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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
TRY 1T YOURSELF

We know this is contrary to all the established
ideas but this is our experience.
The married men, men in the late thirties and
early forties, practically without exception are
eager to go to the front.
Try it out Take half dozen family men; men
who have been stabbed in the stalls of domesticty
until you would have thought the smell Of the
world pasture had passed from their nostrils; ask
them if they want to go to the front and see what
they say.
We discover more eagerness in the men over IS
than we do in the newlyweds in the unwedded,
and in the budding youth who have their first
Job, their first girl and their first fvver.
These older men do not want clerical jobs, they
are not eager for staff appointments, comfortable
billets; they scorn to replace younger in COM
mercial chores, but they, every last one of them,
want to get Over There, and the nearer to the
front the better
The list of volunteers for the tank corps proves
this.
But you can prove it for yourself any afternoon
What's the answer?
G'Wan, we're married ourselves.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
WITH THE EDITORS
THE SOLDIER VOTE

In the very nature of things, States could not
be expected to have laws at hand which would take
care of the situation of soldier fighting in for
egn land. There had never been occasion for their
use. But it took no special foresight to see what
would be the situation this Fall, and it would have
taken little work the part of state authorities
to have provided for it. The neglect to do this is
a plain outrage on the rights of the American
soldier. We are fighting today in France to make
certain that men shall forever have the right to
govern themselves. That the men who are fight
ing that others shall have this right should them
selves, while thus engaged in it's exercise is but the
simplest justice. For the accomplishment of this
effort the part of the state or the individual
should be spared If the American soldier can
not cast his ballot at the November elections, it will
be burning disgrace to each state that has ne
elected to take the necessary steps to bring about
his having the franchise. Philadelphia Press.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
TO the Germans the letters ~. S."
mean UNCONDITIONAL SURREND-

TO the Germans the letters "U. S.
mean UNCONDITIONAL SURREND-
Err. o., :.
The insignia "U. S." on the uniform
of every American soldier, marine ant
sailor is notice to the HUN that I'M
conditional surrender is the only thing
that will procure cessation of hos
tilities. @4-~
When General Washington defeated
CORVALLIS at, Yorktown, the British
general sent messenger asking the
commander of the American forces for
a conference to determine terms. OF
capitulation; General Washington, by
the same messenger, repliedHthat only
that would create the necessity OF
fifhting at some other time and place
under conditions less Favorable. The
Spanish army surrendered. r -, ~.
In view of American history, it may
very we'll be said that the United
States has contracted the habit of de-
manding, and obtaining, the uncondi-
tional surrender of it's enemies.
The time is near at hand when Ger
many will ask for a cessation of hos
tilities, and conference with the AL
lies to determined treaty of peace.
Throughout the United States there
lis but one sentiment, and that is, that
when the end of the war comes, il
must be by treaty of peace, and not
by a mere truce; that it must be such
a recognition of the principles Of pop
ular government, with equal justice
to all, and respect for the rights OF
others, that the Germans may not in
time to come throw it into the waste
basket as a mere "scrap of. paper
So far as the. Germans are concerned
it must not be peace with a loaf
but a triumph of the principle that
the will of the people, and not that OF
the ruler, is the law of the land. And
the will of the German people must
be made to conform to the law Of ma.
tions, and they must be taught that
treaty obligations may not be lightly
set aside. -~-lj5
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24

get to work in comfort. on time and in third the
time the street car takes.
In the west, at least the war workers are sup
plying their own transportation, and the sweet
kindneses of worried and ignorant officials to car
monopolies have been unearned increment.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24

sheer folloy, and would be frittering
away blood-bought victory.
Only unconditional surrender and
disarmament can be the pre-condition
of peace with such a people. The
terms of peace are daily being writ
ten by the allied armies on the battle
fields of France. and they are compris-
ed in two words: UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER.
When Cuba was wrested from Span
ish domination the United States took
possession of the entire country and
held it while the Cuban people per-
pie perfected form Of. government
adapted to their special requirements
When the island government was ii,
full operation the United States with
drew, and Cuba has since continued
to govern itself, mostly with success
A similar procedure must be insist
ed upon with Germany. This means
that every gun, fort, arsenal, NUM-
ton factory, battleship, harbor and
municipality of Germany be turned
over to the Allies to- be dealt with un-
| til the Germans themselves have per-
lcCLcu, dlu nave III OpcA dIiOu III III
of government responsive to the peo-
pie, who must be taught that nations
as we'll as individuals, have moral
responsibility; that righteousness
honesty, regard for human rights, and
respect for law is the only basis on
which any nation can long endure;
that treaties must be kept; and that
! the family of nations will not permit
one of it's members to terrorize the
rest of the world,
The hot iron of retributive justice
must sink deep into the German soul
"a new sould must be born before
the world can again take into its con-
fdence people who have forfeited
every right to. it's respect.
1t is not enough that Alsace and
Lorraine be restored to France, and
that Belgium be paid for it's wanton
destruction Loss of territory may be
quietly endured by the German, even
though it touch his pride, but when
as must be, load of debt is piled SO
high that Germany will be poor for a
hundred years, her citizens will curse
the day that Wilhelm the Second was
born. Loss Of territory will be humil-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!
By H. r. Spencer.

That peace can only be obtained by
the absolute surrender of the German
army is clear from all analysis of the
German type Of mind. That there is
no moral force, or standard Of nation
al right and wrong, in Germany is
manifest from what it has done during
and prior to the present war.
The plotting to Germanize the
world, the utter disregard for treaty
obligations, the murder and butchery
of civilian n-combatants, the en-
Shaving of men and women in occu-
pied territory, the crucifixion of pris-
oners, the mutilation of men, women
and children;t the ravishing of women !;
the maintenance of sub-sea piracy; the
recourse to sheer, brutality, cunning
and craft, in manner only accredited
to savages, clearly demonstrate that
there is no underlying conscience in
Germany to. which an appeal can be
made for world peace. Nothing but
force is known by the German, and
by force he must be regenerated, if
at all. u"
All classes of Germans-professors
students, statesmen, and preachers,
have approved of every act of cruelty
ordered or sanctioned by the military
authorities. From the sinking of the
Lusitania to the impaling of babes in
Belgium! from the desolation of Po-
land to the massacres in Armenia,
there has been only open applause and
encouragement by the German people.
Nothing of fiendish cruelty has been
omitted. And during the last four
years of horrors not one single voice
in protest has been heard in all Ger
many.
No word of condemnation has come
from these people when medals have
been struck, holidays proclaimed, and
hymns written in celebration of acts
memorable only for their excessive
brutality. -
To talk of a cessation of hostilities
while representatives of such a people
endeavor to negotiate for peace !, is
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24

Eating, but an annual pay day, when
every German must reach dep into his
pocket to pay his share of five years
of bloodshed, will be the best teacher
of morals the Allies can put at the
task.
Is such a program too severe to be
employed by the Allies? Nothing
short will make the world a decent
and safe place to live in.
Unless the surgeon with steady hand
and firm cuts out the ulcer that has
eaten to the heart of Germanq, the
sacrifices of the. world will have been
made in vain. 4 ". a@rn
In the language of our greatEman-
cipator, s=7t4r y ...,#.
with malice toward none, with
firmness in the right, as God gives
us to see the right let us strive
onto finish the work we are in,
to do all that may be done to
create a lasting peace with all
nations henceforth."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
WORLD WAR OFFERS OPPORTUNITY
w.. FOR MANUFACTURING IN NORTHWEST

possible individual producer of war
materials and the proper purchasing
agent, gigantic, scheme Of interlock-
ling channels has been opened up
whereby the smallest manufacturer
in the remotest town, may find quick
and sure. means of access to the gov
ornamental buying authority; the MANI
ufacturer of "non-essential" products
may be shown where, by slight mOdi-
| fications of his past methods, he may
selland serve the government with
profit; the community anxious to hold
it's labor at home, can find employment
for labor on work in accord with the
war program. .1..
At the outset of the war the ma
tional purchasing authorities naturally
applied, to the centers of industrial
activity closest at hand, where the
cream of the plants best suited for
conversion to war, work were most &C
cessible. AS a result, since our en-
trance into the conflict, the east has
become loaded with war production,
and now faces an abnormal labor sit
ution. Therefore the government must
must look for additional production to
other plants not yet converted to these
uses, duu SONcIu @1T0lSuL ldClllLlcS anu
other elements of production and dis
tribution accordingly. The demand on
northwestern manufacturers to accom-
modate themselves to this condition
cannot be evaded. There are few
plants that cannot be- utilized feasibly
for some purpose in the nations plan.
It To- no longer necessary for the man
ufacturer to devise an article and seek
out q market; thesmarket has arrived,
and the method Of sale been made pos
sible with the smallest possible ex-
pense of time and money through the
resources and conversion section of
the War Industries board.
Bids Considered Without Prejudice.
The scope Of the nations require
ments for war Is, varied beyond de-
scription. Articles made of certain
fixed materials the government must
have, and the design and finish is we'll
laid out. Consideration is given to
every bidder without bias, orders be-
ing placed where production can be
assured in sufficient quantity.
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The War Industries board in Wash
ington is calling upon the west to mo-
bilize her factories for war purposes
and though North Dakota's contribu-
ton of grain and livestock is a big
| factor in feeding our allies, it does not
complete the service expected by the
national authorities. Factories large
and small in this territory are now
called upon to fall in line, and assume
part of the manufacture of a wide va
riety of war essentials.
The nation has arrived at the SUI
preme test of it's capacity. to fulfill.
Instead of an army of 100000 men
and a war limited to the western front,
approximately 100000 men are to be
equipped, and Russian battle ground
is before u.s. The possible Russian
campaign points to an increasing de-
mand upon northwestern manufactur-
ers to supply such products for trans
portation to Siberia and other war
fronts as our resources and shipping
connections make possible.
The efficiency of democracy is at
stake, and the issue is clearly with
the manufacture of America as a
WnOle. frOHClnS ny Lne eIHCleHI IHdu-
ner in which Germany kept its COM
mercial life and its army supplies at
the same time, even after her com
merce was lost, American industry
must realized with England, that "bus-
mess as usual" cannot exist. For it
must be admitted more unusual bust
ness We are forced by the necessi-
ties of the present to make war our
first and only business, rather than a
side-line. 1t is for this reason that
every branch of industry is Gale dto
support the War Industries board
through its organization represented
| in the neighborhood.
Manufacturers Get Hearing.
Never was business as whole har-
messed, or individual enterprises so
completely correlated, as under the
plan of the resources and conversion
division of the War Industries board,
of which this sub-region is part.
! Acting on the trite assumption that
the facilities of Washington are en-
ttirely Inadequate to bring tobether the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
INSIDIOUS POISON

German prOpaganda-tO what lengths will 1t
not go? How dangerous it is, how insidious! It
works in among people who are most loyal; it
appears in papers that cannot be suspected of un-
Americanism.
Recently there appeared in Des Moines news
paper purported interview with woman who
told how she had seen sugar wasted in Canada,
while are struggling to save enough to feed our
allies; how she had learned that French officers
not only use pure wheat, but actually use it to
wipe the grease from their plates, throwing it
away thereafter. And all the time she laments,
America is on wheat ration and a sugar ration
that she may save enough to keep France and
England and Canada supplied. Isl.
The editor of the paper that published that story
is unquestionably as true an American as lives.
And yet the story itself is crude example of the
lengths to which German propaganda will go. The
harm that that story did is incalculable. It de-
stroyed the zeal of many housewives It robbed
many persons of enthusiasm.
For some weeks now the committee on public
information't through it's four-minute speakers has
waged a campaign based on the question, where
did you get your facts?"
If the city editor of the newspaper had asked his
reporter that question; if the reporter had asked
the person he was interviewing; if the woman had
asked her informant, 'Where'd you get your
facts - undoubtedly the whole story would have
been traced to sources under the influence of the
HUN pseudo-statesmen-The Camp Dodger.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
WAR MOTHERS
ASK REMOVAL
OF CLAYTON
ObjectTto German in Schools and
Demand Peace Only By Hun
a Surrender.
BY E. G.. RODGERS.
y. f. A. staff Correspondent

= L. A. Stan Correspondent
Evansville, Ind, Sept. 23.-War
Mothers Of America have decided once
and for all that they are through with
German in American schools, and that
they will not listen to any peace talk
nor encourage peace movements of
any kind until the HUNS surrender
Internationally.
These two resolutions swept to her
feet every delegate to the first ma
tional convention of War Mothers in
wild waves of enthusiasm, equaled by
no other burst of applause except that
which greeted President Wilson's mes
sage to the War Mothers.
War Mother delegates have express
| ed themselves ardent opponents of U.
S. Commissioner of Education p P.
Claxton, who desires to put German
back into American schools.
| mo German for our children's chill
dren," they cried in unison, while vot-
ing for the adoption Of the resolution
which condemned the efforts of Clax-
ton to put German classes into Ameri
can schools. The War Mothers de-
mand the retirement of Claxton from
office, and the ousting of every school
official. who favors German teaching
in public schools. y. Z
~ gave my boy" said Mrs. Dodd,
honorary president and mother of the
first American killed in action, land
Is don't want my grandchildren to ever
Estudy German"
Iy* Mrs. A. y. Schulz, temporary presi-
dent, is one of the strongest opponents
Of German in American schools, de
spite the fact that she is of German
descent. ~ ~
J. Another; resolution introduced and
which lis yet to be voted on is one
making Freedom, For All, Forever"
the War Mothers own slogan. That
it will be adopted, is predicted, fol-
flowing the exhibition Of applause
which greeted the song entitled, Free
dom, For All, Forever" sang immedi-
ately after, the resolution was intro
duced.
kilograms from all over the country
urging, the mothers, to beware Of Ger
man peace talk were read. After each
one,s scores of War Mothers would
make ringing war talks in which they
suggested that every War Mother
write her sons that she was fighting
side by side with them until the HUN
was decided and thoroughly licked.
Twenty states were represented by
delegates to the convention.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
GETTING TO WORK ON HIGH

The bankers and social workers and govern
mental experts and of course, big interests behind
street car companies have been quite agitated out
west. a.:
These genteel gentlemen worried about how
shipbuilders and laborers in general were going to
set to their work, on the street cars. So they al
lowed the companies to charge six cents, and the
government loaned the companies new cars and
generally the laws were forgotten so as to enable
the car companies to do their work.
Meantime the ship workers cared about as
much for street car as means of personal trans
portation as the bankers and government experts
did,
Get up about daylight these autumn mornings
in any coast city and take your place on high
way leding to shipyard. .-t
You will see street car every five minutes
comfortably filled with workers, but every Sec
ond motorcycles with side cars, and rear seats
whiz past
A procession of flivvers and of touring cars
and of roadsters and of delivery wagons, all cram
med with workers. will shoot by at 20 miles an
hour.
If you were rapid enough counter you would
discover that the gas vehicles taking at least
dozen to work for every one the street car trans
ports, and the irony of the banker, expert an
guished transportation sessions becomes appar-
ent.
Hardly residential block but has from one to
four private autos. The workers arrange among
themselves for transportation, from four to q
dozen club together and buy oil and gasoline, and
supply fellow worker who has flivver and all
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
BORROW WOODEN LEGS.
by Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

10y Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.>
London, Sept. 23.-Here's a true
story from New Zealanders' hos
pital:Y
Can you lend me your leg, old
chap?'
why, matey,?"
SCOT leave today. and mine hasn't
come yet. Want to go out proper"
The leg changed hands--or rather
stumps. ~.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-24

Allied governments now pay the United States
S1O,OO0,0OO month interest on war loans, and
within year the monthly return will be $40,O00,-
900, which few months ago would have been con-
sidered tidy sum, but is now only pin money.
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tlHlc CHe street car lakes.
In the west, at least, the war workers are sup
plying their own transportation, and the sweet
kindneses Of worried and ignorant officials to car
monopoes have been unearned increment.
THE COMMISSION FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM
Begium's plight is today desperate. The Ger
mans have requistioned all clothing woolens,
linens, HOSIERY curtains, blankets and carpets in
all shops. -.
Ten million persons living n. occupied Belgium
and Northern France are dependent on the Com
mission for Relief in Belgium for clothing and
food
This clothing can come from America only
Five thousand tons are needed, to tide Belgium
through the coming winter. Securing the clothing
is a matter of life and death for this helpless,
courageous population behind thu German lines.
In Belgium it is impossible to buy shoes. There
is no more leather of any description on the mar
ket. Every available substitute has been tried.
For time old betting from factories was used;
and roofing paper. of which there happened to be
stock, was resorted to for re-soling shoes. But
the Germans, after having seized all the leather
requistioned these substituted also, and soon, not
single yard of betting was left in any Belgian in
dustrial establishment
Now, the Belgians fasten pieces of old rugs on
to wooden soles and wear them for shoes.
And they make coats out of old blankets-and|
blankets out of anything.
Daily the ravages of tuberculosis throughout
Belgium becomes more terrible. Deaths from this
disease have increased 100 per cent and cases of
external tuberculosis 1000 per cent. The doc
tors, in spite of their untiring devotion, can no
longer cope with the rising tide of disease
Today. two die where one died in peace times,
while owing to under nourishment, the birth rate
has been cut in half
An American writing from abroad about the
condition Of this brave little country, says. "Poor
Belgium! One third of her people have starved
to death; one third has been carried away to
work for Germany; and those who remain are left
trying to decide between these two fates."
Local chapters of the Red Cross in North d.
kota will be glad to receive donations of clothing
for the Belgans they may be sent direct to state
headquarters at Fargo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-01-23
Special Staff DISPATCH.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Oyer 1900
women of the arm nurse corps are
serving in the United States army in
France and 1900 others are working
in the army hospitals in this country.
The corps is just as much a part
of the army as the field artillery.
Many Of those abroad will serve with
in range of German guns. and all must
brave the Hun air raiders who love
the shining mark Of a hospital.
The commander of Americas wom-
en- soldiers is Miss Dora E. Thomp-
son, whose official title is superin-
tendent of the nurse corps. If nurs-
es held military rank corresponding
to that Of men she would probably be
a major general at least-for she is a
corps commander in effect.
But in her office at Washington. sur
rounded by her staff, she suggests
rather tire head CT a woma:I's college.
of the principal Of a high school.
Her task is enormous. She must re-
cruit her corps of 4,50J to $4,000 or so.
to give the army The nursing force it
will need.
I aske,,. her to SEMI a message IL
the younE Women Of the country and
tell them Mha' they can do 20 help.
She says: Every young woman #
good physique Who wants 20 help
should enter a hospital training
school at once. Every girl who enters
a training school, and shows that she
has the necessary qualities of a nurse,
will in a short time be able to release
a graduate nurse for the 'front.'