The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1919, Page 4

FOUR «BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNB SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1919 | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ee GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - » Séitor Foreign Representatives . LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, OBICAGO,. Bee a hee _DETROTn, rquette Bldg. es 6 2 & ce . a PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK, a endo s 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 ited im this paper and also the local news published herein. ‘All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are ae U OF CIRCULATION EMBER AUDIT BUREA SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ily by carrier, per year ‘ 2 $7.20 pally by mail, per year (In Bismarck)..... o. 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by_mail outside of North Dakota........+.++ 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER, (Established 1873) ip —=——————— SHIPS AND MORE SHIPS The Emergency Fleet Corporation is turning out ships in fine style. Up to the middle of July it had delivered 1096 vessels totaling 6,068,739 deadweight tons. It had launched at the same time 1524 vessels with a deadweight tonnage of 8,030,288 and had laid the keels of 2081 vessels with a deadweight tonnage of 11,421,111. The deliveries for the first six and a half months almost equal the total for 1918. Between the launching of a ship and its deliv- ery there is a period of nearly two months. Shipbuilding on the Great Lakes as particu- larly active, three times as many men being em- ployed as during the war. What the production of the American ship- yards means may be appreciated when it is said that the 2081 vessels whose keels have been laid represent nearly 60 per cent of the total tonnage of the merchant marine of Great Britain before the war. FOOLISH QUESTIONS The answering of foolish questions is, we be- lieve, one of the truest indexes to a person’s char- acter. If they are answered in a my-how-ignorant attitude, it shows the lack of tolerance which is, perhaps, one of the most desirable of human traits. On the other hand, if the foolish question is given a kindly reply, it displays, in addition to tol- erance a great degree of tact. We are so apt to forget that the question which appears foolish to-ug may-~be of vital importance to the person asking it. Then, too, asking a foolish question is often merely desire on the part of the questioner to be friendly. It is used as a sort of entering wedge. And, usually one can answer a foolish question sensibly in half the time it takes to make a “smart” or “cutting” reply. VERY GOOD, JOHNNY John M. Baer, Iéague edftoonist and congress- man, must have had North Dakota ‘and’ Senate Bill 157 in mind when he said the other day: “The great trouble in this country is the fact that the people cannot get the truth. Editors of newspapers and maga- zines are living constantly in fear of being suppressed or thrown in jail if they dare to speak the truth.” In North Dakota they don’t throw them into jail—they merely condemn the country press to slow death from starvation by taking all official and legal printing away from it. That is exactly the trouble in North Dakota today—a large percentage of the people, that pro- portion which relies upon the Townley press for its facts, CANNOT GET THE TRUTH. What they get is the Townley version of Truth —something Doc Mills recommends as just as good as the real article. Whether the substitute is equal to the original anyone who has read Nonpartisan press accounts of the crucifixion of Miss Minnie J. Nielson, woman’s only representative in the government of North Dakota, may judge. PAGING GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER George Randolph Chester’s attention is re- spectfully invited to the following plot for a Wall- ingford story: A prosperous little community has a thriving flour mill under efficient private ownership, mak- ing good. Mr. Wallingford drops in, exuding an atmos- phere of promise and prosperity. “Here,” says Rufus, “this mill is a very nice little mill, but it isn’t big enough. Now you boys already own this mill; you say it’s worth $20,000. Tell you what we'll do—we—meaning me—will re- organize this mill, and we’ll put in a little water for good measure, say $16,000 worth—then we (meaning you) will buy $36,000 worth of bonds to provide the capital to buy your mill. Then we (meaning me) will own our mill, and we—meaning you—will have $36,000 worth of bonds secured by $20,000 worth of mill, which should be good enough for anyone.” That’s exactly what the state mill and elevator association has pulled off at Drake, and Drake has put out big Pink Posters advertising a celebration of the deal for August 20. Drake has the same flour mill today that it had two weeks ago. Two weeks ago the mill was under efficient private ownership which sanely valued its property at $20,000, and was content Myth profit on that valuation, Today the mill is owned by the state and is to be operated by political appointees of the state, who’ll have to sell the state-milled flour for enough more to earn a profit on $16,000 worth of water which the state has injected into the proposition at the very out- set. Next to the Bank of North Dakota’s recent essay at capitalization on paper, this is one of the niftiest little bits of financiering—one mustn’t use the term porfiteering, in connection with indus- trial democracy—that ever has come to our at- tention. Crocodile tears are doubtless closely related to profiteers. Now the postal employes want a 50 per cent increase. Nobody is satisfied with 2.75 per cent. | WITH THE EDITORS CLOSE HARMONY The Forman News says Lenine is preparing an address to civilized nations to intervene and re- store order in Chicago and Washington and the same editorial appears in fifty-three other “inde- pendent” papers in the state-—Cogswell Enter- prise, THE TOWNLEY TYPE The Courier-News regrets to “learn that the Bismarck Tribune is teaching contempt of our courts. It prints criticism of the judge who sent that Memphis editor to jail.” As though no judge should ever be criticized and as though the Mem- phis case did not present a glaring case of ring rule and corrupt politics. It is such “glittering generalities” as this that mislead the public and discredit newspapers whose duty should be to bring the whole truth and facts to the people— not half truths and innuendoes. But on top of this the News comes out serenely in its Sunday edition with the self same Memphis story which it thereby apparently endorses, for the Memphis story in the News points out the martyrdom of the fighting editor as plainly as other news stories on the odor- ful Memphis case. Oh, inconsistency, thou art a jewel !—La Moure Chronicle-Echo, THE RED CROSS COMING DRIVE Announcement that the Red Cross is planning another membership roll call this fall and solicita- tion of $15,000,000 of money recalls the splendid success with which this locality has responded to similar demands while the war was on. Though there is end to the tumult of arms the need of Red Cross service goes on. Obligations to restore soldiers to health must be kept and the call for stricken allied nations cannot be ignored. The government is giving army medical ‘supplies’ in Europe to the Red Cross for this use so that most of the funds to be collected will go to pay for peace- time activities of the order in the homeland. ’ In outlining the career for the Red Cross in the future, it is stated that hereafter there will be an annual roll call to enlist millions of Ameri- cans in renewal of their dollar memberships, It is going to be taken as an indorsement of the order. The field of public health and the relief of suf- fering from catastrophe and disaster will engage the attention of the Red Cross and its efficiency combined with local and state activities should mark a definite advance in the state of general health throughout the nation. CENTS EXPRESS Hf CHARGES. Whe PROMINENT MEN OF NORTHWEST PLAN MEMORIAL Old-Time Friends of Theodore Roosevelt Meet in St. Paul Conference New York, Aug. 16.—Prominent men and , women’ from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North’ Dakota and South Dakota,. gathered at the Hotel st. Paul, St. Paul, on Friday, August 15, for a conference on the plans and methods to be followed in the forth- coming canipaign for memorials to the late Tneodore Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Memorial Association, of which \illiam Boyce Thompson is head, wiil direct:,a country-wide ap- peal, and will raiga. $5,000,000 in the week ot October 20-27. The plans include the erection of,a monument at Washington and the establishment of a park for the. people at Oyster Bay. Ia this park it is hoped. that will eventually be included, in. much the same way as Washington’s house at Mount Vernon; and the. Lincoln residence at Springfield, ‘Ill., have been preserved at national posses- sions, s Major-General Weonard Wood, a member of the \National Executive Committee of the Association, made the chief address at the St. Paul con- ference. Irving A. Caswell, of Anoka, will be the chairman in charge of the campaign in Minnesota. Augustus H. Vogel, of Milwaukee, leather mer- chant and member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve This program is warrant for renewed allegiance to the Red Cross when the time comes.— Aberdeen American. IT IS A QUESTION OF GOVERNMENT Without regard to anything else-pertaining to the railroad question, it can be said safely and surely that government ownership should not be the outcome. The government: has not been mak- ing a success of the railroad management. The taxpayers are paying over a billion to reimburse railroad losses and another billion will be called for before the end is reached. The government has employed forty thousand more people than private ownership employed. For all this the peo- ple have to pay. It would not be a good thing to turn the rail- roads over to the brotherhoods or to any brother- hood. Brotherhoods, according to their own state- ment, represent three million votes. If this is cor- rect government ownership on the plan proposed by Mr. Plumb would mean brotherhood ownership and management. Therefore the men who operate the roads would fix their own salaries and arrange the time for the running of trains. The system would be wrong. We would oppose turning the railroads over to the farmers, although there are nearly ten times as many farmers as there are railroad men. ~ The brotherhoods are asking that these mat- ters be discussed publicly. Mr. Plumb announces that a fund of two and a half million dollars, pos- sibly ten million will be raised by the brotherhoods with which to put on a campaign before the Ameri- °. can people. And we suggest that the brotherhood proposition should be taken up before all organiza- tions of farmers, miners, merchants and every other style of organization in order that the best thing may be decided upon. So far as we are con- cerned there is nothing to decide, but this may not be true of others. We are opposed to government, by classes. This is a free country in which all Bank of Chicago, will have super- vision of the campaign in Wisconsin. Sylvanus M., Ferris, of Dickinson, one of Koosevelt’s companions in his ranching days on the Little ‘Missouri, will be State chairman for North for South Dakota. ‘All four attend- ed the conference at the Hotel St. Paul on August 15. Others who at- tended _ were ‘Mrs. C. A. Severance of St. Paul. a member of the national executive committee of the Roosevelt ‘Memorial Association; Dr. (Marion Leroy Burton, president of the Uni- versity of Minnesota; and the Rt. Rev. Austin Dowling, Archbishop of St. Paul. Dr: Burton and Archbishop Dowling have been nominated as honorary chairmen of the State cam- paign organization. Others who ex- pect to attend are: J..M. McConnell, of St. Paul; Dr. Donald: Cowling, president of Carleton College (North- field, Minn.); Mrs. J. A. Burnquist, of ‘St. Paul. wife of the, Governor of Minnesota, all of whom are honorary vice-chairmen of the committee; Mrs. T. G. Winter, of Minneapolis; Charles ‘Flandrau, Mrs. ‘Archibald McLaren, and J. R. Mitchell, of St. Paul; J. D. Bacon, of Grand Forks; (N..B. Black, of Fargo, N. D.; and. Charles A. Burke, L. EB. Gaftey, and John Suther- land, of Pierre,'8. Di > -¢* | SERVICE MEN’S | BUREAU | | | XD This bureau is maintained free of all cost for the information of. men who served in the army, navy, or marine corps. We will gladly aid you in obtaining back pay, bonus, insurance, compensation and other matters of interest to men formerly in the service, Selmar Hanson, ‘Gwinner;.(N. D.~ We have requested the Red: Cross at Bismarck to communicate with you regarding your $50 Liberty bond which you have not yet received. Ad- vise us if you have any further diffi- culty, The recruiting office at Bismarck has not yet received any of the bronze and silver Victory buttons for former service men. The bronze buttons are must have a voice. It is not a question of wages or of getting on in the world. It is a question of saving the government from making a grave mistake.—Des Moines Capital, ee , ” ER. Pras SRE est for those who served in the army dur- ing the war and the silver button for those who were wounded. The navy department, we understand, has not authorized the distribution of these Lputtens to former, navy .menor. mac. Ubli¢ityend:.; the Roosevelt home at Sagamore Hill] - ‘Dakota, and Governor Peter Norbeck! < Fargo, N. D., Mr. Leslie E. Fer- Wg rines, but it is understood that steps are being taken to obtain this author- ization. Publication of the distribu- uuon of Victory buttons through the recruiting office will be made upon their receipt. C. F. Dirlum, Bismarck—The Red Cross at Bismarck has your request for information regarding non-deliv- ery of Liberty bond bought while you were in the service. Fill out the ap- plication furnished you by Mrs. T. H. Poole, ‘local secretary, and return to ‘her at the Federal building. An important meeting of the Amer- ican Legion will be held at the Elk club. room Thursday night. All for- mer soldiers, sailors and marines, whether members or not, are invited to attend. For membership see Treas- urer P. G. Harrington, Sunset barber shop, Fourth’ street and Broadway. Nick Granas, -Braddock, ‘N. D.—Sor- ry that you ‘have trouble obtaining your Liberty bond. We have requested the Red Cross at Bismarck to send you application covering this. We are sure you will receive your Liberty bend soon, as the Red ‘Cross has been very successful in this work, Advise us if there is any. further trouble. DEATH PENALTY FOR MAKING SONORA WET ' Douglas, Ariz. Aug. 16—Though death has been the peaalty pronouuc- ed by General P. Elias Galles, gover- nor of Sonora, (Mexico, for the making or selling of liquors in that state, pub- lic sentiment was so strongly against the decree that, while arrests were being made in other parts of the state, in the Capital Hermosillo, re- cently liquor never was more plenti- ful nor cueaper ince prohibition first went into effect in 1915. _ Americans reaching here recently from Hermosillo said ‘beer was being sold at $25 gold a case.of 69 pints and tequiia was selling at $5 a quart. ‘Not long ago, 50 cases. or 600 bottles of tequila, seized in all parts of Sonora, were publicly destroyed. The liquor was poured into the gut- ter in front of the governor’s palace. j Americans who witnessed the des- truction, said that a number of peons | were on hand with cups and when the liquor was poured into the gutter scouped up enough to get riotously drunk. During the period when the deoth penalty was in force until it was re- :Pealed early in July, not a single ex- ecution had taken place. Adolfo de la Huerta, the governor elect, and the state congress are re- ported to be prepared early in Sep- tember when they take office, to put in effect a law. reopening saloons in ‘Sonora for the sale of light wines and beer. At present there are a number of buildings in Agua Prieta, Naco and Nogales, Sonora, being re- modeled for saloon purposes. Mr. de la Huerta is said to have been approached recently by repre- {sentatives of the people of the Ala- mos and Sahuaripa districts or coun- ties, with the petition that the man- fufacture and sale of mescal, distilled from their Maguay, a psecies of cac- tus, be permitted. Dance tonight at the Armory. THE GETTING OF MINNIE’S GOAT RISES eed te (A bit of Irwinesque verse on the recent affairs at the. State Canitol) BY EARLE H. TOSTEVIN SCENE I. 3 ’ THE HATCHING OF THE PLOT “We must save him!” quoth the bishop. “We should worry!” grinned the chief. i “But our policy, our policy, we can’t afford to quit. “We must lionize the ninny, i “We must tie the hands of Minnie, ’ { ae “For onr dear damned fuddled public is getting wise a bit. So with frantic worry scratching, Set they troubled wits to matching an And to formulate a method of making Minnie squeal. Plans discarded by the pailful *Till the chief with glare most baleful _ ae And with frazzled fizzled feelings ordered, “Call beloved Neil. Came this tiny timid kewpie, With his eyes tear dimmed and droopy q “T am here,” he piped in tenor tones so musical and sweet As he fluttered to the dias Where the bishop, eyes abias, : Bade him quit his cringing fawning, bade him take a council seat. “We are stumped, most faithful servant,” Quoth the Chief in tones perturbant, “Can you furnish us a system to garner Minnie’s goat?” Then in silence, deep, dark, dire, Plowed they on through mental mire : One, two, three, four, five, six hours, ’til at last Neil cleared his throat. And with pent-up jubilation Shrilled aloud: “Certification!” “We can gobble that department! doubt!” So with stealthy cuteness plotting, And with consequence unwotting, : Laid they wires, told the puppets of the work to carry out. * * (Dear Reader: The tale I tell is a gladsome tale Let thoughts not sadly trend, . Though it makes you mad You'll be glad, For the tale has a glorious end.) SCENE II. 4 ; BEFORE THE HUNT They chuckled in glee, right merrily, a new department made Then ere long, their gladsome song, “Yo Ho! For a mighty raid: “Oh we'll seize that goat by its tender throat and list to the cutie There’s no question; not a cry. . “For might is right. ’Tis a glorious fight. It is! Oh-me! Oh my!” Though it sounds absurd, they named a bird, as the new depart- * ment clerk A-man who'd do as they told him to, and never, never shirk. SCENE III. THE HUNT IS ON So they summoned all the varlets, Carl and Ole, Bill and Yon From Se ial in the basement, busted’ up the game of “Vhist,” Pee “Get your trucks boys, roll your shirt sleeves, for the gory hunt is on, “We must clean out all the records; not an item must be missed.” And they sallied to her stronghold where fair Minnie bade them pause— , 16 rns Wong ‘ “Would you rob me of my power?” she exclaimed. “Oh tragedy. “Tis a duty of my office.ag you'll find right in the laws.” ar aye ain’t to know dose lawbooks, but aye got my orders, ee!” “You must wait, I’ll get them ready !” gasped the victim of the plot. But the stern vindictive trio warned her, “Woman don’t delay! “You have dared to buck our chieftain, and you'll rue it. Know ye not F “That for such trere is no quarter? Those who fight him, must he slay?” SCENE IV. - (Soft Music, Professor, Please!) I] THE LAMENT * To have strived, to have worked, has it now come to this Nes Must I yield all the honor I’ve saved? Must I let lovely Neil pick the teachers we need Must the schools of the state be enslaved? Must I bow to the text of the socialist craft Must I stand for this Bolshevik curse Must I let Mother Mills pass out on a spoon P His mixture of free love and worse? i (Chorus of North Dakota School Teachers) “Don’t you cry my honey, wipe your tearful eye. “The bogey man will get them mighty soon. ; “Don’t you fret my honey, we're backing of you strong “And we'll get their blatting nannies come next June.” ( Ah, ’tis well my faithful teachers and I thank you for your cheer Hist! I hear the mighty Langer has a word or two to Say, Gather round me, friends, and listen, for I’m sure you’d like to hear The kind of dope he’s cooking up to fuddle them today. (Langer) : “T have looked, I have pored in the law books to find ’ “That the text is exceedingly plain : “They may take the routine of certificate work ! “Let it’s foolish, it gives me a pain; { “For the law plainly says you prepare all the tests, “So what, may I ask, do they gain?” O’Connor’s Orchestra. ISTUDENT GETS BANK POSITION After completing his course at the Dakota Business College, i | is was immediately sent to a po- sition with the Dakota Savings {Bank of that city, making the third pupil to go to this Finan- cial Institution. Miss Pearl Booth, of Sawyer, is another pupil who has recently entered the services of a Bank after a course at this college. The First National Bank of Hecla, S. _D., secured her services. For information about. Busi- ness Courses, address F. L. Wat- kins, 806 Front St., Fargo, N. D. sas (Chorus of North Dakota Teachers) ; fy “Don’t you cry my honey, ain’t he got the pep . “He’s the bogey man who sets them crazy oe j “Ain’t you glad he’s living, helping in the fight £ “Three cheers for Langer! He’s a daisy!” ee. SCENE V. batter ; THE GOAT IS SAVED And it came to pass that a Scottish lass is doing the laughing last And she smiles the while in a plucky style as she thinks of the hunt now passed. “They thought they might by a legal fight, sort of scare me out But Ah,— ‘T’m here to stick, through thin or thick and al “My Goat still answers: * “BAH!” 4 FIRST 100,000 nounced today, and of these more than 60,000 were reenlistments, It is esti- RECRUITS SIGN mated that an average of five out of FOR NEW ARMY |every 100 men discharged trom the ‘Wishlieton: 1.7 Oh iaie, ta; temporary forces since the recruit- —The “first 100,000” recruits have been se- sy ree Se have decided to cured for the permanent regular army, eC eR ee General March, chief of staff, an-! ‘Tribune Want Ade Bring Results, Ly