Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 3, 1919, Page 1

by e PR “ 2 =, .. Py o . ~’are making it plain that the bill in ™ xufion is the one that would ¥ ~r.it was the VOLUME XVIL. NO. 79 BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY DIVISIONBILL "NOW OPPOSED BUT EXPECTED Noonan, In Letter to Pioneer Today, Says Beltrami Meas- ure Opposed in Senate. RAKO’S SEED MEASURE IS NOW STATE LAW Collonization Bill Drawn by ‘Senator Nord Considered To- morrow—Other Notes. (By W. T. Noonan) . St. Paul, April 1.—Ever since the kaiser hopped out of bed:one morning and learned that a lot of rough chaps” from Minnesota, lgon- tana and North Dakota had mixed up in the big scrap and spoiled his peaceful war for him there have been flacks of suggestions as to the best way to reward the lads who caused Billem to emigrate to Holland with- dut waiting to gather up his luggage. As 1 write this jn a side room at the capitol I can hear several hundred of the khaki clad boys explaniing to appropriations committee that the lad who launched the bill to give them a hundred dollars each in coid cash was a regular mind reader. They lease em most. But ten million dollars is a thundering lot of money, and 1 can hear southern members gasping for breath and making remarks about bills that .abolish the constitution, gke the state treasury a total loss ?nd ‘empty the pockets of the tax- : the ‘state from real 'ul ‘operation for payers. Divoreing money is a paini bt of the southern members, and ; q::{oys ‘are having a ¢ ted © tinie: i ;. them f e hill it to grac at the ‘end of the g;’i'o 4 few days ago'the Beltrami county divigion bill was sailing mogxl‘y along-in.the. Senate, but all of a’ sudden -you- conld metice sub- marines in the vicinity without the aid of a telescope. We are not in- sinuate anything of course, but Senator Brooks, who is a business partner of E. W.. bunions in the upper house, and we lave: an idea that he . isn’t staying dwake nights devising plans to pass R the bill. However, it will become a law, although there may be a little tilt over it. -Hatchery for Border City. .+ International Falls was never not- “ed for its. use of water, but it looks 'as if they have finally found a use for it in the border city. Represen- tative McPartlin proved himself a mighty fast talker the oher day, and when the members of the game and fish committee recovered they found that Mac had talked them into recom- mending twenty-five thousand dollars for a fish hatchery at the Falls. It is better than an even bet that the bill will become a law. Don’t wait for the bill providing a monument at Baudette to become a law because it won’t. The house is perfectly willing to pass it if a slight operating for the removal of the appropriation is performed. Outside of that the members say the bill is all right. The trouble_is- that nearly every other village in Minnesota also conceived the brilliant. idea that it needed a monument, and if the re- quests were granted the state would resemble a marble .orchard and the state, treasurer would be looking for another job. A bill that would have removed the bulge from ‘the treasury’ of every _community in. -northern . Minnesota would have slipped through the other day but for the eagle eye of F, J. McPartlin. All it provided was that a strip a mile wide was to be cleared around every burg in the state and he municipalities were to dii up the funds. When Mac spotted that pro- vision he rhised a roar .and in about two minutes there were more objec- tions to it than there are Irish police- men in St. Paul. Up to that time nobody was paying any attention to the bill. Which was aimed to pre- vent forest fires. Needles sto, say it didn’t pass. McPartlin Gains Point. By the time you are reading this over your specs the fate of the Mec- * Garry bill providing & hundred thous- and dollars to advertise northern Minnesota as the playground of Am- erica will have been decided. When the motion to make it a special order came up in the house the other day many southern members staged a young riot, but Mr. McPartlin did some stylish talking and won the firstI tilt. The vote will be close, but un- ing the bill will get by in the house with eight or teg votes to the good. | It has already passed the senate. The Nonpartisan Leader took a whack at Ed. Rako the other day, and last thing necessary to convince everybody down here that Edward is all right. The Duluth Rip- saw alsa paid its respects to F. J. McPartlin, and as a result Mac’s popularity has also increased. What (Continned on Page Eight) TOBECONE LAW parks hisi SPUDS AND DAIRYING ENTHUSE FARMERS AT Splendid Meetings Clearbrook, Cass Lake, Wil- liams and Baudette. 4’ Institute held at Clear- FOUR BIG INSTITUTES Held at|ing to the splendid condition of the otatoes, a}ld dairying were sub-|the fact that during the past year § dh Hrought large crowds to|the church and Sunday school have | SETTING IT RIGHT| In Pioneer, an article -appeared pertain- Presbyterian church as brought out at the annual meeting of the congre- gation held Tuesday evening. In thig article it was intended to bring out been at their high water mark, but through a typographical error the brook,’ Cass Lake, William and Bau-lstory was made to read otherwise. dette during the last week, and A. W.|The Presbyterian church hss grown Aamodt, “agricultural agent 'of - Be-|gteadily and has made splendid pre- the ting., | 3 I Py growing, and the demand for potatoes from the district Tor aded purposes, Were discussed by Aamadt and dairying as an imgal{t int . in- try here was: explain AL T, ¢Guire, expert of the state.agricul- tural school. Poult?y was discussed by C. E. Brown of Crookstofi. At the Williams and ' Baudette meetings J. J. McCurdy, agriculturist in the morthern part of 'Beftrami county, told of the land cleiring con- test which he plans to prd.aote, and talk on potaté seed plots. and the eradicating of smut from - small grains. All four institutes were well at- tended and a large number of Bel- midji, who has just returned i§ en-|gress and The thusiastic concerning the guccess of {guch an error occured, . Tegrets that ~ WOMEN'S CIVICCLUB = " BETTER CONDITIONS Activities ‘Will Include Many Important Subjects—Arnc- vici Speaks Saturday. With its program of activities well outlined, the first meeting of the Be- midji Women’s Community and Civic trami county farmers, residing in|club to be held since its organization the Ten Lake and Brook Lake town-|will take place at the Presbyterian meeting. HOME SERVICE WORK WILL BE CONTINU Home service work of the Ameri- con Red Cross, which has and is now proving of such great value in Be- midji, will continue not ouly through the period of demobilization but also -as a peace time activity and will be expanded in some communities to in: clude others besides the families o soldiers and sailors. This has been decided at national héadquarters after a recent conference of directors of civilian relief work in the various divisions and in response to urgent requests which came from all over the United States. This desire for home service work to continue an expand came particularly from com- munities where there are no other organized agencies for social service. In their plans for the future the Red Cross officials are especia.y con- cerned to see that the service to sol- diers’ and sailors’ families shdll not be impaired. They wil adhere to the present polity of giving help only to those who ask for it and never go- ing where the offer of assistance is unwelcome. There will ne also a scrupulous care to avoid duplicating or interferring with the work which is being done for social betterment by any other agencies. COUNTY ASSESSORS WILL MEET IN BEMIDJI FRIDAY | WILI, BE FETED TONIGHT Assessors from the southern sec- tion of Beltrami county will meet at the court house tomorrow morning and they will be addressed by a num- will give instruction as to the and reporting taxes. mission is anxious to - assist the assessors in every way possible and | The public is invited to attend the meeting. {those of the northern end of the | county will meet at Baudette. NEW TAX NOW ON. H. | 2465 Bielitz, local new war tax on both telephone and telegraph messages {s now being charged. for messages cents, and ten cents for | which eos 50 call costing less than ach ber of the state tax commission whossoldiers, sailors and marines at a ban- proper method to” follow in listing [ments for the affairs having been The tax com-|completed. all questions will be fully explained. |at the Army and Navy club, in full ! Assessors of the Benville|and escorted from there by the Be- | { country met at Thief River Falls and [ midji military band they will march less a landslide occurs in the morn-! | The charge is flve cents|the'soldiers are invited. The hall has, more than this amount.|the Syncopators. : Bemidji schools, will preside at the ; banquet and short talks will be given commercial | by Attorney P. J. manager of the Northwestern Tele-| phone company, announces that the| ships, were present at the Cass Lake|church at 2:30 Saturday afternoon. The chief aim of the club is aid in improving conditions of the city in general and to at all times work in conjunction with the mayor, city council, board of education, board of health that such may be accom.- plished. director of Wilder charity, St. Paul, will address the club at its Saturday afternoon meeting, and he will use chine can be installed. Immediately following Dr. Arono- ¢ [vici's talk a business meeting will be held which Wwill be of importance as chairmen of atl committees will give condensed reports of the work out. lined and of what has already been done, The work of the club, with plans | to take up others later, includes: last evening’s issue of The| Dr. Carol Arnovici, social service | slides to illustrate his talk if a ma-; d child welfare, protective league, baby clinic, school betterment, public play grounds, victory girls' work and the membership campaign. At present the membership of the club totals about two hundred, and it is certain to grow much larger. The last meeting of the year will be held the first Saturday in May when officers for the year, beginning in September, will be elected. The meetings starting in September will be held once each month for nine months. the annual and last meet- ing of the& year at which officers will be elected coming in May. RETURNED SOLDIERS BY BEMIDJI CITIZENS Bemidji will honor its returned quet and dance this evening, arrange- All visiting soldiers are invited to participate. All soldiers are requested to appear service uniform, at 7:30 this evening| to the Markham hotel, where an elab. orate banquet will be provided. W. G. Bolcom, superintendent of Russell torney Graham M. Torrance Immediately following the banquet a dance will be given at the armory, to which the parents and friends of and At- been appropriately decorated for the occasion. Music will be provided by | EVENING, APRIL 3, 1919 BEMIDIT BOY y L] 1 ary, ... . w wae forthern part HAS AR TITLE, of the county. He planned to reach KNOWNAS ‘SHAN | THE TERRIBLE Li¢ut. Clarence Shannon in Unit Cited for Valor By General Petain. TOOK PART IN BIG FIGHT AT JUVINGY Is Now General's Aid and Lives . In One of Bertha Krupp's . Hunting Lodges. From now on, henceforth and for- ever, Clarence Shannon, son of Mr. and ‘Mrs. C. N. Shannon of Bemidji, and who was at one time associated with ‘The Pioneer, will be known as “Shan the Terrible.” ‘When he left Minneapolis for France a little more than a year ago, says the Minneapolis Tribune, he was a pink-cheeked youngster with . a complexion a girl might envy and a ready smile that broke into a gurgle or a'chortle on the least provocation ~~QClarence A. Shannon, first liem.~ tenant of cavalry, Sixty-fourth in- fantry brigade. Evervone Called Him “Shan.” where he was a student several years, and jn The Minneapolis Tribune of- fice avhere he was a reporter, and in Bemidji and Faribault where he also is well known, everyone called him “Shan,” which showed they liked him;, but now he has become more than that, far more than that. He i8 “Shan the Terrible.” No less a person that Petain, mar- shal of France, commander-in-chief of the French armjes of the east, hds said so. This is how it came about, Mayshal Petain, according to ye- received, -here, on -March ‘4 e Bixty-fourth brigade for pquished valor {h thefe I . “Magnificent brigade to which the Frehch soldiérs fighting by its sid have rendered the most! beautit homage in calling-it the ‘Brigade des Terribles.” Composed of the 127th’ and 128th mechine gun company, it took in a brilliant and irresistible at- tack at the village of Juigny, August 30, 1918, and pursued its advance ‘| August 81 and September 1; dominat- ing the enemy constantly, despite heavy: losses, sustaining without faltering the most violent enemy counter attacks, fighting for three days without stopping, without rest and almost without food.” Shannon in That Fight. Marshal Petain said that, gave of- ficial recognition to the title, “Bri- gade .of: Terrible Ones,” which its ad- miring French allies had given the Sixty-fourth because of that three days’ fight., And Lieutenant Shan- non was in that fight. The eitation, it {s understood, does not éarry the right to decorate any individuals other than the brigade commanders, but it does give the right to decorate -all regimental colors with the croix de guerre with palm. Originally the Sixty-fourth was made up mostly of Wisconsin troops and the Sixty-third brigade, which with it formed the Thirty-second di- vision of Michigan troops. Hundreds of replacements receive,’ by both bri- gades just before and during the Ju- vigny fight came from Mfnnesota, Iowa, Montana and other middle west states. The Sixty-third also was cited. Lieutenant Shannon &as commis- sioned a second lieutenant of cavalry at the close of the first officers’ train- ing camp at Fort Snelling, and was assigned to duty at Fort D. R. Rus- sel, Wyoming. Shannon Made Aide-de-Camp, After the Juvigny affair, Lieuten- ant Shannon was made an aide-de- camp to Brig. Gen. E. B. Winans, commander of the Sixty-fourth bri- gade, went through the Argonne and Argonne-Meuse campaigns and was with' the front line troops on the march into Germany. The brigade headquarters is at Sayneck, Germany, “in one of Bertha Krupp’s hunting lodges east of the Rhine, near Cob- lenz.” SINN FEINERS LIKE 'EM OLD. London. March 18. (By Mail.)— Sinn Feiners show a remarkably an- tediluvian taste in firearms. Lord Arran of Louth made a hobby of col- lecting antique weapons of warfare, with which he adorned the walls of his mansion The collection com- prised two rifles, two shotguns, sev- eral swords, daggers and bayonets, all ancient curios. While the noble lord - was away from home, Sinn lFelm‘:rs raided the mansion and got away with every ancient weapon they found hanging on the walls. DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTOR_ WILL BE IN BEMIDJI 800N E. J. Lynch, collector of internal revenue, announces that a deputy from his office will be in Bemidji from April 13 to 16 to assist tax- payers in preparing excess profits and income tax returns. Information will be gladly furnished to all tax- pavers who need assistance _|serve dinner to all in attendance. At the University of Minnesota, Y PIONEE Min FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH WILL RETURN SATURDAY. J..C. McGhee, county superintend- ent of schools .ay Fools frox n the win - His\.or\cu\ society Warroad today and to arrive in Be- midji- Saturday. A meeting of .the county board of education is to’ be held Monday, the members being $u- perintendent McGhee, County Trear- urer Geil and William Lennon, chair- man of the board of county commis- s%onerl. FARMERS IN WASKISH COUNTRY T0 ORGANIZE FARM BUREAU FRIDAY Hustling Settlers in 4 Town- ships, Numbering 110, Will Also Form Club. Believing that co-operation wl‘il" -| sist materially in advancing develop- ment in their section of the county, 110 hustling farmers in the ‘four townships of Birch Island, Red Lake, Konjg and Waskish will meet at - Was- kish tomorrow to form a Farmers cluh and .also to become associated with the farm bureau movement,, A. W, Aamodt, agricultural ageht for .the southern half of Beltrami county, will leave tonight for ;Was- kish and will assist in the forxffitlcn of the new club and will outling the work being accomplished by: . the farm bureau. Plans for tomerrow’s meeting are being made by H, L. Bowen, and he announces that at ngon the women of Waskish ‘w\‘l Saturday Agent Aamodt will ad- dress farmers at Shotley on matters velating to the farm bureau. HUFFMAN-O'LEARY ENLARGE; NOW HANDLE Complete Lines of China; Cut Glass, Linens, Crockery, :8il. ware in New Department;; Huffman-0'Leary, furniture deal- ers, are adding a new depattment to tuneir store and when it is opened for bupiness Bemidji will’ be provided with an establishmeint at which “Everything for the home’ may be purchased. _‘Complete lines of crockery, china, cut glass, silverware, electric lamps, table and bed linens are to be carrie: A portion of the new stock has al- ready reached the city and is being arranged. It is expeoted that the remaining shipments will arrive dur- ing the next few days anu that the store will be opened to the public not later than April 10. ‘I'his new department is housed in the building which adjoins the Huff- man-0’'Leary furniture store, the two structutes being connected by an archway. The bullding has been re- decorated, new fixtures have been in- stalled and it presents a most attrac- tive appearance. Miss Georgia Smith will be charge of the new department. in NINE MORE JOIN. ! Nine new names have been added to the list of boys who are to play in the Juvenile band and at the meet- ing last night in the city hall G. Oliver Riggs, director, outlined to members of the organizatioh' 'the mdnner in which work 1is ‘to be carried on. It is expected that in- struments will reach Bemidji next week and practice will start imme- diately. The band now numbers 120 HOME-MAKING WEEK TO BE HELD APRIL 32-30 With Miss Mabel Anderson, of the home demonstration agent's office of the state agricultural school, as the principal speaker, the “‘Home~Makers Week,” will be held throughout the southern part of Beltrami county April 23 'to 30, according!to an- nouncement made by A. W. Aambodt, agricultural agent, this morning. The meetings will be held . for women and only subjects of interest to them will be discussed. They will be held at places centrally loeated in order that all who desire té attend may do so, and that every household may be reachea. ¢ In addition to Miss Anderson two other womefl connected with the state agricultural work will - give talks during the course. . COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COMPLETE APRIL WORK Following a session of two days the board of county commissiofiers completed its April work late yeste day and adjourned to May 6. Mo of the time of the meeting was de- voted to matters of routine nature. A. D. Johnson, ebunty auditor, was instructed to Khve plans at the next meeting for the poor house whiah is to be erected east of the city, The board decided to sel! three of the four forties now owned by the county and which were previously used a8 a péor farm. The money thus obtained wiil be used to purchase a new forty, ad- joining the land to be retained, for the proposed poor farm. RUSSIA WANTS CHANCE T0 SHOW THAT WITHHELP CAN MAKE 600D Soveit Government Not Asking Recognition From Associat .ed Powers It is Learned. 150,00 WORKERS ON STRIKE AT BERLIN American Soldiers in Army of Occupation Will Be Releas- ed as Volunteers are Sent. By Fred S. Ferguson. (Copyright 1919 by United Press.) . Paris, April 3.—The Russian soviet government is not asking for recog- nition by the assoclated powers, it was learned from authoritative sources today. The proposition re- cently submitted to the peace con- | ference by Premier Lenine summed np is substantially as follows: “Make peace with us, enabling us to end the numerous little wars that are being waged on Russian terri- tory, lift the blockade so as to per- mit us to get food and materials, then we will make good and you can recog- nize us if you care to.” WILL RELEASE SOLDIERS. Washington, April 3.—Soldiers in the American army of occupation will h@ released as rapidly as volun- n be gent, the war department today In a cable sent to Gen- eral Porshing, The government this week called for 50,000 volunteers for overseas service. STRIKE AT BERLIN. Berlin, April 2.—More than 150,- 1000 workers went on strike in Berlin today, GRAND CANYON WILL" SUPPLY BIG WATER POWER Phoenix, Ariz, . April 3.—The Grand Canyon of the Colorade, long a nationally famous pledsure ground, like Niagara must go to work. That is the edict of James Me- Girand, chief engineer of the Grand Canyon Water Devélopmeént com- pany, who has completed engineering details of a $12,000,000 project to make the turbulent waters supply all of Arizona's power tdemands, His plan calls for bullding of a 200 foot dam at the mouth of Diamond Creek, in the Grand Canyon—the structure to be but slightly smaller than the famous Roosevelt dam. ! It will furnish sufficient hydro- electric power, he estimates, to elec- trity 500 miles of the Santa Fe rail- way company's main line in Arizona and to take the place of coal and oifl for generating power in every Ari- zona mine, OFFICERS TONIGHT Bemidji Elks will install new offi- cers for the ensulng year at a meet- ing to be held this evening. (eorge E. Kreatz, who has been named exalt- ed ruler, is out of the city and will be installed fcllowing his return, but the following will become officers at this evening's session: Forest Halgren, esteemed leading knight; G. 8. Harding, esteemed loyal knight; W. Z. Robinson, esteemed lecturing knight; B. R. Erickson, tyler; E. H. Jerrard, secretary, A. E. Feir, treasur- er. F.S. Lycan, who has been named to the board of trustees is also out of the city. It {s probable that the installation ceremonifes will be conducted by Charles Vandersluis, exalted ruler. E. H. Jerrard, who was at one time exalted ruler of the Bemidji lodge, will begin his fourth year as secre- tary tonight. All members of the lodge are urged to be in attendance at the meeting this evening, as in addition to the installation of officers several mat- ters of interest are to be discussed. MINNESOTA STARTS MONTH VERY FLUSH Minnesota began April business with $9,744,816.58 in the state cash box, nearly $2,500,000 more than a year ago, according to Henry Rines. state treasurer. Salps of state se- curiti and increases in railroad gross earnings payments make up the big incre in the balance of cash on hand, it was explained. During March the receipts were $3,827.3569, and the disburzements totaled $3,845,164 in the state treasury department. State forest fire relief fund trans- actions for the month represented a large part of the business increase More than $1,200.000 from sales of certificates of indebtedness issued by the forest firt relief commission was the largest single receipt. Approxi- mately $500,000 paid on commission orders and other fire relief expendi- tures through the state military de- partment, together with bills in- curred by the legislature, swelled the disbursements for the month