Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 28, 1920, Page 2

May 28—High School Commence- ment at Grand theatre. g May 29—St. Paul Business Men’s . #rade Tour will spend noon hour 4n Bemidji. June 2—Normal School Commence- t at Normal school. ‘.;:ma 6 to 19—National Guard En- campment at Ft. Snelling. “June 7—Stump Pulling Demon- stration. . " June 16 and 17 — Convention of League of Municipalities of Minne- sota. June 16 — Opening of Birchmont Beach. : June 17 and 18—Northern Minne- sota Development Association annual summer outing. June 22, 23, 24, 26—Northwestern ' Fire Insurance Underwriters annual outing, at Birchmont. ¢HOLY GHOST AND UY Boston, May 27.—Members of Blijah Sanford’s famous Holy Ghost and Us Colony have gone to work and the end of the colony is predicted. Rev. Willard Gleason, one of the leaders, is working in a Boston gar- age. g’rhe Bible class of the society has held its final meeting. Only thirty of the 600 who formerly followed the teachings of “Elijah” were in at- tendance. ‘At the last meeting it was an- nounced that Rev. John Sanfogd, son of the founder, was working in a .dye house at Lisbon Falls, Me.; that N. G. Brown, another leader, was also employed in the same factory, and that Captain Knight, another relative of the “prophet’ 'is employed leading the horse that drags a shovel used in construction work-in the same town. U.S DEPT. OF LABOR STARTS CAMPAIGN TO Is Aim; Back to School Drive to Follow To abolish child labor not merely by prohibiting employment, but by providing suitable education is the aim of the Stay-in-School campaigns now being carried on or just com- pleted in 20 states in cooperation with the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. The cam- paign’is to be followed in the fall by a Back-to-School drive in order to round up the children who fail to re- port at the opening of school, since the influence of vacation work in leading to permanent withdrawal from school has been strikingly ..~shown, An encourageing feature of - the campaign is that 6 of the states tak- ing part in it are among the 10 in % which more than 20 per cent of all | 4 the children between 10 and 15 years of age are regularly engaged in agri- cultural work. Rural child labor, which inVolves three-fourths of all the child workers in the country, is the most difficult form of child ex- ploitation to reach. It is subjct to no legal regulation except through school attendance laws, and these are, as a rule, inadequate and poorly en- forced. In 3 of the 6 states taking part in the Stay-in-School campaign, the percentage of illiterates over 10 years of age represents more than one-fifth of the total population. The other 3 states have illiteracy rates considerably higher than the coun- try as a whole. The campaign is being carried on in accordance with local needs and resources. Moving pictures and slides are being utilized in some places to show the harmful effect of too early work and the advantages of school- ing. Posters and leaflets urging chil- dren to make wider. use of the vo- cational courses offered in local schools are being distributed. Lead- ers in vocational guidance and place- ment work are giving talks to seventh and eighth grade pupils on the ad- vantages wich school training gives when the boy or girl enters the work- ing world. A ruler. called A Rule for School. showing children why for the 3 sake of their future they should stay / in school until they have at least enough education to enter a skilled ‘occupation, is being furnished local committees by tuae Children’s Bureau. The 20 states carrying on cam- maigns ave Alabama, Arkansas. Cali- fornia, Connecticut, Deleware. Illi- nois, Towa. Louisiana, Maine, Massa- chusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Ne- vada. New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee; Texas and ‘Wisconsin. The only thing at all like a drink MEMBERS GO TO WORK PROHIBIT CHILD LABOR ‘To Provide Suitable Education Factories, . Railroads, Metal Industries and Quarries Resuming Operations’ Belgium is making great strides to- ward resuming her place in the fore rank of producing and commercial nations, as the latest official figures reveal. She has been able to do this through the sheer ability of her peo- ple, capitalists and laborers alike, to work hard. The handicaps under which the Belgian people struggled were enormously heavy. One-third of their factories were destroyed; 2,- 000 kilometers of their railroads, -,1 800 bridges, 600 kilometers of their canals, as well as their telephones and their telegraph system ~were rendered useless; 60,000 railroad cars and 2,500 locomotives had been taken The public administration had been disorganized, and the State Treasury was empty. And now— . Belgian factories are operating in percentages of pre-war production ranging from 40 per cent in the steel mills to 80 per cent in textile and totally in wool. Belgian railroads in the first quar- ter of 1920 were hauling 80 per cent of the normal pre-war freight trains and 60 per cent of the normal pre-war passenger trains. The out-put of coal in 1919 was 18,000,000 tons, as com- pared with 22,000,000 in 1913. The coal output for the first three mopths in 1920 was 103 per cent of the pro- duction for same period in 1913. Her exports to Holland exceeded by 40,000,000 francs her imports; the exports to France are 20,000,000 in excess of the imports; her trade with Germany shows a favorable balance; and progress is being made towards equilization of trade between England and Italy. It is only with countries such as the United States, Canada and the Argentine, where the Belgians are purchasing food, that the com- mercial balance {s the heaviest against them. For the first two months of 1920 the exports equalled 47 per cent of the total exports for 1919, and a continuation of exports on this level would indicate that by the end of this year, when the exports exceed the total imports, Belgium will foreign financial markets for assist- ance. The recovery of Belgian industry is indicated by the number of people employed in mining, metal industries, and quarries, In December, 1919, 201,648 workmen were employed, as compared with 230,638 in December, 1913. A list of 3,692 other enter- prises showed 289,172 workmen em- ployed in December, 1919, as compar- ed with 412,462 in December, 1913. It is estimated that 76 per cent as many people were employed in De- cember, 1919, as in December, 1913. “One of the greatest factors in the steady progress of Belgian industries is the attitude of the native laborers, who have been extraordinily loyal in the face of trying circumstances. At the time of Armistice hundreds of thousands were out of work, but with few exceptions, they refused tempting offers from other countries, prefer- ring to remain, some in starvation condition, in their native land until their old factories had been restored. Since these factories have resumed operation the laborers have been hard at work. There have been some strikes, but these were based solely on wage complaints and were not the result of radical or bolshevistic movements. HAPPIEST WOMAN IN THE STATE NOW Mrs. Smith Says It Would Be Ungrateful Not to Tell Others of Tanlac “] believe I'm the happiest woman in California today and it is all be- cause of what Tanlac has done for me,” said Mrs. Eugene Smith, a prom- inént and popular Los Angeles woman who resides at 680 West 52nd St. Mrs. Smith is an officer of the East- ern Star and other organizations. | “For six years I suffered from a complication of troubles that finally led to a general break down. I had awful pains around my heart, which I was told, were caused by pleurisy. My kidneys were in such bad condi- tion I had constant pains in my back and my neck and shoulders would get stiff at times and my limbs swelled so I could hardly walk. I was so nervous that even the ringing of the door bell upset me and it seemed impossible to get a good night’s sleep. I tried everything I could hear of to get relief, even to having all my teeth treated, but kept getting worse and became so weak and emaciated that I weighed only one hundred pounds. Finally they took me to the hospital and I stayed there six weeks, but did not seem to improve in the least, 50 I was brought home and had just about given up hope when a friend persuaded me to try Tanlac. “I began to feel better after the first few doses and by the time I had taken four bottles of Tanlac I had gained eighteen pounds in weight and felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life, for every one of my troubles had left me. “The results from Tanlac must be permanent, for it- has been four months since I took my'last dose and I feel as well now as I did then, and 1 think I would be ungrateful not to tell others what a wonderful medi- cine Tanlac is.” Tanlac-is sold in Bemidji by City. gists in every town. ‘ ‘boys and girls are entirely too fa- the Board of Education declaring that no longer be obliged to appeal. to the | L e SR o oS T S s A ot ooty S0 it Aot A S A oo U SO oo R, 0, oS AU SO (By International News Service) 4 Colorado Springs, Colo., May 28.— Terpsichore is driven from the Color- ado Springs High school by an edict of Superintendent of Schools R. C. Hill,-and ‘“‘mixed hikes at night” are banned by the mentor, who deplores what he terms “‘over familiarity” be- tween the girl and boy students. “If your parents- want you to dance,” the superintendent declares, “it is up.to them to be responsible. The name of the school must not be involved by any class, society or group of individuals in any such en- tertainment.” “Do your hiking in the day time.” orders tne superintendent. ‘‘While there is no need of going into the whys and wherefores, there are to be! no more hikes at night when both| boys and girls attend.” | Under the heading “Familiarity” in. the superintendent’s order, he! says: | “I have noticed quite a number of miliar with one another in and about the school building. This over-free- dom must stop.®” Earlier in the school semester pu- pils were forbidden to park their au- tomobiles near the school grounds, the practice of high school students driving their own cars to school tend- ed to snobbishness. room. 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