Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 2, 1919, Page 11

MY CENSORSHIP JEYOND THE RHINE Blose Tab Kept on German Lines ~of Communication, MUCH LATITUDE IS ALLOWED Col. R. H. Williams, in Charge, Em- . ploys 61 Officers and 273 Clerks, and Expects to Need 200 Alore—Mail, Teléphone and Telegraph Service | Interfered With as Little as Possible —Watch Like Hawk to See That Nothing Against Interests of Amer. Ica or Allies Gets By, { l. By CYRIL BROWN. (In New York World.) That occupation isn’t all play and ) tiving in Rhine castles, but involves ! -plenty of hard work, Is typically indi- cited by some ‘statistics of our mill- hry censorship, which in turn is only + eme of the numerous actlvittes of G-2 z on of the Third army, functioning - anostentatiously but effectively under the direction: of Col. R. H. Williams, chfef of military intelligence of the army of occupation. This interesting department alone employs the services of b1 officers, 15 field clerks and 258 clerks, while Colonel Williams expects .that at Jeast 200 men more will be needed in order to achieve the ideal of thoroughness._ ‘The work of our military censorship fn keeping a prudent watch on the qnll, telegraph and telephone when wsed by the German population has reached mammoth proportions only use of our broad-minded, liberal policy toward the Germans. Not mo- tivated by altruism, but by common- sense economic reasoning, the Ameri- ean military policy has from the very start been, and continues to be, to grant the natives the utmost limit of erty of communication consistent "" h our naturally supreme military s ts. Allowed Notable Freedom. ' The "basic idea of our military formulators of policy has been that the less the Germans are hampered i1 the free use of the mails, telegraph and telephone and, in consequence, the they are. economically shackled, the better will be the economic life of the American occupied area and the greater will be the chance for every German in‘it to earn an honest living. It iz not’in our best military inter- est to have the economic life of this Americap oasis in Germany throttled, ., mor to gwake up some fine morning with a pauper population on our bapds. The healthier the economic life of the area, the more smoothly will our occupatfon function. ‘The practical result of this general policy is that the Germans in our aera of ‘occupation enjoy a freedom in the use of the mails, telegraph and telephone to a degree not enjoved by their fellow Teutons in either the French, British or Belgian areas. Germans in our area may send let- %Includlng registered mail and al delivery letters, also parceis post matter, to unoccupied Germany as, well as to the French, British and Belgian occupied areas, Similarly @Qermans in our arta may receive mail matter from unoccupled Germany and the other occupied areas. They may send telegrams to unoc- eupled Germany and the other occu- pled areas, and may likewise receive telegrams from unoccupied Germany and the other unoccupled areas. Most liberal of all, Germans in the ‘American area may communicate by telephone with unoccupied Germany and the other unoccupied areas. The simple common-sense general rule of our military censorship merely ns everything detrimental to our interests or those of our allies. If they #ind their own business and don't at- tempt to violate this simple, reason- ‘able rule, Germans in the American area may go as far as they like in the wuse of the mails, telegraph and tele- L) phone. ‘)i,lr military censorship is on the 3& twenty-four hours of the twenty- four, and “Military Intelligence,” un- der the direction of Colonel Willlams, watches like an unemotional hawk to see that no Teuton gets away with anything against the Interests of ‘America and the allies; but beyond this the square deal spirit of justice and tolerance which animates the American brand of occupation crops out in the military censorship in a very human way—paradoxically, too, ) eince censors are not generally credited with being human. Our com- peient military authorities are proud not only of the fact that the censor- ship is effective in safeguarding our legitimate interests, but that it does so with the irreducible minimum of delay and hardship to the Germans if they don’t attempt to abuse our square-deal policy. \ Long Distance Phone. interesting, perhaps, s the long distance telephone proposition. Germans in Coblenz today can talk { with Berlin—If the bolsheviki will let { them. If the operator here can't get " Berlin or Munich or Dresden it won't be the fanlt of the American army of occypation " “‘1{2:1‘9[1 our army first occupied Cob- { # lenz all long distance trunk telephone lines out of Coblenz, sixteen of them, were immwediately cut as a self-under- stood military measure. Colonel Wil Jinms then let it be known that, sub- $ort to our censorship, a certain num- ber of long distance telephone truuk lince wonld be permitted ® resuras Most FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1919, ' business for such legitimate Teuton con- | versations as might be required by the needs of the community. And he left it to the Germans themselves to decide which long distance telephone lines they wanted to use most, and put it'up to the municipal authorities and the chamber of commerce and the Ger- man business community generally. The Germans requested that five trunk lines be reopened for public use 48 belng most essential to- business; and this request was complied with. Later, as business increased, three more long distance telephone lines were reopened to the publie, so that the Germans In our area of occupation now enjoy under military occupation 50 per*cent of the long distance tele- phone service with unoccupied Ger- many and the other occupled areas wbich they had before occupation. Censored 100 Per Cent. German long distance telephone con- versations are censored 100 per cent on all calls coming Into.or going out of our area. This involves no losse of time; the operator putg all such calls through our military telephone cen- sorship office, where competent khakj- clad lingulsts umpire the flow of Teu- ton talk, and cut in it anything is said against our interests or those of our allles. ‘There s also a partial censorship of German telephone conversations con- fined within the limits of our area of occupation. These internal telephone talks are liable to be cut In on any time by our military telephone cen- sors, The Germans are also availing them- selves of the generous freedom ac- corded them in the use of the tele- graph. As In the case of local and long distance calls confined to the ip- terior of our area of occupation, there is only a partial censorship of German telegramy, within the American area, All telegrams coming or going out of the American area are, however, cen- sored 100 per cent. No telegram is held up more than five minutes—if legitimate. All Geriran mail going out of our area is censored 100 per cent. Ger- man mail coming into our area is cen- sored up to 20 per cent, which is con- sidered the ideal of necessity super- vision. Our mail censorship functions at Coblenz and at Trier—Coblenz, however, doing the bulk of the cen- sorship work. Every precaution is taken by Colo- nel Williams' section to see that no advantage is taken of our liberal pol- icy regarding the German mails by at- tempted smuggling in or out in the mail cars. TAME CROW IN PERIL Bird Brings Wild Mates to Owner's Cornfield. Last August Simon Tixel of Platt Center, N. Y., while working in the woods, caught a voung crow. He brought it home and it became very tame and a great pet, but its life s now {u jeopardy, Tixel declares. For the past few weeks, he says, his farm has been overrun with wild crows. His tame crow flles into the woods, perched itself upon a limb of a tree, caws a few times, and soon the tree is full of crows. Then the tame crow flies home, followed by the wild ones. Tixe! says he has no objection to the crow bringing home its broth- ‘ers, but when he coaxes them into his barn and they begin to banquet on his oats, corn and wheat, it is more than he can stand. He v&!ve the crow one more chance, an 1t does not stop its performance off goes its head. Tixel says he has shot close to 100 crows (n his barn, but it does not de- plete the ranks. They have eaten at least ten bushels of grain, he de- clares. FARMER COULDN'T MARRY Couple Told by License Man That This Was Not Russia. A Hungarian girl and a Russian ap- plied for a marriage license in the Franklln county probate court at Co- lumbus, Ohio, and everything went smooth until it came to filling in the name of the officiating minister. “Who will marry you?’ asked the marriage license clerk. “lJim,” sald the groom-to-be, point- ing to another Russian who had ac companied the couple. “Who's him?” asked the clerk. “Him & Russian farmer,” was the reply. “This isn’t Russia, and ‘Him’ won’t do,” said the clerk. “You will have to get a preacher or a justice of the peace to do the splicing in this coun- try.” Got Old Wedding Fee. Forty years ago Rev. J. A. Sutton of La Rue, O.. performed a marriage and the bridegroom forgot to hand over the customary fee. Threugh the mail Rev. Sutton has received a $10 bill and a note accompanying says ft Is from a “stricken consclence.” As Reverend Sutton has performed 714 marriage ceremonies, he does not re- member the man who “forgot.” Alas and Alack. “Dry” upper Michigan's stomach gches have been cured. The epidemic, which began several weeks ago, was fmmediately followed by an influx of hot-water hottles—but, alas, one bot- tle leaked. and the officials won't let ‘em have any more. Hen Letters Her Egg. James Aibert Pigg of Terre Haute has a hen. The rooster's name is Tom. Now Pigzg says when he lifted the hen recentty he found ‘“she had lald an egz with 8 monogram " fnitial “T" In ralsed shell at one end.” THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER MINUTE MEN AID ALLIES IN RUSSIA Peasants Without Uniforms Give Valuable Assistance to Inter- national Army. HAIL ALLIES AS RESCUERS in Nearly Every Attack Made on Enemy These Partisans Go Ahead of or Along the Flanks Look- ing for Pot Shot. With the Americans on the North Russian Front.—In this international army, which Is fighting numerically superior bolshevik forces in mnorth Russla, there are, mingled with the half dozen or so varleties of uniforms, men who wear no uniforms ‘at all. They fight, as did the francs tireurs tn the Franco-Prussian war,’and the first minute men of the American rev-, olution, for the protection of their firesides. They are peasants, bearded or beardless, with nothing to distinguish them from the thousands qf other peasants living around them but their guns and cartridge beits. They are the irregular or ‘‘partisan”™ troops, and (he sentiments they are showing and fighting for inm this wilderness of snow and pine trees loom up so patris otically that the government of north- ern Russia Is beginning to look upon them as the keystone on which to build a Russian state that will be free from bolshevism. Hail Allies as Rescuers. These peasants have known the rav- ages of bolshevik troops in their vil- lages. They have seen friends exe- cuted for antibolshevik activities, They hail the allies as rescuers. In nearly every attack the regular troops make against the enemy one finds these armed partisans, crack shots, go-! ing ahead of or along the flanks of the Americans, British, French and trained, uniformed Russians to scout a path or take a pot shot at the enemy. The point of view of these peasants ts this: The army has not yet been or- ganized ; we are robbed and ill treated by the bolsheviki; therefore we have to defend ourselves. The peasants in the Kholmogory district, along the - Dwina river, have been fighting for four months, Military authorities say they do their work as cheerfully and efficlently as regular soldiers. The red guards are helpless against the re- volted population. The appearance of peasants fighting voluntarily agajnst Tyotzky's l‘qrces‘ has a demoranlizing effect upon the; holsheviki, as it disabuses the mhuls; of some of them of the theory that! they are being opposed only by “in-' perialists.” / Scout Like Animals. The partisans know that if they are’ cgptured they will be shot. But,, knowing the forest country as city' dwellers know their own streets, they are seldom captured. In scouting they are as tireless as wild animals, The government of the north for a long time did nothing to help the par tsans, hut pow that thelr !!‘Efull!@"si BUILD s ognized they and thelr families are provisioned as if they were regu- lar soldiers. In December a big dele- ‘gation of partisans went to Archangel, and, according to the local newspa- pers, “this new apparition stirred up all the classes of population of the town.” It became clear that a sound evolu- tion from anarchy toward patriotism had takem place among the peopl that the efforts of the partisans, though of a local character, must be 1 cessful, time belittling' his success. | force trying to equal it. here on this earth,” ! citizen. luck,” replied Cactus Joe. nces.” PAGE ELEVEN . Be Glad. If you see a man or woman su. be glad of it. Don't wast Use you DRY CLEANING Clothes Cleaners for Men, Women and Children The Bliss Supreme, “We should strive to make a heaver. <ald the serious | “It can be done, with a little “Yesterdny , held a straight flush against fow l J\unv CLEANING HOUSE, 7HOGANSON ‘BRAS-PROPS THE PlONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS supported, and that it was absolutely necessary to create a suitable ntmnv,- phere for further organizatiop of pur- tisan detachments. A big committee, including all political parties, has been | formed In %"Archangel to ald this plan, | | and a new partisan newspaper is to be | published for the benefit of the fight- ing peasants. BRITISH DEATHS PASS BIRTHS | War Office, Alarmed, Releases 700 #hy- sicians From Army Service in Week. London.—Coincident with publica- tion of the report showing that dur- ing the last quarter of 1918 the num- | ber of deaths exceeded the birth rate for the first time in the histagy of clvil registration in this country, the | war office has announced the release in one we of 700 physlcians from | the army. Influenza caused the great increase ; in the death rate, the number of vie | tims from that disease being 98,998, | or 41 per cent of (he total deaths for | the period. Lack of physiclans Is held responsible for the failure to curb the epidemic. At the heginning of this month, although 1,750,000 men of the | army have been demobilized, only 1,600 out of 11,000 physicians have been re- leased. —QUALITY COUNTS YOU'LL ALWAYS LIKE THE Paterson el GET IT AT YOURDEALERS OR WRITE TW. Stevenson Go, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. DISTRIBUTORS M. H. Curry can supply you with all kinds of Shrubbery Small Fruits and Flower bulbs fresh from Wedge Nursery, Albert Lea, Minn. We will carry a stock of small Shrubery and flower bulbs at A. T. Wheelock's Grocery. M. H. CURRY Bemidji, Minn. NOW Thrift Turns Savings Into a. Home. Prdtect Your The fly isn’t merely a disagreeable insect. a dangerous beast. If you could know sickness and the deaths Family From This Beast. | He is’ the number of cases of senous caused by flies every year you ' would be amazed and THEN you would think of and' treat the fly as the deadly beast that he is. He is already here i | in swarms for a season’s work. | It is now fly breeding time and if you allow them in the house at all your ho me will soon be full of them. | | SCREEN THEM OUT EARLY | Get screens at once for all doors and windows' that are not equipped and get them on. fly get a start. ST. HILAIRE RETAIL LBR. CO. . Phone 100 Don’t let the BEMIDJI, MINN. A __ ._ — H WE PAY the highest market price for rags metals, rubbers and scrap iron. We also pay frei - on all out of town shipmen? 100 pounds and over. H prices paid for hides. GOLDBERG S HIDE & FUR CO. * Phone 638-W 112 3d Street L We do not say that we are the only store in town— But we do say that we are pretty much alive that we do try to get for the trade the best goods that we can. That we only ask a fair margin of profit—that we do try to buy when the market conditions are the lowest— that whenever there is a drop in any items we drop our selling price at the same time. We have dozens of items at reduced prices right now. We of course want your business and think, honestly, think you should trade here. Suppose you start in today. Just For Saturday and Monday, Next v These 20 big Special Bargains. Do not miss any of them they are real good- ‘ NO. 1—Ladies ready to wear, best pattern hats. Hats right in style and in workmanship. Not any picked overs offered. Many of these, just turned out and new ones, real values, $4.98, $5.98, $6.98. $7.98; choice of lot Bargain No. 1, Saturday and Monday ...$3.85 No. 2.—Ladies trimmed, ready to wear hats. Mono- gram and Del Monta makes. Real values and you must remember that our prices are one-third less right at the start, $8.75, $9.75, $10.00, $12.50, $13,50, $15.00—choice Bargain No. 2, Saturday and Monday...... .... .$6.95 3.—Children’s and Misses hats, shapes, and ready trimmed, same sold up to $3.25, choice. .$1.98 No. 4—Hats trimmings, choiceof lot...........19¢ No. 5—Misses and ladies middy blouses, all new and many sold up to $3.48, special Bargain No. 5, each. .$1.98 No. 6—Ladies voile waists, good grade, embroidery trimmed, $1.89, $1.48, $1.39 values, Bargain No. 6...98¢c No. 7—Boys blue and dark shirts, 11 to 14 sizes. Bargain No. 7 No. 8—Childrens rompers, light tan, Bargain No. blue stripe, plain khaki, sizes 2 to 6, $1.48. Bargain No.8...... 98¢ No. 9.—Boys 2-piece wash suits, very good, very well made, very cheap. White and dark colors. Bargain No. 9 e FEh s I DR e, $2.95 No. 10—Rit, 3 packages T T T 23c Crochet hooks, No 6,7,8,9,10, each .............. 4c No. 11—36-in. hght and dark perca]es, standard grade, yard . o .19, No. 12—Ladies light or dark Bungalow aprons and house dresses, $2.25, $1.98. Bargnm No. 12, Saturday and Monday ... ..$1.23 No. 13—Shelf Paper plam white and colors, with rose designs, each . ....... BRI e SR A RO R e .3c No. 14—Chamcter dolls, 11 inches | i No. 14, each . i .....?é..o.n.g.'.énrgfé: No. 15—Lad1es black, chocolate b hose, values 25¢, 29¢, 39¢ o w};;i No. 16—Misses fine ribbed chocolate brown hose, sizes 6 to 914, extra good grade, really worth 50c, No. 18 35¢ No. 17—Box paper, white,, cream, pink and blue good paper and envelopes, Bargain No. 17, box 15c. No. 18—White cups and saucers, regular $1.45 and $1.60, Bargain No. 18, set six each. ............. . $1.19 No. 19—No. 2 Galvanized tubs, heavy grade, L T R $1.29 No. 20—Brass finish curtain rods, regular 15c. Bar- gain No. 20, each 11c Wish you might see all the new items in our D Good Department. The new notions, ruffleings, buttons trimmings, etc. i Wish you might see the 20 dlfl"crcnt baby carriages and go-carts that we have at prices we know are right. Wuh you might see the express and coaster v and children’s out door toys. R And garden seeds and garden tools f —7You need this, PRNIRTEY ne_ed -— Just Go See C - Carlson of Course Who else could it be? Store on 317 Beltrami Ave.