The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 31, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE disloyalty is errested. In some factories the men oe eee are kept as virtual prisoners, working within Ratered at the Posjotsice, pam N. D, ss Second | barbed wire fences, sleeping in barracks and ANN =f sate | guarded day and night by Chinese mercenaries —~ voreign Representatives ‘who shoot them if they try to escape. NIA oe LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, | Such are the blessings of Bolshevism! In the praninctte Bldg, Paps - Kresge Bldg.\country best fitted for it, with the fairest of PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH chances, it proves unendurable. How much longer NEW YOO MBEROP AG CIATED Fe § jwill credulous fools in fortunate America refuse The Ansociated Prena i ‘caclusively entitled to the use to see it as it is? for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise ted in this paper and alao the local news poblished Bldg. It takes some Germans a long time to realize ithat there is any difference between a just pe and just peace. in, 5 eer righta of publication of special dispatches hereta sre TEMBER AUDIT LATION MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCUL, 4 BUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier per year 00 $7.20 If the Germans cannot see the fourteen points Dally by mail per year (In Binmarck) ......++++++ 7-20; t Betty iy malt Pr lds, (in state outside of 5 «) one —maybe the fifteenth—the point of a gun—will THE 6 7 ST NEWSPAPER ‘convince them. J | WITH THE EDITORS | (Established 1573) ———— —— THE WORLD WILL COME TO KNOW YOU A crowd of young people went to the country | DISTRIBUTING ZERO in search of spring flowers. They found a field) pening impaired the fixed capital and used up filled with blossoms of all kinds. Blooms that ; ithe liquid capital of Russian society in order to ‘conred their heads high above the other plants apply the principles of Karl Marx and supply shouted at the pickers to include them in their | everybody with plenty. Instead, he has supplied iquets. every Russian with starvation, rags, nonemploy- But, the b went right by the more ment, woe, and tens of thousands with dishonor, aggressive plants and searched ‘under the bushes | torture and death. If proof of the pudding is in| and briara to find the modest, sweet scented vio- the ¢ ting, the pudding which Lenine ‘served the} Jets, wie Russian people its worse than ashes, It is poison. Honors do not always go to most pro- The assumption of Marx and of Lenine is that, nounced personalit They may gain attention —— i tm th cn hee ee tee sme g ce th htm there exists an immense sum of food and goods, | for a time because of their atriking appearance, which if properly distributed would supply every- but 4 weary world will turn er or later, to MRE, body sufficiently, but which is sequestered by the! more quiet type of man or woman with the awgeligew and consumed or hoarded by them. That gis-| scent of understanding. “ffribution has been defective and is susceptible of | One of the mysteri ; ahid improvement is entirely another story. promptness with which the wo the true make-up of man, beast, flow etables. You can be pretty sure that you are or s0on| will be known for just what you are. ory sume such an excess of food as to make an appre-| jable dent in the world amount of it. He might; | have a Gargantuan appetite, still he could not eat) BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS ‘have fish fromm Alaska, fruit from the tropics, he! wife should know still would be having no more than every ordinary | to be able to American nowadays has. When Queen Cleopatra! jerstanding shocked the ancient moralists by dissolving a pearl id that to drink in her wine, she committed no such vast! rear- extravagance as diminished her humblest sub- Just a4 we believe that a enough about her husband’s bus manage it, or at least watch the management of it, if he d the husband should know ¢ ing of children, and the work to be, Ject’s supply. independent if shis wife dies, or goes home Unless food is consumed, it is worthless, Un-| mother, or decite’ to tour for suffrage. Jess goods are distributed, they become a liability. | to The average man ix a pitts! sort of a boob Capital has no interest in*keeping food ‘from the} when left alone with the children. /consumer or goods fromthe user, The opposite is| 1 him not knowing “4Pital’s interest. “And shortage,4n either com- of little Modity jis almost always a physical shortage, not iough for the moment to go around. Indeed cap- | tal’s business and interest lies in aiding’ produc- auch 10M and distribution as much as possible. The farmer owns the means of food production. The manufacturer owns. the means of goods produc- fithholding his stuff, but ix production. Weather And there is no excu. where the safety pi elon brother, or where the flour bim is, or what th: chain dish cloth is on earth A man can learn to cook his own nucal less time than it takes to master goll!, and wash- ing dishes is not much har ig lishing. tion, Nei ite b Indeed the hushapd that can put on and take by thee eae af off the family Wash, and who kens the distinction! ma¢ lirhth-the farmer's production or adverse cir- Peeween boiling the white clothes and not boiling | cumstances thé: mMahdfacturer’s in which ine the colored clothes, may easily save himself a lot! yn... 4 Parent of grief, and several big round ten’dollar pieces adie eee istribute, less for the consumer to The monotony of housework is what galls, but| Lenine took hold of hi bl b for a short season the job is not unpleasant. ha il sat nohy ualianiatouoey ine the hile The husband who can make bread, and turn) andle; sHe did not ancreabe production, but iellled out a batch of cookies, and achieve a custard pie ue his ree business to Usstzoy on upels with a decent bottom crust, has the edge on his capital, that is to say,'to weaken or to render use- brethren, who eat from a can when their wives go| less the yecone ot production » He destroy ed, not to the seashore, and who, in desperation, acquire only the incentive to production, but the machinery another perfectly needless wife when number one for it, and by machinery is Theant not only the goes to Heaven, or the superior court. machines, but the organization. Part of all or- Also there would be fewer divorce courts if ganization, indispensably part, are management the man knew enough about the tedium of con- and wages. Lenine dispensed with that part— with what consequences he-ngw knows. stant keeping house to appreciate the wife’s occa- sional need for a short vacation. ea. Marx blamed distribution, Sind-Bocialists say ‘The man who can once a week take charge of the whole trouble is distribution. Lenine in order (he evening meal and leave the pantry as he found to improve distribution, curtailed production, as it, hexides, will be a happy husband, and the wife| °lalists always do whenever they get the chance vho can understandingly sit in on her husband’s| Practically to test their theories. So absorbed in There is no millionaire who can himself cont 7 | more than two or three men’s rations, He might | -——~— job will be a happy wife, the errors of distribution are socialists that it ror peepee never occurs to them that the original problem ‘is that of production. There are faults in distribu- tion, of course, as in everything human; but Europe's condition today is one of immense dem- onstration of how narrow is the margin between production and consumption, of how wide the ex- cess of demand over supply can speedily, become, of how essential to any consumption at, all, much more an adequate one, is the function of capital, and of what a mess of it Lenine has made. The socialist has got hold of the animal by the tail instead of the head. The problem of econom- ics is fundamentally that of production. Labor shares in what wealth there is in proportion as it increases production. Increased production is all there is to be shared—as Russian proletarians who now own the unproductive mills are finding out. They own the mills, but they are in rags, own the forests, but are without fuel, control the state, but do not eat. There is a vast shortage in Germany. Those who can pay the prices get what there is. But what there is cannot be increased enough to go around by killing the rich. The rich very often in history have been killed, sometimes deservedly. But the only way the poor ever have increased their own quota has been through increase of the whole amount of commodities. Until the war opened there had been for a century a steady aug- mentation of world-production, measured for wage earners by a steadily rising wage. There was more and more produced and hence more to be dis- tributed. But when too little is produced, the best BLESSINGS OF BOLSHEVISM Things are happening fast in Russia now. Bol- shevism at Jast is on the toboggan slide. The things which level-headed critics of the Lenine- Trotaky regime foresaw are coming to pass. The ambitious “proletariat dictatorship” which hoped to destroy all the “capitalistic” governments ig de- stroying itself. The Bolsheyist armies have been beaten almost everywhere, time after time, in recent weeks, until they have hardly another good fight left in them, That is only a symptom. They are going to pieces because the industrial system behind them is dis- integrating. ‘ ! A dispatch from Geneva the other day an- nounced that in the last three months hundreds of thousands of industrial workers have deserted Moscow and Petrograd and gone into the country to become farmers. The exodus is estimated at 70 percent of the workers. As a result, hundreds of factories are idle. The workers left because they were paid only with worthless paper money and found life in the cities impossible. They stole and took with them, whenever they could, raw materials and manufactured goods from the fac- tories, to exchange for land and livestock. Thus the big industries, which were previously losing money right along under the ignorant and, shiftless Bolshevist control, are ruined. In the hope’ of Staving off the final catastrophe as long as possible, it is said that drastic measures have The workers SATURDAY EVENING LETTER By Justice J. oe SATURDAY, MAY. 31, 1919, A TICKLISH TRAIL iy a E. Robinson | appeals, because some judges bave noi yet learned to do their vied work on time. Some people are slow to learn the import- ance-.of pressing their work and n permitting ft to lag or to press them. My recipe for turning work into pleas- Ure is to press it with vigor from t word go and knock the Devil out of it. Thirty appeals are now on the court calendar and.set for argument during the June term. commencing next Tues- day. arly-in July we hope to/clear the slate gnd to dispose of every case and then to adjourn until Sep- tember. mence a:. new - deal. court will commence on the first Tues- day of each month, axcepting July and: August. Appellants must serve and ‘file their briefs at the time of filing the-appeal record, so that with- in. thirty days every appeal may be heard and determined, . Now let us turn to the recent con- stitutional amendments and statutes on which there is a difference of opinion. The amendments have been Then we purpose to. com- The terms of ‘undone, and to-draw their salary aks duly approved by the people, the leg- islative assembly and the supreme court—and they have come to stay. They rejate mainly to state industries and do not in any way repeal or su- persede the body of the constitution. And the statutes which are most in question are truly. constructive. and progressive measures and do conform to the purpose and the spirit of the amendments. To a great extent such legislation is, and ever must be, ex- perimental and subject toi change from time to time in accordance with thé light of experience. Without |somé' experimenting there is no progress: While the result of the new laws “ts present, slightly increase the taxes, the purpose must be within a few years to greatly reduce or do away with: all taxation::-With public owner- ship and the operation of public utili- ties, if the state cannot learn to exist and make a good profit as other cor- porations do, without the levying of taxes, then the state should go out-of business, The old system of taxation ig a barbarism—a relic of feudalism— which should be humped at the earli- est moment. Every private corpora- tion pays expense: and makes a profit or ceases to exist; why should not public corporations do the same? Why should any state or municipality con- tinue to play the part of a big nurs- ling or a huge vampire? ‘One of the recent ‘statutes provides for the hiring of an expert city man: ager to make the city pay its own expenses and a profit. And so, un- bthedum actaatly: ing for new investments may, for §hé}?” The Whisper That roa The Glorious ‘Knowledge Women Gain When » Wonderful Thought Happiness in its most, thrilling degrea comes to woman with the: thought, of, pos sessing a baby. ’ Every woman, in the joy of coming moth- should prepare, her system for the unusual strain, rire erations: haya found the tried and» rellable | ak gatperal Mother's Friend, of the greatest help at such a time. By its Sally ‘use throughout the lod, the skin of the abdomen is mado soft and elastic, expanding muscles relax easily when baby arrives, and pain at ths crisis is in this way avoided, ite {b@ammation of breest glands ta Obtain from your druggist, all means, this great preparation which’ sfence has of: fered for o man- Mees to expectant rs. hers. Write the Bradfeld Regulater Company, D, Lamar Building, Atlanta, Georgia, for thelr Tn application of Marxian theory” cannot distribute what does not exist,—Minneapolis Journal, ‘ been adopted to end the desertions. who remain sei ant centers are obliged to labor under su nce, Anyone suspected of helpful ana interesting Mother- hood Book, and the use of Mother's Friend. It {s for ex “ae use, is absolutely eafe and wonderfully effective. And remember, there is nothing to tak .# place of NOTHER'S FAIEND. an expert manager to run the affairs of the state on business principles. Un- der the present laws all business prin- ciples have been discardéd'Men are elected or hired to serve’ 'thé’State'in’ various gapacities; they ‘work with- out.any supervision.or accounting and e free to do their work or leave jt, the same. Of course under such a system it is vain to look/for business success. It isa headless system. What if the judges of the U. S. su- préme court/were employed by, a man- ager with! power to:'say: Do your work or quit your job. ‘Would they go afishing and leave their work to lag for one, two or three years, or i haed a. month? Nggesin; they would clear e ‘docket atthe bit of each njonth:) course they"hat he geapacity to. fF ‘and if aa bate athe id’ give place to others that have the capacity. Let us not a few of the new statut Here are the exemptions,,from 'taxa- tion jl Household goods Clothing Tools, working men . 300. ‘Farm implements .... «« 1,000 All farm improvements exempt, and all structures on town lots to the amount of $1,000. se. $ 300 . 300 Assuredly such statutes do bespeal the dawn of a new and -better day. Under the former system the laws permitted snap and surreptitious fore- closure sales and: the taking of six mortgages to secure one loan, with a view of securing ruinows attorney's fees or snap foreclosures. Now on a:foreclosure:the sheriff's fee is $3.00; the :-attorneyts'sfset-must'inot exceed $26/'ant) moto dase fen: ‘pér cent of ‘ué.t' Thefé must be “"\| debtor has the use of his land until ;| the expiration of the year of redemp- tion; and after maturity a debt draws no greater rate of interest than be- fore maturity. It must be so that the Kingdom's come and the year of jubi- ; lee. er of re-;der an amendment to the constitu-|" Phere is a referendum.on the bill 1 on hand /| tion, it may become advisable to hire/qiviging the state into six judicial districts, with three additional judges at a salary -of $4,000 a year. The chief objection to the bill is the addi- tional, expense of the judges, but that is a mere bagetelle comparéd with the expense ofthe referendum, and de can-readily perceive.this act will tend ito:securebetter ‘judges and a better administration of justice. In a large judicial district, with two or three judges, the big law firms cannot so easily nominate or elect the judge; nor cen they rely for special success on special fayors of any one judge. Like him who said’ Good Lord and Good’ Devil, they will not know into whose hands they may fall. The law- yer will have less jull on the judges. in: Fargo and in Grand Forks the hig! law -firms-and ‘big’ interests have Pcoiimonly “nominated and elected the judge,,.. In v : large number. of ‘counties it will not’ be so easy to contro] and elect or to capture the judge; and ‘it will be pos- sible to secure better judicial timber. ines ES OSptor GERMANS CARRY ON ‘HOSTILE AGITATION Coblenz, May 3, (Correspondence of ‘The Associated Press).—Considera- ble anti-American ‘ propaganda is be- ing published in German newspapers visited the Bhine’ zone. occupied by the American army. Sore. | gf! thei writings set fofth what purpofts ito be thirty days. The thelr own opinions of the conduct:of EVERETT TRUE -- . BYCGONDO iNey, TRUS, DID You NEAR ABouT THe EXPLOSION € TAS WIND BLEW ve & THE RIVER'S WAS Si “ANYONG HURT BESIDES YOURSELF ?'!! strict, composed of a7atssion. (Phey! avake it by German newspaper men who have “: the Americans orsthe feelings ‘of the Germans in the occupied .territory. The writings of one German in a Lelpsic newspaper have afforded amusement to the American intelli- gence officers: though he wrote witi the evident intention to put Ameri cans in a bad Jight before the German civilias “On count of the sundry annoy- ing acts of the authorities,” he writes, “the population {s not at all satisfied with the American occupation and is | loud in its abuse of these mojestations |though, to be sure, this is all kept | within closed walls. Nobody dares to imake any criticism in public since re- kcent heavy sentences were imposed ton those guilty of careless rumors.” | Civilian visitors from unoccupied Germany expect to find great stocks (of food ‘in: all stores, many coming to ‘ahem. This is not securing supplies for themselves and taking” it back with them. This is not allowed., Re- garding food the writer in the Leip- wg newspaper says: “There have been all: kinds of stor- ies in Leipzig recently about the mar- vwelous Uhings one can purchase in the American occupied territory. It was ed that American stores had m established where al -kinds of od was sold at unbelievably low prices, That is all very true—but the German inhabitants are permitted only tg look at all these beautiful ar- jes. They can buy nothing. Every- ing is for the troops only. And ly to be gazed at by the Germans | and the doughnuts, the savory ords ‘of which fill the city of Coblenz, and which are baked from early ‘morning |antil late at night by the American i in in less than tyenty great The | Work of the military police, saying: ‘= very unpleasant imst&tiition'in Co- titer also touches on the blenz is the spy system. Posession ‘oft American property is, forbidden. | Whoever buys from American soldiers | cigarettes, food, shoes and_ clothing jand is caught with the goods is pun- | ished with a drastic’ fine.. or prison sentence.” du Submarizing. after writing., several colums, the writer, says..,in conclu- sion: oat. ate { “Disregarding. the arfogant behavi- jer of the conqueyor, the Americans in Cobtenz and "the, bridgehead von the Tight ‘of the Rhine’ conduct-. them- selves in a very proper manner. Of course, there are cases of disturban- ces by soldiers now-and then, but if a German and a military policeman is near enough to.arrest the soldier, one may rest assured that the military court will punish the American ac- cordingly. “All in all, judgment of the Ameri- cans may be summed up thus: They do not in reality ‘behave worse than would any other army of occupation. although the soldiers do annoy the Population—annoy it in many re- spects. And that is a desirable state of affairs. Thereby the. idea of sep- aration, which has already made con- siderable progress here and there in the, Rhinelaad; mwilliése more and more of its)suppartits,;and tt will be easier for! the»people ‘of thé _Rhine- lands to remain a part. of the empire.” FRECH DON'T SALUTE HUNS; KEEP. HATS OFF (N..E. A. Special.to The Tribune. Paris, May 31—The ‘natural cour- tesy of the Frenchman was ‘put to a test with the arrival of the German \peace delegatian,;. No..soldierowanted to sal@e the-members of fhe German ,@ simple texpedientio sh ey: see members of the Géfitay'‘party approaching, French soldiers’ take off their caps. The‘fact that Rantzau remained seat- ed while he addressed the peace con- greg® is looked upon by the French as a studied insult to the allied dele- gates, though a temporary illness is given as thé reason. COMING TO BISMARCK Dr. Mel s chee DOES NOT USE SURGERY Will Be At. M’KENZIE HOTEL Wednesday .and Thursday, June 11-12, Office Hours, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. TWO DAYS ONLY No Charge for Examination Dr. Mellenthin.is a regular graduate in medicine and surg- ery and is: licensed by the state of North Dakota. He visits pro- fessionally the more important towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip consultation and examination free, except the expense of treatment when desired. According to his method of treatment he does; not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids, He has to his credit many won- derful results in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, blad- der, bed-wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. Tf you have been ailing for any length of time and do not get any better, do not fail to call, as improper measures rather than disease are very often the cause of your long standing trouble. Remember above date, the ex- amination on this trip will be free and that his, treatment is different. 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