The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1918, Page 4

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(Established 1873) BES MOTHERS HAVE SPOKEN If there is any human being more interested in the mental, physical and moral welfare of the schoolchild than the mother we have yet to meet that individual. Fathers. brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, may be concerned #bout the schooling Willie and Susie get, but mother sends them off to school every morning and every noon, and waits for them at the home door twice every day. They come home from school to tell mother.what they studied and how; what they learned and why; what teacher said and did—and all the little, but, to them and mother, most important details of their day in school. Mother bears most of her children’s school bur- dens which may be borne by another. She lives her young lifé over again with her children so they go from First Reader to High School graduation exercises. ' And mother has a pretty good idea of what her children should learn so that they may be useful men and women. Mother does NOT want her children to study the language of the HUN. : Several-hundred delegates from War Mothers organizations of 23 states recently met in national convention. They met that they might bind them- selves and their work together to aid their sons “over there” in freeing humanity from the clutches of the HUN. Also, they expressed their concern about the future of this nation, their sol- dier sons and the possibility of. future German propaganda which, they fear, may be directed to- ward the rebuilding of the German war machine in Europe and elsewhere. It was because of their abhorrence of German- ism, of HUN “kultur,” that the War Mothers of America unanimously voted against teaching Ger- man in schools, elementary and high schools. These mothers who have given their sons to their country’s cause, do not want the children of America to study Germanism in any form or man- ner. They want them American in name and fact. They want to take no chances on their children being brought up to regard German culture as de- sirable. They never want the day to come when as their minds dwell upon the sacrifices their brave sons made during the great war their grand- children will come from school talking the lan- guage of the peoples who forced the war upon the world and brutalized it by nameless beastly deeds without number. The War Mothers of America give their sons to beat back the devastating fire of Germanism abroad. They do not want to give _ their grand- children as sacrifices to the German desire to fas- ten Germanism upon America through American public schools. : P. P. Claxton, U. S. commissioner of education, wants Germanism in American schools. The War Mothers of America are opposed to ‘erman books, teachers, and classes in American schools. Upon which side are you, Claxton’s or that of the mothers who sent their sons to fight for their country? We may.have gasless Sundays here but they keep their masks handy over there. | WITH THE EDITORS | | ECHOES FROM THE PAST The city of Acre has been captured by the Brit- ish forces\ operating in Palestine under the com- mand of General Allenby. From the standpoint of the reader who is interested chiefly in following the events of the war in order that he may esfi- mate the bearing which they may have on each other the statement has some military signific- ance, for, while the neighboring town, Haifa, has taken the place once occupied by Acre as a center, the occupation of that general territory by the British marks an important step in their rapid advance through northern Palestine, and clinches more firmly their hold on the district east of the _ _ But the advance of the British through Palestine ’ brings to attention each day the names of places which, almost unheard in modern times, have been the centers around which some of the most thrill- ing and impressive human history has been writ- ten. We have watched the march of the western armies up the valley of the Jordan, along which so much of vital drama has been enacted; the cap- ture of Jericho, whose walls once fell before the blast of Joshua’s trumpets; of Jerusalem, which reached the pinnacle of its glory under King Sol- omon; the occupation by Christian hosts of Beth- lehem, the birthplace of the founder of their faith. And now these armies approach the little town of nazareth, for many years'the home of the holy family ; the sea of Galilee. along whose shores fish- ermen dry their nets just as they did when impet- uous Peter declared “I go a-fishing.” And we know that in Acre these western forces have reached a city hoary with age, and which has figured in many a great event. Acre, under a slightly different name, was a great city when the Israelites in the days of the judges completed their occupation of Canaan, and it was one of the the rule of Israel. In the comparatively modern period of the crusades Acre was a thriving seaport and of such military importance that the crusad- ers used their best effort to capture it and the Moslems their supreme energy to defend it. Dur- ing the early crusades it changed hands several times. It was during the third crusade that Rich- ard the Lion-hearted effected its capture, and in that connection an amusing story has been handed down. According to the story the walls of Acre suffer- ed severely during the operations against it, and the crusaders set themselves to the work of re- nairing the damage with all speed. The three main forces were those of the English under Rich- ard, the French under Philip Augustus, and the Austrians under the Archduke Leopold. Leopold is described as a big, burly man, lethargic in his movements, and of surly disposition. Richard was active and full of enthusiasm. Leopold did not be- stir himself about the work of repair as Richard thought he should, and he undertook to stimulate the lazy Austrian to activity by kicking him soundly. If one is seeking a moral he can find it in the history of Acre. A few years before the kicking episode Acre had been besieged by the crusading forces under Guy de Lusignan, king of Jerusalem. A spirited battle was fought just to the east of the city, and Saladin’s forces were worsted. King Guy’s men took it for granted that all the fighting was over, and, after the fashion of the day, which still prevails among the modern Huns, proceeded to the business of looting. Saladin, shrewd and re- sourceful, collected a force and fell upon the scat- tered crusaders-and inflicted severe losses on them, besides compelling them to abandon the town which they had virtually captured. In spite of that object lesson, and thousands of others with which history teems, there are still people who believe it to be sound policy to abandon a fight be- fore it is finished —The Grand Forks Herald. FACTS REGARDING FARGO SPEECH OF MILLS ” Governor Lynn J. Frazier is apparently deathly afraid of riots because, according to reports, when the Fargo War organization requested the Grand theater not to permit Walter Thomas Mills to speak there on Sunday night, the governor— Telegraphed to Mayor Alex Stern; Telegraphed to State’s Attorney Fowler ; Telegraphed to Sheriff Andrew M. Ross; Telegraphed to the manager of the theater; And then telephoned Sheriff Ross— Insisting that protection be given to this man Mills. : The action of the Fargo War organization was taken only for one reason and that was because, as we understand it, the members as patriotic citizens deplored the fact that a man who is now under ar- rest for espionage, should be permitted to speak in the city of Fargo or anywhere else in the state of North Dakota. Mills, the friend of Kate Richards O’Hare, did not speak at the Grand theater, but he did talk in the open air. The Courier-News in reporting the meeting made this statement: “But the Mills meeting was held, not in the Grand, but from the balcony of the postoffice, the Federal building, with the United States Attorney Hildreth standing near him and frequently applauding the patriotic address of Walter Thomas Mills.” In reply to this garbling of the facts by the Non- partisan daily, District Attorney Hildreth has made the following remarks: “It isa shameful misrepresentation of the facts. * ey “I neither applauded or gave the slightest indication of applauding. I was there because I-considered it my duty to be there as a gov- ernment official, and I also had two secret service men in the crowd with orders to take down any statements of a seditious nature. “I did, however, raise my hand when Mr. Mills asked those who expected to buy bonds in the Fourth drive to raise their hands I own $5,000 worth of government securities and expect to buy more. No good American would have done differently. “TI hold charges against Mills for alleged seditious statements made in an address in Island park here last summer. These charges _ will be among the first presented to the feder- al grand jury when it reconvenes here Oc! 3/’—Mandan Pioneer. 5 , few Canaanitish cities which did not pass under } EVES ARE UA} Biccka TRaH ’ «as Tummy! “THE ALLIES’ ANSWER | By Edmund Vance Cooke . | !jus change | Your phrasing is pretty ; your But our answer goes straight, You brought on this war in the malice of might; | But by heavens! we’re going to end it. It is well for your soul that you bet on your breast, That you cast down your garment and rend it, But we’re done with your cunning. your tricks and the rest; | HUNSSET DEVIL You started this war, but we’ll end it. . | Your cause is a.curse and-your word is a lie, d none but a HUN could defend it. ; ou started ‘this war, and the devil knows why, words are polite; as_we send it; RAR Ree card their names. Bet you never thot ‘,to ask them to. ‘ Let us join the col- ors, buy bonds and do every ding- busted thing we are asked to do and do it more than we are asked. Then when the war is over over there let the name of Bismarck. Then, | mean after the ,war, let us make every soldier who has a German name change it before we let him out of the army. Good Night! Damn the Kaiser! B. B. YANKEE. P. S.—To save my soul I cannot +remember to call it iberty Cabbage but the darn stuff is fillin’, now ain’t jit? BUY W. 8. 8. TRAPS TO CATCH But we—we are going to'end it.. Your sins are more foul than. the stenches of hell, And your oath, torn to'rags—can you mend it? You sounded the tocsin, but we’ll sound the knell! You'started this war, bit we'll end it. We will iiftenip “peace,” when your black flag is furled And your last gun has ceased to defend it. Meanwhi the word. of the civilized world; You TepiN HAE war, but we'll end it! —_— , PEOPLE'S FORUM | > oe OUR CAPITAL CITY-* Driscoll, N. D., Sept. 25th, 1918. Editor bismarck Tribune, ‘Bismarck, N. D. F Deaf Sir: f | Up jumped the Devil! I note by your issue of Sept. 244th that another patriot takes a wallop at the name of our fair county seat and state capital. It think it would be a good’ joke on Fritz to have a battleship or a tank rip him up the back a little and I be- lieve the party. who signs as Anglo- Saxon would do just as much cheer- ing if it was the “Bismarck” that done it. Speaking as a genuine blue-bellied Yankee who is tickled to death to have a chance to see the reab thing over there and barring accidents will soon line up for slumgullion—I would like to ask “Anglo-Saxon”? if when he IT, EVERETT. BE SAFE FOR ME KNOCK OUR WAR PRESIDENT LIKE THAT TO STRANGERS, BUT+—--~- 9» "FRIGNDLY ONCE, - BUT STRANGERS NO 4 whose citizens are doinge their darnd- AND THaT'S THE Wai ‘OF Gou hears the name Bismarck it recalls visions of sauerkraut and __weiners, murdered women and children or just one of thousands of .American|.cities est when American brains, American money and American energy are need- ed. To change ‘the name of. Bis- marck would cost thousands and thou- sands of dollars in money and energy. Quick now, answer. How much will a $00.00 Liberty bond buy? Let us take a look at the casualty list. See any Schmidts Schwarts, or. werman names there? One of my far removed grand-dads came from Eng- land. Came on the “Mawflower.” I am not an Englishman. Neither are the aforesaid Schmidts, et al., German. They do not fight or die like Ger- mans and they are paying the price in good old American style. When the’ good American ‘boys of German descent joined old Co. A and Co. I of Bismarck they were not asked to dis- . By Conde y Cook aT, $e IT WOULDN'T THESE TIMES TO ~THBIR YANK FOE ‘Infernal Contrivances of Various Kinds Left in Wake of Flee- ing Teuts. By EDWARD M. THIERRY (Paris Correspondent o fthe Newspa- per Enterprise Association.) Paris, Sept. 27.—Devilish inventions, every one a hidden engine of death and typical of HUN frightfulness, are left behind by the Germans every time they retreat. Traps and snares are everywhere as the Americans and their allies penetrate the German lines. Commonest is the “gin’—a board set horizontally at the entrance to the dugout and having the appearance of a seat. But the moment one sits down the board yields a fraction of an inch —just enough for a nail, hidden at the other end, to scratch a charge of explosives and set it off. Another trap is a board apparently thrown carelessly across a culvert as a foot bridge. But the moment one steps on it the hting tilts and two grenades, one connected with each end of the board, explode. Cunningly made devices have also been discovered for the setting off of dynamite hidden under floors, ‘behind walls and above ceilings of dugouts. A footfall on the floor and pressure against the wall, by leaning, usually cause the contact of wires that drop bombs from above or spray death from the sides or underfoot. Wires have also been found connect- ed with helmets, rifles or’ other arti- cles, seemingly scattered carelessly about a dugout—and each wire so con- nected as to set oc enough bombs 't owreck the immediate neighborhood by the mere moving of one’ of these decoy objects. . » Americans, French and British have all run afoul of these camouflaged bombs and grenades left by the HUN in a sort of “gone but not forgotten” spirit. Even time clocks’ have ‘been set to fire explosives and wires have been sunk in cups of acid, to be slow- ly disintegrated and release a bomb. BUY W. 8. 9. MRS. COOK ON _ WAY HOME FROM LONG JOURNEY Mrs. S. D. Cook left Chicago yester- day en route for home. She will spend Sunday in Minneapolis and hopes to be in Bismarck on Wednesday. Mrs. Cook, with her little son Dan, on her return will have driven a high-powered touring car’all the way from marck to Virginia and back, unassist- ed. She has been on the way for sev- eral weeks, visiting New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Richmond en route.. The only break in the motor tour has been a short boat trip from Buffalo to Cleve- land. She had expected to take the lake route from ‘Buffalo to Duluth but reached Buffalo to find that the last boat “had left. The only incidént o! the trip was the loss of a colored maid, who could not be weaned from old Virginia. BUYW, S. 3. Nature always warns you if your bowels are clogged or inflamed—heed this. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea removes the inflammation, soothes the irritated (organs, aids natural diges: tion. A cleanser, purifier of great re- nown. Jos. Breslow’s. ———any w. 5. 5. Bis-} SPANISH FLU- HOW TO DODGE NEW EPIDEMIC Dreaded Malady is Much Similar to La Grippe in Its Earlier Stages. ' SYMPTOMS ARE DESCRIBED When you Recognize One of Them Put in Hurry-up Call forYour Doctor. HOW TO DODGE “FLU.” Keep feet and clothing dry. Avpid crowds. Protect your nose and mouth in the presence of sneezers. Gargle your,throat three times a day with a mild antiseptic if only salt and water. * Don’t neglect a cold. Keep as much as possible in the sunshine. Don't get “scared.” By J. H. DUCKWORTH. (N. E. A. Stail_ Correspondent.) rapidly. spreading throughout the country and whose focus of infection is in Boston, where some 10,000 cases have occurred, is a germ disease. It is a patriotic duty to keep well. All sick persons add to the country’s burdens. Everybody should be on guard against,“Flu” and become famil- iar with ‘symptoms and precautionary measures. Known also as Spanish fever and as grippe, Spanish inflenza rayaged France in-the fourteenth century and has frequently laid England low. It is even referred to in works of an- cient physicians. ~ After talking with Health Commis- sioner Woodward, the faculty at Har- vard medical school and physicians at Gity hospital, where hundreds of vic- tims are treated, I can give an au- thoritative description .of the cause and effects of. this dread disease and ways to avoid it. “ Nature of Germ. Spanish influenza has nothing’ to do with a bad cold. Being a highly infec- tious disease caused by a particularly energetic germ, it is a parasitic dis- ease. It is one of. the most swiftly spreading maladies because of the rap- id incubation of the germ. The mi- nute, disc+like bacillus is found in lit- tle groups or. in pairs. Under the mi- croscope it is seen that each bacillus is stained at the poles, a clear band remaining in the middle. In this re- spect it resembles the plague bacillus. It-is ‘mound in the ‘blood, though here it--is comparatively inactive, and in enormous numbers in the bronchial mucus, whence it is coughed up to re- new.its pernicious work. This germ forms toxins or’ poisons which con- tinue on the rampage long after ap- parent recovery... Jt exerts such a general qevitalizing effect on the tis- sues that,other: dangerous micro-or- ganisms which ordinarily are held in check*riftt "HOt ahd eatarrh, pneumo nia;ar imiferconditions:develop. It particu’ “gtjacks: over-worked and weakénéd organs: suchas the heart and’ lungs. «For, this;reagon, rest, nu- ant factors, in its treatment. ‘ SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE, What does it feel like to have Spanish influenza? “Just like the ordinary grippe,” says Dr. Edmund Wilson, acting superintendent of Boston City. hos- pital. sf “When the germ gets to work the patient is suddenly taken with severe pains all over. There is vertigo and nausea and some- times actual vomiting of bilious matter. Frontal heagaches of special severity are experienced. Pains in the eyeballs’ are increas- ed by the slightest movements of the eye. There is a general feel- ing of misery and weakness and great depression of spirits. The patient ‘may give way to weeping and suffer from insomnia and oc- casionally “delirium. In some eases catarrhal Symptoms may de- velop, such a srunning at the eyes, sneezing and’ sore throat. the glands in the throat and neck may swell and there may be spit- ting of bright blood from the pharynx. Often tonsilitis appears. There Is a hard, dry cough of a paroxysmal kind, worst at night, and high fever. Spanish Influenza just a new name for the old-fash- oned grippe.” There is no known, serum or anti- toxin that will make.a person immune to Spanish Influenza.’ Salts of quinine, asperin and Dover’s. powder afford some relief, the doctors in Boston find. Surgeon General Gorgas. of the army advises the .use of dichloramine as a nose and throat. wash,:but not one in a thousand ‘druggists ever heard of dts i Measures of Precaution. Precautionary measures are simple. Keep away from infected per- sons. i * ‘ The sick should be separated from the healthy. Sputa should be recelved in vessels containing disinfectants. Promiscuous spitting and cough- ing should bé absolutely prohibit- Antiseptic gauze masks should be worn by all attendants on a case. \ fi s Public toweis and drinking cups should be avoided and great care exercised. in. handling clothing and all articles ;that have come in contact with the stricken, / Only by loyal and intelligent co-op- eration of the general public can the epidemic of Spanish Influenza be pre- vented from spreading throughout the country and hampering our war work. Do your bit. . SSS WHEN WEAK "OR RUN DOWN chronic or acute throat and Jung ibies which often decrease @na mensce life lace ay, ety ‘Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. now 88c, sctpnt Boston, Sept. 27.—Spanish influenza, trition, warmth and:tonics are import-- x