Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 20, 1915, Page 1

VOLUME 183, NO. 69. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY 'EVENING, MARCH 20, 1915. FORTY CENTS PER MONTH. RADERTELLSOFLIFE INFRENCH TRENCHES Refers to Them as Underground City Filled With Unspeakably Dirty Citizens—Have Street Signs. EVEN MUSIC HALL FOR SOLDIERS Artists in Strange Colony and Many Artistic Tombstones are Pre- pared for Men Killed. Following is one of the eye- witness stories by Phil Rader, an | American newspaper man, who fought with the famous French foreign legion in the trenches for four months. Another story will be published Monday. By PHIL RADER. Copyright, 1915, by United Press. London, March' 1.—How does it feel to live in the trenches? Here's a little recipe by which you may find out. Take a cold damp cellar, flood it with some three to six inches ~f almost ice cold mud. At a height of five feei from the floor, stretch a tan- gle of wires, turn an electric cur- rent into the wires, and let the volt- age be so heavy that every wire will be so deadly as a third rail. Now blow out the light, crawl to the mid- dle of the floor and in the darkness stand erect, trusting to blind luck that your head won’t touch the wires. HNeglecting Duty. These charged wires in the dark- ness reveal the invisably, deadly traits of the bullets that fly over your head in the darkness. Of course, if you want to be safe in the cellar, you can keep your head down, but if you did that in the trenches, you would be neglecting your duty, It is your duty, for instance, to fire eight bullets an hour, while on guard. Watchful eyes of officers will tell whether you are shooting into the air or whether you are firing with your eyes fixed on the enemy’s _trenches and a good sentinel is sup- posed to raise his head above the trenches every ten mihutes to see what is going on. Victor Chapman, a Hardvard grad- uate, who was with me in the tren= ches, was somewhat of a philosopher and he used to say: “The danger of being shot is very small. The trail of a bullet is very small, the space around you, as compared with the trail of a bullet is 1,000,000 to one, so the chances of being hit are in the same proportion.” Was Hit First Day. But it did not work with Chapman at all. He was hit the very first day in the arm. The trenches are underground city filled with unspeakably dirty citizens. They are in a tangle of sunken streets, the houses are holes in the earth and the streets of my district converged in one place where the Americans called “Long ~ Acre Square,” a very exclusive triangle where all officers lived. There are street signs, too, telling how to reach this or that officer's hole in the ground and now and then there are danger signs warning the passersby to keep his head low. It] was a two-mile journey through the trenches from our front to the rear trench and on this journey one would meet and pass many men. The sol- diers always speak to each other at these meetings, just the same as two men pass the time of day on a coun- try road. The lieutenant is prac- tically the mayor of this under- ground city, the sergeants might be likened to policemen. Also a Music Hall, There is trading underway, too. Tobacco is the medium and the store- keeper is a chap who at a certain time may have more of something he does not want and less of some- thing he does. Do you want to go to a music hall? There’s to be a certain dugout in the trenches where the musical men gather. There was in the trenches George Ullard, a negro from Galves- ton, Texas, who played wonderfully on a banjo with one string and in our mud hut there was the music of mouth organs, an accordion and Ul- lard’s banjo every night. The Ger- man trench was only 45 feet away from us at this point and they used to listen to us every evening and cheer us. Tombstone to Prepare. There are many little tasks with which the citizens of trench town busy themselves. You’ll see a man fixing his rifle, another will be re- flooring his hut with straw, another will be rigging a bottle on a stick for the Germans to shoot at, two or three may be preparing a lay figure for a German target. Another may be marking his initials in the sides of the trenches by sticking his empty cartridge shells into the earth. There are artists, too, in this strange colony. Almost daily there was a wooden tombstone or two to prepare. It was (Continuea on last page), ‘Fatalities were heavy at KRR KRR KR X KRR KRN kS * SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES * LA R R R R R TR R R} Methodist. Services in the morning at 10:45. Subject, “Do All Things Work To- gether for Good?” Special music. Sunday school at 12. Jr. league at 3:30. Epworth league at 6:30. There will be no services in the evening, on account of the evangelistic meet- ings in the Baptist church. All are cordially invited to attend. C. W. Gilman, pastor. NEED LAND FORCE AT DARDANELLES Necessity of Serious Infantry Opera- tions in Co-operation With Battle- ship Bombardment Suggested. ATTEMPTED SiiVF.RAL TIMES Presbyterian, Morning worship at 11. Sunday school at the usual hour. Young People’s meeting at 7. There will be no evening service, and the con- gregation will be given an oppor- tunity to hear Evangelist Chapman at the Baptist church. Rev. S. E. P. (Coutinued on last page.) UNION MEETING SUNDAY Methodist Presbyterian and Baptist Congregations Will Attend Evan- gelistic Services Tomorrow. BIG AUDIENCES HEAR CHAPMAN By REV. I. D. ALVORD. Evangelist Chapman preached to a crowded house against last might in the Baptist- church. He empha- sized the fact that no one could be- come a Christian without repentance and he made it very plain to every- one just what repentance means. He said repentance didn’t mean being sorry for your sins and then keen right on committing the same sin. Repentance does not mean straight- ening up your life and joining the church and then drift back into worldly ways again, nor does it mean that a man can become a Christian and not try to make restitution for his past sinful deeds. Repentance does mean sorrow for sins and being so sorry that you will right about face and forsake sin and do that which is right and try as far as pos- sible to make amends for past sinful deeds. Tonight Mr. Chapman will speak on “Christ’s Boundless Compassion.” He will tell the story of a school teacher who won a hundred souls to Christ. Sunday will be a great day. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Mr.- Chap- man wants to meet a large.niimber.of men in in the Men’s class as -he has Every man is.invited to attend. Preaching service at 11 o’clock. Sub- ject, “A Willing Mind.” Mr. Chap- man will speak in the evening at 7:30 on the subject, “A Warning to Young People.” The Methodist and Presbyterian churches unite with the Baptist church in the evening ser- vices. SCORES OF PHYSICIANS RISKLIVES TO END PLAGUE (United Press) Berlin, March 20.—Scores of Ger- man physicians who have volunteered to combat the spotted fever plague in camps where Russian prisoners are concentrated, are risking their lives. Seven German doctors are already dead as a result of the epidemic. first but have now been reduced and a strict quarantine has been placed on the camp. The reductions of plague cases is the result of scientific hand- ling by the German physicians. Rus- sian civilians have not been affected and the only German victims are the guards. On account of strict sani- tary measures, the spread of spotted fever to the army is not feared. ORANGE DAY IN CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles, Mar. 20.—This is Orange Day in southern California and the entire nation has been asked to eat the lucious citrus product of California. In Los Angeles the en- tire city .was given over to King Or- ange. The city council and staid business men vied with each other in selling oranges for charity. There are eight or nine profes- sional pearl traders in Tahiti and the rest of the Society Islands, and nearly every store in Papeete, the capital and principal settlement, Have Always Been Too Weak to Gain Purpose—Men Needed to Drive Germans to Own Frontier. By J. W. T. MASON. New York, March 20.—Necessity for serious land operations in co-op- eration with the battleship bombard- ment of the Dardanelles is now being suggested in London. The delay in adopting this course, as well as the desultory nature of the bombard- ment, indicate that the Allies have gone into the Constantinople adven- ture without preparing in advance for all eventualities. It seems apparent that the cam- paign has been regarded from the first as experimental and as present- ing possibilities of difficulty or sue- cess not predictable at the start. There are reasons which suggest it has been judged necessary in Paris and London to attempt ‘to conquer the Dardanelles with a minimum ef- fort. London’s belief that an’ ex- haustion of ammunition has caused the bombardment to dwindle suggests this interpretation, so does the re- luctance of the Allies to use a large field force against the land de- fenses. Have Been Too Weak. Several landing parties have at- tempted to secure permanent lodg- ments on the Gallipoli peninsula and on the Asiatic side of the strait. But they have been too weak for the purpose. Probably, for the most part, they were marines sent ashore from the warships. Turkish reports that these detachments have been driven back to their ships are sub- stantiated by the lack of success that has attended the land operations. The Turks are now making new military concentrations ‘to defend the Dardanelles forts against field operations. This must mean that the Constantinople authorities have received information of the move- ments of the enemy: transports. something of .interest.to tell the.men.{-Athens-has-reard-that wir drmy” corps is on ité way to the Dardanelles from Smyrna. If this news is true, it probably means that Partev Pasha,, HERE'S CHANCE ; TO KICK WHEN WOXING IS BAD St. Paul, Minn. Mar. 20.—For vears Rep. L. A. Lydiard ate in al- leged boarding houses of Minnesota and suffered. . Then he began t ascend the social scale and finally be- came elected representative. One of the first official acts was to intro- duce a bill which will force cooks in boarding houses and restaurants to pass an examination and secure a license. Cooks not having the offi- cial document may be prosecuted for malpractice. Being drunk for more than six continuous months is suffi- cient ground for revoking the license. Persons having a grevience against any cook may lay it’before the board, which has the authority to call the g |alleged culinary offender before it, and if the allegations of the boarded are proved, the cook’s license may be revoked. BEMIDJI W|‘NSfi; AND LOSES High School Won .ll’lue in Final Series by Defeating'Rush City Last " Night by Score bf 32 to 13. DOWNED BY MOUNTAIN LAKE With every member of the team playing good basketball, but with the strength of its combination weakened by the illness of Cdmeron, its star center, the Bemidji high school bas- ketball quint was eliminated this morning from the state champion- ship tournament which is now in progress at Carleton' college, North- field, when’ defeated by the)clever Mountain Lake five.vthe score being 28 to 35. Mountain Luke secured an advantage in the first haif, scoring: 19 points to Bemidji’s 10, which the local:boys could not overcome, although they counted 18 points to the winning team’s 16 in the final period. In the last half Cameron, who has heen ill for.sev- eral days, was forced to retire from the game, his plice being taken by Claude Bailey, who £ was switched from guard. Georgd Graham, sub- stitute, went in at {guard. Camer- on’s illiess is_not r?garde as, se-; rious. thtm‘ght ‘Bemidji. won a place in the final deries of mday by defeat- ing ‘Rush City, 32 E 13. Mechanic jArts. wAg eliminated. ;aaL night. when. || the team which déféated Bemidji this morning, Mountain Lake, won by a score of 19 to.27. Breckenridge was placed out of the Turkey’s most brilliant military leader, is being put in charge of the Dardanelles land operations. Pertev Pasha has been in command of the Syrmna military district since the war began. He is understood to have been held there for an emergen- cy, such as the present, the Turkish authorities having resisted heavy pressure to put in command of the Egyptian expedition. Made Fine Troops. Petev Pasha made the Smyrna troops the finest in the Turkish em- pire and, if he accompanies his corps to the Dardanelles, the Allies will have, to some extent at least, worthy foemen among their Mohammedan enemies. How strong a land force the Allies can employ in the Dardanelles opera- tions is a difficult question. There is need in France and Flanders for every available man, if an attepmt is to be made to drive the Germans back to their own frontier. Troops sent to the Dardanelles, therefore, must ‘weaken the campaign in the west. For this reason, real danger exists that economics will be made and too few men to subdue the Turks will be sent-to the Levant. PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING AT FRISCO IS DEDICATED San Francisco, Mar. 20.—With former Governor John K. Tener, president of the National League acting as orator and master of cere- |- monjes, the Pensylvania State build- ing on the Panama-Pacific Interna- tional grounds was dedicated today. The most formal event to take running when defeated by Mechanic Arts and Willmar lost to Mountain Lake. Mountain ‘Lake has defeated Willmar, Mechanic Arts, of St. Paul, and Bemidji, and will play Red Wing, the team which defeated Vir- ginia this morning by a score of 30 to 14, tonight for the state champion- ship. Manager Malone of the Be- midji team predicts that Red Wing will win the title. Tournament Results Follow. Mechanic Arts 31, .Breckenridge, 22. Mountain Lake 29, Willmar 25. Red Wing 27, Fosston 21. Virginia 27, Lake City 26. Bemidji 32, Rush City 13. Mountain Lake 27, Mechanic Arts 19. Red Wing 30, Virginia 14. Bemidji 28, Mountain Lake 35. This afternoon a team made up of Julius Bestul, coach of the Bemidji team and a star player of the “Big Bemidg” aggregation,. -and Ralph Brandon, the crack forward of the city team, with Engum of Fosston and two Red Wing players, will meet the Carleton college team. The Bemidji boys, who are regard- ed at Carleton as being equally as good as Mountain“Egke or Red Wing, will return to Bemidji tomorrow. eve- ning. ANNEXATION ELECTION. Los Angeles, Mar. 20.—Whether 120,000 acres in the San Francisco valley, the largest tract ever proposed for annexation to- Los.Angeles will ask for admission to the city is today place at the Pennsylvania building'bemg passed upon by the voters of will be held on Septmber 4, the an-; niversary of the first meeting of the Cincinnati Congress. For that oc- casion Governor Braumbaugh and other state dignataries will - be buys pearls or takes them in trade. SCOO REPORTER THE CUB- present. the valley. If they favor annexation Los Angeles citizens will vote upon it. In the race of life rascality often appears to be the best sprinter. The Bizauss 0f Stoppmg A Runaway SPECIAL ELECTION ON BOND ISSUE 10 BE HELD APRIL 20 Council Passes Resolution Which Will Give City Voters Opportunity to Approve Sale of $60,000 Bonds. . $55,000 TO RETIRE WARRANTS Remaining $5,000 Will Be Turned In- to Permanent Improvement Fund —Indebtedness Smaller. On Tuesday, April 20, a special election will be held in Bemidji for the purpose of voting on a bond issue of $60,000. This was definitely decided last night when the council passed a reso- lution to that effect. The resolu- tion, drawn by P. J. Russell, city at- torney, and passed by Aldermen Ly- can, Bailey, Smart, Miller, Phillippi and Foucault, follows: The Resolution Passed. “At a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Bemidji, in the county of Beltrami and state of Minnesota, held on the-15th day of March, 1915, and thereupon a quorum consisting of a. majority. of all the members thereof being pres- ent, Thomas Smart, a member there- of, offered the following resolu- tion and moved its adoption: “Resolved, that in the opinion of the City Council of the City of Be- ‘midji in the county of Beltrami and state of Minnesota, it is expedient to issue to the State of Minnesota the honds of said City of Bemidji to the aggregate amount of $60,000,- of which sum $55,000 is to pay out- istanding city warrants, and $5,000 for permanent improvements fund, to bear interest at the rate of four (4) per cent per annum. Due Notice Given. “That the proposition of issuing said bonds be submitted to the elect- ors of said City of Bemidji at the special election to.be held therein on Tuesday, the 20th day of April, /1915, and that due notice thereof be given as required by law. This mo-| tion was duly seconded by Alderman Foucault, a member of said governing Mature in Five Years. . The first $4,000 of the bond issue will mature in five years, July 1 1920, like sums becoming due an- nually until and including 1934. Stein Preparing Report. George Stein, city clerk, is busy preparing his annual report which will be completed early next week. The report shows that at the begin- ning of the fiscal year the total ac- tual indebtedness was $97,861.76, while a year ago it was $98,333.04, a small reduction having been made. This report will show that had the $10,000 lost by the taking away of liquor licenses been obtainable that the financial condition of the city would at this time have been ‘most favorable. Based on 6,000 Population. According to figures quoted by Clerk Stein, based on a city popu- lation of 6,000, the per capita actual indebtedness of Bemidji is now $16. 31. In 1913 it was $16.35 and in 1912 it was $17.65. SUNDAY SCHOOL TEAM LOSES. Presbyterian Five Beaten by Bagley High School—Score 12 to 48. By a score of 48 to 12 the basket- ball team of the Presbyterian church was defeated by the High school quint of Bagley in that city last evening. The Bagley boys played a fast and clever game and completely outclass- ed the Sunday school boys. The Be- midji team comprised Harold Hayner, Earle Riley, D’Arcy McGhee, Russell Brooks and Glenn Conger. Hovey Lord, George Walker and Lamson ac- companied the team to Bagley. CARDINAL REPORTED DEAD. (Unitea Press) dispatches which have been received from Rome, Cardinal Agliardi is dead. London, March 20.—According to |soldiers have DALTON CAFE TO OPEN. Will Renew Business Operations With New Furnishings and Added Room. Thoroughly remodeled and en- tirely repaired- in every respect, the Dalton Hotel and Restaurant, which a month ago was visited by a $4,000 fire, will be opened to the public next Monday. morning. The new cafe is larger and more up-to-date than the establishment operated before the fire. Convenient pie and cake cab- inets have been provided and other furniture of the testaurant will be of walnut and mahogahy. The cafe will be lighted by a series of frosted electric lights along the - edges of the ceiling and a large globe in the center of the room. The second story of the building, used as a hotel, has been entirely remodeled, many improvements being made. COUNCIL NAMES JUDGES Officials to Have Charge of Bond Issue Special Election Selected by Alder- men of Four Wards, POLLS OPEN 6 A. M. TILL 9 P. M. Following the passing of a reso- lution which will cause a special elec- tion to be held on April 20 for the purpose of voting on a bond issue of $60,000, the city council selected the judges who will be in charge of the polls. The selections follow: First ward—F. S. Arnold, E. R. Getchell and George Kirk. ing place will be at Miller's grocery store, Beltrami avenue, between Eighth and Ninth streets. Second ward—A. A. Carter, John Williams and E. J. Gould. The poll-; ing place will be at the fire hall, Minnesota avenue and Fourth street. Third ward—P. M. Decaire, Charles Wintersteen and H. A. Whitney. The | polling place will be at the log house ' in’the rear of Decaire’s grocery store, Twelfth street and Irvine avenue. Fourth ward—H. E. Anderson, John Croon and Joe Anderson. The polling ‘place will be at Dailey’s Em- ploymeut Bureau, Second street, be- tween Minnesota ‘and_Beltrami enues. ; George Stein, city clerk, said this av- mg:ning that the polls will be open from 6 in"tNe morning until 9 at ALLIES AGAIN ENTER DARDANELLES NARROWS (Unitea Press) London, March 20.—Various re- ports which have been circulated saying that Admiral Carden, com- mamder of the allied fleet at Darda- nelles, is dead or badly wounded, is [denied by the British admiralty. It stated that the loss of the Ocean and the Irresistible and the sinking of the French cruiser Bouvet are the only losses sustained. Dispatches this afternoon reported that the allied fleet has again enterad the Dardanelles narrows and has re- [sumbed the bombardments of its for- tifications. Officials report that Ad- miral Carden is sick and has been succeeded by Read Admiral Dere- back. 300 Men Killed. London, March 20.—Dispatches re- ceived here this afternoon further strengthen the belief that Admiral Carden has been killed or wounded. Over 300 men, including several of- ficers, were killed aboard the In- flexible. Warships again entered the straits yesterday afternoon and resumed bombardment, but were forced to withdraw this afternoon on account of bad weather. GERMANS LEAVE TRAIL OF ASHES IN POLAND MARCH (United Press) Petrograd, March 20.—Germans in Poland are leaving behind them a trail of ashes while being pressed back toward the Prussian.frontier, says the latest semi-official statement here this afternoon. The Kaiser’s destroyed property worth $500,000,000, it is alleged. Let a want ad help you. By "HOP” The poll-i Now, it seems to a large extent, that { terprises. MORE PROSPERITY INMINNESOTATHAN ANY OTHER STATE Congressman Lindbergh, in Bemidji Today, Says Reasons are Abundant for Flourishing - Conditions,, — MANY RESOURCES AN AID “No Place. Anywhere Which Offers Better Inducements to Those Seek- ing Farms in Northern Section.” “Minnesota as a whole, presents the most evident prosperity of any of the states I have recently observed,” said C. A. Lindbergh, congressman of this district; who has just return- ed to Minnesota from Washington where he attended the Congress who with his daughter, Miss Eva, a member of the faculty of the Akeley public schools, was a Bemidji business visitor this morning. The congress- man took a rather round-about route in returning to Minnesota as he de- sired to inquire into business and social conditions of the nation. “Money is plentiful in some quar- ters,” he continued, “‘but there is {much hesitation ‘about starting en- In New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia as in most of the other large cities, building opera- tions' were forced to cease for some time, because no money was available. builders themselves are not so anx- ious to go ahead, nor so anxious to accept proferred money, but are ymarking time and awaiting develop- ments generally. In other words, there is a waiting period on. People are philosophical and not panicky. Activity is due to come before long junless some new unfavorable emer- gency develops to discourage it. Prosperity Here. “There are abundant reasons for Minnesota’s prosperity. It is because of the great variety of its resources as well as their-individual import- ance.” Everyone knows that our greatest resources are agricultural. But there are some other states as, great in agricultural resources a# own. - So it is not agricultural re- sources * alone™ that ‘make dur pres- ent industrial condition better than others. We have the’ greatest™ifon- ore properties—more than all the rest of the country combined. These, however, are not very active just now, but every little helps. Our tim- ber interests are also important. Now in our state, each of these great re- sources reinforces the. other and all combined afford a diversity of em- ployment of labor and capital and render our own cities comparatively more prosperous than most of those outside of Minnesota. No Better Inducements. “Another thing I must mention. There is no place anywhere which offers better inducements to those seeking homes and farms and many are finding this out and coming to us. For general farming, Northern Minnesota offers to the actual set- tler the greatest advantages of any new section. Lands here are cheaper in proportion to their actual value than in any other place that has come under my observation. In fact, I do not believe that any section of the United States is better at this time. In twenty years, lands will be worth ten times what they can now be pur- chased for, and in the meantime, they will afford the settler a profitable re- turn for his labor. “It is not because of any prejudice in favor of Minnesota that I speak thus in favor of our state. Nonm- residents who understand the condi- tions hege, believe the future outlook for Minnesota to be most favorable. Becoming More Impressed. “The social problems of the coun- try are becoming more and more in- pressed upon the minds of the peo- ple. The next decade will be far more intense than the last, and even that one was a record-breaker. I mention this because some seem to think that the finer problems in poli- tical economy are about to give way to an era of unprecedented business activity. We should not lose sight of that fact that, fundamentally, business is done for the convenience of humanity—to make our lives more agreeable and more generally useful and that our mission on earth is not to get rich quick, or simply live to do business. An empty dinner pail creates a gnawing sensation for im- mediate relief and almost anything 1s acceptable which promises relief. Yet there is more than one way to fill a dinner pail. It7is far better (Continued on:last.page). RUSSIANS TAKE MEMEL. ZEmeE _(Unitea Press) 5 Petrognd, March. 20.—The Rus- sian war department is- conducting which closed several days ago, and .