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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-02
CITY COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS
Council Chambers, City Hall Build
ing, W1llmar, Minnesota, March
Gath, 1919.

Regular meeting of the City Coun-
Gil with Mayor Wellin in the chair.
The following members of the Coun-
Gil were present on roll call: May
or Wellin, Aldermen Jacobsen, Olson,
Berkness, Hoaglund, Jensen, Norman
and Erickson, 8; absent, Alderman
City Attorney Stanford also was
present.
The minutes of the last regular
meeting were read and the same
were approved.
The following bills were, on mo-
ton, referred to the Finance Com
mittee:
General Fund:
Wm- o. johnson, Agent, premf-
UNI Workmen's compensation
policy .....................s123.24
'onn peterson, labor. ......... $40
Water and Light Fund:
Plant Rubber Co. mdse., ..... $50
D. raul Electric Co. mdse.,... 8.29
l. Chr1stlanson, labor ........ 1920
Street Fund:
P. Anderson, labor ...... 1880
y. w. Lonn, labor ............ 1850
aug. Summing, labor ........ 1910
Jonh PETERSON, labor. ......... 1915
henry Johnson, labor team .. 1920
y. Il. Olstad, labor team. ..... 72O
The Finance Committee reported
the foregoing bills back approved and
the report was accepted.
Alderman Erickson offered the fol-
lowing resolution which was unani-
mously adopted.
Resolution:
be II resolved nv thu T;fxr o:1
OF the City of Willmar that the CITY
Clerk be, and he hereby is, authoriz-
ed to issue warrants against the re-
spective funds in payment of the
foregoing approved bills.
Approved March 25th, 1891
e. G. WELLIN, Mayor
The Council, on motion, proceeded
to consider bids for the CITY street
spr1nkling, as advertised.
Sealed bids of o. T. Olstad. Chris.
h5ols1ng and Gust Nordin were OPEN
ca and read. The bids of OF T. o.
stad and Gust Nordin, being the low
est, were accepted.
Alderman Berkness offered the fol-
lowing resolution which was adopted
oy the following vote: "Ayes" Sew
en- ~, Noes" none. (O).
Resolution:
Resolved by the City Council of the
City OF Willmar, that the bid of Ole
i. Olstad for the sprinkling of the
streets and avenues of the CITY of
W1llmar. with one team and driver,
covering approximately one half of
the spr1nkling district of said CITY
Tor seven months, beginning April
l5th' 1919, and ending November 18th
1913, including Sundays and holidays.
at the price Of One Hundred Forty
Dollars per month, be and
the same Is hereby accepted, and the
Mayor and City Clerk are hereby au-
thor1zed to enter into a contract with
said Ole !. Olstad for the doing Of
said work. -
Approved March 25th, 1919.
. G. WMLIN, Mayor.
Alderman Jacobsen presented the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-02
Refresh Your Principles.

When a man starts afresh, either
with the newness Of new year or
with the stimulus Of altered circum-
stances or with the inspiration of a
new work, what his start ought to do
for him is to refresh the deepest prin-
ciples by which he uves.-Phillips
Brooks.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-02
Mixed.

A certain professor was struggling
to make clear the point that both
parents have an equal influence upon
child. "For," he said gravely, "a
man is as much the son Of his father
as he is the daughter of his mother"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-02
Wheat and Flour.

Wheat and Flour.
No wheat thousands of years old has
ever been known to terminate, many
yarns to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Baking tests have also been made by
the department of agriculture, showing
distinct inferiority Of the Alaska
wheat flour as a bread producer.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-02
COMM SSIONERS'
.. ROCEE| j
COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE. WILL
MAR, MIMI. MARCH rs. 1919.

state of Minnesota. County of Kandi-
The County Board of said county met
on above date at 2 o'clock p. M. pur
suant to adjournment. The following
Wmh o. johnson, o. S. Reigstad, N. B.
Johnson. G. J. swenson and Albert
Boersma.
Attorney were also present
The Board proceeded to act on bids
received and opened on March IL. 1919.
for Rure eha;an Motor aa TRUCKS and On
After having considered all the bids
s ton NJ 1Ss
ea1ipped x as Per r. bid and contract in the
Mover Further. That the County pur-
chase one F. w. D. 8 ton Truck. fully
s9nppsd. as per bid and contract in the
In the Matter Of Public Park in the
Town of Lake Andrew. said county:
.wHEREAs Res Rii' ia now nend,n.
before the committee of Finance in the
Senate and the committee of appropria-
tons in the House of the Minnesota
adjustment Of a State Park in Kandi-
yohi County. Minnesota. known and de-
signated as the sibley Stat e PARK: and
-" 14G1SEkA0s IL dppcdCS 10 the BOacO
OF County Commissioners of said Kan.
diyohi County. that he establishment OF
such park within the said County
serve the public interest. and that the
County of Kandiyohi ought to assist
In obtaining such park;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE 1T RE.
SOLVED by the Board of County Com.
| missioners of Kandiyohi County, that
the said county will. in case Of the
establishment of the said Sibley
State Park within it's borders. main.
tain said Park. and hereby agrees sc
to maintain the same as a public Park
under and pursuant to such power anl
Board
The above resolution, proposed b,
Commissioner Reigstad and seconded
by Commissioner VIM. o. Johnson, was
adopted by the following vote: Ayes
commissioners N. B. Johnson, o. S
Relgstad. Albert Boersma. c. j. Sven
son and VIM. Q. Johnson. Nayes. none
| App!1ca ton for road appropria tior
from Town of Green Lake. were re-
ee1yed. The matter was considered
Beng that part of the State Roat
has been vacated and that said part o,
the road has reverted back to the town
the application was granted On mo
ton made. seconded and duly carried
the sum Of $4,000 was granted saic
Town OF Green Lake.
The Depository bonds for the deposit
OF county funds from the folloWins
named banks. to-wit: Kandtyohi Conn
ty Bank. Willmar. State Bank of Pen
| mock. Farmers State Bank of New Lon
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28

shall not be found where parallels are
spoken"
Ruskin thought that 1t was merely
physically impossible that one class should
do, or divide, the work Of another Sirach
was wiser; the inhibition is not physical
so much as mental "he setteth his mind
to finish his work"
Let any one test it for himself; let him
dig up his vegetable garden or paint his
garage door and think at the Same time:
as the physical movements become mechan-
icai the mind runs into kind Of blank.
Shakespeare might have dug Ophelia's
grave with an actual shovel instead Of
with the blade Of his fancy, but not one
word of that nobest comedy scene would
have come into his head whilst he was
digging. Schiller might himself have cast
a great bell, but he could not as the
molten metal flowed, have been busy with
the sounding phrases Of Die Glocke."
The guest at Amerongen is denuding the
forests thereabout; chopping no doubt
gives him exercise, but more, it stops the
processes of his thought, and that is, we
imagine, blessing toward which the late
partner of God eagerly reaches.
ANOI oHiy Will ldDOTS management 1all
industry, it will fail labor as we'll Work
ing days will be further shortened; wages
will be further increased old age and
health pensions substituted for thrift. but
will all this accomplish what the senti-
mentalist calls putting JOY into the job?
Is the coal miner going to love his work
more because of more things; is the street
cleaner to sing all day like Pippa?
Even the romantic economists do not ad-
vance this claim it is the consciousness of
share in the management, say they, which
will make labor free. If labor could man
age, perhaps But why go round the circle
with ifs? If Adam had behaved himself
there might not now be any problem Of
labor, but such was not Adams nature
No. it is futile to try to make men love
being laborers; they must love being men,
There is no use in attempting to put Joy
into the job, the JOY must come out of life.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
"Montfaucon Blunder"
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Major K. S. Allen, of the 59th Coast
Artillery, is certainly entitled to thanks
and appreciation of his courage for uncov-
ering the truth, so carefully hidden from
the men whose sons and brothers were sent
to an unnecessary slaughter by incompe-
tent higher officers, not Of the Guard or
Plattsburg Schools either.
Will somebody from cover there" clear
up the Montfaucon blunder and massacre
l have it in writing from an unimpeach-
able French general, a wearer Of the Cross
of Grand Officer Of the Legion of Honor,
who served in the first battle of the Marne
at Verdun, that our infantry was sent to
the attack at p. m. at Montfaucon unas-
sisted by tanks, heavy cannon or barragc.
The slaughter was terrific, but our un-
equalled soldier carried the day, paying by
his blood for the correction of his superb
or's incapacity, lack of study and stupidity
Who was the general? Was he called to
account? What became of him?
Who from "over there" will give US the
TRUTH the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, about what took place at Montfau-
con, assaulted and captured by unprotected
and unaided "doughboys"?
M'COSKRY BUTT,
Brgadier General NJ G., N. Y.
New York, July 25, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
China Excepted
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

0N-SSN
Sir: There seems to have been some
avoidance OF going into details, or perhaps
only a general lack of information, con-
cerning the industrial aspects of the Prov
ince of Shantung.
This promontory and province contains
four important coal fields several impor
tant iron deposits and an abundance Of
coolie labor. The German railroad con-
cession covers the entire province and is
an exclusive one. No other lines can be
built to tap the coal or iron deposits. The
mining concession covers tho entire prov
ince and is also exclusive
The province is the most densely popu-
lated portion Of China. The struggle for
mere existence Is keen. Day wages are
on the literal basis of diving wage"
practically the equivalent Of handful of
dry rice day. Heretofore Japan has
somewhat lacked coal and iron, but she Is
now supplied with what has been called
"the cheapest coal and iron in the world"
Their possession raises her from the posi-
tion of local power to that Of a domi-
mating Pacific power. 1t is said that there
is official report in a Washington de-
partment the mineral resources Of
Shantung.
If the league of nations be adopted, and
II it safely guarantees to all profound
peace through an indefinite future, then
one can but feel that the peaceful devel-
opment of her arts and manufactures thus
afforded Japan is matter of general graft
fication-the Chinese possibly excepted.
CHARLES STEWART DAWSON,
Chairman Board of Trustees, American,
Defence Society.
New York, July 25, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
The French Elections

France will elect new Chamber of
Deputies next October. The new body
will reflect the reactions in political life
which the war has caused. 1t will be
vastly different assembly from the one
which in August, 1914, was forced sud-
denly to accept responsibility for the
conduct of the war.
The present Chamber was elected on
peace issues. 1t was strongly Socialistic
in tendency and inclined toward pacif-
ism. The German peril compelled all fac
tions to drop their differences and unite
to save the nation. The "sacred union"
of parties was formed and remained ef-
fective during the greater part of the
struggle. There was lapse into weak
ness and factionaism in the dark year of
1917. But Clemenceau's accession to
power restored unity and vigor.
Since the armistice the impulse to
unity has been undermined. The Gle
menceau ministry has many foes, open
and hidden. Possibly only the pressure
of public opinion has kept the Chamber
from voting out the present government.
The notice Of a general election two
months hence may now delay reorgan-
ization of the Cabinet.
French party alignments are difficult
to follow. A bloc composed of the more
moderate elements is now in control. But
whether the war has made the French
electorate more moderate or more rad
ical remains to be seen.
France is to go back, apparently, to the
system of large electoral districts, aban-
doned in hurry in 1889 in the hope of
checking the Boulangist movement. Each
Deputy now represents small constt-
uency-one much smaller than an Amer
lean Congress district The existing sys-
tenn of apportionment goes under the
name of sc71ttin du1rondissement. The
system to be readopted is called the
scrutlm de liste. Large electoral districts
are to be created, with many Deputies to
be chosen on a general ticket, after the
manner in which our Presidential elec-
tors are chosen. The French Parliament
has been working for some months on
the details of the election law The ad-
vocates of change believe that repre-
sentation by large districts will attract
nominees of better calibre than the pres
ent parochial system does.
France, like every other European
country, is going through a period of
political unrest and transformation. But
an expression of the popular will is un-
impeded. And power is concentrated to
a high degree in the popular branch of
the legislature. The election, coming
nearly year after the armistice, will
demonstrate strikingly what political
ideas govern France, after her great
victory and her terrible national trial.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28

the latest reviser on the tact and gentility
OF his effort, we still retain a preference
for the hearty, If ruder, original"
There can be an emotional quality to
hymn in praise Of the people" Our
own "America" has much to be said for
it on this score. There is an admirable
modern hymn, "Lord, Save Thy People"
more stirring and more outspoken. But
the revised version of the British hymnal
seems an unfortunate mingling Of two
conceptions. 1t begins with the King as
head and symbol of the state; and then
switches to the land itself. The original
hymn had the clear merit Of sticking to
one point Of view and gaining all the
force that comes from an outspoken
unity.
The moral is strong that a national
anthem is good thing to leave alone. Its
anachronisns become harmless through
lapse of time; its overtones of patriotic
emotion grow with the years.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
The Bolsheuik Serum,
By Maxim Gorky
Translated from editorial in his Petrograd ncyspaper)

not concerned with Russia. They are
Of a world revolution, or at least Euro
pean revolution.
Under present conditions of life in Russia
genuine revolution is unthinkable. You
cannot change the 85 per cent of Russia's
peasant population, with IT'S ten million
foreign speaking nomads, into Socialists
overnight.
The working class more than any other
class of our population will have to bear
the brunt Of this insane experiment. The
working class is the advance gunrc Of the
revolution, and in civil war it will be the
working class which will be sent into fire
first. When the working class Of Russia is
thus killed off the best forces of hope for
the country destroyed.
am quite Indifferent as to what epthets
will be applied to me for my attitude to
the government" of the experimenting
Missionaries, but l am not indifferent to the
faith of the Russian working class.
AS long l am able l will repeat to the
Russian working class:
"You are being led to destruction. You
are being used material for an inhuman
experiment. In the eyes of your leaders you
still are not human!"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
The Home Of the Diamond

(From The san Antonio Erpress)
The United States is not especially mpor-
tant as q producer of precious stones, but it
is regarded as the worlds best market for
some of them, notably the diamond The
United States Geological Survey has esti-
mated that about half the diamonds in the
world are owned in the United States, and
that their value is more than $1,000, 900 ,OOO
This countrys interest in diamonds would
naturally lead it to exhaust every method of
prospecting in effort to discover diamond
mines in the United States, but, while many
diamonds have been found, no diamond field
worth commercial development has been dis
covered.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
All Concrete
(From The Manchester Guardia,

From The Manchester GUARDIAN
From the peace conference it turns out
that nobody very much wants the island of
Helgoland. If left to itself Helgoland will
IN course of time disappear. The sea is
rapidly eating it up, and under the German
occupation its existence on the map has
been largely preserved by the construction
of more and more sea works and sea walls.
These facts were duly brought up at the
peace conference. When they had been
thoroughly explained silence fell upon the
assembly, which was due partly to delibera-
tion and partly to boredom. 1t was broken
at last by some innocent person who, mere
ly to keep the wheels of discussion pro-
ceeding and meaning no HARM asked
whether any one had any concrete proposal
to make: II thought you said" said Mr..
Lloyd George, that it was all concrete"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
Our Stake in Reparations

Developments in the Senate have
shown that there is practically no oppo
sition to the peace terms imposed on
Germany Hostility to the treaty proper
centres on the Shantung provisions,
which impose terms not on Germany
but on China, one Of the Allies. The
covenant of the league of nations doesn't
directly concern Germany. 1t is objected
to because of the conditions which it i'm
poses on the United States.
The articles of the treaty melting out
penalties to Germany, if they could be
voted on alone, would be approved by the
Senate without a division. The United
States is ready to consent to them. Ger
many is preparing to work out her SEN
tence under them. But she cannot go
far in that direction until a reparation
commission is appointed.
The United States ought to have rep
resentative on that commission. The pub
lie here would undoubtedly view the ap-
peintment Of an American reparations
commissioner, to serve Professionally, as
matter of mere routine, properly within
the discretion of the President. The
technical objection has been made that no
American appointments to commissions
oroboards which are to supervise the ex-
ecution of the German terms are per-
Missile until the treaty as whole has
been ratified by the United States. But
that is a merely formal prohibition. Act
ing commissioners, with limited or tenn
pprary functions, could be named by the
President on his own initiative without
doing much violence to the conventions.
It is understood that Colonel House has
been informally cooperating for some
time past in organizing the machinery of
the projected league of nations, although
the creation of such an organism still
awaits the approval of the Senate.
Whatever happens to the covenant will
hardly affect the body of the treaty deal
ing with Germany. The treaty will 20
into effect, so far as Germany and the
Allies are concerned, when two more of
the major Allied powers have ratified it,
The reparations commission has no con-
nection with the league. 1t will handle
problems involving the economic and
commercial interests of the United States
We ought to have voice in it's decisions.
And an appointment made now would be
of much greater value in safeguarding
our material interests than one made
many months hence, after the disputed
portions Of the treaty have been passed
on by the Senate.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28

that will move the piston and revolve the
wheels. The man who does not see this
may scarcely qualify as real peace
Lacquer. He may be sincere, but is wo-
fully lacking in faculties of perception
and should devote few hours to re-
Election and to taking an account of his
ideas. The Tribune has been laboring
for some months at getting league of
peace, and gladly welcomes it's neigh
Dor if it purposes to become worker
in the vineyard.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
Work In the Vineyard

The Globe is fearful lest this country
may dlshonor our heroic dead, "who gave
their lives in the hope, mo1U IN danger of
being lost Italics are oursl, that this
would be the last of such wars"
Let our neighbor refresh it's spirit and
compose its apprehensions There is a
better chance now than three or six
months ago of getting league of peace
With the general acceptance of the reser-
vation principle, with which it appears
The Globe is now in accord, the covenant
promises to be ratified, thus saving what
Is good in it. If at the same time there
IS created League Of Three to give the
rather astral soul of the covenant a body
with which to function, the result shonld
satisfy the aspirations Of mankind. To
these ends real believers in the principle
or never again" should labor, desisting
the while from all attempts to make
counterfelts pose for true bills.
The peace treaty and the covenant
with safeguarding reservations) and
the energy-applying alliance Of the Three
would doubtless by this time be ratified
II at Paris and here effort had not been
worse than wasted in ATTEMPTS to lam
tTouRh a programme which in many
Ways was childish, in others not con-
1rlbutIVc to the purpose pretended to be
sought, and which it was early forcscen
could not secure Endorsement, and which
II 1t had, would have had a most limited
useiulness-would have been a motor
without carburetor, or without paso-
iene IN It's tanks, or without even n tank
The duty now before US is to hitch
power TO the covenant, and this can be
qone, and only be done, under existing
circumstances, by adhering to the Leayue
nj Three, which ought to be a Leayue Of
rave, and which in the end, as fast as
confidence develops, should be a Leap,,e
of Forty. The inert covenant machinery
II It's dcYisera show themselves suscen-
jiDle Of education and are wiling m
cease from folly, may be regarded as
reasonably safe. Propaganda zeal should
no. taHotf i.eF . getting something
New-York tribune., 1919-07-28
A German Grace

Time was when the hosts of German
clergymen, anointed ministers of Gott,
were modified to do duty in the intel
lectual poison gas department Of the i'm
perial German army. Theirs was the
task to make the German people forget
the Nazarene teachings, to keep the
flames of bloodthirst burning and to ad-
minister communions of hatred. There
was the celebrated Pastor Vorwerk whose
paraphrase of the Lords Prayer holds
easily the world record for blasphemy
through the ages:
Though the warriors bread be scanty
do Thou work daily death and tenfold woe
unto the enemy. Forgive in merciful long
suffering each bullet and each blow which
misses its mark. Lead us not into
the temptation Of letting wrath be too
tame in carrying out Thy divine Judgment
Deliver us and ally from the internal
enemy and his servants on earth. Thine
is the kingdom the German land; may we,
by aid Of Thy steel-clad hand, achieve the
power and the glory"
But where are the SHOWS Of yester-
year? On November II, 1918, Gott was
demobilized. His lieutenant on earth is
to-day saving irewood at Amerongen,
and Pastor Vorwerk and his colleagues
are probably pretending to the best of
their ability that they never said word
And in the stead of the militant pastors
we find German admiral-Dick by
name-turning to the writing of prayers.
According to the German papers this
warrior has composed new grace before
meat-or shall we call it meat-ersatz?-
as follows:
"Dear Lord, we pray Thee let strong
Germany arise again. Fill US with moral
force, to work for the Fatherland Give
success to German work and grant that
we regain our empire"
80 QatB mutatio re1um!"
0 what enlargement of things!