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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-19
FARGO HIGH SCHOOL WILL
4 SEND TEAM TO GRAND FORKS

represented Fargo in the last year,
is not in school at the present time
Fargo will be weak in that depart
ment, though Barosky is showing con-
siderable class. Hennins, Of whom
much was expected this year, is en-
periencing scholastic troubles and will
not be able to participate.
Fargo high school will enter teams
ii the meet to be held at the agri-
cultural college the latter part of next
week, and in the meet to be held at
Valley City under the auspices of the
Valley City normal school. Coach
Robbins expects to be able to hold an
irter-class field meet some time next
week, and expects to be able to enter
large teams in both meets.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-19

BatterleS: JOHNSON anu WlIlId1IIS'
Covaleskie, Bagby and O'Neal.
New York-Detroit game postponed
account wet grounds and cold wealth
er.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-19
BOY sCoUTs.BARACA GAME.

Tonight at $50 at the baseball
grounds northwest Of the Capitol,
will occur the deciding baseball
game Of a series of three, between
the Boy Scouts and Baraca org
anizations of the First Baptist
church. The winners Of tonight's
game will be treated by the losers
to "feed,'' including ice cream"
This game will take the place Of
Of the regular Friday night meet
ing of the Of the Baptist Boy
Scouts, which is usually held in
the church basement.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-19
A. v. A. PETERSON SELLS
HIS LAW PRACTICE

Aneta. N. D., May 1S.-A. V. A. Pc
terson, attorney, at Aneta, N D., has
sold out his practice here, to f. G.
Larson, attorney, at Minneapolis,
Mimi, who will take charge on or
about June Is.
Mr.. Peterson represented his dis
trict in the last legislative%assembly,
and intends to leave for larger field.
Mr.. Larson has practiced in Min
neapolis for several years. and was
candidate for an aldermanic post in
the last election.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-19
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION

Today's Games
Kansas City at Milwaukee and st.
Paul at Minneapolis.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-19

that he had eaten nothing for about
four days and that the only water he,
drank while by the strawstach was
from a ditch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Troops Cross the Border

United States troops are now on Mexican soil in pursuit of Villa ana his band. An expeditionary force of several thousand men, under command of Brigadier General Pershlng, crossed the border yesterday, and It is expected that by Friday the vari- ous units will be distributed for the bandit hunt according to Major Gen. eral Funston's strategic plans. Gen eral Funston will have the practical direction of the entire military enter prise whose object is the suppression of Villa and his followers, and noth- ing more.
 Carranza has manifested his inten- tion to cooperate heartily with the United States in it's efforts to appre- bend Villa. and one of his commanders has already issued orders to troops serving in the military department of Juarez to lend every assistance possl- ble to General Pershing.
 President Wilson has made 1t plain not only to Carranza, first chief ot the de facto government of Mexico, but to the Mexican people, that tnls expedition, growing out of the massa- ere of United States soldiers and civilians at Columbus, N. M., by Villas men, is in no sense an 1n- vasion; that the Washington govern ment had no intention of startisg a that would mean ultimate 
 The Mexicans, however, are sensi- tive and suspicious, and no matter how careful the Washington admins tration may be not to offend their there is danger of clash which might lead to war. The situation is not as grave as 1t looked at first, and with a man like Funston on the border to issue orders, the ob- ject of the expedition may soon be and our troops marched back home.
 In the meantime the war depart ment is busy making preparations for any contingency that may arise in Mexico and army recruiting stations are being opened in every city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
THE STEEL CAR AGAIN

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The steel car appears to have performed handsomely in the wreck at Port Royal, Pa The engine and five cars left the rails, two cars remaining on the tracks, when the passenger train plowed into the wrecked eastbound freight and no pas senger was seriously injured. The fact that the cars were made of the unyielding material undoubtedly prevented a heavy toll of human life. The satisfaction in the thought of the tragedy averted will not. of course, be allowed to obscure the fact that the accident should not have occurred The public does not exonerate a railway company from responsibility because it appreciates the extraordinary expense incurred in providing safeguards. The use of steel cars has gone very far to diminish the loss of life from accidents. There must be unremittng effort to abol- ish the accidents themselves by eliminating the factors of human carelessness and mechanical made quacies It is inexpedient to celebrate the victory of the steel car and overlook the seriousness of the catastrophe that gave the rigid material a chance to show it's superiority
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16

the south the idea prevails that a white man who has money, friends and influence runs a negligible risk of being imprisoned or executed for murder. With negroes, the situation is different, although the Jaws de- lays" are blamed for majority ot the lynchings in the south.
 If convictions in the United States are only 26 per cent, it is small won der that crimes are so frequently com- mitted. In England, and presumably in Germany to an even greater extent, a healthy fear of the consequences withstrains the hand of violence, but in America too often would-be mur- derer is strengthened in his purpose by the thought that expert lawyers can save him from paying the full penalty for his crime. In fact, he may even hope to get off scotfree.
 The Kansas warden attributes crime to big cities, liquor and cigarettes. Big cities, liquor and drugs may be contributing factors, but to place the much abused cigarette in the same category is silly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Powerful At Planting Time

It will require little urging to in- duce the farmers of Alabama, Mis- sissippi and Georgia, where the boil weevil wrought havoc last year, to re- duce the cotton acreage this spring. The scarcity and high price of com mercial fertilizer will also be a con- tributory cause of acreage reduction. But in Texas, where the staple luxuriates without artificial aid, and in the Carolinas, where the intensive methods of cotton culture have been practiced successfully in recent years, there will be large planting unless the business interests of the south ex- ert their utmost influence to curtail it. A small crop we'll cultivated will have greater money value in the cotton year 1916-17 than big crop. w. P. G. Harding closed his speech delivered in Birmingham last Friday night with these impressive words:
 'As a factor in the cotton market the southern farmer is most powerful at planting time.
 "'Men at sometime are masters of their fates;
 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our 1 stars,
 But in ourselves, that we are under I lings.'"
 A great deal of cotton is still in farmers hands; still more, perhaps, 1 is held by the merchants. At the end of the planting season if it is known
 that the cotton acreage is less than
 in 1915, the price will not only take a jump, but it will soar to 20 cents; maybe higher.
 1 Let acreage reduction be the slogan
 in Texas as well as in the other cotton 1 states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Artists well Rece;vad

Miss Eva Egerter, the charming so- prano, who was heard here recently, and Mrs. William Gussen of Birming- ham, one of the South's most brilliant pianists, are giving joint recitals in the near west, under the management of J. Saunders Gordon of St. Louis.
 They have appeared in Fulton, Ma con. Trenton, Cameron, Martin and kirksville, all in Missouri, and in every city their reception was most flatter- ing. The Martin Daily Mail, in it's &C., count of one of the recitals, said that Tin the coming of Miss Egerten and Mrs. Gussen, Martin music lovers had a treat beyond all words. The excel fence of this entertainment was of so high an order that it completely charmed all who were so fortunate as to be present."
 The tour will probably be extended beyond Missouri. as the two artists nave proved to have good box office value as well as genuine artistic merit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
SOULFUL FEET
the New York World.

From the New York World.
 The human foot, apart from it's excep- tional use in dancing or propelling a foot ball, is commonly regarded as made to walk with. But if we get the theory of the American Posture league alright, it is capable of higher things and one of the leagues objects is to develop them. Feet should be viewed as psychic or psycho- logical-or is it sociological?-and not as merely material. In the words of one of the speakers, What we need here in America is more soulful feet"
 One of the foes of the soulful develop ment of our pedal extremities, we learn, is the shoe manufacturer. Though the American shoe has gone around the world, it lacks the essential of uplift-it is made to fit the eye and the pocket book and not the feet" The conditions indicate the need of missionary work among the manufacturers. and failing that, mankind may revert to sandals or go barefoot in the Kneipp manner.
 The reform work of the Posture league for the improvement of feet is meri- torious movement. Why should not the feet be as well cared for as the hands? As casually viewed in any public assem- blaze they are disillusionzing spectacle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Crime In the United States

Statistics are always interesting, even when they cannot be proved. In a recent address the warden of the Kansas penitentiary, J. K. Cooling, raid there are 100000 murderers at large in the United States. Germany, he said, convicts 90 per cent of her criminals, England 50 per cent and the United States 26 per cent. It will be surprise to persons who have looked on the English courts as re-
 aarkably quick and effective in pun ishing criminals, to learn that the percentage of convictions in Germany is considerably larger This may or may not be another evidence of Ger man "efficiency." It is estimated that crime costs the United States $3,5O0,- 900 day.
 & Of course there is no accurate way of determining how many murderers there are at large in the country, but Warden Codling's estimate is perhaps not exaggerated. There are fully that many, if not more, persons in the United States who have committed IF crime of murder, but laXity of conrt procedure is a by-word and in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
 According to recent figures from the United States bureau of navigation, 5OO,- 900 persons travelled the Atlantic last year between American and European ports; and of these, 250, ,000 were aboard liners of the belligerents. Is it to be presumed that any considerable num- Der of these quarter of million pas sengers were what Senator Gore pleased to term reckless wayfarers who for love of profit or pleasure or adventure chose to daily with danger and death? ?' The perils of transatlantic voyage in the midst of world war are obvious: they may lure few daring spirits, but they repel the average tourist The great majority of Americans who now go to or from Europe do so under the constraint of vital interests.
 Those who can secure passage on a neutral ship naturally do so, but neu- tral ships alone are inadequate to traf- fc demands; and on some lines of travel as the New York World points out, there are no neutral ships at all. In these circumstances, the suggestion that Americans be prohibited from travelling on vessels of the belligerents was preposterously unjust, and the pro- posal that they be warned against such vessels was preposterously foolish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
THE REFORMED BLUEBERRY

From the Boston Herald
 There are some new things under the sum- A scientist from the department of agriculture speaks in Horticultural hall at 2 o'clock this afternoon in explanation of the extraordinary developments in blueberry culture. At a cooperative plan tation in the pine barrens of New Jersey. where the governments experiments are now making, blueberries as large as the Concord grape, not dissimilar in appear ance and of flavor greatly superior to the specimen which grows wild in our New England fields, are now ripening in considerable quantities. Frederick V. Coville-today's visitor-believes that the acid soils of New England, admirably adapted to blueberry culture, will yet yield crop of extraordinary commercial as well as dietetic value.
 Our own state experiment station last year sent an expert to investigate the work in New Jersey. He saw in it so much of promise for the poorer lands of Massachusetts that he promptly ar- ranged with MT. Coville for the institu- tion of similar experiment at East Wareham, where in the coming summer the work will be undertaken. This is a study to which Mr. Coville has been giv-
 ing years of research, with results that seem likely in a few more seasons to prove sensationally important. The trans formsSion of the blueberry of the fields to beautiful fruit of the size and quail ity already indicated will prove an achievement of huge importance to New England agriculture, besides adding to the resources of the American table, And the experiment will have it's economic ad- vantages too, in the, utilization of great stretches ofland, at present. valueless. but which seem particularly to meet the chemical needs of blueberry culture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Stock Market IS Barometer

The strong tone of the New York stock market this week naturally af- lords encouragement to business inter- ests throughout the country. for there are few better barometers of financial and industrial conditions than the trend of speculative operations. When the market is inactive and depressed dullness is usually reflected in various branches of trade When the market is buoyant business in general is very apt to be brisk.
 Not in many weeks has the stock ex- change been the scene of such active
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
CARE OF ALIEN INSANE

From the Rochester Democrat and Chron- icle.
 A recent report issued by the mental hygiene committee of the State Charltles Aid association calls attention pertinently to what it calls the '1ameness of the
 United States government" in permitting so many insane immigrants to enter the country and it's failure to reimburse the state of New York for their maintenance ! It is pointed out that the government re- ceives a $4 per capita tax upon lmml- grants when they arrive in this country presumably to defray the cost of the lm- migration service. It is declared that this revenue to the treasury has eXceedeu the cost of the federal immigration de- partment by over $1,O00,00O annually Tn normal times; and the pertinent question is asked: "Why should not the federal government reimburse this state for the care of deportable aliens from the ex- cess of the immigration per capita tax over the cost of maintaining the bureau?
 The report says that the alien insane in New York state hospitals on October 1, 1915, according to the official figures of the state hospital commission, num- bered 92oS, or 26.S per cent of the entire patient population. It says that "one out of every four patients in New York state hospitals is an alien, yet the taxpayers Of the state have to support them"
 It costs approximately $210 a year to maintain patient in a state hospital, hence with 920S aliens in it's institu- tions, this state is compelled to pay nearly S2,000,00O a year for the maintenance of persons who are citizens neither of the state nor of the United States.
 The report shows that there was a large falling off in deportations during the past year on account of the Euro pean war and the interruption of trans portation. In fact, it has been impossible to return deportable aliens to their re- spective countries, because the federal government refuses to accept alien pa tients for deportation to most of the coun- tries involved in the war. It is said that there are at present over 400 patients in hospitals who are deportable under fed- eral law, who cannot be deported because of the war.
 On the basis of facts set forth in the State Charities Aid association report, the situation Is deplorable, and not the less so for the reason that the United States throws the burden of maintaining simply because the immigration bureau allowed them to enter the country through the port of New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Not a Dissenting Vote

The fact that the Senate approved by unanimous vote the joint resolu- ton adopted by the House of Repre- sentatives to recruit the regular army LID to it's full strength, under an ex- isting act, thus adding immediately about 10000 men to the mobile estab- lishment, was significant as showing a spontaneous sentiment in favor of preparedness when the honor and safety of the country are at stake.
 Pacifists have opposed any increase in the army, contending that stand ing army larger than might be re- quired for a skeleton organization would develop spirit of militarism and set at naught their peace-at-any- price theory. But fortunately for our national security the pacifist propa ganda has failed utterly. Instead, a sane, patriotic Americanism is now all pervading and when Congress comes to vote on the army measures reported from the military committees and on the navy bill, which will be reported a little later, the majority will be overw' elmingly in favor of adequate nation. Iefense along the line of the administration's preparedness pro- gramme.
 Whatever amendments are made to the bill for increasing the regular army will provide for larger army than was at first contemplated. It was believed that 15O,O00 would be the limit, when the bills had been threshed over in conference commit Ne, but it is now safe to say that N&AsOO0 will be the minimum. A fed exaaszed National Guard would then AxinA the fighting strength of the nf5{5txSy establishment up to some fll52sH Nike O,0OO-not large force Haing armies go, but sufficient fes 6fA Art.
 I1;'e he lesson of the European N sf &l.N lie possibility of the United <'saxes being attacked some day by a stS eat 'orld power, aroused the gov asslen 10 realization of it's defenseless position, the Mexican situation has brought the prepared ness question so close as to cause both houses of Congress to act speedily and decisively in response to the war de- partment's urgent demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16

While every conceivable form of water war; perhaps the strangest boat of all is the kelek, which is described by the Ma tional Geographic society. For thousands of years the kelek has been used by the people of Mesopotamia to transport their commerce over the Tigris and Euphrates, two of the earths moodiest rivers It
 is made of goats1ins inflated with air, tied beneath frame of light poles. The cargo is loaded on this quaint craft which is nothing more than a barge, guided or ropeled by oars. When the destination is reached the skins and timber are sold rivers of Mesopotamia are very irregular and while there are portions of the two streams which could be navigated by ves- sells of considerable draft, at other places they are so shallow a man would find swimming difficult. The kelek, however. passes through shallow water without grounding, no matter how heavily 1t is
 loaded, as about 800 goatskins are used to give the craft the desired buoyancy. In 8 straight Line the distance from Diar- bekir to Bagdad is only about 400 miles, but the water route via the Tigris is ap- proximately 1000 miles long. Like the giant transport steamers, the converted cruisers super-dreadnaughts and scores Of other vessels, the humble kelek is playing it's part in the present war, in the transportation of supplies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
A QUICK CHANGE.

Erstwhile we dreamed of summer joys, The sun shone brightly all day long; The playful shouts of girls and boys Were heard. 8 happy-hearted throng. An! Spring was surely in the air. We doffed our overcoats with glee; The weather, quite beyond compare, Proved what the Sunny South" could
 be. Alas, alack. Whats gone amiss? A nipping blast and leaden skies No more the balmy zephyrs kiss Our grateful brows Springs vision flies. The radiators sing once more,
 Coal dealers stir themselves anew; Thin-blooded wights cry, Close the
 door!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16

trading as has been the case within the last three days. Capital is forget ting to be timid and investors are dis playing a degree of optimism that comes only with an era of real pros perity.
 The great industries continue to operate at full capacity and the iron market was never stronger. at prices profitable to the producers, then 1t IS today.
 If the outlook for all departments of commerce was bright at the beginning of the year, it is even brighter now, and the spring will probably witness very high records all along the line
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
HOTEL LOBBIES
Talking Points About the south.

"The Southern Railways vest pocket booklet of 20 pages, entitled Talking Points About the South is admirable in every respect" said W. c. Radcliffe, general manager of the Chamber of Commerce.
 This little compendium, we'll illus trated, contains information of real value about all the states traversed by the Southern, and as it is being freely distributed by the ticket agents and other representatives of the company and connecting lines the publicity giv- en this section should result in much good.
 Many thousands of these booklets have already been given away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Mir. LiebIiDg Here

Leonard Liebling of New York, editor Of the Musical Courier, and wei! known as a man of letters, arrived last night and will be entertained at the Tutwiler at luncheon at o'clock Friday by representatives of the civic bodies. He is just completing a very extensive tour of the United States for the pur- pose of studying musical and educational conditions and writing his impressions of the cities he visits and the people he meets. His Birmingham article will be awaited with keen interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-16
Politics In the Tenth District.

'The congressional fight in our district between Hobson and Bankhead is the all absorbing topic in my section of the state," said A. F. Fite of Jasper, a prominent attorney, who was at the Tutwiler yesterday.
 T am keeping strictly out of the fight, but it seems that almost everyone in Jasper is taking a hand. I have never taken very active interest in politics and have never sought any office other than a purely honorary position. I am now a candidate for delegate from the Tenth district to the democratic national convention, and hope to be elected. but about all one can afford to do when seeking a place of this kind is announce and await the result I am, of course, in fsvor of President Wilson and think he should have his way about the platform upon which he is to run.''