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

g o ‘up, enthusiasm, or an hour of relaxation from the burdensom?@ T¥77 YWE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER © Cfgis MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1921 ~ BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER 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 Bemidji, Minneso ond-c| Sader Act of Congress of o 3, 1870, g At 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 By Mall 1 One Year ... st $6.00 g,hg! "‘fi"" 3.00 One Year e .$5.00/ Taee Montiw 159 Six Months e 2860 One Week .16 Three Months 1.25 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.0u OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS ROMANCE IN THE SOUTH SEAS ‘A’ protest recently came from the people of one of the fs- lands of the South Seas which we have been accustomed to think of as inhabited by savages. They complained that they | were pictured as going about in a state of nudity, whereas the truth was, they said, that they had worn much the same sort of clothes as we do for two generations and ‘would be as much shocked as we if one of their number should appear in public without raiment. fi Our conception of the life of those fascinating islands in a remote part of the world is based largely on the stories of Her- man Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London and other writers of romance; doubtless many of our ideas concerning _the region and its people are as wide of the truth as the misap- prehension that the folk of the protesting islands go naked. We must guard, however, against going to the other extreme and picturing the South Seas as civilized to the same extent as the Upited States or Europe. Frederick O’Brien has shéwn other- wise in “White Shadows in the South Seas,” and another trav- eler has recently returned from one of the more obscure islands with the statement that the natives are barbarians of the most primitive sort and still practice cannibalism. ‘And now comes from Papeete, Tahiti, as a news dispatch a yarn that would do credit to the imagination of any of the nov- elists of the South Seas. Itisa story of treasure taken from Peru during a revolution many years ago and buried on one of the coral stolls to the eastward of Tahiti. Dying in Sidney, the last survivor of the piratical band that stole the jewels, revealed the ‘hiding place to a stranger who had befriended him, and an ex- pedition is being fitted out to hunt for the loot, That it is taken seriously by a number of people who are willing to risk money on the recovery of the treasure is pretty good evidence that the _possibilities of a wild and romantic adventure of the kind that ‘Stevenson loved to narrate are still far from exhausted, and that romance is yet to; be found in the South Seas. o— . OUR TWO EXTREMES Two great organizations of the ‘American people are at work again—congress and baseball. Congress represents to us the serious sidevof life, the source] from which spring the laws and the revenues that enable us to function as a people governed by the people. There are many good senators and congressmen, and doubt- less there are some who are not so good. They have performed much constructive work in the past, and some that is indifferent in its value. We take them as we find them and are thankful that they are as good as they are. They might be worse. Baseball is the national escape valve. It is through the popular game that men with red blood find a vent for their pent cares of life. : Baseball has spring from an humble beginning to an emi- nence that almost staggers the conception of the human mind. It came up with the glories of a rocket, and almost col- lapsed with the thud of a dud. There are honest and brilliant ball players who are an hon- or to their profession, and exposure has disclosed a ring of graft- ing shysters. Congress is on trial, as it has always been. Baseball is in the balance, as it has never been before. May justice and right guide their minds and their hearts and their hands, in the opportunities that are before them, to the end that the affairs of government may be so satisfactory adjust- ed and attuned that the call of the diamond may find us in al frame of mind capable of enjoying to the fullest the pleasures that emanate from the field of the ball and the bat. Opportunity beckons to the two extremes. DGR ‘AMERICANISM The essence of Americanism is equality before the law; majority rule; representative government; progress by parlia-| mentary processes rather than by mob action: and co-operation for right ends by just means, expressed politically in the federal | idea, and socially in economic organization, governed by duty| and guided by education.—Leslie’s Weekly. "A JEWEL OF CHICAGO” Is Title Applied to Wrigley Building Wrigley’s new office building in Chicago is at the new Boulevard Link Bridge, Michigan avenue and the river and heads the vista looking north on Michigan avenue, so Mr. Wrigley chose a beautiful design which makes the building a decorative feature of the Chicago lake front and harmonizes with the Chicago Beautiful plan. er&oy B_ulldni g The main building }s 16 stories high, surmounted by a tower 42 feet square and rising 398 féet from the street level. This tower will contain a clock with dialson four sides, each 20 feet in diameter and will be surmounted by a searchlight lantern 9 feet in diameter. ‘The building is covered with enamel finish terra cotta on all four sides. It is regarded as one of the mest beauti- ful buildings in Chicago and people and press are enthusiastic_about it. The Chicago Tribune published a picture labeling it a “A Jewel of the Link.” Wrigley also recently completed new factories at Chicago and New York. All''this new_construction work in the space of a few years is certainly a tribute to the power of advertising and the accumulative effect of a multitude of 5-cent sales. eV SOV UASSIIN Historic Dead Sea. The Dead sea, a lake in Asiatic Tur- key and ‘lying near the southern. ex- tremity. of Palestine, probably got its name because its atmosphere was for- merly supposed to be fatal to life—an : erroneous ides, for the people who live on its banks are said to be in the enjoyment of good health. But fish cannot live in its waters, which are especially nauseating. The Jordan and six other rivers flow into the Dead sea, ‘which. has no outlet, but gets rid of its surplus by evaporation. In the Biblé this baneful body of wa- ter is called the Salt Sea of the Plaing and ‘Sea of the Arabah. Initials of Famed Pioneer. The name “D. Boone” was discov- ered chiseled in a rock at the mouth of a cave in Lincoln county, West Vir- ginia, As the forms of the letters cor- respond with those found in the rocks of Kentucky it is thought that the famed hunter at one time made an ex- pedition into that section of the coun- try. Falling inTo U-TELL’EM ' We’re going strong now and want every ex- service man, who was honorably discharged, ANKS are the only business institutions that advertise to get you to save your money in- stead of spending it. We invite you to visit the bank and join our savings club which now has over six hundred members. No deposit is too small to receive our best attention. Interest works for you at night as well as in the daytime, and is paid every three months. N < . SECURITY STATE BANK - ity OF BEMIDJI ; to join the— Ralph Gl;acie Post of the ‘A’ 60-day campaign is on now to get members. LET’S GO!* If you don’t belong yet come to meeting Thurs- day 8 p. m..at Civic & Commerce Rooms— Something Doin’ Every Meetin’ FIGURING ONE’S INCOME TAX -| Directions That May, or May Not, Be Helpful in Making Out a Cor« rect Return. In the direction of helpfulness the Winstead * Saturday Night suggests that if your income 1§ $2,400 a year and you have a diamond ring and an nutomobile and are married to a bru- nette girl twenty-six years old, you take the amount of your income, add your personal property, subtract your street number, multiply by your height, add your wife’s height and divide by your telephone number. | You will thex carry your minus, sep- |arated from your plus, to schedule G, on the tenth line of which you will subtract the multiple, which you put on line X, schedule K, entering in col- umn A. If you have a child in the family subtract $200 from your income, add the amount of your personal property, | multiply by your waist measure, sub- tract the size of your collar, add’ the child’s age, multiply by the amount | you have given the church during the | year and divide by the number of your automobile license tag. It there are two children you de- duct $400 from your income, add the weight and age of the second child, divide by_the date_of your birth, mul- fiply by the size of your hat and’ tract the weight of your mothes law, The result of the above computation should be carried to line VIIL, sched- ule I, after deducting from the total of @, P, and A, and adding F, C and L, carrying it to column D, which will cover all taxation except the normal and suttax, Gasoline Respectability. Gigmanic society on the edge of the Sahara supports a magnificent garage. In towns, sprung up many hundred miles apart, in the wilderness of Brit- ish Columbia, isolated except for the two steel rails of the transcontineéntal railroad, the well-to-do import auto- mobiles for driving up and down the half-dozen miles which comprise, Main street. Motoring is evidently an event of importance, even when a complete circuit of all- the available roadway takes less than a half hour. Then there is always the pleasure and sat- isfaction to be found in repetition. In- deed, enthusiasm for motoring in sev- eral of these towns has led te the formation of automobile chubs, thriv- ing organizations which differ little from their prototypes in other places except in showing a shade more in- terest in varnish, let us say, and a shade less in gasoline. 7 * |other meeting with representatives Knock at the Door to Get Out. Greek and- Roman' doors. invariably. open outwards. A person passing out of a house is, therefore, obliged to knock on the door before opening it to avold a collision with a passerby. BRITISH, COAL MINERS TO MEET MINE OWNERS London, April 22.—Striking Brit- ish coal miners today agreed to an- RATES DOWN i| THE WEST HOTEL Minneapolis, Minn, Now Quoting Rooms at $1.50 to $2.00 Without Bath - $2.00 to $5.00 With Bath . Moderate Priced Cafe in of the colliery owners and the govs: ernment. The session was to be held this afternoon, The meeting was the first confer- ence since the miners broke off ne- gotiations by refusing to-allow their demands for pooling of profits and a national wage board. 7oy FNE PR BHELMATISM Musterole Leoesens Up Those Stiff Joints—Drives Out Pain You'll. know why thousands. use Mu;tenl:l:‘ once you experience the rlad reli ves, Get 3, jati‘a?once from the nearest drug store. It is.a clean, white oint- ment, made with the oil of ::ld L comfort Better than am not blister. Brings ease and while it is being rubbed on! Musterole is recommended by many doctors and nurses. Millions of jars are used annually for bronchitis, cr_nup,sufi neck, asthma, neuralgia, pleufisy, rheu- matism, lumbago,pamsandaches“;id the ‘back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of thechest (itoften preventspneumonia). Connection \ - .L1ceerr & Myers Tosacco Co. Naval Officers Eighty per cent are Fatima smokers. And the “men” too are keen for this good- tasting blend of pure tobaccos. - else TWENTY ” 25° ~but taste thé %enc’al