Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 6, 1918, Page 2

PAGE TWO —— BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER — _PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY- THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ~. G E. CARSON B H. DENU N TELEPHEONE 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879, No attention paid to annonymous contributions. Writer’s name ‘must be iknown to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. ‘Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office mnot later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year .. Six montks . Three months 'Y MAIL. One mouth One week . THE WEEKLY PIONEER ik %, containing a summary of the ne { the week. Publis] evcg%‘nm-'y":n& sent postage paid to any address, for, in advance $1.50. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS 7 NOT YET. In the third week of October the British army was }ess lucky than in the second. The casualty list was 37,150, against 35,710 in the previous week. y But both totals look much the same.. And when they are compared with the totals reached in most of the earlier weeks the sameness is maintained. There is a drab monotony about the tendency of the lists to stick to five figures. From which it is inferred that the war is not yet over, nor is the enemy crushed. He can dispense death in heavy doses to all his antagonists; although our own casualty lists do not reach anything like the alarming numbers just quoted. We have not so many men engaged as Great Britain, whose levies are scattered promiscuously between Holland and Persia. Let us look facts in the face, as our soldiers do. An enemy that is able to fight stubbornly will continue to do so, no matter how plausibly he may discourse on peace. If we need precept as well as example we can get both from our - fighting forces and from those of our allies. The rank and file .of our army have lately made public declarations that the only peace they want is the kind that an impotent enemy accepts because he has no alternative. The French have been unkind enough to.announce that they are not interested in internal reforms in Germany. They do not care what form of sovereignty rules that enlightened land, provided that it is powerless to rule anything else. . This is the kind of serum to select for the inoculation of our irresolute brethren here at home. We need not concern ourselves with the philosophy of government as applied to the structure of German political institutions. Let the Germans worry about Germany, and let us prevent them from worrying anyone else. The practical thing for us to do in Bemidji is to tear the months of March and April from the first 1919 calendar that we get our. hands on and nail them up in the parlor. The Treasury is already considering those months in connection with the Fifth Liberty Loan. O CROWN PRINCE- AFFRONTED. The Interstate Commerce Commission is beginning to as- gert its authority to make changes in the freight rates promul- gated last summer by Director General McAdoo. In Oregon there are two competing lumber companies, one of which has the benefit of joint through rates, but the other has been forced to accept a combination of local rates materially higher than those enjoyed by its rival. Both companies serve the same markets in States of the Northwest. The Interstate Commerce Commission, after a hearing, has determined that the rates established by Mr. McAdoo are, in this instance, unjust and dis- criminatory, and has ordered that joint through rates be put into effect for each company. In publishing the order the Commission distinctly rules that the assumption that the McAdoo rates are presumed to be right is incorrect. 3 QL ] SMILES ACROSS THE SEA. We are informed via the censored cables that “the precise information in possession. of Colonel House relative to the European situation rather amazes statesmen on this (the European) side of the Atlantic.” The operator on the other end of the cable is certainly possessed of-a dry sense of humor. O The fact that the allies are about to invade the German empire, with millions more going over from the United States, is the cause of the murderous ruler of the Hun empire extend- ing the bloody paw, begging to save his reeking hide. There should be no quarter for this arch criminal. He should be made to suffer what hundreds of thousand of helpless victims have suffered at the hands of his grey hordes, $chooled in the book of crime, that have outraged all civilization. . o0 That world power dream of the world’s arch murder, the Hun kaiser, is getting to be a nightmare. The whole sordid works is tumbling before the allies, despite the “poor, weak, ill trained and insignificant American army.,” as the kaiser used to prate about. 0 The word of Germany is certainly not as good as its bond. ‘And the holders of German bonds are said to be feeling much anxiety about the value of their investment. Draw your own inference as to what the word is worth. The Germans have evacuated the Ladies’ Road (Chemin des Dames). It may be no place for a lady at present, but it is an excellent location for doughboys. ——o0 It is stated that at the beginning of the war the women of 'America were carrying about 30,000 tons of steel in their corsets. Could this be characterized as a corset waste? ——0 Spain might have kept her influenza to herself. Perhaps she would have been less generous in that case, but she would have been far kinder. s sy i The dominating thought of official Germany_just now is, “Peace hath its victories no less renowned than war.” i AN e Whereas the opinion of America seems to be that war is the best peace argument we can make. e [T NEWS AND LETTERS THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER FROM BELTRAMI CO. SOLDIERS-SAILORS CROWN PRINCE WRITES LETTER TO HIS FATHER Here’s one that is going the rounds of the press, being considered out of the usual run of such stuff. It is a letter from the ‘“crown prince’ writter to his father, the kaiser: “Somewhere in France, On der run. “Dear Papa: I am writing on der run, as der brave and glorious sol- diers under my command have not geen de Rhine for so long dat -dey started back that vay, and of course I am going mit them. Oh, papa, der has some offel dings happen here in France. First I started on my big offensive which was to crush the fool Americans but dey know so little about military tactics dat dey vill not be crushed just like I vant dem. I sent my men in der fight in big waves and ven dey got to the Amer- icans’they all said ‘‘boo” just as loud as dey could holler. Vel, according to vat you have tole me, de Americans should have turned and run like blazes, but vat do you think? Dem fool Americans don't know anything or var, and instead of runnin der odder vay dey came right at us. Some of dem was sing- ing about ‘Ve von’t come back till it’s over over dere,’ or some odder foolish songs, and some of dem were laffing like fools. Dey are so ig- norant. “But dey are offel reckless mit dere guns, and ven dey come toward us it was den my men took a notion dey wanted to go back to de Rhine. Ve don’t like the dirty little Marne river anyvay. And Oh, papa, dem Americans use such offel language. And dey talk blasphemy too. Vat you think dey said right in front of my face? One big husky from a place dey ca!l Iowa, he said—oh, pa 1 hate to tell 'you vat an offel thing he said —but I can’t help it—he said, ‘To hell mit der kaiser.’ I didn’t think anybody would say such an offel ding. “‘And fudermore dem Américans aint much of chentlemens. It made me so mad to hear such a offel thing s0 1 turned around and run mit der other boys. Vas I right? Vat? And oh, papa, you know dem breast plates vat you sent us, can you send us some for our backs? You know we are going de oder vay now and breast plates are no good—de cow- ardly Americans are-always shoot- ing us right in de back. “‘Some of our boys took off- der breast plates and put dem behind but der fool Americans are playing der Star Spangled Banner mit machine guns on dem plates. Can't you, help us? Remember on your great speech you said nothing could stand before de great Germans. ‘“Oh, papa, I don’t believe deese fgnorant Americans ever read your speech for dey run after us like ve was a lot of rabbits. Vot you tink of dat? Von't you send dem some of your speeches right avay? Dey don’t know how terrible ve are! Can’t you move my army back to Belgium vere, ve vun all de time? My men vill vin all de vemen -and childrens vot dem Belgians can bring us, but dese Americans are so rough and ignorant. “Ve can’t’ make dem understood dat ve aer de greatest soldiers on the earth and ven 've try to sing ‘Deutchland Uber Alles’ dey laff like a lot of monkeys, but ve are getting de best of de Americans. Ve can outrun dem, papa. If ve are not de best fighters on earth ve are de best runners. Nobody can keep up mit‘us ven ve tink of der old Rhine. And my army never tink so much of de dear old Rhine as dey do now. Let me know vot to do right avay by return postoffice.” . MAY MEAN MUCH TO WORLD Aviators Believe That Flying Is Bound to Have Great Influence on the = Minds of Men. Flying, In the opinfon of British aviators, is going to change the char- acter of the world’s thought. It will have a. broadening influence and it will bring a fresher, cleaner flow of ideas into the brains of men. A man, the flyers argue, who has seen before him at the samne time the cliffs of England, the long 'fl:lt fields of Holland and the smiling countryside of Belgium and France is bound to think in a different way than a man whose horizon has always been bound- el by bricks and mortar, or even by hill and dale. . Traveling may have made him think nationally, but flying will make him think far more largely. He will see Fngland and Irance lying close to each other, separated only by a shin- ing strip of water, He will see the green and brown mosaic of Belgium, which in its turn merges into the dis- tant shadow of IMolland, while, still farther on, across the wide Scheldt he will see the distant lowlands sweep on over the rim of the world. How will he regard petty spites be- tween individuals and cliques then? the birdman asks, He can cover with his thumb from the heights a fever- ish city swarming with a million peo- ple. What will he think of those who live next to each other and will not speak? How mean and petty their quarrels and jealousies and hates will seem. : The true meaning of human inter- course and friendship will come home to him. He will gain an almost divine outlook upon the world. Dishonesty, avil strife, all will seem to him contémptible, Perhaps, say the avia- | tors, this Is the new view which will i bring the millennium. ,NOTHING DOING FOR JOSEPH Might Be the Engineer, but Found He Had Little Control Over Steam Powcrs. Meekly made up his mind that he wasn’t going to be bossed any longer by his wife, so when he went home at noon he called out, imperiously: “Laura! Laura!” Mrs. Meekly came out of the kitchen with perspiration on heg face, her hands covered with war flour, and a rolling-pin” in her hand. “What do you want with Laura?”’ she asked. Meekly staggered, but braced him- self up. “I want you to understand, madam”—and he tapped his breast dramatically—“that I am the engineer of this establishment, that J am—" “Oh, you are, are you? Well, Jo- seph, I want you to understand that I"—here she looked dnngerous—"l'_am the .boiler that might blow up and sling the engineer over into the next street. Do you hear the steam escap ing, Joseph?” Joseph heard, and prayed that he might be passed Grade 1 when he went before the medical board.—Lone _don Tit-Bits, The “EASE-ALL” Shoe for Women Why suffer with pains in the foot, calf of leg, knee, back or head when you can be relieved by wearing this arch supporting shoe? The support of the arch is necessary. : If your arch is weak, the “EASE-ALL” shoe will supply the needed strength. The only really corrective arch rest shoe we ever saw. The strength is built supporting counters and shank bridge of steel. Examine it—try it! Shees of beauty. Brown and black; size KNAPP'S DOWN WHERE THE SHOE SIGN SHINES —t into the shoe—in the arch s 3 to 9 D to AA. - i 1 WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1918 “SLUSH FUND” LIBEL SUIT SCHEDULED FOR TODAY (By United Press.) Fargo, N. D., Nov. 6.—Among the cases which will be heard at the reg- ular November term of district court for Cass county, opening here today with Judge A. T. Cole presiding, is that of T. J. McCue versus the Co- operative Herald: This is a libel suit based on a charge made in 1916 by the Herald that McCue was rais- ing a “slush fund” with which to fight the three candidates endorsed by the nonpartisan league for the state supreme court. Court cases will be heard until the 19th, when a jury of thirty-five has been summoned to report. - There are about 125 civil cases on the calendar, of which about one hundred are jury cases. It is expect- ed that court will be held until the holiday recess. No important criminal cases are up for trial. b COMMUNITY KITCHENS ARE BIG SUCCESS IN ENGLAND (By United Press.) London, Sept. 15. (By Mail.)—As a fuel econpomizing measure, the food ministry has requested English households to forego the luxury of individual cooking fires this winter and patronize the national kitchen wherever available. i More than six hundred of these hot meal clearing houses already have been established throughout the kingdom, and a large extension cf the system is planned. The com- munity kitchens have been eminent- 1y successful. More than one million portions are being dispensed by them daily. ¥ Housewives take their food, have it cooked, and call for it in time for dinner. A small fee is charged for the cooking. A restaurant usually is operated in connection with the kit\ch'en. Some Love Lacking. * Helen was playing on the porch, where she spied a white moth and asked her mother to kill it. Her moth. er said, “But, Helen, you ought to love the poor little moth.” “I do love it, mother, but I don't love it enough.” | SAYS HOT WATER - WASHES POISONS FROM THE LIVER Everyone should drink hot water | with phosphate in it, before breakfast. i To feel as fine as the proverbial fiddle, we must keep the liver washed clean, almost every morning, to pre- vent its sponge-like pores from clog- ging with indigestible material, sour bile and poisonous toxins, says a not- ed physician. . If you get headaches, it’s your liver. If you catch cold easily, it’s your liver, If you wake up with a bad tasté, furred tongue, nasty breath or stomach becomes rancid, it’s your liver. Sallow skin, muddy complex- ion, watery eyes all denote liver un- cleanliness. Your liver is the most important, also the most abused and neglected organ of the body. Few know its function or how to release the dammed-up body wagte, bile and toxins. ‘Most folks resort to violent calomel, which is a. dangerous, sali- vating chemical because it accumu- lates in the tissues, also attacks the bones. Every man and well, should drink each morning be- fore breakfast, a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phos- phate in it, to wash from the liver and bowels the previous day’s indigesti- ble material, the poisons, sour bile gmd toxins; thus cleansing, sweeten- ing and freshening the entire ali- mentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. pimestone phosphate does not re- strict the diet like calomel, because it can’ not, salivate, for it is harmless and you can eat anything afterwards.. It is inexpensive and almost tasteless, and any pharmacist will sell you g quarter pound, which is sufficient for 2 demonstration of how hot water and limestone phosphate cleans, stim- ulates and freshens the liver, keeping you feeling fit day in and day out. 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Strip away any portion of this vast, smooth-running human rhachine, and you of the meat supply uncertain, lose the benefit of halfa century of fruitful experience, and scatter the intelligent energies of men who have toward meeting the needs of a nation in one vital field. Thebooklet of preceding chaptersin thisstory of the packingindustry will be mailedon requestto Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois. Swift & Company, U. S. A. woman, sick or Defecti V€