Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 29, 1920, Page 6

PAGE SIX B - BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER TER BEWIDII PIONEEE FUBLISEING CO. @ E. CARSON, Pres. . B. H, DENU, Sec. and Mgr. ¢ @. W. HARNWELL, Editor welophone $89————————— tared at the postoffice at Bemidyi, Minn., as second- tll‘l: :ntt:r undg: 'Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. wWrl ame must be known to the editor, but not -.eet:sl;.rfll; t;r publication. Communications ‘:ormu-:: Weekly Ploneer must.reach this office not lal {n ha Tuesday of each week to insure publication o surrent issue. : SUBSORIPTION BATES By Mall One Year ...esecee..$4:00 Stx Months ...ecee.. 5.00 Three Months cccco.. 1.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in advanoe, $3.00. OPPICIAL COUNTY AND OITY PROCEEDINGS THE 1920 GRADUATING CLASS OF THE BEMIDJI HIGH. To an audience of about five hundred last night at the Grand theatre, Dr. E. H. Smith, president of the board of education, made the announcement that the, vote for the school bond election. had carried by a‘lmost two votes to one. He also stated that. he was somewhat disappointed at the size of the, vote. It would seem that at least everyone who had in- terest enough to come to the graduating exercises of the 1920 class would also have had interest enough in the welfare of their children to have voted for or against the bond before they came to the theatre. But not so. There were two hun- dred and forty-three votes cast, one hundred and fifty-nine for the bonds and eighty-four against. If this represents the interest the citizens of Bemidji take in her school affairs we believe we have at least a partial answer to a question we COMMENTS—THAT'S ALL (By TXCRANGR BDITOR) PRESS The first thing he must do is to learn to-carry water on both shoulders and keep mum about the Jikker on his hip. He must be a big brother to the workingman and a little brother of the capitalists. ‘Which situation is something like riding sidesaddle on the barbed wire fence. He must buzz the tenant that he is right and the landlord that he is righter. A presidential candidate must be all things to all men. In order to win the box of candy, you must bay up all the numbers in' the raffle. Before start- ing out beneath the tungsten of publicity, he buries the family album in chloride of lime, so his. oppon- ents .won’t discover that his grandpop lived before neckties were compulsory and his old man hung a cowbell on the pumphandle to fool the blind babies. —Pittsburg Press. i — Thomas Frankson, twice elected by republicans as lieutenant governor, refused to submit his claims to a republican convention and is doing his damdest to help nominate a nonpartisan, by being himself a candidate, and making a very energetic campaign, which must cost him from $20,000 to $50,000 dollars. He makes the boast that he is going to get 120,000 votes in the June primary. Tom is certainly due for a sad shock. He will be third in the race, and a poor third at that.—Daily Journal Press, St. Cloud. e So long as the federal administration continues its present strangle hold on the federal treasury there’s no particular need of anyone contributing to the democratic campaign fund. All publicity will be conducted by the government as it has been for FOUND THAT NEATNESS PAYS | LOOK TO FUTURE OF FOREST |WILLING TO Indianapolis Youths Possibly Only We should think he had reason to be. - THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER were going- to ask our school management some day when they were in good humor. The question was this: “Why does the graduating class of Be- midji for 1920 number only thirty when Fergus Falls has 85 graduates, Thief Riqer Falls 86, Crooks- ton 65, Red Wing 45, Brainerd over 40 and other towns Bemidji’s size from forty-five up?” We do not believe the answer lies in any de- ficiency on the part of the instructors or the school board. It seems to lie, with the parents. When so much space has been given by the press of the city to the school proposition, when the school board has spent so much time and taken the pains they have to put the present conditions of the schools up to the people, when the school faculty have had essays prepared by pupils and published in the city press. When hundreds of the citizens were given the opportunity to view pictures of crowded school rooms and inadequate equipment in the same and when the children were asked specially to request their parents to demonstrate their ideas by a straw vote on the school problem, and then—two hundred and forty-three out of a possible vote of eighteen hundred or more show their interest in the matter by voting, we are just wondering how many votes would have been cast if none of these publicity measures had been taken. We hate to think what the vote might have been. But the bonds carried almost two to one, show- ing at least that the sentiment is largely in favor of giving to their children a better chance to run an even race with the boys and girls of the rest of the world. ¢ -Never was a more apt illustration given of the handicap under which many pupils are working than that of ‘Prof. J. C. Brown, president of the St. Cloud Normal school, last evening in his com- mencement address, when he painted the picture of a boy and. girl in the race being handicapped by having to carry a fifty-pound weight in the race while the others ran the race unencumbered. We must not have our boys and girls carrying the weight in their race through life. We must provide them with the best equipment possible and give them an even chance w_vith their competitors. several years past.—Fort Wayne (Ind.) News and Sentinel. . B R It is amusing to read that Mr. McAdoo says “he . is not seeking the democratic nomination for presi- dent but would regard it an imperative duty of good citizenship for any man to accept a nomina- tion if it came to him unsolicited.” Mr. McAdoo is perfectly safe under those conditiofd.—Durango (Col.) Herald. SIS . About the only present way to lower the cost of living is to send to jail a good sized bunch of profiteers. People do not object to paying a fair price for goods, which means a fair price for labor, but they do object to paying from a hundred to a thousand per cent in profits.—Daily Journal Press, St. Cloud. e e Candidates for public office are usually too verbose in telling the dear voters why they have been coerced into the race. Some man is going to gain instant popularity by a platform of just four words: “I want the office.”—Ex. g S gt o X0 All right—let ’em make sugar from sawdust.\ But not from sand!—Ex. e il We’d better start up all the saw mills so we won’t run short of saw dust. - 0——— . Maybe, after all, that overalls movement—which originated in the south, you remember—was a clever scheme in beHalf of 60-cent cotton.—Little Falls Transcript. 7, SO There is a good deal of talk about saving money. Come to think of it, did you ever hear of anyone who was sorry because he did save?—Little Falls Transcript. G 1t is possible to reduce sugar 50 per cent. Sweet news, that. — Experts Point Out Folly of Practices | geean Couldn't Be Damper Than Al svim 'ACROSS Needed Good Example, Though the Pennies May Have Helped. Somebody Invented an old saw to the effect that “bad news travels fast.” In the viclnity of the Weldely Motors company’s plant good news did the same thing. One day a dirty-faced urchin of the neighborhood asked Bill Umphrey of the Weidely company for a penny, “Wash your face and hands and I'll eome through,” Billy told the kid. When Mr. Umphrey emerged from Bis office . at noon the youngster was there, his face and hands glowing llke ‘a 100-candle power lamp. He got the penny. . An hour later, when Mr. Umphrey returned, there was a lineup as long as that for the “Follies.” A regiment of clean hands was outstretched for colns of the realm. The generous Billy came through again, He started something. Now the kids have begun work on George Weidely and Truman Rapp. The re- sult is that Irish Hill youthful coun- tenances and hands beam like a cir- cus billboard.—Indianapolis News. The Good Heckler. Elihu Root said at a New York luncheon : “I like to attend some radical meet- @ngs on account of the heckling that gaes on at them. Hecklers are much eleverer than the speakers as a rule. “A radical orator was being heckled the other evening by a broad- shouldered lad in a brown cap. The orator got the worst of it, and he lost his temper. Finally he said in a volce of rage and hatred: % ‘Take off your cap, young man, i{ you want to question me!” * ‘Take off your cap! Take off your cap! yelled the orator’s support- ers on the platform. “But the broad-shouldered youth grinned and shouted: % ¢ 1 didn’t take off me cap when I went over the top.'” Which Prevent the Reproduction of the Trees. - (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) That young growth in the woods, known popularly as “brush,” is some- thing to be rid of, s a prevalent but mistaken conception since a forest cannot maintain itself long without re- production. For the sake of getting a scattering of green grass in the spring it is the short-sighted practice in hun- dreds of localities to fire the woods regularly. This results in killing thou- sands of small trees needed to con- tinue the forest in the future, and also injures a large amount of marketable timber. Furthermore, such burning de- stroys a large amount of rich vegetable fertllizer. " e ‘Cattle and hogs in hardwood stands, and hogs in long-leaf pines, keep the forest from being restocked. Damage from insects can be reduced by cutting timber ar the proper fime of year and by utilf=ing lightning-killed trees with- out delar. since they harbor destruc- tive pests. Cattle destroy the produc- tive leaf mulch which keep the trees growing during long, dry spells. Al large openings where light comes through into the forest should be filled with younger trees. Origin of the Word Oanada. The origin of the word Canada Is obscure, but it is now generally ac- cepted that it is derived from ap In- dian word, “Kannatha,” meanihg a village or collection of buts, and it is supposed that Jacques Cartier, hear- {ng this word used by the Indians with reference to their settlements, mistook its meaning, and applied .if to the whole country. Quebec is said to be derived from the Indian word ‘Kebee,” meaning a strait, and was given to the site of the present city of Quebec from the pecullar configuration of the St. Lawrence river at that point, for the river there grows narrow and from its deep waters rises the bold height on which the ancient city stands. sace, Was the Assertion Made by Negro Yank. 5 We wanted to watch .the negro troops deflle, according to Edith O’Shaughnessy in “Alsace in Rust and Gold.” They appeared very smartly dressed till the eye got to their feet, Such a collection of ripped, torn, cut, down-at-the-heel footwear was mnever seen before. I spoke to a couple of them very much en repos, who were leaning against a fence near the mo- tor, as I got in. N . One answered with a broad grin: “You an American from Amerlca?” “Yes.” “Well, have you heard this here war’s about oveh?” The coalest-black one then contrib- uted this to the conservation: “When peace is signed dis here nig- ger stahts to walk home.” “What about the ocean?” “Pll take a swim, lady. The water can’t be no coldeh and no dampeh dan dis here ‘Alice’ land. The mulatto by his side sald: *I subscribes,” and became a pale gray at the bare idea of getting colder or damper. This Old Earth. In a recent lecture Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent English scientist who is now visiting America, announced that the earth would probably continue to exist for 20,000,000 years more. These are, of course, round numbers. Some sclentists estimate that the earth will live for ten times this age. There have been animals of one kind and another on this planet for fully this length of time. The dinosaurs are believed to have lived through some such period. | The age of man, which is probably only a few thousand years, seems the mer- est trifle by comparison. When we consider how man has developed dur- ing recorded history, which is Tess than ten thousand years, we may hope that he will evolve to an infinitely finer type- in the future.—Boys' Life. ' CLASS POEM 1920 Class of Bemidji High Schopl Written by Mildred Argall. By the shores of Lake Bemidji Stood an overcrowded building. In it there were students plenty, Without this class of 1920. So, they pushed us, crowded, cram- med us, . From the building they soon jammed us. Workers, flunkers, all the rest All the poor ones, all the best. Rita is a brilliant lass In all the subjects leads her class. Rita lately from Baudette, We wish she wouldn't leave us yet. Carolyn Campbell, don’'t you see, Will give our valedictory. As a magmet does the tack All hard tasks do her attract. Lottie French, you’ll agree Is noted for her jollity, Loves to sing, loves to dance, Studies when there is a chance.* Earl, of great athletic fame, Has helped to earn Bemidji’s name On his sweater you will see His sign of victory, Big Blue B. And Harold Morse, you'll all agree, No less deserved the Big Blue B. The football trot, it is the talk, He changed into the camel walk. Dorothy Nangle, known as Dot, At every game is on the spot. With her peppy cheers and cries, With her flashing big black eyes. Bernice Wallace, Latin shark, At her task from light till dark. Wondrous teacher will she be Leader in Democracy. ‘‘Desperate’’ Crothers, like a Ford, Speeds, he knoweth not what toward, “Vanquished, he can argue still,” Takes all jolts with right good will. Magdalene, with hair so curly, Surely a bewitching girlie. Returned to us about mid-year, We're truly glad to have her here. Ethel Marin, mild and meek, Seldom is she known to speak, Yet she took so very daring, « Bookkeeping, without much caring. Carl and Knute, the Siamese twins, Always together when trouble begins, Stick together thru thick and thin, And never give up till both of them win. Margaret and Gladys and Pearl, you see, Called by their classmates the win- some three. With laugnter, and smiles, and gig- gles galore, A Are noticed as soon as they enter the the door. Ethel and Barbara, very demure, Have another effect, I am sure; Always, their lesson they have on time, Never, like some of us, are they be- hind. Annie Herling, as a rule, Never thinks of skipping school. In French she’s surely made her mark. In fact, she’s really quite a shark. Gladys Getchell, known as Babe, Scarcely can in church behave. She‘is cute and, Oh, so witty. That she leaves us is a pity. Ralph Lofemaker, the man at the Grand, As critic does take a high stand, Knows every actor’s expression and stunt, : His opinion of them is often quite blunt. Bertha Webster, our salutatorian, Like Webster, the noted historian, Not only in speech can she excel, But also in science does well. And now, here’s our shy Edna Flynn, Who twice in this school did begin.’ She tried to escape, but we’ve kept her somehow. And so she wil end with us now. Here's our smiling Myrtle Rain, With bewitching dimples plain. Dimples chasing in and out, When a musical boy’s about. Florence Bagley, known as Birdie, Whom Ebenezer knows as sturdy. Once wore a patch upon her face, When Ebenezer won the race. Vivian Sanderson, gentle and shy, Never answers back, 1 don’t know why. i She can dive, and she can swim, Always comes up again with the same vim. Little, modest, sweet, Ruth Stain- brook, At her history takes her main look. To leave her books, she’s in no rush, But say, “Montana”—See her blush. Evelyn Kirk, our president, Many hours in work has spent. Tho we leave her till the last, Our loyalty to her is fast. ' Visitor—An egx is mighty valu- able these days. Farmer—Of course. An egg will bring almost enough to pay for feed- g the hen until she lays the next ane SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1920 INDIAN RESERVES TO BE OPENED IN CANADA (By International News, Service) Ottawa, Ont., May 29.—Three In- dian reserves in Saskatchewan will be thrown open before Jyne 1 to sol- dier settlement, according to Chair- man Blagk, of the Soldier Settlement Board. The lands aggregate 43,239 acres, as follows: Ochopawace, ten miles northeast of Broadview, 18,- 846 acres; Touchwood, 100 miles southwest of Saskatoon, in the Touchwood _Hills district, 8.076 acres; Piapot, fifteen miles northeast of Regina, 16,318 acres. Indian lands will be held for soldier settlement ex- clusively. The exhaustion of crown lands might be misleading to. civilian set- tlers unless it is understood that Your Doctor Knows What He Wants. So Do We. fere are stlll millfons of acres of privately-owned “and-~ratlway-owned lands open to general settlement near he railways, and the situation has een helped by the Hudson Bay Company, which is closing out to farm settlers some 3,000,000 acres throughout the three prairie provin- ces, all of which is convenient to railway lines. The action of the government in opening Indian reservations is to pro- , vide more farms for soldiers located close to railway transportation lines. In its other soldier settlement pro- gram the government has ‘followed out a policy of placing service men only on farms continguous to rail- ways and has refrained from settling soldiers on remote frontier districts. In carrying out this plan practically all the crown lands near railways have been exhausted. 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