The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-09-15

| OF our service men in the ranks. Thl!
| element is the more bitter against Gen
! eral Ansell because it was so viciousl,
wrong that it could not make out ;
case for itself during the courts mar
tial investigations.
The best that it could do was to ge1
it's hard boiled" Smiths out with light
sentences and wait for the man re
sponsible.
AS for Bergdoll, the great stir about
him does not speak we'll for our good
sense. He was just plain Stacker
evidently unwilling to fight and with
out the courage and principle to be a
conscientious objector. And he had
money.
Many leaders of soldier organiza.
lions have written letters of apprecia-
ton to General Ansell since this piece
Of undercover work was done by the
politicians.
BURNS HEADS DETECTIVES.
A private detective, William J.
Burns, has been made head Of the
United States Secret Service. Mr..
Burns is one of the best known detec.
tives Of the country due largely to
many putting articles on his career
published in national magazines. And
it is not hard for the biographers to
make a great man out of almost any,
one who has done great service for
large interests.
Burns work as snOOper into the
private affairs of citizens in behalf OF
other citizens, is, of course, not given
much if any mention. It is one of
the lowest Of trades. And many of
the methods he has used to accom-.
plish much praised results are CLOSED
over with smooth words or omitted.
In the case Of Willard N Jones, con-
victed in Oregon of violating federal
land laws, Burns, working for power
full interests, including Hitchcock, Sec
rotary of the interior, stopped to the
low, mean crime Of jury fixing. He
wired Hitchcock as follows:
Jury commissioners cleaned out old
box from which trial jurors were sell
ected and put in 600 names, every one
of which was investigated before they
were placed in the box"
When this scandal broke, President
Taft pardoned Jones. But the jury
fxer is now head of our u S. Secret
Service.
KEPT MAGAZINE BANKRUPT.
McClure's magazine, once the fore
most liberal monthly publication in
america, has gone into bankruptcy.
Mr.. S. S. Mcclure, the founder Of the
in 1893, had been daily
newspaper man and he made it more
by the general public than
my other on the market. He also made |
t more worth reading than most of the |
others.
The latest things in science and the |
'est in contemporary literature were
by splendidly prepared
lrticles on economics. Ida M. Tar
,ell's History of Standard OIL" first
appeared in IS columns So did Lin.
:oln Steffens' "Shame of the Cities"
lobert La Toilette, Judge Ben Lind
ey, Joseph w. Folk were frequently
leard in it's pages.
Then about 1910 control of it, passed
D interests that could not endure the
ight of it's exposures. It became ICON.
tructive' as politician would say.
md it gave the public such safe arti.
les as "Tin Gamers: The Story of
he Greatest Industry of the Age and
he Men Who Built IT," "The Fame
f the Cities;" SALARY 100000
'ear-Remarkable Series of Articles
n the Men Who Have Accomplished
reative Tasks Of Modern Industry"
The War Beautiful"
The money bags ought to have been
illing to stand the losses on this non.
7nse which the people would not buy,
ut the bankruptcy would indicate
lat they do not like to pay the bill.
The real McClure's died many years
90 when its control changed and it is
tribute to the good sense of our
lblic that the thing which replaced
is dead, too. ~