Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 3

— “Northwestern News STATE SUPREME COURT RESUMES SESSIONS TODAY | - St. ‘Paul, Sept 20.—The state su- preme court resumed sessions today and a dozen cases were scheduled for hearing this week. The calendar for the week includes Monday.—ex. rel George D. Taylor nd Sons, and Southern Security com- ‘pany, versus District Court of Ram- sey county; Otto Wold as guardian of the estate of<Evelyn Wold,.a mi- Tnor, versus Chevrolet Motor company. Tuesday.—J. J: York, as adminis- trator of “the estate of J. W. York, deceased, versus Matthew J. York, or- der Rock county; George Paulson and Henry -Dressler versus county board of Yellow Medicine county, Judg- ment Yellow Medicine county; Willa, Baulton & Thomas K. Nomeland-ver- sus Board of County commissioners, Tincoln county, Judgment Lincoln county. Wednesday.—John N. Strand, ver- sus Chicago & Great Western Rail- road Comapny, order Goodhue coun- ty; State ex rel Investors’ Syndicate .versus Andrew P, Davies, public ex- aminer et ak Thursday.—Harrie P. Davies and ‘Anna G. Davies versus The Price Mer- cantile Syndicate, order Hennepin county. 2 Friday.—Robert E. E. Townsend, et al, versus Hugo Jahr, order Nor- man county; Frank Podgorski, ver- sus M. F.. Kedwin, order Ramsey “ _county. TH DAKOTA DOING ITS SHARE TO RELIEVE SHORTAGE .Bismarck, Sept. 20.,—That North Dakota will do its share to relieve the nation-wide school:room shortage ‘'said by Commissioner Claxton to be “alarming” was evident. from the fact that requests to.issue $500,000 worth of bonds, for building and improve- ‘ments were approved in one day. Districas and towns whose applica- - tions received: approval were: Veroa, Conway Hankinson, Wilton, Oberion, ‘Plaza, Washpurn, Max Edmore, Mor- ton, Rolla, Stanton, two districts in Cass-County and one each in Wells’ ‘Ramsey, -Divide and Benson counties. As $500,000 high school was com- pleted _and ready for use in Fargo “with the opening of the fall term and a $150,000 grade Catholic school will be ready there by November 1. "WORKERS AWAITING HEARING ON DEMANDS Minneapolis, Sept 20.—Nine thous- -and workers for the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery company today were awaiting word from Secretary of War ‘Baker who was to conduct a hearing of their demands for approximately $800,000 back pay alleged to ‘be due them. Employees of the Amercian Hoist and Derrick company and the St,. Paul Foundry company also. are interested 1n_the case. , The compan- jes were working on war. contracts in 1918 when employes demanded ad- ditional pay.. The pay was promised ; “them, it is alleged, so that war work ‘would not stop. LEAVE TO ATTEND : ° NATIONAL CONVENTION Fargo. Sept. ~ 20.—About twenty American lLegionaires headed by C. L. Dowbs Beacon, national commit~ teeman, left here today to attend the national convention at Cleveland. In Minneapolis, the éx-service. men. of North Dakota will be joined by the delegation from South Dakota and %finnesota. GIRL WINS MINNESOTA PIG CLUB CONTEST, A girl is state champion pig raiser among Minnesota boys’ and girls’ pig| Anna ;. club members. Her name is Truog, and her home is at Swanville, Morrison county. The state wide con- test, “which is promoted as a feature f.general junior club work by the ricultural extension division of the niversity--of Minnesota, culminated at the state fair when 118 boys and girls entered- their pigs in the com- petition. Anna Truog eéxhibited a Poland China pig and her score card was marked 94.5; the awards® being made on a basis of conformation of type, cost of gain, daily rate of gain, and an original story of “How I Helped Uncle Sam by -Growing ,a Pig.” -Of premium money of $200 offered by the state fair board,.the girl prize winner, gets $20 in cash and in addition wins a gold medal and a free trip to the International Livestock Show at Chicago. Leo Eaton, of Bertha, Todd county, with a Duroc pig, and Haysen Bulfer of Garden City, Blue Earth county, with a Poland China pig, tied for sec-|- ond place with a score of 94 points each. Other awards were: Third, Stanley Peterson of Madelia, Duroc, 93.2; fourth, Willet Stoskopf of Preston, Poland China, 93.1; fifth, Jay . Seymour, of Eyota, Olmstead county, Chester White, 92.9; sixth, Clayton Benson, Worthington, Duroc, 92.7. - - Ancher Nelson of Brownton, Mec- _ Leod county, exhibited the highest scoring pig. a Duroe, over all breeds, and won the right to a free trip to the boys’ and girls’ short course at University ‘Farm, April next. The Durocs predominated in the state contest. There were 87 Durocs, 21 Poland Chinas, 8 Chester Whites. one Hapipshire and one Berkshire. Vari- breedirig associations offered remiums aggregating $350. The _state fair board, in-addition to giving _” premium money of $200, made an al- lowance of $625 for transportation and for feeding and caring for the pigs of the young club members. _ TYHE PIONEER. WAN_’f ADS BRING RESULTS THE BEMIDJI SHOULD ALL BE .NEIGHBORLY Spirit Is of Immense- Importance to the Upbuilding of Community, Smatl or Large. Rent hogs have a social value rath- i er overlooked In the turmoil. Though hardly attaining eminence as a moral force they remain a persuasive fact for a city ‘neighborhoed. They have made a social whole of many a four- walled community that had been mere- 1y an accidental aggregation. Cammo! oppression makes humanity kin, in- cluding even the iniates of an gpart- ment house. Neighbarliness, in short, has' begun to mean something. ‘Neighborliness is at once the kind- lest and the most powerful organiza- tlon in our tradition. Nelghborhood organizations, if not captured by schemers with private ends to serve, is the best basis for consumers’ or- ganizations in general. That Amer- fean class called nelghbors, the great unwieldy, battered 90 per cent, has suffered much of late through lack of organized effort in its own behalf. Neighborhood associations will ame- lorate the predatory ethics of urban life. When neighbors meet in public school assembly halls for community assoclation in economic study, in pol- itics, In wnusic, in drama, in education- al problems, good government and good living are’ likely to be furthered. Better neighborhood understandings leading to intelligent co-operative ef- fort are one of outstanding needs.— Chicago Daily News. WAIT FOR TOWN TO GROW Criticism Made That Too-Many Small Communities Are Slow in Mak-. ing Improvements. It-has been figured up that there are about 12,000 small towns in the United States, half of them with populations of 500 or less, says the Thrift maga- zine. It is these small towns that the with., They sell their produce there, , buy the things they need; In fact, ( these are a part of the rural commu- nity. become cities, but a very large per It is no disgrace to live in a small are waiting until next year or some put in_sidewalks a water system or & sewer system to safegnard the health ot thé people, or before taking any conditions of the children. i Proper Town Planning. Scientific town planning takes into- consideration the direction of streets and orientation of houses from a san- | itary -stamdpoint. There has been a |tendency to make streets run north and south and east and west, but in a paper to the Royal Astronomical so- -clety of Canada, H. L. Seymour late- Iy -showed that they should run.north- east and southwest and northwest and southeast. Houses correspondingly placed have sunshine o all roams in- stead of having it cut off from north- erly walls for more than one-half of the tlme. Also hcuses shall be so placed and of such height as to shade others as little as possible. | Theater and Church. . community with both a church and theater on money sufficient for only j one building has Dbeen solved .in a |smnll western town by building one ! large auditorium with a stage at one !end Of the Dball and o pulpit at’ the |-other, according to a Y. W. C. A. | drandatic director who ~visited the !'town recently. This novel arrange- ‘ meNt diplomatically meets certain ap- parent objections and at-the same time gives the proper setting for either, The seats are reversible. City Planning” Worth While, City planming of the right kind is i strictly a “business proposition. Its function is to aid in facilitating busi- ness and ‘maintaining property values. Its activity means a better looking city, a better city for business and a better city for homes. Furthermore, city planning is not a matter. of concern to the few. It will work to the interest of the large and the small property owner, and to the interest .of any person who expects to « make the place his home. Indian Cattle in the South. __Some years ago it was discovered that the zebu, or humped cattle of In- dia, are immune to the deadly “Texas fever” which was poisoning the herds of the south. A few of the Indian ! cattle were imported and did well, though without gaining any great pop- ularity. Then more were imported, and now there are quite a number of them in Texas, and one cattleman val- | ues his chief “Brahmin” bull at $30,- 000. Electric Wires Kill Trees. Electric wires which touch trees can ]easlly kill the most beautiful shade tree. This may be due partly to the work of the electric current or to the wearing through the growing surface of the tree by the wire, which de- prives the’tree of its sustenance. rural people are intimately associated ; Some of these small towns will , cent of them will remain as they are. town, but the rule is that these people future year to improve their schools, | step to Tmprove the soclal and. living The problem of how to supply the ' N Five Minute Chats ' on Our Presidents PYVVVIVIYS By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.) THE BIG STICK 1903—February 6, Roosevelt in- duced Great Britain and ~Germany to arbitrate with Venezuela. November, the “Panama revolution. 1906—May 12, brought Russia X and Japan to agree to dis- cuss peace. August 29, the peace of Portsmouth. 1908—Roosevelt awarded the Nobel peace prize. ° 1918—January 6, death of Theo- ~ dore Roosevelt, aged sixty. T the crackling of a twig in the still depths of the Adirondack mountains -Roosevelt turned to see a gulde coming out of the woods with the unexpected news that McKinley's condition was worse. Although he liastened to Buffale, the president had died 13 hours before the vice president arrived. . : At the outset of Roosevelt's ad- ministration a fearful citizen begged the rough rider not to permit his fight- ing spirit to plunge the country into an international war. *“What!” the pres- ident exclaimed. “A war, and I cooped up here in the White House? Never!™ Many forgot the first half of the old motto that Roosevelt made his own. “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” No man ever had a simpler faith in the efficacy of first “talking it over,” man fashion, with an adversary, whether a senator or an ambassador. The meddlesome German kaiser was the earllest to feel the “big stick” to see If 1t was only stuffed with straw. Germany and a Tory government of England were on the point of seizing territory as a security for some claims Edith Carow Rooseveit. 'against Venezuelan citizens, when i Roosevelt succeeded in dissuading Eng- land from such a step, but he failed to induce Germany to arbitrate the !matter. Thereupon he told the Ger- ; man ambassador that unless the Berlin ‘government consented to arbitration in ten days, he would send Admiral Dewey to stop the Germans from land- ing In Venezuela. The ambassador _protesting that the kaiser could not i back down now, Roosevelt replied that !he was not arguing with him but was simply telling him what would happen. After waiting a week without an answer from Berlin, he told the am- bassador that he was going to cut the limit to nine days and that unless Germany agreed in 48 hours to arbi- trate, .Dewey would sail. In 36 hours the ambassador came back with a message announcing that Germany con- sented, | In good time, Roosevelt employed the influence of his unique position before the.world to bring to an end the Russo-Japanese. war. Shrewdly choosing the right moment to step in, he appealed to the two belligerents ;with a .common sense and a simple directness that a friend would use in bringing together two quarreling neigh- ’bors. Afterward he steered the peace ,conference at Portsmouth against its will steadily toward a peace of recon- ciliation, an impatient Russian declar- ing that-his “steel grist” hammered |out a treaty that neither of the powers wanted at that time and that “the ter- 'rlble American president—I1 Strenuoso | —was capable of locking the conferees into a room and starving them.inte’ submission.” . Instead.of starting a war, the “b! stick” stopped the only great war that broke out fn the perlod of its sway. While the -Roosevelts were its ten- ants, the White House was an ex- ample and the center of the simple family life of America “not a second-rate palace,” the president said, “but the home of a self-respecting American citizen.” A few months af- |ter graduating at-Harvard, Roosevelt married Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of i Boston, whom he had met in his col- lege days. This bride of his youth passed from life as her daughter— Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth—en- tered it. ¢ Nearly three years afterward he ;sailed from New York, directly follow- Ing an wunsuccessful campaign for mayor to marry a friend and neighber of his childhood, Miss Edith Kermit [ anrow, who was sojourning in Europe. DAILY RIONEER ~ . STOPS GAS LEAK AN PREVENTS MUCH DAMAGE (By United Press) g ! Cleveland, Sept. 18.—Even as a young Hollander saved his town from destruction when he plugged up a hole in a dike that was leaking just so did Mark Booth prevent probable loss of life and destruction of much property here when he plugged up a P hole in a gas pipe with his finger un- tit. his fellow workers found ‘him breathelss and fainting. Booth covered the lead for a period of 4 minutes, when his company res- {ponded to a fire alarm they found a {large building burning fiercely and tenants of upper apartments in a —a panic. Occasional explosions of gas shook the structure until Booth plac- ed his finger in the hole and stopped the flow of gas. RENEWS ASSURANCES OF COOPERATION IN QIL (By United Press) e Mexico City, Sept. 18. ¢(By Ralph H. Turner.)—Renewed assurances that the new Mexican regime will cooperate with America in the oil fields has been given James Phelan, of the United States shipping board, Q in -conference with president De la 4 }{ugta. Phelan said today that De . - a Huerta assured him that he and Hp s president elect Obregon were in com- alds to good Iooks sound ]p]?e aigreement and that binding 4 and satisfactory_agreement could be H reached with oil producers. teeth’ eager appetlte and LESS THAN 10 PER CENT d' i ! v 5 Washington, Sept. 20.—Although ka American Legion posts thruout the pac 2e country are laying plans for brilliant ceremonies at which veterans of the World "War are formally to reeeive their victory medals, on Nov. 11, only 265,000 of the 3,700,000 ex-soldiers: entitled to the decorations thus far & have applied for them, it was an- nounced today by the War Depart- ment. Naval figures are not includ- ed in the foregoing. There has been an appreciable in- crease in the number of applications since the Legion volunteered to assist the government in the distribution, - however. Applications now are com- ing in at the rate of 4,000 a day, while medals are being delivered by the manufacturers at the rate of 150.000 a week. TInterest of Legion- naires generally is centered at pre- sent on coming national convention in Cleveland. After adjustment, Sept. 29 officials here expect an immediate Ly increase in the number of applica- tioms for medals. g All of the 9,600 posts of the Legion have been authorized to draw offici- al application forms. All veterans whether members of Legion or not may apply for the medals thru any post headquarters. DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RBUL“ s : : Files that Stand the Gaff e It’s worth something to knowy (that your files can stand -abuse— | and they can, if they’re Allsteely Ta: . In addition to its rigid strengtl:’ . of construction,' Allsteel oflios ! furniture is handsome and ‘highlx efficient. Will not warp, shrink ~ or swell. Economical because of! == its compactness—saves 15% to 25%, "space over wood furniture{ i . - * - . 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