Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 11, 1921, Page 6

One answer to the “Reason Why” contest, in explaining why every au- tomobile driver should own a Ford, stated that “every automobile driver should own'a‘Ford because it is the ! cheapest car there is.” | That may be all right, but, at that, it would be well to remember that looks are sometimes deceiving. —Giddap!— A Pronounced Argument | The other day we heard of a couple | of.fellows in a banber shop discussing the Irish situation, but up until time of going to press, we hadn’t noticed | that the discussion had changed the | situation much. A part of the dis-| cussion was the proper way to pro-| nounce Dail Birann. The older of the two gentlemen declared it was pro-| nounced Dail Eirann, while the other | wouldn’t have it pronounced any other way but Dail Eirann. Just to| settle that point of the argument, the barber said that he knew that it should be pronounced Dail Eirann. —Dail Eirann, Is Right— You Know the Kind A nearby resident reported that | the hail stones in the storm Tuesday | afternoon were as large as hens’ eggs. | That, no doubt, seems increditable ito you, but you must remember that hens ’eggs are not always large. Sure-i ly you have gotten some from your | faverite grocer, which were mo big- ger than the hail stones in Tuesday’s storm. —Eleven to a Dozen— ; % . Why Not File Them? It is said that every hair of the | head is numbered. And that must | account for the fact that so many| men _are unable to obtain the back | number. But it's usually the front | numbers which go first, —Front Then Back— Even the Books Are Related | You can now purchase a book ex: plaining the Einstein theory of rela- tivity. And then you can purchase | another beok which is said to thor- | oughly explain the first book. But| until there is a third book, we can’t | se ghow you can get any explanation out of the second book. —Not Even for Einstein— | WOULD HAVE CONGRESS PAY RAILROADS $200 MILLION | Wastington, Aug. 11.---Congr will be called on to appropriate $200,- 000,000 to make final settlement be- Aween the government and railroads, Director General Davis told the Inter- state commerce committee today. WOULD APPROPRIATE FIVE MILLION TO RELIEVE RUSSIA (By United Press) Washington, Aug. 11.—A bill ap- propriating five million dollars to be used by the president in_extending relief to famine-stricken Russia was introduced in the senate by Senator | King of Utah. | { Bull hides, No. 1. | Deacons, each ... | ment of the French Revolution is dated, | Cow hides, No. 1. Kipp hides, No. 1, 1o Calf skins, No. 1, 1b. Horse hides, large.. MARAT HONORED AS PATRIOT Bloodthirsty Leader of French Revolu- tion Interrcd With the Great Ones of the Nation, From the destruction of the bastile, 52 years ago, July 14, the commence- 1 sm has no and its sanguinary representative of such odious repul- siveness as John Paul Marat, who was | ussa Swiss | of Calvinistic purents, led a| strange lite for 45 y tterly al phy 1—when the | eat nationataerisis brought him to | the surface as a Journalist and a mem- | ber of the convention. Less than five feet high, with frightful countenance | and n al eye, he was an object of | rsion to most petple; but he had earnestness and hesitated at | no violence against the enemies of lib- 'ty, and so came (o possess the en- | confidence and affection of the mob | of Paris. His paper daily clamored for blood and he desired every well-| dressed person to be put to death. It | was on July 14, four years after the fall of the bastile, that Charlotte Cor- day stabbed him to death in his bath to avenge the fate of her friend, one Barbaroux. L.arat’s death was treated as a public calamity and his | body was deposited in the Pantheon with great honors.—Chicago Journal. sort of quack frantic Japanese Easy to Learn. Sir Dennison Ross, director of the London school of oriental studies, in an exhortation to his countrymen to lenrn Japanese, says that this Is one of the easiest languages of the world | to pronounce. “Most of the words end | in vowels aud none of the consonants | DECLARES AMERICANS IN RUSSIA STILL PRISONERS | (By United Press) ! Riga, Aug. 11.—A! Americans in | Russia now are practically prisoners, | Charles R. Crane, former American minister to China, declared today. | e e — | WILD BUCKS DYING FROM LACK OF WATER TO DRINK (By United Press) Napoleon, N. D., August 11. Thousands) of wild ducks, forgetting their fear of civilization, are enter- ing towns and barnyards seeking water, They are dying by hundreds, owing to the drouth iin Logan coun-| ty | THOMPSON-OWENS Andrew Thomp:on of Mentor, Polk | county, and Alta E. Owen, of Bemid-| ji, were united in marriage Wednes- day afternoon at 2:30 by Judge of Probate J. E. Harris. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson left on the afternoon trein for Mentor where Mr. Thompson has a farm, on which they will reside.| WILSON AND DOWNEY ARE TO MEET ON LABOR DAY (By United Press) New York, Aug. 11.---Tex Rickard anncunced today he had scheduled the world's championship bout be- tween Johnny \Wilson and Downey for Labor Day in the Jersey City arena. Wilson will get 35 per cent of the gate receipts and Downey 30 per cent. | FOUR BANDITS HOLD UP MESSENGER AND ESCAPE (By United Press) Des Mboines, Iowa, Aug. 11.---Four bandits held up E. B. Copperik, mes- | genger for the Capitol City Bank, in| Hast Des Moines today and escaped | with $6,000. The hold-up was staged on a ‘busy street, less than a blncl;;‘ | from the city hall. ADDITIONAL WANT ADS FOR SALE--Ono 2- v Por- | fection ol stove in A-1 condition, $7.00, it taken Dbefore Saturday wight, 208 Mississippi avenue. Phone 8534W. 2t8<12 | FOR RENT--A modern, furnished | room. - Call 85. 2t8-12 | WANTED---Waliresses at Markham | _Coftlée Shop. 3t8-13 (WANTED---Responsible girl for gen- ‘eral housework. Call 932-W. 3t8-13 | tical, everyday purposes, six months’ | | six, offer uany difliculties.” The structure| of Japanese Is very peculiar and very | strange to the beginner. It is hard to | realize & grammar which recogniz¢s no | persons and genders—but such is the| case with the Japanese. The language | nlso has no relative pronouns. How-| ever, there is no reason why people| whose mother tongue is English should | fight shy of the language. For prac-| study of the spoken tongue will earry| an intelligent man a long way provided | he has competent teache g Vanishing Ladnguages. Nowhere in America has there been such a diversity of Indian languages as in California. But these langunges are now rapldly disappearing. Several of them are known only by five or and others only by twenty or y living persons, and havdly a s without some dialect, or language, ¢ ng to xist b even through the death of the last indi- vidual able to speak it. Eforts are belng made to rd all these lan- guages for the sake of the light they throw on the anclent history of the Pacific coast.—\Washington Star. Showers of Toads and Fish. It is on record that toads and small fish have fallen from the clouds. Such occurences have been explained by the supposition that the objects were taken up in violent whirlwinds and, perhaps, transported a considerable distance before they were dropped to the earth. Peach Stones Good Fuel. Peach stones, it has been discovered in California, burn as well as coal, and give out more heat in proportion to weight. The stones taken out of the fruit that is tinned ot dried are col- lected and sold for this purpose. Spring Bathing s Good, “Speaking of bathing in famous springs,” said the tramp to the tourist. %I bathed in the spring of '86."— Orange DPcel. Requires Cash, Often a man fails to embrace an op- portunity because he is “shy.”—Boston Transeript. Full Weight. g Taugh and grow fat, and you* find the laugh s on you.~Cartoons Maga- zine, JeR— AS DLUBLALE? DALY THERE? i Discovered in Switzerland and Used for Purpose of Extracting VAalu- able Bitumen, Asphalt, though covering thousands of miles of roads in all countries, was discovered quite by accident. In the middle of the last century it was found in Switzerland in its natural state, and used for the purpose of ex- tracting the valuable store of bitumen it contained. In time it was noticed that pieces of rock which fell from the wagons, and were crushed by the wheels, formed a very fine road sur- face when half melted by the heat of the sun. ‘An experiment was made and a road of asphalt laid in Paris. It was so successful that the new road material became adopted through all the big towns of Europe. All- sorts of materials have been tried since, from rubber to seaweed. It is very likely, in fact, that in the future the streets of our big cities will be paved with some form of rub- ber mixture which will be practically noisele: Very extensive experiments have already been carried out with such a mixture. In New York scveral streets are paved with steel, and a steel road has been in use in Valencia, in Spain, for the last 20 years. Perhaps the most curious material for a road is sea- weed. . This compressed into solld blocks, is used to pave the streets of Baltimore. These seaweed blocks are bound with wire and dipped into boil- ing tar before being put to use. DESTROY ROADSIDE WEEDS Because— 1. They act as centers of weed in- festation for adjoining fields. 2, They may be carried for many miles by passing vehicles and animals. 8. They harbor harmful insects and | plant diseases. | 4, They create insanitary conditions. 5. They are unsightly. Methods for destroying roadside | weeds, approved by specialists of the Weeds Along Roadside Harbor Injuri- ous Insects and Various Plant Dis- eases, United States Department of Agri- culture, are By— 1. Mowing twice a year while they are in full bloom, usually in June and August. 2. Utllizing the roadsides for grow- ing bhay. 8. Grazing with tethered animals. 4. Converting weedy roadsides into lawns. GRADE ALL ROADSIDES SO THE WFREDS CAN BE CONTROLLED. WIRE MESH GOOD FOR ROADS Britich Army in Egypt Used Chicken- Wire in Building Temporary Routes in Sand. The British army in Egypt has used chicken-wire in the construction of roads. Loose sand was smoothed and lev- eled and then. covered.with chicken- wire, which was firmly pegged down. The passage of troops or motor transports seemed to affect the road very little, while the passage of ani- mal-drawn vebicles damaged the im- provised road badly. However, it was gossible to. make repairs quickly and — — E NOW BIG \S CHICAGO,B0SS? \§ \T"AS B\G, AWY W2 0O THEY GIT OUY A [ WS 1 MY FIRST TR AWAY By Charles Sughrod € Western Newspaper Union T \CS BIGGER'N STQCKTON, GEE WHIZ.Y thé road was easily kept i dition. Of course this wire-mesh road was purely a temporary expedient for the military. The old Romans still hold the palm as the ehampion road-mak- ers of the world. Many a foundation of the roads they made is still in use in Europe, tne surtface alone being modern. Bad Roads in Way. The planter—the farmer—needs to reduce the cost of transportation; the laborer to provide homes and cheaper living; the merchant wants the coun- try air. What opposes? Roads—bad roads.—Dr. Seaman A. Knapp. Line Highways With Trees. Now Is a fine time to make plans for lining the highways in your town- ship with trees. Don't plant them too thick; fifty feet or more apart will do. AT "SHOULD DENOTE M0OD Whys and Wherefores of the Subject Dealt With at Length by English Writer. T never put on a new hat without a certain feeling of pity for the mere man who can never enjoy the delicious thrill that it gives, writes J. M. in the London Daily Mail. But there is much to be gone through before that triumphant moment arrives, for the business of choosing a new hat | is fraught with nervous apprehension lest our choice fall upon the wrong shape or color. Orly moral cowards take refuge In perpetual black headgear. What, then, is it exactly that we feel within ourselves as we step into the open street for the first time in a new hat? ) If the hat is an undoubted success, it gives a peculiar sense of elation—a knowledge that she is looking her best always makes a woman feel ler pret- tiest! e Hats should be Indicative of the moods of the wsurer. Black for dig- nity, dark blue for sobriety, brown for calm days, red for hustling days. The hat with the nodding roses de- notes a gay midsummer mood, the “modest violet” toque makes a mute appeal to romance. The dashing cavalier of a hat with sweeping plumes (none of your glyc erined ‘travesties, but well-nourished billowy ostrich feathers) precludes an adventure, while the Quaker gray | demure, downcast eyes. But for real happiness give me the 1ol felt hat that lives at the buck of | the wardrobe and has survived the | “turning out” of many years. As we | cram this ald friend on to our head, | with a pull at the brim to shade the | eyes, the cool air of the uplands comes | to meet us even as we rench for a stick inn(l pass out through the open door | on the rond which leads back to the land: of happy mermories. Fight Locusts With Airplanes. The locust nlague in southern I'rance | 1s being fought with the aid of air- planes. One hundred thousand acres | of fertile land have been devastated. The pests are hatching out in isolated | spots on the great Crau plain, and each | new “nest” gives birth to many mil- lions of locusts. It is of vital im- portance to destroy the young insects before they are strong enough to fly , and this is where the airplanes ‘are proving so useful. Pilots now plain, flying extremely low. When they locate a breeding ground or “nest” of locusts directions are immediately telephened to the anti-locust head- quarters at Miramas. If there is'long grass near, petrol is poured on it and it is set afire. Otherwise the infested avea is strewn with sawdust sonked in arsenic. This kills the locusts at once, and also any eggs that are unhatehed. SR R N e First United States Coins, The first United States coins were ued in 1793. The Constitution con- red upon congress- the power to coin money -and regulate A mint was established in Philadelphia In 1792, and the following year the first coius were struck. ! China a Flour Exporter. At a time when tliere are so many appeals. for funds with which to pur- ? chase flour for shipment to the Chinese | famine victims, it is rather unbeliev- | able that in normal times China pro- i duees suflicient flour for export pur- | poses. | :mm-ls of Chinese flour were shipped to Europe. New mills are contem- plated in the wheat growing sectiony.— ! Sclentific American. 5 i s LS e | RERE KKK KX KK I KKK KK | toque with the floating veil goes with | daily scour the whole of the Crau | its value. | Yqt in 1920 almost six million |] %% WINDA. LATE! 77 SUPPOSING W' | ¥ PINEWOOD * XIS S R RS Dr. McAdory of Bemidji was here on a professional call at the home of John Sodeberg, who hag been very |1l for several weeks. Mr. Sodeberg |is mow improving and we hope for his early return to good health Mr and “Mrs. Fred Ehel and daughter, Ella, of Leonard, were ’Pinewoo_rl visitors Monday. | Carl Winger and George Creighton {of Debs were visitors here Sunday. John 1Iverson, Conrad Drumness and ‘Glen Duhamel left for the Da- kota harvest fields Monday. Peter Drumess, who has been home for a vid't, returned to Minneapolis Monday. Mr. Drumess is looking well and has recovered his health. He was in over seas service in the World War and was badly gassed. The baseball game played here Sunday between the Bagley and Pine- wcod teams was one of the best and cleanest of the season ‘ever played in northern Minesota. Excellent work was done by both teams. The score. was 2 to 0 in favor of Pinewood. A large crowd of wisitors and local pecple were present and all agree it ‘was a game worth seeing and com- | mentedeon the good behavior of both | teams. { ‘Mrs. C. Clauson and children of | Pelican Rapids arrived here Wednes- day for al few days visit with Mr. {Clauson and friends and to look over | their new home which is now being | built here. | D. M. Conners and Miss Zenda | Bell of Bemidji were the guests of IMr. and Mrs. S. C."Miller Sunday. | Clarence Nelson and sister Marie of Debs were Pinewocd visitors Satur- | day. Hall’'s show wiiich showed here all | last week went to Debs Monday where | they will show all this week. They {shew in a large tent and put on a good clean movie and vaudeville com- | bined and we hope to have them show But He’s a Smart Kid in His Own Home Town! A GER WHZ, 508" \ DIDNY RNOW ERH KR AKX KKK x TURTLE LAKE * [ X222 22 R RS 2R 2 2 2 Fred Kline visited relatives in Be- midyi Saturday. Among those who left for the North Dakota harvest fields were H. King and son Steve, Lee Bull and Frank Fournier. Miss Jennie Lawrence visited the Misses Butler Thursday. ‘B. N. Wentworth, who has been visiting his mother and other rela- tilves at Blackduck, returned home Wednesday. Martin Larson was a Bemidji vis- itor Saturday. r. and Mrs. Jense Nielson enter- iaincd the following Sunday: Mr. and Christenson and children e, Mr. and Mrs. Lund and 2 . and Mrs. M. W. Butler and daughters, Adice and Inez, and Worthy I Butler, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Oleen and family, John Peterson and CHICAGO WUz BUWT OF T TRAeK! Q TR A\ ON BOTH SIDES B. N. Wentworth. All report a very pleasant time. ] Messrs. gohn Peterson, 0. W. Ol- sen and B .N. Wentworth transact- ed business at Bemidji Saturday. E. Wold, M. Walters and Mrs. A. P. Reeve called at the J. H. Locke home Saturday.evening. Wea;k Eyes? Try This Simple Mixture People with weak, aching eyes should try simpld camphor, hydras- tis, witchhazel, ete., as mixed in La- voptik eye wash. They will be sur- prised at the QUICK results. One |man ‘with weak, near-sighted eyes re- jports just a few days greatly improv- ed them. Another case of weak and acHing eyes was helped by the first treatment. One small bottle Lavap- tik usually helps ANY CASE, strain- et cor inflamed eyes. E. A. Barker, druggist.—Advertisement. Bemi&ji;s PlayGround DIAMOND POINT Enjoy your Sundays and pienic: Lunches and ‘hot Coffee served. tions of all kinds in stock. modations for picnic par- ties. Diamond Point is truly Northern Minneso- ta’s most beautiful play- ground and it’s free to you. Archie Ditty Custodian here again in the future. s there. Confec- Special accom- 7 Bathing’. For at New Bath Pavilion | | | | | | to your property. i | of yourself. Phone 57 Afford Paint is tfie Dress of Svour House—and, like C'loth“es, itfldoc make the House—but Good Paint, well applied, dogs add value N8 el gl Paint Prices Are Normal A year ago Minnesota Outside White Paint softl fo} $5.25 a gallon WE SELL IT NOW FOR $3.75 a gallon Minnesota Paint covers from 20% to 60 % more than ordinary Paint. You Should Paint Your Buildings This Fall: —because Paint will not be cheaper and May Cost More Later, —because, it adds value to your property ahd will give you a better opinion —because it will add to the appearance of your City or Community—and give others a better opinion of your property. Given Hardware B S NO On Bafgain Paint’ | s aa.l en gallon: Co. Bemidji, Minn.