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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21

Dickinson, IN. d.. May 15.. 1918:
Editor Of the Bismarck Tribune,
Bismarck, n -. IA
Dear Sir: III
I Enclosed you will please find q clip
ping from your paper Of couple Of
months ago Could you tell me if
it was signed by the president. Or
any part. thereof. My reason for ask
ing is, My husband was called in the
first draft from Stark Co. last Sep
TENDER. AT that time we were run
ming q hotel here at Dickinson. We
bought the furniture on the Install
ment plan. The manager Of the store
only asked me to sign the contract,
but the notes at the bank had to be
signed by both my husband and my
self. Business last winter was pretty
dull: was unable to keep up the
payments at the bank. So last week
they foreclosed and took everything
we had. l didn't have . piece OF FUR
niture sleft. AS every thing IN our
home was included In the mortgage.
We had paid something over $500. 100.
am crippled with rheumatism ana
had gone to the parties that was TO
look after soldiers dependents here
and got permission through them to
let my payments run for q while and
use my money to doctor. And while
| was doing that they notified me and
moved everything out in three days.
And my. little son. of Six and | were
left homeless. Il get an allotment of
$50 per month from the government.
And my check came the day mad 70
move. So said to myself. ! Will Dc
alright. L have one good friend, our
Uncle Sam. This experience OF NINE
has some Of the women wondering
how it will be with them II their nus
bands are called. II there Is any SOL
dier's exemptions could you inform
rs. s6OLD1ERS WIFE,
EDITORS NOTE: sl
The North Dakota Legislature In It's
special session last January passed 9
moratorium act. which stands as
Chapter 10 of the session laws OF 1918,
to care for just such cases as this.
Sec. l Of this statute reads:
mo PROCEEDING BY ACTION f
or OTHERWISE, SHALL BE
HAD OR TAKEN IN THIS
STATE FOR THE FORECLOS- 4
URE OF "A MORTGAGE OR
OTHER LIEN ON REAL OR PER I:
SONAL PROPERTY OR FOR I
THE CANCELLATION OF AN
EXECUTORY CONTRACT FOR
THE SALE OF LAND; OR FOR
THE RECOVER " OF ANY IN.
DEBTEDNESS AGAINST ANY. X
PERSON IN THE. ACTIVE MIL
ITRAY SERVICEs or THE
UNITED STATES AS HEREIN 1
AFTER DEFINED. DURING THE 4,
TIME TIL, UNITED. STATS IS
ENGAGED IN THE PRESENT
WAR AND FOR AN ADDITION
AL PERIOD OF ONE YEAR, AND
DURING SUCH TINE NO FUR
THEIR OCEEDING SHALL BE
TAKEN IN ATTRACTION OR
PROCEEDING THAT IS PEND
INC AT THE TIME OF THE
TAKING EFFECT OF THIS ACT
IN WHICH SUCH a PERSON is
y IA. PARTY, OVER THE OBlEC-
TION OF SUCH RARITY, HIS, :
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21
THE LIMIT, AND THEN SOME

The professional anarchists OF Russia have
to go the Boshevki one better, in order to pre-
serve their own distinction and standing, and;
in looking about them for new worlds to conquer,
they've discovered that there's too blamed little
anarchy in marriage. The Russian soviet at Sara
TOW declares that all the beautiful women have
become the property Of the wealthy men, thus
impeding the correct continuation Of the human
race. So the family is hereby abolished. The
former husband must relinquish personal owner
ship Of his wife. He may visit her occasionally,
but all other men are to share in her ownership
All women between the ages of II and 81 become
the property of the whole community.
! Of course, this scheme of the Saratov soviet
isn't important. It is interesting only as show
ing what monstrosities can get into human heads
when folks set up to reform everything in sight,
regardless of; the need thereof The Saratov
soviet having resolved to make their wives and
daughters common property, may be said to have
surpassed the dirtiest that even the Germans pro-
pose for promotion Of propagation. Maybe It's
only the record along this line that these Rus
SLAMS are after, at heart. .q@
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21
THEY NEED NO AMUSEMENT

. Every evening, in million American homes
well-fed, amiable family group rises from cheer
full dinner tables to vote on the questions "Where
shall we spend the evening? What shall we do
for amusement?" The days work is done and
We need relaxation. So many things beckon-
movies, theatre, war lecture, motor ride, cards,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21
WITH THE EDITORS
TRYING TO DROP A HOT POKER /

Having picked up an exceedingly hot poker,
the Nonpartisan league promoters and candidates
are trying very hard to drop it. Candidate Lind
|bergh, Boss Townley, and the leagues subsidized
newspapers are all insisting that loyalty is not
an issue in the present primary Campaign, and
are vigorously scoldip& G(Pvernor Bu3rnquist Tor
dragging it in.'ro9 onsFoo4S 5iWo4 Il u Il
Of course Governor Burnquist has done moth
ing of the kind, and nobody knows it better than
the Nonpartisan league leaders. These men have
themselves repeatedly raised the question Of 10y
atty, and if the voters of Minnesota are paying
more attention to it than to the leagues FAR
reaching program of state ownership, they lnvlt-
led it. Loyalty became an issue just as soon as
Boss Townley began talking about the war Of the
''rotten rich" last summer. It has been made the
issue again and again since-an upon each occa-
sion by Nonpartsan league leaders. La Follettes
immortal infamy under Nonpartisan league au-
spices at st. Paul last autumn is notable case
in point. Others have since been furnished by
the arrest, indictment and conviction Of Nonpar-
tsan league orators, organizers and editors, and
by the publication of Candidate Lindbergh's no
torious book on the war. And it will continue to
be the issue just as long as the Nonpartisan
league refuses to repudiate the disloyalists.
But has the league up to date given the pub
ic this evidence of the patriotism it's leaders pro-
TESS? Has it denounced the anti-Amercan book
written by it's candidate for governor. Has it de-
posed Townley, now under Indictment? Has it
denounced Editor Void, convicted of disloyal ut
terances? Has it dismissed General Manager Jo-
seph Gilbert, twice convicted-once of illegal as
semblage, and once of disloyalty? Has Townley's
promise to "fire" any league organizer guilty OF
sedition been made good in the case of Organizer
N. S. Randall, who has been convicted by Mime
sofa jury for unpatriotic remarks in public
address?
Everybody in Minnesota who is able to read
knows that the damning answer is, in each case,
in the negative. Not only have the copperheads
not been repudiated by the league but the league 8
]official publications continue to devote columns
to attempts to prove that the convictions, in Min
nesota courts and by Minnesota juries, were mis-
carriages Of justice"
| Candidate Lindbergh's objection to the loyalty
tissue is easy to understand. Three times since
America entered the war, American voters have
had chance to swat the buzzing insect of pro-
Teutonism- New York, in Wisconsin, and in
our own city Of St. Paul. And, upon each coca.
sion they have swatted it. No wonder the preach
ers of class war regard with apprehension the
prospects in Minnesota on June II next. No won
de rthey wish to change the subject to state own
lership!- st. Paul Dispatch.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21

dancing, or a peaceful loaf with papers ana pipe
and knitting. Which shall we choose? Life for
us is so rich with interest, so full Of comfort and
beauty that daily we make many choices between
pleasures, between one comfort and another.
An American Y. M. C. A. secretary is back
from France bringing different picture.
In forest just back Of Verdun, is French
camp of 10000 soldiers. They have been there
three years, under constant fire, living intermn-
able days in cold and rain and in mud that sucks
and clings and flthies them over like some vile
beast that cannot be thrown off.
In recent months, the French Red Cross has
built crude hut in the camp and the American
Y. M. C. A. has loaned two secretaries for work
there. The hut is rather bare of furniture There
are lights and stove, chairs, tables and writing
materials, and that is about all-no graphophone,
no piano, no books A visitor inquired pityingly,
"But what do you do to keep these men enter
tained?"
Silence a minute and then the reply ringing
across the world to us by our fires and at the
movies, and the restaurant tables:
'The French soldier this fourth winter Of war
doesn't need entertainment. All he wants is a
place little dry, a place little warm, place
with little light so he can just rest rest, rest
What shall we do for amusement this evening !?
Well, for one thing let's write check for. the
Red Cross, and another for the Y. M. c.. A
gather up some of our books and write some let
tiers to soldiers And then let us go on our knees
to ask forgiveness if we forget in our AMUSE-
MENTS those who give their souls and bodies for
u.s. asking-no, not even asking in return an hour
a day in "a place little warm, and dry, and
bright"
Germanys long range guns are out Of order.
Once more the children of Paris can play in the
streets.
If it isn't one thing, it's something else. The
United States senate is wasting wind on the new
draft Hill.
Once more it is reported that the German
navy is getting ready to move. What's the mat
ter? Has the rent been boosted?
Ha! Geo. Creel confesses that, in publicly call
ing congress "a sum," he made Sa quick and
thoughtless answer that lent itself 70 exaggera-
ton and distortion. ',,St nSspgh! We're agin any
e.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21
Potatoes are 50 cheap that a Lakewood grocer
threw one at dog yesterday. 8.
BARRING THE BEAsTLY KULTURED

(, "A western editor Of some note has started 9
campaign to bar German and Austrian immi-
grants from this country, after the war
Doubtless there will be somewhat Of 9 demand
for this, when peace comes, and it may be 9
point to be considered in shaping up the peace
treaties 1t does not look Reasonable and con-
sistent to bar out the Chinese, our allies in this
war, and let in Germans with their nefarous and
bloody ideas of kultur, does it?
And, if we put up the bars against incoming
Teutons, we surely ought to kick out the Teutons
who are 50 dangerous to our national life that
we've had to intern them.
What to do with our Teutons, is very likely
to become live question. We may even become
50 heated, before this war ends as to be prac-
ticaly unanimous for purging the country Of Ger
mans and everything tainted with German. How
ever, it would be wise not to become excited over
such propositions, at least until we have pre-
vented the Germans from purging US.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21

+ Ha! Geo. Creel confesses that, in publicly call
ing: congress "a sum," he made l. quick and
thouphtless answer, that lent itself 20 exaggera-
ton and distortion' .sH Enough! We're agin any
public information fellow who confesses. .1ss
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21
arHE NATIONAL GAME.

poetry, namely 1.-THE National Game"
This was made up by man in the
28th Engineers stationed at Wood
bridge, Virginia, and | think 1t is very
good.
Would like to- see 1t put into the
home paper and If not too much trou.
BILE would like to have copy OF
same sent to me-
Very truly yours.
Private Roy Kunz,
e Co. D. 28th Engineers,
'%'S. Woodbridge, Va.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The "Huns" had not been challenged
= nor scheduled to appear,
But the, game began four years ago
on the German-B Belgian frontier;
The allied team was crippled, but had
no time to STALL
For the voice OF domination had plain.
ly cried play ball"
In the early innings of the game, the
Germans took the lead
Their forty years of practice had de-
.velOped lots of speed:
The allies southpaw. Belgium was
pitching clever ball,
But his comrades and the Captain
considered him too small.
taking such chance,
They shifted him to second and sub
stituted France
The Germans thought the time was
ripe to carry out their mission,
A xt,fv% = a. no1 m
|. through Frances" poor condition.
"a "Boche" came UP and stoed the
:, plate and tripled over Arras!Rs
He decided he could stretch the hit
and slide right into Paris, q
But the ball was neatly handled by
:fielders that were clever
In the famous battleaof Marine he was
tagged by General Joffre.
The 'lIcky seventh rolled around
i the allies came; to hat;
Old Kaiser Bill was pitching and his
arm was sore at that.
Canada singled DER Vimy Ridge (he
willingly paid the price, i<H%
Then Edith Cavell walked up to the
plate and came through with q sac.
I rifice:. e Y
italy slammed an offensive; which
rang with sounding thud;
His spikes got tangled in German in
trigue, and he trippedl and ! fell in
/ the mud, ~ t.1., ~
The next ball pitched was beauty
knee high, and close to the shanks,
And clever drive for double was
made by the Britishers tanks"
This splendid allied rally filled the
Huns with doubt,
With two men on and no down the
Russian Bear" struck out;
So Hindenburg, who's catching, has
called for the Kaiser's splitter"
And swinging his bats on the sideline
is SAMMY" the clubs pinch hitter.
His eye is keen, his spikes are sharp
he's filled with the courage Of
youth % H.'#. - 1sat,
Democracy CLEANS in his clear gray
eye-his bat bears the trademark of
truth.
Now this IS as far as the game has
advanced, so of course we can tell
you no more;
But soon every fan in this troubled old
world will know the completed box
cn0wo :.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21

Look after the pennies. You en- find plenty
Nv people t take care Nv yer dollars.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-21

If it isn't one thing, it's something else. The
United States senate is wasting wind on the new
draft Till.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
EDITORIALS
DOES AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
gEGREGATE2

Ut does seem to US that this word
democracy or greater democracy that
this great nation has plunged us into
war is shallow pretense and not real
democaey, If we are to Judge by the
action of some of the men in govern
mental control, for here in Des Moines,
at Drake University, since the U. :.
government established its military
training course and put men in charge
of it, they refused to admit colored stu
dents at all. We all over the United
States were chagrined to read Gen. {.
e. Ballou s military order for colored
soldiers to stay from public places
where they are not wanted, and many
other such public utterances lead us to
ask what kind of democracy has Amer
lea got5 What kind are we now fight
ing fort Surely the men who are man
aging our government do not. know
sthose wrongs. In the language of one
of our prominent men, for one of these
men to refuse to take man who offers
his services TO the government to be-
come prepared to help win this war at
this time. That officers act in refusing
on account of color is reasonable and
that officer or teacher is aiding our en-
envy. We are glad to announce when
the war department learned about it
they telegraphed here for those boys to
be admitted.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11

is from the South, asked Enola had sha
heard what the girls agreed TO do. and
would she be there tomorrow with the
club. EnoIa said no. The teacher said
why not. She said that was prejudice
and segregation, therefore I will not be
there. Then the teacher said that the
white girls did not wish to dance with
them, and she did not blame them.
Enola told her that she had always
found plenty of girls TO dance with and
had no trouble, and within two days,
with the gallant stand that Mrs. Maud
Howard, who is also student there,
Mr.. and Mrs J. s. Coleman, Mrs j. l..
Thompson, S. Joe Brown and few
others along with the n. A. A. c. r.,
the segregation idea or propaganda that
that prejndieed teacher from the South
attempted to inaugurate in our public
schools of the North was abandoned
The editor was very sorry that he was
not here last week to tell that teacher
what he thought about her Jim Crow
propaganda, especially now when our
eolored boys are giving their life blood
along by the side of the white to give
to the world justice, freedom and great
er democracy, and TO destroy classes,
greed, hatred and cast.
Parents, teach your children to stand
up for right, justice and equality and be
true to their race.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
The candeIIIIa Plant

The wax Of the candelllla plant Il
used In making candles. monograph
records, wood and leather p6lishes,
floor wax, certain varnishes, Hnoleum,
rubber compounds and celluloid, and it
also enters into use In pharmacy and
in the making Of electrical insulation.
Tho candelilla plant grows on the
poorest quality of soil, and before 1t
was found to have commercial value
for the wax contained 1t was consid.
cred . pest.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
WAR DEPART1GENT STOPS SEGRE
CATION AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY.

An attempt on the part of the com
mandant in charge Of the Students
Army Training Corps at Drake Univer-
sity, this city, was nipped in the bud
last week when J. e. Boone and French
Bland, two Negro students, reported
the situation to Atty. s. Joe Brown,
who Immediately wired Emmett j.
Scott, special assistant to the secretary
of war, advising him of the fact, and
the following day received a message
from Mr.. Scott containing the informa-
ton that the Provost Marshal General
had wired instructions to said command
ant to admit all citizens of the United
States who were otherwise qualified re-
gardless Of their race or color. How
ever, the two young men in question had
already made arrangements to transfer
to the State University at Iowa City,
where they felt they would be more cor
daily received.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
ATTEMPTED SEGREGATION IN
WEST HIGH SCHOOL.

Last week one Of the teachers, Miss
! w Miles, 4 teacher in physical culture
department, asked q group Of colored
girls it they would not prefer to organ
he 4 physical culture class for the col
ored girls to be by themselves. As our
race always have foolish people in il ir
every state, county, city and school,
those ia that conference agreed TO do SO,
without protest. Whether all Of then,
fn tllat group agreed to II We do not
SknsM, but shame On those 10 said yes
ord AZ sections That aa,ae
y snoos ,hea tlsis fcs4 An
If =
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
EFFICIENCY PLUS SPIRIT OF
SERVICE.
Colored Woman in Bureau Of Engraving
Makes Record in Currency Rush.

Mrs. Anna r. Grant, a Negro expert
currency examiner, did three persons
work for more than week during the
recent currency rush. More than once
she went on duty at 8 a. m, worked
all day and all night, until ~ the next
day, stayed off that afternoon for rest
aud went ON again that night. From
July to September she was of greatest
assistance to those in charge by reliev-
ing other girls. s'She is TO all in the
bureau, regardless of race, an example
of rare efficiency and fine spirit, one
of her associates said.
Mrs. Grants husband is in France.
The Negro girls as whole in the bu-
rcan are satisfactory and are said to
complain less than the other girls.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
LEMONS DO MAKE
THE SKIN WHITE
How to make lemon bleaching
lotion at home for
few cents

Your grocer has the lemons and any
.irug store or toilet counter will supply
you with three ounces of orchard white
for few cents. Squeeze the juice al
two fresh lemons into bottle. then put
in the orchard white and shake wei.
This makes quarter pint OF the very
best lemon skin whitener and complexion
bleach known Massage this fragrant,
creamy lotion daily into the iacc. neck,
arms and hands and just see hnw
moo..1, soft and white the skin becomes.
Yes 1t is harmless. and the beautiful
results will surprise you
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
REGISTRATION or WAR
BONDS rs URGED BY
LOAN OFFICIALS
important Information on Liberty
Bonds Given Out by Gov
eminent ONSeials.

Important Information concerning
fhe registration Of Liberty Loan bonds,
rs given ont BY the bond department
Of the Federal Reserve Bank OF Chi
cago contains the following quotation
from a letter from the treasury de-
partment:
with. reference to accepting sub
scriptions for bonds to be registered
In the names Of persons giving only
initials rather than the full name,
have to say that 1t IL the intent OF
the department. not for its own sake.
but for the sake Of the holders of reg
Uttered bonds, to have them registered
In such manner as to enable the said
holders. or their legal representatives,
10 dispose OF them In the simplest and
reaciest manner. Bonds issued to w0n1-
en- under their initials, or under the
initials OF their husbands. are not read
lily transferable in case Of the death
Of the holder.
Though letters of administration
would be issued In the legal name Of
the deceased and the bonds would be
inscribed in her name. under her fni-
tjals, or those of her husband, as the
case might be, the letters of admin
istration and the bonds would not
agree as to the name, and therefore
the administrator of Mrs. Sarah A.
Smith. say, would have to prove that
she and Mrs. Thomas w. Smith Cor
Mrs. s. SmithI we're one and the same
person. 1t is to avoid troubles of this
character that the department has in
81 -
persons subscribing for registered
bonds.
''Of course, the department cannot
refuse to issue bonds under initials II
the parties interested insist upon 1t.
but 1t IL requested that you, In all
cases where 1t il possible, insist on re-
ceiving the full names of persons sub
scribing for registered bonds"
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
CAPT. KIDD WAS A HoARDER
boarding Money and Hiding 1t Does
Nobody Any Good-7uy Bonds.

It takes very little ingenuity TO
"cache'' money where the government
can't find It. Captain Kidd buried
lot Of his pirate "swag" somewhere
along the Spanish main, where no one
ever did find it-where it never did
living soul any good-never built a
hospital-never alleviated human suf-
fering-never helped along the works
Of civilization and humanity - just
dead money: absolutely dead, like the
soul of the pirate who hid 1t.
The brave thing now isn't hiding
money.
The only thing that counts in this
terrible time Is service.
Service with the colors, or service
backing up the fighters who have Of
fered their lives for the righteous
cause.
Hiding and boarding money is not
service. It is the opposite; It is taxi
Ing money out OF service. It is q spe-
4 c;es OF desertiOn.
A deserter In the army stands up
before. firing squad and pays the
proper penalty.
"A hoar(ler Is q money deserter who
Is entitled to the same penalty.
Sometimes he is merely thoughtless.
Sometimes he Is just selfish.
But anyway he Is doing q great
3 wrong to the United States and q dead
I " wrong to the world and civiliza-
ZION. .s
The world does not need Captain
Kidds. Nor does America.
But America does need 90 COZ. 600
more Liberty Bond buyers.
III yOu have any money slowed away
1 mt III xight bring Il ont and havs 4
scRnsed Into lie monk susefuf q NJ
foursh =
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-11
HAS TWELVE SOLDIER SONS.
Two Sets Of Twins and Triplets Among
Negro Preacher Contributions

Rayville, La, Oct. 5.-Twelve sons in
active service is the record of r. Fl.
Windslow, Negro preacher of this par
ish Eight sons enlisted before the en-
actment of the selective service law and
the other four are in the National
Army. Two of the soldiers are twins,
the last three triplets.
Because of the remarkable record
plans are under way for a public demon
stration for Winaslow. He already has
received congratulatory letter from
President Wilson. Windslow conducts
Red Cross auxiliary.