Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 7

e | _——-4 Page SEE NEED OF GOOD ROADS “Doughboys” Who Served in France Impressed by the Excellence of That Country’s Highways. Signs multiply that the returning soldier is to be the strongest of all apostles of good roads. He knows that except for the network of high- ways leading to Verdun not even the heroic poilu could have kept the Ger- mans from passing. Day and night, as long as the peril lasted, an unend- ing line of motor trucks rolled into the threatened region and back again. On a scale only slightly less impressive, it was always so when there wasa “show on.” - In the mings of our soldiers, however, the. military need of stone roads seems less important than the commercial need, and always a deep sense seems present of the beauty of the smooth and shaded highway. The Amaroc News, official organ of our army on the Rhine, points out that of the 2,750,000 miles of highway in the United States, less than 275,000 miles, or one in ten, has any form of surfac- ing whatever. But it becomes lyric when it notes that in France ‘“each road, it matters not how small or how seldom used, has its quota of beauti- ful shade trees, whose limbs form an arch to protect the traveler from the sun.” The American legion will have posts throughout the land, and wher- ever there is a post there will be a band of men who know the value of easy communication and who know how to have their way.—New York Times. FOR MORE COMMUNITY MUSIC Boston Newspaper Makes Strong Point of Its Value in Creating a Sense of Unity. The growth of community\ music means many things, remarks the Bos- ton Herald. It means an endless source of pure pleasure to those who listen, and far more to those who par- ticlpate. It means a mighty stimulus to the love and understanding of good music. It means that at last we are beginning to weary of being enter- tained by others and mean to create and perform our own music, through our own efforts. Most important of all, it means that America is discover- ing dt last that she is a united nation and Is expressing her joyful sense of unity in song. Let us see that.the children have thelr share in this nationdl awakening, a voice in this national chorus. Let every village, town and city gather its young people and train them for a community chorus or orchestra. There could be no surer means of making them loyal to each other and to their country and of preparing.a musical future for the nation. The word war has taught us, for one -thing, how to come together as a com- munity for spiritual expression in song. We shall be the richer if we preserve and cultivate this practice. ’ Fér Home Bullders to Decide. The first question to enufront the home builders is: “In what section shall we locate?’ That 18 a question for the individual to decide, but the things he should look at carefully and answer before buying are: Is it a healthful location? Is the trans- portation service good? Has the town complete sewerage system? Is the water supply good? Can gas and elec- tric light be supplied at a reasonable rate? Are there city conveniences, such as mail delivery, fire and police protection, good schools, churches, clubs, and, last but not least, what is the possible future of the place? Is #t well protected by restrictions for residential purposes? Will two-family or apartment houses encroach or busi- ness come too near? It is the re- strictions on the surrounding-property that are of vital interest to the pur- chaser, not the restrictions on the plece being bought. You know what you are going to do and yon also want to know what others in the vicinity could do, should they be so disposed. Primér on Biilboards. A litle primer on the ¢ity and its billboard problem : “Haven't the property owners a right to do as théy please with their property?”’ The United States Supreme court said in a decision in 1908: “The state as quasi sovereign and representative of the interest of the public has a standing in court to protect the atmos- phere, the water and the fozests with- in its territory, irrespective of the assent or dissent of the private owners {mmediately concerned.” “But does this right apply. specific- ally to billboards?” Yes. In 1917 the Supreme court held: “A city, excercising the police ! power may prohibit the erection of billboards in residence districts in the interest of the safety, morality, health and decency of the community.”— Kansas City Star. Making a Stand. Cactus Joe announces that he will | not play penpy ante, believing as he does that the game ought to be big enbugh to keep people’s minds onm it 80 they won't quarrel. FIVE MILLIONS TO COMBAT “FLU” © NARKE & P some of the hundreds of lives that probably will be claimed by the flu next winter. ‘If the bill is passed, however, it will be but a small factor in the fight to control influenza and pneumonia epidemics. national department of health, with branches in every city and state in the Union, with almost’ unlimited funds to T BROUGHT STRIKERS TO TERMS African Explorer Put Hig Wits to Bear in Controversy With Obstrep- erous Paddlers. Although the plan is not capable of wide application, the tale of a strike in central Africa, told by an exi)lorlng member of the English Royal Anthro- pological institute, is pleasant reading for the promptness with which the matter was settled. The explorer was journeying by water and, coming to an African village where he peeded a new relay of paddlers, he found that all the available paddlérs had “struck,” not for higher wages but against any paddling whatever. The expedition was held up, and the men who refused to paddle stood apart and evidently consideged the plight of the explorer a matter of considerable unsympa- thetic amusement. The explorer, how- ever, thought he saw a way out. He asked some of the women of the vil- lage to come aboard his boat and sell tim food; and as soun as several of them were on board he unfastened the hawser, the boat swung out from the shore and began to travel with .the current. Ashore and afloat anxiety followed. Presently the men who had refused to paddle the explorer were paddling, their own little canoes in pursuit and yolubly demanding the return to their womenfolk. The larget eraft, and presumably the armament, of the traveler gave him an advantage He was able to Issue an uftimatum, No women, he said i effect, without paddlers, but one woman for every man of the tribe who would agree to help paddle the expedition through the next stage. The men accepted the bargain; and as there were some thirty women on the boat the expedi- tion got its necessary complement of paddiers and the strike was over. — Moth Killer, It has recently been discovered ih: if X-rays are passed through furs the; kill all the moth eggs and prevent fur: from .becoming moth-eaten, Istand Resembles Doughnut. Maiden island, in the southern Pa- cific ocean, is built like an\elongated doughnut. Naturally, it is surrounded by the waters of the Pacifie, but in the center of the island is a lake, the water in which rises and falls with the tide. THE BEMIDJ! DAILY The American Medical association, with a membership including practl-- cally every physician in the country, has asked congress to appropriate money for an investigation -of “flu” conditions, to be conducted under the direction of the United States public health service. In answer to these ap- peals for a real fight against the flu, Senator Harding and "Representative Fess, both of Ohio, introduced a bill appropriating $5,000,000 for a flu in- vestigation, which should have for its purpose the lwlation of the flu germ and the dlscoverv of the best pre- ventive und curative methods. In the senate the resolution is be- fore the committee on public health and national quarantine. Senator Jo- seph 1. France (portrait herewith), himself a physician, is chairman of this committee. He says: “I am heartily in favor of it as an emergency measure to try to save What the nation needs is a combat conta gious diseases. WISDOM IN JUDGE'S CHAHUE Irish Jurist Warned “Good Men and True” Against Being “Obfusti- -cated” by the Lawyers. Round the library fire in the Four Courts, Daublin, Irish barristers long have gathered to spin yarns of ‘their profession while waiting for briefs. One of these stories was of a novel charge to a jury given by a Gaelic judge, which is recalled by a writer in the Irish World, as follows: uGentlemen of the jury,” a judge be: gan when counsel for the defense had concluded an eloquent and elaborate address. “Gentlemen of the jury, there are two courses, do you observe, to be adopted by counsel. The first is sim- ple enough. If he has a middling case he endeavors to convince the jury. But if he has no case at all, if the evidence is all one way and the gulilt of the prisoner is as plain, do you see, as the nose on his face, and no one but a fool or a. juror could be asked to have a doubt about it, then counsel endeavors to obfusticate the jury! For counsel seems to think that when in- telligent men come. into a jury. box they hang up their commen sense with their hats and coats on the pegs be- hind them.” el Gets 'Em on the Fly. ~ The Wilson warbler is the champion fiy-catcher of the United States. His method of getting most of his food is to dash out from the limb of a tree and snatch passing insects on the wing. They catch other insects which are flitting about or sitting on the foliage or blosserus of the trees. You will often find these little birds In ap- ple trees when in bloom. Their olive green and yellow plumage harmonizes with the green leaves of the trees. The male bird has a black crown patch on the top of its head, while on the female this cap is greenish .like the back. This hird is found throughout the eastern United States but winters in Central America. Ingenious Picture. There is in one of the continental picture galleries a painting called “Cloudland.” At first sight it looks like a huge, repulsive daub of con- fused color, without form or comeli- ness. As you walk toward it, it proves to be a mass of exquisite little cherub taces like those at'the head of the can- vas in Raphael’s “Madonna San Sisto.” YOUR RECORDS WIS WHOL==] inthe WORLD e e e e e e . 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