Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 21, 1917, Page 2

THE BENIDJI DAILY PIONEER 4—— PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY: THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. @. B. CARSON E. H. DENU TELEPHONE 922 . Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter wnder act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer’'s name must wa to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. b h(‘.‘:mmumutlons for the Weekly Pioneer should reach this office not Ilater than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY Six months. - 350 Onemonth. . .cc..c.m. 45 BY MAIL Six months............. 3.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER " i Bk Ten pages, containing & summary of the news of the wee b lished - every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, in OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS fio Daily Pioneer is a member of the United Press Association, ana 1s represented for foreign advertising by the KEEP OFF THE GRASS Bemidji is donning her summer attire and primping in anticipation of entertaining a large number of visitors this summer, more than ever in her history, and it is up to the general public to assist Bemidji in look- ing her prettiest, and one of the most noticeable and most frequent com- ments heard is the utter carelessness of pedestrians and auto and vehicle drivers in walking and driving over lawns and grass plots. Evidence of, this is on every hand and in most every instance it is unnecessary and purely careless and downright indifference. Residents who take pride in the appearance of their home property and the city will work hard to make their parkings attractive and imme- diately a stream of pedestrians commences to cut the corner and tramp upon the parking, defacing the lawn and soon wearing a hard path on the sod or newly created grass bed. And it is discouraging to say the least for the persons who have any pride in the appearance of their homes and premises. A good point in illustration is that cited by Otto Brose, the well known landscape gardener, who was recently at work improving a parking when a woman happened that way and deliberately walked close to where Mr. Brose was at work, her path taking her over the That Mr. Brose was astonished is putting it midly graded and seeded soil. freshly turned, and he politely called the woman’s attention to her thoughtlessness. Her answer was a contemptuous smile. Saving a few steps by defacing parkings and lawns of others is an act which is difficult to condone on the part of the property owner af- fected and he is fully justified. The beautiful and picturesque lake front should also receive thought- ful consideration of vehicle drivers in keeping as closely as possible to the regular drives and not meander all over the grass portion, making a Bat- tenburg pattern on the sod. In other words, KEEP OFF THE GRASS. LET THE GOVERNMENT ACT The foodstuffs of the country are in the hands of a horde of unprin- cipled scoundrels who are sucking the nation dry in their efforts to get rich quick from speculative profits. They will continue to suck and bleed as long as there is a pound or a dollar left unless the government is quick to act. With the young manhood of the nation marching out to war and death, it is a crime against the state for these dastardly leeches to be al- lowed longer to prey upon the helpless public. The government should act without an hour's delay. It should jail every one of them, and if the jails will not hold them there are plenty of lamp posts and limbs that will. We are a peace loving man, but pleading and cajoling will not con- trol the savagery 'of a wild beast. We crush the serpent beneath our heel, but we allow these heartless and soulless baby robbers to thrive in our midst. It is unthinkable—it is intolerable. The food speculator must go. _Let the government act! The Boy Scouts appear to be mobilizing as aids to the commissary de- partment. May they multiply into billions! Many plots %ire being discovered in Bemidji, but few of them are treasonable. The high cost of living has struck Africa. becoming skinny and scarce. They are mostly garden plots. i save the spending of vast sums of Missionaries are probably Pretty soon Germany won't have any relations left. From all reports Hung(a)ry is well ngmed. Noise and a Giraffe. Among the curious characteristics of the giraffe is its strange indifference to loud noises as contrasted with its peculiar “scariness™ with reference to slight sounds. Noisy sounds, like that of a man walking near in hobnailed boots, the giraffe does not appear to notice, but should it be approached by a woman whose skirts give out but the slightest rustle the sound thereof causes the giraffe to start up with pricked ears and eyes distended in fear. Giraffes fear the lurking foe, and a big bang scares them hardly at all. To them the faint, rustling sound is a token of the greatest danger. In that respect they are like deer. s A SR RNPENE A General’s Last Order. It is over a hundred years since Gen- eral Mallet was shot for a conspiracy against Napoleon. The circumstances of his death, told by G. Duval in “Shadows of Old Paris,” were curious. The general had asked that in consid- eration of his past services to the na- tion he migit give the command to fire to the soldiers who were to execute him. *“As they lifted their muskets to take aim the general's practiced eye discovered a want of unison in their movements, which he reproved, order- ing them to repeat it properly, and with the word ‘Fire!” on his lips he fell, pierced by the bullets of twenty mus- kets.” THE BEMIDJI DL(LY PIONEER MONDAY. MAY 21. 1917 Adjoining Towns Should Co-Operate. No growing town can afford to stop planningz at its corporate limits, for . Just outside those limits streets are being laid out and buildings erected - contrary to the city's interest. A lit- tle co-operative planning now would Battefies Are Like Tires (Except tll’nt they cost 4 less and wear longer) ) You wear out only one battery at a time—you wear out four tires. And one bat- tery properly cared for will outlast any set of tires. Battery. care is made easy by Willard Service. You keep it with water, and come in regulasly to let us do the rest. money later to correct the troubles. All the more is this true where two or more towns are close together. The mutual planning of the intervening area is of great importance to each town. Where they touch each other it is sheer stupidity for them not tc get together in planning the areas near their common boundaries. A Boomerang, “You mace a fool of me!” exclalmed the angry husband. “My dear,” calmly rejoined his bet- ter half, “you seem to have forgotten that you have always posed as a self made man.”—Indianapolis Star. Our job is to keep your battery full of pep. Come in, get acquainted | .. We have a battery for your use if yours needs repairs. “S-O-M-E Doughnut!’* “Any time you want real goodies use Calumet Baking Powder! My mother uses it— she’s tricd 2!l others —she’s learned her Jlesson—now she sticks to Calumct. ‘‘ Unequalled - for mzking tender, wholesome, light bak- ings Wonderfal leavening and raising qualities—uniform § results, Mother says Calumet § to buy—most eco- [ Willare SV]CE STAT I IN (Copyright registered, 1917) The Bemidji Storage Battery Co. Willard Service Will Open June 1 A AR KR KRR RKEE RS % “White House” Tea and Coffee * « served exclusively at the & * THIRD ST. CAFE + I'EEEEERE SR R R R & Tomorrow Might Be Too Late! How many times have you thought of visiting the photogra- i pher? Yes, and then overlooked tue matter in the press of other affairs! THIS time, make it certain. COME IN FOR A SITTING TODAY Hakkerup Photographic Studio BEMIDJI. MINN. FUNERAL DIRECTOR M. E. IBERTSON UNDERTAKER 478" . >0 DO v * LG ,. X . » . Portraitists oi Portraits Taken, Particular People Rain or Shine v O 405 Beltrami Awlr!e.. Sixteen Pages of large scale maps showing battle grounds of all belligerents, all coast lines, barred zones, and safety lanes; now being distributed exclusively to readers of the BEMIDJI PIONEER FOLLOW THE FLAG THE ARMY and NAVY A DE LUX SET OF THE FINEST MAPS EVER PRINTED CONTENTS tral tern howing principal railroads Western Russia, Poland and the Russo-German Frontier, show. 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