The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1919, Page 4

squeeze out of the boss. - fob. ! ' PAGE THE BISM ARCK TRIBUNE unenen the American socialists’ opposition to ex Hit bon ih et eee aa Rar Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - -_ - _- __-_—‘Eaitor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative NEW YOFK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege ldg.; 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 pub- hed herein. lunes rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved, MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year .... ++ $7.50 Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck). “ ie 7.20 Daily by mail per year (In State outside of Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota.........--++ 6.0 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) a=—ooO IT PAYS TO PAY UP PROMPTLY Most of us salary and wage earners get mad if anything happens to delay our salary checks or pay envelopes. Any delay in installments of our regular income disturbs our plans, our habits, and our tempers. We have done our work and we expect to be paid| for it, promptly and in full. That is as it should be. But are we all as careful to pay promptly those who serve us as we are to demand our own wages? Does the housekeeper pay the laundress and the “cleaning woman” promptly and have the maid-of-all-work’s wages ready on time? Does| the man of the ho pay the man who tends fur-| nace, or shovels snow as soon as the work is done, or tell him to “come around next week?” The sum earned by such humble helpers seems s small that we are inclined to wait until it amounts to} something worth while—and then write a check for it or pay in a lump. We forget that such workers have no capital,! no rainy day fund to tide them over the period giving one-half to the poor. Polish independence will put the finishing polish New York’s harbor strike has been put up to! Wilson. Calling in the chief pilot. id now intends to engage in some Trust him for that! Captain Boy commercial pursuit. | WITH THE EDITORS DON’T FORGET Comparatively little news is coming from Bel- gium just now, for the reason probably that atten- ‘tion is centered on what is proceeding in Paris. =!But America is not likely to forget the brave little |kingdom, which was the first to place itself in the |path of Germnay and oppose its colossal scheme jot conquest. Nor does Belgium forget America |—in fact, its parliament has recently united in | paying tribute to this country and its representa- tive, Mr. Brand Whitlock, who showed such a truly American spirit in standing by his post in Brus- sels and helping the Belgian people, and also, be} it added, the people of countries opposed in Ger-/ many who happened to be in the power of the; German authorities. In addition to making Mr. Brand Whitlock a} citizen of Brussels and Antwerp, he has been thanked by the Belgian parliament and has been presented by a private individual with a fine paint- ling by Vandyke for the Metropolitan museum of | this city, a painting which is symbolical, for it rep- resents St. Martin cutting his mantle in twain and This reference to what America was able to accomplish through the food commission for the relief of Belgium will be much appreciated here, and the picture itself will when our carelessness or selfishness denies them | and hesitating to demand what is only their right | —prompt payment for service rendered. As al result they are obliged to go without the food or} clothing they planned to buy with their earnings, with actual privation or serious inconvenience ex- acted of them as the price of our fault. It is easy to hold off the laundress and cook, to “forget” to pay the little seamstress who worked late to finish the new gown. The matinee tickets or the new collar must be paid for in cash} —and although the work is already done the work- | er can wait for her wage. The just woman, and the good business woman recognizes the folly of this custom of “holding off” low paid workers. Not only is it unjust and unkind but it is bad policy, for although the workers may not protest in words they remember such treatment and the woman who indulges in the habit soon becomes the woman who is always “out of help,” whose laundress fails to appear on busy Mondays, whose seamstress disappoints her in the frock promised for a certain date, whose name is whispered “below stairs” with ridicule, gossip and dislike. And gossip and comment which starts in the kitchen does not remain there. It creeps up to the merchants’ home and the bankers’ office, and in time destroys the credit and the good reputation of the family who “forgets” and “holds up” the wages of its.-humblest servants. | Doubt having been shown of the sincerity of their revolution, the Germans are now endeavor- ing to stage something convincing. THE WORST JOB IN AMERICA Speaking about cold. Who was? be a historical souvenir of great interest to, those the generations to come. gium’s needs are by no means at an end and that} while there was an excusable display of plenty} and lavishness in the first days of victory, when, high and low were celebrating the restored free- necessaries of life are very scarce and very dear. The Germans during their occupation not only stripped the country of food supplies of all kinds, but also cattle, horses and farming implements \in order to cripple and subjugate the people. The consequence is that comparatively little will be possible in the way of plowing, tillage and restock- ing the country with food from within during the next few months, and Belgium will be mainly re- liant on supplies from outside. No country has greater claims on our sympathy and assistance, land it is satisfactory to know that Mr. Hoover is jgiving the subject his immediate and personal at- itention—New York Herald. | \ i BELGIUM’S LOSSES A dispatch from London gives some statements in regard to the financial losses which have been \placed upon Belgium by Germany’s invasion of that country. Summed up by a Belgian authority, the figures are as follows: | Local contributions and fines levied by Germany cn Belgium in 1914, 8,000,000 pounds. | War contributions from November, October, 1916, 38,400,000 pounds. War contributions, seven months to May, 1917, 114,000,000 pounds. War contributions from May, 1917, to May, |1918, 28,000,000 pounds. War contributions from June to October of the 1914, to Everybody about this time in the year; but current year, 15,000,000 pounds. anyhow, whether anybody was or not, “that re- minds us”— Of the worst job in the world. And that’s being a lineman, a trouble shooter. a climber of poles in the winter time. In our hot blooded youth—we have never really been warm since—we took a winter of it. Say man, she’s a job! Raw materials and machinery taken by the Germans were reckoned by them in January, 1915, at 80,000,000 pounds. The damage to December, 1914, estimated by the North German Gazette, +f amounted to 200,000,000 pounds. This makes ,ja grand total of 384,200,000 pounds ($1,921,000,000). These items do not include material destruction The worst days and nights are the ones the and requisitions since January, 1915, which alone lineman has to be busiest, because there is wire trouble, “grounds,” down wires, broken poles. And you can’t bundle up and wear fur mittens. No sir, you stick old mister spurs into yon 40-foot sleet-crusted icy pole and climb to the top, and stretch out on a tenpin arm, and “tie in” the farthest wire; while the wind blows 60 miles an hour under ‘and over, and through you, and you do it with no artics, nor overcoat, nor muffler, nor even gloves. Another pleasant chore used to be to make the rounds of the arc lights in a blizzard-filled night, and fumble in the dark for the switch so you could turn off tHe current and avoid electrocution. Gen- erally you were handed half a dozen teeth crack- ing jolts before the night was over. The linemen. and trackwalkers and their fel- lows, who keep open lines of wire and rail commu- nication across this snow heaped continent, de- serve @ medal.a day, and all the cash they can ‘The next toughest job we know of its being a section hand-in the summer time on the Mojave desert where it gets 130 in the shade and no shade from Devil’s Canyon 500 miles either direction. But nobody’ except Apaches even.tackled that must be reckoned at several hundred million pounds. During the winter of 1916 Belgian workingmen to the number of 1,750,000 were deported to Ger- many. The future production of these men was thus totally lost to their country. § The aggregate runs into billions of dollars, but all the billions that Germany can ever pay will never atone for the sufferings and the agony of the people of Belgium. No words that have ever been invented, no speech ever known to human tongue, can begin to tell the story of what Bel- gium and France have endured. And shall the nation of criminals who, out on a murdering, looting expedition, has thus brought voiceless woe and sorrow beyond all that. the world had ever known upon Belgium and France and other countries be permitted to go free of punishment or to have a pegce without humilia- tion? May God forbid—Manufacturers’ Record. A REAL TRIBUTE IT WAS Tributes to the memory of Colonel Roosevelt pour in from every quarter, and one of the unin- tentional grand tributes came when the seven on the peace terms. i their just wage. Often they are too shy, ‘too poor, |W ho visit our principal national art collection in | Meanwhile it is important to realize that Bel-| | dom of their country, there is great poverty and) ponding statutes distress among the poorer classes and the common) more workable shape by Ho BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE LEGISLATIVE SEED ACT AMENDED. The North Dakota seed and feed will be placed in Bill No, 19, fathered by Walter Mad- dock,*which passed on third: reading Wednesday afternoon with no oppo- sition. The bill removes the offend ing priority lien clau Which was objected “to. bythe federal land bank, and it carries:an emergency clause giving it immediate eifect. 5s’ CONTRACT. thg sixteenth assem- { Aesolution, have Both houses bly, “by conéwr entered. . infoj (@ contract with the Holmboe’ studio of” BistAarck, making it the exclusive official photographer for the session. This studio will pre- pare the;large’ group pictures of: both houses which will toward adjoarn- the walls of the two houses. JOB FOR WORST. ‘Following approval in the league caucus Tuesday evening, Senator Bowman on Wednesday ‘introduced in the senate a concurrent — resolution asking that former President J. H. Worst, for many years head of the agricultural college and the man most responsible for its development to its present stage of proficiency, be named president ‘emeritus; with the emoluments and honors thereto per- taining. ‘No oppositién to the resolu- tion is anticipated in either house RATIFYING RESOLUTIONS. House bills 6, 7. and 12, being con- current resolutions. ratifying three of the league amendments initiated at the last election, were messaged to the house yesterday and referred to the state affairs committee, which probably will report them together EVERETT TRUE =e ~——AND_ I'M FOR THAT. KI No, SIR, x PAYER, D SB TO DO (S PAY HIS (ANY QUESTION! IN THE JAILS socialist members of the Minneapolis city council refused to vote for the resolution of respect and Siace the Hun socialists, got-on top only as a the field, it’s hard to condolence. He stood for everything which they |are not and their recognition of the fact consti- = STATE HOUSE NEWS FOR THR DAY AND OFFICIAL GOSSIP AND DOINGS ment be given a post of honor on THATIS WHAT ST AM —A TAX A HUNDRED PER. CENT. CITIZEN AND lENTITLED “TO SHOOT OFE HIS: MOUTH ON. THERE'S A WHOLS WOT OF MERE TAK) PAYERS + ! ! | i tt ttt ett tt enn | with four others, which have been un- der consideration for two days, this afternoon. It is likely that the en- tire;-seven will come up for’ third reading and final passage Friday ai- ternoon. NEW CORPORATIONS. New corporations of the week are the Standard Commercial Co. of Kill- deer, incorporated by H..L. Berry, El- len Berry and Frank A. Cleveland, all of: ‘Killdeer, for $5,900, to buy and sell real estate, mortgages and bonds, to sell wood,-flour and feed and to runa ving picture show; the Mid- way Coal €o,: of Burlington, ized at $20,000 by W. E. Gross, Gravés ‘and Joseph ‘Dustberger, who plan to engage in a general coal-min- ing and fuel business, and the Perry Furniture. Co; of Bismarck, capital- ized at $25,000 by W, E, Perry, C. W. MeGray, Krist Kjelstrup and Q. E. Anderson, all of Bismarck, and’ 0. V. Bowman of Washburn, ON THEIR WAY. Concurrent resolutions 8, 9, 10 and 11, adopted by the house in ratifica- tion of four of the seven league amendments initiated at the recent general election, and which had been inthe hands of the state affairs com- mittee, were reported out for third reading and final passage this after noon, and will come up on the calen- dar in regular order for tomorrow afternoon, when some interesting de- bate is anticipated. BUT ONE SENATE BILL. The only new dill introduced in the senate yesterday, S. B. No, 22, car- ried the name of Senator Drown as author and relates to the corporate powers of annuity, safe deposit. and trust companies, providing that they By Conde NOT GOING TO STAND ND OF A DEAL! 'M A TAX PAYER, OQ YOU HEAR ? S, AND THAT'S ABoUT ALL WE @ver HEAR out OF You! ALL A MAN TAXES, THEN HE'S san DLS THURSDAY, JAN.) 16, 1919. NS THE BELGIAN WAY may in addition to powers already provided hy lay. guara e the pay- ment of acceptances, ts, notes vonds and other obligations of per- sons, corporations and associations, EXTRA COPIES ORDERED. The senate has ordered printed 2,- 000 extra copies of each S. B. 19 and 20, which are the league measures providing for a ‘North aDkota Mill & Elevator association and a State Home-Building association. These will be for general distribution. SENATE MILEAGE, Senators Hunt, Whitman and Ben- son have been named the senate com- mittee on mileage and per diem. MORE DAILY JOURNALS. The senate has ordered the printing of 300 additional copies of the daily journal. STATE OFFICER DIES. But two of the original three mem- bers of the state board of electrical jexaminers are attending ‘the annual \meeting in session at the, state house. The third member, 'S. L. Avis of Jamestown, died in the service of his country. with State Fire Marshal H. L. Reade, Walter Hulett of Minot,’president, and A. J. Bentley of Grand Forks, Only ordinary routine matters will come up aside from possible recommendations ‘for improvements in the act establish- ing electrical inspection in North Da- kota. COUNTY JUDGES ELECT. The North Dakota County Judges’ association in their annual reorganiz- ation meeting yesterday afternoon elected BE. H. Griffin of Devils Lake president for the ensuing year; ‘George W. Morton of Manning, vice president, and I. C. Davies of Bis- marck, secretary and treasurer, KANE IS FOR ’EM. Dr. Thomas F. Kane, president of the University of North Dakota, is quoted in league quarters: as having endorsed the ‘Nonpartisan program in North Dakota in an address which he made the leaguers in. secret, caucus this week. | LADIES HAVE FLU. j;_ The pleasures of the session have been spoiled by the flu for the wives of two members. ‘Mrs. A. L. Fraser of Garrison, wife of Senator Fraser, has been suffering from influenza for several days, and today Mrs O. B. Burtness of Grand Forks, wife of one one of the minority leaders in the low- ler house, was reported afflicted. DENCE SHOWS UR. Harry Dence of Belfield, one of the popular young newspaper men of the Slope, has arrived on the scene to of- ficiate as proof-reader’ for the sen- jate. | ’ > MUCH TRAVELED MAN. Rep. H. O. Bratsburg of the ltrict, embracing Sioux, Adails Hettinger counties, is the most-travel- ed. and Rep. J. J. Strain of the 30th district, comprising Morton | county, Ithe least in the present house of rep- 1 resentatives, according to the report of the committee on mileage and per diem, presented yesterday. Rep. Bratsburg travels a distance of 1014 miles-in journeying. from: his home to Bismarck and back again, while Rep. Strain covers but 52 miles. The Sioux county man travels 164 miles on ‘the Great Northern, 258 miles on the Soo ‘Tine and’580 miles on the Milwau- kee system and 12 miles ‘by team in order to reach Bismarck by the- most. direct route, according to the print- ed report of the committee on mile- age and per diem. TRUCK-LOAD OF BALLOTS. County: Judge Taylor of Sargent county arrived in Bismarck yester- day with a truck-load of ballots to Th ., HUR Dance and Concert Orchestra 10 Main St.. There are’ meeting here | | lends. place at the disposal.of the house elections committee which this morn- ing began its investigation of the elec tion contest filed by Frank Riba, a league member of the 15th assembly, against Peter Weber, an independent, who defeated the Nonpartisan‘ for re- election. The house elections com- mittee began its hearing at 9 o'clock this morning. ? PEOPLE’S FORUM 1 | PE THE PEACE CONFERENCE. Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 15, 1919. Bismarck Tribune: ‘At the present time of the Peace Conference it may be well for all of us to read part of a letter which Fen- elon, Bishop of Cambria, wrote to Louis XIV of France about the time when the Dutch had captured the French East-Indian colony of Pondich- ery. He wrote thus to the king: “You have unfortunately not heen accustom- ed to hear the truth. In spite of your noble qualities, because of your unfor- tunate training, your Government has served only to further your — selfish For thirty years your ministers have overthrown all the old laws and principles of the kingdom, to exalt your authority. They have lifted you up on the ruins of all the ranks and orders of the realm, as if you could achieve greatness by ruining your sub- jects, on which your greatness must be founded. They. have made your name odious; thanks to them the whole French nation is an object of hatred to, its neighbors. * * * An unjust war does not cease to be un- dust. because it is sucessful. * * * Treaties of peace signed by the con- quered are never. freely. signed, The conquered sign them with the knife at their throat. They sign thém in spite of themselves and to avoid greater losses, They sign them just as a man must hand over his purse to a high- wayman, when he must either do so or die, You must then, Sire, go hack to the origin of the Dutch war in order to examine your conquest before Goad.t (The Dutch war. took place in 1672 a ndwas considered an unjust war of conquest by Fenelon.) “All the frightful disasters which for the last twenty years have desolat- ed Europe, all the bloodshed, all the scandals that haye taken place, the provinces: plundered, towns and vil- Tages reduced to ashes, are one and all the result of this war of 1672. That war is the socurce of all present. evils. You dictate an unjust peace. In the v act of making peace you de- clare war; because your terms are un- fair and unjust. So true is this that your enemies prefer to fight you open- ly in war rather than conclude peace with you, because they know that the peace made at the point of the sword will not be a rea) and lasting one. * * * Your people are dying of hunger, the’ fields are ‘deserted, town and conutry are depopulated.’ You have destroyed one half ef the real strength of your kingdom.” History repeats itself. There’ have been “Huns” in other centuries and other, countries. | When 7a French Bishop* who ‘wasithe édycator of the crown prince considered it his duty to write the above to his“ king; France and: its. king ‘were. surely’ not: acting aecording toa high moral standard though under Louis XIV. France: ob- tained its highest degree of education and literary fame, How niuch -those wars and -the wars of Napoleon I have contributed to- wards 'Prussion militarism and have at least. indirectly prepared for the present world war, God alone can judge. RISHOP WEHRLE. Carney Coal Phone 94 O..E. 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