Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 30, 1921, Page 2

THE BEMiDJI DAILY PIONEZR WaTwrre MONDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1921 - BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY * SHE"BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. B.H.DENU.MMI@I G. K. CARSON, Presiden : J. D. WINTER, City Editor G. W, HARNWELL, Editor Telophone 922 postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesqta, as second-class matter, under Act of Cougress of March 8, 1879. ot b e e R L B No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not neceasarily for publication. Communica-| K7 tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tueaday | & of each week to insure publication in the current issue. i ______@_— SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier One Year p— (X[ ] Six Months 8.00 Three Months 1.50 One Month 56 Une Week a6 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every 'l’hm; and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.0v. | OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS Entezed at the By Mail One Year Six Months e 2.60 Three Months 128 HONOR THE FALLEN May 30—Decoration Day ‘Again the American people will honor the heroes who have | fought and died for their country. It will bring sorrow and sadness to a nation of people, and | painful memories to many hearts. But it is a sacred duty we| owe to those: who have made the great sacrifice. It'is a privi-| lege to those who have benefitted through the misfortunes of | others. 8 A nation is only as great as its people, and the record of l - som’oby. SAID HE Was TRYING To BEAT THE RAILROAD, TRAIN J. D. RHODES PRACTICAL PAINTER 710 America Phone 421-J} RATES DOWN THE WEST HOTEL . Minneapolis, Minn. * Now Quoting Rooms at $1.50 to $2.00 Without Bath $2.00 to $5.00 Ten for 10 cents. Handy With Bath size. Dealers carryboth. 10 for 10c; 20 for 20c. It’s toasted. B s Subscribe for The Dally Pioneer. CARLOAD “CHAMPION” POTATO MACHINERY Moderate Priced Cafe in Connection THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS' ‘America’s greatness is illuminated by the graves of her fallen sons., ; ' | 4 No word that we; may utter, no act that we may perform, will add to or detract from the nobility of their great service to their country. ! But we may be true to ourselves, to our country, and to our| God, by reverently commemorating the noblest act of mankind __the sacrifice of life that home and country may be preserved; ‘and that others may live and prosper. 3 | Heroes of all American wars! In humility and sadness of| heart, in pride and glory of your achievements, in our knowl-| edge that heaven is a fitting abode for all heroes, we humbly salute the unconquerable spirit of your valor and fidelity! Just across the historle ,Potomac, | overlooking the capital of the nation | from/a commanding bluff is the no- Peace to your eternal slumbers! | blest of American cemeteries, and from PRI AT LIABILITY LEGISLATION Y . | the midst of its verdant green is re- The legislature of 1921 has made changes in the Minneso- | gected in the morning sunlight a won- ta Compensation Act and has enacted new statutes that are of | derful edifice of snow-white marble. Tt vital importance to every Minnesota employer, large or small,| is the new Memorial amphitheater, the farm and household employes alone being exempt. The new | most sp}em]m monument to the heroic legislation is based upon an exhaustive two-year study made by ::::t&::l“‘ ::fii"e‘z nhyn:n"l(:;?:fn;noi: a committee appointed by the 1egislatux:e of 1919. This com-, than 26,000 mefif el mittee visited all the important industrial states to study LhRT Soiiote of ‘thie. Civil -war, from. private compensation systems, and their report incorporates what the! ynq seaman to general and admiral, committee believes to bé the best features of the laws of the| Confederate soldiers, soldiers of the various states. The 1921 legislature, after full discussion and | Spanish war and soldiers and sailors consideration, adopted the recommendations of the ¢ommittee, | "wfh?::fg':l';; l:;flgml;:‘oyt ;2‘;;:“;2?: not one member voting aggmst‘ l?' s et :’ the highest of honors to be eligible to | Every employer w!u) is subject to the law must carry in-' . "in Arlington and while major | surance. This isa provision common to the laws of many states | generals and second lieutenants le | and is established for the protection of the injured or their de-| side by side near the men they com- pendents. The blacksmith who employs a helper, the lmvyefl manded in battle, not one civilian, no who has a stenographer, and every other employer must insure matter what his influence, may find his compensation liability unless he secures an exemption from | burlal within its confines. Nor could the mewly created Industrial Commission. This exemption is| one "i*n 10 1 Jomnioitan e furnished only if the employer gives a bond or other security,| qver every foot of the slopes and or if his financial strength is such' that thd commission feels| vales of this magnificent reservation satisfied that he can meet all payments due or to become due in| the national government provides for the future. . . | a most perfect care; the grass is kept | green and cut and the bushes and CFe————————————— e | shrubs cared for as in a royal p"yk' 1 T TR TR R TR TR T RIR YRR | while near the old Lee mansion the | g | fragrant wistaria climbs over an ex-j OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR | tensive trellis where the Memorial day | exercises have always been held, on | all sides flowering shrubs contributing | their living beauty and perfume to the Mr. Edison has asked such widely assorted questions as to indicate that ! impressive ceremonles on this day of he has been a constant reader of “Odd and Interesting Facts.” Perhaps in | the nation’s remembrance. Kvery that reading he may have run across the answers to such questions as the | President of the United States since | following: ' | the Civil war, except one, has felt hon- } What was the 10';'3'}1 of Lafayette's sword? | ored by an invitation to speak at Ar- | How high is up? % 7 | lington on Memorial day. How many wards are there in the city of Kalamazoo? | Bound the state of Insobriety. ! Worthy of the Dead. How high was the tower of Babel? For many years, however, thjs wis- How d_o you pronounce Przemysl? | taria-covered temple has been entirely What is the chemical composition of the sands of time? } inadequate for the rapidly growing How many words are there on this page of the Pioneer? | throngs attending the services, and Mr. Edison need not cram up on the answers to the above questions.| gome thirteen i ) e € . ears ago the G | He will get the same surprise he handed his applicants, when he appears for| Army of the Reyp:buc ngppenlled tox:‘:rfl } examination, and will be asked other questions without warning, and, if he| gress for a building fitting the great- cannot answer them, will be sunk without a trace.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.| | | place will increase in beauty and maj- | snowy white. The locatjon of the am- | phitheater is on the crest of the same People in a town and community should not fight each other but for| esty. each other, suggests an exchange. -Good towns are the result of people| [The first national cemetery was es- pulling together in the same harness for the common good. They obliterate | tablished at Gettysburg to make an jealousy and factional feeling and catch the vision of bigger, better things.| honored resting place for those who | Peace and good will are the advance agents of prosperity.—Stillwater Ga-l on that great battlefleld gave their | zette. | lives that the natlon might live, and | _— | then came the Inspiration to make at | The Hellbent Howler says that a man was hanged there the other dnyi 'Arlington a cemetery that would be for throwing a beer bottle out on the street where the glass might cut a| national in its widest sense. To pro- horse’s foot. The fellow who throws nail-filled boards out where an auto | vide this final resting place for the na- tire may run :ver them would last quick in that town.—Grand Forks Herald. | tion's dead, the government paid to the More than 5.000 pieces of one meteor which fell in Towa were picked 2{’;’0&5 ,f,': "p',.;:,‘:'::‘:t“.l;‘,]dl,‘ ha ‘l‘,;{:;; up after it had burst. In a few months we will read of berries going to! gassessed in 1860 tJ$'15 000, waste. because there is mo one to pick them—St. Cloud Times. | The Arlington 2 l\‘n‘rl«‘mnl‘ cemetery/t embraces 418 acres and since its es- | tablishment the government has spared | | mo expense to make it the most beau- | | tiful and attractive city of the dead If the cave woman was as proficient as the cave man in the use of the| UPon which the sun shines. Over §1.- club, ad is claimed by scientists, the origin of the use of the rolling pin is| 000,000 have been thus expended In | established—St. Cloud Times. ] landscape engineering to enhance the | i . Y natural beauty of the spot. | Bill Lemke thinks that the state owes him something after all that he! World Holds Nothing Like It. has suffered ‘for it. Bill hasn’t really begun to suffer yet.—Grand Forks| The amphitheater is a majestic ad- . And, of course, if the radical candidate for mayor were elected he! would order government bonds up to par and distribute the rain equitably| throughout the summer.—Minneapolis Tribune. | To answer the call' of a people | “Stonewall” the stern, and chivalrous | Flowers on the graves of our newly | Weep for our dead across the waves Herald. | dition which constitutes Arlington the | s 1 v SRR e e most magnificent of cemeterles. T ¥ d"{}&ati,glr_l who did 199 loops in an airplane succumbed to, the generally | 1s nomlngznlllfz"lt ‘;n C:.;m \\‘hr:: \V'l)‘l:l:: gi:p’aa:h. eminine interest in something marked down from 200.—St. Paul| Other nations have erected monuments o :to suceessful. generals, admirals and | The Republic of Austria has recognized Mexico. | I§ would b i [ statsamen, JIRY baye nrovided: el RS - e a lively| v imagination that could recogni . L Ave'V| ous places of sepulture, as Westmin-"| 18gn: ognize the Republic of’ Austria.—St. Cloud Tnnea.] ster abbey, Pere La Chaise, the Pan- | ! theon, and the Pyramids of Egypt. But ! Westminster abbey is reserved for men | | of the highest distinction in any walk | 'l of life — statesmanship, invention. ‘Women don’t dress to attract men, says Congressman Robertson, May- be they do it to distract other women.—Little Falls Transeript. v Y \ Doubt is felt if John Barleycorn is really dead, but been put as far under the ground as the. cellar.y—'Cleal:bru‘:wk n[‘r:!yn::ry. 3 hu‘ science, letters, philanthropy, as well § L% i § % i as war, Tt Is the same with Pere La ets are not worrying about the prediction that Australia will go dry.| Chaise, while the Pyramids were tombs 1¢ it were Cubs, it would be different.—St. Paul Dispatch, B2 ¥} for kings and queens only,. But not so with Arlington cemetery. Here efuality of service and sacrifice dominates. Commanding general and humble pri- vate are on the same level ; the simple rule of eligibility for burial’ is the same; yet it is iron-clad. Wealth, birth, social station and politica? emi- nence, without military service, try for admission in vain. At Arlington hate gathered ‘during the past generation the greatest of ‘the nation’s military heroes to listen to and to participate In eulogies and tributes to their silent comrades all encamped about, and here each year In ever-in- creasing number are laid to their final rest many of these same heroes of the wars. Every year sees a inultitude of new graves in Arlington and every Memorial day witnesses the thinned ranks of the participants in the tre- mendous conflict of half a century ago which has contributed the great ma- Jjority of the members of this Silent City, : ness of the nation’s Valhalla. The white marble edifice, completed at a cost of $850,000, is the magnificent re- sult, It is a great circular.amphithea- ter with a seéating capacity of 5,000. [ The marble s from the famous quar- ries at Danby, Vt., and is a dazzling high ridge occupied by the historic Lee mansion with its huge white pil-|. lars, but the former is located some distance apart, just outside of-ithe heavily wooded portion of the ceme- tery which is filled with soldier graves. | As years pass and the young trees sur- .rounding the amphitheater grow the YTV TTYTTVY Qn Honor’s Roll By Alice Williams Brotherton. Weave the garlands, scatter the flow- ! “ers Over these sacred mounds of ours, Lily and rose and laurel spread Over the graves of those long dead, Dead on the Field of Honor. By each headstone the old Flag waves, But know ye not these are empty graves? e Each man rose from the dust to fight In the latest' struggle of Right and Might, To fight on the Field of Honor. Forth in shadowy ranks they thronged wronged, § Washington, Lincoln, Grant and Sher- man, Ay, and many a loyal German, Rosecrans, Schurz and doughty Sigel Who bore our Stars and Stripes and eagle; i Lee;— With our first troopship cross the sea! These are the great Reserves who stand Today at the back of our fighting band. Women of France, "tis yours to lpread dead; while we strew these empty graves, We, On the red Ficld of Honorl For Quick and Expert Shoe Repair Work Bring or Send Your Shoes to DICK’S SHOE ‘REPAIR . SHOP 511 Beltrami Ave. Bemidji CONSISTING OF PLANTERS—SPRAYERS—DIGGERS SEED POTATO CUTTERS . Complete Stock of Extras Fraternity the Great Need. It was Victor Hugo- who conceived this thought: ‘“The true resistance of man against catastrophes is an aug- mentation of humanity. Love one an- other, aid one another. Solidarity of men is the retort to complicity of mys- terious facts. It is thus that is estab- lished on earth the third term of the grand human formula, fraternity. Gov- ernments ‘put obstacles in the way of liberty and equality, they will come in their time, in spite of the monarchy; STOUGHTON WAGONS and MANURE SPREADERS—AUTO TRUCKS equality in spite of the aristocracy. But fraternity is the opening door, the ‘steps and not to go away. A neighbor Plows, Drags, Discs and Cultivators emptying- purse, the helping hand.” Auto Accessories, Auto Oil, Tires, Tubes and etc. TApt Déscription, Florence, was told to sit on the front of ours who wore heavy shell-rimmed glasses was very fond of her and hap- pened to pass by while she was sit- ting there. He stopped and spoke to/ her—at the same time producing a bag of candy. Running into the house she exclaimed: “Oh, mamma, look what I got from the op'ra glasses man.”—Chicago American. F. M. PENDERGAST Telephone 17-F-4—or People’s Co-operative Store Bemidji, Minn. 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