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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
Missouri woman shot for refusing
a kiss. We'd rather be shot than kiss
some people we know.
LIMIT TO CENSORSHIP

A censorship bill has been drawn
by the argy general staff which that
body proposes to rush through Con-
gress upon any declaration of war,
and we take occasion to declare that
bill to be Prussian, autocratic and al
together devilish.
Our "war college, which would De
as undemocratic and autocratic as any
similar body on earth, if it dared,
proposes this bill with particular ref
erence to those newspapers which. in
event of the war, might attempt to
criticize the conduct of the war, those
newspapers which "by their editorials
and presentation of news may sway
the people against the war and thus
by adverse criticism tend to destroy
the efficiency of the military agen-
cies."
We rather imagine that the newspa-
pers are not to be muzzled in any
war during this century. The navy
and army departments now have COM
plete censorship on purely military
information. 1t may be right and nee
essary for our war college" to control
the giving out of facts. Suppression
of editorial opinion on conduct of
war is an entirely different mat
ter. 1t is plain rape of constitutional
rights and thing to be combatted
by every publisher who has kilowatt
of courage and soul of his own.
No, we guess we'll have no war con-
Quoted by little war college, uncriti-
cized, unhonored and unhung. Sec
rotary Baker ought to whisper few
kind words into the ears of his gen.
eral staff. It may save lot Of yell
ing later on.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
POOLING WITH DYNAMITE.

A grocer's boy in Brooklyn had a
wireless telegraph apparatus and
amused himself one night by sending
out the urgent call for help, S. o. s..
A revenue cutter picked it up at
sea, and shot it into Washington,
which relayed it instantly to all the
other revenue cutters and many other
ships. For many days thereafter the
cutters and others went patroling up
and down the coast from Maine to
Florida, looking for the vessel in dis
tress.
Yes. And every time anybody sug.
gests that a device of such unlimited
chances for mischief and disaster
should not be allowed in any hands
but the governments chorus of
simps in Congress sends up the cry
that this would never do because it
would be a concession to the deadly
doctrine of government CONTROL
The curse Of Congress is the cuckoo
bird, perched on seat and mechan:
ically repeating things he knows
nothing about.
TO allow anybody to store unlimit
ed explosives anywhere he pleased
would be wisdom compared with oul
present pactice of leaving wireless
telegraphy in private hands. Blu
nothing short of a catastrophe viii
pound that into the timber heads o
the cuckoo tribe.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
WITH THE EDITORS
THE EXPANDING MANN ACT.
Chicago Tribune) H

, The Mann act, having been APPROX
ed by the Supreme court as legiti.
mate application of the commerce
clause of the constitutions, seems now
about to enter upon new and broad
err career of usefulness.
An Ohio clergyman, having heard
that a dancer, imported from Chicago
by the local commercial club to en-
liven one of it's festivities, comported
herself in manner disapproved by
him, asks for prosecution under the
Mann act. He declares that the lady
was transported interstate for an i'm
moral urpose-namely, the exhibit
ton of an indecent dance.
The clergyman's demand is strictly
according to the celebrated statute.
and since the supreme court has held
that it's broad phraseology is within
the scope of the commerce clause we
see no reason why public prosecutors
should not set to work at once to gath
er in new offenders by the score.
For example, PavloWa wears the
conventional ballet dress which, while
it's revealments may seem innOcuous
in New York or Chicago, may be to
the pious mind of Kansas commun-
ity highly Objectionable. If she is
transported to Topeka and then dane
es the Dying Swan. although we may
think it nobly beautiful, the Kansas
conscience may brand it immoral. In
such case a Kansas prosecutor may
contend with force that she has been
transported across state dine for an
immoral purpose. ~.
Card playing is deemed highly i'm.
moral by many worthy individuals.
Hence lady crossing from one state
to another to indulge her evil propen-
sites at a bridge tournament would
be transported for an immoral pur.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
BY BASIL N. MANLY.

Washington. Feb. 26.-Reports from
every part of the world indicate grave
danger of short wheat crop for the
coming year. On top of the great fail
ure of last year this would bring the
entire world close to famine.
In Russia, next to the United States
the greatest wheat growing country,
cold weather prevails with only a
light snow covering to protect the
seed. As result the outlook for win
ter crops there is not good, and at the
same time the stocks on hand are
only moderate and the consumption
for food has been unusually heavy.
In France. the fourth largest wheat
producer, the winter is said to be the
severest since 1903, with only light
snow covering for the crops, as the
present low temperatures followed re-
cent rains. The smallest crop in
years is therefore expected.
The Balkan states will certainly
produce no surplus grain this year,
for not only are these countries raw
aged by war and crippled by scare
ity of labor, but the season has been
delayed by wet, cold weather.
In Italy the weather has been bad
cold and wet, with little snow, and
the national stocks are so small that
foreign buying is very heavy.
In Australia, where the seasons are
the reverse of ours, harvesting is said
to be slow, and it is wet over very
large area. AS a result the crop esti-
mates are being reduced millions of
bushels.
In the United States extreme cold
has endangered the winter wheat,
which throughout the great wheat
belt has had only very light or no
snow covering. The crop experts are
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26

The question OF who owns AlSace,
France or Germany, which is sure to
be one Of tile great issues of the peace
conference at the end Of the present
European war. was first made acute
between France and Germany by the
settlement of the Thirty Years War,
over two and one-half centuries ago.
1t took four years of negotiations
before the powers were able to talk
out a peace after the Thirty Years
war, and theirs agreement, called the
Peace of Westpahlia, provided that
France should possess Metz, Verdun,
Toul and Alsace in perpetuty.
In addition, the religious dissen
siOns of Germany were for the time
settled by this peace, and the princes
of Germany were made practically in
dependent of the emperor. .
The map of Germany now looked
like a huge, jumbled jig-saw puzzle,
, with 300 petty. rrincipalities,. each
claiming independence, each having
it's own laws, customs, armies and
courts.
Moreover, the Peace of Westphalia
gave theme principalities the right to
make independent alliances with 9th
er powers.
Germany was now a name only or
at most. a feeble confederation.
The German soil, moreover, had
been utterly devastated by the three
decades of war; from 1918 to 164S,
during which period huge armies had
lived off the land and fought over it.
Moreover all German trade and in
dustry had been ruined, and this gave
France an immense advantage in gain
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
Pacifism covers a multitude of sins.
TRIUMPH IN HOLES.

Let US hope for the best. War may
be awful, but it has forced OR agri-
cultural department to learl how to
make the holes in Swiss cheese.
Imported Swiss cheese las been
bringing from Is cents to 81 the pound
with most Of the groceries and deli
catessens without any. Swiss cheese
has been made in this country, out
the makers couldn't create the ,.olcs
which give the peculiar flavor. Now
Assistant Secretary NroOEan has pro-
duced the holes. but doggone it. he
doesn't tell how. Is it possible that
We are to have a government censor
ship on our cheese?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26

mortgages through mistake OF fact
and in the belief that there are no
judgment liens against said properly,
he will afterwards be allowed to can
eel said releases and to reinstate and
to foreclose said mortgages on dis
covering subsequent judgment liens.
provided that the owners of such liens
have not, by his prior action, been in
duced to change their position and
have not lost any substantial and ma
terial rights.
co Where the owner of land. who,
in order to protect his title, has pur-
chased a prior mortgage, seeks to set
aside release of such mortgage
which he has executed through mis-
take of fact and in ignorance of the
existence of other judgment liens, and
the owners of such liens have not
been induced by such action to-
change their position or to lose their
material rights, the question is one OF
mistake and not of negligence, and he
will not be precluded from the right
to cancel such release and to fore
close the said mortgage by the mere
fact that he relied upon an abstract
and did not search the records in or
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
NME. PETROYA TONIGHT

Are you extravagant? Are your ex-
penses greater than your income? If
they are, what will become of you
and your loved ones in the future?
All Of these questions are strik.
ingly answered in the great Metropo.
Popular Plays and Players produc.
ton, Extravaganza" with Nine. Pc.
trOva as the star, which will be seen
here at the Orpheum theater tonight
only.
The play deals with father and his
daughter who fetter themselves by
their own extravaganza. The father
commits forgery. The daughters
sutton, an estimable man, is dragged
into the maelstrom of financial ruin
From beginning to end the play is a
powerful lesson, and it is filled with
dramatic situations.
Probably no other star could have
thrown into the part of Norma Rus.
sell, the daughter, more realism than
has Nine. Petrova, who held a high
social position in England and there
was enabled to observe the extrava-
gance of many titled folk. In Amer
lea, too, she encountered extravaganza
among society people, whose real
wealth probably could not be reckon
ed in more than four figures. Yet
these social spendthrifts were strug-
Cling desperately to maintain what
they considered "a position of promi-
hence" among multi-millionaires.
Extravaganza" is one of the most
powerful motion picture dramas of
the season. Does the lesson found in
it apply to you? See it and give your
own answer
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
Tabloid History of Germany
Nation Divided ard Blood Drenched Seventeenth Century
Sees New Hope in Rise of Prussia!

ing complete supremacy in the arts
and sciences, in commerce and indus
try. Fr.~. .H5aejD IsuNn,
But in this gloomy time, one hope
for Germanys future daWned. This
was Prussia. ,-t,i.1. r.Hu ...t
The first famous NO Iohenzollerll
Frederick Of Nuremberg, years before
had been given charge of the, north
eastern PROVINCE of Brandenburg.
This was in ALI. and his successors,
whose capital was Berlin, had con
quered Prussia, their neighhor to the
east. This whole territory, combined
under the Hohenzollerns, finally be-
came known as Prussia, and develop.
ed fierce, Independent national spir-
it. 1t became one of the largest and
most powerful of the states of Ger
many. ,ro.,,-.. 3
Austria. with the Hapsburgs at it's
head, for whole century following
1G4S devoted its attention chiefly to
the Turks and to ambitious schemes
in Italy, leaving Germany in disorder
and at the mercy of foreign agrees
sion.
Although the Austrian Hapsburgs
were nominally rulers OF the whole
empire. which included the. multitud-
inous German states, Austria seemed
actually to side with France, against
these very German states,
Fearing that the growing size and
power of Prussia would imperil Aus
trian leadership the Hapsburgs froWn-
ed on Prussia.
The following two centuries proved
how we'll founded were these Austrian
fears of the rising Prussian power.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
World Faces Famine
As Wheat Crops Fail
7wice in Tue Years

unanimous in predicting the Anleri'
can winter wheat crop will be below
normal, although a greater area was
planted this year than ever before.
This situation is rendered perilous
because the failure of last year in
practically all crops all over the
world will bring us and other coun.
tries up to the harvest with practi-
cally no wheat in storage, while in
normal years there is a surplus on
hand at the beginning of the harvest
of 250,O0000O bushels or more. The
United States alone ordinarily comes
to the harvest with 100000 bushels
in the storage elevators or in the far.
mers' barns.
And the danger is being daily in.
creased by the submarine campaign.
Every grain ship that is sunk, car
ries down with it thousands of tons
of wheat, which is lost forever. No
one can estimate even how much
wheat is being lost in this way, but
there is no question that it is great
enough to reduce appreciably the
meagre supply now on hand.
Fortunately there is way out, if
the agricultural population can be
aroused to the gravity of the situa-
ton. The spring wheat is still to
be planted, and if all the available
area is planted, there will be enough
to save the day.
Every farmer that cares anything
about his country and incidentally
about the chance of big profits which
this almost certain failure of the win
ter wheat crops opens to him-will
plant in wheat every acre of ground
that is tillable. He will plant close to
the fences and TN the corners, in or.
der that not foot of ground that can
raise wheat will be idle.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

No man is too great or too humble
to escape his hour of trial.
TO every man comes time when
his mind, reason and will crumple be-
fore the situation, when he echoes
the cry of the Psalmist, "The sor-
rows of death comprised me, and the
pains of hell got hold upon me: I
found trouble and sorrow"
Then, if man is to make a success
of his life, he must have some kind
Of a philosophy of living.
Some just average men live by a
philosophy and do not know it. Wise
men grow up on farms, in mines and
factories, as we'll as in libraries
Their fellow workers turn to them in
stinctively in every crisis.
And some men have a philosophy
of life and do not live by it. A man
may observe all the rites of religion
without ever finding a relation be-
tween them and the events of his life.
Education and culture are often
looked on as substitutes for a religion.
But these are no more than vaude-
Vile stunts which will take a mans
mind from his worries without re-
lieving them.
Not all philosophers of life are good.
Some of them get bad men into high
places. The grating politician, the
exploiter of the people, the business
man who docs" the other fellow,
live by creed. although bad one,
and get what they go after, although
it may be worthless.
Meanwhile the excellent man who
drifts without any defined motive gets
nowhere. He waits for his big op-
portunity to turn up: he expects to
meet his great emergency without
preparing for it.
This has never been done since
time began.
Psychologists say that the hero
who wins Carnegie medal does not
become hero in a moment; he lives
daily in that attitude toward life,
though his neighbors never suspect it.
AS we all meet today's common
place duties, so we will fail or sue
coed in tomorrow's great adventure,
endure it's sorrows, or break under
its burdens.
But we will never succeed or fail
by chance.
The human will requires fuel, just
as the body needs food, or an engine
coal. In a philosophy or a religion
men find fuel supply for the will.
"His heart is established, he shall
not be afraid"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26

checks upon the executive in the as.
sumption Of such grave RESPONSE
bility as a declaration of war or the
use of armed force to defend national
rights. Congress should exert it's au-
thority to the limit and insist upon a
clear. concise definition of what the
covert act is to be.
Once Congress realizes that the
safety and integrity of the nation is
at stake it will confer the authority
asked by Wilson and the American
people will stand by him as they did
when he severed relations with Ger
many.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
LYNCHING FOR FOOD
BUREAU HEADS SUGGESTED

oOo6NO ueNOo SO10eSV6O.
Mass feeding is projected in Berlin,
1t seems, which rouses the Taegliche
Rundschau to violent protest:
/ What are We to eat? As If exist
ing conditions were not bad enough,
signs are now evident that food diff
culties are about to be further accen-
tuated. Little by little the popular
belief is spreading in Berlin that this
will be arranged according to a pre-
conceived official plan to mold the
population into acceptance of the
mass feeding proposals.
1--WE respectfully but energetically
ask the authorities to spare us from
such schOolmaster drill tactics Let
them tell us honestly what they want
of us, and we shall yield to the in
evitable as We have already yielded
to so many privations. Unreasonable
hardships, however, no noble heart
will bear, not even the noble and pa
tient heart of the German people.
"The conditions in Berlin have be-
come utterly unreasonable during the
last few days. Unreasonable and intol-
cradle. Would that we could for once
take lesson from the Americans and
lynch a few of the bureaucratic wise
acres who seem to have nothing bet
ter to do than to think out more i'm
possible ordinances and regulations
regarding the requirements of our.
stomachs.
1--WE can really bear no further adj
tlitions to them"
WHOLESALERS ATTEMPT
"A. CORNER IN GEESE!
"In order to stop usurious practice
es OF dealers in geese" reports the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26

pose, and ought to be prosecuted un.
der the Mann act.
Music at divine worship is consid-
cred demoralizing to the religious
spirit by some few purists. Import
ing a church soprano or even basso
would seem to be we'll within the
Mann act from this point of view.
Thus this statute if consistently
and rigidly enforced should soon raise
the whole population of the country
to the moral standards Of the impec-
cable few Undoubtedly this was the
far-seeing purpose of the reformers
who framed its inclusive language.
Enforcing private moralities by this
masterful method will bring about
the millennium in short order.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
What Is Going on in Germany
As Told by the Newspapers We Receive from the Teutonc
Empires

Vossische Zeitung, the war usury
committee has taken active meas.
ures.
1T proved four wholesalers had
combined to buy all available sup.
plies and stop competition. Three
wagons consigned to these Berlin
firms were seized, and the geese, val
ued at $4,000 handed over to the au-
thorities to be sold in central market.
Similar action has been taken re.
garding certain fruit supplies"
WAR ECONOMY BOARDS
TO FACILITATE FARMING.
Vossische Zeitung of Berlin an
nounces the creation in each Prus.
sian province Of "war economy
board" which will supply labor. hors-
es, farming implements and coal to
facilitate agricultural production.
HoHENzoILERN ARBITRATION
DEMANDED IN BAVARIA.
A socialist paper published in the
German language in neutral Switzer-
land-the Zurich Volksrecht-men-
lions an organization known as the
Association of Men of South Ger
many which is circulating, surrepti-
ously. pamphlet calling for the alb
dication of the Hohenzollern house as
emperors of the empire. x
The Volksrecht declares this move.
ment is widespsea( in Bavaria and
other South GefAA6 states. A writer
in The Pamphlet HdeehfuE-thg- kaiser
can save Germany BY ahdtcating, ~
Napolson ssysa sEEsass q 1914
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-02-26
THE OVERT ACT.

President Wilson went before Con-
gress today to ask for authority to
empower him to use the forces Of the
United States to protect American
rights on the high seas.
At this writing his message is not
available, but if the chief executive
outlines definitely his policy, Con
gress should back him to the limit.
There is no reason now to suspect
but that President Wilson will define
clearly what this nation intends to
do.
The Tribune agrees with Senator
McCumber that Congress has a right
to know the nature of the act that
is going to plunge a nation into war,
Let there be no repetition of the Villa
fiascO. i'.
President Wilson must define for
Congress the covert act before pow
or is placed in his hands to plunge
this nation into the world conflict.
Relations with Germany have been
severed for several weeks and there
has been no action on the part of the
imperial government that would justi-
fly declaration Of war. Destruction
of contraband certainly can never pre-.
cipitate the covert act which Wilson
proposes to avenge. Surely the STAY
ing of Americans who ship on ibellig-
erent armed merchantmen in the SER
vice of the English admiralty is not
the overt act? 81 +s>>'
The Tribune trusts President Will
niwill make clear to the nation just
what is going to constitute "the overt
act" so that it will be prepared for
the worst. His message must be in
clearer phrases than such memorial BILE
ones as too proud to fight villa
alive Or dead" and peace without
victory 49,
Let us have complete non-resist-
ance rather than dabble in war. Now
is the time to strike a vigorous key
note that will arouse the American
people either to ACCESSIBILITY Of peace
or to the extreme necessity of war.
We trust President Wilson will cease
representation and let us know
whether his covert act means peace
or war We fervently hope it means
peace.
We also most emphatically agree
with Senator McCumber that the ad-
ministration should make it perfectly
plain that this nation does not owe
protection to American citizens who
take passage on armed belligerent
merchantmen in the service of the
British admiralty.
This crisis demands that every true
American stand by President Wilson.
but Congress must insist that if we
are dragged into war, the casus belli
be actual rather than academic.
The United States is neither desir-
GUS nor prepared for war. Before
President Wilson is made absolute
dictator of the situation, Congress
should see to it that the overt act"
is one answerable only by war
II President Wilson intends to wage |
war as he did along the Mexican Dor
Ter, Congress should withhold the au-
.hority.
America has certain fundamental
lights, in the defense Of which she
will be even to the extremity Of war.
int President Wilson must show his
and unreservedIy to the nation and
. Congress 1t this time.
The constitution WISELY imposes
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der to ascertain the true condition of

der to ascertain the true condition OF
affairs.
Action to cancel the release of GER
tain mortgages and to foreclose the
same.
Appeal from the District Court OF
Rolette County. C. w. Buttz, ].
Judgment for Plaintiff. Defendants
appeal.
Affirmed.
Opinion Of the Court by Bruce, C.
J.
Henry G. Middaugh and Rollo F.
Hunt of Devils Lake, N. d.. Attorneys
for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Fred f. Harris OF ROlla, ~, d., At
torney for Defendants and Appel.
la,nts.
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