Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 18, 1920, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISKED EVERY AFTARNOON EXOBPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISKING ‘00, G. E. CARSON, Pres. E. H°DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWEL(,, Editor Telephone 933 Entered at the postoffice at-Bemidji, Minn., as second- class matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must be known to the editor;: but not necessarily for. publication. - Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office not later: than Tuesday of each week to Msure publication in the “\current issue. G ———— Three Month One Month g Six Months ......... 200 One Week ... . 13 Thres Months ....... 1.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published » every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address ‘. for, in advance, §2.00 . | - OFFICIAL COUNTY AND OITY PROCEEDINGS . LABOR-AND AMENDMENT NO. 1. Whatever question “may have been raised in isolated instances of the attitude of labor towsrd * Amendment No. 1—the Babcock good roads plan— that question has "been definitely di.lpmd‘ of by recent action of official labor bodies. The first official action was taken at a meeting * . of the executive' council of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor at which unanimous approval was given the good.roads amendment. Next the - state convention of the Working People’s Non-: partisan Political league at Rochester indorsed the .amendment with the reservation that no bonds be issued by the state in the carrying out of the plan. And the convention of the State Federation of Labor at Rochester took similar action. As to the matter of bond issue, it is exceedingly unlikely that any such issue ever will be needed or authorized. The bond issuing power is given the legislature in' the amendment largely because v at the time it was written the authors had not fore- seen how much revenue could be raised by auto- mobile license tax to pay for operations without a bond issue. Since then conditions have changed. The amendment requires that any bonds issued under the law shall not be sold below par and shall: not bear interest over 5 per cent. Of course: it would be impossible now or in the very near future to sell a penny’s worth of bonds on these terms.’ It is estimated that with 800,000 motor vehicles in the state by mext year $5,400,000 could be col- s _to be used besides laying the road itself. Labor lected from- license-fees-and $2,800,000 from Fed- eral aid, makifig a total of $8,200,000. It was never intended to spend more than $10,000,000 on the plan in any single year, and the rénd materials may be so difficult to obtain -next year that it will be impossible to”spend the $8,200,000-cash avail- able. On each succeeding year there would be more machines to be: taxed. Moreover, the legislature is not limited to' the average of $18 per wachix}e on which the above.calculation is made.. ' Labor is wise in indorsing ‘tlis . amendment, furthermore, because all but an insignificant per- centage of the money to be spent will go to labor. Labor -will manufacture the cement, quarry the rock and prepare it and manufacture the machinery is a consumer of food the marketing of which will be cheapened and facilitated by good yoads. And labor is an extensive owner and user of automo- biles. Is thére any possible reason why enlightened labor should be against this amendment? . el R RECKLESS DRIVING. We wonder if the majority of people who read of the accidents caused by reckless driving and speeding aren’t a great deal like ourselves, in that the shock doesn’t effect us nearly as much as if we happen to know the parties concerned. - In other words, we firmly bglieve that if a certain catas- trophe ‘'struck close home to a number of us at the same time, there would be something started to stop reckless driving and speeding on our public highways. Every now and then we read of an accident caused by reckless driving or racing on our high- ways, which robs some kiddie of his mother or daddy, and probably through no fault of the par- ents, but the insane desire of the owner or driver’ to speed. When an accident of this kind happens to someone who is near or dear to us, immediately we resolve to do something or start uon,et}fing that will make a reoccurrence impossible, but we _ don’t do it and it is primii‘ally because of lack of co-operation on the par? of others who may not be at such a high pitch of enthusiasm as we are at that particular time. i We don’t pretend to offer a solution for reckless driving and speeding, but we do know that those who. have persisted in violating the laws in this respect in the. past are going to be the cause of some very drastic speed regulations in the near future. It is really too bad we cannot cull out and isolate these reckless and speedy drivers, but of course this cannot be done, and the rést 91 us will have to suffer with them.—Sparks. PRESS COMMENTS—THATS ALL ] » (By BXORANGE EDITOR) Professor Pflughoeft is the new instructor in agriculture in the Bemidji schools the coming year. | We think we ought to know whether his name | indicates that he does not believe in the -use of- the gasoline horse on the farm, but- sticks to the good old farm ‘pflug.”—Virginian. * : —— 3 A great many have fallen into the bad- habit of- referring to Amendment No. 1. as the “Babcock Good Roads Law.” Tl“‘u should be discouraged. The name “Babcock” wifl not appear on the ballot. Amendment No. 1 is all that will appear in the - ballot and you should vote “Yes.” Pennsylvania> i voters turned down an identical plan a few-years ) ago but realized their own mistake. Two years later two hundred thousand voters changed their- minds and passed the law by a large majority.- Minnesota needs roads -now—not ‘some time within thesnext hundred years.—Dassel Dispatch: iin e The Bank of North’'Dakots, one of the favorite Townley institutions, recently borrowed a million - dollars from a Chicago bank at 7 per cent interest. : and Editor Grant Hager -of the Grafton- Record'- * ° wants to know what has become of $30,000,000 of public money deposited there. The bank was : organized to make loans to farmers at low rates but the Grafton editor says this has not been dome to any appreciable amount and he is curious-about- the necessity for the million-dollar loan. Why: insist- - - on such embarrassing questions in the middle-of ‘» campaign?—Duluth Herald. : ¢ S S ¢ The Bemidji Townsite company seems to be ofle.. of those rare corporations that have established a reputation for beneficence as well as enterprise. Recently it placed most of its holdings in the Bel- trami county metropolis on the market toiencourage home building, and the Bemidji Sentinel notes it e ———————————eaere— NEWS OF THE THEATRES ] 5 editorially as the culmination of many years of good work by the company for the town and its peo- ple.—Duluth Herald. R —— Hordes of autos now remind us ‘We should build our roads to stay, When departing leave behind us Kind that rains don’t wash away. « When our children.pay the mortgage, Fathers made to haul their loads, They’ll not have to ask the question: “Here’s the bonds, but where’re the roads?” —Buffalo Times. T SRy At-last! The World gulpingly pledges its “‘earn- est’ and sincere support” to Cox, the Times cau- tiously asserts that “the ideas and the policies which he -advocates -ought to prevail,” and the Evening Post piteously remarks that ‘there is yet a little time for Mr. Harding to speak out”—just as if he hadn’t said a word.—Harvey’s Weekly. K ——m— The sage of the Redwing Eagle wrote these lines: “Of course, if you don’t want.to pay the railroads that twenty per cent increase in passenger rates -you ¢an-buy an automobile instead. Even a buzz-wagon would be cheaper than walking at the present price of shoe leather.”—Mankato Free Press. - 0- All the Same. Call a Beltrami county farmer a ‘‘hayseed” and he probably: will want to buy you a dr——cigar. It’s just the same as calling him a millionaire. The Baudette Region says that the farmers in that neighborhood are again netting more than $300 an aere from:their clover land.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. % 0- «. A blind woman charges her blind husband with being a “gay devil” with other women. But you can’t blame a blind man for falling in love a little oftener than one who can see.—St. Paul Dispatch. An exchange says England is worried about the big,navies'the United States and the Japanese are now.building, So' are the American and Jap tax- payers. releaced by Pathe, coming to the Rex theatre Thursday. . ; Stephen and Jim Browning wer [twin brothers so alike in face, form fand - voice that their most intimate friends could not tell them apart. Both were splendid men morally, but iy “CUPID—THE COWPUNCHER” 'BhO stern Zack Sewell, owner of the|Stephen, the minister, was frail of 2 P AT GRAND TOMORROW ‘th“ Y ‘ranch, and Lloyd Whitlock 18 [body and meek of spirit and unable @ unscrupulous Dr. Simpson. to withst nd the buffets of a greedy There’'s no resisting Will Rogers in the part of “Cupid”’ Lloyd, the g cowpuncher who kept the 1local preacher busy hooking up the eligible couples of Briggs City. It’'s a role L5 that allows him to “let go.” Rogers, in leather chaps, spurs and sombrero, doesn’t have to ‘“act”’—he just lives tlle__part. “‘Cupid” Lloyd and his flock of care-free, boisterous cowpunchers are the real west. The Wild-and-Wooly country of the old movie thrillers, with its two-gun fighters, its scenes of preposterous melodrama and its impossible deeds of valor existed, mainly in the fevered imagination of scenario scribblers. But here is the real thing. Only one shot is fired in the whole picture—and that one-is \ part of a practical joke. ,““Cupid, The Cowpuncher’” which will be shown Thursday and Friday at the Grand theatre, was adapted from the well known story, ‘“Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher,”” by Eleanor Gates. The growing demand fér a Will Roger - picture laid in the west led to the ing way in tonight. ing . production, plcture. Tilton. /formidable list. — ‘Helene Charwick, whose sunny ke smile and wholesome personality £ ) have placed her well at the top of i the.leading women of the screem, is » a splendid foil for Will Rogers in this picture. -Andiew Robson plays central theme of e & SHIRLEY MASON: WILL LEAVE TOWN TONIGHT What a girl-in her teens did-when she learned-that her father had -be-| queather her by will to a man she never had-seen is told in-a fascinats “Love’s Harvest,” William Fox photoplay which closes; its engagement at the Grand ~Gho.\tre- ‘Miss ‘Shirley Mason,: who has: won: sudden and: well-deserved popularity by her success in recent Fox produc- tions, plays: the part of the girl. The story takes her‘to the concert stage in Paris and New:York. It is a. charm~ fauiltlessly staged. and most capably acted:© In other words, it is a distinctly worth 'while ‘The: play is from: the :novel:*“His Harvest,” by Pearl Doles: Bell. - Sup~ porting Miss Mason’in the-cast are Raymond McKee and ‘Edwin Booth selection of this happy tale from a|EX-CONVICT WEARS SHOES OF PREACHER BRO Do you believe that.a-man who had served a year inprison - could step into the shoes of his minister broth- er? There i8 such a situation as the Shoes,” the Edgar Lewis production, and grasring world. Jim had heeded the..call- of Wanderlust for twelve crime of : nother. When the strong brother steps into the shoes of the meek brother inter- esting. complications arise, for no one |but his sister and brother know of the masquerade. ‘Blackmallers thrdaten to besmirch his name in the oyés ,of thetownspeople whose atti- tude-of ‘tolerant respect changed to the minister suddenly displayed a cour- ageous, two-fisted fighting spirit. FUNNY WASHBURN FARCE . "\ Exposing the tricks of the festive bootleggers, and doing it in a manner to provoke gales of laughter is the genial\task laid out by Bryant Wash burn-in “What Happened to Jones,” the.George Broadhurst comedy which will be seen at the Elko theatre to- night and tomorrow. As it must be admitted that Mr. ‘Washburn gets a maximum of fum from- a ‘fastmoving story which tells 4 of crooked bootleggers and a fake re- former who turns out to be a confi- dence man masquerading in ‘“‘sheep’s clothing.”” He is well supported in his fun-making by an excellent cast including Margaret Loomis, J. Mau- rice Foster, Frank Ponasson; Lillian “Other Men's years-and had gone to jail for the} whole-hearted admiration when their} - Leighton, ard Cummings. Perhaps one of the funniest bits is|torney from Utah, have held a soccret | Filipinos. that of Alvina Smith, the spinster who has become engaged by mail to Anthony Goodley, the bogug reformer. When in the course of the plot it is necessary for Jones to masquerade in Goodley’s clothes some amusing developments ensue. The production: is a Artcraft. night and Thursday are Magazine, which visualizes “A Jun- gle Romance,” and Holmes Trave- logue, showing views on the battle- fields of France. CONSTANCE: TALMADGE ON ‘Theiflpfl?fi:fl?fiaflf strong and permanent boosters for conception of vampires, or rather a very decided- conception of the public, that does not begin to cover nor classify the various spe- ¢ies,” and Miss Constance Talmadge in a recent interview. The topic under discussion was Connie’s latest First National attrac- tion ‘““Theé. Perfert Woman.”” Miss Talmadge believes that the art of vamping is by no means con- fined to the ladles, but that men, as a rule, are far more adept in the gen- tle practice, than the fair sex. Talmadge said simpl upon a big psychological hater. ion based on heresay has The girl who builds a less while, on the other ship. ' Mr. and Mrs. o Caroline Rankin and Rich- It was directed by James Cruze, ;and the scenario was written .Elmer Harris, co-author of ‘‘So Long Letty” and “Canary- Cottage.” Other attractions at the Blko to- y; the story of ‘The Pe;rert Woman’, John Emerson and Anita Loos hit story is build around a young girl who is madly in love with a woman ‘The girl practically throws herself at him, without as much as a how-do-you-do by way of recognition. Now, the law of skilled vampires is “indifference”—an inviting, person- ality, with just the slight frigidity. That is where-popular co ception takes a mighty tumble. Opi pires have a certain inveigling sys- tem—I believe that’s all wrong. around herself, is going to be friend- but displays the least sign of inveig- ling motives she is going to find her- <elf as friendless as ‘Miss Eskimo. KKK X KKK XK KKK KF * CLEARBROOK * {*#}ii**i}#t*ili# Miss Gina Tanghol arrived here Monday morning from the east where she has been on an extended purchas- ing tour for her largé ladies furnish- ing establishment in Grand Forks, N. D. She will visit with her sister, Mrs. Tom Ollestad of Sinclair town- Louie Shevlin and Misses Cora and Hilda Torgerson and Arthur Bexell took a +rip to Itasca State Park Sunday. A news item announces that Dr.|There is, however, a destroyer named . Get More Service for ‘the Money in Goodyear Tires 1 3t TR T T Boebis e tabre, § 250 th asked ul re Fabric, k more than the price you are to pay i All .Weather Tread 23 e for tubes Of less merit—why risk coetly #30 x 3% Goodyear - Single-Cure Fabric, Anti-Skid Tread... Goodyea.r' Tires and other Goociyear Products oy P § i / { conference in Chicago and jolned ) Jose Rizal, hands in the coming election., und haye announced, according to reports, that: “We are out to get King's goat.” Mr. King, by the way, is the FarmersLabor candidate for goyer- nor in Minnesota, Reports has it that Mr. King is game as ever, sits tight, and may at’ that give the new combination the fight far their life. The Melvin Johnson post of the American Legion, located here, be- lieve in full represertation, hence Carl Skog, Oscar E. Lewis, Ben A. Peterson and Leonard Berglund left for Duluth Sunday evening td take in the. state convention of that organi- zation, as delegates from this post. | The convention will take in the whole week and will be one of, the best ever held in the northwest. ‘The bhoys sre fleet. every vessel in the navy. most ambitious, and spend spare -time stuaying. exceedingly Paramount SUBSCRIBEFOR THE Paramount Bemidji for the next-meet, which is in harmony with all who pbelieve in holding conventions in cities with the “Pop.” Aug. E. Hanson, our popular bar- ber, has placed his place of business on a par with city parlors by inctall- ing two modern barber chairs, full wall mirrors with bath in connec- tion and many other needed acces- sories. Sam Malonies, a first class barber, has been employed to hold down the second chair. Congratula- tions boys upon your splendid work and what it will mean to our com- munity. Baseball has taken a sudden back seat among the fans along the *“Soo"” wof late. Mr. Chase, Clearbrook’s splendid twirler seems to have taken the gas out of their bags in more than one spot. Arthur Henderson, who has cished out the United States mail in this neck of the woods for almost :0 years, deported Tuesday for the 15th Annual 'convention of the Nationa: League of Postmasters which is held at Minneapolis this week on Wednes- it that vam-| .o “phursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Olof Vangen of Pine Lake ,Mf. and Mrs. Olai Skime of Gonvick, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Anler- son, Mr. and Mrs. Engeberet Torger- son, Mr. and Mrs. Bennett A. Ba- gaason, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hen-- derson, Messrs. Martin A. Bagaason, Seibert Abrahamson, Charley Van- gen, all of Clearbrook and Alert Moen of Albert Lea, Minn., who is here oa a visit with friends, constituted a party of. picnicers who invaded Itas- ca state park Sunday and enjoyed its tall timber. cold springy lakes and breezes. This is Minnesota’s natures ‘beauty spot, and the hundreds of tourists which now make it an annual \visit prove its attractiveness. on the part matches the Miss “In writing of our business. truth” The uch of glacial wall hand, if she \ U. S. DESTROYER MANNED BY FILIPINOS ALMOST ENTIRELY Very few people know that -we have a Filipino ship in our navy. 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