Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 6, 1920, Page 6

.‘ B pARs Prn. i G. W. HARNWELL, umr -Telephone 922 tared at mo stoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second- fl!.h matter undg: Act’ of Congress of March 8, xm —_— beyond the point where they might well be remedied tends to lower our standards and make us content with shabbiness. . The cure for public untidiness.' rests with 'the people. A walk of half a dozen blocks down any street: in Bemidji will! easily ‘convince any: open minded citizen that the present campaign against -weeds is not only timely, but urgent. . If the sight “~ of vacant lots and boulevards overgrown ' in' the (»y l:mlfl' BDITOR) THATS ALL " The sllliesl: pohtlcal yn-n set in circulation is that after electmn Senator Knute: Nelson will resign, if Preus will resign as governor, to be appointed to succeed Nelson in the Preus is. elected governor, and . FRiDAY’EVEN-ING, AUGUST 6, .m‘_zo,f , subscripnon with' three bushels of potatm Now he gasolines upto the printing office with one bushel of potatoes’and gets three years’ a\lblcrjp- g tign.—Baudette Region. L ——— ! According to one campaign orator, penonll pop- i ularity is of small 1mpnmnce and ‘the issues are the thing.”: Certainly the xmfs ought'to be the chief thing, but:they need to be clear-cnt so that the people can see them without too gtelt effort.— Red ‘Wing. Republican.”, - senate, by Lieut. Gav.:Collins, who would become ..._.o_'—.. weeds dutreues those of. ‘us who live “among Yhem, think of the impression such slat:kneu gives to . the Bummer visitors who are now with us in'.ever increasing mumbers. ' New-comers are frequently heard to remarks, “Bemidji is a beautiful city in so many ways, why let the weeds take it?” ' Hay- fever victims 'are pmiculurly interested in_ the park board’s weed-euttmg ‘proposition. Public ‘sen- " timent shou'ld certnmly support this movement and pnvate “enterprise supplement it generonaly \ —_— ¢ UNPREPARED TEACHERS. ' The National Education: association, in a ‘report made in 1918, 'shows, nthar clearly a few of the reason why the testn npphed to our draft army found the literacy standard so low. The report governor on the resignation of Preus. . Senator Nelson is not’the man o' sidestep. any trust given him by: the people, who. certainly want him to re- main as senator. Preus will be ‘content to serve as: governor, and if elected it will be his duty to serve out his. term. Louis Collins has.not and will not enter into. any. such arrangément, even were Nelson and Preus agreeable to:it. - The whole story is the wild dream of some individual who wants * to get votes for the nonpartisan candidates through m)srepmentatlon.——St Cloud Journal Press, .tmmon pnlc to anonymous contributions. : o 5 ter's’ mame: must /be known to the editor, but not é.ulfilly for: publication. Comlnunlcnlonl' for the . ly Ploneer must reach this office not later Tuesday of each insure publication: in tlu (. ‘eurrent issue, A ‘cake baked in Holdberge;* Nel\i., recently‘ weighed 2,094- pounds. That’s_ nothing. ‘Many a .- man will (swear that his w:fe’s first - cake was as, : heavy as_that.—Little: Falls Transcript.’ R0 R The war proved a disappointment' to the Umted » - .States, says Von Bernstorff, correcting our impres- . sion that it was Germany. that was dlsappomtsd.— St: Cloud Daily Times. ‘week ' to ol Phonogtaphnc records’ will preserve this - year'se campaign speeches for future generations. .. And: those generations will -probably wonder what . all. the argument was about.—Red Wing Republican. —_—— Sl BBG 08 |1 always pays to advertise. 'The New Yq'k ltate college of agriculture Agngraphs 'says:" The codfish . lays a million eggs while the'helpful hen lays one;. but the codfish does not cackle to inform us what she done; and 50 we scorn ‘the codfish’ coy, but'the helpful hen we prize; which indicates to.thoughtful rélmd: it pays to - advertise.—Stillwater Daily azette. 2 ooes { Dne W THE WEEKL! PlONEER—Tval" pages, pnblllhn every Thursday and sent wlnn paid to any addr tor, "in: advan -y, $5,00. OPFICIAL OWI'!' AND OITY PROCEEDINGS With only 17,569 jssues proposed.so far, the 1920' campmgn apparently is. going to be an umntemb- mg affair.—St. Cloud Daily T)mes % —— OUR PUBLIC UNTIDINESS. The 'average American is pretty well satisfied with his own country and people, This provincial complacency tends to disappear through larger con- ‘tact with the world = about us. Amid the varied shocks which our national self-satisfaction is bound -to receive there is one in preparation which may come as a surprise even to well-educated Americans, although its cause has long been a matter of -pain- ful consciousness to many individuals. - We are slowly learning that we are the most untidy. among all the great nations of the world. « We re dis- covermg that there is more filth and general sloven- lmess in public places in_the United ‘States than in"any other country of the first or. even second rank. In our public housekeeping we rank with Turkey rather than England ‘or even tiny Switzer- land, or slow-going Holland. Foreign visitors are unable to’ understand how the enormous .wealth and restless activity of the American people can be allied ' with ' such’ callous indifference to appear- ances. We possess abundance of energy but htth thrift. Untidiness is largely due to ignorance. To open a man’s.eyes to the sordidness of his'surroundings some times suffices to work the cure of those con- ditions. We are an untidy people largely because we do not realize how untidy we are. Unques- tionably there has been a considerable improve- ment in our standards of public housekeeping in the last twenty years, but there is much yet to be Jdone before our ‘streets, parks, and railway sta- tions present the neat and elegant aspect which should characterize American municipalities. For our slackness in these matters we plead the newness and rapidity of our material development. It may be necessary that we pass through a stage of ‘national adolescence, but, it need not be unduly pmlonged The toleration. of makeshift condmons 3 The M'airk.etsf of ‘Hré World states: that: out of $00,000 public school teachers in the United States, 100,000 are 17, 18 and 19 years .old; 150,000 ‘are mot' more than" 21 years old; 300,000 are not more than 25 years old. The length of service of 150,000 of those teachers is only two years or less; 300,000 of ,them do’'not teach more than four or five years. =~ 7 The statistics pertaining to the education of those teachers are even more startling,’ for it has been estimated. that 30,000 have had no education be- yond the eighth gt'ade of the elementary school; 100,000 have had less than. two years’ education . beyond the elghth grade; 300,000 have had no more than four years’ education beyond the eighth grade. “Only 300,000 have 'had any specm] profesmonal preparation for their task of teaching. andltxona have grown worse: since 1918. All this means that 50 per cent of the next gen- 5 eration of ‘American voters sare today bemg t-ught by immature and untrained teachers. ' In the: urly part of this year 18,279 schools were closed 10!_ lack of teachers. g The country is slowly waking up to the unous- i ness: of this situation: But it is ‘not mfllelenfly‘ aroused yet. Salary increases to teachers m granted too slowly and gmdgmgly, and in ‘some cases the increases are too; small to accomplish There -should be no_hesitation, no' their purpose. compromise; no putting off till more prosperous times this very great esaentml—provmon for the thorough and satisfactory education of Americans, _ children and adults, and the wiping out as Iar .88 possible of all llhteracy S p— 1 Mxlwaukee, they say, has been getting ready for nine years to be. an ocean port. - Whenever the - . lakes are ready for large deep—ses liners, Milwau- - kee'’s docks can moor them. ‘More of that Germln' preparedneu" : : Set Before You D’ail& \ —with the latest quotations and movements likely to affect your business ‘or your product, if you subscribe to the (Mcmiu and Smldqy) A.'A‘t 'fiaul (Evcmnz.) There are two r’pfl.fl;et pages in evéry edition, comprising the most.complete service in the Northwest. 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' “The' men,” said, ‘‘do not go out of this district to look for the women: The women come here.” A woman missionary, versing with some of theyoung and pretty girls who have taken up per- manent residence in’ Limehouse, says that in her opinion most of them go ‘among the colored men. in search of adventure, after reading sensational literature or'seeing Chinese films. A few of these girls are.of an educated and refined type, and many of them uncommonly pretty. . *There are many white wives in Chinatown;)’ .she said., '‘‘Heaps more today than in times past. ‘One girl brings another. They are attracted by the strangeness and umnfamiliar quality of the Oriental. The Chinese give no trouble, but the blackmen do. | she [, after - con-{ Court, M}igistrate Cairns, said this extraordinary infatuation. “wa$ * the! greatest problem he had to deal with. N.:D. PRESS ASSOCIATION 2y . :MEETING TODAY AT FARGO ) : Fargo, N. D.,. 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