Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 3, 1918, Page 2

Mhm!m‘ APTERNOON :BXCEBPT SUNDAY———— " BEMIDII DAILY PIONEER THE BEMIDJX PIONEER PUBLISHING 00. TELEPHONE 923 : Entered at-the postoffica at Bomlisn under act of Congress of March 38, No attention paid to ann " pe to the editor, oo kém'nun?catlonu for the Wee! 1ater than Tuesday of each week to insure SUBSCRIPTION BATES THE WEEELY PIONEER taining & summary ::d sent postage pald djl, Minn., as . second-class matier. ons. Writer's name must for publication. neer must ‘reach this. office not publication in the current issue. BY MAIL ODe YORE ...conesraansras «¢ . $400 5 the mews of the week. Published :g sny':ddnlly for, in advance $1.50 ED: 8 OFPFICIAL COUNTY m‘om PROCEDING! ‘ARMY DOESN'T CREATE, IT DEVELOPS i The army, out:of a fool, nor the college, is not to create, composition of the man su Many thoughtless ones, seemingly but little within th as an institution, just as they now and in times past. T recently raised from an inconspicuous mass to a distinct place in the sun, and eveil1 whin - out all but their essential characters, ) they are, developed, accepted, tempered maybe, ntal character with 2 ghaame fundaue truly heroic under test speaks well for this are as yet untried, 80 many men prove like a college education, nor a gnetleman out of a cad. but to develop, to re 3 bmitting himself to- its 1§1fluence. seeing strutting uniforms, em, are-tempted to decry the army or others have done the colleges, They forget that these young men, but/ does not make a sage Its funection, likei to reveal the real; with place in the common the nation’s potential heroes, the fires of peril do burn they will only be w}_lat yet possessing which they started. That tal character of the race. 3 fund%tsf i:lhe point is, that we should laud the army as a revealef of :character, not praise or co. ndemn it for the individual re- sults-of that revelation, for which the individual alone is re- sponsible. 0. ‘:V ABILITY TO MEET EMERGENCY The United States navy has triumphantly demonstrated its high -efficiency,.and has removed one cause of fear from the minds of the: American transport troops man submarines. people. to France with no great danger from the Ger- . Though ther 1t has proven that we can e was no doubt Germany was fully informed of the movement of the transports, all were landed in safety. No sensible person can faintest chance to sink our ick t il herself of the opportunity, ek 0 o That only tentative efforts were she realized the hopelessness of the under- to. our people at the outset. made is proof that taking. meet any emergency. doubt that had Germany seen the troop ships she would have been thus striking terror Thus does this country.-again demonstrate its ability to 0- o A MOST IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN . Sale of remedies for veneral diseases in Minnesota is to be:stopped, except upon order from a credited physician. This is a movement by the state board of health i ( I held July 9, when steps will be takenf upon at a meeting to be for the enforcement of the new' law. Quack remedies are| and will be acted ‘aimed. at, these nostroms having developed as a result of the vice: crusade.throughout the state. This is one of the most important campaigns ever waged || the most important any state could ' Tt has to do with. preventing endless at the expense of the poor mis- at a-straw hoping to obtain some- in’ Minnesota. It is one of possibly inaugurate. grafting and endless misery guided individuals who grasp thing .beneficial for nothing. 0- The -government desires us to conserve gas and electric light. In the days when the men calling:on:their best girls, community still harbored young with what fervid patriotism this| request would have been carried out! R i LT In a dispatch sent out from Washington Monday we:note it says, “potato candy is the latest war time offering.” Well, we believe we could stand for a little of it,- provided it was made out of sweet potatoes. 0- Officers of the American regiments in France are not al- lowed to have wine served man or a guest is present. “star boarder.” N at their mess tables unless a French- Might hire a Frenchman to be a —_— e ———— When the Germans attempt a raid on American troops they are monkeying with a large and active buzz-saw. AL N N We are all creatures of habit, and the Thrift Stamp habit is an excellent one: Cultivate it. . e —————e e i - Water Brooks. There :was .a pool by which we stopped one day to look at a great dragon fly in golden mail lighting on a lly pad. I suppose that he did not live the season' through, but his race has not lost a scintifla of his radiance, and there is a curious comfort in thinking that even in days like these, when mankind seems to have gone mad, and “when but to think is to be full of sorrow,” I have only to go to the same pool to see a creature as beauti- @1, lighting on a lily pad as green, floatingon ' water as pure. Nor is this mere sentimentality. To become aware of the fleeting permanency of all these bright- short-lived things, their inces. sant change with essential changeless- ness, their passing beautles but per- sistent, beauty, brings health to the spirit of man, After his wars and revolutions he always returns to the ‘ brooks, and is surprised but happy to find :them- still' dancing and singing.— Robert M.:Gay in the Atlantic Monthly. Seashells Instead of Glass. One: curious thing noted by Ameri- cans in the Philippines was the use by natives of seashells in lieu of window -glass. There is a bivalve mollusk, na- tive to the waters of that part of the world, which has a shell seven or eight inches in diameter, so thin as to be transparent. It is plentiful and costs nothing. Glass is expensive, Two Mistranslations. To the Spectator thanks are due for two enterprising mistranslations, one belonging to the genus schoolboy howl- er, and the other resulting from an attempt at' French on the part of a mess sergeant. The menu one day announced “im- becile roti” as the piece de resistance, the riddle being solved by the appear- ance of roast goose. It is just possible that the sergeant nourished some re- sentment against that particular goose, .but ‘it was generally thouZ:ht that the imbecile roti had resulted from a half hour or so spent with a French-English dictionary. The schoolboy added to the hilarity of nations by rendering the Horatian line: “Post equitem sedet atra Cura” as: “After horse exercise the black lady sits down with care.”—Christian Scicnee M 5 *“She Stoops to Conguer.” “She Stoops to Conquer” grew out of an incident that occurred in Gold- smith’s travels about Ireland. . He found himself.one night far from home and inquiring the'way to an inn, some wag directed him to a gentleman’s private restdence. There he went, or- dered out his horse, demanded the best supper the place afforded and gener- ally gave himself airs. He did not discover his mistake until the next morning when he was about to pay his bill -| Becurity- .. *|'ledges in the north' Atlantic, especially ‘Tell Neutral Nations: How Church and House.Are#De-- stroyed. .Clrcular Recites Amount of Booty Selzed dn France and Belgium, and Mistfeatment of English Prisoners of War, ‘Washington® — Teutonic frightful hess as practiced in France and Bel- glum has been made the subject of & German warning. to neutral nations of 'the® fate which' they may expect 1f they take up arms against the central powers. * " . B " “If there are any still thinking of siding with the allies let them take warning from the fate of others,” says the ‘warning. It is in the form of a circular, which recites the amount of booty seized in Francg-and Belgium, } the number .of churches damaged and destroyed, the money wrung from the stricken inhabitants and finally the deliberate mistreatment of English prisoners of war. German propagandists have flooded Spain with: this' document printed in Spanish, and copies have come into the possession of the state depart: ment. Having established its German'| origin' the department ‘taade public ] this translation: “Besides an untold amount of war material captured on the battlefleld the Germans have taken. possession of incalculable booty in France and Bel gium, including: 3 High grade watches, Average' ‘'watches Underwear Embroiderd kerchiefs . . Umbrellas ‘and' parasols Bilver Spoons ....c..ceee % Bottles-of-champagne “These figures show a large In- crease over: those: of the campaign against France in 1870-71. “Punish Catholic Churches.” “In - Belgium, besides - many ' art treasures, they have confiscated old paintings valued at-3,000,000 pesetas. “Due to the treachery of Cardinal Mercier and other priests, who did thelr utmost to stir.- the priests | agailnst the good-hearted -Germansol- | diers, they were forced to teach'a se- | vere lesson to the Belgian and French Catholics, Cathedrals destroyed | Rendered - unservice |Churches destroyed .. ‘Rendered unservictab] » Total “TIn Poland also a lacge number of i churches have been destroyed for mil- itary reasons. The figures concerning ithese have not yet been published. “Ag a result of the stupid stubborn- ‘ness of the Belglan people in contin- ‘ulng the struggle after their bloody and final defeat on the battlefield, the German officers were forced; against itheir Will, to impose punishments on many rich individuals and wealthy cit- ies. - This has contributed the-follow- iing amounts to the German treasury: Pesttas, seesse 87,000,000 vensens13; «v+ 15,750,000 4,320,850 sevenese 120,071,850 Punishments Reprisals ‘Forced contributions 4 “This amount: includes a fine of 16, 000 pesetas imposed on the Alsatian children who insist on- speaking the French language and refuse to study the beautiful German language. These statistics are a most useful warning to the neutral countries. . “If there are any still thinking of slding with the. allles let them take warning from the fate of others.” Boast Also of Cruelty. It is claimed also in this document that more than 50,000 British' have been made prisoners, and in this con- nection the - following - statement is made: 93 “Although to these figures the Eng- 1isb oppose 124,808 German prisoners taken by them'on the western front, 1t must be remembered the English treat their prisoners with notable kindness (blandura notoria), while the regime imposed on the English prisoners by the Germans is one of extreme rigor, so that the Germans, with a small number of prisoners, have secured a much superior moral effect. “Bestdes, to the 2,264 officers and 61,825 soldiers, must be added the sev- eral thousand English prisoners that have died in conseguence of disease, scanty food and other accidents in German “concentration camps.” ' The figures regarding British' pris- oners, it 1s explained, refer to the total prior to the recent drive in Picardy and Flanders. Gets Long Lost Watch. Baston, Pa.—Twenty years 8ago William D. Evans lost a watch in Washington township, between Ban- gor and Centreville. He took no less than twenty-five bicycle trips between these points in searching for the time- piece, but to no avail. Several days ago Evans was talking about the incl- dent to a friend at Centreville. As a result of the conversation it was learned a resident of Centreville had found the watch, and after explana- tions the long lost watch was returned &2 1ts ownen, : The Cusk. .. After spending a ‘third of*a cen- Paris—Five able The cusk is.a fish of the.cod.family |tury. at the-Spearfish-Ndérmal school;| laundries-have becn' inut-snedgmt'base and ha8 much the same habits and |President Cook decided it was'time| hospitals = by the , American- Red- chavacteristios: It frequentsi: rocky.| tor take s yacation and sent7in his| Cross. . They are a real’ novelty . in resignation; s France, . - = off-the “shore ‘of ' Newfommdiand ‘and | s e — - Scandinavia. It is .more extensively.|, used in'northernfBurope than in Amen ica, but'it is sold!in considerable quan; titles'at- the fiskiimarkets in New Engy landi & At 5 :Brown Dyes for Leather. A ‘brown dyer for'leathers mas be made as follows: Boil half-an.ounce of Spanish saffron-and a quarter of an ounce-of annatta ‘dn -wateruntil the; dye is “extracted, to which “must‘be added some alcohol to set the color. G Bemidjl, Minn. : Open:Wednestay:Night Until 10 0'clock Store WIll Close at Noon the! ; ) Girls Dresses Mothers, it will only take you a few m! - utes to select a dress for the little girls. .. trouble to make them look nice the Fo , . and you will be surprised at the low price -~ and fine workmanship. : Eria Coats and Suits . Every coat and suit reduced in ‘price; . price of the finished garment about the price. of the goods by the yard. Select your coat . and suit now, there will be no radical change - in style for fall. Your suit will be:as good " style as one bought later and the price much: . Shoes. 2 All are invited to visit our down stairs. b - shoe department. If you should desire to try " on sHoes you will find- it very comfortable,. i eool, plenty of room, and a fine stock of high How Mol - OMEI it e -grade: shoes. 2 - Ina mm ‘ ~ Decorations . L M aMn -d'! . Flags, both large and small. Flags by § HoL 1] 8 _the yard for decorating; service flags, British Five Part Feature & and French flags. - Bathing Suits = : We offer a large stock for your selection: - of Men’s, Women’s and ‘Children’s Bathing Suits, Bathing Shoes, Bathing Caps- and Water Wings % . o ge viGreatest Male ‘Imperson- ‘ator of - Feminine Roles “before the public. Now in ithe films. i 5 \ ~ King Bee Corporation: presents 3 Billy West ¢ n ‘The Scholar’ ¢.Two Reel Side-Splitter.. 710 and 20 cents : > 7:20 and 9.0’clock All out-of-town people ‘are invited to. visit: our’ store: the forenoon: of -the. Fourth. - Bring the: children. Cool water and clean towels for their comfort—next to the shoe department. § ~ | ’ You, Doh't N,eedAny of unger Sauce”’ To Make Our Grpceries Eatable We don’t sell Groceries that are fit'ohiy'fof'fiffiiiélrs,{!_A Nobody wants that kind NOW. You want thé BEST, and right hére is- the place to get them: When you want “eats” that will give real life and snap and‘..‘ ginger to the eater, come to us and be satisfied. : L . And they cost no more than the “other” kind. Closing Out Sale! I am closing out my entire stock of BOOTS and SHOES - at actual cost price Sale Starts Monday, July 8 s Al partles - Indebted to' me. for merchandise over 30 days are requested to pay. their accounts- at- once-or the account will he turned over for - collection. Third St. NOTIGE: Otto Phone 33 . Schwan Defective