Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 25, 1919, Page 3

{ THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919 THE BEMIDJI'DAILY PIONEER OCCUPATION OF| Army Wins Confidence and Co- operation of People They Went to Conquer SHOPKEEPERS RESPECT AMERICAN PATRONS 'Offending Yanks Are Punished for Drinking and Getting Too Rough "~ |'SAFETY WEEK’ BEING | CELEBRATED IN GHIO STRIKE RIDDEN (ITY, Safety prinéers Gather to Confer Upon Plans for Industries. (By United Press.) Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 26.—Three thousand safety engineers and safety experts from all parts of the coun- try were here today in a conference on how to make life and limb safe in industry. . They represent the iNational Oftice phone 18 Groceriss, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour Bemidjt, Minn. A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. SPECIALIST Eye—Ear—Nose—Throat Glasses Fitted DRS. GILMORE & McCANN DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Mism, DR. E. H. MARCUM Oftice hours, 11 am. to 32 m. 2p. m tobp m - Schroeder Block Res. phone 311 % DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Physicians and Surgeens™ Oftice Miles Block DR. H. A. NORTHROP OBTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAW AND SURG! LUNDE and DANNENBERG Physician and Surgeon Chiropractors IBON DR. EINER JOHNSON Phone 8‘,"“ s "“"’n,’:‘?{“. 297 Hours 10 to 12 a.m.; 2 to 5, 7.to 8 p.m. Ibertson Block Oftice phone 183 Physician and Surgeon Phone 401-W Calls made 1st Natiénal Bank Bldg. Bemidjt Furs made to order, repaired and remodeled at BROCKMAN FUR FACTORY At Troppman’s Department Store Bemidji, Minn. C. R. SANBORN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Oftice: Miles Bloek House Phone 449——Office phone 5% GENERAL MERCHANDISE NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY Dwight D. Miller WE CAN Insure Anything Anywhere Offices. Security Bank Bldg., Tel. 167 Feed, EBto. W. G. SCHROEDER Phone 65 Safety Council at the eighth annual congress of that organization. 1n conjunction with the congress, Cleveland is celebrating “Safety Week;” in an endeavor to demon- strate that carelessness is respon- siple for 75 per cent of all acciden- tul deaths and injuries. . The safety congress has mobilized a vast and varied assortment of ad- vertising matter bearing on the sub- ject of safety. Cleveland is literally a huge billboard, upon which is pasted posters of every size and color, bearing printed and pictured mottoes, slogans and adjurations By Edwin W. Hullinger. (United Press Correspondent.) With the American Army of Oc- ‘cupation, Coblenz. (By Mail.)— The American army of occupation in Germany is probably the most suc- cessful army of occupation history has produced. It has done a thing none of its predecessors ever was able to do, in fact hitherto considered impossible for a conquering army to do. In a few months, without any fra- ternizing, propaganda, or ‘“‘play” for good will on its part, the American army has won the confidence and ac- tive co-operation of the people it came to subdue. © Npneldoy Feaceful. Today the American doughboy lives as peacefuliy and sociably in the land of his former foe as he could hope to, camped for training, say in any solid German-American community in his native country. He walks down the streets of his “‘occupied” city or village without thought of harm. He enters a shop or ice-cream parlor and is served with courtesy and good will. He is respected generally and, what is more, not disliked. Yet he is a conqueror, ledged upon a beaten enemy, whose land he is holding in mortgage for a ransom. The principal why of this odd state of affairs is that when the American dealing with saving life and limb on the streets, factories, homes, rail- roads and even the waters. On Sunday these ministers of safety will preach the gospel of “Stop, Look and Listen” from the pulpits of all the churches. The menus in all the restaurants bear the shibboleth of “Safety First.” The street cars are plastered and hung with similar signs. “Safety ¥irst” stares at the pedestrian from every point where it can be hung, nailed, pasted and propped. The congress will be in session one week. Two days will be devoted to women in industry. Ida Tarbell, Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director of women in industry service of the United States department of labor, and other women and men well known in safety work will talk at the scheduled 35 sessions. l SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY PIONEER their own government. All the parks are wide open. Pleasure prom- enaders are no longer restricted to the gravel paths. ‘Verboten” signs are down, and they can cut across the grass to a resting place nnder a tree. In the railway stations and Oakland : “Sensible Six” i ; ; s 5 - ] F—r #| whole campaign, 5-passenger tour- ! ing car. Purchased from and on display at forces took over their share of Ger- public places they are no longer many, they did so on a plan never | bullied about by Prussian officers. before employed by a victorious|The American officers are always army. Had Right Idea. Neither officers nor men had a very clear idea what was expected of an ‘“occupfer.” but they did know what it ‘meant to “‘do duty” in the mining districts, or frontier re- gions—parts of their own land that needed “occupying”’—and they did have a pretty good idea how to handle that kind of a job. The result was a complete absence of that spirit of arrogance and abus- ive superiority which usually char- acterizes the conqueror toward the conquered. The Americans were strict. Every German traveling outside his legal residence had to have full creden- tials and a pass—just as in a mili- tarily-occupied zone in the states. These passes were not extremely difficult to obtain, however. Abso- lute respect was demanded for the flag. The lid was tight on beer halls and gambling places. Everybody had to mind his own business rather severely. But if he did that, he was free to live his life unmolested, free from insult, injury or humiliation. He was not continually made to feel his defeat. He was not called a Schweinhund. His goods were not taken without full compensation. His women were not defamed. Offenders Punished. In isolated instances where Ger- mans were . handled roughly by drunken soldiers—drunk with wine sold them at good profit by the Ger- mans themselves, the offenders were punished as sternly as they would be | . in the United States for similar breaches. _ Thus after five years themselves in Belgium, the Germans, by reverse of fate, learned from a humane foe that their methods of occupation were not even defensible on grounds of exped- iency. The American control functioned admirably. Before long, the Ger- mans’ natural first suspicions of the “‘invaders” disappeared. Partly, of course, from native habits of disci- pline, with accompanying realization of the price of disobedience, the German inhabitants adapted them- selves quietly to the new order of things. To illustrate how conscientiously the Germans now carry out their new masters’ regulations—and vol- untarily: Drink Regulated. One of the army’s orders is that all drinking must stop by 10 p. m. (Drinking is only allowed a couple hours at noon and at night.) The German restaurani keepers carry out this regulation as relig- iously as they ever followed any dic- tate of Prussianism. Waiters pass from table to table at five minutes before ten, urging guests, “Trinken Sie's aus, bitte.” Whether there was a soldier in sight or not made no difference. At 10 sharp every glass was collected, and drinking ceased. This would not be so if the Ameri- cans did not have the moral support of their wards. I never saw any in- clination to dodge. | gia, twinges of pain here and there.” reserved, but courteous. The Third Division military band gives concerts every afternoon in the little terrace on the Rhine bank in front of headquarters. A large crowd of ‘“Coblenzers” always at- tend. PIANO INSTRUCTION Mrs. G. Oliver Riggs Many years a successful con- cert pianist and teacher THOROUGHLY UP-TO- DATE IN ALL METHODS Students should apply at once Class will be organ- 1zed on and after Sept. 1st. STUDIO: 1213 Lake Boulevard Vemon of Snakes Professor H. Strauss, M. D., of the Royal Charity Hospital, says, ‘“The cause for an attack of gout, rheumatism, lumbago, is supplied by the increase of uric acid in the blood serum, the result of various causes, the most frequent of which is renal. Before an attack, one suffers sometimes from headache, neural- When your kidneys feel like lumps of lead, when the back hurts or the urine i cloudy, full of sediment, or you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night; when you suffer with sick headache, or dizzy, nervous.spells, acld stomach; or you have rheumatic pains or luml:'z;gg::l gout, sciatica when the weather is , do not neglect the warning, but try simple means. Take six or eight glasses of water during the day, then obtain at your nearest drug store ‘An-uric’ (anti-uric acid). This is the discovery of Dr. Pierce of the Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. “An- uric’ is an antidote for this uric acid isoning and dissolves uric acid in the ly much as hot coffee dissolves sugar. “Anuric” will penetrate into the joints and muscles, and dissolve the poisonous accumulations. It vil In some ways, the Germans have more liberties than they had under| ttve Pace | Send 10 o WHAT IS YOUR SPARE TIME WORTH? 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