Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 2, 1918, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER — —PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY- THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU G. B, CARSON NEWS AND LETTERS FROM BELTRAMI C0. 'SOLDIERS-SAILORS WRITES FROM HOSPITAL. . Extracts from a letter written November 6 by Edwin Dean, who is in'a hospital at Vichey, France, ve- covering from wounds received Oc- tober 5, at which time a boche No. 77 explosfon either killed or wounded every member of his gun crew, he being No. 1 on the third piece in battery, A, first artillery brigade. “My room at the Royal hotel ¢base lhospital) overlooks a beautiful park of big trees all dressed for fall and yery pretty. “Vichey was a favorite resort place, and all the fine hotels' weré turned into hospitals for the Amer- ican injured. “The dear old Red Cross sure pro- vided us with some loud suits,"I have one of carnation pink amas. After the nurse fits you out like Napolean x - TELEPHONE 932 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidjl, Minn., as sccond cluss msiter under act of. Congress of March 8, 1879, tention pald to annonymous contributions. ~Writcr's name must . be ggflfi to the Bdltor. but not necessarily for publication Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office mot later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. — SUBSORIPTION RATES Six montls ... ‘l‘hmrmonhl (9o W18 THE WEBKLY PIONBER Ten pages, containing 0f the mews of the week. Published uvm.:humym.n!):mn%wwmtw.huvm §1.50. — e or Nero, or to represent a flower, the doctor and all gatheér around and en- joy the set up. . “This is my second day out.omn crutches. Am lucky in a thousand ways to have inherited so’ much vitality. The plece of shell went through my thigh, fracturing @ the bone, but my wounds are healing nicely. . “Am wearing two service stripes, two wound stripes, and three ribbons for the battles of“the = Marne, St. Mihiel, and Verdun. When I g0 back to the front will send them to you. . “When Austria signed the armis- tice the city was lighted up and hung with flags, the bands played the Mar- sailles and Star Spangled Banner. We sang and applauded and = the French shook hands with all Amer- icans present: i : “1 might have gone back after I was touched up at Sofssons, though by staying was present two days later at the most mammouth and dreadful explosion, a spectacle that I will re- call the rest of my days with awe, and you can depend upon' it, Dad, that your humble son ‘wag not among the sheep at any rate. “Am chuck full-of thrillers if I ever get the chance to tell you.” WOMEN_POLICE “MAKE GOOD” Abundant Testimony as to Splendid Work They Have Done in Eng- land Since War Started. RIGHT HERE IN THE YARD. Cheer up. Everybody’s good at something. ; The Italian mind is creative. So is the French. Both France and Italy have done more for creative art than any other nation. Ancient Greece was artistic, but gave it up when she gave up her individuality. The creative mind is always imaginative. Imagination in- vents. An Italian’s imagination made wireless telegraphy pos- shle, and contradiction has not yet silenced the French claim that Daimler and Farman were the parents of the automobile and the aeroplane. The German is less creative, but he is supremely pains- taking and diligent. He has that genius for classification that toilsomely elaborates another man’s discovery and makes it serviceable. : ; And what of the Yanks? A great European chemist has been kind enough to say that we are marvels at leaping gaps. His compliment carries with it a touch of censure. We have learned in a year and a half how much we can do when we must. The fiction that Germany could do certain things better than any other nation'is because America didn’t try. We must lay the blame on our lack of patience; we can’t plead lack of aptitude. This is not a vainglorious fanfaronade. Of‘all that enor- mous list of products for which we depended absolutely on Ger- many there is none that we are not now providing here at home —or its substitute. We realized, when we had to, that Ger- many’s supremacy in chemistry was due to our disinclination to challenge it. During the last two years it became necessary to do what Germany had been doing in the dye industry—and accordingly it was done. So also with drugs; and now after a period of months, America’s chemical industry stands in the position which Germany’s held entrenched against the world. Potash, salvarsan, the photographic agents, all the coal tar products for which we looked to Germany as habitually as we look to China and Ceylon for tea, are now in Uncle Sam’s back- yard between the woodshed and:the barn. The fireproof and ‘acid-proof glass of Jena, without which many a chemical expériment is impossible, is as necessary to- day as formerly—but we don’t send to Jena for it. Nor to Thu- ringia for the watch crystals which we thought we could get nowhere else. - : o . Fetish cults are not confined entirely to the South Sea Islands and the Congo. It is well that the most mischievous of them all has now been effectually dissipated: ; ——0 MIGHT YET GET THAT CHANCE. How England’s -women police have developed into a real force for the malntenance of order and public mor- allty has appeared In the report of Miss Goldingham, deputy comman- dant of the women police service, at a meeting in Richmond, where the es- tablishment of such a force was under discussion. She sald that these forces had been formed from' voluntary workers early in the war, as a means of helping refugces and young English girls‘and boys who were in need of ald or ad- vice. In three'and a half years 1,000 women have been trained for the work and have found appointments. ‘At present women are policing 20 munition factories, where they . per- form &l the duties, practically, that could be expected of mascullne police. The women's police service has. also supplted police for 18 towns, In four, of which women have been sworn in a8 constables. or What we don’t expéct to have we never miss—very much. But when one expects to rule the world and has to slink off in twelve automobiles belonging to some one else, we’ll say that that sounds like shaving off the heaven pointing whiskers. Possibly he has gone to conquer another world, or try to—but we have an inkling that the Devil has sent a tripled bladed _squire to Hollyweener and offered him the secretary of state- ship of his popular empire. . So let us sharpen up our topls for some of us might get a chance in-the other land to whaek up the killer of babes and women at last. L Chronometer and ‘Longitude, Longitude baffled all navigators un- til the clironometer came into use in 1735, The ancients and later naviga- tors, including all the great discover- ers, could find their latitude by ob- servations of the sun’s height, but they could determine their longitude only by ‘“dead-. reckoning,” or estimating their ship’s progress from day to day. This system was uncertain and caused a8 great many shipwrecks. 0 So Hoover believes if the embargo was lifted the Huns could feed themselves. Well, we’d be willing to make a bet if he would stroll around in Hunland for a few minutes he’d have a knife stuck in his back or blown up by some ardent henchman of the great ex. We're in favor of giving ‘em a little of the real thing and see how they like it. Starvation tactics on the part of the Germans was a mild form of their hideousness. A Puzzier, A man walkihg along a country road came to a small pond, On a tree at the water's edge was nailed a board béar fng the following badly scrawled warn- ipg: “Don’t Fish Hear.)”” The mun pondered over it for a moment or two, | then gesumed his Jjourney with the com- ment: “Blamed if I know."—Hvery- body's Magazine. RED CROSS NOTES . Mrs. P. M. Pe(e‘rfi%fl?&an of knitting of the Red Cross, calls at- tention to the fact that 1,280 pairs of socks must be ready by December 25. The yarn is here but there are| too few knitters. More must volun-/ teer their services in order to me the quota. If you can knit, get in touch with Mrs. Peterson. KEEP LOOKING YOUNG It’s Easy—If You Know Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets . vyt i S Notice where Mrs. Wilson has purchased several elegant dresses for use when she appears abroad as the first lady of the land, one of which is a “court dress.” Presume the presi- dent will now have to procure knickerbockers, a red sash, white hose and low shoes with a big buckle on the front and all the rest of the royal haberdashery. O It is said that the heads of fourteen government depart- ments were called before the board recently and given orders to curtail on the use of white paper. Haven’t noticed much change at that. That has been one of the causes of the shortage of paper during the war and most of it merely a conglomeration of worthless junk. o Our boys in France probably feel as the audience does when the curtain goes down: They want to put on their wraps _and start for home. 0 Holland evidently does not care to have German gentle-|¥ men of high degree elect to reside within it. 0 Have hopes, folks! The four-pounds of sugar per month per person went into effect Sunday. 3 —— iy DON'T KISS. TRAVEL OR RAISE A DUST. SAYS THE DOCTOR can, If mot, sit near open window or stand on platform. 4. Keep windows open at home. 5. Stop calling on friends, parti- (By United Press.) culariy if they are in hospitals. Rome, Nov. 12. (By Mail.)—Ten 4 6. Never shake hands or kiss. commandments for fighting influenza| 7. Don’t travel. have been issued by Dr. Lutrario, di-| 8. Breath through your nose, andl rector general of health, to check the| turn your face away from the person| spread of the epidemic here. { speaking to you. . 1. Cover mouth with .handker-; 9. Disinfect hands before eating. chief when you cough or sneeze. { Wash mouth twice a day with tinec- 2. Avoid bars, cafes, movies. | ture of jodine, 3. Keep out of street car if you] 10. Never ralse 3 duat effective. that exuberance of buoyancy which H O M ey Wax and Tallow et saso o To NORTHERN HIDE & FUR COMPANY PHONE 178-W or R 118 Belt, Ave. " Bemidji, Minnesota ~ WORRYING*YOU? Your Photograph Is the answer to all your problems. They will friends, save time and temper, and be easy on your pock- etbook: today. HAKKERUP Bemidji,” Minn. MEAT CAUSE OF _ KIDNEY TROUBLE Take Salts to Flush Kidneys'1t| 1. The tangey Back Hurts or Bladder flavor of mint Bothers. If you must have your meat every day, ‘eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, says & noted authority who tells us forms uric acid which almost para- lyzes the kidneys in their’ efforts to expel it from the blood. come' sluggish and weaken; then you suffer with a dull misery in the kid- new region, sharp pains in the back sick headache, dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the -weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often’ get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. LR To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush off the' boy’s’ urinous waste get = four ounces of Jad Salts from any pharm- acy here; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water: before breakfast a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flash and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine, 80 it no longer irritates; der weakness. g . Jad Salts: is inexpensvie; cannot|’ injure, and makes a delightful of- fervescent lithia water drink. IS YOUR' CHRISTMAS This £ MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER ; SHIP YOUR ‘Hides, Furs, Wool, : : Sheep Pelts and Bee SHOPPING please all your your All Now in - Pink Wrappers sealed in wax: 2. The luscious JUICY FRU différent flavor —7 CHEWING GUM that meat They be- e 2 3. The soothing flavor-of peppermint The urine gets for amous salts is made thus ending blad-| " DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING Christmas Greeting Gards ~ This year as last, Christmas Cards will be the popular gift exchange. We have just re- ceived a splendid line of new samples contain- ing many new sentiments. To these you may have your name or that of your family en-. graved in the same type as the sentiment. . The cost is very small compared with an ordinary Christmas gift and will make the re- ceiver happy to have you think of him. Place your orders now. Come in and make your selection. Order as many as you need, no more. lishing Gompany Phone 922 Pione e Pub For Quick Returns and Highest Cash Market Prices RESULTS e ey e e 2, 1918 To save tin foil for Uncle Sam, WRIGLEYS is now all wrapped - in pink paper and hermetically All in pink-end packages and all sealed air-tight. Be Sure to get WRIGLEY'S because Defe TR ctive |