Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1919, Page 2

FAGE MUCH RED TAPE Americans Find Trave! in Ger- many Is Difficult. Abgence of Official American Repre- sentation in Berlin Causes Embarrassment. Berlin.—Lack of American official representation in Berlin 18 causing American travelers considerable em- barrassment. The Spanish embassy representing American interests can sometimes help the traveler, but more often not. It has too much busines$ to handle. And red tape unwinds slowly in Ger- many. As a result of this situation Amer- feang coming here are complaining considerably of the situation. England and France are liberally representéd on missions here. Amer- fca has none. And its interests have to be conserved mainly by the Amer- fcan legations in The Hague and !QCopenhagen. Two stranded American sallors 1reached town recently, expecting pass- ports here. They were penniless but expected a lift. They couldn’t get a passport right away; maybe by waiting tong enough they might have had one through the Spanish embassy. Prob- ably they passed the borders some- .how “on their own;” it can be done, ‘but it’s unpleasant. And at the same time an American ‘business man arrived with a per- tectly good pass, but found he needed to travel to Czechoslovakia to com- plete an important deal. Could he get his pass amended here? No, he had to travel to Copenhagen and run the risk of losing his business deal through the delay. These are only sample cases. Daily Americans with dificulties as bad as or worse than those above cited are tiere, and find that the U. S. A. fsn't among those present. They say it ‘should be. "HENS FALL FOR NEW SCHEME Indiana University Expert Makes Them Work Overtime by Elec- tric Light. Lafayette, Ind.—Purdue university’s experiment in Increased egg produc- tion here through the use of electric lights in poultry pens is proving a success, according to Prof. A. G. Phil- lips, who has charge of the work. He says that the hens In the coops that have electric lights dre laying more eggs than the hens in unlighted coops. In the coops with lights the hens continue scratching and hunting for foud, It is sald, whereas in the other pens the hens hunt their roosts as soon as darkness comes. With the additional amount of food and exer- cise the hens In the lighted pens be- come better egg producers. The elec- " tric lights are kept lighted until ten o'clock each night, giving the hens about five and a half hours’ overtime work each day. “Then hens have no unions that we know of, so there I8 no objection to the longer working day,” said Professor Phillips. ROB JAIL TO GET WHISKY Williamstown, W. Va, Lockup Is Looted of 32 Cases of Liquer. Marietta, O.—\Whisky Isn't safe ih West Virginia, even if it Is locked in Jail Chief Bush of Willlamstown, just across the Oblo river from this city, - made the discovery when he went to the vlllfige Jail to Inspect a haul made by two Marietta detectives and him- self. Thirty-two cases of good whisky were on a truck which three men at tempted, to smuggle into West Virginia from Marietta. The coppers got the men and the liquor. The Intter was held in the Willlams. town jail and the men locked up here. Last night someone reversed the usnal order of things and broke into the Jail. [t's dry today. BELGIANS EXECUTE IN EFFIGY Crowds in Brussels Vent Hate Toward Condemned Germanophile Editors. Prussels. Belgium.—Directors and editors of the Germanophile newspaper Bruxellois, who were condemned to death as traitors by the Brabant conrt a week ago, were publicly executed in effigy before the city hall here. The actors in the ceremony were four gend- armes and an executioner, and the scene was witnessed by great crowds, cinema operators being busy recording the incident. The death penalty exists in Belgium, but it is never carried out except in effigy. Church Bell Out of Date. Hognian, Wash.—Principally because of the development of leaks that are difficult to locate and repair. the up- per portion of the tower on the Meth- odist church of this city is being re- moved and the bell will be sold. A bell is all right on a country church, but it is an unnecessary antique on a twentieth century house of worship in a’ progressive city or town that has the advantage of newspaper publicity,” was the statement made by Rev. W. W. Switzer, the pastor, when asked -about the disposition of the ancient equipment for calling a congregatiom ‘gogether. 5/ =l | ! H i { e Every Person in U. S. Has an Ugly Rat to Kill HERE is a rat for every person in the United States. If every mand, woman and child should make his and her financial pro rata contribution to what these hundred million or more rats exact for upkeep annually, we would be setting aside a daily rat fund of one- half of one cent. On this basis the United States pays its rats about $180,- 000,000 every year, which sum would build and maintain a very adequate university or support a neat navy or keep Mexico satisfied for a long time. The United States public health serviée has figured this out and issues these and many more rat facts in a brochure that calls upon all Americans who are fond of health to enlist in the government’s war against the Norway or brown rat, the common black rat and the Alexandrian rat, which is a particularly mean beast of untidy habits and a native disregard for the most elemental of the niceties of life. The Norway rat is the largest and most ferocious of America’s rodents, He'll eat anything, not stopping at a very small child if particularly hungry. He bas been pretty well killed off and the government adjures all of us who see him to attack at once and crush him. The black rat and the Alexandrian have been confined by various household and barnyard traps, poisons and other exterminators to the water fronts of sea ports. They are all aliens, their ancestors having come from Egypt, Norway and other old world countries as far back as the days of John Smith and Salem witcheraft. The United States public health s‘e'rfloe doesn’t limit rat killing to any stated methods, but eays that rat proofing one's Leme and barns and granaries 1s more effective than trusting to rat catchers—mechanical or animal—traps or po'honl. First rat proof your buildings, then go out after the rat in the open. : 5 Under the shibboleth “Rout the Rat,” the Public health service has issued rules, chief of which is “Demand city antirat ordinances and state antirat laws.” BROKE ALL MULISH RECORDS If Animal Committed Suicide He Is | CO-OPERATIVE BUYING SAVES | Instance Cited in Action of Florida Farmers Clubbing Together to Buy Polson. (Prepared by the United States Depart- | ment of Agriculture.) An instance of the value of co-oper- tive buying is found in the recent ac- tion of a group of farmers in Orange county, Florida, who combined their orders for carbon bisulphid and placed them through their county agent. The purchase totaled 1,000 pounds and the material was secured at a saving of 38 cents a pound under the price that would have been charged for individ- ual purchases in small quantities, so that the deal represented a saving of $380 to these farmers. This carbon bisulphid will be used in fumigating the corn to kill corn weevils, Losses from this source sometimes are as much as 20 per cent. The farmers who are planning to fumigate their corn either have remodeled their old cribs to make them airtight or have built new ones. Poor seed means a poor crop. i * % % Dry straw makes satisfactory bed- ‘ding. . s = Feed never was so valuable—save it now! * ¢ Farmers should sow the usual acre- age of wheat. 2 s 8 @ Too many fence corners serve as “sheds” for our valuable farm tools. e —— . S T U R —_— DR. H. A. HASS the First of His Tribe Thus to Shuffie Off. We are not prepared to accept with- out mental reservation the story from Breoklyn, that a mule, perhaps an ex- service mule, committed suicide by plunging through the plate-glass front of an undertaker's office, after imbib- ing freely of 2.75 per cent beer. We know the mule; have known him from an early age, and we know the deci- mal stuff that passes for beer. That is to say, we have heard about it. No self-respecting mule—particularly if he came from Missouri—would drink 2.75 in the first place, and in the second place, if he did drink it it would not go to his head. It might go to his legs, his hindlegs, which are paturally of a nervous temperament, and likely to reach out at any time. We can imag- fne no better way to put a “kick” in the brew than by first putting the brew in a mule. The average mule 1S looking for an excuse for kicking, anyway. Feed him up on the beer of commerce and leave the rest to his natural predisposition. He will register disgust in the obvious way. And then again mules never commit suicide. We have heard of men com- mitting suicide by twisting -the mule's tail, but the hybrid himself is much in love with life. There's even a rumor in the South and Southwest that mules never die; that, barring accidental dis- solution, they live forever. Be that as it may, we do not recall that we ever saw a mule suffering from age, or that was feeble in his right hind shoe. —New York Morning Telegraph. MAGIC IN GOLD AND HUMOR How Happy Combination of the Two Put End to “Run” on Famous English Bank. A story is told. with some reserva- tion, by a London paper, concerning the grandfather of the well-known Quaker peer, Lord Peckover. The story goes that, during a run on the bank of which he was a principal, at one time known as that of Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover & Co., he exhibit- ed, within sight of the counter, bags full of gold, surmounted by a peck measure, also filled with sovereigns. “You see,” he explained to the de- positors anxious to draw their bal- ances, “that there is enough money for you all, and a peck over.” This is said to have terminated the run. Such is the magic of gold, and of humor. One feels by no means certain that starks of “fivers” would have achieved the same happy result. Or, to revert to the time of George III, when the sum of twopence was represented by a solid twn-ounce coin, would a large plle of these weighty “cartwheels” have allayed the fears of the small depositor? No! Not even a ware- houseful '—Christian Science Monitor. Vast Waste Desert. The great Sahara desert covere the major part of northern Africa, consist- ing of 3,500,000 square miles—an arid reglon as large as the whole of Eu- rope. From 100 feet below sea level it rises in one instance to 8,000 feet above, and some of its elevations are covered with snow for three months of the year. Most of it, however, is & dry, sandy waste, dotted here and there with an oasis where *“drink” may be secured. The winds are all very hot and dry, while rain is almost unknown. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS Earth Gives Light to Moon. DENTIST Everything reflects light more or e ° less. Sun’s light Shining on earth is Officn Over Boardman's Drug reflected to moon, exactly as sun’s Store. Phone 447 light shining op moon is reflected to earth to produce moonshine. This “earth shine” can be observed on the darker part of moon when conditions are favorable. and Sapolio-The Supolio Cuilet Soup Ideal for Toilet and Subscribe for Tme Dally Ploneer LUNDE and DANNENBERG Chiropractors Hours 10 to 12 a.m.;3 t0 6,7 to 8 p.m. ! Phone 401-W Calls made 1st National Bank Bldg. Bemiaji -_— HE business man e ————— S ] 0 A V. GARLOCK, WL D.. who appreciates OIALIST . oo the value of good Glasses Fitved appearance makes it a rule to send his clothing to us at reg- ular intervals. You can not afford to ne- glect, even for a few days, the appear- ance of your gar- ments. Send them to us at regular in- tervals — and thus keep them looking fresh and new until worn out. The Model Dry Gleaners 309 Third Street | NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY. Dwight D. Miller WE CAN Insure Anything Anywh Offices, Northern gNntig:alugmk Bldg., Phone 131 | DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. I DR. E. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office Becurity Bank Block | DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemid§i, Minn. DR. H. A. NORTHROP OSTEOPATEIC PEYSI AND SURGRON : Ibertson Block Oftice phone 183 An lowa Woman Testifies Muscatine, Iowa:—*“When n Oklahoma and waiting to build I was exposed to cold weather. f was not well and felt the need of some medicine to give new strength. P Having seen Dr. Pierce’s Golden | DRS. GILMORE & McCANN P‘hyuigian and Surgeons Office Miles Block —— DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. Physici Offee In Mayn Broe™ Res. Phone 397 Phone 396 D. H. FISK, Attorney at Law Office, Northern National Bank Bldg. Phkone 181. Collections a i i specialty. : x::r;c :AMD!_MI * I procured and C. R. SANBORN, M. D. WJ fn:se‘: t;lneé * bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription also. ‘These two combined caused me to get stronger and to throw off the unpleasant effects of the exposure. I shall always speak highly of Dr. Pierce’s remedies.” —MRs. SARAH BarTON, 123 W. Front St. Physician and Surgeon Office: Miles Bloek House Phone 449——Office phone 5§ DR. J. T. TUOMY . North ofnm Markham H Gibbons Block MO“‘- %0 A PROMINENT WOMAN FROM MINNESOTA 'r . Duluth, Minn.:—“I am a great be- Hid) thl:':" and 1(.):1-.: - liever in Dr. Pierce’s medicines. I have 06 Amarion | 0 taken ‘Favorite Prescription’ for weak- ness peculiar to women and found it very beneficial. I had taken other medicines for this ailment but did not get any relief. This medicine gave me the relief 1 was seeking. I also use the ‘Pleasant Pellets’ for disordered stomach, bilious- gems a.ndI headaches—there is nothing . W. & . D. tter. can highly recommend Dr. Dr-'W. K. Denl Pr.D. R Burgeas Pierce’s medicines from the actual use of them. Iam taking ‘Favorite Prescrip- tion’ at the present time and it is doing me a world of good.”—Mgs. R. THAYER, 4027 W. 5th St. DR. D. L. STAN "ON DENTIST Office in Winter Block BT (e DR. J. W. DIEDRICH . DENTIST Offiee—O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phones—Oftice 376-W. Res. 376-R DRY CLEANING Clothes Cleaners for Men, Women end Ohildrea MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 614 Minnesota Ave., Bemidji J. Bistar, Mgr. Phone 673-W " DAY CLEANING HOJSE = HOGANS ON BROY BRI2S A. Brose TOBACCONIST 400 Minnesota Avenue Keeps the Pest stock of Tobacco in the Northwest, We do Pipe Re- — . W. G. SCHROEDER GENERAL MERCHANDISE Sroceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour e Bemidjt, Minn. Phone §5 — FIRE INSURANCE REAL ESTATE REYNOLDS & WINTER 212 Beltrami Avenue Phone 144 also Pipes. pairing. FOR YOUR SUNDAY DESERT e « e menss 2GR Take Home a Brick of v ‘¥ e TRUE FRUIT HAWAIIAN & PINEAPPLE ‘ : Is Good Eat Some Every Day Ask Your Dealer Buy Useful Presents THEY ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED . zv% Pocket Knives Some ‘at .ot 7 ELECTRIC IRON Give her an electric iron, ‘A Chafing Dish................! Good Scissors and Shears, at .. ..$2.50 to $1.50 TOOLS FOR BOYS Hammers . .$1.25 Saws $3.25 All kinds of planes, buy him good tools. Fountain Pens for Girls, Price Nickel plated Tea Kettles are always good ... .- $3.75 MANY GOOD PRESENTS AT C. E. BATTLES The loms of 8oad Naréware BEMIDJI, MINN.