Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 6

A THE. - ~ LIMITED h | | | Decline the Honars | A reader wrote a note the other; day trying to insult us, but we who have been insulted by expegts abso-' lutely refuse to be insulted by any amateur. . . - —What's the Use?— . Slumbers Disturbed “No ‘trace 'of ‘the ring was found | by detectives who prepared to ar-! raign the prisoner in police court on a charge of disturbing the police.”—| Los Angeles Evening Herald. | ~-Not Sound Sleepers— Who Will Wear 1t? Fifteen Philadelphia ministers have combined to design a “moral gown” to be worn by women. The gown is said to have charm and yet is not frivolous. The model is composed of non-diaphanous material. It must| reach within three inches of the wear- er's-neck, may not be more than sev- en and one-half inches from the/| ground and. shall not be close fitting at any point. Hundreds of women have viewed the gown. It soun rather modest, but the question who will wear it? It certainly| wouldn’t be classed the “latest thing | in gowns.” —How About You?— Picturesk The above is an exact reproduction | of a group picture of those who have already recovered from the effects of the Elks’ carnival, financially, morally | and otherwise. | —How Are You Today?— Life’s Little Consolation Whatever else may happen, Since our country has gone dry, The sailor still will have his port, The farmer have his rye; The cotton still will have its gin, The seacoast have its bar; And each of us will have a bier, No matter where we are. —Luke McLuke. —Then They Talk of Prohibition— Could You Do Better? These answers were copied from papers that were submitted by stu- dents in the New York state regents’ examination: The main provision of the May- flewer compact was potatoes. The function of the stomach is to hold up the petticoats. Pompeii was destroyed bylan erup- tion of saliva from the Vatican. Six animals peculiar to the frigid zone are three beaws and three seals. Three kinds of teeth are false teeth, gold teeth and silver teeth. The permanent set of teeth consists of canines, eight bicupids, twelve molars and four cuspidors. Tyhpoid can be prevented by fascination. Gucrilla warfare is when men ride on guerillas. The Rosetta stone was a mission- ary to Turkey. Three heavenly bodies are Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of river to spring thy e up. The qualification of a voter at a school election is that he must be the father of a child for eight weel: Farm Journal. —Do You Believe Them All?— Quirks of Children’s Minds. A correspondent informs us that we did not quite complete our story about the litlle girl whose version of the national anthem was “My country teases m e says she followed it with “Arthur of liberty. He adds “And a close second to this is .the following quotation from the twe third Psalm by another little mis: ‘Surely the good Mrs. Murphy will follow me all the days of wy life. "~ Boston Transcript. Truth About Porcupine. The quills of the porcupine are loosely inserted in the s‘dn, and may, on being violently shaken, become de- tached—a circumstance which may have given rise to the purely fabulous statements that the animal possessed the - power of actually ejecting it quills ltke arrows or darts at an en- emy. Suggestions in Order. Jud Tuckine sdvs a bird that can slng and won't sing must be made to ! sing—but how are you golng to make ' in? Eyes of Night Birds Large. The eyes of tite birds that fly by night are usually nearly couble the &ize of those that go nbroad by day, P ety WANTED—( Markham i N FOR SALE—Genuine white yg;» buggy, nearly new. 722. reed Phone 2-28tf WANTED TO LET—Log and bolt hauling job at Turtle River. Will give premium 16 good men. R J. Opsahl, 2 Bt3-2 | | Deacons, each . ... | Horse” hides, large. KEN THAY URLOCKS Pal ASVERTISING \S THE GOLDEN W' DOOR OF OPPORTLUNYY _AND f¥'S YW GRSOLNe \ W AUTOMOBIWE OF B,us».\_ess\ Y KEEP ON SHOVELING HIDES Cow hides, No. 1. e Bull hides, No. 1, 1b.. ... Kipp hides, No. 1,1b. ...... Calf skins, No. 1, 1b.. ...4c-5¢ Jc-4c Ge-Tc Ge-7c ...b0c-60c . $2.50-§3.50 POTATOES Chicago, Feb. '28.—Potato receipts, 66 cars. Market weaker. orthern whites, sacked, $ to $ $1.25 to $1.30. MERCAN MOVIE LOSES ITS HOLD IN ENGLAND By Webb Miller (United Press Correspondent) London, Feb. 28.—In view of the present slump in the American film |industry and according to informa- | tion elicited from the principal pro- | ducers here, it looks as though Aesop’s irace between the tortoise and the 'hare might be re-enacted in filmland. | England is creeping up, quite slow- ily but surely, and the, biggest and | best-lanown producers here are wel |satisfied with the progress they are i making. So far they have felt nothing 1of that slump which is affecting the ! American film industry. . During the war, there was very |little time for film production, and the number of people employed was | negligible, but recently these num- i bers have been greatly increased and | many British footlight favorites have | taken up film work. i New cinema houses .are springing {up all over the British Isles and their programs for the year include any- thing between 60 and 80 per cent {of home-manufactured photo-plays. Gradually the British public is being weaned away from the American | film, The public is showing a prefer- 1ence for those films which depict the ! English ideas and English sentiment, set in English surroundings. According to the figures obtained from the Harma, Hepworth and Stoll companies, sales in Europe are showing a decidéd upward tendency, and many requests are coming from Europcan countries for films which {have for the setting some of Eng- |land’s wonderful historical back- grounds. English fillms are specially ;hopular in Scandinavia, and apropos ithe rival merits of English and Am- |erican films, the Christiania “Dags- | posten” writes: “We have been_dis- appointed in our belief and hopes concerning the American film indus- itry. . . . The English are beginning to produce films which more than | ever astonish the world by the 8le- ivated literary spirit with which they are. permeated. . Amongst the |innumerable advantages possessed by | English over the American is the cir- cumstances that they can base their |films upon the historical memorials, Eliminating the profits of the mid a Vermont trapper has made a de posed of them so quickly, on the streets and in offices, that he promised to bring in his next eateh. The furs w ymen und others at §14 a skin, bulk, | Boston Folk Get Fur From Trapper to the publie direct. Arriving in Boston with 41 red'fox | things which money ¢an not buy in | the New World.” | British film producers claim to have { penetrated the European market (ex- cept France) fifty-fifty’ witi the Am- | ericans, while in the British overseas | dominions, particularly in Australia jand New Zealand, the demand has increased suddenly to an extent which | keepsrthe producers busy. 3 | The English have no liking for the "American “vampire” women, nor for \the ever-stampeding, pistol-shooting cowboys.. The “good little girl” of the | istory who mnever did anything wrong | only géts by when she is depicted by | Mary Pickford, who relieves the mo-/ notony with an occasional outburst of‘ |spitfire temper. Instead of a game of | | poker as a screen “vice,” the English| | prefer' to see their own domesti | horse-racing foisted upon the hero a: {one of his “weaknesses,” because tha is human nature, as they know and |understand it here. American cap- tions, too, rather overdo the slang.' Until recently.a favorite metho 'adopted by the film-acting aspiran was to disappear, have all the news-| | papers and police courts raise a hue and cry after her, and then, when she had become famous, or notorious, by | her absence the fair one would reap-| |pear and coyly wait to be asked to: “appear on the films.” In one or two cases this'method succeeded, but the | last girl who tried it is still waiting. | The British producer is ‘anxious to| |compete in other countries and has| shown himself ready and willing to| | consider the point of view of a public | fhat is not British. Much pioneering | Iis being done in Canada and, Dr.| John McCoombe of Montreal, presi-| Ident of the Anglo-Canadian Picture | | Plays, who is here on business, states | that a demand for films from the| mother country has sprung up in| Canada which the owners of picture} | theaters there have found it prudent; [to satisfy. | Though Britain has never encour- laged the “star” system, and British ifilm actors and actresses would never {command such salaries as are paid |to some of the American film “stars” i there are nevertheless a certain num- ber of English artists who are ex- tremely popular with cinema-goers | ‘and who are undaunted box-office | attractions. The British film industry is flour- ishing but it_is looking forward to much expansion, with a view to which | there has been under discussion the| | project of establishing a central ex-| change’in New York, formed of alty the principal manufacturing com-| panies to facilitate distribution in Angerica. Or Richer. The unpardonable sin in a person of a different race or religion from ours| is to be smarter than we are.—Ohic| State Journal. Our Waggish Friend Again. A8 yon say, 7' wger, a bridge war.| rented to sapport traln is the' bridgze of o violin.—DBoston Transeript. dlemen, furriers, eommission merchants ceided hit with Boston folk selling his ins, he dis- were bought by stenographers, business R | “ Improved Roads |] IMMENSE SUM FOR HIGHWAYS During Year 1919 Over $400,000,000 Was Expended for Rural High- ways and Bridges. — During the calendar year 1919, 46 states of thg Union expended over $400,000,000 on their rural roads and bridges, the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agri- culture recently announced. This to- tal is made up of the actual cash ex- enditures for such items as labor, | materials, supervision and administra- tion, amounting to $389,455,931, and convict labor and statute labor, the value of which, not definitely known, is estimated at about $132,000,000. So far as possible, all expenditures on ity streets within incorporated towns Building an Us-to-nah Highway, and cities and all items of sinking-fund payments or the redemption and inter- est payments on rond and bridge bonds have been excluded. 5 The road and bridge expenditures for 1919 show an Increase of approxi- mately 33 1-3 per cent over those of 1918 and 70 per cent over those of 1914, More striking, however, Is the increase in the proportiog of the total funds supervised by the several state highway departments. In 1918 the ex- penditures by or under the supervision of the state highway departments amounted to $117,285,268, while the local road funds, over which they exer- cised no control whatever, amounted to $168,812,925. In 1919, however, the state highwny departments supervised the expenditure of $200,202,694 as against the total of $189,163,287 ex- pended by the local road and bridge authorities. REMOVING SNOW FROM ROADS Becoming lncreaaingly/lmpcrunt Be. cause of Large Amount of Travel During Winter, Snow removal from highways is be- coming increasingly important be- cause of the large amount of travel by || motortrucks and automobiles. Sev- eral states have made appropriations’ for gemoval of snow from the mein highways tut in other states there has been no appropriation of funds for this purpose. Vast quantities of com- moditles must be hauled over the high- ways nest winter because of the lack of sufficient railway cars to move them, and state money, rather than local funds. ought to be used to keep truck highways open. IMPROVED ROADS WOULD AID Many Counties Rich in Agricultural Possibilities Are Burdened With Poor Roads. Fluctuations in market prices may have several explanations. They fre- quently take place in regions where the local production does not equal the annual consumption. 'There are counties rich in agricultural possibil- ities, burdened with bad roads, where the annual incoming shipments of foodstuffs exceed the outgoing ship, ments in the ratio of four to one. Many such counties with improved roads could not only become self-sup- porting, but could ship products to other markets. TREES DO NOT INJURE ROADS Instead of Taking All Out It Would Be Better to Thin QOut to 50 or 75 Feet. Why cut down all trees along the highway being graded? “_'e recently e e R ey saw two or three dozen large maples along a road taken out entirely. It would look wuch better and be as usable if the row had been thinned to 50 or even 75 feet. If the road . were well made the trees would not injure it at all. Let’s have some shade on our new roads—LeRoy Cady, as- soclate horticulturist, University Farm, St. Paul. Plant Some Trees. If you live on the south side of the road, plant some shade trees to shel- ter the hot traveler. In a few years people will say: “He\lives on the farm where those big elms shade thr‘ road.” . Determine Profits. Farmers’ profits are determined by the difference between production and transportation costs and the selling prijces. Production must cease when the transportation costs wipe out the difference. Cotten Stalks Will Furnish Paper. The possibilities of cotton.stalks as a source of pape¥ have long been sus- pected and experiments in this direc- tion have been made, but for one rea- son or another it has never proved quite practical. The nearest*approach to success has been made récently, and 7it is an- nounced that there is a plant at Greenwood, Mass, *Wwhere 50 tons of paper-are made every day from three times that amount of stalk. Certain thin tubular fiber in the plant will make excellent cellulose for durable papers. It is strong and flex- ible. If a quarter of the annual sup- ply of the cotton stalks of the South were put to this nse each year there would be no need_of a paper shortage in this country. = Reservation for Aborigines. [ The commonwealth of Australia has {aken steps for the preservation of the aborigines of that country and Las as- signed a tract of public lands in the northern territories as reservation for the tribes. It includes the Mann and Ieterson ranges and practically the whole of Lake Amadeus. The govern- ments of South and Western Australia have set aside adjoining arecas for the purpoge of this reservation. * In Plunk Center. “Why do you doubt that my show will pack your insignificant town hall? It ran 300 times in New York.” “No offense, mister, and mebbe so. But she’s got to be a purty good show to run one time yere.”—Louisville Cou- rier-Jourpal. Bubscribe for The . atly Pioneer. ADVERYISING \S LIKE RUNNING A FURNACE ~ OV GOY YO, W FIRE GOES OUT WHEM VA . AND (ADVERTISING \S - LIKE A POROUS PLASTER - _\X'S NOT MLRH GOOP i UNLESS PROPERLN APPLIEDL ebAL BECLLZ two pests’ under oné name. What was. believed heretofore a ‘“second” brood” of “Altica bea 1IL” therefore, has been named- “Altica Woodsi,” 'a'new species. FLEA-PEETLE CALLED TWO ~ PESTS UNDER ONE NAME [o! ® (By United Press) Washington, Feb. 28.—The flea- beetle, recognized as almost as inimi- cal to the grape industry as the “dry” Jaw, was branded with new crimes to- day when agriculture departinent en- tomogolists ¢harged him with being — Vanocuver, B. C.,—A second ship- ment of Vancouver creosoted ties will leave shortly for India. This con- sists of 400,000 feet via the steamer Grace Dollar. J Transfer Your Records “in the Modern Way . Records.that are worth transferring are worth keeping in security and accessible shape. The Allsteel transfer cases meet just such require- mefits.: Safe, sanitary, convenient, and perma- nent. #The first cost is the last, . Office Furniture j The illustration shows how (Alisteel transfer cases are ;stacked. . 'section interl6ck with “the [frame on the section beneath. - b'l'hu.s as many units as are ‘used"are held firmly together. 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