Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 17, 1918, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ————PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNXOON EXOEPT SUNDAY- THY BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISKING ©O. @. X. CARSON B, X. DENU M TELEPHONE 222 | Entered at the postoftice’at Bemidji, Mintti, ay sécond“clasd mstter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 3 \ s pald to ennonymiols®contributions. Writer's name must " be fi:"‘:"?:hfl,,p‘:duon but ynot necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of cach week to instire publication in {he current issue. \ mnemu:ng “ .Mm & JOAr . Six months ......... THE WEBKLY PIONERR : of the'mews of the wiek. Publisked - t0 any address, for, in advance §1.50 MAJOR JOHN DIXON YOST; U. S. A. When Major John Dixon Yost was host to his state re- cruiting officers last week it was a farewell. Next day, 25 members of the state recruijting force -entrained for Jefferson barracks for assignment to active service; and a few who re- main at headquarters are awaiting their orders. Major Yost will leave in a short time to be assigned: elge-| where by the war department, and through the press of the state he is officially saying “goodbye” to the people of Minne- sota. The transferring of Major Yost means that the state will' Jose a man and a soldier for whom the entire state holds'in its great heart a warm spot. He came to Minnesotasoon' after the war, having been called to Washington from California, the state that led the United States in recruiting. He was in- formed that he was wanted to go to Minnesota and see what the difffficulty was up there, that there had been disquieting] reports of various natures emanating from that state and that ‘recruiting was practically a farce. Major Yost came. Just about the first thing he said when he reached the boundary of the state was “Hello, everybody.” And from throughtout the state were thrust countless hands in hearty greeting. It was Yost on the job. p Asked what he desired, Major Yost:told them. He sat right down to anybody and everybody and told ’em; ‘and Minne- . sota swept him nearly off his feet with hearty co-operation and had the war department sitting up and blinking. Minnesota had been waiting for the right man to come to it and tell ’em in the right way. Yost did it. There hasn’t been a thing he has wanted that he couldn’t have. The newspapers of the state offered him everything in the shop. They boosted for him and recruiting as no othér man or campaign. Minnesota jumped far up the column to third from the top from the cellar percentage, and the state has sent the flower of the great armies that are fighting the nation’s battles. ; Minnesota will lose an honored friend. A friend it loves to honor. He has been a credit to himself, a credit to the war department of the United States. He has seen years of hard service for his government at home and in foreign climes and the people of Minnesota will wish'him God speed and the best of luck. —_———— ABSENT SOLDIERS WILL VOTE. Believing that the men in the service of their country are entitled to everything that they want while they are fighting the battles for democracy, the public safety commission has acted to ‘provide an opportunity for the casting of absent soldier ballots at the November elections. The voting privilege is the greatest of all afforded by citizenship in a democratic form of government and no circum- stance should be allowed to stand in the way of an opportunity to exercise that privilege. Especially are our men in the ser- vice, fighting for the perpetuation of all the blessings of a democratic form of government which means liberty, justice and equality, entitled to this opportunity. Their sacrifice and heroism should not, and will not, so far as Minnesota is con- cerned, be abrogated in the least by the, circumstances that have necessitated their absence from home and loved ones. It will mean labor and expense but it must not be said that Minnesota in the least has neglected to preserve for her soldiers and sailors the important privilege and expression as embodied in their right to vote, if they want to. e In this project the safety commission feels that it has the commendation of every loyal citizen, regardless of political prejudice or affiliation. The voting will be done by mail and by enlarging the scope of the absent voters’ law. Votes will be certified and registered through commanding officers of military units. —_— LIEUT. RALPH GRACIE DID HIS BIT: Fighting gamely until his battle plane was crippled which caused him to plunge into the sea; another Bemidji soldier has made the supreme sacrifice Lieut. Ralph Gracie, son of Daniel Gracie. This information came to Bemidji from the lieu- tenant, commanding the aero company to which Lieut. Gracie belonged. He had accounted for ofie Hun air victim during his brief activity on the battle front and had done splendid work for his country in her war for world humanity. He laid his life on the altar in behalf of us of Bemidji, Beltrami county, his state and his beloved America. His parents can well be proud of their stalwart son. A E R, Members of the Woman’s National Party intend to use their_influence in the west against the democratic candidate for senator and congressman, and also against any candidate - who has opposed the right of suffrage. They intend to camp on the trail of those who have been using their-efforts to defeat the proposed amendment and will also fight the democratic candidates who would uphold the president who has béen dor- mant in lending aid to further the cause of the amendment. 0— ; The news from abroad is éertainly encouraging. But it is not yet quite time to beat shields into plowshares and swords into pruning hooks. —— e Orge person in six throughout the nation subscribed for the Third Liberty Loan. Let us make it one in five for the Fourth loan. —0 You and a million and a half more like you, in the Ninth District, will buy Liberty Bonds on September 28, 1918. ! "0UR SAVED FOOD | FED THE ALLIES Food Administrator Writes Presi- dent America Conserved 1441,- 000,000 Bushels Wheat. CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by 844,600,000 Pounds. Conservation measures applied by the American people enabled the Unit- ed States to ship to the Allied peoules and to our own forces overseas 141, 000,000 bushels of wheat and 844,600, 000 pounds of meat during the past year, valued in all at $1,400,000,000. This was accomplished in the face of & gerious food shortage in this country, bespeaking the wholeheartedness and patriotism with which the American people have met the food crisis abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, in a let- ter to President Wilson, explains how the situation was met. The voluntary conservation program fostered by the Food Administration enabled the piling up-of the millions of bushels of wheat during 1917-18 and the shipment of meat during 1917-18. . The total value of all food ship- ments to Allled destinations amounted to $1,400,000,000, all this food being bought through or in collaboration with the Food Administration. These figures are all based on official reports and represent food exports for the harvest year that closed June 30, 1918. The shipments of nfeats’ and fats (Including meat products, dairy prod- ucts, vegetable olls, etc.,) to Allied des- tinations were as follows: Fiscal year 1916-17....2,166,500,000 1bs. Flscal year 1917-18. . ..8,011,100,000 1bs. Increase .... .. 844,600,000 Ibs. Our slaughterable animals at the be- ginning of the last fiscal year were not appreciably larger than the year be- fore and particularly in hogs; they were probably less. The Increase in shipments is due to conservation and the extra welght of animals added by our farmers. The full effect of these efforts began to ‘bear their best results in the last half of the fiscal year, when the ex- ports -to the Allles were 2,183,100,000 pounds, as against 1,266,500,000 pounds in the same period of the year before. This compares ‘with an average of 801,000,000 pounds of total exports for the ‘'same half years In the thrée-year pre-war perfod. Tl In- cereals and cereal products re- duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been : ) -y Fiscal year 1916-17..259,900,000 bushels Fiscal year1917-18..840,800,000 bushels Increase ....e.... 80,900,000 bushels Of' these cereals our: shipments of the prime breadstuffs in the fiscul year 1017-18 to Allled destinations were: Whent 131,000,000 bushels and of rve 13,900,000 bushels, a total of 144,000, 000 bushels. ¢ The exports to Allled destinations during the fiscal year 1016-17 jwere: Wheat 135,100,000 bushels and rye 2,400,000 hushels, a totat of 137,400,000 bushels. In addition some 10,000,000 bushels of 1917 wheat are now in port for Allled destinations or en route thereto, The total shipments to Allied countries from our last harvest of wheat will be therefore, about 141,000,- 000~ bushels, or a total of 154,900,000 bushels of prime breadstuffs. ~In ad- ditfon to this we have shipped gome 10,000,000 bushels to neutrals depend- ent upon us, and we have received some ‘imports from other quarters. “This accomplishment of our people fn- this ‘matter stands out even more cletirly {f ‘we bear in mind that we had available In the fiscal year 1016-17 fromi net carry-over and as surplus over our normal consumption about 200,000,000 bustrels of wheat which we were able to export that year without trenching on our home loaf,” Mr. Hoover said. “This last year, however, ‘owing ‘to the large failure of the 1917 wheat crop, we had available from net carry-over and production and imports only just about our normal consump- tion. Therefore our wheat shipments to Allied destinations represent ap- proximately savings from our own wheat’ brend, © vThese figures, however, do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrificeé made during the past year by the whole American people. De- splte the magnificent effort of our agri- cultural population in planting a much increased acreage in 1917, not only was there a very large failure in wheat, but also the corn failed to mature prop- erly, and our corn is our dominant crop. “] am sure,” Mr. Hoover wrote in concluding his report, *“that all the millions of our people, agricultural as well as urban, who have contributed to these results should feel a very definite satisfaction that in a year of universal food shortages in the north. ern hemisphere all of those people Jdined together against Germany have come through into sight of the coming harvest net only with wealth and strength fully maintained, but with only temporary periods of hardship, “It is difficult to distinguish between v!rlnus sections of our people—the homes, public eating places, food trades, urban or agricultural popula- tions—in assessing credit for these re- sults, but no one will deny the doml- nant part of the American women."” A hearder is a man who is more in- terested in getting his bite than lo give ‘| g his bit. " BUSINESS & PROF ESSlONALe, DOCTORS "y Dr. A. E. Henderson Office in-O’Leary-Bowser Blk , " Bemidji | Telephone 72-R THORWALD LUNDE DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC Acute and ' Chron! Di handled with greaf succ:;:?“ 1st Nat: Bank Bldg. Phone 406-W Hours 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 7-8 p. m l DE. C. R. SANBORN PHYSICTAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block A. V. GARLOCK, M, . SPECIALIST EYE EAR NOSE- . THROAT Glasses Fitted Y Aviators Hill and Hoover, an “H” of a combiuutldn for.the Boche. These 1 two fiyers are considered to be among the best Hun-gettens of the American squadron. N A N A A A A A A A AN AAA A AN DR. E. H. SHITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Security Bank Bleck ———— ) DR. E. A, SHANNON, PHYSICIAN. AND su'xgisgi« ' Office in Mayo Block Phone 398 Res. Phone_397 1 : : "same hotel, have become very friend- NEWS AND LETTERS FROM BELTRAMI CO. SOLDIERS-SAILORS The naval officer has seen long gervice and has two brothers in the navy, so naturally his only sister kept up the tradtion of the family by ; DR. L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON joining the Wrens. Very proud of her mew uniform, :| she asked her brother to meet her one SON REACHES LIVERPOOL. Sunday for a walk in the park after- Mrs. Mary Guthrie of Turtle River church, and certainly she looked has received a letter from her son,|scarcely less important than did he Ernest BE. Guthrie, saying he hasar-| with his four rows of “distinction rived in Liverpool and is ‘‘sure feel-| lace” on his cuffs and two rows of ing fine and dandy.” He spent thei medal ribbons across the chest. night at Liverpool and then entrained! - But when the naval officer got back for an unknown destination. J to his hotel he was met in the lounge The letter was brief and writteny by the American capitan, who ‘gave on® stationary bearing the coat of|him a dig in the ribs, and said: arms of Windsor castle on the re-|‘“Say, Jack, that was a stunning lit- Bemidji, Minn. —————— DRS. GILMORE & McCANN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Oftice—Miles RBlock S S T o R A ot S e | 7k el A g e i R NORTHROP verse side and a fac similie letter sign | tle bus conductress 1 saw you ed in fac similie by George R. I, wel-|in the park this morning!"” coming’ the American soldiers and DR. H. A. OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Ibertson Block Office Phone 153 with wishing them God speed. Mrs. Guthrievhas another son in training camp in the south. HOME ON FURLOUGH. George Graham of the U, 8. 8. Kan- sas arrived in the city yesterday for a fifteen.day furlough. SAFE “OVER THERE.” A letter received from Sergt. E. S.| Caskey by 'his brother L. L. Caskey lisease, such as biliousness, gafolys OYeRcticrs. such dangerous illness. NO BONES WERE BROKEN. - (By United Press.) " London, Aug. 2. (By Mail.)——An|your health. ~. Englsh naval officer and an Ameri- SRy can army -captain, stopping at thci City Drug Store ~ What's The Matter VW ith . Bemidji Merchants S —————————————— Buy goods from merchants you know, not from traders you have never seen, % After the Pilgrim Fathers landed, they didn’t send to James I for dry goods. < When the Israelites réached Canaan they didn’t write to Pharoah for canned pork and beans. ) This is no time to clutter up Uncle: Sam’s railroads with mail orders. Give him a free hand to feed the boys _in France. Do your bit and buy of ' Bemidji Merchants. Order To Stop Paper The War Industries Board at. Washington has issued the following ruling: - “ALL NEWSPAPERS MUST DISCON- TINUE SENDING PAPERS AFTER DATE OF EXPIRATION, UNLESS SUBSCRIPTION IS RENEWED AND PAID FOR.” Of course newspapers will be compelled to obey this order and must stop papers when the time is up. Subscribers receiving their paper by mail are hereby notified to watch the YELLOW LABEL ADDRESS which is pasted on the front page oi your paper and which shows you the date your subscription expires. ‘When the time of expiration approaches renew your subscription so that you will not miss a single issue. City. subscribers, whose papers are delivered by carrier,.will be notified by collector or through the mail of their expiration, and we trust they will renew promptly, thus insuring continuous service. B R B e e S S — DREADFUL CONSEQUENCE Wehen the bowels are not acting freely, waste matter remaining in them generates poisons— which are rapidly absorbed by “he blood and cause serious tritis, skin diseases and many of 1023 Dewey avenite, says he landed| othérs. “Don’t take the risk .of Hollis- “ter’'s Rocky Mountain Tea once {a week will keep-the bowels active-and clean,and safe\guard DR. EINER JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bemidji, Minn. . / DENTISTS DR.J. W. D : 4 DENTIl‘ggRICH Office, O’Leary-Bowser BId| Office Phone 376-W Res. 37‘6-3 I ~ DR. J. T. TUOMY ; gas- [ DENTIST ; North of ' "Ho! L Gibhons Block Mektiai ‘HOtTelal. 230 / DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Oftice In Winter Block —_— e 1 LAWYERS ; ' . GRAHAM M. TORRANCE : LAWY ER i Miles Bluck Phone 560 VETERINARIANS | E. R. BURGESS, D. V. M. \(e!erinarian Office Phone 3-R 3rd St. and Irvine Ave. J. W, VETERIN%%NYHE%%RGEON ~ Office and Hospital 3 doors west of Troppman’s, Phone No. 209 3rd St. and Irvine Ave. BUSINESS NORTHERN MINN . ~~Dwight D. M'm%gf‘-n % AWEh CAN nything Anywh Offices ey Security Bank Bldg.—Tel, 747 Insure PHOTOGRAPHS Kor tne Boys in France Sittings Made Day or Night HAKKERUP STUDIO FU]I:;E]EIAL DIRECTOR - ' ¢ M. E. IBERT! 3 c UNDERTAK%%N 105 Beltrami Ave., Bemfdji, Minn. DRY CLEAXING Clothes Clewners or Meu, Women @nd Children The GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, < Flour, Feed, ete. Bnmid!yl' 2 SC.HROEDEB Phone 86 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machinee 117 Third St., Bemidji J. BISIAR, Mgr. Phone §73-W TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER Res. Phone 58 818 America Office Phone 12 ? ! ' | Defectiv