Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 22, 1921, Page 6

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER " PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. Ul E. H. DENU, Sec. and l;; J. D. WINTER, City Editor @. . CARSON, President G. HARNWELL, Editor Telephone 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesots, as second-class matter. N under Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.. \ . No attention paid-to anonymous contributions. Wrfifi's name must zoml.n::.a 'hi.q %’ ;wli;tan. but not ‘t‘“mh ;1.7 fc; publical Communi eel oneer must reach this office not/later than-Tuesda; of each week to insure publication in the current M - Byl One Year R— X[ g[x "fi“" . 800 OneYear — o .____8$8.00 Onhl:.lb:nm el lgg Six Months' £.50 One Week ... .15 Three Months e 125 . THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEXDINGS LAY OFF, MR, PRESIDENT _'A' story comes out of Washington to the effect that the administration will attempt to induce the public to relieve the government of the ten billions of dollars of indebtedness now. due it by the allied countries of Europe, N ‘According to report, the plan as tentatively outlined calls for the converting of this indebtedness into long time bonds of the European governments, these bonds to be sold by our gov- ernment to the American people at large.and the proceeds to be turned into the federal tréasury, with a possibility that.they may be used in the retiring of liberty bonds. That would be fine for the federal treasury, but how about the people who buy these bonds? If this huge indebtedness passes into the hands-of private individuals, who is going to guarantee that the foreign govern- ments will pay the interest and principal when due? The only guarantee that would be of any value would be that of the American government, and the government has nei- ther the army or the navy with which to enforce its demands. Consider our own liberty bonds, which the people were told would soon be at a premium. Are they at a premium now ,two years after the war? They are not. ‘Are they even at par? They are not, We were urged to buy liberty bonds “until it hurt.” We bought until it hurt, and after two years of peace it is still _hurting— hurting worse than ever because we can not get as much as we paid for them. " If our own government, the strongest on earth and’ with'its vast and inexhaustible resources, is unable to keep the market value of its own bonds at par, why should the people be asked to believe that the bonds of debt-ridden foreign governments " will not shrink to even lower levels of value? According to newspaper reports Europe has for two years defaulted in the payment of even the mterest on the ten billions| they owe us. f > -l A If they can not or will not pay even the interest tb the gov-|! ernment of the United States, which has the power to apply a certain degree of pressure if it so desires, have we any reason to expect that they would be any more prompt or solidifous in meeting their obligations to private individuals whe--are without means of applying coercive measures in the coltectic of the interest and principal due them? 43IV Those ten billion of dollars—money belongmg,!; Jthe Y f people of the United States—were loaned to the an allies by the American government: {AG Let the government plug up the hole «in: the bag.with 1tsi own fist—plug it up until it hurts, < s _ Caution warns us, Mr, President, that this is the psycho-| logical moment to lay off. P e NATIONAL ADJUTANT BOLLES IN BEMIDJI No organization in recent years has been more active or has done more real service to the nation than the American| Legion, Composed of service men, from the buck private to the army commanders, this organization has done more for the returned service men and particularly those who needed help, than the government itself. Its ministrations have been humane and of real brotherly help. It has been a godsend ‘to many poor broken down buddies and has placed many on their feet when they were down and out. Tonight' Bemidji will welcome Lemuel E. Bolles of Indianapolis, national ‘adjutant of the| American Legion, and State Commander. A, ‘H. Vernon of Little Falls, These men are to be guests of the local post of the| Legion. Adjutant Bollgs is filling out the: contemplated' tour through the Northwest of National Commander Galbraith, which was interrupted by his sudden:death at Indianapolis a short time-ago. The meeting tonight s open to the public and the officers and members of the local post. are .desirous that the business and professional men of the city attend the meet- ing which will be held in the association rooms at 8 o’clock.. This ‘invitation, extended by the local post of the Legion, should be accepted by the business men of the city for several reasons. They will have an opportunity. to learn what the ‘American Legion is trying to do and is doing. They ‘should attend because of the courtesy due the national adjutant of such an organization as the American Legion and they should attend out of courtesy to the Ralph Gracie Post of the Legion. There has been too much of a tendency to allow boys who carried the load in France to still carry it without any appar- ent interest on our part in their endeavors: By all means turn out and greet Adjutant Bolles and:State Commander Vernon and show the Legion boys your interest | in their organization, ——— e e e | OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITO 1&C. G. Selvig, superintendent of the Northwestern School of’Ag’n‘culture, at Qtookston,_ was charged by John Husby, a former instructe#jwho was not | re-elected, with wasteful mismanagement. The university:regents investi- | gated the charges and decided they were not well founded. have visited: the school and are well informed of the work ‘of Supt. Selvig| will agree with the regents that he is a capable and efficient superintendent. —Daily Journal Press. ! Ay ”With Ontario going dry next"Thursday, it looks as if fishing trips to:thi ‘Iake will' be only fishing trips after this.—Baudette Rt:ghn'l.‘l ng} o o: 5 Yes, and fishing trips with mighty poor bait, at that. / Rt Mar;yy' peoplé doubt the numerous rumors that the Sao i i ; 1 00 is ta.build to Baudette, but where.there is so much smoke there is bound to be a locomo- '*M‘ the money were put into.roads Those who |’ ; GOOD HIGHWAYS FEDERAL AID FOR HIGHWAYS Approval Given for 855 »(}_\Wa Up to September 30, 1926+ rn States Lead] = (Prepared by the United Stat ment: of Agriculture] Fedtral aid for the const 9,680 ‘mifles of .national highys } een’ approve(l ‘by the Unlm& epartment of Agriculture. i Ap September 50, 1920, approvabhad e given for yrojects, which ferm links:"in’ one or, the 'other. of. the 2% gssociations. to cross the. country “fromi‘Bast to West and North to uth, The anileage, which will be <on- structed with federal aid on each of the several trails is shown iu the fol- lowing table: Length Federal aid ap- proved projects. Miles. Name of Highway. Dixle Highway Ozark Trall ... Yellowstone Trall . Bankhead Highway Meridian. Highway National Oil Trails King of “Trails ..... Naotional Parks High Theodore Roosevelt Highway: Jeftgrson Hi Lincoln Highw 0ld Spanish T Mississippi- Vailey. Highway .. Dixle OVerfand Highway Jackson Highway .: Pacific ‘Highway Roosavelt, Nattonal Highway . Colorados to. Guify it Pikes Peak Ocean .to Ocean .. Atlantic Highyv Miscellaneous HES ay In! ‘Total The extent to which federal ald has been applied to the trails varies in the different states. Naturally, the Western states are using much more of the federal apportionments in de- veloping roads of this character than the Eastern states. This is due to the fact that the routes in the East- ern states already had been improved to a large extent before the roads were selected by the pathfinders. This was not true in the West, where long stretches of the sclected roads were still in an unimproved condition when they were designated. k Nevada leads in its use of federal funds on roads of this character. Bighty-three per cent of its entire mileage of approved federal-aid roads lies on one or the other of the trails which, cross, the states, On these roadls Nevada will spend 90 per cent of the federal money which has been ‘granted. to her. 5 Indiana is a close second, with 80 ‘per_cent of its entire federal-nid mile- age 'and 83 per cent of its money aid ‘Buitding 2 Federal Highway in Vir- ginia. 4 upplied to the construction of the trails; .and Oklahoma, with 70 per cent || of its mileage and 81 per: cent of Its federal funds, is not far behind. Florida takes the lead in the per- centage of its funds which will be used for trail building, with 94 per cent of Its federal allotments so ap- ‘plied; but this amount will be spent for ‘only 56 per cent of the mileage which has been.approved in the state. ~ In addition to the above, the states of; Illinois,. Kansas, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and ‘Washington are ench using 50 per cent or more of thelr federal money for the upbuildiog of the tralils, Life of Concrete Road. The life of a good concrete road should be at least twenty years and it wouJd seem that this country could ‘afford to spend. a large sum of money 4n the development of such highways, swhich will last at least twenty years under motortruck . trafiic. Bxpérts ‘here and abroad belleve that the con- ferete road Is good for much longer than twenty years. ‘Int&lligent Understanding. ~° I we are thhpve’ an “Iimprovement in the roads, then the improvement ‘must come from an' intelligent under- | standing of the problem. S L Poor, Roads™No Hindrance. + In spite of the absence of suitable | roads, there are now between 400 and 500 automobiles in Guatemaia. Salary of Engineers. Chief highway' engineers of Califor- nin and New Jerscy are paid at the| rate of $10,000 a year. tive not far off.—Thief River Falls Times, - Bubscriber for The Daily Plonoer.' ‘which® hiive bgee Jafd-f om the paint of view : of the Donsinions and the Empire the main- tenance of a fleet of airships would be invaluable in time'of war. The peace time advantages were estimated as equally important.. Such a speeding up of mail communication was said to e of incalculable value to business houses doing business in various parts of the Empire. The Unattainable. Columbus ~ discovered Amerlca} “in | 149! Thereafter the efforts of mans kind were concentrated upon discov- ring? the North .pole and a cure |for | €olds.- “The North pole eventually *was dlscovered. — Loutsville . Courl nal, ¢ 2y { 2 e s Might Send Her Away Happy. * - - Lucretia Borgia—*T shall put :some | poison in her soup tonight.” Rolanidal —4Oh, Lucretla, how can’ you-be:€o4} henrtless! Let her have a good mealt | rst; put it fn her dessert.”—Princes f ton Tiger. been deserted. serious skin dil H lieve could be tre \ the ‘creek. BATHERS DESERT SWIMMING HOLE: WATER IS DISEASED (By United Press) Sherwood, N. D., July 22.--The old Senator Hiram Johnson has introduced a resolution calling for a senate! investigation of the “invasion” of Haiti by the Unted States. The photograph shows an outpost of American marines in the hlls of the island republic. RECONSTRUCTION WORK PROCEEDING STEADLY By R. Shefitt (United Press Staft Corre Lille, France. (By Mail) British and American generosity has helped substantially in the struction of farms in the war zcne of Belgium, the governnient has been able to obtayn from Germany restitu- tion of much farming stock and ma- terial. TLatest returns jn this con- nection show that to date the fellow- ing recoupments have been effected: 6394 hoerses, 35,000 oxen, 32,000 sheep, 8,000 soats, 50,000 head of poultry, 10,000 tons of fertilizer, $72,000 worth cf seeds and $400,000 worth of farming implements and ma- chinery. Government intervention in farm restoration has been mainly confired to the places that suffered most in the | var, localities not sp.badly hit being dealt with by p f by officially controlled, contractors. The government has spent nearly a million dellars: on reconstruction of ary to farm- 'Sy s mately thir- teen-fourteenths of Lhe pre-war farm- land fin the hundred parishes cf the Belgian war front have been agzin brought under cultivation. In the French devastated depart- ments 7146 squarc” miles of land were ruined in.the war; to date con- siderably: Oyers, veuthg 0f this 28 TorEarming. area is_again Indeed,” the:} Trance now: pri their own requiremcits. . Poth in Eragce aad ingBelgium, go‘vcrnm’euf'»nfificy § to: Igt piivate enterprise and fuitiafive have as-free a hand as possible. - At the grmistice, Vit pontlation. of gl grain for there; today . Gnly 3 { the prewar popul i <. vawfittwafi Wil population at May 1, 1921, 4,164,- 000.) x - Shotage of labor, .of material and of transportation, especially at the Fritgpaxtnient. of | start of operations, forced the author- shifts, such as wooden huts for houses. The difficulty. is, hewever, thelng gradually overcome. Nearly 78 per cent’of the: pre-war factories of .North “Frante are again 'at:work e and the proporiion of staff that have resumed; jcent. TO OPERATE AIR LINES (Bv TUnited Pressy London. (By Mail).---The Air Min- istry is back of a scheme to form an Imperial . Syndicate, in which- the whole Empire will be represented, to own air ships-and fiy them. ““The belief is held strongly, in offi- cial eircles that the strongest bend of Empire lies iin aerial c6mmunica- stion and the Dominion Governments ork approximates 45.per gelves in a great co-operative scheme @ | whereby world-wide, airlines connect- | ing all the “far flung” British posses- as a commercial proposition. During ‘the wor and since the slgn- jing of peace Great Britain has spent {nearly 40,000,000 pounds (onigi: y about $200,000,00) on building dirig- ‘ibles of various sorts, airship bases, and other lighter-than-air prives. The government has decided {l'at this material must be disposed ot and it is planned that it will \be given fres to any responsible organi- zation which would operate the ships i for public use. . 1f airkines were establishéd connec- pire enormous savings of time in com- munication would be secured. It was estimated here that the following ad- vantage over steamship time could be secured by airship routes: Air time steamship Route days. T me days London.to Bgypt 2% . ki London to India 5to London ito South Africa (via Cairo) London to'Australia 6toT 10 to 11 814 BELTRAMI AVE. aney Dew Meloris Daily Cup Coffee, 1b...34c Crusader Coffee; 1b......35¢ - Uzar Coffee, 1b . White House, 1b.......... 39¢ Empress, Coffee, 1b ...44c Barrington Hall, 1b ...43¢ Hill’s vacuum-packed Coffee, 1b..coeecneee... 2 cans Cor1l..... ‘Salsoda, 2 pkgs, .......... 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Fresh Ve;getabjlq; and Fruit 167 —— PILLSBURY’S BEST FLOUR - on track. | WATERMELONS, per Ib ... ... 4c -FRESH COCOANUTS, each. ........13¢ DILL PICKLES, perdoz . ...........33¢c SWEET PICKLES, graded, small, qt. .47¢ 'SWEET MIXED PICKLES, fancy, qt. .47c BULK OLIVES, perqt ..............50c JIFFY JELL, perpkg ............. .10c FARMHOUSE SEEDED RAISINS, GOLDEN AGE SPAGHETT], fresh _ stock,"p_ex"‘)plgg.' 8¢ PERFECTION TOILET SOAP, 1doz . inabox,pqrbox:':...............69c WATCH OUR WINDOWS! Ne Charge for Delivering SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY “TWIN PORT” and “TEMPCO” Brands .. «45¢ ..$1.00 .$2.60 o 24c 25¢ 25¢ 25¢ 9c 16¢ ~ Larsen Brothers , Grocery 2nd & Minn. Ave. WE DELIVER ~ s