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LAST EDITION THIRTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 138. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS MANDAN FILLED WITHWORKERSIN SUNDAY SCHOOL Delegates to Annual Convention Arrive by Hundreds in Trains and Autoes RURAL CONFERENCE ON Slope Clergymen Have Promi- nent Place on Program— -_C. L. Young Presiding ‘Mandan is filled today with Sunday school workers. For the last 48 hours they -have been flocking in by the, hundreds in trains and automobiles from all parts of the state. Every available room in every Mandan hotel is occupied, and hospitable homes have. been opened to the overflow. The streets present an usually busy aspect, and no one would be left long in ignorance of the fact that Mandan this week is a big convention city. A rural conference at 8:15 this. morning opened the second day’s pro- gram of the annual convention of the North Dakota Sunday school associa- tion. The complete order of the day is as follows: FORENOON SESSION. The Palace Theatre, Charles H. Simpson, presiding. 8:15 Rural conference. 9:00 Worship and song—‘'New Meanings in Old Hymns,” H. Augus- tine Smith, Boston. 9:30 Bible hour, led by Rev. J, G. Duling, Dickinson. Topic: “Know Yourself.” Prayer—Rev. W. R. Peterson, Man- dan: b 9:55 “The Program of the Asso- elation Movement’—E. W. Halpenny, Chicago. ‘ What the association has meant. 10:25 To Me—F. O. Preston, New Rockford; John Ballinger, Flasher. 10:35. To My School—J. A. Van Kleeck, Fargo; Mrs, O. A. Henderson, Mandan, 10:45 To. My. District—Mrs, Henry Hjort, Kenmare; Roy Alford, Maple- ton. 11:00 To .My ~ Country—E. L. Wooldridge, Maxbass, Mrs, H. L. Kast- ner, Jamestown. 11:20>To My State—J. L. Rogers, Wisconsin; Walter Hutton, Iowa; George W. Miller, South Dakota. F > ©11:35 To North America—Mrs. Maude Junkin Baldwin, Chicago. 12:00 Adjournment. Convention picture. — - * AFTERNOON SESSIONS. Divisional Conferences. 4 EVENING SESSIONS. Three Simultancous ‘Sessionsr:-; _ 1, ; Alssocfation “ officers’- ‘banquet. Jobn:; Orchard, master. Z “8:45 “Informal get together. -6:15 Dinner. ee 7:00 Song: test. 8:00 Toasts. The District Ofticers—Roy Alford. The County Officers. The State Officers. Our Sister States—George W: Mil- ler, Huron. , The International District No. 6-~ Walter Hutton, Des Moines. é The International Association—F. W. Halpenny. : The International Training School) —Bertha R. Palmer. The Camp Conteran . Address—Mrs. Baldwin. Song. Mispah Benediction. —The Palace Theater. C. L. Young, Esq., Bismarck, presid- ing. it 7:30 Worship and song, led.by cop- vention chorus.. The Home , Road (Carpenter)—by convention chorus. Prayer. 8:00 “The opportunity and Respon- sibility Regarding the Religious Nur- ture and Education of Children’—E. W. Halpenny, Chicago. 2 A Song. Announcements. : 8:30 Stereopticon Lecture—‘The Life of Christ in Modern Art and ‘Hymnody,” H.. Augustine Smith, Bos- ton. 9:00 “The Education of the Whole Boy and Girl,” Miss Minnie J. Niel- son, state superintendent of ‘Educa- tion. . ‘Song. Adjournment. Il—Presbyterian Church. C. R. Ewald, Fargo, Presiding. 7:30 Worship: and ‘song. Prayer. 8:00 “The Education of the Whole Boy and Girl,” Mis#-Minnie J. Nielson, state superifitendetit of education. Song. by a The Home Road (Carpenter)—by convention chorus. 8:30 “The Opportunity and Respon- sibility Regarding the Religious Nur- ture and Education of Children,” £. W. Halpenny,, Chicago. 9:00 Stereopticon Lecture, “The Life of Christ in Modern Art and Hymnody,” H. Augustine Smith, Bos- ton. Song. Adjournment. BANK OF NORTH DAKOTA HAS ABOUT $40,000,000.00 Institution Will Open With Big Available Assets Public funds reported to the Bank of North Dakota, and which become available assets of #he institution as soon as it opens its doors, which Man- ager James R. Waters estimates will be within a week, amounted to just over $21,000,000 today. In. addition Manager Waters anticipates that a large proportion of the $20,875,000 legal reserve now carried by state banks outside the state will be trans- ferred to the Bank of North Dakota. The bank will not be in a position to actually receive funds until its vaults and safes are installed, which prob- ably will not be within less than a ‘week, : ei Dickinson, Toast-' THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT. MR. TOWNLEY’S PROGRAM Facts the Taxpayer Should Consider Before He Makes Up His Mind How He Is Going to Vote in the Referendum Election June 26 THE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION Senate Bill 184, introduced by J. I. Cahill of Leith, a salaried employe of A. C. Townley, creates a board of administration “for the general supervision and admin- istration of all state penal, charitable and educational institutions of the state, AND THE GENERAL SUPER- VISION OF THE PUBLIC AND COMMON SCHOOLS OF THE STATE. FOR THE EXERCISE OF THESE DUTIES OF GENERAL SUPERVISION THE PRESI- DENTS OR HEADS OF THE SEVERAL STATE INSTI- TUTIONS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC IN- STRUCTION SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE TO THE BOARD.” As a sop to public opinion, the state superintendent of public instruction has been made a member of the board of administration, to which she shall be responsible, BUT THE BOARD HAS BEEN SAFELY PACKED AGAINST HER BY PROVIDING THAT THE COMMIS- SIONER OF AGRICULTURE AND LABOR SHALL ALSO BE MADE A MEMBER EX-OFFICIO AND THAT THREE APPOINTIVE MEMBERS SHALL BE NAMED BY THE GOVERNOR and that these three shall be the governor’s own to make or unmake as he wills. We may judge the type of men whom the governor will place on this board July 10, if the voters fail to reject the act June 26, by recalling that when Mr. Frazier had an oppor- tunity last winter to appoint two members on the board of education he selected the only two county superin- tendents in North Dakota who had supported Neil C. Macdonald, a man discredited in educational circles and repudiated by the rank and file of North Dakota electors, and the only two who were avowed relentless enemies of Miss Nielson. The board. of administration, therefore, will be a four-to-one proposition upon which the state superintendent of public instruction will be merely a figure-head. SMALL SECURITY PROVIDED aA Mr. Townley, running true to form, has provided in Senate Bill 184 ridiculously small security for the millions of dollars’ worth of state property which this act will com- mit to the keeping of the three men selected by Governor Frazier. No bond whatever is required of the ex-officio members of the board, while each of the three appointees is asked for but $10,000 security. At present’ as much or more security is exacted from each of the three mem- bers of the board of control and from each of the three members of the state board of regents, which bodies, to- gether with the board of education, would be superseded under’ the Townley plan by the board:of administration. The state’s security for the most valuable property it pos- »-sesses,-and for the millions of dolars uf public funds which will pass through this commission’s hands is cut by Mr. Townley from $75,000 for the board of control alone, and $50,000 for the board of regents to a paltry $30,000. In all probability, THERE IS, A REASON. SPECIFICALLY CURBS POWERS Mr. Townley’s prostitute press has insisted that Senate Bill 184 extends rather than restricts the powers of the state superintendent of pubic instruction. Inas- much as this act primarily was conceived as a means of giving, Neil C. Macdonald revenge upon the woman who so thoroughly drubbed him at the polls last November, this assertion is false and ridiculous on its face. The act specifically provides that the board may “employ such administrative assistants, officers, directors of vocational training, and SUCH SCHOOL INSPECTORS, etc., as may be necessary, and fix the compensation of the same.” The act further provides that the board “shall have power to appoint a temporary school commission to inves- tigate the kinds and cost of library books and text books for use in public schools of this state, and the question of uniformity of text books, and the printing and distribu- tion of same by the state.” i Imagine, if you please, the type of text books which Walter Thomas Mills, Arthur LeSueur, A. E. Bowen and Kate Richards O’Hare might place in the hands of your boy and girl under this clause! Communization of women glorified; anarchy idealized; Townley canonized; the minds of our little children filled with all the filthy rot which has emanated from generations of diseased brains! ANOTHER PACKED BOARD No, the duties and powers of the state superintendent of public instruction are not curbed or restricted, say Townley’s licensed liars, BUT “in order to carry out in detail the work of administration and supervision, the board of administration shall appoint an educational com- mission to consist of the state superintendent of public instruction and FOUR OTHER MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE BOARD, to have charge and supervision of the certification of teachers, standardization of schools, ex- aminations for eighth grade and high school pupils, preparation of courses of study for the several classes of public schools, and such other work as may be as- signed to it by the board.” Again the cards are nicely stacked against Miss Niel- son. For the third time in the construction of this act she is made a minority of one on a board or committee with a majority of four against her. It is a nasty, despicable, contemptible assault upon a woman who has won her own way, unassisted. The act takes over every bit of public property the state owns and consigns it to the hands of a group. of three politicians picked by the governor, not by and with the consent of the senate, which is more or less represen- tative of the people, but by and with the consent of Ar- thur C. Townley. The state’s security against mal- feasance or misfeasance or defalcation upon the part of these three politicians is reduced to a pitiful $30,000. The board of administration will handle millions of the people’s money every year and if the board should elect to hand over.a million or two million or more of this money to Mr. Townley or Victor Berger or Kate Richards O’Hare, the people could not recover one penny beyond the $30,000 for which the three appointive members of the board are bonded. But, bad as that is, it is not the worst. The feature of the bill which should bring every father and mother in North Dakota to their senses is that which transforms our public schools into a mill for the grinding out of socialists; that which makes our little boys and girls a pitiful pawn in a pitiless political machine, LEAGUE PLAN IS DEFENDED BY SEN. MCUMBER Senator Assails Opponents of European Pact in Senate. Speech TREATS THEM ALL ALIKE Declares Personally as Opposed to Leaving Germany Out of the Organization Washington, ‘June 18.— Declaring opponents of the league of nations have conducted a campaign of mis- representation «and distortion, Sen McCumber of North Dakota, a repub- lican member of the foreign relations, today told’ the senate that the cove- nant . presented. the only possible means of preventing further and more desperate wars. He declared the covenant did not curtail American in- terests. : Wilfully: Misrepresented. “In twenty. years in ‘the senate,” sald the North Dakota senator, “I have known but ong instrument whose terms have. been so wilfully misrep- resented as the covenant of the league of nations.: “That some portions of it are vague, I knaw, and objectionable from particular viewpoints. But that it discriminates against us; is un- fair in its treatment of our country, or that it imposes upon us any obliga- tion or burden’ that is not equally borne by every other nation I must deny. It is regretable that the mighty power of eloquence is used to distort or defame the instrument. * Against White Race. “Suppose we, now refuse to join with the rest of the world in some scheme to prevent war, what will happen? As surely as the sun rises every great nation will proceed to de- vise means for the wholesale destruc- tion of nations. So desperate will be the next war that all the \hate and vemon engendered by this war willbe infinitely small, in comparison. And Against. what race will these weapons be used? Against the white race.” Quoting thé declaration of Johnson of California that America, because of her isolation “does not need the Eu- ropean powers. as partners,” Mr. Mc- Cumber said that isolation had long ago broken down, an European quar- rel in the last five years having cost this country 55,000 lives and $45,000, 000,000. Equally Incumbent. There is no quarrel effecting the rights of man which is not equally in- cumbent ‘upon’ alt. nations,“ hé* said: “Wheat would you say of the strong vigorous man who would stand on the shore and see a woman struggling in thé waves, while he, folding his mus- cular arms,announces: ‘Oh, that is no concern of mine, she is not my wife or daughter.’ “‘Oh,’ say opponents of the league}, of nations, ‘we can make up our mind .| when the occasion arises,’ ‘Would Have Stopped War. “What I want to do is to be right there on the spot when the occasion arrises. Had America been right there on the spot with an agteement signed by us and by Germany shat Germany would not make war on France or any other nation without submitting to the league of nations the righteousness of its cause we would have been spared this tarribte scourge.” “You talk about our entering this war for a great world princ‘ple. The man who makes that assertion knows he falsifies the record. We know that we never once said to Germany ‘you have no right to make war on France.’ We based our right of action whol- ly on the ground that by the acts of Germany she had made war on us want to put ourselves in such a po- sition that we shall never feel it ne- cessary to reiterate such a falschoud. World Domination. We all: knew all along just what Germany had in mind. We knew her purpose of world domination. But we had: not the right under interna- tional law or under any agreement to demand that she refrain from that hellish purpose. We do not want this country or any other country to be again placed in such a position of im- potency. Of course. not one of us would have written this covenant just as it comes to us, but it represents the de. liberation of nations. It deals with complex situations. It comes to us as a compromise combat. And to se- cure the support of this country spe- cial concessions have been made to us. Our Monroe Doctrine is given world sanction. To Defend Great Britain. It has been asserted and reasserted in the false attacks on this instru- ment that the United States would be! compelled to help defend Great Brit-| ain, preserve her domains against her internal revolutions or rebellions. Nothing could be more false.” Referring to charges that the Unit- -|ed States would be at a disadvantage in the league because it has only one vote, the speaker said the important decision would be made in the coun- cil where the only vote would be onc each for the five great powers with unanimous action required to effect a decision. Senator McCumber also declared he porsonally would -be opposed to leav- ing Germany out of the league fearing that such action must lead to future action or jealousy. BOARD OF REGENTS IN ITS FINAL MEETINGS Secretary Charles Liessman is in Fargo attending a meeting of the state board of regents which will be the swan song of this body should the board of administration bill, abol- ishing the boards of regents, educa- PUBLIC RECREATION MAKES HAPPY CONTENTED PEOPLE TOM NOMES ¢——_________~___» h A PUBLIC PARK | 2° A Public Spirited Citizen Has Made This Suggestion for a Public Park “Bismarck has many locations that could be made exceedingly beautiful and attractive for park purposes. There is nothing, however, that has so many advantages as the gorge run- ning north of the penitentiary grounds for a mile or mile and a half along the Soo Line. Hay Creek winds down through this gorge. Innumerable beauty spots and bathing pools and skating ponds could be very easily created. Ideal golf links and tennis courts could be erected. The flat land at the south end of the tract could: very easily be made into a race course and athletic grounds and even fair grounds. Bismarck needs such a place. The only thing necessary to make this a beautiful park is a little assis- tance to the hand of Nature in dam- ming the water here, making a little excavation there, and putting in a couple of deep wells at the head of the park and installing an air, lift pumping station which would supply Hay creek in the hot summer season with fresh water and also the vegeta- tion along the creek. This location is capable of being beautified because of the lay of the land, giving a sufficient amount of flat level surface and also hills and breaks for scenery purposes. At the present time, Bismarck has no grounds for recreation purposes. A. few thousand dollars expended ’on Hay ‘creek, would make it one of the most attractive places in’ the northwest. Then there is still another advan- tage. It is located on the railroad line and consequently on Sunday and spe- cial ‘occasions it would seem very plausible that the railtoad company would be glad to furnish special trains to carry the commuters to this beauty pot. A proportion of this ground | could be fixed so as to make sites for camping grounds and various differ- ent projects that would be attractive and is near to the city of Bismarck, and one thing that is certain, a public park of this kind would make it im- possible to have'the sad tragedies that occur annually as a toll paid in lives of our boys and young men who are lured to the shores of the Missouri and other dangerous pitfalls in the vicinity of Bismarck simply because the city has not provided a safe and attractive place for recreation. It is high time that the citizens of Bis- marck should awake to the necessity of providing a public play ground such as this, Bismarck can not continue to call itself a city without taking some steps in this direction. : Another advantage about this loca- tion is that it is almost within the city limits. It is less than a mile from the very center of the city to the limits of these grounds. BROWN WILL MOVE FAMILY TO ROLLA Popular State Official Preparing to Leave Office Chairman James A. Brown of the state board of control, whose term will expire the first. Monday in July, if it is not abolished the first day of July, through failure of North Dakota electors to vote down the board of administration bill at the referendum election June26, will leave by auto with his family tomorrow for their former home at Rolla, where they will again take up their residence. ‘Mr. Brown will return to Bismarck to look after his public duties here until the expiration of his term. Mr. Brown's six years’ service on the board of control are admitted even by those not of his political faith to have been exemplary. He was ap- pointed by Governor Hanna: follow- ing ten years’ service as auditor of Rolette county. ARMY AVIATORS TO TRAIL OF THE AIR Tom Nokes Treats of One Phase of Play Situation Applic- able to Bismarck BY TOM NOKES. Secretary National Baseball Federa- tion. It is becoming more and more ap- parent that public recreation is an essention proposition in all communi- ties, and that proper and intelligent direction and supervision should be provided for it. The problem of leis- ure time is a serious one, will be more serious when the saloons and booze clubs are eliminated, and must. be given more attention than ever with the return of millions of American boys from the service, accustomed as they have been during their army ca- rees to careful and studied entertain- ment and recreation. There js no paternalism in a mu- nicipality provviding for public ball fields, tennis courts, golf links, swim- ming pools and bathing houses, foot- ball fields, coasting and skating pla- ces, basketball courts, community centers for open forums, reading rooms, classes in Americanization, etc., children’s play centers, quoit courts, and dozens of other things which people enjoy but cannot avail themselves of the things unless some one commercializes any or many of the features. Band concerts and com- munity sings in different sections of cities, pageants, parades, and cele- brations ‘in honor of certain holidays and occasions, etc., should all be ar- ranged for and undertaken by the municipality in the interests of the people. Spelling bees, debates, pic- nics, etc., should be held in the win- ter months for the young and older folks. All these things require careful thought and direction and loads of hard work in preparation and conduct. The incidental expenses must be pro- vided for. Therefore, as all of it is for the welfare and enjoyment of the people, young and old, why should; not the municipality provide for the direction and cost out of the public exchequer? A recreation board or department should be placed’ in con- trol. The said body would in turn em- ploy a trained and competent person to handle the progrem of public rec- reation. A program of public recreation pays any community in many ways. It makes for a happy and «ontented citi- zenship. It improves the community spirit and does much for the moral side of life. It is a health builder. It attracts. people to the community and holds them there. There js everything in favor of mu- nicipal control of sand lot baseball. Diadonms are se¢eured and maintain- ed -so:'that'thegreatest” posstbte“use’ of them may be made. Umpires are trained and paid to handle the regular scheduled games so that the proper conduct of the contests is assured for both the players and Playing field assignments are made according to schedule in order that there will be no conflicts and every-j body gets the same show. Proper po- lice supervision is usually the case with municipal control of sandlot | baseball. This gives every boy and young man an opportunity of playing on open fields under the best auspices | without any heavy expense to himself. | It also provides wholesome recreation without cost to the men, women and} children of the community in witness- ing the sport. ‘Municipal control of recreation, especially sandlot baseball, assures the greatest good for the greatest number in any community. WILSON VISITS BELGIAN CITY Benkirk, Belgium, June 18.—President and Mrs. Wilson and their party ar- rived here from Paris at 8:45 this morning. They were met by King Al- bert and Queen Elizabeth. Canadian Soldiers Restless Over Delay London, June 18.—Unrest among Canadian soldiers in England because of continued postponement of home- ward sailing culminated last night in an attack by 400 soldiers on the Ep- som police station. Several police- men were wounded, one so seriously that he died this morning. The pur- pose of the attack was to release a Canadian soldier who had been ar- rested. UNNATURAL PARENT GIVEN FIVE YEARS Joseph Miller of the northern part of the county, charged with being the father of his grandchild, born of a 16- year-old daughter, and who pleaded guilty in district court, has been sen- tenced to five years in the state peni- tentiary. He is more than 50 years old. MAP OUT RED FROM ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC VIA OUR GOOD CITY Washington, June 18—The army air service announces today that four planes of the Curtiss J. N. 4 type would start on a trans-continental flight from Hazelhurst field, Mineola, N. Y., to. Seattle Washington. The flight will be to map out an aerial route between the Atlantic and Paci- fic coasts, The personnel of the squadron, which will be accompanied by an ob- servation balloon and motor trucks, will consist of sixteen officers and 36 enlisted men. Stops will be made tion and control, be approved at the referendum election June 26. at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Coluny- bus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, Bis- marck and several other cities. . Further recognition of the Red Trail is indicated in this official an- nouncement. Secretary G. N. Kenis-} ton of the Bismarck Comercial club, who is vice president of the National Parks Highway association, received notice from the war department some time ago that this route would be fol- lowed. The aviators will be accom- panied by a motor truck division, and the National Parks Highway associa- tion is arranging a public reception for the land section of the expedition j this GERMANS SILENT QN PEACE PLAN; MOBILIZE ARMY Allies Prepare to Occupy More Territory in Enemy’s Territory YANKS ARE ON THE ALERT Ready to Move Toward Berlin Upon a Moment’s Notice Weimar, (Tuesday) June 17.—No statement has been issued by the Ger- man cabinet in the allied reply to the German counter proposals but the As- sociated Press learns that sentiment in the cabinet is almost unanimously against the signing of the treaty, the only objection being the possibility of Bolshevism and chaos in Germany. CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS. Coblenz, (Tuesday), June 17.—The concentration of troops preparatory to advancing further into Germany if the Germans refuse to sign the terms of peace will begin on Wednesday throughout all the occupied area. Or- ders to this effect were received to- day from Marshal Foch, who sent sim- ilar orders to all the allied forces on German soil. The American forces are prepared to move ahead on a moment's notice. Leave to soldiers has been suspend- ed until it is known whether the Ger- mans will accept or reject the peace conditions. OPPOSE SEPARATION. Paris, (Tuesday), June 17.—The en- emy newspapers print dispatches from St. Germaine stating that Dr. Karl Renner, head of the Austrian peace mission, in his note to the conference protested against the detachment of territory from German Austria, stat- ing it “would form a second Alsace- Lorraine, doubly greater in size and condemned to remain without defense. a considerable part of the older peo- ple being condemned to subjugation by younger people.” AWAITS COMPLETE TEXT Weimar, June 18.—Philip Scheide- mann, in an address to the national assembly here today, said the allied reply, without complete material at hand, did not permit of a careful de- cision. 3 “Only the final and complete text of the enemy’s answer can furnish a basis for deliberation between the government. and, the. peace commis- ‘sion. The German nation, the national assembly and the government are con- fronted with a most momentous deci- sion. It is therefore their duty, what- ever as individuals they may think of spectators. /the peace question, to approach -this decision with an entirely open. mind. No one must have any doubt that the nation is confronted with very hard times.” ‘ Fifty Spartacan and communist prisoners recently released from the Weimar jail: shortly after midnight morning attacked the castle where members of the government re- side. They were repulsed by a lone guard who stood by a machine gun until they had been driven off. SOVIETS PLANNED BY BOLSHEVISTS IN WINNIPEG Winnipeg, June 18.—Officials exam- ining the documents seized yesterday at the Winnipeg labor temple after the arrest of ten strike leaders an- nounced today that the strike commit- tee had been investigating the advisa- bility of attempting to shut off all electrical power in Winnipeg. Other documents showed the strike leaders had acknowledged receipt of funds from persons involved in a plot to es- tablish a soviets government in Can- ada. FEDERATION OF LABOR ASKS FOR BURLESON’S SCALP Atlantic City, June 18.—A resolution asking President Wilson immediately to remove Postmaster General Burle- son from office was adopted unant- mously today by the American Feder- ation of Labor in convention here. NOONAN MINE SPUR PETITION IS HEARD The railway commission began at 10 this morning a public hearing which is to determine whether the | Noonan Mining Co., at Noonan, shall have a Great Northern Spur track which it regards essential to success- ful operation of its mine, and which the Great Northern has refused to install. TOWNLEY CAN PREACH BUT NOT PRATE, SAYS NEW SALEM’S MAYOR New Salem, N. D., June 17.—On pro- test from Rev. L. A. Lovelace and oth- er local ministers, Mayor Funk has de- creed that the political meeting sched- uled for Sunday evening cannot be held in New Salem. Mayor Funk en- dorses the ministers’ view that Sun- day is not an appropriate time for political meeting. It is understood that Mr. Townley will be permitted to conduct a religious service, it he so upon its arrival here. desires,