The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1918, Page 4

; ment with, unusual vigor. * But will they all virtuously obey them? THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN _- G. LOGAN PAYNE . Special Foreign Representative 5 Editor WEW YORK, Fifth Ave, Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bidg.; BOSTON, 3 Winger St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg: MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Asociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited ip this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLD IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year .........e++e0 eee $7.20 | Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck).. 7.20 Daily by mail per year (In State outside Daily by mail outside of North Dakota.. THD STATE'S OLDEST NEWSP. | (Established 1873) > ———— — — PRESIDENT WILSON ENDORSED GOOD ROADS Recent advice received by the state higway commission from the Highways Industries associ- ation meeting in Chicago with the American As- sociation of State Highway Officials, quoting Sec retary Houston of the United States department of agriculture, indicate‘that not only he but also the president and Secretary Baker were not un- favorable, at least, to the inauguration of a sys- tem of state highways to be built solely by the federal government. In reviewing state and fed- eral aid, the former said: “Still it seems to me that we should take a further step, it would be in the public interest to make available appropri- ations from the federal treasury to be used separ- ately or in conjunction. with state and local sup-. port.” * The state highway department is glad to con- cur in the progressive movement and issues. this statement. whicH it is hoped will be given the widest publicity possible in North Dakota. The after-the-war period requries that the resources of the land be developed to the utmost with the least waste and delay due to poor or inadequate officials. County, town and city officials are urgently requested to make 1919 a year of un- precendented highway improvement. Labor re- leased directly or indirectly due to the cessation of hostilities will need to shift until final adjust- ment. Road building can make ready use of much labor in coming years. It is a patriotic duty for the public road officials supported by the people to do their utmost to boost the good roads move- “All nations virtually indorse Wilson’s terms.” THE MINSTREL OF THE STREET CALLS TO THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE IN US ALL. Pessimists declare Romance has fled the world. “Pessimists “cannot see the wood for the trees!” Romance promenades down the center of a rush- ing, dirty city street occasionally, visible only} to the Elect. So it happened when a minstrel flung a golden shower of Romance over a noon-hour rush of Christmas shoppers and lunch-seekers. Eevry soul carries among its treasures a mem- ory picture of a minstrel, a wandering singer, debonair, poor except for his store of brave and tender melodies. With his mandolin or lute across his shoulder, or his rude harp in his hands he was music, beauty, festival, to the stately halls of Ancient England and Old France and Ireland. He seemed long gone and buried deep in the brighter pages of history. But today—today the minstrel was alive again! One *had to look twice to discover him—so changed his dress, so odd his instrument, so strange his audience—but his message and his melody were so old, so familiar! In the center of the dirty street he stood, just “an ordinary middle-aged shabby man. The rib- boned, strirfged lute of other days given place to a cheap little tin whistling instrument whose very name reeked of modernity—a price 10 cents.” But the minstrel’s music! Clear and sweet it rose above the roar of traffic, above the scuffle of a thousand feet, and the undertone of many voices—melody, calling, appealing, singing, laugh- ing, aspiring, dreaming. “Cheap ballads!” scoff the critics and wise men of music, and see nothing in the lighting of a list- ening woman’s face. “But the smiles that fill my life with sunshine, Are the smiles that you give to me!” Nor can they see the look of dreaming happi- ness, the passing of rhythm and vague, unformed longing and memory that sweeps over the rapt faces of the listeners at the smooth, seductive ‘waltz strain—‘“Kiss me, kiss me, again!” Then, with the abrupt change of mood that marks Romance always—the little flutelike melody sings out a world-old glory of song, dropping on the half-breathless street-crowd with a sweet solemnity—“Holy Night, Peaceful Night, All Is Still, All Is Bright!” Listen! Read the tender, self-forgetful human faces near you. Romance lives! Good bless the minstrel\of the “Fluteophone— | BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE SSS IKHAKTOR BLUE " PASSPORTSFOR | CHRISTMAS DAY NO AFRIC. COLONIES FOR US! There is talk of this country’s being “compen- sated” for its war sacrifice by being allowed to rule the former German colonies, or part of them, in Africa. NOTHING DOING! : The American people didn’t fight this war to win colonies—the Philippines, and Porto Rico ave about as much as we ean chew without choking. And the American people don’t want any col- onies that will require a mighty army and a tre- mendous navy to defend. The jingoes and professional militarists may want colonies in Africa; it will give they an ex- cuse for existence., But THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T WANT IMPERIALISM, and if we judge the American! people rightly, THEY WON’T HAVE IT! ONE LANGUAGE MEANS ONE PEOPLE IN THESE UNITED STATES To give the foreigner the full benefits of Amer- icanism, we should give him our English language. Without knowing and speaking the language of the country the foreign-born immigration does not and cannot understand us or our institutions and ideals. Neither can we understand him. He can’t become a real 100 per cent American. He remains in thought a foreigner. MANITOBA IS SETTING IN ITS PUBLIC SCHOOLS A FINE EXAMPLE FOR THE UNIT- ED STATES. As a result of war developments, Manitoba dis- covered that its large rural population from north central Europe was not even partly digested. These foreigners were speaking their native lan- guages, reading books and papers in foreign tongues, and learning their own languages in pub- lic schools. They were really foreigners ,not Ca- nadians. Manitoba is now remedying this condition. There is no compulsion about changing over the foreign-language schools of Manitoba. It is being done smoothly and through a new policy of con- ducting all instruction paid for by the province in English, the official language of the province. Within a few years, children who otherwise would have grown up as starngers, can go any- where in Manitoba or all Canada and feel at home. One language means one people in the United States as well as in Canada. too many. “Rockefeller Swears off $5,000,000 tax .assess- ment.” Did he swear at it, too? no Prince Max is now yelping about the hard ar- mistice terms. As we recall it though, it was Max himself. who-asked for the armistice. Had he preferred td fight it out, Foch was willing. _ WITH THE EDITORS: THE LEAGUE AMENDMENTS The action of a majority of the state canvassing board last week in declaring carried the proposed amendments to the state constitution was based on the opinion of Attorney General Langer that only a majority vote was necessary for adoption and not a majority of all votes cast at the elec- tion. At the time of the action Secrtary of State Thomas Hall, twice nominated and elected as a Nonpartisan, refused to sign the certificate. Now comes Justice Robinson, of the state supreme court, also nominated and elected as a Nonparti- san, who states in an open letter that the state canvassing board erred: in declaring amendments carried, as they required “a majority of all the votes cost at the general election,” which major- ity they did not have. It is evident from the fact that these two Nonpartisan officials, both of whom received large majorities when they were elected, regard more highly their oath as officials than the | orders of Mr. Townley. We are convinced that this high-handed action of a majority of the state canvassing board will result in causing many hon- est and earnest members of the Nonpartisan league to realize that its leaders are rapidly head- ing the organization toward the rocks of anarchy. —Stfl Thomas Times. CANADA’S ARMY ESTIMATED How many soldiers has Canada furnished? The question has been asked many times during the past four years. It has not been difficult to an- swear approximately from visible evidence on the battlefronts and in the training camps over the border. But for some reason the Dominion gov- ernment has not made an official statement about it until now. Canada’s contribution to the fight- ing forces, at the end of June last, amounted to 450,566. Of this number 383,523 were overseas, most of the units being on the west front. The “Only two newspapers published in Berlin.” Two = Any Soldier or Sailor Will Re ceive Free Dinner at \ Cafe Van Horn. H eran 1 GREEKS FEEL HONORED Recognition Given Their Father- land Appreciated by | i i Proprietors Here. j patna i Every soldier and sailor or member} ‘of the marine corps or any other branch of Uncle Sam’s war service who is in Bismarck on Christmas day without a home of his own, or an i vitation to some one else’s home, is invited by Andrew Bougas of Bougas Bros. proprietor of the Cafe Van Horn, to. take dinner with him, from} 1 to 3. The khaki or blue is the only passport needed. No man who wears} elther will he allowed to pay a penny for his Christmas dinner at the Van| Horn from 1 to 3 p. m. on Christmas| day. i and the very best of the extra specials are being reserved for the soldier and maximum effort was in the year 1916, when 165,- 553 crossed the ocean. Considering that the Ca- nadians were at the front in large numbers when battles that worked havoc in the Entente ranks were being fought, it is not surprising that the aggregate of casualties is heavy—159,084, fully one-third of all the forces and more than 40 per cent of those actually in the fild. The dead alone number 42,919, more than 10 per cent of the forces in'the field. It is customary to consider a casualty list of 10 per cent, embracing killed, wounded and missing, as virtually destroying the Heaven help France! Most of our freak re- formers—not to mention our public utility ex- -Pyegoag going over'to “reconstruct” the coun- CS pceainc:/ 5 A einON CARON OPT BRL MRED A fighting capacity of the unit that suffers it until the losses can be made up. Canada’s army has lost more than 80 per cent, and by killed alone has been decimated.—Providence, R. I. Journal. 8d tas mpl sailor boys. During the same hours the Van Horn will entertain all of the little boys and girls of Bismarck to whom Christmas will not bring tur- key and accessories. The Bougas Bros., are Greeks of a fighting clan. They have been heart and soul with America in this war. Their service flag contains a half- dozen ‘stars, everyone of which repre- sents a Greek who has served or is rving under the Stars and Stripes. st now Andrew Bougas, former pro- prietor of the Elgin cafe at Minneap- olis, is particularly judilant over the fact that one of the first diplomats whom President Wilson met in Paris was the Greek premier. Mr. Bougas feels that America in his action of its; —————————————— BLOOD POISONING Hamlin’s Wizard Oif a Safe First Aid Treatment How often lockjaw and blood poisoning result from the neglect of a slight scratch or little cut! Ham- lin’s Wizard \Oil is a safe and effec- tive first aid treatment. It is a pow- erful antiseptic and should be ap- pied immediately to wounds of this ind to prevent danger of infection. It is soothing and healing and quickly drives out pain and inflam- mation in cases of sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites and stings. Just as reliable, too, for stiff neck, sore feet, cold sores, canker sores, earache and toothache, : Get it from druggists for 30 cents. If not satisfied return the bottle and get_your money back. Ever constipated or ‘have sick headache? Whips, cents. Just try Wizard Liver pleasant little pink -pills, 30 uaranteed, : cas GLENDIVE HIGH Vs. BISMARCK HIGH FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27 AT BISMARCK HIGH GYMNASIUM ADMISSION 10 and 25 CENTS ff Nothing lends the same Christmas spirit: as Music WONDAY, ‘DEC. 23, 1918. chief executive has conferred: upon one of the oldest and most learned na- tions of the cizilized world a distinct- ive and well-deserved honor. Therefore, Bougas Bros. in their Christmas dinner for the sdédiers and sailors of Uncle Sam, whose adopted sons they became years ago, intend to, do the little that Hes in their power, ar former sons of Greece, to voice ap- preciation of the recognition given ‘ty President Wilson to their father- land. es Have pur! old hat made like’ new*at the Eagle Tailoring €o. Call C. A. Finch Lum- ber Co., phone. 17, for Old Hickory Lignite. a STEN | je ae BS Lip Heavy central , SPAR TUNG Always on the job elect SOLD BY ALL FIRST CLASS DEALERS IN AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES While Pianos and Phono- graphs are. very difficult to - get, we have a few just in time for the Christmas sea- - $On. Call in, the time left is short, or telephone and we will call and ex- plain details. ‘Folsom i «.-BROS. JEWELRY Across Street from N. P. Depot Telephone 562R » < :