Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 16, 1918, Page 2

ST e ————" . AFTERNOON, BXCEPT. SUNDAY——— BUSINES& E emld_]l-NymOI‘e Cal‘ Lln - [Beltrami Avenue = Nymeore (&~ Car leaves Nymore on the hour and half-hour.: ““Car leaves '13th’ Street on ‘the quarter to pnd el 'TELEPHONB 923 ; . ; Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class ; a8 of March 3, 1879, s #W Aol v ;?l:::r,t Uit siot nacessar] ‘”"3?";?’:&1;3:3 ".‘mj b ; quarter after eacfi"hé‘tv!r. e e ot taese || T [ DB E E MTK ' ‘ rare, 3 Oents . ' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON j St g B L e ] Oramm muwn - e ' 5 e Res. Phons 307 || ot ‘ XMERS’ & TRAPPERS, ' ATTENTION * ’ {Ve are buying Hides, Furs, Wool, ” matter . DR.C.R. PHYBICIAN ' 'Office—Miles Block ' . THE WEEKLY PIONEER e R e o B T oraday sad seat posige peid to any edires a0 O Rt b i Akt OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS ; The Daily Ploneer is & member of the United Press Association, ‘and s represented for foreign sdvertising by the ’ "‘Mcmtiu_{]sss \ Gemeral offiess in New York aud Chicago, branches in all principal eities. SECRETARY BAKER’S DEFENSE (Duluth News-Tribune) Secretary of War Baker has offered his paper defense. It is exuberant, indeed, quite jubilant. He has completely exonerated himsell to himself. He is 8o satisfied that its runs over until he fairly wades in it. It is, in T fact, the best possible evidence that Mr. Baker does not measure up to his Ul Job. oflfl Lol idgy NORTHERN HIDE & FUR OOM ne Half Block North of Union Station, BEMIDJI, MINN nm SSOCTATION > i § /| Remember, Tuesday, Meatless Day”; Wednesday, “Wheatless Day.” O'Leary-Béwser ¥ { ¢ Oftice Phoné 376-W Res. Phone 876-R That is all that ails him. It is enough. No one questions his in- sincerity, his good intent, his genuine desire to do what should be done. He has many excellent qualities. He simply has not the sort and degree of sbility required. His report shows this. X It may be immaterial, that his statements frequently do not agree with known facts. It is not true that this country has beaten the record, as he states, in raising, equipping and training an army. Britain, with about the same start, beat us to a frazzle. We have not even equaled i Canads. Great Britain has but 46,000,000 population; Canada,,6,000,000; the United ‘States, 100,000,000. . Great Britain and Canada relied on volun- tary service; the United States has had conscription. Yet in actual num- bers Great Britain far excelled us, as in every other item named. She did this because her whole plan was under one man, Lord Kitchener, and back of him was a unified coalition war cabinet of the best brains of Britain without . regard to politics. Men bitterly antagonistic, even personally, were brought together and worked together for their country. It is not true that Pershing’s army is fully equipped and ready to fight. General Pershing gave contradictory evidence of this by demand- ing the removal of Sharpe and Crozier. Moreover, if his army was ready to fight, it would be fighting, which it is not. K ‘Where Mr. Baker utterly fails is that he definite and complete plan, and he does not know it. He has no organi- zation worthy the name, and he does mot know it. He knows what the army. is on paper; he has no appreciation of what it ifl‘!n fact. He cites an increase in officers from 9,524 ‘to 110,856, yet he should know that over v 50 per cent of the increase are officers only in name and pay. cmomci‘on 2 The trouble with Mr. Baker is that he is a pacifist in ideals, tempera- - .. ment, viewpoint and mental attitude. This makes him a theorist and an THORWALD LUNDE impractical. When a thing is on paper he thinks it is done. When it is CHIROPRACTOR started, he views it as finished. The more people he has to do one man's|| Acute and Chronic Diseases han- job, the better eatisfied he is. ; Ided with great suecess .~ That'much has béen done in a year no one denies. He has had about First National Bank Bullding $10,000,000,000 to spend. ' If no one had spent it or contracted to spend|| ‘3emndji, Minn. Phone 406-W it, just as certainly others would have got it or had contracts to get it. +owmre 10-12 a. m.; 2-6 7-8 p. m. But that is not the crux of. the situation. It is not what has been done, | = but what could have been done, what was promised and what should have VETERINARIANS .been delivered; but was not done. e et The essentials of this were a definite working project, a complete plan J. WARNINGER ' and an organization to carry it out. He has and has had neither, though VETERINARY SURGEON both were his for the taking, from England or France. He started where || Office and Houpital 3 doors west they started, instead of from where they were, and has repeated in exag- of Tropythdn Store geration all their mistakes. Phone.No. 209 The New Republic is certainly not hostile to this administration nor to any member of it. But its Washington representative says: ‘‘The senate, it it does not wish to be trivial, if it wishes to be vital, has to say: ‘Mr. Baker, resign or reform, resign or reorganize.’” Office Phone 3-R Mr. Baker's report proves he can neither reform nor reorganize. He 3rd 8t. and Irvine Ave. can do nelther because he is what he is and cannot remake himself, since he is completely satisfied with himself as he is. LAWYERS ° Miles Bloc! DR. J..T. TUOMY . DENTIST . North of Markham Hotel Gibbons Block Tel. 230 DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block — .’ OSTEOPATH DR. , NORTHRO. - OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIA. AND SURGEON Ibertson Bldg. Oftice Phone 153-W has no project, no settled, The Nation’s Fighters Depend On the Telephone The telephone business was among the first to be called on for unushial'sérvice in' the war. G All' over ‘the country the important railroad points, thé bridges, the big:grain elevators, munition factories and water-supply systems - have'been ‘guarded, first' by detachments of the National'Guard and now by private watchmen. This is requiring special telephone service - and tie total'amount of telephone work to provide it is enormous. i GRAND FORKS WANTS T00 MUCH We notice where the Commercial club of Grand Forks passed a reso-’ lution which will go to Washington, urging that a publicity burean of the United States be created, the duty of which would be to keep the press and (the people) at Washington now? people informed as to the war’s progress, purposes and acts. Holy smokes! Grand Forks, haven’t we a bureau of publicity working And hasn't it cost us Liberty Bond buyers over. $1,250,000, as authentically made public? = And hasn’t it the highest bunch of payrollers in captivity? And hasn't it spent, hundreds of thousands of dollars sending advertising:literature to foreign countries telling the people all about Grand Forks and her energetic Commercial club and what North Dakota has in the way of advantages? And hasn’t it franked hundreds and hundreds of tons of literature and effusions from the most gifted pens to an awaiting peoples? And hasn’t the Grand Forks papers recelved their share? And didn’t they publish all of it for the information of Grand Forks people, so they would know what was being done? and And isn’t all that “winning the war?” Grand Forks has a Commercial club that goes after what it wants gets it. That’s why—Grand Forks. But we're afraid the organiza- tion is asking a little too much this time. And did you notice in the Ploneer yesterday a dispatch from Louis- ville, Ky., which told of both branches of the state legislature voting an endorsement of the federal dry amendment? When they do that in Ken- tucky, the booze advocates might just as well give it up and go into a re- spectable calling if they are capable of being decent, and many of them Baudette’s vacated saloon joints are being replaced with useful places of business, and stocks of staple merchandise are replacing the bottles on TGRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Mijes Block Phone | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Wholesale and Retail {Planos, Ongans_and Sewing i Machines 117 Third 8t. . Phone . §73-W J. BISIAR, Manager Bemidji N. L. EAKKERUP PHOTOGRAPHER ' | Photos Day and Night ~ MINA - MYERS Hair dressing, face massage, scalp treatment. Switches made from combings $1.60. . 811 6th St. Phone 112-W - The vall to arms brought to the Bell Telephone System imperative duties and responsivilities. No nation entered -the war with amhere Hear the number of: skillsd telephone men, or as dependable and comprehensive telephone ‘country possessed. 'More tha 8,800 former Bell Telephone employees are now in some ° branch of the military service in Europe or in training camps here. Only't §' telephone” companies could furnish the skilled telephore ‘men needed ini the army signal corps. _When the war came, telephone plants had to be built or enlarged’ at all the army posts, training camps, navy yards and department hu&uflon’flimila.r telephone systems have had to be installed "in the American training camps, army headquarters, hospitals, etc., in Europe. - In addition to the military demands for telephone service, business . aotivl rity, sccelerated and increased by the war, has required enormous e’ télopHone service and equipment. In spite of the war and what it has meant to this company in the Increased number of telephone messages to handle, the enlistment of oo mdny, of our trained men, the shortage of equipment, the scarcity of labor and the high cost of telephone materials— In epite of all these obstacles, we are meeting the needs of the publlc for telephone service in a remarkably successful way. shelving and kegs in th i ? depend up:n a ;g;dl;“‘ :t :)e;::sselll:r: ::ni:ss;:t::c;taf;“::::e:d 4 Clothes C Jfimg 'Women | ML T and Children PN NORTHWESTERN TELEPHONE EXGHANGE Ge, It ‘would be interesting to know if the kaiser ex| L pressed his sympathy for the sultan in the latter’s defeat by the ‘““dogs of christians.” That German crown. prince at least deserves commendation far the gracefulnoss with which he takes defeat. | Defective