The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 24, 1918, Page 4

SSAA SANE. SSP : dozen to work for every one the street car trans- ‘ports, and the irony of the banker, expert an- FOUR BISMARCK DAILY ‘TRIB THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE oatoffice, Bismal le Dy as Class tter GEORGE D. MANN - : - 5 Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, NEW YORK Fifth Ave Blac, CHICAGO, Marquette ve, g5 Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter ‘St.;, DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber_Exchi 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 Hahed herein. A rights ot publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also regerved. z i MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIO SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANC. Daily by carrier per year. . 6.00 Daily by mail per year.. Daily by mail per year (i by mail outside of North Dal SUBSCRIPTION RAT! (In North Dakota) THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Bstablished 1878) aE WILHELM’S GREAT MISTAKE When the Kaiser Wilhelm Hohenzollern throws up his blood-dripping hands, he will confess to having committed history’s most terrible and dis- astrous blunder. It was one time believed characteristic of kul- tur to make no false move. Before blazing a trail of his own, the HUN bi- sected, dissected and vivisected the work along similar lines previously done by pioneers of prog- ress everywhere. He rode free on the other fel- low’s dearly bought ticket of experience. In this manner, German so-called efficiency sel- dom made a misstep. But the HUN undid his years of caution, cal- culation and kultur when he entered upon a war of terrorism by atrocity. j He reverted to a fallacious medieval practice. He chose a course based on failure. He precipitat- ed the calamity now upon him. Each successive unspeakable outrage did not cause the world to shudder, quake and tremble. It ipereased humanity’s RESISTANCE till now it overwhelms and is slowly crushing out of the HUN the’ price of his mistake. TRY IT YOURSELF We know this is contrary to all the established ideas but this is our experience. ‘ . The married men, men in the late thirties and early forties, practically without exception are eager to go to the front. Try it.out. Take half a dozen family men; men who have been stabled in the stalls of domesticity until you would have thought the smell of the world pasture had passed from their nostrils; ask them if they want to go to the front and see what they say. We discover more eagerness in the men over 35 than we do in the newlyweds, in the unwedded, and in the budding youth who have their first job, their first’ girl and their first flivver. These older men do not want clerical jobs, they are not eager for staff appointments, comfortable billets; they scorn to replace younger men in com- mercial chores, but they, every last one of them, want to get Over There, and the nearer to the front the better. The list of volunteers for the tank corps proves this. But you can prove it for ycurself any afternoon. What's the answer? G’wan, we're married ourselves. GETTING TO WORK ON HIGH The bankers and social workers and govern- mental experts and, of course, big interests behind street car companies have been quite agitated out west. These genteel gentlemen worried about how shipbuilders and laborers in general were going to get to their work, on the street cars. So they al- lowed the companies to charge six cents, and the government loaned the companies new cars. and generally the laws were forgotten so as to enable the car companies to do their work: Meantime the ship workers cared about as much for a street car as a means of personal trans- portation as the bankers and government experts did. Get up about daylight these autumn mornings in any coast city and take your place on a high- way leding to a shipyard. You will see a street car every five minutes comfortably ‘filled with workers, but every sec- ond motorcycles with side cars, and rear seats whiz past. A procession of flivvers and of touring cars and of roadsters and of delivery wagons, all cram- med with workers. will shoot by at 20 miles an hour. pub- | mans have requisitioned all get to work in comfort. on time, and in a third the time the street car takes. In the west, at least, the war workers are sup- plying their own transportation, and the sweet kindneses of worried and ignorant officials. to car monopolies have been unearned increment, THE COMMISSION FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM Belgium’s plight is today desperate. The Ger- clothing, woolens, linens, hoisery, curtains, blankets and carpets in ail shops. ’ Ten million persons living 1. occupied Belgium and Northern France are dependent on the Com- mission for Relief in Belgium for clothing and food \ This clothing can come from America only. Five thousand tons are needed, to tide Belgium through the coming winter. Securing the clothing is a matter of life and death for- this helpless, courageous population behind the German lines. In Belgium it is impossible to buy shoes. There is no more leather of any description on the mar- ket. Every available substitute has been tried. For a time old belting from factories was used; and roofing paper. of which there happened to be a stock, was resorted to for re-soling shoes. But the Germans, after having seized all the leather requisitioned these substituted also, and soon, not 2 single yard of belting was left in any Belgian in- dustrial establishment. Now, the Belgians fasten pieces of old rugs on to wooden soles and wear them for shoes. And thev make coats out of old blankets—and blankets out of anything. Daily the ravages of tuberculosis throughout Belgium becomes more terrible. Deaths from this disease have increased 100 per cent and cases of external tuberculosis. 1,000 per cent. The doc- tors, in spite of their untiring devotion, can no longer cope with the rising tide of disease. Today. two die where one died in peace times, while owing to under nourishment, the birth rate has been cut in half. | An American writing from abroad about the condition of this brave little country, says. “Poor Belgium! One third of her people have starved to death; one third has been carried away to work for Germany ; trying to decide between these two fates.” Local chapters of the Red Cross in North Da- kota will be glad to receive donations of clothing headquarters at Fargo. Allied governments now pay the United States $10,000,000 a month interest on war loans, and within a year the monthly return will be $40,000,- 900, which a few months ago would have been con- sidered a tidy sum, but is now only pin money. | WITH THE EDITORS | THE SOLDIER VOTE In the very nature of things, States could not be expected to have laws at hand which would take eign land. There had never been occasion for their use. But it took no special foresight to see what would be the situation this Fall, and it would have taken little work on the part of state authorities to have provided for it. The neglect to do this is a plain outrage on the rights of the American soldier. We are fighting today in France to make certain that men shall forever have the right to govern themselves. That the men who are fight- ing that others shall have this right should them- selves, while thus engaged in its exercise is but the simplest justice. For the accomplishment of this no effort on the part of the state or the individual should be spared. If the American soldier can not cast his ballot at the November elections, it will be a burning disgrace to each state that has ne- glected to take the necessary steps to bring about his having the franchise—Philadelphia Press. INSIDIOUS POISON German propaganda—to what lengths will it not go? How dangerous it is, how insidious! It works in among people who are most loyal; it appears in papers that cannot be suspected of un- Americanism. Recently there appeared in a Des Moines news- paper a purported interview with a woman who told how she had seen sugar wasted in Canada, while we are struggling to save enough to feed our not only use pure wheat, but actually use it to wipe the grease from their plates, throwing it away thereafter. And all the time, she laments, America is on a wheat ration and a sugar ration that she may save enough to keep France and England and Canada supplied. The editor of the paper that published that story is unquestionably. as true an American as lives. And yet the story itself is a crude example of the lengths to which German propaganda will go. The harm that that story did is incalculable. It de- stroyed the zeal of many housewives. It robbed many persons of enthusiasm. If you were a rapid enough counter you would discover that the gas vehicles are taking at least a guished transportation, sessions becomes appar- ent. : '. Hardly a residential block but has from one to For some weeks now the committee on public information'through its four-minute speakers has waged a campaign based on the question, “Where did you get your facts?” : If the city editor of the newspaper had asked his teporter that question; if the reporter had asked the person he was interviewing ; if the woman had allies; how she had learned that French officers|' | TUESDAY, SEPT, 24; 1918. By H.R. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! Spencer. To the Germans the letters “U. S.” and those who remain are left|/meat UNCONDITIONAL SURREND- | he absolute surrender of the German ER. The insignia “U.S.” on the uniform of every American soldier, marine and sailor is notice to the HUN that un- conditional surrender is the only thing for the Belgians or they may be sent direct to state tne will Procure a cessation of hos-: When General Washington defeated Cornwallis at, Yorktown, the British general sent a’ messenger asking the commander of the American forces for a conference to determine terms. of capitulation; General Washington, by the same messenger, replied:that only that would create the necessity of fifhting at some other time and place, under conditions less favorable.- The Spanish army sugrendered. ; In view of American history, it may very well be said that the United States has contracted the habit ‘of de- manding, and obtaining, the uncondi-' tional surrender of its enemies. The time is near:at-hand when Ger- many will ask for a cessation of hos- tilities, and a conference with the Al- lies to determineva treaty of peace. Throughout the United States there care of the situation of a soldier fighting in a for-}is but one sentiment, and that is, that when the end of the war comes, it must be by a treaty of peace, and not by a mere truce; that it must be such a recognition of the principles of pop- ular government, with equal justice to all, and respect for the rights of others, that the Germans may not in time to come throw it into the waste basket as a mere “scrap of paper.” So far as the Germans are concerned, it must not be “peace.with a loaf,” but a triumph of the prin¢iple that the will of the people, and not that of the ruler, is the law-of.the land.. And the will of the German people must be made to conform'to the law of na- tions, and they must.be, taught that treaty obligations may! not be lightly: set aside. ' EVERETT TRUE You SEEM “To SPIT JUST ANYwHGIes You HAPPEN four private autos. The workers arrange among themselves for transportation, from four to a dozen. club together and buy oil and gasoline, and supply a a, worker who has a flivver and all asked her informant, “Where’d you get your facts?” undoubtedly the whole story would have been traced to sources under the influence of the HUN pseudo-statesmen.—The Camp Dodger. s Me NOT TO. WHAT DIFFERENCE WOULD THAT MAKE To You Zz ANIMALS CAN'T READ? } That peace can only be obtained by tarmy is clear from an analysis of the German type of mind. That there is no moral force, or standard of nation- al right. and wrong, in Germany is maiifest from what it has done during and prior to the’ present war. The plotting to Germanize the world, the wutter disregard for treaty obligations, the murder and butchery of civilian non-combatants, the en- slaving of .men and women in occu- pied territory, the crucifixion of pris- oners, the mutilation off men, women and children ; the ravishing of women; ; the maintenancé of sub-sea piracy; the recourse to ‘sheer brutality, cunning and.craft, in manner only accredited ‘to savages, clearly demonstrate that there is _no underlying conscience in ;Germany. to. which an appeal can be made for a world peace. Nothing but force is known by the «German, and by force he must be’ regenerated, if at all. All classes of Germans—professors, students, statesmen, and “preachers, have approved of every act of cruelty ordered or sonctioned by the military authorities.. From the sinking of the Lusitania to the impaling of babes in Belgium! from the desolation of Po- land to the massacres in Armenia, there has been only open applause and encouragement by the German people. | Nothing of fiendish cruelty has heen omitted. And during the last four years of horrors not one single voice in protest has been heard in all Ger- many. No word of condemiation has come 'from these people when medals have been struck, holidays proclaimed, 4nd hymns written in celebration of acts memorable only for their excessive brutality. . 4 To talk of a cessation of hostilities while representatives of such a people endeavor to negotiate for peace. is WELL, 3 DON'T SSE ANY SIGNS UP _TECLING | sheer folloy, and would be frittering VU 4 Fn LON IX \\\\ Ny elves \\ away blood-bought victory. | Only unconditional surrender and disarmament can be the pre-condition of peace with such a people. The terms of peace are daily being writ- ten by the allied armies on the battle- fields of France, and they are compris- ed in two words: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. i ‘When Cuba was wrested from Span- ish domination the United, States took possession of the entire cogntry and held it while the Cuban ‘people per- ple perfected a form of government. adapted to their special requirements. When the island government was in full operation the United States with- drew, and Cuba has since continued to govern itself; mostly with success. A similar procedure must be insist- ed upon with Germany. This means that every gun, fort, arsenal, muni- tion factory, battleship, harbor and municipality of Germany be turned over to the Alies’ toe dealt with un- til the Germans. themselves have per- fected, and have in operation a form of government responsive to the peo- ple, who must be taught that nations, as well as individuals, have a moral responsibility; that righteousness, honesty, regard for human rights, and respect for: law is the’ only basis. on which any nation can long endure; that treaties must be kept; and that the family of nations will not permit one of its..members to terrorize the rest of the world. The hot iron of retributive justice must sink deep into.the German soul —a new sould must be born before the world can again take into its con- fidence a people who have forfeited every right to its respect. It is not. enough that Alsace and Lorraine be restored to France, and that Belgium be paid for its wanton destruction. Loss of territory may be quietly endured by the German, even though it touch his pride, but when, as must be, a load of debt is piled so high that Germany will be poor for a hundred years, her citizens will curse the.day that Wilhelm the Second was born. Loss of territory will be humil- WORLD WAR OFFERS The War Industries board in Wash- ington is calling upon the west to mo- bilize her factories for war purposes and though North Dakota’s contribu- tion of grain ahd livestock’ is a big factor in feeding our allies, it does not complete the service expected by the national authorities. Factdéries large and small in this territory are now called upon to fall in line, and assume part of the manufacture of a wide va- riety of war essentials. The nation has arrived at the su- preme test of its capacity. to fulfill. Instead of an army of 2,000,000 men and a war limited to the western front, approximately 5,000,000 men are to be equipped, and a Russian battle ground is before us. The possible. Russian campaign points to an increasing de- mand upon northwestern manufactur- ers to supply such products for trans- portation to Siberia and other jwar fronts ‘as our resources and shipping connections make possible. The efficiency of democracy is at stake, and the issue is clearly with the manufacture of America as a whole. Profiting by the efficient man- ner in which Germany kept its com- mercial life and its army supplies at the same time, even after her com- merce was lost, American’ industry must realize( with England, that “bus- iness as usual” cannot exist. For it must He admitted “more unusual busi- ness.” We are forced by the necessi- jating, but an annual pay day, when every German must reach dep into his pocket to pay his share of five years of bloodshed, will be the best teacher of morals the Allies can put at the task. Is such a.program’too severe to be employed by the Allies? Nothing short will make the world a decent and. safe place to live in. Unless the surgeon with steady hand and firm cuts out the ulcer that has eaten to ‘the heart of Germanq, the sacrifices of the world wil have been made in vain. In the language of our greatEman- cipator, py “With malice toward none, with firmness in the right, as God gives us.to see the right, let us strive on':to, finish the work we are in, to do all that may be done to create.a lasting peace with all nations, henceforth.” BUY W. §. S.——— WAR MOTHERS ASK REMOVAL OF CLAXTON Object'to German in Schools and | Demand Peace Only By Hun “Won, Surrender. Hi ee By E. C. RODGERS. (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.) Evansville, Ind., Sept. 23.—War Mothers of America have decided once and for all that they are through with German in American schools, and that they will not listen to any peace talk nor encourage peace movements of any kind until the HUNS surrender unconditionally. These two resolutions swept to her feet every delegate to the first na- tional convention of War Mothers in {wild waves of enthusiasm, equaled by no other burst of applause except that which greeted President Wilson’s mes- sage to the War Mothers. ‘War Mother delegates have express- ed themselves ardent opponents of U. S. Commissioner of Education P. P. Claxton, who desires to put German back into American schools. “No German for our children’s chil- dren,” they ¢ried in unison, while vot- ing for the adoption of the resolution which condemned the efforts of Clax- ton to put German classes into Ameri- can schools. The War Mothers de- mand the retirement of Claxton from office, and the ousting of every school official. who favors German teaching in: public schools. \ “Igavé ‘my boy,” said Mrs. Dodd, honorary president and mother of the first;-American killed in action, “and J. don't.want:' my grandchildren to ever stiidy German.” ; Mrs. ‘A. J. Schulz, temporary presi- dent, is one of the strongest opponents of’ German in American schools, .de- spite the. fact that she is of German descent. bi Another. resolution introduced. and whichis yet: to be voted on is one making “Freedom, For All, Forever” the War Mother’s own slogan. That it will be adopted, is predicted, fol- lowing the exhibition of applause which greeted the song entitled, “Free- dom, For All, Forever,” ‘sang immedi- ately after, the.resolution was intro- duced. ~*~ : Telegrams from‘all over the country urging, the mothers to beware of Ger- man peace talk were read. After each one, scores of War Mothers would make ringing war talks in which they suggested that every War Mother write her sons that she was fighting side by side with them until the HUN was decided and thoroughly licked. Twenty ‘states were represented by delegates to the convention. BUY W. 5. 5. WOUNDED SOLDIERS BORROW, WOODEN LEGS. (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) London, Sept. 23.—Here’s a_ true story from. a New Zealanders’ hos- , pital: f “Can you lend me your leg, old chap?” 9 “Why, matey?” “Got leave today, and mine hasn't come yet. Want to go out proper.” The leg changed hands—or rather stumps. OPPORTUNITY FOR MANUFACTURING IN NORTHWEST possible individual producer of war materials. and the,;proper purchasing agent, a gigantic scheme of interlock- ing channels has been .opened up whereby the smallest manufacturer in the remotest town, may find a quick and sure,means of access to the gov- ernmental buying. authority; the man+* ufacturer of “non-essential” products may be shown. where, by slight modi- fications of his past-methods, he may selland serve the government with profit; the commiunity anxious to hold its labor at home, can find employment for labor on work in accord with the war program. |. At the outset of the war the na- {tional purchasing authorities naturally applied. to the centers of industrial activity closest at hand, where the cream of the plants best suited for conversion to war work-were most ac- cessible. As a result,.since our en- trance into the: conflict, the east has become loaded. with war production, and now faces an abnormal labor sit- ution. Therefore the government must ~ must look for additional production to ~ other plants not yet converted to these uses, and govern freight facilities and other elements of production and dis- tribution accordingly. The demand on northwestern mahufacturers to accom- ‘modate themselves to this condition cannot be évaded.. There are few plants that cannot be’ utilized feasibly for some purpose in the: nation’s plan. It ino longer necessary for the man- ties of the present to make war our first and only business, rather than a side-line. support the War ufdéturer to"devise an article and seek out @ market; the:mgrket has arrived, It is for this reason that |and the method of sale been made pos- every branch of industry is calle dto|jsible with the smallest possible ex- Industries , board! pense of time and money through the through its organization represented |resourges and conversion section of in ‘the neighborhood. Manufacturers Get Hearing. Never was business as a whole har- the War Industries board. . Bids Considered Without Prejudice. The scope -of-the ‘ation’s require- inessed, or individual enterprises so}ments for war. is. varied beyond de- | ‘completely correlated, as under the}scription. plan of the resources and conversion | fixed materials | division of the War Industries board, | have, and the design and finish is well of which this sub-region is a part.}laid out. n Acting on the trite assumption that /every bidder without bias, orders be- the facilities of Washington are en-jing placed where production can be tirely inadequate to bring tobether the jassuredsin ‘sufficient quantity. Articles made of certain the government must sideration is given to 4