Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 8, 1918, Page 1

VOLUME XVI, NO. 180 GOVERNOR ARD PARTY COMING | T0 LAYING OF Ceremony at New Normal Will Take Place Saturday After- noon, at 2 o’Clock. JUDGE STANTON WILL SET HONORED SLAB IN NICHE — Address by the Governor Will Be Feature; Ceremonies .ta-Be Simple. ; = L) - (By United Press.) 23 St. Paul, Aug. 8.—Governor Burn- quist contemplates a conference with northern Minnesota legislators when he attends the cornerstone laying at Bemidji Saturday, he said -at his of- fice this' morning. « State "Auditor Preus, Secretary of ‘State Schmahl, members of the Pub- lic Safety commission and state nor- mal board indicated this morning that they will attend. Goyernor ‘Burnquist;_is: e: “pected to arrive in -Bemidji-late Fri-| “day night to ‘be the speaker of. the - ceremonies of laying the cornerstone of the new Bemidji Normal sehool, Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The personfiel of his party is unknown but will include several state officials _- of prominence; including State Aud- itor Préus, Secretary of State Schmahl, members of the state safety commission, members of the state leg- islature,’ president of the state nor- mals, members of the state normal board, and many others. ‘Stanton Will Preside. No elgborate ceremony ‘is arranged for the setting of the stone. ‘Judgé C. W. Stanton will preside and will perform tlie_act of sponsoring the stone as tt7is lowered to its honored ‘niche in the first unit of Bemidji’s handsome normal. There will be no parade, no demon- stration on the part of the city in general. The ¢eremonies will be sim- ple and impressive, the address of the governor being the feature of the day. Program of Ceremonies. At 1:30 o’clock, Governor Burn- quist will be escorted from the Mark- bam to the normal site. The band will be present but there will be no military featuire. After a selection by the band at the school, Rev. L. P. Warford, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will offer thé invocation. A band overture will follow and then Judge Stanton will speak, laying the -stone. on its foundation,, Another selection by the band, and \the gover- nor will be introduced. The national anthem will close the services, the audience joining in to the accompani- ment of the band. 2 The entire populace of Bemidji is urged to attend this ceremony as it is of vital interest to them and to the future of Bemidji. St. Paul, Aug. 8.—Judge McGee’s fuel order to ‘“‘carry your own coal” has been taken to the ‘“supreme court” of Minnesota, and will be pass- ed upon by the state’s highest tribu- nal, insofar as Judge Bunn in con- cerned. Two loads of coal repose on the sidewalk in front of the Judge Bunn residence, 794 Linwoody Place. Formerly it was delivered into the Judge Bunn basement at the rear. Now the neighborhood blinds in the Judge Bunn neighborhood are be- ing pulled slyly back. The.neighbors are waiting. What the judge will do is unknown. He is ill and could not be interviewed. Decisions of Supreme court judges usually are based on precedent. But there is no precedent. Judge Mc- Gee’s order says coal companies shall not deliver coal further than the side- walk when it can’t be shoveled into the bin from the wagon. It is cited that this has the intent of conserving manpower and that consumers should chirry their own coal. Members of the St. Paul city coun- cil have said they wouldn’t do it. _ Many other citizens have voiced the same stand. E Latest -Fuel Order. Judge McGee is the state fuel ad- ministrator. His latest order was that coal deliveries should be dumped on the walks or in the alley or any place except into the consumers’ bins, to “save man power.” The idea is for the buyer of the coal to carry his own coal or hire some one to do it, of the city. the immediate = future. Minneapolis; of Bemidji. the well system, and those and suitable water supply. The inadequate supply ‘of water with which Bemidji has been-suffer- ing from in the past caused the:city authorities to take up. the problem of a limitless supply of Lake Irvin, in- volvipg an ‘intake and treatment ‘of the water, a pipe line to.be extended to the center of the lake.” Opposition’ was met from some of:the old-timers who staunchly “supported -the ‘old wells, and to determine the-justness of their claims the city council bowed The result proves other- wise and the next move will-be~to construct the intake and means for to the tests. purifying the water: WATER SUPPLY LESSENS: AN ADEOUATE QUANTITY Testing out the wells of the water supply of the city shows that’they will not do to meet the réquirements All-there is to it, the water s not there and the supply is inadequate:to meet requirements and what will be urgently.needed in The huge cCarthy Well- Co. of great depth increased the flow to a marked degree, and2optomism reigned But ‘the supply commenced to dim- inish and is insufficient for the needs This is the verdict of the resu.t of the tests, for “which the city expended about-$1,500 to satisfy adyocates of ho were insistent that the wells were ample to furnish the city with an extensive COMPANY: DOES HIGH depot. he greeted other friends. son tractor. fortunate. o A MGEE'S LATEST COAL ORDER DECLARED T0 BE NONSENSICAL ingly wroth. Trouble for City. city will be sued.” Corporation Counsel O’Neill. ble.” save labor,” “But it won't. Mr. interjected Mr. O'Neill. son. said. explained. to move it. the coal companies throught for their benefit.” the order,” Goss continued. % and the city administration is exceed-! absolutely opposed the order. 'HONORS TO' SWINSON The Bemidji Home Guard, of the Twenty-first battalion, the battalion band and sanitary corps of the bat- talion and friends in general turned out last night to bid farewel. to Major Thomson Swinson of .the Twenty-first battalion, who reported upon order from the war department to ‘‘arf At- lantic port’’ to take command of col- ored troops as first leutenant. The band, company and sanitary squal escorted the_former captain of. -the comparny from tite city hall'to the There the military lined up and their major shook ‘hands with each and bade them good-by. C.'W. JEWETT CLOSES DEAL FOR. |- FORD TRACTOR, TERRITORY: C. W. Jewett returned this morning from Minpeapolis, where he closed territory for the handling of:the Ford-|. The new price for the Fordson, laid down in Bemidji, is $925 and many who inspected the new tractors ex- pected to see the price go consider- ably above that figure. The seyen, which Mr. Jewett received as a spe- cial, consignment for demonstration at the last big Fourth of July celebra- tion in Bemidji, were-sold in a” hur- ry. They had been shipped as a spe- cial feature and sold at a sPecial price, and those purchasers who took advantage of the opportunity were The order was called ‘‘nonsensical,” “foolish”” ‘and -compared with ‘“that foolish order ¢losing up buildings last winter when we had ample coal.” Commissioner Goss introduced the subject of coal by saying, “if coal is dumped -in the streets, on the side- walks and in the parts there will be accidents to passing vehicles and the “What can the city do?” asked ““If coal remains in dangerous places and ac- cidents -result the city must be lia- “The order was promulgated to Goss continued. Some one must carry the coal in and a man trained in the work can do it quicked than others. Also how about scores of windows. “Nonsensical Order.” “Jt is a most nonsensical order,” “Absolutely!’’ agreed Mayor Hodg- “Any coal that waits for me will only get absent treatment,” McColl “The order does not mean a.sav- ing of labor,” Comamissioner Clancy “In fact it means increas- ed labor because you must hire a man The order will help only and was put “I hope the coal companies ignore Commissioner Farnsworth said he Then ‘When he boarded the train and it was about ready to leave, the company lined up beside the car, presented arms and ac- corded the highest honors in military parlance for their former major.and comrade; who was visibly affected as he waved his parting salute. BEMIDJI RECEIVES THIS LATEST GEM OF THOUGHT Claim It “Saves Labor”; Then - Patriots Have to Procure " {The'latest fuel order issued by J, J. McGee,, ~ NOTTO PLACE FUEL IN BINS Ct;mpels Consumers to Pay for Hiring Man to Perform This Service, Other Labor. state fuel -administrator, which has caused no end of caustic comnfent in St. Paul, has struck Be- midji, being received by C. E. Battles, fuel administrator. - & It means that no coal shxll be deliy- ered by the-dealers to the bins of the bor.” consumers but thrown out on the curb or in any old place and the ex- cuse for the order is ‘“‘saving of la- This lucid order-then means that:the householder must then-have regard Here the ‘bin. 1 one to carry the coalto the bin and~thus ‘“save labor,”’ and it is pre- sumed, apparently, that there are men standing around on corners waiting to be picked off just for such jobs. Absolutely ‘Senseless. People interviewed on this. order state fuel administration™ & To all Dealers: 3 Minneapolis, Aug. 5.—Owing to the shortage of labor and to the necessity of having coal de- livered at the earliest possible moment, coal_shall be carried in by the dealers or their employees or not “be unloaded directly from it in various ways. Even those interested in the business re- gard it as one absolutely senseless effusion, ‘who have to pay big prices for what coal they may be able to get will have to be further burdened fby hiring a man, if one can be secured, at good . wages: ‘to place the-coal in the cellar or bins. It means that householders Here’s the Gem. is the latest gem from ithe it is ordered that no wagons by any T .. This. applies ases where the coal can- into wagon consumer’s All dealers in the state of Min- nesota are forbidden to carry coal in, in violation of this order. This order is effective at once. © Very truly yours, (Signed) J. F. McGEE, Federal I'uel Administrator By JOSEPH SHAPLEN., for Minnesota . GERMAN AMBASSADOR PRECIPITATED REVOLT OF CHECOSLQVAKS (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Stockholm, Aug. 8.—Mirbach, the German ambassador who recently was mysteriously murdered, precipitated the Chechoslovak uprising which is adding one more chapter to Russia’s bloody revolutionary history. Form the most direct sources I have learned the first time in America, of the cause of this uprising. the real story, now told for Mirbach, as Germany’s representa- tive, demanded that the soviets at Pensa not only disarm, but imprison, the Checho-slovaks. 5 The Chechoslovaks sent a delega- tion to the local soviet chirman, Kur- ayeff insisted that the order be car- ried out, whereupon the Chechoslo- vaks with their bare hands literally wiped out the local Bolsheviki and Red Guards. Then the Chechoslovaks ecalled a meeting of representatives of all dem- ocratic and socialist parties, reported on the action they had taken, and showed documents proving Mirbach’sg}. participation in the plot against thé Chechoslovaks. The meeting closed with the Chech«, oslovaks’ promise to leave the city, which they did, taking arms and am- munition Bolshevik reinforgements arrived the next day, and proclaimed an alleged defeat of the Chechoslovak force. Repressions were ificreased among the local population. - All Bolshevik talk ahout a desire on the part of the Chechoslovaks for a counter revolution is but an arro- gant lie. to igtefere with the internal situation in Russia, and resorted to violence only maddened by the ccntemptible Bolshevik surrender to Mirbach’s de- mand. avenue. tended. The Willing Workers Aid society of the Fifth ward will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home of Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Soper, These people have no desire ¥ 521 Minnesota A cordial invitation is ex- .day by the Canada Food board. Corn RASTIC LIOUOR LAW. " INCLUDES BELTRAMI he: booze peddling game is going ts its death blow in Beltrami nty oh September ,1 when the new eral. law, goes into effect which es .the ‘‘mere possession of intox- ting liquor” in the Indian country offense. The measure is provided for in the S@nrop;isuon for :the bureau of In- an affairs. and approved May 25, 4918,-to take effect September 1. Its 'ovisions are: | __ Suppressing Ligiior Traffic. " “For the suppression of the _traffic " in intoxicating liquors ¢ among Indians, $150,000: Pro- :vided, that on and after Septem- ber first, nineteen hundred .and eighteen, possession by a person i of intoxicating liquors in the In- dian country where the introduc- tion is or was prohibited by treaty or Federal statute shall be an offense and punished in accordance with the provisions ‘ of the Acts of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninty-two (Twenty-seventh Statutes at Large, page two hundred and sixty), and January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine-seven (Twenty-nine Statutes at Large, i page five hundred and six).” %! This means that keepihg a little of the old stuff for “family purposes” and .other similar excuses will come 'under -the penalties of the law and meet the proper penalty. MERCHANTS® DELIVERY " DISCUSSED TOMORROW Tomorrow afternoon at the Com- mercial club, Judge Wilson of Still- water, will- be here to confer with all interested in the delivery system of the:city. He will act as representa- tive of the state food commission that recently went into the deliverless or- der ‘business, and ‘which has created no’ little comment and in some in- stances JToss of business in Bemidji. Axlyone interested is urged to be pres- ent. DRAFT EVADER JUMPS FROM TRAIN: INJURIES - ARE BELIEVED FATAL (By United Press.) St. Paul, Aug. 8.—Frederick May- er, age 28 years, of Grand Rapids, Minn., was perhaps fatally injured when he jumped ‘from a window of a rapidly moving train on which he and eleven other' men were being brought to St. Paul, charged with draft eva- sion. The others reached here today. The train from which the draft evader jumped was stopped, backed to where he was lying and he was given first aid by Red Cross nurses on the train enroute to France. He was placed in the hospital at Sandstone, Minn. HUGE DOUB gistorical 8ocietY 'PUSII vivl " (By United Press.) The allies avpvarently com- menced a double drive on Pic- ardv -and the Aisne-Vesle fronts this morning. s While the Franco-Americans began the renewal of attacks on a biz scale, driving toward the heights between Vesle and the Aisne, the British and French suddenly smashed the tip of the huge Picardy salient. Southeast of Amiens, progress is reported in both drives. Drivine on Heights. With the Americans Afield, Aug. 8. —Franco-Americans, after crossing the . Soissons-Rheims highway, are driving on the heights between the Vesle and the Aisne. ing is in progress, but the allies are steadily pushing on, holding all posi- tions gained. On a wide front of the Vesle, desperate fighting is in prog- ress. Additional bridge material is being rushed up and new crossings estab- lished. The weather has cleared. Americans Loosen Grip. Paris, Aug. 8.—By increasing their pressure at various points, Franco- the German grip upon the Vesle river line. It will be only a matter of days until the enemy is forced to abandon the Vesle river line and retire to the Aisne, unless an overwhelming num- ber of reserves are involved, and this is regarded as a possibility. FRENCH AND BRITISH “BEGIN ATTACK EARLY 1 (By United, Press.) i Withithe ‘British ‘Afield, Aug. 8.— The French' and: British’ attacked at dawn this morning between Morland court and Moureuil on a fifteen-mile front. The battle appears to be go- ing well for the allies. Several hun- dred tanks led rapidly. ] JERS DOING BIT: FOURTH LOOKS AFTER FAMILIES Royce Bird, a fireman on the M. & I. railroad, has received a well writ- ten patriotic poem from his brother, Edward, a member of the United States infantry now in France. A letter just received states that he likes the “game” over there and he is feeling fine. Another brother, Gilbert, is also “somewhere” over the seas, while a third brother is in the medical corps at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, leaving the fourth brether at home to look after his family and also the parents of three brothers. HUGE SUBSTITUTE MILL. (By United Press.) Winnipeg, Aug. 8.—To increase the Canadian supply of substitutes for wheat, the largest milling concern of its kind in Canada will be opened in Petersboro, Ont., on August 15, by a well known cereal company, accord- ing to an announcement issued to- London, July 21.—A man who rides a bicyles wonder how on earth it is possible to fall off, just as a man who is learning to ride wonders how on earth it is possible to stay on. That is a contrast which every musketry instructor must keep con- tinually in his mind. If he does not| he will forget that to évery recruit| the rifle is a new and perhaps a dan- gerous thing. He approaches it with respect. Exactly as with the bicycle he wonders not only how he will man- age it, and what it will do with him. That is why you cannot drill men into snooting as you can drill l.hem; into forming fours, and why with harshness and impatience you may spoil a good man at musketry. You are doing more than to teach him to do a new thing, you are putting a strange instrument into his hands, as you might give him a curious ani- mal, and he has to become accustomed to it. If you let him use it wrongly, if you let him fire his first shot with a loose grip and hurt himself with the kick, you may make him perma- nently afraid of it. That is an obvious carelessness which every good instructor avoids, but he has to do more, he has to re- member that every man with imagin- ation enough to learn at all must have a certain gun shyness at first even if he never suows it, and must wonder what the first shot will feel like. That as every instructor knows is a hard thing to keep that perpetu- ally and consciously in mind. Men Show Nervousness. Gun shyness is a well chosen ex- pression and in the exact sense of it every man is gun shy at the begin- ning, but it is used more often simply to describe the more obvious physical nervousness that some men show when they first handle a rifle. It is very difficult to find a cause for it. It may perhaps be a repugnance to sdden noise, a repugnance which, if you knew the man’s past, you would find to have shown itself in other flour, oatmeai, corn meal and oat flour will be turned out at the rate of 7,000 barrels per day. GOLZ FUNERAL. The fneral of August Golz will be held tomorrow at 2 o’clock at the res- idence and at 2:30 o’clock at the Ger- man Lutheran church. Rev. Herman of Little Ralls will officiate. |~ THIS DAY IN THE WAR Aug. 8, 1917—Armies of Crown Prince made heavy attacks on French positions near Calofornie plateau, and are repulsed. Aug. 8, 1916—Gorzia is brought under Italian gunfire. Russians gain rapidly in offensive south of Dniester. Aug. 8, 1915—Russians report they are fighting magnificently in their rearguard actions, as they retreat to the Grodno-Brest Litovsk line. Aug. 8, 1914—British force—the Desperate fight-| Americans are gradually lesaeninq;_empmlg FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH LEDRIVE BEGUN BY ALLIES; X wiull TSOF AISNS-VESLE LINE 0 Packers May Feel Clutches U.S. Control (By United Press.) Washington, Aug. 8.—Federal com- mission representatives in making their report today on the packing in- dustry of the country, recommends that the railway administration take over all the packing yards of the country, all so-called branch houses of the packers used in distributing meats, all stock cars and refrigerator cars now owned by the packers and all yards plants. This would leave the packers only the business of slaughtering and skin- ning. The matter would be left to con- gress to pass the necessary legisla- tion, which would kive the govern- ment a monopoly on transportation and distributing meats. It would break the so-called papcked trusts by their influential advan- tages, VESSEL TO BOTTOM (By United Press.) ‘Washinglon, Aug 8.—The Ameri- can steamer Merak was sunk by a submarine August 6, fifteen miles off Diamond Shoals lightship, off Cape Hattaras, the navy department an- nounced today. PERSHING'S CASUALTY LIST. |By United Press.) ‘Washington, Aug. 8.—General Per- shing’s casualty list this morning contained 340 names. RECRULT IS QUITE OFTEN AFRAID OF MILITARY RIFLE expected from the greater volume ! noise. Or it may be the excessive nervousness of an imaginative man at handling a dangerous thing for the first time in his life; or it may, in rare cases, be a definite fear of some particular accident, a fear of which the man himself is perfectly con- scious. It was so in a case of a man with glasses who flinched badly at every shot. He has a brother who also wore glasses and who had been blinded in one eye by a sudden explosion. He was in continual fear of the same ac- cident. The only thing was to put him to shoot without his glasses. - He was short-sighted but could see well enough at the short ranges. It did not matter at all that a five hundred and six hundred yard he could hit nothing. At two hundred and ..ree hundred he could learn to use his rifle and when he grew to know it, he would =probably want himself to see better and take to his glasses again. Difficul* Cases. But clear cases of that sort are rare, and there is no opportunity to try and trace the nervousness back to its source. All that the musketry officer has is the man himself; a puzzled, rather shamefaced man who for no reason at all that he can find, trembles when he goes down with a rifle, or into a sweat, or cannot see and he has to put heart into that man and make him make a lit- tle more than the best of himself. These are the most difficult and the most interesting cases that an in- structor has to -handle. He has to watch them closely, be ready to en- courage them, see at once when they are doing better. If he once lets them thins that he despises them, if he merely tries to discipline them, if he makes them afraid to speak of themselves, he will do nothing. For he never knows that there may not be some simple thing, like the man's fear of breaking his glasses, which he can put right, if only the man will “contemptible little army’’—beging| ways. At the same time it is inter-|speak of it; and even if there is not, landing on French soil to aid French | esting to note that artillery officers|the more a man knows you are inter- and Belgians repel invaders. French|do not find as much gun shynessjested in him, the more he will try to forces join Belgians at Liege. among their men as they might be|master himself. . % s ,_T,_ B ,,_t,f | |