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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06
VICTORY FLOUR.

The food administration asks retail dealers to
sell VICTORY FLOUR, and urges consumers to
buy that flour instead of wheat flour and sub:
stitute VICTORY FLOUR is mixture of 80
per cent wheat flour and 20 per cent corn or bar
Icy flour.
Under former ruling it was possible to pur-
chase the fours separately and do ones own
mixing.
Hereafter the food administration takes no
chances on German sympathizers and luke-warm
Americans putting hand in the mixing. And
this is the reason:
Enemies in our midst land this includes Stacker
Americans, too) who could afford it, bought the
wheat flour and substitutes, and threw away the
corn and barley flour while using pure wheat
flour This was expensive to them, of course, but
it was decidedly more costly to the nation. Also,
it was unfair to loyal Americans who conscien-
tiously mixed their bread flour.
So now when you buy VICTORY FLOUR you
arc helping to defeat this wheat wasting program
of HUNS in America. You seen, they cannot
"unscramble" VICTORY FLOUR, and thus corn
and barley hours are forced down their Threats,
much like retreat and defeat are being crammed
down their kaisers throat lover there"
Order VICTORY FLOUR. Insist upon getting
VICTORY FLOUR. Report any grocer who
doesn't sell VICTORY FLOUR. Report any neigh
Dor who bakes with all wheat flour.
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oermanx,e Labor Army.

"Our growing labor army" Is the De.
scription applied by the Huns 60 their
prisoners of war. According to a com.
munique in the latest Berlin papers,
Germany and her vassals between
them now hold 1875. 900 prisoners. For
the first time the German military au.
thorities lay stress on the supreme
value Of their prisoners ms man powcr
for industry and agriculture. They are
30 numerous, it Is asserted. that they
GO far toward compensating Germany
for the men she has had to withdraw
from peaceful pursuits for active mil
itary service. ''The longer the war
lasts" the communiQue adds. "the
more adaptable these prisoners he.
come to the work assigned them. and
the more useful to us"
Huns have a majestic awe OF hig
figures. Thus It Is explained for their
edification that the :'labor army" IN
prisoner camps is numerically greater
than the whole male working )ass
population Of DerMark. Norway and
Sweden combined. ''aud Ia equivalent
to one-fifth the total number of worn.
Ing men In Germany before the i
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06

Nbbling tactics keep the Germans on anxious
bench. Foch is the kind of mouse that, gets the
cheese away without sprnging the enemys trap.
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satisfactory manner. Their original
complaints were due to not allowing
sufficient time for thei~ letters to
get across and the answers to return
Another cause of complai~' is due
to the insufficient manner in which
letters are addressed Thousands OF
communications, as well as parcels
reach the military terminals with an
insufficient address and weeks must
sometimes elapse before it is possible
to obtain the necessary information
to complete the address,. The Eng
lish and French government refus to
forward letters which do not carry the
complete. address, and with the steady
increase in the volume of mail from
this country to soldiers in France, the
postoffice department will shortly be
compelled to follow the same practice
and return to the senders all such
pieces of mail. -j
az. -, y. =, OTTO PRAEGER, -.
" Second Asst. Postmaster General
Washington, Nov. q, 917. IS III
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06
WHY SOLDIERS MAIL is LATE

United States army postal service
which delivers the mail in bulk to the
proper military mail authorities, whs.
undertake the delivery of the letters,
papers, or parcels to the individuals
to whom they are addressed. All mail
tor the American expeditionary forces
in France is made UP in this country
to companies and other units, and un.
Ter military regulations is delivered
oy the postal authorities in France to
the regular military mail orderlies or
their agents. who upon returning to
the camps or, stations <of the troops,
Undertake the delivery Of this mail to
the individuals to whom it is ad-
dressed, or, If they can not deliver it,
under take to have it sent ITO. such
other unit to which the addresses
may have been transferred Should an
addressee not be known in the regi-
nlent his letters are returned: to the
postal authorities, who endeavor to
locate him at the general military
headquarters. Should tho addressee
have been transferred to some other
unit the mail orderlies ore under in
structions to readiness his letters to
the proper unit. Every effort Is be.
ing made by the American authorities
in France to effect as promptly as war
conditions admit, the delivery Of mali
for our troops. - 49,"
Complaints as to delay of failure to
deliver letters, papers or parcels,
arise in the main from Tle fact that
persons communicating with our
troops do not take into consideration
that approximately thirty days are re-
Quired from. the time of mailing for a
letter to reach the addressee. OWL
to the disturbed ocean traffic. Ely far
the larger part of the mail is taken to
France on the army transports, which
of necessity must give preference to
men and supplies, and the movement
OF mail across the water consequently
is very irregular. Again. the railroad
transportation in France is strained to
the utmost to meet military needs.
Many persons who have complained to
the postoffice department vealater
advised that the mail is reaching the
persons to whom it is addressed ifs a
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06
GENERAL KINsHI7 WITH SEA
Fondness for Salt Water >Seena to 81
& Characteristic Of the Wheie
1-H. Human Race.

A kind of kinship with the sea Il
in every one Of us, says Boyss Life. the
Boy Scouts magazine. Noah built
the ark as a matter Of religious duty
we are told. But If old Noah could
have written few lines to Go with
the half dozen paragraphs of the Bible
narrative-not for religious effect but
as man to man, to let us know just
how he felt about the job-what q
story it would have been!
A landsman, getting ready for his
first voyage! Big and important re.
sponsibilities to carry. but back Of all
the study, all the labor, and the kid.
ding of his friends, that ecstasy OF
anticipation that grips your throat and
makes you want to yell for Joy.
Noah was regular fellow" You
can teu.,that BY the way he carried
on" You bet the fact that he was
performing q religious duty didn't
make him feel like some folks look In
prayer meeting. You bet that when
he put aboard the ark one pair of
worms, per Or0er, lie put IN an extra
few for bait. You bet he had that
same hankering for the sea that. you
and have. 49,.
It's in the very blood Of every man.
Remember how. when you were a kid,
you put your finger in your mouth aft.
er cutting It with your first jack.
knife? Didn't the blood taste salty :
Ask any doctor what they put into a
mans veins to fill them when he has
lost a lot Of blood. He will Tell you
''salt water" Doesn't that prove our
kinship to the sea3
Did you ever know even a grown.up
to pass a gang in swimming, or a kid
with a string Of fish, or even a picture
Of ship. without stopping q minute
to look? It can't be done. We all
love the water. ..-..H.. g..
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06

! In response to- numerous inquiries
from its readers rs to the cause OF
grave delays in the transmission of
soldiers mail addressed to members
Of the American expeditionary forces
in France. The Tribune has taken the
matter UP with%the postoffice depart.
ment at Washington and with the ma
tional committee OF public informa,
tion., and it has received from F.. W.
McReynolds, director Of the nationai
service bureau, the following explain
atom - 70
I'm reply to your favor of the 27th
inst, enclosing letter from NJ: E. IL.
brooks, we are enclosing official bull
letin containing statement from the
postoffice of, this city. explaining the
delay in delivery of mail to soldiers
abroad, Every possible step is being
taken by the war authorities to facill.
tate the delivery ofs mail to the sol
diers., hut since the German drive be-
gan in Mach last, which was almost
simultaneous with the increase in the
shipment of troops abroad, the demand
for cargo space on the ocean and for
railroad space in France. for the ship
ment Of food and munitions. has been
so great that mail has necessarily
delayed" >-s<r - .>.. ..
Following is the explanation given
by Otto Praeger. second assistant post
master general: ~
Mail for Soldiers, in Europe.
Mail for American troops stationed
in England is transmitted by the post
office department to the army postof-
flee. London, England. which gives the
mail to the proper military authorities
for delivery to the addressee.
Mail for Americans who may be
serving in the English. the Canadian,
or the French army is dispatched as
foreign mail to the postal service OF
the foreign government with which
such American is identified. and the
delivery of such mail is effected by
such government. 49,
Mail for members of the American
expeditionary forces in France. includ-
ing civilians and independent organic
ations attached to the American en-
peditionary forces. is handled. by the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06
STUDY WAR NEWS.

There are still some people who read the war
news only in the most superficial way because they
cannot pronounce the names of the French and
Russian towns in which the worlds greatest
tragedy is staged.
They never study the war map showing the
daily moves made by the allies and the central
powers--without which one can no more under
stand the progress made by either side than one
could understand game of checkers without
studying the position of the men on the check
erboard-for the winning of this world-war de-
ponds almost entirely upon the winning of terri
tory-of getting across the Rhine" to Berlin
Ii we are to do our best work toward winning
the war, we must be intelligent about the meth
DDS adopted and the progress made by our men
ut the front
The newspapers of the country are spending a
lot of money and putting lot of work into the
job of presenting to their readers the facts about
the war-all the facts that may be printed by any
body.
There is no reason why even the average work
ing man may not be as well informed about the
problems of the war as the most learned high
brow. @
He may have liberal education on the biggest
thing that ever happened by carefully studying
The Aily newspaper which he already buys-but
which he now merely reads.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06
YANKS OF '76.

"Sammies" got its deathblow, "Doughboy" is
taboo, and now the south objects to "Yanks."
The words "northerner' and "southerner" no
longer define separate sympathies, platforms and
prejudces. '| .ao...e .s#
The blue and the gray are khaki now. Shoulder
to shoulder they face single menace hold kindred
ideals, share travail and triumph, fight, live eat
and win as one.
"Yanks" doesn't date back just to the Civil War,
but beyond it to the Revolution which made pos
sible a north and south.
What matter is the word WAS applied to north
ern troops during the conflict of '6l
Twas only fate, destiny or chance that placed
the north instead Of the south in line with prog
ress, idealism and development. Not racial but
geographical and climatical difference determined
that.
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usually during inc
night they feel
more kecnly than
ever the pains of
inconsistencies an d
loneliness. II he y
come piling out of
the trains at the At
lantic seaport and
pour into ships that
are to take them
across. There are
no DanOS playing
and no friends to
cheer them off.
Then Major Az
ton is ready at the
docks with an Or
ganizcd bunch of as
sistants giving the
boys 'sups of hot
coffee and sand
wiches and what
ever else they may
need TO OflnE Cnem
comfort. And off
they go with the
feeling that they
haven't been forgot
ten by the govern
ment for Major
AXton represents
Uncle Sam. He is
chaplain in. charge
atothe port of en-
barkation.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-06
WITH THE EDITORS
MIR, EVANS VS.. THE FACTS.

To Labor Day audience yesterday, David H
Evans Joint candidate for governor of the new
labor party and the Nonpartisan League, said
that the working men and farmers of the coun'
try have never received square deal, and that
the present is the proper time for them to assert
themselves and obtain Justice
Let us see if this is true. In the first place, this
country is at war-a poor time in the Judgment of
patriotic men, to preach class discomfort even If
the classes to which Mr.. Evans refers were really
suffering substantial injustice. But they are not.
At the present moment labor, generally speaking,
receives a wider recognition than ever before in
the history of the United States, and labor itself is
being paid more handsomely than in any previous
period. Advances in the wage of labor have alone
kept measurable pace with advances in the cost
of living And how about the farmer? He is
today receiving prices for his products which eN-
coed the widest fancies of pre-war periods. Said
President Wilson yesterday in his proclamation
fixing 1920 as the minimum price for wheat "1n
giving guaranteed price for wheat one year in
advance (the only industry guaranteed by the
government) there is involved considerable ma
/ ional risk" He went on to point out that peace
before the middle of 1920 might cause the gov
eminent loss of $5OOOOO,OOO as the result of
this price guarantee. So far from being "unj ust"
to the farmer, is not this government guarantee
of his industry a signal favor to him?
Mr. Evans. as we understand it, is neither
farmer nor laborer. He prosperous retail
hardware merchant of Tracy. He is the owner
of grain elevator there. Has he treated the
farmer uniustly in the operation Of this elevator
He probably would deny it. A.
Said former justice Thomas D. O'Brien, who
addressed the, same audience: "The preceding
Sneaker (Mr. Evans) seems to think that there
is something very wrong with this country. Yet
he himself said that he came to America from a
foreign land penniless and uneducated. Look at
his position today"
Yes, look at it. Here is man who sought our
friendly shores in pursuit of the life, liberty and
happiness guaranteed under our constitution. And
without the advantage either of money or edu-
cation, he has found all three in abundance. He
is rich, he has risen high enough in this COM
munity to obtain, no matter how, nomination
for the highest elective office within its gift And
yet he is appealing for votes on the ground that
there is something wrong with America, that
justice is something to be obtained by favored
few, that this country habitualy wrongs and OPP
presses its numerically greatest classes-farmer
and laborer. Mr.. Evans own career is sufficient
refutation of the statement.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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The HUN takes his daily dose of defeat on the
run.
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As we Started out to explain, army chap
lains do more than preach. Another glance
at the picture-Major Axton doing his utmost
to take the cry from babys eye--is fine evidence
that preaching isn't all Of a chaplains job.
This picture of the major was taken some time
ago down on the southwestern border. The baby
he holds is stray Mexican waf. "Over there
the HUNS woodland DO--cut the Threats out
of stray waifs--French, Belgian, Serbian.
But the man in U. S. A. uniform is different.
Ma or Axton is typical of the American. soldier.
The Yank doesn't cut out babies hearts He'd
rather gather up in his strong arms helpless waf
and carry it to place of safety even though the
baby be Mexican--or a GERMAN!
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MAJOR ANTON.

Preachers preach; army chaplains 90 more.
When our boys leave the shores of America
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

sorting along the road from Smolensk,
who, though they served under an auto
crat, still cherished the ideas of Rous-
seau and Mirabeau. These germs of re-
volt took slow root in Russia. But the
tyranny Of the "Holy Alliance" which
the religious fanatic Alexander COM
pacted after the council of Vienna,
pressed hard upon Russian liberalism
and stirred uD trouble among the anna
tcur liberals Of the aristocratic circles.
Revolt was in the air as Pushkin
reached manhood. In the noble circles
in which he moved he inevitably came
iato contact with them.
His first overt act in the direction of
revolt was an "Ode to Libtrty," writ
ten in his most glowing style and cir
culated in manuscript among his aristo-
cratic friends. Its authorship was dis
covered and the author was exiled to
the Caucasus. Here he was nominally
III the government service. But pri-
vately he consortcd with the various
lreemason societies which were then
plotting trouble in Russia. (Mozart. it
will be remembered, was suspected SIM
iIarly of Freemasonry during the carly
years of the French Revolution, and is
supposed to have written "The Magic
Flute" as symbol or parable of his
faith.) Pushkin attracted the intense
displeasure of his chief, one Count Vor-
ontzov, who was warried by the re-
sponsibility Of his charge and wrote to
sSt Petersburg asking to have the load
taken off his shoulders. Pushkin, he
said, was surrounded by society Of
political and literary fanatics whose
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

"Golden Cock" Russian
Opera, Coming This Week

For many year the operagoers have
honed for a worthy successor, from the
domain of Russian opera, to Moussorgs
,v,s "Boris Godounoff" at the Met
ropolitan. Not that this opera need fall
ont of the rcpertory for years to come,
e only it will be rehearsed OCCASION
slIv and the performance kept in good
renair. But if there is one splendid
Russian opera to vary the monotony of
,he despoiled maidens who come from
France and Italy, can there not be an
o-her? SO the devotces of the Metro
,c,itan have often wondered.
And so, apparently, thought the
directors Of the opera house, for soon
sfter the initial success of Boris" they
looked about for another opera from
Russia Their choice fell upon Boro-
djne's "Prince Igor probably because
the scenes Of dancing in the Polovtsian
camp had been represented with huge
success by the Russian ballet and had
made a rsclame for the work through
aut the whole of Europe. The opera as
/, whole proved to be disappointing
borodine however savage he had been
:, his ballet scenes, was a conservative
N his musical ideals and methods.
Much of his music, which was very un-
even in its inspiration, was Italian in
character, and not the best Italian at
,nat. The libretto, though it came from
traditional Russian epic Zone which
had been "faked," as recent researches
have proved, was a weak and fairly
silly romance, offering little of the
favor either of good opera or good epic.
lany had wished that either Nous
sorgsky's "khovanstchina" or Rimsky.
Korsakotf's S "Sadko" had been chosen
instead, or even (since America was
searching for emotional sympathy with
The autocracy- ally, Russia)
Glinka's classic "a Life for the Gar"
Igor" proved no match for "Boris."
The Metropolitan audience waited.
New Opera Due
Now. some time this week, there is to
come another Russian opera which
PROMISES better - Rimsky-korsakotf's s
The Golden Cock" One aria from this
work has been heard several times in
recent weeks in recital, and the Rus
sian Symphony Orchestra has just
played whole suite arranged from its
music. From these samples one cali
gather something Of the character Of
the music. The samples are most en-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24
The Strauss and List
Dispute in New Dress

The world loves a fighter, your
l'rotzkys and Hillquits notwithstand-
ing. 1t even loves the man with the
violent prejudice. 1t may pelt him
with abuse, it may cut his acquaintance,
but in its secret heart it thanks God
for him. No matter how many foolish
things aanan may say, if he says them
with fire and heat, will purge them Of
offense. In the struggle between the
Bittcrcnder and the ------------ the
worlds sympathy will be undivided.
There seems no reason why Mr.. Henry
T. Finck's latest book, "Richard Strauss
The Man and His Work." recently pub
lishcd by Little, Brown & Co., should
not be popular, even if it is never con-
sldered a just treatment Of the Ger
man composer.
The title prcsumes that the book is
Strauss. tt is really panygeric on
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

List. polemic levelled against those
who have the audacity to place Strauss
ahead in the development Of pro-
gramme music. In defense of Liszt
Mr.. Finck fights with truly ferocious
ardcr. He has chosen to write on
Strauss because he evidently feels that
he is the living rival of his beloved
hero. His Straussian sympathy is
feeble, his Lisztian gargantrian. Mr.,
flnck wields Justify his battle axe.
MIR. Finck turns to Strauss and nro-
ceeds to show that even when he is
supposed to have surpassed Liszt ba
has really fallen far behind. Only in
contrapuntal skill will he admit Strauss
TO be the superior. On the other hand
according to Mr.. Finck, he lacks
LISTS melodic ideas, his imagination,
ms m clarity OF treatment. In fact,
Strauss's mastery of polyphony is often
his own undoing. In short, with the
exception of his early songs and tone
New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

praises might turn his head and make
him believe that he was great writer,
whereas he was only feeble imitator
Of Lord Byron, an original not much
to be commended"
Pushkin had his punishment for f1irt-
ing with revolution. He was sent into
the southern part of Bessarabia to re-
port on the damages which had been
committed by locusts, fine occupation
for a poet.
Charm Saves His Life
IIc left Odessa in 1924 and was il,
and about Moscow in 1925 when the
Deccmbrist revolt broke out. 1t was
rot revolution after the modern fash
ION, but merely coup planned by the
aristocratic officers Of the Cars "Pre-
torian Guard" aimed to seize the throne
and institute a more liberal regime.
But for the time it was a dangerous and
serious revolution, serious enough
to cause the shooting of some of it's
chief instigators after it had failed.
Pushkin escaped with his skin for two
reasons; first, because he had the en-
terprise to rush to his house, when
lie learned it had broken out, and burn
the papers which incriminated him
and second, because he so charmed the
Car in conversation with the royal
father offered him complete forgive
ness and asked tO hovc cont to him ~
complete edition of his works.
All this would indicate that Pushkih
was spiritually in mood to write a
seditious poem in "The Golden Cock
Some will question, however, whether
this apparently innocent fairy tale can