Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 3

. ants, FeyvRiwT® THE BEMIDJI DAILY, PIONEER BONUS MEASURE " WILL BE PASSED CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS HAVE . $0 ASSURED SPOKESMEN OF ¥ SOLDIER ORGANIZATIONS. WHY THE LEGION URGED IT Men Returned From Active Service to Find Others Who Avoided It Hold. ing the Good Positions—Field Offi- cers Don’t Participate. By EDWARD B. CLARK. ‘Washington. — Several ~ spokesmen for the ex-service men have pleaded the cause of bonus legislation before the special committee of the senate appointed to give the subject consid- eration. The meetings have been ex- ecutive and therefore secret. In a general way it is known that congressional leaders, irrespective of party or of the sections of the country ‘which they represent, have given the spokesmen for the American Legion and other soldier organizations an as- surance that the bonus legislation will pass at this session. Bonus legislation for former service men has been the cause of controversy in the ranks of the tormer soldiers, and in the ranks of the congressmen. The people of the country generally also have been interested in the sub- ject, and have taken sides according to their views. It is probable that a good many Americans have refrained _from saying what they really think about the bonus proposition because of the feeling that to oppose it might bring to them the charge of lack of sympathy with the men who fought. The American Legion itself has been in part divided in sentiment on the matter of the bonus. Finally the Leglon swung into line in behalf of the legislation and its leaders have been earnest in their attempts to se- cure its passage. They are going to succeed. From everything that one hears on the subject of the bonus from any point of view, it can be known that wvirtually all the American people al- ways have been in tavor of bonus leg- islation provided the bonus was to be given to the men who need it. There never has seemed to be any urgent de- mand anywhere that money should be given to soldiers who served but who are well-to-do in the world and have ~no pinching need of the money. For All Below Rank of Major. There are thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, of ex-service ‘men who need the money and as it has “ been found absolutely fmpossible to determine definitely those who need it .and those who do not need it, the bonus i8 to go toall alike with the ex- ception that men who hold rank above that of captains in the service cannot benefit by the bonus, or by any of the alternative beneficial propositions which will be included In the legisla- tlon. The one thing which more than any- thing else determined the Legion to stand for the bonus provision in the legislative nct for assistance to the former soldiers, and which has moved congress to the same course, s that 80 many young Americans avolded service through one plea or another and succeeded in securing jobs and occupations which were supposed to be vital to the prosecution of ‘he war., These men received big pay and were not compelled to suffer any of the hardships of the camp life, or any of the perils of the fighting lite. The man who went into camp, or went to the front, received his $30 or $35 a month as the case might be, and when he came back Into civil life found the smug “experts” who had stald at home with pockets well lined and with jobs well in hand. Unjust to Many Officers. Congress has seen fit to limit the provisions of the act to ald the for- mer soldiers to the men whose rank in the service was below that of ma- jor. Therefore only captains, lleuten- noncommissiened officers and privates can benefit by any of the pro- visions of the law. There are some members of com- gress and hundreds of thousands of service men, if not all of them, who know that this limitation will work an injustice in many cases. It did not follow because a man was a major or a lleutenant colonel, or a colonel, that he came out of the war any better off in a financial way than the men of the lower ranks. If the truth be told there are hun- dreds 1f not thousands of former field officers of the Natfonal army who are in as sore need of the ald granted un- der the legislation as are any of tde “ ‘men whoni they ranked while in the army. Mr. Harding Visits Vallev Forge. President Harding has been a guest ovét the week-end of Senator Knox of Pennsylvania at his summer home at Valley Forge, a place known to the heart of every American for the sufferings which Washington and his army underwent there during one awful winter of the Revolutionary war. The President seems to llke the senatorial soclety. He was associated with the majority of the men now in the upper house while he was repre- senting Ohio in a senatorial capacity. He formed personal friendships during the six years of his holding of the tion tvhen, as President-elect, Mr. Hnr-‘[ ding went South, he had with him | several senatorial companions, Later! on his trip to Klorida, and on his/ houseboat excursion, he had other companions of the senatorial group. | His most recent outing has been with | gnother senator, Knox of l'euns_\'l-‘ vania. It s possible that the President's | recent discovery of owls within the | White House grounds may have| spurred him to further ornithological | research. If such be the case, he had a fine field for the study at Valley | Forge, a place which is in the neigh- borhood intimately connected with the life of the great American ornithol- ogist, J. J. Audubon, for whom the bird protective societies of the Uni- ted States are named. Scene of Audubon’s Early Studies. Audubon lived for some time, when he was a young man, in the house of a relative on the bank of Perkiomen | creek which helps to water the es- tate of Senator Knox. He made muny of his early bird studies in the coun- wy which is partly included in the holdings of the Pennsylvania senator. . One of the first instances of what may be called the banding of birds, in or- der to determine if they return to the same neighborhood year after year, ! is to be found in the Audubon record | of his life in the Valley Forge neigh- | | borhood. ! A pair of phoebes nested in a cave on the baak of Perkiomen creek. | Audubon fastened a light wire about the leg of a young phoebe which was just about to leave the nest. It was so fastened that it did not hurt the bird, nor in any way interfere with its comfort. One year afterward, Audubon found the phoebe with the wire on its leg, with a mate, nesting in the cave in which it was hatched. | During his week-end at Valley Forge | President Harding drove through a little place which in the old days was called Shannonville, It is a near peighbor to the Knox estate. It is Shannonville no longer, but is known ' by the name of Audubon. Some twenty years ago the citizens agreed | ]fllfl[ it would be a graceful thing to change the name of their village to that of the great naturalist who once had lived there. They had a big cele- bration and naturalists from all over the country came to take part therein. A new flag was run up, cannon were fired and Shannonville became Au- duben. Hospitality of the Hardings. Since the republic's time began there never has been such freedom of access to the White House as at | the present day. Will that abuse of | privilege come which will mean the denial of present-day presidential hospitality? H From the time that President Hard- ing first was mentioned as a candi- jdate for the Republican nomination Inis political friends emphasized his kindliness of disposition. Kindliness is not an all-in-all recommendation !for high political preferment, but it counts in any man, and happily it' does not make any difference to what political party he belongs. Washing- ton people today, and the people who have come here from a distance, are willing to admit the kindliness of the present administration. The question | is, Is it being overdene? There are always abusers of hospitality, and | when abuse reaches a certain limit the bars go down and the open door becomes the shut door. President and Mrs. Harding have heen giving some garden parties, and if there ix anybejy who has not been bidden to them he or she is in | a position to claim a certain kind of | dulious distinction by the exclusion. | Democrats and Republicans, conserv- atives and radicals, with their wives | and daughters, alike have trod the 'Vaths whien lead to ihe White Iouse {lawns, and have pressed thelr feet into the hospltable sward. White House All Thrown Open. Something has been done which | |never before has been done in Wash- (Ington. The President and Mrs, Harding have thrown the entire | White House, with the exception, of | course, of the living rooms, open to ' the invited guests on the occaslon of | these lawn parties. Everybody has had full swing of the state dining {room, the Blue room, the Red room and the Green room, the big East room and the roof garden surmount- ling the two low-lying White House | annexes. There have been Immense crowds ; {on the lawn, which is immense in fit- | | gelf, and great throngs in the White | House during the progress of all these {outdoor and indoor festivities. Al {the rooms of the White House have many valuable historie objects within {them, from great portraits of the ' Presidents of the United States down to clock gifts and other gifts from notables of America and potentates of the old world, Looking at the throngs in the White House on these days one can- not help trembling lest some imbe- cile American poke his finger through an ofl painting, or, lifting up a clock to see how “the darned thing werks,” drop it to smash it into fragments that ave past the patehing. : Everything has gone along smooth- | Iy thus far. The old-fashioned red sofas, green sofas and blue sofas in the rooms of corresponding color "have been used freely by the sover-!| eign American men and women who, bidden to the White House, have re Ijolced unquestionably In the pr floge of sitting in the seats of the American mighty. The big East room during these garden parties has been turned over.! genatorial office and today he is keep-|by.the President and Mrs. Harding to’) ing them up. Almost immediately after the elec- | those of their fellow | citizens who ke to dance. DALLY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS | like a summer’s da; felt the sama lazy w ,up what was left 7 and sent it down ;9/ /f | wonldn't enjoy it, i PN Subscribe for Tne Dally Pioneer. P Daddys. [dlEvening Fairy Tale . OY ZARRY GRAVA] BONNER “On a laki said Daddy, “which was frozen over, were many little fich World's Greatest Runners. For speed and stamina, we do not believe there are any runners in the world capable of beating the Tara- humare Indians, of whom ybout 135,000 | survive in Mexico, They are in great “d(\xmnui as government courier for , they are said ‘to be able to cover 170 {wites a day on foot, and have been { kuown to run 600 miles in tive duys. | Food and Health, | “The buoyaney of health is a real en- [joyment. Strength, mental vigor, vi- huts. There the vacity and good nature spring from fishermen vouw fish through the which they would winter. The fish huts were made| so as to protect them against the great cold winds, “The Sun had gone to bed rath- er wearily. He had had a lazy sort of day. tw e had not been shin- ing very much.! Hut He had come out| at times just to look things over,| but he had spent a great deal of time | napping. “‘1 feel as I feel on the warm sum- From Hut to holes In the ice| make during the/ ;gnml digestion; good digestion is se- | cured only from eating and drinking | proper quantities and qualities of food and liquid. It is possible to enjoy | buoyancy of spirit and a good appe- tite every day."—Exchange. TR TERO, Erasing Rubber. There was a Philadelphia man, Hy- man L. Lipman, who noticed that hen writing with a lead pencil' it was Inconvenient to reach for a piece of erasing rubber to rub something out. ng It is the habit of u plece of eras rubber to disappear mysterious! everybody had noticed it. But if the butt end of the pencil contained a small er r, it cannot get away. This was the idea that struck Mr. Lipman, who patented it. It brought him a for- (une, Some Solidity to Mercury. A hat little planet, Mercury. About three times the siZe of cur moon. . It is @ more solid body than the earth. ighing as much as a sphere of lead ot equal bulk. of wellne language Gem, Amending a Famous Prayer. Bececher, in 1921, would have awend- hard cold, and tl\e; ed his famous Sunday worning prayer “those on beds of sickness chairs of wellness” to read “in cars "—Boston Transeript. Fine, but Rare. It often shows a fine command of to say nothing.—Jameson and Bad Experience? Flattery is the' Lest cure for a stiff nes It will turn ahmost any head.— Cartoons N Think This Ower. i s on havin’ his Uncle Eben, “some- ids up by havin’ dat an’ noth- “De own wa titmes wi in' else” mer days,’ he said, before he went to bed, ‘when I am lazy and when I let Lady Gray Clouds spread her grayness | over the water and the boats and the | sky above. «“ I've felt that very way today, and Lady Gray Clouds has been out a | good deal, trying on her many gr:\yf suits and gowns of which she is \'ery; proud. | ««But,’ said one of the Sun’s daugh- | ters, who had come along for a min- ! ute’s chat, ‘I promised to give a tea party for some friends this afternoon. | I told them I would give them our: finest sunbeam tea.’ “avell! Mr. Sun said, ‘then T will| shine for awhile.’ i “‘I don't see’ his daughter said, “why you feel today as you used to feel on the warm days in the summer. inly it is far from being warm ““True, true,” said Mr. Sun, ‘but then I am always warm. And what I meant was not quite that this day had been but that I had v that I do some- times on a summer day—the same sort of laziness, in other words. “Mr. Sun kept his promise and his daughter gave a tea party. The sky was red and speckled with gray and the sunset was very lovely. i “‘We did have some sunshine after all, and a beautiful sunset,’ the people all said. H ‘As I told you before, the sua had goue to bed when the brownies came | slong to give their supper party in the fish hufs. ! “They used every hut you see. And this is how they did it “They had soup in one hut and} salad in another and ereamed chicken | in another, and hot chocolate in still another and so on. “jhey went from one hut to the | other for the different courses of their | meal. | And as they went from hut to hut ; what laughter there was, what merry | sounds rang through the cold night! air. ‘Of course,’ said Billie Brownle, ‘the fishermen didn’t build these huts for us, but it is nice to be able to use | them for our party. “*As we never leave any crumbs be- hind or any sizn at all that we have ! been here, it is quite all right. They ! would not mind, I feel quite sure.’ \ “sSo do 1. said Bennie Brownie. “And then they hugged each other and fell over as they so often did | when they hugged each other, and that v often, too. I They had the finest sort of a sup- per and what fun it was to go from one little hut to the other, over the! frozen lake. What stories they did tell as they sat in the different huts eating. “And when the meal was all over, | and they had eaten all they possibly | could, they packed the different holes W/ for the fishes. ; “iSome free food,! they said, and we won't 4 catech you or try "~ to. either! = “Of course they i didn’t send the fishes some of the food they had had because they knew the fishes and besides they had eaten eve thir up which Free Food. they knew the i fishes wouldn't even care to have the | crumbs of. They hadn’t left a drop of hot chocolate. “*The fishes they had said. | “Then they ran races over the ced | Iake, and later they got out their! skates and had a fine skating party. “The Ice made some funny sounds, too, which meant that even the ice thought parties were nice. | “And the wind blew and whistled | and said: ! “‘“This s such fun, such fun.| Brownies, do keep up your party until | very, very late. “And the Brownies did what the| wind had asked, and had one of the | finest parties they had ever known!” | wouldn’t want that,’ Beauti™'1 Fire-rc.sting A WORTHWHIL AYING shingles on a roof the whole day long in the hot sun is not a particu- larly appealing job for a beauti- ful June day. Then why not roof rhe easiest and quickest way wiid save a lot of work as well as a lot of expense. All types of Nelson Roofs are simple to lay. The 4-in-1Shingle type is so constructed that you can lay four shingles at once. 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