The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-07
0IJTP0URING OF PATRIOTISM
MARKS "H00VERIZED" BANQUET
0FDAK0TA FARMER GRAINMEN
Nothing Eat but Abundance of Food for Thought Furnished
in Stirring Addresses at Municipal Auditorium
. Wednesday Evening

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passing of time Not an individual
left his seat during the course of the
long evening. In no single instance did
speaker fail to enjoy the closest at
tention from beginning to end.
Thrift Stamps.
George F. Dullam, chairman of the
Bismarck district War Savings Stamp
campaign committee, led off with an
eloquent plea for the purchase of
thrift stamps, not only as a means of
enlisting our dollars in the cause OF
| democracy but for the incubation Of
saving habits in people to, whom
much of the thrift of their forefathers
has been lost. He urged every dele
gate present to go home and set his
community an example; to make the
purchase of thrift stamps a systematic
saving habit; to set standard of
daily or weekly or monthly purchases
and to stick to it, t"
Capt. E. G. Wanner, chairman of the
governing board of the North Dakota
Home Guard, told of the conditions
| that had brought this organization in
to being. For the first time in our
lives we. have been left without the
protection Of our famous First regi-
ment,' said Capt. Wanner.
1--WE have in our midst the same
| classes who were here before the Nat
ional Guard was called away. TO one
of these classes law must be inter-
preted in terms of force. The neces-
sity for far-reaching and armed po-
lice power spontaneously brought
about the organization of home guard
units. We now have 400 of them in
North Dakota. Every man on this plat
form with the exception of Secretary
Hellstrom, who has not been able to
| spare time from his duties with the
North Dakota Council of Defense, is
a member of the Bismarck home
guard. We have had difficulties to
overcome. There are no state or nat
ional laws for the regulation of the
home guards. The only license we
have for existence is our respectable
fly. And the Home Guard is respec-
table. 1t is composed of the best citi-
zens of every community.
The Home Guard stands for every
thing that the government stands for.
In approximately 400 home guard un-
it's we have 10000 earnest men, back
of the government, back of the lib
erty loan, back Of the War Savings
Stamps, back of the Y. NJ c. A., back
of the Ped Cross, back of the Knights
of Columbus war camps-abOve all,
back of the boys over there in the
trenches
a4 Women's Work in War.
In a brief, witty and effective talk,
Mrs. F. L. Conklin, chairman of the
North Dako'.a's executive board of the
women's committee of the National
Council of Defense told of some de.
tails of women's work in war. She
described some of the things the Red
Cross is doing. She spoke of the aid
which girls gave the farmers in their
fields last fall, when, aid first looked
upon as last resort at last came to
be looked upon as valuable first re.
sort when available.
women can help on the farms in
North Dakota. We may not be able to
do much in the fields. We can make
the farm wife's lot easier. Make it as
fashionable for our women and girls
to 60 into the kitchen and help the
farmers wives during the busy season
serving meals to.farm hands, as it has
been to serve coffee to soldiers and
much will have been ACCOMPLISHED.
Food and food conservation consti-
tutet woman's oldest job, and no
jarpunt of feminism or suffrageisma
can take that from them; . y !. !. Us Us
Community Sin1thes 7 ,l =. !. 7. 1. !
t.s4AGfs. III III Steele delighttGily l9ln-i
111f1onlped with 4 paper III continuity;
!, Sil4I lug, illustrating as she went dong