The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1919, Page 4

- inclosed as farms is-uncultivatél? Bat‘when the THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter, GEORGE D. MANN -__- = Editor G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, _ Special Foreign Representative YOFK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; 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- lished herein. i All 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 .. ne +$7.50 | Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) wee 7.20 Daily by mail per year (In State outside of Bismarck) 6.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota...... siesta 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. Established 1873) EES THE GREAT SPECIFIC Can you remember the first time you felt the clutch of elemental fear? We can. One winter night, when the wind howled down the chimney with that peculiar goblin howl, we} glanced up from our play on the floor and there fillng one side of the room, was a great big black- ness. A moving, clutching, horrible grotesque black- ness that was there to devour small boys aged| three and a halt. Probably we had seen the weird’ shadows cast | hy mother rocking in her chair a thousand times | before without fear, but that time the great black- ness moving down upon us stretched the rope across the chasm of the pre-natal past and elemen-| tal, animal fear gripped us. H We wonder sometimes if much of the wildness and madness of the world is not from old causes ;| as without form and void as was this fear. We wonder if the race has not carried over,| from God knows what dark times, a substratum of | fear that outcrops occasionally and drives the! world into a panic. | And as well as we remember that great fear, we remember the leap we made for mother’s arms, | and how we hid our head under them and only after a great while looked out, and lo the shadow] was dwarfed to a mere play shadow, dancing for) our amusement on the wall. | As unreasoning as our fear was our rush for the protection of mother’s\ love. _ We wonder if the only thing that brings back} the world from its madness is not the mother love, the love of children, the love of wife; and the love of all that:is good and right. _... Perfect love casteth out fear. . That’s a golden text for humanity. The mothers of the world any night heap up! by fifty million babies’ beds enough love and devo- tion to save the world for at least a week. Frau Ebert says she will cling to the sim- plicity of private life. They all feel that way at first, but they are all human. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF LANDLORDS AS DEMOCRATIC. ENGLAND NOW SEES THEM The submarine brought England to the verge of famine because, since 1870, more than 5,000,000 acres of land had been dropped from cultivation. Plenty of reports have good reasons for this. There was no lack of books deploring it. But reasons and, regrets are poor weapons in war time. Only action counts, and England acted. In the last year of the war more than 3,000,000 previously idle acres were cultivated. Many an ancient vested right gave way to present human needs. Then the land problem fell within the scope of one of those remarkable committees of the British Ministry of Reconstruction that are drawing up the plans for the rebuilding of the British world. The unanimous report of that. commission is a revelation to those who still think of England in terms of the old days before 1914., It calmly rele- gates the dearest privileges of the old aristocratic Jandlordism of pre-war days to the limbo already cluttered with other rubbish of mediaevalism. The report assumes throughout that the land is for the use of all not for the pleasure of the few. It pays no heed to landlords’ rights if they conflict with public welfare. It unanimously proposes that where land is “not being fully utilized for the production of food- stuffs or timber” that the owner shall be given three years in which to fulfill those duties of public trusteeship which land ownership now involves in| Great Britain. If he fails to act within the three! years, the report advises that the board of agricul- ture “should put the estate, or such portion of the estate as it might deem necessary, into the hands of a manager” who “should have the same. powers in respect to the management of the agricultural land included in the estate as the owner had.” After five years the owner has another oppor-| tunity to prove his fitness to function as a pos- sessor of a section of the earth. If he fails the state manager continues for another five years, and so on indefinitely. There are no Bolsheviki on this committee. The chairman is the “Rt. Hon. Ear! of Selbourne” and his committee associates all bear the earmarks of conservative respectability. But they did not endure’ four years of war without learning some “In the United States nore than half the land jterms, he will need Dr. Davis for another repair {job on his teeth. | plaint now if necessity knows no mercy. bordering well built roads leading to established markets, with schools near at hand and surrounded with all the essentials of a civilization, and wan- | ders off through fragments of land on distant} frontiers. \ Do we too dearly “love a lord,” if he is a land- lord, to follow England’s examplé? Will the British nobility seek a haven in this “refuge of the op- pressed,” where rights of land ownership have lost their corresponding duties to the society that cre- ates and maintains them? SENSE AND NONSENSE We do talk a lot of nonsense just among our- selves, now don’t we? Take, for instance, a lot of the things we’re saying right now. Analyzed, some of our demands are for im- possibilities. Others are for the haste which makes waste. On second thought we find we don’t mean ex- actly what we say. We don’t mean, for example, to require future business’ dealings to be done on a no-profit basis. We really do mean that we want shiplocking profiteering made impossible. And that’s what will happen. We don’t mean less law, less orderly procedure when we call for more freedom. We do mean that we want all our liberties safeguarded by law, not left in nebulous form. We don’t mean to abolish capital, really. «We mean to direct and control its operators that it may not control us unjustly. ; At the core the American people are as sound as the best pippins in the orchard. They may talk nonsense. But they don’t mean anything but sense. Soon Helgoland will be Helgoneland. A very little fame swells a very little head. The right of self-determination won't be given to the kaiser. Perhaps they also serve who only stand and bait the administration. The chief weakness of idealism is that it has no understanding of details. Are we to begin the new era with the assump- tion that physical power gives the right to inter- pret justice? When the kaiser reads the, latest armistice How it ‘must irk the old-fashioned diplomat when his voice at a peace conference is drowned by the voice of labor. By the time the conference gets through with them, few of the fourteen points will point in the original direction. Our infant deporting business has a bright fu- ture, and every stride it makes brightens the fu- ture of the country. Even the knockers agree that the league con- stitution is theoretically sound. What they feared was that it would be mostly' sound. The Huns began it with the assertion that necessity knows no law. They have no just com- The Huns won’t really know how to appreciate a republic until they cultivate our habit of telling the chief executive how it should be done. With the Kiel canal open to commerce, Sweden will find less reason to love Germany if ‘the Hun ever tries his hand against the yorld again. Senator Owen complains that: Brest is not fit for cattle to live in, but there are few perfumed parlor suites available for men who make war Perhaps it is too much to expect that future rulers will derive their just power to declare war from the consent of those who must do the fight- ing. They made the armistice indefinite this time because Marshal Foch knew he would never be able to think of anything else to take away from Germany. Roger E. Simmons says there will be massacre in Russia if our treops are withdrawn. Better a mazssacre of Slavs than a massacre of unsupported American troops. Hit¢thcock complains, that the league will put us up to our necks in entangling alliances. We are already in. The question is whether we can afford to draw out. goes If conditions at Brest were ten times worse than Owen says they are, as the first step on the way home the place would still seem a paradise to. the boys over there. ‘ Russia is not all Bolshevik. When the de- cent element has swallowed its fill it will take charge again by such means as may be necesgary. Nations travail in the making, but order is the inevitable conclusion of chaos, From Grand Forks County. Caroline Laura Trott, Leila Flore! Trott, Kate Jones, Caroline Jor : ’ SUPREME COURT I : Leila S. : \ \ . SATURDAY, MARC ; ‘C'MON, START SOMETHIN’ ” ‘ : , mination, they will no heard to say that the p thority of in the scope of the } \\\ WN AY \ aspondents. | North ’Dakota, De-! | and Appellant. | Syllabus: | (1) A stipulation, fairmly e ‘relating to the conduct of a pe case, will not be set aside where action would be likely i ng! ial Starr, Cl vested } ed and rende ns submitting the controversy fo Het, 1919 yr, deter- thereafter be rocedure adopt- i jar and i er. ed was irregular and improp (3) A treaty made under the au the United States and with- legitimate powers the constitution is the su- of the land; its provisions + nugatory all in the laws ; and in case the duty of ous injury to one of the parties there- to. (2) Th of gencral j tics to a controv the subject matter of which is properly within the jurisdiction of such court, voluntarily n conflict aris ries of ev e to uphold an denforee the provisions. | m4) The ti ween the United $ [e Britain (Act March , which provides bjects of each of | oir personal property fee pe of the other, by testament, |donation or otherwise, and their heirs, and donees being citizens or of the contracting pal residents or non render a | citizens or subjects of the country ie thie property lies shall be liable to pay in I enders nugatory, as to the c ubjects of Great Britain, the ions of the North Dakot Tax Law, which i resident aliens a nosed Upon ia ze rewident aliens;.and the citi- 3 of subjects of Great Britain are ‘chargeable only with the same tax as \that chargeable against ¢ $ | resident aliens. ie rom an order of the district court of Grand Forks county, Cooley, J., de- Baene eppenls irmed. oe i Opion of the court by Christianson, 'Ch., J., Bronson, J., being disqualified, id not participate. ane Beer ttorney general, and nt attorney gen- lace, member of of Bismarck, for | Geo. K. Foster, Jeral, and Geo. jtax commissi | appellant. PMelntyre & Burtness, Grand Forks, | | for respondents. DAKOTA MOTOR “MOVES INTO ~NEW QUARTERS | The Dakota Motor company, distrib- Fordson tractor and the | Ford ¢ re moving into the Case | bnilding on Main street. This will give Item more room to handle their rapid- ly expanding business, intors of tl - What the American People “wars,” declares the Birmingham: Age- ‘hink of a League of Nations “Had the League been in existence in 1914, Europe would have escaped the bloodiest of all Terald. the experiment of a League. of Nations New York Sun which says: “If the presen it means the restriction of our independence: While the majority of the newspapers of America regard s tremendously ,worth trying, some are as dubious a 1 ct méans the elimination of the Monroe Doctrine; if it means wé are tying our hands as concerns the inde- as the pendent action. of a free people and a free nation; if. it means that the United States shall carry the.load and pay in large measure the bills of maintaining peace in all the little countries of Europe and through- out the world=the little tribal nations and the big nations as well; if it means the hampering of this nation in its economic relations to and with the other nations of the world, is it good.enough for. this free nation—is it. the thirig we want?” on the League of Nations, Other articles of immediate interest to all thoughtful readers are: Jews from America in the Bolshevik Oligarchy Jewish and non-Jewish Editorial Opinion Regarding the ‘Testimony of Dr. George A. Simons Before the Senate Committee That Is Investigating Bolshevism in the United States Meaning of the Western Strikes “No Beer, No Work” How Our Allies Regard the Peace- League Plan ; An Ex-German Colony for India How the Hand Spreads Influenza $2,000,000 in “Saving the Pieces” A Fourteenth-Century Miracle on the East Side Japan to Cast Out German “Kultur” Red-Cross Work After the War Lax Justice in Belgium Best of.the Current Poetry Lithuania Read THE LITERARY DIGEST this week for public opinion Skimming the Melting-Pot American Troops to Leave Russia German Intrigues to Split the Allies “Seventeen-Year Locusts” 1919 English and Accidents Due in Dubious Benefits of Science The Doughboy’s Shakespeare What Kind of a Memorial? ‘A Village of Disabled Soldiers English Doubts of Prohibition News of Finance and Commerce Personal Glimpses of Men and Events Many Striking Illustrations, Including Cartoons Why The Literary Digest Is So Popular In the “Movies” THE LITERARY DIGEST Topics of th y flashed on the screen the enthusiasm eee 3 The average audience in a first-class motion-pic- ‘ ture’house is typically representative of the Amer- ican spirit; while it is good-natured, it demands the best. When, thrilling dramas of love, war, and adventure are unfolded before it, in which famous million-dollar stars perform prodigies of agility and valor, it is more than generous in the matter of applause. . When the “Pictorial Weeklies” trans- port it-in. a. twinkling to,the four corners of the rth it is not at all backward about sounding its appreciation... But when the scene changes and this novel and attractive The audience rocks with | over each one in the series with their lively humor, keen feature is unbounded. jaughter and: applause : of punch paragraphs satire, and trenchant witticisms on the social, political, and other foibles of the day. The “movies” are but the world and the popularity of the Day is but the echo of the ever incr of acclaim that greets each weekly of THE LITERARY DIGEST. the mirror of Topics of the easing chorus reappearance March 1st Namber on Sale ‘Today—All News-dealers—-10. 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