Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 22, 1920, Page 6

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER . PUBLISKED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY % 4 § BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISEING CO. G. E. CARSON, Pres. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWELL, Editor '!ol-phon._ 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidjl. 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 Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. —_— ] : - SUBSCRIPTION RATES ___ By Carrier .00 By Mail by l}:::hé'“ 3 One Year s..........35:00 ) Three Month: 50 * gix Months . One Month o One Week . 15 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, Three Months . published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OPFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY . PROCEEDINGS NOTHING’S THE MATTER THAT WORK WON'T FIX. If we are to believe all we read in the newspapers and all we hear from the windy, frothy tatk we hear . in and outside of publi¢ bodies, we would be certain that the whole world is rushing headlong-to ruin— that everything has ‘gone wrong, is upside down and can’t be fixed. the other way. There’s nothing to worry about, nothing to cause excitement or alarm. Nothing’s the matter with the world, or any -part of it that can’t be made right by work, by thrift, by patient, prudent, good natured attention .of every man to ; his own job and his own business. '}' The whole trouble is very simple in its causes and its solution. We—that is mankind—are simply | facing the inevitable results of the world war; we { are confronted by the necessity of paying the bills | incurred and repairing the damage done in the greatest, worst and most costly of all human con- flicts. We are all in it; no human being can dodge ‘his share of the payment of the toil. International agreements of whatever soxt may i help to safeguard the future against more war— t but they will pay none of the bills, do none of the | ; back on the old and prosperous basis, but it won’t i | spare us a dollar of the cost or a stroke of the | work or a single item of the day-by-day economy, { H forethought and prudence that make up personal thrift. In a word the world is much like a man who has been desperately sick; who has spent his sav- ings for doctors, drugs and nurses; whose strength is exhausted by this raging, wasting fever leaving him languid and thinking more of rest and recrea- less in that fix in our own personal experience— we know how it went with us, how hard it was to get back to smooth sailing on an even keel. Now there is nothing for war-sick, war-wasted Mr. World to do but to get back on the job, work as hard and save as much as he can_until the price of his dear-bought experience is paid in full. We are apt to forget or:to ignore the causes of situations; we don’t seem to realize that we have shot away, burned up; sunk in the ocean ; and otherwise destroyed most of the surplus of i this world’s handiwork accumulated through a long i period of peace—that we have spent in the gigan- g tice orgy of war all of the money we had and an im- ] g i | | | | mense amount we didn’t have; that every nation involved in the struggle mortgaged the future of its people for at least a generation in order to o e JONAH MERELY A MdufHFULI Monster Fish Recently Caught at Mi- ami, Fla., Could Have Accommo- dated Twenty Prophets. g Was Jonah swallowed by a whale? According to the bibical story it was a fish of this nature that entertained the prophet in its Interior for three days and nights, but the limited size of the whale’s throat precludes the possi- bility of its swallowing a man. However, there was caught at Mi- ami, Fla., recently, a fish that could have lunched on 20 Jonahs without suffering the slightest pang of indiges- tion, and among’ the many persons who have seen the fish are clergymen who have formulated the theory that it was really a fish of this species that swal- lowed Jonah, Here Is the way this denizen of the deep shapes up In the way of dimen- slonal figures: The net weight of the fish, when caught, not jncluding its last meal, was 30,000 pounds. Its liver alone touched the beam at 1,700 pounds, which 19 about the welght of a hefty bullock. From end to end it |’ measures 45 feet, which is equal to the combined length of eight normal men. At the thickest part the circumfer- ence is 23 feet 9 Inches. take proper wade a with teachin of -the fish Is its month, which is 50 inches wide and 43 inches deep. In- side of the mouth is a tongue 40 Inches, and it has a muititude of teeth much smaller than a baby’s.. Nobody has ever attempted to count these molars. The tail resembles the caudal append- age of an airplane and measures 10 feet from tip to tip. But big as the fish Is, it died in In- fancy. Sclentists who have measured its cartilaginous formations say they are far from developed and that had this’ monster attained full: growth it would have been two and a half times as large as it is now. According to the sclentists of the Smithsonlan institution the animal is a-whale-shark, and is the first speci- 3 men of its kind that has been captured. & They state further that It is an Inhabl- i tant of water of 1,500 feet depth, its hide of sufficient thickness to with- stand the most enormous watar nres. But the facts and plain common sense all point - work. Legislation may make it easier to put things ~ tion than of work. Most of us have been more or ventien and nr P do what it ‘did in making and preparing for war. We fail to appreciate the butcher’s bill of men killed and .crippled has taken out of the world’s work millions of men—the best of its workers; and equally-we neglect the further fact that during the long season of strife we turned many more millions from producing the things we live with to producing things to kill with. Another fact from which there is no escape, but which we generally overlook, is that the business of living is not making money to live with, but making things to live with—is the production and exchange of products. Money whether capital or labor, is only the convenient means of making the exchange of the fruits of toil. So when capital thinks_only of more profits and ‘labor only of more wages, ‘there is peril for Poth. They.can’t eat, wear; live in or live upon the “meére money medium of profits and wages; they must have.the things that capital and labor produce. And this peril, this need, is sharpened now by the ! world-wide shortage of the joint products of capital and labor that the world must have in order to live. " More than ever before, because these conditions are so much more general and more severe, this situation gives the trouble maker a chance that he is not missing. It is a fine time to delude and deceive men into thinking that there is something terrible the matter with the government, with in- dustry, with everything, and that it can be cured by some change of the laws, some new theory of existenc—by anything but work and saving. At the same time these conditions make it possi- ble, easy and tempting for all of us to turn loose . the natural selfishness that is always within us; " nations in almost every respect. Boys and girls wie._ Ienrn early te care. of thelr (hroats, eyes, ears and stomachs, have long ™ step toward Innitny wianhood and Womanhood. Through its publle health and- nursing §€F¥: fces, the American Red eventually to relch all school chiidren rding disease pre- promotion. Here's schoel tiurse treating a ltttle girl for #6te -meuth, &t the same fime tm~ fanting & valdable -fesson ta teeth- One of the most Impressive features tm.mn and proper diet. sure, and its eyes, thcE have no lids and consequently were~never closed, indicating~ that it dwelt as a depth where eyes are ‘of no avail, The Smithsonian Sclentists belleve that it was thrown up‘by some subter- ranean volcanic disturbance, which In- Jjured its diving apparatus so that it was unable to return to_its natural leveln and that thus disabled It strayed beyond confines fixed for the mon- sters of the deep. Cupt. Charles H. Thompson of Mi- aml, caught the fish while cruising for tarpon off Knight's key, Florida.— New York Independent:” Sunset Colors. The gorgeous sunset colors are due to the red light which Is transmitted through the cloudy sky and is the re- verse of the blue of the sky. Water in such circumstances as now beset every place and every man, the tendency is to “get while the ‘getting is good”—and everybody who can is more or less of a profiteer, in aesire if not in fact. Those of us who have anything to sell are busy marking * up the price—taking advantage of the scarcity of everything to wring more profit out of whatever,we make or handle. And with all of us engaged in this process, who can blame whom? Every one of us, when accused of profiteering, has the best of excuses; he can truthfully say, “Look at what so-and-so is: doing to me, to all of his customers.”” Am I going to sit still and’ be stung and not get even? Yes, I am not! None of tW8. great principles and laws of life have been changed. Water still flows only down- hill; supply’ and demand still determine costs and prices; every one of us still thinks most of his own self. The man who works his best, produces his utmost and saves all he can is still the prosper- ous man, and the loafer and waster is still the poverty cursed—and so it will be whether wages, profits, prices are high or low. We in America have got it on the rest of -the We have the limit- less wealth of our millions of fertile acres, mines, forests and waters; the huge capacity of our fac- tories and worshops, the immense resources -of our workers, our vast network of railways, our newly acquired merchant marine. And above ‘all we have a form of government that, backed by the newly welded .and cementeéd nationalism, will stand -the test of reconstruction as well as it has stood the test’s of war destruction. Let the agitators agitate, the theorists theorize, the - trouble-makers trouble—and they will.change none of the principles that guarantee us our_ freedom and the right to enjoy within the. law the results of our work and thrift. So let’s put on our working clothes and our most coeeriul grin; let’s buckle down to business of working, saving, earning our rest and enjoying it, getting the most out- of life as we live it.. There’s nothing the matter that we can’t set right, each man doing the best he can with his own head and his own pajr of hands. " particles the water looks blue. almost equally intense green.- tank will be green., teeth, Gross afms Measuring: Our Universe. * of measure as a mile. Idea of the dimensions. years. even greater voids.—Boy’'s Life. Subscribe. for The Daily 'H-IE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONBER | Débs 1ast_Saturday. is apparently blue in itself when one looks through a sumclently long layer. 1f, however, there were nothing to re- flect the light back, the water would, of course, look black, and certain lakes do show. exactly this phenomenon. If there fs.a small amount of reflecting With more _suspended particles a certaln amount of yellow Is sent back, and the water becomes green. - In the ;roplcl the water Is an intense blue, -except near the shore, where it becomes an The water of the Rhone where”it flows out of the Lake of Geneva Is |~ - blue, while the Rhine of Strasbourg is green, and we find that the Rhine contains 70 per cent more suspended calcium carbonate than the Rhone. Sometimes the water in & swimming . This is due to sus- pended solids In the water. The same effect can occasionally be obtained in a porcelain-lined bathtub. The clear brown brooks that one finds in many places in New England owe their color to the presence of a brown material of the nature of tannin, so this _would really be a ‘pigment color and not a structural one.—Scientific American. Astronomers are inclined to believe- that our universe with"its 3,000,000 stars is after all but a part of space and that other universes may lie be- yond. Attempts have been made to measure the size of the so-called uni- verse, but opinions differ very widely as to its dimensions. It Is difficult to mensure it by using so small a unit It we take the speed of light which travels 186,000 miles fh a single second, for compari- son we will begin to gain some- faint Light speed- ing along at this rate will travel in an hour 669,660,000 miles. It i estimated that it would take light 80,000 years to travel across this space. Some as- tronomers even believe that it would take ten times as long or'800,000 light The mind can scarcely grasp the idea that beyond this universe lle Pioneer. | yaguman HAEK KT HEEEE K KKK x AURE 222 SRR EE R R S0l Peter Bakke was a Bemidji. visitor last Wednesday. Torval Mathisen and Oscar Stal re- turned to their home here Thursday after several ‘weeks threshing in North Dakota. * - Mr. and Mrs. Olof - Negaard -and family -and Ellen and ‘Martha Roen spent Tuesday evening at Hans Kirk- volds’. Johan Gelen made a trip to Paul Dromness’ Wednesday afternoon. Olot Bakke, Gunerius Haugan and|- Peter Jallen left for Neilsville, last Thursday. : John - Salvevold took a bunch of ljadlss to the berry patch last Tues- ay. Ole Staffne motored thru Aure last Friday enroute to Pinewood. Christ Haugen returned home from Egeland, N. D., last Friday where he has -been- threshing. Sam Jallen made a trip to Ben Iv- erson’s last. Wednesday to get his automobile repaired. Mr.-and Mrs. Carl Hogenson from Clearbrook and some of her relatives fromr the southern part of the state ;islted at Carl Peterson’s last Sun- ay Glen Duhamel retumed from Da’| kota' last Saturday. - Carl Peterson made a trip up ta % Mrs. Olaf Gelen visited with her mother, Mrs. Mathisen last Friday. ‘Mrs. Carl Peterson and Mrs. Jamt- vold visited with Mrs. Cartis last Tuesday. Mrs. S. O. Jallen and Mrs. O. O. Haugen yisited with their sister, Mrs. S. 0. Haugen last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis were guests at Jamtvold’s last Saturday. B Mr. and Mrs. T. Mathisén, daught- ers, Pearl and Selma, took in the fair at Bemidji last Friday. Mrs. S. O. Haugen and clnldren spent Sunday with her motuer and father, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bakke. I S R R R R x i HORNET * I 2222222 RS RS Mr. Chilgten of Cokato was here recently looking after his property. 7 Miss Magda Gronseth is attending the normal school at Bemidji. Mrs. Moberg and Miss Gladys Ran- core of Blackduck, are the teachers in the Winan and Murray schools. William Sjolund and crew thresh- ed grain tor the farmers here lately. Mr. Denham d family, are living on tHe placeeft vacant by the Leon- ard faxm]), who Lave gone to North Dakota. Charles Hayden motored out from Blackduck to the Crookston Cedar spur on Monday. - Mr. Hayden and crew loaded a car of cedar at the Crookston cedar spur on Thursday. R Among those who were in Black- duck on Friday were Mesdames De- e e— t / - A meeting of the Literary society was held at the Winan school Friday evening. After a short program lunch was served. out Friday evening and attended the Literary society. ed out on Friday afternoon. ter returned with him -to spend the Goodyear Tlres for Small Cars Are Popular Because Economlcal . 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