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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
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Poitoffice, Bismarck, N. D., Second
Class Matter
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THI STATE'S OLDEST NBW8PAPUL
(Established 1871)
LOVE BLIND?
Our cynical friends tell us that ,'Love is blind!"
It is?
Love is the only thing that sees.
Where would YOU be today if it weren't for the
fact that someone who loved you saw in you some­
thing that no one else saw?
When you first saw the light of day, who but
your mother ever dreamed that you were "the
est baby that ever was born?"
And why do you suppose she has since knarled
her hands and wrinkled her brow for you
BECAUSE LOVE SAW,
And when the best Jfirl in the world accepted
you—and her friends remarked, doubtfully:
"What in the world did she ever see in HIM?"—
why did she take you? BECAUSE LOVE SAW.
And when you were down and out—so low
down that you had to reach up to touch bottom—
Rwhen the world laughed and shrugged its should
at you—when even you had a feeling of con
pt for yourself—and a great hearted man or
an became your friend—why didn't they let
drift until you went clear down to hell?
BECAUSE LOVE SAW.
There's something fine and big in every one of
?—no matter how we may have failed or how
'ten we may have failed or how often we may
nave fallen.
But only those who love can see it.
Who then are the greatest in this world Those
vho LOVE—arid therefore see—and understand.
1 THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.
Some of the eminently practical business men
in the Council of National Defense are in grave
anger of becoming so eminently practical that it
Anyhow, their suggestion that Christmas
iving this year be confined to letters and post
pards is needlessly cold-blooded and helpless.
The people have earnestly responded to all the
many demands made upon them to so change their
•habits of life as to help win the war. Uncomplain­
ingly they have done their bit and gone coalless,
meatless, wheatless and sugarless in order to help
win the war.
There has been little real sacrifice in the food
saving part of the program, to be sure, and the
nation's health is doubtless better for this war
curb on overheating. But the spirit was good just
the same, and indicated that the people will as
cheerfully make real sacrifice when necessary.
But there is no real need of putting the national
soul ixl cold storage just because we are making
heroic sacrifices for our war aims. We won't help
by pulling long faces, taking the smile out of life
and settling down into a depressing war gloom.
Nothing worth while is lost by giving the little
ones all the Christmas joy we can provide—and
the J)ig ones as well.
Those who have older boys over there are in a
softened mood that will thaw their parental hearts
toward the younger ones who still bless the fam­
ily circle.
We older ones are thinking nowadays. We are
feeling, too. The sacrifices we must make in our
own families bring us closer to others who are
making the same sacrifices. There is a growing
kinship between fathers and mothers where lives
never touched before.
We are in a kindlier mood, and would save for
humanity all of the kindness and gentleness and
happiness we may.
Life need not be all tears even in war time. If
we let tender smiles shine through the tears
there is no less of sympathy for and appreciation
of sacrifice.
So away with an over-efficient efficiency, that
would hide away the Christmas spirit until the
war is over. Let Christmas come, and with it
all the old-fashioned tender, generous, loving
Christmas spirit we can muster.
Leave the people alone with their Christmas,
and they'll start the new year all the better fitted
in morale to go on with the war that may end all
wars and push along toward the happy day when
the Christmas spirit will last the whole year
Edison, Ford and Hurley had a camping trip.
rjMtoon supplied the electric light equipment
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Question—who furnished the transportation fa­
cilities, Ford or Hurley
FULL STRENGTH
Congress will enact the 18-45 man power bill.
This is making it clear to Germany that we're in
the war to the last drop of fighting blood in the
last fighting man. It is putting our full strength
of manhood into the conflict.
Congress should enact a war revenue bill which
will collect money from those who have most to
pay. Less than 80 per cent of war profits is not
enough and is not fair to other Americans who
now carry a too heavy load of high prices. In
other words, Congress owes a duty to the people
of the United States to conscript money power
as well as man power. Both are needed. Without
either the war cannot be won.
The full strength of American man power plus
our full strength of money power spells victory
over there. And our full strength of money
power cannot be mobilized until Congress drafts
the profiteer's dollars.
WITH THE EDITORS
DOYLE FOR GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA
In an effort to rid the state of the political in­
cubus with which it finds itself encumbered the
real Republicans of North Dakota, have united
with the Democrats to defeat Frazier, the Town
ley league candidate for governor.
The Democrats nominated S. J. Doyle, United
States marshal and a man of unquestionable loy­
alty and devotion to his country. Mr. Doyle has
been a resident of North Dakota for almost a third
of a century and for years personally conducted
and still owns a farm in Foster County. As a
member of the legislature and the acknowledged
floor leader of the Democratic minority he has a
wide knowledge of the needs of the state.
The fact that he has been United States mar­
shal for four years and was reappointed this
spring for another term by President Wilson in­
dicates the esteem in which he is held at the
White House.
As another evidence of the interest of the na­
tional administration, and indicating the desire
of President Wilson and the department of justice
to have a reliable, dependable, loyal man for gov­
ernor of North Dakota, permission has been
granted Mr. Doyle to absent himself from his
duties as United States marshal and devote his
entire time and energies to conducting an active
campaign for election.
That the loyal citizens of North Dakota, regard­
less of politics, are certain they can elect Mr.
Doyle, is demonstrated by the earnestness and en­
thusiasm with which the opponents of Townley
ism have begun the campaign. Joint headquarters
have been established in Fargo by the Demo­
crats and the independent Republicans. A har­
mony program has been arranged and all are
wholeheartedly united in their determination to
put Mr. Doyle over.
The Doyle supporters are not frightened at the
task before then. They realize the state is, at
present, under the complete domination of Town
ley, that he has entire control of the Republican
political machinery, the state patronage, an un­
limited supply of campaign funds, a trained corps
of speakers and numerous unscrupulous workers
with a record of not hesitating at anything which
they imagine may help their cause.
The anti-Townley forces readily admit the great
handicaps they face, but they are inspired with a
determination to overcome all obstacles, to drive
out the socialistic, Godless misfits which Jiave
throttled the state, retarded its development for
the past two years and which loom so large as a
still greater menace to North Dakota's future.
Believing in the justice of their cause and with
faith that righteousness will prevail, they are con­
fident of victory in November.—St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
GOOD FOR GEORGE PLAZA.
Some discusion is going on especially at Bis­
marck, regarding the advisability of changing the
German name Bismarck to something American.
We all remember how silly it appeared to us when
St. Petersburg was changed to Petrograd.
Changing the name will only emphasize in years
to come the smallness of a people. For years the
school children of the country have learned the
capital of the state. Men all over the nation know
the name of this capital. To learn it over again
will cause kids to stand 90 in examinations that
might otherwise stand 100. Its idle time, losing
energy and silly to change a name that has stood
so long as Bismarck has.
We know what Bismarck means to us it means
our state capital it means a beautiful and growing
city its name does not effect our loyalty or sig­
nify less of patriotism. Bismarck and the state of
North Dakota are too big and too enligtened to be
concerned about the origin of a name that has sat­
isfied them for years. There is no merit in being
an impulsive people, a little spiteful shallow think­
ing people. Let us be bigger than a moment of
the time in which we live. Russia showed her
fickleness in changing the name of her capital and
she has shown it again by being a quitter. If the
name of Bismarck must be changed, let us wait
till after the war, let us have a little more mature
and calmer judgment. The advocates of the
change can hardly insist that it is a-military ad­
vantage or necessity to change it now, but it will
hinder and cause extra work and extra expense.
—Plaza Pioneer. ,*
BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE
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Men returning from the Czech-al­
lied front along the Usuri north of
Nikolsk inform me' COMMANDS TO
THE SOVIET TROOPS ARE NOW IS­
SUED IN GERMAN.
This increase in German organiza­
tion and leadership is a decided
change from the conditions in the so­
viet armies when inspected them
personally just before the interven­
tion.
It was in the gathering darkness of
eight p. m., after the wonderful, long
Siberian twilight, that first shook
hauds with Tavarisch Abramoff, then
soviet commander on the eastern Man
churiau front at Grodekovo. I had
tramped ten miles through the Bolshe­
vik lines. I was hungry.
Tavarisch Abramoff (tavarisch
means comrade, and I» never heard
him otherwise addressed by his men)
is now in jail at Nikolsk. There is
no longer a Bolshevik front here at
Grodekovo. Trains now run where I
walked. The men I saw then in Ab
ramoff's trenches and camps who were
not killed or captured by the Czechs
in the battle of Nikolsk over a month
ago are now fighting the Czech-allied
army north of Nikolsk.
There were very few armed prison­
ers in the troops I saw that hot, dusty
day. They had not then spread that
far east, in any great number.
In Harbin I had been warned not to
go to Vladivostok—almost forbidden.
It was "dangerous." The railroad had
been cut for weeks. Only three, all
Americans in official position, had
made the trip and returned.
The Harbin train stopped at Pog
ranitchnaia. At noon we started on
"shanks mares" for Grodekovo, twen-
Mm
YOU CAN'T GO ANYVuHeR6 BVT WHAr You He/qfc TH*T
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KNISELY INSIDE RED LINES, TELLS
ABOUT BOLSHEVIKI ARMY
Soviet Relies More and More on Hun Prisoners
as Czech-Slav Power Grows in Siberia
(StaiY Correspondent, Newspaper En­
terprise Association.)
Grodekovo, Siberia, Aug. 31.—Allied
intervention has undoubtedly increas­
ed the Bolsheviki's relianqe on armed
German-Austrian prisoners. Anything
to hold their power!
eve-RY
OR SlfVKS OR 3OM€
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IT MS TIR(5T!!!
W1IAT IS A SOVIET!
A soviet is a new chapter in gov­
ernment, the distinctive contribution
of the Russian revolution to political
organization.
It is the local government body of
the Russian revolution, a sort of city
council or township board. The cen­
tral supreme governing body is the
All-Russian Congress of Soviets, and
the cabinet there chosen.
Since the soviet is the local organ­
ization of the peasants', workmen's
and soldiers' deputies, only these
classes vote for delegates.
That's the distinguishing feature of
the soviets—they represent working
class rule. The aristocrats and mid­
dle class have no vote.
In any district, for example, the
workmen feach shop and trade elect
a delegate, or as many delegates as
their numbers entitle them to, to the
local soviet. So with the soldiers and
so with the peasants in the section
surrounding the city.
But. the shop owners, the merchants,
the bankers, the lawyers, the land­
owners have no vote and no represent­
atives. They have been disfranchised.
America has furnishjed many of
Russia's soviet officials. Ivrasnoscho
koff, head of the Far-Eastern soviets
now opposing the allies north of Vlad­
ivostok in Siberia, lived 12 years in
America, graduated from law school
in Chicago, where he was known as
Tobinson. and was until last spring
head of the Workors' Institute, a sort
of settlement school he founded in
Chicago.
ty-odd miles away. My companion
was Charles H. Smith, American rail­
way man. adviser to Railway Commis­
sioner Ostrugoff, under Keren sky.
Smith spoke Russian well.
The cart containing our baggage
followed two wagons laden with the
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few household effects of four shouting
Russian families. The old Russian
owner and driver of the carts was
drunk. Straps and ropes kept the
dilapidated carts from falling to
pieces.
The road was rough—a rutted lane
flirting with a brook it crossed every
half mile or so. Frequently the carts
came apart. Frequently the horses,
could not pull them up the hills. At
every crisis all the Russian
Sr-men,
women, children—would shout long
and loud. Then the horses would pull.
1 was sure the carts would never last,
and we would sleep in the fields.
We neared the Bolshevik trenches.
We hoisted a white flag. The boy who
shouted loudest carried it ahead.
A tall man, rifle on shoulder, stood
In the road in front of us. A half mile
further on groups of men lined trench­
es. I walked in front.
The statue-man shouted something.
Other men sprang up beside him from
the grass. I was sure he had not. or­
dered them to shoot. I was deter­
mined to be first through the lines,
feeling there could be no danger. But
I looked apprehensively back toward
Smith. Smith grinned. "He says,
'Take down that flag! We saw you an
hour ago.'" Smith yelled up at me.
We passed through the several
trenches and barbed wire entangle­
ments escorted by smiles of good will.
Still two miles ahead was a siding
where we might get a box car for
Grodekovo. Approaching it I ran
ahead up a hill. I was just in time.
An engine with box car attached was
pulling out.
I shouted and waved my hands. The
engine tender was covered with men.
They beckoned at me and called—but
in Russian. So these were the Bol
sheviki!
"Amerikanski!" I shouted the makic
When it was determined to extend
the draft age limits from 18 to 45, it
looked as if all college activities, of
the country would be paralyzed.
But that' is where the war depart­
ment came in with its plans for the
Student Army Training Corps. Young
men who have been going U» the 300
colleges on the government's list will
come back to school this fall as usual,
to be given an intensive training to
fit them for army life. Army officers
will supplement the regular faculty.
Young men who are 20 will be giv­
en at least three months' training,
those of 19 will be trained until about
April 1, and those of 18 will be trained
until about July 1. The idea is to pre­
pare a reservoir of officer material
preliminary to their being sent to a
central officers' training camp.
Selected men of 18 or over who are
MONDAY, SEPT. 2, 1918.
word. The engine stopped. A man
clambered down. He could speak a
few words of English. Of this he was
very proud. I learned later he was
a doctor, a lieutenant in the Bolshe­
vik force and, I1 suspect, an Austrian.
I made him understand there were
wagons and people back there, stuck
in the mud on the hill. He called to
his men. Eagerly they ran to help.
They carried all those household goods
an eighth of a mile to the box car
and dumped them in.
The moon was coming up over won­
derful Siberian forests as we rode the
rest of the way oBolshevik head­
quarter
sat Grodekovo.
Abramoff was on the station plat­
form. He was a Jew—of a race once
victims of pogroms in Russian and
then, miraculously, LEADERS OF
THE PEOPLE in revolution. He spoke
English brokenly. He said he had
served in the Belgian army and the
British navy in this war and was a
patriotic ally. I do not know. But
I do know he was sincere—a passion­
ate idealist.
He took Smith and myself to the
private car serving him as headquar­
ters. He turned out of his own com­
partment, his wife and he, over all our
objections, and we slept there that
night. He got us bologna and bread
and made tea.
Over the tea we talked with him
until one o'clock in the morning. He
was extremely courteous. For my
sake he used his broken English, most
of the time. On ticklish points he
broke into Russian, and Smith trans­
lated. He was honestly anxious for
America's good opinion, and suspi­
cious of intervention. That was the
burden of the conversation.
His men then were not ragamuffins.
They had their old uniforms and were
well equipped. They looked fine spec­
imens. Abramoff said he had several
score of armed German prisoners in
his forces. We did not find even those.
Of course, that was before the test,
the crisis, in eastern Siberia. A few
days later the Czechs put the soviet
out of Vladivostok and the allies land­
ed. Then General Orloff, commanding
the Harbin forces opposed to Abramoff
at Grodekovo, was dismissed. Be­
cause—Abramoff had been gone from
his trenches three days before Orloff
knew it.
He took his troops to Nikolsk, junc­
tion between Grodekovo and Vladivo­
stok of the line north to Harbarovsk.
There the Nikolsk troops and soviet
forces from Habarovsk joined them.
There, a week alter the capture of
Vladivostok, the Czechs defeated them
badly, taking Nikolsk—and Abramoff.
Once more, after this first experi­
ence, I was through the Bolshevik
lines, one I guess, of the last group to
consult with these men. After the
taking of Vladivostok there was not
much exchange of courtesies—passing,,,
and repassing. It was war.
But despite this isolation now, tlJ
impossibility of any more first-haf
observation, it seems plain Abr/
off's place, for instance, and many.
ers have been taken by armed prf
ers.
This was expected. It will
matters. The soviets may fight t|
last ditch. But nothing can savef
—in eastern Siberia.
Tbe Lanpher hat is do­
ing its bit by maintain­
ing its "always right"
quality. Do your hat
bit by buying
Lanpher
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They were asked to join the Cl
in solidifying Siberia against the]
mans. I heard allied military att«S„,
ask Abramoff. But his one drennA^
and his face burned and his arms
swung as he told it—was of popular
rule through the soviets. He claimed
he was not a Bolshevik, but a social,
revolutionist. He plainly felt it, in
the bottom of his heart, that this was
an attempt not so much to pat Russia
back into the war as to overthrow tho
soviets and throttle the revolution.
Americans know their purpose to
be honest. He trusted America. But
he couldn't quite take the leap. He
chose to fight. So did most of the
rest. And apparently, making the in­
terventionist army their foe, they have
welcomed all the armed-prisoner help
they could get.
DRAFTED MEN OF 18
TO GO TO COLLEGE
By MILTON 11HONNEK
(N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.)
Washington. Aug. 31.—Uncle Sam's
plan for 4,000,000 men in France by
next year means that he is going to
require 100,000 more junior officers,
an din order to get them is going to
utilize the half billion dollar plant of
more than 300 colleges and universi­
ties.
physically fit and who have had a
gram a at on a
untarily inducted into the army and
enter upon a course of special train­
ing along mechanical lines of military
value. Those who prove they are of­
ficer material will be transferred to a
unit in one of the colleges to be pre­
pared to enter an officers' training
camp.
Young men who have had at least
a high school education will be allow­
ed to enter the colleges for more ad­
vanced training as officers and tech­
nical experts. Those who »how prom­
ise will be kept in college until quali­
fied to enter a central officers' train­
ing school or, to go directly into the
army as technical experts.
Those who are found not to be com­
missioned officer material will be sent
to a school for non-commissioned of­
ficers, or if they show special tech­
nical or mechanical ability will be
sent to detachments where men are
trained for such work. So they have
three chances in all—to be commis­
sioned officers, to be non-coms, or to
belong to a special technical division.
In addition to all this, arrangements
are going to be made for transferring
from the depot brigades to units.
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