Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 27, 1917, Page 2

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The significance of these figures are not grasped until we learn that of the pupils attending high school in this country not more than one per cent ever reach the college or university. ‘When we assimilate the further fact that the high schools do not and can not impart a working knowledge of the Latin language, we begin to appreciate the utter foolishness of an educational system that forces upon children the study of a dead language from which not one in 7,000 will ever benefit. The above figures may vary in other states—we hope they do. But they serve to call forcibly to our attention a glaring fault in the school system of the United States. Any system that requires boys and girls (who in many cases can ill afford the time and means to attend even a high school) to waste from a quarter to a fifth of their school life on a study that will never benefit them in life’s struggle, is not a blunder—it is a CRIME. Consider again. Of the 7,000 studying Latin, there are omnly 700 studying agriculture. These figures also may vary in other states, but still any one familiar with the school system of this country knows that the proportion of our rural boys and girls who secure a competent educa- tion in agriculture is lamentably small. And what is the conclusion? Why, that we are wedded in our schools to a fossilized, petrified and antiquated system that ordains a language that in order to acquire an ‘“education’” one must be conversant with a language that is so everlastingly dead it has not been generally spoken on earth in the last thousand years. And this while the crying, burnings needs of the hour are sidetracked as of minor importance. * It is time for the rural population of our country to arise in their [ % might and DEMAND that the schools cease educating their children away * from the farm. » The professions are overcrowded, and the trades are in even worse : condition. The farmer’s job is the only one in the land that promises x a career without the paralyzing competition to be met in other lines. Yet instead of being trained for efficiency in this great calling our youths * are compelled to fritter away thei_r_ time on a course of study that, to be * in any sense beneficial, must be followed through the college or univer- * sity—which the very smallest per cent of them ever reach. The day of the antiquarian, the dreamer, the mummy, is past in this country. The age demands ACTION, and the mind that is not trained to it in capital letters is doomed to be left at the starting wire. TRR AR A AR KA R AR RAAAR & x K& LR 552 DONT TALE. PEACE TO THEM In a dispatch sent out from Washington Satm‘day, it was stated that peace talk didn’t listen good to Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro, éven the vatican explanation failing to move them. \ud one can hardly blame these little countries who have felt the crushing blows of the powerful nations of Germany and Austria. Of all the cruelties and misery and ravages ever sustained by small nations what has been done to these three helpless small countries is brutalit y supreme. Belgium, invaded and torn to shreds, its people outraged and taken captive, suffering all the tortures of fiends, the word of Germany a ‘‘scrap of paper,” so confessed by her ruler, looking for peace with no redress? | The best she can expect is restoration by force after a thorough subjica- tion of her violator? It's a hard problem but one which calls for more than mere peace. Who of us would ‘“turn the other cheek” in such a problem? The German people are not at fault but is the fault of the inhuman monster who rules them with an iron heel and who should be made to suffer for his sins, but no adequate punishment could be devised and hell wouldn't have him. AR ARNR R NAAR * R T AN R N A NN ARRRRENRNRAE Ak ok h® A OUR SENTIMENTS EXACTLY Don’t be a slacker if asked to assist in purchasing uniforms for the home guardsmen, who are as necesary as an army in France.—Interna- tional Falls Press and Border Budget. Our sentiments exactly. Any man who refuses to support his own home guard for personal reasons has a lop-sided brand of patriotism that will shrink in the wash and fade in the light of publicity. The fellow who hired his children to go to bed without supper and then stole their money while they slept is discounted for cussedness by the one who cut all of the eyes from a load of potatoes before selling the spuds. Now that they find the stigma of cowardice firmly attached to them, war grooms are explaining that they merely obeyed the call “to arms.” They further assert that as no particular ‘‘arms” were specified, it was their privilege to make the choice. If the kaiser wants to jump from the frying pan into the fire, he might try the job of emperoring in Russia. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL R R R R R R R R R R DR. EINER JOHNSON . PHYBICIAN AND S8URGEON Bemidj}, Minn. I EEE R RSN R R R R R R R N RN DR. L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Troppman Block Bemidji, Minn. EEXEXKRKEKE KK I E SRR R R R R ERRERR] A. V. GARLOCEK, M. D. BPECIALIST EYE EAR NOSE THROAT Glasses Fitted Gibbons Bldg. Phone 108 L E R R R R B E R R ERSER] IR R R R B R B RS EER] TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER Safe and Piano Moving Res. Phone 68 818 Ameries Office Phone 13 KX KK R AR AR S North of Markham Hotel Gibbons Block. Tel. 330 L E R & R E R EE R R EE] XXX RREXKKAERA S DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block = Phone 396 Res. Phone 387 EXER KRR R TS KERREERRR LA S S DR. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Office Phone 124, Residence 346 Mties Block, Bemidji LR R SRR R R LR R R RN DR. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND S8URGEON Office Security Bank Block XX RKEKEEEKEEESSE 0 LR SRR RS R R DR.J. A gkggpmcn Office O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. Office Phone 376-W Res. Phone 376-R AKX XX KKK KK I R R R R R R R R R R DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block IR R R R T RER & 2 N5 R KK XK KKK KKK KK X DR. R. E. RICHARDSON DENTIST Office: Troppman Block 1 .one 180-J Bemidji, IR E R R R R R R RERRR TS S ESE A Y A, DANNENBERG First National Bank Bldg. 1 remove the cause of acute and chronic diseases CHIROPRACTOR Office hours: 10-13, 1:30-6 7-8 Phone 406-W EEXXEEXERXFTEE TS IS 2R R RS RS SRR RS GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Miles Block " Phone 560 KX XXX XK XXE TS AEE XTI EE TR DR. H. A. NORTHROP OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON Suite 10 O’Leary-Bowser Bldg Office Phone 153 LA R R R R EREEERERER] IR S A E S AR SRR E . Hair dressing, manicuring, face massage, scalp treat- ment, switches made from combings $1.60. Corns, in- grown nails treated g spe- cialty. MINA MYERS 311 6th St. Phone 112-W IR EEE R R ER R R RS IR EE RS R E RS R R & ¥ J. WARNINGER VETERINARY SURGEON Oftice and Hospital 3 doors west of Troppman Btore Phone No. 309 x x * & *k * ok DR. C. R. SANBORN . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block LR R R R R R EERE SRR TR KKK KK DRS. GILMORE & McCANN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Office—Miles Block LA R R R R R R SRR ] KR KR KRR R KRR KK W. K. DENISON, D. V. vrmnnukunv . Office Phone 3-R Res. 89-J 3rd St. and Irvine Ave. EREEXKXKRKK XK XX DRY CLEANING Clothes Cleaners for Men, ‘Women and Childten I EE R EEBE RS SR e WO PG e R E e bR I R EEEEEERERER ER R DR. J. T. TUOMY » DENTIST PRI AAG G S S @ 0 Gt d R4 4 ¢ ¢ o+ h S 4 v o ¢ ¢4 28 & % 0 ¢ L AR S R ERIE R R R EZ2222222 222 22 R AL R R AR EZIIEE R B 2R Y] * * * + * . * * * +* 0ld men are wise men, some times. But young ones, always. RO O O O O R O WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM OFFERED BY MINNESOTA STATE FAIR The Minnesota State Fair, September 3 to 8, pre- sents a wonderful entertainment program. “Modern Warfare,” a gigantic fireworks spectacle portraying scenes on the Western Battlefront, is to be played before the Grandstand each evening, 300 perscns taking part. Twe days of Auto Races, Wednesda , September 5, and Saturday, September 8, wil{ present 21 speed kings of reputation to the public. Four days of Horse Racing, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, will bring to the Northwest a program of unexcelled reputation. Twenty-two great Vaudeville Acts, put on by the world’s greatest artists, will keep people in a con- stant uproar. “Loaper” Brown, an aviator with an international reputation, will fly night and day, looping the loop, flying upside down, and performing other heroic acts. Nearly a dozen bands will play at the fair the en- tire week. These are only a few of the leading features. Do you think you can afford to miss the fair? Let’s Go! —— e { ——y | 44 !