Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 31, 1920, Page 4

| SUBLISNED EVEET ATTERNOON RXCEFT SUNDAT ®. K. CARSON; Pres. E. H. DENU; 8ec. and Mer. . ‘ntered at the postoftice at somwgi.o}l%r "i“”.‘!,%: ' olags -matter under Act of C No ' attention paid to qonym'o:- “?t:;fl::t‘l:l; i to the Writer's name must be Imowlé ommunluuout' but » "~ mecessarily for publication. iy ‘must reach this office not later ;mmyngn:;h Week to imsure pul in the ... ~eurTeDt issue. blication ‘13 Three Months «occo.. 1.00 5 publiahed THE PIONBER—Twelve Dpages, .- every Thursday {nd sent postage paid to any address, Zor, in advance, $3.00. | . oFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY Ly EQUAL EDUCATION FOR ALL. Never before have people Jooked with such ex- pectancy and hope to our public and high schools e help as a final source from whence would com: ! for amilioration of some of the woes and misfits of organized society. “ " Democracy fastens its faith on the ion . all the children of all the people. The pnnc)ple . of education for the few, for ‘the better born, for +"the more fortunate, for the ruling classes, has been .. discarded for an edu needs of a community as & social ggonp. o ) 1 ing the ter changes have come about nrmg ! . s social life of all industrial .~hundred years in the a ‘ " peoples than those of a thousand previous years. < The new program of educ e -these changes. The new faith in education has " ‘dotae because the people—not:the leaders of the : people—but the people themlelvgo, have Qmove:ed that education is the one thing which helps them to meet effectively the perplexing problems of mod- ern life. Immigration, life for city life, ed;lcntion of the rise of class distinctions, in- dustrial changes, ship and training for .occupations, have all con- cational scheme which is bourid to add to'the better- ment of all classes of society. Four-fifths of our immigrants belong to the chsg ! of unskilled laborers.’ One seventh of our popula- ; tion are foreign born, one third ‘of those employed in our factories are foreign born, one-half of those engag'ed in mining are foreign born, ome- fourth of those engaged in domestic service and of the foreign born is 'to mass .in.industries . such as mining, manufacturing and ‘transportation. Society has come to recognize the n_egr% of ‘specia_l education for the people who are engaged in these “ Jocations and for their children who will doubtless %" continue to serve in’much the gm'e qqpncities. We are becoming top heavy with cities. Popula- tion-is-rapidly swinging to the-cities. The central- jzation of manufacturing industries: me_of the great causes of ‘this ‘and present in lications point to the future domination of the city over society. The problem, of “the education of the laboring classes 'in the ‘cities is without ques “one .that is ‘demanding much serious thought w_,:‘eflort on the part not only of foremost educators of the country but legislators as well. But the city prob- lem is no greater than the problem _Of.'f.fl‘lfle isolated country. school in the pioneer sections;of our coun- try. No where is to be found greater rural school great commonwealth of Minnesota. Many phases of the city problem do not appear in our rural schools and conversely we have many rural problems which do not present themselves in the city schools. . Is it right that the children of the pioneer who blazes his trail into the northern forests or those of the farmer who moves out on the expansive prairie should be deprived of the educational bene- fits accorded their more fortunate city cousins? The pioneer, be he forest or prairie settler, rarely has the means to -provide teachers for his children. He must wait until sufficient other neighbors move into the same community before a school can be started and a teacher hired—and then, alas—too "BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER in’ transportation’ are foreign born.. The tendency - cation which ‘considers; the ° ation'is but a result of the abandoning of farm and rural - : the passing of trade apprentices _ tributed to the demand for a more intensive edu- . problems than in the vast northern stretches of our ' farmer in a frontier district is as much entitled to : ik often a very inefficient one at that, jn order, that ' his children may be educated. i ALk 7' Who, pray, has a greater right. to haye his chil- ; dren receive the best there.is in education than ; the pionéer who braves the hardship.of- an-isolated existence in order that new fields may be opened up and production;, the greatest need of every coun- «try, increased? AR 35 Sy 35 Under the present system of school government “and support it is almost entirely a:case of local : support by taxes imposed upon the “‘school district|” It efficient instruction and adequate ‘equipment is ' to be furnished, the district must pay’ for it—dnd conversely .if the: “district” cannot afford it the children of the district do not get it. ' . : (#*%"We cannot believe this is the ideal way of ad- ministering our school system. The child of the “a thorough training as, the. child of the millionaire , in the city—and who shall say that past history and experience have not demonstrated that in spite of its handicap the little red country school-house has produced as great, or greater, number of lead- . ; ers in our nation as the larger city schopls? . .= In short, why should not our state educational department become the “school district?” : Impose an equal tax, collect the revenue, administer in - full the expenditure, supervise in detail the opera- tion of the large and small schools alike, and see to it that because one community is in a.pioneer district ifs children receive no less a chance. for training than ‘those in a more favorable situation. Why should the son or daughter of a :pioneer on the frontier be handicapped.in the competitive race of life because his or ‘her father 'had- the - extra grit-and determination to move itno.the new country in order to develop it and thus enrich our nation? . - - ; g5 s E Many -petty jealousies now arising from local : . board government; many inefficiencies now: pound- - - ed over, and much that tends to prevent harmony : in the government of .schools would be-removed. All wou%;-be“ taxed alike, all would ‘share alike in ; opportumity, and the standard .of education in the lower level of schools would be raised-to that : of the higher. ' . o The basis of state aid to the communities would | . not be made on what vocational work is being ' : dome in the schools, bat the basis of what would be: ‘done would be in proportion to what the- stafe :* aid/ 8. /The cart is before the horse at present with regard to state aid to schools. i i " Cities, both large and small, have grown up m various parts of:our state because of the resources; of the state in this particular locations. Some have, become immensely wealthy because of having been blessed by;a generous Providence who in His gen- erosity ;made available such- boundless storehouses ' of wealth. - Others less fortunate have struggled’ along—not less: energetically—but with less orig- inal endowment. Shall not-the. children. of thoge! .who have equally toiled be equally favored with _.the opportunity of:the best of .education? Th - wealth of our state;is:adequate. to .provide th best to be had in education to every: child in bord)e:s,‘ Why .not do! it? In Spanish Morocco, a Tectan x a tribe of natives who ‘treat: their wives as:beas! of ‘burdens. and tfijeir"dnughtem:,hre soldftoj highest " bidder.. But why, pick on' illiterate an unenlightened Morocco? ‘We have only to loo around in our own land fo see the “beast of burden at her toil and the daughter decked out in.peekabgo ' finery to catch the richest husband. et The railroads want a billion dollar, increage in: freight rates, or rather they want an increase .th: will produce that much additional income. Give' to them. The consuming goat still has a sqlmrqd inch or two of hide left on his lacerated back. :. With Carranza in his grave.at the hamnds of treacherous and brutal assassin, there is & pol bility of a return to something like normal con tions in Mexico. A possibility—that’s all. SR R SR LR ; A merchant advertises “silk shirts one-third off.”. Too short, brother, too short for comfort. . There nothing more exasperating than trying to keep an abbreviated one down. ¥ Heaven and hell are a long way apart, but some people try to straddle through life with a foothold, in each place. : . —_ : | Buy a horn. Blow into'it. Make a noise for this town. You will be heard. erican manufacture. & A millionaire piloted Number One. || He is Cliff Durant of Detroit, driving 'a Chevrolet. Ralph DePalma, favor- " THE BEMIDSI DAILY PIONEER —_— Eddfe Hearne, Duesenberg, U Waldo Stein, Oldfield, U. 8. - Tom' Rooney, ReVere, U. 8. Not named, ReVere, U. 8. Richard Jones.. < Vail, Philbrin, U. S. J. Ellingboe, Ellingboe, U. S. C. G, Howard, Ellingboe, U. 8: Ralph Mulford,’ Mulford, U. 8. Kurt Hitke, Kenworthy, U. 8. (Not named, Richards, U. 8. Not named, MeVeor, U. 8. . byt named; T. N. T.,-U. 8. THE CAST R..D. MACLEAN obert McKim Hector Sarno .Bull Durham .M, B. Flynn J. Denecke ‘Neola Mae Myrtle Stedman rederick Stanton ...Carl Gerard Curtis Cooksey Mur Con:fenu t Mfirde_r Because He s Tired:of Life - . Shows how clear thinking “will gét a man into and out | of trouble at will. that keeps you guessin In Vitl.npll HAROLD LLO In the laug}iable farce - “Haunted Spooks”’ Exclusive Features . Concealed sound- ing ‘boards and amplifying com- partments of woed prévide the area of vibration GRAND Theatre TflURS., JUNE 3_‘ : REX BEACH'S HSIIVER HORDE A tale OF WORLD WAR PLAN Vicinity Are Expected to Gather at Reunion Officers wha were - in “the Engi- . neers, Railway ’lflra.nqurtl.uon Corps, as ‘and ‘Flame’ Service, and other branches, organized by the Engineets in the World War, are to have a re- wnion and dinnef at the Kitchi Gam- mi ‘club, Duluth] Minn., June 12, 1920. Chaplaing and surgeons who were' assigned to any organizations in these branches are also included. A'large ‘attendance is expected on account of the gréat number of engi- meérs; Inmbermen, railway, men and others who served in the ‘engineers from the region surrounding Lake Superiog. One hundred and twenty- nine' men from .this territory were examined at the District Engineer of- fice at Duluth in’the summer of 1917, and ‘this’ was ‘bitt “the- beginning of the great numbér who responded to the call of their! country. - ‘Over one hundred - notices have been sent out to.ex-officials. whose names and addresses are known to the committee on-arrangements. This committee ‘requests that any person eligible who see this notice and de- sire to attend, should . notify the chairman of the committee, Major F. A. Pope, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Engineer office, Duluth, Minn,, at as'early a date as, practicable, so that proper arrangemeints.can me made. Perhaps the gyeatest.work of the engineers was nat _so much in the battle front, great as it was, but be- tween the front and the parts where our troops landed in” France. The greatest engineering: triumph in ‘all history - was the preparation and handling of the means for transport- ing an army: of - 2,000,000, which would have soon been ‘4,000,000 ‘if the war had not ended when it did, from the United’ States across three thousand miles” of ocean, and - five hundred iniles overland to the front in France. Docks:and- wharves had to be constructed, hailroads and roads built, warehouses providéd and in- numerable othér buildings. - .e lum- ber used had to-be made from the forests of France with 'saw mills constructed and operated by = Engi- neer Forestry regiments, while the cement used in ‘cotistruction had to be provided in thevsamc way. A few more important items .of construction wetre” 15,039 barracks, 7.700 hospital-barracks, 947 miles of standard guage ‘railroad, 500 ‘acres of cavered storage; ‘docks*furnishing 90 berths totaling’ over 7 miles were operated, .some-of these were ac- quired from the French, the rest were built); mechaniéal bakeries 'to pro- D PAY FOR A £You can pu s this M IV Vietrola, to with-a . MONDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1920 .|plants and other ,structures .needed YOUR PIN-MONEY l NEWS OF THE THEATRES ite of the race fans, drove a Ballot. " surface essential vide ‘over 500,000 ‘pounds ef-bread a day, 189,564,000 feet. B. M. of Jum-_ ber, .3,751,660 railroad . ties, 1,780~ . 000 poles, 892,200 cubic meters;of firewood, 38,200 piles, 66,000 ’tons of cement; besides thousands of miles. of narrow gauge rajlroads and wag- on foads, water supply, sewerage, re- mount depots, veterinary hospitals,. : oil and: gas, storage, refrigeration, for a military force of 4,000,000 men: or twice the population of Minnesota. at the last census in 1920. § The tigures given refer only 'to France, although much was done in other countries, ‘notably . Russia and Siberia. A vast amount of engineer- ing work was:done in' the United: States by the Engineers and other branches of the army.: Great as this was it is hard to realize that ‘more construction for strictly military purposes was done in France than in: 'the United States and under immeas~ urably” greater difficulty in every way, aside from the fact that much of it was done to the music of burst-- ing shells and the whistling of ma-- chine gun bullets. i Perhaps the gredtest pride the En-- gineers have in all their achieve- ments is that with all the backbiting: wrangling and promiscuous charges. of inefficiency, corruption, and fraud : (whether just or unjust) with which: our country is and has been cursed during the war, they alone, or almost alone, of all the branches of the- government, have escaped without a. single hostile criticism. With res-- ponsibilities second to none in the: four great fields - or purchase and’ manufacture of supplies, transporta- tion, -construction, and on the. field" of battle, they have won a world wide reputation and, most remarkable of” all, have escaped the almost. univer— sal hostile criticism at homs. WelE may the engineer corps of the army < and the profession at large be proud’ S of their record. What business:’man: " or .manufacturer could expand his: business over one hundred and sixty times in eighteen months, move most: of his business across the ocean and: under -adverse condftions establish: such a record. BICYCL ES| | Complete line of Tires and Sup- i plies. Furniture Repairing and Upholstering. . GENERAL REPAIR SHOP STAHL & JACOBS 811 Sixth St., Bemidji Phone 488 Exclusive Features “Goose - Neck™ sound-box tube— * enabling the Vie- tor stylus to fol- low the -~ record grooves with ‘und erring accuracy. Modifying doors ® ! odel .col- v ! AT THE GRAND 5 Tonight, also Tuesday afternoon and evening, two feature photoplays .of unusual excelience appear at the i~ Grand theatre. The drama is Leroy ing as though born on the wind, a figure draped in weird oriental cos- tume entered your life. a Yogi from far off India and bear-| ing with him a crystal sphere into lection of Victor records, on _terms so easy that you will never " miss the money.; It is just the ma- chine for an apartment or small home, 'requires; but little room,. for exact” and pure tone\repro- duction.. éxbibi— tion sound box— . the accurate, sen- sitive reproduc- Many former winners are entered again this year. * Among them, are Rene Thomas, Jules Goux, Ralph De Palma, and Howard Wilcox. Wilcox copped the priges last year by coming in first'in a Puegeot. This is a French car and has won three —may be opened .. wide, thereby £ giving the tone in its fullest vol- ', ume; or . doors . ‘may be set at This figure; E et U T _Secott’s famous story, “Partners of tlie|Which he bade you look and therein y ;':i(;’;ht,” and they twoa:part cm:ledy was shown your future life.) =~ [of the races, taking the last two. . « .ing. :diaphragm By - ! e, the 'Inimicanis. comediay| All the misery of an ageall the| Ralph DePalma holds tho recard af thet converts ev. and is easily portable from place any degree, grad- " Larry Semon in his latest production, |mad rags of poverty, -all the” anger [ 94 :51, which he established in . icle of to pl S : PE g -, uating the vol- T 3 Dayar MCLIOM. | of an outraged faith, all the éstacy|1916. The average time for DePal- ery particle o: 0 place. sy : £ time to i |of success and all the fear of betray-|M& in this race was 89.84 miles per tone into an' ex- : S AT meflo :‘n : . al, and in all this you see yourself |Rour. ; o act reproduction s Lol ELKO PROGRAM pictured in kaleidioscopic vividness,| The. sweepstakes were suspended of the original.. - G i A : Constance Binney, quaint and ap-|Wwould you want to live that-life? - |in 1917 and 1918 because of the war. : ] . : A pealing, presents at the Elko tonight | This is the theme of the great, new, Entrants in Today’s Race. : V lctrola IV 25 00 IDEAL : {for the last umes "that charming|tense, dramatic document, “Eyes. of Driver Car Representing’ IDEAL : grw o 75 photoplay, “The Stolen Kiss,” her|Youth,” in which is seen Clara Kim-|Cliff Durant, Chevrolet, U. S. \ b for Informal [ { “gecond Realart production. On the|ball Young at the Rex theatre today. Ralph DePalma, Ballot, France. : 6 Records . 5 10 r Informal B . Z " same program, “‘Smiling Bill” Par- VYR, Y. Jean' Chassagne, Ballot, France. for the Sum- 1 2 . Entertaini i 0 _sons is the featured player in a re- RACERS A % Rene Thomas, Ballot, France. o IR fined comedy entitled “A much Need- OFF'TOD Y ‘(;‘;‘;t‘zfg;‘;‘;figtm ';;‘:_:'euhs's mer Cottage n for Evenings g Tty ' e 06, me |9 Months To Pty $30.10 ' ' Tuesday and Wednesday the popu- AT mnmm‘s %"“09 Sarles, Monroe, U, S. B 3 for Camping _ n s n a s at Home lar Earle Williams stars in. “The hpy ook p .Y:et ‘;fid’wnf:::::;cu'us' A Tri ’ ! ] mikcfn‘:;g’iana%‘:r;ll'; Ifllt)n;gu:p:x:s (By United Press), -~ Arthur Chevrolet, Frontenac, U. S. If desired it can later !’e appheg} on the for Lazy i : in twopart comedy, “Hgunted Indianapolis, = May = 31.——Thirty-|Not Named, Frontenac, U. S. & for Canoeing / purchase of a cabinet machine . . 5 3 "Spooks » at the Elko tl; fatre, two daredevil automobile racers went |Ray Howard, Peugeot, France. 3 ; Ho‘ldly. o gt 2 under the gun at ten o’clock here to-|Jules Goux, Peugeot, France. i S g . day in the eighth International 500-|Andre Boillot, Peugeot, France.: - 9 X s REX TODAY. mile Sweepstakes, of the Indianapolis|Howard Wilcox, Peugeot, France. ar er s ru ewe r tore § Suppose you were sitting with your | Motor Speedway. Jean Jorporato, Gregoire, France. 3 ; . i loved ome. The time was May. All They race for a purse of $70,000. |Jack Scales, Gregoire, France. . Lk pdd . nature smiled. You were content that| France, England, Italy and Amer-|Jimmy Murphy, Duesenberg, U. S. Thll‘d Street Bemldll Mlnn. Fate had shaped a happy life for|ica were represented by the drivers|Tommy Milton, Duesenberg, U. S. A £ Tt b i ~you. Suddeniy and without warn-|who piloted cars of French ahd Am-'Eddie O’'Donnell, Duesenberg, U.-S. { : : 3 . 2 & k Dafacrtiva