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The Wibaux pioneer. [volume] (Wibaux, Mont.) 1907-1919, 1914-08-21

ol;ne, When about a mile out
from town the young man be-
came excited at not being able
to keep the car in the road and
it is the opinion of the people
that he jumped out leaving the
girl to her fate. The doctor
claims that she was killed in
stantly, her neck being broken.
The father of the girl was visit
ing at Allerton, Iowa, but was
wired for and arrived home Mon
day afternoon. The funeral was
held at 800 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon at Sentinel Butte and
interment was made in the cem-
etery at the same place.
Bessie Hart was we'll known
to our people, having resided
here for some time until just last
fall when the family moved to
Sentinel Butte. The family
have the sympathy Of their many
friends in this city, in this, their
hour Of sadness.
The Wibaux pioneer. [volume] (Wibaux, Mont.) 1907-1919, 1914-08-21

stition of loyalty to their oppres-
sors.
1t is the hypnotism that makes
the slave fight for his master.
The real cause lies in the i'm
perial ambitions Of a degenerate
family of mattoids in Russia
called the Romanoff family, the
head of which is a gloomy fana-
tic named Nicholas. A tribe
Of vulture-beaked bandits who
have never done a good deed,
called the house of Hapsburg,
who have for centuries robbed
and ruled over Austria. And a
set Of Megalomaniacs and sure
thing-men named Hohenzollern
who rule Germany. In their
support all these innlmerable
hosts have taken the field, and
the blood which will be shed will
THE MULTITUDINOUS SEAS
INCARNADINE, MAKING the
GREEN, ONE RED.
And this they call civilization.
The Wibaux pioneer. [volume] (Wibaux, Mont.) 1907-1919, 1914-08-21

Don't forget the Big Combina-
tion Sale on Saturday, Aug, %,
at 20 'clock sharp. S. B. Chap
pell, owner.
The Wibaux pioneer. [volume] (Wibaux, Mont.) 1907-1919, 1914-08-21
LOOKING OVER COUNTY

Martin Schuster, Louie Mott
niger, Jay Adler, and Mr., Hayes
OF Joliet, ILL.,, arrived in the
city Wednesday evening on a
business trip.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
" Our Country"

There is a good deal of unconscious humor
about the campaign of the German-American
press of this city for fair play to Germany" and
a strict observance by all On-German-American
newspapers of the obligations of neutrality. What
our German-Am American friends ask others to do
they haven't the least thought Of doing themselves
If any severe standard Of neutrality in COM
ment on the events of the war were to be set up
here the German-American newspapers would be
the first to violate it. Our pugnacious contem-
porary the "New Yorker Herold" finds fault with
us because we feel at liberty to criticise the
strategy Of the German General Staff. Such
criticism which is meant only as legitimate con-
sderation of perfectly proper subject of COM
ment it attributes solely to partisanship for the
Allies. We feel that we can criticise German
strategy, French strategy Russian strategy or
British naval strategy and yet be living within
the obligations Of American neutrality.
But is the "New Yorker Herod" willing to live
within those limits? Is it really German-Ameri-
can or only American German? Bernhard chose
the latter term to describe the Germans who have
naturalzed themselves in this country Is the
"Herold' true follower of Bernhard?
We noticed in its columns the other day
war picture which had previously appeared in
the Hamburger Fremdenblatt." In the German
publication the title used was "Ruhetage fur
unsere Soldaten"-"Days of Rest for Our Sol
diers." The "Herold" changed this to "Unsere
deutschen Landsleute i'm Felde"-"Our German
Countrymen in the Field" What is the Her
old's' country and who are its countrymen? II
would clarity things considerably to know
whether our highly captious contemporary con-
sders itself a real German-American newspaper
or only German newspaper published in
the United States.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
A Great Letter Writer'S Hard Fate.

Have the members of the present city admins
traton no heart whatever? Here is the coldest
leanest, hardest winter within memory coming
out of the North and the 1915 budget reduces
the salary of Mr. John f. Skelly, assistant secre-
tary of the Municipal Civil Service Commission,
from $4,000 to $1,000.
We are not familiar with Mr.. Skelly's services
to the city and it may be possible that the
Board of Estimate is right in accepting this cut.
But what of history, what of justice what of
that transitory thing known as fame? Mr..
Skelly was the most distinguished correspondent
that Mr.. Charles f. Murphy ever had when he
was at Mount Clemens, and his ingenious advice,
touching upon the friendly" assistance which
Mr. Murphy had in the Municipal Civil Service
Commission, is not quickly forgotten. In spite
of his literary activities Mr.. Skelly remained in
Office Why should he now be deprived of his
perquisites and reduced to starvation?
1t is one of the beauties of the civil service
blanket that in a cold winter it protects the just
and the unjust alike. Is hateful precedent to
be established by which plain merit is to deter
mine the right of city employe to his job?
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
The First Fruit of Reform.
campaign.

The resignation Of "Matt" Horgan from MS
nlace in the Banking Department is the hrs'
fruit of the political overturn in TINS s'a'e,
uoroan is political "heeler" of the traditional
Tammany brand-personally able, loyal to the
boss. friend of the boss's ex-friend Sulzer' ou'
willing to destroy any minor person like Suizer
at the boss's dictation.
For these qualities he obtained his place OH
the state payroll Mr.. Richards, superintendent
of Ranks knew Just what he was when he ap-
nointed him. He was appointed under lam-
many administraton-no better, no worse, than
be is now when Richards accepts his resignation
The only difference that exists is the fact that
since his appointment the state has declared
positively against Tammany.
An exodus of all the Horgans from the state
service would be wholesome and beneficial II Is
wholesome when even one decides that he is no
longer persona grdtu. The taXeaters who draw
money from the state for serving the boss are
net loss. Tammany planted them in every
state department and inculcated the idea that
the wav to advance ones personal interests was
TO serve the boss instead of the state. The vote
which threw Tammany out of control OF the
state was a notification to everybody concerned
that the Horgan school of public service is
out of date.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
Punishment as Well as Prevention.

AS a elimination of the Health Boards en-
deavors to procure safe milk supply for this
city it has been found necessary to order the
pasteurization of all milk sold here. 1t is fortu-
nate for the public, perhaps, that on the day on
which this order was issued there was jail
sentence imposed on a milk dealer who has per
sistently and fagrantly defed the orders of the
Health Department.
The city authorities are at last awake to the
necessity of protecting the public health by pre-
venting the distribution of unsafe or adulterated
foodstuffs. A food expert is to be engaged to
organize a bureau of food inspection. Yet it is not
to be expected that prevention will become I'M
mediately so efficient that punishment for viola
ton of the regulations will not be necessary.
Therefore the benefit of this jail sentence to
the public since Jail is about the only punish
ment which the food crooks dread.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

mans in a ncrtheasterly direction, leaving South
Germany open to the enemy. The reason for
this retirement was obvious 1t would draw the
French into an unfavorabe position, which would
be greatly imperilled by German victory IN
Northeastern France. But il the armies on the
German right wing can be contained by sufficient
allied forces, the movement into Alsace-Lorraine
would quickly throw the German left wing back
to the line of the Rhine River fortresses
Such speculation, though interesting, is not OF
great value now. The main facts TO keep III
mind are that the Allies in the western theatre
have been necessarily fighting waiting battle
so far, that they are gaining strength reia-
tivelv with every month of deadlock and that
thev will probably be ready by next spring 10
show what they can do in the way of an offensive
campaign.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

Christ's law of love and service must
be found impracticable. This, however.
may not be a proof of the unwisdom OF
Christ's law Of love so much as Of
the unwisdom of self-centred human
aims and ambitions. When we look
more deeply into this great seethine
complex of twentieth century life, with
the failures of so-called practical
statesmen, politicians or business men
70 heal the evils of our civic and in
dustrial life, when we see the misery
and loss which come from our insane
systems of competition and warfare,
the real question seems to be. not Is
Christ's law Of love practicable? but
Is anything else practicable?
Through how much more darkness
and blood must the world stagger on
before it will be wise enough TO pass
Sinai and catch up with Calvary? Some
day. despite reactionary prophets and
reactionary monarchs, we shall doubt
less learn that forgiveness is better
than vengeance, that love is wiser
than hatred, that cooperation is more
profitable than competition. Selfshness
and greed are the crude, impracticable
things which must ultimately be re-
pudiated, and we may confidently cry,
with Victor Hugo, Love, the future is
thine"
EDMOND MARSTON KERLIN.
Brooklyn, Nov. 5, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
THE DECLINE OF THE OFFENSIVE
Modern Weapons and the Aeroplane
Give the Defensive the Advantage.
or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: One aspect OF this war the
military critics have failed sufficiently
to emphasize is the decline of the Of
fensive
For centuries it has been an axiom
that with armies of equal numbers,
equally we'll armed and trained, the
side assuming the offensive should
have the better of it, More than thac,
a weaker army forced to assume stra-
tegic defensive might Offset its weak
ness by a vigorous tactical offensive.
As an example of this latter take
Napoleon's campaign in France after
the battle of Leipsic.
Back in the days when shock action
and hand-to-hand fighting gave the de-
cision of the battle the reason for
this maxim was clear. The fellows
who get the jump on the others, who
are going ahead the fastest when they
come together, have an enormous ad-
vantage.
But with the constant increase in the
range of weapons this advantage is
constantly decreased, until, looking ct
the question narrowly, the defenders
seem to have the better of il. For
who can say that men and guns firing
from selected and prepared positions
have not a better chance to infict
losses than those who must advance
against them?
However, for a long time the attack
continued to be preferable to the de-
fence. There were other elements
than the respective effects of the fire
of attackers and defenders in their
product of killed and wounded, notably
the psychological effect on the men
who were not hit. There was the diff
ference between going ahead, jumping
for the other mans throat, and sitting
still, watching him come and hoping
he would quit before ne got within
jumping distance. That element alone
was enough to make the attack the
winning card long after il grew ruin
ously expensive.
Eventually the high power magazine
rife. the machine gun, the scientific de-
yelopment of trenches and barbed wire
obstacles made the attack on a well
held position so deadly as to wipe out
all the minor advantages. There re-
mained. then, to justify the offensive
only the one reason which has always
been its greatest advantage: The fact
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
THE RELIEF WORK OF HOLLAND
What Her People Are Doing for the
Stricken Belgians.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The great relief work which
stanch little Holland is carrying on
of which | attempted to give an out
line in an article published in The
Tribune last month-has increased in
scope until now nearly every person in
the nation has a share in u. Even the
poorest people are giving generously,
and doing all that they can to help the
refugees.
The following excerpt from a letter
written by an American woman IN
village in North Holland, at the other
end of the country from Belgium, gives
an idea of the extent Of the peasants
self-sacriice:
"Poor little Holland is having diff
Guilty in provisioning herself and is in
sore straits already for some things.
We can get only a rather coarse brown
bread now. you know. and even that
supply is limited, and consequently the
price has gone up, which is hard on the
poor. Labor has gone down, so that,
though there don't seem TO be many
unemployed, they are working for lit
tie more than half pay. Then, too. the
Belgian refugees don't want TO go back.
and are a great burden on this poor
country. The Dutch are certainly kind,
though. and take the forlorn people
into their homes and even give them
the clothes off their backs. Anna a
former servant was here the other
day and said she had taken little girl
of ten and had spent six gulden and
much time sewing for clothes for her.
six gulden is three days work for her
husband. She had also given two Of
set of three new undergarments she
lad bought at a sacrifice for herself for
the winter TO another poor unfortunate.
One very poor woman here, who has
eight children, has taken baby Of
two years"
And these are the people whom
Americans are wont 60 think OF as
merely picturesque. e.
LAWTON MACKALL.
New York. Nov. II, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

that the attacking general, alone know
ing where he was going to strike,
could bring superior forces TO the
point Of contact.
With the Russo-Japanese War we
saw the beginning Of a change even in
this The great range and rapidity OF
fire of modern weapons enabled weak
line TO hold superior attacking force
for long time before being over
whelmed. The attack must begin at \
great distance and proceed slowly.
Thus the defender could bring up re-
Inducements from distant points, or,
on the other hand. withdraw troops
from positions which would be threat
ened if the attack won. II was pre-
cisely because of this that, though the
japanese constantly pushed the Rus
slams back, they never routed or capt
ured them.
And now comes the aeroplane, all
but revealing % one commander the
workings Of the others mind. For 1t
avails a general nothing 70 mediate an
attack; he must prepare for 1t. Now
every step in his preparation, every
movement of troops or guns or trans
port, is instantly discovered by the
aeroplanes of his adversary, who is
thus enabled to make his counter
preparations. Therefore, assuming the
two armies are equally mobile and the
two generals equally able, the aggress-
or can no longer count on that over
whelming superiority at the point of
contact, which alone justified his Of
fensive.
So, by a tremendous development Of
scientific efficiency, We have been car
ried back to much the same sort of
tactics as were used by the old Aus
trian generals whom Frederick the
Great used to whip so thoroughly. The
best chance of winning is TO prepare a
strong position, stick TO it and let the
other side exhaust itself G. S.
Now York. Nov. - 1911
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
THE BOY WHO COMES BACK
What Proper Correctional Methods
Can Accomplish.
To the Fditor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When a boy handicapped by
surroundings and companions makes
good, conquering the temptations that
crowd into his mind he is entitled TO
credit, and his example should be used
for the benefit of other boys who have
problems similar 90 his own.
A few days ago a letter was received
at the Office of the New York Juvenile
Asylum which had been posted az Pc
dro Miguel, In the Panama Canal
Zone. The letter was from a young
man named Walter Glauser. Three
years ago this boy. for some juvenile
delinquency. was sent 10 the Children's
Village, maintained near Dobbs Ferry
by the Juvenile Asylum. Last wear
Glauser, with another boy, escaped
from the village. Being large and well
developed for his age, he vas able TO
enlist IN the army. His experiences
since he left the village have been TO
his liking, but he has been troubled
IN his mind, and IL is his desire to rec
Try what he now recognizes as a
wrong step. He writes: Il know
made wrong step In running away
from the village. but | am trying to
make up for it somehow, and hope to
succeed. | hope the board of directors
will forgive me and let me out some
how. II hangs over me like a dark
cloud. would like to return TO the
village TO serve the rest of my time
and shall do so if furlough can be
had for me. | will return to the army
again II | am permitted"
II is such evidence as this that de-
monstrates the value Of proper cor
rectiye methods with so-called delin-
quent boys.
ROBERTUS /. DAVIDSON.
The Children's Village of the New York
Juvenile Asylum, New York, Nov II,
1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
THE CHRISTIAN CODE
1t Is Called the Only Practical Solu-
ton Of Life.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is the conduct of present gen.
Grafton Christians any certain criterion
Of the practicability of those precepts
of Christ instanced by your corre-
spondent Harrington? Who is to de-
eide what is practicable? How often
has a succeeding generation reversed
the verdict of a former age! The i'm
practicable" and visionary" dreams Of
one age become the practicable aims Of
the next age.
Camille Desmoulins and his great
friend. Danton. were impractical. To
the guilotine with theml But the i'm
practicable things Camille printed in
his little newspaper before the French
Revolution have now become embodied
in laws. enshrined in decisions Of
courts and accepted as the basis OF
democratic institutions. John Brown
was an impractical fanatic when he
gave his life for the Southern slaves,
but what a short time il was before the
best blood Of the North was being con-
secrated to a continuance OF his aim.
The socialists complain that Mr.. Roose-
velt's new party stole from their plat
form all that dtferentiates the Bull
Moosers from the old line parties. So
rapidly do "impracticable' things
change 70 practicable and desirable
aims as 10 lend point 10 the Wisconsin
lrishman's remark that "the only way
to beat the socialists is TO beat them
TO it,"
So long as the aims OF men or OF
nations centre in self-aggrandizement
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
THE MOTHER A SPECIALIST
1t Is Urged That She Should Not
Divide Her Energy by Teaching

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Anent the "teacher-mothsr
question, I read somewhere not loig
ago an article written by Corinn'
Rider-Kelsey, the eminent Amerlesa
soprano, which aimed to show tbs. z
this age of specialties and specialists
absolute devotion and undivided, u
interrupted conservation Of time a..
interest are demanded by that avn.
autocrat known as Success. seyen
phrases i'm that article have stNeA
NV brain as particularly true ana q
fcctfye. and now seem applicable "
the subject in hand. One was ''s
marriage and its important duties
the life Of serious artist lNns
Rider-Kelsey was speaking OF "On'-
singers) were "time-eatIng, vlgoI-''F
suming impedimenta" TO the "hlgn "
tistic ideal which a girl should se' y.
herself" Another was: Art Is w
serious and marriage 100 ssereG
permit of any sharing Of time sna :.
terest. Each is jealous eres,u'. 80 .r
will not endure neglect" hei ,s., s'
ment was for less division OF in"s,.
in vocational matters and more w.
secrated attitude Of mind to"si' 90
given lifework. ;,,.l.
This is an era Of such keen in",,
lectual competition m all ptsneH;, ;r,t,.
active life that we are not on'l ar" an,
tuting pre-yocational training No,
public school education, but sscI.rs,,
are endeavoring 20 carry Speeh.a,,
theory of the survival Of the hHI' .,.
and Darwin's idea Of natu's, Ls,so.
ton" to the high plane ssy,lo,
mothers may be enabled 70 ,sll
certain selectiye qualities IN t'e
during the period Of gestatlon. .,,is,
All this is by 10 ans 49, MA,
accomplishment at this time' 49, So q
never be. but big minds are "ota'ss yer
h as A scientific problem, ana 4,
donartment of modern life snow.
tendency toward training i9r LINK
activities and the necessity o. ,,,.
ont and otherwise training 0u' .slsr,s
cial individual with spec" .n5 ,vs.
special feelings, if you IKE, o." II D,
cial capacities for the worn cav .,
world; perhaps ought 70 "a Ssy W
great work of the world. Io..'ah her
cali such persons geniuses' 49, 80, 81:
OUGHT TO be no necessity Iot 'H'
may not be some day. -,;,sa a Us
Nv vote is 20 keep teaeh'Hs "A r.
tinct profession, deserving rrothG.
ouiring unmixed Devotion anu Twors;
hood that supreme calling .. u, msis
and the one and only thing ths. ,sn'I
bor divine and more than hunss sos.s
"rblime art each demanding : |. Sbi,e
Grafton that will so perieI,' r,o,a,i0rs
tbat the theory OF special V.osed1
DEVELOPMENT will the mo'e
attain to its just place. has r,'t
hodn ne $50 tS before and that tas,s t'', s
such radical differences o. ..CSgiress's, I
the subject show that the res.oo.dsys'
OF Yesterday will not suIl,ee IA. rs,e
how differently individual "''0ns one y. F
nvt % 20 exnress themselves. srss,
y,e U@' s5sli ~ look back upon the g,,sss
striving of these poor q y 4
mothers" as part ana pSl,ntion %
Great world plan OF eVo.GI' .y,'e.
Affects our educatloha tos -
"Teacher-mother." They a.. ~, Of q
toSStber-an awful division ~
eU,,ios .Us.."V, and interests which ,. esa %
be compounded as we hyp''VS
words, .o,t
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
WALLER TO HIS COOK.

Go, lovely Rose-get out, | say!
You've burnt the sirloin every day.
No talking back-get off the stoop!
You put the washrag in the soup
You swept pile of PONIES away!
You monarch of all you survey,
You turn our .aven ringlets gray,
You-oh, you blooming nincompoop-
90, lovely Rose!
You served the spuds in dsarray;
With every copper you were gay
A finger burnt you raised a whoop-
You made our china loop. the loop
And now, you've soaked me with a tray!
GO, lovely Rose!
~ rpr1
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

We may have missed some, but these are excerpts
from May Sinclair's "The Three Sisters:
"Her pale eyes, half sullen ,
when little Ally petulant and sullen
"Her sulenness gone"
There was no sullen and selfish ally. :
"He stood looking at her with sort of sullen
tenderness. ,
T"iIe felt . only suen pity"
Maggie with sullen look. "
"Rough and sullen. :"
"MoIiv the elder sullen and sickly."
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
Sing Sing.

TUNE "cUMMINs THROUGH THE RYE"
warden may | 90 out to Gull you basket Oh
nice red apples in Farmer Browns orchardF
eyes, my darling trusty.
But. for Charles sake, don't spot up your brand
new white silk vest. .
80" w" o. w. w. Il.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
Our Own Travelogues.

This is the place where they make the peace.
saw how well they did it on the Russian and
French fighting lines-pesce for half million
dead soldiers. HERBERT B. SwoPE.
The Hague.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

Tn. rrn. use. its best endeavors the truet
worthness OF every It prints and to avoid
the publication Of advertisements containing misleading
statements claims.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

Don't, please, let these quibblings deter you from
reading Miss Sincairs frst-class novel. 1t is her
best job since "The Divine Fire. and If you are buy
ing bale of books, by all means include THE Three
Sisters"
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

There are those, told, who rely wholly on
this Stately Pleasure Dome for their knowledge of
sporting events.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
CLERIC.

We do not mind c. Z. H., if the Rochester Herald
swipes our stuff as long as initials not at
tached to IT,
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16

We agree with c. ~ W, who thinks it is almost
time to organize The Society for the Prevention of
Elevator Men Talking to People About the Weather
for Three Months before Christmas.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
sullen and sickly."

at is odd"-this is from "The Three Sisters" too
TO think that nobody but she understood jim
How does Miss Sinclar-or Prof. Lounsbury--justify
that? Or-as Miss Rodman might say-cant they?
New-York tribune., 1914-11-16
nAY-SPOILERS.

Kalona: Anarchists and Socialists and foreigners,
you know"
w. b. T.: "Infectuous."
r. c. B.. Gotten"