Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1920, Page 2

ffl DJI DAILY PIONEER ' SVERY APTEANOON EXCBPT SUNDAY TRE RNMIDII FIONEES PUBLISENNG:CO.. l.l.eAnoou.m-. ., B\ H: DENU, Sec. and Mgr: * G. W. HARNWELL, Baiter . _ Tolephone — Entered at the toffice at Bemidjl, Minm.;; TE olass ‘matter undg:. Act ?!.Coum-"otn B B, (1899, . No - attention paild to ' anomymous. -contributions. wuuv- -pame must. be known to the editor, ey, Bophet” Comaieient ounr must reac of of each week to insure publiostion ' Il -$6.00 . 250 . l.ll 'nt tesesecane .ll Thres Momths «cocoos 100 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelvei pages, ; 3 Py 'm d ‘sent postage g:.v m(vn“.' po! mmmmm DON'T KICK YOUR TOWN. "There is no better evidence of a commend-ble community spirit-than’ that of loyalty to Artflm in which a person lives. If a town is worth hvmg, in it is worth*de!endhg- and supporting in its efforts to advance with:the rest of the world. ; ' Yet in almost every cemmunity. you .will find . people who can see nothing good in their surround: ings. They can not recogmze the fact that though it ‘may. be humble, it yet is home—that it has clothed them, and fed them, and cared for:them in sickness and in health, and-has; furnished them - friends who have been steadfast and true, They magnify its 1mper!ectwns and spread cloudl ‘wherever they go. They often make life miserable: for others md invariably make it a reproach to themselves. But there is a brighter side to this story. The abuse these short sighted people -heap upon, their: place of ahode generally falls upon unlym ; pathetic ears. Their nelghbors and friends know them as they are—as people who might have been valuable citi- zens- capable of constructive work, but whose .dis- For Versatile Girls: ‘Wanted—Young women for hanging up, shaking out, and folding. Wages twelve: dollars.’ 1y, - with bonus, to start. Apply TaboriLaundry Warks, 446 Bathurst street. —-'l‘oronto Evening Telegram. ‘“Candidate Harding has no intention of resigning his seat-in the senate; seeing that the republicans would be one short of a majority in that body.” That is-an excellent reason. Candidate Cox has no inténtion of- resigning the governorship of -Ohio, seeing that if he did he would have nopolitical job :.-1‘:‘,_ positions -have been. warped ;in:younger days, pos- 'sibly-through ro: particular fault of their own. .~Their.criticisms ate distened to with good: Mt\md. ; X Mnnce‘ but are iorgotten about as soon as uttered. The views of ‘the’ chronic kicker and fault finder have +lesaweight than: thope. of nny other, adult - " element of the human race. i When ihe thinks he’ is. kicking: his town he gen- erally finds that he-is. kicking:himself instead, : Generally. speaking, 'the 'driving..of automobiles '* has been conforming, o the law much better of late: than. a few.weeks ago. There is still room for improvement.on the part of-some drivers. : If the police department wish us. to .tip them : off ‘as to : who we .mean we might whisper the color of the cars. without mentiomnz any names. _Wo believe ‘that :would:be enough. If every man-in-this town would pick up: every old paper and piece of debris on the ‘streets and 'inithe:mileyp they-would receive the profound grati-- tude of every woman in town. -Soon there would be ‘ no ;papens iand 1o rubbish left to piek -ap;. but our . women would still: be grateful, even more grateful. And, ho in this. town: isn't. game.in .the face of .such a reward? b i We sympathize with that Lancaster, Pa., lad who lled;off: a premature Fourth; of ‘July. celebration ‘/all his own when & bunch of fireworks and:torpedoes exploded in his hip picket while at the diffner table. It is embarrassing in deed to eat one’s .dinner from tho mantle-on the nation’s birthday. . —_—— J It is “encouraging to -mnote that ‘both. political parties are taking a wallop at the:cause .of the high:;cost-. of living, but-it would“be more satis- factory;to the goats if a few shots were taken at, the ‘men ‘behind :the cause. . You. can’ scsre a Tav- _ enous beast with a windy “boo.” ; —_— < Wonder .why, so many people open their. mail on the steps of the. po.toflice and throw the envelopes on the, walk?. ' There are waste baskets in the lobby just for that purpose.. We have a-clean, Jew post- oflice. why: not keep-it :neat outside. as well? An_ exchange remarks that this year the nation’s ~ birthday was not:dnly. lyie and sane, but dry and dusty. It was. ; Elght thouund per! tly good dollnn locke the:safe-of a farmer. ext, morning. the safe was - found ‘wrecked and.the money. missing. ' Why .not keep-your money in . a bank, a real bank’—Stlll— water: anette P . According to William Nash of aneapolm, who ° is taking a vacation from the office of county at- ‘torney; Mike Weisman is a twin of the late Ananias. ‘—Exchange. 7 0——*— You haye to take Ihe .thorn with the rose. Eyen % swhen-a wife has. her/own .complexion, her 6wn hair ,and her own shape, -you'll find:thaf she. also hns ; _ her own tempet—-Wmmpeg Free Press. " “The igher e‘iucnmn is a greht thing. Butia lot of Jer, of climate;. .of Stock: : Ovexland, Wil : Start “(Night on Long; Test kY 1A icoastito. nonskfl&lh, unysual 1 the history:of automobile runs in. thip country, will.be started at midnigh on'July. 18th when a stock Overlan “fcar..will leave New. York for Sam = Frangisco. ' The run will be made by a relay drivers—men-who have -never befor sat at the wheel of this car. The drivers ‘will he furnished by Willys Overland- distributors. . Each: drhor will pilot the gar through the terri: | tory ‘covered by :his: distributor. The purpose.of the relay race is to establishthe -economy-and: the stam _“fle FLAPPER” N ADDIITIO_N ina of the new light Overland car, in¥ ; particular, and the general desirabi ity of the :light:car not-only:for, tangled tr of the clty but lo: cross-countfy touring. With that end in view, the toq. hap been removed as far as poulb;g from the ‘Btaged. ~cross-Lountry .te run. ers to-take the-car thrqugh:the en: tire run. from New. York . to"Sa 1 Francisco -extracting mileage ' from: There will be no expert driv-| gasoline that only an expert know,, o ‘how to get. The .mileage obtained: -from - the’ fuel will be.that whichthe. AVerag ordinary driver -can.obtain. “The -3,300 mile-run Wwill atart at| - midnight of July 18th :regardless. of weather. or other conditions. This ‘drive is expected. to. establish]’ beyond' question : the . claims of llght : car manufacturers of the dawn of the|. new era in motor carconstruction. Every. possible condition of weath- —mud, hills sand, mountain pnsps, shou.y ‘be en- countered .on. this’ seven; day. -driv, It will be a ‘test to determine;the stamina of any. car, regardless ofsize. Daily reports of the: progress of the car and :its record .of-economy and stamina will be reported to. the factory and to distributors and .deal- ers, throughout the:country. . SURE. CURE WON IN . 'HOOSIER Al No Extra Cost - TEN MILE BOAT RACE| - - Erie, Pa., July '17. —Sure Cure of “| Detroit ‘won the world’s chnmplmp- ship for Class D displacement power boats here Thurgday from.the Title- holder Miss -Nassau, of Cleveland, "in the closing races of the Interlake Yachting .association regatta, —one fifth of a seoond ‘separated the:t boats. at thé ‘ciose of the tem _:ie race. y SUBSCRIBE-FOR THE ~ Speéiai Casters and “Steel Caster Blocks E appealmg feature of the Hoomer‘ 'romc.u'r L \LAST TIME OnBeauty is ‘the ease with which you can:move it whenicleaning or sweeping. _*Then it is.that you apprecaite the extra - expense Hoosier must bear to equip the ‘Hoosner Beauty with: special pivot-bear- jing steel casters jset.in’ patented steel ‘cagter-blocks th_at ‘are. . excluswely he modern- ‘brides are so:highly . educated - that they can’t see anything to blash over.—Ex. - ———— Shutting down. of eastern . woolen . mllls may be preliminary to confirmation of the prediction’ that .>clothing will be higher. this. fall. —Ex. 2 As long as: the truck nnd puto owners ‘are wil- * ing to- pay for the building of 365-day roads in antaota—why not ‘let them do zt"——Hubbnrd DALY flom: Pl Jr.; has made mlmons thrlll wlth tl;e apell of the Cumberlands .and thel. spirit of:’61. nder the; dlreotion of Wallace Worsley it has. iblossomed forth on the screen as:a moying:and impressive work of art.. The buuty and chivalry of Kentucky, the quaint- ness of Civil War days, the tender for many years to come.—St. Cloud Journal-Press. AR S Yy Something New—The Shirt..Skirt. Shirt skirts and half hose were worn by. most of .- the 8,000 girls employed:in the War Risk:Bureau - . ‘and War Department today as the result of a ‘“gen- eral understanding.”—From a New York paper. r = G 5 A man is a person who ‘will cheerfully loan a" “stranger $15 and - then holler murder if ‘his: wnfe ‘asks him for 15 cents.—Ex. . ODD AND AMUSING . Olive . Thémas’ newest screen’ apr : pearance for Selznick pictures is in “The. Flapper,” a romantic comedy by Frances Marion, which will "be shown last times at the Blko ‘the " ater tonight. . : “The Flnpper" is a story which deals lightly with the moonstruck -moods' of a boa! ing school. girl who tries to act “wicked’” and’'sophisticat- ed in order to give appearance of be- ing “a woman of -the world.” * 'The scene of: action for this photo- play shifts from sunny Florida to th; -'snowy-North and then ‘to New . York. The ‘production, it is-reported, hap:- -many ‘magnificent hettings, particu- «‘larly’ the Florida landscape- scenes, : the snow-skiing, and a night scene i) the vast and beautiful dining room of the massive Hotel Pennsylvania ip New York. Through - her - efforts to appeu grown up ‘the “flapper” gets - int; many odd and_ amusing. scrapes, in- cluding a situation in which she is charged with connivance in the ac: tivities of two burglars. The Briggs comedy entitled "‘Burg- '1ars,” also at the Elko tonight, prq- ‘'sents in' an amusing and entertain- ing -manner a comedy situation of youthful days, that will ‘be’ highly enjoyed by all viewing it. 'oomonwxrom - OLD HOME TOWI Coming back to ‘the old home town . always' has a sentimental interest for'the man who has gone out and - made a name and fortune for hinf* _self in the big city. Rolling up in a limousine to the little house:where : he'was born is, perhaps, a scene he's ‘often pictured in his mind. But when a young fellow who has gone out ‘from ‘the little town and become just " one of a hundred clerks fn a big city " “estahlishment decides to comerback.to the home village and startle the na- “tives ‘with his clothes and 'sangfroid .nd nppuent ‘wealth, what happens 2 chnrlw Ray farnishes the-answer most” delightfully in his'latest screen ‘comedy, ‘‘Homer - Comes ' Home,” “/'which will be on view at the’ Elko theatre tomorrow, Sunday, also Mon- - day and Tuesday.. As is well known Mr. Ray is thoroughly at home in emall town roles and this time he has a story that fits him like a glov'e. ; County-Journal. Thomas ‘H. Ince:prodyced the pic- ture; whlch is" a--Paramount- craft. Another- lewmre on the Elko - pro- gram the same-days.will be .that mew two-reel production presenting varied subjects of ente: tainment-in. a delightful-manner. - tarce with comedy of the most excru- ciating kind. He tells the truth but’ gets’him into all klnds ‘of ‘hot water doing it. Bob .Bennett, a young society man, makes 2 wager of $10,000 with each "| of .three. friends’ that he will go a whole week-without telling .a slngle lie to anyone, and his first test is a house party,.wherein are gathered the wives of his_three friends, who promptly begin.to pump Bob for par- ticulars of a little ‘cabaret party at -which ‘all of the three friends were resent. True to the terms of the wa- ger, Bob has to tell them just: how’ |each-of the husbands looked with a WHEN A KAN'S 'WORD I8 GOOD-AS-HIS BOND est_and the spirit.of the west limited. ” In ‘the country he comes from, he says, he has been used to dealing with men whose word was equal to their bond. There was no equivocating and no reservations. . Once, when.he was buying cattle in the northwest, he needed money to carry his deal. He went to the ba: P 1and 1aid his case before. the ban| The banker told him to go ahud draw on the bank for what he wan ed, ang-when: they--thought .he, ha enough ithey. would ‘went.on-with.his.deal and dpew $36,- 000 before it was finished. - Fhen o course he was able. immediately to turn money back into the bank. See Tom Mix “In Cupid’s Roun Up,” at the Rex: theatre. today. “normm m THE TRUTH” REX. SUNDAY-AND-NONDAY: Taylor -Holmes .in: ‘*Nothing Bu the Truth’ 'ls announced as: the feat- ure attraction at-the Rex:theatre for a run-of two days; beginning Sunday. “Nothing But-the Truth” is & pictur- ization of Frederick.S. Isham’s enter- taining novel: that was made into a stage’ farce for William. Collier by James Montgomery.. In its dramatic form the;farce: constituted one of the outstanding successes of the.theatri- cal-'season, and' its humorous values have' been: heightened in the. screen version so:that it is said to be one dong ;gale: of ‘merriment from begin- ning to end. Theplot of this farce is the hilar-| ious oue of:a man who.makes a wager ‘with- three-'friends ' that he will go a whole week tellirig nothing but the truth to all he meets. 1t is the cir- cumstances that arise from this situa- tion, when the veracious hero strives to win the wager, that provides the -| screen production.: “chicken’ ’perched on ‘hig knee. ’l‘hls fgets the three friends: in bad and Bob as well-—but see ‘the picture. It. is a scream of laughter from first to. last. And the moral of it is that you' can’t always be truthful. / The screen adaptation of "Nothi 4 But. the Truth” is-the first picture-to be . produced .by. the Taylor' Holmas {Productions, Inc., and. sets an" ex- tremely - high record- for artistic In the cast supporting Mr. Holmea are . such . well-xnown - and :.capable’ players as Elsie Mackaye, Ned- A. Sparks, Marcelle Carroll, Ben Hend- ricks, Edna Phillips, Radcli!l'o Steele,’ stop him. -He| DOROTHY GIBH AND i {(OWENMOORE—GRAND TONIGHT i ; S“‘Betty.-of Greystone,” whlch.vi! .the program at.the Grand theatre fo ght- only, Dorothy Gish as th Y. , 8 wealthy New Yorker’e n e, innoceytly arrays h self.in.some of the beautiful cloth she: fl dl and: is discovered by‘ thi drlven_ from town in diagmce, but is and placed: in the care of a mittance by a step-broth: ilawed hér to Grey St ‘Gables, and Betty is struggling to es: cape his, unwelcome attentions when ‘David, arrives. atory. ends with a wedding -and Betty. the bride of David, becomes; First.Lady.of. the. Land. “m LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOX GOIE” This celebrated novel by John ¥ox, pathos of the star role, “‘Chad,” play- ed by Jack Pickford. dre.all nonrayod with charm and disinction. In the cast supporting: Jack Pick are Clara . Horton -as. Margaret, ~Pauline Stark -as “‘Melisse”’ ahd James - Neill as ‘Major Buford.' Sweet as the scent of .honeysuekle and wild roses that trail the porticoes of Kentucky's'graceful mansions, rich with the romance of Kentucky mot tain folks in. the. hollow..of. hoge arms the rifle rests: with .the. loye story that plays on.the heart-strings —such. is. Goldwyn’s screen aduptp- tion of “The. Little Shepherd of King- dom Come,” which. is.the program-at the Grand.theatre Sunday and Moy- Prospec ive IPatrons : - We wish to announce: that we. have taken over the lines of MADE TO ORDER CLOTHES . heretofore: represented by Barney Enckson, and will continue the business at the same stand, for the present, where we hope to merit your patronage by continued “efforts to give you the service demanded- by exacting who' w1sh to have their clothes made to dressers—men .- Hoosier. - No. article:in your home has easier rolling casters, ", ox more lasting: caster-blocks than the Hoosier. . Next time-you.'are near our store, let us demon- strate%hisand other fe;tures of. 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