Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 16, 1919, Page 1

e = o 1 j VOLUME XVII. -NO. 116. WIL(ONPLE HISTORY OF PART TAKEN N WARBY CONTY Charge of Work Under State War Records Commission. NAMES OF ALL WHO GAVE HELP WILL BE INCLUDED o " Plans Call for Separate Organi- zations in County, One in South, Another in North. | Achievements of Beltrami county in.the world war are to be adequate- 1y recorded, and the Minnesota War Records commission has . taken the first oteps toward the formation of : ggfi_wm be known as-the Beltrami fingy War Records committee, The ; ‘members of the committee are to bhe selected immediately and their names will be announced soon. Citizens of the entire county will be asked to co-operate with the com- mittee in compiling this record which will be as near as possible a complete-history of the county’s war -activities. It is probable that the county will have two working com- mittees, one for the sourthern part ‘1 of the county and another for the northern section, What It Will Include. Broadly- considered, this record is to include all the material which in any ‘way relates to the lives and deeds of Beltrami county men in military service; to the many forms of civilian war serviee performed lo- cally and to the altered course of life. of the county during the war period. Materials relating to the higtory of military units and wue in- dividual records of soldiers, sailors and marines will be included. Rec- ords will .also be compiled for Bel: trami county men who served in the armed forces of foreign belligerent nations at any time during the war, ‘rhere will also be records of men .and women of the county who were engaged -in nonmilitary forms of na- tional or state war service, such as work for the Liberty loans, Red < Cross, Y. M. C, A. food administra- tion or the department of justice. There will be written reports of the war activities of the various local agencies. The great task of compiling this history will begin soon and relatives and friends of soldiers are urged to #give their help that the records may be completely and rapidly made. CROOKSTON ELKS WILL SEND DELEGATION HERE William Munch, Crookston game warden, who is spending several days in Bemidji assisting Warden S. C. Bailey in distributing pike fry, is one of the state’s most enthusiastic Elks and the growth of his home lodge is due largely.to his work as a mem- ber of the entertainment committee. He has invited Bemidji Elks to at- tend a play to be presented soon by the Crookston lodge and it is expect- ed that a large number from here will attend. Warden Munch says that Crooks- ton is planning to send a large dele- gation of Elks to attend the initiation _to'be held by the Ben;idji lodge June 5. More than sixty ‘candidates will be- initiated _at that time and: the Crookston degree team will have charge of the ceremonies. “F do not blame the Bemidji Elks,” said Mr, Munch, “for being enthusias- ti¢ over their new club rooms, They are splendidly appointed and 1 know that, they will be fully appreciated by the lodge members.” BEMIDJT DELEGATES RETURN FROM SAMARITAN MEETING Attorney D. H. Fisk and Dr. E, A, Shannon have returned to Bemidji frofe St. Paul where they attended as delegates of the Bemidji lodge the Minnesota Grand Council of Modern Samaritans, . In his address of wel- come Mayor L. C. Hodgson of St Paul referred to the greatness of fraternalism as pronmiulgated by Mod- ern Samaritism and created the im- pression in every mind that this’ is a period in the history of the ‘world when the sublime principals of frat- ernalism is spreading throughout the world and the human race is becom- ing more and more impressed with the divine impression that every man is his brother's neeper. Mayor Hodg- son was made dn honorary member of the order. In speaking at the meeting At- torney Fisk said: ‘‘All the deltgates departed feeling that the Order is a great beneficent and that it is bound to continue to grow in membership and importance, that it isa privilege and an honor to be or to become a member of the order, that every man or woman who does become such a member thereby protects his loved ones by an insurance policy that will be paid and that is an obsolute pro- tection to the beneficiary thereof.” The next vears meeting will be held in Minneapolis, tive Paae Though the Hun left their homes in Reims in guins, the< start anew. The most important problem to them is being foud dufing this period. The American Red Cross, always on hand, is taking care of this part of the program, BEMIDJI, MINN,, FRIDAY L) here'e French hdve come back to rebuild the ‘city and EVENING, MAY 16, 1919 FEEDING THE HOMELESS PEOPLE OF REIMS, FRANCE SELL TAGS TOMORROW T0 CREATE FUND FOR_ RECREATION WORK Plans CompleteTor Campaign —Names of Those Who Will Aid Announced. Citizens of Bemidji will be given opportunity tomorrow to contribute to a fund which will bring to the city for the months of June, July and August an efperienced director in recreational work, and the all day campaign will be waged in an effort to obtain between $500 and $600 by the .sale of tags. Mrs. James M. Reed of-Blackduck has the distinction of having purchased the first tag, Mrs. Bduard F. Netzer-and Mrs. Charles Vandersluis, 'of the commit- tee in charge of plans for providing the boys and girls of the city with recreational : activities, * have . an- nounced that the following will have charge of the places designated: Miss.-Grace-Hooley, -Northern -Gro- cery company; Mrs,' J. M. Murphy; Markham -hotel; Mrs, D, S. Mitchell and Mrs. Charles Van, trains; Miss Kathryn Bagley and Miss Lorraine Kreatz, Henry Miller's: store; Miss Edna Fuller ‘and Miss Arvilla Ken- fleld, Crookston plant No. 1; Mrs, C, M. Jacobson and Mrs. R, E. Richard- son, Crookston mill No, .2; Mrs, George Kirk, Bemidji Box factory; Miss Thelma Bowers and Mise Dorothy Wilson, postoffice; Miss Lucy LaFontisee, court house; Miss Gladys Getchell and Miss Claire Nangle, Net- zer's corner; Elko theatre, Miss Alice Witting and Lillian McGregor; Northern National, Miss Dorothy Virts and Avis Cameron; Crother's corner Margaret Minier and Louise | McCready; Kirst National bank, Miss Louise Golz; Nangle’s corner (to be iprovided); Schroeder’s corner, Miss Gwendolyn Medlan and Miss Muriel McGee; Vandersluis corner; Miss Myrtle Mddson and Miss Alice Het- land; Hodgdon's and Brakke’s gro- {cery, Miss Grace Currie and Miss Rice: M, & I,, Miss Ruby Case; Miss Dorothy Carson, district across the tracks; Mrs. Otto Morken, Nymore, The following will assist geunerally: Mrs, J. A. Younggren, Miss Ella Park- er, Miss Abbie Murphy and Miss Erickson. - ' BREAD MAKING CONTEST | T0 BE HELD TOMORROW Under the direction of Miss Alma Samdahl, domestic science teacher in {the Bemidji schools, the county bread making contest to decide who { will represent }Zeltranll county at the next state faif. will be held at the { high school building tomorrow. Miss | Samdahl will be assisted in the work by Miss Gustafson, of the university farm at St. Paul: Both class “A’” and class “B” will be represented at the contest here, This will -include the girls of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grades, and the high school. Those who have not had domestic scienceé training will enter in class “B,” and those who have had domestic science “training will be in class “A’ About fifty girls from Bemidji will enter this comn- test, and a number from schools throughout the county will also en- ter. Last year Bemidji was repre- sented at the state fair by two con- testants, Miss Lily Hovey and Miss Bernice Kirk. The contest will be- gin tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock and each girl will mix her bread and bake it, In the afternoon bread baking demonstrations will be given by the contestants. The Be- midji schools will be represented by | three demonstration teams and other | piaces will also be represented. One team will be selected from those rep- iresented here tomorrow, and this team will represent Beltrami at a ! district demonstration contest which is to take place later. The names of | Bemidji girls participating were !printed in this paper several days | ago. | SULLIVAN IS COMMITTED. Deputy Sheriff George Shea left ! yesterday afterncon for Fergus Falls, | taking Milton Sullivan, of Kelliher, who was adjudged insane by Judge of Probate J. E. Harris, to the asylum. PARK BOARD PLANTING TREES ON-BOUTEVARDS ;v Under the direction of the Park board the boulevards on Bemidji, Bel- trami and Minnesota avenues, be- tween Fifth and Twelfth streets are|Hig being beautified by the planting of trees. The work was begun yester- day and 252 trees will be planted, The plan was 'presented to the Park board by the civic committee of the Bemidji Women’s Community and Clvic club, and when completed: the improvement will add greatly to the attractiveness of the three avenues. ASSOCLATION WOULD BRING LINCOLN HERE Fred T. Lincoln, who has served so successfully during the last three years as secretary of the Braimerd Chamber Commerce, has been in- vited to Yecome secretary of the Be: midji Civic and Commerce associa- tion at a yearly salary of -$2,500. {This action was taken by the board of directors of the- association 'at special meeting held late. yesterday afternoon. It is believed that “Mr, Lincoln' will accept the Bemidji of- fer. Mr. Lincoln is secretary of the Northern Minnesota Development as- sociation and he is also secretary of the League of Minnesota Community clubs. He was recently named sec- retary of the northern section of the Mississippi River Scenic highway as- sociation, He was recently selected to be chairman of a committee to or- ganize the Commercial club. secre- taries of the ninii: federal reserve distriot, Should Bemidji cecure the services of Mr. Lincoln, a man who is thor- oughly familiar with civie work will be brought here to direct the activi- ties of the association. He will prob- ably begin his duties 'here July 1. SUMMER SESSION OF COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE The summer session of the Minne- sota college of agriculture will open at University Farm, June 23, and close August 1. This session is of- fered to meet the needs of graduates of arts colleges and normal schools, teachers of secondary schopls, prin- cipals of schools, (especially of con- solidated schools), superintendents, and others who desire courses in agriculture or home economics and wish to obtain college credit for such work, It is also offéred to meet the needs of students seeking to com- plete undergraduate work in agricul- ture or home economics, START SHORT COURSE. St, Paul, May 18.—The University of Minnesota will start a short course in traction engineering at the Uni- versity Farm next Monday to end June 21, Scores of farmers and me- chanics are enrolling in the classes which will take up practically every phase of traction problems, In June there will- be a shorter course for threshermen. The course of study for the course includes electricity and heat steam boilers, pumps, steam enginers, gaso- line engines, blacksmithing and me- chanics labratory work. VACATION GRANTED RED CROSS WORKERS Women of America will be given recess from Red Cross sewing and knitting in July and August, at the end of which time they will be asked to “pledge to the utmost’ the weekly number of hours which they will-give to the Red Cross in the fall, officials of the northern division announced at a Minneapolis regional conference of the American Red Cross held yes- terday in Minneapolis. i The meeting was attended by J. P. Lahr, who represented the Bemidji Red Cross chapter, and he says that more than 800 attended the session, although but 400 had been expected. Mr. Lahr says the great success and that much interest was shown in work of the Red Cross. meeting was 2| 0 BE PRESENTED BY . GRADUATES TONIGHT th School Senior Class Will Stage Clever Play at Grand " Theatre.—The Cast. With an exceptionally well select- ed cast, “The Fortune Hunter” will be presented by the graduating class of the Bemidji high school at the Grand theatre at 8:15 o'clock this evening. A matinee was given this afternoon. The play hae been pre- pared under the direction of Miss Sarah Miwchell, of the high school faculty, | The play tells the story of a way- R ‘FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MONTH B % ¥ > auson® o )\ -a '\ 1 FULFILL TERMS OF TREATY “CLAINS FOREIGN MINISTER (By United Press) London, :May 16.—Foreign Minister Brockdorff Rantzau, after a confe%}nce with German delegates announced he would not sign the peace treaty in its present form because the terms could not be fq.lfilled, according to a Berlin report. ’I‘he‘l conviction is growing in allied circles that most of the Gen‘nun_.‘protests against the peace treaty so far received were written 'before the reading of the treaty and are designed as propaganda. This conviction is strengthened by the fact that the text of the treaty is not quoted and that the protests have been published in Berlin before they were receivd in Paris. The conference, however, is‘referring all’ protests to commis- sions, which will consider them on their merits. SEAPLANE LOADS MUST BE REMOVED . Trepassey:Bay, May 16.—The seaplane NC-4, which ar- rived late yesterday from Hallifax, was undergoing necessary repairs today and will be ready for the jump off for the Azores with the planes NC-1 and NC-3. that the fuel loads of the NC- they will be partially removed is attempted. Tests have made it known 1 and NC-3 are too heavy and before the trans-Atlantic flight DIRIGIBLE CARRIED AWAY BY GALE St. Johns, Newfoundland, May 16.—The navy dirigible, C-5, which broke loose from its moorings here in a gale late yester- day afternoon, and drifted out to sea, was picked up 88 miles from shore by the British steamer Clan Davidson early today and is being returned here. Members of the crew aboard ward son of a supposedly weafthy jumped to the ground, unhurt, when the blimp broke loose. New York banker who had been pro- vidéd with all the money he could, spend, had completed his college cougse, but had never acquired a hapit' for work.: His father suddenly ! dies and the family is left with no! "Tugds and, far in debt. The son at-: tempts to find work but he repeatedly ' encounters failure, He finally megts' a friend and a plan to make a million | dollars in year ‘is formulated, It! 18 interesting throughout. ! * *The high school orchestra will pro- | vide music between the acts and there will be-a number of specialties, | The cast of characters is as fol- lows: Nathanial Duncan, the for- tune hunter, Leo Opsahl; Henry Kel- logg, a rising young finanier, Peder 'Peterson; George Burnham, a pro- motor, Philip Denu; Sam Graham, the druggist, Harvey Washburn; Mr, Lockwood, the banker, Harold Dahl; Tracey -Tanner, the liveryman’s son, Kenneth Kenfield: Pete Willing, the sheriff, Theodore Willits; Mr. Sperry, the drummer, John Simons; Watty, the tailor, Arthur O'Leary; Hi, tbe old inhabitant, Harold Hankey; Betty Graham, the druggist’s daugh- ter, Avis Cameron; Josephine Lock- wood, the banker's daughter, Myrtle Madson; Angie, Josie’s friend, Dorothy Nangle; Roland, the bank cashier, John Koors. INTRODUCING MR. HAPPY PARTY TO BEMIDJI FOLKS _With this issue of The Daily Pioneer we introduce. to our readers Mr. Happy Party, who will be the official spokesman for the Palace Meat Market, Alex Doran, owner of the Palace market, has been contem- plating this addition to his force for some time, and he is indeed to be congratulated for having been en- abled to secure the services of Happy Party. His picture, together with the market news of the Palace, will appear regularly in The Pioneer in the future, BEMIDJI FIREMEN WILL G0 70 RED WING MEETING Charles 'Dailey, chief of the Be- midji fire department announces that this city will be represented at the annual convention of the Minnesota State Fire Department association which is to be held in Red Wing June 10, 11 apd 12, The Bemidji representatives will be named at the regular meeting of the department to be held the last Tuesday in the month, \|EXPERTS SAY AMERICA WILL NOT TURN TO BOLSHEVISM | { Brockdorff-Rantzau By C. D, Groat. (United Press Correspondent.) Paris. (By Mail,)—That bolshe- vism ‘will never take any firm hold in the United States is the statement of Anferican authorities here who know economic and sociological con- ditions both here and in the United States. They based their conclusions largely on the fact that bolshevism has flourished most extensively where the class distinctions are the greatest—where the gulf between the rich and poor is the widest. In this connection, they pointed out that Russia was the first nation to tall victim to the excesses of bolshev- ism, There the gap between the rich and poor was the greatest. Bolshevism does not surprise the men who have studled it, They point out that every great war in Europe has been followed by a more or less violent reaction, Once it de- veloped into a struggle for political liberty; now it develops into a strug- gle for more equitable distribution of the wealth of nations. Americans here who have been keeping their finger on the pulse of Europe believe that the pendulum will swing back to a more nearly normal state, There has been much talk that Germany wduld dissolve in- to bolshevism. This may or may not be true, Some people coming out of Germany say they doubt it, The French have recently been circulat- ing what purports to be a speech of declaring that there is no menace of bolshevism in Germany, but declaring that the threat will be held over the heads of the allies in the hope of securing a better peace than otherwise would be the case. | Then there are predictions that| France will stir into revolution when she finds that she must pay higher taxes because Germany is not to be forced to' pay the whole cost of the war, as the politicians originally said she would. But American ex- perts have told the United Press that they believe. there is more prospect of industrial- unrest—and perhaps real bolshevism—in England tnan in France. As for the United States, they say that there are less chances of bol- shevism there than anywhere else, They believe that America has prosperity ahead as soon as war con- ditions are repdjusted, and they say that there i8 comparatively little class distinction. Some of the experts admit that bolshevism - has been overpainted. One high American official declared: “I don’t belleve there has been any more violence in Russia under bol- shevism than there was before, You remember the thousands in the S8i- berian prisons under the Czar; and you recall how many were slaught- ered in that- regime. Well, there probably aren’t*anymore killed now. The trouble fg; that bolshevism fis simply a new .form of autocracy. It seeks to impose the reverse of the former system.” None of the Americans thinks that food is a cure all for bolshevism, but these experts do believe that food will help. They point out that it has worked well so far in Austria, that it had a tendency to keep down violence in Hungary, and that now advices® are coming in, proving that Russia is thinking more sanely under the spur of hunger. “If these people could have .food they would become more normal,” said one expert. “They would alize that bolshevism is an extreme which is impractical.” The experts do agree that a new industrial and economic era is upon the world, COUNTY MAY SECURE TRUCKS AND STEAM SHOVEL FOR ROAD USE Road Equipment May Be Pro- vided Beltrami by Payment of the Freight Charges. Beltrami county commlssioners will probably take advantage of the op- portunity to secure free use of some of the $2,000,000 worth of road ma- chinery which has been given Min- nesota by the war department, as was announced in The Pioneer several days ago, C. M. Babcock, state high- way commissioner announces that the equipment is to be divided among the counties of the state, Tho state’s allotment of this ma- chinery, no longer needed by the gov- ernment, includes 567 motortrucks suitable for hauling road materizl, al- 80 a number of steamshovels and other machinery. County boards are being notifled that by paying loading charges and freight on the machinery, each coun- ty may have its share for use on road work though the title to the machin- jery must remain in the state under terms of the gift, which was formally accepted by the State Public Safety commission. The charges will aver- age about $100 for each motor truck, Mr, Babcock estimates, “If we only had our road amend- ment now,” he sald, ‘‘the state could go ahead on a big scale with its hard ronds program without delay. As things stand, the only way we can handle the equipment is with the aid of counties. We offer to give counties the use of the machinery on payment of loading charges and freight and on condition that the machinery be kept in repair, Some of the machinery has not been used at all, and all is belieyved to be in first class condition. None of it was used in France, The trucks range from three to ten tons capaeity ang are worth $3,600 to $4,- 500 each, It is a big thing for the state roads, and ought to be a good boost for the road amendment.” CARE TAKEN TO AVOID FOREST FIRE DAMAGE Settlers and the lumber companies are co-operating with the state for- estry department in every way pos- gible to keep the forest fire danger at a minimum this year, according to Mark Buckman, division forest su- pervisor, of this city. Supervisor Buckman says that all slashings are being cared for in prop- er manner and that efforts are being made whereby dangers of serious fires this year may be entirely avoid- ed. | Several small fires have been re- lported to Buckman and to L. F. Johnson, the Bemidji forest ranger, but no damage of consequence has resulted, . | St Paul, May 16.—Printed vol- {umes of the Minnesota 1919 session | laws will be ready next week, Secre- tary of State Julius Schmahl has an- nounced. Newspaper supplements of the laws have already been given wide distribution. 4 SRICAL ETY NESOT2