Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 6

LIMITED Something Different The Bemidji Naval Unit, now en- joying 'a fifteen-day cruise on the Great Lakes, reports that its mem- bers are now getting to be - quite “salty.” Considering that the Grent; Lakes are composed of fresh water; entirely, we wonder how they are getting “salty.” If they really are, it must be a darn sight hotter there at Chicago than it has been around| here for the past week. And then perhaps they are earn- ing that self-imposed title by the| “sweat of their brows.” —Time Will Tell— ¢ The Expected and Unexpected The cool weather Sunday made the | attendance at the Moose lodge picnic | much smaller than was expected, but| that was just what, the committee| expected ,and it was not unexpected that more people came than expected —Those Were the Expectations— | Convenient, at Least | We notice that a local women’s clothing house~is offering a lady’s| fancy comb as second prize in an| elimination handicap tournament to| be held next Monday at the Country | club golf links. If the comb is to be| awarded just as soon as the lady is| /through playing, we are heartily in| favor of it. > | —That’s the Time— Sad But True A traveler just recently noticed a sign on a building which read: “A pall-bearer is a good scout; he| gives his friend a lift.” | From what we know of the situa-| tion, we must say that we think| somebody has made a mistake. The last thing a pall-bearer does for his| friend on this earth is to let him down and leave him flat on his back. —A Dirty Trick— | Financial Notes Things, are said to be tightening up a bit in the country as a result of the | operations of the bootleggers. | “All the financial journals say that \money is getting cheaper. Perhaps | you’ve noticed that for some time. —No News in That— Abstraction ‘and Detraction Dad may, in a monient of abstrac- tion, use mcther’s tooth brush, but the only time she has to hide it from little Jchnny is when he is cleaning his bicycle. —Ain’t It a Fact?— What Is Curriculum? Now that the present plans of the new high ‘school building are. almost sure to surpass the amount the di trict has to spend, it'is planned to cut out some of the new-fangled notions from the building Those high-falut- in’ “things like curriculum, for in- stance, what good are they? When we were boys we didn’t have none of them in our school. Currleulums are all right if we can afford them, but can we? No, sir; let the kids bring their cwn lunches ‘the same as we used to. —1In the Stone Ages— A And Still Working A correzpondent, to a Burroughs’ Nature Club Notes wants to know where the potato bug driginated. And| the answer is printed as follows: “The potato beetle, leptinotarsa, decemlineata, appears to have origi- nated near the ‘eastern foot-hills of the Rockies. It fed on the sand-bur, a relative of the potato. Introduc-| tion of the cultivated potato offered | the bug welcome food, and the beetle worked backward over agricuitural | reglions till it reached the Atlantic coast about 1874.” From all appearances the bug thcn! turned around and worked backward until it reached Minnesotu, at least. —And Brought Its Family— LEGION TO FIGHT T0 KEEP REED-NORVAL LANGUAGE LAW , | Lincoln, Nelb 9.---Twelve | prominent lawy raska have | been sclected by the Nebraska de- partment of the American Legion to| repr that organization in the| coming legal battle with the German | Bvangelical Lutheran synod of Mis-| souri, which has filed suit to annul| ihe Reed-Norval language law. The/ purpose of the law to make Eng- | ligh the basic | including public. ate and paroch- | age was sought by the defense of the language law are mem- “ bers of the Affierican Legion. They 3 rence recently at Omal ~~ when they declded to make formal ap-| pearance 'in the case which will be| argued in the district court of Platt| county. [t will be the first time in | history of the state that twelve lnw- yers appear on one e 'n a legal| controversy in the d ct court. The petition filed by the Legion lawyers stdtes that the Nebr: partment of the Legion has a mem- bership of 20,000 honorably discharg- ed soldiers, sailors and marines who served their couiltry in the late war. The synod claims a membership in| Misgouri of 26,000. Y _GENERAL REPAIR. SHO 311 Sixth St.—Bemidji | adequately | o HIDES, Cow hides, No. 1. g Bull hides, No. 1.. Kipp hides, No. 1, 1o Calf skins, No. 1, 1b. Horse hides, large. Deacons, each .. UNLIKE THE OLD-TiME DUEL Tc-¥¢ . $2-53 aze e aae GUC-60C, SUSUSVIUUINON iy Recent Affair of Honor in Paris Actu. | ally Appears to Have Been Care- fully “Chaperoned.” Not long ago a quarrel Broke out between a subprefect and the secretary general of the prefecture in a depart- ment of the west. Feeling ran so high that Dblows -were exchanged. Bx- changed? Ne, not quite, The word | isn’t quite exact. [If they had really been exchanged, both the enemies might have thrown up the sponge. But there was bestowal of slaps by i one of the functionaries and simple reception without return by the other. That was serious! Only blood could sh the offended cheek ! They secured thelr witnesses, named the day and bought themselves swords. | But the prefect found out about it. At first he tried to effect a reconciliation between the two foes. Vain effort! Then he tried to use his authority to forbid their fighting. Useless threat! They offered him two herole resigna- ‘| tions to win the right to get them- selves Killed. “Well, then, have your confounded throats cut, if you want to!” he cried. “But you shall assist at the combat and I'll hold you responsible for the lives of both of them,” he said to the | chief clerk of the prefecture. “If an; body gets hurt I shall discharge you The chief clerk obeyed without a murmur. He chaperoned the encoun- ter with a huge sword In his hand, and whenever a blow seemed danger- ous, he warded off the murderous weapon. In the end they made it up, and the prefect was content.—From Le Crie, Paris. Waterproof Matches. / Campers and picnickers will hail with delight the new waterproof match, which cun be easily made at home in the following way: Melt a few lumps of candle wax in an old cun on the stove. Allow this to cool a little apnd then, before it ha: ip the matelles in, one at a time. eat the leads {and about half of -the wooden part. | Place the matches on one side to cool. Matches treated in this simple manner have been soaked in water for many hours, and they have ignited as readily | us those which were perfectly dry. The ! | only differcnce Is that, In striking, it is | needful fo do so a trifle more firmly so as to get through the thin film of wax surrounding the head. . When once the flaye starts, the mateh burns ve ily, owing to the x which ha hered to the wood. Any ordinary matches can be treated in the maun: deseribed. Unwritten Rule. soda clerk will tell you with disgust of the hesitation with which many customers order their drinks while he waits impatiently. why an uptown store has little rou- lette wheels at cach table. Instead of numbers the hand turns to the va- | rious flavors and specialties. “It seems to attract the young boys and girls, especially,” said the man- ¢ They like to spini the wheel to see what to drink. It's an unwrit- ten rule always to carry out the order to which the hand points. Luck is Zood to me when expensive special- ties are drawn and bad, I suppose, for the fellow that pays the bill."—New York S}ull. Proves Wisdom -of Hesiod. The many prove the wisdom of Hesiod, who says that the road to wickedness is smooth and very short, and there Is no need' of perspiring; but before virtue the immortal gods { have placed the sweat of labor, and long and steep is the way thither, and | rugged at first; but when you have renched the top, then, however diffi- cult, it becomes easy.—Plato. Without Light for a Week. A London suburb was without light for a week recently owing to a strike among the employees of the electric light and power plant. tion was made and that was the hos- pital, which was supplied with current sufficient for the operation of an elec- trle incubator in which a feeble infant was being raised in urgf_l‘clal heat, MICKIE, THE PRINTER’S DEVIL R N That is ! One excep- | PONY FERGIT YO “TELL CONGRESS MY \OEE OF PREPARING FOR - "DIGKRNT™ MEET FOREIGN DIPLOMATS EXPEC] WASHINGTON CONFERENGE | TO LAST FOR MONTHS. RESIDENCES BEING LEASED | Belief, 1s That Many Nations anc Races Not Invited Will Have Repre sentatives and Versailles Scene: Will Be Repeated. - By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.—Wushington is living lively in anticipation of the great in ternational conference on disarma ment and on questions concerning the| Far East,,which is to begin in thls city probably about the time that| snow begins to fall. Activities o1} house rental agencies in Washingtor| are disclosing today something of in ternational importance. It is saic| that representatives of the allied .na | tions are seeking leases to run eighi| months on residences in the capital | I have been told by a’ man \\'h(i representatives in Washington of ths“ governments which will be a 1mrt3l ™o the disarmament conference, firm | ly believe that the proceedings wil | last frof .fall well into the nex! }sprlng. and that they are making i plans accordingly. Moreover, my in { formant says that the foreign repre| | sentatives expect that- the Washingtor | { conference will be in effect a new| Versailles conference, and that mat| ‘mrs touching self-determination, ter ‘lritur!ul boundaries gpd a host of oth {er things necessarily must be taker {up, for this belief Js that some kinc | of association of nations is to be rborn of the conference, and that suck !an association cannot be formed, with lout taking into consideration many || things besides disarmawent and the far castern situation, May Repeat Versailles Scenes. When the conference was on at Ver sailles, representatives were there, no only of the nations of the earth, many of whom stood on the sjde lines, but of this faction and that faction of the different nations. All the representa tives of every big country and every little country had their national axes| to put an edge oi. They thought thai they could put the edge on better by} the use of an American' grindston¢ than in any other way. Consequently so I am told by a man closely con-| nected with the proceedings, the Amer| ican newspaper correspondents were| made the marks of the propagandiste of nations, half nations, and countries that wanted to become nations. They were all looking to Mr. Wilson and tc the American people for support, anc they thought that the road to it lay along the public print routes. Ameri can correspondents at the Versailles | conference had a’time of it in an at- | tempt to sift “news and sound- argu ! ment from dead stuff and propaganda | Washington in all probubility will ; witness scenes in repetition of those {whigh were' presented at Versailles, {The conference membership will be }} limited to certain great niitions, bul outside the conference chamber will De the pleaders in behalf of countries and half-countries which lie along a line much longer than that which runs from Byzantium to Spain. Signs that there I1s already a full and lively expectation’ that the Wash: ington conference will develop inte a gathering for the consideration of world-wide matters. are manifest, 1 Personally, I kuow of men who ex | pected to be in Kurope or the Far Bast pursuing their ways of work for certain countries who have changed their minds and ‘intentions, and whe will remain: here’ through the fall and winter, Dbecause they believe that I Washington is the place where there (i will be a reshaping of the policies, nnd therefore the destinies, of many coun- tries of the world. © Bonus Bill Dead for Present, i So far as this sesslon of cou- igress is ‘concerned, the veterans' | bonus bill seems to be done for. Iti may come up again at the next session, ! ‘and it may never come up again, No-! body knows. It Is faitly certain, how- ever, that the orgunizations of veten ans will do what they can to see to [!it that ultimately the legislation they seek for their comrades is. enacted into law. Men have asked why the demand for the bonus? The whole thing can be reduced to simple terms by means lives where he learns things that’ the| were not under the necessity of dodg- from thé~ samé fown miet.” One of them d to the other, “I just got a | letter from home. Bill Smith didn’t go into the service.” The other doughboy said, “No, Bilt Smith didn’t go into the service. He’s home, and he’s got my job and got my 'girl.” ¢ 5 In this story is to be ‘found the | psychology of the whole bonus matter. | If there hadn’t been any Bill Smiths to*wax fat in purse in the shipyards, | and perchance to win the affections of the sweethearts of the men absent in the trenches, there would not be any demand for the bonus $oday, or at least so rans the general belief of men who have studied the situation from the viewpoint of human mnature. + Admittedly the bonus would be a heavy burden on the taxpayers of the United States. It is a hard thing | for a man who himself was @ veterqn of the A. E. F. to write without | prejudice on this bonus question. T have talked with soldiers of all ranks on’' the ‘matter and have found that’ some of them are for it, some of them are against it, but that the majority seems to be for it. Why the Majority Favors It. *Why is the majority for it? Not so much because the men want to feel the cash in hand, but because they feel that an injustice was done them in/ asking them to fight for $33 a month while other fellows were driving rivets for ten times ther amount and ing shells or parrying bayonet thrusts. Personally, the writer of this has been opposed to the granting of the Jbonus unless it could be given to the men who actually need it ‘and kept from those who have no need for it. | There seems to be no way in which this can be done, but, opposed to,the bouus or not, there is every sympathy among ‘the veterans who' think its granting is bad policy, with the men who, leoking at the thing as human nature makes them look at it, say that it ought to be granted. There is a fear among officials in| Washington that the bonus may be mage a political issue. It seems hard to |conceive how it can be so made, for the at-heart proponents and oppon: ents of bonus legislation are pretty evenly divided between the political parties as represented in Washington —due consideration beirg given to the facts of proportion, for there are many more Republicans in the two houses| of congress than there are Democrats. Sympathy Versus Finunce. So far as the controversy today is concerned the senators and representa- tives are confronted with two state- ments, one from the treasury depart- ment and, the other from the veteran organizations. The treasury depurt- ment intimates that passage of the Dbill will come close to bankrupting the country. The veterans' organizations say that this is buncombe. Sympathy runs all one w: mpathy does not always m ' support. It is, of course, with the men who fought. Tllci government ofticials who have spoten on the matter say that their feeling is with the men, but that their sound financial sense has to run the other| way. People will have to take their| choice as between the two contentions. It is perfectly conceivable that the country in what will be tanmmmmt‘ to a referendum. This does not mean) as a direct proposition, but it may be that benus or no bonus will find a} place in the platforms of the political | of the fight. | | Every veteran' probably would like | to see the bonus bill passed if it could| of the country. The subject has been| passed on by the administration. It has asked for postponement. Does this mean the end or is it really only; the congressmen and the veterans are asking today in the city of Washing-| ton, and there is no one yet who can{ give definite answer. { Taft Eighth Chief Justice. In, the White House is the twenty- ninth President, and fh the room of| justice. Presidents are elected for a fived term; Supreme court justices| are appointed for life, or until volun- | tary retirement. The terms of certain ones among the chief justices of the United States lave been coincident with the terms of several Presidents. No political party on coming into power is able| to secure the appointment of either | u chief 'justice or any associate jus- tices of the Supreme court™df its own political faith, unless at the time therey exists a vacancy on the bench. Usual- ly the high court has been so high that it is above polities. of a short story. .. Quer__in_ France two_ doughboys l counted the_ great John Marshall generally is ac- f whole thing may be put up to the “that it will be submitted to tlie people | pg parties. Then one.will have to wait ;f to count the votes to know the finish | | be passed without injury to the credit| 9 postponement? This is the question | i§ > Supreme court is the eighth chief f8 TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1921 Leaving the Ole Home Town SO LONG, KID! HAVE A GOOD IME %< By \ S oo, 7 Illlg"/ “fas Teld alfbough there are men whose feeling in the matter probably is “contrariwise.” Perhaps the man whose name most frequently is on the tongue of per- sons speaking of incidents of the Su- preme court’s life, or its decisions, is that of Roger B. Taney. It was the Dred Scott decision, given at a time when the sectional feeling in the Uni- ted_States was at white heat, that made the name of Taney so familiar, even to the casual students of Amer- ican' history. William Howard Taft, the twenty- seventh - President of/ the United States, has ‘become the eighth chief justice of the United States. Never during the years of his gdult life has Mr. Taft made a secret of the fact that he-had an ambition one day to sit in the seat of John Rutledge, the first chief justice. Susceeds His Own Appointee. When Roosevelt was President, and prior to the time that Mr. Taft’s name was mentioned prominently for the presidency, it was the presidential de- sire to put Mr. Taft on the Supreme bench as an associate justice. At that time the chief justiceship was not vacant, for Melville W. I'uller, ap- pointee of President L;.leve!nnd, still was in the chief seat. Mr. Taft wanted to finish his work in the Philip- pine islands where he was govérnor general, and ‘he declined the privately made offer of President Roosevelt of a seat in the high court., ! Chief Justice Fuller died when Mr. Taft was President of the United States. He chose for Mr. Fuller's successor Edward D. White of Louisi- ana, who then was an associate jus- tice of the court. Now Mr. Taft has succeeded liis own -appointee. The Vest Pocket Kodak '~ Always at hand- N M You don’t carry it—you e wear it like a watch. Always ready- No focusing—snap T A T T LT T T prcrer R et LT TV T T it open and you're ready for a picture. T T TR Always effecient- With its carefully test- ed lens and simplicity of operation, good.results ’ are assured. The full-dress liveries ‘of the foot- man at Buckingham palace cost more than $600 each. Pictures 15%x2Y, inches Price $8.00 Ves-’tv Pocket Auto- graphic Kcdak I T O T L e T T T T T T ADDITIONAL WANT -ADS et FOR SALE---Two gas stoves, one 5- burner range, one 3-burner stove; gas watér heater apd small ice box. ‘Mrs. A. A. Andrews. Phore 221-W. 3t8-11 ' BARKER'S Phone™34 for Correct Time lll"_'ll"fllllllllll LT TNV} PR I S S SR G SN L LOST—A package, containing plaid dress scalloped around bettem. Lost between O. J. Laqua’s store and Corner Drug Store. -Flinder return f to Laqua’s store. 3t8-11 --Boston brindle bull pup. Five ths.old. Answers to name of Rev. Elliatt, Phone 869. o 3t8-11 WANT---girl for general house work. Call 524, 118-9. & ST Read The Pioneer Want Ads RUMOR DENIED ot We are today ifi receipt of a tele\gramfrom . Detroit, as follows: “We have given following statement to Detroit pa- pers: ‘Our attention has been called to recent newspa- per articles, etc., to the effect that there is to be a new model Ford Car on the market August 15th with a change in\deéign to,a ventilating windshield ard one- man top. - As we do not contemplate any such changes, and there is no foundation to the rumors circulated in this connection, we have no hesitancy in making a de- nial of the report.’ . “Youmay use this in the newspapers if you so desire. “FORD MOTOR COMPANY “C, C. HILDEBRAND, Manager.” C. W. JEWETT & CO,, Inc. Telephone 970 Bemidji