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The winning slogan is “We’ll Stick, Too.” -The slogan was suggest- ed by Mrs. Charles Leissman of Bis- nrarck, who was awarded a $10 cash Borner’s poems. 'A second prize was awarded to Mrs. J. S. Duncan of Hal- liday, who suggested “We’re Stickers, Too.” * % ¥ The campaign for theelection of a successor to the late State Senator Gibbens in Towner county has opened. C. P. Peterson of Bisbee, the farmers’ nominee, is having the aid of Gover- nor Lynn J. Frazier, A. C. Townley and John N. Hagan, commissioner of agnculture and labor. EDITOR NORTH DAKOTA LEADER. High Officers Escaping Inquiry Major General Harts, Charged by Congressman With Re- sponsibility for Cruelties to Soldiers, Declared Protected Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. :]VER since Representative Bland of Indiana came back from France and named Major General W. W. Harts as the of- ficer responsible for the cruelties and barbarities inflicted up- on American soldiers in the military prisons in and around Paris, he has been getting hundreds of letters daily encouraging him to go ahead and make Harts answer for his offenses. Thousands of men who served in the trenches of France and who fell victims at one time or another to the atrocious system of military “justice” for which Harts was chief jailer, have begged that the “higher-ups” be made to suffer for the wrong done the soldiers in these prisons and prison farms. The statement given out by Representative Bland upon his arri- val in New York, confirming the ear- lier reports of the whole shameful tragedy of these prisons, has been published in almost every newspaper in the country. Millions of former soldiers have read it. They and their families are calling it to the attention of congress. And yet— “It is a very difficult thmg, said Mr. Bland, “to shake a man so power- ful, so close to the throne, as General Harts. Military offenses are under the jurisdiction of military law. Gen- eral Harts is a high military officer. “It is a great deal to expect that much can now be done to bring a man in his position to respond to the charges that have been made against him for his responsibility for these prison brutalities. The soldiers are of the opinion that he ought to be made to respond. Mr. Flood, the mi- nority member on our investigating committee authorized by the house to inquire into the military prison sit- uation, was forced to admit the ex- istence of the terrible cruelties which I described in my New York state- ment. was no blame attaching to any one except the little sergeants and some lieutenants! SOLDIERS ASSAIL WHITEWASHING METHODS “I find that, with hardly an excep- tion, every returned soldier from France feels outraged about these abuses and the failure of the author- ities to punish the ‘higher-ups.’ “Some newspapers and magazines jumped on me, hammer and tongs, be- cause I wanted to ask General Persh- ing to answer as to why he should reduce ‘Hard-Boiled’ Smith’s prison sentence from three years to eighteen months, as well as other matters.: ““When I accepted the appointment on this investigating committee, with its tremendous responsibilities, I gave out a statement that I intended to let the chips fall where they .would— that I didn’t care whether they fell on a Repubhcan or a Democrat it was But naturally he finds there. all the same to me. The returned soldiers and their parents are back of this committee on ‘this subject, and I am not especially concerned what people- who want to avoid public scrutiny of favorites think about the matter.” As General Pershing has not yet been questioned by the committee, the soldiers and their parents do not seem to have won their point of bring- ing the “higher-ups” to testify. “Our report on this question,” Mr. Bland said, “has not been made to congress. Additional evidence tend- ing to fix the responsibility is still coming in. “I am not sure what the attitude of congress. will be, nor have I made up my mind as to its powers.” ~ “Can you tell,” he was asked, “whether, in view of the showing made by our general staff officers in this matter of military trials and mil- itary prisons, you think that there is danger in the general staff’s bill for reorganizing the army establishment ? Senator Chamberlain says that their bill takes away from congress the control of the army and turns it over to the general staff.” N “I think,” replied the congressman, weighing his words very -carefully, “that the carelessness and abuse shown in_this case will have a whole- some effect on future legislation in congress, in ' preventing congress from surrendering any . more of its authority to any military organiza- tion.” Soldiers who have passed through the hands of “Hard-Boiled” Smith and his Prussianized associates, both su- perior and subordinate in rank, may take what. comfort they can from this statement. Mr. Bland is the “radi- cal” member of this house.committee on prison scandal inquiry. Mr. John- son of South Dakota does not assume so definite an attitude of suspecting General Harts, much less General Pershing, while knowing that thou- sands of American boys were being beaten up, starved amd frozen in the Paris prisons. 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