us know just how he felt about the job—what a story it would have been! A landsman, getting ready for his first voyage! Big and important re- sponsibilities to carry, but back of all the study, all the labor, and the “kid- ding” of his ‘friends, that ecstasy of anticipation that grips your throat and makes you want to yell for joy. Noah was a “regular fellow.” You can teli.that by the way he “carried on.” You bet-the fact that he was perforining a religious duty ‘didn’t make him feel like some folks look In prayer. meeting. You bet that when he put aboard the ark one pair of worms} per order, he put in an extra few for bait. You bet he had that same hankering for the sea that, you | and I have. It's in the very blood of every man. Remember how, when you were a kid, you. put your finger in your mouth aft- er cutting it with your firat jack- knife? Dido’t the blood taste salty? Ask any doctor what they put into a man’s veins to fill them when he has lost ‘a lot of blood. He will tell you “salt water.” Doesn't that prove our kinship to the sea? Did you ever know even a grown-up to pass a gang In swimming, or a kid with a string of fish, or even a picture of a ship, without stopping a minute to look? It can't be done. We all love the water. " Germany’s Labor Army. “Our growing labor army” is the de- scription applied by the Huns to their prisoners of war. According to a com- munique in the latest Berlin papers, Germany and her vassals between ; them now hold 3,575,000 prisoners, For | the first time the German military au- thorities lay stress on the supreme value of their prisoners as man power j for industry and agriculture. They are x0 numerous, it Is asserted, that they | go far toward compensating Germany for the men she has had to withdraw j from-peaceful pursuits for active mil- itary service. “The longer the war lasts,” the communique adds, “the | more adaptable these prisoners be- come to the work assigned them, and | the more useful to us.” Huns have a majestic awe of big figures. Thus It ts explained for their | edification that the “labor army” tn Prisoner camps is numerically greater than the whole male working-class population of Derwark, Norway and Sweden combined, “and is eqnivatent to one-fifth the total number of work: ing men in Germany before the: * | ‘ ai cS BISMARCK DA‘ TRIBUNE : FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1918 MARINES HAVE'NO DREAD OF HUNS Wountied Are Only Anxious to Get Back Where the Battle Is Raging. ——_ ONLY CONTEMPT FOR ENEMY Say When They Get Into Actual Fight- Ing Contact With Foe There le No Fight Left in’ Him. London.—A naval attache who suw about 50: American marines in hospital suffering from wounds or gassing in the recent German offensive found every one of them full of cheer regard- Ing the future; cvery one anxious to get well and be back in the fighting| line. And every one of them held a poor opinion of Fritz as a fighting man. They were unanimous, the attache de-| clared, In stating that the Germans were long-distance fighters only. As one! ef them sald: “They are not so bad. when they are 5 yards away with a machine gun, but at close quarters the German soldiere are no good.” Marine after marine asserted that when he and his comrades got into ac: tual fighting contact with the enemy there was no fight left in him. Then the Germans would throw down their guns, and, waving their hands over their heads, cry out “Kamerad!” Feel Contempt for Huns, “Our men,” added the attache, “gave me the impression of looking with ut- ter contempt upon the German soldiers, who can fight only when they feel that they have the. protection of artillery and gas, and surrender when it comes to hand to hand fighting. “Far from feéling the slightest dread of» the enemy, every man expressed eagerness to get out of hospital and return to the front. ‘Every one of them wanted a chance of getting even with the Germans for having been gassed or wounded. “The men were justly proud of the record {hat the marines had made, and their morale appeared to be of the very highest quality. The cheerful- ness of all, including some infantry in the wards, may be summarized by the cemark of one recovering front gas: ‘Why,’ he, sald, ‘there's nothing in it. When all.of us.marines get going, we with wipe Fritz off the map, and we wiil eat our next Christmas dinner at home at; that.’” A British officer who has seen much of the American marines at their head- quarters: in France, and seen them at work against the Boche, writing on what he describes as “an. instructive glimpse at the American war spirit and American efficiency in the field,” says: “On the ronds to the front there ts perpetual movement. Hundreds of mo- tor lorries, each one packed with French soldiers, pass us in quick suc- cession on their way to another part of the line. Again and again we pass bodies of American troops on the march, then a group of women and children. Although the road winds over the face of a well tilled country- side, few birds are seen, except for an occasional pair of ring doves. Such {a the incongruity of war! Aircraft Hum Continuous. “We find the marines’ headquarters at an old farmhouse, shut in on every side*by woods. Here the hum of air- craft is continuous, and links up the intermittent crash of artillery fire. A Boche observation balloon hangs above the woods to eastward, and a ‘woolly bear’ shell lays a vivid black smudge against the limited skyline ahead. In the farmyard we seem to stand in a little world apart, but the sounds of adjacent fighting are close about us. “A marine officer who has had no sleep for three. nights comes in, dusty but cheerful, from the trenches. The marines are doing themselves proud out there, he says. There has been some stiff fighting in the woods, but the Boche will have to shift soon; that is the opinion of this old campaigner, who has fought by sea and land all over the globe. We leave the farm under the guidance of a young leu- tenant. a “broth of a boy,’ with the face of a Greck god. “A rough'eart track runs behind belt of woods, and in this vicinity the American artillery is stationed. We approach one of the batteries, well hid- den even at close quarters. A tele- phone fixed to a tree trunk rings sharp- ly, and the captain, capless and with- out tunie, a megaphone in one hand, answers the call, “‘Very good, sir!’ He swings ‘round to the guns, ““On barrage! Fire!’ : “Through the megaphone his order penetrates to every corner of the wood, and the gunners lenp to their work in a moment. Crash! Crash-Crash! Crash! The guns fling out their deat- ening messnge of death almost simul- tancously, and in the momentary. si- lence between the rounds the whizz of the shells can be heard as they fly on their way to the wood where the Boche still lingers, “It is real team work, this gunnery, nothing elve describes it—the work of a team, perfectly trained, in which keenness and efficloncy produce a re- sult beyond pratxe. For a tine salyo follows salvo, Then comes the order ‘Conse fire! and silence descends upon -~ ot