The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 17, 1919, Page 4

PAGE 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second eee ___Class Matter. tS GEORGE D, MANN, + = - = = = Editor Foreign Representatives G, LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO, - - - - DETROIT, Marquette Bldg. - - - - Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, shee tie Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein, oe . All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. os MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year... $7.2 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck) aS Daily by mail, per year (In state outsid ck) Daily by mail outside of North Dakota..........++ “~~ 'THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) 7.20 5.00 6.01 —— = INDUSTRIAL GOVERNMENT Each industrial stage evolves its own form of government. Hunting and fishing go with tribal institutions. Grazing produces nomadic families loosely linked in roving hordes. Handicraft and serfdom were the foundation of guilds, feudalism, and free cities within monarchies. Machine in- dustry transformed these into representative de- mocracy. Social upheavals come because new industrial wine breaks old governmental bottles. We have in many ways to adapt trustified in- dustry to democracy. Industrial domination thru corruption gave rise to muck-raking and the re- form movement. Regulation gave us a multitude of commissions, volumes of statutes, clogged court ‘alendars, vast expenses and much friction. Across this confusion came the struggle be- tween employers and employes. Minimum wages, child labor laws, factory legislation, housing and injunctions were mixed with taxation, education and all the affairs of government. Such a mix-up of industry and government was bound to lead to a demand for consolidation. The cult of nationalization of industry counts its ad-| herents by millions. War climaxed all this, multiplied regulation and extended nationalization. Reaction came against waste and bungling. Labor wavered in its belief in socialization unless governments were industrialized. The angle of approach has changed. The de- mand is now that industry shall enter government rather than government industry. This is not confined to the call for “business methods.” It in-| sists that the machinery of industry be directly transplanted to government. It would have in- dustrial representatives elected to’ legislative bodies. It would set up, within industry, demo. cratic institutions, with governmental functions. Great Britain already has her “labor-capital parliaments” with restricted law-making power. A “national industrial parliament,” composed of representatives of employers and employes, called by Lloyd-George made recommendations that par- liament accepted almost as orders. The multitude of bards, commissions and com- mittees made up of representatives of capitalists and workers functioned during the war as semi- governmental organs. W. Jett Lauck, secretary of the War Labor Board, urges President Wilson to call a conference “composed of the most respon- sible representatives of both the employers and the workers, with men of the highest calibre to represent the public.” Such a body would consti- tute a “third house” whose recommendations con- gress. would scarcely ignore. There is everywhere a tendency to make us of voluntary organizations in industry as agents of government. Reciprocally, industrial units are coming to have a place in governmental action. All this is but the adjustment of government to the new industrial age. The “lunatic fringe” of this movement takes the form of Sovietism. It would suddenly reverse present society and make industry the state. Leg- islatures would disappear and all laws be made in the factory. English-speaking lands have chosen the other road; and have moved far along it. Without blood- shed, violence or disrupting social disorder they have gone years further in actual industrializing of the state and democratizing of industry than the nations that try to organize industry and goy- ernment by riots and proclamations, | WITH THE EDr ppsemeeememmemes 7 WITH THE EDITORS - | —————-—- TOWNLEY STRIPPED BARE Now that a jury of farmers, the class that he has undertaken first to inflame and then to ex- ploit, has fastened upon Townley the crime of having conspired to teach disloyalty to the govern- ment at a time when the nation had been precipi- tated into a perilous war, it is fitting to direct notice to several points which now will receive the attention Townley succeeded in warding off where his subtle argument could be used to advan- tage. Conspicuous is the adroit way in which Town- ley made it appear to his farmer contributors that the patriotic and indignant arraignment of him- self upon disloyalty and other grounds was only the attack of the interests upon the farmer move- ment. He got away with this to a remarkable ex- tent. He told the farmers their organized cam- pagin had stirred up both wigth and dismay, but that finding no ground upon fvhich to attack the Acyotusalte dnigeeshs Wes — personal attack upon him, which in fact was an attack upon the farmer class. Now that a farmer jury has convicted him, even the astute Townley will find it difficult to make other farmers believe that the farmers of Jackson county were moved to find him guilty merely to aim a blow at the general farmer in- terest. When, early in the’ Nonpartisan movement, these newspapers found it their duty to tell the public just who and what Townley was, and what he was seeking to accomplish, he went among the farmers and assured them it was only the desper- ate effort of “big business” to discredit and halt the farmer organization. And to a measurable 0 | extent he got away with it. But now that-a jury chosen from the class 3.00 | whose special friend and benefactor he professes himself, has branded him with the offense of disloyal conspiracy, he can go no further with the delusive plea that he is a martyr to the machina- tions of big business. The law has struck from his grasp his choice stock argument that it is the farmer and the farmer movement and not him- self that drew out the arraignment that began with his first disloyal speech. There never was any objection to farmers or- ganizing to secure their political and economic aims. All protest and criticism ran to the ex- ploitation of the farmer by the Nonpartisan league leaders, and the manner of it—none of it to the farmer and his purposes. Townley will now find increasing difficulty in keeping up the deception. Once he was able, when criticism came from the outside, to attribute it to “big biz,” and when it came from the inside of his organization to drown it with shrieks of “traitor!” On the farmer jury which has declared him guilty he can charge neither big business nor traitor. He can rail at the courts of justice, the favorite amusement of convicted criminals, but he cannot cover up the fact that with every opportunity given him—even that of taking the stand in his own behalf, of which he would not avail himself for reasons he best knows—he was found guilty of the most ab- horrent: offense with which a citizen can be charged when his country is at war—St. Paul Dispatch. THE TOWNLEY-GILBERT VERDICT A jury in Jackson, Minn., has found A. C. Townley, president of the Nonpartisan league, and Joseph Gilbert, lately an organizer for the league, guilty of conspiracy to teach disloyalty in violation of a Minnesota law. What kind of a jury was it? It was made up of twelve farmers, not one of whom lived in Jackson. When the twelfth man had been selected with the consent of both sides and the court, Thomas V. Sullivan of counsel for the defense expressed himself as well satisfied with the jury. It is to the farmers particularly Mr. Townley has been addressing his appeals in behalf of po- litical and administrative control by the Nonparti- san league for three years. Mr. Townley plumed himself upon being a special friend of farmers, a champion of their interests who was devoting all his time to what he proclaimed to be for their material welfare. Twelve farmers found Mr. Townley guilty of what? To put it in plain terms, they found that he had been utifriendly to the best interests of his own country in time of war; that he had said and done things which tended to weaken the arms of our military forces for a task that was thrust upon them by a hostile nation; that he had contributed to the stirring up of class hatreds among his fellow citizens at a time when it was imperative there should be unity of purpose in the righteous chal- lenge of a dangerous enemy that had taken the offensive, contrary to all law, against the United States. After the verdict had been returned into court and announced, Mr. Townley, remarked sneeringly that “judges and lawyers may quibble, but in the court of public opinion the common sense of the people will never approve a ruling that says a man may merely deny he is disloyal and be for- bidden to prove by constructive testimony that he is not disloyal.” Mr. Townley had an American right to go on the witness stand and testify in his own defense. Did he exercise that right? He did not. Why? That is for him and his tardily repudiated counsel to say. Having chosen not to submit to questioning on the stand—a choice that also was his right—he asked the court’s consent to become his own plead- er in his own behalf and in his own way before the jury. The request was denied. The county attorney who prosecuted the case said if it had been granted Mr. Townley could have gone far out- side the evidence before the jury without being under oath and without subjecting himself to cross-examination by the prosecution. Was that precisely the object he aimed at? Mr. Townley is best qualified to answer. There was a natural, normal way open to him to give “constructive testimony”—on the witness stand. Doubtless the twelve farmers on the jury that convicted Mr. Townley and Mr. Gilbert of conspir- ing to teach disloyalty concede the privilege of farmers to organize for a legal promotion of their common interests, but they manifestly do not be- lieve Mr. Townley is a proper leader for loyal Americans in a movement of that kind. Returns of the recent referendum election in North Dakota indicate that returned service men have a like conception of the president of the Nonpartisan cs aecumpeeeeeeme UE RnEeenanemneem | LEAN ON THAT BRUSH, OLD TIMER! BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919. ‘An interesting history of the Bur: leigh county Red Cross was: present- ed to the directors of the county chapter at tneir regular. meeting’ in the federal building yesterday. Start- ing with the organization of the chap- ter in May, 1917, and coming on down through two years of war work, the report. was a record of helpfu: activities in which the whole com- munity was given a‘ share. Following is the story as the secre- tary tells it: Re The Burleigh county chapter origi- nated in the Bismarck Commercial clud rooms on,May 21, 1917, when about thirty, repregentative citizens met for the purpose of forming a temporary organization. Judge A. A. Bruce, was elected chairman. Ap- plication -for permission to form a regular chapter was. sent to S. Poul- trer Morris, Denver, chief of the Mountain StateS~ division. A tele- gram granting this. permission was received on May«25 and on May 29 a general meeting of the citizens of the county was called to elect perma. nent officers. Judge Bruce finding it impossible to accept the chair, Brad- ley Marks was elected to the posi- tion. Leonard Bell was elected. treas- urer and Mrs. F, L. Conklin secre- tary. These three officers wete in- structed to appoint. committees which was promptly done and the work commenced, ‘Bismarck Hospital Unit. i Material was purchased and gar- ments made for the Bismarck Hos- pital Unit No. 1.) About $325.00 being spent and 100 women working in pri- vate homes throughout the county, at the Bismarck hospital and the sewing room of the Bismarck high school. ‘Reorganization. In August, 1917, the chapter re- organized in accordance with instruc- Eyer ee. VANDYKE ) f shed ie i lV OUT, ANID YOU WHERE ELSE RED CROSS REPORT COVERS PERIOD OF HELPFUL ACTIVITY FOR WORKERS ': Fargo, who had been appointed di- rector for North Dakota. At this time the United States court room was offered and accepted as a work room and the United States petit jury room as an office for the pter. During terms of court the Bismarck Masons gave the use of their temple for this purpose.! Twenty-three branches have beea formed througout the county, some , member of the executive committee ‘being present at each organization! meeting. Junior Red Cross. a The Junior Red Cross was organ- ized during the spring of 1918, Its 1,125 members have raised $1,673.75 and have produced 782 garments. The Red Cross Acre committee have collected. $3,051.49, being an average of $13.05 per acre. The first war fund drive was man- aged by the chapter finance commit- tee and resulted in actually collecting $80,482.50, 25 per cent of which was refunded. The second war fund drive was conductéd dy a special committee and resulted in securing $7,181.78, 25 per cent of which the chapter is to retain. Surgical Dressing. The surgical dressing department used the upper floor of the Masonic temple for its headquarters. ‘Three hundred women were employed in this work, forty of whom completed the course, ten receiving instructiors’ certificates. Twenty-eight thousand five ‘hundred dressings were made and sent to the northern division. Under the auspices of the instruc- tions to the women’s department two. classes in first aid were graduated, twenty-three young women complet- ing the course. Supply Department. The supply department has shipped to northern division 8,150 hospital tions from Judge N. C. Young of | and refugee garments, 9,768 knitted Fill IF NOU. CA THE BLEACHERS WITHOUT POLKA DOTTING THE SEATS NT “CHAW' TOBACCO IN WITH BROWN TCC HELP Yo GAN “CHAW" SOME ¢! il a TY WY garments and 782 garments made by tue junior organization. Civilian Relief. The department of civilian relief and home service has been especially asked and at the request of the executive committee, will compile and sign its own report. At the time of the influenza epi- demic the surgical dressing depart- ment of the chapter made 2,000 flu masks and presented them to the two Bismarck hospitals and the citi- zens of Burleigh and surrounding counties, Many of the young women who had graduated from or were ai- tending instruction classes gave val- uable nursing service in Bismarck and throughout the county during this epidemic. Flu Innoculations, The chapter also furnished 500 persons with a series of influenza innoculations free of charge. The serum was donated by the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minn., and the two Bismarck hospitals sent nurses regularly to the Red Cross office to administer the serum. Records were kept and sent to the Mayo clinic as requested. ‘All. classes and races and religious denominations united in working for and giving to the Red Cross in Bur- leigh county. Home Service Section. Iteport on organization and activi- ties of the Home Service Section of the Burleigh county, Nocrh Wakots. Chapter American Red ( This section was organized as the civilian relief committee ut tke or- ganization of the chapter in 1917. The first efforts of the secuion were directed, to giving aid and re- lief to the families of soldiers In cases where allotmen’s 2 dela and the necessity of relief was ur- gent, the section provided rent, gro- ceries, clothing and coal. Where families or independent relatives of soldiers were sick medical aid and hospital care was provided. Enlisted and selective service men were at all times urged to make al- lotments and apply for insurance. The home service section conducted correspondence with the different de- partments regarding delayed allot- ments, failure of soldiers to provide for their families and relatives. ‘One of the members of the commit- tee being a practicing attorney, legal advice was available at all times and found to be of great service where soldier dependents were threatened with suits or eviction from their homes, All dependent families coming un- der the care of the Red Cross were amply provided for at Christmas times with boxes of provisions and toys for the children, and as other organizations also made liberal pro- vision, Christmas was made as en- joyable as thoughts of absent ones would allow. During active hostilities and the influenza epidemic a great deal of correspondence was jcarried on re garding sick, wounded, killed and missing soldiers. In this work great assistance has been rendered this section iby members of the branch or- ganizations of the chapter through- out the county. After the armistice and the sol- diers were being discharged from camps and began returning home from Europe the work of the section was chiefly devoted to their needs. Correspondence regarding Liberty bonds, delayed allotments, compensa. tion,. vocational training, providing for the sick and wounded, furnishing transportation and care for stranded soldiers all required constant atten- tion. A local vocational aide was appointed and the section kept in close touch with the federal employ- bent agency. Every effort was made by the home service section to impress upon ap- plicants that any help given was not a charity ‘but freely given as a pa- triotic duty and a recognition of the services rendered 'by the soldiers. At the same time they were urged to preserve their independence by working and making themselves selt supporting as far as possible. The section giving aid in all cases of sickness and urgent need. The total expense of the section. to ‘date has ‘been ’$2,092.50,"" aneNt ENLISTMENTS HERE ARE BEATING ALL RECORDS In a report just issued by the army recruiting headquarters at Aberdeen, the Bismarck office shows up very well, according to First Class Pvt. J. L, Webb today. Minot and Aber- deen secured ten recruits each during the first fifteen days of July, while Bismarck was second with nine. , Fargo only obtained eight men and Grand Forks two, Up to the present time, the Bismarck office has secured more recruits than it has during the entire month of June, according to Pvt. Webb. Since Sgt. L. H, Ford was promoted to the Sioux Falls office, Pyt. Webb has been placed in charge and it is understood that he will be in, charge of the local office henceforth, Another soldier will be assigned to the Bismarck office in two weeks to assist Pvt. Webb, and Webb will be probably be appointed a cor- poral. “The army wants recruits immedi- ately” said Pyt, Webb today, “to take the places of men now in the army who are needed in the wheat fields of Kansas and Missouri. The war de- partment is cooperating with farm- ers and just as rapidly as possible, commanding officers discharge former farmers from the army. The return of these men to the agricultural com- munities is hastened by immediate and numerous enlistments.” AGENTS ATTEND CONFERENCE George ‘A. Gustafsen county agricul- tural agent accompanied by Mack Mor- gan of Morton county, who holds the same position there, left this morning for Dickinson to attend a meeting of the county agents of southewestern North Dakota. The meeting is called ty County Agent Director Pollock of Fargo for the purpose of discussing the progress made in checking the grasshopper invasion and discuss the draught and other matters in connec- tion with their. work. They will re- turn Friday. FIELD INSPECTIONS FREE Farmers can have their fields in- spected free of charge by state field inspector if they will communicate with the state agricultural college or county agents, according to George N. Gustafsen, Burleigh county agent to- day. Mr. Gustafsen wishes all farm- ers to take advantage of this oppor- tunity, The hopper situation will be just as bad next year unless the farm- ers have deep fall plowing this year, or next sping, according to Mr. Gus- tafsen. He does not think that deep plowing will be possible this year on account of the dryness of the soil, but if it rains soon he believes it should be done just as soon as the crops are harvested. Tribune Want Ads bring results. ——~ WHY BE BOTHERED WITH NEIGHBORS CHICKENS ? 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