Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 22, 1918, Page 2

, ~ BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER : TRLEPHOND 938 ] Entered &t the postoffics-at Minn., a9 second-clayp-.matter: under 8ot of Congress of March 8, 1879. ‘Writer’'s name must us. ‘conteitirion: attentiom paid to annohymo publication. 8. be mwn to the editor, but mnot mnecessarily for Communications for the Weekly P. - 1 - not- Iater than Tuesday of each week to.insure publication in the current issue. THR WEEKLY IGWRER’ i .“ | w;r;“ Thursday and sent n:-hn pal : any sddress, for, ue-» $1.30 W OFFICIAL COUNTY AND: CITY PROCEDINGS * i i .m=*" BEWARE THIS PROPAGANDA!. ol Several articles have recently crawled into the press to the effect that, even admitting they will not canquer, the Ger- man people are elated because of their belief that after the war the banner of Great Britain will float beneath the Stars and Stripes—that in world, affairs of the future Great Britain must play a role secondary to the United States. There is a suspicion of German propaganda in articles-of that sort, and the man who reads them should dismiss them from his mind. Newspapers should be chary in giving space to such articles. If the insidious German propagandists co.uld.erea.te achieve their purpose, for these jealousies might speedily dis- rupt the co-ordination among Germany’s enemies which }gas required. so much punishment to bring about, and for which Clemenceau, the French premier, is so largly responsible. 'The 'American people are not fighting this war with any thought of the advantages they may gain-over Great Britain. To sug- gest it is to insult the Nation. A country:that.could forget that for nearly three years England was. its first line of de- fense, while its administrative officials were playing up peace sentiment before an election would-indeed display a “besotted base ingratitude.” ° 0 SIXTY-ONE STATE COUNTIES SALOONLESS. The recent prohibition election, held in Blue‘Earth county, whereby the saloons of that county were ousted by a heavy majority, makes 61 counties of the state-saloonless, whereas, there are 25 remaining wet. Representatives of the dry federatien had been campaign- ing in Mankato and throughout the county for the past thirty days. , . “It is more than a local victory,” leaders of the federation ¥ throughout the state. N - “All that is needed to put Minnesota on the dry list as a state is to get out the vote this fall. If we do that we will win a great victory.” ) 0 : ; ROOSEVELT TAKES HARD- WALLOP AT FORD. Henry Ford, the auto-manufacturer of Detroit -Mich., is being urged in some circles for the United States Senate from the Wolverine state, but there has been a storm of protest against his candidacy, owing to his pre-war-activities, utterances and widespread newspaper campaign against the war. . ' The latest to come to bat against Ford is Colonel Roose- velt and he tears the crust off Ford in his characteristic fashion, one of his chief reasons being the fact that the son of the millionaire claimed draft exemption which was put over. The colonel issues an open challenge to Ford to repudiate statements he is alleged to have made and in an open article charges him with about everything in the catalogue. —o0 WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER.GRAFTERS? We note in a dispatch from Washington® where the pres- ident upholds a sentence of five years:in a federal prison at hard labor and, dismissal from the army ‘of a first lieutenant who was convicted of having conspired to defraud the govern- ment out of $1,006, purporting to be for supplies delivered to Camp Sheridan, Ala. What ever became of that gang who dreds of thousands on that rotten rubber rain coat deal and also that legging deal and a few others? ° a0 - . ; - 'And now Townley and: his star chamber cabinet are plan- ning to put an independent ticket into the field to contest the governorship with Burnquist and Wheaton, and are making a bid for the labor vote. No one can tell us that union labor will for one instant have anything to do with. Townleyin his political plots or we’ll miss one mighty confident belief. Lind- bergh was the Townley handpicked candidate for the -nomina- 4 l voters-of the state. - - 0 '1 wish the coming elections could somehow be avoided.— ‘Vice President Marshalls There is danger, isn’t there, that they may go republican in spite of the adjournment of politics?—Minneapolis Tribune. But Marshall didn’t avoid that election in Wiseonsin-where in rebuke of his insults to the republicans when he termed them “sewage” tHe presidential ‘endorsed canidate for the senate was overwhelmingly defeated by Senator Lenroot, republican. 0 In the Official Food News, published twice each month by the Minnesota food administration, appears a lengthy article from the federal administration at Washington, bearing the heading, “Get the Sugar Situation Home to the People.”” Won- dar if anyone in Washington is of the opinion. that the sugar situation isn’t HOME to the PEOPLE. —_—0 According to statements made by ‘“Bill” Haywood, boss of the I. W. W., he and the other members on trial before Fed- eral Judge Landis in Chicago had a very fair .and impartial trial. -He couldn’t honestly say anything else. Now is the time to choke that pro-Hun organization. B —0 I Gigantic said “for its significance bears on the trend of sentiment|’ § : were detected of having robbed the government ouf -of hup-|-- tion and what he got handed to him was plenty from the loyal - LS =2 Coming to Minnesota State Fair— | A STUPENDOUS WAR TROPHY and War Relic Display; featuring thousands and thousands-of:captured _guns, bombs, mines, shells, uniforms, contraband of - war, and weapons of all kinds, wrested from the hard- ressed Huns on the Western Front, on the- Austro- ftalian Front, in Albania, in Mesopotamia, is coming - ta the Minnesota State Fair, September 2 to 7. This is positively the only big, comprehensive éxhibft of war relics and war trophies in America. - Between * 1914 and 1917, the British, French, Belgian, Italian Flame Projector; captured by “Yanks.” i and Canadian Governmentsshipped a series of big ex- . hibits to America to stimulate enlistment in their atmies. Several months ago, the Committee on "Public Information, through arrangement with all the Allied Governments, combined ‘all these exhibits, added a large number of American trophies to it, and opened the first big Allied War Exposition—as it is now called. . —-at Frisco. i { Only Fair to Get It The Exposition at San Francisco was a tremendous . success. . Hundreds of thousands of®persons from ali over America visited it. About two weeks ago it was . . moved to Los Angeles. - From Los Angeles it comes to the Minnegota ‘State Fair—the only fair in America - N e Lewis Machine Gun in Action. which it is to visit. From thei fair it goes to Chicago to be installed in the Coliseum for the fall. . So pretentious is this big Allied War Exposition that it is to be installed in the mammoth Steel Machinery Building, on Machinery Hill, the only building at the fair which can accommodate it.. Over- 14,000 square Allied War Exposition trating atrocities upon women and children and old l men by the German armies, and the wanton and devilish . German-Head Gear, taken by French. | | feet of spa.ce will be required tto present it to the North- ' west. It is probable that some.of the bigger guns may be set up outside of the building. - 1 Enlarged Photos of Atrocities The Pictorial Division of the Exposition is one of the- most interesting features. It:consists’'of many-enlarge- ments of official photos taken by the British, French and Belgian Governments since the war began, illus- Antiaircraft Gun seized by British, | destruction of property by invading Huns. A series of official films of American: activities on the Western' - Front, taken in Europe recently by th& Committee on? Public Information, is to be shown. None of these! - pictures has been exhibited here. . : ! The Exhibit of Contraband of War is-a second interest~§ ing feature. In it are thousands of contraband ‘articles ! which German sympathizers in America have at- ; tempted to ship to Germany, but which have been held s up before they got that far. Rubber, nickel, copper, cigarettes, tobacco, foodstuffs, and other things needed badly in Germany, make up this exhibit. Many of these articles were shipped originally from Minnesota,} Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, and Iowa. Only Chance for You to See It It must net be forgotten that this will be the only chance the Northwest is to be given to see this Exposi- tion. It will give you a vital knowledge of the condi- } -tions under which Our Boys overseas are fighting. ' 'Y A Fa»re. and a Half Round Trip Rate S ,=- i | { | cmpians, Sndard Ol company has maised the wages of islgpy Anry Railroad---See Your Agent , J ST . SE R B