Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 2

' BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISH.ED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY ‘THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. J. D. WINTER, City Editor Telephone 922 Batered_at the\postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, T under Act \ot Congress of March 3, 1879. 5 “ Nbo.attention -paid to anonymous contributions, Writer's name must be known .to the editor, but not necessarily for publication.- - Communica~ tians for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday o2 ‘endh Week to insure publication in the current issue. > | SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier \ By Mail 6.00 3.30 One Year ...... 180 * six Months - .15 Three Months Mo ‘Three Month: Qne ‘Month One Week THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday, and sent postege paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS pi e ———— — ARE YOU BEING ROBBED. . . Is'your home burglar proof? This question is being asked: of every Minnesotap by the groups of public-spirited citizens in every community who are conducting the 1920 Christmas Seal Sale. Fresh air, clean bodies, windows, a safe water supply, a balanced diet, screen doors and a safe milk and food supply, prop- er feeding of infants and children, immediate regorting of pre- ventable diseases to the local health officer, special care of the patient and of the discharges of nose, throat, kidneys and bowels! of the sick—all these are the bolts and bars which protect the health of your home. These are the safeguards ag whose loot is death, economic was bandit, who, finding these bars missing, day and night, strikes down your loved ones, health and happiness. " What is/your town an and your community burglar other preventalbe disease? your home and community ? Christras Seals and Health Bonds will seal the fate, will shackle the ruthless burglar—Disease! Use Christmas Seals on all your letters and packages this December. Thus you help protect your home and your community. Tuberculosis robbed Uncle Sam of 1,500 Minnesota young men, who were called to the colors but were found unfit to! fight because they were victims of the deadly “White Plague.” Last year, 2,244 Minnesotans were killed by tuberculosis. To- day, th:re are 24.000 active cases of this preventable disease_in our state. ] ————0. GROWTH OF MOTHERS’ PENSION MOVEMENT. - Forty out of the 48 states have now adopted some form of . Mothérs’ .pension, according to facts made public today in the annual report of the chief of the Children’s bureau of the Unit- ed States Department of Labor. - They have recognized the prin- ciple that children should not be taken from their mothers be- cause.of poverty alone. The rapid extengion of the Mothers’ Pension movement indicates the general beiief of the country in the paramount value of home life and a mother’s care. - However, although large grants have been made in many of ‘our states, the amounts in general are far too small. The in- creased cost of living has not been met and the full purpose of the laws is not attained. Some of the states are now making careful studies of increased costs so that allowances may re- spond to-the higher prices. | The systems of administratio ainst the burglar—disease— te, suffering and misery; the steals into your home and robs you of d county doing to make your home proof against tuberculosis and| What are you doing to protect| | - n vary widely in the different! states. So, also, do the amount of the allowances and the meth-| | terey headland! Local Like chasity, poMvical responsibil- ity begins at home. Voting for a president \vas an exciting first ex- : ceal, ofl upont it. against a stone wall of regulated pression for the great body of mewly enfranchised women. But as a mat- ter of fact, the woman voter Who kgows all about Washington and not the slightest selationship to the nothing abcut her own City Hall is present cost of production. Their not the best citizen. It 1s as though continued en(urcemén(. agitated for | . ahe went out to Africajto teach the by short-sighted politicians stradieg | heathen whiie her own’ children ran on public thoughtlessne: 1l have | the streets with holes in their stocke ings. Every municival problem touched An one’way or anotiier every home tn the community. For women td fail to understand local ‘issues is to' fail in duty as home managers no less than as citizens. To urge the direction of their ac- tivities to thesc issues is not to eir- cumserihe women's political fleld. Local issues have ‘mever demanded much =obgr thinking and such sound _ Judgment. ‘Take the matter of public utill tles alone, or, to be still more con- crete, the gas industry. Forty-six hundred American towns, big and ilittle, use this commodity. It is an essential In eight million homes. Yet itoday 1t is up against a life and igeath struggle for existence. Woman Voler Studying - | Municipal Needs, ‘elements that go into its production, the eftect of literally shutting off the gas \ must dismiss outworn prejudices and | ress and prosperity of her commun- R / Enormously increased costs of the’ and labor, bear crushingly ! On the other side, it is up prices, fixed years ago, which have Tre duty of the woman citizen 1§ | such a situation is cldar. She must open her mind to all aspects of the | problem. She must visualize the gas man's coal bill as her own. She ;| exerciso her new won political rights | in the interest of the continued prog- ity and of her home. If women with thelr fresh out-{ I6ok and their new eal can free such ' - & community cssentlal as the gas”} supply from the cconomic and po- . litical morass which threatens to en= | gult 1t, they will have accomplished | for thelr own towns something com- parable to what Elfas Howe and his | —_———————————= PECULIAR FREAK OF NATURI Section of Land in California Has Trees Unknown Anywtliere Else, Save in One Smatl Spot. Down In San Diego county is & grove of Torrey pines less than two miles broad and. eigbt miles long, | thinly scattered,s that occur nowhere else In th¢ world except about 100 trees on the easters. end of Santa Rosa Island, many mles to the north and out in the ocean. All who have) rend of coaching - or motoring In southern California’ know of the fa-| mons cypress drive menr Monterey. Strange indeed Is this yreat head of land jutting out into the ocean be- tween Carmel bay and Monterey har- bor,. for it forms an isolated arborenl fsland, the Monterey cypress being hut one of its peculiarities. The Mon- terey pinc grows there, and is not found again except. sixty miles to the : north and seventy miles to the south. The Bishop’s plne occurs (or recurs) only eighty-five miles to the north and | eighty miles to the souith. The Gowen cypress recurs on the: coast 216 miles northward. Curious place for .trees, this Mon: We have so many tales to tell of cyrious native trees. however, that one more must suflice. ods of qupervision. The Children’s bureau points the necessity of making a careful investigation of the methods in use in all the states so thgt the country may be given the benefit of all the experience which has been gained through the operation of these laws. —_—— ===t l OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR Suppose the British house of commons should entertain a resolution protesting against the American “reign of terror” in Haiti— Very prob- ably—and very properly—we should invite Great Britain to mind her own .h}xk!ness. If Mr. Burke’s resolution passes, we may confidently expect a similar answer from London.—St. Paul Dispatch. ) Why don't our recent converts to co-Bperation onl i il e y try their theor: some ¢tate where the Nonpartisan league farmers arc not trying toy cll.x‘) um;ghmz'!d Thhare'i t}:)_tafdf territ:ry where the “terrible” League is not working and . where the farmers have just as big marketi — Farmers’ Independent. J 8 (mArksng problems; This is a mighty good idea, as suggested by Senator McGarr; t ndvocnffi of zo?d roads: “A c’io]la‘r's worth of roads for everjv:i:ll::oe':cg» pended. That’s what we all hope for and expect, and if we get it, Minne- sota will be known as the state of goods roads.—Stillwater Gazette. The election of Obr;énn marked the fourth time in 99 n 1 ed th years that the :n::ml;e::b:.chantgteh of m:ny'mstra]:mn ;‘n Mexico without bloodshed. T?;: r out the contention that “‘the first hund v v . e e e hundred years are the worst. Representative Burke has introduced a resolution in thi i % ive i ¢ e national h :::(nlnutr(;‘hrnt B::tat[n to recognize the independence of Ireland, and, nlo‘tlls\: nnd:r Briet'iugr:u?:.'l'“g against ‘‘the rein of terror now existing in Ireland Just because a wife tried to shoot him, hit him over th ith k;r, tkl;r«w‘;.acid at him, kicked him out of bed, ctc..a:he :{';::fai‘dv"l‘:x: “ut.:} u:”:'orce. Seems as if this mild request should be granted.—Still. of faith'in their final vindication by the courts. Th i learn sometime that liberty is not Iicanse.—Omlsixa Be:-u = know until we have tried.—Milwaukee Sentinel. demic.—St. Paul Dispatch. . rests one paper. ‘Wh; 3 i Buinerd-l)isppe:tch. ¥ got give three rousing cheers, and let # go at that - peor ihh ean never ki(,-p’quiet.—Snn Francisco Bulletin, Henry: Arthur Jones of London wants to know h He 4 U 1 ] ow we get alo i prohibition in this country and the right answer seems to be gfimu: ‘\? ;l w\:::‘}é With the greatest ally out of the ci Wi t rele and the greatest admission, any league of nations discussion of dingnrmme:nte?e:gn?:‘;?:. Seientist asks—“Do fishes talk?” Of course, they fo; in Part, a lot of Down at Garden Grove and Santn Ana, both in Orange county, stand five trecs that are natural hybrids between the native live onk and the | native ‘black waluut, and man had | nothing 0 do with this Jujzglery.— Los Angeles "Uimes. ! Portabk: Radiotelephone. ! The pocket telephone has been | brought a step nearer by the assem- bling of the' necgssary rasliophone ap- paratus int¢: a compact vnit having | welght of #ibout 60 pountls. As a po- | tentlal of ouly six volts 1o cach is re- | quired_ to operate the rectifier and { oscillafor bulbs the low-capacity “B- type” batteries are dispensed with, | according to an illustrated article in | the December Popular Mechanics Mag- i azine. The low voltage required is | avallable almost anywhene, as two six-volt batter ies are easily procurable from any aritomobile battevy service ish\tlnn. Tihve new it is especially designed for the use of motorists, vachtsmen, campers and- isolated !farms. Under ordinary conditions it !is sald 1hg t the new instrument may i be dependy :d upou to operate watisfac- | torlly over- distances of from five to fif- | teen mi'erst i N Sy A Brief Triumph. The, most embarrassing mowment of |my ¥ig: huppened during my college idfl:v‘l‘, writes a correspondent. We | were al sitthnz at the dinner table of 'the cdllege boarding house, ench try- ing to outde the other in intelectual remarks. 1. had just finished what I }%considered =a particularly briglrt com- ment. I 1lifted a cop n(y(-nfi(-e to my | » ! lips with s air of trivmph, whaa sud- FY, 5 {denly the chair I was sitting an col- A petition for the pardon of Victor Berger and others indicates a Yack lapsed an A I sauk to the tloor, allow- | pressibles will{ ing the cump of steaming cofiee to pour all oxer niy face and clothes. e e e Her Gift. A young woman was interested In | charity watk and in one family where she visited ther whose hait was the same shade as her own. Wiing to show her apprecia- {'tion for the visitor's kindness, the ‘What to give for Christmas?” is the ruling question of the day, sug- child calld at her house one day and gave her a package, saying it was a little prement for her, then ran away, it out fell the child’s love- y thing she ‘had in i. | On opening | iy vratd—the onl: | ahundance. — ————— | many friends all the better for me. e was a little girl sewing machine did for their sex. = it | | MAKE FRIENDS WHEN YOU CAN Reason Why Onc.Man Has Always Sought to Add to His Acquaint- ances Every Day. My hobby is enifirging my acqualnt- | ance. | For years ¥ have found pleas- ure and profit in trying to know as many people as 1 can. I aim never to lgt the sun set without knowing at least one more person than I did when 1 started out in the morning, writes, Fred C. Kelly in Leslie’s. Why? My answer is: Why not? Life is made up | of human relations. As I look at it} the more human contact I'achieve the 1 .fuller my lifc should be. By human contact I don’t meun_Just being i | crowds, or places where people are. -I | mean meeting people, getting thetr | points of view. Lots of city folk who ‘ have plenty of dally opportunity to ! meet and know people don’t get ac- quainted with as mapy as-a man 21 know who lives on u farm and never | comes to town. Meefing' people 1s one | thing, making friends or getting ac- ! quainted with them is another. Inas- much as human beings ‘are admittedly | the most interesting things on earth, why not koow as many of them as pos- | sible? If there are men who derive | pleasure from collecting stamps, rare coins, canes, love letters, dogs, why | shouldn’t I give a little serious thought to collecting a long list of friends? ' And if T am a more successful busi- ness man In consequence of hnving{ Everybody you know is potentiall, a help to you. There is no way of | | telling when the humblest person ! | among your acquaintances may net | have momentary importance in_some- thing you are trying to do. I once | was able to get information that | meant a suceessful contract through the fact that T chanced to be acquaint- { ed with the firemun in one of the ho- | tels in San Francisco. | Now there aroc two ways of gettinfg | acquainted with peopde—by introduc- ! tion and by getting Mto casual con- versation without introduction. I try | to make the most of both these ave- nues, but I regard the former as the | more imaortant of the two. —— Sells Gas by the Therm. Under an act placed on the London statute book gas will in future be sold at so much a “therm” instead of so much a thousand feet. A therm is the name given te 100,000 British thermal | units, one of the latter being the amount of heaf™absorbed in raising one ! | pound of water one degree Fahren- | | heit. -The first distributor of gas to | announce its charges by the therm is | | the -South Metropolitan Gas company {which from the date of reading meters for the Michaelmas quarter will charge 21 cents a therm. The | gas is declared to contaln 550 British fhermal units in each cubic foot. et | | | A Fair Week. A man lately kept a meterological ; diary of his wife's temper. It ran | | somewhat as follows: «Monday—Rather cloudy; in the af— ternoon, rainy. ' wyesday — Vaporistrs brightened up a little towards evening. “Wednesday — Changeable, clined to rain. “Thursday—High wind, and some | peals of thunder. i “Friday—Fair in the morning; vari- | able till the afternoom; cloudy at 1ught. “Saturday—A gentle breeze, hazy afterncon. a thick fog, and a few flash- es ¥ lightning. { «g yuday—Tempestuous and rainys: | towayl evening rather calmer."—Len- | don A\aswers N | gloomy, in | | | \ da; at bu | Hé)licl'ay Suggestions THINGS IN OUR STORE WHICH WILL D AND APPROPRIATE GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS. 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