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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-08
AMERICA PROTECTS
PRISONERS OF war
Embassy in Paris Guarding
Rights of $4,000 Alien
Hostages.
COUNT PEJACSEWICH HELD
Detained Civilians Use Barracks
Formerly Occupied by
Troops.

Paris, Nov. THE American EN-
bassy, under it's obligations to repre-
sent German and Austrian interests
in France, is looking after about 80
600 persons who are detained as alien
enemies in eleven localities in France.
These were Germans and Austrians
living in the country at the outbreak
of the war. The French government
provided special trains going to neu.
trail frontiers for two days after hos
tilities had begun and all those re-.
naming within france after those
days we're obliged to report them
selves to the police and 60 to these
towns in France to which they were
assigned.
Special Staff.
The State Department at Washing
ton has attached H. Percival Dodge,
formerly minister to Panama, to the
embassy here as special agent to have
charge of German and Austrian af-
fairs. The third floor of the embassy
Office building is taken entirely for
this work, and a considerable staff Of
secretaries and interpreters are at
work. -:
The reason that France holds So
600 civilians as prisoners Of war ap.
pears to be as hostages forSthe proper
treatment of French citizens who are
similarly held in Germany and Aus
tria, and to have in hand a means of
reprisal should there be any ill-treat-
ment OF French soldiers captured by
German or Austrian armies.
The most distinguished prisoner is
probably Count Pejacsewich, member
of the Hungarian cabinet for Croatia,
Slavonia and Dalmatia. He happened
to be at Vichy taking a cure when the
war began. He is allowed to remain
in his hotel and has entire freedom
Of movement within the town. A
good many hundreds of German and
Austrian subjects have been allowed
to remain where they were, because
OF special reasons. Hundreds, upon
the representation of the American
embassy, have been allowed to leave
the country, in each case, also. for
the sn""ial reasons. usually these of
i'll health. /
Treated Very Well.
But there are still about 8a,CGJ who
had to 60 to the detention camps.
These are usually in barracks form.
erly occupied by troops. There is a
good deal of cr0vding and the food is
probably about what French soldiers
receive. There appears to be every
Intention on the part of the French
government to treat these involun-
tary hostages as v.7H as they can
under the necessities of war. 1t Is
likely that millions are less We'll led
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-08

than the German and Austrian prison
ers. Nevertheless, these prisoners,
being forced to live away from their
own homes, find life difficult and full
Of inconvenience. They are allowed
to receive money and spend it as they
please. They also write and receive
letters freely, except that they are all
read by censOrs.
Switzerland has undertaken to con-
duct the exchanges of prisoners, and
among, the first that are being ex-
changed are French people caught in
Germany and Austria by the war, and
C"~nans and Austrians detained in
Fiance. Germans sand Austrians are
taken tby FrenchFpolice to the Swiss
border and turnedsnyer there to Swiss
agents, who in turn transfer French
citizens to the French representa-
tives. 5#ts y
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
L. LxXxxnI-No. 1ea.
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY is. lai
SEA GIRr CAMP OPENING TO-DAY.
JAMES SMITH. JR.
FOUNDED MARCH !. 1889.

The opening of the camp at Sea Girt today for
the First and Fifth regiments of infantry will mark
the beginning of a order in the National Guard
system of the State For many years the infantry
has been sent to Sea Grt by single regiments for
regimental drill and virtually learned nothing The
experience was simply camp life and an outing
The camp to be opened today is for brigade OF
two regiments and thanks to the energy of Adjutant-
General Sadler the area of operations has been
greatly enlarged There ample space for evolutons
and long hikes can taken while the movements in
the historic battle of Monmouth can be reproduced
In short the oitizen-solder is to be given practical
instruction in the larger operations of war which he
never before got in the National Guard of this State
except in the Federal camps.
But the State owns usable territory on or near
the coast other the Sea Gir tract and even II
the surrounding land belonged to the State it would
not be adapted the purposes of camp of nstruc-
ton The time has come therefore, for the State to
secure land in Northern New Jersey with all the
typographical features for military evolutions This
land can be obtained cheaply now and be made
part of the forest reserve of the State.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
WOULD RE-ENsLAvE MEXICO.

The tory newspapers in England, like the tory
newspapers in the United States, in entire SYM
pathy with the system of strong government" ex-
emplifed in Mexico by Diaz and Huerta and it is
not strange, therefore, that they should speak
the statesmanship" of the dictator which played
with the feebeness of the American foreign secretary
for eighteen months
There is wide difference between statesmanshp
and trckery, and Huerta had easy time fooling
Mr. Bryan and catering to his vanity. He has
accomplished his ultimate purpose He has gotten
off with safe skin to Paris to enjoy the riches he
off with safe skin to enjoy the riches he has wrung
out of the flesh and blood of Mexico
The tory newspapers beslobber the state
department with praise for its policy, if it ever
had policy but that of sitting tight until the logic
of events should have its effect The motive of this
praise is manifest 1t is to fatter the administration
into which would keep in power in Mexico the
elements that supported Huerta.
For the mere fight of Huerta does not end the
struggle for reform and constitutional government
in Mexico, and there begins the civil struggle in
which the reformers will be confronted by all the
power of landed wealth in Mexico. allied with the
powerful foreign interests and the influence of foreign
governments. On which side will American states
manship he arrayed?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
DOESN'T WANT TO SELL. BUT

At Passaie this week the engineer of the East
Jersey Water Company, when asked why the East
Jersey wanted sell Its plant at Little Falls to the
municipalities, answered:
I'VE do not wish to sell out We would rather
continue in business as we are. as corporation
There has been much haggling about the rates
that thoroughly disgusted. We did not invite
this proposition, but that it has along we
have not resisted opposed it,
If the East Jersey did not Invite the proposition
who did? Several municipalities were the point
of entering upon agreement for the development
of the Wanaque watershed for joint supply when
this proposition for the purchase of the East Jersey
plant mysteriously introduced a substitute.
Whose idea it? When Engineer Cook said the
company did not wish TO sell out, and that it was
thoroughly disgusted. he ignored the fact that the
company withdraw at any time and be relieved
of its disgust At the time it is well enough
known that every possible influence the East Jersey
can bring to bear is working for the Little Falls
proposition.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
TYPHOID AND ITS PREVENTIVE.

The amentable typhoid epidemic in St Marys
Orphan Asylum, which has claimed about four-seore
victims may never be explained except in the fact
that the milk supply was the source of the disease
germs Typhoid is a filth disease and milk cannot be
infected by it except by contact either in the washing
of the in handling.
But the health record of the regular army shows
that there need be little danger of infection by
typhoid The antityphoid serum has practically abol-
ished the disease in the and otherwise there is
no class of men healthful the American soldier.
If this is true of the army why should it not also be
true of an institution for dependents?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
CYRUS a CanaI-Builder

In speaking of the river regulations
of the ancients Sir William Willcocks,
the noted English engineer, said:
Cyrus the Great controlled the
Gyndes. tributary of the Tigris, in
a truly original manner Babylonia
was already peopled and lands were
needed for his Persian troops. The
Gyndes discharges 10000 sectional
feet and runs thirty feet deep in a
sandy and mobile bed. He could build
no regular, so he dug thirty canals,
divided the waters of the river among
them, closed the river by an earthen
dam and completely controlled 1t. AS
he could never have induced his wild
soldiers to dig these canals for any
useful purpose. he took advantage of
the fact that his favorite horse had
been drowned in the flood and urged
his soldiers to dig the canals and dis
sipate the waters of the river in such
fashion that Ii could never again
drown a rse.--Engineering Record.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
UPLIFT TALKS
THE EDUCATIONAL FEVER
By oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of ssPushing to the 'FRONT.' Etc.
Copyright 1914.

al life often turns the head of the
graduate toward a life he is utterly
united for. Such misguided people
are not only always inefficient and
plod along forever in mediocrity, but
they are unhappy as well, because
they cannot but realize that they are
out of place; they are going through
life on their weakness instead of on
their strength
I know college graduates who al
ways advise everybody to go to col
lege. They say 1t is the only thing
to do. Now a college course Is
splendid thing for people who are
fitted by temperament and natural
gifts to profit by it, but on the other
hand, many youths are positively in
jured by it because their minds are
turned in the direction which their
ability does not function. They un-
dertake things which their mentality
does not At. If our youth were taught
that going to college does not neces-
sarily mean adopting literary and
professional work when they gradu-
ate, but that no matter what they are
going to do, whether they are to re-
main on the farm or remain mechan-
les, 1t would still do them good to go
to college, then there would be fewer
round men in square holes, despite
our faulty educational systems, and
all education would prove a genuine
lever to higher achievements. Ac-
cording to our present standards,
many young men seem to think it a
disgrace for youth with a college
diploma to go into an ordinary pur-
suit, and it is this false standard that
plays havoc with so many graduates.
The whole meaning of a college ed
ucation, however, is gradually chang
ing, as during the last half century
educational ideals have almost rev.
olutionized and very radically al
tered within the last twenty-five
years. The classics are not empha-
sized nearly so much as they were
even ten or fifteen years ago. Edu-
cation is becoming more practical, al
though 1T is still biased to some ex-
tent with the medieval idea of
scholarship.
But it is gradually becoming less
theoretical and more and more fitted
to our everyday needs more and
more of level to higher things.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
THE PROSECUTION or THE DIRECTORS

The suit behalf of the minority stockholders
of the New Haven Railroad Company against the
New Haven directors for recovery of enormous
sums misspent misappropriated by the manage
ment quickly followed the meeting of the directors
in New York at which displayed spirit of con-
tempt of the law and the claims of the wronged
stockholders This suit will be historic as well as
intermnable if not withdrawn compromised.
Meanwhile the directors have virtually challenged
the Federal government which may bring both civil
and criminal suits, the latter individually, against
the directors If there is to be criminal prosecution
it will be surely against the wishes of Attorney
General McReynolds, who has denied there was law
enough to reach men who enrich great railroad
properties and beggar tens of thousands of people
whose trustees they are.
1t is to be determined now whether there is any
class of men who are above all law and protected
by the very magnitude of their operations. Ihat
question is in the minds of millions of people who
have read the scorching report by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and know all about the
transactions it dseloses The Department of Justice
at Washington is supposed to represent the people.
Attorney General Wickersham made its processes a
mockery in the trust prosecutions, and so far his
methods have not been improved on by MeReynolds
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
Jersey Teachers, Take Notice

At st. Paul July the National
Education Association in a ringing
resolution gave it's unqualified in
dorsement to political equality for
women. Reflection on this fact Is
commended to the timorous State
Teachers Association of New Jersey,
which has thus far been afraid to
allow the subject to be introduced
ON the floor of its convention. There
IS only one profession in the world
In which -tenths of the members
are disfranchised. There Is only one
profession in the world that would
increase it's political power and
Importance 900 per cent. by equal
suffrage. One can excuse women,
who never had the vote and know
nothing about its effect upon the
status of a class possessing it for
not seeing this. But it's queer the
men in the profession don't see IT,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18

ready weapon of monopoly The Standard OIL Com
pany, with its immense capital. keep up fight
indefinitely whereas the weaker rival must sueeumb,
And then the Standard recoup all it may have lost
by high prices
The '.seven Sisters have had long sleep since
they were passed. They have never been disturbed
by the States legal department. When we consider
the wonderful vitality of the old blue laws hated by
every rational person. have to marvel the lack
of vitality of the Seven Sisters and suspect that
they we're never intended for anything but political
parade But is presented to the States attorney
general the opportunity to show whether there is
really anything than fustian in the laws
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Political Coup Which Blasted Career

The late Frank Hiscock gained
greater notoriety as a member of the
once conspicuous. but now forgotten,
big Four" of New York State than
was brought about by his service in
the United States Senate, or his ear
lier leadership in the House of Rep
resentatives. He was one of the quar-
tet which made the nomination of
Benjamin Harrison for President in
1888 possible The other three men,
bers of the so-called big -Four" were
Thomas c. Platt, not then the su-
preme boss of his party in New York
State; Warner Miller and Chauncey
NJ. Depew. All these served at one
time or another in the United States
Senate. Miller was the successor of
Thomas c. Platt. taking the seat in
the Senate which Platt resigned in
May, 1881. He was also to be the
candidate of his party for governor
in 1888 Depew and Platt were aft
erward twice elected as United States
senators and both served full terms.
Hiscock was not especially gratified
that he should have been distin-
guished by the naming of him as one
of the big Four The name applies
to these men becau they were elect
ed as delegates at-large from New
York to the Republican National Con-
vention of 1888.
Shortly after Mr.. Platt was re-
turned to the Senate for the second
time, l chatted with him for an hour
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York. He was occupying his favor
ite seat, which became widely known
as Amen Corner l asked the sena-
tor what Mr. Hiscock was doing, say
ing that he seemed to have lapsed into
obscurity, as Warner Miller did after
his defeat for governor.
The senator seemed to be inclined to
indulge in a little reminiscent CONVEX
sation, as l discovered from a char
acteristic mannerism which always
indicated that he was in good spirits.
He began gently to tap or stroke the
back of my hand with his own while
talking.
Il suppose Frank Hiscock is taking
things easy" he said. HE was
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18

naturally disposed to be little indo-
| lent. If he had the tremendous
energy that was characteristic of
James G. Blaine he would have had
a great career.
"Hiscock never fully got over his
surprise, as well as his disappoint-
ment, when he was defeated at the
Republican caucus in the fall of 1882
for the nomination for speaker He
never knew exactly how 1t happened
He never was able to understand
fully the extraordinarily brilliant and
sudden piece of politics which was
played by Don Cameron which re-
suited in the nomination of General
Kiefer for speaker. Had Hiscock
been elected, I think he would have
had a great career. He was gifted
with one very fine qualification. You
may remember he was esteemed the
handsomest man in either house Of
Congress. 1t was a dignfied and
manly quality. not in any way effemi-
nate He knew how TO pose. l think
he knew that visitors in the gallery
of the houses were attracted to him
because they noticed that among such
great body of plain looking men
there was a man of superb manly
beauty He also had the physique
which appropriately supplemented
his strikingly handsome features. He
possessed a good deal of tact, and
knew how to avoid making enemies,
so that had he been elected he would
first of all have been very conspic-
uous for his unusual personal appear
ance and charm of manner, and
would have called upon his reserve
powers of industry and energy, so
that | am sure he would have gained
very great prestige as speaker. But
he was defeated by a magnificent
stroke of politics and he almost ate
his heart out over the defeat. He
never was exactly the same man, al
though he did get to the Senate FIVE
years later, because he was brought
forward as a compromise candidate
upon whom two struggling factions
could agree
Copyright, 1914, by DR.. E. J. Ed
wards. All rights reserved.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18

A chain has been added to the
United States army equipment. which
enables the weakest soldier to lift
great weights with one hand with
the utmost ease. A man need only
be able actually to lift eighty-two
pounds in order, with the aid of this
chain, to lift a ton; 1s0 pounds to lift
some twenty tons. A strong man can
lift nearly fifty times as much with
its help as fifty men could without IT.
The ponderous mass of tackle,
ropes, skids, crowbars, rollers, and
human muscle which were formerly
employed in raising great weights are
done away with by this little tripiix
and its kindred apparatus There Is
also the magnet, which a boy can
operate, which lifts enormous weights
of iron and steel.
Now, this is a good example OF
what an education seeks to do-to
double, treble, and quadruple mans
power The educated man who has
found himself. who is in a position
to use all of his powers, ought to be
able to do the work of many men
without education He has as it
were. the leverage of all previous
generations with which to work
II requires some scores OF unthlnk-
ing men with pick and shovel to do
the work of one machine, planned
and made by an educated and skilled
mind which has applied itself to the
problem of finding the best, wisest,
and quickest way of doing things.
The one great weakness of our pub
lie school system is that our courses
of study are too often headed toward
the college, rather than work in prac-
tical life, They point toward an edu-
cation in theories instead of pointing
toward experiences in life. College is
not desirable for everyone. Every
year great army of practical work
ers are spoiled by trying to make
clergymen, doctors, or lawyers of
them. Oftentimes a splendid me-
chanic Is made into very poor
preacher because he was educated
for It, and he thought it would be a
disgrace for a man with a college
diploma to remain a mechanic.
The very fact that one has gone
through a college course which is cal
culated to prepare for the profession
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
She Got a Look

please let me know when we reach
Prince street" said an elderly lady
to the conductor of a Springfield car
the other day. When the car had
climbed up the hill to Prince street
the conductor rang the bell and called
to the lady, Prince street, madam" F"
The lady rose in her seat and calm
ly stood still looking out the car win
dow at the pulsing throng of people
on Prince street. PLEASE hurry and
get off the car, madam" politely re-
quested the conductor.
"Oh, | don't want to get off the car
here. | just wanted to see what
Prince street looked like. l heard ii
looked like some of the crowded
streets in down town New York. 1t
does, too doesn't it?"
The conductor almost broke the bell
cord as he signaled the motorman to
go ahead.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
HOPE FOR THE BALD.

Let the badheads take hope. Let them nc
longer sigh in despair they slap the impudent
mosquito brush away the annoying fly from their
shiny dome of thought. OF course, they wary
species They have been disappointed many, many
times if judge from the immense number OF
nostrums the market all of which to furnish
their makers with comfortable lvings
But there is the word of noted physician
DR. Bruce, of the Massachusetts General Hospital, to
youch for the entire possibility of growing hair on
bald heads. He says that about half dozen phys-
clans in charge of this work and that has
been with in several treated the hospital
There is hope. And If the Boston treatment should
fail in any individual "baldy's'' case, why he still may
have hope. for there is Hungarian physician who
hair into scalps first embedding fine gold wire
into the skin of the Uranium This latter treatment
may be painful but beauty is worth any sacrifice
There is hope.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
Not Such Fools

One election day more than forty
years ago Susan B. Anthony walked
into a polling booth in Rochester. n.
Y, and put a vote in a ballot box.
She did it to test the Constitution of
the United States. which defines citi-
zens as "all persons born or natural
lied in the United States, and sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof.
She was tried for Illegal voting and
fined 800 and cost of trial. When the
sentence was announced she rose in
court and said: "Your honor. will
never pay one penny of your unjust
fine"
She never did. and she was never
sent to Jail. American men knew
more than to get into the mess that
Englishmen have.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
Wealth by Telephone

The one American. perhaps. who
made the best use of the telephone
was the late e. H. Hartman. He
piled up railroad fortune Of s60,000,-
900, and he did most Of his work by
telephone.
1t was in his library his bathroom,
his private car his camp in the Ore
gon wilderness. In the mansion
which he finally built for himself
there were a hundred telephones, and
sixty of them were linked to the long
distance lines.
Once he saved the credit of the Erie
railroad by telephone--lent it a mill
lion pounds as he lay at home on a
sick bed. Hartman is a slave to
the telephone" wrote a magazine
writer. Nonsense" replied Harri-
man. the telephone is slave to
me. London Evening. News.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-07-18
SUFFRAGE SNAPSHOTS
BY MINNIE J. REYNOLDS

have hand In the game. II every
man in the country whose name be-
gins with "A" were disfrancnIsed, no
one would suffer, and government
would go on just the same But il
one particular class of men were
singled out, as the lumbermen, the
merchants, the Catholics, the Prot
estants-and deprived of the vote, that
class would Immediately assume a
different and subordinate position in
this country Everybody would ad-
nit that we no longer had a gov
eminent by the people. That is ex-
actly what has been done to women
they have been singled out as a class
and deprived of the vote.