Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 1, 1921, Page 6

THE BEMIDJI D. AILY PIONEER " P 'BEMIDJI PUBLISHED ‘EVERY AFTERNOON: EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. @ B CARSON, President E. H, DENU, Sec. and Mgr. B B O ARNWALYL, Kditer 4. D. WINTER, City Bditor ~ Telophone 922 postofice st Bemidji, Minnes as second-class mattes, ‘wnder Act of Congress of u:;:f 3, 1879, 1 an No' attention paid to anonymous contributions. ' Writer's name must e known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica- .fionluz&ol the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday ‘of week to insure publication in thé current issue. > SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne Y "mw___uoo oL o B g&'umfm 1 78.00 Ome YaAR e 88.00 Thioo Monthh ot 355 S Months —rmpei—— 280 One Week i <10 Three Montha .. — 128 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday pad sent postage psid to any sddress for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDiNGS W GERMANY CAPTURING WORLD TRADE News from Germany bear the information that the numbers of unemployed are fast decreasing and ‘that a pel:io'd of ‘un- precented business activity has set in. This news is.giving grave concern to those who are interested in the problem of alleviat- ing unemployment in America. Information from European sources to the effect that. German competition is prostrating Eu- ropean industry, is being confirmed by ‘Americans’' who are re- turning from Europe. By common consent, Germany is the busiest section of Europe. It has no unemployment problem, while the question of lagging industries is b_ecoming more seri- ous in practically every other-European nation. - It:is generally ,agreed this is largely due to inroads made by German manu- factured products upon the industries of her European neigh- bors. ; : One of the latest bits of téstimony along this line is that of John F. Wright, president of the American Club of Antwerp, and representative in Belgium of large American industrial in- terests. Mr, Wright says: : “Where a year ago the Belgian iron.and steeltrade was en- joying unprecedented activity and selling its products through- out the world, it is today in a lamentable condition. Mills are shut down and fires have been drawn from the blast furnaces, of which only 13 in Belgium are in operation. This is due to the fact that Belgium finds itself unable to compete with Ger- many, which not only h lower scale of wages than Bel- gium, but which maintains in its steel and iron industries a ten- hour work day, in the face of Belgium’s eight-hour law. The prostration of the steel industry in Belgium has created a very serious’ labor situation. When I left! Belgium the other day, the government was issuing daily food allowances to at least 100,000 workers.” S s A business man of the central west en route home fam a trip through England and Europe, stated that German competi- tion in surgical instruments is literally running Belgian and British manufacturers of such goods out:bf business. For ex- ample, surgeons in London can buy one dozen German-made lancets for what they pay for only one of English or Belgian . make, The last official report of the British Board of Trade shows i that England’s exports, compared with a year ago, have de- clined nearly 50 per cent and that the largest item.of loss is in her iron and steel exports. The report shows that while English mills of all kinds are closing down because of lack of demand | for goods, German manufacturers in the same line capnot fill the orders they have on hand and in some instances they are al- . ready sold in advance their 1922 output. - That this situation will have a serious effect upon industry in this country unless steps are taken to protect American man- ufacturers, cannot be doubted. Already one of the largest tex- tile concerns in the United States has announced that it will practically abandon its export business as exportation of textiles from this country is out of the question under existing economic conditions. Added to this situation abroad, which renders it difficult, if not impossible, for Americans to compete with German prod- ucts in foreign markets, is the demand from a certain class of ) ‘American importers and large dealers handling foreign goods _; to permit European’ cotuntries to have an unrestricted market in the United States. Of course, if this is done it means American industries which are now active will be compelled to curtail their operations or shut down entirely, as every article of for- eign make sold in this country kills the sale of a like article of American make, which lessens by just that much the output rof American factories and increasés the number df idle men. —0 BEARING OTHER’S BURDENS Bemidji has a population of approximately 8,000. This means there are very close to 1,600 families who claim residence in this eity. Of this 1,600 families, 448 are assessed for per- sonal property. No, that is hardly true either, for in that figure of 443 is included the assessments of the business firms and manufacturing establishments in the city. There would, in.all probability, be less than 400 families with a personal property assessment. Are you one of the four hundred? If ¥ou are, you are oneé of those who are carrying the burden of the other 1,200 families who are not paying any personal property tax., Isit any wonder the taxpayers are groaning under their burden just now? There are undoubtedly a large number of families who have not sufficient personal property to comé under the asses- sor's levy. These, who have not been fortunate enough to .ac- cumulate sufficient of this world’s goods to put them in the as- sessment;class, have about all they can do tq;gather together a : livelihood fori themselves and their families, and to them/we ¢+ make no reference, although they are accorded the:same beéne- ! fits from the city as other citizens: But the people who arg on .the border of starvation when the assessor comes around, and “the next day may be seen arrayed in “costly garments -and i rubies,” are not helping their city prosper and indirectly they * are stifling the city’s growth upon which usually their own pros- perity depends. ' “If each citizen will bear his just proportion of the burden it will be lighter for all, it will be an incentive for many more 0 come to our city, thereby still increasing the number who will ‘bear the burden and adding to the general prosperity of the city. It is a short-sighted policy that will allow the few to bear the burden of the others, because those few will tire of the hon- r soon and will leave the city for other places where taxes are ©equitably levied. Then“what becomes of your city? . Think it over, good people. It is a happier and more.prosperous com- unity where all bear the burden and share in the returns. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Services will be held in the Hattles building, room 24, over the J. C. Penny. Co. store at 11 o'clock. = Sun- day school at 8:45. 4 METHODIST EPISCOPAL Pastor preaches #t morning wor: ship at /10:30; ' Subject ' *Christian Stewardship”’. 'R H Sunday school at 12 noon. Epworth League, at. 7.0’clock. | Evening worship .at 8 o’clock. | Public copdially. invited. G. H. ZENTZ, Pastor St. Bartholomew's: Episcopal |, Holy Communion and Sermon 111 o’clock. Solo—*“0 Blessed Redeemer” by { Wm, Pratt. Sunday School at 10 o’clock, Wm. Pratt, superintendent. Everybody corially invited to at- tend. William Elliott, Pastor ! NORWEGIAN LUTHERAN Services next Sunday at 10:30 a. {m. in the English language, and at | 8 p. m. in the Norwegian language in | The First” Lutneran Church, Minne- | sota avenue and Eighth street. | The congregation has its quarter- ily business meeting in the parlors Tuesday, Oct. 4th 8 p. The voting members are urged to at- All are cordially invited. L. J. JERDEE, pastor PRESBYTERIAN . Sunday morning at the Presbyter- ian church at 11 o’clock the pastor LOSS,” (Mat. 10:39.) | Sermon will be on the theme, “THE gUI)‘I ET DBABORER,” (Matt. -7). i .Al! are most cordially weleome. - Lester P. Warford, Pastor MEN ALSO FOND OF GOSSIP Masculino Tea Hounds Have Sharp Tongues, ‘ls Astertion Made by . English Feminine Writer, | | ¥rom .time immemorial the word; gossip -has ‘been ‘associated with the feminine gender, writes Rosalie' Nelsn in' the London Standard. It Is wom- en who are supposed to take away characters, start rumors, and tear rep- utations into shreds. It may be true that women like" talking ‘about ‘one another, and somet/mes’not -over good-'} naturedly, but are men entirely free’| from the gossip habit? b What about the club? Are the sub- Jects always serious, and ‘do not per- gonalities form "a “large ‘part of ‘the’| conversation? I know & good many club” men;and ‘I have' often heard: with amazement what® they have said about ‘one ‘another. There was a time when men were supposed not ‘only to condemn but ac-! tually to dislike a cup of afternoon tes. Perhaps there was a time'when men did not gosslp, and the tea and the talk have become popular togeth- er. But what about Pepys's dlary? Here''were really some- choice bits of gossip! If, however, you do not belleve " thiat -men 'gossip -nowadays, ask one in to tea—we will say a bar- rister, for example. Begin to praise one or two K. C.'s and some of the judges, and see what he will say about them; or ask a politician what he thinks .of another politician, or a soldier what he thinks of’ some of the’ generals—you can apply this test to all the trades and professions. They Serve Humanity, The man or womair who sits all day before the microscope is serving hu- | manity as truly as:did any soldier’lu the trench. An article in The Ameri¢an Boy entitled “Sixteen-(}yllnder,Ey’es" makes this pregnant comment on the work ‘of ‘the scientific laboratories:-* “Sclence and 'thé microscope' are chiefly concetned now with the altefa-’ tion of the serum of the human btéod that renders a person immune from disease and the discovery and isolation of germs of other diseases as yet undis-- covered, All over the world there are men and women engaged in this ‘ret search work~in thousands of laborha- tories. ‘Day after day they sit befbre their inicroscopes lioping to trace some sly microbes to-thelr lairs and mike' their extermination possible, Through | this wonderful instrument humanity’ ed-from untold misery and’ le nuniber of. deaths and| veliitions . ofthe- future | | peanied: of Becrets, con- verg.ngture of mutter and | even life itself. ™' 2ne e ' Troublea I you éannot get ¥id of your troublés you can try ‘belng stronger! than they are; you are not bound ‘to! live under: thelt tyranny. ' They dre a'f cowardly throng for: the most part, Fear them, and they will crush you. Try to run away from them, and they will overtake you. Face them, and they will cower and even vanlsh. No one ever yet rid himself of an enemy by hating him. Hatred only | brings him from the outer life to r’he | inner, and gives: him lodging and | power to work greater mischief than | ever. ¢ | It is possible to be so intent on ggod | manners® that e attain nothing .else. } Even mannners need a heart to make { them -of much real. worth, und: sin- l cerity, however polite, it still iusincere, * . NYMORE CONGREGATIONAL Rev. Shell of St. Paul will hold his| last services here commencing at 8 o’clack Sunday evening, OZONE AND THE SAND MAN The Two Are Quite Closely: Related, Though Probably - Few P¢ople Cauld Tell . How., People who spend thelr vacatfons at the seashore at this time of ‘the year usually find ‘that ‘theilr nights are dreamless and restful. They say that the.sea air makes them _sléepy. Wheeled along in a beach chair, one is likely to feel drowsy ozone, which might e called @ con* centrated: oxygen. ' (Ozone is-a' power- ‘ful’ ahd, healthful stimulant. ‘Whence, by the way, comes the nursery idea of the Sand Man, herald of sleep? . . The answer is that the approach of, sleep checks the flow from the ear- ducts’ ‘'which' keeps ' the ~eyes' moist., There - results..a- dryness and slight uncomfortableness of the lids, causing one to rub the eyes. The Sand Man has come, and-it. 18 time to go to bed. ? '8cotiand, the “Land’ ' Cakes “Land o' Cakes” 18 a name given to Scotland, where eatmeal : cakes form an important article of dlet, especial- ly among the lower : classes. The || phrase was made famous by Robert Burns in 1789 in his poem “On Capt. Grose's Peregrinations Through Scote land.” There can no morebe two kinds of right action -than théke can beijtwo at church|: m; will speak on the subject, “GAIN BY], Sunday evening at. 8. o’clock thel! 20:| Sunday School will meet at 10 a.|: m., and Chr]istian Endeavor at 7 p.|T, or even go to sleep. ., ‘It s the ozone In the air that does it. . The air:at the.seashore js:full of il 2 —Philgdelphija Record. .cer. M There .will be no service on Sun- day, as the pastor is in Chicago. Graded Sunday School on Sunday afternoon at 2:Q0 o’clock, in the par- sonage, 1300 ‘Beltrami Ave., with Mr. Toensing in charge. ..o cinesimieiment BAPTIST Sundgy School at 10:30, . Morning Services at 11:30. ‘G %fl}uect: “The Masterpiece = of od. Young people’s. meeti ;o‘cla»ck,v P p leve ing at gvle)r}intg sets'vice at’ 8 o'clock. ¢ Subject: “Start the GI i Person and Work.” ©* OFY.t iy +, Prayer- Meceting Th ol ng ursday -at GEORGE XEHOE, Pasto? ST. PAUL’S EVANGELIC . Sixth Street and America 2\1';: ' Sunday”School at'9:30 4. m, B;ble.class at 9:30 a, m, 5 ; Morning; Service, (English). 10:30 7 sl 3 . P. League meeting 7:00 p. m. Qrder a-dish-teday-—or, better still, take home a brick of our Spe- Service at Blackduck 8:00 p. s : & ) " 3 fsho;,r :]'lehearsal every Tlfurg:isy Clal,thls Week'. :I‘o be sure Of the very beSt ask fOI' Religious education classes . o d 1 on pm;slday and Friday at church at 4:00 : E,v.eryune cordially welcom e W. F. Kamphenkel, Pastor 'LANGDON’S SANITARY ICE CREAM It’s good for everybody—sick or well—nothing but the purest of ingredients go into the making of our product—and it is handled- in the most sanitary way known. : - A . *“Ice Cream That's All Cream” Langdon Manufacturing Company \Chinese Think Little of Women. Of so little account is woman in China that a father, if asked the num- | ber of his:children; will probably leave out the girls in his reckening. In the very great majority of cases the girls are not taught to read or write, for the simple reason, -as ‘the ‘men would say, that it i tseless ‘fo# girls to learn to read. “AM ‘the restrictive customs’are kinds of straight lines.—Herbert Spen- T R Jill T based on the idea that woman is a be- R i [ A I ing inferior: to man.. - o ONEi,_ DAY DURING THE MONT}_—_IQE‘ OCTQBER WE WILL REFUND 7 FULL-ALL CASH PURCHASES MADE ON A CERTAIN DAY, v " OF THAT MONTH. : By Y EVER HEAR OF A “LUCKY DAY”? - - HOW LUCKY ARE YOU ? If.you-are tucky, you can come in and buy a Laundryette Electric: Wash- ing Machine, Range, Electric Iron, ora 10-cent - package ‘of nails—save .your cash receipts until we announce the lucky day,-on ‘Nov. 1st. Ifsyour receipt bears the “‘Lucky Day” date, bring it to our store on Satur- day, Nov. 5th, and have the whole purchase price returned to you. THESE ARE THE RULES fst__BE LUCKY. el IVEN HA PHONE 57 314 MINNESOTA AVE. P 4th—Save your:Cash: Receipts until “Lacky.Day” is announced on Nov. ist. T R T oty s i A b meone 2ip TN the.l-silcky}ecei&:tsto ;;l:‘r — re you get a Cash Receipt ‘store on Saturday; Nov;-Sth, g B“e 3"{_:‘9'}’ B o s and our: Miss Huck ‘will retiirn the. full. amount of your Pur- _chase on “Lucky Day.” URING OCTOBER IZI’wll"—-Buy fox; Cash. qi@l_igsé, and see that w5 DWARE, BUY.IT HERE D " YOU CAN'T LOSE. - thit WillBe HARDW ARE . IF YOUNEED HAR ember ov