Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1920, Page 2

‘THE BEMIDI1 HPAILY PIONEER R sraeens TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1920 BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON E}(CEPT SUNDAY . THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. e ——— G. B. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G.'W. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor Telephone 922 | Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, 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. Communica- tions 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 «» Qne Year Six Months Three Month: One Month One Wéek . THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, iy advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS 6.00 3.00 'One Year ... lgg ” Six Months ... .15 Three Months * "FALSE ECONOMY. There is such a thing as false economy. Public refusal to buy may be carried too far and in some instances it has alr_eadyi heen carried to a point of false economy. The newspapers have been accused of being the cause of the present conition of mind which has so greatly curtailed the purchasing of goods because prices. Perhaps the newspapers have suggested to the mix'lds of the buying public that the price of commodities were lowering but the largest part of the condition of mind so created—if such a condition of mind exists—was caused by the half page, page' and two page glaring advertisements many merchants have run in the papers and through other mediums throughout the country, voluntarily stating that they were overloaded with goods and must reduce prices to unload, and this fact gave the newspapers their foundation for price reduction news. ° Manufacturers are complaining of the stagnation in trade. They state that sellers throughout the country are finding it harder to-sell goods thap ever before. They state that the buy- of the propaganda printed by them relative to the tumbling of AMERICAN LEGION TO BACK UP DEMAND FOR DISABLED | Washingt8n, D. C., Dec. 14.—The American Legion is squarely behind the demand of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, the Federal Board for Vocational Education and the United States Public Health Service for ade- quate approbriations for the next fis- lcal year with which to take care of | the ‘disabled men of the World war. Speaking on this point in_the midst of a recent conference with the heads of these three bureaus, F. W. Gal- braith, Jr., national commander, as- sured them that they should ask con- gress for enough money to do the job efficiently and that if there was any disposition to cut down their esti- mates for the sake of economy, the : OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR P G BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Dalas News—*“A flirt, am 1?” exclaimed Mary Ann, under notice to go. “Well, I know, theni as flirts more than I do, and with less hexcuse.” shot a_spiteful look at her mistress and added: you. More ’andsome. ’Owe do I know? Your husband told me so.” “That will do,” said her mistress, frigidly. AL “But I ain’t finished yet” retorted Mary Ann. “I can give a better kiss than you! Want to know oo told me that mum?”: @ | “No, it wasn’t your ’usband this time,” said M:Iu'y Ann. It was your chauffeur.” ° A negro, who had an mjured head, entered a doctor’s office. Sam! Got cut again, I see.” “Yes, sah. 1 done got carved up with a razor, doc.” | “Why don't you keep out of bad company?” asked the physician, after| he had dressedithe wound, g Legion would be willing to go to bat with them before the congressional committees. The bureaus are asking for $323,- 000,000 for the next fiscal year and are already being heard by the ap- propriations committee of the house. The Public Health Service is asking $50,000,000 for hospitalization and $35,000,000 for the erection of hospi- tals; the Vocational Board requests $78,000,000 for the rehabilitation” of former service men, and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance asks $160,- 000,000 for paying the compensation claims of the disabled. The appropri- ations committee has already threat- ! ened to cut the estimate of the Voca- tional Board from $78,000,000. to $65,000,000. GERMAN SCIENTIST SAYS | WEATHER CONTROLS POLITICS Berlin— (By Mail to United Press) —Dr. George Lomer, German scien- tist, has made the discovery that there is a direct connection between weath- er conditions and political happen- ings. Lomer has spent a portion of his scientific life to proving this theory and gives tables and figures to, he says, esigblish his contention. Writ- ing in tMe “Review of Progress in Scence and Technique,” he declares th; human being may believe himself to’ be a creature with spiritual inde- nendence, but in reality he is in a i “net of psychocosmic powers” and is er is in such a frame of mind that he does not appreciate a real value when he sees it because he expects the article is going to{ further decline in price. 9 { There is no doubt but that this condition of mind has been reflected by the buyer from the consumer. It is not the time to! preach thriftlessness, but it is a time to place emphasis on the' necessity of saneness in buying, It is not thrifty to stop buying altogether any more than it is thrifty to consume all of the cur- rent production without any consideration for the future. With" goods drifting back on the distributors’ hands it has caused them to make sudden curtailments of their activities resulting in un-: employment and drastic wage cuts. This affects the working! classes as well as the manufacturers themselves. It has even| affected\the producing farmers and their products have fallen! undeér the axe. : - A general curtailment in buying must-meet with a corre- sponding curtailment in manufacturing and production which,: as we have said, will surely cause unemployment and distress. There is then sure to follow an apprehension-on the part of the working people, caused by the threat of unemployment, that their buying power is going to be greatly lowered. The natural result will be that they are not going to buy any more than they can possibly get along with. They will struggle along with what they have rather than buy new articles, apprehensive that later they will need every cent they can get to rxake sure of get- ting life’s necessities. It will thus doubly depress the market. Sane buying must continue, living wages must be paid and pro- duction must be maintained, if we are to remain prosperous. There will be nothing gained by misdirected economy. et g o WHAT OF TOMORROW ? Just how great is the patriotism of this country, and how strong a pressure can it successfully withstand? . With the gates to our shores wide open, and fifteen mil- lions of Europeans clamoring for admission, we may have that patriotism put to a test sooner than most people believe possible. Our social fabric is undermined with trouble makers now —piople whose greatest aim in life is the destruction of govern- ment. ... When this avalanche of foreigners descends upon us who will be the first to reach them? ¥ Not _the disciple of law and order. He will pursue his beat- en path in the accumulation of riches, as has always been the custom. : But the foreigner will not be neglected. The Persistent Society of Troublemakers will be after him en masse. He will be buttonholed and coddled, and filled with thevlmagmary eyils of our system of government, and made to believe .that by its destruction, wealth will flow into his hands. It is not_the honest laboring man we have to fear in this znat'_;er". He is a good American, believes in his country, and is willing to fight for it if occasion requires. ’ But therg is a class of professiona] agitators, who fatten up- on the cyedullty of others, who will be the brains and the ring- leaderg in this campaign of vilification and destructiveness. f{liteen millign?I of foreigners! ) ow many of them, a year from the day they i ready to smite the hand that feeds them ? ¥ e ke ~ —_— Gen®ral Obregon, Mexigo’s new prasident, i i i 1 , X y goes into office with our best wishes. Let’s hope he d 't mi i sl P oesn’t misplace them in x —()- There’s a reason, however, lar with their neighbors. rowers, why some people are so popu- They are good lenders and poor bor- Oseeciic has produced at least one bene- People no longer carry chipg on their shoulders. . The high price of lumber fieial result. sort of a pawn in the Providence.” All of which leads up to his con- tention that weather and politics are all wrapped up together—in other ‘‘chess game of words, that they aren’t the results! of human manipulation, but of physi- cal and psychic forces. “Dirty weather in the Channel,” .as the English say, may portray a revolution, and so on. Dr. Lomer sets forth that sultry political happenings attend sultry weather and that stormy political events accompany storm signs on the barometer. *’Deed I'd liké!to, do Manitoba Free<Press. That man Townley is said to have quit North Dakota, turning over the has really control and direction of all Nonpartisan affairs to Mr. Lempke, the attorney-'demic will general-elect, who has been a bosom, companion of Townley for years.!. memnrizing the results so as to show the return for the farmer’s work and interest earned on the investment. {JAPAN ADOPTS WESTERN Tokio. (By Mail to United Pr She . —-As Japan proceeds to adopt west- “I'm_better looking than ern customs, the old usage of having | parents choose husbands or brides for their offspring is gradually falling in- to disuse. ! people prefer to depend on the dic- | tates of their hearts rather than upon !the hrains of their parents. | “Hello, iare also becoming quite common, as ' has' been shown by a police investiga- tion made r‘ecently in Tokio, when the affairs of 30 of these bureaus of Cupid were looked into. Calgary, Alberta—One thousand beaver skins, secured in Albe;ta by trappers under permits from the gov- ernment, were auctioned off in 300 lots the other day, and the average | price per pelt was $9.81. MATRIMONIAL CUSTOMS ) | | Edmonton, Alberta.—If the pres- ent plans of the Dominion game au- thorities are carried out, Alberta will have a new animal park. It is esti- mated that there are 175 antelope running' wild in the Brooks and Lake Muir districts, and it is propos¥d to construct a strong fence in which to enclose and protect them. In many cases the young The activities of marriage agencies t I a.in't got 'nuff money to git a divorcef'—‘ NO Cure qu P The “Flu"" Altho this dreaded Disease ravaged the Country last year yet a cure not been found for it, and Medical Authorities say another Epi- occur. k il We urge everybody, the minute you feel a cold coming on, have fever Townley has decided he will take the farmers of other states under his or chills, dull aches or constipation, to take a THORO, CLEANSING, PUR- wing, get their $18 and tell them how to vote. That game may be growing' [FYING LAXATIVE. stale and the coin may not come as easy as formerly.—Stillwater Daily| Gazette. 2 Uncle Sam has“on the Rhinc, in Germany, one infantry division “of 12,- 1000 men. The war closed a little over two years ago, but we have not yet| Germany than ever before, and take it from us it is a 1 pleasing sight to see| {O1d Glory.—Stillwater Daily Gazette. | The Automobile club of Walker has made arrangements to purchase &' i camping site for tourists and also to make repairs on the local baseball dia-! mond. Last season many tourists passed through Walker without stopping on account of there being no available place for pitching camp. Walker’s! jaction on this matter mightibe well copied by other local clubs.—Sparks. | AR R, | Some of the dollar-a-year men who served their country at Washington during the war were dear at the price, if those stories of wasted'billions are true.—Hibbing Daily Tribune. i A news item announces that one concern has cut clothing 34 1-3 per' cent. That’s nothing. Thousands of people have sewed theirs up more than: that.—Red Wing Republican. Judging. from present tendencies in style, big sister’s dress may soon" fit little sister without any shortening.—Hibbing Daily Tribune‘ [MAKE NET WORTH P STATEMENT JANUARY 1 from year to year or over a period: of years, but it does not show wheth-| er he has made progress thru guc-| cessful farming or by a very economi- ! cal manner wf living. The Carver| county farmer also keeps a record of | receipts and expenses and at the end | of the year makes a summary that shows the returns for the year’s work and interest earned on the invest-| nent.” \ | A good outline for keeping such | records is the Minnesota Farm Ac-| count book which may be obtained ! from the Student’s Book sfore, Uni-| versity Farm, St. Paul, at 25 cents a ccpy, and also from manv county! bank: This book gives forms for! farm inventory, a net wortn state-| ment, receipts and expenses and for | W. L. Calvert, farm management demonstrator with the agricultural| extension division of the university jbelieves that a fine jcb for every farmer for a’ part of New Years day 1is to make a net syorth statement. A { Carver county farmier has such a net worth statement for every year from {1908 to 1920. His: figures show that on January 1. 1908, he had a net | worth of $5,000, wiile on January 1. 1920, he had a net worth of around $28.000. “An annual net worth statement tells this favmer,” says Mr. Cavert, “just how much he is getting ahead DEAR PETEY: _I\Ninston-Salem, N(K‘C. . Monday Bet you a2 house and lot you'd stay in W-S a month if you ever.got to know folks here like I have.’* Between business and Reynolds factories and a bully time—well my date book has been bubbling over! And, I'm still running into facts that would stag- ger even your imagination, old football, with all your kick! - Pete, take it straight from government figures direct to you, that every work day in the wéek R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. buys from our “Uncle Sam” enough revenue stamps to pay for a duplicate of the hand- some new Winston-Salem post office build- army. of/more than 15,000 people, be down in the Reynolds factory district when the whistles blow! firing-up time in my life! future, call back on what I've slipped you about Camels — absolutely, the greatest cigarette at any price—for quality, for re- freshing flavor, for mellow mild body, for | freedom. from any unpleasant cigaretty | aftertaste or odor! smoker’s time to compare Camels with any cigarette in the world!, Camels are simpl$ a reveltion! In the meantime here’sa wad of best wishes ing! Ever hear of such a thing? And, if you want to get an eyefull of an Never saw such a cigarette Peter, everytime you light a Camel in the It's worth the busiest You know that. I'll open my eyes in Atlanta tomorrow! I have in stock! Yours Bathe your feet in hot salt water, take a good big cup of HOLLISTER’S ,ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA (warm), and go to bed for the night—chances {are you will feel fine the next morning and it won’t be so easy for the 1“Flu” or Grippe to get you. Buy a package foday, have it in the House and use it at the very first !declared we are at peace, although a German boat has landed at New York,|warning. Mothers should clpsely watch the children and treat them with- iflying the Germn flag. The Stars and Stripes are much more familiar in|out delay. Tea or tablets, 35c.—Boardman'’s Drug Store. the easy. Aunt - Jemima \“F'se in town, Honey!" way—. AUNT JEM) MA PANCAKE FL OUR Bigness Neces- sary for Service . YN some farm operations, in many man- ufacturing lines, and, more particu- larly, in refining and distribution of N . petroleum products, large scale operations - i are essential to insure maximum economy and-service. R s ry The production of crude oil varies but little on account of seasonal changes, and the refining processes are continuous operations. - The consumption of petroleum products, howevér, varies widely with the season. In summer, consumption far o’n-strips production, while during the' winter months the reverse is true. *To prepare himself for the summer rush, the oil refiner, who is ambitious to render a maximum service, must operate his refineries at full ca- pacity throughout the year, and must provide adequate storage to take care of his surphus out- put during the winter months, and store it against a day of maximum demand when the country roads and city boulevards are crowded with ma- chines, and the farmer has his tractor in the field: To perform this service requires the investment of huge sums of money, and the maintainance of ~ a complete organization at all times, i ‘The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is ambitious to be a leader in the petroleum industry. It is ambitious-to render to the people of the Middle West as near a perfect service as care, thought, and adequate'resources can devise, In carrying on its business, the Company- has invested more than 185 million dollars; it oper- ates four large refineries in which it manufactures / the many varieties of petroleum products needed by the consuming public. It operates 3215 bulk stations, more than 1000 filling stations, and a fleet of nearly 4000 tank delivgry trutks. Its permanent ‘organization consists of about 23,000 efficient loyal men and women, work- ing under one head, to render a service which makes it possible for you to get a gallon of gas- oline, or @ quart of oil, or a pound of grease, when you want it, and wherever you may be. " / Stanidard (I)fii.l.)/COmpany o« 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago \ 2357 Ladies’ or _ AY == PECIAL” WE DO OUR OWN DYEING HERE All w(;‘fientrsr’w S_lrlitsr iéleaned and Pressed $1.25 Hand Pressing \ : g I Swiss Cleaners and Dyers 512 GELTRAMI AVE. 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