Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 1, 1920, Page 1

" "Only Daily . Within 100 Miles " of Bemidji "“_'"Fbmor Service Men in Uniforp < Turn Out Well‘to Honor - Dead Comrades /ARCHIE H. VERNON DELIVERED ADDRESS — " Program at Grand Theatre Was Exceptionally. Fitting for_Occasion With uniformed ex-service men -turning out in goodly numbers, the Memorial Day program which was prepared under the direction of -a special committee of American Le- “gion in cooperation with the G. A. R. and the G. A. R. circle; was a-decided success in . every ‘'way. Appropriate services were held at the cemetery in the afternoon with young soldiers and old taking active part. In the afternoon at the Grand theatre a ‘large attendance witnessed a very interesting - and - fitting program ‘made up of several musical numbers; .a solo by Miss Ida Virginia Brown; dinvocation by Rev. Blaine Lambert of the M. E. Church; recitation, “Lincoln’s - Gettysburg Address,” by Wilford Nelson; Address by Atchie .. Vernon of Little Falls, a member of . the executive committee of the Amer- ican Legion; a recitation, “Consol- -ed,”” by John M.- Culver; and selec- tions'by the Harmonick Glee Club. ' Mr. Vernon’s dddress was vexy well received and it contained a message to every -loyal citizen. n He 7Jaid stress to what has been accomp- lished by the veterans of the Civil "War as well as the vets of the World _: “honarithe veterans of these'two great " -wars ‘and. that Memorial ‘Day must -always be treasured by ‘the general _‘public the same as’it is' treasured by ‘the “buddies” of the fallen heroes ‘whom we espécially honor on this ‘memorial occasion. ‘Camp Pike, Ark., on September 16, 1918, a mother’s sacrifice of -her two 'sons brought a tender feeling to the ‘hearts of every person present. Mr. Culver.is a.very.fluent public speak- e and his delivery of the recitation -was well enjoyed. The vocal mugical, selections were -very well rendered and met with -hearty approval of the ' auditors. Throughout, the program showed ex- cellent planning and the organiza- tions which were active in the ar- Tanging it are to be congratulated on a very successful program. The Ralph Gracie post of the Am- erican Legion wishes to thank the ‘Bemidji Union band and the Juvenile ‘band, the school children, the ex- service men and all others who, help- ed to make the affair the success which it was. The wearers of the ‘Ted poppy have helped to honor their dead comrades, many of whom are -still buried in France where the pop- Py was also in evident on this occa- -sion. S g ENJOYABLE, PARTY:AT BROADACRE FARM SATURDAY Saturday evening a party of young people motored out to the Steidl Ffarm, three miles from the city. The evening was spent in games, music :-and roasting marshmallows. - A de- lightful lunch was served the guests. ' Following are those who were pres- ent: the Misses Gwendolyn Medlam, Leila Jones, Alva Beach, Margaret Donavon, - Alice Cameron, Dorothy Steidl, Agnes Rone, Lucille Steidl, Alice Schroeder; Messrs. Francis Rhea, Archie Bowers, Henry Jordan, Kenneth Steidl, Herbert Hannah, John Harris, Harry Bowers, Tracy Bardwell and Paul Johnson. ' The party was chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bowers. SPEAKERS ARE ATTACKED AND SERIOUSLY INJURED (By United Press) Berlin, June 1.—Speakers at two political meetings in Mecklinburg were attacked and. seriously injured by mobs. Election campaigns are ‘becoming more and more disorderly. . FIRE ON POWHATTAN ', . AT BROOKLYN PIER (By United Press) New York, June 1.—Fire broke out aboard the steamship Powhattan at' the:Brooklyn pier today. Several men-who were working in the hold were trapped by the flames and had to take refuge in the ice box. Rescue squads and firemen are working to extinguish the blaze. In. the recitation by John M. Cul-| i'ver, “Consoled,” written by him at WA "at eight o'clock in the Bemidji {or frills. B “High Cost of Business” Will Be Theme of Address This Evening ; \ Paul Findley, a retired grocer of ‘tional reputation, will talk to the .uidji retafl association this even- Clvie association rooms, v The present ‘‘high qfist of business’” will be his jfterestiig theme. Al- though he wiM. dwelll on the retail-( ing of perishable foods and fruits to some extent, an;aspéct of retailing of peculiar interest today—his prin- ciples will be of general interest to retailers in any; lne. His practical 't8lk is accompanied by blackboard figures which give the theory and practice of margin com- putation, and therefore 'is of vast interest to the clothier, dry goods merchants, hardware ‘and shoe man, in short, to every line'of business. During the past ‘eight. months, Findlay has travelled nearly 30,000 miles into all the big marketing cen- ters of the country.investigating and gathering together the best, most practical and ‘most ‘effective ways of displaying, pricing and selling merchandise at retatl. He will tell of his trip and what he has learned. Findlay is an old-time retailer him- self,” having spent over 36 years be- hind the counter. He knows merch- ants problems intimately ' as a -re- sult of his' own hard knocks. For many years he has ‘used his experi- ence as a background. for authorita- tive articles in the trgde press of the United States and Capada. Findlay is prepared/to take up any question’on any phage of retail dis- tribution. -The discussjon' which al- ways follows his:talk never fails to evoke the liveliest interest. Accord- ing to reports from.St. Paul, Salt Lake, Seattle, San Francisco, Daven- port and other- cities ‘where Findlay has talked, his meefings: have. at- tracted large cyowds who have found them profitable and;‘ entertaining. ‘This:meeting is open.th all retail gro- cers, gdmission’ free; everyboay is in= vited and irged to attéend—and it is a brass-tack talk,;without any bunk, and ‘Commerce | ~Members of the _asmél.ati,bn-are‘ urg- ‘ed to come out'in number and,extend & cordial reception to our guest,: ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS Clu;-ge Is Made :'vby Attorney General !"hner Before House Qommi'tte_e Washington, June 1.—By his wholesale jail deliveries and releases of self-confessed anarchists ~of the worst type, Assistant Secretary of Labor Post is seeking to block the enforcement of deportation laws and bring into public disrepute law offici- als of the government, Attorney Gen- eral Palmer today charged before the | House rules committee. Palmer’s statement today revealed bitter strife between two departments oyer the deportation - question: OHIO REFERENDUM UNCONSTITUTIONAL Washington, June 1. — The Ohio referendum of last November as a result of which the state attempted ‘to withdraw its legislature’s ratifica- tion of prohibition amendment, is un- constitutional, the supreme court to- day decided. The court held that the ratification of any constitutional amendment by legislature is final. SHEVLIN DEPOT BURNED BY LIGHTNING Shevlin was the scene of a conflla- gration Sunfay morning when the Great Northern depot was totally de- stroyed by fire caused by lightning striking the roof during a thunder. storm at about eight a. m. The fire spread rapidly along the ridge board and within fifteén min- utes the roof was entirely ablaze. De- spite the heroic efforts of volunteers it was soon evident that the build- ing was doomed. Had the fire depart- ment equipment been at all effective and in good working order there is no doubt but that the building could have been saved. This costly fire goes to show the need of modern fire equipment. i All' freight and equipment was tak- en out after the fire department fail- ed. At the present writing the main line has been repaired and the depot has been temporarily stationed in & box car. STATE MAY ENTER PRIVATE BUSINESS FIELDS Washington, June 1.—Seven of the most important- laws enacted by .the Nonpartisan . league = legislature of North Dakota; all of which gave the state power to enter private iness fields, were tupheld by federal su- preme court today, affirming.the de- cision of the North Dakota supreme | court. £ ‘time. Stump pullers’. cost . money, LAND CLEARING. | TRAINERINGS LARGE CROWD ATBLACKDUCK Pulling and Blufin. CO-OPERATIVE LAND CLEARING DISCUSSED On Account of Expeng.,es of Clearing County Agent Dvor- - acek Advises Co-operation Blackduck, May 31.—C,o-operativeb 3 land clearing and land-clearing com- panies is the talk in' and around Blackduck in connection with the coming of the Minnesota Land Clear- ing train which was here today. More than five bundred men, to say |: nothing of womqnfuiid children, were on the field chosen tgr the demonstra- tion, on the farm' of 'A. B, Witting, when the crews:from the train began serious’ operations. ' Afier the men had watched the work of stump pull- ing, stump blasting, and stump-piling for a while, one began_ to hear re- marks ‘about the ‘business of freeing northern Minnesota farms of their stumps, and a ‘frequent suggestion was that it should be done cooper- atively. y ~ D. C. Dvoracek, county: agflcultn‘r- al agent, with headquarters in Be- midji, is' possibly responsible for this, for, Mr. Dvoracek has been talking cooperative stump clearing for some Stump - pilers also: ‘cost money, (though the’'inventor.of:the Conrath home-made piler ‘did not patent his machine and it ' may bgapade at home if. the iron partg are ] many of the farmenien-eut-oveér: do not feel that they.can go.at the business| with - speed: énough. uf by co-operating in the purchase of pullers, pilers _and -exXplosives,’ and then working together, clearing’ five acres on this man’s place, five on the next -mai’s, and so on through the] list of- ¢ooperators, many feel that they could make real headway. That is why the cooperative idea is taking hold. And the land-clea1ing demonstra- tion on the Witting field today, help- ed to strengthen the feeling, for it was a striking proof of what a group of energetic workers can do. The field’ 'was full of.stumps, but by the time the train’s land-clearers were ready to heed. the supper call about five_acres of the blackened enemies of .the northern farmer were out of the ground and many of them were piled, ready for' the ‘torch. Another idea of like kind is sug- gestion that stump clearing, or land clearing, companies be formed, to send out crews fufly equipped to clear land for farmers at o much per acre, according to the character. of the land. In short, many think that land clearing can be done in the sume way that the farmers’s threshing is done. The moment land is cleared— this rich land—its‘value takes a big jump, and the arithmetic showing that the farmers can afford to clear through land clearing companies,: is very simple. . At any rate the sentiment is grow- ing and one may look for it to come to realization, both in cooperative effort and in land-clearing companies, and then the development of the re- rchased) -and r]yngmxte costs money. Asa result,|’ "c;’-oo\klton Company Plant and . Bemidji Box Co. Saw Mill " Start This Morning STRIKERS DO NOT . MOLEST WORKERS Plgning Mill and Night Shift of - Lumber Company Will Re- i sume Operations Later o —— . The saw mills of the Crookston uumber company and Bemidji Box fcompany resumed operations this morning on the same basis of hours and pay as preévious to the shutting [down, May 1st.” o . Thé mill of the Crookston Lumber Co. opened with a full sawing crew ‘and at seven thirty, after getting the mill in full swing there were between 96 and: 30 more men on hand ready “to work than were needed. No at- tempt was made by the strikers in any way to obstruct men from going to;work. A number gathered at the enfrance of the plants and watched thg, employees but after the starting ‘ofithe mill they dispersed. The Bemidji Box Company got tHeir ;saw mill department running smoothly about 7:45 a. m. and re- port 8n adequate saw mill crew are wotking. Officers of both plants re- ported that quite a numoer of strik- ers were back on the job today. ““The planing mill of the Crookston plant did not start. operations there heing: no cars on hand to loq_dl?nld. s ithe supply of empties scarce. ‘expectd in: a short time that the ‘might' shift wilt be started aning mill and also the p TAKES OFFICE TODAY ‘Mexico City, June 1. (By Ralph Turner) Provisional President Elect Rudolfo De La Huerta, who will be inaugurated at four o‘clock today, in his first public statement said he does not come to the presidential chair as a supporter of any political faction. Owing to his illness, he spent all ot yesterday in bed, he conferred with several leaders how- ever. > A A A AT AL SIS ISP sources of the cut-over country is go- ing to proceed with accelerating speed. And that is just what the land clearing train is trying to bring about. The train was at Northome on Tuesday and at Littlefork on Thurs- day. It will finish the week at Guth- rie on Saturday, beginning the next webk at Leonard in Clearwater coun- t yFollowiug the field demonstration at Blackduck, a meeting was held in the town hall in the evening. One of the speakers at this meeting was R. W. Thatcher, dean of the Depart- ment of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota. The: committee in charge of local arrangements at Blackduck consisted of Mr. Witting, representing th tarmers; Mr. Sullivan for’the busi- ness men, and Mr. Dvoracek for the farm bureau. He Kept Us Out of Everything e kepe 15 ont. of Mexico WOODWORKING | Weat}j§1: forecast, 24 hfl- FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL SOLICIT FUNDS THURS. To raise sufficient funds to help secure for this city the 1928 convention of state fire- men, a committee from the local department and a committee from the Bemidji Civic and Commerce association will can- vass the city beginning at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. At this hour the committees will leave; the city building accom- panied by the Juvenile band and will visit the business. section, calling on each place of busi- ness. The object of the canvass will be to secure for Bemidji the 1923 firemen’s convention. This convention would mean that over 1,000 delegates from all over Minnesota would come here at that time and if Be- midji does her bit they would all go home boosting sky-high for this city as a royal enter- tainer. In order to do this there must first be sufficient funds pledged the department to war- rant it making a fine showing at the Moorhead convention this year. It is planned to take along a band if .possible to help advertisc for this city. If the local department can make the right kind of a showing, half of the -work in securing the 1923 convention will “already have been done. Té put this project over as it should. he: put over, the local firemen sking the help of every citi of Bemidji. A. T. Carlson, Martin Dunn and W. Z. Robinson of the Be- midji -Association, and_J. J. Doran, A. N. Gould, E. J. Rip- ple, John Goodman, N. .E. ' Given, S. T. Stewart and Paul Winklesky of the fire depart- ment will\ constitute the com- mittees which will make the .canvass for funds. OFFICERS OF COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDS HAVE INTERESTING PROGRAM Bemidji Meeting Will Be Held on Wednesday, June 16; Many Speakers " Notice of the school board officers Ghee and is as follows: Baudette, Monday, June 14, High school building. Bemidji, Wednesday, June 16: forenoon, Normai school; afternoon, Court House. Spruce Grove township, June 18: Sundberg or West school. Forenoon Session. Organization, roll call, announce- ments. #:y 4 The -busfi_ness side of education, by G. M. Cesgnder, rural school inspec- tor. v Citizenship and Community Work, by Superintendent McGhee. General discussion and conference. Afternoon Session. Roll call. Delinquet Children, by. J. E. Har- ris, Judge of Probate. Physical Training and Hygiene, by G. M. Cesander. General Discussion. The Supply of Teachers and the Salary Question, by Superintendent McGhee. Discussion and Conference, led by G. M. Cesander. School officials are paid $3.00 day and five cents per mile in going to and from the meeting. This is paid by the district and the school officers should be present the entire sessions that their district may have the full benefit of the meeting. Ev- eryone should be prepared to ask questions, and to give opinions on subjects relating to his work as a school officer . Not only are the school officers urged to attend these meetings, but all friends of education are invited to attend and take part in the discus- sions. Intelligent cooperation of school officers, teachers, patrops and pupils will build up an educational system that will best train the youth for the duties, responsibilities, and privileges of citizenship in the best country in the world. School officers are invited to come early to the meeting at the Bemidji State Normal school that they may see the students at work and have an opportunity to secure tedchers. FIVE MINNESOTA MEN TO ENTER WEST POINT Five:'Minnesota men are included in a list of 461 who will enter the United States Military academy at West Point July 1, 1920. Sergeant Jones in charge of the local army recruiting station today received a list of the candidates who passed the entrance examinations last March. The Minnesota men are Harvey R. Ogden, Ogden Hotel, Minneapolis; James G. Pratt, 225 North Lexington Ave., St. Paul; Laurence R. Dewey, 619 St. Anthony Avenue, St. Paul; Glenn B. O'Conpell, Lake City and Gordon E. Textor, Granite Falls. ’ Cloudy; warmér; unsettled. meetings of the of Beltrami county have béen sent out by Coun- ty Superintendent of {3chool J. C. Mc- Friday, 'HEARD TODAY: Wood Lihly to Loose a Delega- tion at Large in the Contest of Florida Delegates WOMEN MAKING EFFORTS Suffrage Rather Than Candi- dates Is Seen as Women's Aim in Convention (By United Press) Chicago, June 1. (By Harold Jac- obs)—Indications at the opening of the Republican National committee contests today were that General Wood would lose another delegation at large. A subcommittee reporting on the Florida contest involving three seats of delegates indicated .it would move to unseat the regulars pledged to General Wood. It .pre- viously eliminated a group pledged to Governor Lowden. The third group apparently favored by subcom- mittee was headed by H. L. Ander- son and was designated only as be- ing against wood. Further time for argument was granted. The commit- tee’s first work touay was hearing z contest from the district of Colum- ia. Chicago, June 1. (By Don Cham- berlain). In the tumult of shouting slogans and drowning hum of thous- ands of voices in the hotel lobbies, discussing politics and predicting the outcome of next week's republican convention, the woman 'voter today was slowly but surely emerging to the fore, as political chiefs here plan- ned to capture the presidential nom- ination for their candidate. Leaders of the republican women were quietly organizing their strength to launch it at the psycho- . {1logical moment to gain for women a standing of ‘political equality with * men. More than a hundred women delegates including alternates have been freed to the convention. Wo- men believed this feminist movement in Americd is a great push forward. With suffrage rather than candidates in mind women ‘leaders were plan- ning a concerted action in the con- vention. WORLD NEWS ASK DISMISSAL OF ANTI-TRUST PROCEEDINGS ‘Washington, June 1.—The govern- ment today asked the supreme court to dismiss the anti-trust proceedings started several years ago against the Quaker Oats Co. 5 REHEARING OF CANADIAN Washington, June 1.—Rehearing of the supreme court’s recent deci- sion upholding migratory bird treaty ith Canada was asked of the court. today by the State of Missouri. 2| COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN SESSION THIS WEEK . The board of county commissioners is in session this week at the court house, the regular meeting having begun this morning. Many -hearings which were set for this meeting will be heard during the session. Waiting on the board today are representatives of two school dist- ricts of the county which are enter- ing petitions. From district No. 108, 0. E. Ran- dall, Otto Simon and Henry Fletcher are to appear before the commission- ers regarding the addition of terri- tory to the school district. This dist- rict is near Puposky. From district No. 40, Fred Gard- ner, Mrs, W. 8. Fauhl, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jones, M. W. Knox, Mrs. Carl Satterly, Charles Coffin, Henry Mer- cer, and E. R. Lee will appear to pe- tition for a reduction in the size of the school distriet in which they live. District No. 40 is located west of Nebish. ers will continue in session for about. three days. ROOT LEAVES FOR LONDON PEACE COMMISSION MEETIRG- (By United Press) New York, June 1.—E .nu Root, accompanied by his wife and James: Browne Scott, legal advisor to the American Peace Commission are to- leave today for London to represent the United States at the. first meet- ing of the commfttee of the London organization of the permanent court of justice under the league of na- tions. 45c PER MONTH DELEGATESARE TO INCREASE INFLUENCE . MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY It is expected that the commission---