Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 15, 1920, Page 3

SAVING MISS LIBERTY’S FACE Government May Find Itself Forced to Sell Silver Currency in the World's Market. The silver dollar has become pre- «cious again. As recently as 1915, ithe real value, expressed in the mar- XKet price of the silver it contains, ‘was 40 cents. 'Recently, it has come pretty close to the dollar mark. ‘When silver sells at $1.2929, the dollar is really at par with the mar- ‘ket. Our dimes, quarters and half +dollars contain still less silver pro- ‘portionately to face value. Silver will have to go to $1.3823 an ounce, before their contents are worth on the market as much as their face. If the price of silver rises beyond -the face value of coins, the coins are melted and the populace has to re- :sort to postage stamps or other makeshifts. England has found the market price of silver getting so ear the point where it will be prof- itable for people to melt down its ~coins that it has placed an embargo -upen exports of silver. If the treas- -ury sees danger that our dimes and -quarters will disappear over night, -using the law under which it melted -down some millions of silver dollars -and shipped the bullion to India -during the war, it may sell silver in ‘the market to keep the price down. —The Nation’s Business. WHAT COULD SHE D0? Al 7 He—It’s reported that we are en. She.—Well, it’s not my fault that it is only a report.—London An- £wers. ; RADIUM ECONOMY. The use of radium on a large ‘scale therapeutically involves danger . of loss, and this factor has been a big one in inducing hospitals and <linics with a gram or more of the -element in use to utilize radium emanation instead of applicators -containing the radium itself. There has been installed in a Pittsburgh laboratory an elegant and useful ap- paratus for the collection, purifica- tion and tubing of radium emana- tion, obtained from a salt of the ele- ment. It differs from earlier ap- paratus in that liquid air is replaced by chemical means of purifying the emanation, which is felt to be more reliable. “MOVIES” IN SIAM. There are at present nine film theaters in operation at Bangkok, Siam, and another building which will house a large movie theater is now under construction. This struc- ture will cost about 200,000 ticals, and another 100,000 will be spent on its furnishings. When completed it will have a seating capacity of about. 5,000. PROFESSIONAL ALOOFNESS. “Seven doctors held a consultation over him and announced that he could not live a week longer.” “Yet he got well, and how he’s the picture of health. I guess he has the laugh on those doctors.” “Not enough to notice. So far as they are concerned, he’s dead. They refuse to recognize him.”—Birming- ham Age-Herald. CASTLES. “Of course, you built some castlee in the air.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. “But I took precaution to secure financial backing and a solid founds- tion for the skyscraper now rented on highly satisfactory terms.” A RETURN WALLOP. She—I appreciate the compli- ment, but I’'m afraid T could never make you happy. He—Oh, yes, you could. You don’t kinow how easily pleased I am. —Boston Transcript. THE BEMIDJI DALY PIONEEk Chicago Milk Wagon Drivers “ HICAGO.—No need to speculate longer upon the widely discussed wage of the lordly milkman in Chicago. He earns $56 a week! Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler, acting as arbiter in the stock yards wage controversy, got the facts direct from headquarters when G. R. Fitchie, president of the Milk Wagon Drivers’ association, took the stand to testify in the labor hearing. “Drivers in the city are working on an average wage now of $35 a week,” he declared, “and commissions bring the weekly pay up to about $56 for men peddling milk to residences. “Of course the men who drive the big automobile trucks which deliver the large consignments to hotels, res- taurants, manufacturers, and the like, can make more. Some of them make as high us $80 a week.” Judge Alschuler leaned forward in order to make no mistake on the fig- ures. Then he smiled. “Do they pay you a commission for these $8)-a-week jobs?” he asked in an aside. “By no means,” protested the association official. at all.” The witness did not prove enthusiastic in support of the yard drivers’ con- tention that their work:should be placed on an hourly basis of pay. He declared it would not be best for the “craft” to institute an hourly. pay rate, but that an increase in the weekly wage for yard drives should be granted. Police chiefs in charge of patrolmen in the Chicago yards took a stand against the watchmen'’s requests for an eight-hour day and hourly rate of pay. “If an eight-hour day were instituted in our plant,” said Chief E. W. Ehey of the Swift & Co, force, “it would require the hiring of additional men and would result in the discharge of a number of ‘box pullers’ who are in reality above the age limit for the work. As it is, these men can hold down thels “That wouldn’t do Make” eek P ., RHEUMATIC PAINS Jobs well.” Chlef L. R. Wilber of the Armour police force was the last witness called upon to outline duties of watchmer before the hearing was adjourned. BEES A few years ago a friend of mine sent me a hive of bees the first part of May by express from near Aldrich and Wadena in this state. The rail- road employees handled them with care so that they arrived at Kelliher in good shape. By the time I got them home over some bad roads there was a couple of frames broken down and honey was running out of.the entrance and the half drowned bees were struggling to get out of the sticky mess. Well, it looked to me like they were all done for but . put them on a stand and left them to take care of themselves. Early the next morning I went out to see how they were getting along, expecting to find a big puddle of honey and bees in front of the hive. But to my surprise there was not a drop of honey in sight. There were some of them out on tae aliging board taking observation. I looked at them again in a couple of hours and there were bees coming from every direction loaded with pollen and some honey from the_early flow- ers. Then I knew that they aad ac- cepted their new invironment with- out a protest for each one was trying to do his best. As I stood there watching the bees all at work 1 felt ilke a capitalist. 1 had an army of workers working for me without pay and boarding them- selves. Then I thought of the win- tering problem. All the people who had tried bees here had lost them during the winter. About the ninth of June the first swarm came off. They built up very rapidly and made about forty pounds of comb honey in a short time. The old hive put out another swarm that ~uilt up well in bees and supplings but did not put any honey in the super. The later part of August I left home and did not return until Christ- mas. A neighbor whose father had always kept bees helped to put the bees away. He nailed some pieces of window screen over the entrance and tnen put the bees in a dark closet but they put up such a roar that tney finally put ten of the hives down in the cellar and there I found them when I got home. Two thirds of the hives in the cellar were dead, wet, and mouldy. I took them to a vacant room upstairs over the kitchen where 1 opened the hives. When I took the sereen off the entrance I found it a solid mass of wet, dead bees. I then took off the bottom board and cleaned and dried it thoroughly after which 1 took out the frames one at a time brushing the live bees down into the hive and scraping the mold and dead ones on the floor. After they were all cleaned and dried¢ I thought I would winter them where they set so I nailed tar paper over the window and closed the door but évery day I went up and fed them sugar, syrup, and corn meal or rye flour. Although the room was too warm and many bees came out and got lost, they came out fine in the spring and the queens started- laying ‘early on account of the extra feeding. i I am still wintering them in the same room. There are twenty-one big swarms up their tonight as I sit writing by a red hot stove with- a strong wind blowing and the mercury: around thirty below zero, I can stil hear the contentea hum of my bees; They are comfortable and dry because; after putting- them away I took off the covers and let the hives dry out thoroughly before I let them stay on till spring, This last season was a very poor honey crop here but at that I have got nearly half a ton of honey in ex~ tracting frames just waiting for an; extractor that has been lost on the railroad - between here and Medina; Ohio. M. B. Pettengill, Saum, Minn. .< 1< | BELTRAMI COUNTY GROW.- ERS TAKE NOTICE Seed tests show low germination. Seed wheat samples received up to this time for testing at tue seed la- boratory, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn., have germinated only 80 per cent, according to R. C. Dahlberg, in charge of seed laboratory. “This is extremely low,” says Mr. Dahlberg, “even for uncleaned grain, and indi- cates that especial care must be ex- ercised in the selection of wheat seed for planting. The low germinating quality is the natural result of the unfavorable weather in 1919 for the ripening of farm crop seeds. No bar- ley or oat tests are available at the present time.” Mr. Dahlberg finds that timothy is extremely low testing, 93 samples re- ceived the last three months testing only 84 per cent. “It is to be ex- pected,”” he says, ‘“that low tests would be the result immedaiately fol- lowing harvest, but according 0 monthly averages there has been no|’ appreciable improvement, although this should be the case with properly matured seed. “RED CLOVER is lower than usual, the average being 71 per cent with 19 per cent hard seed. This low average is in part due to the utiliza- tion of old seed of low germination, because of the very high price of red clover seed. Here is a concrete illus- tration: Two samples o1 red clover seed were received from a farmer for testing. One sample was absolutely dead, testing 44 per cent. The latter seed, while very low, will produce a stand of clover if enough is planted to the acre.” Bring samples of your seed to the Farm Bureau office. We will have it tested for purtiy and germination. DENTIST Offica Over Boardman's Drug \ Store. Phone 447 DR. E. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office Security Bank Bleck —EAT— Third Street Cafe Our Waiters Do the Waiting After the holidays special offer Your Photographs See our popular lines of large folder sepia. portraits at enly. 88, $7 and $4.85. Two extra presents f:fi.flfl' month with a dozen poy- —your portrait in a calendar, | —your portrait in an easel. See our bargains in discontinued lines of pretty folders. Rich Portrait Studio Phone 570W 10th and Doud Ave. Kodal , Of course— k finishing, highest quality at lowest prices. 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