Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 25, 1921, Page 2

| i S S i S i . THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER < NUARY 25, 1921 = TUESDAY EVENING, " ~BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER S PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY ’ l THE EEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. o G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor 1 — Telophone 922 i Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, | under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. | 3 - i No: attention paid to- anonymous contributions. Writer’s name must be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica-[ tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday | of each week to insure publication in the current issue. ! SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By Mail ! gll: J:naas One Year Three Month: . .One Month .. Six Months ; ‘One Week ... Three Months .occeommercuceemmeen 1.25 | THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday | #nd sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. ¢ OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS HUNTING FOR A GOAT . The ship-building program of the United States is worry- . ing foreign governments, and Japan especially is “seeing] & things.” . "f ?They have been so accustomed to seeing us reduced to a! 1 state of: defenselessness that they can not conceive of the pos-| i sibility of our becoming a nation capable of kicking the pants' { of any country that may see fit to attack us. . i i The wealth of the United States and our facilities for in- ‘..ereasing it dazzles the paupers of Europe, and it is with grave _.concern that they view us erecting a Chinese wall around our| borders in the shape of a powerful navy. o Just now they are laying great stress upon the importance| | of .universal disarmament, but they are a unit in wanting “George” to lead the procession. The “George” in this in- stance is the United States. If all countries would disarm and stop fighting it would.be a godsend to the world, but certainly this country is not going to be placed in the position of “everybody’s goat” by disarmingi while other nations retain their fighting eguipment. : All Europe knows full well that it has nothing to fear frém an attack by this country. If we ever fight again it will be be-| cause some other nation places us in a position where no other]| course is open to us. | But the increasing power and importance of the ‘American republic is disconcerting to the bankrupt governments across’ the seas, and their appeals for disarmament bear the earmarks of a thinly veiled attempt to reduce us to a state where they can rob and plunder us at will, to say nothing of the ten billions of dollars some of them owe us and which they do not pay. . We are a peace-loving people, with a sincere desire to be fair and just in our dealings with all of the nations of the earth.| We will never fight except in self-defense, or to resent un-/ forgivable affront. | But we are not a nation of rich imbeciles, as some of our European friends appear to believe. ~Great-armaments were first created in Europe:. o Let disarmament begin at the'same place, and America will gladly dismantle the mailed fist at the same rate of speed. | . In the meantime, European statesmen would do well to bear in mind the fact that serving as an international goat does) not appeal to the average American. , 0. SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS i Since the whole pdpulation became investors when Liberty ! bonds and War Stamps were placed on the market to save “de- mocracy” from®bankruptcy, there has been universal interest| manifested in the nation’s biggest enterprises. Liberty bond| investors who have found Uncle Sam’s paper depreciated all| the way from $1.80 to $13 on $100 bonds get a grain of comfort out of the fact that stocks of the great industrial institutions, such as steel, have dropped down to $83 a share. The U. S. Rubber is now about $67 a share and the queen of non-alcoholic| booze, Coca-Cola, is hitting the bumps considerably beneath| $25. All these shares have a nominal par value of $100. The, history ‘of their “downfall’ is identical to that recorded by hun- dreds of securities sold on and off the stock exchanges. The! depression is noted on boards of trade where grains are traded | in, and in a lesser degree in the stock yards. It is unnecessary! to add that the slump has affected the shelves and profits of | merchants and tradesmen, and the employment of more than| 2,000,000 American citizens. ! A Romance of Revolu- tion and Adventure by » { PETER B. KYNE = STARTS IN THE \, ] DAILY PIONEER | 1 It will appear in installments daily - until completed e 0 1 APPOINTMENTS ARE TIED UP The Republicans in congress have effectually tied up all of President Wilson’s appointments. A bare handful of them! may get thrqug.h, on account of some special consideration; but the. v:_ist majority of postoffice and other nominations will re- main in pigeon holes until after March 4, when the Republicans will use their prerogative of “taking care of their friends”’—| as usual. ! This is the first time the PIONEER has ventured to print a continued story in its columns, but this story---“Web- ster---Man’s Man,” by Peter B. Kyne, is a thriller. It is clean and interesting from start to finish. - . FROM THE BAUDETTE REGIdN ! The Region starts off 1921 in a very prosperous condition. Never be-| fore have our delinquent subscribezs owed us so much money. | e N “Woman Accused As Bootleg,” says a headline. It's a rough way of putting it. They might have at least called her a “bootlimb.” £ ) The older ladies who criticize the younger ones for weari hort skirts | have short memorics. They forget when they, pievele along the | o memar B they, used to bicycle along the Grand Rapids, Minn., which wants to change its name, is acting as if it/ i wishes it had named itself after a bigger city than its Michigan namesake. | L ik / _ issue of the Pioneer An . cducator says there is a tendency a i I c 'y among school girls to too m:fi ;:'I;‘v“wn to face paint and too little to study. Ain'tghc the orl’:-:;‘uhw‘ L . An exchange can’t understand wh; 3 ange y upper berths are lower than lower | berths. Py s J ! . ;:?1::1';.“ s because when you have an upper vou have to get down: I i that }‘al::sec:mc wave appears to be at tfhe highwater mark, but it isn't water OH, MAN! He had to quote Kipling to hold his own with his brigh | 3 | te ling S t young lady. So| hahhgbfly dld_ so. Az Kipling says, my dear, ‘Woman ig a rag,ng baonye an: : ank of h!l‘lr. _“And man,” she sweetly smiled, “is a jag, a drone and a ank of air.” Which served nicely to change the subject.—Exchange. H BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. ! . (From the Walsh County, N. D., Record) | ai A quiet vyeddgng occurred Friday, when Francis A. Tardy of Bemidji ! -Minn., was united in marriage to Miss Leeva Ness.—Chicago Xinily Tribune. | \ 1~ h AN