Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 25, 1921, Page 8

BORROWING MADE FINE ART: Expert Explains How He Managed to Live Well Without Resorting to Degrading Toil. The man has been a mystery to me and I'll admit it. He dresses like a race horse tout, he is a most incon- sistent and mercurial liar, and his eyes are set too close together. Yet he usually has money, he seems never to miss a meal, and he inhab- its places frequented by highly civil- ized folk. “He's a borrower,” said the hotel detective. “He can borrow $2 from the mall clerk here, and that's a feat of legerdermain. If 1 let him talk to me for 15- seconds he could borrow morey from me.” A set of circumstances made it pos- sible for me to put the borrower in the press and squeeze some conversa- tion out of him, I wanted to know how he did it. “You are too well dressed and too conspicuously clothed,” I told him cruelly. “Your face is that of a door- mat thief, and while you are an ex- cellent, you are likewise a diffuse and forgetful liar. Yet -you manage to borrow- enough money to keep on liv- ing well. How do you do it?” T'he borrower said his plan of action is simple. He first finds some one who will let him talk without moving away. Then he stages himself as a rich and influential business man. He rushes to conferences with financial mag- nutes or to take lunch with some cap- tain of industry. He repeats two or thiee times. If the boob seems im- pressed he then pushes a prong in for the largest sum the victim will give up. “Always work fast,” said he, “Spring the loan idea on him so quick he hasn't time to think, Nine thnes out of ten you get it. The sucker I8 ashamed to confess to a rich man that he has not plenty of money. He'd turn a péor devil down so cold he'd breai in four piaces, but he wants to save his face with the topside man.” After that it was more. difficult to’ sympathize with his clients—Kansas City Star. | STRUGGLES ALCNG ON $80,000 University of Pennsylvania Law Stu- dent Who Receives Huge Income Lives in Modest Fashion. “Wanted, a stenographer -of unim- peachable charncter, experienced in shorthand and tuking dictation, who wiil be willing to devote her Sundays to indexing and preparing the cases of u struggling lnw student at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvanin,” This Is the model of stenographic ability required by the university’s richest student, John Jeffries V of England, who Is “struggling” only in so far us his law work goes, for he came to this country with the mere trifle of $80,000 a year on which to live, suys the Philadelphia Inquirer. Jeffries, who Is a second-year stu- dent, already has one stenographer, but his earnest delving into the intrl- cacles of Blackstore and his ilk re- quire more assistunce and he is now looking for a suitable young womuan to add to his staff. The young Englishman, who s the fifth direct descendant ot Jolm Temple. governor general of Ireland, and has three cousins In the house of lords, is popular among his classmates, " who declore that he Is quite democratic, 1n spite of the-burden of his wealth. e lives quletly and unpretentiously, and nothing in his mode of living seems to indicate that he spends even a half of $80,000 allowed him. | | Like a Well.-Known Voice. ™~ A telephone call came to me one | afternoon. The voice had the well- kpown, honeyed tones of my Dbest girl. She was somewhat peeved over an in- cident that had occurred a pings before. In order to reconcile her 1 revenled some of my feelings, which were meant for her alone, At the end of this conversation 1 was gratefully and bilariously thanked for my In- formation by a suddenly changed volce. z N T AW, ; ME W Nov MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL SONNY, WHO WAS THAY PRETTM LITTLE GIRL \SAW YoU WITH LASY NIGHY NOUL DIONT SEE ATH MO GIRL AND NEVER WiLL MARKETS HIDES Chicago, March 22.—Potato. re- ceipts, 59 cars. Market steady Nor- thern whites, sacked and bulk $1 to $1.15; Minnesota and South Dakota carly Ohios, sacked, $1.25 to $1.35; Minnesota and North Dakota Red River Ohios. sacked, $1.50 to $1.60 POTATOES March 25.—Potato re- ceipts, 55 cars. Market weak. North- ern whites, sacked, 95¢ to $1.05; bulk, $1. to $1.10; Minnesota Early Ohios, $1.25. Chicago, GRAVEL FOR ECONOMIC ROAD Sumimary of Important Points Brought Out in Recent Address by Wiscon- sin Engineer. Gravel roads are given a strong rec- ommendation as economic highways by A. R. Hirst, Wisconsin state highway engineer, Not only so, but he .is of the firm opinion that the economic service of a gravel road Is proportion- ate to its worth. gravel rondway 16 feet wide has a life or service of three to five years, then the addition of 10 feet will increase | its serviceable life to six or possibly | ten years. “These figures are not definite,” says Mr. Hirst, “they merely express the comparison which it is sought to | Moreover this comparison | emphasize. does not hold true, nor s any broad assertion of the worth of gravel roads quite true unless there Is continuous maintenance. Wherever gravel roads are giving notable service good main- tenance Is as much the reason as is good construction in the first place.” Mr. Hirst recently gave an impo] ant nddress on this subject. and t‘ following Is a condensed summary of the main points in his discussion: 1. The prime factor in determining the relative service value of highways is whether they serve traffic effective. Iy and inexpensively, 2. Preliminary traffic censuses are valueless as aids In pavement type se- lection. 8. Traflic counts have value only In giving Information upon traffic changes, and operation costs over varying pavement surfaces. 4. What has been Is no indication of what will be. 5. States must adopt uniform loads to bie borne by roads of varying classes of fimportance. 6. All highways cannot be made 15- ton highways every day in the year. 7. Expressed In terms of real serv- It proved to be a friend of mine, | ice value, type means little unless se- who took pains to see that I was told | about It for weeks following.—Chicago Tribune. MRS. McKINNON SURPRISED | Mrs. Ben McKinnon was pleasant- | ly surprised Tuesday afternoon at || her home, 203 Mississippi avenue South, when 24 of her friends made | an unannounced ‘call, the occasion | being her birthday. A leather rock- | er was presented Mrs. McKinnon by the self-invited guests. The after- noon was spent in playing cards and a most enjoyable time was had. At/ | 5:30 refeshments were served by the | guests, FRECKLES March Worst Month for This Trouble . —How to Remove Easily. . There's a reason why nearly every- body freckles in March, but happily there is also a remedy for these ugly blemishes, and no one. need stay freckled. ‘Simply get on ounce of Othine—| double strength. from your druggist and apply a little of it night and _morning, and in-a few days you should see that even the worst es have begun to disappear, while the light ones have vanished entirely. Now is the time to rid your- of freckles, for if not removed sow they may stay all summer and il an otherwise beautjful com- ~plexion. - Your money back if Orthine Proper Maintenance Given to This Road. design and layout. 8. The road problem Is not to build a few boulevards but a transportation system. 9. We have thought too little about | the basic function of highways—the offéring of facllities for travel. | construction, reggnstruction and main- tenance has beerl” in almost total dis- ‘rug:ml of comfort, convenience and ! of the traveling public. l 11. The: oue permanent thing about In other words, if & k lection of it is supplemented b;pmyer : | economy of operation in the interests | HERMAN WOOCK Bemidii_student at_Carleton College who played Substitute - center on the Carleton bask ball team which won the state championship by winning every conference game. Woock was formerly of Akeley and many lo- cal athletes have vlayed against lim while he attended the Ake- Jey high school. A A s road work is proper grading on cor rect locations. 12, The highway user knows little about pavement economics; but he does know where and when he broke the last spring. | 13, We have used too much mathe- | maties and.too little common sense. | “14. Our owners demand service and service they must he given, 15. Maintenance is the keystone of the entire structure of pavement serv- Ice, | REMOVE BLOTS ON HIGHWAYS BN | National Association of Gardeners Passes Resolution Concerning. Use of Billboards. |~ The National ‘Association of Gar- | deners passed n resolution at Its last meeting concerning the use of bill- | bourds on highways and private prop- erty. Let's have more of these resolt- tions and more action against these blots on our landscape. Why not re- move all materinl that litters the | femces and trees near home?—Le Roy ! Cady, associate horticulturist, Univer- slty farm, St. Paul | MOTORTRUCK IS BIG FACTOR ! Anything That Will Make Interurban ‘Transportation More Efficient Is Advantageous. Motortruck operation is just begin- ning to make itself felt as a factor in lowering food prices, and everything that will make truck operation more efficient, especinlly for —internrbaz transportation, will be of a decided advantage to all of us who have to eal, Japanese Remain Buddhists. That 80 per cent of the Japanese living in the sugar plantation camps | of Hawail never have been touched | by Christian propaganda, and that American plantation owners, managers and others who have lelped support Japanese Buddhist missions, “did a foolish thing, if ever man did,” were two of the statements made by Rev. Ulysses G. Murphy, representative ot the American Bible society, in a re- cent address at Honolulu. Rev. Mr. Murphy also said that the elder generation of Japanese living in the plantation camps, owing;to their isolation, are forty years behind their native country in thought and under- standing of modern conditions. Any attempt at Americanization of the Japanese in Hawgil which leaves untouched their home life and fails to recognize that the key to the prob- | lem 18 the Japanese language schools | is foredoomed to fallure, Rev. Mr. Murphy declared. —— Sure Sign. place.—Toledo Blade. —_— | And It's Good Advice. «When in doubt, listen to your wife; £ mot in doubt, listen to her, anyway.* i T R — 1 AT NENER GOWIYA GIY MARRIED O NOME OF 'EM NEITHER! "MONE OF THIS BALL: AND- CHAIN STURE FER ME, ULL “TELL ANVEODN Y /- ¥¢ a man can operate a cash reg- | ister with sore fingers and never feel 104" stfiking ‘feature ‘of -highway | 10 DAL DO IS he Remnane bt Re | A married woman’s advice to men LONGEVITY ON:- THE DECREASE University l;rn'uur Thinks It Is, and Gives Some Cogent Reasons Why 1t Should Be, Prof, Raymond Pearl of Johns' Hop- kips; after an exhaustive study of life probability extending through a histor- ic period of two thousand years, ar- man’s possibilities of life at birth and -in earlier stages bas been steadily im- proving, his expectation of life at ad- vanced age has been steadily’ decreas- ing. * Comaparisons ranging from 'the Romano-Egyptian to the present day offer statistical proof. The theoretical explanation Is that in early times, with less provision for the protection of babies an( Infants, only the more rug- ged pulled through. Nowadays with increasing care for childhood, the weak are carrled into adolescence and adult- hood. Where formerly only the fittest or toughest managed to rveach the shady slope of life, and were conse- quently more likely to hang on to ripe old ages, the salvaging of the weaker brings them Into'the fifties and sixties with less hope of prolonged life. It sounds plausible and may explain the apparent dJecrease of longevity. Inci- dentally, his statistics brought out the fact that while women formerly had less expectation of life at all ages, this has been reversed—another blow to the tradition of “the weaker gex.” ‘Women now appear to have the great- ‘er probability ‘of prolonged life. KNOWS EAQI{INES HE BUILDS it Head of Great 'Locomotive Works Has More Than Business Acumen to His' Credit, On a hot ddy last summer an ex- | press train between . Philadelphia and ' New York camé’ to'a jolting halt, says Nation's Busineés. ~ The passengers. | first joked, then ‘grumbled, then grew .impatient.” A Blg man, white-haired, but yeuthful in“motton, climbed down from a' chaire and marched up to the engine, which was the center of a ring of passengers. “What's wrofig?” he asked. In effect, the-engineer sald that the englne -had "quit and* he didn’t know what the several. things was the mat- ter with it. $ The big man -peeled off his coat apd walstcoat and rolled up his- shirt sleeves. Then he sort of disappeared in the interior of the unwilliug engine and the ring of watching passengers grew. Half an hour later he emerged with a smudged face and grimy hands, and said, “She's all right now,” ‘put coat and “waistcoat over his arm ‘and | walked back to his chair car, wiping his hapds on a handful of waste he'd picked in the cab. She was all right, and the man who made her all right was Samuel Mat- thews Vauclain, millionaire president of the Baldwin Locomotive works, and a real boss of their 20,000 workmen. Airplane an Essential Now. In 50 minutgs after the Birmingham oftice of a Shelby county mine opera- tor had gotten in touch with the mine rescue station at West End, experts at the station had engaged an airplane and.with speclal life-saving apparatus e ——————— No remembrance of give you or others greater joy in years to come " than a good photograph. . Photographs, unlike lilies; enhance in value ! ‘with time. ; B We Extend to You and Your ! Friends the Season’s Greetings. ‘ ‘ Al i i rives at the conciusion that while | HE DOWY &0 NowreRes ! had: been-landed ot the mitie, 0 miles distant. “This marks a new field of useful- ness for the airplane. Physicians, life- 'snvlng experts and minc-rescue ap- paratus way be carried through the air to the sceme of a mine disaster and many lives may be saved by this quick sevvice, 4 When the-airplane has evolved into 2" medivm for the smz:lg of human life, it may indeed be said to have entered the class of the essentially practical—Birmingham Age-Herald, ~ Wark of Y. W. C. A, Abroad. Secretaries of the newly organized Y. W. C. A. in Krawok, Poland, were surprised recently to have a member- ship card of the. Cleveland (0.) Young Women's Christian association presunted to them by ‘a young 'girl who-was on her way to Ameriea, The girl proved to have'a sister living in Cieveland who had taken out mem- bership in the Internationial institute of that city, und then sent the card to the traveler as a guarantee of as- slstance along the way. Girls as young as twelve and sixteen’ are pass- ing through the Y. W. C, A, office in Foland on the way to America, Good Work ls Costly. The remarkable difference in prices ennis rackets is not so much due the difference in the cost of the raw materials of which they are made as to the kind and amount of labor on. thelr making, says the American For- estry Magazine of Washington. Best tennis rackets are works of'art, and "the skill of the worker is reflected.in the price’ as much as in ady other arficle belonging to sport and ath- letics. ¥ - The Really Terrible Thing. Mrs. Gush—Too bad about your poor_husband getting 'his arm broken In your motor accident yesterday. So | sorry. z Mrs. Swagger—Oh. thank you, but that wasn’t the worst; my new hat was simply ruined.—Boston . Tran- seript, A Moving Question. 1 Redd—I understand that about 95 per cent of the motion pictures shown in British India are American produc- || tions. " Greene—But ¢an the averige audl- ence out there tell whether it's an American ple wbw 18 belng thrown or W discus? % Almost Had It. One of the Terre Haute ward schools was'having @ contest in seelng which children could leari the airs of a number of standard songs so they could tell their names when: they leard a few bats of the melody plsyed. After ¥Home, Sweet Home" and «0ld Black Joe" had been: played sev- -eral times the teacher put on the rec- ord “Believe Me, I All Those Endear- ing Young Charms.” It was played a few minutes and lie dbemln to look expectantly at the children. "‘;:::eu a fair little youngster looked * trfumphantly up from tbe list of songs he had in his hand. "“Oh, 1t's that | belleve me im tears all about ‘your | charms,” he azarded.—Indianapolis News. Lities That Do Not Perish Photographs made here in your new Easter attire will surely be appreciated. the Easter Season will WHY, THAT OLDER BROTHER OF MINE | GOT HOOKED LUP STHREE NEARS KGR AMD MOBDON EVER SEES WM AN MORE OUT OF B\ZNESS WOLRS! to give light. O GOSN, \RBRE ] 777 Henty in. Every Town | Few Have Seen Radium Radium is & metal that is described | as having a’ white metallic luster. has been isolated only once or twice, ‘and few persons have seen it. ordinarily obtained from its otres in 'the form. ef sulphate, ‘chloride or bro- mide, according to the United States ‘I'zeological survey, Department of the Interior, and it is in the form of these salts that it is usually sold and used. These are all white or nearly white substances, whose appearance is-nd more remarkable than that of common salt or ‘baking powder, taining ‘radium salts glow mostly-be-| cause’ they include impuritles” which™| tg njm asihe plied- the needle, Slie the radiitions from the radium cause |! h A Radium’ minerals' are 'S¢ was his school, very ravely. if ever, luminescent. THE PIONEER WANT ADS|unin wi It | Unfettered Presidenty.: 2 ‘At least one of our Presidents, pos- sibly two, néver went;to-any/kind of & schiool. The' father of’ Andrew .John- It 18| gon" died whet {he lad" was five years old, and“his> mpther could not spare the money to: edyicate him: - Thla con- dition of poverty: caused Andrew to be apprenticed to.a- tailor, He worked long hours: and:;hard, - Ope’day .a man brought:a bgok:'to; the’ shop and recited ‘many “selfictions that It con- tained: Andrew'’s ambition was stirred. With'. thie inan's ‘help ‘he learned: the alpliabet. ‘But he. made‘no real prog- ress' unt!] his:marriage. - His-wife read ' helped him to'tearn to read and write. | Largely: through triction heé was mayor -of- the her caretul, patient i | edablod to: e e Guaranteed Genuine Mother of Pearl Base, with a tur- quoise lustre, extremely dirable- and.unaffected by perspiration. NEVER ‘BEFORE SHOWN “INBEMIDJI I also have a display of LaTigca and Louvaine pearls “at prices according to size'and string, - All, ‘however, will: he sold-at special prices. : PETERSON THE JEWELER | Groy Swede Pumps aré Mlfi. Mqfll’dc. Ty We-take delight in showing these mew things, even though no purchases are made. Our stock: Is unusmally w-flon right sowrgnd these sew pumps are a fashion foible every womss can tratily. 3 ¥ I will dispose of a limited number only - Smart Spring Footwear _fo_rVBas?fer | THE EASTER SEASON, WITHOUT A NEW PAIR,OF BUMPS OR OXFORDS LOSES SOMETHING VERY DEAR TO WONEN WHO ENJOY BEING OUT OF DOORS, ~ i - i ‘Mm“fl““"mhn“fig’é- The “B & D” 307 Beltrami Ave. Next City Druv Store Phons 46-W Bemidi P B feel garb Easter merning. SHOE STORE e B ERENRER L DO e