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SR A [] * NEWS OF THE i eyt ——— BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER o JUBISNED EVERY APTERNOON EXOEFT SUNDAY- ux‘ldar act’of Congress of March 3, No attention paid to annonymous contributions. WH&rfl npme be lknown to the editor, but not necessarily for publicatiom: H M. STA?'TON _G. E. CARSON EME‘nB:%E U store may be transformed By the com-j mmunications for ‘the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not htarceh‘n Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the currént issua of ifls experiences and it'is a ty of the frontier during its most e citing and desperate days. CLEVER STORE GIRL. mon.sense and intelligence of a girk finto'a prosperous ‘enterprise i$ tobld X in “Maggie. Pepper,”’ the new:Para- mount picture in‘ which. beautiful Ethel Clayton will be’ seen ‘at the Entered at the postoffice at’ 1‘?‘}3”' Minn,, as m?opd-clua matter Elko theatre today -aud: tomorow. - Fuarthermore, the picture depicts the I struggle of the clever Maggie against must heavy odds, enemies and adverse cir- cumstances, ‘The big," human note is uppermost: in‘ this play which, “was written by Charles: Klein: . Ethe) THEZ WEEKLY PIONEER ‘Ten OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS WHAT WILL GERMANY’S DECISION BE? Members of the peace confe! havi additional time in which to present their views on the the people are anxiously awaiting to see what wgll be ‘accom-(other members of the exceptional cast plished during the days of grace. A treaty that will satisfy the German cabinet in its present frame of mind will not satisfy any of the peoples whom Germany attacked; the conference as well turn over negoti ference has not done that; Brock pages, mmnu-wolmwnlflu_‘luk. Published every nmnyc::a sent postage to any address, for, in' Mv.lu. $1.50 rence having given Germany ations to Marshal Foch: But the con- o ?rt_’f—}lamzad ap& his delega- D;)n»z“rorgcgt m§ night before.Dec- tion are preparing new and .ponderous argumehts on-various oration Day for that's when the Be-! points of the treaty. . In this fact alone there is firm ground midji Box Co,, athletic association | Clayton in the title role js said .to be superb. She has . the peculiar quality of alertness and activity, as |’ well as the charm' and culture to make' the role one - that:will not soon be forgotten, :The production is far |’ above the average, which is easily be- lievable when it is remembered that this'is-a Paramount pictu A Montagu Loyé and June El are both starred .in’ the.mew™ World ———e picture, he Quickening Flame, which . is scheduled for.'showing on Friday at the Elko theatre, .« The pic- ture is surprising, unusual, inte treaty,|Mr. Love and: Miss Elvidge and the some of the best opportunities théy have ever had * might| ATHLETIC DANCE: ..., | gives its first big dance :at’ the for believing that despite their bombast the Germans will sign, |armory, Syncopators . orchestra., though they may hope to get some mo. on detail. ) America against the Allies. - The contrast betwee Lansing’s note of November 5 and the “pam‘g'rgph of ‘hate,” as the Germans call the treaty, is too plain to be missed.’'Gérmany demands “a peace of right, justice and recongiliation,’ as she talked of two years ago when her armiies were day giving the pects. us to get her ! justice! - This is their reasonin #It is net the German peop o by the note of Secretary Lansing. acceptance, thereby inducing Germany to lay down her ons. We.do not believe that President Wilson, Secretary Lan-| While T dun't consldér that housewerk sing, and the American people can take other than this German| requires lifelong training, vet-never standpoint.” Thab is, despite many disappointments, the Germans still| who kuew the difference between. a think they can get America to fight for them. They admit that 8 eir rights shall be real- it is none of their business to say how.th : ized by the fourteen points; but they have qlready said their refusal to consider the interpmtafiqn which has been by the peace conference, including the man w. German nation.”” The people who ravished. Belgium, wh " mitted the slaughter of the Armenians, who attacked Serbia| (.. g at no convieted crimf who broke their _{hat state had had kindergarten train: . promise to America, who deported the men of Belgium and the| ing. Besides thelr uncertain help ia girls of Lille, are strangely sensative to political dishonor a_nd moral degragation. To the Germans dishonor and degradation #4and France and the world without provocation;, “are not states of one’s soul, certainly not of the: German they are objective conditions which can be inposed only from| .without. With persons whose terminology is so different there 1is no possibility of argument, excent by the further advance|’ & e ‘of the armies which really *“induced the Germans tq lay itheir ayms.Y 2 ; k o . Buttit is hardly to be supposed that Brockdor! Rantzau is staying in Paris to await the decision of America change H (ises. He may be playng for time to strengthen the §rmies on “+he eastern frontier, but it is more possible that he oing the real business of negotiation which will end in a treaty of peace. The statement of the cabinet is merely a piece of.tactic play; meanwhile our armies are ready to advanée. AT THE REX TODAY. *“The Death Dance,” Mis: | Br: dy’s latest Select pictur | seen THEATERS [ PRI e e | i T the m = | chi racter dance, i» TENSE. ABSORBING PLAY. Tembittered becapse his wile Youse Peters fs up to his usual{ducting an affair with -Boresky, a trick of commanding sympathy in his{dancer in a ! baret, visits -t role of the governmor, who put dutytaurant to h Lehr, the pretty co-star, is also afand that he really loyes her. trongly sympathetic figure, with her| Having muade it p large and appealing eyes and Sweet |to study music. e pfa g womanliness, tabroad, so that his désertion Winifred Dunr, in writing “Thun- | usel by his wife as grounds for a di- derbolfs of Fate" from the original}vorce, play by Harry S. Sheldon, has-woven| Maitlind is killed the night before an absorbing situatton aromnd a|be snd Fiora are to =ail and he gives graft-fighting governer, a selush, - | the evidence papers to'Flora just be- | bitious woman and .a high idealed |fore he dies’ Then Flora accepts the zirl. Also figuring prominently in|position as Boresky's partner, while, the web of Fate is a man-about-town | Cynthia, tiring of her old paramour, of lax morals and an pdored hot-|sets her cap for Maitland’s'partner, headed brother, who is sentenced for | Philip Standish, Boresky falls in} murder, Love and duty clash. The|love with Flora, and® she, meeting}| choive, the result and the happy un-| Philip Standish, promises to marry| tangling of the plot, make “Thun-!him. Cynthia, jealous of Philip’s at-| derbolts of Fate” a tense drama of | tention to Flora, sceks her revenge by | Yove and politics, | goading Boresky to Kkill the TOM MOORE COMING- | ed stabbing, 3 Tom Moore in “One of the Finest,” Philip is at a tab¥ near newest of his Goldwyn pictures to be shown at the Grand theatre begin- ning Saturday, plays the role of a traffic policeman. Now no man holding that responsible position ever miserable man plunges the into his own breast. x went through a week without an ad-| TOM MIX WRITES PLAY. tary machine and feed ihe German { venture, and ns more tian a few| Tom Mix, the star of ‘the new Wil- people. dification out of argument|everybody-welcome. . .. 3d528 el why this ostentatious refusal by the cabinet? - Ap-| HOME-MAKING NOT SO EASY parently it is a move in the old game, the effort to stir up g Y n Secretary| Housewife Seems to Be Right When, lie to the words of her statesmen; and she ex- her what Germany will regard as a peace of|sq often read and hear (i mynitjon le’s business to indicate how its| ice. = The: theoristy S','!‘Jx',l'. to. imagine i \ izé the Fourteen Points, or especially| that such.a chauge eal be. accont: , right, sha-" be realizéd by h That, rather, i’t is flieptask of | Plished right ahout fmy——-n‘wrni;;hl. . those who constructed the fourteen points and brought’them to In the twinkling of an eye. Gogd. Lquse- ho proclaimed the| .Gining she may.iearn, but .the fssie fourteen points. They haye our answer already;, they do not| principles and habit are not pickdd up . like it; aneh they expect us to ‘adopt, theirs: I Such: men.have| so readilyi Mauny a-time. haye 1 suid | { learned nothing and have forgotten nothing. - ] The treaty, says the cabinet, means “the economic destruc- { tion, political dishonor, and moral degragation of the the Rex theatre today, The {story deals with Flora Farnsworth fa dancing girl (Alice- Brady), fo! !\vhich role Miss DBrady: devoted mueh ing of a difficult Arnold Maitland (H, B. Herbert), e it out' with him, and love in ‘“Thunderbolts of;becomes enamoured of Flora, who is an Edward Warren produc-'in the company. He, makes a wager tion, showing for the first time to-!that he can win her'ih two months, night at the Grand theztre, Anna|but later realizes that sife is different| i ible for -F\omg n§ to take ber !the dance which calls for a pretend- | her is Mount Parnassus. She is just She Condemns Ideas Formulated by the Theorists.” * such every “I am- always amused” sali the hqusewlfv. according to, the New York Evening Post, “at the pr ign we " and factory girls t-mrr,dc'lmf-s’l_ Ve work, of the sort that should he our weap- standard, is not so easy a8 all thay, have I taken a girl from. =a; fagtory cloth for washing dishes and one. for wiping floors. As a ryle a fa is jgnorant of the simples essentials (hat stand for heme; uyk: Cooking she may be 1aughtyand it, by made to. a maid: ‘Had youn gone to klljdel"- garien you would never have piled entire| YOUr dishes and =aucers like that. It o per- , was at a Kindergarten couference in v Californla, you way- recall, where. It the howes of others think how want- ing In their own hgnnas——»whpn they get them—these young factory girls,_wm he—upless. they, pick up considerably more knowledge [about domestic WAYS And means,” s g soul; down| GOAT GIRL OF GREECE al by- Alice will be is con- he res- may be Red Cross official photograph show- girl in{ ing & little goat girl of Greece ; behind { one of the two hundred million people by and|jn central Furope and the Baikans reading the intent ini/Boresky’s face,| . 2 N 2 " Ger- | saves Klora from degth; while the who were hit hardest by the war. - inany absorbed the life biood of cen- tral Europe, the raw materials and food, in order to keep up the Hun mik- dagger { Disense developed among all weeks! of Larry Hayes' life are de-|liam Fox play, “Western Blood,” at these war-stricken’ people; the allied picted on the screen it goes without|the Rex tomorrow, regards himself | blockade on Austria and Turkey and¥ saying that his adventures are many.|as the most fortunate of people on Buigaria stopped the imports of suclh Chief of them all, and the one that|the screen. After two pronounced| pecessitles as cotton. Todny,mnneei sets the unique plot unfolding, con-|successes he has had-the opportunity ! yces are looking Qoémoflcn for goods. ) cerns a rebuke administered by Of-{to appear in his own play that has Th}:y want to buy, and will buy, after ficer Hayes to a society girl motor- been in his mind for a long ing through the park with a silk- contains many of the incidents that hatted escort. {he believes to be the most excitingjishes the Wockade, { —— et the peace treaty automatically abol picture of .the wild life of sthe mo#t:f: y 47 How an out-of ’ date department ly interesting and it offers to” both | il | \ q vBABY WITHOUT BIRTHDAY First Saw the Light on Ship That Was 7 Coming ‘Across’ Pacific. ! A bsby without a birthday! | Thpos- ¢ i Blble as it sounds, It Is A perpléxing Z , ; : { faet In 1he life of Peter Heybroeck, v » ! p { now & month and a.half old. Peter was horn in the China Mall Muner Nanking.ou her. December 'rip. The ship wuas crossing the one ~hun- dred apd eightleth meridion. The dny before had been December 24 Pe- ter, In the natural course of events, ‘| would have been a Christmas baby, bus- there was no Decembsr.25 on the Nao- king:" December 24 -wit; followéd tm- " mediately ‘by December 26. “It's a well-known faet that a day 1is lost In crossing the Pacific ocean to the west. That lost day, apparently, was Peter's birthday.- i His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heybroeck of New York. Uncie S#m to Aid Home Builders. 'Tli¢ United §utes Housing corpora- tion pians for building homes in con- gested industrial centers during the war, will be made -available for. gen- eral public use. The department of tabor has announced that types “of homes would be given to éorarittees promoting building activities (n %@ cities. rGermany s safeguarding its intertor against. finther .bolghevik Vuurlsinxu. 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