Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 7, 1920, Page 6

o enm AT TR TR s A SO e BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISEED REVERY AYTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY TEE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISKING CO. . @. E. CARSON, Pres. E. H. DENU, Sec. und Mgr. i G. W. HARNWELL, Editor e——— ——Telephone 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidjl, Minn,, as second- ‘ class emi'.ter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. attentlon paid to anonymous contributions. Wfi:ar‘a name must be known to the editor, but not pecessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the eurrent issue. By Mall One Year ...... .$4.00 8ix Months . Three uo;.;h. . Six Months .. 2.00 ~Ons Week .. Three Months .. 1.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address tor, in advance, $2.00 s OPFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS NO FORCE NEEDED IN AMERICA. There is in the passage of the nineteenth amend- ment a deeper significance than what these 25,- 000,000 women will do with the ballot now that it has been assured. In these days of unrest and jdle talk of bolshevism and revolution there is being enacted in this country a lesson to all Ameri- cans—the lesson that the fundamental laws of our country can be changed without that kind of revolu- tion with bloodshed as its connotation. The granting to women of American, for good or ill, full political responsibility after seventy years of agitation, purely of a political nature and without violence, is a vindication of that form of government conceived by our forefathers. The American constitution, called by Gladstone the grandest instrument ever conceived by men at one ‘time, has grown elastic with the years through amendments.and supreme court decisions, which “follow election returns” to a point where it is ever amendable to the true convictions of the people as a whole. The American people can have under our form of government any kind of government they want, just as soon as they maké up their minds what that kind of government is and how they want it; they can have anything just this side of a mon- archy all the way to simon-pure Marxian socialism— if they really want it. The forty-eight separate states which make up the union are all individual laboratories for gov- ernmental experimentation. One state tries a new experiment and the other forty-seven sit back and watch to see how it works. Another tries it and the forty-six still hold back and watch the wheels go around. Another arrives at a point where it is felt that the new scheme works; each one drawing something from the other. Then, a sufficient num- ber eventually having reached the conclusion that it is the thing to do, national public opinion is quickly crystallized. Without as much excitement as comes with a national election by itself, 25,000,000 people are given the right ‘“of self determination” through the American form of government. To grasp what this means numerically consider the fact that in Ireland, which for centuries has been a battle ground, there are but a little more than four mil- lion people, and in Poland there are few more than twelve million. The American people under the American con- stitution can have anything that they want just as quickly as they make up their minds they want it, whether it is suffrage, prohibition, bolshevism or any other ism; wholly aside from the merits of any one of these measures, this is the true signifi- cance of the victory of votes for women. In form we have wandered far from the plans of those who framed our constitution; in spirit we still commune with them. PR ADVERTISING AND THE CHURCH. Announcement that a church in New York City is to erect a big electric sign on Broadway, calling attention to its service, is likely to cause some sur- Dab'l' Decision. Cangfidxtes Cox and Harding will conduct their campaigns mainly by speeches, but Candidate Debs has decided to stick to the pen.—Columbia Record. The following are the bird symbols for the various political parties: Republican, the American Eagle; democratic, the Parrot; prohibition, the Swallow; socialist, the Hawk; farmer-labor, the Wet Hen; the committee of forty-eight, the Hoot Owl— Northern Light. COMMENTS—THAT'S ALL (By EXCHRANGE EDITOR) PRESN g The increase of freight rates went into effect yesterday, Today gasoline in St. Cloud, and prob- ably in most other cities jumped up a cent a gallon, although none of the dealers will get gas under the new freight raes for a week or ten days. Coal dealers in Minneapolis announce an advance of 65 cents for coal, while it will be several days before they have to pay this increased cost. This advance is clear profit to the dealers for the stock on hand and what will be received until they have to pay the advanced rate. The poor ultimate consumer is hit on every hand, and hit hard. Just how the eost of living is to be reduced between the profiteers and the government boosting of freight rates, is an unsolved problem although office seeking poli- ticians tell us they are going to do it. Ananias has many disciples in these days.—St. Cloud Journal Press. SR | An exchange published the following unique re- minder to its delinquent subscribers: “There i$ a Bttle matter that $ome of our $ub$criber$ have $eemingly forgotten entirely. $ome of them have made u$ many promi$e$ but have not kept them. To u$ it i$ a very important matter. It’$ nece$$ary in our bu$ine$$. We are very mode$t and don’t like to $peak about it”” We hope some of the News subscribers will take the hint—and pony up! —Exchange. g France could use about four million husbands. «So could Germany but where are they to come frem?.. The girls of the United States declare there are ‘none to be spared from this country.—Ex. —_— —— prise. A few graybeards may shake their heads in disapproval of the idea of the church resorting to the methods used by chewing gum manufacturers and theatres to advertise their wares and attrac- tions; they will think it undignified. It is an unusual departure, to be sure; but there will be far less criticism than would have been the case if the scheme had been proposed ten years ago. Advertising has come to be generally recognized as a legitimate function not only of commercial concerns, but of all organizations which seek the patronage of the public. The advertising art is almost as old as civilization. The ancients used posters and placards freely to announce games and festivals, and to direct attention to the baths and taverns. The walls of the most frequented sections of Pompeii and Herculaneum are covered with notices, painted in red and black. In view of its antiquity it is curious that advertising has been regarded with suspicion until recent years, and even yet is considered unethical by the practitioners of some of the learned professions. It is a gratifying indications that the churches are living, growing institutions, abreast of the times and in sympathy with the modern currents of thought; that they are resorting more and more to the use of advertising—the powerful Twentieth century method of sending a message to vast num- bers of people. . SN SR LOYALTY IN SERVICE. The character of the individual may be very largely guaged by the measure of loyalty he exer- cises toward the person or institution that provides him with employment. A real ingrate is the person who is disloyal to the one to whom he owes the obligation of service. The test which may be applied to the individual is equally good when applied to a group of persons, organized to act as a unit. An act of unfairness is no less culpable because it is committed by a group rather than by an individual. %ere are persons who feel under certain obliga- tions to be loyal to an individual who is their em- ployer, though they have no such feeling when their employer is a corporation. It is the same idea that rules the man who believes he is honest bui would ride free on a public conveyance if he could. Many manufacturers and other employers com- plain that they are paying the highest wages in the history of their business, but they say that pro- duction has not increased and that the quality of the work, if anything, has deteriorated. It is plain that there is need of a return to the principle of “an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.” Any person who takes wages without an effort to give adequate return should not profess to consider himself in the class of honest men. Osizint The celebration and parade of yesterday marked a step upward in the right direction of co-operation between organized labor and the business men and citizens of Bemidji. g The day set aside for the acknowledgment of labor as an essential part of the economic structure of our nation was fittingly celebrated by the entire city. Stores were closed up tight and a spirit of goodfellowship permeated the atmosphere- from morning until night. It was the laboring man’s picnic and was thoroughly enjoyed by all.who par- ticipated. > The parade was represented by thirteen bodies of organized labor, followed by floats and automobiles, and made a procession more than a mile long. It should have been longer. It should have been three miles long and would have been had the sightseers on the sidelines fallen in behind after they had watched the parade go past. . That, unfortunately, is the ‘experience with all parades; the people watch the procession go past and wonder why it is not longer. The trouble is there are too many viewers and not enough participants. Too many “let George do it kind,” and not enough George’s. But, withal, it was a splendid showing and employers were seen driving their employees in their cars in the parade which is as it should be. The picnic was a free-for-all, everybody get in, sort of family affair, and if every person did not have a good time it surely was his own fault. Let us have more of these affairs. Help in Sight. The independent voters of the state, who have waged gallant warfare against the encroachments of Townleyism on our homes and public school, will welcome most heartily the votes of the women in the coming election. The moral support given in the past has been a big factor and now this can be emphasized by the actual votes of the women of the state.—Hankinson News. R Voting Intelligence. - Every state legislature reflects . accurately the intelligence of the people it represents, says a western governor. We do not know that he is ex- actly correct as to that; but it is certainly the case that it reflects most accurately the degree of intelligence that the people exercise when they - do their voting.—Williston Herald. —0— One dollar increase in the price of coal because of the advance in the freight rates. That is hitting the innocent bystander an awful wallop on his pocketbook. But no one appears to care what happens to the i. b. He has no friends.—Mankato Free Press. —— O’Connor Not a Rubber Stamp. North Dakota will not have a rubber stamp gov- ernor next term. J. F. T. O’Connor is a man who will listén to the advice of others, but he will take orders from no man. He is a man in every sense of thé word.—Bottinau Farmers Advocate. gy Socialism’s Standard Plea. A socialist movement without the plea of hard times and the constant demand for more money would not be a socialist movement at all.—Grand Forks Herald. S All for Ohio. In this national campaign, republicans, democrats and prohibitionists find themselves in unprecedented accord, all being anxious to elect an Ohio man as president.—Dickinson Press. —0— Real Chivalry. Our own idea of true chivalry is to let the at- tractive city guest pin a ragweed blossom on your coat lapel in hay fever time.—Grand Rapids Press. J : { Intelligence Alone Answers. In no country with the general intelligence and morality of the United States can Bolshevism put through its evil doctrines.—Devils Lake Journal. e Surely Not. No one can say the present-day girl does not TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920 give the mosquito a fair chance.—Minneapolis Journal. g Times have changed since Col. Watterson was in his prime. It is now a jail offense to tote a pistol. Years ago it was an oversight.—Stillwater Gazette. OLD PAL PETE: This is a P. S. to the letter I wrote you on the buzzing Limited. Kid, for a fact, 'm hitting 13 on making up Camel advertisements. And I'll say it right here! Porter, give us the lights! Just skimmed another swefi Camel fact! Stop this: Guess I've smoked a million Camels! Pete, they never tired my taste yet!!!! And, old socks, put Camels to the test! Then you'll wise up that Camels leave no unpleasant ‘cigaretty after~ taste nor unpleasant cigaretty odor! That's some smoke news, I'll say, when you been trying to fuss the “straight” brands! And, old shoe, you ought to know, they gave you a lacing! ‘What makes a dent on my disposition is that while Camels are the mildest cigarette and the mellowest cigarette any man can buy they’'ve got all the “‘body”’ you ever heard tell of! Why Pete,; I got as many new selling ideas about Camels as there are hairs on a purr-kitty’s tail ! Drop your old lamps down here,—how’s that for blazing the joy Camels pass out! Me for more of 'em . =‘“The Camel Kid"” ) “',.c R. L. BARNUM, WALL ST. EXPERT WALL STREET NEWS NOTES Bank Clearings Bond Market Stock Quotations vestments s Accurate and Speedy Financial News Reports 'Active and relisble connections with every important market in the world assure the readers of the St. Paul Pioneer Press complete data on all financial developments at the earliest possible moment. this morning in the Pioneer Press the same market reviews you would read were you in New York or Chicago. 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