Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 19, 1919, Page 7

vy YANK Y IN MAGEDONIA Made Destitute by Bul- garians. LIKE REAL AMERICAN CITY Headquarters of American Oil and To- bacco Interests Opens After Bul- garian Occupation—See Awful | Picture of Misery. Kavalla, Macedonia.—Few Ameri- eans, except those in the tobacco in- dustry, have ever heard of this little port on the Aegean sea. Yet it has many features and activities to com- mend it to the interest ofthe people of the United States. Here the finest tohacco in the world —the bulk of which is consumed in Amerita—is grown. Here the great American tobacco companies have ex- port headquarters. Here the higgest oil company of the United States and America’s greatest relief organization, the American Red Cross, have distrib- uting centers, Indeed, Kavalla has come to have some of the aspects of a real Amerl- can city. There are so many Ameri- - cans here that one feels himself only a few hundred miles from home, In- stead of in the heart of a remote re- gion whose beginnings antedate the birth of Christ. 4 Bulgaria Wants Harbor. For years Bulgaria has looked upon Kavalla with a covetous eye. Al- though defeated and subdued, she looked hopefully to the peace con- gress at Paris to give her Kavalla as a port. Yet Kavalla is not a harhor. It is merely a roadstead affording good ancherage for coastwire steamers. Millions of dollars and endless de- velopment would be required to con- vert the city into a first-class port. But Bulgaria, which now has only the shallow port of Dedeagatch at the mouth of the Gulf of Enos, was and is anxious to get an outlet through Macedonia and the sea for her large output of tobacco, wheat, live stock, gilk and attar of roses, and would be quite ready to spend any sum in de- veloping and deepening the harbor. Kavalla is situated on a rocky pe- ninsula and is dominated by the ruins of an old Venetian fort. It is protect- ed from the south by the Greek island of Thasos. Back from the seacoast is a mountainous district known in Mace- donia as the Pangaion. i Coursing through the valley, on Pangaion’s eastern slope, is the placid Anghista river, which some historical writers helleve. to be the stream where Paul baptized Lydia. On all sides of the mountains in this region is rich arable land peculiarly gdnmed to th\e growth of tobacco. The best leaf in the world is grown here, and so valu- able are the fields for tobacco culture that very little else is cultivated. “During the war the Bulgarians adopted in Kavalla the same ruthless practices they followed in all occu- pled territory. They pillaged and de- stroyed. They made every effort to make the land uninhabitable. They cut down the- trees and carried off fur- nitare and everything made of wood. Phey gacked the homes and drove the Greek inhabitants out. - AS a result of all this, when the Greek commission’ of the American Red Cross established reltef posts here, a few days after the armistice, thelir representatives found living conditions - almost unsupportable. First Red Cross Base. Kavalla was the first city in Mace- donia to become a base for Red Cross eperations. The natives speak with unbounded gratitude of the help given them by the Americans. They say the food furnished by the American Red Cross was the first substantial nourishment they had in four years. ' No section of the Balkans ever presented a more depressing picture of misery and squalor. When the Americans came in they found the inhabitants dying by the dozen from famine, exposure and typhus. They immediately established soup kitchens and dispensaries and gave out tens of thousands of American- made garments. ¢lhey sent in doc- tors, nurses and medical supplies. They distributed hundreds of thou- sands of loaves of bread made of American flour. They established shelters for the homeless women and children. They cared for the hordes of broken and dispirited Greek arl Serbian soldiers who had been re- leased from vile prison camps in Bul- garia. In their devotion to the task of rescuing the typhus-stricken popula- tion two of their number lost their lives and three nurses contracted the dread disease. Remarkable Restraint. . Dallas, Tex—S. G. Scott, civil war veteran, disputes the world’s cham- plonship claim of a Pennsylvanian A sailor on one of the battleships now stationed in the Hudson river, POOR COWS CAUSE OF LOSS Wisconsin County Farmers Co-oper- ating in Better-Bull Campaign —Discard Scrubs. (Prepared by the United States Depart: i ment of Agriculture.) ! “Don’t pay two taxes” is the timely slogan of the Door county (Wis.) live stock committee. Few farmers realize that they are paying in addition to their regular tax a “poor-cow tux.” This “poor-cow tax” is about the heaviest, robs the pocket- book, and profits no one. “You have just paid your annual property tax. This is necessary to pro- ~ide for our schools, roads, and other government expenses from which you benefit ; but why pay two tuxes?” is the appeal which, in the shape of a little card; T8 being p.2ced in the hands of Door county owrers of scrub sires. And the “prospeet” who wants to be shown is pointed to results which were worked out in a farm management sur- vey, where it was found that on 124 farms with pure-bred sires the average net profits were $1,102; on 466 farms with grade sires the profits averaged New York, initiating a very interested | ‘little pupil into the mysteries of a! ship's hugle calls. In this cool, cozy | spot on the deck of one of Uncle| Sam’s great fighting craft. this Hnlof chap plays at “sailor” to his hvnrt‘s} delight, and asks a million childish ! questions, all of which are prnmml_v' and willingly answered by his pal, the | “gob.” | MINE IS CLOSED BY SMELL! | Shut Down Because Odors From Hog { Farm Penetrated Into Work- { ings. 1 St. Louis, Mo.—Eighty-five miners | and five topmen were thrown out of | work when Mine Examiner George Granger of the New National Coal com- | pany ordered the mine closed because of the odor from the Grevelly Valley | hog farm near Believille, whichi is sucked down Into the mine by the | fan in the ventilating shaft. ! A committee composed of Granger, Charles Gibbons and John Iubert was named to consult an attorney with a view to Instituting suit = nst Guy W. Caron, the head of the company op- erating the hog farm, for damages for { time lost by the men. State Mine In- spv('lnr‘ Thomas Wright has posted a notice at the- mine, which is three blocks from the hog farm, that the men are not allowed to go down if the odor from the farm penetrates the mine. R Steps to restrain the company from operating the farm are to be taken by the city of Belle‘\‘ille in injunction pro- ceedings which™ will be filed shortly. There are from 4,000 to 5,000 hogs at the farm, a half mile south of Belle- ville, where St. Loufs garbage is fed. REVIVE RITES OF DRUIDS Many Welshmen Take Part in Ancient Ceremonies in Pittsburgh Park. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Ancient Druidic rites were revived at the annual con- clave of the American Gorsedd here. The ceremonies took place in Schenley park. More than 2,000 Welshmen from all parts of the country and a number from foreign countries were preseut. Rev. Willlam Surdival of Middle- point, O., the American Archdruid. con- ducted the ceremonics. In the midst of a circle composed of unhewn pil- ars the archdruid stood on the Logan stone. In front of the unhewn pillars an officer was stationed. All the offi- cers appeared in the old Druidic robes and the accompaniment to all musical selections was by harpist. The prin- cipal feature of the ceremonies was the unsheathing of the sword, an an- cient custom which has been traced hack to 1,700" years before the Chris- tian era. Among the more prominent guests of honor were Hon. James T. Thom- as, member of English parliament and leader of the labor party in Great Rritain, and Sir Joseph Davies, also a member of parliament and former sec- i retary to Lloyd George. Girl, 8 Months, Can Talk So Quail Answer Her Philsdelphia.—The latest “in- fant phenomenon”™ hails from Philadelphia. Her nime is Edith Gruenberg. At the age of eight months Edith, from the confines of her cradle, mimicked the eall of the quail with such convietion that the bird would answer hack. At the age of two she could dis- tinguish’ all colors of the spec trum. One month later she wa< discovered in the act of hum- { By Breeding to Superior Sires Milk Production Can Be Greatly Increased in Single Generation and Greater Economy Effected. $734, and on 83 farms with serub sires there was an annual loss averaging $234. The scrub sires on these farms were responsible for at least part of the good or bad showing. A poor bull is an extravagance which Door county farmers eannot afiord. “Watch us grow a reputation” is the enthusiastic part- ing challenge of the committee which s hoosting better bulls in this penin- sular county. tion of the county—Grange, the Soci- ety of Equity, the Association of Guernsey Men, the Holsteln Cattle cluh—is co-operating in the better-bull campaixn. What in reality amounts to a farm buresu—n committee made up of a representative from each township and with the county agent as.managing di- rector—is directly responsible for the county’s drive to replace the grade and scrub bulls with good pure breds. “To keep its lead in dairying and Mre stock relsing ‘Wiscopsio must dis- Full line of Canned Goods and Green Vegetables always on hand at who ate 42 eggs at one sitting. Scott says during the war he ate 47 and stopped while still hungry “because he didn’t want to make a hog of him- self.” Cupid Is Married. Belleville, Til.—Well, that’s done. Cupld’s married. David E. Odell of Portsmouth, O., and Miss Cupid Car- mon of Chicago were married here. ming Schubert's “Serenade.” and at three and one-half years she could recognize 100 pojiular airs. Three months later Edith's fi vorite composers were Te - kowsky. Wagner, Leon Handel, Reubenstein, Li livan, Puccini and Beeth Edith could probounce all these names without a slip. DAamoe -t Henry Miller’s == $TORE=— 814 Beltrami Ave. Phone 295 Practically every farmers’ organiza- . Card Tts scrub sffes,” sald the éxecutive committee of county agents and repre- sentatives of all of the state’s cattly| breeders’ associations. ! “Count on Door county to help,” said this live live-stock committee. Door peninsula is still on our map, and we are going to stay there. In one of our townships, which happens to be an island six miles out in Lake Michi- gan, each man contracted more than a year ago to use only purebred bulls and every one agreed to stay by but one breed.” And by means of this same kind of teamwork the other townships of the county are promising to follow suit. “The entire county is going to wage war on the scrub—only upon a much more extensive scale” The county agent spoke as If he represented men who meant business. “The commniittee s out to give their county a reputation for the production of as high-class cattle as it already has | tor Montmorency and Esgly Richmond cherries.” * First Chief Justice. John Jay was the first to hold the oftice of chief Justice of the United Stutes and received his appointment in 1780, MHe was born in New York, December 12, 17405, John Rutledge was nominated by the president and was the second chief justice of the United Stutex. He was born in South Caro- Hina in 1739, ““Gee-Whiz! kiow it Hurtges »-+The Pain in My Foot!” “Sometimes it is in my arm. Merciful Heaven, how my back hurts in the morn- & ing!’* It’s all due to an over- abundance of that poison called urie acid.. The kid- neys are not able to get rid of it. Such conditions you can readily overcome, and prolong life by taking the ad- vice of Dr. Tierce, which is “keep the kidneys in good order.” “Avoid too much meat, alcohol or tea. Drink plenty of pure water, preferably hot water, before meals, and drive the uric acid out of the tystem by taking Anuric.”” This can be obtained at almost any drug store. : Send a bottle of water to the chemist at Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y.,.and you will receive froe medical advice-as to whether the kidneys are affected- - When your kidneys get slug- gish and clog, you suffer from backache, pick-headache, dizry spells, or twinges sand pains of lumbago, rheumatism or gout; or sleep is disturbed two or three times a night, take heed, before too late. Get Anuric (anti-uric-acid), for it will put new life into your kidneys and your entire system. Ask your nearest drug- gist for 1t or send Lr. Pierce ten cents “Al though somewhat off to one side, the Taking a Plebiscite. Plebiscite is a politieal term bor- owed from the French, meaning a ote of all the electors in a tountry then on some specific question. It s from the Latin plebiscitum, a de- “ree of the plebs, or law made by the omnon peonle, and is somewhat sim- inr 1o the referendum, A notable ex- aiple of the use of the plebiscite in treneh history was in 1852, when the nemorahle coup d'etat of 1851 was confirmed and the title of emperor yas given to Napoleon TIL HUFFMAN & O'LEARY FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKIN H. N. M’KEE, Funeral Director PHONE 178-W or R — EAT — Third Street Cafe Our Waiters Do the Waiting PAGE SEVEN Chilorine. One of the most fmportant commer- clal usey of chlorine is in the bleach~ ing of paper and various cloth. fab- rics. Well now if there ain’t a hole in this shoe. Well, I'll take them to the BEMIDJI SHOE REPAIR | SHOP Across the street from Dal- ton’s restaurant. ] PATTERSON Will fix them. 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