The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 30, 1918, Page 4

FOUR ’ Wnigred at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class ‘Matter GEORGE D. MANN -- _- ~~ ___ ‘Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 _Lumber Exchange. 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 Hshed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also regerved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year $6.00 Daily by mail per year. Daly BY nail butside of North Ds yy mail outside o: ort a SUBSCRIPTION RATE! (In North Dakota) BS eeoR poe 8 BBS S38 woe r= s BTATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Bstablished 1873) E> EIGHT HOURS IN STEEL The United States Steel Corporation has an- nounced its acceptance of the basic eight hour day for workers in its plants. This marks the great- est advance made by the eight-hour day since the Adamson law put railroad employes on that basis. For long years there were -no stronger or more successful opponents of the short work day in America than the Steel Corporation and its subsid- iaries. Bitterly they fought union labor and all its demands. The Homestead massacre was not the only battle which emphasized the bitterness of the industrial struggle. And now, seemingly, he lion and the lamb have lain down together. All the fighting activities of both steel employer and employe is to be directed at the HUN “over there” and not at each other in steel mills here at home. The American Federation of Labor has announced its program of organizing steel workers, and the Steel Trust has not complained. Wages have German words and ‘bow their heads in .German prayers. The 54 Americans have hired a preacher of their own and now hold services in English in the village schoolhouse. They have asked the Illinois council of defense‘to take measures to stop man langue in what was their place of worship. By way of emphasis let us call attention to the names of some of the 54 who refuse to listen to German sermons, German prayers and German gongs in an American church—Kulp, Goetze, Kin- der, Nolte, Krause, Herrmann, Wieneke, Moer- jlein. Even those with German names are opposed to the stand Philander P. Claxton has taken on be- half of the German language. “Buy-a-bond” isn’t enough. if you can buy two. The brightly lighted house isn’t a torch of lib- erty. It’s a fuel waster. It may not be as pleasing as it is patriotic to say. “No sugar for me!” Aim for your own Liberty Loan goal, and hav- ing reached it, go over the top. Turks and Bulgars are beginning to wake up to the fact that they lined up with losers. Liberty Bonds not only will win the war, but will be foundations for thousands of home savings funds. If he spoke truthfully. the kaiser would call his present loan a German Defeat Loan—not a “Victory (?)” Loan. The Christmas gift limit for Yanks over there won’t keep them from garnering all the HUN hel- mets they can get their hands on. peewee een nn nnn nnn enna: 2 | WITH THE EDITORS ARTHUR AND JAWN Chicago, Ill. My Dear Mrs. Kellar: , I have your letter and thank you for it. «I hear the German speaking pastor from using the, Ger-. BISMARCK’ DAILY TRIBUNE x Dickinson, N. D. Sept. 28, 1918. Editor Tribune: I am. sending you a letter I received gone higher than ever before, working conditions | frequently from J. M. Baer, the very brilliant con-|4 few. days’ ago from my nephew, ‘are better, and now the eight-hour day has come} gressman from your state. He is a friend of mine|-Douglas. Laurie. He is in the No. 5 for workers in steel. Labor has well earned its steel victory. A little exercise warms the body as well as a shovel of coal. THE CHAMPION LIAR Of all liars history has passed along to the pres- ent day generation, and of all now alive, none can hope to cope with that unusually expert falsehood manufacturer holding down the job of imperial chancellor of Germany. Hertling has the same low regard for truth that his imperial master has for the lives of human beings (his six sons excepted) and the rights of other nations. For instance, take this statement Count Hertling made before the Reichstag: “From the first day we waged a war of defense. We invaded Belgium to defend ourselves?” Does the burglar break into a house to defend himself? Does the gunman shoot his marked vic- tim in the back. to defend himself? Is it in de- fense of self that the brute wrongs a woman? The beast slay wounded and captives? The savage de- stroy churches and hospitals? The murdered kill little children? For a No. 1 liar Hertling came remarkably near the truth, though, in a portion of the abvoe as- sertion. In saying, “We waged a war of defense” he is right if one go only to theday that the allies turned the HUNS back from Berlin. Since the minute Yanks and French began their drive on the Marne the Germans HAVE waged a war of de- fense. Their war of offense ended. Hereafter they will be on the defensive. It will be a war of de- fense for the HUN from now until the. day he throws up his hand and surrenders UNCONDI- TIONALLY. However, that doesn’t keep us from the belief that nature nevér produced a greater liar than old Hertling.’ “British cleaning up the Turks.”’ Well, nobody needs cleaning up any worse. GERMAN IN CHURCH i The villagers of Brussels, Calhoun county, Ill, . decided that an American church is no’ place in which to preach sermons in the German language. Before the war came to America there was preach- ing in German by the pastor of the St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran church of Brussels. The sermon, singing and praying was‘done in German. 7 church members were of German parentage. ut shortly after the United States went to war some of the 60 members of that congregation started a movement, which Philander, P. Claxton, U. S. commissioner of education, calls_a “form of hysteria,” but which in fact is a righteous wave of joyal American objection to anything German. , These church members asked the pastor to preach © his sermons in English and, asked that songs and ” prayers be in English. . ‘He-refuséd, and continued using the language of the kaiser’s HUNS. : ‘One by one the congregation quit that church of the Germanism on the tongue of the and fights steadily and ably for the farmers at Washington. ¥ I am glad to have the information to which you call my attention. If there is any more important woman in this country than “just a farmer’s wife” I should like to know who it is. ARTHUR BRISBANE. —-National Nonpartisan Leader. ‘ THE BOLSHEVIKI There has been opposition to the Nonpartisan league ever since it was first organized, chiefly be- cause of the class of men who placed themselves at its head and who have continued to remain in control until now the organization sways and bends under the influence of one man. These men were avowed socialists and when extra help was needed to stir up a little enthusiasm, well known'socialists were-called in. The man who ob- jects to being a cog in any machine, objects to soc- ialism because socialism would mean death to in- dividualism. Socialism in North Dakota would mean the taking over of all the farm lands by the state. This move will, of course, not be made un- til the Bolsheviki have gained complete mastery of.all the state offices. Farmers are beginning to see through this plan and so Townley is in danger lot of Bolsheviki of Russia—Inkster Enterprise. JOHN IRELAND, MAN AND PRELATE The death of Archbishop John Ireland, whose name has been familiar to every resident of the Northwest for a period longer than the span of an average human life, marks the passing of one of the outstanding national figures contributed by this region—a figure as prominent as that of his friend, the late James J. Hill. as priest. as soldier-priest and then as’ prelate. Al- ways he has been an upstanding,. positive, con- structive factor in the life.of this section and of the nation. Always he has been a power for con- structive development and a sane, reasoned con- servatism. Born ir Ireland eighty years ago, he\came to America as a lad; was ordained a priest in 1861; was chaplain of the Fifth Minnesota in its heroic service at Corinth, Nashville and elsewhere; be- came bishop and then archbishop, his physical and mental powers-:remaining with him almost to the very end. He achieved every step of his :advance- ment by hard work and real merit, and ‘he won at ‘the same time a secure and enduring plac in the hearts alike of his fellow-pioneers and of his llow-citizens who today enjoy’ the fruits of the jioneer;s toil and hardships. He shone in a wide range of activities—ecclesiastical, reformatory, philanthropic. educational and patriotic. —_, The tribute of tears we pay to the passing of this great and good man to whom Minnesota, the Northwest and the nation owe so much is a tribute to a long and’ active and useful life; to a life lived intensely and unsparingly for the benefit of oth- ers—to a life of service, crowned long before the end by the wide recognition, the wide confidence, Eg of meeting the same fate which is falling to the |; The West for more than half a. century has} known John Ireland intimately and affectionately | \University:‘company, Princess, Pats. He was*all’ through the Passchendale Scrap, as:hexeglls. it; has been wound- ed and. gassed.|'I also enclose a letter I recetved: from my ‘sister, it has been printed in: the; Battleford (Sask.) pa* per. . If you care:to,use.one or ‘both will not make any difference. Douglas has been.inthe war four years in ‘Nor vember: 2 fig ten s Sincerely,‘ Ains..R. “Hs Craig. TO MRS, H.CRAIG. Dear Aunt!" © A Received a etter from+you a few days ago, but. ;have not had time to write more thar ‘field cards lately as we have been doing a lot of fighting lately and moving lately, in fact, we went over the top three times in two days, fought two days for a village and on the whole. took over twenty miles deep of-his country,’ so that wasn’t too bad was it? Will also, be doing 'the same,dose over again in a few days and hope to get off as luck- ily as in the last. Have seen a lot’ of the U. 8. troops il of them but suppose we will shortly. Will -try and describe the first day’ of the scrap. ‘It started just before day- break, the heavens behind up first all lit up.as then we heard. the roar,.of the, guns and the shells s¢reéming over them in front the-shells could be seen bursting in Fritz's.front-line, After a few min- utes of this off wewent across a big swamp whieh ‘luckily for us had a small bridge ‘but ‘the. fog, and, smoke from the shells: was so thick yo could not see more than a few feet. ‘ EVERETT TRUE ‘Look! Sseet ICULES:AND. WINDFALLS 'SLIB-INTO;THE BAG? SLEIE ' do so; if-they;are not, worth While it ‘| to his but have not been in the line with any |: fay: as ‘the eye could see’) After ‘mM BY IRIPG, ONGS ON THE FRONT ROow— NOT THES 2c O-HAND WORK AN Tae FRUTT BUSINGS KULTUR WAVSS SW SSSion My i To Smash the Hun—Buy Liberty Bonds! MINISTER’S WIFE HAS NEPHEW WITH CANADIANS ON BLOUDY WEST FRONT ‘this we passed through © battered up | village and a woods whéré: we receiv- ed our worst shelling from Heinfe than on again until we. struck his front line, wheré we sampled: some Ger- man cigars, but I must-not forget to say that ‘fhe tanks were, coming up Uehind and soon went ‘through us to get at his guns,-and.after we had gon about five miles the car only-went (past to get ‘in touch with Jerry, but it ‘was certainly great to see everything moving up:.The guns went: up on the run troops brought up in motors,.and even, the ‘balloons pushed forward. Have had ‘to ‘stop four times while writing this on account ,of enemy air- craft over yhead aud if ‘they spot a light*they try. and knock it out with a bomb, so will finish this tomorrow. (Sunday, 25). Five enemy planes were brought down near ‘us’ last night. It is very “hard to find anything ‘to write about and am lying on fy. back with my knee cocked. up: fora table. and it s very ungombortable so think I will close and-write you a longer letter when we come out of this scrap. Your loving nephew, DOUGLAS. | A‘recent letter from Douglas Laurie home paper. at Battleford, Sask., follows: < In a letter written on August 20th e of the Battleford soldiers who has ows to his family: “I suppose you have seen some of the‘dbings of the troops recently in this push. “W were. fighting for eight days but are having a breathing spell now. In that time we took about twen- ty miles or’more of-Fritz’s territory, and it was very easy on. the whole, although for three days it was pretty tough scrapping. I wish you could hav8 seen. the sight the first morning eZ, YING THS NICE, BIG, THAT YOURE TRYING TA]. L UKE TO SEE CLSVER IN VAUDEVILLE, BUT Sie Re feen in the bg drive writes as fol. at daybreak. . First, the whole sky be- By Conde mV TA pon 4 . i i Maicigeequeeceeet geet ij aL Sy i | hind us lit up when the guns all open- ed up together. Then the sound of the guns and the shells whistling over, and next the flash as they burst. It was certainly pretty, but I would hate to have been on the receiving end. j “I hope you saw a piece written by Beach Thomas about his trip up a road where a shell of gurs was stuck in.one side of a tree, and ope of Fritzzie’s' hi€ the. other, and about the tanks lying on either side and the one with three direct hits and the German gun 150. yards away pointing at ‘it, but I won’t tell you what it look- ed ‘like inside. As we: were going up this, road we) passed Gen: Currie, and if Beach Thomas ‘had, gone farther he might have told what was at the end of ‘it, ‘but I don’t think’ it would be permissible to ‘tell you ‘yet, but will at some future time. “This,was certainly. the kind of war you read about, with the artillery dashing up-and the cavalry going ‘by on the run. To show you how well we were. organized, a supply,,tank came -along with watenjfor us in ten minutes after we reached our first objective, and another unloaded bombs two kilos inside hs ‘lines*befort our fellows ‘got there. I certainly wouldn’t have milled this for a good deal.” ( any w.s. 5. “GOING UP.” Cohan and Harris’ big New York musical farce success “Going Up” one fof the few musical shows that ran month artef month to crowded houses on Broadway this year comes to the Auditorium for one performance on Saturday, October 5. The book and lyrice by Otto Harbach, are based on “The Aviator” the farce by ‘James, Montgomery, and the enormously pop- ular song hits and dances with which the piece is filled to overflowing have music written by Louis A> Hirsgh. Comedy and music together hame made “Going Up” one of the most syc- cessful of the Cohan and Harris pro- ductions. The company headed by ‘Raymond Crane, who has now taker place among the favorites of the mus- ical comedy stage is remarkable not only for its.comedians and singers, but for its brilliant dancers and win- some show girls. The chorus is ‘one of the most capable and attractive ev- er assembled on th~ American stage. All’ these elements have played a tained by “Going Up” since its pro- duction last winter. Month after month this exceptionally enjoyable entertainment, which abounds’ in wholesome, delicious fun and in de- lightful songs, and dances, drew crowds to the Liberty Theatre, New York. Few other New York produc; tions of the year enjoyed such unin- terrupted popularity as did “Going Up.” The comedy itself would fur- nish a, rare night’s entertainment; but for good measure the producers Have to offer the best songs and dancers of the century. As the timid, but romantic author, who has written a novel wit han ay- iator hero, and who is then called up- on to fly against a French challenger, or lose the girl they are both in love with, naymond Crane is irresisttbly funny. The climax of the comedy will test the laughing capacity of any play goer. But equally delightful im- pressions to be taken away from ‘“‘Go- ing Up’ are those made by the catchy songs and breezy dances. ~ % ——avY Ws. 8. . Obstacles in Every Path. Most of us who work for a living of the day's cares and setbacks. We have this obligation to' meet, that diff- culty to master, dnd so on. Yet in fair- ness to ourselves and in justice to the persons ‘with whom we touch elbows during ‘business hours, we should, :the minute we come:into their midst,' put all, “our own business” into the back- * é Encouragement: Dey so many folks ’mogin’ dey’s all in wen all dey needs is a li'l ’courage- ment. Mah folks turnt a ole mule loose in de wood lot t’ dig en she Rot'n. a.shawnet’s. nes.i'en .to’ down: fo’ part’ in the phenomenal, success at-|° have to contend with a full measure |- SAVED BY MIRAGE ae ey How British Army Escaped Des ,- . feat in Mesopotamia. Turkish Commander Saw What He Be lieved Were Re-enfor:ements Com: *-ing to Aid Enemy and Or- dered Retreat. We went on toward nowbers, intends ing to muke a:wide detour snd come into old Basra city by the Zobeir gate in the south wall, Eleanor F. Egan writes in tae Saturday Evening Post. There was no dust oat there; only hard-packed sénd, out of which ‘the fierce hammering gun struck a myriad giinting, eye-searing sparks, But It wtis ‘beautiful beyond word; to de- scribe, We'spun along: at ‘fi‘ty miles an’ Pour. with a‘ cool, clean hreeze in our faces. Then just over.a slight rise in the sparkling plain I saw my first mirage, .It was, impossible to believe it was a tmirage,and not really the beautiful lake thut.it seemed—a lake dotted: with wooded islands and fringed in places with deep green for- ests. ‘A I have seen mirages in other deserts in other Inads, but I have never seea anyéhing like the Mesopotaiian mi- “ rage, We drove straight on and it came so close that I was sur: I could see @ ripple on its suffice. Thensud- denily it went away off, and where it had been our skidp‘oof tires were hum- mig on the hard-packed sand and I saw that the wooded islands had been created out, of nothing but patches of came} thor and that the trees of the forests were tufts of .(iry. grass not more than six inches high. Off on the far horizon a’ camel car- avan was swinging slowly along and the ¢amels Jooked like some mammoth prehistoric beasts, while in another direction. what we took to be camels turned out to be a string of diminutive donkeys under pack saddles laden with bales of the desert grass roots that the Arabs use for fuel, The mirage has: played an interest- ing part in the Mesopotamian cam- paigns... In some. places it is pract!- cally continuous the year roel, and it adds greatly to the difficulties of an army In action.’ It is seldom mistaken for anything but ehat it is. of course, but {¢ does curious, things, to distance and to objects both animate, and inani- mate. Incidentally it’ renders the ac- curate adjustment: of gun ranges al- most altogether: impossible. One of the most curious incidents of the whole war happenet! in connection with a mirage’and on’ the very spot over which I drove’ that first‘day out in the desert... ' cn The battle of Shaiba was one of the hardest-fought battles in. the whole’ Mespot campaign.and. vittory for a while. was anybody's. It was going very badly for the British, their losses being ‘heavier than: they could” stand for Jong. And though the Turks were tn overwhelmingly superfor numbers it was going very badly. for them as well. This’ the British officer com- thdnding did mot realize-and he was just on the point of giving an order for retirement—which’ would hayé been fatal to. the British in Mesopotantia— when to his astonishment he discov- ered that the Turks were’ in full re- treat! What a moment! The desert: was full of. mirage and the Turkish commander—who really ought to‘have bean more familiar with locat phenomena—saw approaching from the southeast what looked to him like heavy re-enforcements. It was nothing but a supply and aimbulance train magnified and multiplied by the deceptive desert, atmosphere! When he ordered an’ immediate, retreat his already utnerved troops ‘stampeded and his demoralized rear guard was hounded and hargssed by great bands of nomad Arabs all the way to Kha- misseyeh, nearly ‘ninety miles away. He learned ‘the truth.a few days later and commiltted suicide! / s Oliver Goldsmith Memorial. At Auburn, County -Athlone. Ire- land,.the poet’s-birthplace, a memorial is being erected to Oliver Goldsmith. It Will take the form of the restoration of the church’ where the poet's father solsmany years. , Oliver was Horn tn)1728 at Bally- mahon, ;*County, Longford, and two years ldter his. father, Charles Gold- smith) Gecame .rector of Kilkenny West settled in Lissoy. which ts now ki as Auburn. It is a village on the road befween Athlone and Bal- lymahon. : Auburn of: Goidsmith’s “De- serted Village” in some degrees ‘repre- sents Lissoy, and the story of an old ~ eviction by General Napler was prob- ably-in Goldsmith's mind when he wroie.the poem, although it is Intended to apply to England. ‘ * Died ‘at Post of Duty. Dering the storms the early part of the, year, which matines sny were thé’ severest' Known 6n the coast, the United States navy suffered the: loss of ‘the big ocean-going tug Cherokee. . This: vessel was manned entirely by members of the naval reserve. Caught in a terrific sea the ‘tug foundered and was lost. It was at this time on an important* duty. ‘for, the Washington navy yard to get guns to an Atlantic fort. Athong the men who met a hergie death at this time was a Heu- tenant (junior grade), E. D. Newell, U. S. N. R. F., commanding officer. © eS Grand Army of Ministers. Over 60,000. ministers of ‘thie Gospel of various denominations ats with the “alltes in France. About 20,000 are with’ . the Red: Cross; the rest are tn ithe Fanks—People’s Home Journal. Seems Queer. “Seek and ye shall find” is a great truth: (says the Philosopher of Folly) but it can be overdone. =For instance }..the man. who. is always hunting for a L ‘ pen why er seems to ~ why a