The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 5, 1919, Page 4

THE BISMARCK ‘TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, - - - - - « Méitor Foreign Representativi . PAYNE COMPANY, eae) ‘DETROIT eTTCA GO A ( Weae oad) Kresge F3 7% SMITH ‘ NEW YORK, - - 1 - _ Fifth Ave, Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to thé use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news p herein, All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are Saat TION MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULA' SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year..... teens Adeeeeasceeeesselae. Daily by mai!, per year (In Bismarck).......+.+.. 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 1878) WHEN HATRED DIES A lad with bright eyes and pale cheeks sneaked aboard a British freighter at Hamburg and hid himself in a coil of rope in the stoke hole. Hej was found after the vessel was at sea and told the captain that he wanted to go to his uncle in San Francisco. The boy was German, 11 years old. He was among English sailors who, of all men, hated the} Hun. He was a badly frightened youngster, far from home and farther from San Francisco. The crew of the Lake Fray passed the hat and collected $75 to buy clothing for the youngster; the officers gave directions that he was to have all wanted to eat. The captain could talk a little German and he made the stowaway feel at home. Sailors have hearty appetites, but they mar- veled at the exhibition of a boy’s hunger, satisfy- ing itself after years of craving. When the Lake Fray arrived at Hull, the boy’s adventure was reported to the authorities. Prob- ably he will be sent back to Germany. But the sailors and officers want to keep him aboard. They say the boy will be broken-hearted if he can’t stay! England or France. The United States made no such protest. The world has acquiesced in the wrong then committed. No nation, unless it be China herself, can intervene now, twenty years too late, and say that the lease to Germany cannot be taken over by Japan, who ousted the Germans from their possessions in China precisely as Great Britain and her dominions ousted them from other German colonies, as incidents in the world war. That, long before we entered the war, Great Britain and France made a secret treaty with Japan guaranteeing to the latter her succession to the German lease on condition that she oust the Germans from it, is regrettable to us, who do not. believe in secret treaties though entirely in ac- cordance with the general practice of other nations than our own. But as we were holding ourselves aloof from the nations that were straining their resources to repel the German invasion, we have have very little right to criticise these for making “!the engagement. The fact that the treaty was a secret one does not relieve the signatory powers from their obligations under it. Moreover, even if these powers were bound by Mr. Wilson’s de- nunciation of secret treaties made three years later, which, of course, is a preposterous position, it still remains that Mr. Wilson, in his fourteen “points”, never demanded that secret treaties al- ready made should be repudiated but only that in future there should be no more of them. Mr. Wilson’s attitude at Versailles, with re- spect to Shantung, if we understand it aright, was an earnest plea to Japan voluntarily to recede from the rights she had won in China, in order to co- operate in the beginning of a new world era in which weak nations should no longer be despoiled by stronger nations. It would have been a mag- nificent thing for Japan if she had voluntarily ac- cepted that principle. It would have given her the confidence of the world, It would have guaranteed to her such a moral influence in Chinese affairs as would have been of lasting value to her. It would have cemented her friendship with America. It would have made her the world’s leader in dealing with the problems of territorial reconstruction. But Japan did not. She insisted upon her rights under the treaty. She had every legal right The question is being solemnly asked, “How |thus to insist upon them. Great Britain and France much longer shall we hate? relations with Germany be resumed ?’ Commerce will take no heed of sentiment, and Germany’s trade will be as welcome as that of any nation. As for the feeling of allied people toward the people of Germany, the Lake Fray incident shows how difficult it is to keep animosity alive. All this talk about the determination of the masses to start a revolution if they can’t have their own sweet way is pure piffle—unless we un- derstand the word “masses” to mean “foreign-| born.” | WITH THE EDITORS __ || THE HONOR OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS AT STAKE The American people ought seriously to realize! that if the United States senate should carry the recommendation of its foreign affairs committee into effect, amending the pending treaty of peace by providing for the transfer of Shantung to China instead of to Japan, it would involve three things: a national dishonor to ourselves, an act of perfidy toward three of our allies, Great Britain, France, and Japan, and an irritant to at least the latter that might be deemed a casus belli and would certainly be viewed (quite rightly) as a very unfriendly act. On the other hand, since we would be powerless, on our own motion, to effect the transfer to China unless we chose to make the at- tempt by declaring war against the three nations mentioned and should win the war, the proposed change in the language of the treaty would be of not the slightest value to China; while, by repu- diating the treaty, as we should thus do, we should relieve Germany of all the obligations relating to ourselves, which she has been forced to assume, and should dissociate ourselves from the forces of civilization that are now compelling Germany to make some form of restitution for her misdeeds in the past. For it must be remembered that the chief issue involved in this Shantung matter, so far as the powers are concerned, is the sanctity of treaties. And the senate committee is deliberately demand- ing that Great Britain and France make of their treaty with Japan a “scrap of paper,” with the penalty that the United States will withdraw from the association with these powers in making peace with Germany if they refuse to do so. As representing the conscience of some consid- erable part of the American people, we unhesitat- ingly declare that position to involve national dis- honor for the American nation, Whatever wrong was done to China—and it was a genuine wrong—was done by Germany when, in 1898, she forced the treaty which gave her the “lease” of the Kaio-Chau bay section of the province of Shantung; and it was a wrong in which Russia, England, and France immediately afterward participated by seizing other desirable portions of the China coast and forcing similar “Jeases’’ in their respective interests. If the United States had protested against this wrong at the time it was committed she would have some color —though not much—for the present demand of the senate committee that Japan, as successor to the “rights” of Germany, should be deprived of those “rights,” while no such demand is made upon When can amicable |fulfilled their obligation to guarantee those rights to her. These nations would have shared in the perfidy of Germany if they had violated their obli- gation. And if Mr. Wilson had insisted that they do so, on pain of refusing American assent to the treaty of peace, he would have committed the American nation to a demand that Great Britain and France, having profited by their treaty with Japan, now repudiate their obligations under that treaty. That is precisely what the United States senate will have done if it amends the treaty in accord- ance with the recommendation of Mr. Lodge’s com- mittee. But the senate, in that event, will also adopt a peculiarly discourteous method in doing that which is in itself dishonorable. Instead of negotiating with Japan, England, and France in diplomatic manner in an attempt to undo their own treaty on the ground that we (whom it does not concern) disapprove of it, the senate is asked by its committee to use its own constitutional power of foree—for we will not call it a right—to refuse assent to the treaty of peace except on the condi- tion that these nations comply with our demand. The United States, as the disinterested friend of Japan and China, was entirely within her rights in urging the former of these to recede from her rights under that treaty ; but she has not the faint- est color of right to demand that Japan do so. To formulate such a demand, even in a diplomatic manner, would be a national impertinence which would be, and ought to be, indignantly resented by Japan. And now, from being, two years ago, an appreciated friend of the nations that were in dis- tress, we shall become, if this committee recom- mendation shall be made the action of the senate, an international bully, selecting the most offensive way in which to accomplish that which is in itself dishonorable. And the absolute futility of the action is as conspicuous as its impropriety. Do the American people realize that this posi- tion has been deliberately avowed by a senate com- mittee, and that there is grave danger that it will be accepted by the senate itself? This is not a political issue; it is an issue in which the honor of the American people is in- volved, and it is the paramount duty of religious leaders of the nation to demand that the senate act both honorably and courteously toward those nations that have solemnly entered into treaty ob- ligations with each other, which obligations now they must fulfil. And it should be made perfectly clear to those who are promoting this act of national perfidy in the senate that the religious sense of the nation will hold them personally responsible, and any po- litical party which may uphold them politically re- sponsible, for what will have become the blackest chapter in American history. All that our boys have won in France for American prestige and American honor is now be- ing seriously imperilled by the men who bear the responsibility of the American people in the sen- ate. We shall hope that this may be thoroughly un- derstood throughout the country, and that the con- science of the American people will assert itself in demands upon their senators that they emphat- ically reject the amendment which has been pro- posed by their committee on foreign affairs.— The Living Church, (the great western organ of the Episcopal church.) yr el K ise ull an Wee COUNTY HEADS HAVE. MEBTING DON'T DO MUCH Agricultural Agent’s Report! Seems to Be Most Important | Work Accomplished The county commissioners met Wed- | nesday for their regular meeting, but ou le of visiting work being done/ on some portions of the roads in the; county, in the afternoon, did not trans- any bus of importance, The s bills were approved. County agent, George W. Gustafson, madq his monthly report on activities in the county. The report submitted to the commissioners is as follows: , Grasshoppers Flax fields and corn are the ‘only crops now anolest~d. , However, the agent has constantly urged the prac- tice of erad i oft the infes hoppers in! 1920, ‘'he remedies put fo are simple but urgent and though some farmers think that the hoppers have left never to return the danger of a general in- festation is serious. Conditions have, prevailed which are favorable for the breeding and propagation of this species for another year. Fall and | spring plowing have been urged thru} the pre: letter, talks and personal | interviews. About a hundred tons of; poison material is on hand which can} be used to good adyantage early in 1920, Labor Naturally this is the busy season! of the year when harvest is in full swing and threshing demanding a large number of men. The class of men which thq county agent has been able to place has bee nof a high order. Montana and western North Dakota wen have come in large numbers look- ing for work, Many of these have been sent direct to me from county agents of the western country, and in this; way the agents have been of great help | not only to these men but to those} farmers who have been - fortunate enough to secure them. A few wobblies but not enough to bother the labor sit- uation very seriously. Men haye been placed at wages ranging between $3.50 to $5.00 a day, and $50 to $90 per month, A total of 49 men have been placed on farms in the county during the month, Sheep A growing interest in sheep has been manifested as the result of efforts of the county agent to introduce Moptana stock into the county. Information re- ceived from representatives of the ag- ricultural college studying the sheep situation in Montana has been given out and published for the benefit of those who plan on getting sheep, As a direct result of this information four farmers left on the 26th for Montana with intentions of buying a carload apiece. These men have not returned at the close of the month and there- fore the results of this trip cannot be reported, Others are planning on going out later and indications point to a number of sheep being imported into the county which will prove to Finds Unexpected Sometimes Happens “I suffered for 10 years with stom- ach trouble and doctored away a lot of money before I found a medicine} that was a real benefit to me. Since! teking one dose of Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy 14 weeks ago, I have had more real joy of living than I had in 10 years before.” It is a simple, harmless pieparation that removes the catarrh- al mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intes- tinal ailments, including appendicitis: One dose will convince or money re- funded, For sale by druggists every- where, 2 | terests of the country. gr The county agént has bee nable to’ It will do more to render valuabl riculture than ‘ay, other factor can possibly do, Interest will ,be, removed from the unreliable and! dlsappoint- ing grain crop to the instituuon which bas proven the alvatio. 2 many a community, viz: cow, cream, and sep- arator and all those things which are added to it, Recognizing this fact, the county agent has spent considerable time in emphasizing the silo in Bur- leigh county. With the splendid crop ot corn this year the farmer with a silo is not going to miss greatly the wheat crop of this year, FOOTBALL Statistical Report Days spent in office 4%) Office calls ...++ 86 ‘Telephone calls 49 Letters written 123 Ch letters sent out 60 Newspaper articles .. 22 Bulletins distributed . 55 Farmers visited ... Number of laborers placed with farmers . Miles traveled ... . 1336 Number of communities visited 15 FEW CHANGES MADE IN CITY BUILDINGS The state board of equalization trifl- little with county returns on ns of improvements on town und city lots, The board met yester- day and went over the list of 53 coun- ties and found five in which it believed changes were necessary. In each in- stance the county board’s equalization Was increased, as follows: Divide five pereent; Griggs, 80; Ransom, 40; Rol- ette, 5; Sheridan, 5; Walsh, 25, EMON JUICE FOR FRECKLES Girls! Make beauty lotion for a few cents—Try It! L | FEVERS PRACTICED A KACKIN ONG ENovatt? Squeeze the juice of two lemons in- to a bottle containing three ounces of urebard white, shake well, and you ané tan lotion, and complexion beauti- fier, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and anv be the foundation of what is hoped to siruction and filling of the silo in the) drug store or toilet counter will supply be a general awakening of the sheep, industry in Burleigh county. Suc ounty during the month, To the/three ounces of orchard white for a it’s knowledge ten silos are going|few cents. Massage this sweetly fra- » to be filled with tl ar’s corn| grant lotion into the face, neck arms ‘op for ensilage. The silo is one of the!and hands each day and soe how greatest institutions that can be in-jfleckles and blemishes disappear and Silo troduced in our m of farming.|how clear, soft and sory-white the sten the new day/skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless ance in the con- in the history of Burleigh county ag-|and never irritates an’ should mean a. great thing | and cents to farming in- C a package before the war C a package during the war and C apackage NOW THE FLAVOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! have a quarter pint of the best frecki3° uk