The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1919, Page 4

__ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE @ntered at the Postoitice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN, Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Ve - DETROIT, CHICAGO, darquette Bldg. - - Kresge Bldg. ND SMITH PAYNE, B j NEW YORK, : Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ase tor publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of pubsication of special dispatches hereim are algo reserved, MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Oaily by carrier, per year ..... $7.20 Daily by mail, per year (In Bismarck)..... 2 TD Daily by mail, per year (In state outside Bismarck) 5.08 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota. 5.0% THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) «GED» FOR YOUR LITTLE BOY AND YOUR LITTLE GIRL Well, fathers and mothers of Soviet Dakota, what do you think of it? | Is the leadership of the Nonpartisan league so- URNS A cialistie; is socialism and sovietism preaching Free Love to the boys and girls of North Dakota? What do you know, fathers and mothers of the rural districts, of the contents of the volumes which A. C. Townley ’s state board of administration, head- ed by Rey. George A. Totton, who was a minister, is placing in the hands of your sons and daughters? What would you think of the state board of ad- ministration telling your son and daughter that the marriage which produced them and which made a home for them and which has given them through their childhood the protection of a family cirele was “ph Is it in keeping with your views of decency and morality that a man who has been kieked out of the consular se: » of the United States and who is schooled in all the decadent culture of old-world capitols should seleet for your son and daughter literature which instructs them that: **Monagamy, that is a life-long love relation, dis- regards the inevitable consequences of such an eth- ical standard, namely THE WASTE OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF SPLENDID LIFE ENERGY WHICH IF UTILIZED WOULD PRODUCE FINE OFF- SPRING AND SO AID IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE RACE.”’ Would you select for that growing boy and girl of yours, soon to be confronted with the divine mysteries of life, books which tell us that ‘‘Ellen Key’s startling views of the marriage relation im- ply far more than a refusal to accept-the sanctified, time-honored beliefs held by the majority today.” Do you think it proper and wise- that love out of wedlock should be glorified and the ‘‘Honors of the present system’’ of marriage be held up before your children’s eyes as something to avoid. Do you think it well to have your children taught that ‘‘a nation in which marriages are contracted only from deep personal love is at a great disad- vantage as against other nations and must perish” because ‘‘among such hardy nations as the modern Japanese and the ancient Hebrews we find con- eubinage an institution sanctioned by Jaw and custom?” es { Do you, fathers and mothers, agree with the prop- osition that ‘‘the dissolution of marriage should be made dependent upon the will of one of the married pair?” Do you want it taught in your home as an ap- proved fact that ‘when two unmarrier persons give life to a child, nature often rewards passion by en- dowing the child with splendid equipment.’ That **Nature seems to pursue a mysterious pur- pose with this quality of ‘passion’ which the sense of responsibility cannot achieve?’ ~, In other words, Christian fathers and: mothers of North Dakota, do you want imbedded in the hearts of your growing boys and girls all the foul rot of free love; all the bestial filth of a creed whose goal is the communization of women? If you do, continue in power the soviet government which has placed in our state library and in the cir- eulating libraries which go into your homes the neurotic mouthings of an Ellen Key, and the anar- chistic drivel of Meyers and Trotzky and LaBriola. ieally immoral?’ BLACKMAILING A STATE One Henry Drennan, referred to as a mine organ- izer, called into North Dakota recently because of a possible strike, demanded a 60 per cent increase in miners’ wages payable to the union and not to the miners. » Governor Frazier gave this, his official sanction and threatened to seize the North Dakota mines un- Jess tlieir operators forthwith acceded to this in- iquitous proposition. On the advice of the Attorney General of the United States they refused and Governor Frazier promptly took over the mines using the militia of - the state to enforce his seizure. ‘ On the face of it this comes about as close to a ' Drennan-Frazier alliance to blackmail operators of North Dakota coal mines into payment of money to the very interests that seek to wreck them as could be conceived of. This is not a discussion of the respective merits of private ownership and operation or state owner- ship and operation of coal minés; or of the nonparti- san league, men €an honestly differ on these issues. _ The big issue is that Governor Frazier has sought to cram down the throats of all the people of North Dakota the demands of rabid radicals and has seized the North Dakota mines on a flimsy pretext hoping to compel.qcceptance of these demands, © __ Any man, whether he believes in state o-govern- ‘the ship of state, surpassed the predictions of the BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE ment ownership and operation of coal, mines or not, should, if he is a man, stand back of’ state or nation if it becomes necessary for either or both of them to take over and operate coal mines by lawful pro- cess to keep the public from suffering but when they are seized as Governor Frazier has seized them there should be some law that would reach him, as surely as any other radical “disturber of law and order.—Masonic Observer. That lone bandit who f ed passengers on a Union Pacific train and left one man three cents wasn't a regular profiteer, A regular profitecr wouldn't have overlooked the three cents. When we read that ‘‘the accounts of out-of town traders are being liquidated’? we understand it to mean that lambs are giving up their wool. Let’s extend the food control law for six months after peace is signed. And then let’s extend it until peace is signed with the profiteers. “Thanksgiving day is only our annual time for saying grace at the table of eternal goodness.” THE MOTORIZED FARM Gee whizz, they’ve got so many motors nowadays a pail and a three-cornered stool. Now they take their wives and their sons and daughters and hired hands hardly have anything to do with their hands these days except to start the contraptions and keep the tanks full of gasoline! Folks on the farms don't have to fill lamps with oils and prune wicks and all that stuff any more. They rt up the motor, turn a switch and—presto —eleetric light! When the help turn out im the wee hours of the morning to milk the cows they no longer take along a pail and a three corneded stool. Now they take a monkey wrench, in ease anything goes wrong with the machinery, and simply start up the motor, and let it do the milking {i The farmers’ wives no longer work a long-handled butter churn through long weary hours by the use of muscle and patience. No siree, they don’t. There’s a motor to attend to that! And when it comes to plowing and planting and harvesting and all that sort of stuff—say, you wouldn’t know the old farm now! Dobbin and the rest of the good old nags sure have been super- ceded. The plow is an auto now that climbs over hills and slips into valleys with never a stop for rest or a drink of water., And as for taking the stuff into town to the market, of course there’s a young fleet of flivvers for that! Yep, motors certainly are the thing nowadays on the farm. vented to suecessfully accomplish and that is—GET THE HIRED HANDS OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING! It takes the old man himself and all his muscle and lung power and determination to do that—and it probably always will! THE WAR IN AMERICA When the first annual convention of the Ameri- can legion came to a close in Minneapolis, it was evident to all intelligent Americans that at last a force had been set to work in this troubled land bearing promise of sufficient strength and integ- rity to present successful opposition to the hench- men of anarchy and disorder. The Legion fills a tremendous want. There are many organizations in the country openly hostile to the governement and many others of less sinister aims, avowedly seeking some sort of selfish end. It is a novel spectacle to see a body, nation-wide in di- mensions, willing to dedicate its influence exclusive- ly to the publie weal, untinctured by the smallest modicun of self-interest. This the Legion has done and has declared its policies in ringing terms. From an association of former service men much could naturally be expected. , The lessons which the service teaches in devotion to the flag and adhesion to wholesome governmental principles are not for- gotten over night. Also, an organization composed very largely of sound-bodied, clean-minded young men, drawn from all sections of the country and all divisions of political thought would be, in its very composition, free from many of the disabilities which sully the purposes of bodies less tatholie in scope and more largely committeed to definite lines of opinion. But that the Legion should become, in less than a year of life, the perfect chart and compass of most optimistic of well-wishers. Yet precisely this has taken place. The nation is familiar with what was done in Minneapolis. We have viewed with pleasure the adoption of a vigorous yet sane military policy, a declaration of uncompromising war on all ‘‘red’’ activity, a vastly wise conception of what immigra- tion laws should be, and a complete consecration of ere ta nn | WITH THE EDITORS | a en But there’s one thing no motor has yet been in- il hi i TTT ii ‘GET BUSY 2) a | hte he) 2, Iu! ) SS RS C > BRS A THE OL GIRL MEANS Bu SI NESS G ve | | | % THE SORT OF LITERATURE PROVIDED FOR YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE CIRCULATING LIBRARIES PREPARED _ | FOR DISTRIBUTION BY TOWNLEY SOVIETS COMMISSION | oe Se | | AT ELI KEY PREACHES startling views relation in ‘Love ,” (also in the North ool circulating library), the introduction to “Love and Et- ‘IMPLY FAR MORE THA USAL ‘TO ACCEPT THE IFIED, TIME-HONORED .BE- HELD BY THE MAJORITY WH “El on and Da- TO! e “Conditions are not ri ical cuanges she sugges A GRA- DUAL RANSFORMATION OF MORAL VALUES MUST LEAD THE WAY TO A BETTER FUTURE.” Such a gradual transformation is | asc the object sought in the introduction in the schools of the gospel of free love; in placing in the hands of little boys and girls, not yet in the stage of adolescence, the atrocious preaching that love out of tharriage, un illeg!-; timate intermingling of the sexes is’ the holiest goal thai they can hope to attain, Turning to Eilen Key herself, we fisd her saying to the little boys and girls whose hands the state board of ad- mministraticn would place these works: “In ‘Love and Marriage’ I pointed! out that those who insist upon monc- gamy”. (which is one wife for each husband and one husband for each wife) “that is, a life-long love rela- tion, as the only moral relationship between the sexes disregard the in- evitable consequence of such an et- hical standard, |! NAMELY, ‘THD WASTE OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF SPLPNDID LIFE ENERGY WHICH IF UTILIZED } WOULD PRODUCKH; LINE OFF-SPRING AND SO AID IN; THE IMPROVEMENP OF +» THE RACE.” A In other words, by breeding * pro- miscuously, men and women may pro- duce, more children—by- reducing sexual relations to a purely animal plane, men and» women may become us productive as’ the beasts, “One would suppose that those who attack marriage were -trying to de- stroy a ‘beautiful idyl. As a matter of fact, the ‘horrors of the present system are such that what we should do is compare them with the possible dangers of a new system and see which are to be Wreaded the more. “Are modern marriages good en- ough for the need of society “How. can we find a more efficient ethical code than the present one for improving the; species?” In other words, how can we speed up the breeding of children? KATE O'KARE IS EXPLAINED One may easily follow in this the workings of thé socialist mind which| led Kate Richards O’Hare, a woman of the same school as that which would introduce free love into the grade schools of North Dakota, to refer to the mothers of North Da- its membership to the general welfare of the United States and its institutions. Most gratifying of all is the thought that the Legion is in its babyhood, that} with its inevitable growth it will become, yearly, a,more perfect embodiment of the spirit in which it. was conceived. ; In all the winter of our national discontent, the American Legion is the one spot of summer sunshine, We hear a great deal about the thing which, nowa- days, is called ‘‘Americanism’’; indeed it is by far the most popular topic of platform and pulpit ora- tory. ‘But ‘‘Americanism’’ is something that, for proper definition requires action, not high-sounding hrasesand rhetorical flag-waving. The American! Legion defines it,—Detroit Saturday Night... . koia’s 30,000 fighting men as “brood sOWS-”” “The worge elements of society would not he deterred by any ethical principe “from” propagating _ their kind!” pe 1 Nor are rabbits, nor guinea pigs! “Such~ high-strung {dealism would produce the same results as the con- vents In the middle ages, and/under present soctal ‘conditions this stand- ard of morality wopld hinder the im- provement, of the species, altho the trend of evolution 1s ufmistakably to- ward real unity of love as the final goal, and although UNITY OF THE SOUL AND THD SENSES CAN AL- ‘BB. LAI AS {HE Diets rue CHASTITY CONDITION OF TT! IN THD UNION OF THD SEXHS IN OR OUT OF MARRIAGE.’” “From the point of view of the good’ of the species, THM LWGAL AND TICAL FORM,OF MORAL- ITY CANNOT HOLD 1TS GROUND AGAINST THE MOST ‘HIGHLY DK- VELOPED SEX CONSCIOUSNESS OF TODAY AND I'T ETHICS. “To think of insisting upon a great lifelong love as the sole moral stand- ard for’ this varied life!” cries Ellen K to the school children of Nort! “| Dakota. | “He who so insists has never allow- ed his thoughts to stray beyond the narrow cicle prescribed by hig like- miuded neighbors To think, for instance, that a man should persist in loving and chersih- ing the bride whom he took in her youth, the woman who became the mother of his children and the part- ner of his joys aud whose woes when he might, now that this woman’s ef- ficiency as a ‘brbeeding machine has been decreased by age, select for him- self another woman, younger, more winsome, from Bllen Key’s stand- point, more efficient! “A nation in which marriages are contracted only from deep personal love is at a great disadvantage as against other nations and must per- ish. Im Europe monogamy is estab- lished as the absolute moral law. But anidng’ such hardy nations as the modern Japanese and. the . ancient Hebrews we find concubinage an in- stitution sanctioned ‘by law and cus- tom. THE MODERN SEX PROBLEM‘ “For this and many other reasons I maintained in’ ‘Love and Marriage’ that the modern sex problem consists in finding the proper equilibrium be- tween, on the one hand, the require- ments for the improvement of the species, and, on the ocher hand, the increased demands of the individual to ‘be happy in love; whereas former- ly the proplem was.only between. s0- ciety’s demands for fixed marriage forms and the individual’s demands to satisty his sex life in any form. The six ethics that proceeds from tliis new equilibrium will be the only true ethics. ft “All I plead for was greater freedom in love, that we might have the op- portunity of observing its effect. “OF ALL SOCIAL’ CONCESSIONS TO BE DEMANDED THB MOST ES- SENTAL IS THAT THE STANDARI) BY WHICH THE MORALITY OF PARENTHOOD. Is MEASURED SHOULD BE NOT THE MARRIAGH RITE BY THE WILL OF TWO HU- MAN BEINGS TO ASSURE THE RE- SPONSIBLITY FOR THEIR CHIL- DREN; NOL THE LEGITIMACY OF THE CHILDREN, BUT -TH+) KIND OF CHILDREN THEY ARE, “The second social concession to be insisted upon is that the DISSOLU- TION OF MARRIAGE SHOULD BE MADE DEPENDENT UPON THE WILL OF ONE OF THE MARRIED PAIR, and that the man and woman should have equal martial rights. “The forces of the spiritual life that now radiate in two different directions would ‘be focused’ were s0- ciety to protect. all children alike, BUT ALLOW INDIVIDUALS TO PROTECT THEIR LOVE. “The feeling of responsibility for the child’s original character 0S WEAKENED BY THE CURREN™ CONCEPTION OF LEGITIMACY.”* “The fact that in some FRE UNIONS. also love dies, proves not- hing against this POSSIBILITY OF A FINFR LOVE THROUGH FRED DI- VORCE. Don't forget JOHNSON’S for Christian fathers and mothers who would Jike to know something of the kind of Jiterature prepared for the consumption of their boys and girls by the Townley soviets library commission of North Dakota will be interested in the following extracts from “Love and Ethics,” by Ellen Key, which, with “Love and Mariage,” by the same author, both advancing arguments in favor of, FREE LOVE and the abolition of the “Jegal and ecclesiastical marriage contract,” were found in a travel- ing library box in the offices of the public library commission by Rep. O. B. Burtness of Grand Forks, and their presence there, together with other extremely socialistic and anarchistic litera- ture, was verified last evening by a special legislative investigating committee: COMMITTEE FINDS BURTNEBS CHARGES ARE. SUBSTANTIATED (Continued from page one) Parties and the Visioning. C. &. Strangetand came to North. Dakota in company | with" Madam: iSigne Lund during the last regular iv, and both are said to ‘haye been in the league’s employ ‘for some time. Madame Lund has since been appointed to an imporiant position in ‘Mayvillé ‘Normal and Strangeland*has been given the post of librarian under. the state board of administration, at a lucrative salary, IN TWO DIVISIONS Miss Peterson, the deputy librarian, recently brought here from ‘New York explained to the committee that there are two classes of volumes in the public library, those classed as edu- cational and those which make up the traveling libraries, which are sent out to the rural schools. She testi- fied that not all of the works on so- cialism, anarchy, free love, sabotage, positive criminalogy and syndicalism were always sent out in the same box, but that when a reques: came in from a country school for information on socialogy she selected from these works volumes which she felt would ‘best answer the purpose... She declared that traveling library Box 107 had been assembled ‘and given a, place near the door of the library for the benefit of the legislators, whom she regarded as “men of discretion” and whom she was confident would ‘be interested in these subjects. These works, which she declared she had ordered on her own initiative and re- sponsibility, were, she said, the latest and best on the subjects covered—so- cialism, anarchism, free love, sabot- age, positive criminalogy, syndicalism. Marxism, the Russian soviets, Bolshe- viki and world’s peace, Trotzyism, etc. ‘NEW LIST IS LIVE ONE An invoice of these “latest and. best works,” which is dated November 26, has been furnished members of the legislature. “This list shows,” said a member of the committee this morn- ing, “that, the library commission, which is under the. direction of the state board of control, is ordering only books that breed contempt for the government and wiich teach dis- trust:of.the courts and of constituted authority.” } , ‘There are three volumes of’ An- archism and Socialism; seven copies of “Positive School of Criminalogy,” j ten copies of “Class Struggles of Am- , erica,” all of which, it is intimated, would in due time have found their way into the hands of the‘school. chil- dren of the state. together with Ellen, ; Key's latest argument in favor of | frée love and the abolition of ‘the mar- | riage relation and five other works by. the same author on. similar sub- jects. ( “Ag yet,” said a mincrity member of the committee, “none of these books has, so far as we can learn, ‘been sent through the traveling li- ‘braries. But they were evidently or- dered for that purpose and were be- ing indexed, I believe, as traveling 1i- brary material.” ‘ , -IN NEW YORK LIBRARY A tefense found by majority mem- bers of the’ committee for the pres- ence of such works in the North) Da- kota traveling lbraries: will be based on’ the statement, of Miss Peterson that Ellen Key’s treatises on free love and similar volumes are found in the New York city library. Miss Peterson admitted, ‘however, on cross examina- tion thatthe New York library has ‘more than 2,000,000 volumes and that 18, the number of opponents it is dts ambition to have.a copy of every book published. It is also said that such works in the New York city library and in other well-regu- lated Itbraries are kept on “closed shelves,” for the use solely of ad- vanced students in socjalogy, and not for general. distribution, and it will be Soplended that there is not a city library in‘North Dakota which offers +} text books on free love, socialism and anarchism for general. distribution, and for tho especial use of children in the grades. WHO IS STANGELAND “Tam the librarlan—I am respon- sible for the presence of these books in tho library,” ‘Miss Peterson snap- ped in fesponse to questions from the committee, “Well, then, what is Mr. Stange- land?” asked Representative O’Con- nor, “Il have been given to understand that‘ the state is paying him a sub- stantial salary for acting as librar- jan?” - Stangeland is: recently said to have recommendéd to members of the state administration the use of the travel- ing libraries as a means of “spread- ing the truth.” SUFFRAGE RATIFIED ‘North Dakota completed the ratifica- tion of the: federal suffrage. amend- ment Monday afternoon, when the house approved a joint resolution ori- sinating in the senate! ‘The vote was 102 to 6, 5, being absent. The six antis were Donner, Hardt, Koller, Krueger,' Nathan of Sheridan and Na- than of Logan, Hardt in explaining his vote declared he opposed suffrage because the people of North Dakota had rejected it by popular vote four years ago and became his constituents Were still opposed to it. In the senate the vote on the amendment was 43 to in bota houses being but nine. A copy of the joint resolution will be at once cer: tified to Washington. This vote end- ed a yote for women battle which be- gan in 1885, when a territorial legis- lature adopted Dakota's first suffra amendment, yetoed imediately by Gov- ernor Pierce. The house promptly killed by a vote of 71 to 33 Representative Her- bert’s ill defining and penalizing crim- inal syndicalism, and by 67 to 40 adopted the committee report inde- finitely postponing action on the re peal of ‘the antl-injunction act of the Jast regular assembly, prohibiting in- terference by the courts in labor troubles. By 67 to 40 the house put to sleep an. Opposition. resolution cutting in’ two the:$10,000 salary of Director General Cathro of the Bank of Norti Dakota’ and reducing $5,000 salarics to $3,000, and by 72 to 36 it indefin- itely postponed consideration of an op- nosition bill requiring all appointees in state departments to be Americans or declarants. In committee of the whole the house discussed at Jength. an amend- ment to the soldiers’ bonus passed at the last session. and the bill was re- ferred back to, the committee for fur- ther amendment when it developed that a majority of the members were in favor of making’ the bonus avail- able without -restrictions to its use. Herman Hardt of Logan seemed to express the general..sentinent when he urged that the “boys be given six percent certificates which they could take to the ‘bank and cash and spend ag ‘they like—they did their bit freely Over there, and it’s up to us to do the same over here.” he As the Dill returned to the house relieved the original strictures to some extent, but still provided that ‘bonus money could. be had only for certain uses in buying a» home or farm or education or investing in a business or tools of trade. In the senate the bill: exempting foreign deposits in North Dakota banks was approved for final passage, the report of the committee being adopted. The senate also advanced for final passage Senate Bill 22,, pro- viding a salary of $2,000 for court stenographers in addition ~ to folic fees,, and S. B. 14, providing for the registration of architects and the ex- amination of .those who were not practicing prior to 1918. One new Dill, No, 55, was introduc- ed in the senate by Ward of Emmons by unanimous consent. (It fixes the situs of personal property for taxa- thon, depp? POOL HALL MEASURDS GO BACK The house sent back to committee after some discussion three measures providing for the licensing. of pool halls, theaters,. garages, etc., and deal- ing with the methods of collecting and expending license fees. They came in from the judiciary committee with a recommendation for indefinite post- | ponement, which the house didnot ac- cept. A bill abolishing the state li- brary commission and making the su- preme court reporter ‘state reference librarfan and general librarian as well as law librarian, also went back to the judiciary committee. as did one authorizing county commissioners to extend the time of payment for seed and. feed liens in districts where drouth conditions have been bad dur- ing the last year or two. “SYRUP OF FIGS” _ CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at Tongue! Remove Poi- sons From Stomach, Liver "and Bowels ’ Atcept “California” Syrup of Figs * only—look for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the Best and most harmless laxative or physic for the little stomach, liver at bowels, Chil- dren love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child’s dose on each bottle. Give it without fear, - poe ~o¥ou-must say:.Califor-