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PAGE TWO BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER — _PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO.. G. B. CARSON E. H. DENU y TELEPHONE 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn, as second-clags matter under act of Congrgss of March 3, 1879. annonymous contributions. Writer's name must but not necessarily for publication. Pioneer must reach this office not insure publication in the current issue, e No attention paid to be xnown to the editer, Communications for the Weekly fater than Tuesday of each week to SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER o&. yu.:h. p . .Gg-g months . . 2 s 1.25 A5 12 One year Six montks .. " Three months Three months One month One week . THE WEEXLY PIONEER Ten pages, containing a summary of the news of the every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, ‘week. . Published in advance §1.50. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE. The devastation will be as complete in the cities as in the rural districts and the mines. Not a building must be left standing between Holland and Luxembourg. The fields and forests will be reduced to barrenness for fifty years, and the mineral deposits will be destroyed and demolished and vari- ously maltreated by floods and explosions to the extinctfon of their productiveness and fecundity. ) Everything, in a word, is to be promiscuously bedeviled into the next two generations. 3 The foregoing was a prophetic picture of Belgium in the Lokal Anzeiger, Berlin. It delineates Belgium as it will look after the crossing of the allies. \ = Precision and thoroughness are characteristic of the Ger- man. They are occasionally absent from Prussian journalism when American victories are being explained away, but these are necessary lapses, and are always followed by a return to form. This war has reserved all traditions. In the last four yeays the doctors have learned how to cure most accepted varieties of fatal wound. A man shot through the heart used to die in previous wars. It was the correct thing to do. It was hardly respectable to do anything else. Now he wakes up out of the anesthetic and demands a cigarette. The medical profession has rewritten all its rules. If the fertility of Belgian soil is destroyed a few chemists will get together and find a way of restoring its fruitfulness in a few years. A group of Luther Burbanks will teach orchards to do what orchards never thought of doing since Eve stole the apple. The Lokal Anzeiger should devote editorial space to things less nebulous than predictions covering the next half century. The next few years will hold enough trouble for the Potsdam junto to crowd ten centuries. But passionate strictures and tearful attempts at intimidation contain sufficient proof of waning Prussian morale to encourage the most skeptical of us to a stedfast optimism. —0 GREAT FUNDS FOR FIRE SUFFERERS. The smoothly working and intensive machinery of the State Safety Commission has been employed during the past three weeks in conducting a state-wide drive for the accumula- tion of funds for the relief of fire sufferers. In fact, many coun- ty directors foresaw the demands to be made upon them and had already organized their individual counties to handle relief work immediately. Almost before the county directors had received their in- structions, checks and drafts began to pour into the head offices of the commission at St. Paul. A great deal was also sent to Governor Burnquist direct. This is only another instance where an organization of this kind has proven its worth. While organized primarily as a war need, it had readily responded to all emergency calls in a manner that has demonstrated its value to the state and its people. ‘ ; There is still great need for clothing, furniture, provisions, ete. Cold weather is adding to the suffering of the people as well as the influenza epidemic. The great heart of our people is open to the stricken people who have suffered so greatly in this great calamity. ——0 The board of education is going to look into the matter of insurance policies for the various buildings. Reminds us of the discovery of three incubators in the high school building when Superintendent Bolcom first got on the job. He thought they belonged at the school farm and out they went. The _surprising part of it all was that the insurance premiums dropped nearly $250 by the move. D i Everybody! Go to church Sunday and see how .it feels to again attend divine worship. The Spanish influenza ban is lifted from the churches, too, and congregations should be well represented next Sunday in their respective houses of worship. If you are not a church member, go anyway. Others will be pleased to welcome you. 0 Secretary Reynolds of the Commercial club is awaiting orders to go “over there” in the interests of the Y. M. C. A. Secretary Gier, the first secretary, is also in the military, a member of the flying unit of the United States aviation section. — Minneapolis business men have held a meeting looking ahead to civic improvements, now that the war is over. Good time for Bemidji to take a look around on some of her projected improvements, also. ———0 There is now talk at Washington of setting a national holiday of celebration on the coming of peace. Well, set it. Bemidji can get up a celebration at any old time and do it right. 0 S_ave the clerks! Save the merchants! Do your Christmas shoppl'rgg early, as is being advised by the patriotic women of Bemidji. Read The Pioneer Want Ads ITALY'S BIRTHS SHOW INEVITABLE DECLINE By Henry Wood (United Press Correspondent.) Rome, Oct. 5. (By Mail.)—Italy’s birth rate, which before the war was one of the healthiest in Europe, has suffered the inevitable: decline that takey place always under war con- ditions, with much of the male popu- lation under arms. The number of marriages has de- creased as it has in all other belli- gerant countries, and while Italy is by no means suffering from any threat of race sulcide, this decrease in marriages and birthrate, together with heavy loss iof life in the war, creates for Italy the same problem of re-population after the war that is facing the other warring nations. During the years preceding the war the average number of marriages in Italy was 260,000 annually. In 1915, following Italy’s entrance into the war in May of that year, this average decreased at once to 185,000. The year following saw’ a still further decline to 105,000 marriages, considerably less than half of the average before the war. - The full figures for 1917 are not yet available, but enough have been obtained to render it certain that the decrease continued also throughout that year, some authorities declaring it will not exceed 50,000 marriages for the year, while more optimistic ones fig- ure on at least 80,000. A similar decline also has taken place in the Italian birthrate. For four years preceding the war Italy’s average birthrate was 1,123,000. In 1915 this suffered a decline to-881,- 000 births. During 1916, the Italian govern- ment arranged for its soldiers at the front to have occasional leaves of absence in which to visit = their families, something they had not en- joyed previously. While it is expect- ed that this will have a beneficial in- fluence on the birthrate for 1917, nevertheless this probably will be off- get by the calling to the .colors of] | additional classes. Statistics to date indicate that Italy’s birthrate for 1917 will not have exeeeded 700,000,{ ; while it may even have sunk as low as 500,000. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF COOTIE-KILLING HAS OPENED| (By United Press.) Washington, Nov. 14.—Come into|" the cootie class! The class holds forth in the bureau of entomology in the big building of the department of agriculture. There is.also a tourse by mail for scientists unable to get the first-hand information in Washington. American entomologists all over the country are enrolled in the class. They stand ready to answer any call the war department may issue, whether to fight the cootie over-seas or at hdme. Already many hitherto undiscover- el facts have been discovered about the cootie, and valuable hints which should help the drive against him have been sent to France. Many entomologists are likely to be called on for service in the army as cootie experts. Takes Adler-1-ka “I had serious bowel and liver trouble. Lost 50 pounds and could eat only liquid food. Commenced teking Ad-ler-i-ka and now weigh more than ever and eat and sleep splendidly.” (Signed) George® La- Fond, Little Falls, Minn. Adler-i-ka expels ALL gas and gourness, stopping stomach distress INSTANTLY. Empties BOTH upper and lower bowel, flushing ENTIRE alimentary canal. Removes ALL foul matters which poisons system. Often CURES constipation. Prevents ap. pendicitis. We have’sold Adler-i-ka many years. It is a mixture of buck- thorn, cascara, glycerine and nine other simple drugs. Hooray for Banana Peel “‘Gets-It” Only Rea] Way to Get Rid of Corns. ‘Which do you grefer—l corn that pulls or a corn that le? Butohery ord bl:lMl:Bss’ Oally X s fl" can ‘l:t of your corn the peel-off way, blessed way. You doget need & mi “Corns Never Trouble Me, I Use ‘Getsdt'*! Why hump yourself up on the floor and with your jaws set and eyes pop- from pain, Jerk and gouge and cut, zour corns? Why irritate your toes with some salve or ‘wrap your toe into a big painful bundle with some sticky tapo or plaster? Life is too short. Use "Gets-It""=it takes a few seconds to apply and there's no fussing. Corn- Balns g0, Wear new shoes if you want. 'eel off the corn with your fingers—the whole thing, root and all, clear and clean, and it's gonel Only “Gets-It" can do this, Take no chances, ~ 1 “Gets-It,” the guaranteed, money- back corn-remover, the only sure ] way, costs but a trifieatany drug store. Sold in Bemidji and recommended as the world’s best corn remedy by Barker's Drug Store. { Subscribe for The Pioneer M'T'd by E. Lawrence & Co,, Chicago, Iil. I ID.XD. XD The Ligaid Wash for Skin Disease 1 remarkable cures e e or ole tat we ofer ‘Yot it c08ls YOu Dot o 4 Barker‘s Drug Store SCRAWNY, WORN- OUT WOMEN Is your face drawn? Color poor? Temper short? You are only as old as you look. To look young your body must be free from impurities and poisons. Constipation is the enemy of youth, good complex- jons and good health. Hollis- ter’s Rocky Mountain Tea will keep your system clean and active, bringing health and happiness. Relieves constipa- tion and stimulates liver and kidneys, without griping and without reaction. City Drug Store - out ? farmer than Suppon you bough you run it ? p You would, no doubt, t under existing war-time conditions. THE UNIVERSAL CAR Needs One THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1918 How it Can Be Avoided and Treated. Simple Rules 1o Be Followed, No Occasion for Panic No need of anyone being afraid of; the after effects and slow recovery frora Spanish Inflaenza, hard colds) or Grippe, if they will use common sense and start in buildivg up their health and strength the right way. The main thing is to get the blood rich, red, and pure, so it can carry life-giving oxygen and strength toi every part of the .body. Impure| blood is the cause of so many slow recoveries and set-backs. Doctors say: “Get the blood right and the rest is easy, that nine-tenths of all sickness is duve to lack of iron and phosphates; the healthy strong, | Special notice: To vigorous man or woman’s hloed is al- ways loaded with these two life-giv: ing elements”. Physicians also claim with fresh air and nourishing food nothing equals Phosphated TIron as a hlood | capsules. tonic and health builder. Phosphat- ed Iron takes hold from the first dose. IRlesuits are seen .and. felt; strength returns, food digests, appe- tite picks up, sleep is restful, there i9 @ color in the cheeks and a spar- kle to the eve that only blood charged with iron and phosphates- cau give. It is the duty of everyone who has had Spanich Influenza, Grippe or a hard cold to duild up their system with nature’s tonic, Phosphated Iron. 1t sure is health protection. Safety first. ‘The resnlts will repay you many times. Give yourself a show. insure doctors and their patients getting the gemu- ne Phosphated Iron we have put in Do not take pills or tab- lets. Insist on capsules. The City Drug Store and leading druggists everywhere. If You Owned | the Telephone Company? t the telephone company today, how would How would you decide what the standards of service should be, what rates to charge and what wages to pay, and how much money to lay aside for rebuilding the plant as-parts of it wear to give the You would want to charge enough for service to pay your em- o ployees fair wages, to keep the property in good repair and earn * s much on your money as you would receive if it were invested in any other business involving equal risk. : ; X In these times of high prices and scarcity of labor and mq.teria.ls, and in the face of other war-time conditions, don’t you - think you would have ‘‘some job’’ on your hands ? ‘When you feel provoked if there are oocasional defects in the telephone service or feel that our policies or practices are wrong, we'll appreciate it if you will tell us about it and let us talk things over. . Save Food Buy War Savings Stam) and Liberty Bo ” The Ford truck is really a greater necessity to the Certainly it is a greater utility and economy for him. It saves time, is a team of horses. it gives prompt and almost unlimit- EVEW Falmfl ed service along the entire line of farm work from carrying the milk to marketing the products of the farm. It is not expensive to maintain and has all the Ford simplicity in mechanism that makes it easy to operate. The price, too, is attractive, about the price of a team of horses; $550, without body, f. 0. b. Detroit. NORTHWESTERN TELEPHONE EXCHANGE CO. best service you could nds DANGER AFTER SPANISH INFLUENZA OR GRIPPE~~ Defective Pc

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