Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 13, 1921, Page 3

e e R A e MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1921 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. K. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor ‘Telephone 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesots, as second-class matter, under Act of Ccugress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to snonymous 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 g By Carrier 6,00 By Mall ne Year X glhx lofithlm..___.- el agg One Year —.—. — X ree Mon! i} ——e 1 One Month AN | 8ix Months —— e 2.50 One Week .16 Three Months N— ] } THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS _—- e —— FUTURE OF MANKIND DEPENDS ON TEACHERS Teaching is the initial and decisive factor in the future of mankind, and the first duty of everyone who has the ability and opportunity is to teach, or to subserve the teaching of, the true history of mankind and of the possibilities of this vision of a single world-state that history opens out to us. ) Men and women can help the spread of the saving doctrine in a thousand various ways; for it is not only in homes a.nd schools that minds are shaped. They can print and public books, endow schools and teaching, organize the distribution of literature, insist upon the proper instruction of children in world-wide charity apd fellowship, fight against every Sort of suppression or restrictive control of right education, bring pres- sure through political and social channels upon every teaching organization to teach history aright, sustain missions and a new sort of missionary, the missionaries to all mankind of knowledge and the idea of pnt world-civilization and one world commu- nity; they can conduct and help the progress of hlstor{cal and| ethnological and political science; they can set their faces agdinst evrey campaign of hate, racial suspicion, and patg‘lotlc falsehood ; they can refuse, they are bound to refuse, obedience to any public. authority which oppresses a.m'i embitters class against every campaign of hate, racial suspicion, gnd patriotic A belligerent government . as such, they will refuse to obey; and they will refuse to help or suffer any military prepa- rations that are not directed wholly and plainly to preserving the peace of the world. o ! And those who are awakened to the full significance of thel vast creative effort now before mankind will set themselves par-| ticularly to revise the common moral judgment upon: many acts| and methods of living that obstruct the way of the world-state.| The idea of a world-unity and brotherhood has come back | into the world almost apologetically, deferentially, asking for| the kind words of successful politicians and for a gesture of patronage from kings. 3 5 5 Yet this demand for one world-empire of righteousness w inherent in the teachings of Buddha; it flashed for a little while behind the sword of Islam; it is the embodiment in earthly af- fairs of the spirit of Christ. It is a call to men for service as of | right; it is not an appeal to them that they may refuse, not a voice that they may disregard. 5 for long thus deferentially on the outskirts of the act}ve world it has come to save.—H. G, Wells, in Hearst’s International. OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR [ < ESTATES —— The cigarette cases of the late Olive Thomas, moving picture actress, sold at auction for $1,200. ~There was one of gold and platinum; one of green gold; one studded with emeralds; one of crystal, and one of plain gold. Not long agd a teacher of the city died. At his death his bank account contained $12. Friends bore the expenses of his funeral and made upa fund to complete the payments on the house he lived in so that the home might not be taken from the widow.—Minnesota Daily Star. § Last week, Miss Heleh Freeman, East Oakland school teacher, gave a bath to one of her small pupils who hadn’t had one since Christmas. Tues- day she reccived a note from the mother of another boy in which thd lady said: “I'm busy this weck. Will you please give my Jimmy a bath.” Mis: Freeman says she’s through giving “kids” baths. The Free Press reprints this story in order to show the drift of the parent mind toward the school. Many things that should be taught and done in the home are now on the list of studies in the school. Why not add bathing to the long line?—Mankato Free Press. That the boy who smokes cigarettes is, on the average, 15 per cent low- er in his school work than the boy who does not use tobacco, declared W. G. Bolcom, s&perintendent of the Rochester public schools, in his address before the. local Men’s club, says the Post and Record. Supt. Boleom bitterly criti- cized and condemned .the practice of schoql boys smoking cigarettes. Cigar- cttes, he said, are a hindrance to the best school work. Thq poor students, said Mr. Bolcom, usually smoke cigarettes. Valedictorians are seldom cigar- ctte smokers.—Stillwater Gazette. 5 Under the supreme court petition the bootlegger cannot be fined for gelling liquor in violation of the Volstead law and at the same time held for the revenue, tax on his sales. However; the bootlegger has not intended to pay .anything in either case.—Grand Forks Herald. [ . W. Jett Lauck tells the railroads they could save a billion dollars a year by cuating out waste and inefficiency in management. So could farmers. So covld merchants. So could housewives. So could labor unions.—Little Falls Transcript. Savings bank statements show that with unemployment on the increase savings accounts also are on the increase. An acceptable explanation might throw light on a situation that needs it badly.—St. Paul Dispatch. Mr. Dem‘pseyAis reported to be learning French so that he will be able ’mi converse )vxth hu.x opponent. He neglected the opportunity to learn thq lan-| guage while serving in the army abroad.—St. Cloud Times. | The University of Minnesota got ten million dollars from the legis-| Iature and wanted ‘more. And we thought they taught political economy| in the big institution.—Baudette Region. b There are a hundred thousand divorces in this country evc}y year. And| still they call it the UNITED States, adds an exchange.—Baudette Region. Some one says: Year 1610—Indians sell Manhattan island for case of | whisky. Year 1920—Citizens offer to swap back.—Stillwater Gazette E | The engyclupcdiq voung man that Mr. Edison has in mind may be good on answering questions, but for nothing else.—St. Paul Dispatch. Much better to meet the man on the treet who is filled with ine | than the chap who is filled with moonshine.—Stillwater ancett‘:‘ sunshme! | We went fishing thy other day and‘. had wonderful luck. W. sed | a book agent and a bill collector.—Baudette Region. We Saisped | interest of Mrs. Henry F. Dimock of @ It is too great a thing to hover; S | MENOAIAL FOR DEAD WARRIORS “VICTORY BUILDING™ IMMENSE REALLY IS TO BE ERECTED IN WASHINGTON CITY. UNEXPECTED IS TO HAPPEN! Funds for the Proposed $20,000,000 Structure Already Are Being Raised! and Congress Has Provided a Site on the Mall. By EDWARD B. CLARK. . Washington.—Does the unexpected happen in Washington oftener than it happens elsewhere in these good Uni- | ted States? Sometimes it so seems, but the chances are that in this city, the capital of the country, there is a:' greater chance than elsewhere that a. merely suggested project more fre-’ quently comes into its own, because what might be called the spirit of the capital of the republic enters into the’ proposal for something worthy to be done. Two years ago, just after I had re- turned from field service in France,’ Rupert Hughes, the novelist, came to me and asked me for sentiment’s sake, | and for the sake of the news, to write a story concerning the plan for an. immense Victory building which it was proposed to erect in Washington . in memory of the dead of the American armies. I wrote the article, told of the heart Washington in the proposed plan, told of the great sum of money which it was proposed to raise, gave something of an outline of the architectural plans for the building itself, but wrote it believing that the plan was too am- bitious ever to see accomplishment, even in this city of deeds. Now it is announced that an im- mense Victory building, a memorial to tlie dead of all our wars, is an as-; sured fact, and that the breaking of! the ground for the $20,000,000 structure! will be the work of the coming autumn. ‘Carrying Out Washington’s ldeas. Out of virtually baseless stories sometimes good can spring. For the better part of a century there have! been intermittent tales printed withi every earmark of ‘truthfulness that Tnipn hington left a 1'% sum educational institution in the capital of g the republic, and that this money, hav- | ing never been used, still was in the | treasury of the United States, and that It now was purposed to put it to this | good use or to that good use in keep- [ ing with the spirit of the educational intention of the great givel It is perfectly true that Washington: did in his'will inake a provision for the | establishment of some kind of an ed- | | ucational institution which was to be' located in the capital of the country. The funds set aside were in the form iof bonds of some kind or other, but either because the bonds proved to be. | of little or no value, or because the'! provision in the will was not clear | enough, the small amount of money provided never was available, and nev. | er has been available. Now in a way the great victory me- morial building which is to be erected | | In Washington at a cost of $20,000,000 i\\‘lll be the result of the provision in George Washington's will for the es- tablishment of an educational institu- | tion in the capital of the country. Mrs.. | Dimock, who by the way a sister of’ | the Iate William €. Whitn secretary’ ! of the navy in Grover Cleveland’s cab- !inet, read the Washington will and be- lieved that an institution of the kind' | which is suggested would be In entire | keeping with the desire of the Father | lof His country. Mrs. Dimock knew | | there was no money to be secured from | the Washington source, but she thought | that the spirit was as good as the cash and o she went nhead with her w and the word today is that success 1s:| | to come. States Supplying Money. Word has come to Washington that ! {one state of the Union has appropri- | ated $100,000 in its own behalf for the: | project, and that other states are ex- pected to follow suit. omiittees’ | have been formed in all states of the'| Union for the purpose of raising funds.’ i There already is a considerable sum nd congress has provi jed a site for the memorial victo | structure on the Mall at Seventh and B streets, between Pennsylvania avenue and the Potomae river. weture, architectural already drawn, the! | | American Legion and all other patr | otic organizations will be giyen quar- .]in these Lot days iipare in ;| ‘certain iwhom the commander of the American “|that we want” soon will find himself early ‘summer in- Washington is - like midsumm ywhere else, and so one takes, the liberty of departing from the literally seasonable truth, The senators and representatives do not work shirt-sleeved, although there | is not a man in either house who does | not wish that he might violate the'| conventigus to the extent of dropping his coat into the waste paper basket, | of District of Col- umbia weather. The new members of congress suffer more under the heat: than the old membe The veterans are seasoned in more ways than one. They have no illusions. about the possibility of getting away early in a tariff bill year, and neither have they illusions concerning the possibility of getting through the summer on an or- dinary spring wardrobe. They pre- advance to dress for the occasion, and in Washington the oc- casion frequently is red hot, : Some one has szid that 110,000,000 | Americans are waiting anxious-eyed and eager-eared to find out what the congress of the United States is going to do with the taxation problem. The number of people concerned in this is exactly the number given, but it is hot to be taken for granted that babes in arms, boys of tire “shining morning | face” period of life, or girls of like age and like school occupation, or some millions of the adult indifferent, care anything about taxation legislation: | but nevertheless every member of congress knows that his fellow elti- zens are more interested in this matter today than in anything else which is to come before the lawmakers. New Idea In Tariff Legislation. Interest in the tariff hides its head in the presence of interest in taxation. Some of the Democrats say that tariff | and taxation amourt to the same ! thing, but of course there is the in- stant Republican denial of this today | just as there has been instant Re- ' publican denial of it ever since the | party was formed. art of. the Republican majority in the house today is seeking means to put into effect at once the tariff pro- | visions of the new bill as they pass | congress. In othey words, it is the desire to seot the tariff law working plecemeal if a way can be found to Ao it. This will be something new. The idea is that it takes a long while to pass a complete tariff measure, and ‘that if approval can be secured for provisions of it" before the | whole measure becomes a law, it will | be a good thing to put these provi-| sions into immediate operation. “How- | ever, this may or may not he done, | and when one says this absolutely un- | illuminating thing he has said all he | can say on the subject. Congress is interested in the Grover | Cleveland = Bergdoll case today . as deeply as ever it was. This case has taken - a sharp turn recently. Col. Thomas W. Miller, the alien property stodign,” who saw high ‘service in nce @ind was” given two or three decorations for gallantry, has charge | today, in a sense, of thesBergdoll mat- | ter, for the colonel has fdsted a state- ment as follows: | G. C. Bergdoll's Property Séized. | “At the personal direction of the Prebident of the United *States, and in accordance with the opinion of the yttorney general, I will" seize such propery, beloging to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll as has D¥en reporfed to the alien property cuStodian as being his own property, or in which he has any | interest whatsoever, whether owned | and administered personally by him or | through power of attorney given to any member of his family.” | The intention of the alien property custodian is to administer and operate property seized from Bergdoll as that of any other enemy’s property heid | by him, until congress shall direct | what .disposition is to be made of this class of property now in the hands of the custodian. It has been held consistently by the writer of this from the beginning | that some means would be found to | get Bergdoll’s person and now it seems that one of the means of getting his person is that of getting his property. | It is believed that this draft evad Legion declared to be “the one Boche penniless in Germany, and that he may | prefer prison here to penury there. Antonio Stradivari Antonio Stradivari -yhs born at Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, in 1644, and died in 1737, ninety-three years of age. His early violin was made like his master Amati’'s and signed ith his name. In 1670 he first began to sign his own instruments with his | ‘own name/ During the following twenty years he only made a few. The year 1690 was one of transition in his | career, but still he preserved the tradition of the Amatis school.and his | violins of -this period are commonly called Stradivarius Amatis. His finest were constructed from | cut the hair on their -heads, advanc- Lters. It | organizations of a specifically | | the city of Washington and, perhaps; | hair. It is from the Latin word, albus, E to be a2 memorial to the' | instrument s, but the building will [ 1700 to 1725; during the subsequent be made serviceable in a hundred dif- | five years to 1730 the workmanship ‘of ferent w: as the meeting place of |them is not of so high an order; and jotic | in 1730, or even' a- little earlier, the kind. On theé gro-7 floor there will [impress of Stradivarl is almost entire- be rooms set asid * the archives.or' [y lost. relics of the Union s great struggles. |. 3 The structure will commemorate the:| Albino. deeds of the men and women of 1776, |’ The term Albino was originally ap- as it will those of the men and women | plied by the Portuguese to those ne- of 1917, Taking it all in all, this strue--| groes who. were. mottled with white ture, barring the capitol of the United |spots; but it is,now applied to any States, will be the finest building in:|who are born with red:eyes and white it is not too much to say, one of the {white. Albion, one of the names of Eng- really commanding structures of theland, is derived from the same word; country. land it is said to have been given to Summer in Capital. Jlthe southern part of the fsland by Congress Is rounding into the mid- | Julius Cacsur in allusion to the white summer stretch of its work. It seems | cliffs skirting the southeastern coast a bit curious to speak of the mid- where he landed on the oceasion of his sgumer season as about to open, bug | first invasion in the year 53 B. O DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS BEFORE THE DAYS OF PAPER Bubstitutes, Some Expensive, Used byi Egyptians-and Arabians for the Recording of Events. | o | Papyrus is what the Egyptians wrote on over 4,000 years ago, and our word | paper is derived from it, London An- | sivers states, Bladebones of sheep were used by | the Arabs when paper was unknn\vn,i and many famous sayings have been found on these remarkable ‘“paper substitutes.” A “Album,” used by the Romans, was a preparation of white chalk, with which they covered the wood upon which they wrote. It is from this chalk, viz, white “album,” that-the modern word album is taken. The Romans carrled tablets of wood or metal and a little bit of pointed iron to write with, The iron point was called - a “stylus” — which suggests the present day “stylo.”” Two of the tablets (sometimes covered with wax, sometimes with album), were often joined together by wire hinges, and the backs ornamented with ivory, gold or precious stones, An expensive sub- stitute for a double sheet of writing paper! Leather was used by the Jews for vriting purposes, and they were re- nowned for their skill in this respect. Linen and silk took the place of paper as “writing materials” in many ‘countries, Thin plates of gold were used in Java in the production of a book be- fore paper was made, It was written on both sides of these gold plates, and great writers, especially Euclid, traced their designs with a stick on a table covered with common dust. Length of Hair Marked Caste. For a long time the length of halr was considered a mark of caste in France. Only members of the royal family and princes of the blood could wear their hair long. Polled hair was a sign of obedience and inferiority. To cut the hair of a prince was to de- prive him of his right of succession to the throne. Notwithstanding these facts, Charlemagne liked to wear his hair | short. The name of his son, Charles | the Bald, indicates the style of coif- | fure he affected. The Emperor The- ophilus was also afilicted with a bare | crown and he, to shun the notoriety | of it, strongly urged his subjects to ing numerous - reasons, ‘sanitary ‘and otherwise, fox its accomplishment. —_— An Easy One. ' Springfield Adv.—“Dining room girls wanted 2t Lemon’s. restaurant.” A re- quest_for Lemonade, comments I 8 B.—Boston Transeript. — i How True.. 8 Jud Tunkins says dancing Is the poetry of motwon, but a great deal of boetry ‘Is footwork iithout grace. . Have you tried the new 10¢ package? Dealers now carry both; 10 for 10c, 20 for 20c. It’s toasted. MR. & MRS. CAR OWNER! 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