Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 13, 1920, Page 6

‘Eosoperation with State Boards of Heéxlth and Public i Health Service ‘, ‘Washington, Public Heal af the 444 ;try in_the \ia rapidly ‘increasing as the “In the first survey, -made _lasf February,” says. Surgeon Gen. Cum- _mings of the, Public Health service, “the cities were marked according to the vigor of their fight against the plague, being awarded so many points for various medical measures, s0 many for preventive educational work, so many for restrictive laws and their. enforcement, and so om, with a total possible; maximum of 1,000. The cities weré then divided into four classes according to their population and each class was grad- ed according to its aggregate mark. “The results of this first survey, however, were brought to the know.l- edge of the municipal authorities only and were not made generally .public; for it was feared that the relative standings of the cities would be. taken to indicate relative freedom rom the_great Red Plague and not ivigor of attack upon it and might be used to discredit cities that stood low on the list. ‘Such inferences might easily be un- fair. The grading was for combative ‘measures against the plague and not for freedom from it; and a strong ‘fight might indicate an effort to drive out a strongly intrenched invader or a mere preparedness against/an ene- my that had mot yet obtained a seri- ous foothold. Similarly, lack of fight might indicate either utter submis- sion or entire freedom from invasion. . “Knowledge of the facts shown by this survey, however, though con- fined to’the municipal authorities of the cities concerned and to medical men has had a tremendous effect, for it has”arouséd the competitive spirit of the authorities, inciting those of - |citjes that stand low. in the list to impfove their rank, all, of course, in preparation for the second survey, ithe, results of which, as announced, .are to be made public. ’ “It also brought home to many city governments, formerly indifferent, the alarming prevalence of the great 'Red Plague. . It also emphasized the fact that the twin diseases of the plague Wore not eonsidered to be the|, greatest single factor affecting public heslth, causing a vast amount of in- valldism among married women and killing or blinding for lite an appal- ling number of children, besides working mental and physical havoc ©on thousands of men whose suffering only a Tew years ago would have been ascribed to other causes. “Letters to the Public Health Ser- ¥ice from city authorities in all parts qt the country shew that mayors, councils, city boards of health and others are-all anxious for their cities to show marked improvement since the firgt survey. )\(nny writers confess .that they haVe known the seriousness ‘of the problem and had regarded the /movement against he plague as a war {measures that was not supposed to be continued in time of peace. Many ‘aleo mention steps that have now been taken, or that will soon be tak- en, to put the preventive measures adopted by their cities on a perman- ont-budget basis,—that is, to class .the fight as routine work and to pro- vide for it as regularly as for the i'cleaning of the streets, the mainten- ;ance of the fire department, or any ,other city funetion. .~ “Rublicity is of course a very im- portant part of the fight for better] (Protection against this insidious enc- Ay, To this end it is hoped that the result of subsequent surveys made in gooperation with the state health au- ‘thoritlés, may be widely disseminat- -ed, with particular stression the pro- ‘gress made since February. Wherev- er action is taken in regard to the fiatuie surveys there will be held_ in Washington, November 22 to Decem- ber 4, as incidenta]l to first survey, an institute organized by the Public Health _Service, which will offer to physicians and administrative speci- ‘flismcfree ten-day-courses in the lat- est and best control curative methods ‘how ‘Used against the twin diseases. The aession .of the institute will im- mediately. be followed by the meeting on ‘December 6, of a great All-Amer- ‘lea-conference, at which the most em- inent physicians, administrators and -social workers of the western hemis- phere will gather for a six-day ses- .mlon" to_exchange. experiences as to the best methods, both social and medical, of combatting the plague.” AMERICANIZATION SCHOOLS HELP EDUCATE(FOREIGNER (By Capital News Service.) “When the - flurry attending election of a president of -the Uni States has subsided it will be well ifor the people of America to turn their: attention to the activities of § 1 . #nd ‘other radicals in the cotintry,” said Morton B. Keene, “I do not think there is the : of Seattle. need for any additional legistation, but stricter enforcement of laws on «our statute books is gecessary to over- come_what has grown to be a very real menace in the wastern states. doing a wonderful emount of gbod 4n educating these foreigners, but they cannot rcach ihe avowed ‘red” ‘W., whose misgion is de- for 1L W. Nov. 1'3.—The U. 8. th service.report that the ihterest of-the municipal authorities f Iargest, cities in the coun- thods, by which the :great Red Plague may be stmnped' ‘om ime {draws near for making, with the.co- operation -of —the ‘State Board ' of | Health, the second survey Or census 'of ‘the Work done by individual cities. “The Americanization schools are GRAIN AND HAY ...50c-65¢ ..10c-12¢ $1.50-51.70 $1.40-31.60 s Oats, bu Red Clover, medium, 1b Wheat, hard . . Wheat, soft Rye, bu. ... VEGETABLES Potatoes, per cwt., small > 1ot8 ., « voviivniannnn $1.00-31.10 Potatoes, car load lots...$1.10-§1.25 Cabbage, cWt . .... $1.50-82.00 Onions, dry . $1.50-32.00 Deans, Cwt . $6-37 Butterfat . .60¢ Eggs, fresh, .60¢ BEMIDJI CASH MARKET QUOTATIONS. MEATS Mutton . . . Hogs, Ib. ... Dressed beef, 1b Turkeys, live, 1b. Old Toms, live, 1b. Geese, live, Ib. .. Ducks, iive, 1b. .. Hens, 4 1bs. and over HIDES Cow hides, No. 1, 1b. . Bull hides, No. 1, Ib. Kipp hides, No.‘1, 1b. Calf skins, No. 1, 1b. Deacons, each . .. Horse hides, large . SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ‘I Mrs. Ed. Leunsey’on: Northern was sliopping and visiting relatives in Be- midji on Friday. Mrs. Sidney Miller of Pinewood was among the opt of town shoppers in Bemidji on Friday., G. Perry of International Falls, was a business transactor ifi Bemidji over the week end. Mrs. 1. E. Raymond of Frohn was & shopper here tpday. She also callei on friends while'in the city. Oliver Larson’ and John Lind of Erskine are visiting at the John Maiterud home at Becida for a week. Miss Lena Quitberg of Clearbrook was a between train shopper in Be- midji yesterday. She also called on friends. % , Mrs. H. S. Annette of Minnesota dvenue transacted business in Cas3 Lalke and other points this week and returned home on Friday. Mrs. Effie Pierson of A Ambrose, arrived here today to look after busi- ness interests. She expects to re- main about a month. A Alfred Housky of Chester, Mont., i visiting friends in Bemidji this week. Mr. Housky was a former resident o this city and notices many changes| here since he left sixteen years ago. Mrs. A. E. Anderson of Crayville was a business visitor in Bemidji this week. From here she went to Solway to visit her daughter, Mrs, S. Peter- son and other relativesvalong the line for a week. ‘Mrs. Anderson was a former resident of Bemnidji. i DISCOVERS DOCTOR IS ONE OF FORMER COMRAD! Cleveland, O., Noy. 13.—When T. A. Ryan, member of the Cuyahoga County Coungcl]l of the Américan Le- glon and the Henny P. Shupe post at Clevéland, was hurrying in séarch of a doctor to preside at the birth of & Mont., a former resident of this city, |° 1lie strength of the biade carriérs was needed at plow and bench. - With this' disbanding, an exchange explains, the trade of the swordmaker was also lost to the vast number fol- lowing it, and with them, as the years _passed, died the secrets of the war- rior tools. ‘Swords can be_obtained in Japan todny whose blades are so keen they, can cut through a veil or a’sofa cyshion, and also can - be driven ‘through a bar of iron, provided the wielder has the strength. Others have blades covered with a benutiful and Intricate t?:ery that disappears and reappears’ &t ‘odd times, and no one can solve the “why” of it. One mo- ment the blade is as smooth and un- marked as a mirror and the next the startled beholder and can even be fejt &y sensitive fingers. Yet other. blades are colored red, blue, silyer or gold, and while seemingly an alloy, a chem- fcal analysis shows nothing but gteel. Yet others are coated with a poison that 18" unseen, but’ beyord.dll other poisons dendly. In large part it con- sists of decayed human blood. RACE SOON TO BE EXTINCT 8pelt-Doom to the Polynesians \ of South Seas. That modern civilization is bringing death and extermination to the splen- did race known as the Polynesian, is the claim of all travelers who have spent time on the beautiful :southern Pacific 1islands. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, in ‘the Atlantic Monthly,.in sorrowing over this says: 3 “To say that Chyistianity was their undoing would be.absurd; ‘they diéd and are dying under -the encroach- ments of the Furopean civilization of which ' Christianity was. the forerun- ner, [Everywhere In ‘the South:seas the story has been the same; whether told ,by Stevenson, or Melville,” or Louls ‘Beeke. ‘We brought ‘them 3:- ease; we brought them cotton cloth- ing {almost as great a curse); we sup- pressed the sports and .merriment and petty ‘wars which ‘eniblea’ the “old isTanders to maintain thelr intérest in life. 'Aud lastly, ‘we brought ‘tem an allen ‘code of morals, Which ‘suéceeded baby girl, he did not dream he would in the person of the doctor. | Ryan’s family physician was away; and Dr. A, C. Sibila, a hospital phy- siclan, consented to attend. ‘ h ’t. I goen, you before?” Ryan when the first proud thrill- of . .'"Inst once,” replied Dr. Sibila. “It was in Ireland two years.ago. You were on leave from France and was just returning'to my ship, Do you remember -how we were' astonished when we found out we were both from Cleveland?”, TWO-SWORD MEN OF JAPAN With Their Dishanding, Comparatively Few Years Ago, the Secret of Blademaking Disappeared. As Iate a3 1808 there were Some 400,000 two-sword men in Japan, high- chiefly “in ' making . bypoctites of the .|uest ore of his ex-gervice comrades | men whose sodls It was designed to '| save. Today there ls:nothiag: to be satd, nothing to-be dgpe—the Polyne- sian .race ‘will socon Zonly a mem- ofy” New M¢thod of Identification. Not enly are the finger prints of ev- ery humanibelng, different but the po- sition of the bones of the fingers, and aleo. thp shape of the nails are differ- ‘ent. for Beclere, a well-known stu- dent of radiography, utilizes this fact in a new method for identifylng erimi- nals. The method consists in making an X-ray photograph of the hand, showing the bones and the fingernails. | i Ordinarily such a photograph would not show the flesh, but in order that the record may be complete the fingers are soaked~in an opaque salt, by means of which all the lines and marks are clearly shown. Doctor Beclere design leaps out before the eye of the|" F-ils In Wake of Civilization Have e r— Freight ‘Congest! Emphasized Importance of Our . Country Roads. demonstrated. Better Roads Would Pernut Increase ih Tonnage by-Motor Vehicles. ments of the railroads there is. great need for a material improvement throughout the.land. Over the coun- try roads move the raw materials that go to make up a vast proportion of the tonnage carried by the railroads. The present freight .congestion bas €mphasized thé ' fmportance of the country road. It has proved the/Aalue of hard surface roads as passageways for. freight carried in motortrucks and automobilés. . ° uch relief ‘for the railroads has come through the immense tonnage that has.moved this summer op motor trucks. A greater tonnage would un- doubtedly have; moved in the same manner if our highway. system had been #it. ‘The time has.ome when the milenge of - oncrete, ‘brick or other hard-gurfaced roads must extend in an ever-Increasing network until the re- motest ‘parts of the country ‘can have the advantage of quick transportation every day: of the year in a motor™ve- hicle—~American Fruit Grower. ROCK FOR HIGHWAY BUILDING _Value Were Made in French pe Laboratory in 1878.: ° The first systematic attempts to de- termiip the value” of rock for roand building purposes by means of labor- atory tests / were made in France, where?dn 1878 ‘a road materials lab- | oratory was founded In the French School ‘of Bridges and Roads. Here the Peval abrasion test was adopted, and ‘this test with slight modifiea: | tion |has been ‘accepted as standard throughout the United States. | test fs' named from its inventor. ,It was first used In connection with con- if | tract-work In the city of Paris. -Many| valuible data were collected ip this laboratory on the hardness and tough- | ness 6% rock. and tests for these prop- erties were developed which were, in | principle, the same as those in use | tedays: ,ARG!{MENT FOR GOOD ROADS S Because Culvert Was Obscured b by Weed Patch. An argument for good roads that | carees with it a sharp punch in the | way ‘of a substantlal Judgment - for | damages s disclosed in a recent de- | cision ‘of the supreme court of Wis- consin; In this case it appears that when a machine went out of the traf- fic path of an old-fashioned country road for the purpose of letting & tractor pass. It struck -the cement curbing at the end of a culvert which crossed the road at this point. Be- ing covered with.weeds the pbstruc- tion was not seen until' the' accidént oceurred. The county was held lable in damages for the actident. * e USING CONCRETE FOR ROADS: Building Goirg on at Rate of Mile & Week Witn Equipmient.of Mich- S } With the ever-increasing interest-in the decessity of building good roads ‘NEED-FOR:BEITER HIGHWAYS, on on R:ilroafin Has ‘We are_belng treated to a demon- stration- of what happens when .the arteries = of commerce ' become dis- ;eased, congeited ‘and run down. The lack of adequate transportation facili- ties on 'the:railroad$ of- this’ country _mounts ‘Int@¢he millions of 'dollars in the delays that are occasloned. —Our rallway. system, like our agricultural methods; have grown up so gradually, keeping abreast, even ahead of the de- ‘mands of comthérce, we have come to lock upon them ag a matter of course, But the even balance between trans- postation facllities and demands of ‘commerce' 19 easily upset, as the ex- perience of the past few months hag Our raflroad system needs rehabill- tation; But along/ with ‘the imprave Flm“l'y-umntle Efforts to Determine I} Judgment Rendered Against County IHi igan-Contractor. IR CLAIMS HE OWES SUCCESS =i 10 THE INSTITUTE ANNUAL " In what was decidedly an off-year, because of prolonged drouth:'and ear- . |1¥ frost, Nick Palg, afi adopted son of Minnesota, living near Embarrass -in the iron mining country 4n St. Louis' | county, raised 350 bushels of Gfeen Mountain ‘potatoes to the acre the -last summer. Two hundred bushels an acre is the measure this year of a Bood' crop in ! northern: district. In a letter written to the Office of Publications at University Farm and in a statement made. to-the editor of the Biwabik Times, “Mr." ‘Palo at- tributes his sueccess to thes fact that be made a text book of Minnesota Farmers’ Institute Annual)No. 32, edited. at University #Farm by A. D. —_— GENERAL ORDINANCE NO. 115 An ordinancé amending General Ordin- ance No. 113, entitled “An\Ordinance Amending. Ordinance No. 86" entitled “An Ordinance Authorizing the Public Improvement Company of Minnespolls. and its Assigns, to Acquire and Con- hstruct and to Malmn;n and Operate Gas otk Tn the City. of Bomidsh, ‘ounty, Minnesota.” The City Council of the City of Be- midji does ordain: - I _Section 1. That section One of Gt eral Ordinance No. 113 entitled “An O dinance Amending Ordinance FQ 86, ‘ertitled “An Ordinance Authorizing the Sublle Improvement Company of Minne: apolis and its assigns, to acquire and construct, and to majntain and operate gas works in the City of Bemidji, Bel- trami County, Minnesota.” be amended by striking’ therefrom the words “The sum of $1.90 per thousand cubic- feet,”] and inserting jn lieu thereof, the words "The" sum of $2.85 per thousand cubic eet. _Section 2. That section Three of Gen- eral [Ordinance No. 113 ‘entitled “An Ordinance authorizing the Public Im- provement Company of Minneapolls an its assigns, ‘to;acquiré and, construct, in the City of Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota,” be amended by striking therefrom the words “A minimum charge of $1.00 per month” and inserting in’ lieu-thereof the words “A minimum charge of $2.00 per month.’” 5 - ‘Section 3. 'The sald Public Improve- ment Company of Minneapolls, its suc- cessors and assigns, shall'singify. the.ac- ceptance of :this Ordinance {n “writing; such ‘acceptance to be filed with the City Clerlc of fsaid ‘Clty within “thirty B0y ays ‘6ftér the passage and approyal of hie Ordinance: Xn Gotault of Such ac- ceptance, \this Ordinance and the pro- visions thereof shall become and be in- operative and void, /- i Section 4. “This ordinance shall tike affect and be in iforce from and ‘after its passage, ~approval and publication and as of date of Octoher 1, 1920, and the acceptance ‘thereof by -said-cdmpany and herein provided. 3 Read first time, "September 27, 1920.: Read second time, October 11, 1920. Read third time, October 25, 1920, and declared duly passed and carried by. the following: vote: “Ayes’~—Bugley, Boyce, Carlson, Palmer, Carvef, Hayward, Van- detsluls. “Nays’—none. = Absent,” Coop- er, Barnell, Mekinnon. * Approved October .30, - L. F. JOHNSON, Attest: Mayor. GEO. STEIN, City, Clerk. 1td11-13 i rector oy agricultural extension. division, d by J. M. Drew;, also of the axtension. divieion. He-abdorbed every page of the Annual, .a _ potatp. number, by, making “lessons” -of the various ar- ticles ‘and studying the carteons and| pictures and..the display. typ ges which. hammer home .the trutl the text. ‘Many long winter even- ings he._gave, tothe study. of this hook of/256 ‘pages. ; There wasn't ‘a dull line in it for him. Then in the spring, he says, he set out: to follow the instructions found in the Angual. . He had no selected seed, ‘but 'had (to take his seed from ;vhat was left in the bottom of the in. greatest care and cultivated' and re- cultivated until he'had gone over his field seven _different times. . He dis- posed, of the-beetles with /Bordeaux mixture and paris green.. In August came drouth’ and frost.' “I thought the whole crop was gone,” he says. “Although this place is situated well under-the north star,” he writes, “it seemed e .that good potatoes could be rafsi ere 'if the farmers would ‘only gnow héw. I know sev- eral farmers in the town of Pike who hi had ‘their’'sons at University Farm, and they have raised 400 bushels of Burbanks per acreé in good years. I tried to find out how they did it. “but I could not. Now, it seems to me,.I am beginning to un- derstand.) I am selecting seed.now for 1921 and.I intend to follow the University Farm. instructions up to the. dot. and. 1 expect. to raise a crop fo big 'that no one has done yet.” 1 Such a‘letter is; of courge; pleasing to the editors of the Institute An- i and_to maintain and operate gas works | ot ‘He ‘prepared his land with the| nuat to whom:it at it is the fine spirit exhil 5 Mr. Palo, coupled withhis industry and thoroughness, that has carried him thru:.to this time ani Wil yet mdke all his dreams P NORTHERN PACIFICTO .~ - ADD NEW EQUIPNENT “ . (By United- Press) - St/ Paul, Nov. 13.—The Northern Pacific, assistefi"by a loan of $6,000;- 000 from thd government, will spend 1$16,000,000 for immediate expangfon; it ' was made knawn today. Much new equipment is to be added. ¢ ADDITIONAL WANT ADS ‘FOUND—Bunch of keys -at Armm."y' Armistice Day. Owner may -have same by proving property and pay- ing for this ad. 1t11-13 LOST—Bunch of keys, C. W. Scruts chin. ! 1t11-13 SALES LADIES WANTED-—§ sales ladies, Monday, Nov. 15th. -Huff- man & O’Leary. 1t11-18 FOR RENT—Steam heated modern rooms at 520 Beltrami avenue, - Gentleman preferred. 1d11-13 FOR._RENT—Furnished room for * lady or man and wife.- Nice place. 521 Minnesota ayenue. Phone 285+ w. / 9t11-23 LEATHER STORE K. Brown, Manager Third Street Heavy and- Light Har- | nesses. and- collars. [ Trunks, Suit Cases and Fancy Traveling Bags. . Halters, Harness Parts and Leather Extras.. Gall Medicines, Cure, . Wool Fat. - ‘Mittens, Gloves, . Robes and Horse Blankets:: Poultry and Stock Foods. Harnesses Oiled. Oils .and Gre ases - of -all kinds. e Repairing promptly doné., % “Best This tractor which is is being used .. “Cruiser” our large f‘x}; reverse, -selective gear brake in addition to foot ator’s seat on top; seats tool box underneath seat, this territory for the first time is ideal- ly equipped for the logging' and. lum- bering industry as well as freighting. It has gained recognition as the leader in the line of dependable tractorssand xtensively. New features that appear on the del that do-nef appear in " are three speeds and Tracl ‘Tractor swing frame, improved steering clutch control, special design road shoes, non-breakable Manganese steel ‘track rollews and increased capacity ‘gaso- line tank. All these features have, “been installed with a special view of increaging its efficiency in logging and freighting work. We ‘are glad to demonstrate and prove our assertions. being sold in shift, hand brakes, oper- for two men, , swivel draw-' bar, front towing Hook; radiatar guard; folding top] cushion equalizer bar on We have secured the agency be- cause after a study of the machine we find it:to be best adapted-to the con- ditions o this section of the state. +*Write us or call at the garage for further information. struction of all existing laws. The 4 - e Zhandling of these men presents a com- problem for the next admin- b as well a8 for the various istate governments, and it is one the solution of which will be Watched by all people” | emfly there comes the effort to bulld them good and fast, With the special eqaip- ment that . MTehIZa contractor Is | using concrete rauids are“constructed | | at the rate of a mile a week. | ly trained fighters attached to. the "considers. that the possibility afforded nobles of the land in bands rabging' by his discovery of keeping a record from two or fhree, to an entire army.; of nafls as well as of finger prints When the revélution came the Work| should ’prove of the greatest use in of the two-sword men was done, the, jdentifying criminals. - nation was made dnto a solid_unit and =i e ey 'THE MOTOR INN Bemidji, Minnesota i