Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 3, 1921, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER | R gy B e A o j | | G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor Telephone 922 Entered st the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesots, as second-class matter, | under Act of Ccugress of March 3, 1879. 1 No attention psid to snonymous contributions. Writer'’s name mut\; 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 One Year ... ——-$6.00 glx noimu; 300 One Year ... e $5.00 'hres Mont S—— " One Month —— g5 Six Months . _ 260 One Week .18 Three Months .. 1.28 -THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published .ury_—‘l’hurldn | und sent postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.0v. | ures compiled by the bureau of public {of Agriculture in a study of revenue | | Ther NEWS |“IF I WERE KING” AT | THE REX THEATER TONIGHT | Manager Brinkman of the Rex theater regrets to announce that this| {1s ithe last’'day he will be able to| (¢how the big William Fox production {“If 1 Were Ring.” So great has been | ithe Cpmand to see this big special| that Manager Brinkman is endeav-| joring to get a return bookimg for it. {He wants all his patrons to see Wil- |Mam Farnum_ in this photoplay, be-; |cause he believes it to be one of the | finest productions he has ever put on !hwiu screen. See it today if you can. GOQD | ~ew, REVENUE FOR ROAD BUILDING Registration and License Fees in 1920 Amounted to $102,034,106— Increase in Cars. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) A total of 9,211,295 motorcars, in- cluding commercial vehicies, were reg- istered last year in the 48 states and District of Columbia, according to fig- |“OTTLAWED” AT THE REX THEATER SATURDAY ONLY Sierra Madre, capital of the lard | available for road-building purposes. | which ‘God: forgot, is a quaint little! were also. registered a total of |Western town in the “Cow Country,” The registration | Where love and romance walk hand and license fees, including those for l'fl hand with danger and death; for| chaufteurs, . operators and deulers, |2t th's late day, the west is still the| = > wesat, and the law of the “Six-gun” amounted to $102,034,106.26. As com- | R pared with 1919, the data for 1020 rep- 113 supreme. . Especially is this so roads of the United States Department 238,146 motorcycles. OF THE THEATRES ling! into Americans thru their con-, OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS |in the case of the adventurers who, resent an increase of 22 per cent, OF gy one reason or an~ther. seek their |fortunes om its broad plains.. | A narrow guage railroad is the| 11,645,849 motorears. This increase {alone lacks but 4 per cent of being | o GIVE THE STRANGER A CARD When you meet a stranger that you think may be inter-| ested-in something you have to sell or something you are doing, | you give him your card. He knows at a glance and if interest-| ed, if that little piece of card-board has something on it that interests him, he will keep it and remember you. The local newspaper is the community card. If you are trying to get a man interested in the village or surrounding coun-| try, there is no better way than to send him the local paper, and| if that paper is bright, newsy and well filled with local adver- tising, the man will be interested, if he is to be interested at all, because he:has in his hand the community card that tells him just what he will find in the village and surrounding country. | If the local newspaper is not all it should be in news and% advertising, every business man and farmer are damaged to a| great extent by the adverse criticism that such a sheet will bring upon them. L A AN It is up to the editor to work with and for the interests of his community and county, but it is also up to the businessi men of that community to work with and for the interests of the local paper. This kind of a combination worked wonders in Long Prai- rie and Wadena some years ago.—Cass County Pioneer. P A A COMPROMISE The railroad labor board evidently thought that a com- promise between the demands of the rail executives and the r_anlroad employees was the safest way out of the present situa- tion, The rail executives wanted the entire increase of last year to th® employees, amounting to about $600,000,000, to be cutf off ‘the payrolls of; the roads. The employees, of course, want-| ed the wages to remain as they were, and the railroad labor board decided upon a compromise of a $400,000,000 reduction in the railway employees’ wages, which means a reduction of npproxxngately 12 per cent from the present wage scale. 4 A wide-spread demand has been heard for the reduction of freight rates for some time and now that the announcement of the reduction in wages has been made the déemand will without quespion become more loud than ever. Railroads have been quoting the high wages as a reason for the impossibility of re- duced freight and passenger tariffs. With their reduced wage scale in operation, this reason will become without effect, and it will be up to the roads to pass on the cut. AUTO DRIVERS, READ THIS It may not occur'to the drivers of trucks and automobiles that they are responsible for any accidents which may happen to boys who, jump on to the auto or hang on behind their car on the spare tire holders or elsewhere. Periodic warnings are given to both the boys and the drivers, but it seems to be soon forgotten. We saw six boys jump on, or try to jump on, a truck yesterday afternoon, which, at the time, was moving at least fifteen miles anl hour. Four got on, the other two tripped each other, fell down on the pavement and rolled out of the way of an oncoming automobile behind them, It is ay much the duty of officers to prevent: boys from hanging on cars or trucks as it is to see that the cars do not exceed the speed limit. For your own good, auto drivers, you had better keep the boys off your cars. For your own good, boys, you had better stay off, \ Sy S CURFEW DOES NOT RING TONIGHT What has become of our curfew? We used to hear it last winter when every kid on the streets was hunting some warm stove to get his back up to long before 9 o’clock. But since the warm weather has come, and boys 7, 8, 9 and 10 years old are to be found at almost any part of the town at almost .any hour of the night, we don’t hear the'd o’clock whistle, Why not? Boys and girls have plenty long enough from sunrise to sunset at this time of the year to get all the fresh air they need. School will soon be out and then the trouble will be greater than now. Better blow your curfew whistle and see that the law regaraing it is obeyed. OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR God made bears, monkeys, snakes and humans and he figured his work well done, says an exchange. He had several pieces of anatomy left unfit for even a reptile or skunk, and with a wishbone for a vertebrae he made an anonymous letter writer with neither the designation of a human or beast. He called it just a thing.—Stillwater Gazette. Doc. Rutledge was appointed state immigration commissioner this week to succeed J. S. Arneson. If Doc boosts Minnesota’s fertile acres as well as he has the northern Minnesota editors, there will not be a waste spot on all of Minnesota’s fair face.—Northern News. - The alien property custodian has seized all of Grover Bergdoll wealth. Ma Bergdoll will now have to locate the end of the rainbn$ an: dig, or poor Grover will have to go to work'—Minneapolis Journal. | Grand Rapids is all puffed up over a new police statios m. Fergus closed her station years ago and finally leased it out to house electric mgeters' and | storage materials.—Fergus Falls Tribune. ¢ A New York dancer has insured her legs for $125,000, it, that while we hear much of insured lcgsg. hand:. olces, tically never reports the insurance of brains. prohlbltiye.—-St‘ Paul Dispatch. A Curious, isn’t voices, etc., one prac-| Probably the rate would be | When the Zionists get control of the Holy Land hy H ’ - will apply for a place on the governi ard, 1 D st np(: ey g e 2 e on governing bard, to help straighten ewery}hmg The son of a New York millionaire is working i o of ; 4 W SLOTR g in a hotel, tojlearn. tise | bulllll‘l‘g;srsi.m:?ns of millionaires general\y make pretty good waiters.—St. equal to the total registrations of the ipride and boast of the community,| jand Slerra Madre had lately become, | lcn account of this rz(lroad, the cat-| |tle shipping center of tha country.| twith this industry came an element | which held the law in contempt { crafty, scheming para:ites who rec-| ognized no law but that of the Six-| |gun, and who, under the leadership of a desperate character, plundered, the herds, robbed the populace and put ‘the fear of death in the hearls“ of all lovers cf law and order. Work-| ing with uncanny secret methods, | this band of cutlaws had become so | bold because, of their success, that| they even shipped the stolen cattle| from the town under the very noses, of the sheriff and citizens. But crime, no matter how care- fully planned, has never proven a success, so it came akbout that the U. S. Marshal’s office was called upen to| relieve the sufferings of the popu-| lace. The men: from that office had ecome ‘both secretly and openly i Sierra Madre only tc disappear as completely as though the earth had opened up and swallowed them. But Knowles, the sheriff of Sierra Madre, with his trusty posse, had apparently |exhausted every trick known to ihe profeszional man hunter but witheut! avail. The crimes continuel to grow | in volume and’ boldness. Then” thel Cow-men got together and focrmed the Cattlemen’s asscciation. Who their chief was remained a mystery, but their headquarters was the Diam United States six years ago. ‘In 1920 in the state of New York alone the number of motorcars re tered, including commercial vehis i i Improvec Roads Facilitate the Deliv- ery of Mail to the Farmer. exceeded the total cars registered in the whole of the United States in 1910. Furthermore,- the revenues derived from registration in the state of New York in 1920 were about equal to.the entire registration revenues of the United States for 1913. The use made of revenues has changed with the passing of years: In 1906 the total registrations were ap- proximately 48,000 cars, paying a {jross | revenue of about $193,000. - (Arizona in 1920 paid approximately this amount.) In 1906 the gross registration revenues were equal to less than three-tenths of 1 per cent of the total rural road and bridge expenditures for that year. The registration revenues in 1920 were equal to about 25 pér cent of the rustling stopped,. but soon started agalin with more holdness than if the | thing. | “PECK’S BAD BOY” AT THE REX COMMENCING SUNDAY “Peck’s ‘Bad Boy,” coming to the Rex theater, in which Jackie Coogan shines, contains many things other |than comedy situations. There is a ;episodgs. Dainty, Doris Wheeler Oakman provide this. Miss May, who is knowm as “the sweetest © | girl on the screen;” was never sweet- total rural road and bridge expendi- |er than in her portrayal of: Jackie's tures for the calendar year 1919. In |bjg :ster in the. Peck film, ‘and 1906 practically none of the motor- | Wheeler Oakman| doéy some very vehicle revenues was applied to road | clever work as the young doctor who maintenance or construction, while in |fails in love with Juckie’s big “sis.” 1920 96 per cent, or a total of §97,997,- . .0 160.60, was used for this purpose. The remaining 4 per cent not applied to road work was expended very largely i for number plates and in carry out | the provisions of the motor vehlicle registration laws in the several stafes. Of the totadl amount applied to Fond When Irvin S. Cobb visited the ! west coast on his recent speaking tour, he met little Jackie Coogan of Chaplin “The Kid” fame. Mr. Cobb had only a limited time for his tour and he was late on his route sched- ule. But after meeting Jackie, Cobb | forgot his speaking tour. He remain- workk 79 pexr cent, or $77,53 , led in Los Angeles one month and in was expended under the itrol or that time, wrote the titles for supervision of the several state high- | Jackie’s new picture, “Peck’s Bad way departments. Boy,” which will be seen as.a First Inn‘n‘on‘al attraction at the Rex thg- ater. Cobb’s wit and humor has ad- FARMERIAND GOOD H'GHWAYS ‘zded many giggles to the Peck film {Wa the captions which are, accord- Improved : Roads “Make Farm Only a 'h:g to the famous humorist, words such as Jackie Coogan himself would Suburbj and Land Has Increased | Greatly in Value. ‘speakA The biggest booster for good roads | “FICKLE WOMEN” AT T’HE in tife country today is the farmer. | ELKO LAST TIME TONIGHT A few years ago he felt that the por-| mija Wheeler Wileox, the great tion of his taxes used in the construc- | Amenican poetess, who recently died, tion of permanent highways repre-|wrote in her own way Something sented a benefit only to the motoring |about it being easy to smile when life tourist and the city automobile owner. | goes along I’ke a song, but that it is The farmer argued that he was pay- {mighty hard to smile when every- ing for their pleasures, aud the result | thing goes wrong. was a superstition against the good Be that as it may, the photoplay, | vel chicl | “Fickle ‘Women,” in which David roads movement, which, Aunfnrtu\mlel), | Butler is to make his last appearance has not as yet been entirely overcome i on the screen of the Elko theater to- in some sections of the country. night is a story of a smile that bas Now, however, when the farmer a k'ck to it. finds that ‘his land has trebled in val- | ‘Wie have all heard about he who ue; when the merchandise for which |laughs last---well, the young hero of he has telephoned in the morning can |this photoplay Im_xghs first, last and be delivered by noon of the same day; |all :het 'I"i“?- snl”le; <‘Vhe?t:‘h:‘l’:§5ng“‘l‘ when the market for his own produce | 28ainst him, and when, with @ is brought hours nearer; when the |Of his good husky firstshe cleaned up W ! ontinues to winter and its following spring thnw!‘l few doubts, he.just.c y ismile. possess no terrors for him—all this | "sppe young hero returns home. be- because of the improved highway decked wfith all kinds of medals to which makes his farm only a suburb, | find that al slacker, in order to steal as it were, of the nearest city—he {'his girl away, has resorted. to slander naturally becomes a hard-working | of the vilest kind. : and hard-voting enthusiast for good| But with the exercise of plenty of roads.—Leslle’s. | good old Yankee pep and a few Yan- kee wallops he vindicates his good ;\'"GHWA?COSTS ARE HIGHER name and marries the girl of his chaoice. The. women folks ‘will like this | Expense of Rload Construction in 1920 }\plctnre. for it overflows with human |interest and bubbles over with good | healthy humor. | “IHE GREATEST LOVE” AT ELKO THEATER SATURDAY “The Greatest Love”, a new Select Special announced for Saturday a'nd Sunday at the Biko theater with Twice as Mugh as in 1917, ! According to Expert. Every kind of road cost about twice as much to build in 1920 as it did 1z 1917, accarding to the chief of the bu- reau of |)nbl'(c roads, United States De- partment of agriculture, and highway construction suffered- more than any - = other class of work through railroad x‘"‘}{gg::‘?;q:eh? F;&(v:;l;gfi:;ogg congestion,- strikes, labor troubles and | i gaid to possess not only human in- waterial shortages | terest to an unusually high degree, t ] Subscribe tor: The Dally Ploncer., but a Dbaffling mystery which holds {“Don’t Neglect Your Wife,” a Gold- ond K ranch. For a time the cattle-|coming to the Grand theater for two | cow-men had never tried to do any-| | strong love ' theme throughout iits | May and| up the suyensce cf the stery urtil the end. Mother Jove is the dominant teat- ure of the picture, and the rise of the little immigrant family from: poverty to power in _the new land of oppor- ‘tunity, later followed by tragedy and hunyliation, constitutes a cross sec- thonr of life which mightt be met just arcund the corner of a big city. The supporting cast includes many well known players, among others| being: Bertram Marburgh, Fannie| Shelton, Hugh Huntley, Wm. H Tooker, Ray Dean, Donald Hall, S 1y Crute, Jessie Simpson, Bebby: Wat- son. Little Bobby Connelly and Dot Williams have the roles of the newly arif.ved¢ immigrant children develop- tact with other children on the East Side. | . Larry Semcn alzo'appears at the| Elko Saturday and Sunday in “The Rent Collector,” his latest produu-i tion, 1 FOUR ACTS VAUDEVILLE AT THE GRAND TONIGHT' With the first show beginning at | 7:30 and the second show at 9:15, tcnight, marks the re-opeu(ing of the regular weekly vaudeville at the Grand theater. Doyle and Griffith present a, com- edy and talking act which is billed | as “Love and Divorce,” Kendall and | Slater, a clever young couple present! “No Babies Allowed” which is war-{ ranted to produce enough laughs farl one evening. It isa flat hunting epi-| code with a baby, and the young) ccuple endeavors in ‘smuggling thel baby into a recently rented apart-! ment resulting in no end- of fun.| Cariton Chase, international singing| comedian, who ‘has toured every large country on the globe, and who has made several appearances before European rcyalty, has a number of song numbers that are new, and the! WIL closes with the Anglo Armento; Co. known as the world’s ' fastest| tumblers. Warren J. Kerrigan .in “The Green Flame” is a five part story of love and adventure, which preceeds the vaudeville at all shows, tonight and Saturday at the Grand theater. “DON’T NEGLECT YOUR WIFE” 'COMING T0 THE GRAND | San Francisco and New York in}| the days, of '69 and 70 are linked! in Gertrude Atherton’s photoplay ! wyn Eminent Authors production, begini{ing Tuesday. The story | juzt as timely now as in the days when the action takes place. The! last episode of the powerful and ab-| sorbing dcmestic drama tcld in the| story -takes place .in. New, York’s in-, famous “Five Points) \n heighth oij that ‘dive’s’ notoriety. Most of thej action takes place in the arnistocratic, {atmosphere of San Francisco when its social Tegister comprized names cf Southern’ families almost exclusive- ly. Mabel Juliénne Scott, Lewis S. Stone, Charles Clary, Kate Le:ter, Arthur. Hoyt, R. D. MacLean, etc.,| are in the capable cast. Wallace Worsley Cirected. ‘ The Folks Next voor. On what ocean is Callao? What language do they speak in Montevideo? What Is the big port of Argentina? Where is Quito? How does Rio de Janeiro compare in size with Rich- mornd, Va.? Is La Pas a mountain or south of Buenos Ayres? Is there a law against automobiles in Peru? Do they have snow in Brtzil? If so, when? Why do they speak French in Ecua- dor? Or do they? Try these ques- tions on * a business man.—Krom Collier’s, Use Care in Handling Powder. Opening a wooden -keg of black blasting powder with a wooden tool | might appear to be the safest of meth- | ods, yet the United States bureau ot mines calls attention to a number of serious accidents resulting from the practice. The habit in many places has been to drive a hardwood - spike } through the head of the keg, and in several instances the ignition of the powder has directly followed. The cause ‘remains unexplained, though any one of a number of actions may be responsible. Because of the dem- onstrated danger, it is recommended that powder be extracted from its kegs only by way -of the bunghole, even if more time is required.—Pop- ular Mechanics Magazine. Do you know y506 can ro‘lj ! [oYe] ? cigare%esEr | IOcts from ; one bag of ’ { | | | | | GENUINE | “BULLDURHAM | . TOBACCO K oo hoes B si 4 - - " The Author’s Tribute “T could almost believe I was hear-’ ing William Farnum’s voice.” —Justin Huntly MecCarthy William Fox presents William Farnum In Justin Huntly McCarthy’s warld famous romance “IF | WERE KING’ Scenario by E. Lloyd Sheldon Directed by J. Gordon Edwards ROMANCE RUNS THE WOR_LD Matinee 2:30—10c-25¢ "IF J_WERE KING MUTT & JEFF COMEDY -FOX NEWS REX ORCHESTRA v ,ILXAM JEFOX PRODUCTION Evenings 7:10-9:00—15¢-30¢c Bungalows We build and sell on easy payment plan, the very newest type of 5 and 6 room, strict- ly modern Bungalows. " With a small pay- nent down we, can put you into one of these up-to-date places: Call and let us explain our proposition. ' BEMIDJI HOME BUILDING CO. 14 BATTLES BLOCK PHONE 29 R MOOSE BAZAAR Whole week of Frolic and Fun, beginning Monday, June 6th THIRD STREET NEXT TO REX THEATRE ~MUSIC- BOOTHS-REFRESHMENTS