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FS PAGE FOUR BISMARCK. DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE ——— tered Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second ated a oe eet cias Matters GEORGE D. MANN . s 3 JAYNE COMPANY G. LOGAN PA DETROIT CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. BER YNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK : : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. jated Press is exclusively entitled to the use fons bhention of all news credited to it or not otherwise eredited in this paper and also the local news published he rei. hts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, Daily by carrier, per year.......-++sseee Daily by mail, per year (i Bismarck).........++» 7.20 Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.........+++ 6. THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1878) ——$—— > LET US CLEAN HOUSE Only seven more days before the North Dakota primaries June 30. It is up to you Mr. Voter to redeem the state from the socialist carpet baggers and the vicious un-American propaganda that has bred discon- tent and unrest in North Dakota during the last four years. Devote the next seven days to calling upon your neighbors and talking over the issues of the most important election since statehood. If every voter who is opposed to the spread of Townley- ism in this state devotes an hour or so to finding out how his neighbors and friends stand, the men- ace will be wiped out and the state administration rescued from the exploiters of unrest. The leaders of the red administration are des- perate. They are contesting every foot of the territory. It is a hard uphill fight to uproot the prejudices sown during the last four years and to turn out the socialists who are fattening at the public crib. Make your influence count during the next sev- en days. Only apathy can defeat William Langer and his associates on the Victory Ticket. You are to decide now whether you want to add more taxes to the present excessive tax load. You are to decide between Socialism and Ameri- canism. You are to decide between representa- tive government and class autocracy. You are to decide between private ownership of land or state ownership of land. You are to decide whether you want socialism to dominate the school system or maintain the common schools free from vicious political propaganda. You are to decide whether you want the school fund of forty million held intact or placed in the. socialist jack-pot for the purpose of financing any enter- prise from a mill and elevator to a glue factory. Remember Mr. Voter, if Townleyism is trium- phant the school fund will go into industrial bonds and every cent squandered through mis- management must be restored by the tax payers. You are to decide whether you desire to plunge immediately into unlimited debt or to move cau- tiously until the merit of these state-owned en- terprises is established. It’s your money Mr. Voter, that is going to be spent. You have had a taste of what Townleyism costs. If you return him to power June 30, you will find the cost at least four or five times higher and with only the sky as the limit. ; ° . Editor Forei Oddly enough, announcement of further im- provement in Mr. Wilson’s health came the day after congress adjourned. THE OILY CROWN : Who is going to be Ruler of Oil? The United States, or Great Britain? That is an important question today. It is go- ing to grow in importance day by day, for the deepest and clearest thinkers in governments and business are agreed that the world is upon the threshold of oil fuel supremacy. Chairman A. C. Bedford, of Standard Oil, told the foreign trade convention, at San Francisco, “We are at least seeing what the British have recognized—that the country which controls the petroleum supply will control the trade-of the world.” Sir Auckland Geddes, the new British ambassa- dor to America, believes Great Britain plays but a small part in the oil fields of the world. In a sla oan gas the “Pilgrims” in New York, he said: ¥ “England is not striving to get monopolistic control of oil. Her companies are active. Fair competition is no crime, and it will be all for the good of every one if we have free competition in connection with this important, this vital sub- stance.” ; Geddes called attention to the fact that “sev- enty per cent of the present oil production of the world comes from the United States, sixteen per cent from Mexico, and of that, American capital controls three-fourths.” He said Great Britain, from the whole British empire, only gets 2 1-2 per cent of’ the world’s ee that American capital controls 82 per cent. Of course, he was speaking of developed oil fields, of flowing wells. The point to be: driven home to Americans, however, is this: ‘ ‘ Who is going to control the oil fields of the fu- ture, the fields now undeveloped, which the drill has not touched, but which will, some day, abound in wealth-producing, ~ commerce-driving, navy-floating, gushers of oil? When those, now oS undeveloped, fields: come into existence, it is probable that the present American fields will be “dry.” It is true, as Geddes says, America wears the only crown today. But, isn’t it also true that the wearer of the crown years hence will be the na- tion now branching into new fields, where un- measured: stores of oil flow concealed far below the earth’s surface? If all men were as good as reformers feel there would be no need of reformers. TRAGEDY OF AGE Beautiful women think of old age as_ their worst enemy. Some face it open-eyed, knowing that the only beauty which can be retained is spiritual. Others, deceiving only themselves, refuse to recognize time’s cruel inroads, and its inevitable victory over that beauty of youth which is phys- ical. _ Princess Pauline Metternich is open-eyed, as she shows in her memoirs, recently published in Berlin. Her book contains these paragraphs about a woman of the other sort, a once famous beauty: “She had forgotten that she was growing old and still pictured herself as: the admired beauty of a past generation. All her beauty had van- ished. The marvelous curls had tapered down to five or seven yellow hairs. Her skin resembled the rind of a lemon. Her body, for one could see a great deal of it, was a doddering skeleton. The poor princess had scantily clothed herself in a kind of skirt of white batiste, held together by two flimsy rose-colored scarves. That was all. “On the poor old weather-beaten head was perched a hat which a youthful shepherdess would have hesitated to wear. Thus attired, if one could call her attired, she came to visit my grandfather. The poor thing sidled up to him and gave him sidelong, languishing glances. Poor, tragic mummy beside the stately old diplo- mat, ‘looking at him eagerly with faded, blue eyes.” . None but an intelligent woman who under- stands the tragedy of age, could have written so caustic an indictment of a vanity that is as stupid as it is pitiable! You can also judge a man by his thirst. One on God’s side is a majority—Wendell Phil-| lips. When a thirsty brother nurses a grouch, you might call him a wet nurse. And Mexico asks us to be patient. Ah, neigh- bor, be patient with: our oil crowd. Wilhelm is trying to win favor with the prole- tariat. He observes a four-hour day while saw- ing. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opinions of The Tribune. They are sented here in order vhat our readers may have both aides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. PART OF THE NEW DAY A few days prior to the time that the public was informed of the condition of the Scandinavian American Bank of Fargo, no lesser light than Townley himself appeared in Stanley. For some time previous to his coming here, his: political henchmen, local luminaries of the league, had been busy preparing the people of this community for the event. The great advantages of the Con- sumers United Stores.had been extolled, praised and ‘lauded, in other words, considerable verbal advertising had been done’ in order to form.a favorable opinion here of this great Towtiley en- terprise. Pursuant to schedule, Townley arrived. He held a meeting in the courthouse. This meet- ing was well attended. Townley explained his proposition. His explanation simply _ verified what had already been published by the Promot- er. Townley confirmed every statement. How- ever it developed that he made one misstatement. It will be remembered by all those who attended, that Mr. Townley told us how the manager of the Consumers United Store at Fessenden handled all the cream that formerly had been handled by five independent buyers, thereby paying a better price for the cream or butterfat. At the time, we did not know it, but we have been informed after- wards that on the very day Townley was here there was no Townley store in Fessenden and never had been any. At the conclusion of his speech, Townley made a plea for the people to join his enterprise, and many fell all over themselves to do so. Those who did not have the cash money to denate out- right. signed notes, but many gave cash. At the meeting we understood that one of the stores would be started in Stanley at once, and the writ- ten agreement signed stated that it should be sttarted before Jan. 1, 1920. , If any local person had done what was done by the league president, public indignation would have been stirred to the highest pitch and chances are that ere this he would be before the bar of justice, charged with obtaining .money under false pretenses or some other heinous crime. We firmly believe that every person who subscribed and turned in his money expected to see a store in Stanley in a couple of weeks or so. Several months have now passed and there is no sign or evidence that there ever will be a Townley store here.—Stanley Promoter. i THOUSAND INDIANS ARE MURDERED BY BRITISH TROOPS WHEN EFFORT IS MADE TO PRESENT % Native Investigating Committee Makes Public Charges and Re- views What It Asserts Was Cold-Blooded Massacre of Un- armed Men : New York, June 22.—Firing by sol- diers commanded by British army of- ficers upon a crowd of unarmed na- tives of India who were seeking to present to a British deputy commis- sioner a petition for the release ‘of two of their leaders led a few days later to the massacre of 1,000 Indians trapped in a great square at Amrit- sar, in the runjab district of India in the spring of 1919, says a report now made public by native investigators. The report was prepared by the Pun- jab sub-committee of the Indian Na- tional congress. In its preparation more than 1,700 witnesses were exam- ined and depositions taken from sur- vivors and relatives of the dead. Dissatisfaction among the natives first became apparent with the pass- age of the Rowlatt bills, designed to punish sedition. All over the country — resolutions were passed by huge mass meetings protesting against the law and de- manding its repeal. The trouble between natives and of- ficials, the report states, began in ear- nest on the night of April 9, when two influential natives, Drs. Kitchlew and Satyapal, were arrested and their friends heard they were to be de- ported. News Spreads. “The news spread through Amritsar like lightning,” the report continues. “A crowd immediately gathered to- gether. It was a crowd of mourners, bareheaded, many unshod and all without sticks, It was on the way to the deputy commissioner's bungalow to plead for the release of its loved: ones. “It marched through the principal streets of Amritsar, passed the Nation- al Bank, the town hall and the Chris- tian Mission hall, the'very buildings which, within a short time, were to be destroyed by some:of them. Its pro- gress was stopped, however, at the railway overbridge which was guard- ed by a military picket. The men de manded passage and said “that. they wanted to go to the deputy commis- sioner’s: bungalow to make ‘faryad’—a prayer. “They pushed forward and the pick et fell back a little. They advanced and the military fired, killing and wounding some of them. The crowd fell back. “It was no longer a peaceful crowd. It was a crowd foiled in its effort to secure the release of its leaders and exasperated at the killing and wound- ing of some of its members. The sight of the dead bodies and the wounded inflamed the citizens who saw them and who gathered again near the bridge, this time carrying sticks and pieces of wood.” Describes Fighting. The -report continues with a des- cription of the fight between natives and soldiery, during which many of the former were killed and the surviv- ors inflamed to such a pitch of fury that they returned into the city and applied the torch to several principal buildings. It says: “The authorities omitted all the usual parleys with the natives and other intermediates resorted to in civ- ilized countries. There was no par- leying, no humoring and no use of milder force. Immediately the crowd became insistent the order was given to fire.” One eye witness told me later of the scene at the bridge: “Salaria and I shouted to the deputy commissioner and the officers to get back and not to fire, as we still hoped to take the crowd back. A few in the crowd threw wood and stones at the soldiers, who at once opened with a volley without warning. Bullets whistled to my right Operation Not Successful “16 years ago I was operated for appendicitis and later operated again for gall stones. ‘Neither did me any good and I suffered all kinds of tor ture since. Five years ago I took Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy and have felt no symptoms or pain since. All stomach sufferers should take it.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the ia- flammation Which causes practicaliy all stomach, liver and intestinal ail- ments, including appendicitis.. One exe will convince or money rpfund- ed. SAY, MISTER. I HEAR THIS [5 THE ) PEOPLES’ BANK, NOW | WANT TO BORROW $ 500. ON 15 HEAD OF CATTLE TO BUY FLOUR SEED AND FEED WE LOAN MONEY ONLY ON REAL ESTATE , PROVIDING \T 1S SLEAR=You BETTER TRY YOUR LOCAL BANKER Ii a is ae} Few CATHRO LE catHeo } |" j PETITION, CHARGE and left. After the first few shots the crowd rushed back but the firing was continued. Many of them were hit in the back. The crowd dispersed leaving 25 or 30 killed and wounded. “It should be remembered,” the re- port goes on, “that the mob had not as yet committed excesses. There was therefore no occasion for impatience, indifference of callousness, which, as- cording to this witness, was evidently exhibited. y Deplore Deportation. “While, therefore, we deplore the deportation order and the firing and consider both as unjustifiable and the absence of any ambulance arrange- ment as inhuman, nothing can be held to justify the wanton destruction by the mob of the innocent lives and properties. “The first thing General Dyer did was to make arrests. He entered the city and made about 12 arrests with- out any molestation of resistance whatever. One witness- told the investigators that the city’s water and electric light supplies were cut off for three or four days as a punishment. 4 1 The occurrence which directly led! to the subsequent wholesaie massacres , in the Jalleanwala Bagh, the report asserts, was a proclamation issued about this time by General Dyer for bidding the natives to assemble pub- licly. “The public meeting in the Jallean- wala Bagh,” the report states, “was called before the proclamation had reached more than half the popula- tion. Shortly before the arrival of General Dyer on the scene with 90 sol- diers ant two armored cars, Hans Raj, had taken charge of the meeting, the audience numbering about 20,000. “The bagh is -ah irregular quad- rangle, indifferently walled and, in most cases, with the back walls of houses surrounding it enclosing the quadrangle. There are three trees, a dilapidated tomb with a dome and a well. .The ground at the entrance is an elevation, remarkably fit for post- ing soldiers and firing upon a crowd in front. The main entrance is a narrow passage through which, happily, the armored cars could not pass. There are no other regular entrances but at four or five points it was possible to get out through narrow openings. The audience included many boys and chil- dren and some men had come with in- fants in their arms. General in Command. “General Dyer deployed 25 soldiers to the right and 25 to the left, on the! high ground on the north side of the! rectangular space.” afterward is given by the Indian in- What happened vestigators in General Dyers own words recorded during his testimony at the subsequent inquiry: “When you got to the bagh what did you do?” General Dyer was asked.- “I opened fire. Immediately I had thought about the matter and don’t imagine it took me more than 30 sec- onds to make up my mind as to what my duty was,” he replied. “As regards the crowd, what was it doing?” “iney were holding a meeting. There was a man in the center of the place on something raised. His arms were moving about. He was evident- ly addressing. “Did it not occur to you that it was a proper measure to ask the crowd to disperse before you took the step of actually firing?” “No, At that time I did not. I merely felt that my orders had not oeen obeyed, that martial law was flouted, and that it was my duty to fire immediately my rifle.” Admits Firing. “Before you dispersed the crowd had the crowd taken any action at all? “No sir, they -had run away, a few of them. When I began to fire the big mob in the center began to run almost to the right.” Bs “In firing, was it your object to dis- perse?” “No sir. I was going to fire until they dispersed.” - “Did you continue firing after they had started to disperse?” 5 “Yes.” “After the crowd indicated ‘that-it was, going to disperse, why did you not stop?” “I thought it was my duty to go on until they had dispersed. If I fired a jittle, I should be wrong in firing at all.” Continuing their report, the investi- gators added: “He, General Dyer, said he continued firing for about 10 minutes, until he had expended 1,650 rounds or ammuni- tion. He said he had made no provis- ion for aiding or removing the wound- ed. That was a medical question, he declared. “One eye witness said: “I saw hun- dreds of persons killed on the spot. The worst part of the whole thing was that firing was directed toward the gates through which the people were trying to run out. Many got trampled under the feet of the rush- ing crowds and thus lost their lives. Theré were heaps of bodies at differ- ent places. I think there must have been over 1,000.” The next day was devoted by the people to disposing of their dead after the following laconic proclamation had been issued. “The inhabitans may burn or bury their dead as soon as they please. EVERETT TRUE WeEcl, 1 SSE THERE'S ANOTHER ARTICLE ON SPIRITUALISM. Do YOU THINK IT'S POSSIBLE FOR THE @. CIVING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD S By Condo MY FRUEND, "IS THS NAPOLEON 7 “No, i “~@QVER | EVER-SOOTHING POSLAM HEALS BROKEN-OUT SKIN Let Poslam act for you as a sooth- ing, concentrated, healing ‘balm, to cover right over that. itching skin trouble and subdue it, taking out the fire and soreness, and then, as appli- cations are repeated, causing the dis- order to grow less and less each day. Poslam cannot harm. There is’ no risk in trying it to see if it really will eradicate your eczema, pimpies, ~ or other surface. disorder. And the bur- den of proof is on Poslam for you will watch for visible results. Sold everywhere. For free sample write to Emergency Laboratories, 243 West 47th St., New York City. Urge your skin to become fresher, brighter, better by the daily use of Poslam Soap; medicated with Poslam. There mst be no demohstration of any kind.” Many pages of the report are devot- ed to various kinds of punishment in- flicted on the natives by the authori- ties under the martial law. These in- cluded flogging, making the people crawl through certain streets, impris- onment without trial or even accusa- tion, and other punitive measures, 100,000 PARCELS FOR SOLDIERS IN PORTS IN FRANCE Paris, June 22.—More than 100,000 American parcel post packages have been found by Y. M. C. A. investiga- tors which have been lying in French ports undelivered for many months. This discovery was brought to light through the posting in French ports of a request by Otto Praeger, Second Assistant Postmaster General of the United States, that the French accel- erate deliveries. The investigators found 40.000 American packages at Havre. Other packages are at Brest, Bordeaux, St. Nazaire and Cherboug. A large number of packages were dis- covered in the Paris custom house. So many inquiries have been re- ceived by the Y. M. C. A. from per- 30ns expecting packages that Mr. Mac- Gill is sending a circular letter ex- plaining it is impossible for the Y. M. J. A. to undertake to unravel the snarl, as its activities in France have term- inated. The letter explains that the French have no parcels post system and American packages are handled as freight. Conditions were reported to the United States Post, Office Department by the investigators, and it was sug- gested that an embargo be placed on packages to France or American post office experts be sent to straighten affairs. SCENES GALORE IN THE PASSING SHOW COMING TOMORROW “The Passing Show,” the Winter Garden’s seventh annual revue, and one of the most studendous entertain- ments,- according to all accounts, which ‘has come: from the New York home of extravaganza, will be the at- traction at the Auditorium Wednes- day evening, June’ 23rd. This “twelve hour show squeezed into three,” and what is described as being an, “Uprorious. upheaval of lingerie and laughter,” comes here from Chicago where it played a re- turn engagement for twenty-tive weeks to enormous business—it being customary for attraction in that city to play from two to four weeks. So successful has this big extravaganza been that it has played return en- gagements in Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston and other cities. This Winter Garden revue, the sev- enth in number, is provided with two acts, and twenty-two:scenes. It was staged by J. C. Huffman and the dancing numbers arranged by Jack Mason, Harold Atteridge pro- vided the book and lyrics, and the music is by Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz. Of the twenty-two scenes, the most important are Hotel Biltmore; Artland;. The Excelsior Woving Picture Studio; the Court- yard of the Palace of Americus; the Home of Salome, Birdland; ‘a Listen- ing Post on the Shore of England; a London Air Raid; Child's Restaurant, New York; an Italian Garden; a Tel- egraph Office; and the Goid Room. In all there are twenty-five music: numbers. In this “Passing Show’ there will be discovered travesties 9 all the important dramatic successes of the time. The most important members of the cast are Kugene and Willie Howard, Roy Cummings, Wm. Philbrick, John Burke, Helen Carring- ton, Etmily Miles, Leeta Corder, Ed- ward Basse, Alexandra Dagmar, Dor- sha, Dolores Suarez, Victor Bozart, Mary Booth, Peggy Brown, Florence Cummings, Billie Shaw, and one hun- dred and fifty others. LEAVE ANYTHING? 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