The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1918, Page 4

jismal Class Matter THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered” at the Postoflice, Bismarck, NOD, ax Second GEORGE D. MANN - SSE ial Forei; NEW YOR! Pri Bldg.; STON, 3 Winter Bldg.; MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Ex MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ited to it or not other- local news pub-|and small? These are the terms laid down by President Wil- son as a basis for peace negotiations. is whipped—is she sufficiently chastened to bring republication of all news credi fer wise credited in this paper and also the Ushed herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein tre also reserved. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein | are also reserved. TANK ee . LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Fifth A Blas preeeTGAGO Marquette ve, of 4 DETROIT, Kresege [EMBER AUDIT BUREAU ‘OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION ‘RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier per year.. Daily by mail per year. Daily by mail per year ( state).. Daily il outside of North Dakota... nyc “SUBSCRIPTION RATES One by mail (In North Dakota) year by mail..... Six months by mail “THR STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1878) i> THE KAISER’S PEACE. No state in the Union has paid more heavily in this war than North Dakota; none would greet with greater enthusiasm prospects of a real peace. There is hardly any little community of 200 souls in North Dakota which has not at least one gold star in its service flag. The North Dakota boys were fit and ready; they went in the fight/ early; they have fought bravely, and they have paid. But the spiric in North Dakota today is un- changed. There has becn no wavering in a deter- mination that this. war must be won and won right, and for ail time, in order that the sacrifices of those scores of North Dakota boys who sleep in France may not have been in vain. * * ok ‘North Dakota believes that unconditional sur- render on the part of Germany must be the first prelimthary to a real peace. North Dakota can- not ‘have much confidence in any peace dictated or. engineered or even suggested by Germany. Gérmany’s peace with Russia is too fresh in the minds of our people. German duplicity is too well known. Germany must be punished; it must be com- pelled to make complete restoration, insofar as is, now permitted, for the havoc it has wrought; it must pay for the insults which it has heaped not alone upon its victims and its enemies but upon the whole civilized world. Whether Germany is now so chastened that it will approach a peace table in a mood to concede these demands is very, very doubtful. * ek OR Germany has been losing steadily for several After four years of strenuous warfare in which month after month has passed without the promised victorious ending of the struggle, Germany, at home, is in no position to sustain con- tinued reverses. Perhaps, knowing this, and real- izing that a revolution at home at this time means not only utter defeat on the west front but, for the house of Hohenzollern, the loss of its empire, exile, perhaps the hangman’s noose, Prince Max of Baden, the new imperial chancellor, may have been selected to make this bid for peace in an effort to save such remnants of imperial dignity as still months. accrue to Emperor Wilhelm. But there must be unconditional FIRST. The kaiser sees his allies crumbling and with- drawing from him. He realizes that Germany soon will stand alone, deserted by its exhausted The kaiser must know that when 2,000,000 veteran Italian soldiers are released by the collapse of Austria and as many more are freed by peace with Turkey and Bulgaria, an over- * whelming force will be arrayed against him on the west front, and that a disastrous defeat, if not the complete annihilation of his dissipated forces, before Christmas will loom as an imminent possi- confederates. bility. We find a most typical Hunnish attitude again exemplified in the closing statement of Emperor Wilhelm’s proclamation of Saturday to the army and navy: “TI have decided in accord with my allies to again OFFER peace, but IT WILL BE ONLY AN HONORABLE PEACE FOR WHICH WE EX- TEND OUR HAND.” Does the kaiser’s honorable peace contemplate elimination of economic barriers among all nations associated to maintain peace, guarantees of armament reduc- tion to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety ;-adjustment of all colonial claims impar- tially; EVACUATION OF RUSSIA, WITH COM- PLETE FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA TO SHAP! HER OWN GOVERNMENT AND DESTINY A SHE WISHES; évacuation and RESTORATION OF BELGIUM, with her complete sovereignty guaranteed; evacuation of French territory and the righting of the wrong done when Germany seized Alsace-Lorraine in 1871; ‘readjustment of the Italian-Austrian frontier on clear basis of the 5 ; free opportunity for the absolute freedom of the seas, lagainst the allies? ‘until our goal is reached. We are not satisfied that Nonpartisan league. state constitution by which bankruptcy. their payment. kind of business. every citizen, because the Thomas Times. ing to ourselves. provision thought. An extensive disturbance ments. second thought, fall. election. th tion of Serbia, Rumania and Montenegro, with guarantees of the freedom of all Balkan states; sovereignty for the Turkish portion of, the Otto- man empire, with autonomy for other nationalities now under Turkish rule; independence for a united Poland, with an outlet to the sea; an association of the nations for mutual guarantees of independ- ence and territorial integrity for all nations, large her to the peace table so humbled that she will accept these terms? Or is Germany, sorely press- ed on the west front, quivering under Foch’s sledge-hammer blows, merely bartering treacher- ously for delay, sparring for time to permit a re- |adj ustment of her forces and the exercise of secret diplomacy which may result in a new alignment In the meantime: Be on your guard! Dollars for bonds. quarters for Thrift Stamps. | WITH THE EDITORS A POLITICAL CRISIS. Dakota will lend themselves to the program of! general state ownership and practically unlimited state indebtedness proposed by the leaders of the! In this issue of the Times will be found the full; text of the proposed amendments to the present carry into effect its program. reader of the paper to give these proposed amend- ments a careful and earnest: reading. not be difficult for any reasonable man to decide after reading the - proposed amendment to the present debt limit that the plan will lead to public The present debt limit of North Dakota is $200,- 900. This is not large, but the state has managed to get along nicely for nearly thirty years with the provision, and the people have twice refused to-‘increase it when the question was. submitted to them. Now the proposition’ of the league is to make the debt limit $12,000,000. Increase the debt limit to $12,000,000 means that bonds to that amount could be legally issued by the state and the property of every resident within its borders would stand as a pledge. for} A bond is a first mortgage on every class of property in the state. Do you feel that you care to, hand over to any man or set of men, no matter| how honest or high minded, the right to mortgage every dollar’s worth of property you possess? That is just what this scheme of an increased | debt limit means in actual fact. The adoption of this proposed amendment would also remove all debt limitation from counties, cities, towsnships and school districts, and allow any one of these sub-divisions to engage in any To agree to any program such as this would not only mean that the state would be plunged in debt. but it would destroy the private credit of dividuals would have already been mortgaged for the payment of the state bond issues and there would no longer be security for the payment of debts contracted by the individual resident.—St. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. Our constitution is a set of guarantees of pro- tection for certain ideals of government, under which citizens of this state have built and are building homes, and otherwise employ their earn- ings in the pursuit of welfare and happiness. To make any extensive change in these guarantees (amending the constitution) is to interfere seri- ously with the plans and property of home own- ers and all citizens who are affected. It is there- fore important that we should be very careful in advocating or bringing about any such changes; for fear we bring about conditions that might! injure ourselves and our neighbors. Realizing even that the best of us sometimes get excited and hastily do things that are damag- our constitution so we could not disturb it without the lapse of sufficient time to take a second now proposed in the form of a number of amend-. It is therefore time fur us to take that The constitutional amendménts that are pro- posed should be carefully studied and information pertaining to them obtained f:om any and every| source possible. so that we may vote wisely at the Some of them may be good and some very dangerous. They should be discussed Germany North Dakota awaits a message from President; Wilson which will make the situation clear. | North Dakota is ready for peace; if it be a-real/| peace; or, if there is not to be peace dictated by! humanity, justice and equity, North Dakota is ready to go on and pay its share in men and money. the farmers of North! the league intends to We urge every It should property of the in- was wisely made in of our constitution is | SOME FLOCK OF NIGHTMARES, “MEIN GOTT, WHAT A a Z WL MONDAY, OCTOBER: 7, 1918.’ hij YUE AL 1M THROUGH, 4) 1 SURRENDER. | UNCONDITIONALLY ga UE 7% Well, well, folks, 'pon me worrh. it foight, of soom wan woud ohnly shtep an an manige it roight. Wich -wan am’ Oi tahlkin’ aboot? Shure, an-it’s the ohnly wan that luks | loike. a’.good wan tu me—the Shtate Supringindint shcrap that’s bein fot by little: shtarts and shtops thit make me souhl weary. Wy don’t sum wan} ple are going .to ‘be the referees whin ilieshun day cums rround in Novim- constistints? i Oi've bin radin the Palajun an Pub- | Jik Opinyun an: alot moor uv this} shtripe, an 'pon me souhl, thi polit- | ikle shtuff of thim paypers gives mea green an yallow. feeling under me jahws. The all’ seem te bi windin’s themselves, partickilerly tryin te tell thi payple why they shud re-elict N.} C, Macdunnald and kape. that Minnie | J. Nielson as far away from harmin’ this skools iv thi shtate is possibl. Did ye rade anny uy this?—they're allj aboot thi same. My oh my. shure an thi iditors shud have braced their ar- tikles oop wid sloogs or m-quads they're that wake. But.then, whin a. pehrson is wake, thefe’s:nawthin. very: shtrong ye cah say uv him. There's jist wan good sintince Qi kin foind in thi lot, ai that’s in Poob- lik Opinyun; here ‘tis: “Befoor sup- pohrtin’ ayther candydate fer office uv Shtate Superintindint, each Dehr- | son and arginizashun shud make in- quiry: which iv the ‘two candydates hez the qualificashuns fer the office.” Now, that’s first rate, first rate. Oi/ loike that way o’ doin’, and hey al- MR, O’TOOLE ON EDUCATION “o qualyficashuns niver. got noised ar- do look like it moight be a bootiful}rouhnd enuff to give him an encore. In wan er two little sun-blistered places where, lord save ‘em, they didn't Know what a rale Superimtind- int looked like, they may hev kept him a bit longer, but ye notice his po- lytickle advertising isn’t, makin a list of the: foine,” big eddycashunal ‘posish- uns he has held, nor tellin’ how the shquare oop to the job, an if the pay- | payple and Boards uv Eddycashun hev kept re-elictin’ him te cum back. No -—no-—-N.C, Macdunnald ‘kept movin’, ber, give ‘em the.rale dope on thi two} plump ‘ez a partrige an’ not “worryin’ any, feeling all coochy an contint+like; knowin’ his trig little wife wuz troodg- in’ along at his elbow, soomtimes car- ryin’ his. suitcase fer''im, riddy to be the hull cheese an’ mainstay’ in the nixt job the koind fates moight shquat him’ ¢oon in. ¢ There’s wan thing this pink-cheeked white-throated, rosy-lipped, lady-voic- ed little shquab is. strong on, tho— (Yis, Oi think Oi hev a right ti call ‘im that, if he kin. say: “Miss Niel- son is not FIT for the posishun she seeks,” and callin’ her a “Sears-Rot= buck County Sooprintindint.” Ye can, say arnything ye kin prove, An ye kin .all look at ‘im just wanct and ;proove it yerselves an’ save me thi truble.) Yes, he’s, shtrong on han- dles;) m-hum, handles ye know, be- hind yer name, ti show that ye’ve had a sherap 0’ shape-skin handed ye wid wanted, oh so bad, ti get wan er two legislachures ti pass a law makin’ ivry Shtate Sooprintindint wear a “han- dle;” but there’s a lot o' payple as can’t see that the “handle” helps sich a ‘ell uV a lot. He has a “handle"— wais phracticed it; but it’s a cryin’ shame te do it in the case uv N. C. Macdunnald, fer the furthér ye in tigate, the more convinced ye are that if he iver posesed anyy qualificashuns, it must uv bin befure he wuz born, | for: Oi can’t foind annyone that’s seen | anything uv ‘em sinée. In anny job; had that requirred a RALE PER- | he’s bin a wan-termer—his so 'e sez; an a fioirst class wun—so e thinks, but sumhow the payple where he’s tried ti hold & job havn't Tabbed hold uv it shtrong enuff to hawl ’im back for sicund or third tirrrms, ixcipt) in sum. little town rwhere they weren’t very partickler whether it was “B. A.” or a “B. V. D.” An sumhow, when ye think uv it, a “handle” has kind uv a silly look By Conde. Sp yer hat frum sum instytushun. He} TROOPS OR 1 Quit! a arenes = +R, § Jos toe when it duzent shtand fer sumthin’ ye've got under yer hat. Don't ye think so? Ez Oi look at it, a “hantile” 's ‘oort uv a jabel, telling’ what's insoide. An impty froot jar with a label on it, on the cillar shelf is poor shtock, but Oi'm thinkin a foine jar o’ quince presarve would be shtill a jar o’ quince presarve whether it had a label on it er not, and moighty good atin’, If the QUALITY’S GOOD ENOOF, nobuddy’s’ goin te fuss. over the label. Nobuddy seems to be shtop- pin to ask did Blackshtone, er George Washingtun, er Abe Lincoln, gr Wil- lum Harvey, er Shakespear, er Thom- as Edyson, er General Pershing hev little ornymentle tails uv- the alphy- bet hoong onto: their names, when thinkin they were the right men for their jobs; by. THEIR ‘WORRHKS THEY WERE KNOWN; the RICORDS UV THE THINGS. THEY'VE DOON ARE ENOOF FER US. -An so it wud be with Macdunnald; if annybuddy cud foind anny. fine, big things he’d iver dun,‘we cud be shtarting:a ricord, but Oi’ve wasted a lot uv toime hunt- in fer nothin. , But that Miss nielson. Why ‘lord | bless ye, if that woman hed bin afther a“handle” to her name while she was shtudyin at Colliges and Unyversities, she'd had a shtring o’ letters hoong onto her be this toime long enuff to fly a kite: But she wasn’tafther orny- mints uy eddycashun—she was afther the GOODS—knowlige and infoorma- shun on ivry thing in creashun that a rayally genooine eddicator needs te KNOW and Do. And she has shpent lier whole life makin herself bigger anbetter fer thi worrk she has chosen. Oi’ve invistigated her thooroly, and} Be the Saints, her ricoord ez an eddy- cator has N. C. Macduunnal’s needin a magnifyin-glass. Afther pickin out and devourin the besht that the Uni- voorsity uv Noorth Dikota, Ann Arbor Univoorsity, Chicago Univoorsity and plinty uv travel had te offer, the pay- ple uv her own Valley City and Barnes Counthy hev kept her right there pass- in it on te them and their childern. Now annybody'.knows that the hard-! est critics a yoong man er wooman hez te deal with when they’re shtartin out in bizness are the home payple; they kin alwiz do bether, be more ap- presheated,an make a. bigger name fer themsels away frum home; but Miss Nielson was unusual, she was prepared to’ ooverfiowin te help make the. Valley. City, and Barnes Coonty shkools shinin’lights: in the shtate, and all the ‘payple knoo it, and they've kept her right‘ there doin it fer all the shtate te know: aboot; N. C. Mac dunnal knows aboot it too, and that’s what hurts ‘im so; He sees her height, and the: oonly: way he kin climb oop iz be pullin her doon. An so Miss Nielson went inty the City Shkools and taught for thirteen years, mooch uv those years bein at the head uv the science daypartment in the Hoigh Shkool.. Has: C. Macdunnal dun that? or cud dp the loike aven now? ‘Fer the lasht twilve years ~ {she’s bin that bizy bein Counthy Soo- TAM EXTREMELY SomRyY To INTERLPT You, BUT YOU HAVE SeveERAu SME CURRENT MAGAZINGS FASTENED ‘DOWN AND, AS He One XI WANT (S UNDER YouR ELBOW, TLC HAVS To DISTURS Your EQuiLIBRiuMi ~ from now. until time ‘| their facuities so fasht that she wud- printindint uv Barnes Coonty, she cud- dent even know: the prevailin shtyles in leddies’ bunnits, and frum point uv .| eddicashun ‘her counthy is the foinest in the shtate. Wud they be kgepin her year afther year if ghe was what and makin’ the payfle she’s © servin proud an happy. Tat little shquab’s z shtatement in: doogéns. uy ‘the shtate paypers uv the lady's bein no friend uv thi county shkools isa domnable | lie too, so it is. , Why folks, listen to me. Whin eddycators cum inte north Dikota frum Massachoosits, Ohio, Noo Yorrhk, Michigan er. anny oother | shpot where highbrows an blue; htock- ins grow, and lofthily inquire, “Let me see—ah—do you have consolida- tion in yourr rooral syshtems?”—(ye kin tell’ be the note 9’ pity in their voice they think we're back noombers, and so we wud he if twas left te, the . loikes 0’ little Roscoe Arbuckle, alias Niel C. Macdunnal; but the pay ple and shkool Boards he¥ kept little Roscoe where he ucddent do mooch damige ner hinder the others, until this Townley crowd began playin checkers wid him). Well, as Oi wuz sayin, when they ask that consolidated queschun, ye can shquare right oop te them an say, “Yes, Mr. Bostin Bak- edbeans, yet bet yeu bootons we've got ai consolydashun in our systim, shtrong in shpots, with symptims uv it all over that'll break out hansumly. if we only succade in removin. the little plashter that’s tryin te shtik onthe Shtate Supprintindint’s. office;an the | best deviloped case in the hull shtate is over there in Barnes Coonty where, a leddy named Minnie ‘J. Nielson hes been Counthy Sooprintindint fer 12 or thirteen years. She’s on the job ivry minit uv the day, studying the welfare uv her.shkools; an she’s a skool-woman, ivry inch, frum the croown uv her foine head to the tip . uv her common-sense shoes. Barnes County ranks first in the ixcellince uv its rooral shkools, and it’s Minnie J. Nielson that’s planned and deviloped the hull thing.” Now payple, wud she be doin all this.fer thu rooral shkools | if.she was. ‘no friend”..o’ thim? She’s.the mother, too, o’ the “County Play Day” .they’re enjyin oover there and.have copied else- where, anoother foine shtep oop the ladder uv progrissive rooral eddyca- shun. Her. best, biggest, wholeheart- ed, lofthy.energy has made! her coun- ty the cream uv the shtate eddycation- ally. Doos that look’ as tho she had no interest in counthry payple and their childern? What she’s doon fer her county, she'll. do fe# the counties uv the hull shtate if ye’ll only hev the sinse ‘and intrist ‘te elict her. There's, wan uy those Toonley pay- pers, Oi’m“not mindin which wan ’tis fur wan is.as bad as tother, the idit- ors are afl willin te print handsum lies if they’re paid fer it—wan uv em is sayin Miss Nielson Nez not the.sup- pohrt uv hér own county, and that it’s the leddies uv the cities that’s bin re-ilectin. her fer these twilve years as Counthy Sooprintindint. Be the Powers... That's bright rasening. How do they make that out, whin 83 per cent uv the popylation uv the shtate is rooral, so tiz sajd? Shure an. it musta been that all the Barnes coun- ty leddies moved into .the.cities, and all.the men were that bizzy minddin the childern in the country they cud- dent get te the pools at all -at.all. Sounds. fish-like, don't>it, along wid the-resht uv ‘the lyin’ shtuff? ‘The teachers uv.the shtate, and the rest-uv the brightest payple, are the ones~that injooced: Miss Nielson to roon this: race.; They, want. her badly —they’ve wanted -her befoor;. the North Dikota Eddycational: Assoshia- tion wants her, and whin the very brains uv’the shtaté’ha's: called her out te save its skool system from the further: evils uv another spasm: uv Macdunnalitis, Oi’m ‘sayin it’s toime ter ivry man-jack uv us, men women and childérn,/te pool off our coats and boost ‘her shtraight inte that of- fice. If ye’ll all do that, ye’ll not be hearin’ so mooch' aboot the shtate’s al- lowin so manny uy its rooral an vél- lige shkool-teachers to be teachin the Garmint ‘langwige, singin that damna- ble Rhine song, and. havin the little childern, say, “Got bless der kaiser.’ Ye kin bet yer lasht coat that no shkool drawin shtate aid will be a lit- tle Garminy. whin Minnie Nielson’s elicted; and Bilhelm “Langer or no Bil- helm Langer, Council uv Ixpinse orr no Council uv Ixpinse, Oi'm thinkin there’ll be sumthin doin’ to make it mighty hot for their dirty Potsdam langwige in ANY KIND UV A SKOOL, fer ye kin. take it frum me -that it’s her opinyun—foine American that she is—that if it’s besht fer Americans te kape the kaiser oot uv wan class uv shkools, it’s besht te kape him oot uv all shkools. She’ll. know what the varyus sooprinteindints and inshpect- ors are doin’ over the shtate, an if they're not doin their shtraight Amer- ican jooty, they’ll be lookin thrubble in the face. O’ coorse we cuddent ix- pict Little, Rroscoe, our prisint “In- cumbrance,” te tell these/Garmint-set- tlement shkools they moost cut out all the dastardly Hun langwage and Hun methods, and ‘be Amerycans, fer the same reasons that the rist uv the Toonley boonch can’t shtep on the toes'uv anny-uv the Garmints, nor say. wan worrhd agin. ‘em—they've got to have the Garmint vote in No- vimber. Well, folks, Oi cud be talkin till eliction day—Oi'm that full uv the subjick; but Oi’ll be off now, puttin in ‘me besht licks wheriver they're naded for Nielson. '“Whin ye're think- in the matter oover, ye might jist ashk yerself this wan ‘quistion, and the an- swer'll be doin’ ye a lot o’ good: “If the Foightin Firsht, and the Shmash- in Sicund were lined oop at the poles on-eliction day, which wan uv the can- dydates would be gettin their votes? It’s me that’s thinkin Miss Minnie J. Nielson ‘ud be the “Daughter uv the Rigimints.” a LATEST CROP. O'TOOLE. this noninty uv a Macdunnal is callin her in his dixty mood-throwin cam- pain? An let me*tell ye not to be worryin anny over Miss Nielson’s NOT BEIN ABLE TE QUALIFY fer the of- fice because uv not hevin the “handle? that’s shtuck in the throat uv her manly (?) opponint, for Oi kin tell ye ‘right off the real that Minnie J. Niel- json holds inher two hands,a “LIFE | CERTIFICATE THAT ENTITLES HER TO. TEACH IN ANY SCHOOL | IN THE STATE, big er little, high er |low, OR TO HOLD THE OFFICE UV SHTATE SUPERINTENDENT, and let me tell ye farther that the name, “MINNIE J. NEILSON,” carries: with it a meanin te eddicatdrs wurth the name, and te Boards uv Eddycashun in the shtate, that would-elect her to dent ‘be, able to tell: which conthract rached her foirst. Her ricord does its own tabkin. She needs no wan to inflate the columns uv the noospapers with lies to discredit her opponint. ; His ricord in no instance shows the | Shlightest claim to what they're callin efficiency or satisfacshun; Miss Niel- ‘son’s ricord is wan_uv nawthin else, Joost a series uv years uv foine worrk, ——a07 w, Quarter Section For Gussner Twins So highly pleased. was George Guss- ner, pioneer, Bismarck merchant, with the arrival of grandneice and nephew ‘Margaret and Arthur at the home of his nephew, John,George Gussner, this morning that he publicly announced his intention of presenting the fortun- ate youngsters with a baby carriage and a-section of good North Dakota land apiece. ©The two new Yanks, a fighter and a Red Cross nurse, have not yet been. advised of their good fortune, but they seem very well satisfied. with the world into which they have been newly: ushered and no doubt Know that something nice is in store for them. Pan UY Ww. ss yee It. is deliciously -palstable, agrees with the weakest stomach, ‘contains the most soothing; healing, strength- ening. eneticnts apetures gift. to e you well an ippy—Hollister’s Rocky: Mountain 35 or Tablets, |. Jos: