Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 2

[ " they do a city a great favor when they select it as their place of abode, and that in return the city owes them the debt—that ! PACE TWO ™ | e F#~% THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER THURSDA Y EVENING, APRIL 7, 1921 BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER t~ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G.'W. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor - ‘Telephone 922 Entered at the postoffice at mmfijt Minnesota, as seconi-class matter, No asttention 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 Carrier By Mall | o e e W00 Ong, Yer L $6.00 Three Mooths o 150 Six Months o 250 One Week 5 .16 Three Months ... simiad 1.25) THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage_paid to any address f¢r, in advance, $2.0u, OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS —_— We read an article in a publication somewhere—we do not remember just where it was and we therefore cannot give due credit to the author—but it contained so much good common[ sense that we feel it should be passed on. Hereit is. It applies| in Bemidji as well as to the city about which it was written: $ YOUR CITY ‘Are you doing anything for your city? If you are not, it| will be a pretty poor place in which to live, for a city will be no| better than-the standard of service set by the average citizen. Miracles do*not happen; cities are what the people living in them make them. ’ | “The majority of average-minded persons seem to believe! it should prove its gratitude by rendering utility and public conveniences,” says a writer dealing with the subject, “What an i Individual Owes a City.” “Every individual owes something to his or her city. Some owe more, some owe less. There are men and women who have derived nearly all their success from the city in which they mak}? their home—the city furnishing the field for their life work. “The individual in these days is beginning to realize and to c.liacharge this debt of obligation. However, a very large ma- jority of people still pay taxes with scowls and complaints. They literally grab all they can from city life and hold it in selfish use without regard for others, oblivious as to whether the remainder of the city folk live or die. - “There are men who have amassed fortunes by shrewd pur- chase of central properties which the tax assessor has kept on a low taxation basis, and who have held these properties out of fitting use till they have multiplied in value three-fold, four- fold, ten-fold and even a hundred-fold, and then have pocketed the unearned increment and chuckled while they did it. There are dozens of such citizens in every comgpunity who farm the city, but who never enrich it; takes everything out of it they|: can get and put only as much back into it as they legally must.” MILLIONS AND MORALITY Almost as regularly as clockwork we read in the daily press where some millionaire is suing his wife for divorce, or is being sued himself, or both. Generally there follows a mass of moral filth that is amaz- ing and almost beyond belief. Like dirty linen, it all comes out in the wash, but unlike theslinen, the principals can hardly lzay claims to purity as a result of their legal bath. This is a queer world. ‘As long as we are poor we are able to live comparatively decent lives, But let great wealth come our way and we imme- diately begin to yearn for the vices and frivolities it will buy. It would be far better for the human race if we were to forego @ majority of the “pleasures” of wealth and retain the respectability that is inherent in mankind in the days of his poverty. Millions and morality do not always harmonize, FRUITS AND FREIGHTS When we buy fruits in the open market we sometimes wonder if the dealer, is really making the tremendous profits with which he is credited. The fact has been made public that it is cheaper to ship fruits from Africa than it is to send them by rail from California to New York. 1t is said that a bale of goods can be shipped by water from New York to South America for less than it costs tof transport it from one side of the city c¢f New York to the other.! What’s the matter with our railroad system, anyway? | The gxorbitant freight rates in this country are a burden! to the Qeople, and there appears to be no relief in sight. i Wltp all of our vaunted intelligence, we do not seem to‘ have brains enough to evolve a system of distribution that would | under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. et | time. NEWCABINETA * TRWELIG OE EW ‘CHIEFS WANT FIRST-HANC INFORMATION ‘ABOUT ACTIVI- TIES. IN DEPARTMENTS. iy SECRETARY DENBY STARTS IT | | Made His First Trip to Guantanamo as Gunner’s Mate on the Yosemite— Now Makes His Second Trip, but| - This Time as Secretary. 5 | By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.—Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby is paying his second visit to Guantanamo, Cuba. It is, however,| the first visit which he has paid as secretary of the navy. The first time he was there he was a gunner’s mate on board a gunboat, the Yosemite. The understanding in Washington ix that the present cabinet is to be 5 traveling’ cabinet, when traveling 1 necessary for the “good of the serv: Ice.” Most of the cabinet officers have sald that they want to follow the lines! of the activities of their. departments In the field, and to learn at first hand where it is necessary to apply reme dies. Secretary Denby, on his former trips on battleships or cruisers, swung his hammock and slept with the enlisted men.. He also messed with the enlist, ed ones, and the word {s that he not in rfrequently took a hand at- scrubbing' rdecks. | Now things are different. The. flas -0t the secretary of the navy flies from| “the -peak, and the secretary mmsell! s a cabin “all by his lonesome,” bui} :he, like the captain of a war vessel “frequently will invite the officers fror ‘captain down to share his table.. X! ‘can-be taken for granted that as for “the enlisted men on board, includimg ,(he marines, the secretary will bave a kindly eye upon them, or an eye which ‘will'be quick to note signs of anything which may call for improvement. It is the intention of Secretary of ‘War Weeks to visit the various army posts of the country. The war secre tary has “sea legs,” but he soon will learn to keep step with the land lub-| ibers. _As a matter of fact, the midship | ‘men at the Naval academy, where the :secretary of war was educated, are; igiven infantry drill constantly, and so [An-a way their early training in pari ican be classed with that of the cadets| 'at West Point. * s Get It First Hand. i Will H. Hdys, before he has been 1In office very long, wiil board a train car-| .rying. the- malils, Moreover,* he will 'visit ‘some of the greater post officls of the country and, being a country {boy himself, he probably will extend is tour of investigation, inquiry er {*“visualization” even jinto the lanes ialong ‘which drive the rural route car- irlers. The secretary of the interior always 'has had more or less traveling to dv. |Alagka comes within the purview of ‘his department,amd all the secretaries Isince Seward’s time have paid at least ,one visit to the Northwestern posses- :sfon. It can be taken for granted that before long Secretary Fall will start for the Alaska land. There is some reason for the secre- tary to go to Alaska just about this It is understood that congress is going to express a marked interest in the government-built, government- owned and government-operated rail- road in Alaska. This venture on the part of the government was intended to prove the entire feasibility and the certain success of government railroad operation and ownership. Recently in congress, when the Alas- kan rallroad item came up for consid- eration, there were several attacks on the whole project. It was sald in ef- fect that, while the road was remarka- bly well built, the line of its route was badly chosen and that it never can be a paying venture. Whether or not these things are true, of course, remains to be seen, but it Is |tions as they areiin the Islands, free- {dom would bring | ment has been conducting an upbuild- do credit to a Fiji Islander, —o . known that the secretary of the fn- ! terlor feels o responsibllity in the case, ; for the bullding of the road and the se- .. When we read of a great coal company paying a cash/ection of the routes and of the ports dividend of 150 per cent, we wonder that mother nature doesn't supply us with perpetual summer. come the ice man, and—oh, shucks! e e R T Keeps Tiabs of Stars. The utiiity of the Blink microscope as a means of detecting the proper motion of the stars is absolute. In comparing photegraphic plates taken by this means at an interval of 23 Yyears the smallest proper motion that can be detected is 134 second for the interval, or five seconds per century, According to Innes, there are about three such stars over each square degree on an ‘average, or 120,000 in the entire sky. It is estimated that the number of stars with sensible proper motion will increase with the square of the time interval considered, ‘Accordingly when plates taken at a cen- i~ a— Queen Liked Her Ale Strong. The City of London Brewery com- pany, whose premises are offered for sale, claim ‘to be the only brewery in .the city of London existing from the time of Queen Elizabeth, and it is quite possible that the queen occasion- ally sampled their brew. Elizabeth was a speclalist In ale. She liked it strong, as witness the plaintive note her host, the earl of Leicester, sent to Lord Burleigh: “There is not one drop of good drink for her here. We were fain to send to.London and Kenilworth and divers other places where ale was; her own beer was so strong that there was no man able to tury’s interval are available, it should | drink it.” be possible to detect the proper mo- tions of some two million separate stars, 1 Great Help. ‘ “A new clerk in a police court Is greetly helped by one thing.” “What is that?” ’ “The way prisoners understand pro- .cedure and routine.”—Loulsville Cour- ‘ler-Journal. v 13, 2 get & chance to take hold, Tuberculosis and Stomach, Tuberculosis rarely attacks the stomach, and the reason for this is ex- plained by Dr. Wilhelm Baetzner of Berlin in describing one case in Ber- liver Klinische Wofchenschrift. He says the gastric juice, aided by the ac- tive movements of the stomach, kill the germs of tuberculosis before they But, then, along would | were placed within the department of | which he is the new chieftain. H Hoover Will Travel. | Commerce suggests travel. Herbert Hoover is secretary of commerce and he has expressed a wish that the scope of the activities of his office shall be much extended. Mr. Hoover always has been a believer in the plan of look- ing on the scene of actual labor. In his work abroad, and his work in the food administration, he undertook to direct nothing at all until he had found out by actual personal investigation how his directing best might count. Ke probably will be something of a trav- eler. The secretary of the treasury, the attorney general and the secretaries of agriculture and of labor will not have to do as much traveling as the other members -of the cabinet. Of course every cabinet officer is in demand as a public speaker, and as a rule they are wiling to comply with the demands unless the travel interferes with their public duties. Neither the secretary of the treasury nor the attorney general thus fow has outlined any marked de- parture from the lines followed by his predecessor in office, and so far as the secretary of the treasury is concermed the present taxation problems and other things are likely to keep him pretty. tightly.chalned to his Washing- ton office. Wood Goes to Philippines. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has been orederd to the Philippines to study conditions In the islands, and to make a report thereon for the beiiefit of the government. The general, as the coun- iry knows, has been offered the gov- ernor generalship of ‘the Philippines, but the understiniding is that as soon as his study of the situation is over, | he will return- to. the, United States and make his repert, retire from the service, and become -provost of the University of Pennsylvania. The administration seems to becon- vinced that things are not altogether right in the Philippines. Be this as it may, it is definitely known that the Filipinos expected that the United | H- K ki pios S -.-Mr. -and’ Mrs. ‘L. °K. Hanson of States soon would release them from what they probably 100k on as bond: age, and make of them an independ- ent people. : Bluntly ispeaking, there seems:to be no.such‘thought on the part of the officials in Washingten. They do not believe that the Filipino is ripe for independence, and that it will be some time before he can be turned loose with safety to care for himself. It is charged in Washington that American officials In the Islands in the last eight years have encouraged the Filipinos in thelr belief that soon they were to be set free. Already this en- couragement, it is-sald, has had the ef- fect of producing unsettied conditions, There have been troubles in various parts of the possessions, and the con-| stant assertion Is thit the wards of the government are acting in advance as if they were 30 longer subject to American rule. These are the charges made, and General Wood is going over | to find out all about it.. ~ . Wood May. Break News. ‘When the United States government, as it is almost eeftain’ to do, breaks tlie. ‘news to the Filipinos that they are not to be:set free at once, the breaking of the: hews must be dome | diplomatically, and with every precau- {ion to avert serious troubles. If the job of telling ‘the Isfanders the truth shall fall to Gemeral Wood, he prob- ably will be_able-to do it in a ‘way which will feduce to the least pos- sible minimum the: resentment which is sure to follow. Wood “has a way with him.” . Normally, he is exceed- ingly gentle, but if duty demands he is stern. Washington officials, legislative and esecutive, when . they talk about the subject at all, say that the main rea-! son for not tumnixng the Filipinos loose is that with ra;;l and other condl- instant disorder. They go on to say that ever since | Dewey’s day the' United States govern- ple themselves d the ~;nsfimuans forming the material for the labor of construction. It Is declared here that the Islanders have advanced wonder-| fully, -but that they have mnot yet reached the ptngfii of efficiency, self- ing work xmfie“%nmmn&s, the! peo- restralnt and temperament which will enable them to-be a self-governing people. The - atgument of the op- ponents of immediate liberation is that it is better to go on with the, work until success Is assured rather than to turn a people loose who can- not complete the work for themselves. There is alsp some fear in Wash- ington that if- the Islanders are re-| leased from -United States control, they may be gobbled up on some pre- tense or other by another power. i Strong as Gibraltar. Officlals of the War department realize that because of the isolation of the Philippines ordinary fortifica- tions would be of comparatively lit- tle use if there should be a sudden at-| {ack by an enemy. Corregidor, fortl- fied as it is, has changed' the whole | face of affairs as far as ease of ap- proach to Manila is concerned. If the | Spaniards years ago had been given the sense o fortify properly this rock jsland at the entrance to Manila bay, | Dewey might been shut out from his vietory of May, 1898. Army officers| and naval officers have said that Cor-| regidor Is as strong as Gibraltar. All the work that the United States has done in the Philippines in the wny: of .constructing fortifications has gone | on with comparatively little notice. All the work has been done by Amer- jcans, no foreigner ever having been | allowed to take part in it, even to the extent of digging a spadeful of earth | or blasting a rock. If the Amerlcan | fleet should meet with disaster in| eastern waters, Manila bay would prove to be a safe place for refuge for the vessels that manage to escape| destruction. | Wilson’s Health Improves. | Woodrow: Wilson, former President of the United States, has been living | for some little time in the residence | to which he moved directly from the White House on the Harding {naugura- | tion day. Reports from the former President's pbysicians, and from his | friends, is that Mr. Wilson has made | more rapid progress toward recovery | of his strength in the month of March | than be did from the time that he was | stricken until the day that he aropped the cares of office. It probably is something to get one’s | mind free. There are no worries, or | presumably nome, in the - American | home with {ts pleasant garden bricked KEEKK KR KKK KKK KA * . PINEW0OOD 2 X e 2 kb % Carl Clauson returned Tuesday from Pelican Rapids whefe he spent Baster with his family. 0 Helge Olson, Benne Iverson, T.-B. Millar, K, K. Melland, Carl Melland and Nels Rude were Bemidji visit- T Carl Nord, Louis Wingér and ‘Al bert Eaton: of Debs wete Bemidji vis- itors Thursday, , " =~ ' : Guy’ Simpson, yho is, working on the section here. got badly ~hurt Thursddy’ by a tie falling on his foct: ! 'Mr. Simpson has to use crutches’ to walk and will be unable {0 walk alone for some: time. Miss Joséphine Wentstitom of Debs f;am;rned: home Thursday from Bemid- Austin, returned honre Thursday eve- ning after visiting friends and rela- l Cigarette To seal in the delicious Burley tobacco flavor. It’s Toasted | | Healthy Skin | DEPENDS ON KIDNEYS. The skin and the’ intestines, which work - together * with ‘the kidneys to throw out the poisons of thé body, do a part of the work, but a clean body and a lealthy one depends- on-the kidneys. If the kidneys-areclogged with toxins, (poisons) you suffer from Btiffness in the knees iji the morning on arising, your joints seem ‘‘gusty”, you may have rheumatic. pains, pain in the back, stiff peck, headaches, ‘sometimes swollen ‘feet, or nenzalgic pains—all due to the uric aeid or poisons in the blood. This isthe _time to go to the nearest drug store and simply obtain a 60c package of “An-uric”, the discovery of Dr. Fierce ‘of the Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. ¥. ors Wedesday. e tives here for several fays. ‘While here they bought a farm near Debs, the old James Wynne, homes-ead. Louis Mathieson: returned Thurs- day from his old: home near Danvers. ‘Hjlmer ' Melland Thursday from Neilsville, where he went to work on a farm ithis coming summer. He ained only two ‘weeks. Miss Gina Annanson of Debs, left here Thursday for a visit with her gnangdparents in Iowa. + Mr, and ‘Mrs. Chas. -Rock -moved in.to the Johnson house Sunday, Mr. Rock will work for the Pinewood Mercantile .company. Eanl Congdon, who runs a logging camp near here this winter, moved this: family on a' farm near Solway last week. John and Ole Bakke, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Millar, Mrs. S. C. Miller, John Teturned home | Olson,” ¥4 Elliott and Carl Melland were Bemidji callers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thompson of Debs left for Jamestown, N. D., where they will remain all summer. BEMIDJI LIKES INSTANT ‘ACTION There has never -been anything with the quick action of simple witch- hazel, camphor, hydrastis, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash. Oné lady’ with inflanied and -watery eyes reports her eyes are bright and clear after using Lavoptik a very short time. In another case five applica- tions produced great benefit. We guarantee a small bottle to help ANY CASE _ weak, strained or inflamed eyes. E. A. Barker, druggist. The Ideal, ‘Arcola is one of the world’s newest and greatest inventions, for'it places the wonderful com- fort and fuel economy of hot-water heating within reach of owners 6f cellarless Bungalows, small city and Farm Cottages, Stores, Office Buildings and small- Country Schools. 1In its neat, compact ahd low-priced form, the Ideal Arcola Boiler offers the solution of a long cher- ished aim—to give every small building owner and tenant the' joy and ecbnomy of ample, cleaner, health- ful, coal-saving, hoi-water radiator wagmth, with freedom from fire risk. The Ideal Arcola offers a quick sure method of turning any old house into a cheery, modern home. Come in and let us tell you how it can be done and also see this wonderful Boiler-Radiator in our display room. ROY V. HARKER PLUMBING & HEATING Phone 122 Arcola 118 Third St. —because there is no fue worth any consideration feet instead of 10 cents as Ranges at 10 per cent disco paymefits, 1 EE in with walls covered with glistening Erglish ivy. The Wilson home/today | is the center of a good deal of public interest. Visitors to the .capital In | large numbers walk by the house to | see after what manner a former Pres- | ident is domiciled, and Washington | residents themselves frequently ‘make | S street a Sunday afternoon thorough- | fare. | DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS . ) __even at the present rate, if the cleanline the discount on the May Gas Bills, as we can see our way to ma ! rate, as well as a greater incen A STILL FURTHER INDUCEMENT ! . —for you to use gas is this: 11 “Acorn” stoves in stock will be sold =nd installed at 20 per cent ‘Bemidji PHONE 76 Things Yofi_ Should Know About Gas The frost is coming out of the ground and theBemidji Gas Company will soon be ready to install new services for those wishing to use 'gas this summer. GAS IS MORE CONYENIENT and your fire is ready at the touch of a match. 1 to handle, GAS IS CLEANER —_because there is no dirty fuel to handle, no asfies to take care of, no wood-box, no coal hod, no smoke—Just Heat! / GAS IS CEAPER ' AND IT WILL BE CHEAPER YET —j idly as it is possible for the Company t ¥iake it cheaper. For instance: T A D tho ] B beginning June-1st, will be 25 cents per thousand ‘And the discount will be increased just as fast at present. Beginning April 1sf unt. Come in and Talk It dver“ Now Do Not Wait for Us to Send a Man to You Gas Co. 315 BELTRAMI AVE. ss, convenience and saving of labor is at all—gas is cheaper than coal or wood. . ke it. An increage in“the discount means tive for the payment of bills promptly. discount from present prices. A With special terms to those desiring to make monthly a lower net And all Clark-Jewel