Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 13, 1921, Page 6

t <7y R S (Rl &) F BT % THE BEMIDJI DALY PIONEER TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1921 BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ' PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. . DENU, Sec. and Mgr. . B CARSON, Presidens E. H, J. D. WINTER, City. Editor G. W. HARNWELL} Editor ’l'-l-pbou 922 Katered at she postoffice at chmii, Minnesota, a8 second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, No sttention paid to_snonymous 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. ; “'SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier . By Malt ] Six Months oo 8,00 O YORY o e $5.00 Three Months e 150 Six Months 180 One Month IR Ono Week i .lb Thres Months oo 128 THE WEEKIY PIONEER-—Twelve pages, published every Thvmy mnd sent postage paid to any addresas for, in advance, $2.0v. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS PSS IR st v e i e el o e S e R OCTOBER 9—FIRE PREVENTION DAY Statistics show that on an average of five school houses are burned in the United States every day during the school year. Is it any wonder fire preventionists insist on fire drills according tolaw? In 1920 the fire loss of the nation was $5,000,000,000. This staggering property-loss exceeded the total production of gold of the United States and all of its possessions for the past three years, a daily property loss of $1,370,000. A fire loss is a loss, no matter how it is figured, no matter| how much insurance is carried. The partial relief that insur- ance gives adds but another item to our tax burden, but what’is destroyed is gone-forever. When the home burns, which may represent the savings of a lifetime, many times priceless pos- sessions are destrédyed. Money cannot replace them. Not only have we the tremendous loss of property, but there is a loss that is even greater. Over 15,000 lives last year was the toll taken by fires and the horrible thing about all this waste is that carelessness is the cause of most of it. Minnesota has contributed her share, and it has been a large one, to the ash-pile of the world. It is about time we were waking up our responsibility in the matter of preventing this needless waste, . October 9 will be observed throughout the nation as Fire Prevention Day, and a campaign such as has never been put on before should be inaugurated for the fitting observance of that day. | HEADING FOR THE ROCKS The _first article in Augu‘it number of Atlantic Monthly should be read by every voter in the United States and other lands. Many of the ships of states of nations which are headed for t}lm rocks and reefs might be swung out into the open and saved. The author of the article states that after wasting approxi- mately 348 billions of dollars in property and production in the late war, the several nations, guilty of thisstupendous madness, are now qpendmg the income at 5 per cent on 160 billion dollars, | of what they have left, on their war budget. This burden, it reeds no argument to qhow, labor and industry cannot stand. You can’t consume more steam than you can make. When hu- manity understands what it all means, it will refuse to make a gulley slave of itself just for the sake of furnishing a few of its number the chance to start a war. The writer tells us that we, the United States, are spending today—as if we had learned nothing, could learn nothing, would learn mothing—more in getting ready for future wars than the entire net expenses of the Federal government five years ago. Oh, but! says-the defender|=— of all this waste, we are insuring ourselves, by this enormeus outlay, against another war. Yes, on the same basis that if a manufacturer devoted 80 per cent of his total income, as the United States is doing, to paying insurance policies, his credi- tors would soon intervene, and his case would also receive the careful attention of an expert in lunacy. Ay AL IMMIGRATION INTO CANADA ‘A recovery of immigration into Canada amounting to 27 per cent over the previous year occurred in the year ending March 30, 1921. Of a tatal of 148,000 immigrants, 74,000 were British, 48,000 came from the United States and 26,000 from other countries, Emigration from the United States to Canada increased steadily trom-2,400 in 1897 to the high point of 139,000 in 1913. The flow was checked at the outbreak of the war by the pros- pect of conscription and heavy war taxation, and later by the increased prosperity of the United States. An even greater re- duction followed the armistice and the present recovery is but a'small advance toward resumption of the pre-war movement. American immigrants are eminently desirable, not only be- cause they are assimilated without difficulty, since living condi- are on the average wealthier than the settlers from any other country. Itis estimated by the department of immigration and colonization that the American settlers in 1920 brought with them wealth averaging $372 per capita. It is estimated that the British immigrant before the recent enactment prescribing pos- .S s‘(;\‘i)nn of at least $250, brought with him on the average about $100: ERSSIRI Wa—, INTERESTING FARM STATISTICS lg,ht states reported more than half of the tlactom on farms in the United States. Illinois leads'with the largest num- ber of tr: :\ctors, 28,102; Iowa has 20,270+ Kinsas, 17,177; Min- nesota, 15,508 Callfomla, 13,852 ; North Dakota; 13,006 South Dakota, 12! 889 and Nebraska, 11 106." - ¥ The states with the highest percenthge ‘of farms reporting tractorstin, 1920 were: South Dakotaj 16.3 per cemt; North Dakota, 15.2. iwn cent; Montana, 12 per-cent; Cahfolma, 10.3 per-cents Kansas, 9.8 per cent; Tllinois, 9.3 per cent, and Towa, 9.1 per cont. Ten: per cent of all farms reported watar pipes into the farm: ‘homes,; 7 per cent reportcd either gas. or eleetric equip-| insteaa’ of ‘people to- prevent: rabies, ment on-farms. BT L TR WHERE OUR TAXES GO P ‘Actual expenditures of the United Shtes government for| 1. ror infectious diseases have per- the fiscal year 1919-20: Research, education, public health ‘Ordinary government functions Public works ‘Army and ‘Navy iPensions, interest and nxpenditures due to past ‘wars ... 2,690,000,000 Just think of it, $d70 000 000 to. build up and $4,038,000,- 85,000,000 1,348,000,000 tions are so much alike in the two countries, but because they| in reality it Is one of the most diffi- Politics at the watill 3 believe in them, The Most Vital Problem in American By W. B BQB,A,H, U. S. Senator From Idaho Present Time 1t mav ' seem incredible. to:many, but to me the mest vitdl pmblem in Ametican politics at tlie progent time is-the preservation of theigreat guarantees of eivil llbu ty found “in our Constltutmn, -and so long sln})posed to be secure and md_lspensab]e It may seem more incredible awhen the; opi 3 \entumd that these “pFin % liberty, .are not I much in danger from those wlm + openly oppose them as from those who; professing to on is gonfidently l’l& feguards of-our are willling to ignore them when found inconvenient to their purposes. One of the most common traits of the political pharisce—the man who is always professing great devotion to the Constitution and always betraying it or disregarding it—is that of constantly expressing the fear that the people may have their minds poisoned by false doctrines; hence the necessity of censoring the press and circumseribing pubhc meetings and arbitrarily punishing men for expressing “dangerous” views. As a matter of fact, there is no one more difficult to lead astray and 10 one in whose keeping the true principles of free government ‘are s6 safe 'as the average citizen. Those who do not believe that the people aré éapa- ble of choosing as their representatives men of cotirage and wisdom, who do not belieye that they are fitted to seléct and approve the wisest and most "efficient. laws and institutions which the ripest’infellects of -Ehé tim give and will do so, and who do not believe in the freest discussion among the people, do not in fact believe in popular govemmem——thgy ‘have.mis- 'a great faith. The whole sitperstructure of Amerlctm mshtntw‘restk up: principles of constitutional ‘morality. taken the sickly forebodings of the umnforined Afor’ tha-lnrgetq)uthpe of the Let us respocfi'our )uws aufll ‘the provisions of our’ Constitution ‘as flley are made and*4§ the{{ ‘exist “from time to time. 1t is our right and it is a privilege which no free people will ever surrender to change the Constitution; to modify it; to- rewrite it. But as it exists at any particular time, obedience to it and respect for its provisions and terms constitute true devotion to the American ;epublic. mfifim OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR In the Des Moines (Iowa) schools, from now on, the school boy who doesn’t wash the back of his neck or clean his teeth or bathe or do the other “health chores” is going to be in bad. It’s going to 'count against his month- ly grade. citizen. legislature two years ago is just out.. course in health throughout all the grades. What’s more, he isn’t going to be considered a good American The new citizenship manual, prepared as a result of an act-of the 1t devotes a great many pages'to a It says that the) practice of health habits and not just merely the study of hygigne and physiology shall be a part of the course in American citizenship. The idea is a’good ‘one.— Mankato Free Press. Charles Comiskey of-the Chicago ‘White- Sox- will be in Baudette -early next week. Probably coming to look ‘over some. of our bn}l players.~Bau- dette Region, It looks as if there might be quite a few powder pufl’s‘in‘ the next.session of the Minnesota legislature.—Baudette Region. Now we have something to celcbrate. The pumpkin pie season 'is here —Baudette Region. Governor Preus has the hay fever. dette Region. Also the senatorial fever.—Bau- ] WORK IS H&RD ON ARTISTS 8inging Into the Recording Horn Con. ceded to Be a Nerve-Racking : Experience. Miisle 1s a lot trickler to can than peaches ‘or pears, remarks Farm and Irireside. When you play one of your phono- graph records you have no ldea how hard 1t may have been to get that mel- ody “preserved.” You are listening to the result' of a lat of mighty hard work, which' may have fncluded con- siderable storming by the director and tears on the part of the artist: Some artists simply cannot sing for the rec- ords at all, while others are nervous wrecks for days after a sesslon of re- cording. Tq sing Into a recording horn may look/ easy—just as It may look easy for/ a baseball player to hit a ball over the fence for a home run—but cult, nerve-racking things anyone can altempt, On the concert stage a singer with o good voice may make little mis- takes without the audience noticing thém. If he has an attractlve pres- ence and an engaging manner, he may even sing a bit off key and yet make a hit. But the wax master record is a relentless mirror, with no mercy for the imperfections that the average art- ist—like other human = beings—is guilty of. The slightest waver or strain In the voice, tlie slightest devia- tion from the true pitch, comes out badly. And the very fear of making these mistakes and flaws “hoodoo” most singery’ into” making -them, The result ls. that many a popular stage artist hos met defeat in the laboratory. Japan’s Fight on Hydmphobll." Light on the Depths. It is said that at a depth of only 200 fathoms the light of the unclouded sun penetrating the ocean is reduced to equality with the starlight of a clear night on the surface. At more profound depths the sunlight is en- tirely extinguished. Yet theére are both light and color in the abysses, and at the bottom of the sea. The light is of phosphorescent origin, and it may be remarked that in general the fixed marine forms of life are not be- hind thelr free’ swimming allies in light-emitting poiers. luminations produced by the move- ments of abyssal fishes through the forests. of phosphorescent sea-pens, fan corals, red ¢orals, and other Aley- onaria. The colors of deep-sea animals are both brilliant and'’varied, The Compass Plant. On the prairies and plains. of Utah, Texas and southern Minnesota: there grows a wonderful plant which has | proved useful to travelers wandering over these vast tracts of country. It is called the compas$§ plant, or pilot plant, bacause of a peculiarity in the growth of the leaves, which grow al- ternately along the stalk, and point precisely north and South! The In- dians followed the direction given them by these pointing leaves, and told the white men about it. This plant be- longs to the family of the Compositae, and looks very much like the sun- flower. . It has a strong, resinous odor, somewhat like turpentine; -and sometimes goes by thesname of “tur- pentine plnnt"-——Chrlstlnn Science Monitor, End-of-the-World “Prophecy. The morning of December .17, 1919, the planets’ Mercury, Venus, Mars, Ju- piter, Saturn and Neptune came into ‘t-yon, will ‘be: grief- ‘There are il- | $ 59,000,000/ oculation that can be given the dogs 226,000,000 in one-or’ two .shots. | dogs’ have been trented and in-not a 1000 to tear down. Someflnng is amiss. The Japanese are inoculating dogs | glignment in the heavens; that is, all the:planets, with, the exception of the earth, lay in an approximate. line with the sun and all of theny except Uran- us, were on the sume side of the sun. They were strung along in the same plane and approximately the same line, like so many points on one spoke of a wheel. Meanwhile Uraaus. was on the same line but on the other side of the sun, like the point of ‘the spoke directly opposite. The arrangement had heen foretold by astronomers and certain prognosticators predicted the end of the world. However, the sun rose as usual on that day and the weather was normal. which is now “widespread” in that country, says 'thé New York Evening Post. The bacteriologist Umeno and his coworkers at the Kitasato Insti- fected a method of prophylactic in- In all, 31,000 single instance has any one of them been found suffering from rables. In- stead of the usual methods of killing mad and stray dogs, the Japanese medical experts are advocating inocu lation of all the dogs of Japan. THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN Texan Is Newly Appointed .Director of the Legion’s National Amer. icanization Commission. “He can tell you about an ordl- nary baseball game 1 expression that stricken,” Is wh M. Owsley, Te: newly appoin director . of the Amigrican Leglon’ nltlonal Amer cani$m comm1 slon. Mr. Ow: ley, who left off being, assistant®at- toyney general of the largest statein the Union to join the Legion organization, has becnme n “soldier and a statesman” of national prominence at the age of thirty years. In the West, the Texan has long been known as a speaker of unusual abllity. When he went East:and had | as his field Americanism, its origin and | its purpose, Mr. Owsley began deliver- ing uddresses of such eloquence and| inspirational context that he became in‘ constant demand and his repute as a master -of . dietion :paturally lul{u\\ed Oversens. Mr.. Owsley. commanded. a battalion of 36th Division infantry un-| til his promotion to ‘division adjutant. | As head of the Legion’s legislative | committee in Texas, he obtained a $2, 000,000 hospital for Kerrville, Tex.’ { service men -at | ¥ Plaster Easily Mended. If plaster on’ the Wills shows crackg and breaks, it is not difficult to,mend this yourself. Get a little plaster of paris from the- drug store. Mix this | with water t6 make a smooth paste | and then plaster the eracks, smooth- ing off the surfabe with a perfectly | smooth board for a lathe. When this * is perfectly dry you can supply a coat | of calcimine or one of the patented | wall paints and the effect should be all that you desire. It is very much better to have all shelves well painted with two coats of white paint and a | tinishing coat ‘of enawmel than to leave the boards in natural condition. If they | are painted they may be washed off | easily, whereas.if they are not.painted they become discolored and soiled and cannot be restored. Serblan Melodies Solemn, The Serbian melodies are solemn and impressive, and have a strong affinity with thelr church music. The Hun- garian songs, on the other hand, show wvitality and impetuosity to an extraor- dinary degree. They are mostly in two-four time, but both the rhythms and the time ¢hange conunuany. and the music is full of pauses at effective moments and of modulations Into un- expected keys, which correspond to | constant changes in the sentiment of the songs, from deep sorrow to wild hilarity “of satire. = The “Hungarian ‘Melodies,” by Francis Korbay, contain very fine examples of such music, and the accompaniments of the songs in this collection are beautifully and thoroughly. adapted to the melodies. phogpiceciod The ranks of the American Legion have-been extended into the second enemy country with the recent forma- tion of a post in Constantinople, Two posts are going in Germany. men with the Near East relief and the American Foreign Trade corporation are organjzing the Stamboul post.. 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