Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 1

‘OLUME XVIL NO. 69. FEATURE CASS LAKENEETING " OF BOOSTERS Development Association Dele- :gates See Realistic Picture of Early Life Here. INDIANS TO RACE, DANCE ¢, % AND GIVE POW-WOW Plan—Assisted By Young Knoll in Writing Outline An interesting feature of the sum- mer conyention .of the Northern Min- nesota Dev_elopme/nt association, to be held at Cass Lake June 20-21, will be an open air pageant, intended to portray the coming-of General Cass to Cass Lake and ‘will be staged on Star Island, a, natural beauty spot located in Cags Lake and near the eity. . . The outline for this pageant is be- s ing written by Secretary Fred T. Lin- coln of Braineid;:assisted by Otto . KoH, son of M; N. Kol secretary of L3 - the Commercial clyb of Cass Lake. “This pageant will be staged the last day of the conveiition and promises to be a highly realistic picture of early-day life among the Red 'men and at the time when the white men first came to Cass Lake. Real Indians In_Cast. Y Real Indiang will make up the - cast, "and they?i_will'be ;:l;n in their native sports, swimming, foot-races and athletic events, as well as in a real Indian Pow-Wow, with war dance and all the realism possible injecfed into the:same. -. Otto Koll is“now a student af St. John’s University,; . Mirnesota and speaks the Chippewa language flu- ‘ently, having spent his boyhood days at Cass Lake and mjngling with the Red men as an.ipterpreter and coun- cellor. He will be givetf 8 ‘prominent part in the pageant and it is possible will represent. General Qass,. at the head of the party to be séen coming down the beautiful lake in their boats and later greetéd on Star Island by the Chippewas. . : This will be something entirely new in the matter of entertainment features of the sumer convention of thasNorthern Minnesota Development —estociation, but promises to be high- 1y ‘entertainingand realistic and will afford an opportunity to see athletic sports and past-times. of their race. Romance will be. injécted into the pageant in the form:of a love affair in which a gallant’ young member of General Cass’ party and a beautiful Indian maiden figure prominently. Program To .Excell.. . A program of much excellence is being arranged for the Cass Lake meeting and it is expected that the attendance will be large. Secretary Lincoln Announces| " BEMIDJI DATLY PION BEMIDJI, MINN., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1919 Senate Committee Endorses Normal Dormitory Bill Late yesterday afterncon the fi- nance committee of the'state senate CARLOAD LOTS recommended for pussage the bill ap- bide A propriating $100,000 for the estab- J lishment of a dormitory. building for q the Bemidji Normal school, the money to be available this year. This fol- lowed by a day similar action taken by \thc appropriations committee of the'house. The bill'now goes before the joint conference committee of the senate finance and house appropria- tions committees, and if acted upon favorably it will go before the law- wmakers for approval. Friends of the Bemidji normal in St. Paul are con- fident that the appropriation will be provided, the legislators realizing that it is a necessity if success is to crown the first years of the new edu- cational institution's operation. CHARACTER BUILT BY HABIT, WARFORD TELLS STUDENTS Presbyterian Pastor Gives In- ‘teresting Talk Before Be- midji Business College '|McGuire Tells Farmers They Should take Advantage of Land Clearing Plan. LAW GRANTING LOANS. OF MUCH BENEFIT Dealers Glad to Coqpernte; Large Saving Possible in Purchase of Explosive. A. J. McGuire, one of the most active and enthusiastic extension: workers of the University of Minn- ! v it esota Agriculturdl School, who was, Private H. Fisher and “Fifi” the {in Bemidji Friday while enroute to a mascot of Company. F, One Hundred |farmers’ institute meeting at Solway, and Fifth infantry, Twenty-seventh di- | believes that farmers will make no vision, New York's famous regl mistake if they clear as much land as ment of fighting men that broke ihe |possible this year even though dyna- Hindenburg line aud that returned to | Mite is high priced, basing his theory this country aboard the Leviathan. on fl.‘e .h’gh cost _0' farm prOd“Ctsfi at this time. i “Dynamite is priced this spring by local dealers at from 22 to 24 cents per pound in small lots,” says Mr.| ness college, and he brought out some McGuire . “Thirty per cent is pric- esmfi:'\lly strong points which great- ed at 22 and 40 per cent at 24.)ly impregsed all who heard his in- This is high priced, and many farm-| teresting talk. ‘“Habit is an import- ers will not clear the amount of land | ant element in character building they should clear on this accdunt. But] and everyone should be careful to with the high price of most farm develop habit groves along the right products, it will pay as well to clear{lines as habit accumulates energy land this spring as it has at any‘time'| in whatever line it is directed till it with cheaper dynamite. ‘And it will| will dominate the will,” sald Mr. also pay to get around this high price | Warford. of dynamite in so far as possible. Rev. Warford yent on to say that “Local -dealers will generally buy {business is a development of habits for farmers-in car-load lots at a re-| that are established by repetition duction of $4 per hundred, when {and association. Those habit groves farmers cooperate to the extent of a|that have tp do with a particular car load and pay cash. This is a big]line of business shoyld receive parti- saving and should be taken advant-{cular attention hy the person first age of. With the:number of well or- startiz out-in the commereial world gdnized farmers clubs that are|@specially the grove of exactness, around Bemidji, there should be no [cheerfulness and honesty. trouble in getting sufficient coop- “We should not forget to advance eration to order a car of dynamite. - | Our soul-habits by reaching for the best in life till it becomes automatic Need Carload Here. ¥ o and so we-establish character,” he “A car load is 20,000 pounds. Two | said. v hundred farmers ordering 100 pounds e et et by each would fill the order for a car. FREEBURG TO LEAVE. There are easily that many farmers pctos Mkt ' who come to Bemidji, and easily that many farmers who could use' this amount of dynamite to advantage. “With a saving of $4 per 100 pounds on a car load, there would be a saving of $800. If this saving is made and put in to aditional dyna- mite, it will mean the clearing up of an additional 50 acres of land. “I believe it will also pay to use the 30 per cent dynamite. and save $2 per hundred on this. I have found the 30 per cent dynamite just as ef- fective for blowing out stumps as the 40 per cent. “Remember that we have a law authoriznig town boards to buy dyna- mite. Between cooperation and the purchase by township boards, there should be no one paying the high re- tail price for dynamite in small lots. Local dealers are generally glad to help secure the lower price through car purchases.” “Character Building” was the sub- jeet discussed by Rev. Lester P. War- ford at the regular Friday afternoon lecture course of the Bemidii busi- STEENERSON PLANS POST ZONE REPEAL Minnesota Solon Sees Partial) Return to Former Basis of Pound Rates. Repeal of the zone scheme of the postage. on second ‘class mail matter by the next congress is predicted hy Representative Halver Steenerson of: Crookston, who has been chosen by the republicans to head the postoffice lcpmmixwo of the.next house. | " Representative Steen®wson-has not yet drafted legislation to effect the; repeal of thetzonal plan, he said to- day, and will mot do so until hear 4ings are held before the house com. mittee, © These hearings will develop strong differences of opinion among:| the publishers, Mr. Steenerson pre- |dicted, judging from the character of the petitions and’letters reaching his office. “I don't believe that we will ever go back to the cent a pound basis,” Mr. Steenerson said. “Under that irate the government was transport ing a great quantity of second class, matter at a loss and I do not believe congress will want to resume that loss in view of the heavy burdens placed on the government through war expenditures. In its place we rmay enact a plan which will elimin-. ate the zones and will collect post- age on the basis of the quantity of matter mailed.” Blackduck is to lose one of fts most prominent citizens, Dr. J. M. Freeburg, who is moving to the cities, having sold his dental practice to Dr. Ivan C. Cann. Dr. Freeburg is president of the Blackduck board of education and has held many posi- tions of homnor and responsibilily as a resident of that village. . SENIOR GIRLS WIN BARKER LOVING CUP Seniors of the Bemidji high school last evening won the championship of the girls basketball tournament and possession of the Barker loving cup by defeating the sophomores in the final contest of the series by a score of 6 to 2. The first half, which was warmly contested, resulted in a tie 2 and 2. Well enriched and well cared for soil will produce good garden crops. Plenty of plant food is essential for vegetable growth By Frank J. Taylor. (United Press correspondent.) Weimar, -~ February, 26.—(By Mail.)-—Quiet, sleepy Weimar doesn’t like being capital of Germany, and doesn’t want to be capitol. Weimar 43dn’t eveh want to be the seat of the new. German republic. Weimar was more than willing to let some other town have the honor. When it was definitely decided the assembly should be at Weimar, the inhabitants of the clean, pretty little city bent every effort to make guests feel comfortable, but they viewed the meetings with apprehension. It brought too much excitement to Weimar. - Weimar is probably the most cul- sturéd city of its size in the world. 1t exists because it was the home of Goethe and Schiller; and the popu- lation lives on the atmosphere of classic German. It is the home of writers and playwrights, and sup- ports one of the best groups of dra- matic artists in its beautiful theatre. Weimar wants to be let alone to its culture and plays and music, ac- cording to the inhabitants, who are praying that the assembly will place the premanent capitol of Germany elsewhere. During the war, the rest of Ger- many rapidly disintegrated, cultufed Weimar kept most of its old habits. 8hop windew by dozens are filled with claseic books and pictures on literature of England and France quite as much as Germany. aties on universal peace, and \.a‘ # against war of any kind stayed in [ *lr ‘places on book-shop shelves in veimar, While the .rest of the world stowed them temporarily in cellars. Shakspeare’s picture is in art store windows with Goethe's and Schiller's and Shakespearean plays, as well as classics from any language were played continually in the Weimar ¢ thepire HISTORIC WEIMER DOES NOT - WANT CAPITOL OF GERMANY The game between the freshmen and the junior girls was very interest- ing, the upper class girls winning by a 12 to 4 score. Vivian Sanderson was the star of the contest netting WILLIAM MCDONALD GIVEN RELEASE: RETURNS HOMF Lieutenant Willlam McDonald, son ~f Mr. and@ Mrs. John McDonald of.|five baskets. I Dewey avenue, and wife arrived in \ t'l(’:ln'infi; the ixaerur{qln:’anbthecls:dec- i . the city last evening from the Great jtators were en ine: y ye “;fi‘t){ oln !,l:,'{;lgslf,"l:';n al rnithder ;l’{llflg Lakes yfralnlm: station, Lieutenant | Cool, the attractive little daughter of grith gz‘; hest Ximl thmi)e:’t';’ 9 ”e‘ McDonald having been released, from |Mr. and Mrs. Ira Cool, who cleverly ast rather than mc,e] nd ro;?“ ?- duty. They will again roake their | presented several fancy dances. D T e fere o e el | home in Bemidji and Lieutenant Mc- | Girls playing for the victorious D T e - | Dopald will be employed with the fseniors were Madge Tafton, Esther installation of dn7é‘r§?r:f et‘tlzlemllm ¢ | Crookston Lumber _company, with | McGhee, Elsie Nuss, Avis Cameron, e thot o (e o of tho prcs | whom he was connected before enter- |and Myrtle Matteson. The sopho- school with telegra hgm ”e ‘gt ing the navy. He has won rapid pro- |more were represented by Elsie and ivhewriters f():nth srp:xmen? motion and has had several monthe |Shannon, Pearl Tanner, Lorraine the ar}{)vql of ioldters gdp ”s and | oorsea service. He left Bemidji in | Kreatz. Elda Rudy and Florence Min- {0 enbra Az Inkt potitical | policemen | apry), 1917 with the Bemldji Divi- |nick For the juniors Florence Dick- s beantitul o1d Saxe p’:‘]‘"gs- sion of the Minnesota Naval militia. |ens, Vivian Sanderson, Bertha Web- eautiful old Saxon castle was | .4 Ghich time he was an ensign. ster, Cora Hanson and Bernice Wal- backed tall of peoste, where. It had NEW ARCHBISHOP Ll gl ol oot i INST ALLED TUESD AY Hovey and Mabel Tanner. ‘With their interests centered en- ways. The snow blanket that covered Weimar was confinually stirred up by the ten per cent in- crease in population, gaid ten per cent being active people. always busily hurrying around, and that too made Weimgr seem unrestful and uneasy. Fortunately, Weimar has always been accustomed to visitors and has many of them, who come to render homage to Goethe and Schiller and gzet a glimpse of the classic German which the world liked years ago be- fore commercial imperialistic Prus- sianism overwhelmed the country. There are more than fifty hotels in Weimar. and these were quickly packed. The city govermment took charge of the room and food situa- tion and assigned everyone a place to sleep and eat on his arrival from A clerical. escort will go to Des ! the outer world Moines to meet the archbishop’s train | 2nother for basket ball. He was re- This was another thing Weimar |and a delegation of laymen from Hoth | cently named to captain the next distiked. Tt was used to tourists who | St. Paul and Minneapolis will meet |6€ason’s varsity basket ball five. were mostlv <rho' rs and who came | the train at Rosemont. There will be : to town knowing most of its secrets.{a luncheon at noon for tne clergy at WILL WILKE VISIT BEMIDJI. and who quietly went to hotels and | Knights of Columbus ball. In the Will Wilke, editor and banker of created no excitement, and were con- | evening a public reception will be| Gray Eagle, was in Bemidji today. tent and glad to roam around and {held at the auditorium for the arch-| Mr. Wilke is a former president of the Northern Minnesota Editorial as- not bother anyone bishop. sociation and is now a member of the The excitement of it all is too —_— much for Weimar, most cultured of | It's much easier to lay plans than | executive committee of the Minne- i Isma State Editorial association formerly been almost deserted al- Alice Cameron, Viola Hanson, Lilly WILL RECEIVE LETTERS St. Paul. March 22.—All plans are complete for the installation of the Rt. Rev. Austin Dowling of Des Moines, Ia., as archbishop of 8t. Paul diocese next week. The installation will begin Tuesday at the cathedral here. Rt. rtev. Austin Dowling suc- ceeds the late Archbishop Ireland, Pontifical high mass will e sung Tuesday morning. . Rev. Etienne Vinas will be deacon of the mass; Rev. Jos. Cleminski sub- deacon; Very Rev. Joseph Byrne as- sistant priest; and Rev. Aloysius Zieskovgky master of ceremonies. The music will be under the direction of Rev. F. Missia of St. Paul Seminary. Bemidji will have a prominent place at St. Paul tonight when Ham- line university will celebrate its suc- cess in football last fall and in bas- ket ball during the 1918-19 season | at an ‘all-university banquet. One of the principal speakers will be Miss Corinne ‘Carlson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Carlson of Be- midji. Miss Carlsoni will also re- ceive a sweater, awarded her in rec- ognition of *her splendid work as captain of the girls championship basket ball sextet. Dan Gainey, a two sweaters, one for football and towns 1it is to hateh them onut ———— —— - AT BANQUET TONIGHT | Bemidji boy, will be presented with | FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MON TREATY ALLOWS GERMANY AN ARMY DEMANDS KNOWN By Ed Keen (Copyright 1919 by United Press) Paris, March 22.—The extent to which Germany will be rendered military impotent by the impending peace treaty was fully revealed for the first time today in information obtained by the United Press from authoritative sources.. The military and aerial terms of the treaty, as finally agreed by the supreme war council are according to the best information optainable as follows: Military—Germany to be allowed a maximum of seven divisions of infantry and three of cavalry, providing for a total of 100,000 men of which officers must not exceed 4,000. All fortified works within 50 miles of the Rhine must be destroyed, and construction of new works in the region will be forbidden, and all war material above the requirements fixed will be surrendered to the allies by whom it will be destroyed. The German fleet will be eliminated to six battleships, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers and twelve torpedo boats. SENATE OF UNITED STATES MUST ACT. L (By United Press) Paris, March 22.—The League of Nations commigsjon, with President Woodrow Wilson presiding, met today to'consider amendments to the covenant proposed by neutrals during the last two days. While the constitution was thus being re-shap- ed, the United Press was informed authoritatively that the senate of the United States will have to accept or reject the entire preliminary peace treaty including the league covenant. SOUTHERN BELTRAM| |ALDERNAN Has FINE FAR Croon Proud of His Modern Buildines and Thoroughbred Stock. ASSESSORS T0 MEET IN BEMIDJI APRIL 4| : ‘ e e ne of the most modern and suc- cessful farms in thé Bemidji terri- Duties Will be E’.‘Pl‘in“l by |tory is owned and operated by John Members of State Tax Com- | Croon, who represents the fourth s s 4 ward on the city council and is the mission—Public Invited. proprietor of the #otel Nicollet. The = farm is four -4 cme~t‘:?ll miles southeast of B t. Mr, Croon A. D. Johnson, Beltrami county owns 240 acres, and of that smount auditor, announced today that as-1!100 acres are cleared. He has 27 sessors of the southern portion of the |head of cattle and is now receiving county will meet in Bemidji April 4, mllé( fronln 13 cows. Hl:zt'far‘x’nl is ) modern in every respect, being at which time a n'mmber of the state equipped with large barms, a two- tax commission will be here for the story granary, a silo and modern and purpose of giving instruction as to|attractive farm home. He i3 parti- the proper method of listing and as- | cularly proud of his excellent dairy sessing the different kinds and classes herd and owns two thoroughbred of property in accordance with the Holstein bulls. * The investment in law, his farm {s about $15,000. During The tax commission desires to help the past seven years Mr. Croon has assessors in every possible way and invested parctically all of his profits the meeting will not be confined to|from the farm in improvements and an explanation of the new laws, but the place is now proving to be a sub- every question relating to the duties stantial source of revenue. of un assessor that might be present. —— e ed will be fully explained. The pub- TO ATTEND FUNERAL. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Given left this lic is cordially invited to be present at the meeting for there will be in- formation of benefit for everyone in-|noon for Virginia, where they will terested in taxation. attend the funeral of Mrs. Given's Assessors of the Benville territory mother, Mrs. J. O. Johnson. The will not be required to come to the|Virginia Enterprise contains the fol- Bemidji meeting, but instead will go lowing item in regard to Mrs. John- ‘0 Thief River Falls on April 1. The|son's death: Mrs. J. O. Johnson, ticers of the northern part of Bel- mother of Mayor Edward C. A. John- trami county will gather at Baudette |on of this city, died at her home. May 2, unless a plan to hold the meet- 208 South 7ifth avenue Thursday .ng at an earlier date fails. morning foliowing a short illness. The law provides that assessors at- (Mrs. Johnson was a ploneer resi- ending the meeting are entitled to dent of this city, having lived here ve cents per mile for each mile nec- | for the last 26 years. She is sur- wsarily traveled in going to and re-|vived by her husband and one son, urning from the meeting, and to|Mayor Johnson, and one daughter, three dollars additional for attend- | Mrs. R. L. Given, of Bemidji. Mayor ance. Johnson, who was in Minneapolis at- sl tending a convention, was notified of his mother's death and arrived here late this afternoon. The daugh- CARN[VAL AT CARR ter also is expected to arrive in time LAKE TH]S EVENING for the funeral. A later item says: The funeral of Mrs. J. 0. Johnson, mother of Mayor Edward C. A. John- Tonight the Carr Lake school will | yon who died yesterday of heart hold its second annual carnival and|{ disease, will he held Monday after- | many Bémidji people will attend thelnoon from the Norwegian Lutheran ffair. There will be nothing lack-|church, Rev. R. Reinertsen officiat- ing in the way of carnival entertain- ing, and interment will be made in ment. Among the booths will be) Greenwood ~hamber of Horrors, Beauty Booth, Finding the Kaiser, Photo gallery, ortune telling, and many others. There will also be refreshments. The Mr. and Mrs. August Schmitz of antertainment given last year was a| wilton were brought before Judge jecided success in every way and(j E. Harris, of the probate court, aftorts will be made to make this|priday to answer charges of having avent a bigger success. The DPro-|neglected the care of their 16-year ~eeds will be used to pay for the|,ld daughter, S8arah. The judge per- school piano and the hot lunches for tm“md the girl to return home but the pupils. The teachers, school!cautioned the parents that they must board, and farmers of the community | ha more attentive to her care. have planned the carnival. : PARENTS ARE C*UTIONED. | BRITISH SAILORS STARTED APPLICART VISITS CITY. | REVOLT. IS NOW CLAIMED Robert Jacohson, of Fargo, who is | (By United Press.) . | one of the applicants for the podition Berlin, March 22.—British sailars, | of eity engineer here, is epending sev- disguised as German sailors, orgam- eral days in Bemidji to ascertain the|ized and started the Kiel revolt which | duties of such an official. There are | was the initial movement in the | gix applicants for the position and at German revolution, Frau von Hinden- the next meeting of the city council lhur[: charged in an interview with | a selection will be made. Jacobson, ,the United Press today. until his enlistment, had been as-| sistant city engineer at Fargo forl It is easy to get rich after you six vears have the first million . “OF; 100,000; OTHER -