The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1920, Page 4

a $8 4st: BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, MAY 24, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE pa a eC TS NA Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN - - . re Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY CHICAGO DETROIT Marquette Bldg. resge zi 'YNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW york? NE, BURNS AND SIipitth Ave, Bldg. ar 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. s All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. pid chit cme MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year : $7.20] Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck) a 1.20; Daily by mail, per year (in state outsid 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota «. 6.00 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) p> DO ANIMALS REASON? That animals have the power of reason is in- disputable after one has been around them much. Cats, horses and dogs show the greatest degree of animal intelligence. Cats especially. Comes somtone forward, however, with the yarn that animals deliberately commit suicide and he cites instances. He tells of a circus elephant, a female, who drowned herself because she was being annoyed by other elephants of the show. One day when the elephants were jogging by the Hudson river, the pesky elephants in the tribe became particularly annoying to milady elephant. She up and beat it hotfoot across a field and plunged into the Hudson, so the story goes, and never made an attempt to save herself. Perhaps, and yet— . It reminds of the deliberate suicide of the flea that insisted upon doing a butterfly waltz on the man’s bald head. ° Animals do reason, but it is pretty far-fetched to credit them with deliberate suicide. The very fact that they do reason is proof enough that they do not do anything like that. Animals are natural in their thoughts and actions. It is not natural to commit suicide. They leave that to foolish-man. Some fellows who complain because’ workers ask a dollar an hour are themselves making a dol- lar a minute. \ ; WHAT CANCER IS NOT Although cancer is increasing in the world, there are certain aspects of the situation that are satisfying—that are, at any rate reassuring to people who fear the worst about anything. : Cancer is not contagious. Nor is it ihfectious. You can’t get it from breathing the air of the sickroom of a cancer patient, nor.can you get it from dressing the cancer wound. Nevertheless, common cleanliness requires that you should clean your hands after performing such a service. The stories of “cancer houses,” “cancer towns” and “cancer belts” are all illusions. ) Cancer is not a germ disease. The experts of the American Society for the Prevention of Can- cer say that the most intense study of the last 30 years, and the most carefully and exhaustive chemical and microscopic analysis have proved this without a doubt. Cancer is not heriditary. Authorities will tell you that all observations with the human family and experiments in the animal world show that you will not have cancer merely because one or more of your ancestors had it. Therefore, if you are perfectly well, do not nurse illusions ‘about cancer. But if you have something the matter with you that you do not know the nature of; if you have a growth or a breaking out that refuses to yield to treatment, see your physician about it. The American Woolen company claims to make only $1.50 on a suit. No wonder. Think how high cotton is, : SELFISHNESS Selfishness comes of itself; trained to generosity.” This is one of many forms taken by the old doctrine that “self-preservation is the first law of Nature.” It was once widely believed by phil- osophers, who had much to say about ways of transforming “egotism” or care for self, into “al- truism” or care for others. Much present-day schooling and Sunday school instruction is based upon it. But today psychologists know that the doctrine is misleading. ‘It is true that one cannot help others unless he survives himself, and it is true that self-preserva- tion comes first in time—an infant can’t make himself useful. But even in the brutes, mother- love is as deep as self-love. A dog will defend a friend as raised as he defends himself. A man is as as a dog—until somethi: to make him worse. Ba gaat The trouble with the “selfish” man is not that Nature made him think’ too much about himself and too little about others, but that he does not think at all—he is stupid er shortsighted. Or he is too impulsive. Or he is ruled by unfortunate habits, as bad for himself as for those about him. Or he really cares too much about others—the wrong way-—and wants to see them suffer, be- cause his love has been turned to hate. Or he is purposely shutting them out of his life because he has been wounded and fears that if he lets them in they will turn and rend him again. The purpose of training is not to cure native men must be selfishness, but to teach the best ways of being generous. It is not to give a man what Nature left out, but to help him to make the best of what is there, through insights and ideals and habits that will keep him from becoming his own worst enemy. Complete living is generous living. If a man seems selfish, ask yourself where he has been deformed or crippled or wounded. Detroit’s new tenant league will adopt the va- cant house as Article X, the unknown quantity. “PASSING THE BUCK” When the allied premiers at San Remo asked President Wilson to accept a mandate for Ar- menia, or at least to draw its boundaries, there were those who said it was a case of “passing the buck; they are inviting America to ‘put up or shut up’; it is a ‘vulpine’ procedure, which may put the United States ‘in a hole’; but they have not in: creased the respect of America or the rest of the world for the game which they are playing.” But who really “passed the buck?” And what is the low-lived game which these villainous schemers are playing? The countries took the whole shock of the terrible German blow and fought to exhaustion; they counted their slain by millions; they in- curred enormous debts, while Americans grew rich at their expense. But they held fast until the United States at last showed that it, too, was willing and able to fight for freedom—and the tide was turned. Then, at the peace conference, they accepted the program of the American pres- ident, and based everything on a League of Na- tions which the American senate afterwards re- pudiated. That league, with the United States in it, would have solved the problem of protection for Armenians and other lesser people, without arousing questions of the balance of power which European geography makes inevitable without it. Now the league is crippled, and the premiers are | trying to solve problems rendered more difficult by the American change of front. ° It appears that the Lever act can be used to swat anybody except the gentry who rob people. LESS DEMAND HITS H. C. L. For two years the financiers, demi-financiers and those who are no financiers at all have been wondering how the increasing prices would be checked. Increasing production until there is a large excess in the supply of goods was their pet remedy. But a diminished effective demand seems to be more likely. For some time it has been evident that the bal- ance between supply and demand would hardly. come from heavy production. It is plain that un- der present costs of materials and labor, the cost of production could not be lowered appreciably. Therefore, it was up to demand. The craze to | buy, to buy anything. and everything in sight, whether needed or not, was rampant last year. Your average American human being, with a pocketful of depreciated dollars, threw them to the winds. But gradually in this year 1920, there is a change in the psychology of spending. People —particularly men—began to cut down their pur- chases. You heard more people say that they “wouldn’t pay such' outrageous prices.” Folks here and there remarked that they’d rather “wait till things came down some.” Presently arrived the overall fad. Wearing overalls meant nothing except a growing state of mind. How- ever, it did turn many to their closets in which they found very respectable and little worn suits of old clothes. In parts of the continent, partic- ularly Canada, the “‘old clothes” movement gained large impetus. Meanwhile, the prices of pretty nearly every- thing continued their merry romp in upward fairy flight. The effect of the great increase in sugar prices, though a comparatively small matter in it- self, was tremendous on the thinking 90 per cent. And thus demand is beginning to fall off. It is probable that millions have bought less of all sorts of commodities in the first four months of 1920 than they did in the last four months of 1919. As a result we begin to hear of reductions in certain goods, as high as 20 per cent in some cases. Tf sabotage doesn’t benefit New York tenants, they might try stone-age stuff. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.—Edward Gibbon. Wilson’s Fiume plan has been adopted by all of the great powers except d’Annunzio. Since the Reading decision the steel trust is reading a bit of handwriting on the wall. Still, the use of horn fiber in shoe soles doesn’t prove that the manufacturer’s soul has horns. None of the presidential booms have been punc- tured, but a few seem to be afflicted with slow leaks. . : The story that ex-tanks have formed an organ- ization refers to war veterans, not Governor Ed- wards’ followers. Illinois socialists have declared for a dictator- ship of the proletariat. The trouble is, America has no proletariat. German military instructors are going to Rus- sia. Only a short time ago German military de- structors were headed that way. : “Father” O’Donaghue Not Catholic “Priest” As Represented by Non-Partisan League Leaves for East After One Address for Townley at Moorhead “FATHER” O’DONAGHUE EXPOSED Preceded by state wide publicity in all of the league controlled newspapers of North Dakota, a supposed Catholic priest in good standing was, brought to North Dakota under the auspices of the Nonpartisan league to tell the people of this state what a fine thing\the Nonpartisan league was what wonderful things its state administration has accomplished, and why the people of the state should continue the league control administration for an- other two years. ie Once again the socialists, radical, untrustworthy and falsify- ing league leaders have demonstrated to what low down depths they will sink to continue their yoke of oppression, injustice, so- cialism and bolshevism an the farmers of North Dakota. Instead of being a “noted divine” or a respected priest in the Catholic church, or a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America, or any of the other things the league press adver- tised him to be, “Father” Martin O’Donaghue of Washington, D. C., never was connected with the faculty of the Catholic Uni- versity of America. ; These statements would be hard to believe if they were not vouched for by no less a Catholic authority than the Right Rev. Vincent Wehrle, Catholic Bishop of Bismarck. In a letter to The Tribune today, Bishop Wehrle, who investigated “Father” O’Don- aghue’s affiliation with the Catholic church, shows that the “Fath- er” is none of the many respectable things the league newspapers advertised him to be. At the services at the Pro-cathe- dral here yesterday, Bishop Wehrle warned his parishoners of “Father” O’Donaghue’s standing in the Catholic world. “FATHER” IS RECALLED Evidently the league leaders got wind of the fact that “Father” O’Donaghue’s reputation had become known to the Catholics of this state, for after advertising meetings in all of the principal cities and towns of the state, including one at Bismarck to have been held tonight, the Fargo mouthpiece of the league announced Sunday morning on its first page that “Father O’Donaghue was recalled to Washington late Saturday night.” : Inasmuch as “Father” O’Donaghue, according to Bishop Wehrle, has no standing among real Catholics at Washington, or anywhere else, it is generally regarded as a subterfuge that the | “father” was suddenly called out of the state. His recall was so suddenly made that the “father” could not: address a meeting at Fargo last night, disappointing a crowd congregated to hear him, according to the league paper. DELIBERATE LIE This is one of the many deliberate falsehoods appearing in the league paper of Sunday’s issue regarding “Father” O’Donaghue: “Father O’Donaghue was billed to speak on the. Nonpartisan league movement and its relation to the social and economic con- ditions of today. He is a recognized authority on economics and civics, being a member of the faculty of the Catholic University of America at Washington. He has lectured in many sections of the country but this was his first visit to North Dakota. “When the Nonpartisan league movement began to spread out- side of North Dakota, Father O’Donaghue became a close observer of its organization and work. In his address at the Moorhead meeting he emphasized strongly his belief that the farmers’ move- ment was based on fundamental American principles of popular government. He declared that the people of North Dakota are blazing the way for democracy in the entire nation.” The deliberately misleading article in the league newspaper ends with these statements: ; “Profound regrets were expressed by hundreds of prominent Fargo people last night that Father O’Donaghue could not deliver his lecture here and had been prevented from making the tour of the state that he had contemplated. Father O’Donaghue had planned to spend about ten days in North Dakota lecturing in all the principal cities. He was to speak in Valley City and James- town today and’ Mandan and Bismarck tomorrow. The other cities on his itinerary were Richardson, Dickinson, New Salem, Garri- son, Drake, Minot, Devils Lake, Grand Forks and Wahpeton.” ADDITIONAL UNTRUTH In the posters announcing “Father” O’Donaghue’s appearance here the following statement appears: ; “Father O’Donaghue’s position with the law faculty of the well known educational institution (The Catholic University of America) assured his audience of a masterly discussion of the in- dustrial and economic conditions in this and other states.” This is a fair sample of the deliberate falsifying and mislead- ing articles that have appeared in the league controlled press all over the state. This is the type of “news” that Townley, Lemke, Frazier, Hagen, et al, ram down the throats of North Dakota farmers. Never before have politics become so debased that a great religious body should be forced to answer the mud slinging tactics of A. C. Townley, Bill Lemke and the lesser parasites and sattelites. To those who still believe it.is not-true, we respectfully recom- mend_a close perusal of the following letter, written by the head of the Catholic church in this section: BISHOP WEHRLE’S. LETTER Diocese of Bismarck, . Bismarck, N. D., May 22, 1920. Bismarck Tribune: : I received from Garrison a poster reading thus: — “Father Martin O’Donahue will speak at a meeting to be held at Garrison, Thursday, May 27, at 1 o’clock. Father O’Donahue is to hold a series of meetings in North Dakota under the auspices of the Nonpartisan league. He is a mem- ber of the faculty of the Catholic University of America and one of the most noted men of the Catholic faith in the United States.” ; : On Friday evening I sent a night message to the rector of the Cathdlic University of America, asking him what he knew of this man. I received the following telegram: Washington, D. C., May 10:45 a. m., 22, 1920. “Right Rev. Vincent Wehrle, Bismarck, N. D. 4 “Party mentioned in your telegram is not and never has been a professor in our law or any other faculties. Was a Baltimore ecclesiastical student here many years ago. Unfor- tunate career. Many years out of service. Baltimore chan- cellor can give exact information. Bishop Shanan.” This telegram exvlains what kind of university professor and noted man this “Father” Donaghue is. . VINCENT WHERLE, Bishop of Bismarck. After this expose, the league’s kept press will set up' its jack- el’s chorus that the league leaders did not know who “Father O’Donaghue was.” It will bea futile attempt. If this is an example of the tactics Townley and his. henchmen are to use in the campaign to keep their figure head administra- tion in power, clean minded men; Christian men, religious men— and the women—must form themselves into an overwhelming force to defeat that; menace which would drag even a mighty church into the political ring in an effort to perpetuate’ themselves in power. ‘ < éj ee | and home at 780 McKinley Pl, West oe | PEOPLE'S FORUM || New York, N. J: But when he re- — | turned in July, 18, 1919. -There was no To the Editor, he Dear Sir: mother or’ home’ to be’ fotind. home had been sold as‘a result of the | foreclosure of a mortgage: Homeless ‘Homeless mother seeking her son.| and alone, will you please help to find ‘When Capt. George W. Dacre, sailed | her son. for France in 1N8, he left his mother,;.. Address. Mrs, Anne Mary Dagre, “ ‘| P.S. Left IN. Y, with 3}. Art. Com- ‘ BISHOP WEHRLE ON LEAGUE “Father” Martin O’Donaghue lectured recently at Moorhead vupon “Industrial Relations” under the auspices of the “Progres- sive Americanism Association,” a subsidiary organization of the Nonpartisan league. He dilated at length upon the blessings of democracy. and especially upon the wisdom of the league program. It is customary for Townley to secure apologists from outside the state. : We earnestly refer “Father” O’Donaghue to an article by the Rt. Rv. Vincent Wehrle, Bishop of Bismarck, upon “The Non- partisan League Experiment” which appeared in the March num- ber: of the Extension Magazine, “The World’s Greatest Catholic National Monthly.” Bishop Wehrle resides in Bismarck. He has contributed largely to the upbuilding of this section of the state and is intimately: acquainted with the economic conditions of North Dakota. Speaking in Fargo “Rev.” O’Donaghue was reported to have said in the Courier-News’ account of his address: “It would be a calamity not only to North Dakota, but may mean a catastrophe to the entire nation if the farmers of North Dakota are blocked in their program. I have no patience with the opponents of the Nonpartisan league. When I first heard of the movement I became interested and began a careful study of it. The abuse to which it was subjected by certain interests soon | convinced me that there must be something in it. As the United States stands as the salvation of the world today, so North Da- kota will prove the savior of this nation.” How different is the attitude of Bishop Wehrle who has been a close student of the league since its ‘inception. Much more weight, is to be attached to his conclusions. A few quotations from his afticle in the‘Extension Magazine will suffice. After sketching .the history of the Nonpartisan league, Bishop Wehrle remarks: ; “One of the worst laws is the state publication and printing commission. This commission ******* elects in each county one newspaper which alone has the right to publish all official ad- vertisements and publications. This means creating a party press paid by all citizens no matter whether it is according to or aganst their will. “One who studies closely the work of the last legislature comes to the conclusion that it has laid upon the people much heavier burdens than we ever had before; created many new of- ficés and gave more arbitrary; power td officials, especially to the governor. The whole legislation of the Nonpartisan league bears the stamp of centralization as we find it in France, where a com- paratively small number of officials has almost absolute control over the whole country. “The methods by which the principal Nonpartisan leaders ruled the Jegislature and some of the laws passed by them brought an insurrection within the camp. Some of the most influential men in the office, the attorney general, the secretary of state, the state auditor and the state treasurer, declared that while they .want to carry out the original program of the Nonpartisan league, they will not be dictated to by Townley and will not help in enter- prises which they consider contrary to the welfare of the people. These men are now decried as traitors, as paid by Big Business, etc. Through their official positions they find it possible to hin- der some doings of the Townley crowd, and to expose other do- ings.” A Chees Bishop Wehrle after stating “Now let us consider briefly some of the benefits (?) of the Nonpartisan administration” goes into the startling increase in assessed valuatiopsof real property in the state. The bishop says: “The state auditor, one of the ‘traitors who broke faith with his party’ as the Nonpartisan press puts it, but a man of some backbone as I put it” published a comparison of taxes in some counties, which show increases of from 200 to 300 percent in taxes on the same property under the league tax plan. “The most remarkable benefit brought by the Nonpartisan clique’ in power-is a letter of the governor which instructs all state banks to refuse to show their books to any deputy state bank examiner ‘unless they’ have first been notified by the state ex- aminer of banks of their coming,” says Bishop Wehrle in ‘his ar- ticle. He then recounts the Scandinavian-American bank exam- ination and the subsequent findings and how the bank had loaned excess amounts to many Townley enterprises. “The dominant leaders of the Nonpartisan league in the state of North Dakota are adventurers, seeking their own personal achievement according to practices well known in circles of ‘high finance,’ is another statement made by Bishop Wehrle, who closes his articles with the following: | “They succeeded because they appealed to some of the very best traits of the human mind. They offered organization of the- middle class, community stores, etc. Such organization under conscientious leaders will always be highly beneficial. ; “They have given abundant proof that every reformer who has not the fear of God in his heart and does not first reform his ownself, is a most dangerous man. Such men, coming from the lower classes, are always more grabbing, more heartless, more tyrannical than the heartless capitalists of great wealth. They can risk everything, for they have nothing to lose; no money, for they have none except what they take away from the people; no honor, for they never had any; no conscience, for they bragged jalways about their atheism. Se ; “Shall our country, and other civilized nations, go on in this mad career, by. which the people at large are, and become. more and more, the slaves of unscrupulous robbers who call themselves ‘by some euphemistic name—patriots, promoters of industry, etc.? Or.shall we go back to Christian principles and the ten command- ments of God? A nation which rejects these sooner’or later loses all'liberty and returns to savagery, even if it preserves ‘some ex- terior veneer of civilization.” : You lay your dear self down on robe and blankets To hold them down around those lov- pany B. 6th Div. ’ | ing ones, wig 5: SEE , Until the coming of the morn, : ‘| And you opened your eyes \\ PORTS’ CORNER _ | [on that beautitut shore. > > TO HAZEL MINER It was a terrible blizzard That bore you down, | And you arose again To receive yco:r crown, - A crown of glory You shall-wear r On heaven's beautiful shore. ” ‘Care of Workers of the Veterans of Foreign ‘Wars. * J. Whalen, 206 W. 67th. St. N.‘Y. C. ' Searchers were looking everywhere For you and the loved ones in your care. ; God led them the way And answered your prayer And took you in His loving care, ‘To dwell with him forever more On that beautiful shore. You were chosen by God From among us all, : You were the most pure; You answered His call; You will remain in his palace forever more, And beckon us come To that beautiful shore. Oh, may God lead us all, In the straight and narrow way That we may be ready As you were that day And take us from the storms of life, And prepare us for the coming day That we may see Him ever more On that beautiful shore. You saved brother and sister For father and mother so dear; But your own life you gave without Composed by Mrs. Ella Fritz, of Fort Clark, March 20, 1920, in remem- brance of Hazel, who gave her life to fear. save her little brother and sister in Brother and sister_were'in your care [a terrible blizzard that swept North And you proved your love for them,; Dakota March 16, 1920. She was six- so dear, teen years old. And you will meet again On that beautiful shore.” An ocean steamer of the _first- class, going at full“speed, cannot be brought to a halt in less than. three minutes, Thinking not of your brave self In that terrible storm