Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 26, 1920, Page 6

_BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER FIONEER FUBLISEING GO, "E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. "W, HARNWELL, Editor _v Entared at the ioltofflcc at Bemidji, Minn,, as second- matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ‘fio . attention paid ‘to anonymous contributions, ' Writer's 'name must be known to the editor, but not ! 'meceasarily for publication. Communications for the ‘Weoskly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tueésday of each week to insure publication in the eurrent issue.., 3 . 8ix Months .... 13 Three Months .. THB WEBKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for,! in iadvance, $3.00. AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. ¥ Whether the' Babcock Amendment-No. 1 is- just " the liking of every single individual or' not, the most radical opposition must and does admit that it is &’ step in the right direction. The propaganda of involving a state bond issue of $100,000,000 is as far from the truth as the Minnesota Leader can possibly get, and if this paper only knew that it was, doing more to secure votes for the amendment than against it, this organ would ‘change its tactics. It is impossible to get an honest, fair minded, ‘right thinking citizen to believe such “tommy rot.” i “""TO'FILM THE BIBLE. Most ambitious of all projects of the motion pic- . ture art,:is the plan’to filni the entire Bible. This momentous effort is already in process of organiza- tion in a California studio, and ‘it is. estimated that it will need two years for its completion. The: specifications-call for 100, reels of film, certain scenes of which will gather together the greatest assemblies ever shown:on a screen.—Popular Me- chanies. © - T : e afinisdy 0a 1t is significant, that former Senator Elihu Root, republican, was the only American to receive an in- vitation to draw up a constitution for a permanent international court of arbitration? But he wasn’t good enough: to accompany Mr. Wilson to Paris.— Moline (IlL) Dispatch. i ——— & - Maybe'the fact that a good many people in vari- ous parts of the world have not enough to eat has a good deal to do ‘with all the talk about turning everything upside down. And it must be recognized that hunger is a compelling force. A 2 Attorney General’ Palmer’s campaign ‘was: Byfly flattened out in Michigan. Michiganders probably . bhadn’t noticed- any of that reduction in the cost of living which -he had | ‘promised.—Augusia Kennebec Journal.: o FHi g i . The bolsheviki in. America number among their plans the destruction of all jails. - They must hurry unless they expect to work from the inside.— Topeka State Journal. e 0- S ke This promises to be an interesting campaign. For we may expect Mr. Bryan to say something 1 serious every now and then to make folks laugh.— Baltimore American. ) 4 CONVENTION OF CHAMBER |cov~rs 508 ax rais "“involve no bond issue at all. T) (Me.) The. fact. of the ‘matter:/is, that.it.will;-probably /i W protects the voting of a bond issue in the €3 cases up to only ten million dollars, and now they are trying to make voters believe that the’amount is'a hundred million. ° : g The St. Cloud Journal Press answers the Minne- sota Leader’s “misrepresentation” ‘of ‘the ‘Babcock bill as follows: . . : ; A "It willbe noticed that ‘there. is not-a word of argument against the benefit of the proposed plan and it is an attempt to arouse the prejudice of the farmers against the city people, notwithstanding the hard surfacing of roads will be paid largely by the men who live in cities, although every rod of the paved roads will be in'the farming sections of the state. As to issuing $100,000,000 in bonds, it is not.probable it will be necessary to issue a single bond. If any bonds are ever issued and only $10,- 000,000 can be issued in one year, they will be paid ‘by the automobile" licenses and no . direct tax will be necessary, 2 The harrangue of the:Leader is simply one of prejudice, and if it succeeds in defeating' Amend- ment No. 1, it will be the hardest blow ever struck ‘against the farmer$ of Minnesota.. - It is probable there will be a lot more .of this sort of “argument” from the Townley source, but if it has any effect upon the farmers of Minnesota, it would be a‘reflection on their good sense. . The people of every section of Minnesota should work in harmony: for the henefit' of the state, and this tirade of hate should -not have any influence on any fair minded citizen, regardless of whether he-lives in the city or 'country. Let us all work together in good fellowship for the progress of the commonwealth.” Jria R > ‘The first thing we know Pansy Baker will be cori- ducting a “save money on clothes week” and send- ing patterns around over the country—South Bend (Ind,) Tribune, ¢ L H Rilsa s ol ; If you want to get a real picture of misery take a’look at a man who is waiting in the ladies’ under- wear ‘department of a store while his wife is buying something. B % €Canada’s supreme court has held that newsprint paper-is not a ‘“necessary of ‘life.” Possibly the Canadian newspapers have been not quite diplomatic in théir treatment of the judges.—St. Cloud Times. Jim . Ham; Lewig . is . always unique. Omnce he owned the only sty white ‘stove pipe” hat.- Now he is the lone candidate:for:the vice-presidency.— Detroit Free Press; E: A'man selects the front row on-the aisle when he goer to the theatre. - But he selects the back row on the aisle. when he goes to church.—~Winnipeg . Bulletin. fra s T —_—ligd el A'girl doesn’t care much how she looks when her own brother is .around. But it is different when some’ other girl’s. brother is around.—Winnipeg. The ‘democratic -party is confronted with both a condition and a theory—another case of ‘The Lady ‘and’the Tiger.”—Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune.. Funny how .peeling potatoes for five minutes will-give a. girl the backache when. dancing for five: hours won’t bother her.—Ex. : y MIXED. IDENTITY. You didn’t know who I was'this' morning? No. “Who were you?—Ex. While -this is a wicked world, no one is so-mean ' as the prosecution would have the jury believe the accused man is.—Ex. »? TR e The senate sent the treaty back to the president. Well, it-was his, wasn’t it?—Ashville (N. C.) Times. GET LOAN FROM MEREDITH sweetheart, Mademoiselle Zoe Hespel of Weyelghen, Belgium, who spent four years in the war zone between the French and German lines. Van- deliet, according to the Northern Di- vision of the Red Cross, came to Can- ada in'1912, to make a home for his sweetheart. In July,1914, he not only owned a little bit of land but. he was able to send $500 to pay her passage/to America. War Intervened. Wevelghon, five miles’ from Ypres, was one of the first, towns seized. Vdnderleit enlist- ed in the army, the quickest way to get to Belgium, but even over there every relief agency failed to get him in touch with his sweetheart’s family. The atmistice found him on a hos- pital ship with his wounds prevent- ing a last'search.?; He came to Min- neapolis where he found oniployment, although the government is still com- pensating him for headl wounds. A letter from Mademoiselle ‘Zoe Hespel 'was forwarded to him at his residence 525 South 5th street, Minneapalis. It told that she was alive and un- harmed. He sent for her.- He met her in New York where he waited twelve . 'house’in the station with an Ameri- can_ hat on his lap and a blue tri- colette dress in a box for his prospec- tive bride,; . : - . Jerry Vanderliet, nee Madem- oiselle Zoe Hespel, in the German she picked up during the five years of oc- cupation, expleined that her father’s grocery store -had:saved their: lives. plied £ and drinks to the e soldiérs, kept ‘thHem good humored and; the touc] le in his village; were un- , although atrocity -stories leaked out from surrounding villages. | Her ‘two brothers, loyal Belgians, ‘were forced to dig trenches and-haul ammunition. With the rest of her fam she hid, in shell holes”and i hority and X n authority and was no_longer deg fire. OF COMMERCE OF U, S. -DISCUSS LIVING COST F om—D;y Leading Bmiqeu Men of Nation Attend Atl antic City, April 26.—A - ness men’s war on the High Co::,m:)t Living was launched here today. at the annual convention of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States. Opening its four-day 'meet- ing in the Hotel Thaymore. with a businhess session this morning, the or- ganization stands pledged for a cams paign of increased production. Four thousand of the nation’s lead- ' ing business men are gathered to devise-means ‘of fighting. bxccs:::: costs: and. prices and - wiil base their campaign: against the H. C.lof L. on increased production. Pre-convention discussions developed the fact that business. looks upon unsettled price conditions as a certainty for many glz:;l;:egot:om;. or until the supply s the Sirbas gmand in domestic Subjects to be discussed includ transportation ‘problem, . the g‘oves:'l:: ‘ment’s policy toward anti-trust laws and taxation, international finance and world production, labor and im- migmtlon. ? : ransportation’s part in the of. production ‘will be given spe";lfl consideration. The phrt played by railroads, the highways, trucks, in- land waterways and the new merch-| ant marine’ will‘be thoroughly 'dis- cussed. The convention . will: {lfltfi- mine means of increasing the effec- tiveness of each of these nfeans of transportation. Alfxe:"flu" o(rl (l:ommerce Joshua ' nder and former-Commission of Internal Revenue-Daniel €. Roper will be am ts until Belgium submitted to|- E. T. Meredith, editor of the Suc- cessful Farming, is_loaning out: mo- ney to the boys and girls of this coun- ty for the purchase of calves or pigs that the purchaser may in turn com- pete in the boys’ and girls’ club work contests. Several in this . vicinity have already taken advantage of this opportunity to secure the livestock to raise, giving their note to 'Mr. Mere: dith in return for the loan. g { MUSIC TEACHER 1S ENTHUSIASTIC Miss_Cantril Decl re:‘ ‘Tanlac Is Best Medicine ‘She Ever Heard of “I am s_imfi_l elighted over my wonderful improvement since I began taking Tanlac,” was the ‘enthusiastic statement made by Miss Louise Can- [, tril,” popular music .teacher of 8405 Elm street, Los Angeles, Cal. “For as long as I can remember my kldneys troubled me and I rarely ever.got a good night’s rest,” she con- tinued. “I lost my appetite comi pletely and what I managed to swal- low by sheer force: of will would fer- ment and cause so much gas\ that my heart would palpitate terribly and at times I came near fainting. 1 fell| off from one hundred and twenty P’r"'—;?, TR Wy (By United ) Richmond, Vai, April 26.—Under the provisions.of a bill passed by the recent .general assembly, & complete enumeration: of.the veterans of the Con(ederutp army and navy now liv- ing in Virginia is to be made @uring the coming year. Pt R The bill makes it the duty of the commissioner . of - revenue -of each ‘| county or city, at the time 'of taking of lists' of. property for taxation, to enumerate the living veterans of the Confederate army and navy in his county or city, obtaining their names ages and: post office addresses.’ . | Senator’ Julian Gunn, Who present- ed the bill, said the enumeration will serve . the double' purpose of bring- ing ~attention, of the ' authorities worthy cases of former. soldiers who are .in needy . citcumstances, and’ at the same’time enable state pension In the great endurance test recently at Indian: authorities' to' check ‘their lists and strike from them the names of those who are 'not entitled to receive the | pension. k SECOND HAND DEALERS HARD HIT BY TIMES Pittsburgh, April ZG.\——The second hand furniture business is doomed in the opinion of several dealers here. ‘The éver-mounting cost of living has caused people to retain their slightly used goods and the ~present store stocks are rapidly diminishing. Demands are heavy but the supply is discouragingly low, No more does that pretty carpet go. on the auction block because the fabric is worn on the side near the door. It's turned around and put under the piano. Some have: learned the remarkable transformation ‘caused by varnish on ) a scratched table and many, for the! first time are using hammer and nafls on that cracked chair. The auctioneers are hunting.other l Their business is erippled too.: . Storage houses are packed. but rentals are being-kept-up-to date:im, almost every inktance. To avoid high rents many have stored their goods: and resorted | to, furnished!’: rooms. That's where the use for that damag~ ed piece of furniture comes in, and . that’s why used-goods men.are:wor- rying. § ) e For Quick and Expert| Shoe Repair Work Bring or Send Your' - ' Shoes to. . DICK’S SHOE . 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