Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 22, 1921, Page 6

& © erable. . are flustered.” | ANOTHER SWAT-FOR-THE-FLY —_ Suprems_ Court ' of Maine, Adds Its | Voics to Denunciation of Almost Universal Pest. The dog having had his day before the Supreme court in Washington, we now find the “busy,’ curious, thirsty fly” preening his.wings in the solemn precincts of the Supreme court ' of Maine 'as*a’ co-defendant. He finds few sympatliizers. For his size he Is the most malodorons. and detestable of beasts, and the miscLief he.does is immeasurable, In this case the court 6f appeal yas told that a summer boarder had engaged rooms at a hotel for t\wq weeks and had left at the end of four days, declaring the flies intol- The Supreme court upholds the plaintiff in his refusal to pay for his infested accommodations. The Journal of the American Med- ical assoclation makes the case the text of one of the most excoriating | denunciations of the fly that have been ! penned; but will the fly care? | Not a bit of it. “A fly,” wrote Emer- | son in his déspair, “Is as untumable as | a hyena.” Probably a fly was teasing | the sage of Concord as he wrote. The bGst thing Josh Billings ever sald was | “D— a fly!” - Shakespeare would | have said it if he had. thought of it. ] As a carrier of pestilentidl putrescence | the fly is without a peer. The help of | the Supreme court of Maine Is wel- | come in putting him down.—Philadel- | phia Public Ledger. . ‘ WILL TAKE LAND FROM SEA | People of Holland Meet Probiem of | Expanding Population in Charac- teristic Dutch Fashion. 53 After many years' deliberation the people of Holland have decided that they need more land, and, having reached that decision, they have gone about the acquisition of it with char- | acteristic Dutch energy and determl-[ The program contemplates the it and pumping. process. The damming of the north end of the Zuyder zee pre- | sents difficulties, not only on account of the length of the dum, but also due to the fact that at the Friesland shore | end the water depth varles from 11 to 33 feet. The foundation of the great dam will be, literally, billions of all Bull hides, No. 1, Kipp hides, No. 1 1b. Calt skins, No. 1, I Deacons, each . | Horse hides, la Chicago, Jan. 22.—Potato receipts, whites, sacked, $1.10 to $1.30, bulk, $1.35. | JAMESTOWN COLLEGE WILL | HAVE FOUR NEW BUILDINGS = Jamestown, Jan. nation, says Popular Mechanics Maga- | pyildings are to be erected this year © wine, building of a 30-mile dike across the {$200,000 from the Carnegie founda- outlet of the Zuyder zee and.gr#dual | ticn making a total in all of '$550,000 reclamation of_parts of that hody by ' from that source has put the college menns of smaller dikes and.a filling-in | finance on a sound basis. ilege begins the’ year with assets of | oae million and no debts according | to President Kroeze. THE PIONEER WANT ADS CMEER UP, KID! WREN \ WAS YOUR AGE, MY ONE, WISH WAS YO WEAR W PANYS LONG DAWGONE SUCH PARENTS- | WISHY D REEN BORK A ORPHAN! “WHER | TELL 'EM | WANY 1O WEAR LONG PANYS, ‘THEY R JEST LAUGH AV ME! \ WEBR 'EM LONGER THAN ANWNBODY T o N TOWN AMERICAN HATRED OF ENGLAND MAY BE MENACE London,—(By ‘Mail to United Press)—Sir Phillips Gibbs, the fa- mous war correspondent, has return- ed from his short visit to the United Stages with one bitter -memory—of - |the hatred of England that is being sedulously and subtly cultivated in America. In his new book, *People of Des- tiny,” he tells of his many pleasant recollections of New York and Bos- ton, ‘but says: “Dhere is a propaganda offhate be- ing spread throughout the country of most poisonous, malicioug and danger- ous “character, in which England is represented as an grrogant, graspi and brutal countryntensely jealou of Uncle Sam and deliberately hos- tile. It is the same kind of propa- ganda which inflamed Germany against England,and England against Germany. It reaches down to the ignorance and passions of the same classes. “Taunts in American newspapers are answered by gibes in English newspapers. Bitter speeches by American senators are cabled to England and hurt. They are answer- ed by stinging satire. . “Is the world not old enough to get rid of all that silly, childish barbar-, ism? Has it learned no lesson at all; out of.the massacre of its youth on the altar of stupidity? Are civilized about other nations, and to denounce as’unprofessional the conduct of ahy of their fellows who are found guilty of spreading slan and spite calcu- lated to disturbs the world’s peace.” peoples to go on flinging mud at ea%h less of the horrible dangers which are | union. i b other for sport; uttering provocative |thereby caused?” ““I do think,” he says, “that there cries like dirty little schoolboys for| . Discussing the means of best pre-|might be an international society of the sake of scoring off each other in|venting this state of affairs, Sir Phil-|journalists pledged in honor to ab- newspapers or political debates, care-|lip suggests a sort of journalists’ | stain from all provocative writing HIDES Cow hides, No. 1, ib. .. 1b. PQTATOES cars. Market weaker. Northern (By bTmed Press) +22.—Four new Light-heavyweight Jensen of Wiriona Has ghallgnged L. C. Jamestown college. Receipts of Curtis of fiémidji and both are waiting for the big match. The col- Jensen won over Joh'n Albrecht of Minneapolis twice in 15 minutes. - Albrecht and Curtis wrestled one hofir and twenty ~ minutesito a draw here last winter. Consequently Curtis BRING RESULTS g . L 4 5 s must match his skill and strength against a heavier man who sizes of tree branches, lashed together | into great bundles, These will be sunk, | forming a supporting mat of enprmous I area. Upon this will be placed a thick | layer of coarse crushed stone, and on | this powerful foundation will be rear- | ed the masonry of the dike. | Plant Diseases Costly. Millions of bushels of grain, frult and vegetables and a big tounage of cotton were lost to American farmers last year by plant diseases, according to figures compiled by the plant dis- | ease survey of the Department of Ag- riculture, The survey sald that the statistics indicate that lack of prompt upplication of known measures of con- trol wus largely the cause of the loss. | The plant disease survey estimated | the losses at 112,000,000 bushels of | wheat, 50,000,000 bushels of oats, 80,- | 000,000 bushels of corn, 50,000,000 | bushels of potatoes, 40,000,000 bushels ©f sweet potatoes, 185,000 tons of to- matoes, 850,000 bales of cotton, 5.000,- 000 bushels of peaches and 16,000,000 | bushels of apples. 1 Tuberculosis Ebbs and Flows. The decline of tuberculosis is lik- | encd to that of leprosy by Dr. Louis Corbett, lecturer in pathology at. the University of Cambridge. Lepros, 7 formerly one of the world's g scourges, but has become ‘extihet in western countrie cul seems to be following, as declinirg at an increasing -rate, its deaths having fallen oft neurly 60 per cent since 1865. Apparent causes of §, the change are lessened overcrowding, | = —— Important Annouscement bN MONDAY, JANUARY 24 O ; i E. P. PETERSON Will open a Jewelry Store in this city in the Moe Tailoring establishment— - 309 _Beltfami Ave. A Repair Shop fully equipped to do all kinds of‘watch, g clock and jewelry repairing is well qualified to protect himself. The match will !Se staged BEMIDJI _ ARMORY ¢ Afternoon, Jan, 23 at Three (3:00) O’clock Sunday THOR JENSEN. Light-heavyweight of Winona, has challenged Curtis and has placed a Will Carry a Complete Line of Jewelry, Watches and Clocks otherwise improved social conditions, ' more and better food, und the adop- | tion of methods of real ventllation, | The wur has given tuberculosis a new |§ lease of life in European nations, es- pecially in half-starved Austria, where it msuns riot. “Polite” Motor Horn. The magazine Motor announces the arrival of the courteous motor horn. Up to now the motor horn has been decldedly cacophonous. It squawks un- pleasantly; it bellows alarmingly; it utters noises disagreably suggestive of | rausen. | But the new horn, which 1s appenc- | Ing on the market, has a tone thut is at once polite and powerful, It war; doés not offend the sensitive ear. tone-niljusting mechanism is so con- trived and arrdnged that the horn is | easily regulated for any degree of vo- ciferousness, but-it yet carries a warn- | ing to thie pedestrian. — g On Their Mettle. | ‘The head waiter and his assistants | “I've noticed that.” “And there seems to be great excite- | ment in the kitchen.” i “What do you suppose ig the mat. | ter?” | “A visiting chef has just dropped in | and offered a seven-course dioner.” Birmingham Age-Herald. The Wrong Ceurse, ) “Dawdle says tLat he's hud chances ‘enough, but they were all poor one: “Pve noticed that whenever oppor- tunity knocked Dawdle proceeded to knock ~ the opportunity."—Bosten Transcript. i | $ubscribe jur e DUally Ploneer. | g00d sized sum as appearance mon- ey and evidence, of his own confi- dence. \ The recent advance in price for copper stocks indi- cates more favorable conditions in the copper in- dustry and predicates the general belief that an ex- tended upward movement in copper securities is at hand. P Purchases made a month ag;) alre.ady show a nice profit to those who bought at that time and the pros- pects today are much better. We have devoted this week’s.ssue of our market let- ter to the copper investment situation and a sum- mary of the market position ofithe following issues: Weighs 165 Pounds Jensen has heard that Curtis is one of the best men of his weight in the world. Sundayafternoon he will try to prove he is better than Curtis. ———————————— Anaconda Boston-Montana g{lalgma Kennecott - United Verde Ex. -Chile o . Miami Inspiration Utah _ ~ NO SEATS RESERVED Big Ledge Mother Lode New Rg{_\ Hercules [is R S 34 A ADMISSION: Copies of this letter will be mailed upori_ request. -Orders executed for cash, on a marginljl‘}basis, or ¢o.* Gents, $1.00 andt?!éax Ladies, 50¢ and:Fax First There—Firsf Served ON'T MISS IT partial payment plan. 7 E. H. DUTCHER & Suite 235, Plymouth Bldg. MINNEAPOLIS Vv L. C. CURTIS Direct — Chicago Telephones ¥, N Private Saint Paul < _Geneva Claims no championships, but has floored the Wires Rocheater, Minnesota 8362:34°5 best. Has a record of which any wrestler may well feel proud.- Weighs 156 Pounds IDAII.Y PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS