Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER '———q‘PUBLlBBID EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THR BEMIDJI PIONEER :PUBLISHING CO. '®. M. CARSON' = =’ \ B H. DENU " TELEPHONS 933 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter uader act of Congress of March 8, 1879. 4 Ne attention paid to anonymous coatributions. be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must resch'this'oftice mat later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue, A5 a8 csemecc s e e am — % waEKLY YOREER : 1 postage paid to any address, for, in - Thursday and sent e T e e oltlonm;fltluwk. “Pub- $1.50 peescssciacemiom OFFICIAL GOUNTY AND CITY YROCEEDING THE GERMAN BOGEY The report from Gen. Pershing’s boys on the firln_g'llne in France is thrilling the hearts of Americans and is such as to cause a feeling of the most intense satisfaction throughout the country. Our boys are proving themselves fully equal to the task before them and have already taken the measure of their foe and are going after him. . They are also dissipating the hitherto world-wide'drea.d of the Ger- man bogey, and proving him to be by no means the superman he would have us think him. They are demonstrating that German defenses can be shattered and German troops routed and German discipline thoroughly disorganized. : And what, after discipline wdrklng with thoroughly plastic material. all, is this dreaévaerman bogey? Nothing but iron Given unscrupulous leaders fired with the lust of conquest, and a dectle and tractable: army, the result must inevitably be a dangerous machine—a machine without scruple and without conseience. But on the other hand it is largely a machine devoid of intelligence and without initiative, save in its leaders. And it is ia this latfer quality or rather lack of quality, that it will meet 1ts Waterloo at the hands of the American army. The American soldier 1s not merely a cog in' a fighting machine. He s also a sentient, pulsing, dinamic human machine in himself, quick to think and trained to act upon his conclusions. most dangerous and delicate' missions. Men of this class are to be trusted with the They are not only reliable in the miess, but are thoroughly to'be depended upon as separate human units, ) It is the German contempt for all things not German that has helped largely in impressing the nations with a false estimate of German pProwess. This contempt is fast being unmasked and made to stand out in its true light—ignorance. Pershing is teaching us that it is by no means the result of superior knowledge, but rather of arrogance inspired by the be- lief that German knowledge is of a superior order. Nothing but bullets and shrapnel will shake this arrogance, but these are being manufactured in this country and sent to our boys over there, and‘hey can be trusted to place them where they will do the most good. Germany has stigmatized us as a nation of dollar chasers. Well, we have chased the dollar successfully, and we will show her that we can turn those dollars into bullets for her undoing. It 1s nerving them to show to the world that possible spur to our tfoops. Her contempt is the best -the great German bogey is but & man after all, and a man who can and will be whipped and well whipped before we are through with him. — e EMBRYONICALLY NAPOLEONIC A 'good story of the general effciency of some of the reserve officers of the army comes to Washington from New York. A hurry call came from Gen. Pershing for some long, spruce piles to use in the construction of docks in France. shipped in haste to New York. They were obtained from the forests of Oregon, and A newly commissioned captain, charged with the duty of loading a freight steamer, brought in the services of a large crane, hoisted the piles in the air, and endeavored to lower them into the hold of the boat. But they were too long to enter the hatchway, and the officer was in a quandary as to what course to pursue. " But only for & moment, when a bright idea struck him. He called some men with saws, and in a few minutes the piles were cut in half and safety stowed on shipboard. signment are not recorded. The remarks of the officer in France who received the con- ——e e Vice President Marshall says elections should not be held during the ‘war. But just because the vice president is thoroughly satisfied with the incumbent of one office, is no reason that the people are satisfied with all incumbents, SIS S—— Prof. E. A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin, who is just back from Russia, says the Bolsheviki know where they are going. Which is prob- ably true, as the road ‘to Germany is no doubt plain enough. SRSy N S In deciding on a renewed German offensive, perhaps Hindenburg concluded Petrograd would be a more suitable place than Paris for that April fool dinner. SNy ST Austria tired of war! Well, it isn’t the first time in history that an individual or a nation has started something that they couldn’t stop. » i G American troops on the Champagne front. They wish the folks at home to understand, however, that there’s nothing in a name. Editor in Retirement. A Georglan editor, who retired some ago, has recently been review- that part of his career which has n free from the labors of the news- aper office. He finds, in contrasting it with a pe- riod of similar length prior to his labandonment of the lead pencil and the shears, that the change has been great, indeed. Residing in his own comfortable, if humble, home, nothing has been asked of him while taking his well-earned rest except to chop and bring fo all the firewood, supply the house with water from the spring, start the kitchen fire every morning, foed the hogs, the chickens, and the w; milk and churp, plant and weed e'garden, and attend to miscellane lbus. chores. It is worth while, he evidently thinks, to work hard-as an. editor for a few years in order to enjoy the Juxury of retirement later on~— mnn Selence Monitor. Warm Adr-for- Flyers. To grotect military alrmen from the ntense cold of the upper atmosphere jand .also avold the burdem of cum- bersome, heavy garments, an airheated jpme-plece costume has been designed, the Popular 'fechanics Magaszine, guit {s made ‘f two layers of ma- Rerfal and suppll. ' with a system of conduits exte: ng to its various Hes. Alr, taken in through & mbunted behind the propelior 1 #nd warmed by passage througha coll encircling the motor's exhaust pipe, is carrled into the main artery of the gult by a flexible tubing connected at the rear. The heat circulates into the gloves and shoes worn by the airman and rises around his body, while cool air passes out through valves. Iron Deposits on Town Land. Two metallurgical experts who were engaged by the town council of Pre- toria, in the Transvaal, to investigate the quality of iron deposits on the town lands have reported that they are abundant and of good quality, accord- ing to press statements forwarded from Johannesburg by Consul John P. Courtesy a Shock. In the hurry and. bustle of metro politan life people don't seem to have any time to be polite and- when any courtesy 1s shown it usually takes one’s breath sway. “The other day,” sald a New York visitor, “I was leaving one of the big buildings on lower Broad- way, and a young man stepped in front of me just before I reached the swinging doors. I expected, of course, he would let the door fly back at me, and instinctively braced myself to meet it. I was 80 flabbergasted with surprise when he stopped and held the door open for me to pass, that I came near forgetting to thank him. 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