Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 12, 1921, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. A. DENU, Sec. snd Mgr. J. D. WINTER, City Editor G. B. CARSON, President "7 'G. W. HARNWELL, Editor Telephone 922 Kntered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, under Act of Cougress of March 8, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous 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. g SUBSCRIPTION RATES “One Yoar $6.00 Ml ‘ { One Year —— X ;3_!! llo;mm DY 2‘28 Oue Year . J— X 1) 'hree Monthy ... % | One Month — Tgp Six Months p—X ) One Week .16 Three Months —— 1.25] THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, _mlhlhhld every Thursdap snd sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND ‘CITY PROCEEDINGS S e TR ek pa b s s s M el e ‘A MAN’S A MAN FOR A’ THAT Is there for honest poverty : That hangs his head, an’ a’ that? The coward slave—we pass him by, We dare be poor for a’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Our toils obscure an’ a’ that, The rank is but the gumea’s stamp, i The Man’s the gowd for a’ that. ‘What though on hamely fare we dine, 4 Wear hoddin grey, an’ a’ that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, | A Man’s a Man for a’ that; For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Their tinsel show, an’ a’ that; o The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men for a’ that. 5 Ye see yon birkie ca’d a lard, L ‘Wha struts an’ stares, an’ a’ that; Tho’ hundreds worship at his word, | He’s but a coof for a’ that, For a’ that, an’ a’ that, " Ris ribband, star, an’ a’ that; The man o’ independent mind . He looks an’ laughs at a’ that, ‘A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke, an’ a’ that; But an honest man’s aboon his might— Gude faith, he maunna fa’ that! For a’ that, an’ a’ that, Their dignities, an’ a’‘that, The pith o’ sense, an’ pride o’ worth, Are higher rank than a’ that, Then let us pray that come it may, ; As come it will for a’ that— ' That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth, Shall bear the gree, an’ 2’ that, For a’ that, an’ a’ that, It’c coming yet for a’ that, That M nato Man, the whole world o’er & Shall brithers be for a’ that. —Robert Burns, —o0 g THE TOURIST TRADE - It .seems that many things hinge upon the completion of t.he road system and this is true of no other things as much as it is of the development of tourist trade. The Twin Cities are warm. “Go north one hundred miles to the present scenes of summer activities and it is but little cooler. Itasca county has what the summer tourist seeks, climate, game and natural beau- ty. The time will come when the traveler will not stop further south, but will make his way to Grand Rapids, which will be but two or three hours further away and will find relief and enter- | tainment among the lakes of Itasca county. Take for instance| Bemidji’s experience in the matter of tourist travel. Last year a highway official counted eleven hundred foreign cars passing in one day between Itasca Park and Bemidji. That means four| to five thousand people coming and going through that city daily. The merchants of Bemidji now do a larger business in July than they do in December, and August is the banner month of the year, The Birchmont hotel burned and the people of Bemidji, realizing the necessity of a center to attract the tourist, subscribed $75,000 to rebuild the structure. Tourist‘ money is what one might call “velvet” in a business way, It is| money from outside and it is cash. Grand Rapids will some day | do hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in tourist business, and that day may be hastened by concerted action on the part o.f business men of the community.—Grand Rapids Herald Re-} view, i Little comment is necessary on the Herald-Review’s line of | reasoning. Bemidji and other Beltrami county towns reap a| harvest each year from the tourist trade. And why not? We| have just the article the tourist wants to buy and is willing to pay for.. The main thing is to get the people to know we have| it. Where can relief from hot weather be found better than in Northern Minnesota? Ol 1 A LESSON TO POLITICIANS ; i y (From the New York Times) ‘Admiral Sims, formally reprimanded for a clear breach of the ngval regulations, was sustained by his countrymen with a h.eartmes.s 80 emphatic and so widespread that even the politi- cians, a timid tribe easily goosefleshed, ought to be able to pluck up courage, His offense was merely one of form. The sub-| stance of his speech expressed the sentiments of the majority of| his coqntyymen, From this strong and ample evidence of Amer-| i.can.feelmg cgn’t the politicians learn to consider domestic and! foreign que'stlons as Americans and to stop pretending to cater go symp?thlestfindfpurpt%sfs and p}(:licies in the hope of attract-! ing, or from the fear of losing, the vote of citizens is or| that origin in the United Statega;? e Ees. of thiy of o There has been altogether too much of this pretense, for it is nothing more. ; Party promises, resolutions and votes in| congress, calculated for racial latitudes, are understood to be representatives, the lack of 'Interest | purely platonic and nugatory; and voters who are deceived| thereby are not wise. Equally unwise are public men and can-! didates for office who subordinate the American and general| view to the particular and hyphenated. The case of Admiral Sims shows that the man who speaks out boldly his American-| ism is sure of respect and honor from most Americans. s i 0— The man who hadn‘t much use for r is mi i the garden stuff has begun to appear o: Snae‘ ‘:fi§13.38235&%0":‘1:5“‘132353.'“ | to be a feeling throughout the country | EACH WAITS FOR OTHER TO BEGIN DISARMAMENT, IT IS BELIEVED IN WASHINGTON, MUST BE BY AGREEMENT OF ALL. AMERICA’S ‘FEELERS’ ARE OUT Replics to Secretary Hughes' Informal Inquiries Eagerly Awaited—Mean while Man is Busily Devising New Weapons of Warfare. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington—It is apparent that the udministration belleves disarm- ament depends upon “the other fellow.” Judging from the temper of congress, and from the editorial expressions of the newspapers of the country, there is a fixed belief that disarmament and | agreement must be companions; in other words, that the nations together must disarm if great navies and greal armies are to be cast away. It is believed in Washington that as soon as the Borah resolution call- ing for a naval disarmament confer- ence between the United States, Great Britain and Japan was introduced, the President called on the state de-| partment to feel out not only Great Britain and Japan on the subject, but other great; nations as well. It fis probable that before long Secretary of State Hughes will have something definite to report to the President on the matter, There is recogpition in official cir- cles in Washington of the fact that the United States fs divided into two camps on the subject of disarmament; onée of them, the larger camp, being that of what the officials call the ra- tionals, and the other, the smaller but still powerful camp, of what they call the irrationals, The rationals, ac- cording to the Washington’ viewpoint, are those who want disarmament to come by agreement among the nations of the world. The so-called irration- als are those who want the United States to scrap its navy and dishand its army, no matter what the other nations may do. This course natural- ly would leave this country open to any possible enemy who thought that the time had not yet come to throw its rifles on the slag pile. Making New Warfare Implements. In the meantime man everywhere is traveling along the lines of invention of new implements of warfare, or of those which lead into the fieid of the making of implements which will ren- der present lmplements of warfare obsolete. Within a short time there will be an attempt on the part ot the air service of the United States army to prove that airplanes quickly can put battle- ships out of commission, and there- fore ‘that.hereafter the whole course of naval construction must be changed. The navy officers say that their ships can keep out of the way of all the air-| planes, and not only this, but with guns on thelr own decks they can preni vent the approach of the air hawks. Moreover, they say that planes launched from their decks can help in the work of keeping the air enemy at | a distance. | At the time of the other experiments the chemical warfare service will try to prove that its weapons are just as effective against ships as they are| against land forces. Awaiting Repiies to “Feelers.” | So it Is easy enough to see that, while disarmament is being discussed, the nations of the“world are not stay- ing thelr hands from the work of in- venting new and jdeadly, contrivances to put their fell men, who happen to belong to ot] countries, out of the running, The'recognition apparent- 1y Is complete in all countries that, it disarmament is to be a fact and the invention of ‘new and more deadly weapons of war is to be brought to a standstill, there must be complete agreement among-all the powerful na- tions to disarm and to check the in- ventors in thelr work. Washington is awalting with intense interest the replies "to the disarm- ament “feelers” which the State de-| partment has put out. There have been hints from various sources that Great Britain and Japan may be will- ing to sit at a disarmament confer- | ence, and of course it Is known that, if these natlons agree, others probably will be willing to agree. A disarma- ment conference would be in the high- est sense a pence conference, for, if real disarmament comes, the nations that want to fight will have to do it | with stones, clubs cr fists, and such scraps arve not particularly deadly, ! Tariff Bill Slow in Making. Congress, as the country knows, is moving slowly along the lines of tariff legislation. It was believed early last spring that, because of the 'seeming Indifference to the subject throughout the land, ‘the law makers could go | ahead and frame their new bill with- out delay and without much objec- | tion, and have it ready for the presi- dential signature at an early date, This belief has changed, When hearings on the various sched- ules were being held by the ways and means committee of the house of | tn the general tariff subject by some | of the greater American industrics! was remarked upon. There seemed | that the schedules in the bill were | to be adjusted in a compromise \vnyi to meet the issues of war's aftermath, | and that nothing that could be urged;| B Yefore the committee would change the general intention, \Whether the tarif bill wlll* meet these conditions or not will depend entirely upon the developments of the future, but a bill with the intent noted In view Is the kind of bill that probably will be enacted. 2 The dye, metal, wool and lumber schedules are the ones which have caused the greater controversies and which are responsible malnly for the delay in getting the legislation under way. Lumber Producers Don’t Agree. Seemingly the lumber producing sec- tlons of the country are divided on the question of the duty on the finished; products of lumber. The ways undi meuns committee by a majority vote decided to put a duty of 25 per cent ad valorum on finished lumber. ‘The vote was taken In the committee and} this duty carried. Instantly there was trouble, The northwestern sectlons of the country seem to be opposed to this 25 per cent duty, while in some of the other sections of the country it is claimed the duty is favored by lumber men. At this writing it is not known definitely just what the outcome will be, but attempts are being made to get the committee to reconsider its action and to remove the duty. There will be a fight In the house over this schedule of the bill, no matter what the committee may report. The wool schedule continues to create dissension. As somebody has! put it, wool is always a breeder of the “tick of trouble.” The particular antl-} dote for tick which the Agricultural department recommends to all shep- herds seemingly cannot be of service in the present case, So far as con- gress is concerned, wool always-has contained an itching irritant. The original draft of the schedule as prepared by the subcommittee this year has been abandoned. Opposi- tion developed to it among some of | the majority members of the com- miftee. So it is today that the com- mittee has_been compelled to ask the| tariff commission for information on which it can redraft, if it wants to, the provisions of the wool schedule. Dye Industry to Be Fostered. The metal and dye industries ure deeply interested in the present tariff measure. It is said that the determi- nation of the majority in congress is to see to it that a dye industry shall be built up which will make the United States independent of other countries in dye products in the tu-i ture. % | The war produced an argument in favor of shutting out dyes by means of a high tariff. The dye industry of| Germany was responsible scientifically for the Germans' great advance in some of the material of warfare, ex- plosives, gas and other things. The argument is being advanced that here- after the United States must be-able to produce -its own: from: well-estab- lished industrieg and not be compelled to wait on experiment and on the building of faetories In case war should come. There is opposition, of -course, to| the dye proposition as it is likely to be set forth in the tariff bill, the argu- ment being that a monopoly will be created. : War Grafters to ‘Be Hunted Down. The attorney general's office has announced that. there will be an in- vesPgation of war profiteering on the government, that it intends to make the inquiry thorough and to bring. punishment down on the guilty. The attorney general, in connectlon with this matter, has said: “The gov- ernment is not going after the little fellows. We can afford to throw the| minnows back and let them start over | again. It Is the big fellows that we. are after and expect to get.” | No one, of course, can tell whether the investigation will result in disclos- ing proofs of guilt and in the convic- tion of the guilty. It Is said that about only one government investiga- tlon in five ever produces real results, but this in a general way may be put down to the fact that the government, especially the congressional part of it, has the investignting habit fixed, and is given to ordering inquiries into this matter and the other matter without much regard to the strength of the initial facts in the case. Others Who Are More Despicable. The grafters on'the government dur- ing the war were high scale robbbers, but, as the expression goes, they were not in it in meanness with the profi- teers who preyed directly on the peo- ple, an1 particularly on men who were going to give up good paying places to enter one or the other of the armed | services of the country. | There are. some thousands of ex- soldiers who would hold a jubilation as hearty as the one; which followed the armistice if some of the cheap criminals who grafted on them would be made the object of government in- vestigation and of subsequent punish- ment. The young fellows who were com- missioned were obliged to buy thelr uniforms. They would go into a store and buy blouse and breeches, paying therefor about twice their value. It i3} true that if they had exercised pruner] judgment and had had plenty of t|me; on their hands they might have looked | about a bit and secured something from an honest merchant at a proper| . price, but when men were commis- sloned one day, and ordered to join their outfits two days thereafter, they | did not have time to hunt bargalns, Not Yet! Jud Tunkins says none of the girls| ‘in his neighborhood have gotten fai| along enough in their music lessons sc i that folks would rather hear them | play than_the phonograph. Girl Avalled Hersalf Thoroughly of Courtesy Extended to Her by Fellow Traveler. Some of us remember the story of the camel that wanted to put his nose into the master's tent to warm a bit, Well, that camel is still alive. The other day she got on the train, dressed very prettily and looked as if- she were used to having half the world whenever she wished it. But she didn't get it, for all the Pullman seats were taken, Finally a middle-aged man, noticing her discomfiture motioned to the Pull- man conductor. “I have this whole section reserved,” he explained, “and since this young lady only goes to -Evansville she may have a seat in it.” Courtly, he rose from his seat fac- Ing the engine and indicated that she was to have it while he would ride backward. While he stood waiting for her to settle herself in it she lifted her grip, put it on the seat facing her; draped her coat beside it, also her hat, magazines, purse and a box of candy. Then she stretched herself in the choice seat, leaving not an inch of room for any other person to| occupy. For a long minute the man stood regarding the bit of space beside the hat and candy box. Then he turned on his heel and went into the smoking car to stay until the train reached Evansville—Indianapolis News. Mildew Stains. 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