Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 13, 1919, Page 2

N | surroundings of desolation and sad- | ness. The problem in France is not guly the low birth rate, bit the dreadful infant mortality. The American com- wittee is doing prenatal work as well as child hygiene, but to carry this on with the thoroughness and extent that should bring the best results a large sum of money must be raised. The child work is divided into the two phases of mental and physical aid. Trying to Equip Schools. To equip a schoolhouse with suffi- clent books for the winter’s work $50 1s sufficient. To completely equlp the schoolhouse with benches and desks, wmaps, blackboards, stationery, etc., $500 is needed. Besides the schools carried on un- der government supervision there are now established in some villages kin- dergarten work, domestic science work and manual training. Any donations warked for education will be turned nto this fund to bring back to normal wentality the children who have run wild and neglected since before the war. Compulsory education in France ceases when the pupil is fourteen. Boys and girls of fourteen have no more schooling than they had five years ago. Children of ten have not yet learned to read and write. Ba- bies of five years old think war is the natural state of affairs. All the chil- rest in twenty years, the most hopetul | dren are undernourished. Not one in outlook for French education is one- | the district knows the taste of fresh quarter of the prewar force and equip- | milk. » " ment within the next, two decades. The children here were, before the In the meantime, says the Brooklyn | War, the flnest physical type France Eagle, children who ceased to attend | broduced. The climate is bracing and school in 1914 are five years in arrears, | there was an abundance of butter, and for a generation will continue to | milk and eggs. The poorest family study on a 25 per cent efficiency basls, [owned a goat, chickens and rabbits; The instructor often returns to a |the Wwealthier families had many cows. ruined village long before there is any | All of this live stock the Germans scbool for him to teach. His own home | took, and the children and nursing 18 & heap of rulns and he has to com- | Wothers were deprived of protein, mence to dig among the debris to find | Without which there is no growth. o he. oeup. of stanes a snetter for | LORD MAYOR'S DRIVER DEAD .of the heap of stones a shelter for ‘himself. The government is supplying .as fast as possible wooden barracks, | Was Known for Many Years as Lon. one end of which is sometimes par- don's Most Picturesque titioned for the teacher to live in, the Character. other end for the scholars to congre- —_— gate. London.—A. Wright, who as the lord mayor’s coachman was known to all London and who for years flourished as one of the most picturesque charac- ters, is dead. For twenty-seven years Wright played his part until the people came to regard him a® an institution as im- portant as the lord mayor. himself. His greatest moment was when in 1906, Sir W. Vaughan Morgan, as lord may- or, visited the French capital and ‘Wright, the state coach and six horses were taken over. Paris was delight- ed by him and all his glory. The coachman in hie full regalia, with his wonderful wig, his stockings, three- cornered hat and gold braid, quite eclipsed the more ordinary pemnlge ot the lord mayor. Wright was proud’ of his oflce and nothing could tempt him to forsake it. 'The offer of royal service under the late . King Edward even failed to entice him from his impressive box. SERBIA IS FREE OF SMALLPOX Typhus Also Stamped Out by Relief Workers, Including Amer- icans. Belgrade.—For the first time in five years Serbia is todsy free of smallpox. Only three cases are reported in the whole kingdom. 3 The announcement is made by: the medical staft of the American; Bed Cross ‘headquarters in ‘Beigrade which 2 Week'ago.made the c:henr m mfi The children at home, sheltered ip ‘ifying snmouncement that il ‘the cellar of a destroyed house ¥ ‘T“m free of typhus; after a m . many people live together, 8 ¢: gle e m of rellet workers of -tain ‘sometimes the only wall supara effol rkers ing family beds, are under as unhealthy conditions and as exposed as on the.| pis :::o;?h;‘:;m;:: m';::; s:il.lgot‘:l: freely, ascribes the eridication ‘of the ney to school on a winter's day. would | twin plagues. ° Chief among these .be worth- while, but as it is,-the only workers were those of the American {hducement held out to: the youth of Red Cross, 7"'“’:“ ""d'l’ "!”';‘u“‘ the isolated villages is the afternoon |* chain of -eight hospitals inSerbia. ‘“gouter” or four o'clock lunch pro- N LTy Lo e vided by the Hoover commission and distributed by the American commit- Twine Trail Leads to tee. er\ Patriotic Though Suffering. HOOOV 101 cas“ Box The instructors are government. pald, ‘their ‘snlaries varying from 150 to 300 francs a month. The French govern- ‘ment owns the school bulldings and equips the schools, the taxes i the past levied on the communes making possible this support. When communes | ¢ are wiped out and buildings are non- existent, taxee cannot be levied, and until ‘a2 readjustment of government| { finances is accomplished there is little | ¢ prospect of adequate school facilities z /BABY VICTIMS 1 OF HUN HURHBRS IN WAR ZONE " {Thousands of Little Unfortunates Still Show Many Traces of Savage Barbarity EDUCATION IS IN ARREARS For a Generation Children Will Con. tinue to Study on a 25 per Cent Efficiency Basie—Trying to Equip Schools. New York.—Education in northern ‘France ceased in the autumn of 1914. dt cannot recommence until Germany ‘ pays the war damages to France, and France subdivides the indemnity into the proportions demanded by each de- -"partment canton and commune for the erection and equipment of schools. As Germany is only expected to pay 25,000,000 francs immediately and the Living In Dugouts. ‘When the government cannot supply the barracks, people of the town have salvaged the corrugated iron dugouts left by the Germans. called Neissen huts. These dugouts are like ‘a ‘barrel cut lengthwise and bombproof; also these iron shelters are sweltering hot in summer and bitter cold in winter. They were meant to be placed under- ground, not used as surface buildings, but any shelter in the devastated re- glon is ‘acceptable, and this salvage can replace the school buildings. Inside these improvised schoolhouses thete is nothing. An enterprising schoolmaster will find planks in the nearby trenches, and if he can find ~nails he will knock together a bench for his puplls to 'sit upon. ~ If he can obtain chalk, he has his class in arith- “metic figure on the rough walls in liéu of a blackboard. If he has sufficlent memory he teaches his pupils what he remembers of history and geography. A survey made in July, 1919, showed that in 65 of the villages under the gupervision of the American commit- ‘tee, 22 improvised schools had been opened, and four were expected to open in October. From the 39 villages still without Instructors or school shel- ‘ter, the children must walk from three to tem ‘miles to the mnearest school. “This walk in winter, in the fog and ‘'rain’ and mud. ill-clad and undernour- ilghed; is'a strain upon the frail ‘con- Stitutions that may result in che’losa Conneaut, O.—A ball of store twine led to the finding of a cash ‘register- containing $20 which hurglars stole from a local meat market. When the proprie- tor was called to the door from his bed’ upstairg by a knock he was struck by a brick hurled through a window. He was only slghtly injured and ran out the door to search for an officer. When he and the policeman returned the cash reg- ister was gone. The burglars abandoned it in a gulley several rods away after trying in vain to open it. The twine was carried all the way, unraveling from the store, and led to finding the cash box, ettt in the war-wrecked area. Motoring one afternoon through the beautiful Aisne valley, where scarlet popples covered the pock-maked flelds and the great war seemed ae far away as the Roman wars, workers of the American committee on devastated France heard the faint strains of a poor violin and the high-pitched voices of children singing the “Marsellles.” PSPPSRI S S A '|-It ‘became: British - in: 1814 but -during THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ONE OF WAR'S MASTER MINDS SALTS FINE FOR " Britain Owes Deep Debt of Gratitude to Patrick Quinan, of Whom Little I1s Known, One of the most vital and at the same time mysterious figures in the ;war on the British side was Patrick Quinan, an American of Irish descent. Vital because he planned all the great munition works which enabled Great Britaln to supply not only her own but her allles’ needs in munitions; |mysterious because his name was never allowed to be mentioned during the war and because he would never be interviewed. Mr. Quinan reached England by way of South Africa. Trained at du Pont’s, he went to the South African Explo- sives company at Cape Town, then the largest in the British empire, owing to the demand for explosives for mining purposes. The vast factories laid out in England during the war—now some- what of a white elephant, as their conversion to peace purposes is still unsettled—were all designed by Mr. Quinan. Quinan is just over 40 years of age, and since the close of the war has dis- appeared. His name was never in any; “honor list”—which is rather a dis- tinction these times. He was never given any public recognition by any| member of the government or the army. Still no one man did as much to help win the war as this retirlngi Mr. Quinan. WAR TAUGHT HIM SOMETHING Returned Doughboy Convinced, Among Other Things, That There Is Little Gained In Kicking. “There- are thousands of returned soldiers to whom the war was a spir- itual university,” says Maude Rad- ford Warren. in Everybody’s. *“They have won an understanding and a tolerance beyond their years. The best example I know Is my friend Sidney, aged twenty-two, and endowed through the hard means of shot and shell with a maturity beyond his years. “*At home," Sid sald, ‘T used to kick if things didn’t go right. Well, sitting around in the mud over here I have begun to think a lot about some of the older people I know. They take things just as they come, I notice; don't kick much, Life seems to teach them that. Well, the war strikes me as just a lot of concentrated life. It's been that to me, anyhow. If ever I kick, it's sort of from force of habit. I honestly don't want to very much. I let the bad luck go with a grin, and it not, with set teeth, and T try not to count it at ‘all. The good luck T count as clear velvet. It may not be a logical way of looking at life, but it's a practical way. Sitting the mud and getting old myself, I fig- ure that is about the way the nice || middle-aged people I know at home look at things. Being a good spm ls about as good a thing as anyone can contribute to the world.’” Mauritius. Mauritius, the -home of the dodo, I8 in the political limelight, or so it would appear from the announcement that the Bordeaux chamber of com- merce has requested the Frenc¢h gov- ernment to enter into parleyings with Britain with a view to restoring for- mer French supremacy. Since the dodo is extinct, it will be more accu- rate to speak of Maurittus as once the home of that now almost fabulous créature. | Mauritius was once known as Cerne, a name which it is said to have derlve from clenas—the dodo, lly; “the Freneh for.100.years and then British. the French Revolution it had served as a refuge for many emigres to whom the Emerald_isle of the was- Known' as the ‘scene-of Bernadin de St. Plerre’s “Paul et Virginie”. In size It ‘equals ahout the eighteenth part of the drea of England and Wales. Was Varlety. the Spice of Her Life? It is commonly thought that a very long series of names Is reserved -for' kings and--the ‘sons and daughters of kings. George’s eldest son is affiicted, or the former crown' prince, for that matter. But probably the longest name in the world is ‘attached to a mere laundry- man's daughter. She was born in 1883, and her parents, surely from a sense of the ludicrous, ‘gave her a name for every letter in the alphabet, to-wit? Anna Bertha Cecella Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia ‘Inez Jane Katherine Louisa Maud Nora Ophelia Patience Quince Rebecca Sarah Ter- esa Ulysses Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus Pepper. What will Miss Pepper do when it comes to finding new names for her own future fam- fly*—Boston Post. Machine Does Work Quickly. A piece of drudgery that has been ness and all orders. fine. neys complications. A well-known local druggist says he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trou- | ble while it is only trouble. re in | dian ocean | ‘We have frequently -exclaimed’ over the seven names with- which King:} ACHING KIDNEYS We Eat Too Much Meat Which Clogs Kidneys, Then the Back Hurts Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, get You simply must keep your kid- neys active and clean, and the mo- ment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act clean, thus & ““A Shine = A In Every-‘ INFLUENZA starts with a Cold Kill the Cold. At the first sneeze take sluggish and clogged and need a flushing accas- ionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, se- vere headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleepless- sorts of bladder dis- DID YOU EVER This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimu- late them to normal activity. neutralizes the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive; makes a delightful effervescent Jithia- water drink when everybody should take now and then to keep their kid- avoiding serious Keep it handy to promote’ prompt It also WHEN you know what Stoan’l over know, you, too, will Yhou will use fxt for t rheumatiz,” for _relieving that lame back, muscle stiffness aznd soren aches, all sorts of external pains, ufi exposure aftermaths, Only takes a little, applied withost rubbing. the congestion, bringing merciful reli to the throbbin; Three sizes — 35c., 70c., $1. druggist has it. know his name. Sloan's FOR YOUR LIVERY Day or night the year round. New, Dodge and Ford Cars at. your service RARD BROTHERS Already customers have or-’ dered of Rich Portrait Studio their ‘CHRISTMAS PORTRAITS ~—the popnhr economical, ac- ceptable /gifts. - Your photo i a behntiful il extra tfio!dmthumofith, at because it is apparent that if. is not due to_cosmetics, paint and powder. 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A new electric machine, with | gtore in liquid or tablet form, or blades making 1,500 revolutions ‘per o4 10¢ to Dr. Pierce Invali dB’ minute puts on the material, and the operator and an assistant feeding the hopper cover the space rapidly and ef- ! Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. ‘ment and leading the singing of thelt | cycle and began pedaling hard to get national anthem. home in time for supper. He had a The day’s Instruction was over and | fleeting glance of a dark object ahead the children were about to scatter, but, just a second before he struck it and every day before they parted thelr pa-: was thrown to the pavement. When he triotism broke forth in song. sat up, rubbing his head, a big grizzly . These are the children whose ter-| bear was looking down at him. Bert rible war experiences have left them' said they looked at each other and ‘nervous and frightened and who must then both went away from the place uve for _many years to come lml as fast as they could. ficlently. 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One dozen photographs make twelve ;= Christmas gifts. > P.ORTRAITS TAKEN—RAIN OR SHINE THE FLEMING SISTERS TRIO -will-appearin pei'son Next MONDAY evening, -Amy Ellerman and the Fleming Sisters. Trio make a joint appearance in Bemidji. It is the mostim- portant musical event of the season. Grand Theatre Next Monday Evening Novemer 17 The celebrated contralto and the talented instrumental trio will render those selections with which they have won their chief success as concert artistes.: Mr. Thomas A. Edison’s Three Million Dollar Phonograph will assist. FREE TICKETS Call, write or telephone us for free tickets, of admit- They will be issued in order of appllcatlon. Barker’s Drug & J ewelry Store THIRD STREET tance. 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