Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 10, 1921, Page 8

i Lt e o FOUERE Li THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER e ey T FRIDAY. EVENING, JUNE 10, 1021 'HARDING SPEAKS - NATION'S DESIRE | {ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE COUN: . TRY SAY WITH HIM THAT | WAR “MUST NOT BE AGAIN.” . DISARMING SOMETHING ELSE Insistent Propaganda to Persuade America to Lay Down all Weapons, Whatever Other Nations Do, Doesn't | Persuade Most Congressmen. By EDWARD B. CLARK. ‘Washington.—With the war in his imind, President Harding when in New York City, as he placed a wreath on the jcasket of the first American soldier |to dle on German soil, said: “It mustl 'not be again.” All through the country this expres- slon of the President has been recog- |nized as a simple but most striking |phrase, expressing as it does the de- |sire of all the people of the country. The speech on the pier at Hoboken, |F IN. J., of which “It must not be again” \was the keynote, has called particu- ilarly sharp attention in Washington |to the propaganda for disarmament. ICcmgresz; today is, or recently has been, confronted with several legisla- tive propositions which bear directly ‘on disarmament, and of course there {18 also before the law makers the reso- !lution which asks that a conference jon disarmawent he held between rep- resentatives of Great Britain, Japan and the United States. In Cougress and in the country to- day an old fight to a certain extent is being waged once more. All over the {United States there were pleas for disarmament long before the United ;States entered the great war, and in {fact long before any other nation had ‘entered it, There were attempts con- istantly to ;down the armed forces of the country {and with these attempts there were ‘others to prevent military exercises in (the schools of the country, and more |strongly to prevent the establishment \of training camps for the youth. | Would Disarm and Be Trustful, Today congress.is belng urged with the same Insistence as before the war to take measures which will dis- \arm this country while other coun- itries still carry arms. The present |administration is epposed to anything 'of .this kind and congress knows it, |but there is a strong minority in each !legislative house which seemingly be- lieves that the United States can |throw away -every: weapon that it' has ‘and remain perfectly placid in the !feeling that even though all the other |nations of the world are armed, and |some of them $till ambitious, no harm ‘can come to the United States. ! The line-up In congress on matters pertalning to what may be called in .a general way preparedness, is just about the same kind of a line-up that was in evidence in the years 1914, '15, 16 and In the early part of '17. It is only the truth to say that there|igefore the United States entered the | war, I was with the French armies in | was not one hard student of the trend ,of affairs in the past who was not iconvinced In (these years that the |United States eventually must enter|{great city of Nancy, which at thnt’ ithe great war, It can be sald that the majority of the members of both houses of con- gress in the years named belleved that {before long the United States would be compelled to get into the conflict. It was known in Washington that many of the representatives of the people in either house held back from support of unything which' looked like ‘preparn!lon for trouble, not because they belleved there was to be no trouble, but because their constituents, or a majority of them, would not ad- mit for one minute, no matter what !thelr senses told them, that war was to |come. What Wilful Blindness Cost. It is a terrible thing today to hear some of the things which were said concerning the cost to the United States of the Indifference to the loom- ing cloud of trouble in the three years prior to April, 1917. It is said freely in military and naval circles that the i disinclination to face the truth of ‘what was to come cost the United | States the lives of very many thous- ;ands of men who otherwise today would be allve and well, and added fully fifty per cent to the lists of the slck and Injured who are pleading to a forgetful people for that remem- brance which seemingly should be due to men who sacrifice themselves for others, All of this.is of the past. It has taught its lesson in part. There is |not much 'question but that eventually {the great countries of the world will get together and enforce a reduction iof armaments, and will take menans to provide against future wars be- tween clvilized pegples. The question now, however, has to do with today; a time prior to the agreement time ‘when the nations shall write thelr disarmament rules and follow them to the proper end. '’ There was’no party division to any ‘marked degree when the senate the other day voted down an amendment which would have decreased the per- ;mnnel of the United States navy. {There seems to be a majority feeling in congress that the United States {cannot today go to an extreme of dis- /armament | while other nations still /maintain, perhaps not an extreme of ‘armament but something approaching to it. i ‘Memortal day services for the dead "7 "'DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS . ' induce congress to cutj of many wars this year were marked perhaps not by an unusual. solemnity, but. certainly by a seemingly larger appreclation of America’s duty to its dead. Within a few days there reached the United States the bodies of over 5,000 American soldiers who obeyed the last call in France while serving their country and a sister republic in the hour of need. Many of these bodles have been brought to Wash- ington for interment in the great na- tional cemetery at Arlington. Everywhere in" Washington at this present time there is in evidence the red poppy of Europe. It is the poppy of Flanders field, the poppy of the {valleys of the Marne and the Moselle, and of the fields bordering the {stretches of the Meuse and the for- ests of the Argonne. It seems to me that this flower, which has been adopted as the Me- morial Day flower .by the American Legion, deserves of itself some spe- cial consideration, It was remarkable how the blood-red poppy of France took hold of the imagination of the |American soldiers. For centuries in |France it has been regarded in a |sense as the war flower, or perhaps |rather as the flower of war's after- math. Its color likewise has been significant of sacrifice, and as it; |grows abundantly on virtually-all the| battlefields of France, and the whole, country at one time or another has |been a battletield, it has come to be {looked upon as at once a companion; innd a memorial to the dead heroes ‘of the land. " I have found that many Americans believe that the red poppy of France, which blows also in Flanders fields, is essentially a spring blossom. It is |true that the poppy is more abundant in the spring than at other seasons of the year, but from April until Novem- ber here and there through the fields,' the red poppy always may be seen. in the fields between the lines of the’ French and the German armies, in: the foot hills of the Vosges, in late April and in egrly May. I have seen the fields of the advanced zone north of the Marne in the months of Sep- | tember, October and November. The French soldiers look on the poppy as a symbolic flower. They have an extreme sympathy with it |and their feeling toward the blossom quickly extended itself to the ranks of the American armies. The blos- soms of this plant which has been the theme of soldier and civilian poets for years is single, and yet its petals have a tenacity of adherence to the stem which is unusual in flowers so sparsely leaved. The American sol- dier, not over given in the main to sentiment, used to pluck and wear the poppies. Many an American went into battle with a poppy in the button- hole of his blouse. The American Legion took cogni- zance of these things whem it adopted the poppy as its memorial flower. So far as I know the European poppy of this species does not grow in Amer- fea. Flowers Profuse in France. In France as in America 'today at this time of the year naturg's floral feast Is spread. In 1915, two years the flelds along the Moselle river near Pont-a-Mousson, and not. far from the time was only eight miles from the German line. In that year my so- Jjourn on the eastern front included a part of April and a part of May. Looking over the fields which were semipeaceful, because at that time the Moselle region was a omparative- ly qulet sector, one easily could jm- agine himself to be back in the meadows of America. The blood-red poppy was the only floral stranger to the eye. The dandelions, the buttercups, the daisies and the clover all grew abund- antly in the fields, and so far as the unsclentific eye could défermine, there was no difference between the $pecles of these plants growing there in the embattled fields of France, and. those growing in the peaceful fields of America. In the spring of 1915 at memorial time, the thought came to me: for- cibly that perhaps before long in those fields would be enacted the trag- edies which would add to the solem- nity and the significance of future Memorial days in the United States. The Lusitania had just been sunk, and mews of it had come to France. From that hour it seemed to be the belief of Frenchmen, and of such Amerlfcans as were in France, that the entrance of the Unlfed States in- to the war was inevitable. The fu- ture gave substance to the thought, Hindu Music. Be it In devotion, in love or In patriotism, the daily life of the Hindu all the year round pulsates with the rhythm of music. The shepherd on the meadow, the farmer on the rice field, the boatman on the river,. the fisherman on the lake, the corn grinder at the millstone, the savwyer at the lumber yard, the weaver at the loom, the washerman at the pool, the mason building 'houses, the snake charmers or jugglers on the streets, the children in school and the priest at the temple: —they all sing songs as they perform their respective duties. Some sing for the uplift of their souls and others to beguile the tedlum of their work. b The fragrant freshness of Hindu, music and the fresh. fragrance of “the; message of India’s melodic songs are’ sure to make a marked impression on/ but. critical listeners. - | 5 g I have seen it in profusion [.;rm\'mg.;me it nodding with the passing winds In | the minds of even the most ‘listless | EEEREKRE KRR KRR & KK x BLACKDUCK * 230 3% o 0 o k% 4 Although very little has been heard from the village of Blackduck of iate it is still on the map and is more alive than it has even been be- fore. The Blackduck band, which was organized the latter part of the win- meeting twice a week. They expect to ' be on deck for the 4th of July celebration to be held at Kelliher. Several business transactions of interest, have taken place of late namely the West Hotel, formerly owned by Mrs. Guro Anderson has beem, sold to Mr. Bergstrom. N. J. Lien’s house has been sold to Felix Craft and the handsome property of Tom Cross had been sold to the Lutheran congregation of Blackduck for a parsonage. N. J. Stondley, the garageman, is having an addition -built to his gar- age, the work being done by carpen- ter P. C. Peterson. Charles Volleau and his sister, Mrs. Annie Braion, from Kansas Qity,, Kansas, were called here on account of the illness of their mo- ther, Mrs. W. McAlister who is very low. F. L. Kalden, the local undertaker, was called to Tenstrike last week to care for the body of Miss Esther A. Hompel, who died of heart trauble. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. B. Fonmosse Friday at Ten- strike. Ole Lone and Reuben Langard are enjoying life in a tent on the shore of Blackduck lake. They say fishing is fine. Albert Buer sold his Buick car last week to S. Smith, living on the short of Rabideau lake. Mr. Buer Is planning on moving west this sum- mer. George Ronneberg spent last Wed- nesday at the county seat, tending to business. Miss Pearl Kverno, stoppad off here on _her way home from Crookston, where she has atended 'high school past winter. Iver Iverson of St. Hilaire, spent Sunday and Monday with his broth- er-in-law, Rev. Odegaard, returning | Tuesday, taking his little daughter Clara with him, who has spent the winter in Blackduck. Miss Sather cf McIntosh, spent Sunday with relatives in Blackduck. Little Walter Strand left Tuesday morning for McIntosh, to spend the summer with his grandparents. Rev. A. O. Odegaard, went to Shooks Tuesday evening to conduct services at that place. .Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Vinji of Kelli- her passed through here on their way to the cities on Tuesday. The local schools closed last Fri- day with graduation in the evening. M. W. Deputy of the Bemidji State Teachers college was the principal gpeaker. All the teachers have gone to their respective homes and the youngsters are enjoying their well earned vacation. W 0 2k b % el BIG LAKE EXEKE XK KRR KX Mrs. E. C. Bergh, Mrs. C. 0. Wing and George Voltz were in Bemidjl ter is doing some splendid practicing, |Friday of ‘last week attending to business matters and shopping. About twenty-five young people met at Mrs. Jessie Groves Saturday evening to pragctice songs for chfl- dren’s day. _An exceptionally inter- esting program of songs, drills and readings is being prepared by the! children for that day. The program will be given Sunday morning, June 19-at 10:30 a. m. at Big Lake school house. Everyone cordially finvited to attend. E Mr. and Mrs, Charles Bloomquist and family motored to the Berg farm near Carr Lake school house Friday of last week and attended the com- munity pienie. J. 8. Betaly and C. 0. Wing drove to Bemidji on business Saturday. Miss Jessie Groves proved up on her claim Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon and young son of Dysart, Missouri, who are vis- iting at the home of Mrs. Sheldon’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stout, attended Sunday school and church services at Big Lake school house Sunday. 3 Harley A. Hanson is busy attend- ing to his duties as assessor of Sug- ar Bush township. Mrs. E. C. Bergh was in Bemidji! Aluways right on top = iMcKibbin HERE’s A StyiE For Youna MEex~From 1710 70; finequal- ity, light weight material in an undeniably smart model. O: 1. LAQUA suit of clothes? | it at every step. a day. By the per minute. from -materia 2472 Consider ' Your Clothes AVE you ever étopped to think of -the part petroleum plays in converting raw material into the fabrics which are used to make your sheep’s back to the clothes on your back * is a long journey and petroleum shortens 3 By machinery lubricated with petroleum, a man may shear from 175 to 200 fleeces would be considered a big day’s work. After leaving the sheep, the wool passes through ten major processes before ‘it is ready for the tailor. quire the use of intricate machinery, having bearings which run at speeds varying from 350 to 12,000 revolutions From the clipper to the last finishin chine, a diversity of mechanical conditions exist, each of which has been studied and experimented with,and a lubricant found which . meets exactly the needs of the machinery. In solving these lubricating problems, and manufacturing oils and greases which enable these machines' to perform their work, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) always has been among the leaders. Its staff of carefully trained chemists, refiners, and ‘lubricating engineers are constantly at work, devising new and more efficient means of reducing friction. This Company 'computes its 'success not ¢ wholly upon its balance sheets, ot wholly upon the number of useful products it manu- factures, but rather upon the fact that many of the useful products of petroleum are made which otherwise would 'be wasted, and are made by processes which were evolved in the Company’s laboratories. Standard Oil - Company (Indiana) " 910 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago From the wool on a old method, 50 fleeces Each of these re- ma- )Saturday having, dental work don at BE. C. Bergh's Wednesday, June 8th. Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p. m, the Baptist Gospel team of Bemidji held *services at Big Lake school house. | Their topic was “The Devil, What He Is: Where He Is and Where Will He Be.” A large audience was pre- gent to hear the helpful and instruc tive talks given by these Christian people. Our community greatly ap- preciates their Christian Kindness in holding theseiservices. Date of next meeting will' be announced later. Mr. and Mrs. Ole Wold were call- ers at E. C. Bergh's Saturday eve- ning. ‘The young men of the neighbor- {hood met at the Geror farm to organ- ize their baseball team. ' E. C. Bergh is manager of the team. They hope to have a strong team thefore the summer i§ over. | Clarence Steele and sisters Flor- lence and Eifreda, were dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Jessie Groves Sunday. A. C. Steele and C. L. Guthrie took dinner with J. C. Beatly Sunday. Felix Scott, who is employed-in Bemidji spent Sunday at his Home here. out to his farm this week. THE PIONEER WANT. ADS i BRING RESULTS 3 —telephone Thurs Ford Motor Co. PRIZES R. C. DOUBS, Farming.” tion COMPLETE Telephone 970 Big Lake Farmers’ club will meet || Andrew Edd, is-moving his family | 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 up-to-date places. A Call and let-us explain our proposition. BEMIDJI HOME BUILDING CO. . 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