Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 11, 1913, Page 1

[ | { - |23 A /% wsual is clear since only three coun- " VOLUME 11, NO. 198, WHY FLOGGING IS 'NOW PERMITTED Wonder Held As To Just What Con- stitutional Guaranties Are Worth Anything According to High Court MAINTAIN PRACTICE IS CRUEL Places In United States Where It is Allowed From Congressman C. H. Tavenner. ‘Washington December 11.—Since the recent refusal of the Department of Justice to interfere and stop the brutal Delaware practice of flogging criminals at a post on the ground that the Supereme Court has held that the elgth amendment prohibit- ing “cruel and wunusual punish- ments” applies only to federal courts a good many peopl'e are wondering just what the other constitutional guaranties are worth if state courts see fit to disregard them. The constitutional amendment specially says that “cruel and unusu- al punishments shall not be inflict- ed.,” Certaintly there will be few to dispute that flogging men on their bare backs with a cat o’ nine tails, each blow of the flail leaving its skein of livid welts on the shrinking flesh, is cruel; and that it is un- ties in the United States, the three counties which comprise the little state of Delaware, practice this bru- tal custom. Yet because this cruel and unusual punishment is inflicted by state au- thorities, the learned judges on the Supreme bench have decided that the federal government has no jurisdic- tion. The constitutional prohibition orly aplies to penalties inflicted by federal courts. ‘Why should not this theory be carried out all along the line? The constitution says that citizens shall not be deprived of liberty without due process of law? Of state or fed- eral laws? The latter, if the de- cision is followed. So that state of- ficers might throw citizens into pri- son under Russian secrecy, denying them trials, and state jails might be filled with political prisoners who were obnoxious to the state authori- ties. Of course, carrying the theory to this extent is ridiculous. If such a procedure were attempted. the fed- (& eral authorities would be quick to interfere. But because the institu- tion of the Delaware whipping post has continued from colonial times, the federal courts, who have great|’ respect for existing institutions, will not declare it in violation of the con- stitution. _'" The whipping post is a brutal relic of medievalism, brutalizing not only on its victims, but on the complacent citizens of Delaware for tolerating the institution. Some day it will be abolished. Probably Delaware will abolish it of her own volition, for there is a strong sentiment against the practice in that state. But if not by Delaware then specifically by Cengress, for there is a strong and growing sentiment in favor of more humanitarianism in the treatment of criminals, Henry Lane Wilson, -the former ambassador to Mexico, who was re- leased from further service by Presi- dent Wilson, has been cashing in on the advertising he rcceived by de- livering a series of lectures through- out the country. A good many peo- ple, believing that Wilson would re- veal some state secrets, gave up ad- 1w ion money to hear him. His latest lecture was delivered in a theater which is only a long stone’s throw from the State Department ‘Three Counties of Delaware Omly JOHN K. TENER. Governor of Pennsylvania Head of National Baseball _League. @ 1911, by American Press Assoclation. TR KKK KKK KK KKK KK * Holiday Rush Is Coming Even * ¥ Though Days Are Warm lli**#*fii*l{iii#* The story of shop early has been told until it is threadbare. But as long as we have Christ- mas and as long as we have the holiday rush, the story is worth telling. Christmas shopping has to be done, if it isn’t today, perhaps it is tomorrow—but it has to be done. Why not do it now? The stores of Bemidji are ra- digntiwith Christmas -sugges- tions. 7 If you have not clearly made up your minds as to what you wish to purchase in gifts, a visit to the stores will quickly solve that qdntxon for you. If you have a fixed program for the holiday' season, the Be- midji merchants who have sel- ected their stock with great care, ‘will show you the very thing that you want. Heavy fogs, gray skies and rain are not in harmony with the old-time Christmas picture, but the modern Santa Claus has learned to use the aeroplane when the ground is soft and muddy. And so it is with Christmas shopper.: He or she must learn the new way of doing things Shop now, Do it for the selfish reason that you will enjoy the advant- age of selecting from a full and complete stock of merchan- dise. Do it for the humane reason that if you shop early it will les- sen the rush of tomorrow. The men and women who smile at you from behind the counters are entitled to that small consideration. If we all wait for snow and winter weather to do our shop- ping, it means long hours and overwork for others. Shop early and after the Christmas festivities are over you will find cheerfulness and comfort in the thought that by so doing you contributed in a small way to the holiday hap- piness of someone else. Judge C. W. Stanton will leave for Park Rapids next week where he will relieve Judge Wright who goes to Walker where he will preside at the second Lloyd murder trial. % | numbers. g A number that undoubtedly will{/ 45 Intermezzo—The Lmnett *ttf&*i*%t** x K/% ¥ Gets Watch In Five Minutes. * % Miss Capitola Stewart: ‘lost %[ her gold ‘watch. She inserted & one ad in The Ploneer - and & within five minutes after the & paper was off: the press’ the & watch. was returned to‘her. -I Does it pay to advertise? Others will tell. you tha « Pioneer want ads always bri results. Half-cent a word <k Phone your wants to 31. lliiiili%iif,.iiil CONCERT FRIDAY NIGHT| First Indoor Entertainment Given By Bemidji Band To Be Made Big Attraction * o % Kk okk ok ok Kk ok SPEC!AL NUMBERS ARB.ANG The Bemidji band will render it’s first indoor concert of the season to- morow night in the City hall. A special program has been aranged which promises to meet the: approval of the audience. One of the numbers to be played will be a deécripttve overture composed by Oscar Nelson of this eity. Mr. Nelson is an excellent musician and has agreed to give a trombone solo as one of the teature prove of interest is a reading to be al?the guests of Bemidji. Committees given by Alfred Newman of this city.}tc larrange for the meeting will be Mr. Newmann is credited with being |2PP0inted soon. one of the ablest speakers in the city and many who have heard him in oratorical contests look forward to this number with anticipation. The program which has been ar- ranged by Alden Remfrey, director of the organization is as follows; 1 March—National Emblem . ... ...................... Bagley 2 0verture—0rphens 3 Trombone So]o-——Galely Polka ................... Oscar NelsonfCharles .Powell | Beecher, 4 Waltz—Dream Waltz. 6 Reading—Spartacus to the Gladiators ..»,.Alfred Newman +12 _ Descriptive . Overture—Titanic ............. «+...0scar Nelson 8 Vocal Solo—The Gipsy Girl..". ............. Elizabeth Erickson 9 Selection—Lucrezia ..... Tobanl 10 March—Ginger ...... Miss Erickson has an excelisni voice ‘and has sang at maay enter- ta‘timents given in this city. FEATURE ACT AT BRINKMAN “Dollies Dolls” Attraction At This Theatre Last Half of Week. “Dollies Dolls,” a‘ featura act, wilh seven people, will be the last half of the week attraction at the Brink- man. This is an act bordering on the Mother Goose variety, and com- prises such characters as Red Riding Hood and Little Boy Blue. -It was written by Will J. Harries, a well known writer of popular songs, and the scene is in a toy shop. Six girls and one boy make up the cast. It is a timely Christmas season act. The act features Mll. Milyan. KK KKK KKKKKKKK KX * Here’s Your Button x % Look in the want column of * *this paper and see if your b.tton is listed there. It is a new ad- vertising wrinkle. Thos. hold- ing Barker Buttons can easily find their duplicate by running the number of their button in the Pioneer Want column. Try it. It is worth your while. Half cent a word. Phone 31. KK KKEKKKEKEKKKKKK * Kk ok ok k ok Kk Kk * %k ok ok ok k k k kK BEM!DII MINNEWI‘A TIUBSDAY WG DEGEIBER 11 1913 Althouse|ald, Dr. E. H. oSm'ith and Dr. E. H; MANY DOLLARS 0 FOR ankm M \'Jhantm To Aid Poor 0f Bemidj Expendmg Large Amonnt 1 es Committees rmmu FOR CONVENTION State Board of To Be Given | Big Eeeephon Upon Their Arrival " Here Next September — the extent of several hundred-de larg by the Associated Charities dur- ing'the winter. The relief committee is now soliciting money, proyisions and clothing for Christmas -and is meeting with splendid success. A list of the needy is now in pos- session of the relief committes ‘and they will be given' provlatons and clothing, and efforts made -to make this Christmas as happy as possible for 'them. Work For Convention One of te chief reasons. for .the landing of the 1914 convention of the Stnta Board o{ Charities for Bemidji wae the record made by the Associat- ed/Charities during its first and only b u- of existance, and already the idji orgamization is planing on ng the visitors a rousing recep- and entertainment while they G.. D. Backus, president of the As- sociated Charities has named the 151- lowing committees: for the ensuing year, The Committees Membership—Mrs. E. H. Denu, Mrs. C. R. Sanborn and Mrs. Row- land Gilmore, Resue—Mrs. R. F. Murphy, Mrs Warfield and Mrs. Frank .. L.#gal and medicine—E. E. McDo Marcum Siifinaneel W, Ta Brooka, Frank Ly- can and R. H. Schumaker. MANY SEALS BEING SOLD Wura | Bemidji Residents Placing Red Cross Christmas Stamps On Parcels While the Red Cross Christmas scals have been on sale in Bemidji for less ‘than a week, the purchases are very -encouraging to those in charge, who believe that the total to be sold here this year will far ex- ceed that of a year ago. The stamps will be on sale at the Grand theatre this evening. 2 SERVES WARRANT ON ROGERS Tom Sloan Makes Complaint to Local Authorities and Asks Justice Sergeant Burseley of the Bemidji- police force served a warrant this morning on Jim Rogers, a complaint having been made out by Tom Sloan on an assult and battery charge. Ac- cording to Sloan the quarrel result- ed in a dispute over a plow, and Rogers struck him. The trial will be held this afternoon before Judge ‘A. M. Crowell in Municipal court. B_dmldji poor "wm be glven fiid to | TWO MAKE W " S John Maddock And Slgvn.rt Knutsen * . Prove Up On Homesteads * Two final proofs on homesteads were made yesterday be!ore Fred Rhoda, clerk of court. John Maddock proved up on his himstead which is located in the town of Kelliher. Mr. Maddock has made many improve- menst on his land since he first sot; tled in that vicinity. Sigvart Knu many improvements on his .lnin/ Bueford M. Gile, High School Agri- culturist, Arranges Series of Gath- erings—First to be Held Dec. 16, BUGBEE 8 IRIHGIPAL SPEAKER Bneford M. Gile, agriculturist in the .Bemidji nublic schools, . this morning announced that: he had completed arrangements for a series of three farmers meeting to-held next week,: using the farmers club as a unit., Mr. Bugbee of the state unlver- sity will be the principal speaker at the ‘meetings. He is a specialist on co-operation and is well informed on the best agricultural practice. The meetings will be held as fol- lows: Tuesday, Dec. 16—Eckles Farmers’ Club, George Bowers home. ‘Wednesday, Dec. 17—Northern Farmers’ Club,” Town Hall at 1:30 p. m, Thursday, Dec 18—Grant Valley Farmers’ Club, at C. F.. Schroeder’s heme. The meetings will be informal and those attending are urged to enter Relief—Mrs. E. H. Smith, Mrs. A. |into the discussions by asklng ques- .Offenbach|P. White, and Mrs. A. Lord. | tions. [ Changes Button Rules So That But- “ton Holders' Cax Quickly Find - Their anhcates. f— REGISTER “OPENS ON. MONDAY At nine o’clock Monday morning, December 15th; the Barker store will open a button register so that all holders can easily find their “dupli- cates. - Just get in line Monday and register ‘the numbers of the buttons you hold. People residing out of the city can send in the numbers of the buttons | | they have and they will be placed on t Ithe register. When a duplicate is found they will be advised and given an opportunity to select their gift out of the window full of handsome pres- ents. ‘““We are going to clean up our dis- play of prizes just as quickly as pos- sible.and will assist every holder to find a duplicate.” said Mr. Barker this morning. COMMISSIONERS MEETING ENDS Board Adjourns After Two Days Of ‘Work—Grant Puposky Application \ After being in session for two days the Beltrami county board of com- missioners adjourned yesterday af-|_ ternoon. Two applications for liqucr licenses were presented and one of them granted, this being to Roy Nil- son, to operate a saloon at ;Puposky. Several new schools districts were provided for and several road peti- tions were granted. (Continued on Page 8) THE CUB SCOOP THE cus DAWGONE. SUCH & CRUMBY YPEWRITER. - MISSES EWRY OTHER. LET TER - AN ME. There Is Only One Gentleman That Answers That l)escnptmn i Defecfive Paae sen proved up on his homstead in the| town of Cormant and has also made | THREE FARMERS MEETINGS| FORTY cmmm fiom‘ ‘ TBEMIDJI HIGH - SCHOOL DOING UNUSUAL THINGS” Says W. P. Kirkwood In Minneapolis Journal—Tells of Methods Used by I_REFERS TO PLAN AS SIMPLE Agrioultural Writer Says Good Re- sults are Certain—Speaks of Farm School In Complimentary Terms - Methods of W. P. Dyer, superin- tendent of the Bemidji public schools and other members of the high school faculty, in carrying on r&rrh- ers meetings in the various villages ) su;‘roundlné this city, is being no- ticed other than in Beltrami. county, is. shown lengthy article in 1last evening’s Minneapolis Journal by W.. P. Kirkwood, agricultural writer. The article hearity approves of the method is used here and Mr. Kirk- wood says in part. -“Bemidji has found out @ new way of getting town and country folks to- gether, and it is a good way, too. has worked splendidly thus far, and the author of the plan believes it ds gwlng to work still” ‘better in the fu- ture. ” (That is a thing characteris- tic.of Bemidji by the way—that do- ing of things well and looking for- ward to doing -them better.) “The plan referred to, howevyer, is very simple. Heads of certain de- partments of the Bemidji high school have merely organized themselves, or been organized by their superintens dent, W. P. Dyer, into a lecture:and entertainment group. This group goes out to a country school and gives'an evening’s entertainment and ¢ dnstmonon It ‘goes to another aad ; does . the same thing. It makes a BARKER T0 HELP NE_EDY Tound of schools. Then, after a while, the people of the communities ted are-invited to-come into-Be~ mid]i to have a sort of town and county rally at the high school. The ,fieople~mme._ The. business. men of the*town contribute- the materials and the cooking classes of the school prepare refreshments. Over refresh- ments town and country people fra- _ | ternalize to the good of both. Music and recitations help to make evening enjoyable. Work Properly Educational *- “Very simple, isn’t it? One won- ders why all the high .schools in the the state have not been doing something . cf the kind this long time. It is all educational, and, therefore, very pro- perly a part of school work, especial- ly in regions where other extra ed- ucational advantages are very lim- ited. The plan all came about very naturnally in the mind of Mr.. Dyer, a graduate of Hamline university in the twin city midway district. The Bemidji high school has agricultural manual training, and domestic sci- ence departments, under -the direc- ‘tion of enthusiastic leaders. It also has deeply interested leaders in it§ mu- sic and English.departments.” B. M. Gile is at the head of the work in agriculture,”A. D. Bailey of the man- ual training eourse and Miss Hoover of ‘the domestic science department. The music supervisor is Miss Mar- (Continued on Page 8) FOSSTON WANTS GAME Local Manager Finds It Hard To Ob- tain Contests Before Holidays An answer to a letter written to the manager of the Fosston basket ball team was received 'this morning in which. the latter team asks that Bemidji bring them here for a game on December. 26. Owing to the fact that many of the Bemidji players wilt not be in the city on that date the game cannot be scheduled but will be booked later. Many of the teamm in this sectiom of the state have not a city five in the tield this year, and . it is proving a-hard proposition to ar~ range-a definite mhedule Tor the winter. _Ainsmith To Visit Here A. L. Cunningham will arrive form San ‘Antonio, Texas, today and will visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Cunningham, until after the Christmas holidays: He will be ac- ; |companied by his friend, Eddie Ain- ", |smith, ‘'who is = catcher on ' the Wlshdngto D. C. National league team. SO i i i Dyer In Rural Work g