The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 11, 1918, Page 4

pat Tes a ee RN Wie en tal -THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ESstored”at tho Postollice, Bismarck, ND, as Bocond a ‘ost a hy a8 Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - —- ~—- Ss =S—séRitor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, STON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exc 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 also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year. $6.00 Daily by mail per year. « . Dally bY mail Sutalie of North Dakota... outside 0! 101 AKOTA. .sereccsccee i SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One month ...... THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Batablished 1873) Sa ad OUR WOMEN WORKERS. A woman’s division has been established by the War Labor Board. Many problems with which the board has had to deal concerning women em- ployes, who are rapidly taking the place of men workers who are going into the training camps and trenches. Joint Chairman Walsh and Taft feel that these problems should be handled for the board by women. There are to be in the future women ex- aminers. This work is headed by Miss Obenauer who was formerly with the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and who is one of the best known labor investigators in the United States. There are also to be field investigators for women workers. These investigators and field representatives are to make impartial investigations at industrial plants where any toruble is reported. ‘They are to discover what is the cause of the controversy, to meet with both sides, to look into health condi- tions and wage conditions among women workers and to report back to the War Labor Board with recommendations. - i“ He’s the “harried HUN” now, but a year or so hence he’ll be the well done HUN. THE PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION. The .purpose of the registration tomorrow is not to render persons liable to military service. That liability exists already, and congress has the right to say how and when men may be called on for the service to which all men of military age are liable. The registration is a sort of cen- sus of the man-power of the country. By means of it the government ascertains how many, men there are in the country between certali : and ascertains certain facts ‘with referérice to them. On the basis of this information is selects from the entire number those who may most properly be called into actual service first, and it groups the others into various classes according to availability. With the exception of persons already in the service of the United States in certain designated * military or civil capacities, all male residents must register, and must answer the questions which are propounded on the registration blanks. That being done, the rest will be handled by the ap- pointed agents of the government. It cannot be too strongly urged that every per- son within the prescribed ages, 18 to 45, inclusive, present themselves at their polling places and reg- ister as prescribed by law. To fail to do this will be to incur penalties, and failure to register will in no sense avoid military liability. The individ- ual who fails to register, in addition to subjecting himself to fine or imprisonment, or both, will, when detected, be registered in any case, and he will have impaired his standing as a citizen by his failure. Hereafter the German general staff will have frequent moving days. | «WITH THE EDITORS | A REBUKE TO WOBBLYISM. . At this writing appearances indicate very strongly that Dr. O. M. Lanstrum has received the nomination of the candidate of the republican party for the office of United States senator. The Argus is frank to say that the returns are pleasurably surprising as it feared that with three loyal candidates runing for this office none of them would be successful and that the nomination would go to Jeanette Rankin; who forced herself upon the republicans of the state as a candidate * on that ticket. c. ‘What Dr. Lanstrum’s plurality is not even to be estimated at this writing, but whatever his vote may be there must be added to it every vote which Judge Nichols and Harry H. Parsons received in _ totaling up the voters of the state who desired to _ administer a rebuke to bolshevikism, pacifism and = ‘Townleyism; all-of which were represented in the ndi of Miss Rankin. In other words the votes of Lanstram, Nichols and Parsons must be jin order to arrive at the strength of the voters of Montana, in the republican party. rt and get no benefit—Grafton News. By this we do not mean to infer that there are not as many loyal democrats as republicans. Montana has shown her loyalty on every issue of true Americanism which has arisen since the country became engaged in war, and inasmuch as Miss Rankin chose the other side the defeat she has sustained has demonstrated that-the eyes of the people are open and they are not to be fooled by the deceptive patriotism of a. public speaker who seeks to cover up a record of Wobbly- ism by carrying a flag in her hand when she ad- dresses voters from a Townley platform—Miles City Star. «THE TOWNLEY STORES. | The farmers around Dickinson slipped one over on Townley and his gang and organized a co- operative store of their own, selling the shares at fifty dollars each. All of the money sub- scribed will be invested in stock and each share- holder will be entitled to an equal division of profits. ‘This beats the scheme of Townley’s lieutenants who have styled themselves the United Consumers Store Co. all hollow. The last named concern wants the farmers to put up 100 dollar's just to have the privilege of trading at their store ASTOUNDING AND IMPOSSIBLE. Minnesota loyalty is too aghast and astounded at the intimation that Charles A..Lindbergh is to be appointed to the goverment war service to be willing to believe it possible. If it should be veri- fied—if Lindbergh is to take his book, “Why Is Your Country at War?” under his arm and march into the service of the war he has discredited, then Minnesota loyalty will be wholly nonplussed. It will wonder what is to become of truth, loyalty and devotion—wonder what is the dividing line between ardent patriotism and damaging pacifism —wonder whether enthusiastic war support is at a discount at Washington and opposition at a premium. “It is understocd,” says the telegraphic report, “that the Nonpartisan league (which means the Townley machine only) through George Creel (chairman of that mysterious dispensation known as the Committee on Public Information) has been urging the appointment.” This makes it worse and worse. This gives it the additional sinister appearance of a socialistic attempt to break into the War Industries board. Creel is suspected of strong Bolsheviki leanings and his connection with the Townley machine, itself rank with socialism, in an effort to plant Lindenburgh in a government war position, seethes with a suspicion that cannot be dissipated. The government could not inflict upon itself a more damaging blow in the estimation of public opinion in Minnesota than in the appointment of Lindbergh to the position and through the influ- ence indicated. It is not necessary to-go further than his infamous book. The administration knows this attack upon the war; Congress knows it. The administration might overlook his recent repudiation by Minnesota as a candidate of the Townley machine with loyalty as the issue—poli- tics will produce singular situations and combina- tions sometimes—but how it could overlook that book cannot be fathomed. It is probable that public opinion, honest, loyal public opinion true to the national cause and supporting the govern- ment with patriotic sincerity, will not permit the book to be overlooked.—St. Paul Dispatch. RESPECTFULLY REFERRED TO MR. LANGER The Tribune is indebted to State Auditor Karl Kositzky for the following editorial from the Ni- obrara (Neb.) Tribune. It is written by H..L. Marshall, publisher of The Tribune, who was a class-mate,of the North Dakota state auditor, and it is particularly intéyesting in view of Attorney General Langer’s ‘recent correspondence with Superintendent Riley of Cass county, in which the chief law enforcement officer of the state said that the North Dakota Council of Defense had never prohibited the teaching of German in the public schools of North Dakota and that such a ban on this alien enemy tongue had never been seriously considered by the council of defense: “It appears that in some parts of the county little heed is being paid to the request that the language of the kaiser be left unspoken. When one stops to consider all the anguish that has been brought to the world because of the greed of that Prussian blue beard and then considers all the blessings and opportunities that have been freely given and taken by persons of foreign birth, it seems that one’s patience must surely give way when people bodly refuse to heed the request of those in authority, to speak nothing but the Amer- ican language. and right here it might be said that it would make it much easier to do this if those who speak Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Bohemian would speak the U. S. language. People today, whose loyalty is unquestioned, are making it hard for us to establish our language as the only language simply because they insist on speaking a foreign langauge. It is a matter that one does not care'to harp on,continually and people are afraid to ask you to cease speaking the languages for fear of breaking friendships that were formed years ago, but you are not 100 per cent loyal if you do not help. The County Council of Defense has asked the different villages to pass ordinances prohibiting the use of the German language within the city limits. The matter was presented to the boards personally and if it is not an-ordinance it will no doubt soon be. Let‘s heed the Council’s request and speak the U. S. language. ' +3, ede ye » 7 FRASER SENDS MESSAGE TO DRAFT BOARDS COMMENTING ON GREAT REGISTRATION Cee | On the eve ofthe greatest registra- ferent boards,- have supervised ‘in six- | tion of military manpower in the his-;teen months. .With this record. I ap- tory of the world, Adjutant General proach Sept. 12th with confidence:and Fraser sends the following tnessage¢o the nation, yea, the world, knows your the local draft boards of North: Da-) past is a guarantee of:the future. kota: _ 4. You are_as truly soldiers as any 1. Your commander, General Enoch ‘in full-khaki; you’ have ‘been so rec- H. Crowder, provost marshal general, ognize.d by your ‘superior officer, stated a few days,ago. that he would Gen. Crowder, You.are automatically like ‘to visualize. the members of the placed, under recent ‘regulations, in local boards and ‘secure their view-|Class V, Division D—‘“in the military point. Today I would like for once to service of the United States.” Do you state my personal‘impression of your- know that your splendid ‘and uncom- selves and say a’word’on the com- Ppensated ‘work: in-the past :sixteen ing registration: nic + months gaye. North “Dakota : second 2. What is probably ‘the last large place in, the: cost’ per'man of sending general registration. of . the present soldiers to camp, but one state in the war is almost here.. When you have Union being-lower?. Such ‘is the fact. finished. your. work next Thursday |How was this done?’ By 53. local evening you will have been a portion boards and one district board in North of those who Have contributed 13,000,-;Dakota devoting day. and hight” to 000 of the splendid men of these great the work, cheerfully znd ‘without United States by ‘enrolling them so {thought of reward. except the one - WEDNESDAY, SEPT..11, 1918. JUTY O} .. Postmasters pes re oie varged by the State Wat Savings Uom- {mittee to discourage as far as possible ithe cashing of war savings. stamps, ‘Fortunately, the requests for redemp- tion of stamps are. not, frequent, as most North Dakotans, the State Com- ‘mittee believes, bought the: stamps with the idea of holding them ‘until mateurity. The people generally realize that the ownership of war savings stamps gives them .the, com- fortable feeling of participation in their country’s effort ‘to win the war, and they would feel. lke slackers upon losing that sense of partnership, unless the ‘direst necessity caused the premature redemption. of the stamps. The postmasters are also urged by the State Conimittee to always keep a supply of war savings and thrift stamps. on ‘hand as.complaints have been made that some of thé offices do not have stamps on sale. Any district postoffice may have its credit ia- creased by special requisition on the central accounting: postmaster to take care of an unusual demand for war savings stamps which may arise, and the central accounting postmasters, in rush instances, may order supplies of stamps through the Fargo office. Great reliance is placed upon them by the government to lend every as- sistance in this campaign,.as the post- office, more than any other agency, is the place where people go to buy the stamps. In the past the postmasters have been of the greatest assistance in selling these government securittes, and it -is hoped: their ‘interest-in the campaign’ will be maintained to the end.: a SA fe THE GOAL ALMOST REACHED. ‘The war savings stamp campaign of last June secured in this state sub- scriptions for nearly’ ten million dol- lars worth of stamps, and to the ful- fillment of these pledges the hundreds of hard working and. faithful monitors all over North Dakota are devoting untiring energy. The June drive was ithe prescribed ages are permitted to} a wonderful ‘accomplishment, but: it share the burden of enrolling. Help| did not reach the state's quota by them; they all desire to have their] nearly three million dollars, and to names on your books. 6. I know that this coming week you will be in shape to wire me that your county has a given number of men duly enrolled; that you will fol- low this wire with the statement pro- vided in the regulations; that you will tavulate your reports and send them to me and that I will be permitted to wire the totals to Washington as, soon as, if not earlier, than. any, other state in the Union. You can do,i;"1 feel sure you will do-it. Ii-is Stated that Pennsylvania makes its returns before any other selective service executive under the jurisdiction of the provost marshal general. - Let us-show him that op these beautiful prairies of North Dakota, the melting pot of na- tions: has produced a type of-man that ig equal ‘in: ability to those.from the Keystone state. >. 7. With confidence I await your re- turns, ‘ G. A. FRASER, Adjutant General. Circular No. 319. Page 2. Adjutant General's Office. BUY W. 5. 8. TAX BOARD IS: reach that goal. by the end of the year and’ put .North Dakota. safely oyer the top Is the aim of the war savings organization. Whilé:.thousands of patriotic Dake- tans: bought war ‘savings stamps ‘to their limit in, the June” campaign many other thousands, ‘for oe reason or another, failed to. be numbered among this. Thrift: Army, and.it ts to ‘these ‘appenl .is now, made. (0. enlist, and’ place North Dakota in.the ranks of full-quota states, on or before Nev Years day. Par , The vacation period js now over and ‘all, the | stamp: jselling “ agencies should inake.n fresh’ start in securing additional purchasefs. The monitors should “not ‘be left, to do: all the, re- maining work.:. In) every community the: war savings societlés. can easily add. to their membership from those who earlier: Ip‘:the year were unable to become ‘identified with this grent thrift movement, and there are many, many people who, If approached, will that they may participate more active- ly in the future than they have in the past. I view this task with confidence knowing that you ‘have learned how in you and in American manhood,-well , great fact—I am doing’ my’ duty, as I am placed. A young soldier arom ‘tvorth Dakota wrote me the other lay from France. Amang. other statements he used this true expression: “We will do bevigiad to add to their earlier sub- scriptions. ‘tie’ splendid war savings orgauiza- tions of the several counties, the stite committee: feels assured, can be de- POSSIBLE FUE. SAYS KOSITZKY (Continued From Page One.) the fighting; you folks at home must win the war.” You'are doing this; earned the admira‘‘on of the world by . you have done it; you will continue to your labors since June 5, 1917, when do it. you commenced the greatest task of| 5. to perform this duty well, speedily and with fairness to all. You have Lay aside everything the next history. sequent tabulation of results. You can 3. You all know how the German !do no work more important. All else leaders sneered at us, stated that in yout official and’ personal life is Americans would not fight for a prin- | trival. | If we do not. win the war (and ciple, could not rafse an army, was we surely will) your other vocations a dollar nation, a nation without are gone anyway. You who are coun- ideals. | Were they mistaken? Ask ; ty officers will find that your constitu- any of them,today. © They. now. realize [ents will gladly excuse you from all that General Pershing and his mil-'else. There is but one, great duty in lion and a half of the -best blood of the United States today: Win the war. America’s sons are on the Hun'battle All can help: all are -helping’ Pour line‘ and every soldier making good. | particular present duty ‘is along the That much you, gentlemen of the dif- lines of seeing that all #tizens within MT-CRLENWD, Do You seG A TRAFFIC CoP ANKWHERS, AROUND HERE ¢! S THOUGHT Sol! THAT'S THE REASON You, SHowW SUCH A Cone its kind that was ever undertaken in few days for this registra‘gon and sub- |. hospital, in order. that North Dakota may avoid caring for the insane of other states. : y Hits at Regents. . The auditor objects to leave of absence with pay. to college. pro- fessors, some of whom, he says, at the close of their years leave, outside the state. This objection, Mr. Kositzky pri- vately explains, refers particular. ly to Dr. A. G. Crane, president of the ‘Minot normal, whose year’s pended. upon..to devote the last four months of ‘the ‘thrift campnign.to a whirlwind finish, BUY WAR STAMPS WITH YOUR INTEREST. September 15, a‘Liberty Bond holder ‘can be both a good sport and a patriot if he will buy war savings or thrift stamps with the interest he will re- ceive on his bond at.that time. Here leave of absence has been extend- ed by the board of regents to per- mit. Kim to accept a commission as major ‘under Surgeon General ‘ Gorgas, whom the ‘Minot educator is to assist with the establishment of rehabilitation hospitals for crippled. soldiers. The war depart- ment has agreed that Dr. Crane shall be released from time to time when his services are most needed by the Minot normal. Mr. Kositzky asks that the state his torical society be placed under con- trol of the board of regents, and that its: meetings be held at the capitol, where the state historical museum is located, instead of at Granu Forks This would save, Mr. Kositzzky says, $5,000 per annum in traveling cxpens- es for members of the board. . « Our Bonded Debt. © The state auditor calls attentioa to the fact that’ North’ Dakota’s bonded indebtedness: is $462,000, and asks how the constitutional limit of £200,000 has been evaded. He would centraiize levying, equalizing, accounting and col- lecting of state taxes in his office. He urges that a uniform system of accounting for counties and munici- palities be installed as recommended by Governor Hanna several years ago, when an appropriation of $45,000 was made for this purpose. He advises, that on petition of certain Morton county citizens he has held up since Feb. 1, 1918, the salary of Judge J. M. Hanley of the 12th judicial dis- trict, who is a major with the expedi- tionery *forces‘in France, because he is not certain , that he has a legal right to draw this ‘salary. He's Spent it All. In. conclusion the state auditor naively acknowledges that he has spent’all the’ money appropriated for his office, including sums for extra clerk hire, and he advises the govern- or that he has got his money’s worth for funds expended and that he wel- copies and invites inspection and in- vestigation. 2 * Salesman Wanted It spells unity and unity means-strength, and strength will win the war and build for us and our ‘children an enduring peace—+Niobrara Tribune. + Experienced in clothing and shoes. Saturdays. or Satur- day afternoon and evenings. S..E. BERGESON & SON. is a chance :to make your interest bear interest and at the same time permit the government to use the mil- lions of bond interest money that otherwise will probably be spent for things less worth while. Your interest perhaps will not amount to much, but the aggregate interest pnyments, If reinvested in war savings stamps, will equip another army corps in France, build a fleet of U-boat chasers, or pay for-enough bombs: to’ blow hades out of the kaiser's: cohorts, both'iu und out of Germany. $2,000,000: WORTH ‘VET TO SELL The news from across the water is mighty encouraging, but the German army is not defeated ‘yet. It will re- quire the-sale of lot. more, war sav- ings .stamps..and. Liberty.. Bonds. to bring that about. Don't let's be over sanguine, but rather,get busy selling stamps to those -who <have - not yet bought their share, for that bniance of $2,000,000 worth ‘Nort Dakota has set to buy to make up her quota will help a lot to keep the kaiser’s men moving eastward—when the money is in Uncle Sam's pocket. Sell, sell, sell, and drive the enethy back to—well, well, well! i tered to pay you $100 for an $84 loan yow would think it a pretty good deal, would you not?) And you would hustle to give him the money, wouldn't you? Well, Uncie Sam ‘is selling his war savings stamps this month on that basis, and you not ‘only have the thance to make a goof profit on your a but you will have the satis- lon of knowing your money is fag win the war. dled ; Paper Frem Fibrous Plant. % England has been manufacturing pe- per from alfa, a fibrous plant growing in northern Africa, since 1862. This paper is of excellent quality, snowy white and has been extensively used in England in the. printing of bppka, frie Dopka, i If an absolutely reliable party -of- . 2