Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 10, 1921, Page 2

' Ontario. Labor was all farmers had then.—Winnipeg Free Press. ‘rusty but always be links in the golden chain of follewship.—Mining Ga- A o ——— bs { — " BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER % . PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. J. D. WINTER, City Editor G. E. CARSON, President G. W. HARNWELL, Editor Telephone 922 P - toffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, Epiated 8t e mer Act of CDDm;I of March 3, 1879. ttention paid to anonymous contributions. _WI"itGY'I name -must | be k:‘(:v: to t;ié—’é’giltor. but not necesssrily fnr'pnbhclnan. Communica- tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday | of each week to insure publication in the current issue. T Al e SUBSCRIFTION RATES By Mall $300 One Year os—— X |} I o ——L One Week ... .15 Three Months e . THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS =_———_____—————=_——_—————-'_—_———_—_——___" THE JUVENILE DELINQUENT . In the recent trial of two Minneapolis boys for the holding | up and killing of a grocer in that city, the‘hegrt-brokgn mother of the two sobbed out: “There was no place in the f:,lty for my boys to play except on the streets or in the poolhalls.” Granted that many poolhalls are not a safe place for a puy to spend his leisure time, is it not possible that the mother, in her extremity of anguish, forgot that the f:n)rst place her boys started to play ound her own hearth stone? o Police and juvenile delinquent judges have often gnd t:re'en ly expressed their opinion thau the starting point of crime is in the home. They state that boys and young men Who give the/ most trouble are those whose home lives, for various reasons,! are not what they should be. ! This is a sad yet undoubtedly true statement. Many, alas, too many, cities fail to provide any wholesome recreation or en- tertainment for their youth, and while nnfortungtgly many pool- halls are nothing more than a rendezvous for vicious and .unde- sirable characters, it is not fair to include all pool halls in the category. Many poolhalls are properly'c.onduct'ed. The poy who has had the proper kind of home training easily recognizes the unfit places and carefully avoids them. This not only ap- plies to poolhalls but to all undesirable gongregatlng placgs. It may be a dance hall or even a questionable moving picture; house. Multitudes of parents seem to conclude that if they feed, clothe and school their children they have done their duty—in fact, many do not even seem to care if their children go to‘ school. Morality and discipline seem,to be absplqtely foreign to many homes. Many parents seem to think it is something that can be picked up in the stree} or bac}( ward at any time it is needed and apparently do not think it is needed very often.! These are qualities that can be acquired only by precept and example in the home, and the father or mother who neglects or ignores this great truth cannot escape responmbxhty by blan{:-‘ ing the poolhall, the dance hall or something e}se \y‘hen their children run amuck, perpetrate a crime, and the inevitable pen- alty overtakes them. : . . ) ; Many heads of families take no‘ldterest in the religious training of their children—or the religious developrpent of their own minds; their thoughts rise no higer than their every-day «ccupation. Our great national development has b.ee'n bqsed: much on the honest, wholesome and god feap{lg Christian lives: of our forefathers and we cannot with impunity cast aside the| great ideals and principles of a Lincoln, a McKinley or a Boose— velt and plunge headlong into the absorbing c'mfxmercmhsm of today without the steadying influences of Christian homes and Christian churches. The day of the family church pew seems to he gone—alas, that it is so—let us not permit the time to come when it will be said the day of the American home is gone. — g A 15-year-old Philadelphia lad ran away and got marri_ed, and his father licked him with a razor strop. If he had applied the strop beforehand, the boy might have been too sharp to do such a fool thing.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. | i . Those admirers of Constantine who compare his return to Athens with the return of Napoleon from Elba should remember what happened at the end of the hundred days.—Detroit Free Press. . e T : Nineteen hundred and twenty-one will be “get-away” year in Europe, if we permit it to be “‘come-in” year over here.—| Cincinnati Times-Star. ! OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR A - S e WHERE HE BELONGS, AT LAST ' Announcement is made by Eamon De Valera’s secretary that the “president of the Irish republic” has landed safely in Erin. We do not know how the gentleman got there, but we do know that Ireland is where he belongs. His mere presence in this country did the cause in which he is interested serious injury, and the political intrigue he carrid on made him a dangerous nuisance. We are glad for the sake of America, that he has taken himself off. He never had any business here.—| St. Paul Dispatch. 3 | A kick that would make a mule’s look wan and weak should be the| answer of the people to the proposed plan to have the Babcock road system handled by a commitgion of five unpaid men. As a rule men who work| for nothing are worth almost that much. A better plan would be to engage| an executive at $25,000 or more a year, and see to it that he is big enough! to earn his salary.~—Exchange. MEMORIES OF SORE BACK | “Union of Farmers and Labor Is Impossible.”—News heading. When were they separated? Must have been since I quit sweet old| Now Senator Harding is being criticized for not babling about what he is going to do. Even those who said he would be but a rubber stamp for the “senate oligarchy” are beginning to doubt their own prescience.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. President Wilson, who has just bought a house for $150,000, will not have to worry about high rents, and is setting a shining example for any downtrodden tenant having $150,000.-—~Omaha Bee. The proposition to make Washington a center for the study of the science of government will not amount to much unless members of congress | are enrolled in the classes by compulsion.—Exchange. | ALSO THE SILVER CORDS OF SENTIMENT In closing, she asked that the hinges of their friendship never grow zette. ‘The mothe{ of the 13-year-old prodigy studying at Harvard university #dmits that he likes “Wild West” stories. There is hope for the youngster| after all. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. GUEST CHARGED FOR INSULT This French Hotel Proprietor Surely Went the Limit in the Matter of Extortion. “Many stories a\'e’ told,” said Col. | Elliston P. Masters at a Fort Sherl- dan tea, “of French extortions. But the worst I have heard was related to me by an army friend. “He went to a hotel in Paris with- out making a bargain about rates and dined altogether at restaurants with friends. “One evening, out as usual, the proprietor accosted , | him in the hall and inquired: “I hope you're dining with us to- night, monsieur? ““No, my friend answered, ‘T have an engagement.’ “The, proprietor, with a despairing gesture, exclaimed: “qt is an insult to the establish- ment, monsieur, never to dine here. “‘Not at all’ my friend answered, | and thought no more of the matter. “But when he came to pay his ho- tel bill, although he had not eaten any menls there, he found this item: “‘Twelve dinners—350 francs.’ “‘But I took no dinners here, the b R R R L S E R R TR | & BAGLEY * Supt. and Mrs. J. A. Cogswell re- jlurned Tuesday from a visit with (relatives at Leonard, { Miss Alice Lien arrived home this {week from Fosston, where she has | been viciting at the Halvor Nelson home, | Mr. and QMrs. Bennie McBain re-! imrned to hér hecme. at Grand,Forks | E:turdny. atter a visit with relatives | re. | Mr. and.Mrs. Nels and | Nelson as he was starting ' daughter, Hazel, returned home Sat-" township left last Friday for an ex-| urday, from a visit with relatives at Ogema. .. Lilliman Hanson arrived here Sat-| :urduy from Chicago, and will spend a week with his parents, Mr. and |Mrs. H. A. Hanson. i Misses AMce Olson and Lila.Thor-| stad regurned home Friday from Fos- | |ston, after.a visit with her gran 2l mother, Mrs. J. Larson of that city. Orville Kolb returned to Minneapo- “Ils_ Saturday, after spending the ‘(un'xslmas holidays at his home here. : |He was accompanied by his mother, {Mrs. M. J. Kolb, who will spend a| few weeks there previous to leaving ' \vlt!l ‘Mr. Kolb for Oklahoma and | Texas. %lfitfi*?t“l‘l#ill‘].v | guest protested to the proprietor; : landmarks in Africa. | a fool. /| the Jumel museum, in the Taternation- | ‘vou remarked about that to me your- B ¥ ¥ turned to their home at Bemidji aft- self.” i P v days re wi “I know you didn't; was the re- ‘]e;!fgf»:d,:gi':‘::“‘n:lr“};“l:le'shf‘s.”i’\“3"' ply. ‘Had you taken those dinners-}{u“geu - sy the price would only have beca ‘.’50| Wm francs.” “‘And what are the extra hundred { franes for? g “‘For the insult, monsieur—for the Snsult?” TREASURE IN NORTH AFRICA i French Writer Declares Land s a-! Storehouse of Historical and | Archeologi Beauties. Kaiger left Sund North Africa—Morocco, Algeria— | comprises, according to Louis Bert- | rand, writing in L'Illustration (Paris), | n storehouse of historical and arch- cological treasures unsuspected by the | #reat majority of Frenchmen. France's tricolor floats over these storied lands | washed by the Mediterranean. | M. Bertrand concludes that most of his countrymen visit the colonial pos- | session much as they would visit a | spectacular review or something of | the sort, as a bizarre bxperience of | strange sounds and colors and muscle | dancers; whereas, if they would but | open their eyes, they might behold | dead cities raising up their heads and | almost hear the echoing footsteps of the Roman legions. He points, in| fact, to North Africa as the richest | museum of Latin antiquity in ch: world, where the ruins of the imperial | occupation are thickly strewn for leagues, crying out for the pick and ! spade of the excavator. “From Volu- | bills in Morocco to Gigthi in Tunis,” | declares the writer, “on a line 2,000 { I kilometers long, the Roman ruins are With their tri- umphal arches, colonnades, pagan tem- ples, basilicas and Christian burial pPlaces, they outline a shattered royal | road without a peer.” Challenge to Thought. ‘When you can’t do what you want to it's a challenge to think. If you can't do it, why can’t you? The chances are | you will find it is not right that it should be done at all. Or it may be that you are not the one to do it. You may want to swim the Niagara Jjust below the falls so you can boast of doing what has not been done. You may want to fly to the moon so you | can write of expericnces never yet felt by man. You may even want to play the Jonah game so you can give | your experiences of a few days in the deep. But you can’t do it. The why lies in the fact that you are not made for such exploits, 'To attempt any one of them would be to tempt self- destruction. The crowd might stand by and watch you make the effort anfi when you faited they would call you When you can’t do what you | want to—think.—Grit. Washington at Forty-four. ! The authenticity of a portrait of ‘Washington at forty-four by John Trumbull, painted on a mahogany ! panel eight by ten inches in size, has | recently been established under pe- culiar and interesting circumstances, | writes William H. Shelton, curator of al Studio. This picture has hung in | the museum of Jumel mansion for six | years in the collection of William | Lanier Washington. | The head is interesting as sho\\'ing! Trumbull’s recollection of Washington | at forty-four, and his recollection was seconded by pen drawings made while / on his staff in 1775. General Washing- | ’ ton was forty-threc years of age when ' . he took command of the army at Bos- | ton. Expected It White, “Americans traveling for the first time in Europe,” sald Senator Bran- ' degee at a Hartford dinner, “display provincial crudeness in many ways, but the faux pas a Boston leather prof- iteer made in a fashionable Parisian restaurant was pardenable. Thanks to prohibition he was quite uninitiated ' in the matter of table wines—he had made his pile after we went dry. | % N “‘Holy smoke, waiter,’ this profiteer exclaimed haughtily. ‘Look what you've brought me—yellow wine when I asked | you for white!"” | King agrees 30 minutes. Hush Money. Caller—Well, you are a good little boy. Are you always as quiet as this? Johnny—No; but mother's going to give me a quarter if I don’t say any- | thing about your bald head. 1 R I S i Subdscribe for Tha Dailv Ploneer. Dr. and Mrs, R. L. Richardson re-| ES .MIDJI ARMORY , BUD FRISK Mat Artist for 9 Years neapolis to resume his University of Minnesota.. , Harold Hill arrived here Thurs- James McFarland, Jr. of Wiiton, was a business visitor here last Fri- day. S. C. Sheets, editor of the Clear- brook 1 as a business visitor here Tuesday. ' | Mrs. R. M. Kaiser returned here Wednesday from a visit at.her par- ental home at Park Rapids, Lars J. Sathre and S. H. Hegg of Shevlin, were county seat’ visitors last Thursday.- Mrs. M. H. Dalholen of Holst tended visit with relatives at Milaca and St. Paul, MOTORCYCLE COMPETITION i DOUBLES IN PAST YEAR ! i Comparing the summary of 1920 motorcycle competition ‘with that of} 1919 two facts are apparent, namely, . the great increase in number of com-| petitive events and second, the great ase in speeds for beth sclo amli ner sidecar races. b [n 1920 there were 88 race meets! officially reported as comp:red with| 53 in 1919. Over 50 endurance runs were held, whereas, there weve only | 99 Remarkable speeds were attained in the straightaway trials at Day-1| tona Beach, Florida, in February and April, 1920, in both solo and sidecar classes, Few records for the Kilo- meter, one, two and five miles were at William King vs. Charles Lainen to throw Lainen twice in for a brief visit with relatives.|dates any co greatly in champio in 191 Bisntarck, Jan. ta's ballot s to be cast here today tudies at the {made for™ International The figures have not been equalled in either before or since the mentioned. es and on half mile tracks ha cased. hips at various were contested as compared with 11 NORTH DAKOTA BALLOT 18 CAST FOR HARDING cognition. Warren G more th ovembei James M. ) e | cording 1 Ninteen national | Cox's 37,4 distances in North Speed in sidecar i the vote ar Edward Hoverson ngton. 10.—North- Dako- Cole, BE. L. Garden, L. On en to carry the ballots to THE PIONEER WANT ADS rding, who proved @ four to.one favorite akota against ng 160,07 count nd Debs 8,288, The republican electors who cast P. R. Trushaw, ast ag; P. M. Heaton, and of five will the ig Special On western box apples at $1.95 per box—at TROPPMAN’S | Phone 927 h: THE WELTERWEiGHT CHAMPION OF THE U. S. NAVY HAS BRING RESULTS . . ... CHALLENGED L. C. CURTIS OF BEMIDJI. THE MATCH IS STAGED FOR DAY, JANUARY 12 8:30 CLOCK L. C. CURTIS : g i he ionships, but has floored t! Taught with Joe Stecher for six months. Has gégémsflr;(; : r‘zréxo]g;}c({r;sf g?hich any wrestlee} m;;i floored dozens his weight. ] Weighs 156 pounds I————————— PRELIMINARY WRESTLING MATCHES FULL OF PEP Featherweights to Wrestle Harold Curtis will take on any chap well feel proud. Weighs 156 pounds his weight. e ————————e e e e T e —————————————— — —— NO SEATS WILL BE RESERVED. FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. ONE ADMISSION d PRICE TO ALL MEN AND ONE TO ALL WOMEN ADMISSION TICKETS: FOR MEN, $1.00 AND TAX. FOR WOMEN, 50c AND TAX. ‘COME AND SEE THE BEST MATCH OF THE YEAR