The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1919, Page 4

Entered at the‘ Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., a _ Class Matter. GEORGE D MANN - - - ~~ _- _ Editor er eG, LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, fi ‘oreign Represent ive NEW YOFK. Tifth Ave. Bldg; CHICAGO, Marquette ‘Blg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege INNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exc { MBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press ig 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- ished herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein also reserved. MEMBERS AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ily by carrier per year ........- 50 mal ear (in outside is re . y ty mail-outside of North Dakot: --. 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) WOMAN’S VICTORY MERELY POSTPONED, BATTLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS SHOULD— AND WILL—CONTINUE The fight is now transferred from the senate to the people. Some day it will be a “suffrage senate.” That day won’t be long coming. The failure to secure a two-thirds vote in the upper house of congress is the stepping stone to a more vigorous prosecution of the battle for woman’s rights; what probably will be the last and suc- cessful “drive” for suffrage already has started. But it is the people’s battle. When the people have wen congress will O. K. the mandate. When the majcvity of voters of two-thirds of the states stamp their approval on the Susan B. Anthony amendment it will become a part of the American constitution. That this may be anticipated was forecast by the senate vote. States where popular majorities had been rolled up for suffrage’ gave senatorial support to woman’s rights; states, where the people had withheld majority approval, opposed suffrage in the senate. ! Clearly. the suffragists should labor along the highways and byways where the people dwell, city pavements and country roadsides. And, take it from the senatorial vote, there are many such highways aud byways needing suffrage attention in the northeastern and southern states, for from those two sections came the bulk of the opposition yote. So, too, may the suffragists appeal to the people whe are represented in the senate by Pom- erene, Reed, and Borah, lone middle states sena- tors who have not become convinced that woman suffrage is woman’s right and not a privilege. » \ No doubt the people of Ohio, Missouri and Idaho will speak a bit louder and more:distinctly > ¢5soon so that Pomerene, Reed and Borah (or ‘their ~ -\shevesgors) may hear and heed. Southern states 2S aAnd=fiom Pennsylvania northeastward there is 1, l@tely to be some changes of senatorial votes. But, 2 ays, must the right be carried to the people of those states first, Attacking anti-suffrage sena- tors would be much like denouncing a rubber stamp for hot, doing what the elbow above should yt CF MARRY DYBE MERRY | ee ‘Hey, young fellers, dot’t let*yourselves in, for ‘othe dawgondest, dismalest feeling inthe world. This feeling comes when, after you’ve been fairly well contentéd'to spend your life in Single “blessed- ness” wondering what to do with your evenings and. cussing the city’s various beaneries during the day, you unexpectedly bump into that old time pal of your’s for whom you were best man when he married that rattle-brained Snipkins girl. Your pal has his family out bouncing in a sway-backed flivver, but he looks as rosy and happy as the leading millionaire of the boulevards. “Hey, old top,” he shouts at you, “what’s the mat- ter? You look a million years old! It’s a cinch 2 you're: nots married—you wouldn’t. look so old if you were!” par ; ~ AS you glance at his' wife who! has developed into a fine, attractive woman, and at his dear, chubby, chattering children, you feel an all-gone, down-and-out, clammy sort of a gasp in the pit of your stomach—the world suddenly turns blue and you feel so altogether useless. you want to crawl somewhere and pass away. And you do totter into “a ‘dark spot where the wrinkles at the corners of your eyes won’t show and where you can give yourself a good swift kick for not following your $ pal’s advice and marrying a good wife early like : ¥ he did. / * Then you make a sudden resolution. It’s not too late yet. You'll marry some nice girl and have a fine family of your own. And you hustle around ; and find all the nice girls so busy marrying young * men that they have no time for you and you are % forced to chin with their aged uncles and cousins and aunts. And then, when you've thoroughly wakened up to the fact that you’ve missed out on life’s best, ; you wonder how a man.can feel-so terribly old and i 5 unnecessary and all that and still live. Take it from an old timer, young timers, it’s a dawgone dismal feeling! Apia een THINK OF THE STEPS THE POSTMAN i SAVES YOU e It’s a fact: The postman rents you his legs! . He is paid from $900 to $1200 a year, or from $450 to $600 for each leg. » The busy man deposits money in a bank and mails checks to his creditors. He haves his legs. cacao munity by its postman. That’s only a part of the saving the postman makes for the community he serves. Yet some of us fail to think of him in this way when he wants a raise in pay. When professional soldiers must wear overalls and appear in public parades carrying packs, war will lose caste as a profession. ee ees | WITH THE EDITORS’ | THE RESURRECTION OF HERRON A good many people in this Northwest country who remember the circumstances under which Professor George Herron separated himself from the faculty of Grinnell college, for the good of the college, have been wondering how it happened that) _ President Wilson came to select him as one of the American commissioners to the conference with the Russians at Princes’ Islands. f Since Professor Herron left Iowa with a new wife who was reputed to be wealthy, and estab- lished a school of Socialism in New York, most everybody hereabouts had forgotten about him, but it appears that he took up headquarters some years ago in Switzerland and that recently. he has been touring Europe bearing American passports as a member of a commission of Socialists which has been publicly thanked for its services by our state department. In seeking now to account for his selection for this particular mission we are reminded of a recent book, issued by Professor Herron, entitled, “Wocdrow Wilson and the World’s Peace.” One reviewer speaks of this work as “one of unre- strained eulogy, a sort of religious rhapsody.” Some features of this. work are quite interesting In it we find that the president’s address of Janu- ary 27, 1917, uttered as a plea for “peace without victory,” is treated ‘As a'sort of political Sermon on the Mount, summoning the world to political and industrial repentance. In this connection the author, Professor Herron, describes President Wilson as “the world’s first international states- man.” He thinks that if the president’s ideals were realized, Europe would “become a different and well-nigh Edenic continent.” But the presi- dent, he says, is not merely an idealist; he has “spiritual adroitness,” whatever that may be. He tells us that notwithstanding his ‘too proud to fight,” “kept us out of war” and “peace without victory” sentiments, and his Shadow Lawn of Octobée}1916, ‘accusing the opposition’c sire to“embroit” the country in the war, ascribe, aon alP the" Credit for the ‘en- trancefpf the United States into the war on the side of the Allies. “Mr.@Hughes,” he gays, “was the avowed candidate’of Berlin for nomination and election” —a very distressing.reyelation indeed. But it is when Professor Herron, the.‘Chris- tian.Socialist,” undertakes tojinterpret’the presi- dent; ag he understands him, that we get clearly the viewpoint Whieh the duthor of this interesting work would husverusstakes = *Weedtow Wilsbty he | says, “is not only the greatest statesman that has appeared in the world in years,’ but “he is also’ determined and tremendous radical . . . He is revolutionary beyond anything his words re- veal; beyond anything his contemporaries have discerned. He has indeed been ex- traordinarily shifty in the accomplishment of the things he believes basic and right; but the shifts he has made have been linked together in a divine- ly democratic processional. ‘ : He has knowingly undermined certain of the founda- tions upon which the capitalist society rests. ‘ As compared with Woodrow Wilson there are Socialist spokesmen who are bourbon in their understanding) diidtsympathy.” Of course; it is quite possible that the president never heard of this book, but we do not think it probable; neither does the reader... If this is a misinterpretation of the president ; if he would not be sounderstood and represented, and had knowl- edge of the book, it seems quite improbable that he would have selected the author for a mission of this kind. There may be some other explanation for the discovery and the preferment of this Socialist for this important mission. It may even be contended that as a commissioner to deal with hostile Rus- sian groups, some of which are Socialists, it is desirable to select a Socialist; but it would seem as if someone might be discovered who had not, as Professor Herron has, come to the conclusion that “if she (Germany) will but realize this new kind of national integrity, this new order of national being, then may Germany even now and at once step into a place of stupendous spiritual leader- ship, her sons becoming the first born of that superhumanity which the prophets of all times and races foreshadowed. . . It is even possible that Germany might suddenly. beseech Woodrow Wilson to lead the world in the pursuit of this ineffable goal.” “ What is there about this Herronesque concep- tion of the German character which would pecu- liarly qualify the representative of America, even if he must be a Socialist, for dealing with the tools of Germany in Russia? If there must be a Social- ist on that commission for America why this man? Why not John Spargo, or Charles Edward Russell He makes use of the postman’s legs. If 10,000 . business men save one hour each every day—and that estimate is away too low for any big city like : or Allan T. Benson? ‘ The country has had to put up with a good deal because Creel wrote a book. How __ New York or Cleveland, Detroit or Chicago,}much of this sort of thing is there going te be?— te a as — 2 have $10,000 saved each day, to the business com- »|i:able per diem’ and actual travel- +|the publication by the state of text UNITED STATES BUREAU OF EDUCATION OPPOSED TO N. P. PLAN OF STATE EDUCATION The Nonpartisan league press is making the assertion that senate bill No. 134, ‘the bill-providing for the administration of the penal and educational institutions and of the public schools of the state, is based on recommendations of the United States bureau of education. In referring to the provision of the bill relat- ing to the printing and distribution of text books by the state and the necessity .to, investigate ‘this matter, Kansas and California are iene out as eo examples.”” ( , CoMparesthe plan recommended by the bureau of education wien Oe of bill No. 134. “ys tatyggee DHE DEADLY PARALLEL... = Buletin, 1919, No.4 Senate Bill N Bureau of Education A, state board . of/, education composed of from. ;five’ to; seven members. “To: serve without re-\ muneration except fora’ reason- mbers, “ach member shall receive a salary of $3,000.00 per annum and wall traveling and necessary ex- penses while in the discharge of + his duties.” Appointed by the governor, Senate Bill No. 134 ing and other ‘necéssary cx- penges.” AN Appointed by the governor by and with the consent of the sen-. ate, : ite ud Bureau of Education soyegEberstate:beerdrto be primarily a. lay...board,..-represgbting the larger educational polities of the public, delegating — typ =profes.,.., sional side of education and the administration of the general pol- icles to the state superintendent of public instruction. | The U. S. bureau of Education has investigated the question of. state printing of text books. See pages 64 and 65 of U. S. Bulletin, 1919, ‘No. 4, U.S. bureau of education. This reports on the two states, Cali- fornia and Kansas, “the excellent ex- amples.” This is what the report says: “In California the legislation permitting Ye mission, to investigate the ques- tion of text books, Comm \ ‘i Go out of existence! ie aN 1920. .. Tobe. member of? an adyisory * commission to consist: of five members. To meet at such times and placés as the board may des- ignate, } author of the history of the state printing of text books in California as ‘a time of contention, strife and abuse, very disquieting to those who are responsible for the enterprise.’ ” Under the report on Kansas it says: “It ig doubtful if many state will con- sider seriously the question of pub- lishing their own text books.” Why nrivab ee the U. S. bureau of education? Is not such misrepre- books was passed in 1883, and it cbn- tinued practically withouy change for 20 It is characterized by the EVERETT TRUE WHAT VALID ©xCusée 1 DON'T KNO DID YOU, HAVG FoR |] Ou are A mar RESORTING TO SUH 4 LSS .\ —— = =F 5 “i = sentation sufficient cause for ques- tioning the motives of the supporters of this bill, By; Condo WHETHER (GD MAN OR. NOT, BuT MT WIth Wr race eathr aon he HEY, SWEENEY! Get TH PADDED CELL READY. xs 2 SartERe\>o —* : ° 4 | PEOPLE’S FORUM | ——————______—__* CALLS JT ILLOGIC Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 10, 1919. Editor Tribune, Dear Sir: ‘Some remarks on address delivered by J. W. Brinton at the His- marck Auditorium last Saturday eve- ning! The business of logic is to help us to think clearly and obje-tively, express ourselves plainly and accnrately, rea- son corréctly.‘and estimate aright tle statements. and ,arguiueuts of others., Judging. Mr.’ Brintén’s® address, “de: livered in the ‘Bismar:&: Atditorium Saturday... evening,.. according tothe principles of logic it mast be said of; 134 z AC Ai 7 pit, that it was full of glaring logical Perris 4 an ani NST Fraitactes. In lus Introductory, remarks | © he referred, to the, fact ‘that he ‘and other ‘Nonpartisii’ leaders have -beea called “agitators” and he:proceeded. to, show that it is a compliment to be called: an;agitator. In that process of reasoning he committed his first logical fallacy.” Jesus Christ, he said, was the first great, agitator. fed bediuse ‘thie people lacked: the vis- ion to see that what he agitated’ was for their welfare He<also named George Washington, Abraham Lincaln and Theodore Roosevelt as great .aghs «| tators,,) He | mentioned these ‘four’ as great -agitators; that had: helped to make, the world better. Theréfore, he concluded, all agitators were good, and it is a compliment to be called an agitator. We will agree that the Son of God and the three great Americans named were good “agitators,” but it does not follow from that that all agi- tators are good. The major premise is particular. It refers to four par- ticular individuals only. The rule of logte is that from a particular premise you can draw no conclusion. If the wajor premise had been: All agita tors are good, then the conclusion that Mr. Brinton and all-other league agi- tators are good would have been a valid conclusion. But no one can make the-assertion that all agitators ure good. Jesus Christ, an agitator, wish to, use that term, was er ple up to do so. The askassin’s: bul- Jet found its'mark in Abraham Lincoln becs use. of the. work: of-agitators. There are good agitators and bad pends on which class the particular agitator belongs to. Y Apply'the principles of logic to the addresses of the four. “agitators” re- ferred to and you will find that the'r reasoning is sound. It rests on soiid bed rock. That is a characteristic ¢f PARDON, Mi 1 was HAS every “good agitator”—he does not re- sort to the tricks of logic to confuse his audience. $ The next logical fallacy: The city of Bismarck was bonded for $40,000 10 build an auditorium. The state school fund was used to purchase the bonds. Therefore, it is no more than right that the bonds to be issued with which to build the farmers’ terminal cleva- tors, packing plants, ete. should be purchased by the state scaowl funds. The assertion that the farmers guar- anteed these bonds was made. In the case of the Bismarck bonds the city of Bismarck has given secur- ity to the state of North Dakota for the bonds. The city of Bismarck clone is responsible. If the auditorium should be destroyed the people of Bismarck would be the loosers and not the state of North Dakota. In the case of state bonds for state owned industries pur- chased out of the state school fund, the state of North Dakota gives secu- rity to the state of North Dakota. It is not a farmers’ undertaking. That was simply an attempt to mislead. If the venture is a failure the state of North Dakota would make good the school funds to the state of North Da- kota or in other words the state (all the people) would loose just that amount of money. If a husband loans his. wife some money with which to speculate and the wife makes a poor He was cruci-|/ because other agitators stirred the pea-],- agitators, and“whether ‘or not it is a|; compliment to be called an.agitator de-| * PYésl’ Everybody _Takes Cascarets Only 10 cents! Harmless cathartic for. sluggish liver and bowels Feel bully! Cheer up! Take Cas- carets to liven your liver and clean the bowels and stop headaches, bilious- ness, bad breath, coated tongue, sal- lowneés. sour stomach and gases. To- night take Cascarets and enjoy the nicest gentlest liver and bowel cleans- ing you ever exverienced. Wake up feeling grand—Bverybody’s doing it. Cascarets best laxative- for children. They gladly take this pleasant candy cathartic because it never grips or sickeng like other things. =o on good security there would be noth- ing lost to the family. : ‘The state school fund is a trust fund and it was never intended that the state should Joun itself that fund with which to speculate. The farmers hold several million dollars of this fund, but that is guaranteed by first mort- gage farm loans bv ‘each individual farmer. Seyeral millions have been borrowed by school districts, guaran- teed by each individual district, ete. But if the State issues bonds for pub- lie utilities and these bonds are pur- chased by the school fund and the un- dertaking should be a failure, then what? Oh, yes, the school fund can be made good by the state, but there is: just that much lost to the state. |For Mlustration, let us say the state ‘would have to reimburse the school fund to the extent of $25,000,000. Then that $25,000,000 would not represent a heritage left in trust to the state by the national government, but $25,000,- 000 out of our own pockets and we would feel ‘the difference. In the discussion. of the Bank of North Dakota the, jword “politics” served the speaker, to,,cover up the issue. The word “politics” has two meanings. (See Webster's New Inter- national Dictionary.) In the good sense it means the science of govern- ment. In the bad sense it means poli- tical trickery. The federal reserve bank, the speaker stated, had been es- tablished by -politics. (In the good or bad sense of the word?) Therefore the assertion. that the North Dakota bank would be manipulated by poli- ties was accepted with approval. Be- cause the Federal Reserve bank was established through politics (in_ the good sense of the word) the North Dakota bank may under the law pro- yiding- for: it be more. readily manipu- lated by politics (in the bad sence of the word). “(I'am not discussing the merits of,.the North’ Dakota bank but (Mr. “Brinton’s reasoning.) The logical fallacy with the address as.a: Wholeswas that in the discussion of the ‘whole Teigue program proba- bijities .were ; a en for certainties. ‘One could ni ppt feel that the peaker ednétdered “if almost a crime 1 COTM With him. 1, for one, am} willis 5 be convinced. I nothing to.do with’ “big biz.” 1 faye’ very little to, lose or gain no matter what the result of the league program, but I’ am-s0 constituted that I. cannot,,be convinged by: logical falla- cles. p ae | YA RESPECTE bryor TO THE ADDRESS: Teeth! at ‘Sie Youlwant iy to be healthy andActivé!’ give “them Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea thig month. 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