Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 26, 1921, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. B. CARSON, President G. W. HARNWELL, Editoy Telephone 922 J. D. WINTER, City Editor Kntered at the postoffice at Bemid): under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous enntribufior;l. Writer’s name must || : SENATE .MAY STAGE A FIGHT| own to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica- for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday each week to insure publication in the current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES —$6.00 One Year —85.00 Six Months —— 1 .15 Three Months 1.28 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursasy and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.0v. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS SMALL TOWN VS, BIG CITY For years it has been a favorite amusement of the large city dailies to refer to the local news contained in the country press) as “small town stuff.” It pleases the city dweller to read it at his breakfast table It emphasizes the superiority of “metropolitan wisdom,” And we of the country press are content to let it go at that;| with a passing word or two of comment. The “small town stuff,” which furnishes so much amuse- ment to our city friends, may be homely in its phraseology—it| may be unimportgnt as compared to the vital affairs of the| world—but it possesses the merit of being the truth, The average country publisher does not rgsort to misrep- resentation and sensationalism in the columns of his paper. Hisl news articles and items are composed of facts as he finds them,| and they are not doctored or colored for the purpose of pleas- ing any class or faction, or for the building up of a huge sub- seription list. . y When he takes a stand editoria]ly on any public question, be it local, state or national, he has in view the welfz)r.e of the people as a whole, and not the interests of some political fac- tions or machine, His columns may not contain an overplus of news, but sqch\ as there is may be read with perfect safety by the growing children of the community without parental fear of instilling questionable thoughts and desires in their budding minds, His paper may be small and provincial, but it is clean. The reader is never at a loss to know whether or not a statement made by the editor is based upon fact, or whether it is composed principally of what is commonly known as “newspaper bunk.” The publisher of any big city daily, who can leg%timately and truthfully say as much for his own paper, is at liberty to amuse himself at our expense to his heart’s content. It will be viewed by us in a spirit of fellowship and broth- erly love. 2 ——— RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PARENT Many parents lose sight of the fact t.hat the vacation period is one of grave danger to the growing child, ) . The boy or girl just out of school fe.els like the ca‘ged_ bl_rd that is suddenly released from its captivity, It glories in its freedom to the exclusion of all else, Many of the lessons in deportment that have bgen Iea‘mgd in the class-room are gradually forgotten as the child fmds.xts way to the street. There is no room in its heart for anything the glories of : . ::lx?ding gits steps. The future is a sealed book which will be opened only too soon for its purpose. . Herein the function of the parent becomes of double im- portance to the future life of the child, for the careful work and training of the teacher must be carried on through the days and weeks of the vacation period, not to the extent of hamper- ing the child in its rest and recuperation from class-room con- finement, or depriving it of the innocent pleagures of life, but rather the daily impressing upon its young mind the necessity for continuing the rules of conduct learned in its hours of study. Children are quick to learn and equally quick to forget. ‘An impression may sink deep today and be forgotten by to- morrow, but if it is repeatedly brought to the atter_gt}on of the juvenilg brain it will eventually take deep root and live. ) The teacher is responsible to the parent for the proper in- struction of the child during its hours of study, but the parent has a double responsibility—to both the teacher and the child— the responsibility of safeguarding the work of both, 0- The British government owes the -government of the United States some,billions of dollars of money borrowed from us during the war, None of the principal has ever been paid, and only a small pittance of the interest due has been collected. The United States owed England $35,000,000 for transporting American soldiers to France in British ships. The British pre- sented their bill the other day and the government at Wash- ington promptly paid it. In the meantime, thousands of our disabled soldiers are neglected and in want. Can you beat it? 0 Whether it be fiction or fact, it is rather interesting to read one day that the interest on the ten billions of dollars owed to us by the allies is not to be collected for 15 years, and the next day to learn that Washington plans to use it in the payment of a bonus to ex-service men, 0 We learn from the secretary of the treasure that cleaner money is to be put into circulation. That is pleasing. When we get it, it will be still more pleasing, But until we do, just keep right on sending in the dirty old stuff and we’ll be eternal- ly pleased. - —o Dictator Lenin finds that ruling the illiterate bolsheviki of Russia is a comparatively easy matter, but that feeding them entails more brains than he has been able to inject into his gov- ernment, They are starving and appealing to America for food, ASLER Y BON 3 One hundred thousand people are to join in singing at Chi- cago’s pageant of progress. Fortunately, we are some miles removed, 0 The person who builds character builds f(;rtune as well, i E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgz i, Minnesots, as second-cinss mattes, || the present, unless the parental hand is ever! most goes to prove the c o e = GERMAN TREATY 15 NEXT STEF CERTAIN PARTS OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES MAY ENTER INTO THE NEW PACT. Ambassadors Then Will Be Appointed by Both Countries—Berlin Almost Certain to Select Man With an American Wife. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.—Congress having de- clared that a state of peace exists with Germany, the nest step must be the formulation by the State department of a treaty with the late enemy coun- try. It s a matter of controversy at present as to whether or not the treaty shall contaln parts of the Versailles treaty. The chances seem to be that a part of the Versailles treaty will enter into the American treaty with Germany. It is held by the proponents of such a course that the State department can take from‘the French treaty cer- tain sections which will be satisfac- tory to the so-called irreconcilables inj the senate and which will prevent the| United States from -getting at cross; purposes with the allies, as might be| the case if the two treaties should| have cross-current provisions in them.} All this is a matter for the adminis-| tration plus the State department to| determine, by and with the aid and] consent of the senate. It is a safe prophecy that before the treaty is framed and finally ratified there will| be plenty of vocal fireworks in the! upper homse. The genernl belief here| is, however, that a two-thirds major-| ity of the ] ! with Germa some of the Versailles document’s pro-| vistons. , Ambassadors Will Be Named, As soon as the treaty is ratified.| | the United States will appoint an| | nmbassador and Germany will retort iin kind. Tt is futile as yet to guess !whonr Uncle Sam will send to Berlin as his representative. It must neces- sarily be a2 man who knows something of the German psychology, and who has been a close student of develop- ‘ments in Germany since the war closed. It is possible, probable indeed, that the President will choose some American for the job who already has seen service in the land to which he is to be accredited. Already there is advance interest in ‘Washington -as to the probable choice of the German government of a suc- [ ‘¢éssor to Count Johann von Bern- storff. A man prabably will be picked who will have a keener appreciation | of the Awmerican temperament than| von -Bernstorff was endowed with. He had an idea he was fooling people, when in truth everything that he was doing was pretty well known and in many cases was beinlg checkmated. Germany Will Follow Custom. One thing goes almost without say- Ing, because the rule of the past al- The chances are that the Germans will pick some man who has an American wife. Every foreign government tries to get an ambassador who through some fam- fly connection is associated with life in the United States. It is easier for an ambassador with an American-born | wife to understand the psychology of | the peaple of this country. Bluntly | speaking, a study of his wife in part probably gives it to him, Von Bernstorff had an Amerlean wife, a New York woman who was of Immediate German ancestry and there- fore probably not as well fitted to be a guide to her husband in American affairs as would have been the case with a woman whose forbears were American, Von Bernstorff was preceded as Ger- man ambassador to the United States by Baron Speck von Sternberg, whose wife was one of a family of Kentucky girls, every one of whom was noted for her beauty. Her maiden name was Lilly Langham. Her husband’s insight into American affairs and into Ameri- can character was looked vpon as lit- tle short of marvelous, but he owed much of his knowledge unquestionably to his wife. Mellon Against Bonus Bill. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has written a letter to a. United States senator declaring that the passage of the bill granting a bo- nus to veterans will increase the bur- den of taxation of the American peo- ple, and will menace the success of the program of economy. Is this letter to have the eflect of preventing the pass- age of bonus legislation? For some reason or other there seems to be an impression in Wash- ington that while most of the veterans of the great war are willing that con- gress shall vote the bonus money, many of them are not over keen about it. Unquestionably, there are some thousands, perbaps some hundreds of thousands of the veteruns outside of those who are disabled, who otherwise are provided for, who actually need the money. If lhere were some way by which the men who need it could be separated from those who do not need it, and the money could be paid to the needy ones ounly, there is no sol- dier in the United States, probably, who would not urge that the necessity | In every case should be met. It unquestionably took some ¢ourage for the secretary of the treasury to not only in the material things of this world, but in that make a plain statement of what the payment of the bonus would mean in the way of increaked living costs and incitased taxes, Nuturally opposition to the bonus Is ane of the most thank- less positions which a government offl- | clal can take. It :nukes little differ-| ence how the majority of the senators and representatives may feel about| the legislation, for knowing that they | | will run the risk of the charge of in- gratitude to the veterans If they op- | pese the passage of the bill, most of | them show outwardly at least a kindly disposition. toward the legislation. Trying to Pass the Buck. H What the outcome will be it is as vet of course impoussible to say, but | the senate has shown a marked dispo- | sition to support the legislation almost | unanimously, and therefore, so to | speak, the buck has been passed to the | house of representatives. Each house { unquestionably wished that the other| | would take the burden of refusing to sanction the measure. Each house is| { timorous about taking a course of op-| | position to the legislation. | There is a lot to be said for the| ! honus. - Not a man will get the money | who did not serve his country for paltry “pay while hundreds of thou- | sands of other men were waxing fat 1in pocket in the peaceful pursuits of Ltmde. The contrast between the con- | dition of the men who worked in ship- | yards and in the:arms factories at big wages and. that of the men who | worked for $33 a menth in the trenches is the one strong inspiring cause of support of the bonus bill by veterans! of the service who happen to hold po-| sitions in the various veteran organ- Izations, | If there had been no slackers and no $20-a-day workers in the great war, nothing today would be heard of the benus. The government in a way is reaping what it .sowed. If the serv- ice of some men prominent in public life, including many generai officers| of the army, had been followed, bonus ezizlation would not be here to dis-| turb conditions. Why Was Not. Labor Drafted? At the time when the United States ntered the war there were men who| pieaded that not only should soldiers| be arafted, but that all labor of what-| er kind shonld be drafted. The plea | was that virtually every man, woman | and child in the United States should be brought by law into the service of | the government. | If this had been done the men and| women who remained in the field of ! peace would have had not only theh'g work directly but their pay fixed by the government of the Unpited States. | The man engaged in peaceful war| ®ork was essentially a laborer for| the government, and why the govern- ment should not have control over him | as well as over the man who was| fighting in the field, no official who locks at the logic of the situation can understand. This view of the case is now gen- erally taken k' Washington, and it can be taken for granted that out of the lessons learned from the great war the United States never will get into a like fix;again if unhappily it hasto Issue another call to arms. The draft was dJdemocratic and successful. In another war, if the feeling of to-| dny shall prevail, no worker of any| kind will escape the draft, and if nny‘ combination of workers in the field of labor shall attempt to strike while| their brethren are’fighting there prob- ably will be something coming to them. Higher officials here say that Uncle | Sam has learned one lasting lesson. | It is understood that if Congress| finally shall decline to pass the bonus| legislation at this session a renewed drive will be made to make it cer-| tain from now on that no disabled vet- eran shall' continue to sufter for a| lack of care and cash, [ | Coolidges Reside In Hotel. 1 Vice-President and Mrs. Calvin | Coolidge have taken up their residence at a Washingtén hotel, thus following the precedent established by former Vice-President and Mrs. Thomas R.| Marshall. Prior to thetime that Mr. Marshall entered on the vice-presidency a great many years had passed since a vice- president of the United States was not a houseRolder, temporarily at| least, in the capital. Democratic in- stitutions ‘make it possibles for the people to elect to office men whose bank accounts are small. Neither Marshall nor Coolidge is a rich man; in fact, both are far outside of the field which the rich occupy. | The government does not pay its| vice-presidents much money, and while perhaps one should refrain from so saying, the truth is that at least two vice-presidents of the United States have not felt themselves able financially to bear the burden of the upkeep of great households in Wash- ington, living in which necessarily would mean heavy expenditures. i It must not be understood, however, that the vice-president of the United States does not fulfill to the limit his social duties. When the occasion demands, the reception rooms of the hotel in which he lives are taken and the receptions planned take place. There never was one word of crit- icism during the Marshall incumbency of the absence of the greater enter-, talnments which marked the in- cumbencies of former vice-presidents ! at least from Hobart’s day, nor is| there a word of criticism of the ab- sence .of these great affairs today while Mr. Coolidge occupies the sec- ond chair of government, It has. always been iaken -for| granted that the people of the Uni- ted States like to see men live within | their means, and there is a feeling | that, it ;the country -expects much in | an entertaining way of the vice-presi- | dent, means~'should be taken to in- crease his salary. | spiritual life to which our earthly existence is a mere prelude. —_— : tee DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS . Bear Invaded a Flivver, Even bears like motorcars, as Is proved by an incident which occtirred in Giant forest, California. A sedan was left at the foot of Moro rock while the occupants climbed the stair- way for the glorious views of the Saw "Tooth runge and the San Joaquin val- ley. On their return they found a black bear cub_comfortubly seated in- side the car, which he had entered through an open window. Bruin was licking up the last of the sandwiches in the lunch and was persuaded to lea®e his comfortable quarters only at the point of a pole. Cigaraties To save 25% on your cigarettes |is important But~to please your taste is more important. Justbuya packageand find out. QOcigareues G NEW OFFICE MGR. FOR AUTO AGENCY The Overland Agency at Valley City, N. D., needed a combination office manager and bookkeeper lately. Like hundreds of progressive firms, they called on Dakota Bus- iness College, Fargo, N. D. K. K. Rutherford was sent. The Slope County Abstract Co., Amidon, N. D., also'wired this popular school for a capable office woman. 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