Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 18, 1920, Page 4

. ” THE BEMIDJ i I DAILY. PIONEER - BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY -t : THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ‘_—M‘ E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. E. CARSON, President 3 VR J. D. WINTER, City Editor G."W. HARNWELL, Editor ~ ‘Telephone 922 Bntered -at-the postoffice at Befnidji. Minnesota, as second-class -matter, ) . under Act of Congress of March'S, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous cortributions. ‘Writer’s name must be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica- tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach"this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication inithe currént, issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : g By Mail One Year ........ 5 Six Months ... .15 Three Months By Carrier * One Year .. 8ix Months “Three-Mon One Month One Week .. THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL CdUN'l'V. AND CITY PROCEEDINGS IS HISTORY REPEATING? g 'Are the days of Sodom and Gomorrah returning? 'Are our great American cities becoming so wicked they must be overthrown before they can be cleansed? i Newspaper men in our metropolitan centers of population are indefatigable news gatherers. Their “nose for news” has been sharpened and devglopgd to the point where they have become the keenest detectives in the world. They are exposing rottenness and corruption to an extent that is appalling to all decent and self respecting people. If one-tenth of all the stories they print are true the more populous sections of this country: are a hotbed of financial filth and a mire of moral debauchery. ! . When sworn officers of the law are “unable” to detect erime‘t‘he newspaper men go out, dig it up, and expose it in the columns of their papers. But unfortunatelythe reporter is not a podiceman, and neither is he a court or jury. He can not arrest, prosecute, or sentence. ’ ‘And others do not—in the most flagrant cases. It is the old, old story of protected vice and corruption yunning rampant and defying all law, order and decency. If you have a son or daughter whose welfare you value, keep him or her away from the big city. . ' The smite of the deadly rattlesnake is no more dangerous ‘than the streets where the bright lights burn and- the hell- hounds lurk for their unwary prey. The country town may be small and dull, but it is clean and wholesome. It is a better place in which to live than the modern Sodom or Gomorrah. PR L L £ - N G If you write an important letter and do not get a reply within a reasonable length of time, do not be too hasty in _ charging the delay up to your correspondent. He and you may both be the victims of a crippled postal service. ‘A Chicago concern recently shipped a car load of freight to its warehouse in Detroit. At the same time a letter of in- structions was sent to the warehouse by first class postage under special delivery stamp. The freight arrived first. . Postal employees are quitting their jobs becayge congress {s too “economical” to pay them a, living wage. .= Inefficiency is about the best we can expect from the service under such conditions. Rt 7 The wonder is that it is not worse. ’ ¢ O— ; ‘A recent cable dispatch from an American correspondent touring Europe contains this illuminating paragraph: . “Inthe opinion of well balanced people here the European government can pay neither the principal nor the interest on the ten billion dollar debt they owe to the government of the ; United States. That the American people must pay.”, " Comment? None is necessary. The cat.is out of the bag, and it is some cat. & v [And Mr. American is the goat, AW/ PHILTTIRMN - OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR / Mutual. Knicker—The president has revived the dispensing power. d Bocker—Well, the people will dispense with him in March.—Exchange. 0- Arkansas Definitions. A gardner is a man who raises a few things; a farmer a man who raises many things and a middleman one who raises everything.—From the Marion News. R —0 A Texas Critic. 2 About the only thing we blame a woman for is that she laughs at the old fashioned furniture owned- by her husband’s folks and raves over the sntiques in“a catalogue.—From the Dallas News. N The Kansas City Star says: One reason why a hunger striker always draws some public sympathy is that hé is about the only striker whose strike doesn’t cut someone else’s food and comfort.—Stillwater Gazette. —— Chicago halds the record. ' An Englishman was robbed twelve times in wo weels, and the strange thing is that he & few dollars left.. In some places he would have been cleaned the time.—Ex. JRER S ... A wife-beatet in Ellwood City, Pa., when told that he was to be tried i bya juryvu‘! ‘women, fled to the woods and stayed there three days without H food or drink. Women juries are going to have their uses, after all.— ¢ Redwing Republican. —_—— “One enn‘t go to the moon without money,” says Prof. Goddard, faventor of the lunar rocket. Is the man in the moon profiteering too?—Ex. - “If you've got a job, keep it,” says a Chicago employment expert. Quite different from a year ago, when the motto seemed to be, “If you've ®ot a job, chuck it.”—Ex. —_—— .+ New York detectives believe they are very close to a solution of the ‘Wall Street bom_b plot. They have the shoes of the horse that drew the wagon that carried the bomb.—Redwing Republican. . —e—— Somebody put a raisin in the nursing bottle of a baby which caused $he child to kick the nurse so hard that the aforesaid nurse is plaintiff in a suit for damages, claiming $10,000 from the father of the kicking kid. People will resort to all tricks in order to make a living without working. +—Stillwater, Gazette. —o0 : . - Democratic prospects are not cheerful. But we see no justification for despair.—The Evening Post. . Jusl Republican cand erowd at the rallway Minn. te for president speaking to dn enthusiastio m.:afion in’ Chicago while en route to St. Paul, Northwestern News STATE SUPREME COURT ' .TO BE BUSY ';H]S WEEK St. Paul, Oct. 18.—The supreme court calendar this week calls for hearings on the following cas Monday: Robert Gilson vs. Grey Motor Company, Hennepin county; W. W. Banik vs.'Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Payl R. R, company, judgment Hennepin county. g Tuesday: Benjamin A. Paust, agt. vs. Alexia Georgian, judgment Hen- nepin county; Christiaga C. Brown, as administratrix -of estate of John J. Brown vs. Duluth South Shore and Atlantic Ry..Co., eteal; order St. Louis county. [ . ¥ Wednesday: Citizen’s Wholesale' Supply Co. vs Golden Rule, tion, order Ramsey county; John .B. deagher, et al, vs. John W. Kessler, et al, judgment Ramsey county. Thursday: Joseph Supernik vs. National Council of Knight and La- dies of Security, order Ramsey coun- ty; The International Harvester com- a corpora-' ipany, a corporation, vs. Paul R. Mal- judgment, Wright county. Friday: Hugh Haley, as special ad- ministrator.of Michael Haley, deceas- ed, vs. Sharon Township Mutual Fire Insprance Co., order LeSeuer county; David Swereberg vs. Chicago, Mil- waukee & St.” Paul Ry. Co., order Freebordn county. SHORT TERM COURSES OPEN AT FARGO SCHOOL Fargo, Oct. 18.—Short term cour- ses opening this week at the agricul- tural college are; draftsmen and builders, farm kusbandry, home ng, power machinery, and prac- tical pharmacists. The short terms corclude March 30, enabling boys and girls from the farm to come in aft- er the fall work is done and return to the farms l_op the spring rush. FEDERATED CLUB WOMEN 60 INTO ACTION IN N. D. Bismarck, Oct. 18.—The next ses- sion -of the North Dakota legislature will be urgeéd by the club women of the state tp bring the prohibitipn laws of North Dakota into compléte aceord with the Volstead act. En- dorsement.of such.a move was taken Make ‘the next cigar taste better smoking cleanse your mouth’ moisten your throat sweeten your breath f \ with " /~r JIiRNGRiGTEY 5 —_— % ¢ + ....The man who fell off the top of a skyscraper was passing the fifteenth #tory windows. ‘‘So far,” he remarked, “I am all right.”—New York Herald. Still only + 5ca at the annual convention here the first of the month. sy & ‘The federated club’° women of the state also went on record ‘for state boards of censorship for moving pic- tures; encouragement of home dem- onstration agents’ work; “teaching of mothercraft” in education as well as a “definite health league 'program’ establishment of a secretary of edu- cation in the president’s cabinet; and for survey of cripples in the state that whatever aid is needed may be extended. CRIME SHOWS A . . STEADY INCREASE Columbus, Oct. 18. (By United Press.)—Despite the fact that Colum- bus is supposed to be “bone dry,” in- toxicating beverages seem to be flow- ing freely in ‘the city, if the number of drunk cases disposed of in police court during September can be taken as an indication. This fact is partly to blame, police say, for the general increase of about 30 per cent in crime in Columbus. Statistics show that during the year the increase in crime has mounted steadily. According to the report com- piled by Harold C. Gackenbach, chief clerk for the criminal division of mu- nicipal court, 560 cases of all char- acter were disposed of during the month, 208 of which were for drun enness. This represents about 400 per cent over the same month in 1919 when there were only 50 'drunks arrested. In 1918, with the saloons wide open, 311 cases were tried. The report also shows that gamb- ling is on the increase. . Although the country seems to be enjoying the greatest prosperity in its history, police court records show that vagrancy is on the increase. In September last year there were only 25 arrests for vagrancy, against 53 this year, or an increase of more than 100 per cent. an increase of Subscribe for The Daily Pioneer. A BUILDING TONIC To those of delicate con- stitution, young or old, Scott's Emulsion is nourishment and tonic that builds up the whole body. Seott & Bowne, Bloomfield. 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I am in favor of good. roads legislation, am in favor of an eight hour day- for workers, not including, however, farm laborers, the nature of whose duties makes it impossible to so limit the time of employment; I am in favor of asking the state to take such. steps as are necessary to form a sfate park on the banks of Lake Bemidji; and wil endeavor to secure needed ‘ap- propriations for the continuance. of the excellent work being done by the State Normal school. If re- elected I intend to devote my best energy to the duties imposed upon me, bearing in mind. at all times the best interests of. the people in this district. A. E. RAKO. 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