The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1919, Page 4

ea RLM NE See Toes ' |” BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ‘. ‘THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME J" nowNov Woo smite Here! « “YANK SOLDIERS. ROBBED BY Fi owners of industry and pretended that it’ was al’ Women | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE reward for organization and mangament. Pc ee 7 iat the Pontoniee, a marek, N. D., as. Becond Because our wonderful machinery:and industiial! ‘ lass Matter. 'GEORGE _D. MANN. -. -_ => + Bditor methods produced so much this surplus grew to! : ——G"” LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, — J the incredible proportions that made this war] 2 ‘NEW York aan eoreler tiers CHICAGO, Marquette| possible. Last year’s war bill would have NEXT. TWHG WE KNow! I'LL RAVE You Men Captured ‘at Seichepr ell Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege | gwallowed the social ‘surplus of generations in any len Captured ‘at Seic! i al 5 SUNNEAPOLIS, ae ipeibee Bestange other age. ofHarsh-Treatment by, ‘MEMBER OF A’ ‘the. Huns, Ja. | _. he 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- lished herein. ; ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein 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) Daily by mail per year (In State outside of mail outside of North Dakota... THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPA Established 1873) <> eee ee CUPID NEVER CAUSED THE WOUNDS BANK NOTES CAN PLASTER. Breach of promise is a bad situation. Waiting | at the church is a tedious task of many mis- givings. g No gentleman ever broke troth with a lady. It does poor credit to a lady’s judgment when her fiance forsakes her. That “she” showed little judgment does not, however, lessen “his” offense in being a boor. Sometimes it might tend to make more serious his fracture of faith—the girl who is inexperienc- ed is doubly wronged when deserted by a wily worldly wocer. But sadder still is the way woman deals with thes base deceivers; her idea of balm for a bruised and battered heart loses her our sympathy. She sete a price on love. She puts a meter on her bosom and for every beat the stricken organ skips she has a rate the promise-breaker must 01y. Then she trebles the total.and:takes it to court. She knows the verdict will lop two-thirds off the sum set. The court reasons that when woman dries tears with bank notes, the tears can be traced} to onions or practice. ie When a damsel sues, the slacker-suitor’s crime fades and the woe that wedlock might have brought dwarfs the trivial trouble his escape from it costs. : Cork has honored Wilson with the freedom of =the city, Had. iti been the. key to the city, we sup- “pose it would®have been a bottle-opener. ay! : = AMERICA, THE GEM; WEALTH ENOUGH TO =e MAKE-EVERYBODY PROSPEROUS Lae? ee 1D: HAPPY ae, =! Uncle Sam has become the world’s, gyeatest cap- “tain of ‘igdustry./ Here are the, figures: | We'h We /6 pF cent of the world’s’ population. ; ‘of the Wworjd’s land. ' We prod )-per' cent of the world’s copper. We prodiice 66 per cent of the’ world’s! supply of oil. ard We raise 60 per cent of all cotton. - . We produgé, 38 per cent of the world’s ‘silver = production... f We dig 52 per cent of all coal. We mine 40 per cent of iron and steel, 20 per cent of the world’s gold. We manufacture 85 per cent of all automobiles manufactured, and operate 40 per cent of the world’s railroads. : We grew 25 per cent of the world’s’ wheat sup- ply. Before the war, England was, on the surface, the richest nation in the world. At that time the = United States owed four billion dollars to Europe. ’ Now Europe owes the United States TEN BILLION dollars. > In two years we shall have passed England as * a shipbuilder. ; And now all we have to do is brag about it, and get swelled heads and think of nothing but dollars, and use our power to get still richer, and we will go to hell right! ‘ “All we have to do is to become'a junker nation, with no other than.material.ambitions. . He whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. But let’s not do that. Let’s be sensible, and de- cent, and thankful that we are so fortunately situated. And let’s try to make the best use of our combined wealth so that everybody will be prosperots and educated. and comfortable and happy. - ; _ A chid in-short dress stole a thousand dollars to|. get into the movies. . Had she been grown-up, the short dresses would have made the thousand = ‘dollars. unnecessary. : THE SOCIAL SURPLUS Wars are fought with the social surplus. This — The world now produces so much that $160,- 000,000,000 could be taken in four years without destroying society. Our resources and productive powers are so much greater than those of any other nation that taking in one year a sum twice as large as the total wealth of the nation at the opening of the Civil War did not seriously impair our national strength.. We have learned that the financial limit is now off. Almost anything this riation wishes it can have if it wishes it bad enough to use its great social surplus for social purposes.. We have at our disposal wealth beyond the most fervid imagi- nation of other ages: The Treasury Department estimates our nation- al income at somewhere around eighty billion dollars. We took nearly one-half of that for war purposes last year and oug people were better fed, clothed and housed than ever before. We know now that we can send every child to school and collage until they are 18 for less than, it costs to maintain a standing army. We know we can abolish tuberculosis by spending a price equal to a few battleships. We.can save the lives of half a million babies each year at a cost, esti- mated by the children’s bureau, of much less than was required to kill as many Germans. And in- voluntary poverty would vanish before the appli- cation of a small per cent of this social surplus. Yanks over-sea-ers are Hun overseers. The kaiser is, better, , We feared he’d recover. +3 y Bey not a man—a Hun. Parts of Belgium must have looked strange to Santa—plenty of chimneys standing, but no houses. Whether or not the Germans are included in the league of nations, they will remain for a while a beleaguered nation. » Another -‘appropriute ‘job’ for /; ex¢presidents might be the, personal can ucting of, exclusive European tours de, luxe, : i poe sures! The dye induétry ‘here’ ‘wants: tariff protection: against Hun competition. » To dye and not to die —that is the, question, , Dye, die. diddle-dee-dye dumb! | Zz aj ete : King George'celebrated ‘the signing of the arm- istice by a ‘drink/of ‘champagne’ ahdigoing. to)the opera. ‘When peace is: signed, ; will :/he—gtiess Gawge is temperate, and they ‘probably don’t have burlesque in ,Lunnon! as | SaLUL | WITH THE EDITORS | en HONOR WHERE DUE | Attorney General Langer seems to be gather- ing more friends every day or so. In his decision in the McFarland case he has shown that he is for a square deal all the time regardless of who op- poses him, and he has again shown his fairness in his dealings with the Macdonald-Nielson con- troversy. “Bully, for. you, Bill, you are on the right track and ifgyou keep this up you will have more friends than’ you. know what to do with. Everybody likes a square deal and you seem to know the definition of the word in its fullest sense. —Valley City People’s Opinion. 3 ONLY ONE REAL ENGLISHMAN A correspondent in the London New Witness recently pointed out that “England is suffering from foreign domination.” He wrote: “We are governed by the Welsh, prayed at by the Scots, and preyed upon by the Irish.” From a note in the London Evening Standard the genuine, native- born Englishman does not seem to have much to say nowadays, It writes: The Versailles conference iy considering de- cisions which. may affect the fate of Great — Britain for generations. _ reac aatRone A correspondent points out that on this con- ference our country is represented by: One Welshman (Mr. Lloyd George). One Scottish-Canadian (Mr. Bonar Law). One Jew (Lord Reading). Four Scotsmen (Mr. Balfour, Sir Eric Ged- des, Marshal Haig and Admiral Wemyss). The war was the lengthened shadow of a—no, | ett rnc te ett net rte tee REAL OIL BOOM. ~ Indications that North Dakota is enjoying a real oil boom are found in the fact that the North Dakota blue sky commission - has admitted during the last two days two com- panies incorporated to. prospect, and | ‘bore—the Great Western Gas oil! Co. of Mohall, incorporated Tor $25,000, and the New, England Petroleum Co. of ‘New: ngland, capitalized at the same ‘amouw each instance the! incorporat ‘men ‘who. ae ed belief that-a2ye lies North’ Dali FEBRUARY 9 ROOSEVELT DAY. Governor Frazier, at the requestof a committee composed of William H. Taft, Charles E. Hughes, Franklin K. fh'in ‘the oft-express- sea_of'oil under, aig lignite /beds. Roosevelt. memorial. day. in North. Da- kota.. The committee yesterday wired Governor Frazier that ‘plans’ are being’ Maid fora concerted. national memor- | on this; date, and that this ar- ngéement*meets with the approval ‘of’ the late colonel’s immediate family. Taasmuch as. Col. Roosevelt was a former resident and county. official in, ‘North Dakota, and since™-he has: al- ways been held in the highest esteem in this state, it is believed :that every | commuyity it North Dakota will ‘pay |, tribute to his memory on February 9. | BACK ON THE JOB. State Auditor Kositzky is: back on the job after being confined to his home for several days bx a very #€- vere cold. VISITS KID. BROTHER. ¥. B, Frazfer, a shoe merchant of Charlevoix, Mich., and elder brother of Lynn J. Frazter, governor of North Dakota, is here forva visit. It is the the first time that the Michigan man hag visited the North Dakota capital in many. years. He. came to ‘North Dakota with his parents in pioneer ww ew we Wee e le nb. geile we we oe LEGISLATIVE AND OFFICIAL GOSSIP AND, DOINGS “STATE HOUSE NEWS FOR THE DAY | :, prncipally - local | sta ‘| application: aye Lane, Frank A. Kellogg, John Mitchell | , and others, will proclaim February '9| ‘Mrsg Roosevelt and other members of |, 4 S teen yeats ago he moved to Michigan, | where h@.has prospered in tte busi- ‘ness: word. He naturally is a trifle proud of\ his kid: brother, ‘Lynn. J. being “the baby” of the family. \ oa part of the state. ‘Six- TO THE RIGHT COMMITTEE. ‘Some. wag -in the house yesterday moved that Ole O. Moen’s House Bill be December tains pay an anual I and -rir Irst/slac Om Schlosser,/ formerly of the ‘state's office snd now an ‘officer-of Grant county, is’ in compan} hearings on rate, ‘in- ) creases: asked: forsiby the ‘Northwest- ern Telephone Co. the Indepemient Telephone ‘Co. and*other North Dakota subsidiaries’ of the Bel system, \ong- inally set by the North Dakota ra\l- way commission for January 29, hava been postponed. y 7 FROM HOOPLE. T. J. ‘Nielson of Hoople, a pioneer neighbor of Governor Frazier and a member of the state council. of de- fense, is in the city looking after bus- iness matters and attending the legis- lative session. Last night Mr, Niel- son with the governor and other-state officials atthe studios. of the ?Pub- licity Film- Co, had a private viéwing days’ and grew to manhood-in the EVERETT TRUE ice NOW, THEN, If YOU PROMISE T HAVE HERE A CAKE OF | —} rr ABOUT HALT AN HOUR? of a reel recently made’by this ‘com-, “Rv Conde « UY WANT You To SI'T ON: TAKS OR “{sum' in“s game with “fieaders of New" Yor |“Ravisher Armenia.” ‘ Joneer farmer and one of the veter- AIDS IN WORK FOR ARMENIAN RELIEF Olixer.. Harrima: cepted the; j the. American Committee for Armenian yrian Relief.» She : is” enlisting OP ion: of; iety. leaders in prin- ipal‘cities’ in connection with the ne- tionwide exhibtion. of the photo-drama pany showing. agricultural develop- ment of the upper’ Red River valley, in which the farms of Governor Fraz- ier, Mr. Nielson and their neighbors are displayed. NORTHWOOD: LEAGUER HERE. P. J. Maddock of Nopthwood, a pi- | siderable food’ from é ‘generous Ffit- . ish’ and other atliéd’ ¢ompatriets. ” ‘ More than 30.were detailed to Work qe REFUSED TO BE BROTHRS =“ ciliation Spurned by America Corporal: Who Refused to Wor! Hurled Down Mine Shaft. | Attempt Later; Made to Effect " ae | London.—“When they took us ise Rs é oners they held revolvers: to our bads 4 and made us give them our shoesput i when the armistice came and we: set free a socialist leader \maq a ~ an speech to us, saying: ‘We arejow if brothers.’” ee ea This was what American’ solters . ~ who returned. to London, from jer- many—the first to reach here aftethe | signing of the armistice—had tdfay about the change: in- the attitudy ‘of their captors from the time theyjad fallen into German. hands in Aprilib- til they were released on Ni ber 12. . ; “When we were ¢aptured at Sefhe- prey,”. said Private James E. ‘3to- chelli of Providence, ‘the Germangol- diers held pistols to. the heads of sme of us and demanded our. shoca{. I managed to hang 90 to mine, but ith- - ers weren’t so lucky, They hag¢.to s walk barefooted through No ‘Mn's Land, cutting’ their feet” badly} on barbed wire or pieces of shell. A’ of and no one. was permitted to, k« boots. They told us—one gene! —that:they had attacked to:get pripn- ers, but the next time ‘they attaged . the One Hundred and’ ‘Second ‘fey would take no prisoners, bechusg/hey ¥3 had fought too fiercely.” * 40. This was. corrgborated by Pritate Frank Butler of New Haven. —} Prisoners Exhibited. | The Americans were eventually taken to Friedrichsfeldt, and nolop- portunity was missed to show the American prisoners to the poputtce, . for they were among the earlies} to te be taken! These Americans were taken hia camp where there. were prisorrs from all the other allied. countries,ind though :there~ afterward 8 to be an attempt to single out Axgri- cans for better treatment, “accorang, to the returned men now here, fey fured much the same as ‘the. ot}ers daring the earlier part .of.,thelr jm- prisonment. -Until their own fod parcels ‘began to arrive they got on- “ in coaland salt; mings,:and one to, Corporal Lucien, who, it was said/re- | fused'to’work in a\mine when ordée ‘to do ‘so, ‘was: marched off ‘to: the'pit head and. given another chance tojde- cide what, he would do/by the.jwo 4 i ‘ charge... When. he. agai fused, saying: he. was net(requi an’ under officer, to do ‘so,:;he% thrown down, the shaft and kiled. The burial ‘was’ witnessed, his cm- rades’ sald, by a British sailor, yho told about it on the following day, Eventually the Americans ere taken to the prison camp at Oplagen. For their work they got six cent a . ‘ans of the league movement, arrived ta Bismarck yesterday to remain for tWe balance of the session. He is the father of Walter J. Maddock, league fléor leader in the house, and he'r rather proud of the kid. CHINA GENERAL ~* ~\ WINS. $100,000.00 day. Armistice Starts Riot. | On November 9 they learned of the ’ -ormistice. On: thit day riots wereipre- cipitated in the’ town in whichthe Americans were stationed, and ‘ma- we up to quell the ALS yo rines had been hurriéd } disorders.’ On “Novem! came that the armistice” signed and..-that. all the were ‘now free. i It: was. arranged ‘shortly: afterward prisoters Pen, China, . 16.—China - has‘ had gheat difficulty ‘over ja little-mat- ter of, \ pea to defray, the expense of its legate to the peace conference at Verspilles, i Bie nner Chang Huai-Chih, one of\\China’s. military ‘governors, 100, is but a matter of a few cule k at cards. 5) : 4 he eral accumulated just that ‘ei iether ‘military governors \which was incidental.to a conference\in. Pekin to bolster up the Hsu-Shih-Chang parliament. Not onlyidid the general profit by tbe i enter jinment feature ie oe eeting, bu\ a singing girl wl pleased that ilitary governors was given a_little\purse ‘of $8.000 for the entertainment\she furnished. Z Be mj I PRR-RoMISe TU] eaur r G-GUSSS that: they: were.'to' be seat to"Hottand for transportation to England with Engliea prisoners; ‘The men wereper- mitted to go through’ the town at’ vill, and the people, as well ag-their for- mer guards, were anxious to frater- nize, but ‘got“short shrift from the re- leased.men. eels TA, A German. wh6 styled himself as an ft international Socialist, went to’ the camp ‘to. tell the prisoners how glad he was that the war was over. “We are all brothers now,” he said with much gusto, but this was too much bs to swallow after months of hard work, poor food ‘anil overbearing. treatment, ~ and one of the prisoners greeted ithis exclamation with boos and grogns. The Soctalist depatted as disconso- late as did Sir Roger Casement when he ineffectually tri¢d® to ‘curry the ' favor of. Irish ‘prisoners in other cam vt eventful: trip to Holland jen- sued, and then the men were taken in charge by the British Red. Cross and went tone along with British Tom- mies. who had beetth the camp with OVIDE- CIENT HEAT IN Noun aoawTMenT House a AFTER aN ad Panna Ne al . aes, YOU MAY GET {coer Gow One Englishman (Lord Milner). i “Is this not,” he asks, “‘a humiliating posi- tion for the country south of the Tweed—the so-called ‘predominant partner’? England proper is said to contribute 70 to 80 per cent of the men in the British army, 90 per cent in the British navy, and about 90 per cent gf the British war expenditure. Yet she hai only one Englishman to make her voice heard — at this crisis in her history.” : ; Oddly, enough—though the Evening Standard - omits to mention it—the one Englishman cited, * | -4g the sum above what is required to keep society inning. It is what is left after the workers are ‘given ‘enough to keep them efficent and enough fias been put aside to maintain and extend in-| This surplus is the beginning of civilization. ‘Until it appears man can rise little above the heast.’ There can’be nothing of comfort, culture or abt” Ita tise decides the character of civiliza- It, built .Egyptian- pyramids .and temples. It fostered Greek sculpture and philosophy. In Rome <a 8S tig 2 6 Three Sons te Service. | “| Newnan, Ga—A. D. Harris of New- nan has given three sons to his cout- try’s fight 4 volunteered H. Harris; Marine corps, was killed in action at Bouresches, and his cour- age was warmly praised by his su- berior officets.. Marvin D. Harris was accidentally tilled “during a stor William: D. Harris, Marine corps, was Geverely wounded at Chateau-Thierry, i i E lh ili = i} i 8 8 lf ’ 4 # luxury upon the few and bread and| Lord Milner, was actually born in Germany, and Rubber Company, ee are s upon’ the many. In the Middle Ages it|his' father before him, since his grandfather, a mate Winget: || ‘The HURLEYS physician, there, without losing touch with ng ce and Concert ' outfitted Crusaders and decorated : Co ET aC ECE