Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1921, Page 2

B e A e P et 14§ TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 102%' v BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ‘may b e Sure” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY ‘.- / THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. e.n'o:nso— N, Presicent E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. " ‘@ W. HARNWELL, Bditor wii J. D. WINTER, City Editor BSutered at the postitfice i, Minnesots, as second-class matter, | tétfice at Bemidj - ander Act of. Congress of March 3, 1879. tten! 0 id to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must | itor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica- ‘Ho attention b to the e .gr the Weekly Fioneer must reach this office not later thin Tuesday |- ‘week to insure publication in the curzent issue. N e — SUBSCRIPTION RATES It 0 By Mail | _;'3:03 One Year ... —— ] R Y — One Week ... " 16 Three Months ... 126 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday snd sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS e | KILLED BY THEIR OWN PUBLICITY | In a carefully prepared interview recently, former Secre- tary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo asserted that the demo-|. cratic defeat was due in a large measure to “lack of effective national organization and the failure to get the democratic side before the people through proper publicity.” ‘‘There is just one defect in this statement and that is that it is wholly untrue,” declares the republican publicity association, through its ‘president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr. ¢ “He also asserted that the democratic party must haye leadership in the future that will stay on the job and that w1}1 make the business of the democratic party its only job. In this statement also, Mr. McAdoo fails to set the true facts before his party associates. “It is scarcely necesary to remind any editor either repub-: lican or democrat, that there was no failure to get the demo-; cratic side before the people of the country. Every department | and bureau and board and commission under the control of the|: democratic party during the past eight years has conducted the most extensive publicity work that has ever been under-i taken by any administration in the history of the American republic. Floods of publicity material have gone not only to| the desks of editors and have been widely published, but cir-; culars and bulletins have been mailed extensively to individuals| as well. The so-called ‘official bulletin,’ conducted by George| Creel was largely a party publicity agency and presented as| extensively as possible to the people of the country the record; of pretended achievements of the Wilson administration. The fact is that the democratic party secured so much publicity for its pretended accomplishments in the face of a record of failure’ well known to the people of the country ‘that its publicity served as a detriment rather than a help in'the campaign for retention of power. “Mr. McAdoo's reference to party leadership is apparently| an unconscious reflection upon his father-in-law. During all the eight years of his administration Mr. Wilson has been not only the leader but the dictator of the democratic party. He out-| lined its policies not only in general but in particular. He wrote | its platform of 1916 and its platform of 1920. He controlled! the party organization throughout the entire eight years. To! paraphrase the words of Mr. McAdoo, ‘he made the business, of the democratic party his only job.’ He maintained strict Jelowhene 0 _ain il & |BUILDING OF BETTER ROADS i Its Scope in Various Sections of ‘ | the United States are |reaching the federal highwey council Highway Educational Work Extending | the Country. The extent to which the people of | committing hemselves to a definite policy of high- development is shown by reports from all sectfons of the country. 1In the face of high cost for both ma- terlals and labor, and the fact that in some states construction programs must be altered somewhat to meet ex- Asting Jabor and material conditions, there is no tendency upon the part of the people to slow down in their plans to place the nation’s highways upon a ‘higher plane in the country’s transpor- says the Good Judge tobacco. nary kind. tell you that. W-BCUT is'a long fine-cut tobacco B N Put up in two styles That you are getting full value for your money when you use this class of The good, rich, rgal to-. bacco taste lasts sa:long,: you don’t need a'fresh . chew nearlyas often—nor;, do you need so big a.chew as you did with the, ordie Any man who has used the Real Tobacco: Chew wilk | rel tation system.. Tersely stated,. “they are sold to the heels” on the proposi- tion to construct highways that will @ rather than vestrict trafiic, anc | are dismissing labor and material problems with curt instructions to thelr official servanis that it is up to | they the United, States army anir s the “Roma,” the world's Jargest semi iators will itgid airshi leave for Italy recently pur- service. them to deliver the roads. | N A curious fact in connection wlth} PREFERRED TO construction problems at the present | moment is that the building of roads is seiiously hindered hy the same evil | ‘which they are designed to remove— lack of trunsportation. According to authoritative information, production i$ halted to a greater degree by inade- quato transportation facilities than by labor shortage. At least this is true, it | is thm"d' oy lhc.pl"odnmun of m“‘\ the Slovak chose the latter course; terials for rond building. | hence e is largely illiterate today, his Highway officials—state and county iy once o tribute to his sense of | as well as national—are facing thelr g R e gl duties with patience nullA .AIL":, and out | «1 1t to me in the cafe of a r of a Toaze of trying smmuo_ns con- llage. He saw me sitting alone struction is going ahead'at a fairly sal-4 0 g first sentence explained why | isfactory rafe. But as Paul D lie came over to speak to me. “You are lonely, 1 think,” he said. And as we sat there, in the small | cafe, he told me how, rather than sub- mit to Magyarization under the Haps- burg -regime, he refused to study till the day when his foud dream came true and he sct out for America. ¢ i arrival in the United nt to night school, and, judging from the quality of his Eng-¢ lish, he profited well from the prl\'i-i e 1 n GO UNTAUGHT | Rither' Than Learn Hated Language | of the Magyars, the Slovaks ] Remained Illiterate. Slovak stupididy w as deliberate as is the sturdy determination of the Czech. Forced by the Magyars to: learn a hated tongue or go untaught, | | | lish,” e’ | tische® 1A ¢, and 1 wanted, fo be | un’” Amerj 1, through and th l*g’h, 50| | T worked Yard at night td learn. 1! Zot my ficst papers s Mght,‘and then * : : i 1 came back f ‘Then came the war,’and I B4 fo-stag.y i H Mis number is legion sed he Is re- making vthe, mental atmesphere of:4 Slovakia.: ohal Geographie Maga-' zine, | Good Roads Enable Farmer to Market His Crops With Least Possible Ex- pense. g ' | for anc p I other purposes. | and might perhaps serve for uppers of which s opa vice between he aero comp: 2 a passenger s Key West and Ha charges $130 senger pne from New York™ to Boston (260 miles). Rabbit Leather. : : Samples of rabbit leather recently scnt to (his conntry from Australia have hieen examitied and tested by the United States zbureau of standavds, | with a view to fletermining the utiliza: bility of such skins for shoe uppers or The leather was found to have only about one-fourth the strength of calf- skin and to tear rather casily. It has a great advantage in point of cheapness faney, shoes that are not expected to stand much wear. The experts are of the opinion that it could be used to advantage for linings and noveltics, I !Preparing Soil for Tobacco. 0t the purpose of tobaceo growing the” soil must be thoroughly cleared of weeds, seeds apd insect larva be- fore the plants are set out. Ol pr tice was to build fires over the sur- face, but the operation is now accom- plished by means of a canvas cover under which live steam from a road voller 1s projected. A high tempera- ture is maintained for two hours, Farmers: COUPON ' If you want DYNAMITE AT COST, cut out, sign I bank at... I will stump I will brusk I will need 309, electric caps. -and mail this coupon {illed out at once. Minn. Ibs of 20%, A My railroad stafion is.. My name is. Sign and mail to A, A. Warfield, RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco Secretary, Beltrami County Land Clearing Ass’n., i Bemidji, Minnesota. : ~ Subserité ‘for Tre Daily Ploneer. 'DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS - . AITIETETS partisanship at every turn. Party interest was a dominar_lti and president of the American Assocl- | factor in the determination of almost every problem. Even in! ation of Highway Officials, pointed out’ the midst of the war when the congressional elections were| In a meeting at Philadelphia recently, | held in 1918 he brazenly cast reflections upon the loyalty of; when the people finally decide to au- the republicans by demanding the election of a democratic | fhorize the development of any partic senate and house of representatives. If making the business of | 2% road project, they are prone fo ¢ . N . . | pect the work done almost overnight. the democratic party its only job could assure democratic suc- , then th i K i 3 at' . ic:slsséofm ere could be no possnb’le explanation for the defeat WHAT GOOD HIGHWAYS MEAN | “Well organized publicity served to save the democratic Enable Farmers to Get Their Differ- | _party in 1916. With all thé powers of the government in its- ent Crops to Market at Least hands the Wilson administration was able to deceive the peo- Possible Expense. ple by spreading the cry of ‘kept us out of war.’ But by 1920. the deception had been disclosed. The publicity, extensive though it had been, was counteracted by kmowledge of the true facts on the part of the people of the country. "husines: devise ways and means of; redu | “No amount of organization, no amount of publicity, no % Gl o amount of leadership which made the interests of the demo-, ;{',',_,,22‘,',"',':,”Z“','f",','{’{;;‘:if:";.‘.:,'{:;:i,l,;', el cratic party its only job could have won the election of 1920 e nimoi _.\,_,..m,m.r,'n assoclution, | for the democratic ticket.” Ile added: “In.no way van the ox- | 2 pense of farming bhe reduced as' com- O I pletely as by securing good roads run- CHINA'S NEW ALPHABET ning by the farms which will enatle | It is a curious fact that China, the mother of lang “Farmers are business men and in | dl to conduct their farms in a. slike way and cope with other men in the state they must | ge, and the least possible expense.” | money at interest. . was the first to turn the practice Into | distinction the delivery of crops to market with’} indeed of civilization, has maintained through the centuries a' language and an alphabet the clumsiest of any in the world. A thorough knowledge of the written tongue it has taken most ‘That Is good sound sense and com- Ing from a practical farmer it shows thnt farmers are keenly alive to the BELONGED TO MEDICI FAMILY | ! S SRR 1t 7 B Well-Known Pawnbrokers’ Sign' Once 'i the Heraldic Device of House i Famous in History. h During the Middle ages the Lom- bards made a practice of lending The Medici family | a profession. } Many years before, Averardo de Me- dicl, a commander whe served with under Chaylemagne the Great, killed the glant Mugello, whose club had three iron balls atfached to it in order that it might be a more effective weapon, For this reason the family of the Medicl adopted the three balls, gilded, as the heraldic device on their coat-of-arms, and the appearance of this ins a1 soon came to be rec- ognized as a symbol for money-lend- g . Incidentally, the name: of the N family has been further perpetua through the word “medicine” a tr] ute to the skill of the members of this house in the art of healing. Prodigies of the Past. Long before the war it was stated that a man was too old at forty. But | need and value of improved roads. | mow it looks likely that soon the cry | students six or seven years of an intense life of study to attain. Mr. Birdsall lays further emphasis on | . From the 40,000 characters the alphabet has recently been| tie need of sclecting the most com- | reduced to 40. Sentences henceforth will be written in words,| Petent men for highway officials so | not delicately shaded expressions of ideas. Written Chinese/ "t the hest talent may be available | has bt;«:.n simplified a thousandfold. Literacy should increase in foriroad '_"l"dlng S i proportion. | A The language, goodness knows, is intricate enough. The. ROAD DRAINING AND GRADING ‘ single syllable “ho” has five pronunciations and SiX Or seven' pighways Out of Commission but Few | meanings. It is an average example. But, though a common' Days in Year When Cared for man in China might lear nthe subleties of speech, he has sel- by Good Patrolman. dom had the leisure or the wealth to learn to read and write. = | ! Watch China. The youth of her next generation will be' o first sien in road improvement | better educated, more alert and more self-reliant than their t;‘“?:"‘,,r';-.l,“.. "';;‘ ‘.:"T $he St r"é""' fathers. A nation that can cut its alphabet to one-thousandth tlrl\'ln: over some ‘;;"::;l:";\t\'m:cslgl of its formey content is looking to the future, not the past. earth roads, to see what a quondmi road can be made by draining and | grading alone, and how few days dur- | THE BIG TANGLE Ing the year it I out of commission ) ; when cared for by a good patrolman. | Reorganizing the government is a delicate joby no man = and no theory should be permitted to run away with it. It is easy to agree with Herbert Hoover that the department of com-| merce needs remodeling. It does . So does the treasury. does the department of the interior. Bqt it would be a great mistake to assume that any depart- ment, however ably handled, can solve its problems withour; re-! .\ncf\'.fim.m.t of $12,000,000 has | spect to the problems of the other branches of the executive gov- heen made for improvements to the ernment. Mr. Hoover will not get very far before he discovers Incsin highway. that to make the department of commerce of worthy service he oetroyed: Highu must talk to other departments about rearranging duties. It 18| b (2 e it illogical that & reform ok . 1 s, | More thun 25000 miles of highways should be based on any one office, and| wore destroyed In France during the reach out to the rest. The movement must begin in the heart‘ World war. i of the system, congress, and embrace wi judi = tire public service. mbrace without })reJudlce the en- All Demand Better Roads. Ths husiness man, the farmer, the o truck driver, the pleasure seeker, are S0 sl asking and demanding better roads. Lincoln Highway. ' Qubscribe for The Dally Pioneer. 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