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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-26

1t would be well mcritpd punishment
TO pick out the coolest cells in the
far,hest north ppnitcntiary for con
yirteu coal hogs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-26

America never was very STRONG Oh
standing armies. Eut when it comes
TO FIGHTING armies that's something
different again.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-26
wethers, s7.O0@1300; ewes, $4,000
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO.
HOGS-Receipts $1,000; DulK'
s4S5Ml6.4O; light $l4.2o@l6.45; NIX
ed s14.65m1G.S5; heavy $14.6O@l6:So'
rough $l4.CO@l4S5; pigs $lO'39W
$l4.OU
CATTLE-Receipts 5000; weak
native beef steers $G.S5@l7.o0; west.
ern steers $G.25M13.S5; stockers anu
feeders S6.O0@11.50; COWS and heifers
s5OOM1215; calves $S.0OM15.23.
SHEEP-Eeceipts 5000; STEADY:
wethers $S75@12.75; lambs $l2.2'W
The Washington times., 1917-02-12

placed under the jurisdiction of the
insurance department of that State.
This effort to obtain the advice of
competent actuaries (for some of the
best known insurance experts in the
country worked with Mr.. Brown in
dicates the more thoroughgoing
methods now employed in effeeting
pension plans of this sort. Some
of the earlier efforts, especially those
to pension college professors, and
certain city pension provisions, like
the police and fire department funds
in New York, have proved cumber-
some and costly because they were
not founded <on scientific pension
principles. That, too, was the prin-
cipal difficulty of early pension
schemes advanced for school teach
ers here and for the civil service en-
ployes. No effort was made to reckon
the cost of administration ten or
twenty years ahead.
The Episcopal church not only has
set an example to other denomina-
tions and other groups of employers
in what they ought to do in the mat
ter of pensions; but it has demon
strated how they ought to go about
doing il.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
WHY THIS BELATED RUSH?

Two interpretations may be placed
upon the rush of nationals of the
central powers to become citizens of
the United States: They may be ac-
tuated by repulsion for the final ex-
cesses of Frightfulness and by 10y
atty to the land of their adoption, or
they may be impelled by a desire to
get in under the bars before war is
declared and thus avoid internment
in detention camps.
While We prefer to believe that the
great majority of these applicants
for first papers" are moved by the
higher reason, the fact cannot be
ignored that they are seized with
Americanism very suddenly after
viewing complacently thirty months
of warfare as directed from Berlin
with a barbarity differing not at all
in nature and little in degree from
that now proclaimed openly against
the whole worldS A complacency
which could swallow the partnership
with the Turk in his butchery of Ar
menians could swallow anything.
Nor can the fact be escaped that
there will be individuals who will use
the cloak of their new citizenship to
wage furtive war against Americans
within their own gates. We must
protest with all the vehemence of
which we are capable against the
folly of admitting as immigrants,
much less as declared citizens, sail
ors from the self-interned German
and Austrian steamships in our har-
bors. These come direct from COM
nlitting what amounts to an act of
war against US by wrecking those
ships to ask to be received into the
sacred bonds of liberty and fellow
ship. Such a thing is unthinkable.
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Tomorrow.

Lecture THE Psychology OF Color Its Ef-
feet on Mind, Health and Finances" Miss
Louise Cults Powell. the Portland, n. m.
Meeting Of Parent Teachers Association,
Grover Cleveland School. 2:45 p. m.
Election OF officers by board OF governors,
Retail Merchants Association, in clubrooms
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue.
y. m.
Meeting OF archaeology section, Twentieth Cen
tury Club. home OF Mrs. John Lowe. 2622
woodley place. Els p. m.
Election of officers OF Walter Reed Garrison,
No. 10. Army and Navy Union, Flynn 4
Hall. p. NJ.
Meeting OF Indiana Society OF Washington.
the New Ebbitt. p. M.
Moving pictures. Joan the Woman" featur-
Settlement House, home of Mrs. Edison
Reception by Capt. Molly Pitcher Chapter, d.
A r. In honor Of Mrs q. W. Hanger. the
Rochambeau, 4-6 p. m.
Meeting OF LangdOn- Woodbridge Home and
School Association, Twentieth and Frank
lin streets northeast, p. m.
Community conference. Wilson Normal
Skhool, 1880 p. m.
Monthly meeting, Short Story Club. W. c. T.
U. parlors, p. m.
Musical for the blind. Library of Congress,
Annual meeting and election Of officers. Four
teenth Street Business Mems Association,
Cochran Hotel. y. M.
MasonIc-Federal Lodge. No. /: Acacia. No.
Is and Takoma, No. %: Mt. Horeb Chap
ter, No. 7. and Potomac, No. S. Royal
Arch: DeMolay Commandery. No. 4,
knights Templar; Robert de Bruce Coun-
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
EPISCOPAL PENSION FUND

Many religious denominations al
ready have launched campaigns to
raise funds with which to pension
superannuated clergymen, and to
provide for their widows and chill
dren. A study of the average salary
of ministers is sufficient indication
of the sore need for such provision.
In some denominations this average
runs less than S400, and a recent
study of a group of the larger and
richer denominations showed that
even their clergymen were paid an
average of about 5000.
Impetus to the movement is given
by the announcement that $4,000, 900
will be available by March l for the
Episcopal church's pension fund.
Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts,
has just made public the success of
the effort of that denomination to
raise this sum. Aside from its in
terest to other religious denomina-
tiohs, it has a special significance to
Washington. One of the men who
prepared the pension plan to be
adopted by the Episcopalians is Her.
bert D. Brown, chief of the United
States Bureau Of Efficiency, who
compiled the retirement bill for
Washington school teachers and who,
for many months, has been at work
on a scientific contributory pension
plan for Government employees.
The Episcopal church pension fund
was incorporated in New York and
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
A WOMEN'S CITY CLUB

Women Of Washington have seri-
ously set about doing what the men
so far have neglected to do, organize
a city club. 1t may be that the field
for mems city club is not so fertile
here because of the existence of
many other clubs which perform
somewhat similar functions. But
there is a marked opportunity for
such a club for women, with no COM
petition of any Sort.
The Women's City Club idea has
been notably exemplified in Boston,
where there is a commodious club
house, and an organization of 4,500
members. Closer home than that Il
Baltimore, is a women's city club
which is comparatively new, but al
ready a pronounced success.
Modern economic conditions pave
the way for such organizations. The
essential of membership is not social,
but solely that of achievement. Such
tie is new among women OF TINS
city. The women's clubs already
here are organized for propaganda,
along social lines, or to bring to-
gether women of particular interests.
A city club, which would be a
common meeting ground for women
who are doing work in every line,
from art and business to mother
hood" !" to quote the organizers, would
serve as Va clearing house for the
activities Of these other organiza-
tions and would help bring about that
democracy among women who are
achieying things and Working toward
definite ends, which already has been
accomplished by men through their
trade and civic organizations.
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AS TO A WAR REFERENDUM

Passing over the lack of patriot
ism in any effort to secure a referen-
dunn on war when the country is to
every appearance being dragged into
war by an adversary who will take no
other answer, it seems needful to
call attention to a misstatement of
fact by the American Union Against
Militarismtin agitating such prop
aganda. The Union says:
Note-In establishing her war
zone Germany has offered safe
passage for all American passen-
ger ships which keep to a pre-
scribed course and which our
Government guarantees free from
contraband.
This the German government has
not done. 1t has signified it's will
ingness to tolerate the presence of
one American ship per week each
way between a prescribed English
and American port, provided each
ship sails on day specified by Ber-
lin, sticks to a path mapped out by
the German naval lords and is paint
ed in stripes "like a ZEBRA" as an in
dignant official of the American line
put it-or like a convict.
Germany has not Offered safe
passage to all American passenger
ships" under all conditions, and any
campaign to create the popular i'm
preston that she is is at least vici-
ously misleading: 1t renders the posi-
ton of the American Government more
difficult without in any way render
ing war less likely. The truth is that
war is apparently being forced upon
Washington by a Prussianism that
is beyond the reach of any referen-
dunn, and any other statement of the
case by an American citizen or citi-
zens is plain disloyalty.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
THE GOVERNMENT AS AN
EMPLOYER

1t is a matter of common knowl-
edge that the cost of living is high
and is growing higher. The foreign
demand for everv American product
that could be exported has boosted
the price not only of those products,
but of all other, supplies that are
consumed at home. Where the cost
of living goes upward and the ware
scale remains stationary, there is
hardship and sometimes tragedy.
The Democratic platform of 1916
contained the following plank on
Government employment:
We hold that the life, health,
and strength of the men, women,
and children of the nation are its
greatest asset, and that in the
conservation of these the Federal
Government, wherever it acts as
the employer of labor, should
both on its own account and as an
example put into effect the fol-
lowing principles OF just employ
ment.
1. A living wage for all en-
ployes.
Private employers, including some
of the great corporations, have not
waited for the Government to set this
example. The Secretary of Labor
recently published an,impressive list
of the establishments which have
materially raised the wages of their
employees. The people affected are
numbered by the million and the in
crease in wages is measured by the
hundreds of millions of dollars. The
question now is whether the Federal
Government, recognizing the changed
conditions, shall follow the example
set bv private business or shall re-
main conspicuous as a bad employer
of labor.
Measures are now pending in the
legislative appropriation bill and the
District bill, now in conference, as
well as in the Postoffice bill, now in
the Senate, to increase the wages of
the poorest paid Government en-
ployes. This is the first opportunity
for the responsible majority in Con-
gress to redeem the platform pledge
of the recent Presidential campaign.
Under all the circumstances, further
suggestions would seem unnecessary.
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just a. Filler.

They have asked me to write q
poem.
"one OF those free verse affairs, you
know"
Great heavens!
To fiIl UP space, and
In ten minutes.
Me-a poet?
Scorpions.
Do they not know that thus dis
tufbed
My genius. like to a molten mass of
running lava
overfiows-and like as not will
wreak
How comes that mud and clay like
they be, can be
Acclaimed as human?
Little do they know that churning
in my brain. all
Eager, like the horses in "Ben-Hur"
are,
Madly coursing thoughts on
War, peace, suffrage, burning
homes: whole
Outraged countries and their hordes
OF wandering ruined peoples; kings
princes,
Spies and plots galore; my relatives
and enemies;
My friends. and those whom ]
would work for
Larger pay; also are thoughts on
dresses, and spring hats, mixed mad.
ly with the rights OF subs and 'zepps:
All while try to do my work and
half decide.
What shall wear the coming night
anoni
All these, yes, these, and more. are
now the thoughts
Which cascade through my brain.
And yet.
In these tough times (excuse the
slang)
Those short-haired ones,
Who selfishly think only of one
thing,
At one short time. descend on me
To write
Free verse!
And celebrate the day-this time of
cataclysm-
In verse known as libre!
Scorpionsi But here II is.
They have asked me to write a
poem.
FLORENCE.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
GERMANY'S NEW TRAP

We profoundly distrust any ad-
vance of the German imperial gov
ernment proposing that the Ameri-
can Government should suggest
measures of safety for American
ships in the Atrocity Zone.
In the first place it proposes an
impossibility; no system could be
devised which would permit at the
same time the prosecution of the
German campaign of frightfulness
and the immuRization of our vessels.
In the second place, the acceptance
by US of any special safeguards for
our benefit would be base and
cowardly abandonment of the princi-
pies of neutral rights, of the general
claim to humane restraints, which
are at once the justification and the
foundation OF our protest and our
severance of diplomatic intercourses.
Finally, Germany asks US, or pre-
tends to ask us-for the overture IS
palpably insincere-to suggest solu-
ton of the situation when the duty
and the power of solving it lie alike
with her. Why should we offer any
new program when Germany can
sweep the whole difficulty away by
merely obeying the well-established
and heretofore universally recognized
laws of maritime warfare?
Like the .false-hearted peace"
move of December IL, the present
specious overture is designed to place
the United States in false position.
Its purpose is to trap US into assum-
ing a responsibility in premises
where none naturally belongs to us
to relieve Germany'of the onus of the
hideous crimes which she has an
nounced and which she is committing.
In a secondary sense, the move is
planned to secure delay as respects
any real activity on our part. The
hope is that we shall be entangled
in a new procedure of note writing,
this time through the slow medium
of third foreign office, so that long
drawn out negotiations may postpone
war while the U-boats continue to
strew the seas with the dead and the
wreckage of neutral ships.
No possible good can come from
this new and essentially insolent as
well as deceitful act of diplomatic
jugglery. The only notice the Amer
lean Government should take of it is
to record such courteous acknowledge
ment of its receipt as NAV be due the
Swiss government as Intermediary.
No formal reply need be made even
in the form of rejection. Germany
knows perfectly we'll how the safety
of neutral ships and citizens may
be provided for and we know she
knows it. This is all that is neces-
sary.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
A DEMOCRATIC PROGRAM OF
NATIONAL DEFENSE

Provision for six months military
training for every American youth
when he reaches his nineteenth year,
contained in the universal military
training bill reported to the Senate
fayorably by the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs, is a reasonable COM
pliance with the demands of military
experts for building up an American
reserve army which would be of some
use in case of war. The only objec-
tion they can have to it is that the
period of training is too short. The
answer to that is that the measure
stands better chance of passage as
it is, and it is infinitely better than
any proposal yet seriously considered
by Congress.
1t is estimated that 100000 young
men would come within the scope of
this provision yearly, thus leaving
US with at least 100000 men in nine
years, who could intelligently comply
with the demand overnight, for
force to mobilize quickly for the
defense of our territory. The onlv
persons who can find objections to
the program are the pacifists who
can see no shadow of war, even in
the present beclouded times. The
number of these obstinate citizens,
we firmly believe, is being reduced
daily, under pressure of a demon
stration of how quickly and unex-
pectedly, and from what remote
causes, this country may be called
upon to defend its rights and its
honor.
There would be no economic loss,
probably a distinct economic gain.
from carrying out such I program.
The young man who submits to six
months of intensive military train
ing would come away, not only i'm
bued with his duty to his nation, but
better equipped physically, mentally,
and morally to cope with the prob
lens of trade, industry, and profess
sion. He would form friendships and
ties of great value. He would learn
more efficiency than he could gain
by years of lectures and experience
If left to shift for himself.
A standing army, it has been clear
ly shown, is too expensive a thing
for this country to maintain. A
volunteer army cannot be had at the
present wages paid soldiers. Both
pans are more militaristic, more out
Of keeping with our ideals, than
that of force of men who come to-
gether on an equal basis to do their
bit for the security of their nation.
Both the other proposals SAVIOR of
the militaristic. The universal train
ing, and it is to be universal under
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
LINCOLN ON WAR

No finer. tribute could be paid
Abraham Lincoln upon this birthday
than a careful reading of his Gettys-
burg address or his second inaugural.
Each year the homely but eloquent
utterances of this great man are
more widely recognized as classics
of patriotism and Americanis.A.
In the present national crisis some
of his thoughts upon war seem par
ticularly timely. Take this, for an
example:
War in any case is as exceptionable
from the habits as IT is revolving
from the sentiments Of the American
people. War in defense of national
life is not immoral, and war in de-
fense Of independence is an inevitable
part Of the discipline Of nations.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
SURPRISES CONGREGATION
Pastor Says It Is Heroic to Live for
Country.

The Rev. Lewis E. Purdum took his
congregation at the Ingram Memorial
Congregational Church by surprise
yesterday when he declared in his
sermon at the morning service that
sit Is a lot easier for many to die for
their country than to live for their
country"
81 make this statement" continued
DR.. Purdum, without detracting one
iota from the heroism of thQse who
have died for this country. 1t is an
act that calls for the full measure
OF devotion, but II is just as great
an act as to live for ones country.
"In the final analysis, one reason
why so many are called 70 die for
ones country is because too many
have failed to live for their country.
There is an old saying that an ounce
of prevention is worth a pound OF
cure. In this application, war is the
cure. Heroic living for ones coun-
try is the preventative, and heroic
living means a righteous life"
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
breaches OF TEMPTATIONS
The Rev. Howard !. Smith Points
Out Young Mems Weaknesses.

"The whisper of a beautiful woman
can be heard above the loudest cry of
duty" said Rev. Howard 1. Stewart in
his sermon on the enticements of
women at the Second Baptist Church
last night.
Speaking of the young man. who.
as he reaches the age of manhood,
"cuts himself from his mothers
apron strings to see the world" DR..
Stewart said:
"It is not a sin to go forth to see
the world, but 1t is a sin when we al
low the tabled Atalantis to lure one
TO chase the tinseled balls of sin
rolled across our way. Delilah and
the high life OF GAIA caused Samson's
downfall. and fancy sins have taken
their full toll many a time since that
day"
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
WOULD AID BIRTH CONTROL
Secular League Favors Broader
License.

A broader license in dissemination
OF birth control information was ad-
vocated by the Secular League at its
meeting at Pythian Temple yester-
day. The resolutions indd4sing such
a license rendered the sympathy of
the organization to Mrs. Margaret
Sanger, Mrs. Ethel Byrne, and Miss
Fannie Mindell, of New York, now
being prosecuted and imprisoned for
giving such information"
Mixing nationalities is the most
important factor for bringing about
the abolition OF war. declared James
Hugh Keeley in an address. Mr..
Kelley cited the United States as an
example OF such mixing. James Eads
Howe. known as the millionaire
hobo" spoke, urging against Ameri-
cas- entering the war.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
SHIP BOARD SEEKS
IDLE U. S. VESSELS
Takes Initial Step Toward
Creation of Government Own
ed Merchant Marine.

The Federal shipping board has
taken the first practical step toward
organizing and building up a Gov.
ernment-owned merchant marine.
In letter to the President. Chair
man, Denman asks President Wilson
to turn over to it idle army transports
Tor service in the coast trade between
Atlantic and Pacific ports through
the Panama canal.
American Vessels withdrawn.
Mr.. Denman points out that nearly
all American-built vessels which have
been in this trade have been with
drawn for more profitable charters
or sold to foreign flags, and he asks
that vessels which can be spared
from military service be utilized The
board seeks to get two out-of-date
foreign built transports which the
war Department has been authorized
to sell, the Meade and the Crook.
Mr.. Denman says:
Situation Needs Remedying.
Nearly all OF the American-built
tonnage, with itS participation in the
statutory monopoly of the coastwise
trade, which has been serving the
needs Of producers and consumers on
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts through
the Panama. canal, has been with
drawn for more profitable charters.
much OF 1t not serving any American
commercial need or sold to foreign
flags.
I'VE understand that the War De
partment has sevaraI vasaaIs nahIa
OF carrying these products and serv-
ing the urgent demands OF these pro-
ducers and consumers. Thousands of
tons OF products are awaiting the re-
turn of these facilities or have been
subjected to higher rail rates. The
concentration of car resources of the
transcontinental railways on the mu-
nitions traffic has intensified this
need.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
JUDGE MOORE, COMMANDER.

In a story printed in The Sunday
Times announcing the Architectural
League had declared the Temple OF
Scottish Rite the finest building erect.
ed in the last year. it was stated
that Charles L. Rosenbaum is the
grand commander of the Scottish RI,
Masons. This is incorrect. Judge
George Fleming Moore Is the present
grand commander OF the Scottish Rite
Masons OF the Southern Jurisdiction
The Washington times., 1917-02-12

ell. and Evangelist Chapter Rose Croix,
Scottish Rite: Electa Chapter. No. 2; Beth
lehem, No. Z: Friendship. No. II. and Ascen-
sion. No. 90 Order of the Eastern Star.
Red Men-Continuation Of great council ses-
Odd Fellows-Grand visitation. Golden Rule
Lodge. Mo- q: Amity. No. q; Washington,
No. s: Fred d. Stuart, No. ], encampment.
Knights OF Pythias-webster Lodge, No. q;
Excelsior, No. Il; Capital, No. a. and Ayr-
tie. No. Is.
sion; Idaho Tribe. rehearsal
The Washington times., 1917-02-12
Amusements.

Belasco-"Seven Chances" Sis p. m.
New National-"Eleven p. NJ" p. m.
Poli's-'Sls Hopkins" Sis p. m.
b. +. Keith's-Vaudeville, 2:l5 and Sis p. m.
Gayety-Burlesque. 2:15 and S:l5 p. m.
Loew:s COlumbia-Photoplays, 1890 a. m. to
IL p. m.
Strand-PIhtoplays, II a. m. to IL p. m.
Garden-PhOtOplays, II 4. m. to II y. M.
The Washington times., 1917-02-12

the proposed bill, would mean So
cial as well as a military gain to
this nation