The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-12
UNITED WAR
WORK DRIVE
B.LAGGING
ats All Over Now Spirit In
terfering With Campaign
for Funds
BISMARCK NEEDS PEPPER
Capital City Will Not Make It's
Quota Unless Citizens
Wake Up
BISMARCK NEEDS \ PEPPER

| For the first time since America en-
tered the war, Victory day found Bis
marck tagging in it's war work. TherI
| was some excuse in the fact tina
everyone was wrought up and cele
brating.' There was no excuse th'
committees feel, however, for an 1T:
all over now" spirit which was eViden
on the part Of some persons who
seemed to feel that so long as the
Yanks have downed the hun and re
lieved America from imminent danger
Of invasion, our obligation to the
Yanks is at an end:
This attitude of Indifference, il no,
ingratitude, must be shaken off II
Bismarck is to make good in this cam
paign, which is fully as important, II
not Of greater significance, than any
previously made for the benefit of the
boys over there in the trenches. Bur
leigh county has SIS, 900 to raise. OF
this amount $4,000 has been assigned
to Bismarck. The allotment is equiv
alent to only $40 for each Of the men
whom Burleigh county has in active
service overseas. The committees
feel it is very small price for any
patriotic man to pay for the substitute
who has fought his battles for him
and brought him peace and security.
And yet there have been some very
substantial citizens who have declined
to pay, either on the ground that the
war is over now" or because they
claimed their individual assessment to
be too large.
The Bismarck committee endeavor-
ed to underwrite Bimarcks allotment
ON the most equitable basis possible.
were made according
to each individuals means and those
who can least afford to give have
given generously and with enthusl-
asm. Unless, however, those who car
afford to give adopt the same spirit,
and give as generously within their
Bismarck will rshamefully fail
in the first enterprise through which
it has had an opportunity to convince
the Yanks that their home peoples In
terest in them will not cease with
Victory. So long as the Yanks were
fighting for us; so long as they stood
between us and our homes and the
Hun invader, we had every selfish ill.,
centive to stand back of them. Now
every consideration Of gratitude
would dictate an unselfish support in
which the real patriotism and loyalty
Of the community may be made mani
fest,
It,is up to Bismarck. If the Capital
City Of North Dakota falls down in
this endeavor it Will cast a shadow
over all the splendid work which Bis
marck has so nobly done from the
very beginning of the war. Bismarck
simply cannot fail in this final oppor-
tunity to prove to our boys that we
their sacrifices.
An invitation has been issued to
those who have not been solicited to
assess themselves the
limit and to mail their checks to John
A. Graham, treasurer of the Eurleigh
County United War Work campaign
committee No contribution is too
small and none can be 100 large.
Even the newsboys have been help
ing out. One days income is fair
average. 1t is very little to give;
there is no one who cannot spare that
much, and if every wage-earner and
saluaried man and woman in Bismarck
will do that, the Capital City will go
over in good shape.
Goes Well in Country.
From the country district come re-
ports indicating that the farmers are
once more cheerfully doing their bit.
Committees set out early yesterday
morning covering routes radiating
from ever town in Burleigh, Mclean,
Sheridan, Kidder, Emmons, Logan and
counties. In many instances
the committees, because of muddy
roads, were compelled, to abandon
their cars and take to horseback. Out
over, the prairies rode these couries,
many of them coming to isolated
ranches with the first message of the
days great tidings, and under the in