Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 13, 1920, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER . LISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING coO. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. "E. CARSON, President . J. D. WINTER, City Editor G. W, H:_’-\RNWELL, Editor Telephone 922 + £ postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ‘Entered At the No attention paid to ‘anonymous contributions, 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 Tuesda of each week to insure publication in the current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier . 7 One Year . Six Months Three Months .. 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 COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS __‘_—_—_——-—————-_—_‘_—'—_._ —_— WHO ARE THEY? Hordes of immigrants are pouring into this country every day from all sections of the old world. There seems to be no end to the flow. .~ . i But who are they? : i Are they men and women wfio will become good, law abid- ing, producing citiZens, or are many of thém malcontents whose chief aim in.life is to incite trouble? 1t has been hinted that some of our consuls abroad are not overly careful in the issuing of passports to foreigners desiring to-come to this country. g . And it is a well known fact that shipping agencies will take about any one with the price of a passage—if their bones will hold together long enough to get aboard ship. 1 There is grave danger that among this great army of im- a) ‘Fh_gfe may be vast numbers who are comi&g pere for e exg:‘%ss purpose of creating trouble—whose secret aim is the overthrow' of the government. " Radical leaders abroad would like nothing better than to pour an army of eniissaries into this country to undermine our established system of law and order. * " In all likelihood it is being done even now. to be watchful. Three Months It will pay us : D s £ OIL UP AND SPEED UP. The oil situation in the United States is becoming serious. Our production is far below consumption, and when our reserve supply becomes exhausted we will have to depend upon imports or go without. ¥ England is wise where we are foolish. She is rapidly se- curing a strong foothold in the oil fields of other countries, and is increasing her holdings from day to day. When we are desti- tute of oil she will have plenty. There is no earthly reason why the United States should not be developing vast fields of oil “lands in other ¢ountries. That is, no reason except our own supine and ‘indifference and procrastination. When ‘machinery lacks oil its parts become dry, friction is increased, it becomes overheated and loses speed,-or ig put out of business. That is what ails us. We need oiling up. We need speed. We need to reach out and gather in some of the oil fields that are waiting for development, before England apd other countries gobble them all up. We need that oil now{from which to make gasoline for our millions of automobiles, trucks, and farm tractors, and for the hundred and one other usés to which we put it. In time there will be a vastly greater need for it. But indifference and procras- tination will not suffice. We need action, swift and decisive, in order to head off other countries who want all of this oil. Oil up and speed up. / e b DECORATE FOR CHRISTMAS. Every store in Bemidji should be decorated for the holi- days. It not only brings folks to the realization that the great- est of all’days is right upon us, but it instills in them the spirit of the séason. Folks really expect merchants to ‘‘dress-up” their places of business for Christmas. Then, too, the buying of gifts begin earlier, which tends to eliminate the “stampede” during the eleventh hour. J It’s a'happy thought to know that the dollar will buy more this year than a year ago: In fact, many things are down to pre-war prices. This means almost to a certainty that things are down now as low as they will go. It means, also, that they are down to stay. The sooner this fact is realized the quicker nor- mal conditions will be reached. Folks have been a bit careful in their buying, thinking, hoping and praying that they would keep on coming down. It is reasonable to believe that with com- moditiesrbought at the retail stor®s, that the best time to buy is now. If things should take another drop, it will be so slight as hardly to be noticed. S D) RESULTS OF BUYING ABROAD. About 4,000 employees of a cotton manufacturing plant recently volunteered to accept a reduction of 15 per cent in wages if- they coyld be kept at work. The company had an- nounced that it must curtail production because of lack of or- ders. But coincident with this there was the publication of gov- ernment statistics showing heavy increases of importation of cotton goods made in England. If the American mill worker were assured of the business that goes to Europe, there might be less talk of curtailment of American production. = U S : “:e quite agree with that good old song which says that there’s no place like home.” The others are just a little better or a little worse. PR S, Mogt men are judged by the company they keep, but it’s not so thh_the women. They are not responsible for the cavort- ings of their husbands. i "HOL [ O al su aduptable T < spected the s build street” and Park road, Northwest, B. Henderson, cost about §200,000. ' COACH DOSCOURAGES USE GF FORWARD PASS | By Henry J. Farrell, { (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Dec. 13.—Percy Haugh- ton, founder of the “Harvard football |- |system,” wants football revised. The, forward pass must be curbed, he says, or football will become'a | combination of baskeétball and base- 1 ball. Haughton Xnows football, of . course, but other experts do not agree | with his fears for the future of the, | game. Jack Wilce, founder of the system that brought Ohio State from a me- | diocre: position in the Ohio Confer- cnce of small colleges to the peak of the “Big Ten” of the west, is a dis- ciple of the open game. “The forward pass made football what it is,” he said here recently. “It has. removed the weight handicap suf- fered by small elevens, it has.made a |less dangerous game and decreased injuries, it has made it an interesting| game_to watch and it has introduced more intelligence into the game.” To make radical changes in the forward pass rules would be to send the game back into its primitive stages and make weight rule again, he thinks. \ | Wilce, however, favors some slight changes in the rules to overcon few advantages that the f pass now enjoys. He' suggests, for instancg, ‘that in the case of interference with the re-|der to be properly graded. ceiver of the pass instead of giving| the ball to the offended team where | the foul was committed, to bring the }fiance record up to date with 20 pu-| ball back to the point of play and inflict a penalty of 10 yards. be numbered. that secrets of their system and trick plays would become ; known witl numbers on their players are silly,” team in the Western Conference to | wear numbers all season and we won the championship. I admit that scouts find their task easier when they have numbers to follow, but it didn’t hurt us much. “We think, in Columbus, that we have a system as good as that of any major university in the country. We have as much to keep secret as any 1other coaching staff, yet we are not so small that we will put our system above the intcrest of the public that keeps the game going. Regardless of sident’s mansion, several_senators have in¥ The structure, erected for Mrs. John he said. “Ohio State was the only rvey of homes in Washington possibly ding,” nearing completion at Sixteenth we lose oné game and get cannéd.’ I haven’t a’contract at Ohio- Stéte. I'm a member of the faculty, that's all,? Wilee said. o THE DAY’S WORK FOR THE PRINCIPAL 8:10 A« M. The phone is ringing madly as the principal unlocks her office door and, without taking time to remove her wraps,.she answers to find/that one of her teachers is ill and a substitute must be . located—ten minutes more spent at the phone.’ - 8:20 A. M. School time is near- ing. Pupils who have been absent are waiting to submit, excuses.and a pupil who has been ill with a con- tageous disease must be sent to the school nurse to be sure he cannot in- i fect his schoolmates. 8:40 A. M. The office is cleared of pupils. The list of absentees is in' and must be reported to the health department, the sick to be looked af- ter and the truants to be rounded up. {In this great and grand United States that offers education = to all without charge, there are, sad to relate, still a few parents who do not even care to have their children grasp the op- portunity. The health department phone is busy, but after two, or three or four or more attempts the list is finally reported. i 9:00 A. M. " A new pupil enters, his card, if he has onhe, having been: considered, he is pladed in the prop-! ss and taken‘té his class room If he has fo card he must stioned or given “tests i or-i ( teac 'be qu 9:15 A. M, Period of compara- tive calm. A chance to get the atten-, pils absent and nearly as many tardy, | !exact, work of this type demands care If any changes are made by theland time or mistakes will be made, rules committee this winter, Wi]celapd the record of the individual pu- favors a rule requiring all players to|pils wrong. / |" After tnis we loose sight of time in “Objections made by some coaches |our rush. The truant officer. arrives, having in tow a boy who fiinds - loafin inore interesting than% school, and; some time is spent in an attempt to make him realize the value of school |effort and education. Another three- | quarters of an hour sent into the un-| reckoned past. The boy is sent; to _'his class room and another boy comes in to report that he has been sent to the “officé” to b¢ disciplined as he' was “naughty” in class. 4 That taken care of, the principal almost had a breathing space, but the phone rings and it is a parent who asks that a certain pupil be called to i the phone, or be given a message, or excuse to go downtown, etc. The' pu- |17 able pupil to a higher grade. 1later and after what, other teams do’and what the pil must be located. Upstairs, down-, rules committce may decide, we are |stairs, back in the ‘office to find an going to make our games interesting |irate parent, whose child has brought to the public if we can. {heme'a sad story of cruel and inhu- “Qhio State is going to build a mil- iman treatment, but after hearing the lion-doflar stadium, the largest and teacher’s side of the story and fait- ifinest in the world. We will need a/minded parent comes to the conclu-| huge seating capacity because we sion that his child,: like nearly all age making football fans in Ohio. The |children, is likely to see himself in the | bhseball fan likes to sit in the grand- light of the abused, instead of the ed in regard to demoting a pupi grade where the work is not beyond nis depth and promoting a particular- meeting is he]di an_hour or an hour and a Lylf spe n discusgion or out<. lining of work the day is called eml-l ed. 4 A general teache: The principal goes directly to her boarding place and her evening meal, too mentally tired fo? reading she. goes o a movie to enjoy herself and relax, then -home to her- roonk,!ther sanctum to think'as phe: drifts’ to the land’ of dreams, of the’ thin; the ‘morrow must seé taken' cagé of. acle, Cow” has been discoygred. She. 1s Salome’s ; Carnation, a, . purebred Jersey, owned by -Willigm:Page of Hamilton, N. D. She has shattered the high- North Dakota record - for butterfat production in the two-year KOORS BUTTER SUPREME The Plant Behind Our Products e up i LU HTHIHHTT HUHITH The previous record [ that . time she has produced 401.06 ds of fat produced pounds of fat. Saiome’s Carnation is record MuAg not geiting any more. care or ie_eu C on is for 281;than any of ihe cther cows in the or less than nine months. In herd. I B Investigate /- Our Budget - Plan i the better way of buying .. ' - your NEW EDISON for Christmas BETTER because it brings your New Edison now—or for Christmas. = =&/ BETTER because it finds the ‘purchase money in your enjoyment expenditure. 5 2 BETTER because it systematizes and simplifies buying. 5 and avoids a lump sum payment. It makes pos- BETTER because it. works on thrift pripciples, gession easy. - EARLE A. BARKER 217 Third St. in charge T ADS [ Miss Lucile Cata EIHIHONRnnnH LT Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 22, 1920, one of Pipeless pleased with it. It has heat our seven-room house through the months-of November and December, with about 13 to of sof: coalscreenings By putting in a good fire at A. M., it requires no further at- tention until 6 P. M. ! 1 have installed in my house l¥czur No. 48 CaloriC ‘urnaces. We are quite r month, - READ THE PIONEER WANT RY STATE /4 THE UN/ON —~mi_ . You can solve the problem of hig.h-prioed‘ : fuel by installing the patented CaloriC Pipeless Furnace.- Records everywhere show that the Calor- iC saves 13 to 14 the fuel—this is in addition to heating the entire home more thoroughly and uniformly than any other ‘gystem. . : X ‘The CaloriC .is the original pipeless fure nace triple-casing patent. This exclusive feature makes pipeless heating successful —and it.cannot be had in any imitation furnace. * ' 7 The CaloriC is made by the largest manu. facturer of warm-air furnaces in the world. Sold . under a-Monéy-back Guarantee of your satisfactiony’ % ed & ns Iy 8 For old or mew homes. No expen‘sivé - installation. * No plumbing—no pipes to freeze. )LIDAY |SPECIAL" \YE DO OUR OWN DYEING HERE IN BEMIDJI AND ARE EQUIPPED TO TURN OUT FIRST-CLASS WORK IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. stand and figure the ‘inside’ of the game—to study what is being done football fan likes to do the same thing. He doesn’t just sit there and watch the ball,go up and down the field. quarterback is trying to do and he is interested to see how it is done. With- out numbers his task ‘is too hard. With. numbers it is easy and he be- comes a confirmed football fan.” - In the last four years, Ohio State under the guidance of Wilce has lost but one game, has won two western conference championships and finish- |ed second once. He developed Chic | Willaman, Pixley, Huffman and some of the greatest players in the Middle West. “Am I going to coach at Ohio State next year? Well, I presume so. You know, out west Twe don't go through ‘an undefeated season and get a four-year contract. Neither do and why it is being done. The real| He likés to know what the| | Harley, Pete Stinchcomb, Workman, ‘ abuser of school laws or rights that {he usually is. i | Noon hour. # | Back at school for the shorter af- ternoon session. The usual round of |excuses, absentee list to report, etc. |" Between the routine of the office | |work,” whenever the chance presents |itslf, backward pupils are talked to and encouraged to put forth greater effort and %o grasp their subject. | The superintendent calls asking for' |statistics as to the number of pupils renrolled, number of text books in !use, number of pupils who ride in the Ischool bus or anyone of the many rec- | lords that must be kept:! An inquiry frdm the superinten- {dent of schools in a distant town, is lat hand in regard to the record of a il who has moved there from Be- midji, the record is looked up,.made |out and mailed. 3 | - The aftcrnoon’s attendance is rec-! orded and the lines are passing out, a teacher's conference has been. call- ELESS' FURNACE TRIPLE:CASING PATENT 1 Over 100,000 users—many in Y this community. ' The demand for Calor-, ics is enormous and a shortage is ‘almost - certain. - Protect yourself by placing your, order immediately. GIVEN HARDWARE COMPANY } y 18 g yi’ ! N { 35 iln (] 4 5-¢ All » Ladies’ or Gents’ and Pressed $1.26 Hand Pressing Suits Cleane e ss (Cleaners i and Dyers 512 BELTRAMI AVE. - PHONE 65