Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1919, Page 1

BEMIDJ1I DAILY P« e VOLUMF. XVIL DRY MEASURES FLOOD HOUSE; | TONNAGE TAX ACTION NEAR Normal Appropmtmn Coming . Along Nicely; Prospech : ‘Much Better' —— LEGISLA’I'URE SPEEDING TO FINISH PROGRAM Belh'uml Representative: Ofter. Consulted; Closely Watches -All Legislation By W. T. Noonan. ‘(Written for Pioneer.) St. Paul, March 4—Columbus dis- covered America in 1492, and judg- $ng by the way the “wets'’ down here :are hollering they will be. perfectly ‘willing to let him have it back after ‘the first of July. Hardly a day passes that some cold water advocate doesn’t introduce a bill calculated to evapor- ‘ate some more of the joy out of the lives of the “‘wet” boys, and they “have biisters on’their ears listening to the s¢rambled arguments put forth by the drys. The latest bill, which would eliminate shipments into dry counties from the tournamentt, has got ‘the "“‘wets” so hot that their emotions are liable to set fire to their hair, 1f it pasess, it will make tue prospects for the booze business dur- ing its remaining few months of life abott as bright as the 'inside of a rubber boot on a rainy day. In the meantime the St. Paul and Minpeapolis vendors are supposed to cloge at 11 p,un., but a lot of sniping oct ,. With. the police looking the othgr way. Young girls, some of them not more than eighteen, with the {deas in their foolish heads that the world 1s a dance floor and that Betsy Ross invented the ‘lip stick, NO. 54 ue glvmi;gt the cabarets. a strong “highballs' and wine-dis- -hwe&r aftér the legal hours for the ‘anle of the stuff. - And yet the booze dealers are wondering why the peo- ple of this country rose up and smote them where they wear their collars. Land Develovment. + The legislature will gossip .about Northorn Minnesota and land devel- opment this week. Three bills are up * for consideration, and while two of them will likely land in the rag bag, the third, whichever it may be, will pass and stake the northern part of tne state to a land development policy that will be of distinet value: .The three bills' are the Bessette bul, allowing counties to clear land for " gettlers; the Nord bill, proposing a giant colonization scheme to be financed by the state and the Mc- Garry--bill, -allowing ‘the state to spend .more money on:improvement of farm land§. The northern mem- bers are ‘all ready to get up on their réar ankles and put up a husky fight for all three bills, but it is possible thot the best features jof all three will be taken and welded into a bill. Some of the southern members are figuring on snowing all three under 4 blizzard of amendments, but it is certaln that a law will emerge that will be of real benefit to the northern empire. Tonnage Tax Aegain. The biennial scrap on the tonnage tax will come Wednesday, and it promises to be an annex to the big riot which recently ended in Europe with the Bearcat of Berlin beating it for the woods. . The tonnage ta% feud is four decades older than therRocky mountains, but each session the hat- tle wages, and.this year it is flemar than ever. There are two bills,.one by Mr. Bendixen and the other by Townléy's “yes” men in the legisla- ture. Needless to say the latter will go to the ash heap, but there will ho a merry free-for-all onthe Bendixen measure, with the odds slightly in tavor of its being left out in the cold. Another Division Bill. It looks as if Beltrami county’s division bill is to have a twin broth- er, and while the bill hasn’t been born yet, rumor has it that Mike Boylan can reach into his inside pocket any time and produce it. TIf it s introduced they will have to run special trains from Duluth to ac- comodate the Zenith City citizens who will come down to fight it, and there will be a sure enough hot time. Would Build “Feeders.” Dan DuLury of Walker, who, be- sides being pretty handy with his <ight as far as it goes, but he thinks it doesn’t go far enough, so he ups and introduces a bill providing for feeders to the hard-surfaced system. They would be paid for by county and by the land benefited, and the measure resembles the ditch law in ' a good many respects. R ormal Looks Good. - The Bemldj’uhormal appropriation / _is eoming along nicely, and while not <knitted into a law as yet, the pros- pects look -a whole lot better than they did ten days ago. We saw the finish of the Dulut h {Continued on Pag g BEMIDJI, MINN., WEPNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1919 AN ANNOUNCEMENT. | Bv a recent business transac: tion. H. Mavne Stanton has be- come a stockholder in the Pioneer Publishing company and will' as- sume the duties of editor of the Dailv - and Weekly Pioneer on March 17. Frank T. Beaver, who has been editor of The Pioneer since De- cember, 1916, will sever his con- nection with. the vaver. Mr. Stanton is well and favor- ably- known to readers of THe Pioneer as well as those in this vicinity end needs no further in- troduction. ~ The Pioneer 1s pleased to announce this addition to its staff. NEW MEXICO SOLON IS AGAINST LEAGUE AS NOW PREPARED Washington, March 5.—Senator Lodge of Massachusetts received a telegram from Senator Fall of New Mexico, republican, authorizing the signing of his name to.the resolu- tion opposing acceptance of the league of nations constitution as now drawn. Signatures to the resolution now numbar 39. BEMIDJI FARMERS' CLUB MEETS SATURDAY The Bemidji Township Farmers club will' “meet at the Carr Lake school house on Saturday, March 8. ~will serve as hostesses at dinner. Miss: Catherine McGregor, Be- midji’s best impersonator, will give several recitations. Harry Olin will lecture on “How to Make Poultry a World-Food.” There will be general discussions and papers read by members. “Come and enjoy a good feed and interesting program,’” urges Mrs. Bdward Larson, secretury Mrs. Boyer and Mrs. Brooks BIG TROUT SHIPME! SHIPMENT RECEIVED BY BAILEY Game Warden 8. C. Bailey today recelved a shipment from the fish hatchery in the Twin Cities, the ship- ment consisting of fifty cans of young brook trout. Of the number, twenty- five'tans, were sent on to Big Falls and ‘the other twenty-five cans were emptied in Baudette creek north *of Bemidji. The fry were all splendid speci- mens and while it was a little cold yet a brook trout is hardy, and when grown will give trout sportsmen a rare treat in the line of casting. BEMIDJI DIVISION TO CONTINUE WORK The Bemidji division of the State Woman's division of the Council of National Defense, at is final meet- ing, decided to continue its activities and organize a civic community club, with membership open to all women of Bemidji. The plan is to have a prominent speaker from outside the city at the reguiar meeting of the club to arouse enthusiasm along the lines in vogue in similar organizations throughout the state. The membership campaign will take place this week, and by Satur- day every woman interested in com- munity work should obtain a mem- bership card fro mthe block captain. FRENCH LIKE US. BUT— (By United Press.) Paris, Feb. 10. (By Mail.)—WHhile admitting that the United States put over one of the most farsighted dip- lomatic victories in the history of the world, in showing up at the peace conference with nine votes from North American, Central American and South American states, as against Great Britain’s six, and the one vote of each of the other great powers, nevertheless the French press is in- clined to be sarcastic about it. This is the way “L’Intransigeant’ expresses it: “France, which had 1,285,000 kilied in the war, has only one vote, the same as Japan, which lost very few men. England with 658,706 dead, has six votes and America for 36,1564 dead has nine votes. “Does this mean that blood has no price? The blocd which was not t5 be shed for conguering foreign soil has not even conquered for us the right to talk.” SCIENCE CLUB TONIGHT. The Science club of the Bemidii high school will hold its sixth meet- ing in the high school assembly this evening. arrainged for and a very interesting program has been prepared. CLUB CHANGES PLAN. The Woman's Study ciub nas de- cided not to present its play, “Mrs. Willis' Will,” at the Grand Friday| night, as announced, A epecial speaker has been | gin WILSON SAILS FOR FRANCE ON SECOND TRIP: LEAVES EARLY Veuel Casts Off Lines 8:20 o’Clock and Steams Away George Washington lN SPEECH, PRESIDENT ° '~ SAYS HE WILL FIGHT "|Will Carry His Peace Coven- ants to the People; Dares Any Party. to Oppose (By United Press.) i New York, March b.5~President Wilson safled for France this morn- ing on his second trip to {he peace conference. The presidental party went aboard the George Washington at- 1:16 o'clock this morning and the vessel cast off' at 8:20 a’clock. TO FIGHT OPPONENTS. By Robert J. Bender. (United Press correspondent.) New York, March b5.—President Wilson is going to 2 finish fight with the senate republicans on his league of nations covenant in his final ‘ap- peal to the people of the country: In his speech last night in jthe Metropolitan opera house, the presi- den declared an overwhelming ma- jority of the American people favor it and no party has a right to ap- propriate the league issue, and no party in the long run dare oppose it. MESSAGE TO EUROPE. New York, March b.—President Wilson told the American people in an address herec last night on the eve of his return to Paris that ,he woas going back to the peace confcreneo 40 battle with renewed -vigor fof crea- tion of a league of nations. “The first thing I am going to tell the people on the other side of the water is that an overwhelming ma- jority of the American people is in favor of the league of nations,” said the president. Speaking after former President Taft expounded the main features of the proposed covenant of nations, Mr. Wilson told the vast audience, which filled the Metropolitan Opera House, his opinions of opponents of the league plan in America. WILSON BANS DELEGATE. New York, March 5.—President Wilson refused last night to confer with the delegation named by the Irish race convention in Philadelphia to urge his support of Irish freedom untjl Daniel F. Cohalan of the New York state supreme court, mentioned in the Bernstorff correspondence, had withdrawn from the room at the Me- tropolitan opera house in which the meeting was held. SHIPYARD STRIKE ENDS. Anacortes, Wash,, March 5.— Unions which called a strike at the Anacortes shipyards six weeks ago, voted to return to work under the old scale established by the Macy award. RETURNED SOLDIERS TO OPEN RESTAURANT Bemidji is to have another new cafe, Willlam Abell and Adolph Bii- leadeau having leased the former Palace meat market location on Min- nesota avenue. Work of remodeling started today and the place will be thorcughly improved on the interior, equipped for the conduct of a first class restaurant. The “proprietors have ‘both just re- turned from the military service. Both held the rank of sergeant, first class in instruction of cooking and baking ot Camp Dodge. They are well known in Bemidji and triends are predicting their success. GIBBONS T0O FAST FOR SOLDIER BARTFIELD §t. Paul, March 5.—Mike Gibbons, the &t. Paul middleweight, gave Sol- dier Bartfield of Brooklyn, a vivid boxing lesson for nine rounds last night, and then stood toe to toe in the tenth and slugged until the final gong sounded. Bartfield had thie better of the closing argument but the fight was Gibbons by a wide mar- Gibbons’ cleverness bewildered Bartfield at times. The eastern fighter relied on a savage backhand swing which he missed very often. In the tenth round, however, he rocked Gibbons with this punch and Mike was bleeding when the ng‘n . ended The vty o Brussels has wrected FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH this monument to the memory of Miss Edith Cavell. the English nurse whom the Germans murdered. HUFFMAN SECURES CONVICTION IN FIRST MUNICIPAL HEARING * City Hal celved his appointment at tne hon:ds of ‘the council Monday night, and on Tuesday got on"the job with hoth feet in his first case before Municip il Judge Gibbons and the city treasury ‘became richer by $75. Joe Miller was the offender. Ie and his wife, “Goldie,” conducted a Attorney Huffman re- 18 rooming house over Lars Lind's ard in an argument Miller sought Lo clinch his side of the discussion Yy taking a hard wallop at the missus. An arrest followed and Miller was found guilty, fined $75 or a jail sen- tence. Whereupon, Mre. Miller stepped forward and gallantly paid the amount of the assessment. JUVENILE BAND MEETS TOMORROW EVENING There will be an hnpm'mnl meet- ing of the juvenile band tomorrow night in the City hall, and Director Riggs urges that every member be present. One of the features will be an address by the band director on athletics at Crookston in which thn band boys took an active interest and part. There ai full* ' 30 boys registered for band 1.embe v,l“pw and of these fully 125 wiil hecome active. The parents of the intending band members will meet at the city hall Monday evening at 8 o'clock, when Director Riggs will explain in de- tail what the band means and what can be expected by the parents. The band members are not expected to he present, for it will be a heart-to- heart talk and the parents are 2x- ‘pected to enter heartily in co-operat- ng. 200 BOYS TRAINED FOR FARM WOPX IN APRIL Press.) —Two hun- (By United Minneapolis, March © dred Minnesota hoys 11 have an opportunity to be trzired in farm work at the University of Minnesota ¥Farm school in April. The school will be conducted vnder the directors of the Boys Working Reserve. Half of the memberships will come from the Twin Cities and half from out- gide towns. The boys enlistinz are to be those who have had little or no provious farm experience. They will be instruced in the care of animals, garden cultivation and field work. The school wiM open for two weeks, beginning April 14. ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE There will be services in the Epis- copal chnreh this evening at 7:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Georgas Backhursl All are welcome. WHEAT GUARANTEE MEASURE SIGNED March 5.—President | Washington, Wilson has signed the wheat guran- tee bill carrying an appropriation of | $1,000,000,000 to maintain the guaranteed price of $2.26 a bushel BELTRAM[ COUNTY SCHOOLS RECEIVE $15.858 REFUND St. Paul, Murch 5.—The state school deficit of $1,070,000 has been covered by an appropriation and the distribution to the counties was eer- tified yesterday to J. A. O. Preus, state auditor, by J. M. McConnell, state superintendent of ecducation. Following are the amounts to be re- mitted to northern counties: Aitkin, $9,253; Beltrami, $15,858; Carlton, $13,855; Cook, $1,830; Itasca, $22, 879; Koochiching, $12,920; Lake, $5,225, and St. Louls, $43, 881. The enrollment of the pupils in these counties on which the appor- tionment is made follows: Aftkin, 8,528; Beltrami, 6,248; Carlton, 4,617; Cook, 336; Itasca, 65,348; Koochiching, 2,440; Lake, 2,004, and St. Louils, 42,922, ELK CLUB ROOMS READ FOR LATHING: WIRES GOING IN The sound of the hammer is be- ing heard in the work of improving the Elk temple club quarters and ing tomorrow. The work of installing the electric wiring for the fixtures is also in pro- cess and is being done by the Minne- sota Light and Power company. The work of completing the club rooms will be rushed. STATE FOREST FIRE LOSSES $28.500.000 St. Paul, March 6.—Minnesota property losses from forest fires in 1918—the heaviest on record—to- taled more than $28,600,000, an amount which would provide ade- quate forest service for more than 80 years, W. T. Cox, state forester, aseerted in his annual report under the Weeks law, made to the federal chief forester at Washington. Minnesota receives $8,000 a year in federal aid under the Weeks act, designed to protect forests at head- waters of navigable streams. The Moose Lake calamity is featured in the report and details previously made public are Included. The re- port shows 525 forest fires fn Minue- sota during 1918. Of the total 174 were of miscellaneous and 103 of un- known frigin. ARMEMIAN RELIEF SPEAKERS AT LUNCH At the noon day luncheon of the Commercial club today. Rev. Rose- 1and of Crookston, Dr. Sanderson and Mr. Martinson of Minneapolis spoke on the Armenian and Syrian relief campaign and will organize a county unit in Beltrami. Miss Myrtle Hubbard was named by the executive board of the club to be assistant secretary to Secretary Winter, and will commence her dutfes the first of the month. PALMER LANDS TOMORROW. Dr. G. M, Palmer, who has been |in the Y. M. C. A. service in France, will land in New York tomorrow, ac- ‘cordlng to a message received by | Mrs. Palmer. the interior will be ready for plastor- |- BRUSSELS NUMENT T0 EDITH CAELL FlSH DEALERS WOULD STIFLE LOWER PRICES TO CONSUMERS Move Seen to Prevent State Activities in Behalf of the People ANOTHER MEASURE TO COUNTERACT THE ACTION Redby Fishery Profitable and Furnishes Employment to Many Persons There Is strong opposition, it is said, nmong large fish-dealers, to got a bill through the state legislature which would forbid state authorities from using the lakes of the state from which to extract rough fish, which prey upon the fish such as are preferred by the tourists in their va- catlon time, also would forbid the state public - fisheries, which have brough down .the price of fish to the consumers of communities and cities throughout the state, to help reduce the cost of living. The plan of the backers of the bill to. eliminate ‘the statg activities in supplying fish from the Minnesota lakes to the general public at low cost is deemed a well defined plan on the part of the big shippers to gst a strangle hold on the supply of flsh desired by the people of the state. Provides. Cheaver Food. The state fisheries problem was in- augurated under the state public safety commission to provide cheaper food for the people during the trying times of the war, when prices were sky high. 'The action proved a great benefit ‘to the people of the state and the demand was heavy.* To meet the attempt to ‘check this beneflt, a3 mea- sure . haié _héen .introduced. giving power to the state fish and game commissioner to remove the rough fish, which have become over abund- ant, and protect the game fish and sell the fish so caught by the state for family use. Redbv Is Prosnerous. The Redby state fisheries are a good thing for Red Lake, those in- terested in. catching fish, including the Indlnnn*’rhere are fully $10,000 invested th by the state and there fa a fund of $20,000 for use by the fisherfes ag a revolving fund for any needed expenditures. * Settlers re- siding around. Red Lake have also reaped benefit from the state flshery and it should be continued without interference. HIGH SCHOOL CARNIVAL STAGED FRIDAY NIGHT Friday evening rpnrks the staging of the first high school carnival in the city of Bemidji. It promises to be one of the biggest hits of the sea- son, and something entirely new which will entertain patrons to the utmost. Then general admission feé will be ten cents. From 7:30 to 10:30 o'clock there will be contin- uous vadueville, with admission ten cents. . Five cents will admit to each of the numerous side shows. 8ide show number one, will be the Fountain of Youth, which promises to be of very fine quality. Side show number two, will be “Men only,” which will keep every one guessing till they see this fea- ture. Side show number three, show the meremalids in a swimming contest— young ladies of Bemidjl. Madame Buddha will advise any person on all matters of business as well as affairs of the heart. One of the greatest attractions and one which will prove to be well worth geeing Is the display of war relics. There will be souvenirs brought home by Bemidji soldiers. There will also be a picture gallery in which will be pictures, which will interest every person attending. One of thepopular features will be the “Educated horse,” which can count the number asked. Refreshments will be served dur- ing the entire evening, confilsllng of ten and wafers, coffee, ‘“hot dog's,” sandwitches, pie, ice cream, each be- ing five cents. A large and spacious checking room will be provided, for which one cent an artiele will be charged. Prices will rule as follows: General admission, 10 cents; for vaudeville, 10 cents; each side show, 5 cents; fortune telling, 5 cents; tea and wafers, 5 cents; hot dog, B cents; sandwiches. 5 cents; pie, § cents: ice cream, 5 cents; apple pie a la mode, 10 ceuts, Minstrels from 7:30 o’clock last- ing half an hour Mth ten minutes intermission, evening:” covering the entire ».‘.._..i" - e