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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18
THE PRESIDENT
WAR CABINET


Proposed Organization of War Making Machinery
An examination Of the diagram will show that the
three distinguished citizens, like the three we'll
known gentlemen' who are the hosts Of the Mardl
Gras at New Orleans, are to be the whole works.
Everybody else will be their office boys reporting
to them alone. .
Pershing Daniels Baker, Hoover Garfield and all
the others would have to wait until they pushed the
bell buttons on their mahogany desks.
Nothing and nobody could get to the president eX.
cept through these "three distinguished citizens :,
They would be the whole show in the big tent, and
the president would be under the canvas cur
tains Of the side show along with the freaks
He would be immured in the white house like
the late Dalai Lama of Thibet or the old donotll-
ing kings" of France, who remained in their palaces
knitting with the women folks while the mayors
of the palace" ran the country.
The president would be mummy, not a man
Payment Of his salary would be entirely unjust-
fed as he would do nothing to earn it. 1t would
be better to fire him altogether. send him back to
college class room, and turn the whole thing over
to the ''three distinguished citizens" True, the
people did not elect the distinguished three But If
they suit Roosevelt and the steel trust why should
the people worry? Or at least so says Senator
Jimmy
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18
"A CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND IT."

one of those who want to repeal the Constitution OF
the United States and aside the results OF the last
presidential election by placing the presidential pow
ers in the hands Of committee of three distinguish
ed citizens satisfactory to Roosevelt and the Steel
Ir,st-has revealed the real purpose OF the war
Cabinet bill SO that even child can understand it.
Wadsworth placed in the Congressional Record
series of strange and wonderful diagrams to dem
onstrate his idea of how the War Department is at
present organized The craftsmen who designed
these puzzles perpetrated geometrical nightmare
intended to denote hopeless confusion.
Then Senator Jimmie introduced diagram to
show what Roosevelt and Gary propose to do about
it, Here it is--simplicity itself:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

That the alien draft convention be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States will intensity rather than re-
tard British and Canadian recruit
ing in this country is the ori7ion
expressed by General w. A. White
in q statement made public at the
headquarters in tChisago Of Western
Division, British Canadian Recruit
ing Mission.
THE main point is that British
or Canadian subjects in this coun-
try. General Whites statement as
serts, cannot possibly escape lia-
sbilityf to service In the ~ AZ. sas.s.v i.
s1nstssdi pS bsipa 1 sSsqns fsoW
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18
WHY. DOCTOR!

Saw. is Dr. Garfield trying to ''pass the puck u, 10
McAdoo? In srspending the fuelless order the
former announces that 'the cooperation OF the gen
eral director Of railways has had the effect OF meet
ING the necessities which prompted the oroer Oh JAN
uary IT, ..ot ,,os noedod
why didn't he cooperate before January II? HOW
Garfield was roasted for not having cars, when that
fuelless order was issued! Forsooth, even college
professor worm may turn.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18
THE REASON WHY.

It took the legislature in special session con-
vcned but few minutes to ratify the federal pro-
hibtion measure Why? Because we are all invest
ing so heavily in mills, creameres packing plants
and other industries that it is going to take every
red cent we can scrapc up this year to meet our
notes We have no money to spare for the flesh
pots Of Egypt-Forman NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

CONSUMPTION Of any sort, he now be-
comes much more liable to service
than the American.
IA "The age limit for CONSUMPTION in
this case extends from 20 to 40
years. This is q perfectly fair arr
rangement for it compels every man
who claims British citizenship to
place himself on practically the same
footing as his fellow countrymen at
home. and surely citizenship should
carry with it obligations as well -
advantages.
HBritish subjects will Of courss
have the same chances Of exemption
On application to the Ambassador -
skEjtjsh citizens Ct home.: I.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18
WITH THE EDITORS.
AS IT SHOULD BE.

The Flasher Hustler is flashing up. as bright as
ever under the management Of Editor Stearns, who
is giving his citizens real live paper He is giving
the former editor the proper credit for the untrng
labor he put on it, by placing at the head Of the
editorial column the following: ''The paper made
famous by little Mac Carson Press.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18
THE WHOLE CAUSE AT STAKE

There are serious delays in shipbuilding, according
to Washington When you say this you might as
well say that we're helping the kaiser lick England
France and Italy for this is what such delay amounts
to. ...r
Practically all ship construction in the country is
for the government but the yards themselves are OPP
Grated as private enterprises. There has been no
uniform scale Of wages in the yards and strikes have
been FREQUENT It has been the practice Of one yard
to hire away the men from another yard 1t has not
been possible to shift men from one yard to another
as it became necessary in order to maintain top
speed Strikers tied up two Of the big yards because
they couldn't get double pay for working on lin
coln's birthday. Rivcters are not driving all the
rivets they could, because held down to maximum
by union rules. s.....
In short, our most important proposition SHIPS,
IN TIME-is held up by just the conditions that ut
terly demoralized our greatest industry, the rail
roads, The cure for ship construction paralysis is
that which we applied to the railroads. after their
management became so rotten that we couldn't get
food coal or anything else and our heroes in Europe
were likely to starve. To cure is to comandeer
And the time to apply that cure is not when the pa
tient is ready for the undertaken
We have got to launch all the ships we possibly
can, in the shortest time possbleh Private opera
ton or interest should not be permitted to interfere
with this for an hour. If there is any interference
by union wage or work regulations, the government
and the government only, should adjust matters
Congress should give President Wilson full power
and the president should exercise that power fully
If delay, bubble and fuss and don get plenty of
ships in plenty Of time we II pay for it wit hthe life
blood of tens of thousands and probably finally
get good licking to boot.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

ut quite the Bsher this country of military age
cannot do his duty by whiting drafted The convention
agreed upon bringing home him that TT g
he either enlist be drafted But consider 70
the draft either the Canadian British forces BY going
the British Canadian Recruiting Mission mere
every big center the United States Every man y
needed now White head Of British
Recruiting Mission in America. 3
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

Billy Sunday is a frost in Washington. He should
have foreseen it. Why carry hot air to blast fur
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

United Press is dead right in announcing that
we II make peace with Austria if she breaks with
Germany. Ali There's the rub. And it's large
rub.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

Rah for Teddy! He s going to cheat the surgeons
out of another operation. ... ~ ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

Germanys offer to Rumania Of chunk of Rus
STA, for peace, must tickle the Bolshevik most to
death
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

Berlin folks had great celebration over the Tx
laine peace pact It made EN- feel bully to learn
that there's still one people earth that has any
faith in German treaty.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

A deserter from Camp Dix has been sentenced to
15years at hard labor. It's pointer for deserters
from camp. But thesdeath penalty for deserton
from the fighting ranks stands
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

Let the German workmen know who are placing
them in battle, says Trotzky. They knoW-same fel-
lows who place them up against q wall and shoot
them when they don't want to work
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

Hats off to little Rnmania! With Bolsheyiki to the
right ofher Teutos to her left and cut off from her
allies she decides to live die for the cause She II
be pretty dead It civilization doesn 4 recognize her,
after this war e
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-18

President Wison strong invitation to Austria to
discuss peace is all right and gentlemanly, seeing
that We declared wsr on Austria. While Austria
cannot make peace, she can talk il If the Dove 81
Peace has got to remain in its teach "a Ina
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Over 1S, Under 46

The popular phrase "1S to 45" in de-
scribing to-day's draft registration is
not sufficiently exact The law says
plainly "between the ages of 1S and AS,
both inclusive" If you are eighteen
years of age you must register. II you
are fortyfive years of age but not yet
torty-six you must register. There
should be no confusion. Ignorance of
the law, failure to read the newspapers
or posters, absence from the city are not
valid excuses. The burden is upon the
men of the ages affected, unless they are
already registered or in national army
or navy service.
To-day's duty, we predict, will be care
fully and cheerfully done. Our boys
of under twenty one and our mature men
between thirty-one and forty-six are not
slackers
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Tagging After the
Boys
By Sarah Addington

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Sept 1l.-Evs,v
~ Saturday there is womens CONVEX.
ton up here which comes together on tie
bandstand in front of Massachusetts, Tech
The women are unorganizcd, yet all bound
together by the same purpose, the great
common purpose of glimpsing certain par
of shoulders or certain straight young
back out there on the drill field, where the
ayiators-to-be are going through "inspec
ton" For with Saturday comes liberty
and with liberty come the young wives
f1ocking, and Old Home Day is d pale moth
ing beside the reunions that take place up
here when l o'clock finally rolls aroun1
For every camp in the United States
there is the corresponding "squaw camp Of
course, the hordes of young things with
their shiny wedding rings and their knit
ting bags, trotting eagerly to pier or 70
cantonment for the few feeting moments
of hand holding or the few hasty snatches
of talk. Hostess houses are full of them
as they sit, hour upon hour, waiting, wait
ing, waiting until the war can stop for
few minutes and give back their husbands
to them again.
A camp guard can recognize a young wife
almost before he sees her She's usually
very eager and sometimes a little wistfu
always bearing a burden OF candy or cookies
or presents from the neighbors, and quite
willing to wait forever ii only "he" can
be forthcoming at the end Of the eternity.
And yet these are the same girls that
few years ago were sitting in their parlors
accepting flowers and candy from their
sweethearts, and .graciously giving their
company as a concession to be won BY hard
labor only. The males did the hustling and
waiting in those days; the ladies sat still
on their silken cushions and allowed them to
Then came the war. and the lady begsr
life of anxious trotting and tagging
around. The onetime suitor finds himsei
feted and favored and followed The finger
that used to be measured for diamonds nov
do nothing more ornamental than 10 squeel.
pennies to buy wrist watch for the man. 0;
fly lovingly through hanks and hanks O.
wool in the romantic work OF making ston
achers or tabs. The feet that used 70
come tripping lightly down fathers stair;
half an hour after she had promised they
should trip now hurry through mud and
dust and cnder tracks to the out-of-the-way
camp and tramp their miles to the hostess
house and the object Of the Journey.
And the lady that once pranced around
upstage, playing tag with her lover IN
sort of catch as-catch- can fashion, has got
ten right down to business and marches ts
the tune of eve strive to please
For man has at last been emancipa;ea
from the old slavery. Only-wait until the
war is over
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Maine
(From The Nelo Yors 7imcso


(Fronn The Nco Yore iuicse
Win the warl Support The President
These were the national issues on whic
Senator Fernald and the four Represents
tives in Congress were reelected Ihe'
record is clear. Their patriotism is uh
doubted. Their victory Is not Republican
but national, American It IS men iiS
Kitchin, Dent. Champ Clark, who hop u
from time to time to oppose great, impef'
tive national measures, that have to re'
upon Republican supports it half-hear's'
and mutinous Democrats IN Congress VII
are supporting Mr.. Wilson and the WI
best?
SO far as candidates for Federal pis'
are concerned, the Maine election IS
victory for Mr.. Wilson and the war
is not Republican or a Democratic VS.
1t is an American war. The men who nav
held up the Presidents hands, no mais
what their party names, deserve TO be X
turned to Congress. A lot OF DemocTS'
in Congress, Laodiceans or pacitists. mie'
we'll be spared From his political enem'
Mr.. Wilson not infrequently gets judici0D
criticism and indispensable help.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Influenza, Spanish and Otherwise

England is suffering acutely from
"Spanish Influenza" While the land of
the Don has the name, the blame is
placed upon the Germans, for to q 1aroe
part of England's population this eni-
demic of sneezing, shifting and snuff1ine
is just another evidence of German
frightfulness There are persistent
stories of German agents who 90 about
with test tubes filled with influenza
germs which are spilled out to overrun
the countryside and wage war in behalf
of the Kaiser.
1t seems bit unjust that the Spanish
should be loaded with the oblouuy of this
epidemic, when the disease is popular]v
believed to have been transported to AL
fonso's kingdom in German submarine.
But the name Spanish Influenza" per-
sists.
AS matter of fact, those who have
suffered from them both say that the
Spanish influenza is just the famous Rus
sian influenza of 18S9-'9O back again. A
correspondent of London newspaper
tries to prove that ''inf1uenza is the dim
and Intellectual wrath of the medimval
Black Death" once the scourge of Europe.
but now grown less deadly because its
strength has been dissipated by frequent
repetitions." But that appears to be an
unjustitable attempt to rob we'll estab
ished plague of separate identity
which it has maintained for centuries.
'HhprP o.lyn,,ooI +l,4
plague that deyasted the Greek armies
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
OF Course, Poetry Is Essential

The official definition Of poetry as an
essential industry may breed in the par
agrapher many merry quip; yet for
once the official definition agrees with
the critical judgment. Much ink has
been wasted in debating whether war is
a stimulus to poetry, whether it inspires
great poetry. 1t is often hard in these
cases to trace cause and effect. Yet it
IS plain that an epoch characterized by
an awakening of national consciousness
feeds the imagination. Thus the Great
Armada preceded and in some sense was
responsible for the great Elzabethans.
But we need not consider the matter too
curiously. "'Tis verse that gives immor-
tai youth to mortal maids" and to many
other mortal things besides. Whether
the poets themselves live in war time or
peace time, they write much of war.
whether the present conflict will pro-
duce Battle of Agincourt" or even
Battle of the Baltic" 1--WE can hardly ex-
pect an "lliad") is a question that only the
future can answer. But it has already
produced some excellent verse. In fact.
without attempting to say how large a
part of this crosses the INTANGIBLE and
often imaginary line between verse and
poetry, it must be admitted that manv
even Of the fugitive contributions of
this sort to the newspapers reach a hipb
degree of merit In sincerity of feeling.
IN felicity of construction, in beauty of
expression, these utterances of noets
known and unknown reveal a widely diff
fused talent, If no transcendent genius
And it is to be said that even where
technical skill has been lackinig the
reality Of the emotion behind the words
has had very genuine effect in uplift-
ing the hearts or stiffening the conraoe
Of thousands Of readers.
Nor is this all. The craftsmen in this
essential industry have not asked for
exemption from the burdens of the time
Some of the best of this poetry of war
has come from camp and field Such
brave examples of youth ready to sac
ritice all as Rupert Brooke and Jovce
kllmer are easily paralleled among
other poets in khaki, living and dead A
recent English anthology of verse writ
ten by soldiers contains much that
reaches an extraordinarily high level
Indeed, the poet, by very reason of his
imagination, is the least apt of men to
hnger behind when duty calls. No
slackers surely will be added to the list
because poetry is an essential industry
with claims of consideration to CORE
spond.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Exceptional
"a Possib iHty)

From LVe)
Office of the Chief Director of Public
Suppression.
Persons: The Director. His Assistant
Time: Near future2
Assistant: Good morning, sire. Pardon,
you are late.
Director: Well, well, what's to be done
Assistant: There's a mass Of material
waiting to be released The newspapers
will all be late to-day very late.
Director: Teach 'em lesson! Have you
read over this wire news?
Assistant: AS much as | had time to-
Director: Anything interesting?
(The telephone rings. The Assistant,
calling hastily to several stenographers,
proceeds to transmit the news items he re-
ccves This process lasts some time At
it's conclusion the conversation is renewed)
Assistants: 1t might be well, sire, for you
to pass this stuff They want to know
something fairly approXimating the truth,
and now the only thing that comes out rcgu-
larly is our Official Bulletin-and, of course,
the Hearst papers.
Directors Never forget the Hearst papers.
Look lAre! Don't you make any sugges-
tions to me. | know my business These
poor fools of the press may as we'll under
stand, once for all, that the time has gone
by when they can indulge in any individual
expression Of opinion. You have notified
them, l presume, that hereafter all edito-
rials will be suppressed?
Assistant: Yes, sire.
Director: Except Mr. Hearst's.
Assistant: Oh, ycs Always excepting
Mr.. Hearsts.
Director (settling DOWN: Well, now, let
run this news and what's fit
to print. Leisurely lights a cigar Enter
a messenger.)
Assistant: Where are you from?
Messenger (salaaming in accordance with
the new military instructions that all pub
fishers, printers, editors, journalists and
printers devils shall show homage to the
Director and his staff: Your honor, bear
a petition from the newspapers and perodi-
Gals of America.
Assistant (snatching it away from him
and reading its contents rapidly: Sire
Director (stll absorbed in account of a
prize fght): Well?
Assistant: Here is petition from the
Press of the Country. They are already
coming out day late, and implore you to
release to days material at once; otherwise
there will be no newspapers at all to-mor.
row-except, of course Mr.. Hearsts.
Director: Ha! That's the idea is it?
Well I'll whisper a secret.
Assistants What secret, sire?
Director (cheerfully): | was late this
morning on purpose.
"On purpose!"
eyes. Let the presses of the country
wait. Let's keep the papers from coming
out at all to- morrow; and then if nothing
happens, who knows but what II. d short
time shall be able to get along without
them at all ?"
Assistant: Except Mr.. Hearst's
Director: Oh, yes!-always excepting
Mr. Hearsts
New-York tribune., 1918-09-12
Governor Whitman

Governor Whitman has every reason
to feel confident of reelection. He de-
serves it on many grounds We say this
with full consciousness of the fact that
we have often differed with him in the
past.
He has been an admirable war Cover
nor There Is no detail of war work in
which he has not. co0perated completely
and eagerly with the Federal govern
ment There has been no holding back
and no friction Every call on the states
resources has been honored with alac-
rity Albany has been from the begin
ming of the war centre of intense
patriotic effort.
For the last four years Mr. Whitman
has given the state clean, vigorous,
high-class administration. The contrast
with the preceding Dix and Sulzer-Glynn
administrations has been inspiring. The
Governor has had his troubles with reac-
tionary elements in the Legislature But
these clashes have helped to strengthen
him. He has BEEN much more progress
sive and clear-sighted than his enemies
within the Republican party.
He has protected the primary system
for instance, against the designs of those
who want to narrow party control by re-
turning to the old nominating conven-
tion. New York has just doubled the
size of its electorate by giving women
the vote. He has preserved for these
new voters, as we'll as for the old ones,
the right to share directly in making
party nominations.
For upholding the primary principle
the people of the state are deeply CRATE
full to him. He has not sought to dodge
the fullest measure Of accountability to
them. His exceptional majority in 1916
and his decisive victory in the recent Re-
publican primary are evidence that the
would-be beneficiaries of return to GIN
side" party management.
New York is a strongly Republican
state. The Republican voters are salts
fled with the Whitman administration.
They have ample cause for being salts
fled. We can see, therefore, no indica-
tlons of a marked desire for a change of
government at Albany The more so
that Mr.. Smith, the Democratic candi~
date, despite his agreeable qualities and
clean personal record, is still willing
representative of the odious Tammanv
idea of government-for what is in il
for Tammany.
New York doesn't want another Dix
or another Glynn at Albany Certainly
not at a crisis like this in the life of the
state and the nation.