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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-15
WTY M1WO

Goes to Painted Woods-Col. e. A.
Williams of Seventh street left Mon
day for his farm near Painted Woods.
Here From Baldwin,. M. Capper
Of Baldwin was among the business
visitors in the city Monday. ~
Returns to Mathematical Klein
of Washburn returned Monday, after
spending several days in the city.
transacting business and calling on
friends. 4&@
Attending Dental Meeting-Among
the dentists of the capital city at
tending the annual meeting of the
State Dental association in Fargo are
Drs. G. A. Rawlings, w. f. Cole, c. e.
Johnson of the firm of Rawlings.
Towne & Toney, A. Il. Kershaw and
G. c. Hibbs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-15

Over 200 children in the Pixies
May is.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-15
Lean e i: ! Prevent r /!
A'sW ! ! ! J. A|| !! I ] !!
Skin Il Troubles / Il! !,
With v !! Cg i Il

How rnuch better TO prevent
skin suffering by psing Cuticura
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Bendemeer's Stream

There's a bower of roses by Bende-
meer's stream.
And the nightingale sings round
it all the day long:
In the time of my childhood twas
like a sweet dream
To sit in the roses and hear the
birds song.
That bow'r and it's music / never
forget
But oft when alone in the bloom
of the year.
| think: is the nightingale singing
there yet?
Are the roses still bright by the
calm Bendemeer?
No. the roses soon withered that
hung DER the wave.
But some blossoms were gathered
while freshly they shone,
And q dew was distilled from the
flowers that gave
All the fragrance of summer
when summer was gonel
Thus memory draws from delight
ere 1t dies
An essence that breathes of II
many q year;
Thus, bright to my soul as twas
then to my eyes,
Is that bow'r on the banks of the
calm Bendemeer.
Thomas Moore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 81
Remember, gentlemen, that
When you meet IDith a diff
Guilty you are on the eDe of a
diScoDery.-LOrd KelUin.
SELLING THE LIBERTY BONDS

NFFICIALS of the Clearing House
Association are naturally pleas
ed to accept the proffer of the
bond agencies and salesmen Of
their services for the sale of liberty
bonds in this city.
Harrisburg people are never slow
to find a way to accomplish any task
that may present itself. In this in
stance the men whose business it is
to sell bonds offer to give their own
time and energies to putting the
duty of buying liberty bonds direct
ly up to the people. There is moth
ing like personal contact in sales
manship. Newspaper advertising
has paved the way. The people now
understand just what these bonds
are and the terms under which they
are to be sold. They know, too, how
important it is that the issue be
fully subscribed in the time set They
will have no excuse, therefore, to
offer when the statesmen call.
The bond agents are volunteering
thus to do their bit" Treat them
courteously when they call and buy
as many bonds as your pocketbook
will permit-or, better still, be pre-
pared to tell the salesman that you
already have subscribed your full
share.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
CHANGING ON TARIFF

IT is a remarkable and important
fact that many newspapers and
periodicals which until recently
made light of protective tariff agita.
tion are now discussing the question
seriously and admitting the probable
need of restoration of duties on the
basis of the protective principle
Those Republicans who have stead.
fastly adhered to time-tried funda-
mentals will find some satisfaction in
observing the capitulation of their
opponents.
After the war" will not be a
proper time to take up the tariff
question. To leave the question un-
til peace has been declared would
very likely involve us in embarrass-
ment in dealing with the terms of
peace. 1t has long been apparent
that at the close of the war the allies
will endeavor to frame commercial
policies among themselves to their
mutual advantage and to the disad-
vantage of Germany.
If, at the close of the war, we
have still a low tariff policy with a
multitude of commodities on the
free list, we shall take up CONNER
cial questions on an equality with
Great Britain, whose normal policy
has been one, of free trade. If, on
the other hand, the close of the war
finds us with a protective law on the
statute books, we shall have an ad-
vantage, for we should then be oper-
ating under our normal system and
could not be expected to make any
concessions. We could retain our
normal import rates more easily
than we could impose them at the
time we were participating in the
establishment of peace and the new
relations which we shall sustain to-
ward all the rest of the world. We
might be able to make some CON
cessions" from high protective rates,
but we would have nothing upon
which to base concession if we
were operating under a free trade
policy.
We should lose no time, therefore,
in getting back to our normal Am
erica First" policy, so that we shall
have that advantage when we nego-
tiate with the other warning nations
concerning future peace relations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

of desire for conquest, the latter will
probably be our compensating fac
tor for the expenditures we are MAX
ing.
The immediate effect of our large
government loan should not produce
a panic or great str;ngency, as the
money will be deposited largely in
the districts from which the sub
scriptions are derived. 1t is a trite
saying that Money is simply a
medium of exchange"
1t would not seem a time to specu-
late, but a splendid one for pure
and particularly long time invest
ment. The men (also business con-
Germs and institutions) that can save
and invest in the government. rail-
road, public utility and corporation
issues, will render service to the
country, and will be later well re-
paid for their thrift, far beyond the
sacrifice of luXuries and waste that
can be we'll dispensed with.
Business promises not only to be
"as usual during the war, but bet
ter than usual" If we buy what we
need, avoiding both extravaganza
and waste, all will be we'll and we
shall have something to save beside
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

of the globe which have made a
practice of paying in the piping days
OF peace the Indebtedness incurred
in times of stress are the United
States and Great Britain.
When our Civil war ended the
governments debt was $2,700, 0,000,-
900. Twenty-Five years later So
100000 had been wiped out,
leaving inly the S70,00O,000. When
the Napoleonic war in 1912, ended,
the British debt was $4,4OO,0OO, 900.
Eighty-five years later it was S3,-
100, 100000, and that, too, in spite
of the fact that in the interim ST.
100000 had been borrowed.
The real total reduction, there
fore. during that period was $3,100,-
100000. While Great Britain and
the United States were redeeming
their obligations on this tremendous
scale, all the other great countries
of the world were piling up new
debt.
When the present war broke out,
France had n larger debt thsn any
other country. Her credit, however,
was excellent and the debt was owed
entirely to her own people, from
whom she was able to borrow at a
low rate of interest.
And well might her credit have
been good. In the 125 years from
the time of the French Revolution to
the outbreak of the war. she had
had no less than nine different
changes of government-cons
empire. monarchy, empire. Bourbon,
monarchy. Orleanist monarchy, re-
public, empire, republic. But no
single one of these governments,
whether republic, consulate, empire
or kingdom, ever for a minute
thought of repudiating the debt of
it's predecessor, even though that
debt was incurred in an endeavor
to prevent the new government from
coming into existence.
This record of the American gov
ernment, of the British government
and the French Republic, is one of
which every believer in democratic
government can be proud, for it
shows that democracies pay their
debts with greater faithfulness and
greater promptness than have mon
archial countries or empires.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George C. Thayer, captain of
the Philadelphia city troops, is be-
sieged by applicants for enlistment.
Col. w. J. Crookston, National
Guard officer in charge of formation
of new hospital organizations at
Pittsburgh, served in Austria during
the early months of the war.
Judge j. J. Burlington, of the
United States court, is making a
series of addresses in the State on
the work of the national war council
"A. G. Gordon, Pittsburgh school
principal, has offered Mayor Arm
strong the services of all school
principals in registering men for the
draft.
Frederick C. Dunlap, new chief
of highways in Philadelphia, is a
personal friend of Mayor Smith.
r F. Booth, director of supplies
of Pittsburgh, is planning to open
a coal mine on city property.
George II. Rowley, Mercer coun-
ty District Attorney, has turned his
attention to routing gambling from
fairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
THE NEW LOAN AND OTHERS

MOST Americans remember from
lVl their school days that the cost
of the Civil war to the North
was SO, 3,000,0 900 a day. The sum SEEM
ed tremendous. and indeed it was
for those times. Very likely in pro-
portion to the population and the
wealth of the day, it was as great
as the sums expended by the Euro
pean governments in the present
world war. Still it sounds small in
comparison with the S30,000.000 or
more expended by the British gov
ernment every day.
And now comes the American gov
ernment with plans>to raise $1,000
100000 ASIA longtime loan, besides
$1,000, 100000 more in the form of
treasury certificates for short
period. To this is to be added an
other large sum raised by new tax
atiqh. How long these sums will last
no one can say. Should they all be
expended within one year it would
represent over 100000 a day,
Sundays included.
The wealth of the United States
has been estimated as in the neigh
borhood of $500, 900, 100000. or
roughly speaking, thirty times the
amount of this loan. Germany, with
a population of about two thirds
that of the United States. and with Il
wealth considerably less than one
half that of the United States, has
now floated six different LOANS ag-
gregating approximately $1,000
100000. One cannot help wondering
how soon her ability TO raise ad-
ditional sums will end.
What makes the contrast between
the American government and the
German government the more strik-
ing is that up to the present time
Germany has done practically moth
ing to raise by taxation the money
needed to pay the interest on her
huge loans. Not far from one-fourth
of the last loan must have been
used to pay interest on the sums al
ready borrowed.
An interesting feature about the
national Indebtedness of nations is
brought out by the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. 1t is pointed out that
the only two countries on the face
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Elk Patria

Nav God forgive you Germany,
For you know not what you do.
A loyal son, l can not keep
The faith with such as you,
have a mother waiting
out there beyond the Rhine
NAV God forgive you, Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
said YOU were attacked, 1 lied;
The ties of blood held fact
But now the truth-those dreadful
days
OF doubt are safely past.
I have q little sweetheart
Somewhere beyond the Rhine
MAY God forgive you, Germany,
FatherIand of mine!
Belgiuml LuSitania!
A friendly nation mourns!
Sharp as Uhlan's lance is
TIL eternal crown of thornSs
Ere YOU regain your reasons,
Your foes must cross the Rhine
May God forgive you, Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
L'ENVOI.
The call has come across the seas,
I. too, must fall in line
May God forgive you, Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
New York Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
RAILROAD PATRIOTISM

DAILRoAD corporations and their
II millions of employees through
out the United States are now
on their mettle and will have an un-
usual opportunity to show what they
can do for their country in great
emergency. This is the conclusion
of a prominent railroad official and
Il is reinforced by statements of
other railroad managers.
Efforts are being made upon ev-
cry hand to increase the railroad ia
cilities and to assure the country of
the highest type of efficiency in the
operation of the 10000 miles of
lines. 1t is understood that without
largely increased railroad equipment
in cars and locomotives there will
be a hampering of the mobilization
of the nations armies and the trans
portation of the needed supplies. For
tunately for the country, the rail-
road men-officials and employees
are patriotic and are determined TO
do their utmost to meet the emer-
gency.
In a recent bulletin of the Amer
lean Railway Association, through
it's special committee On national
defense, the need of cooperation in
every department of the railroad
service is emphasized. Employees are
urged to do their fevel best to
achieve the highest efficiency in the
operation of the roads under exist
ing conditions. This cooperation is
also invited on the part of shippers
and all who are in any way inter-
ested in railway service.
Among other things it has been
suggested that the railroad officers
and employees get together at di-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
BUSINESS AND THE WAR

TONSIDERING the great wealth
~ of the allies with the assurance
that they cannot be beaten,
and with strong possibilities of COM
plete victory, depending upon how
far we care to push the advantage
that is now ours, it would seem un-
questionable in any event that the
credit of France and England
should be perfectly good, but backed
as they are by the guarantee of the
United States their bonds absorbed
in this country will be a source of
the greatest prosperity for the
American people. The future of the
country is bright, from the view
point of wealth widely divided
among the people; that is, If the
people themselves are wise enough
to seize the opportunity offered.
Following the Civil War govern
ment bonds were common forms of
credit and exchange and they form
ed the basis of many a modest in
come. They were often reckoned
better than gold as they sold above
face value and the man or woman
who invested in them never had
cause to deplore the fact. We are
offered now the chance that our
fathers had in the Civil War. It is
for US to economize here and there
and lay back something for a rainy
day in the way of government
bonds. This and the substantial
taxation that is now proposed by the
Government should have a tend
ency, along with that of advancing
costs, to produce thrift and economy
that was the general rule of the
American people two generations
ago, and the lack of which was a
considerable factor for poor business
and slight financial stringency some
years before the war.
The large government loan would
seem to vastly stimulate the produc-
ton of this country as a whole, and
at the same time decrease the buy
ing power Of the dollar, though the
latter process has been in effect for
some time. 1t would seem there has
been considerable depreciation in
money values abroad, as exhibited
in foreign exchange, besides the
variation due to their imports large
ly exceeding the exports.
In an effort to maintain the value
OF their money. Germany has fixed
prices for foodstuffs, but it has been
necessary to vigorously restrict the
amount that could be purchased by
any one person. While the value OF
the dollar had been decreasing even
before the war, and will probably
decrease more rapidly now, there is
reason to believe that there will be
some factors that should later ACT
in the direction of eventually in
creasing its purchasing power.
AS the price of food and other
commodities increases, We will con.
sumo smaller amount and receive
a greater value for that which We
export, giving us a splendid oppor.
tunity to save individually and col
lectively. AS the chief executive OF
this country has expressed our lacl
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
SETTING OILERS TO WORK

TIME Mayor of Findlay, Ohio, has
issued a notice to the idle men
of his city that they must
work or subject themselves to forced
labor. According to the Morning
Republican of that city, the Mayor
has the support of every citizen in
his efforts to rid the streets and loaf
ing centers of their parasitic groups
and transform them into laborers
for the nations veal"
Just how the Mayor expects to en-
force his order is not apparent. Per-
haps the vagrancy law of Findlay will
govern the case. However that may
be, it is altogether probable that the
publicity given the Mayors notice
will create a public sentiment which
will in itself drive the idler into USE
full occupation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

vision points and consider the ma
tional situation in all it's aspects, so
that those Immediately concerned
may be fully acquainted with the
need of the transportation facilities
of the country at this time. There
will also be conferences between
railroad managers and commercial
bodies, shippers and consignees, so
as to enlist their aid in attaining the
desired efficiency.
1t is a time when all must pull
together for the safety and welfare
of great people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Charles M. Schwab says =

There are a good many things to be
considered in selecting men for inn
portant positions. One of the things
that 1 always take into account is their
family relations. If mans wife
takes the part of a discreet helper.
co-director with him, he is that much
the more valuable to us.
1t is a common enough saying that
it is harder to save money than to
earn it. The women of the United
States have more to learn about their
husbands money than the men have
to learn about getting it. That is,
men are getting more out of their
earning capacities than their wives
are getting out of managing the
money which their husbands provide
for them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
"Ir the Claws of the German Eagle
Central Called Him

She was a telephone girl, he a
telegraph clerk, and they We're con-
templating matrimony. They were
sitting by the fire discussing the
biissful time when they would have
a little home of their own. The
conversation drifted to the topic of
fire lighting and he ventured the
opinion that no man should get up
and light fires in the morning. He
should lie in bed and rest for the
days work.
The girl stared at him in silence
for a minute. and then very sweetly,
but with great firmness, said:
Dear man, ring OFF, please :
You're on the wrong number!"-Ex-
change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Jesus Foretells Resurrection
By BRIGGS

Then answered the Jews and said
unto him, What sign shewest thou
unto us, seeing that thou doest these
things? Jesus answered and said
unto them, Destroy this temple, and
in three days l will raise it up. But
he spake of the temple of his body.
When, therefore, ne was risen from
the dead, his disciples remembered
that he had said this unto them and
they believed.-John II, IS to 22.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

"War F1ameS"-John Curtis I'm
derwood, macmillan $3.50. Rarely
is one given the opportunity to get
truly vivid insight into a war chile
it is being waged, but in War
Flames" one receives conception
that grips and appeals as no other
war volume has yet done. Mr.. Under
woods verse is indeed a marvel of
fact, coupled with a true imagina-
tive power that places his work in
the front ranks of the true artist.
Notable, in the opinion of the writer,
are his groups of verse written
around Belgium and Austria the
most appealing, but that does not
detract from the other groups,
groups written around every nation
now at war. For every line portrays
with brilliant, vivid colors an incl
dent of this war, that now, with our
own country in the melee comes
home to us with additional force.
And "Our Share" the envoi of the
volume, speaks to America in clarion
tones our weakness, our waste, our
Godlessness. War Flames is writ
ten with a wealth of inspiration
gathered from a variety of sources,
ter hand with sublime Imagination
which carries the reader to level
from which he perceives a new per
spective in the. tangled skeins OF TINS
great world war.
"In the Claws of the German Eagle
Bv Albert Rhys Williams, speclai
war correspondent for The Outlook.
Some WINGED and cried aloud, 9TH
ers turned white with terror, still
others laughed defiant to the end.
Caught in the Claws the author
shared with these fellow prisoners
the torments of trial as a spy by the
German Military Court in Brussels.
Humor brightens the book where
is described the taking of war pho
tographs, and eternal romance llfts
YOU above the red reek in the tale
of the American girl the author aid
ed in her search for her of1cer lover
Net s1.50. e. p. Dutton &, Com
pany, 6S1 Fifth avenue. New York
City.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Were Ali Counting on Tom

Past performances count a whole
lot and the public probably is CEN
tering its interest on that some
what different line of investigation"
that Edison is following III his quiet
campaign against the outlaw U-boat.
-Columbia State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

"The British perfect woman has
been discovered-she is 40 and the
mother of five children" says a news
item. That being the standard. Har-
risburg ought to be able to furnish at
least a half dozen for every block in
the city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

In Philadelphia, the other night a
Guardsman shot and killed a man who
attempted to take gun from another
soldier. And, of course, the victims
friends think the slayer should be
tried for murder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Frost Should Use Judgment

Frost on the pumpkin at the right
time is poetic. Frost on the tender
tomato plant is pathetic.-Toledo
Blade
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

BUY baby bunting" has become
the most popular nursery-song.-
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Monkeying With the. Buzz Saw

Thee head of the German Reich
stag defies America, hut he should
remember that defying America is
what got the Kaiser new enemy.
-Atchison Globe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

The size of that war-loan may
convince Europe that all Americans
are millionaires. Future tourists may
have to pay for this war.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Hope

[From. New Haven Evening Union]
While Macmillan Harden lives,
Germany will not be wholly without
q vision of truth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

Even the man who does not favor
prohibition will admit that the liquor
industry goes against the grain
Philadelphia North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
RESPONSIVENESS Too Limited

The trouble about retroactive
iAcome tax is that the thing 1t falls
on won't retroact worth cent
Chicago Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

There was little Kaiser and his
name was Bill; he got in the worlds
way and then stood still. Teut! Teut!
Wichita Beacon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21

The Kaiser has thanked the Crown
Prince for holding the Hindenburg
line. This will amuse Hindenburg.-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-21
Vanished Concern

LFrom the Washington Star1
do the paciflsts worry your"
Not any more" replied Senator
Sorghum. Its getting so that a
pacifist hasn't any political influence
whatever"