Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 13, 1920, Page 1

If the pupils are not kept in school, /' Besides that, the school boards and The Pioneer is a member of the VOLUME XVIlY',NO. 65 '39,0 ’ 7 SCHOOL COST *ISINTERESTING Graded Make Report of Expenses BEMIDJI PUPILS COST Capita, Only $33 for Each Child In connection with the educatio: unrest, of-+high and grade: for last year is, ] ;:iji ‘thzn in ;iny other high *and graded schiool in this county. upil in school in Bemidji_fo g:: sl"eal; at $46. The school at Wil- liams costs over fwice that amount, 4109 being required for the schooling of one pupil there last year. " At Hines, the cost was $100; at Tenstrike and Blackduck, $75; Saum g Efifl"’ :6& ost being Jower 2k -addition to the c l‘tllie high...and .graded. schools. of complete courses of “stud: the high school. I a Gl Cost Widely Varies. onsidering. that rural schools fu}'— mish' subjects to take the pupils through the eighth grade onmly, eighth grade, the mokt expensive in the county, in comparison to the first ten dis- tricts of rural schopls. At the Shooks school, district No. 11, the cost per pupil last year was $155. est cost in the first ten districts was being $33. In the remainder of the first ten schools, the average cost is about $50 each. LoV State Gives $8 Per Pupil. Remembering that the state appor- tionment is about $8 per pupil, school boards should look up delinquent chil- dren and get them to .school, says the report, since this state aid is a great help to a struggling school dis- trict. As compared with the census of children of school age, the attend- ance-at certain schools in this county on the day of the visit ‘of the county superintendent of schools, the attend- ance in many instances was very low. Taking fourteen districts, for ex- ample, the census' called for 375 pupils; while only 212 were present on the day of visit. .Several schools had a fine attendance and others had only about 50 per cent. attendance. jis declared, the districts will lose sums - in. state apportionment. tax-payers are paying for something which they are not receiving, it is further asserted. Teachers and school boards are urged to make the attend- ance as complete as possible -at all times. Y i ; s TO BRING BACK BODIES OF 50,000 AMERICANS ‘Washington, March 13—The bodies. of about 50,000 of the American dead in’ France will be returned to the United States while between 20,000 - and 25,000 will remain permanently interred overseas, Secretary Baker informed Chairman ~Wadsworth of senate military committee. S S A FARLEY BREEDER SHIPS TO CATTLE DISPLAY H. A. Ferrel of Farley left this morning for St. Paul with a car load of pure bred Angus cattle. They will be placed on exhibition at the Aberdeen-Angus show and sale, to be held in St. Paul, March 17, 18 ~and 19. This is, perhaps, the first lot of thoroughbred Angus stock shipped from this county. Mr. Ferrel ex- pects to bring back a pire bred Angus sire for his farm at Farley. k MEMBER UNITED PRESS Press. Today’s world’s news today. TOCOMPARE . Superintendents of High and $46 EACH FOR YEAR Frohn Has Low Expense Per nal | the state. it is interesting to compare the cost.of schools in Beltra!mt co:lmtzs. _Riébo¥ts made by the superintendent aded schools in this d : county show that the cost per pupl A by far, less in Be- "The report shows:a cost of keeping, ; ity than tin any other in Bel| waghington, March 13.——Senator, trami county, the most varied course|yodge today presented to the senate of high school study is offered. Black-|apother modification of the reserva- duck and Kelliher schools also” offer|tion” Article X, of the league of na- y- through{tions.covenant. and|“Jock” Malone and Frank Barreau that most children never reach the|will box here.tonight in the first of the country schools are|a series of bouts arranged. for Malone The low-|ter the ring. at the school in Frohn township, that|pion. Johnny Noye, United JACKSON & SON ARE AWARDED CONTRACT 7 ‘INBELTRAMI | PReSUEHE When Completed, Handsome|. Structure Will Cost About $150,000 The Bemidji firm of Edward Jackson & Son has when. completed, will $150,000, C. W. Jackson of the firm making the announcement today, upon his return from Cass Lake. Edward Jackson is now at= Hot Springs, Ark., where he has been for the past two weeks. ~ 5 PRECINCT CAUCUSES (By United Press) IDJI D secured the contract for building for the new Cass Lake high school, which, cost about i OF GOP. MONDAY NIGHT GET TODAY'S NEWS OUT general contracting St. Paul, March 13.-—Precinct cau- cuses of Minnesota republicans will be held Monday night. Meetings are scheduled in about 3,000 precincts of Gustav Lindquist, chair- man of the Republican State Central committee said today. g ‘The precinct caucuses will name elegates to county conventions which will be held througuout the state March 17. District caucuses will be held March 19 and the state convention will be held a week from today. The fogr major contenders for the republican presidentig]l nomination “tlith“e big organizations 1n the state. . LODGE CONTINUES T0 OFFER MODIFICATIONS . Z(By United Press) 3 MALONE BOXES IN CALGARY TONIGHT Calgary, Ala., March 12.—James “JOCK” in Canada and on the Pacific coast. The St. Paul boy broke his arm re- rently but physicians believe it has knitted sufficiently for him to re-en- Charley McCarthy, former Canadian lightweight cham- St. Paul light- weight, and Jobnny Barrone are travelling together and will fight on the coast for several weeks. PHONE CHARGE CASE IS SET FOR APRIL 7 St. Paul, March 13.—Petitions of telephone companies in Minnesota for continuance of present installation and removal charges and long dis- tance toll classifications will be ar- gued before the State Railroad and Warehouse Commission on April 7, it was decided Wednesday by Com- missioner Fred V. Putnam. Cross- examination of telephone company representatives on the necessity for such charges was conducted Wednes- day by City Attorney R. D. Gould of Minneapolis, C. A. Samuelson of Duluth, Mr. Putnam and J. W. How- att, telephone supervisor for the com- mission. Representatives of the smaller in- dependent telephone companies de- clared they regarded the charge for installation and removal services as a legitimate means of additional rev- enue to which few subscribers ob- jected.. It was much more difficult they said, to- obtain increased -reve- nue by raising rates generally, with consequent loss of many subscribers. TWENTY ANSWER BABY BUGGY “FOR SALE” AD If you are not sure of the results of placing a classified ad in The Pioneer, try one to see. A party in this city had a baby carriage to dispose of and decided to advertise ‘the fact in The Pioneer for three issues. Before the second issue was completely off the press, word was received from the advertiser that the carriage had been sold and that the “ad” should be stopped. - At least 20 calls for carriages were received by the party who advertised. There are many such things for sale which need but a word of announcement to dispose of them. “Pjoneer want ads bring re- sults.” ithe town. P -~ VIRGIN ISLANDERS FAVOR SENATOR EDGE to Ascertain Conditions of U. S. Holdings L ¥'(By United-Press) .. - Washington, March 13.—A boom to nominate Senator Walter Edge, in the Virgin Islands recently ‘when he was there with other senators in- vestigating conditions. It was at a.dinner given to leading citizens of the island. Edge was in- troduced as having followed Woodrow Wilson into the governor's chair of New Jersey and “likely to follow him into the White House.” . This announcement was greeted with enthusiastic cries of ‘“hear,! hear!” as Edge bowded his acknowi. edgement. - Leading citizens favored organizing an Edge-for-president club on the spot. R Democrats in the party said there was only one thing lacking—nobody vote$ in the Virgin Islands. NO RELATIVES LOCATED: BURIAL NEXT MONDAY No relatives have as yet been lo- cated and it is believed that Walter Hjalmarson, who died at the'St. An- thony hospital o Thursday at 33 years .of age, has very few close friends in this community. ‘He was brought here to the hospital from the neighborhood of Kelliher and was in. the hospital for 19 days prior to his death. . Death was due to pneumonia al- though when he was brought here he came for treatment of paralysis.- It is expécted that burial will be made Monday under the direction of M. E. Ibertson, undertaker. POULTRY SPECIALIST SPEAKS HERE MARCH 18 N. E. Chapman, extension poultry specialist from the University farm will be in Bemidji on Thursday, March 18, and will give an interest- ing and profitable talk on all phases of poultry culture. All persons in- terested, including the members of the Beltrami County Poulfry associa-’ tion, should be at the Civic and Com- merce association rooms at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening, «darch 18. ‘Now is the time to begin hatching chickens, and Mr. Chapman will gladly answer alk questions of hatch- ing, brooding and feeding chicks. RUSSIA BLACK PICTURE. SAYS ITALIAN ENGINEER By -Camillo Cianfarra. (United Press Correspondent.) Rome, March 13.—“Russia is not in ®position to export extensive sup- plies of food stuffs or raw materials, even if she has them,” Mancin Forte, Italian engineer, . declared when he arrived after two years spent in ussia. " Foster painted a black picture of Russia under soviet control. “Russia is pushing through a frightful crisis,” This .photogmph from Flensbui'g, capltul:v redeemed from German rule, shows the last gf ‘the German troops evacuating vy . ' ¢ FOR THE PRESIDENCY| PROPAGANDA IN WAR Result of Inspection of Islands New Jersey, for president was started it BEMIDJ], MINN., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1920 Weather, Markham hotel — Cloudy EEMED SCHLESWIG ‘OF TODAY'S PAPER and warmer followed by unsettled. NEW CHAN : |thrown. 1 Schles{\'lg ‘which'hns been SIMS ASSERTS NAVY WAS VICTIM OF HUN Claims Allie_d Shipping Was Sunk Owing to Merely — : y Raymend Clapper. s U&dm%onewondent W] .Washington, March 13. — Charges that" the. navy department was the victim of German propaganda were made by Admiral Sims before the naval senate committee. “This propaganda led the depart- ment into a misconception of the problem of defending the American coast during the war and prevented the full co-operation with the allies,” Sims told the committee. He said the reluctance of the navy department to co-operate with him drove him to' desperation. “Hundreds of thousands of tons of allied shipping were sunk, because the navy department held out for the plant of operating ships individually under an armed guard, instead of in convoy as desired by the allies,” Sims declared. ; CONGESTED SCHOOLS. * - PROBLEM TO BOARD Now that the question of teachers’ wages has been decided for the time, for the teachers of the Bemidji Public schools, at a recent meeting of the board of education, another import- ant mattér confronts the board, rela- tive to additional school facilities and the matter of securing room to take care of the increasing enroll- ment in the city schools. A special meeting of the board is planned to be held soon. Efforts are being made and induce- ments offered to retain the present teaching force for the coming year, and to that end the board of educa- tion has voted an increase in salary, the minimum wage scale to be ap- proximately $112:per month in lieu of the present scale of $100 minini- mum wage. All of the efficient in- structors will be retained if possible. The petition of the junior and se- nior departments of the High school, asking that school hours be changed from the present hours of 9 to 4 o’clock to 8 a. m. to 1 p. m,, was laid on the table by the board and no decision nor any plans for a change have been announced. PROHIBITION SENDING FOREIGNERS BACK HOME New York, March 13.—Prohibition is causing so many foreign born to leave the United States that emigra- tion is exceeding immigration, accord- ing to Congressman Isaac Siegel, a member of the house immigration committee. Ellis Island records show that im- migration since January 1, totaled 53,000 while 61,000 persons left the country., Most of the latter have gone back to Poland and Czecho Slovakia to stay. While a desire to live in rejuven- ated homelands is a factor in emigra- tion, Mr. Siegel believes that prohibi- tion is the principal reason. Inabil- ity to buy beer or wine, he said, has created considerable ill feeling among has been overthrown. day that a revolutionary plot it was too late. \ morning, Berlin time. troops had entered Berlin. A B KAPP REACTIONARY. Dr. Kapp, who has assumed’ the chancellorship, is known as a violent reattionary and has opposed the Ebert government since its ince tion. As head of the powerful Fath- erland party he was considered an advocate for restoration of the mon- archy. k Kapp ‘has been closely in touch with activities of the pan-Germanist groups, who have been backing Field: Marshal von Hindenberg for the pres- idency. Von Hinderberg was last re- ported as accepting the offer to be- come a candidate. The fall of the Ebert government may be fraught with the most far- reaching consequences. Allied lead- ers have made every effort to insure its security, publicly declaring that any change of government in Ger- many would be sure to endanger the treaty of Versailles. Problem for Allies. The revolution will bring the allies face to face with these problems: Forcing the new government to adhere to the treaty of Versailles. Securing stronger guarantees from Holland that the former kaiser now interned there will be so guarded that there will be no opportunity for his return to Germany. Forcing the new government to adhere to the allied decision to make Germany punish her own guilty by trial, before a German tribunal at Leipsic. GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE OIL PRODUCTION (By United Press) Washington, March 13.—The gov- ernment has decided to take over the entire production of the Osage, Indi- an antion, totalling 15,000,000 bar- rels yearly, to insure a supply for the navy, shipping board and t.ae war de- partment. PREUS MAKES CALL T0 TPIONEER'S” CIRCULATION . . Liargest circulation ny ' paper . -North ... Central Minnfsotg Sadgertising accepted on this guarinteli : FFUL KES POSSESS! (Bulletin.) ; e e 8:26 A. M. Saturday. e (By United Press.) Y i St. Paul,’-EMarch 13.—Ebert .government has been over- ‘By Carl D. 'Groat. ' . (United Press Staff Correspondent.) ; Berlin, March 13.—The government of President Ebert Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, president of the Fatherland party, has assumed the chancellorship. Luttwitz is minister of defense. The government’s fall followed the announcement yester- General The revolution was peaceful. had been discovered, the plot being fostered by reactionaries, including monarchists and pan- Germanists, which involved sections of the army. ety Gustave Noske, minister of defense under Forte, immedi- ately ordered the arrest of Dr. Kapp and Captain' Pabst, but ' The foregoing dispatch was filed at Berlin at 8:50 this |- At the same time, a London dispatch sgid revolutionary . i in dispatch did.not mention revolntionary troops, . but-said the revolution” was peaceful. = ~ i BULLETINS U. P. GETS “SCOOP.” (By United Press.) Washington, March 13.—News of the overthrow of the German gov- ernment was conveyed to President ’V;Vilson today first by the United ress. WILL CARRY OUT TREATY. i (By United Press.) Paris, March 13.—The terms of the Versailles treaty will' be carried out by the German government, it was announced to the newspaper men in Berlin today, by the press bureau established by the new government. LEADER IS MONARCHIST. (By United Press.) Paris, March 13. — The French foreign office has information that leaders of the revolution are unques- tionably monarchists, officials said to- day. The situation, however, is not believed to be serious. FOCH CALLS MEETING. (By United Press.) Paris, March 13. — Marshal Foch has called a special meeting of the supreme council to consider the revo- lution. CHURCH ROUNDING UP MEMBERS FOR EASTER (By United Press) St. Paul, March 13.—Practically all the evangelist protestant churches in the northwest are participating in a general roundup of former mem- bers of their denominations leading up to Easter Sunday. The action is being taken under the direction and at the suggestion of the Inter- church World Movement and was an- nounced to the pastors at recent BEMIDJI NORMAL SCHOOQL|state conference here. One of the purposes of the “in- During his brief stay in Bemidji gathering” will be to seek out young this week, State Auditor Preus made|People who are willing to devote their a call upon President Deputy of the lives to the ministry or to missionary Bemidji State Normal school, and af- ter an inspection expressed himself as being much pleased with the pro- gress being made. GREEKS MAY ATTACK TURKS. SAYS COUNCIL By Ed. L. Keen. (United Press Correspondent.) efforts. NORTH DAKOTA SHOWS SHE'S IN THE “CORN BELT” (By United Press) Bismarck, March 13.—North Da- kota’s corn exhibit at the Mississippi Valley Exposition at St. Louis has given visitors to understand that North Dakota is not north of the fa- mous corn belt. More tnan 2,000 ears of corn, raised in every part of corI:foel;(:::é }r:[a:flé};cildaéd_t— The %e:‘ele the state are being shown in the ex- 0 permif e | hibit t hich 1lloted 1 i Greeks to attack the Turks in Anitolia length.o b TR A and take whatever measures are An excellent collection of grasses necessary to expel them from that|and grains is shown also. State Im- foreign-born residents, particularly in mining districts. region. his has been learned officially e migration Commissioner J. H. Worst is represetning the state.