Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 16, 1920, Page 4

- BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER VERY APTERNOON BXCEPT SUNDAT: TRR ::?nnn'uonn PUBLISKING 0O. G._B. CARSON, Pres. and Treas. B. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. \ TELEPNONE 932 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter under f::t of Congress of March 3, 1879, | 3 paid tob-:mo{ninu- con‘tlrlbtuuonlimw{‘l‘:;r'u name must to the editor, but not nceessarily for publica 3 be hé::::zu:luuona for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. No attention One year ceesessssecsceess $800 .. 280" iz months : ; ARIZONA LEGISLATURE PASSES SUFFRAGE. ‘Arizona followed closely upon the action taken by the Idaho legislature in adopting the national constitutlonql amepd- ment to permit suffrage in this country,_Arizpna’s action being taken by the state legislature in a special session. The house and senate voted unanimously for the passage and it is expected the governor will sign the resolution. . . The house of delegates of Virginia has rejected the amendment. : The coming in of Arizona gives thirty-one states to the suffrage cause, and it requires only five more states to make it effective. The states which have passed the amendment are: 'Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming and the last state was Arizona. i . South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia are hopeless in the suffrage matter, they having rejected the question. Mississippi and Virginia will submit the amendment to a referendum, and New Mexico is expected to ratify at a special meeting of the legislature. ° Connecticut, Delaware, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia are logical for campaigners. ¢ [, S— “DAYLIGHT SAVING” IS NOT NEEDED UP HERE. Minneapolis will vote on the “Daylight Saving’ proposition on March 2, which would regulate a day’s work, commencing an hour earlier and knocking-off an hour earlier, in the business and industrial sections of the city. Bemidji has one of the best daylight saving systems in the state. In the summer season, on in full blast, daylight breaks at IS of doors at 10 o’clock &t night. And incidentally there is a saving of kerosene and electricity, but the saving of high priced like a savings bank. b — e Secretary of State Lansing has resigned from the cabinet, upon Wilson’s request, and Washington officialdom stood * amazed when they learned of the fact, and declined to express their \ge,ws, except privately, but they seemed to have a good “hunch.’ -~ ¢ PG S 3 I— Canada has served notice upon Great Britain that it objects to any change in the convent of the League of Nations, which will prevent the dominion from being a fullfledged mem- ber of the league and having a vote in-the assembly. What is now the U. S. long, long ago, expressed a few objections that were effective. Mr. Washburn whose successes such as “Love Insurance’” and ‘“‘A very Good Young Man’ have boosted him to a position of emineénce among screen stars where he has no rivals, assumes the role of Rodney Martin, the son of a wealthy soap manufac- |turer whose flier in business on his own is made successful through ad- vertising.* “It Pays to Advertise” and “The Garage” will again appear at the Elko tonight. NEWS OF THE THEATERS s a “MYSTERY OF YELLOW ROOM” EXTRAORDINARY PICTURE Last night at the Grand theatre, 5 patrons of that popular place were 2 treated to an exceptionally fine pro- duction, and the intense interest was felt by the rigid silence which pre- vailed throughout the performance. So mystifying and deceptive was each new angle to the complicated plot, that not one single spectator had any idea of. who the criminal might' be, or how the crime was committed un- til the last few feet of the film was run through. It is the kind of a de- tective story that keeps-one burning the midnight oil to find.out WHO the villain is, rather than postpone the reading of the story. On account of the extremely com- plicated plot, it is absolutely impos- sible for a spectator coming in-late, to pick up the thread of the story, and the management of the Grand theatre urges that every person who intends to see the picture, see it from the beginning, either at 7:30 or 9 o'clock. A ““The Mystery of the Yellow Room” will be shown tonight and Tuesday at the Grand theatre, regular admissio prices prevailing. - HIGH AND LOW SOCIETY COMPARED IN PHOTOPLAY A striking contrast between the high and low walks of ilfe is drawn in the photoplay, ‘“A Daughter of Two Worlds,” from the novel of the same name by Le Roy Scott, which will be shown at the Rex theatre, commencing tonight and again to- morrow. Norma Talmadge, who is starred as Jennie Malone, plays the part of the beautiful daughter of Black Jerry Malone, keeper of a questionable dance hall in the slums. : The ambitions of her father, who is not as black as his name would inicate, carry her out of jail, through a fashionable boarding school for girsl, and into society, meets the man who wins her love. The stigma of the past follows her into her new environment, and a dramatic situation arises when Jennie learns that she alone can save from the electric chair.a man who ha§ been wrongly convicted of murder. An added feature will be a Fox Sunshine comedy in two parts, also one of th&: popular Fox ‘“World's News,” showing in illustration scenes of what one has read accounts of in the newspapers. WEEK’S PROGRAM—REX. Wednesday—Monroe Salisbury, in ‘“The Moonlight Trail.” Thursday—Emmet Dalton and Vir- ginia Lee, in “Beyond the Law.” Friday and Saturday—William Farnum in “The Last of the Duanes,” from Zane Grey’s famous novel. ELSIE FERGUSON’S LATEST. Presenting the famous star in a novel role as a Southern girl who turns Secret Service agent, “Counter- feit,” REisie Ferguson’s new Para- mount-Artcraft picture will be shown at the Elko theatre Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday. The director was George Fitzmaurice. GALES OF LAUGHTER. ‘“Fatty” Arbuckle in his latest Paramount comedy, ‘“The Garage,” with added attraction of Bryant ‘Washburn, the popular farceur of Paramount-Artcraft pictures, kept thie audience at the Elko theatre in gules of laughter last night in his latest screen comedy, an adaptation from the famous stage play, “It Pays - to_Advertise,”” which was one of the real successes of a few seasons back. Pointed Out Safety's Path. Abraham Lincoln said: “Teach rew erence and obedience to the Constitu- tien and laws of our couniry and we are safe; otherwise there’'s danger 4 o’clock in the morning and one can read a newspaper at out| gasoline—mercy, but we’re for the Babcock plan, it would be where shel RUSSIAN “LIBERTY” A FARCE Lenine Maintains Himself in Power Only by the Exercise of Auto- cratic- Authority. And another funny thing about bolshevism is that while it affects to despise the wage scale and the em- ploying classes, Lenine himself is probably the greatest single employ- | er of labor in the world today, Por- ter Emerson Browne writes in Col- lier’s. Hundreds of thousands of men work for him by the day and for a daily wage. They have no rights that he respects. They can- not organize. And if they question his supreme authority they are shot at sunrise. And not only that, but they are peid this daily wage for killing their helpless fellows. His is not even the excuse of war. In his lust for power and his besot- ted desire to demonstrate an un- workable theory, he sets Russian to' kill Russian. No economic tyranny on earth ever equaled in sutocratic power of the individual, in abject helplessness of the masses, the free- dom of bolshevist Russia. . The label on the bottle says “Liberty,” but the contents are triple-distilled oppres- sion. IMPOSSIBLE “When we move, 1 suppose you'll have to get a permit to take the baby along.” . “What on earth for?” “You know, dear, he’s.a bottle baby.” &1 LUTHER BURBANK'S NEW JOB Luther Burbank, noted as tk:. originator of new plant species, has entered a contract with G. Imai, one of the leading silk producers of Japan, to perfect a mulberry -tree superior to that in most general use at present. Imai, a member of the imperial Japanese senate, recently concluded & business visit to the United States. Part of his mission was to make a contract with” Bur- bank. Burbank said a larger leaf or better quality was desired, and‘a tree of more rapid and compact growth, because for silk-producing: purposes it is cut back each year. He ex- pects to have the new variety of mul- berry ready for use in four years.— San Francisco Chronicle. REDEEMS HER PROMISE. A promise made 25 years ago has just been redeemed by Lady Pender of Donhead, St. Andrews, Wilts. At her silver wedding celebration in 1892 she gave thréepenny pieces to a number of children, who were told that they would be exchanged for half-sovereigns at the golden wedding. Nearly thirty of the recipients re- turned their silver coins when Sir James and Lady Pender celebrated their golden wedding this year, and each one has received the promised half-sovereign. - Lady Pender has had the three- penny pieces gilded and made into a necklace as a souvenir.—London Mail. LITTLE PLATINUM IN SIGilT. According to James M. Hill of the United States geological survey, department of the interior, there seems to be little hope of any marked increase 'in the output of platihum : in : the- United States -or Canada over the small output here- tofore made, and as the supplies-are below normal and the demand is large, it is. reasonably ecertain; ‘that the price of platinum metals in this country during 1920 will be at least as high as it was during the last quarter of 1919 and possibly higher. SARCASTIC OBJECTION:=; “T see where the Dutch women do not want to promise to obey ‘their husbands in the marriage serviee.” “Qh, what is the use of trying to get rid of all the pleasant little fie- tions of life?” T Lawo, i HOW SCIENTISTS KNOW ' WHAT ELEMENTS MAKE UP SUN AND STARS. —When you read in a scientific book that the sun is made of certain substances, that the stars Aldebaran, Sirlus, Capelia, etc.,- are made of other sub- stances, you wonder how this can be known with such cer- taihty; for nobody has - ever been there to see. Neverthe- less our knowledge of the com- position of the sun and stars is almost as certain as that of the elements. that go to make up our own earth. And it is all due to the spectroscope. Isabel M. Lewis of the United States naval observatory tells in Electrical Experimenter just how - it is done. When a ray of “sunlight passes through -a a spectroscope (which consists essentlally of a glass prism or chain of prisms), it is broken up into its component parts, which arrange themselves like a rainbow, - violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and these , colors .are crossed. by many fine dark lines called Frauenhofer or absorption lines. The shortest wave lengths are in the violet and the longest in the red; below the red are the infra-red rays, invisible to the naked eye but capable of being photographed ‘on specially sen- sitized plates. An incandescent body under high pressure gives up a band of pure color unbroken by cross lines. 1If, however, cooler gases are between us and the source of the continuous spéctrum they absorb from thle light beyond just those rays of which they themselves consist, and as a re- sult the band of color is crossed by dark lines. Every chemical element has its own llnes in the spectrum, always in the same place. So it ’is easy. to identify the element merely by observ- ing the position of the Frauen- hofer or absorption line In fhe spectrum. - It the intervening gases be hotter than the source of light, the lines they make on the spectrum will be bright instead of datk, but their position will be unchanged. SENSATIONS IN ‘LOST LIMBS Why Persens Who Have Suffered Am- putation Should Experience These Is Hard to Reason. It is a fact, perhaps unfamiliar to the average reader, that the illusion of “phantom limbs”—to borrow a felicit- ous expression from Dr. Weir Mitchell —far from being rare or exceptional, is_almost universal among persons who have undergone an amputation. Among ninety cases, including-a great variety- of amputations, -Mitchell found only four in whichwhere-had never been an llusion of this kind. : One of the, best discussions of this toplc 1s that given By Weir Mitchell in his book, “Injuries of Nerves,”® pub- lished In 1872. The literature, how- ever, goes back to the sixteenth cen- tury, when the phenomenon:was well . described by Ambroise Pare. In re- cent times Doctor Charcot has given some prominence to the subject. The fact that a great deal has been written on this subject does not, by any means, imply that it is widely - familiar. We confess, says the Scien- tific American, to being consumed with curlosity to know why the great war -|-has not brought forth a flood of stories concerning pains and other sensations in missing limbs. Why Picture Will Be Hung. By merely hanging the picture of & dog the Scottish national galleries may acquire a very substantlal por~ tion of a fortune estimated at $350- 000. . Cowan Smith of Bothamsall hall, near Retford, who died recently. Mr. Smith was very fond of dogs and kept a number of théem. Mr. Smith had & ple- ture of Callum with, a dead rat, paint- ed in ofls. Under Mr. Smith's will galleries will rgcf!ve part of his es- tate if they will agree to hang this picture “in;a ‘¢onspicuous place” in one of -the gallerles under their con- " To a servant Mr. Smith bequeathed | his dogs, with an' allowance of $1.28 a week for the keep of each ¢f them and an annuity of $350. i 3 Why He Quit the Phone. Cholly—Rotten phone service we’re having now, eh, old top? Reggie—Righto! But I've quif us- ing the infernal old thing. Cholly—Quit using them! How can you do that? i 2 Reggle—Can’t help it, old dear. Bum mémory, you know—can’t remem- ber a_ number long enough to suit the operator.—New York Post. How to Freshen Giit Frames. Gilt frames may be revived by care- fully dusting them, and then washing them with one ounce of soda beaten up with the whites of eggs. Castile :soap and water, with proper care, may be used.to clean oil paintings. Other methods could not be employed with- out some skill. Why They Are Immune. Brown—Stout people, they say, are rarely guilty of meanness or crime. Robinson—Well, you see, it's o difficult for them to stoop. to.anything so Jow. H Dictionary of Arabe ls Ponderous Arabic dictionaries of 500 years ago, which are still the great authority for | students in that language, more than surpass the ponderous dictionarles of Furope, even the famous many-vol- umed etymological index ®f Larousse, the monumental work of all modern tongues. The Arabic dictlonary most used by scholars famillar with no other language, whict was made in the time of the great Caliph Haroun al Raschid, is in 20 quarto volumes and weighs close to 100 pounds. There s a 50-pound, ten-voluine-abridgement of it, presumably .for use at home. —_— Something Wrong. “Here’s the announcement of a head walter’s retirement,” remarked Mr. Jib- way. “Wealthy, I presume?” said Mr, Dub- walte. “Fairly well to do, but I don't un- derstand how a man could be a head MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1920 “Whither Thou Goest.” With all the zest that editors as- sure’ us inspires them on the discev- ery ‘of a new star in. the literary firmament (What a fine phrase that 18] Almost Biblical in its antiquity), I thumbed the thin, resistant pages of my Bible, eager to come upon other tales of ‘good. I found Jezebel, whose painted face long ago captured the imagination of mankind; Jepthah's daughter, pitifully mourning her vir- ginity; Ruth, gleaning for Baaz, and speaking her immortal “Whither thou goest, I will go,” to Naomi. And here I stopped to marvel that those words, even in this day of feminism ram- pant, the words a woman gladly swears to her lover, should in that far-off time have been spoken by & widow to her mother-in-law, between whom it is a matter of common ex- , pectation to find but little love. Who, 1 .wonder, were the first lovers to selze upon their beauty and appropri- Callum, the dog, belonged to James | the trustees of the Scottish national |- ate 1t? —Ann Branson Hilyard in waliter for twenty years in a fashion- North’ American Review: able restaurant, as this fellow has been, and not accumulate a fortune of more than $100,000.”"—Birmingham Age-Herald, ANNOUNCEMENT!! The Peoples Co-Operative Store of Beltrami County is now open for business. This store is affiliated with The Co-Operative Wholesale Society of America, an organization conducted along the same lines as the - Rochdale stores of Europe. This famous-chain of stores was founded over sevent—y years ago and is today manu- facturing and selling one-third 61“ the merchandise qsed in the British Isles. " Subscribe for the Pioneer. Such stores are founded on the prinqiple that all- purchasers of goods whether members or non-members shall participate -inthe dividends of the -business in proportion to the amount of the goods purchased. We are .plgased to extend to the peoplé of Bemidji and vicinity a cordial invitation to call and see us. We expect to merit your pptronage by fxfif prices and courteous treatment. The Peoples’ Co-Operative smm', Store Phone 66 Office Phone 320 - For mother, " father, the boys and girls. [t’s the sweet for all ages—at work or When vou"r"e‘ nervous or tired. see how it / SEALED TIGHT-. - Keer Rieat | s Dafarctiua