Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 14, 1920, Page 2

" BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISEED EVERY AFTRRNOON EXOUEPT SUNDAY ./ TRE BEMIINI FIONEER PUBLISKING CO. - " G. E. CARSON, Pres. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. y * G, W..HARNWBLL, Editor e Relophone s | Entered at the postoffice at Bemidjl, Minn., as second- cluss, matter under Act of Congress gt ‘March'3, 1879. { No :attention pald to anonymous. contributions. Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not necessarily ‘for publication. Waeekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week; to insure publication in the current isaue. . By Oarrier / o - By Mall oo tontns’ 11 50 -One Year ........... $4.00 Three Months . .28 3 One Month . ] Six Months .... 2.00 One Week .... .13 Three Months .. 1.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published for, in advance, $2.00 OFFIVIAL, COUNTY AND OCITY PROOREDINGS A CLANDESTINE ATTACK. - It is to be hoped that the women of this country .will not be taken in by the movement which has for its objeéct “equal pay for equal work.” This move- ment pretends to be in the interests of women work- ers; it demands that women shall receive the same pay that men get for “the same work.” Ostensibly it aims to insure liberal wages and salaries for women. But the real object is the very opposite. : The real object is to force women out of all s desirable jobs so that the men can monopolize them. 2 Other things being equal, the common experience is that when it comes to a question between a man and a woman for “the same work,” the man . get the preference for the job. The reasons are familiar enough to ail practical people. Even where it is a case of work that is naturally “woman’s work,” it is the men who are favored as a rule. For instance all the highest paid cooks in the world are men; it is men, not women, who design and make most of the women’s high-class, high-priced clothes. ‘Ask the women themselves if this is not so, and ask them why it is so. en are stronger and can stand more; they can. be asked to do work, in an emergency, which women can’t be asked to do; and they are, on the average, more permanent than women. The question of matrimony is always a factor in the feminine equa- ' tion. Getting married usually makes no difference in the business status of a man as a worker, but " it makes a profound break in the life of a woman, and it ‘is right that it should do so. I /’ Experience and dependability are great assets and it is here that the man gets the preference, for he is apt to stay longer on a job. Most work. A ; that is worth while requires a long apprenticeship. . There are of course millions of women who are p faithful and devoted to their work, but the fact remains that the reputation of the sex is that - they cannot be depended on, year in afi§ ygnr out, to the same extent as men. - - Jouds Employers may find an individual woman an ex- ception -and there are many instances where such TWENTY YEARS AGQ 3 Returning From N nmo; The following letter was received by G. M. Carson from his son, Earl, who is in Seattle, wl}era he arrived August 16 from Nome: “We arrived here yesterday, are in good health and will look up some pine before coming back. We will need to do something to break even. This Cape Nome husiness is the biggest fraud I ever saw, there is not one man that went up there that made a dollar. That country was prospected a hundred miles back from the coast, and there was not a man that found anything. i “Anvil, Dexter, Snow Gulch and Dry Creek, which was located last summer, are the only creeks that have anything that will pay that have been found so far, and they do not pay what it is claimed they do. There was about five miles of beach at Nome that was rich, but. it was all worked out last fall, -and worked over two or three times. A man would i starve working on. the beach now. They made a % rich find at Topkok this spring, but it was only 20 .or 30 feet wide, outside of that there was . nothing. It only took a little while to work that 2 out. The beach has been prospected for hundreds T of miles and they never found a thing. “The Seattle papers are saying -that none .are coming back but men with cold feet and men that ; had no business to go there in the first place, and Wl that all experienced miners are doing well. That is : a lie, four-fifths of the men that went there were. miners and they say the comntry is no good what- ever. All the men from Dawson are going back as fast as they can get boats; every boat that leaves is overloaded with men coming out, and they have to Communications for the. every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address \ women have been advanced to very high positions, with corresponding: pay; but taking the sex as a whole they do suffer under this inborn sex handicap and this handicap:cannot ‘be got. rid of hy:passing resolutions, enacting laws or using pressure of any sort. i ; i The moment artificial pressure is applied, what shappens? When women’s wages are raised arti- ficially and are put on the same basis ‘as men’s, the inevitable results is ‘that employers .give the work to men more than ever.' Of ceurse this. does not mean that a man would be "employed as a matron of a girls’ school; it means simply. that in the great average and in ‘the long run the man is * favored and the woman is penalized. » Everybody knows that men are 'preferred as teachers, especially in the higher branches. A woman may know more than a man-and.she may be a better teacher but the fact remains that in an equal -race ‘the man will' get the plum oftener than the woman. This is an injustiee to the women teachers in many ¢ases, but we have to deal with conditions and not with theories. It boils down to the fact that a woman, as a rule, is able to live on less than a man, and hence - she tends to underbid .the manwhen it comes to * for divorce. . to the coast to.meet their husbands, also returned. . command. taking a job; that's what makes the men jealous of them. There are more women ‘teachers than men teachers for the simple reason that more women than men are willing to accept the teachers’ wages that are offered. Teaching is considered .in large measure a stepping-stone .to something else. Young women as a rule live at home, where they pay little or no board, and thus they -are in a position to.accept wages which would not give a living to the average ‘man. To a large extent the wages of a man are based on the theory that he has a wife and family to support, whereas the wages of women .are scaled down on ‘the idea that:they have only themselves to provide for, or that they already have their living assured at home and can work for merely enough to give them spending monéy. If we lay down the absolute rule that women workers in every case must be paid the same that a man in the same position would get, we will simply close the doors of opportunity to women; they will be -eliminated in the race with the men and left at home. That is why we say that the movement to artificially inflafe the wages of women and put them 6n the same level as those of men is bound to react to the’injury of the women. The world needs the work of women; it needs the work of everyone who can turn in and- help produce the myriad of things that enter into mod- ern life.. To declare an arbitrary wage for women would be unjust to them and to society as a whole. To say that a person shall not work for what he can afford to work for and wants to work for is to deprive that person of his individual liberty- of action, and it is a wrong against the printiple of democracy. O g It makes a man feel like a sucker to see the kisses he has coaxed for wasted upon a little black and whité pup.—Clearbrook Leader. L Worse than that, ‘Sheets. It's ample grounds quit gelling tickets and there are no less than 3,000 men in Nome that have not the money to get out and can’t get it, not epough to buy a ticket at $15 to $20, which they were selling tickets at when we left. Men will die like sheep up there this fall. _ They Lave had smallpox all summer and it will gpread all dver now, as wet cold weather has set in. Fever will be bad and pnenmonia will be worse ght_m both of them. Men have been dying with it whe;n the weather was nice; what will it be now, living in tents with such weather as they have there now and very little fuel, if they have not the money to buy it with? I am not sorry-I went; we had a nice trip. We got $50 in dust each. I will tell you the rest when I see you. Good night, “EARL.” Welcome feed, given to the returned gold-hunters at the Merchants hotel last Saturday night—Be- midji Cheer vs. Cape Nome Chill. Three of the party of six whigh left Bemidji last June for the gold fields of €ape Nome returned - last week. Al and Earl Carson and Frank Snyder are home again and ‘report the others of the party in Washington state looking up timber claims. The boys have excellent health, except Mr. Snyder, who had.an.attack of fever while on the coast en route home, which landed him in the hospital at Seattle, and still leaves him in a weak and lean condition. Mrs. E. Carson and Mrs. Frank Snyder, who went A banquet was given Saturday night at the Mer- chants hotel in homor of our adventurers. About thirty of their friends gathered to welcome the boys and to destroy the big and dainty feast which Landlord Hazen had carefully provided. After the excellent supper, a few ‘short speeches were made, L. H. Bailey, the inimitible toastmaster, being in lonely Scottish coast a drama of love and conflict is fought out. ¢ Also a side-splitting Mack Sennett comedy, ‘“He Wouldn't Believe It.” NEWS OF THE THEATRES lern life than he was-when enacting | his role in the play. ~ \ The show goes ‘on the road” and (hits Montana, where the actor gets (arrested, and nearly lynched for un- intentional horse stealing. But then ‘Betty, from the west, with whom he ?lli in love wllflle playing ‘in ‘New is “badly disfigured, but still in.the ork, rescues him just the same way ring,” as the'old sporting reporters|the leading lady did in his play. used to write,—still right is always S . triumphant in the end. So don’t miss|pyyo TOMORROW— this picture. g A j “THE WHITE CIRCLE” k Toutneur .pictures have ‘‘atmos- SOMETHING NEW FOR wphelr;,l’l' Perhaps no other. producer ‘|icould have conveyed on the screen the A\ : BILL DESMOND air of brooding mystery that invests 'Willlam . Desmond in ““A. Broadway [ithe latest Tourneur picture, *“The Cowboy” will furnish the feature at-|'White Circle,”” which will be on view traction at the Rex theatre Sunday.|at the Elko- Theatre' for three days It is a Jesse D. Hampton-Pathe pro-|commencing Sunday next. The pic- : MGSion adapted from Byron Mor-|ture was adapted from the famous gan’s story, and is chuck full of fast-|story by Robert Louis Stevenson, action thrills, humor and romance.. |*“The Pavilion on the Links.” h The story gives William Desmond| The plot centered around the at- . & role entirely different than any in|tempt by a London banker to escape which' he has previously appeared. As|with ‘the funds of an Italian secret :the Broadway matinee hero of a wild|society. He has offered the hand o6f - 'west melodrama, EVill never expected|his daughter to a wealthy adventurer to.get any closer tiuch to real weat- 11 return for his assistance. On the DON'T OVERLOOK A BET When word is passed around that William Farnum d? appearing in a ., new Fox film the “fight fans,” both male and femals, flock to the lueky house confident of witnessing Far- 8 num always battle for a good cause, % —and usually wink. Some times he “SCRATCH MY BACK” AT GRAND TOMORROW Here is an unusually good comedy- drama which will delight a high class, sophisticated audience and be equally popular with others of any degree. It is based on a story by iRupert Hughes and its picture ver- sion was made under his supervision. ‘It carries all the characteristics which makes the Rupert Hughes stories such great successes with his wide: reading public. In cleverness and entertaiment value it is as much in (advance of the ordinary screem comedy drama as Rupert Hughes’ pub lished stories are superior to those of a “hack” writer. The duthor of the story is an ex- pert ‘in getting the public interest, and this picture shows expert work- manship. In the final result, the di- rector and the players had an import- ant share and their work too has the mark. of ‘“‘class.” Don’t _get the idea from the title that there is anything vulgar or sug- gestive about this. It is just the op- posite. It is witty and funny, but always in good taste. It is refresh- ingly different in story and manner of handling from the usual run of pictures, and this alone will com= i e mend it to the discriminating, The “kidding” subtitles are half ‘of the run, but the situations are also well managed. . _‘T. Roy Barnes as the hero, Helene Chadwick as the heroine, Lloyd Whit- lock as Cesare uravina all play their roles especially well.. The direction of the picture is very good, the photography and’ settings fine. “What Could be Sweeter’’ a Gold- wyn two-part: comedy, and “Scratch My Back” will ‘be the program’at the Grand Sunday .and Monday. BEST VAUDEVILLE BILL AT.GRAND THEATRE TONIGHT What 1ooks like the best offering of vaudeville since.the new circuit of Western vaudeville has been com- ing ' to Bemidji, ‘s> scheduled for showing at the Grand theatre tonight only. With three of the acts carry- ing their own scenery, the progrém, widely diversified in character will have something to please everyone, Ward and Vaughan open in a fly- ing acrobatic novelty, with talking, dancing and fast tumbling aerial fin- ish featuring a hair raising toe-to- toe catch, Allan and Dove in the one act comedy . entitled “At the Candy Booth’’ have a sprightly, rapid ‘fire line of patter -calculated to amuse even a wooden Indian. Bob White, long known to vaude- ville patrons is known as “The Whistling Doughboy” and his whist- ling stunt is a welcome addition to any program. ‘Miss ;Anita Alriss, late star of “The Chocolate Soldier” and several other Musical comedies will present, with her assistant, a revue of songs, past and present. - .. ‘Wim. 8. Hart in ‘%e Silent Man” will be the picture program which preceeds the vaudeville and which starts promptly at 7:30 and at 9:16. NOTICE. To the Public: The interest of pedestrians as well lowing rules and regulations in the use of the Bemidji streets: ¢ At those crossings _where traffic policemen are stationed, pedestrians, teams and automobiles will = be re- quired to obey the signal of traffic policemen: The traffic policeman will signal the right to pass over the crossing by standing edge wise with the traffic and the traffic will not pass, against his face or back. When the traffic is light the traffic police- man may indicate the right of pass- ing by an appropriate signal or ges- ture of .the hand. This practice is the one adopted and enforced by_a]! large cities and the traffic in Bemidji is now reaching such proportions that these regulations must be enforced. At crossings where no_traffic po- licemena is stationed and upon the streets generally pedestrians, teams and automobiles will be required to observe the law. It is dangerous to pass. over an intersection of streets upon the diagonal and the public is requested to refrain from doing so and prevent accidents and.loss of life. : " The municipal authorities will take such steps as may be necessary to prevent accidents and loss of life from the diagonal crosging of the intersecting streets. The state law provides that in go- ing a round a corner where the oper- ator's view of the road is obstructed, speed of an automobile of more than 8ix miles per hour is prima facie evi- dence that the person is driving at' an excessive rate of speed. The state law also provided that where in the|~ city the traffic is more or less con- jested, a speed of more’ than ten miles is deemed excessive and in the residence portion a speed of over fif- teen miles is deemed excessive, and outside the closely builtup business portion or residence portion a.speed of more than twenty-five miles is deemed excessive. 238 The pedestrian, team or automobile as automobilists and drivers of other|te your right has the -right-of-way vehicles require the rigid enforce-land must be protected. ment of rules and regulations of traiffc in the City of Bemidji.’ The auto- mobile in the rear must be under such control and operated' at such speed Beginning with Monday, the 16th|as to permit its being stopped or day of August, 1920, the public will be expected to comply with the fol- ating western tang. It will thrill you, turned aside to avoid a collision should the car " immediately ahead It will lift you high on the wings of galloping laughter. It-will give you a touch of Broadway gayety plus that fascin- -romance of east and west. ~ You'll say it is the funniest, speediest, drama you ever saw. Take a gallop of Comedy—CHARLEY CHAPLIN, in “THE FIREMAN". | - Matinee 2:30—10¢ and 30c Rek Union Orchestra hold 'you, and éarry you away with its magic most different comedy gayety with this magnetic Broadway Cowboy Evening 7:10-9:00—15c and 30c Tué;day_——C. TALI_V_IADGE come to a sudden stop or make a sudden turn. g There are some violators- of the law and many people disregard their own safety and the rights of ot.hex_'a using the streets. Much of this' is because of the absent ‘mindedness or thoughtlessness: Some of it is wil- ful negligence and deliberate reckless- ness. The danger, however, is as great in one case as in the other and therefore these rules and regulations and the law’ must be observed and complied with by the people using the streets. We do not desire to be too harsh or severe, but will not hesitate to urge upon the municipal court !;he imposition and -enforcement by im- - prisonment of these cases where the offender ~ intentionally’ violates the law. = We request the assistance of ' each members of the Bemidji Automo- bile Association as well as all other citizens of this city in our efforts to protect our people from accidents and- - loss of life. A 2 Dated this 13th day of August, 1920. L. F. JOHNSON, Mayor. *THOS. BAILEY, 2d8-13-14 Chief of Police. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE \ DAILY PIONEER N Chester S. ROUSE - 'PAINTING CONTRACTOR Paper Hanging and Kalsomining - Phone 559 . 423 Fourth St. : ] . ;|