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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

In the parIors Of Trinity Methodist
church, the Women's Missionary So
ciety-15 in neutrality-suspicious. in
one Of the most enjoyable OF the sea
sons meetings, Tuesday afternoon.
with Mrs. S S. Birchfield. mistress Of
ceremonies. Rev. P r kuicllerbOcker
led the devotional. and the various
officers made their reports A re-
quest that all members make daily
prayers Tor soldier boys was made by
Mrs T. n CorringtOn. chairman Of the
war work committee. Mrs. Horace A.
Lay. who has worked indefatiEably
in arranging motor rides and visits
TO the base hospital for me GONZALES
cent soldiers. told Of the Interesting
work Mrs l. Gamble reported $50
calls being made 10 strangers and i'll
folk during August. Il was decided
10 serve MONDAY luncheon during
the conference. next month. Next
Tuesday. Mrs D. II. Smith viii CON
duct the dollar social for the con-
ference parsonage fund Mrs Mary
Wright and Mrs. J. c. NcElroy were
hOstesses
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05
Ell PASO SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

viii be the school every morning this week to regis
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

Eastminster 6. p. c. circle Of West
minister church viii have a called
meeting Thursday afternoon. at 3
o'clock. with Mrs. T. n. Hervey OF
1901 Elm street. Manhattan Heights.
for the purpose OF packing a box to
be sent to the orphanage IN IrasAa,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

Mrs. Fred II. Doughertv viii extend
her hospitality I'm the form Of q
luncheon TO the Glover club, on Fri
day.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

Wade Hampton chapter. United
Daughters Of the Confederacy. viii
celebrate the birthday anniversary OF
Mrs. H. c. Goodlett. the organize of
the first chapter OF the United Daurh-
tiers Of the Confederacy in Nashville.
with a lawn party and watermelon
feast at the home of Miss Velua
Casey, 1907 East Rio Grande. on Mon
day evening.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

The Women's Aid society OF the
First Presbyterian church has rather
taken the breath from the public, in
the past. By its calm decision 10 raise.
for instance, $1,000 as a war fund, or
TO purchase heaps Of Liberty bonds.
And Tuesday afternoon, at an impor-
Ianr meeting Of the organization, II
voted to come TO the assistance Of the
Rescue Home by voting a $500 sub
scriptiOn fund Mrs A. =. Morris pre-
sided, in the absence OF Mrs John l.
Dyer. who is returning shortly from
an extended eastern trip Mrs S. H
sutherland who has charge Of the
FL Paso registration Of women for
public service, gave a talk on food
conservation, and urged all who had
not yet done so. 10 sign M with
Hoover" at the earliest moment Al
ready Mrs Sutherland has filled sew
eral positions I'm the city left vacant
10y enlisted men-a direct result Of
SYSTEMATIC preparedness 10 meet war I
conditions. By the women. Mrs. W. I
d. Howe had charge OF the program, /.
and furnished added delight with /.
several songs. as did Miss Virginia /.
3urk HOsresses. Mrs. Sutherland. ]
Mrs. 7 G.. Barada Mrs J. IS. Foster .
and Mrs. Harry Schultz, served
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

Calvary Houston SQUARE Wouan'=
Aid society met TUESDAY after
noon at 4 o'clock, and transacted bust
ness, elected officers for the coming
year and enjoyed a social session
Mrs W. H Vance was chosen presf-
dent Mrs C. D. Boone and Mrs A. S.
Howard, vice presidents: Mrs. T. 7.
Bennett secretary: Mrs J. II. Myers.
treasurer; Mrs. L. c. Reed, building
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05
u. D. c. To Haze First Meeting
Of The Season Friday Afternoon

- OBERT z. LEE chapter, United
~ Daughters OF the Confederacy
IL viii start out their years caIen-
dar Of events with a business meeting
in the c. u. C. room OF the Woman's
club house. Friday afternoon at 3:45
o'clock There viii be no program as
plans for the coming months viii be
perfected. The following roster Of Of
Gcers are at the head Of the organi-
cation: Past president, Mrs. c. T.
Kelly; president. Mrs. B. " G. VIII
liams; first vice president. Mrs X D.
E'ranklins second vice president, Mrs.
Henrietta Cyrus; third vice president,
Mrs c. G. Crews; fourth vice presi-
dent. Mrs j. ". Brady recording sec
Rotary, Mrs. Fred z. Stevenson cor
responding secretary, AIRS. William
Caples; treasurer. Mrs. B. l. Farrar;
historian, Mrs Joseph II. Hurxthal;
registrar, Mrs. S j. GatIin; parlia-
mentarian, AIRS. n. II. Allen. auditor.
Mrs v E. RagEiO. New officials viii
be elected the first Thursday in Oc-
tober.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-05

Members OF the Fortunately club
enjoyed Tuesday afternoon as guests
Of Mrs J. A. Taylor Of zoo Nagoffin
avenue, y being present Substitutes
were AIRS. O. Ostrou and Mrs. joseph
WaddelL and Mrs. Taylor made high
score. Mrs J. D. Thew second. and
Mrs. l. T. KILLER. third on September
IS, Mrs. Josephine Ford OF 3OoT Savan-
nah street viii entertain the same
C0terie
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
READERS COLUMN
HANDWRITING ON WALL"

HANDWRITING ON WALL"
Napoleon, N. D., March 15.-Editor
The Bismarck Tribune: In your edi-
torial of March 4, you say that New
Yorker wants the United States to
buy Ireland and make an American
colony out of it. l would be pleased
to inform the said New Yorker that
Ireland has had great sufficiency of
British autocracy without becoming
colony of the United States to re-
ceive secondhand dose of it. If
the said New Yorker had a grand
mother in Ireland he couldn't send
her a peanut and cracker" from
any port in the United States unless
a British official tagged it with the
British O. X.
Our big interests have guaranteed
the safe deliverance of war munitions
and foodstuffs in futures" into the
hands of the Allies and our govern
ment is preparing to make good this
guarantee at the point of the gun ev-
en- though the delivery of such food
stuffs leaves millions of our own peo-
pie crying for bread: while our mer-
chandise that England does not want
must stay in our ports until it is
tagged with the British O. K" to
say where it may or may not CO.
Neither does Ireland have to change
masters to put herself in the way of
taking dictation from a representa-
tive of an Asiatic empire.
Our state legislatures are forbidden
by our secretary Of state to pass laws
regulating our own domestic affairs
'nnfess the, yarGnese xmhassador 1T
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
HOUSE BILL ia.

Just why the farmers institute
work was removed from the supervi
sion of the Agricultural college, as
provided for in House Bill ia. has
never been made plain. That is is the
natural place for such kind Of work
is hardly debatabie. Most states
confine such extension work to the
colleges which are equipped to give
this service at minimum cost
IT, Abe governor desires to save
$4,000 during the next two years
he might advantageously smear his
veto over this measure. It is no crit
icism of Commissioner Hagan when
we say that the bill is wrong in prin
ciple. By its terms, this department
is given a campaign fund of $4,000 a
year. The act is drawn to admit Of
a wide variety of subjects and the
appropriation in INSCRIPTIONS haNls
could easily be used to further any
political propaganda which happened
to be the vogue.
The bill provides that all expendi-
lures shall be audited by the commits
sioner of agriculture. which removes
disbursements from the usual censor
ship of the board of audit. Why an
exception here to the general rule?
This act has a decidedly porcine
aroma. Pork is written between
every line. =
The Agricultural college and uni
versity have a number of itinerant
professors who love the forensic lime
light. If the state must expend $4,000
a year on oratory, our higher educa-
tional institutions can give US maxi
mum OF volume at minimum of en-
pense. .'.'' I'D. .5A'
Surely DR.. yLadd, who uncovered the
mysteries of Feed D Wheat, is compe-
tent to continue the farmers insti-
tutes
Why rob him Of any patronage?
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BAGDAD.

What glamour Of romance clings
to the name of the city of the caliphs.
How many of us have tagged the
heels of Haroun-al-Raschid, fgurative
,ly at least, as with bated breath we
coursed through carefully expurgat
ed edition of arabian Nights
Those lured by the pictures painted
in verse and fiction to visit the an
cieM capital have found it the usual
oriental city of dirt, squalor and fleas.
iBagdad IS the city of dreams only
/ in so far as our imagination has ideal
lied it, The sluggish Tigris also
gives the lie to the dulcet mouthings
of the poet.
But this war makes Bagdad a very
vital point in the struggle for world
supremacy. 1t is the threshold OF
the Orient and as a key to India,
Egypt and elsewhere it becomes 8
prize worth shedding blood for.
The Teuton dream has been summed
up in the terse phrase, "Berlin-to-Bag
dad" The ALTERATION has been de-
lightfully euphonious to the, ears of
the German business men. II
British arms have stubb0rnly ICON
tested the extension of German influ.
ence to this sphere. The Turk was
to be an important factor in the Pan.
German idea of a Middle Europe "
The Entente now seriously threatens
the Asiatic holdings of the Turk and
his allies.
Whether the English and the Slavs
can effect a union north of Bagdad is
problematical now. but the fall of that
city is one step in the Allies plan
to thwart the ambitions of the Pan.
Germanists.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
BONDING CASE FINALLY
SET FOR HEARING MARCH
10 IN SUPREME COURT
Assistant Attorney General Will
Go to Washington to Repre-
sent State

Amended papers were filed in the
North Dakota bonding case, the State
ex rel B. V. Moore VS.. W. c. Taylor,
former insurance commissioner. by
Attorney General LANCER, while the
latter was in Washington. This case
is in the United States supreme court,
and has finally been set for hearing
March 10. when the frs; assistant at
torney general will 60 to the national
capital to appear for the state.
This case would affect $4,000 in
premiums which North Dakota now
is paying on public officers bonds.
The litigation has run its course
through the state supreme court, and
the decision of the highest court in
the land will be awaited with much
interest. The validity of the law.
which would make the state surety
for all public officials bonds, was at
tackled in the North Dakota supreme
court by the Dakota Trust Co. of Far
go. The law was held constitutional.
and the Trust company then appealed
to the United States supreme court.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
SUPREME COURT JUDGES
NEED NOT FEAR H. G.. l.

Justices of the supreme court who
have been worrying about the high
cost of living may cheer up. The
governor yesterday signed Senate Bill
26S, introduced by iMcGray, providing
that present members of the court
may continue in the enjoyment of
$500 expense money, while justices
hereafter elected shall receive fat
salary of $500. The present salary
is only $1,000. Non-partisan candi-
dates for the supreme bench-some
of them at least-made the race last
fall on a platform wiping out the
$500 per annum expense money which
was attached to the job when the
judges were compelled to journey
about the state, holding court wherev
er case bobbed up. There has been
no frantic objection to Senator NC
Gray's bill, however. ~
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IMPORTANT POINT IN
. TELEPHONE LAWS WILL
Be HEARD At SANB0RN
Question of Right of Company to
Duplicate Service Put Up
to Commission .

An important point in laws enact.
ed by the recent legislative assembly
for the regulation of Telephone COM
panies is involved in a petition from
the Farmers Rural Telephone Co. Of
Sanborn for permission to install ex'
changes at Binford and Jessie, and
which will call the railroad commits
sion to ,Sanborn for a hearing May Is.
The exchange at Jessie recently
was withdrawn, but there is an ex-
change at Binford, and there are rural
lines at both points. The present
laws prohibiting the duplication Of
telephone service govern such cases
as these very specifically, but the
Sanborn line evidently expects to
prove to the commission that its case
is exceptional. J.; .- ",.-'- .@ta:'.,}
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the House there were 112 ayes and
only one opposing passage.
How Mr.. Townley is going to make
a campaign issue out of this veto is
not apparent now. His followers in
the House, under the leadership of
Representative Stair, were a unit for
the bill, the Equity forces were
agreed on the measure, but Mr.. Town
Icy said No. and his ipsi dixit killed
the bill.
Apparently those in control Of the
administration insist upon a whole
loaf or none.
But what is the levelheaded farm
er going to think?
Is the judgment of Townley and
Frazier superior to the unanimous de-
cision of both branches of the leg
islature?
Or is it necessary to keep the eleva
tor issue alive for organization and
purposes?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
AUTO DEALERS TAGS .G:.
Ea5 WILL BE DISTINCTIVE

For the SIS which automobile deal.
ers pay for dealers licenses they will
acquire an extra big 3D. on their Ii
cense tag. The color scheme, also,
will be reversed. Aside from that,
the SIS tag the dealer buys will be
very similar to the. Sc to $50 tag
which the individual owner will use
after January 1, 1918. The style in
individual tags this year is the same
as last. except for a change in the
color combination, and the high cost
of living has not affected the old
standard price Of SO. ...
The automobile registration depart
ment Of the secretary of states of.
flee yesterday placed its order for
dealers tags.
Two laws affecting autoists, of
which little mention has been made
to date, but which are OF Importance
to owners OF gas-gigs, are those re-.
quiring all machines to be equipped
with lamps whose glare will not blind
drivers of cars approaching from an
opposite direction, and making the
possession of purloined car prima
facie evidence Of intent to steal it.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE?

A. C. Townley, president o. the
Nonpartisan League, in a reaert in.
terview to the Twin City press de.
clared that Governor Frazier vetoed
the terminal elevator bill because it
was a measure fathered and sponsor
ed by the old guard in the senate. "A
st. Paul paper basing an editorial on
this interview proceeds to lambast
the so-called standpat senators for
thus defeating the sovereign will Of
the people. But what are the facts
One has only to turn to the senate
journal of the last legislative day to
ascertain that Senate Bill "a vetoed
by Governor Frazier went to a con-
ference committee composed of Rep
resentatives G. Patterson, o. H. o.
son, L. L. Stair and Senator Walter
Wexford, all ardent leaguers. The
standrat majority in the senate was
by Senators III. w. Allen
and F. T. Gronvold.
In other words, there we're four
Leaguers and two of the Old Guard.
This committe revised the bill,
rewriting 1t. and when it
reached the. House. Representative
stais q leasu5 fio6r manager, moved
10 saoption. wAsx the bill in its
1nended fof1k vas PIT 70 : vote IN
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Capitol Neus
LINCOLN LIFE TAKES
OVER PIONEER APRIL
2:..HEAR|NG ARRANGED
Transfer to Be Made Unless In
surance Commission Holds it.
Cannot Re Done
Cannot Be Done

Arthur F. Hall of Fargo, president
of the Lincoln Life Insurance Co. OF
Fort Wayne, Ind, and Oscar F. Seller
of Jamestown. attorney for the CON-
pany, were here today in conference
with Commissioner of Insurance OILS
ness relative to the taking over OF
the Pioneer Life Co. Of Fargo. Ar
rangements we're made for the trans
fer April 2, when a meeting will be
held with the attorney general and
other members of the insurance COM
mission. In the meantime the nee
essary notices will be published in
the various state papers.
After the transfer the Pioneer Life
business will be handled by the Lin
coin Life, through state agency to
be established at Fargo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
MORE AID FOR GOOD .."
4" ROADS IN DRAG LAW
j. ,}, SIGNED BY FRAZIER

Further aid to North Dakota's good
roads campaign is found in House
Fill ,2O3, signed today by Governor
Frazier, which provides for the levy
ing of sufficient funds to provide for
the dragging of every mile of graded
road in each township at least five
times year. The law permits each
township to levy not more than SIS
for each mile Of graded road, and to
pay residents who contract to do the
dragging not more than SO for each
mile covered. The township super
visor or highway commissioner may
direct when the. roads are to be drag.
ged, each township being divided in
to dragging districts.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
CENSORSHlPS.

One of the necessary evils of war
or. threatened war is censorship.
The purpose of censorship is to pre-
vent the publication OF information
which will aid the enemy.
1t would be evidence of great weak
ness if the government failed to in
woke whatever laws there are or pass
such laws as may be needed to con.
troll the publication of military or
other information in the interest of
the national safcy.
While freedom of speech and free
dom of the press are fundamental
democratic principles, when war
comes or isthreatened, they must be
abridged to whatever extent national
safety demands.
But there is censorship and cen,
sorship.
The government may take either Of
two attitudes toward it.
1t may proceed upon the theory that
the less information the people get
about the war or threatened war the
better; or it may proceed upon the
theory that the more information they
get the better.
The practical application of the for
mer theory would keep the people ig-
norant of many developments about
which they ought to be informed il
they are to take an intelligent part
in the war.
The practical application of the lat.
ter theory would encourage the publ
cation and discussion of every incl
dent or development concerning the
war or threatened war, excepting such
as would benefit the enemy.
1t seems obvious that the latter
theory should be applied in this coun
try in connection with the war which
now threatens with Germany.
The policy should be continued dur.
ing the war if there is war.
There should be no suppression or
holding back by the government of
information for any other rea. IN
whatever than that of actual military
necessity.
The government should not appoint
itself the guardian of the people to
the extent of deciding how much or
how little it is good for them to know;
how soon or how late they ought to
know it.
This was the attitude of the British
government toward it's people during
the first year and a-half of the Euro
pean war.
It is now admitted that this was
one of the greatest mistakes of the
many that the British government
made during that early period.
The people Of Great Britain wepe
kept in such dense ignorance OF what
was happening Ct the front that they
failed g realize the magnitude 81 tie
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
Washington condescends to put his
O. X. upon the procedure g

Washington condescends to put his
o. X. upon the procedure.
By our unlimited sale of war mum
itions to the allies we have violated
international law and our own do
nestle law, and then incringe to their
impudent interference in our purely
domestic affairs.
We have heard much about Prus-
sian autocracy Let us hear little
about British autocracy, the autocracy
that we have been cringing to ever
since the war commenced. British
autocracy! Which within our own
memory has counted its government
made famine victims into the tens of
millions; and even then its gluttony
was not satisfied; lit was reaching out
its hidious claw to drag in the civil
population OF Germany to add to the.
gruesome heap, when the British bully
had the trick turned on him and now
he is about to swallowlEa' dose of his
own medicine, which is being poked
down his throat at the point of
German submarine torpedo. .-'
England is falling to pieces. Not
because OF the absence of autocracy,
but because she is being eaten alive
with it. There is graft everywhere
The munitions produced are neither
good nor cheap. The workers are
serfs of the profiteering rings, and
they work as serfs work. England is
falling to pieces She is without a
government. Lloyd George and his
gang of adventures care for naught
save themselves They do not gov
ern England. They exploit her like
the eastern pashas or Roman con-
suls. No one not allied to the buc-
cancers who call themselves the gov
eminent is safe for moment in per-
son or. property. The British gov
eminent is den of thieves, whose
rule is at once product and cause of
national decay England as she has
been is doomed. The quicker that
Germany winds up, the combat the
better for the people. Perhaps they
may rise again a free and happy peo-
pie occupying a corner Of the island.
But the British empire is gone for
ever. "The handwriting is upon the
wall"
Yours truly,
MRS. J. c. O'RYAN.
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war; that the very existence of the
British empire was threatened as it
never had been before. 1AIU h'

war; that the very existence of the
British empire was threatened as it
never had been before. 1910 r.
a. !, Disaster after disaster finally fore.
ed the government to take the people
into it's confidence and TO resort to
every eXpedient to arouse them to a
sense of their perils and the necessity
for everyone to exert himself to the
utmost if the empire was to be saw
ed. ~. I ~
Censorship in Great Britain today,
after nearly three years experience,
is much less drastic than at any time
during the war. ~
The greatest care is still taken that
nothing be published which will aid
the enemy in 10 military way, but the
government liza 81 stopped suppressing
or holding back information for any
other reason We
From a newspaper standpoint it
makes no difference what the censor
ship policy is, as the rules will appl
exactly alike to all newspapers and
there can be no advantage or dis
advantage to any newspaper or group
of newspapers.
We therefore have no selfish inter-
est in discussing the subject and try
ing to show that the best interests
of the country will be served by TAX
ing advantage of Great 'Britain's ex-
perience and combining censorship to
military information which must be
kept from the enemy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15
BOOST FOR MITCHELL;
MADE OFFICE DEPUTY

Win s. Mitchell, an old.time North
Dakota newspaper man, for the past
year on the office force Of the state
bank examiner, has been promoted to
the post OF Office deputy, position
which he has earned by placing in
operation one of the most efficient Of.
fice systems the department has had
to date.
Mr.. Mitchell enters uon the duties
and rewards of his new berth immed-
lately, and friends are congr1tulating
him upon what they consider a de-
served promotion; ~
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attorney general is acting for the
state, and Bangs, Hamilton & Bangs
are handling the defense.9H, y
VISITS CAPITAL.

H. Il. Dahl, thelsNof|pa tanker WHO
came to Bismarck ID sattthd The an.
nual meeting of, the Proyident sInsur-
ance Co., of which he Is 'a4hrector,
called on State Examiner Waters at
the capitol yesterday. Mr.. Dahl is en-
thusiastic over the prospects of the
Provident.
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With winter tarrying in the lap OF
spring, you could hardly blame the
coal barons for not granting that
usual Eastertide reduction.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-15

Still some barbarism left in progress
sive California. Her Legislature has
defeated the anti-third degree bill,
and police can 90 right en- torturing
prisoners.