The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1919, Page 4

PAGE 4 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ee Class Matter. : GEORGE D, MANN, - Editor Foreign Representatives , LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, CHICAGO,” Sika ae ae pETROM, tte Bldg. . » - . resge si zo PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, 1 Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 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, betas All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. a MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION. SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year ; ++ $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck)..... oe. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota...... 00 “~~~ ‘THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) E> THE COURIER-NEWS DISCOVERY It is gratifying to note that The Courier-News has at last discovered Jesus, and to find the hum- ble Christ occupying the position in The Courier- News editorial columns so long given over to Trotzky and Lenine. The Courier-News editor advises his public that he has been shown an extract from the letter of a woman in prison to her husband. The woman is Kate Richards O’Hare, who was sent to prison from a federal court room in Bismarck after she had done what she could to perpetuate German barbarism and to defeat the aims of liberty and justice. Kate Richards O’Hare apparently had not found Jesus when at Bowman in July, 1917, she slandered the mothers of North Dakota’s warrior champions of His cause by likening them to brood sows on a Montana stock ranch. Apparently it was not Jesus speaking through her when she ex- pressed the belief that the best we could hope from the sacrifices which were being made by our sons in France was that their bodies and their blood might fertilize the fields where they fall. “That Mrs. O’Hare has found Jesus,” The Courier-News editor informs us, “is evidenced by the fact of her beautiful acceptance of her present terrible experience.” The Courier-News then for the first time ad- mits that Mrs. O’Hare may have been indiscreet in her utterances at Bowman, but it declares the war has long been ended and that “nothing can be gained now but national disgrace in holding a woman such as she in the penitentiary.” The Courier-News invites the friends and neighbors of those mothers to whom Mrs. O’Hare referred in such chaste language and of the boys for whose bodies and blood Mrs. O’Hare wished so glorious a fate to write her ‘cheery lettérs*and to “send her a few dollars which she can spend.” In this ‘closing paragraph, we fear, we learn why Mrs. O’Hare “has found Jesus.” If the Christ were capable of such a sentiment how He would despise these mawkish hypocrites who take His name in vain for their own selfish ends. Mrs. O’Hare and her champions in this state and the cause they are fighting for have ridiculed and condemned and opposed the church and its teachings. They have endeavored to’make the creed which Christ founded a mockery and a thing of scorn; but, when nothing else suffices to gain their point, they resort to the supreme hypocrisy of embracing Him as their very own and personal Saviour, to be discarded again when they feel that their purpose has been served. All hail the Misouri river wagon bridge! The Big Smokey is all that now divides Bismarck and Mandan. Remove this barrier and the twin cities of the Missouri will show some real speed. And the benefits will not be purely local by any means. The Missouri river bridge will do much to elimi- nate that “west of the river” attitude upon the part of certain of our people who have fallen into the error of believing that all that’s good ends at the Missouri. North Dakota loses two efficient servants in the retirement of Mrs. Minnie C. Budlong, secre- tary of the public library commission, and A. G. Jacobson, public printer. The one fault most fre- quently found with our republican form of govern- ment is that faithful service is never a guaranty of permanency. The dictum “to the victor belongs the spoils” did not originate with the present ad- ministration and era, and it probably will not ter- minate with them. But so long as it persists we must expect to continue, as we have done, to pay for laziness and inefficiency in public office. The man or woman who can make good in an official position can make good in private pur- suits where there is a greater certainty of reward. Chairman S. J. Aandahl of the railway com- mission declares flatly that he’ll sell no straw to drouth-stricken farmers west of the river! He has an abundance of straw now, and he will soon have more, but he positively refuses to sell it to his less fortunate brothers west of the slope who are so badly in need of forage for their starving cattle. Odd attitude, isn’t it? And yet, it is not so odd to those who know the man, for this sub- stantial, typical farmer of prosperous Barnes county sets an example for others who have fared well in the eastern part.of the state. He declines to sell his straw because he doesn’t feel he should profit by his brothers’ misfortune. But he is per- fectly willing. to give it away andibkeisoxstgtes; and he’ predicts that other fortune-favored farm- ers in the valley country will do likewise, and that the slope will be presented without a charge of any kind with all the straw it can haul away. Which somehow or other sort of renews one’s faith in his fellow man in general and in North Dakota in par- ticular. m THE COMPENSATION ACT Justice James E. Robinson’s comment on the workmen’s compensation act is timely. The theory of workmen’s compensation is no longer ‘an issue. It has been tried and proven. But the plan is one which must be operated by and for the people. It should not be made the basis of a revenue-get- ting scheme whereby hundreds of thousands of dollars will be amassed in a fund which will bene- fit neither employer nor employe. North Dakota’s legislative assembly has cre- ated a commission of three men upon whom it has conferred autocratic powers to say to you, “Pay this,” and to another, “Pay that.” From this board’s commandments, under the terms of the act, there is no appeal. Its classification of pre- miums is a complicated, secret affair which has been given no publicity. There is no means by which one employer may determine what another employer in the same class is paying. The compensation commission employed at a salary of $1,800 per month an alleged expert from another state to come to Bismarck and fix its premium schedule. This “expert” has given North Dakota a schedule with 1400 different classifica- tions. And these classifications appear to be a matter which the board holds for its own private information. The state assumes a monopoly upon the insurance of the workers of North Dakota against loss arising out of industrial injuries, and it dictates to the employer the amount which he must pay for protection without giving him the slightest intimation as to the manner in which his proportion of the risk was arrived at. Workmen’s compensation acts ably adminis- tered have proven good things for other states. No doubt under an efficient administration of a sound and reasonable statute North Dakota’s ex- perience would be satisfactory. But this cannot be said of the present experiment. Any man with some means and much ambition who invests today in North Dakota farm land will be rich inside of a decade, if he perseveres. Op- portunity was never greater than it is today, for. the man who WILL.: A majority of our Slope farmers are of this type. They are grinning at today’s troubles in anticipation of tomorrow’s turn of the wheel. They’re of pioneer stuff, the sort of men who do not quit, and to whom success is simply a matter of sticking everlastingly to it. Loyalty to one’s country is noble if the coun- try is. : Wilhelm maintained the peace for forty years. His successor will beat that. The more we read about the senate, the better we understand the word jazz. The kaiser has a bad cold. It probably got that way by associating with him, “ BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE GETTIN’ HOT UNDER HIS COLLAR ? Qartarels ~~ Are Quiet. THERE'S any virtue in being an! early. bird, Miles Poindexter, I junior senator from Washington, may ve conceded ‘an option on’ the repwo- lican presidential nomination. While| other candidates are hanging with re-j luctant feet’ on the dizzy- perch of popular esteem,’ ‘Senator Poindex‘er has taken a hitch in his belt and tossed his somodrero into the.ring. - The announcémént comes in the form of an elabofate brociure issued ‘by the Poindexter Presidential clu) of Washington, D.C. From this book- let we learn that ..Mr. Poindexter is “an outstanding 100 per cent’ Ameri- can;” that he thoroughly believés’ in the United States of America; its ideals of liberty, and its government- al institutions, and that the is “unalt- erably opposed ‘to“any “scheme for creating“a hybrid government of the world, whereby ‘Europe and Asia would inevitably dominate this coun- try and control all_of ‘its policies for peace and for war.” One plank in his: platform. which is Is it not time that friend Woodrow tried the effect of a few spurs on that “single track” mind? Seiiiiaiacciecimdinen a WITH THE EDITORS | THE FARMERS’ “ORGAN” “The state of Kansas saw red about the time she was going to harvest her crop. Workers who dared to ask more than $5.00 were threatened with likely 'to find a ready response in the west reads: “He believes that Bolshevism, |. W. W.-ism, and all othér revolu- tionary movements. should be strongly taken in hand, and that leaders in attempts to overthrow our institutions should be impris- oned, or deported, asin the case of aliens.” \Mr. Poindexter {sa native of Mem- phis, Tenn., a man: of‘ southern birth and training. His parents were both Virginians. He began the practice of law at Walla Walla, Wash., at the a jail sentence. The workers steered clear of Kansas and Kansas is now offering $12.00 per day and is having a hard time to get the workers at that. Try the North Dakota way Miss Kan- sas.” : The above is from the league organ in Bis- marck, The Burleigh County Farmers Press, It refers to conditions in Kansas where I. W. W. literature was spread broadcast threatening sabot- age and burning of crops. As a result, Kansas or- ganized a vigilance committee and put armed guards all through the state. The I. W. W.’s were scared away. How can our farmers follow the lead of news- papers who come out as open as this league news- paper. They are careful not to mention who the workers were in Kansas. That would be dan- gerous, Yes. Try the North Dakota way. That way is to kill a bill prohibiting the exhibit of the red flag by organizations. That way is to pass a law making legal organized efforts of strikers to pre- vent other help from taking their place. That way is for league speakers to tell workmen that they should have $10 for eight hours on the farms, as was done in Fargo prior to the last election. With eight-hour law for some of the women; with a heavy workmen’s compensation tax on bus}- ness interests only; with a systematic effort to turn the farming communities against their local towns; the way of the “little business” in this state is hard. But, with some of these other things, and with income taxes, oil taxes, higher state taxes, etc., the farmers will not come thru the ordeal scot free. The Nonpartisan league in North Dakota has traveled from an almost unanimous vote in 1916 to an insignificant majority in 1919. And the new laws are just becoming operative. What will the harvest be next year ?—Emmons County Record. age of 23; became a member of the house of representatives in the six- EVERETT TRUE . AS ORN "EVERY Few SEco nee UTTUE DARLINGS A PLATING. IN THE MUD THE NATIONAL ARENA LONS AS.X HEAR OUR AUTO Miles Poindexter Throws Hat Into Ring—Popular Choice Turns From Wilson to.Wood—Democratic White Hopes ty-first congress, and was promoted to..the senate in 1910, In politics he proclaims himself to be a progressive republican. ee ESLIE'S Weekly is asking its read- ers to state for whom they voted in 1916 and their choice for 1920. The result has been the nomination of 44 candidates. for the presidency. The most. significant feature, of! the j Poll. is that Major General Leonard {Wood gcfs almost twice as ‘many votes as President Wilson, his closest rival, from whom the annexes 43 sup- porters of 1916. - Wood polls 302 votes, 43. of. which are. changed from Wilson; - Wilson garners 159, a change of 14 from Hughes; Hughes is given 86, a change of eight from Wilson, and Senator Johnson of California nets’ 72, a change of 11 from Wilson. “Twenty- one former Wilson supporters switch to Taft, giving the latter 53; Borah of Idaho polls 30 votes, five, of which formerly belonged to Wilson, and Mc- Adoo gets 36, of which 31 were form- erly the property of his father-in-law. Governor F. 0. Lowden of Illinois, ‘Senator Harding of Ohio, General Pershing, Elihu Root, Senator: Edge of New eJrsey, Charles M. Schwab, Wil- lian Jennings Bryan, Herbert Hoover and Champ Clark are among the ‘also- rans in Leslie’s list. ny . 3 oy eb et ee ® The scarcity of democratic presi- dential material is noticeable. Aside from Wilson and McAdoo, neither of whom seems at this moment accep- able to the democratic national or- ' ganization, there appearg:to be no one in the running. Champ: Clark has BY CONDO NDS x kw RE NOT ow GSTTING INTO MIiSeMEr, — ;OH, MAMA — Cook WHAT THAT FAT MAN NGXT DOOR ‘DONE To i slipped back into the “used-to-be” class. Bryan is all but forgotten, along with the grape juice highball that was this last claim to fame. It looks like a republican year, And it seems as though Wood is to have an important place in the republican platform. ss we Now and then we still hear from league organs of a-Frazier boom. Not even the league editors in whose ‘brains this idea originates take it ser- iously. North Dakota might. be in- duced, through the solidarity of the Townley organization, to send a dele- agtion to the national convention in- structed for Frazier. Outside of ‘North Dakota, however, a boom for our worthy governor would never get to first base. ee ee The league does not stand particu- larly well with the republican nation- al organization. It is a very safe bet that William Lemke, who has_ beer chairman of the republican stdte cen- tral committee, will not manage the republican presidential primary cam- paign in North Dakota. The league does not particularly relish a ‘break with the republican machine at this time. iMr. Townley and his advisors realize that a popular repuDlican can- didate is almost certain to sweep the country in 1920. They see little to ‘be gained by lining up with the demo- cratic national organization, now, al- though strong tendencies to do so were shown during the war, when it seemed the popular thing. ‘Mr. Townley is well aware that an open break with the republican or- ganization, of which the league has taken advantage in its last two cam- paigns in this:state, would be danger- ous. The recent referendum elec- tion showed that not more than 5,000 votes at the outside need be changed to transform the league’s slender ma- jority into a certain minority. With a victorious republican organization carrying everything ibefore it, and with a republican state ticket in the field truly representative of the party and the principles for which it always has stood in state and-‘national gov- ernment, Mr. Townley and his hybrid organiaztion would have a most diffi- cult time of it. CITY NEWS ‘A BABY Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Eitriem, Bts- marck, are the parents of a new son korn at St. Alexius hospital. Takes ‘New Positions, Mrs. L. Chapin and Mrs. L. L. Lid- del of this city have taken positions at the Wonder store, : CONTINUES TO IMPROVE Roy Logan received word yesterday from his mother, wha is in Colorado with her son, Dr. James Logan, that the doctor still continues to improve from ris recent illness, which is good S0 EASY 10 HEAL YOUR SKIN WITH POSLAM Don't let those eruptions remain to ‘blemish and annoy any longer than it takes Poslam to heal them. And Pos- lam is best equipped to do the work because its healing powers are con- centrated. Relieves itching at once. Apply Poslam at night—and leave it on in the daytime, too, when con- venient. It acts quickly. You can soon see benefits. Poslam is harm- less. So effective is Poslam that a little of it will cover a large surface. It is the QUALITY, not t'e quantity of it, that does the work. Sold everywhere. For free sam- ple write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th St., New York City. Poslam, ‘Soap, medicated with Pos-| . -;lam>brighteng; -“‘beautifies~.complex, ions, TUESDAY, JULY: 29,1919. MY HEAD! : When the head feels thick or aches, when one feels all out-of-sorts ») —perhaps a coated tongue—it is the signal that poisons are accumu- lating in the system, and should be cleaned out at once, Auto-intoxication can. be best ascribed to our own neglect or carelessness. When the organs fail in the discharge of their duties, the putrefactive germs set in and generate toxins—actual poisons, which fill one’s own body. Sleepiness efter meals, flushing of the face, extreme lass{tude, bil- iousness, dizziness, sick headache, acidity of the stomach, heartburn, offensive breath, anemia, loss of weight and muscular power, de- crease of vitality or lowering of resistance to infectious diseases, disturbance of the eye, dyspepsia, indigestion, gastritis, many forms of catarrh, asthma, ear affections and allied ailments result from auto-intoxication orself-poisoning. ‘fake castor oil, or procure at the drug store, a pleasant vege- table laxative, called Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, composed of May-apple, aloes and jalap, news to the members of the family and friends. VISITING IN GRAND FORKKS Mrs, Dan Stwart formerly of Bis- marck, is here as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. D .Turner, North Third street. ‘eo | ae --Grand Forks Herald, | FROM MANDAN Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kriedler of Man- dan were visitors in the capital city yesterday. Mr. Kriedler ig the man- ager of the Lewis & Clark hotel, RETURN FROM VISIT Mrs. W. S. Mitchell and daughter Gladwyn have returned from a three weeks’ visit with relatives and friends in St. Paul, Minneapolis and St, Clouu. RETURNS FROM MINNEAPOLIS | Mrs. F. R. Giebenhain, Rost apart- ments, returned to the city this morn- ing from Minneapolis, where she had spent. the. past three weeks visiting with her mother. ~~ PICTURE OF PROFESSOR TEACHIN' HISTORY AT COLLEGE PAN WANNA GO yt’ COLLEGE. THIS FALL ye THE OESIRE FOR EDUCATION WILL GROW IN YOUNG— '