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THE BEMIDJI DAILY PION « [PLUMBER WHO GETS $12 == | EER = BERLIN, ONCE ORDERLY GROWS SHABBY AS VICE |. " AND CRIME INCREASE Dance Halls and Resorts Thrive Unrestrained; Germans Say Tkey Dance to Forget | || DAY CANT SMOKE ON JOB (By International News, Service) Denver,/ April’ 26.—Denver plum- bers recei¥ing $12 per day must keep. busy and cannot woo Lady Nicotine while on the joo, according to a rul- ing by( Judge George W. Dunn-in 60 '*_l_‘_o_n“Mil'es !_)_f- L S \ e PR G Motor Truck Freight @ \"ersonj e J mber who charges $12 per day has no right to smoke on the : LA ¥ 31011,” thg jl;dlge ;1ect(l=:red ]itn amldmgl 26.—When nig 3 own a decision in the suit of a loca! h]fie;:;inéefl?;i}t hides the scars, dirt g plumbing firm against Mrs. I'. H.| and general dilupidation of the Ger- Woo;l étso recover a bill for plumbers’ 3 .. Once upon a time the services, lngm::l;lmlwe,g righl:ly proud of Mrs. Wood stated that the plum- ber who performed the.work smoked A 5 vy DURING 1917 .(latéét authentic their capital; it “),::' :;?“%j;uz ctlltlz : , : on the job continuously and spent | IR o o = g 3::«:3';03,1 %fi of‘t)enA-beIore one’s ; ‘ much time retilling ‘and’ lignting his %I’“‘!@ City Hall E fi res aval]able) motor trucks 's ears, but everything § 3 pipe. * She also alleges that he ruin- Ok ,,Sd“'“del' Bldg. : haul 60 tOflS"Of frei ht a mlle for_ » es ang in one :vyorked‘;uo well that one could for- give the municipal drill sergeant who madeé Berliners obey his will. 4 Berlin is badly scared by rifle 'and machine gun bullets but the awful condition of the city i not due to the fighting which' took place during the revolutions and counter-revolutions. Like a house abandoned by the ten- ants and neglected by the landlord, Berlin has fallen on evil days. The ed the woodwark with tobacco juice. Judge Dunnm, in ' awarding Mrs. Wood her requested reduction in the bill, remarked: o . *“The evidence shows ' that the <WILLIAM DUNCAN | plumber killed time on the fob.. When 1t 1s only patural ‘that Wilitam Dus-|a man charges $12 a.day he ought to can should be the hero of hundreds of |do his smoking at the noon hour. Cer- thriiling escapes and streruous rescues | tainly he has no right to take such in. Vitagraph's famous' serials. His valng.ble time to fill :}nd ught; his lean and well swept, | Pbysigueand early training particular- | PIPS: . S 0 o \ K - :tr?::i'wmif:t:rod With paper. Aero-| 1y fitted him ;‘;: :’“‘:‘ t'l::h t.thc:rl;:: fight wing of the team, was born in planes are constantly flying over the He completed “l h. he took | Buckingham, Canada, August i2, oity dropping thousands of leaflets| Versity of Pennsylvania, where he took | 1394, 'He played first with the Buck- fscxed by the government urging the( s/prominent part in college fleld ganet | jngham team then with Cobalt, Cleve- people to do this or that. Carts and athletics. He became athletic 18- }1and and Pittsburgh ‘teams. He at- | drive through the streets; tne occu™ structor and toured the country :at|tended the University ot Pittsburgh | h thie head of his own dramatic compamy |and served with the United States, pants throw out more leaflets. People hem, glance at them,| before becoming &.serisl star and & |Motor Transport Corps. : na then contemptuot ; P Lawrence J. McCormick, his bro.|, tuously throw them | pector. . s y 45 ther, centre, is 29 years of age. He every person in the United States. Then the country was at war and the capacity of the railroads was - overtaxed. o It is doubtful if even a small percentage of this enormous tonnage could have been moved except by motor trucks:: The management -of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana); recognizing. the nec- essity of furnishing facilities for. supply- ing.gasolineto-automobiles and trucks as \ they: traveled through the country, estab- . lished ‘Service Stations at ‘convenient away. g — G treets are ankle deep 45 . learned the game at Buckingham and . W m‘},';f,ef-" He ?ree : ing contests, yachting comes next on |later played with the Pittsburgh A. pomts ,t,h.l-oughOUt the temtory served. y in Unter den Linden and |the program for July 7 to 10. Polo A\-team:.” He also served in the motor The walls - These Service Stations perfected the sys- Sitn” perated appeats ¢ . tem of distribution maintained by the tion... They become dirty and torm, treets are covered|[follows from July.15 to August 2; [transport corps. .. |\ o the popula-|rifile and pistol shooting July 24-31; | - 'Raymond L. Bonney, goal, ~was ‘adn’ cycling. August 9 to 12. " /|born at Phoenix, N. Y., in 1892. He and add to the general ‘umkempt|‘ The real cerénonies are to come on Tearned the game with the Hull, Que- condition of the city The only in-|August 14 when the track and field bec, team and played later with the B | terests ‘of 'the people are gambling|gamés are to start following the open- |Pittsburgh A. A. He was assistant ek \ and dancing. “There is extraordinary |ing of the stadium. The King and physical instructor at Camp. Lee. | interest in French racing. - There are| Qi are to be present with their| ~J. Edward Fitzgerald, defense, was & 3 many places where ‘one" can bet ‘on | coprt attendants. and promipent of- lborn ‘in Northfield, Minn,, 28 years | the results of racing at Maisons Laf-|ficfals ‘of the nation. ~ A parade of [agoc He first played hockey with the fitte,- Auteuil and Longchamps.- The|the nations is to be one of the feat- St. Paul team and later .became a interest is sustained by mnewspaper yres. = .° R \ - member of the St. Paul A. C. He is shops - selling envelopes containing| ““The ‘track and fleldSgames run|2 University of Minnesota man and tips for the French races. ‘| from ‘Avgist 14 to 23; tennis, August senfed in t})e artillery during the war. Always known as one of the most|y5.23- hoxing, August 15-26; fencing ,Cyril Widenborner, 'goal, ,is a St. jmmordl cities of Europe, Beriin has|aygugt 1 Greco-Roman wrest- | F2ul boy, went to the University of not changed since its decline. Re-ljing “August 16-26; swimming, Aug- Minnesota and playedb with .the St. ligion is rapidly losing its hold on the|yist ~'22-29; archery, August 22-z9; Paul clubs: . people, and the marriage tie is' no|gymnastics, "August 22-29; weight Frances Xavier Goheen, defense, is longer respected. lifting, August’ 23.28; modern pen-|26 years old. He went through the. But it is when night falls that Ber-|tathlon,” August 24-27; rowing, Au-|bockey school of St. Paul, studied at lin really lets itself go.. All over thelgygt ™" 27-2'9; " 'catch-as-catch-can Valpariaso university and served center of the city, as well ‘as further| wrestling, Angust’ 27-31; football, | With the U. S. Signal Corps. - out in Charlottenburg, there are in-|August 25 to September 5; hockey| Georse Plerce Geran is 23 years old numerable . dancing and ~drinking| (grass), ‘September 1.5; equestrian and was:born at Holyoke, Mass. 'He places. These places are supposed to|games, September 6:12: played first with Holyoke high school,l close at 11 o'clock, but only the few R :;ter ‘;:c:nh Dr’;"m.{'n"‘":‘ cq:nege, a}l;di - en w. various Boston teams. e ?: "g;figfigfigfi: ones think of obey-|.. American colors will be taken into|was in the navy. y gCloge_curtalne‘d windows ~ hide|the Olympic games by one of the best| Leon Parker Tucker, - defense, is scenes of extraordinary depravity.|lockey teams ever assembled in thealso a Dartsmouth man. He was born German champagne flows like water, | Uited States. N at Winchester, Mass., and broke into The players were chosen from the|the game with the high school te: Berliners will ‘tell' you ' that' they, ga 4 1001 team drink and dance to forget. three best amateur teams of America|there. He served in the avigtion sec- Lik - |—the 'Pittsburgh Athletic Aseocia-|tion. : Righ: e night ‘prowling wolves men A , € tion, the:Boston Athletic ‘Association| Anthony J. Comroy, forward, is and ‘women ‘haunt the approaches to (s . y Ve ard, a and the St. Paul Athletic Club. They|native of St: Paul. He played first the well-known . hotels and.offer to i £ the i d skilled play conduct strangers to these haunts of [2r€ 2 veterans of the ice and skilled | with Cretin high school 'and then players: - with other teams.of his home city. . If one speaks English there is ;x::emendous “nsh of these parasites. Joseph W. M He also served n the aviation section. They crowd around one and literally The . drivers: of this, caravan, of motor -trucks’ which carried the :6. billion ton miles of freight in 1917 would have found _ their task more difficult of -accomplish- ‘ment had" it-not been for the' network of' Service Stations-along the way. " . While -the . Standard - Oil - Company was . supplying a-substantial share -of :the fuél consumed by these motor trucks, it also was. supplying its regular patrons, and meeting the demands of the United States . Government with great quantities of gas- oline for war purposes. - , Its preparedness and its ability to meet . an emergency, however: unheralded the emergency may be, serves to emphasize .. - one of the salient phases of the bigness of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). Standard gfl) Company 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago - 2042 cCormick, captain and fight for the right to lead you to a per h : C B Calumet contains only such Fake = B dancing place. “Come, Englishman, A @ ingredients as have been ap- = : come,” they call in English. proved officially by the U. S. :: MEfed i3 4 : 25 Americans are also included in this 2 ood Authorities, " ' v A . 1 1 invitation, for both English and Am- 4 ] .. You save when you buy it ericans are respected, .but not even : Ty ’ .. You sagve when you useiit . .\ e i : '0 5 . the desire to earn marks will tempt v E o3 QUALITY - | A 4 the pests to speak to a Frenchman. % R AWARDS “ = ; W 2 § . 3 & : | The hatred for the French in Ger-| , many pasces all beliefé‘ H : " f 1t is only when the sun begins to QL 2 > s creep up ihe sky that the revellers 1 X Y s g b A m %% ; stagger out into the streets to face 4 7 R 6L ? nched-faced poor souring “the ashbins for potato peelings and rot- ting cabbage:stalks. ¥ e SKATING EVENTS OPEN BIG OLYMPIC GAMES By K. H. Sheffield * Altwerp, Belgium, April ©23.— Beiginm will become the scene tomor- row ol another world wide conflict. Athijetic armies of the world’s est powers will compete-in the attlie of speed, sirength and 911(\ur- ance which opeas heve and ruis thru the summer io Septembey, 120 # The Olympic games, premier sport- events of the workd. since the of the ancient Greeks, comes AND here is the top-miost cigarette—the highest point of smoking pleasure and : _satisfaction—the SPUR CIGARETTE. .The fargest electric sign in the .world advertises 'WRIGLEYS on Timesfiqu;are‘. New York _ City: it is 250 feet long, 70 , feet high. Made up of 17,286 electric- lamps. The fountains play, the trade mark changes. read- ing alternately WRIGLEY’S .SPEARMINT, DOUBLEMINT, and JUICY FRUIT. and the Spearmen “do a turn.” This sign is seen: nightly by about 500,000 people from all over the world. . Studied “from'the ground up”—in seed, e ; | soil, plant and culture. Studied in blend- : ing, studied in making, studied in packing. X - . There’s not a chance left that it can ever ‘be among the “Also Rans.” - o lympic games’ were held in 1912." Berlin was to have been the scene of the 1916 en- counter but all Europe was wrapped . in Dbattle at that time. Germany; Austria and the other nations of the Central powers wererdenied admission to the 2o % % The hockey games in the Antwerp Ice Palace open the Olympic contests. The surface of artifieial ice is 175 by 60 feet. Accomodations. will 'bel provided - for more than 5,000 spec- tators. The original plans of hold- ing the games on'the Brussels canal ‘were changed recently. Five nations will compete in the opening event-——The United States,|: Canada, Sweden, Norway and Den- mark. % Without attempting to hazard a choice, on the selection-of a winner, skating critics are almost agreed that no nation will have-a cinch, but that the honors seem to.rest between the teams of the United States and Can- ada, with the Canadians a slight fa- vorite. The figure skating contest with entries from the same nations, also opens tomorrow. & N Informal ceremonits only are to ~ mark the opening of the games. The . ‘Belgian Olympic committee, the offi- cials of the ity of “Antwerp and a representative of King Albert” will extend a welcome to the visiting skaters and the new palace will be dedicated officially and turned over to - Cornelius Fellowes, president. of -the Intérnational Skating Union and manager of the American team. meAfter- the hockey and- figure-skat- » & - 4] arettes . SPUR’S. Points: . Spur Cigarettes are ‘crimped, not pasted, making ‘an - easier-drawing and slower- burning cigarette. # N Blended in a2 new way from American and Imported tobaccos, bringing out to- the full that good-old tobacco taste. : In ‘a_smart brown and silver packet, three-fold, to preserve their delicious taste : -