Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 1

T VOLUME 13, NO. 101. BEMIDI, mimo’n, m EVENING, APRIL %7, 1015, SHELLS OFENENY * STRIZS, WHERE LEAST 1~"26CTED Trouble in War Zone is That x. fields Are Hard to Distinguish, Says William Shepherd. GERMANS FAIL TO BRING FEAR Famous Path, Where British Marched to Reach Neuve Chapelle, to Go Down in History. By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. (Copyright, 1915, by United Press) (Copyright in Great Britian.) ‘With the British army in Northern France, April-16.—(By mail to New York.)—A mile back from Neuve; Chapelle, we got out of our auto- mobiles. On our left was a farm house with our right a wayside shrine, the floor covered with straw on which sol- diers sleep at the foot. An English colonel takes three of us in tow. “We'll go in twos,” he said. “Keep your distance apart. They never shell a couple of men, but if they see four of us together, they might try to drop a shell on us.” We passed three ruined farms. In the yard of one, hyacinths are bloom- ing at the doorway of the roofless house. “Now over across this farm,” says the colonel, and we turned off the road and followed a broad beaten path. This path is going to be writ- ten down in history some time. It was beaten down by the feet of British soldiers who marched to the trench that night of March 9 and waited until the signal was given in the morning to rush the trenches, that reach before the village of Neuve Chapelle. Frederick Villiers, who has drawn sketches in 16 wars, and is now in his seventeeth, stops to make a sketch. “If you don’t mind,” says the colonel quietly, *“we won’t stop here. There’s 'a house ahead of us there and we can stop. “Why, are the Germans near here?” askedVilliers: “They are right over there,” says the officer. But he doesn’t hurry us on. He's used to it. The trouble about this war is that " you never know you are on a battle- fleld until spme one Who ‘knows about it tells’ you The English _artillery is booming beliind us; the shells drill their long, -hollow, echoing tunnels through the air. But in all the flat land, broken now and then only by the wrecks of shelled houses, there is not a sign of human life, except ourselves. We reach the shelter of the house and while Villiers does his sketch the colonel says: ‘‘That’s rather a bad sKetch across there. I lose a man every now and then from bullets that fly over the embankments of our trenches. It’s worse along toward evening than it is now, because then the Germans can’t pick out our trench line so well in the gloom, and many of their shots go wild at dusk.” We start off down a road. We come to a porto. Huge piles of sandbags form a gateway and walls of sand- bags stretch to the right and left of the road. We passed through this gateway. On our right we see that the pile of sandbags shift -and run parallel with the roads. GAS BOMBS OF GERMANS PERMIT FEARFUL KILLING (United Press) Paris, April 27.—The first wound- ed to arrive here from the vicinity of Ypres deny emphatically that the German gas bombs kill, and say they merely cduse one to go to sleep. Then the Germans rush forward and mas- sacre the allied soldiers where they lay. STATE DECLINES MONEY. Legislative Omission Stops Payment on Overdue Land Certificates. Failure of the legislature to pass resolutions authorizing state officials to accept payments of principal and interest on overdue land certificates has impelled J. A. O. Preus, state au- ditor, to direct county treasurers not to receive payments on such certi- ficates until permission is granted by the state. <. A resolution in this di- rection passed the senate, but was not reached by the house. The cer- tificates were issued more than 40 years ago ‘and represent the unpaid balances on lands purchased® from the state. “For some reason or other there was Wefault in payments. Mr. Preus now holds 70 of these unpaid certificates;’ on which there is due $13,099.02 as principal. Two of the tracts are loeated in Hennepin coun- ty, 13 in Meeker, 16 in Winona and 9 in Nicollet.” The title to 2,683 the roof blown off, on; HEARING COURT CASES. Judge Wright of Park Rapids to Spend Week in Chambers Here. Judge B. F. Wright arrived in Be- midji from his home at Park Rapids last evening and he expects to re- main here during the next week hear- ng court cases on the calendar of e February. term. Judge Wright, with the exception of several days, presided at the entire term, the last jury case being completed last Fri- day. Judge Stanton is also in Be- midji and he will remain in chambers here until he goes to Grand Rapids to relieve Judge W. S. McClenahan, following the completion of a case which is now on trial. ORDINANCE IS APPROVED Couneil Passes Law Regulating Col- lection and Disposal of Garbage— Is Effective Next Week. CANVASS SPECIAL ELECTION Ordinance No. 76, governing the collection and disposal of garbage in Bemidji was passed by the council at its mceting of Monday evening, and it will be effective next week. The council also canvassed the spe- cial election of Tuesday, April 20, concerning the proposition of a bond issue of $60,000, finding the vote to be 280 in favor of the issue to 48 against; passed a resolution giving authority to make application to the state for the purchase of the bonds; accepted the bid of William Peckles to clean the septic tank for $250 and accepted several road petitions. The matter of establishing a new road from Third street along the lake shore to the bridge leading to Ny- more was discussed. According to the new ordlnance the city is divided into three separ- ate districts. District No. 1 will in- clude that portion of the city south of Fifth street and east of Irvine av- enue, comprising the hotel, restaur- ant and business district. District No. 2 will comprise that section of the city south of Fourteenth street to Fifth street and west -of Irvine avenue to Lake Irving. No. 3 in- cludes all the remaining platted part of the city. Garbage will be collected from the first district three times a week and from the residential distriet once a week. or as.many more .times as.the board of health may require. The third and last reading of the ordin- ance will be made at the next meet- ing of the council. The purpose of the measure is to improve health conditions of the city and to pro- vide ample means for the removal and disposal of garbage. PASS FEW LAWS IN 1915 Last Legislature Undershot 1913 Body’s Mark by 208—Five Amend- ments to Be Submitted Again. 386 NEW MEASURES PASSED The 1915 session of the Minnesota legislature just closed enacted 208 fewer laws than did the 1913 ses- sion, the totals being 386 and 594, according to the records of Secretary of State J. R. Schmahl. The record also was nine less than the 1911 fig- ures. The newspaper supplement con- taining all laws enacted will be ready for circulation Thursday, Mr. Schmahl said. Of these 386 statutes, eight are proposed amendments to the state constitution, which will be submit- ted to the voters at the 1916 elec- tion. These are: No. 1. Authorization the setting apart of $250,000 from the money derived from the sale of state land for a revolving fund to be used in clearing such lands. (Submitted in 1914.) No. 2. Authorizing the election of two additional justices of the su- preme court. (Submitted in 1914.) No. 3. Providing for the loaning of state school funds on improved farm mortgages. (Submitted in 1912 and 1914.) . No. 4. Initiative and referendum. (Continuea on last page). GERMAN SUCCESSES BRING SMALL GAIN False Impression Given Concerning Advance of Kaiser’s Troops—Are Halted West of Ypres. CATAIS 1S THER OBJECTIVE Allied Armies Are Not to Be Sur- prised and Have Called Large Re- serves—Are Ready for Action. By J. W. T. MASON. (Written for the United Press) New York, April 27.—Germany’s further successes near Ypres do not carry the Kaiser’s advance any dis- tance to the west. Reading the of- ficial Berlin report without the aid of a map creates the impression that the Germans have driven the French and British forces still further west- ward and that the German trenches have been advanced a few villages nearer to Calais. Germans Are _Halted. This, however, is not true. The Germans have been halted west of the Ypres canal and the center of the fighting is now five miles to the east. This peculiar situation is the result of the narrow front along which the first German advance last week was made. The Germans are now holding this hard won lane from Langemarck to the Ypres canal and at the same time are attempting to widen it to the south. Secure New" Forces. For this purpose they have brought up new troops southeast of Lange- marck and are trying to drive for- .| ward once more to the Ypres canal along a wider front. The objective, of course, is now “Calais which is nearly fifty miles away over a heavily entrenched Terrain. The purpose cf the advance is now seen to be to force the British out of Ypres. ‘Whether the Germans have determ- ined on a major assault to capture Ypres cannot become known until further efforts have been made. The British have undoubtedly called up large reserves for holding Ypres, and they are no longer in a position to be surprised. If the Germans are to make further advances now, the loss must be very great, as has always happeéned to the attacking side-in the present war. ENGLISH NOTABLES ATTEND MATINEE TO AID HOSPITALS (United Press) London, April 27.—Queen Mary, Queen Alexandria, Queen Ameliat and many other notables attended a mat- inee performance at Drury Lane this afternoon to aid the American Wo- men’s hospital. The members of the nobility paid $500 each for seats. Orchestra stalls sold from $10 to $25 each. Lady Pagel, formerly Miss Mary Stevens of New York, organ- ized and staged the performance. TO AVENGE BROTHER’S DEATH (United Press) San Antonio, Tex., April 27.—An- swering the call of their mother to avenge a brother’s death in the fighting at Hill Point, near Ypres, Major Bequar, a member of the Vil- laist aviation corps, has left for Can- ada, enroute to Europe to join Lord Kitchener’s army. He has already ordered an aeroplane to be shipped from Canada to Europe. His father is a Spaniard and his mother of Eng- lish- birth. COTTON CROP LOOKING UP Dallas, Tex., April 27.—With Europe eating up America’s ‘cotton in the form of guncotton by the thou- sands of pounds, farmers through the southwest are planning this year to plant as much, or more; cotton than heretofore. While at the out- set of the war, many farmers inclin- ed to fell a “never again” spirit, many are now believing that it was advisable to continue heavily on the staple crop. Diversification of crops, however, manifestly has been boost- ed by low cotton prices. Frank Tufts, deputy United States marshal, was in Bemidji on official business "today. SCOO THE CUB REPORTER VHE B05S SUGGESTED L AND USE HIS METHODS ON MY acres is involved -uitil the legisla-| ture straightens ‘out the’ tangle. READ UP ON SHERLOGK HOLMES POLICE REPORTER STORIES usxssons OF COUNTY roml'rmmmv On May first the Jnmn will be-| gin their work and 'on Thursday of this week all the assessors of the county will meet at’ and receive their necessary books and final instructions. . They will be ad- dredsed by James L. George, county auditor. i i MAKES INPORTANT RULING Judge Simons Decides That William Noble Cannot Be Héld on Liguor Introducing Charge, MADE PURCHASE ‘AT Judge H. A. smumn. United States. commissioner, in dismlulng the charge of introducing liquor into In- dian territory brought against Wil- liam Noble, of Blackduck, has made a ruling which will bring additional entanglements into. the problem of enforcing the treaty of 1865, and no doubt will close the saloons of Grand Rapids and several other places. Noble was arrested: several weeks ago by Indian officers; charged with introducing liquor into Indian terri- tory. He was taken before Judge Simons and bail fixed at $500. This morning he was arraigned before the commissioner and evidence was sub- mitted by Attorneys Thayer C. Bailey and Henry Funkley for the defense, showing that the liquor was pur- chased at Grand. Rapids, a point within the boundary of the treaty territory. The point was brought out that as the liquor 'was purchased within the territory that a charge of introduction could not be made to hold the defendant. Judge Simons at once dismissed the-case. Noble is a Blackduck settler and is well known at thab place and in Bemidji. He had hqp’n at Grand Rapids to attend a state land sale and according to the /testimony was returning to his homé with a small quantity of liquor tm‘ his' own use when arrested. The ruling of Judge Simons will probably. cause the government to re- new its closing operations and it seems likely that Grangd Rapids, Chis- holm, Coleraine, Hibhing and.Bovey will next receive u’:a;gnd‘-" s OPERETTA BIG SUCCESS ¢844 “RAPIDS” Bemidji Pupils Please :Large Audi- ence by Clever Presentation- of . “Princess Chrysanthemum.” PRINCIPALS CARRY PARTS WELL “Princess Chrysanthemum,” the three-act Japanese operetta, present- ed in the City hall st evening by sixty pupils of the Bemidji schools, was a great success and was much enjoyed by the large audience which completely filled the hall, Principal parts were splendidly car- ried by Myrtle Neumann, as Princess Chryanthemum; Robert Shaw, as the emperor, What-for-Whi; Alec Cam- eron as Prince So-Tru; Edwin Sim- ons, as Prince So-8li; Charles Hay- craf, as Saucer-Eyes, the wizard cat; George Graham, as Top-Not, and Jane Hayner, as Fairy Moonbeams, the princess’ good genius. The solos were rendered in a most pleasing manner. Exceptionally good was the chorus work, the attractive little fairies, the courtiers, the sprites of “the night, the entire operetta showing careful training and preparation. The play was staged under the di- rection of Miss Margaret Newton, su- pervisor of music in the public schools, and the success of the pro- duction is largely due to her efforts, much praise being due her. Miss Margaret Anderson was the accom- paniest. The stage settings and decorations added to the attractiveness. for Hatchery. - A large shipment of pike eggs from the Tower spawning place of the State Game and Fish commission were received in Bemidji for the local hatchery today. Together with the spawn which is being secured here the jars of the hatchery will be com- pletely filled during the next few days. TCOLERAINE MEETING -T0 BE IMPORTANT Secretary McCarthy Announces Pro- gram for Summer Conference of Northern Minnesota Boosters. GOVERNOR ONE OF SPEAKERS With State Auditor He Will Discuss Attitude of Administration Toward Development of This Section. Officers of the Northern Minnesota Development association are anxious to make the summer conference of the organization, which is to be held at Coleraine June 10 and 11, the largest ever held and with this point in view they have -arranged a program of much excellence for the two ‘day oc- casion. Governor Hammond is to speak on Minnesota development and State Auditor Preus will discuss the “State Lands of Minnesota.” John Moonan of Waseca will have a message and B. F. Faast, an authority ‘on coloni- zation and development generally, is scheduled to speak. Senator P. H. MecGarry is given a place on the pro- gram, as are several: other speakers well known to Northern Minnesota people. Bemidji to Send Delegation. Headed by Frank §. Lycan, vice- president of the association, and B. M. Gile, a member of the agricultural committee, Bemidji is to send a dele- gation to Coleraine, it being the aim of the Merchants ~association and Commercial club to have this city as well represented as possible. Coleraine is planning many enter- tainment features. The Program Announced. George D. McCarthy, secretary, has announced the following program: Thursday, June 10, 10 a. m.—Call to order, President Charles T. Kelley, Menagha. Invocation, Rev. Thomas B. Shorts, Coleraine. Address of welcome, Mayor H. F. Downing, Coleraine. Response, President Kelley. 5 > 'Address, “Rural Credits as a Northern Minnesota Problem,” Pfof. L. D.'H.. Weld, University~ Fl.rm St Paalis Discussion. Appointment of committees. Adjournment. Miss Carney to Talk. 1:30 p. m.—Address, “The Rural School as a Factor in Development,” | Miss Mabel Carney, State Inspector, Teachers’ Training department, St. Paul. Discussion. Address, “The State Lands of Min- nesota,” Hon. J. A. O. Preus, state auditor, St. Paul. Discussion. Address, “The ‘Road Laws of Min- nesota—What Haes Been Done and What Can Be Done Under Them,” C. M. King, Deer River, former president Northern Minnesota Development as- sociation. Discussion. 3:30 p. m.—Visit to mines and washing plant. 4:30 p. m.—Automobile trip to North Central Experiment Station, Grand Rapids. 8 p. m.—Entertainment at city au- ditorium. A party of senators and represen- tatives on a tour of Northern Minne- Charles T. (Continued on last page). COURT TO DECIDE RIGHT TO PRODUCE FIGHT PICTURES (United Press) New York, April 27.—A legal fight to produce the Johnson-Willard fight pictures in this country, was started this morning when lawyers for the moyie concern which secured the fight films, served a demand upon the deputy port collector at Newark, N. J., to admit them. HIT BY TRAIN. Paul Prosinick was struck by a Great Northern freight train at the Great Northern viaduct late this af- ternoon, his skull being fractured. He was walking on the track when struck. His condition is Prosinick claims Chicago as his home. Nix---Watson---Nix On The Needle! FOR SOME LITTLE TIME WIS EXES RESTED H\S SINEWN FORE ARM-ALL AND oo SCARRED FINALLY HE THRUST THE SHARP- TTHE TINY serious. COMMISSIONERS IN SESSION Beltrami County Board Begins Meet- ing—Much Work to Dispose of. With much work to be disposed of ‘the Beltrami county board of com- missioners began their April meeting this morning. All members of -the board were present when the roll was “|called, being Chairman Rako, Len- non, Thompson, Clementson : and Hayes, Most of the morning was ta- ken up in the reading of the min- utes and general routine work and this afternoon the attention of the commissioners was taken up 'in road and bridge discussions. Several road hearings have been set for tomorrow. HOLD FUNERAL THURSDAY Body of Maud Freeman, Bemidji Girl Who Was Drowned at Brainerd, is Brought Home for Burial. AOGmEHT IN SHALLOW WATER That Maud Freeman came to her death.as a result of heart failure, and not drowning, is the belief of her father, Frank Freeman, who returned to Bemidji with the body from Brain- erd last evening. The accident which caused the death of the nineteen-year-old' girl, took place in Gilbert Lake, near Brainerd, Sunday .afternoon, the boat in which she and Boyd Hamil- ton, of Brainerd, were riding, tipping over as they were endeavoring to change seats. - Miss Freeman was a good swimmer while her companion was practically helpless in the water. ‘The boy managed to reach safety and believed that the girl was within reach of the shore when he was hor- ror-stricken to observe.the girl fall and sink in two feet of water. When he reached her she was dead. No water was found in her lungs and it is believed that the ex- citement killed her. Mr. Freeman is heart broken over the tragedy. Maud is -survived by her father, a brother, Leonard, and a half-brother, Walter, 15. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Pres- byterian church, Rev. S. E. P. White officiating. STUDENTS60-T0.{TASCA Juniors of Forestry Department Will Spend Several Months at State Park to Learn Practical Side of Course FRESHMEN FOLLOW IN JUNE Twelve members of the junior for- estry - elass of ‘the State University have gone to the state park at Lake Itasca where they will camp. Their work will be to familiarize themselves with the practical side of forestry problems. The forestry schoel camp in the woods will continue until the latter part of August. The juniors will be followed after examinations in June by the fresh- man class, who will spend the re- mainder of the summer in the woods. A number of advanced students also expected to report at the camp in June. Seniors of the forestry school will complete their courses June 10. The sophomores will be relieved of vaca- tion work in the woods this year. The second year in the forestry course is the only one in which the students have their vacation to themselves. EBRO BOY IS SUICIDE Andrew Rasmusen, 21, of Ebro, Minnesota, a little village one sta- tion west of Bagley, committed suic- ide yesterday afternoon when he hanged himself in the barn of his father, Rasmus Rasmusen, a well-to- do man of that place. No reason is known for the act of the young man. C. G. Johnson of Shooks, is in ‘Be- midji. He will remain here until the latter part of the week, road and ditch hearings making it neces- sary for him to remain. PRYSICAL DEFECTS. BRING FAILURES, SAYSSCHOOLNURSE Mrs. Elizabeth Schrader in Talk Be- fore Club Women Explains Vlhg)l Medical Inspection Among: Pnpih —_— STATE'S RIGHT IS DEFENDED Object to Better Health Conditions Among Students and to Safoguard Mrs. Elizabeth Schrader, the scligol nurse who has spent the past two weeks in the schools of Bemidjt, in an interesting talk before the Woman's Study club yesterday afternoon gut- lined the purpose of her work sund told of the results which have been accomplished in places where the plan of physical examination in the ! public schools has been in force. lln. Schrader said in pert: “The idea of the school nurse or- iginated in-England where-the pro- fession of nursing itself originated tn the work of Florence Nightingale, where district nursing was first es- tablished and whence has come the inspiration of nearly every great de- velopment or advance in nursing. Better Health Conditions. “Medical inspection of schools was first provided for some eighty years ago—forty years abroad, but it im:. only during the past quarter of a cen- tury that it has assumed the propor- tions of a world-wide movement. ““Its object is to better health con- ditions among school children, safe- guard them from diseage and remnder them healthier, happier and more vigorous. It is founded upon a re- cognition of the intimate relation- ship between the physical and ment- al conditions of the children. ThEE: sudden recognition of the imperative necessity for nte—n‘rdln( the phy‘ ical welfare of school childrén grew out of the discovery that compulsory education under modern city condi- tions meant compulsory disemse. Requiremients Advanced. .. ““With the great changes which have been coming over Amerfean Hify former conditions have df We. have changed from an lfllfil tural people to_a race:of dw towns and citfes. \ A sctiool yeir: fiax changed from three months’ m— term to one of five hours per day for ten months during the year. Going to’ school has become not only the normal but required occupation of all children for a considerable num- ber of years. “With the changes in length of school terms and the increase in the number of years of schooling demand- ed of the child has come a great ad- vance in the standards of work re- quired. When the standards were low, the work was not beyond the ca- pacity of even the weaker children; but with close grading, fuller courses, higher standards and constantly and - insistent demands for intellectual at- tainment, conditions have changed. Pupils have been unable to keep up with their classes. “The terms ‘backward,’ ‘retarded’ and ‘exceptional’ have been applied. "School men discovered that the drag- net of compulsory education was bringing into. school hundréds of children who were unable to keep step with their companions and be- cause this interfered with'the ordi- nary administration our school sys~ tem they began to ask why the chil- dren were backward. The school in- spectors helped to find the answer - when they -showed that hundreds of these children were backward simply because of REMOVABLE PHYSICAL DEFECTS. And then came the next great forward step, the realization that children- are not - ‘dullards’ through the will of an inscrutable Providence, but rather through the law of CAUSE and EFFECT. “This led to an extension of the scope of medical inspection to in- clude physical examination of sohool children with the aim of discovering whether or not they were suffering from such defects as would handicap progress and prevent them from re- ceiving the full benefit of the free education furnished by the state. 500 Cities in United States. “This work was in its infaney ten - (Continued on last page.) ATTEMPT TO MURDER GERMAN OFFICER FAILS . (United Fress) 4 Salonika, April. 27 —Dllmhel from Constantinople tell of an at- tempt made to kill Enver Pasha and all Germans who practically rnl‘ Turkey. A clocked bomb was placed to explode ‘when Pasha, General Von . Sanders and General Von Der Golts ' were in council, but the attempt fafl- ed. Attendants place the -blame on a missing chimney sweep, but, how- ever, several of.the attendants m i be(n;mnuredmnnunmmwu e lthe truth.