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

PAGE 4 d THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Bautered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Secon lass Matter, . GEORGE D. MANN Raite Foreiga Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, py OTIAS, it araneite PAYNE, Fifth Ave, Bldg NEW YORK, ces i: MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the a» lication of all news credited to it or not otherwis ited im this paper and also the local news publishe ll rights of publication of herein afl el pub! special dispatehes ar MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE by carrier per year .....secsseceee $7.2: Daily by mail per year (In Bismarck) 1.2! ee Be BURNS AND SMITH for speceee Daily by mail per year (an state vuciue uf Bismarek) 5.0( y by mail butelde of North Dakota .........c0- 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1878) ie —————— FOUND GUILTY BY A FARMER JURY A. C. Townley and Joseph Gilbert—Guilty ! Guilty of conspiracy to teach and promote dis- loyalty. Found guilty by twelve farmers. “Big Biz” had no hand in this. Even the agents of what Townley characterizes as the “kept press,” stayed away from his trial. All press re- ports were handled by the Associated Press—and the members of the “kept press,” printed the same stories which the league kept press, The Courier- News, published. The mud batteries of the league, however, will begin to lay down their barrage of martyrdom around the picturesque form of Arthur C. Every time Townley or his henchmen are tried for sedi- tion, the editor of the Nonpartisan Leader pictures the northwest farmers as saluting the flag. The farmers were not on trial—merely Town- ley and Gilbert. Everyone knows that the farm- ers of this state are loyal—they showed it in the sacrifices they made on the field of battle—in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives. But never- theless the Nonpartisan Leader in flaming colors pictures Mr. Farmer as saluting the flag. Just how much farther the paid henchmen of Townley will carry their insults to the American farmer time only can tell. They will be kept busy, how- ever, the next few weeks explaining Mr. Townley’s conviction. Townley failed to bluff Judge Dean of Minne- sota. His melodramatic attempt to get before the jury was mere camouflage. His stage business was crude.and failed to\impress either judge or jury. Why exception to regular court procedure should be made in Townley’s case does not appear. He had the privilege of taking the stand and tell- ing his side of the case—but he chose rather to harangue the jury and cheat the prosecution of its right to cross examine him. Townley has been carrying things with such a high hand in North Dakota that his arrogance knows no bounds.: It took a Minnesota judge and a Minnesota jury to show him that before the law he is the same as any other man charged with an offense and that he must stand trial in the same manner. He stands convicted by a farmers’ jury and of an offense that should depose him completely from any leadership in the political affairs of this state. Now is the accepted time for the league to select anew Moses. THE ELECTRIC DOG Scientific journals are excited over the electric dog invented by B. F. Miessner. It is a box full of batteries and machinery, mounted on wheels. Put it in a dark room, flash a switchlight and the electric dog moves up to the light. Reverse a switch inside it and it moves away from the light. cared like a dog, responding to its master’s call. This invention is based on the principle of orientation—meaning, moving or turning toward the east. You see the principle in nature. Many flowers turn to get the light. Sunflowers follow the sun with their faces, Plant a tree crooked and it will strive to right itself so it can reach nearer the sun. Or take a moth. It flies into a light and burns up because it has organs in its body that are drawn toward light as surely as a magnet attracts a nail. , As science progresses, we are inclined to scoff less at the sun-worshipers of centuries ago. They at least know that light has much to do with life. * * * A swedish naval man makes practical use of the electric dog. His apparatus is attracted by sound instead of light. He starts a torpedo through the water and the roar of the propellors of the attacked ship guides the torpedo on toward its target. Make a flying torpedo that will be attracted by a ship’s searchlight or the noise of its machinery, and you have a mechanical moth, The torpedo and the battleship steered by wire- less and without crews are on the verge of be- coming practical. Models of them work already, but are not reliable. Give the league of nations a few inventions like the electric dog, and a handful of men can preserve the peace of the world. * es * Are human beings, like the electric dog, merely mechanisms that are governed in their move- eat = N, W._ HOTEL BLDG. ||} furth PHONE 55 without stopping to think it over. No will power there. This is the mechanistic theory of life. Sup- ported by great scientists, it is gaining ground more rapidly than any philosophy of history. Like all materialistic dogmas, it sounds plaus- ible, but goes no further. It explains how we do things but when it comes to why we do them, the mechanistic theory is silent. Posibly we do everything mechanically, like planets traveling their orbits, but behind it all is a great guiding force that uses electricity and ma- terial things as its agents or tools. That great guiding force is spiritual and all the electric dogs ever invented tell us nothing of the spiritual, they merely reveal how the spiritual works when modeling the material as its clay. Science knows nothing when its knowledge is carried to the last analysis. The chemist swells his breast and explains that water is two parts of hydrogen and one of oxygen. But ask him what hydrogen is, or oxygen, and you can cut the silence with a knife. SOWING THISTLES Nowadays a traceable line of cleavage is run- ning nearly everywhere—wide and bloody in Rus- sia; elsewhere often narrowing down to a little pink-silk thread, yet traceable. It is the line be- tween socialism and private ownership of prop- erty. It pleases a good many people to do a two- step back and forth across that line. Without exactly going over they like to flirt with the other side. North Dakota is one example. That is pre- dominantly a community of farmers—mostly pretty prosperous farmers too. They have social- ized a number of industries, substituting public ownership and state management for private own- ership and management. Ask any orthodox so- cialist how capitalism, or private ownership of productive property, most infuriously affects the common man in North Dakota and he will at once reply: “Why, through private ownership of land. A man without capital cannot go freely upon the land, apply his labor to it and claim the product. He must pay the captialist owner a rent or else sell the capitalist owner his labor power for what- ever wages he can get.” And he will probably quote from Henry George that private ownership of land is the most odious and oppressive of all private ownerships. At the last Federal census there were about seventy-five thousand farm owners in North Da- kota. If the North Dakota example is to inspire any such enthusiasm for socialism as socialists predict, nonowners of farms will presently be proposing socialization of land too. Farm owners would no doubt reply that under a democratic government with fair laws private ownership of land works out best for the community, including nonowners. Then socialists would naturally ask why, under a democratic government with fair laws, private ownership of elevators and flour ills was not best for the community.—The Sat- urday Evening Post. SEX EQUALITY IN JAPAN Students of Japanese history and character will await with interest developments in the movement for equality of women with men. In spite of all its claims and pretensions to civilization and its undoubted’ progress in ma- terial and physical respects, spiritually, intellec- tually and morally, Japan still remains. conspicu- ously a backward nation. Protestations by her leading statesmen have failed to convince the world that her policies are actuated by unselfish- ness ar that her promises possess the quality of sincerity. The civilization of a race or an era is judged by the honor, respect and consideration in which its women are held; and measured by this stan- dard Japan is among the least progressive of the peoples of the world. What in this country is called “white slavery” in Japan has received offi- cial recognition and encouragement from time im- memorial, and in large cities extensive areas are devoted to the sequestration of women living lives of shame. Travelers, missionaries and other American and European residents in Japan almost unani- mously have attributed to Japanese womanhood in general qualities of refinment and gentleness, unselfishness and powers of spiritual perception denied to the men of Japan; and it is possible that the material achievements of the latter during the last fifty years may receive through the new awakening of the women the spiritual impulse needed to raise them from the plain of national self-seeking to the higher status of generous con- tributions to world progress. But upon this development it is not safe to count too confidently. More nearly than to any other western character, the Japanese approaches the German; and while Germans treat their womenkind with less deference, courtesy and chiv- alry than Americans or any of their nearer neigh- bors, in Europe, it was not found during the war that the women of Germany were less ruthlessly intent than the men upon winning the war which the country was waging for the aggrandisement of the fatherland and the subjugation of the rest of the world. The august board of ‘county ‘commissioners made an official inspection of.the roads this week. WHIte to RE seer | cattle” 5 particu 2 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MON: JULY 14, 1919. aN ABYSSINIA Rather an unusual group, but they come from the little known land of Abyssinia to congratu- late America on‘its part in the world war. And wherever they go in the national capital they get attention. Gentlemen of high station, these, as the prefic “Ato,” indicates. Left to right they are: Ato Sinkae, Ato Herouy, Kantiba (mayor) Gabrou, Dedjazzmatch Nado, chief of the mission, who is a duke of the royal Abyssinian family, and Capt. Paul R. Morrissey, U. S. A., who is detailed to attend them. SENDS Turwomnin, can COLLAR FINDS IT DIFFICULT TO GET SIBERIAN LINGO; DOGS FORM BIG PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION Lieut, Arthur F, Collar, former Bis- marck Underwood salesmanager, who has been in service in Russia, landed in the United. States recently and is now visiting his people, who live near Detroit, Mich, A letter from Lieutenant Collar, written from Archangel, Russia, April 14, this year, recently reached the For- um: office. It contains a picturesque ucount of the hardships undergone by American soldiers in that frozen ‘land and tells something of the habits and language of the Russians. Lieutenant Collar opens his letter by speaking. of. the .“treception” - accorded the Americans ‘by the Bolsheviki. “Arrived here ‘from France October J, and have been! at the front ever since, Our ‘friend (?) the Bolsheviki, gave us the right-of-way: for four months, then went after us, you notice 1 say ‘after,’ —well, that. was-the order: of march. He sure had iton us ip numbers of men and guns. “Never less than, four to one of .us, but at that we held our own until he cut us off from our base and then we Kad to run for it. ‘They ran me out of my overcoat—unbutton- el it—held my arms out and the wind took the Coat off. Lost all my equip- ment, even my toothbrush and razor. PAPERS. THREE MONTHS OLD. “We only see a paper once'a month and then it is three months old. when it reaches’ us. It takes two months to reach Archangel; and a month by sleigh to reach. us, . Sometimes, about once or twice every now and then, a copy of ‘The Stays and Stripes’ finds its way up here ‘to. ‘No Woman’s Land’ ond is instantly devoured by the news- hungry gang, searching. for information _ jregarding-their comrades and general conditions: in France, where we belong but through fate were, sent up here to this part of the world to quell Bolshe- vism and ‘guard’ the Northern Lights.’ (Both gre still here—no thanks to us!) BUILD FIRES AROUND COWS. “We are so far north that the Jipper is south of us and the - doggone. sun works only when it feels inclined to do so, and in that way, is like cvery- thing else in Russia. The moon isn’t so particular, and comes up usually backwards at any time, day or night, in any part of the sky.. It has no set schedule ‘and often gets lost, is still on the job at noon, Yes, we are so far north that thirty degrees below will soon be tropical weather to us. (They build fires around the cows before they can milk them, and the poor rooster is completely buffaloed—never knows when to crow or when to stop, POPULATION MOSTLY DOGS. “The largest town I have seen has a population of 269,831 inhabitants, of which 61,329 are human beings and 208,502 are dogs,—dogs of every de- scription from the poodle to the St. Ber- nard, and from the wolfhound to the half-breed dashchund, which is half German and half Bolsheviki and looks the part. You can’t trust either end of that dog. “The wind whistles across the Divina like the Northern Pacific passing Maple- ton and snowstorms are as numerous as the retreating Germans were in \France last fall. We have good quar- ters at present and good grub when it comes up, but at that a Yank can ac- custom himself to anything and ‘does, and has fun too, even though he has to make it himself. Much sport hunting conties—boys hold contests to see who can find the most, But just the same J would like to see some of you ‘paste jot artists’ busy on northern Russia, and don’t forget the ‘northern.’ RUSSIAN “TONGUE TWISTERS” “Also read in ‘The Stars and Stripes’ that the boys find some tongue twisters and brain puzzlers in France, but,listen to this. Centimes- sous and-francs may be hard to. count, but did you ever*hear of a_roubje. orza ‘kopec?’ A .Kopec is worth a tenth of-a cent, takes a hun- quently a rouble is worth a’ dime and to:make matters worse; all-money is: paper, rouble,-note is ,the size: of. a mustard plaster and just.about as useful, while a hundred rouble ‘note looks like the Declaration of Independence, “If you should go out in search of a restaurant, you find one, and say to the waitress, ‘Barishna, Sakajeesyh, bifsteek, pozhalysta,’ which means ‘an order of beefsteak. lady, please.” You always address a lady as ‘barishna’ which means young lady or girl. . She is always a barishna until she is mar- vied and then she is cut of luck. The barishna answers, ‘Yah, ochen sojal- ahlu,.shto unons nyet yestnik prepasou, siechas,’ (A simple cure for lockjaw), meaning ‘I am sorry, sir, but we are out of food today.’ You try several other places with the same sign, (C. A. and E.) and if you are lucky you may EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO BONE i OTTCSS A IRBETINGS—THE GREETINGS dred kopecs to make a rouble, conse-; A kopec is the size of ‘a post-' age stamp, a rouble looks like a, United ; States. cigar certificate. A ‘twenty-fiye: find a place where it is possible to get something to eat. “But when you find. that a sandwich ond a cup of coffee cost you $7.50 you lose your desire to eat and beat it back to the barracks, STREET CAR SERVICE, “Oh, I’m not through yet, still more trouble. You get on a street car or better yet, the street car,—only have one—and count out 60 kopecs in pos- tage stamps and pay the barishna for your ride. I most generally walk, not because I’m Scotch but because it’s easier to walk than to count out the fare or count change and again you are jammed in that two by four bus, which is about half the size of the capitol car, “Before boarding the car each pas- senger usualy hunts up a couple of kerosene cans, two five-gallon milk cang and a basket of smoked’ herring aud a tub of ‘two-handed cheese’—you held your nose with one hanu while you eat with ‘the other—in this way the passenger gets his kopecs’ worth out of the ride, besides makes it pleas- ant for the other: passengers, “If you should see a soldier walking down the street with his nose turnea up and his mouth puckered up in ap- parent ,contempt you would be wrong in judging him conceited. He has just! received his washing from the wash woman and she has used fish oil instead of soap and he is trying to escape the fumes, When you take, your clothes to have them ‘laundered and you ask jto have the smell omitted, please, she jasks for ‘Moola’ “and you double time to the barracks and back again with a piece of soap, ‘Then she’ gives the kids a bath and’ that is: the last of your soap.’ 2 “When..two Russians: meet. on the street they tip their hats, flirt with each other and then shake hands—they always shake hands even though they haven't seen each other. for twenty min- ‘utes: When a man meets a barishna he kisses hershand and. shows’ her:how far lie‘can bend over. without’ breaking his suspenders. or losing a button. ‘Ah,’ be will say, ‘Yah’ ochen rrad vasvedyat, kak vur paz hovaetye?’ which means, ‘How do you do? She will answer, ‘Bloyadaru vas, yah ochen Korosho,’ or ‘Very well, thank you.’ - It’s a knockout isn’t it? “There are several North Dakota men here with me. All goodsoldiers come from North Dakota.” HENRY Vil PALACE FOR SALE Chamber In Ancient Richmond Castle Reputed Scene of Queen Eliza- beth’s Death. London.—The news that Richmond palace is for sale will make many people with a feeling for the past of their own country wish that they were millionaires, Very little of the original structure —or rather that built by King Henry VII, which covered ten acres—remains to be disposed of, as by far the great- er portion was pulled down by the un- known géntleman, who bought it from the parliament in 1648. Had this not} been done, there’ is little doubt that! the palace would have easily rivaled} Hampton court, its near neighbor, as fa first-class historical monument with-| in easy reach of London. That part of the original: building which is still standing includes the an- cient gateway bearing the Tudor rose/ in moldering stone, some of the old stables, and several rooms, one of which is certainly that occupied by Anne of Cleves after her divorce from Heny VIII, while another is reputed to be the identical chamber which wit- nessed the terrible end o% mighty Eliz abeth, ed : ae NOTICE TO PUBLIC Poundmaster Strohl can be lo- cated only at Tel. 151 or by call- ing at 101 Main Street. Tobacco Habit Dangerous says Doctor Connor, formely of Johns Hopkins hospital. Thousands of men suf- fering from fatal diseases would be in perfect health today were it not for the deadly drug Nicotine. Stop the habit now before it’s too late. It’s a simple process to rid yourself of the tobacco habit in any form. Just go to any up-to- date drug store and get some Nicotol tablets; take them as directed and lo; Indian Leaves War Dress to Museum j New York—The American Museum of Natural History has recently received as a bequest the complete Indian dress cos- tume of Chief Don White Eagle, a Cheyenne Indian, who died in | France while serving as a sol- dier in the United States army. Chief White Eagle, who was twenty-nine, served with the in- fantry forces, He was one of four brothers fighting in France. He was a skilled sharpshooter and was commended by his gen- } eral for bravery. He died Oc- tober 21, 1918, of pneumonia, The costume consists of a large feather war bonnet, fringed shirt and leggings, moccasins, pipe bag and feather-trimmed ' standard, All the feather work was done by White Eagle him- self, It was last worn during the third Liberty Loan drive when White Eagle appeared as a@ speaker, FLATTERY MAY SELL .COAT But Payment May Be Lacking, Case ( in San Francisco Justice { Court Reveals, San Francisco—A short stout wom- an who has been flattered into pur- chasing a coat that is suitable for a tall slender woman does not have to pay for it, according to a decision by Justice of the Peace Thomas F. Prendergast recently. The decision was given in an ac . tion brought to collect $50 from Mrs, ¢ ‘ J. C. Lewis, a nurse at Letterman General hospital, Presidio, According to the testimony of Mrs. Lewis and Sergt. George A. Monroe of the Presidio, who accompanied her when she purchased the coat, the salesman guaranteed that it would be suitable, j She was somewhat dublous because } it seemed rather short. “o Mrs. Lewis put the coat on In court and paraded about. As she did so, she remarked: “You will notice that I am short Q and stout, judge, Also you will notice that coat comes just below my knees. Now a coat that length makes a short stout woman look even more dumpy than she really: is, don’t you think so?” : cae ene “Yes, that coat is plenty too short Su for you,” said the court, who'is a married man, “Judgment for Mrs, Lewis.” MAJOR GENERAL FLAGLER - Maj. Gen. Clement A. F. Flagler, who was in command of the Forty-sec- ond division, ‘has been assigned to command Camp Bowle, Texas, WAR HEROES SIGN FOR STUDY 57,611 Men Disabled In the War Have Registered for Vocational Education, Washington.— Rapid. progress in J Teaching soldiers, sailors and marines : who received such ‘disabilities: in the war that vocational retraining Is re- quired is reported. in a statement by pie federal board for vocational educa- jon, Already 57,611 cases have been reg- istered and contact with more than 40,000 additional cases has been estab- lished. A big. majority of the cases registered came through the hospitals, the war risk insurance bureau and the Red Cross, . In 82,730 cases preliminary surveys to establish a course suitable to the man and one which he personally de- sires to follow have been made, and in a large number actual training has begun, x Hen’s Vacation. Bangor, Me—A Bangor man who goes to church declares without blink- ing that he has a hen, three years old, part Plymouth Rock, part’ Angone, that has laid an egg every day for the last year with the exception of two weeks, when she had a vacation with full pay; that to make up for lost time said hen recently has been lay- ing two eggs on some days, and that every morning she crows’ just like a rooster. She is a nonunion hen, but as eggs are sold by the dozen she cannot consistently object to collective bar. gaining. the pernicious habit quickly vanishes, Druggists refund the money if, they fail. Be sure to read large and interesting an- MOTHER'S: FRIEND