Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 16, 1920, Page 2

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QOFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS | 1921 AGRICULTI’RAL PROGRAM. i Elsewhere in this issue of The Pioneer will be found the, outline of the work to be undertaken in the state the coming;‘ year by the Minnesota Farm Bureau federation. Every farmer| and business man also, for that part, should read every line Qf? this report. It is a most constructive program, one that un-| doubtedly will not be realized in its fullness in one year; it is too big for that, but it is abig goal to keep aiming for and fur- nishes a comprehensive program for legislator and agricultural- ! “ist to work upon. It is a'strong contrast to the destructive pro- gram advocated by some so-called panaceists. | No successful manufacturer blindly sets the selling price! on hig goods without knowing their cost. No successful farmer can intelligently set a selling price on his products without, knowing his costs and he cannot know his costs without an ade- quate, though, it may be, simple system of farm accounts. There-| fore the Farm Bureau, recognizing this, includes the providingi and keeping of accurate accounts for farmers in its program.| 4 Why should not every farmer know the daily market quo- tations-on his' products, the available car supply and the trans-' portation conditions? What better work could the Farm Bureau | undertike? ! ! Storage facilities are vital to the producers of farm prod-? ycts, -and adequate storage facilities they certainly have not.! Read the proposed action in this regard. - | Nothing of greater importance to our community thanj the land settlement and development of Northern Minnesota’ could be introduced into any agricultural program and this is one of the chief divisions of the Bureau’s program. : Section 5 of the program reads as follows: “In order to give the residents of the rural Minnesota the same educational, | recreational and other advantages as those of urban centers, we| favor the levy of a two-mill tax for state aid and increased trans-! portation aid and the establishment of vocational agricultural} departments wherever pracfical.” Surely this is what Beltrami | . ..county and cvery other nofthern county in Minnesota needs. Why should not the boy and girl in the woods be able to ‘get as) good an education as their city cousins? It has been the proud} boast of the nation that the great majority of its great men have come from the red country school houses. The material is there, ‘why not develop it? { .- Other matters pertaining to highways, rural credits, farm| ]pbor, land leasing and federal legislation have been made ob-| jects.of attention. When this Bureau has achieved all that is! contained in this program the farmer will surely have come intoi his own, and why not? Acquaint yourself with the program of the farmer for 1921 by reading the Farm Bureau Program. l OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR | b » " A newspaper doctor declares that by takin, T ¢ g 20 long breaths one can warm his feet. This may be a way to solve the no-coal situation, provided a ‘ fellow could ever get started taking long breaths on a cold morning after a trip over a Siberian stretch of linoleum on a sleeping porch.—Wilmington ! News-Journal. | T;hekct;nsolutido: for goliticul defeat is that the losing candidate can al-| ways look forward to vindication in_the future. Debs i int 1924.—Crookston Daily Times. \ S expeste.a bie vote dn Adv'ice to bibulous motorists: Remember last year's alcoholic fatalities, and don’t drink any radiator highballs.—Crookston Daily 'Times. The National Wool Growers clsmnr;g for an embargo on wool imvj portations—a case of “much ery and little wool.”—Chicago Evening Post. | —_— | Russell Harrison is 2 member of the Indiana legislature, Robert Taft| of the Ohio, and Theodore Roosevelt of the New York. Their names :re n:: much help. They will go as far as they deserve.—Syracuse Post Stand- ard. ! Sevei'a] New England towns have voted for Sunda: | . bzt y sports and our latest definition of Puritanism looks as if it had b vi illi; ith | Hoppe—New York Evening Post, een playing billiards with | Twenty-two North Dakota banks clns_ed in six weeks! It will be hard | for even a North Dakota farmer to remain nonpartisan under those circum- | stances.—Portland Oregonian. When ‘adjournment comes at Gene\;;—it npl;ears that the delegates will | depart reciting “Half a league, half a league! A solar system Kwith two: centers of power woulld not be casy to operate, and not easier is it to have' a peace system centering on both council and assembly.—Chicago Tribune.' . “Well, Harold,” saig the proud .father, “now that you've th ! col]eg'e. what do you think of following as a regular oci’upatiof?’,'w FoRen oz “It ‘wfll keep me busy ghe rest of my life,” gloomily answered Harold, ‘correcting the family English.”—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Every time a distinguished visitor appears at Marion, Ohio, he is im- mediately slated for a cabinet position by th, They have thus far generally pnl;vided et Aminirat sets.—~St. Cloud Daily Journal-Press. Sp: correspondents. the next administration with several » 3 The surest way for big cities to leuse;crimc is to provide an adequate and honect police force. Too many cops stand in with the looting boyg, the' hold ups, the second-story climbers and the auto thieves.—St. Cloud Daily hold ups, the second-story climbers and the auto thicves. e 3 It Pre.sident'l{al:dipg dpes not make good it will not be for want of ad-| vice. He is getting it in big chunks of all sorts. But he is probably ciear ;:nded enough to make the proper assortment.—St. Cloud Daily Journal-' ess. . - “Road Tho Piongar Want Ad S | first tgan in carnest when two influe ; to the subsequent wholesale :u: AWAITING THE VISIT OF ~ A VERY DEAR FRIEND | CRARGE BRITISH WiTH ATROCHTY Indian Statesmen Disclose At- tack by General Dyer on 20,- 000 Unarmed Natives. TWO ARRESTS START TROUBLE Natives Seek to Present Petition for Release of Leaders and Are At- tacked by Soldiers—1,000 + Are Massacred. New York.—An attack soldiers upon a crowd of unari tives of India, as they to present to a British deput sioner a petition for the two of their leaders, led a few later to the massacre of 1.000 Indians | in a great square ant Awritsar, in the Punjab district of India in the spring of 1919, si Punjab subcommittee of the Indian na- ! tional congress. ' Dissatisfaction amopg the natives une apparent with the pas- | sage of the Rowlat bills, dcsigncd’\lo | punish sedition, | All over the country resolutions | were passed by huge mass meetlngfl‘ protesting against the law and de- . manding its repeal. The trouble, the report states, he- | ial natives, Doctors Kitchlew and Satya- pal, were arrested and their friends heard they were to be deported, Many Natives Killed. The report continues with a deserip- tion of the fight hetween na and soldiery, during which m of the former were killed and the sufvivors inflamed to such a pitch of fury that they returned into the city and ap- plied the torch to several principal | buildings. The occurrence which directly led sucres in the Jalleanwala Bagh, the report asserts, a proclamation issued | about this time by Gen. Dyer forbid- ding the ratives to assemble publicl “The public meeting in the Jalles wala Bagh,” the report states, “was called before the proclamation had | reached more than ha¥ the population. Shortly before the arrival of Gen. Dyer | on the scene with ninety soldiers and | two armored cars, Hans Raj had taken | charge of the meeting, the audience | numbering about 20,000. What hippened afterward is given | by the Indian investigators in Gen. Dyer’s own words recorded during his testimony at the subsequent inquiry: “When you got to the bagh what - did you do?” Gen. Dyer was asked. Opened Fire in 30 Seconds. “1 opentd fire, Immediately I had thought about the matter and dowt | imagine it ‘took me more than thirty | seconds to make up my mind as to what my duty was,” he replied. “In firing, was it your object to dis- | perse?” “No, sir. I was going to fire until they dispersed.” “Did you continue firing after they , had dispersed?” “Yes.” “After the crowd fndicated that it was going to disperse,” why did you uot stop:” > “I thought it was my dutly to go on until they had dispersed. “TE I fired a little, I sboulil be wrong in firing at all.” Continuning their report, the investi- gators added “IIe, Gen. Dyer, sald he continued firing for about ten minutes, until he had expended 1,650 rounds of ammuni tion.. He said he had made no provi sion for aiding or removing the wound ed. That was a medical question, he declared. “One eye witness said: ‘I saw hun- dreds of persons killed on the spot The worst part of_the whole thing was \ | vs a report prepared by the i | city in Europe, Vienna's rooming ac-| | commodation is taxed beyond capac towiard the which the people were rying to run out. Many got tram- pled under-the feet of the rushing crowds and thus lost their lives. There heaps of bodies at different I think there must have been over 1,000 —— Three-Months-0id Babes | Matched to Play Tennis During a recent visit J. C. Parks, British rep- resentative in the Davis cup tournament, and A. I Gobert, a great French tennis player, matched their three months’ old infants to play lawn tennis 20 y from now, * | | Died at the Steering Wheel. ‘ Ironton, O.—When an automobile 2 to a sudden stop on the incline | 2 to a ferry boat, spectators in-; v iwted and found that the driver. | Jefterson Champlon, aged 72, a pro- minent Huntipgtgn (W. Va.) busine: nian, s dead *at the wheel. His dying struggle resulted In locking the brakes. Too Much Lightning in One Day. Greenfteld, Ind.—When lightning vis- ! its a man's place once in a year it is| usually considered sufficient, but threc | visits on fhe same day are by much too many, according to Jasper Kem- mer living near here. With-' od of ten hours lightning kitled u horse, then a cow and finally a third bolt struck his Leuse. Requires Influence of Four Officials to Get Quarters for American Wom- an in Vienna. Vierma.—Like nearly cvery other, ity. The hotels are overflowing at ex orbitant rates (in crown values). Ev-! ain unlonds its quota of mew-| to travel in taxicabs and fia- qes from one end of the city to the other in search of sleeping quarters. while even the government room re- quisitioning system fails to house many thousands. An American visitor wishing to go from Vienna to Budapest telegraphed | dally for a week, receiving daily the| reply, “Nothing available.” An American woman, wife of a con- sul, arrived the other day, and it re- ! quired all the influence of four Amer-| fean officials to obtain for her a bath- room in which to sleen. Rocks That ‘Bend. There are rocks that will actualiy bend i€ placed in certain positions. Some sandstones will bend like pleces of Indiz rubber. If a moder- ately thin piece of sandstone is sup- ported only at its two ends, it will sag in the middle; while if\a piece is supported in the wmiddle the two ends will drop. Flexible rock is found in India, and also in America, more especially in Brazil. It contains a proportion of mica, which is largely used for mak- ing lamp chimneys on account of its flexibility. % The presence of mica does not, how- ever, account for the bending qual- ity of the rock, whicli is due tc the’ fact that the particles of quartz of which it is composed are interlocked together like hinges, with spaces in between the particles, in such a man- ner that though the rock will give to a certain extent it will not break. Two Meanings In Dream. To dream of a flood where houses and people are carried away foretells great disaster. loss in business and mental weakness, unless you swim out of the flood, when it signifies power sud wealth. ~ i unknown Christmas Seals Are Stamping Out Tuberculosis ME ey G ST MR 1920 Use Christmas Seals on All Your December Mail WGALE'S DEBT TO UNKRNOWNS Fitting That Sarvices Rendered to Hu- manity by the Ahonymous Should Ee Properly Recognized. erlying the splendid tributes of | and Great Britain to two un® 1 saldiers, as symbols of all the herog of the war, Is a| it that should find more general ! ion in tines of peace. new for unknown soldiers to be burfed in Westminster | and under the Arch of Triumph, State Gurial was once reserved for marshals and gen rd conspicuous heroes, among milita men. It is only that the victory of democ tocracy should make such a differenc and It is only natural that an anony- | mop! should symbolize commen | service in war. Such service has always been anony- mous, but the anonymous have not | previously been so honored. Common | service of an official character is usu- - ally performed by men in unifor m— whether as soldiers, policemen, five- ! men or sailors—who for the most part | remain anonymous, When one of these | millions of official servunts steps out | of the usual routine and performs ex- traordinary service and becomes a | hero, the public demands his name, | Not that it matters; the deed is the important thing, but henceforth the name and the deed are associated. Otherwise the anonymity of the hero's | service is preserved. Some years ago Dr. Nehemiah Boyn- | ton made an interesting address in | which, he emphasized the debt we' owed to the dnonymous in all walks | of life. Unofticial service is butj slightly less anonymous in character than that cf persons in uniform. We fve in an interdependent world, vet! we know but a handful of people out | of countless lions. i ailed on | an anonymous séa, and If 1s only “one in a while that we speak a friendly ship. “What's in a name?" wight be rendered “Why.a name?” A rose with- out any name at all would delight us still.—Brooklyn Eagle. The Snail and the Screw, It is no doubt true that nearly all human inyentions have been suggested by natural ohjects. Fremont of the French school of mines fiims out an interesting example in the case of the screw, the fandamental idea of which, he believes, uggested to primitive man by the spiral shape of the edible . snail. It was not the shape of the shell that suggested the screw, but the spi- ral motion which it is necessary to give to the body of the snail in order to withdraw it. from the shell. This at once showed that an object of a screw shape embedded in a solid .pow- : erfully resisted attempts to withdraw OUCH! 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