Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 12, 1921, Page 2

§ ) WiaT omERs sav PUBLISHED _EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY | THE LEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. | Editor, Pioneer: : ‘E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. | Dear Sir: I just want to take this s r opportunity of expressing my appre- J. D. WINTER, City Editor {ciation of an editorial which appear- | ed recently in the Pioneer concerning | the Beltrami County Fair. You cer-| | tainly hit the mark. If Beltrami Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as ‘second-class matter, | County Fair is to be truly representa-{ G. E. CARSON, President G. W. HARNWELL, Editor S, Telephone 922 M; , 187 tive of this great county, we shall | Brdes Act of (Conprem o Wareh 2 9 need some one who js a practical fair . P : {man to put it over. Moreoyer, in my | No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must | ,,iion, 2 good man' will more than| be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica-ip,y for himself; in “the (increased | tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later tham Tuesday | gate receipts, so'I‘am’ glad for that| of each week to insure publication in the current issue. | editorial and hope to see more like ' ‘it until our people gemerally become awaketo this' fine possibility of a great fair in'Bemidji, ‘‘Let’s Go, Be- SUBSCRIPTION RATES .$6.00 |midji, Let's Geo."” i One Who Ts Interested. 3.00 1.50 ol GIANT ‘TREES OF AUSTRALIA | i Exceed in Height, Though Not in Cir- cumference, the Famous Grand Conifers of California. —_— | In the book, “Under the Southern Cross,” written by Maturin M. Ballou, One Week ... THE WEEKLY PiONEER—Twelve péges, published every Thursday and sent postage paidsto any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. . . c ; an Anmerican traveler, in the '80s o w: the last century, we read of his esti- = mate of the great trees of Australia, | THE TOBOGGAN SLIDE GONE TOBOGGANING | nccording to the Christian Sclence | . 8 | Monitor. “an !h ‘y‘l!k’é ‘;:.,,t,e". the business men for me that they | S is in this colony of Australla that are a bunch of pi : i : the traveler finds the giant trees, con- “What's the matter with the tightwads down town, any-| gigered to be one of the great won- | way?” X ders of our times, and which exceed “Oh, yes! they say the old slide is good enough.” in dimensions”those grand conifers of “T wish some of those men would go down this slide them- | Culifornia in which "Americans feel selves and tell us what they think of it.” N | Iy visible progress.” FHAGMAL K3 DNESDAY. EVENING, JANUARY, 124921, MISS MARJORIE GELM | Capt. and Mrs, G. E. Ge ithe season’s debutantes in n: in "Washington. In Concord, Mass., there used to be a liveryman who: rented horses for trips around the town; all his horses except one. Duke invariably was rent- ed by the hour. One diy, when the tives n was about to retire on a 2004 ed competence, he explained: “Dulke,” he said, “illustrates the pos- bility of visible motion without high- It should be un- derstood that the liveryman dated back to the day of the Concord school of philosophy. “Duke,” hé explained, “makes no money by the trip, but by the hour . . well, Duke when in good form can trot for five minutes KX KRR KKK KR KRR X LIBERTY hd L E R RS SRR R EEEEEE S Rudolph Closs is assisting Champy Petri this week, cutting logs. Peter Utter was a Bemidji caller Monday. x Edward Ragsmussan of Bemidji is asgisting Mr. Klasen with his ‘Jog- %! ging. August Becker sawed wood;: | Peter Utter last week: tion, while Miss Peters vacation with hér pareti August Becker called’on Lauson on Sunday. 3 ? 4 Peter Utter has been ‘hauling ‘out ccrd wood for week. i Charles Sundhe has 'commenced to George Tuller this last log, and js landing his logs at Spur 15.. ey % OFTIMISM IS SHOWN IN_ EARLY YEAR LUMBER TRADE The weekly lumber report from The American Lumberman of Chi- cago is as follows: The year opens with a feeling of optimism in all branches. of the lum- ber trade. Though immediately aft- er Christmas the volume of inquiries began to increase and today is heavy, parchasing at present is on a very slight basis. These -inquiries are not expected to result in immediate placement of orders, as they arise from inventory-taking by retail lum- bermen who, by means of these in- quiries, are seeking to determine what they will have to pay for stocks to fill up items and grades hat have been allowed to decrease to ngerop One reason for optimism on the part of the lumber trade is the fact that wholesale lumber prices have been so, generally deflated; and this action has been veny largely follow- ed by retailers. “In this connectidn the general public is not aware of the significance or the real size'of a reduction of 33 per cent in the sell- ing price of lumber. ‘Actually such a decrease puts lumber back at the price which prevailed before the sen- sational advances. For example: As- ming ‘that before the sensational advances a certain grade of lumber sold for $40 a thousand feet and that during the rapid advance in the mar- ket the price of this grade increased t 150 per cent or $20, making the sell- ing price $60 wholesale. A reduction cf 33 per cent is equal to $20, mak- ing the selling price the same as be- fere the increase. Thus, as one’re- tailer put ‘it, one-third equals one- half. E NEW CONVENIENCES ; IN FARM HOMES Many conveniences to lighten the work of women are being introduced in: farm homes in Minnesota by the home demonstration agents directed by the state leader, Julia O. Newton, from the office of extension work with women at University . Farm. Fifteen water systems have been in- stalled thru the advice of five agents. Two hundred sixty-three homemade fireless cookers have saved at least $2,630 in initial cost besides the saving in fuel and time. One hun- dred seventy-one remodeled farments saved $1,808.50, while $1.657.93 was saved in the making of 226 new ones. Six houndred sixty-three home-made dress forms,” which cost about a dollar each, saved their own- ers $3,177.30. By-the use of these forms dresses can be made at'home and more dollars saved. SUSPENDED RACING STAR IS REINSTATED AGAIN The suspension of six months which was imposed as a penalty up- cn Eugene Walker," famous -Ameri- can motorcycle racing star, has been lifted by the chairman of the M. and A. T. A. competiilon committee fol- lowing ‘a majority vote or that com- mittee favoring the reinstatement. Walker Was suspended in October fellowing a méet at Readville, Mass., at which he refused to ride in an event in which was entered. He ranks as a topnotcher in his profes- sion and his ability as a pfot of fast two wheelers has won him more vic- tories” than any other rider in the game. He is the holder of a long list of speed records including his Day- tona Beach performance of 115.79 miles 'per. hour. HEAT AND LIGHT BAD FOR POTATOES NOW Lo of potatoes in storage can be minimized if proper care and at- tention are given thru the winter. iAdequate ventilation must he provid- ed. Storage places should be kept uniformly cool, dark and frost proof. These precautions are emphasized by potato men of the Minnesota College of Agriculture. Decay, shrinkage and sprouting are caused by light and high temperature. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING, RESULTS - | such pride. These big trees of Victoria “Gee! Yes, one of them did and had to be taken home on a stretcher.” s34 ) “Yes, I'll say so, ask him what he thinks of it.” | This is just a:few of the bullets shot at the editor the other: day by a bunchef youthful, pepful winter sports, who ‘have| been planning on that new toboggan ‘slide ever since last fgill. ' They have been anticipating all the fine slides they were going to have this winter, were all primed up with fine toboggans andI winter togs for the occasion, and now—well, it’s all gone tobog-i ganing down the flue. | Yes, it does look like a quite a bit of money to put into a| toboggan slide, but if the slide were built properly it would be there for years and if any one can point out a better investment | for the young people of the city, and there are a lot of us who would qualify in that class, if we were given the chance—we would like to know what it would be. Say, men, if you would throw into a jack-pot the price of a cigar coupon every time you | bought, one, or the price of a wad of chewing gum, it wouldn’t! take long tq pay for the slide and you would be doing your-| selves a good turn in providing your children a place to have| good healthy recreation. Don’t be selfish, give the kids a square deal. Just spend a fraction on them of the amount'you spend on yourselves and don’t hog it all for your own gratification. We're with the kids. g 4 o IT'S ABOUT TIME The publi¢ morals board “of the Methodist Episcopal; church announced at its Washington (Jan. 4) meeting that it| would inaugurate a campaign to “stop the contemptuous treat- ment of the Protestant ministry by some cartoonists, writers and actors:” ¥ : “On the stage and in motion pictures,” the board’s an- nouncement said, ‘“the Protestant minister is s.e!dom . repre- | sented except as an effeminate fool. The membersg of the Pro- testant-churches are exhorted to be liberal, to take humor and be slow to wrath. But the members of the Roman Catholic; church do not tolerate such treatment of their priesthood which| is always represented on the stage and elsewhere in a most fa- vorable way and whose religion is treated with consideration. The Catholics are to be commended. The time has come also when Protestants should not tolerate any other than courteous | treatment of their religion and ministry.” | Any agency portraying a minister of the Gospel in an irrever-! ent manner should be boycotted by all decent people who have! any respect for themselves or their religious principles. e KNOWN TO FAME “Speaking of fame,” said the Observer of Events and Things, “I be- lieve it was Cihderella who first put her foot in it.”—Yonkers Statesman. 4 NATURAL DEVELOPMENT “Man is married after being a monl: for twenty years.”—News Item. And now some woman has made a ‘monkey of him.—Bulletin, J $ § L If congress really is “tired of being advised,” one of these days it will make up its mind *‘to do better.”—Atlanta Constitution. the Genuine “Lucky Dog” ~ This Is e lives in Chicago—in rued, when n bi legal paper was filed in the probate court for his benefit. The will of Mrs. Rose E. * Porter provides that Rex, a pet poodie, shall be given all of the cowforts of | & ‘home, including a da bath and plenty of sauerkraut, and a Christmus Are¢ every yenr. She left $3,000 in trust fof the dog. . the technical beneficiary, is shown holding Rex. . why so named we do not understand, Mrs. Sarah E. Burr, | are called the mountain ash, though as they are not of that family. But' | they are certainly the tallest trees in the known world, often measuring 400 | feet and more in height, and from | fifty to sixty feet in girth a couple of in the shade of a tree.” yards from the ground. When we say 1 that thesc trees exceed in dimensions those of California we refer especlal- | Iy to their height Inasmuch as the; American trees equal them, if they ! do not in sorue instances surpass them | in circumference. The Australian . trees rise a hundred feet more or less from the roots without putting forth a lateral branch. ‘On beholding them onc is not at first impressed by’ their | exceptional size or monarchlike ap- ! Dearance, but they grow upon one by Turther observation. A trip of a hun- dred miles from Melbourne due east to Sale—a remarkably pleasant town, of | between 3,000 and 4,000 inhabitants, | situated on the Gippsland railroad— takes one to the region, where these fmmense forest giants are to be secen, and at the same time introduces the traveler to some of the finest scenery | in the mountain range of this district.” | — T Venice Once Supreme. City. A few centuries ago Venice was the ! gateway for the conimerce of all cen- | tral LEurope, particularly to and from ! the Near East. It was here that the | merchants of the earth congregated | and many money lenders plied their | vocation of collecting usury, The Rialto bridge, made famous by Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” still stands. This structure once afforded a meeting place for mer- chant princes to discuss the business of the world. In those days Venice was among the most important of sea- ports. Its harbor was constantly alive with merchant ships, as well as pas- senger vessels. It is still a unique city, in that its strcets are chiefly water- ways or cunals, but although still a city beautiful, and far famed for its i fine arts, its glory and importance as a commercial center have passed away. | Making Joss Stick. The composition of candles called Joss sticks, which are used in all the [ Teligious cerenfonies of Buddhism, has “ long remained a mystery, the prepara- | tion of the sticks being intrusted to | certain persons chosen from a limited class, Not long ago, however, there | was learned the manner of making Joss sticks in Indo-China. A stem of bamboo is rolled in a preparation | containing 14 different odoriferous drugs, two of which are significant, "ns showing a knowledge of chemical | | and " physical properties. These are aconite, which serves to protect the sticks against the attacks of yats , and mice, and camphor, which causes | them to burn steadily without being | periodically extinguished. | How to Enjoy Walk. There are rond walkers, trail fol- lowers, forest roamers—locality and | 8cenery are matters of taste. The | | thing is to keep marching, to fill one's | | lungs with draughts of invigorating ! ! alr, to banish care and to revel in high | spirits. There should he a stop at every spring, the colder and shyer the better, and when a landscape is to be Y charm: if the walker 4 I down ou the or seat himself ¢na fallen tree, | pend a few minutes feasting his eyes on the picture. The true walker | Is not one whe mere miles he hind him, to vaunt his s and en durance.—Excha Meaning of Feverish Dream. To dream’ you have a fever signt *fies that you will e; e the envy of your friends; also difficulties with your lover, Much in Little. The brief style is that which ex-! +i presses much in little—Ben Jonson. Wolfskin Banjo Parchment. ! Wolfskin makes the best parchment *{ for banjos. i | i » :A prémi;erit h;;tber retailer in the Northwest made } o ‘this statement only a few days ago:-—- my prices just as low as they have been for many years, '\lfut I am telling my customers that it is not the time to build a home.” { Some of the causes for the present stagnation in ] the Nation's largest industry---BUILDING - %I could sell quite a quantity of lumber,”’ e continued, ‘‘by showing prospective cus- mers how low it Pow is as compared to the peak price. People come into my place of business every day and ask me whether it is the right time to build and I am telling them all that it is NOT. ‘It is true that lumber is down—down to a basis that compares véry favorably with the average price before the war—down as low as it probably can go if production costs are taken into consideration. — . ““Therefore, so far as lumber is concerned, it is the right time to build. I can honestly tell my customers that much, but that is as far as I can go. I would not be ‘toting fair’ if I stopped there. If I talked about nothing but lumber, I could induce quite a few of them to build, ‘but what would they think when they investigated farther and found that they were paying $3,000 or $3,500 more than the normal value of the house? p ! “It must be remembered that approxi- mately $7,000 is the NORMAL value of a ‘house which cost $12,000 when prices were at their highest. Also that lumber is only about 30 per cent of the total cost of the house. A reduction of 40 per cent in the price of lumber would make the house cost $1,600 less, or $10,400. If the same reductions were made on the remaining 70 per cent, the cost of the house would be $7,200, which is about the normal price. ' ¢“That is why I am advising people who ask me, NOT to build now. Plumbing, heat- ing, 'lighting, painting, hardware, labor and eve! ing else which goes into the house must return to normal, otherwise building activities will not be resumed, ‘‘The situation is serious and will keep right on getting more and more serious, until the items making up the 70 per cent get back to where they should be right now. Building labor is coming into my-place of business every day and asking me when ‘building will start up again.’ I tell them that it never will start on a healthy basis until everything L‘which goes into building operation goes back This article was prepared and its publication authorized by a group of ! business men who are interested, not only in the lumber business, bat in several other lines, in an effort o prevent continued building stagnation and to bring about, if possible a resumption of construction dctivities. Northern Pine Manufacturers Associatiox: to NORMAL and that LABOR has got to go back with everything else. There is no more chance of everything else declining in price and labor or any factor, such as plumbing, heating; lighting, painting, etc., remaining at the peak.price, than there is for the tide to go out and leave a few thousand gallons of water standing up on the beach by itself! i ‘‘Everybody is more or less selfish. We hope that we won't have to come down in price with the other fellow. We are willing that he should take his loss, but when it comes to ourselves we are inclined to hold back. The more we hold back the more serious will the " situation become. We might just as well make up our minds that we have got to ‘reduce the fever’ and get back to normal, ‘ ‘“After all, this readjustment cannot be regarded as a loss, since the goods on hand are in reality only worth what it actually “costs to replace them. This is true of labor as well as merchandise, since the services of the émployed are worth no more than the unem- ployed is willing to do the same work for. ‘“The building industry will not become) active until the plumber, the heating con-‘ tractor, the paint manufacturer, the hardware dealer and every class of labor entering into the building cost becomes normal. ““The public always decides the qnesfion* anyway. There is only one ouicome. Why not start things to moving now rather than to wait upon the present state of business de- moralization? The public is not going to buy until values are normal! ‘‘A good many people seem to believe that: there is no building because there is no money, but this is not exactly true. I know of considerable money that is available right now for financing buildings, but it will not be turned loose when the cost of the building is , abnormal. ( ‘“The public is now asking the man who supplies material or labor for building pur- poses to show his figures in order that they may be compared with normal figures. When the comparison is favorable IN EVERY LINE, building operations will:go forward.’y -~