Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1914, Page 4

COVERNMENT T0 PROBE DISASTER Inquiry Iato Lossl of the Monroe Ordered. DEATH LIST FORTY-ONE Nineteen Passengers and Twenty-two Members of the Crew Perished When Liner Was Sent to the Bot- tom Following Collision at Sea. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 2,—Whether the loss of life in Friday’s sea tragedy off the Virginia peninsula, when the steamer Monroe was sent to the bot- tom in collision with the Nantucket, might have been prevented is trou- bling seamen, K While the government investigation to place responsibility for the wreck has not been started, officials of the Old Dominion line are blaming Cap- tain Berry of the Nantucket for at least an error of judgment. His ac- tion In signalling full speed astern immediately following the smash pull- ed the Nantucket's bow out of the rent in the side of the Monroe and let the water in, they say. Had he simply reduced speed and kept the two vessels locked everyone on the Monroe could have clambered on to the Nantucket before the Old Domin- ion liner finally went to the bottom, is their claim, Officials of the Merchants and Miners’ line say Captain Berry acted with a complete regard for the rules of the sea. They say that when the entire truth becomes known their commander will be cleared ‘of all blame. The revised list of the .missing showed that the death toll claimed by the Atlantic was forty-one. Of these nineteen were passengers and twen- ty-two members of the crew. Most of the survivors are so far recovered from their terrible experi- ences that they are planning to start for home. A few are still in the hos- pital. Lost Steamer Recently Examined. Despite denials by officials of the line the rumor prevails here that the Monroe was inclined to top heaviness. The federal steamship service, how- ever, examined the Monroe only three months ago and passed her. Passengers refused to blame either Captain Johnson or his men. They said they did everything possible, but that the time between the crash and the sinking of the Monroe was so short it was impossible to do more than was done. Discipline, the pas- sengers assert, was never relaxed. Secretary of Commerce Redfield wired the federal inspectors that the inquiry must be thorough and that all responsibility must be fixed. Why the commanding officers of the two ves- sels did not hear the fog signals of each other is unexplained. Both as- sert their automatic whistles were working. Wrecking tugs are still for bodies and wreckage. The revenue cutter officials have marked the spot with a light and a buoy and will probably blow up the wreck next week, as mariners gen- erally agree that there is no hope of raising the smashed craft. First, however, an attempt will be made to send divers down to see whether there are any bodies there which can be removed. GIVES LIFE TO SAVE WOMAN Operator on Lost Vessel Straps His Preserver on Her. New York, Feb. 2.—Ferdinand Kuehn, chief wireless operator on board the liner Monroe, which went down to the bottom of the sea after she had been rammed by the Nan- tucket, who took off his own life pre- server and strapped it around a wom- an just as the steamer Monroe start- ed to sink, lived with his parents in the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Kuehn, and his twelve-year-old sister. As a schoolboy he had learned the principles of wireless telegraphy suf- ficiently to rig up an apparatus of his own at his home. It was with this homemade appa- ratus that he learned telegraphy. GIRL 1S FOUND NOT GUILTY Accused of Killing Duluth Man at San Francisco. San Francisco, Feb. 2.—Miss Leah Alexander, charged with the murder of J. D. Van Baalen, an advertising man, formerely of Duluth, Minn., Oct. 18 last, was found not guilty by a Jury. Van Baalen was shot down in his office in a downtown building by Miss Alexander, who said that he had wronged her under promise of mar- riage. Van Baalen was married, and his family lives in Milwaukee, Wis. searching Slayer of Three Surrenders. Jacksonville, Ill, Feb. 2—When John Henry, slayer of Charles Ezard, Edward Crain and Craiu’s five-year-old son at Woodson, four days ago, was brought to the county jail here after giving himself up county authorities expressed the belief that his family had known of his whereabouts since the killing and were trying to shield him. Efforts to get him to make a statement have failed. St. Louis, Feb. 2—Two negroes armed with revolvers held up a crowd- ed street car in the heart of the thea- ter section here, fled with the conduc- tor's money belt and finally were cap- tured after a battle with the car crew and a squad of policemen. Found With Sister’'s Body. Los Angeles, Feb. 2—Miss Nanette ‘Warren, a middleaged woman, was found apparently demented in her apartment here, alone except for the body of her sister, Mary Warren, who Bad been dead apparently three weeks. WOULD CONTROL WIRE UTILITIE Burleson Urges Purchase by Government. ONLY METHOD OF RELIE Says Reduction in Rates and Improved Service Would Follow Federal Own. ership of the Telegraph and the Telephone. " Washington, Feb. 2.—Postmaster General Burleson submitted to the senate the recommendations of the departmental commniittee appointed by him to investigate the practicability of government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines. The report declared that “the only way to afford to the people the com- plete and modern postal facilities that the Constitution makes it the duty of the government to provide” is by car- rying out these suggestions: “One—That congress declare a government -monopoly over all tele- graph, telephone and radio communi- cation and such other means for the transmission of intelligence as may hereafter develop.” “Two—That congress acquire by purchase at appraised value the com- mercial telephone net work, except the farmer lines.” . “Three—That congress authorize the postmaster general to issue, in his discretion and under such regula- tions as he may prescribe, revocable licenses for the operation, by private individuals, associations, companies and corporations, of the telegraph service and such parts of the tele- phone service as may not be acquired by the government.” United States Behind. The report states that the United States is “alone of the leading nations which has left to private enterprise the ownership and operation of the telegraph and telephone facilities” and that practically all of the econo- mists who have treated the subject are agreed - that telegraph and tele- phone facilities should be controlled by the government. It is declared further that Theodore N. Vall, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, by his statement that the telephone busi- ness must be “under common control” and “sufficiently strong to constitute practically one system, intercommuni- cating, interdependent, universal,” has himself pointed out that the most efficlent telephone service can be at- tained only under condition of mo- nopoly. “The private monopoly has no incen- tive to extend its facilities to um- profitable territory,” says the report, “but the government must serve all the people. This universal service is accomplished by the equalization of rates. In fixing rates the policy of this government is to superimpose no charge for taxation, but only to see to it that the service as a whole is self-supporting. “It is obvious that the longer the acquisition by the government of these facilities is deferred the greater will be the cost.” DIGGS IS AGAIN ACCUSED Warrant Issued Charging Attack on Young Girl. San Francisco, Feb. 2.—Local au- thorities are awaiting the surrender of Maury I. Diggs, former state archi- tect, for whom a warrant was sworn out charging an attack on a young girl. v He is under bond pending a hearing on a bill of exceptions before the United States circuit court of appeals in connection with recent conviction under the Mann act. = The present warrant against Diggs was sworn to by Mrs. Elizabeth Pear- ring, on behalf of her daughter, Ida, seventeen years old, and New Year's eve is the time named. “My son has not been away from home in the evening for months,” said Diggs' father, when told of the new trouble. “The charge is simply impossible.” WOMEN ARE VERY INDIGNANT Ball Is Postponed h_y Ban on Slit Skirts. Budapest, Feb. 2—In consequence of the order issued by Field Marshal Fekete, commander of the garrison here, that women would not be allow- ed to appear in slit skirts at any functions of the officers’ corps, all the ‘women who had been invited to a mili- tary ball at the Casino refused to at- tend. The ball had to be postponed. One indignant woman said in an in- terview: “We obey the commands imposed by the Paris and Budapest modistes, but will not obey the com- mander of a garrison. Besides we like slit skirts.” 2 Railroad ‘Traffic Hampered. Chicago, Feb. 2.—A snow storm over Illinois, Indiana and Ohio caused much delay to railroad traffic and tele- graph and telephone service wasbad- ly hampered. In the lake region of Indiana and Ohio the snow turned tc sleet and many wires were prosirated. VANDERBILT BOAT WRECKED Probably Destroyed Off Colombian Coast, Saya Message. New York, Feb. 2—Frederick W. Vanderbilt’s magnificent yacht War-| rior, stranded off the coast of Colom- bia, probably has been destroyed. This was the information received by the United Fruit company in a ca- ble message from its representative at Colon. The company’s liner Almi- Sacred Deer. . From time immemorial deer have| been held in reverent regard by the Japanese. Herds are kept in com-| pounds, and the highest respect is paid to the animals, In olden times the shogun gave the “people such a strict order to protect the sacred ani- mals that if any one bappened to hurt or kill them he was put to death on' the spot. It was a period of terror. Even at the present day the deer are 80 tame and abundant in the shrine grounds that they in fine weather stroll round to the streets by twos and threes and surround passersby, asking for food and even taking the persons’ sleeves in their mouths affectionately. Once a year some of the deer are caught by means of a net with a han- dle by several tamers (in service of the Kasuga shrine office) and taken to an inclosure, where their splendid horns are cut off with a saw, while a crowd of spectators watch the work ‘with breathless interest (admission 10 sen, equal to about 5 cents). This done, some of the sacred horns are, as a custom, awarded to the spectators by means of lottery. Disillusion. 3 The unmarried woman who shall be the subjeét of this anecdote was fixing herself up to go out in the evening. A certain man was going to call for her, and though the occasion was somewhat spoiled by the fact that they would have to take her little niece along she nevertheless took the usual care of her complexion, hair and eyes, for the man was trembling on the verge of a proposal.” The trio—auntie, auntie’s beau and auntie’s niece—walked along the street until they came to one of those all night photograph. galleries. You know how awful a person looks standing in the ghastly glare of the mercury tube lights that they put in the windows of such places? Well, they paused in that awful greeny-yal- lery light. And the little niece said to auntie’s beau: “Oov-ooh, look! Auntie looks just like she does when she first gets up in. the wmorning!”’—Cleveland Plain. Dealer. Sitting Cross Legged. Fully 80 per cent of the men and women who travel in the trains and street cars sit cross legged, and this habit s responsible ior many ills, ac- cording to a prominent London physi- clan. The prime objection against this habit, he says, is that the return flow of blood from the leg Is stopped at the knee, the result being that the veins in the leg swell up. All the welght is thrown on one side of the body, and the under leg goes to sleep owing to the pressure put on the sci- atlc nerve. The body should be equal- ly balanced. Then there is another danger. Too much crossing of the legs is sure to bLring lopsidedness. Let the legs rest limply. In that way the mus- cles become eased, while the flow into and the return of blood from the legs is naturally done and the body is equally balanced. Rats as Food. Rats form a favorite dish in China. Split open, dried, pressed and powder- ed with a finely ground white bark. they look somewhat like haddocks as they hang in long strings over butch ters’ stalls. Dr. Arthur Stradling once declared that “rats would be not only wholesome. but very nice, If properly prepared—not common sewer rats, but such as I ate, barn fed animals snared in a hop garden. The flesh, though perfectly white, dry and tasteless. But then they were only skinned. cleaned and submitted to the fire with- out any of the et ceteras which make other meats savory. Admiral Beau- fort and other arctic explorers speak highly of rats as a whosesome addi- tion to their supply of food in those dreary latitudes.”—Chicago News. 3 Easy Economy. Speaking of economy in the home, a prominent charity worker sald: “There was a lot of truth in the re- mark of the poor, harassed east side housewife whose husband complained: “‘I wish you would be mote econom- ical, Mary. Look at the boss’ wife, how economical she is!” “‘Yes,” Mary replied, ‘it's easy enough for the boss’ wife to be eco- nomical. She's got plenty to be eco- nomical with.” "—Exchange. One In the Family Was Enough. Brown insisted on returning the twenty dollar parrot he had bought a few days before. “Wiy, what is the matter with it?” the dealer asked. “W-w-why,” replied Brown, “the d-d-darned c-c-critter s-s-st-stutters!”— Everybody's. Different Methods. One orator in New York says that his understanding about it is that if you “call a man a lar in the south he will shoot at you, in the west knock you down, but in the east he’ll bet youi a quarter you can’t prove it.”"—Augus- ta Chronicle. Clever Chap. Mamma—Willie, didn’t 1 tell you not to eat any more candy tonight? Small Willie—I'm not eating it. mamma; I'm just sucking the juice out of it.—Chi- cago News. The Impossible. “Is he as important as he thinks he is?" “My goodness, no! No man is as important as that”—Detroit Free Press. Sleep. riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.—Rich- ter. ¢ rante took the Vanderbilt party off | the stranded yacht and later returned- to save the crew. 3 5 Warfleld, giving it tells how terrible it Is from the actor’s point of ¥iew to be:hissed: “I mext appeared at the Wigwam; telling stories’ and giving fmitations. 1 came a terrible cropper, something fearful! "I was second in the bill, ‘which is the worst place but ont. 1 shall never forget the anxiety 1 felt' on that .occasion as I stood in the wings waiting for my turn to go on. At last I appeared before the foot- lights. The audience was drifting in, chuffling in in a desultory way. I could not get its attention. It was awful, awful. The few friends I had there applauded me, but the others hissed. It sounded as if 10,000 steam pipes had burst. A hiss to a sensitive man— and all actors are sensitive since all are vain—is like the strike of a rat- tlesnake. It is 8o venomous, so cruel, 80 unnecessary! It is as if you had done the people out in front an injury with malice prepense instead of having sincerely tried to please them. You don't even dare to face your own mother; you're so dreadfully guilty.” Got on Dangerous Ground. Telling of his experience in Jolo, in the Philippines, a writer in the New York Times says: “When I was first picking up some .of their language there ran toward me one day a hand- somely dressed little boy, his mother following at a distance. 1 picked.the boy up and asked his mother how much he was worth. I thought it an utterly harmless way of attempting a civility. - But the scream the mother let out, followed by a quick rushing of men with knives from all the huts roundabout, soon convinced me I had offended seriously. A priest of their faith, who had been giving me lan- guage lessons, was Idckily among the first to arrive. I explained to him I had meant nothing wrong. He in turn explained to me that bartering in chil- dren was very much of a reality among them and, more than that, that it was not the custom for any man ever to address a remark to their women at all. T had doubly offended, as the child was a datto’s son, and only the children of the low and en- slaved were for sale.” Wedded Eyebrows. In Turkey meeting eyebrows. are greatly admired, and the women use artificial means to bring the brows to this condition, and if art cannot induce thin eyebrows to grow they make up by drawing a black line with paste. It would appear that the Greeks ad- mired brows which almost met, and the fashionable inhabitants of Rome not only approved of them, but resort- ed to pigments to make up the lack which sometimes existed. Some proverbs state that the person ‘whose eyebrows meet will always have good luck, while others state exactly the reverse, The Chinese say that “people whose eyebrows meet can nev- er hope to attain to the dignity of a minister of state,” and in Greece of today the®man whose brows meet is said to be a vampire, while in Den- mark and Germany it is sald he is a werewolf.—London Spectator. Don't Scratch a Mole. Dr. Jean Dartier, speaking before the French Assoclation For the Study of Cancer, referred to the tregic. pos- sibilities of the innocent looking mole. “Scratch a mole,” he sald, “and you may catch a cancer.” Some moles were harmless and some were potentially poisonous, he con- tinued. - The only wise course was to leave well enough alone and resist the temptation to scratch the mole. Warts and wens should be'borne patiently lest worse befall their possessors. Dr. Dartier told of a man who by cauter- izing a barmless wart on his hand transformed it into a cancer. Met Its Match. A cyclone visited the negro quarters in an Alabama mining camp several years ago. * It tumbled down the cab- ins and not one joist or sill was left standing. Uncle Joe was the only one who came through the visitation un- scathed. “Yas, sub,”" he said, “I hea’d dat win' comin’ through de bresh, an’ 1 seen it, an’ I felt it, an’ I knew it was er slykone—an’ I's de onliest pusson in dat settlement whut could say, ‘Heah she comes,’ an’ ‘Dar she goes!"” —New York Post. National Conversations. If you see three men standing to- gether on the sidewalk in any given country, you can guess the subject of their conversation. In Germany it is the army; in Russla, the bureaucracy; in France, women; in the United States. business; in England, sport, and in Turkey nothing at all.—Brussels Journal. His Manifold Aspect. -~ Small Boy—Mamma, is it really true that the devil has horns and a club foot? The Mother—Ah, my dear, sometimes the devil appears in the shape of a very handsome and charm- ing young man! Small Boy (pityingly) —Oh, mummy, you're thinking of Cupid!—London Punch. Only One Mood. Inquisitive Friend—Don’t. you find that your wife is very subject to moods? Enpeck—No; she has only one mood; the Ymperative.'and I'm the one that’s subject to that!'—Judge. = - Heart and Hard. The surname Heart is really a cor- ruption of Hard.> which was a name given to show that the owner was a man of firm character and resolute bearing. * Life Is measured by experience and not by yrars.—Latin Proverb. ok o ok ticles of matter, however small or- in- visible, is the theory that an Ameri- can astronomer has evolved through the study of comets. 5 His theory is based upon the fact that all bodies fall at the same rate in a vacuum, but in' the open air light- er bodies are retarded by friction and fall at a slower rate. If interstellar space were a vacuum all stars, com- ets and planets would keep the same relative position and speed. But if it were not a vacuum the lighter celestial bodies, such as comets, would tend to be retarded by friction and fall be- hind the larger and denser bodies. This retarding wouid be most no- ticeable at the part of the comet's orbit which is farthest from the sun, and the comet would tend to change its movement at this point and as- sume an individual direction. This hypothesis seems to be borne out by his observations.—Popular Mechanics. Rough Training at Eton. Early in the last century many boys at Eton, England, bad to undergo a rough training. An old Etonian who left the school in 1834 describes his experiences there as “worse than that of many inmates of a workhouse or Jail. To get up at 5 on freezing win- ter mornings; to sweep their own floors and make their own beds; to go two by two to the pump for a scanty wash; to eat no mouthful of food until 9-a. m.; to live on an endless round of mutton, potatoes and beer, none -of them too plentiful or too good; to sleep in a dismal cell without chair or table |? —such was the lot of boys whose par- ents could not afford to pay for a pri- vate room. Some of these underwent privations that might have broken|$ down a cabin boy aud would be thought inhuman if inflicted on a galley slave.” Ancient Egyptians. That the ancient Egyptians were not negroes is certain, and it is equally certain that they did not belong to the|; Semite or Jewish r Professor Huxle; am not aware that there are living people whe resemble them, except the Dravidian tribes of central India and the Austra- lans, and 1 have long been inclined to think that the latter are the lowest and the Egyptians the highest mem- bers of a race of mankind of great antiquity, distinet alike from Aryan and Turanian on the one from negro and negrite on the other.” In a word, nobody degree of -assurance men the builders of the were.—New York Amervican. Said the late breed of pyramids Explorer's Remarkable Feat. Sir James Barrie’s alfection for ex- plorers is no new thing, All who know his “Edinburgh Zleven™ will remember the eulogy of .Joseph Thomson, the Dumfriesshire Scot, who did pioneer work of the Livingstone kind in—Af- riea. It is a fine pen picture of a dour, brave man, but it has flashes of the early Barrie. This, for example: “Perhaps his most remar le feat consisted in taking a bottle of brandy it back intaci gowW News. Your Silver Teapot. ‘When the inside of a silver teapot starts to tarnish the following idea is very good to make it look like new: Put a large piece of washing the teapot and fill with boiling water. Then boil it for one hour over a spirit lamp and you will find It will become as bright inside as out, and the sods will not injure the silver in any way. His Chief Objection. Turning to the newspaper repor who was his passenger, the aviator exclaimed: “It’s all off; the propeller is broken and we are doomed to fall 6,000 feet!” “Great guns!” cried the reporter. * hope we don't fall into the water. can’t swim a stroke!”—Lippincott's. Strength In the Arms. Equality of strength in both arms occurs almost twice as frequently with ‘women as with men, more men than ‘women being stronger in the right arm than in the left. 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