Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 7, 1921, Page 6

. lieve when it came to the person of Christ, the reality of the fu-| ‘ lv%ges have a responsibility at this point that cannot be-evaded? | : i - terial equipment for colleges, is it not about time some attention| 2 the long-desired and hoped-for railway. / { NI 1 * BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNUQN EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJ! PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. 5, B, CARSON, Presidens il ] Wm d ; oL 5. 0. Witts ity Editor i <. W. HARNWELL, Editoy ‘Tolephono 922 postofice at Bemidji, Minnesots; se second-claswe matier, wnder Act of Congress of March 8, 1879, { ' No sttention paid to anonymous contributious. Writer's name musz Bo known to the editor) but not necessarily for publication, -Commufica« $lonk for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not latex than Tuesdsy of each weok to insure publiceiion in the current jssne. @ EhBo . SUBSCRIPTION e — X ] 3.00 1.60 Entered at the By Mail [ T £ e stm— 1 A | One Month T ‘g6 Six Months gt 250 One Week .omeecereenamms <10 Three Months .- 1.28 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published evary Thursday pnd sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. | OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEED:NGSY jis | ________—-———'——"_'—_‘——“-—.—_—_____———-—————-‘— EDUCATED DOUBT | The alumnus of a certain well known college was calling| on the president of the institution just after the graduation ex- ercises of Commencement day. The president was congratulat-| ing the father on the high standing of his son, who had been onej| of the members of the graduating class. The father listened in silence to the’ president’s flattering statements about the student, and then he said, with delibera- tion and some bitterness. . “Four years ago I sent my son here for a college education because it is my own college, and because I believed that he would receive here a full and satisfactory training in the funda- mentals of manhoed. I-put my son in the'care of this college and committed hinrin a very large and true sense to you. On the day of his graduation, I find that the one greatest thing'in an education, asT regard it, is wanting in my boy. TIreferto an enthusiastic religious conviction of life. You say he is intellec- tually brilliant, that he has led his class in mathematics and science. But in a frank talk I had with him this morning, he said to me that he was leaving this college without.any religious convictions. In fact, he confessed that the course in Philosophy here had so unsettied his mind that he no longer believed in the Bible as he used to and that he was in doubt as to what to be- By Ca: One Year .. 8ix Months SRRESEE Three Months oo ture life and a large part of the teaching. he had received at home about prayer. 3 “I am not complaining about the fact of new ideas about theology or inspiration or miracles. What I am saying is that| I'left my son here to acquire the truth about life, and so far as| his religious part of him is concerned, your teachers have not only failed to give him any enthusisam about God and Jesus and the fundamentals of conduct, but they have succeeded in tak-| ing away the faith he once had, and have not given him anything | to take its place. Granted that the religious faith he had when| he left home was crude and needed to be enlightened, I would| not object to any such enlightenment, but I'do’object to his be-| . ing left without any light at all.” | Th e president was very much embarrassed by the plain talk of this alumnus, and especially disturbed, ory account of the man’s wealth and his ability to make a large contribution to the college. But the alumnus made it clear before he left the president’s house that he would never make g gift of money to| the school until the teaching was changed. His last words gave| the president several meals for thought: “I left my boy in your care. T understood that this was a Christian college. You were responsible for its religious influ- ence. I cannot answer for other students, but I know that my son came in here with a faith that was nurtured inia Godly Jhome and with a simple faith in prayer as his mother taught . _him when a child. And he is going out of here with no religious co‘nvictiow, and so spiritual enthusiasm. college has robbed him of the faith he had, and put nothing worth-while in its place.” Is it saying too much to assert that the presidents of col- ith all the demand for more endowment for buildings and ma- was being paid to the kind of teaching that goes on in the build-| ings?' If the colleges can truthfully be charged with turning out non-religious product, if what use is all the material 'equip- ment ?—Exchange. e R | ¥ A'NEW TRADE DISTRICT ‘While Bemidji has been busy, very busy, in the last few years trying to develop the territory immediately surrounding it.and doing all in.its power to.make this vicinity attractive for the summer tourist, it has been passing up one possibility to an- nex a wonderful territory which has been developing almost as fast , twenty, thirty and forty miles from a railway assome of the territory immediately adjacent to Bemidji, Herds of any- where fr‘om 10 to 40 head of cattle per farm may be found in the territory surrounding Grygla and northwest from there which ‘are on splendid ‘developed farms, the owners of which! fia:_'e to haul their products from twenty to forty miles to mar- et. This district.has repeatedly asked ‘for help from Bemidjig to get linked up by railway with our city, but not until recently hag it been taken seriously here. At last the citizens have be- come’ awakened to the.possibilities of an enlarged trade district in that direction and are bending efforts to give to that locality Not many Bemidjians know the extent of the development of that section of the country, and itis planned by the Civic and Commerce associa- tion to have a large delegation go up there next Thursday to see for themselves and be convinced, : — e ‘PEAT -BEDS MAY BE VALUABLE ASSETS While @t__hgs been generally known for some time that there ossjbility, of; some day realizing a fortune out of the| eds of Beltrami county and neighboring counties in North- | rn innesota, it was considered a remote possibility. Thé‘.pos- ‘sibility has become a very real,probability of the near future. “The presence of such large quantities of peat near the huge vol- {ime of iron ore which is also contained in Northern Minnesota makes the -possibility of commercializing the peat beds:still _more interesting. . Peat for fuel, in blast furnaces, may bé a;pos- sibility of the near future. The demonstration held at;Corona this week to determine the possible value of peat and the methods best suitable to util- @/the peat in the vast peat beds will have a direct bearing up- the exploiting of the peat industry. It is known that a con- derable quantity of peat lands has been purchased.in this untyqby parties intending to develop them in the future. If e peat-can be 'developed into fuel economically, the peat lands of the county may-yet prove to be a very valuq le ‘asset s et A The teaching of this|: TONGRESS BACK AT IT5 LABORS LOTS:-OF LIVELY FIGHTING IS i | | [EXPECTED QVER THE TARIFF i AND TAX MEASURES. \MEANWHILE POLITICS HUMS i | fsuma Democratic Leaders Will Try | + to Oust National Chairman George i White—Joe Kealing Sits In for Re- 3 publican Chairman Adams. | By EDWARD B. CLARK, ilts work again. Bluntness of speech oceasionally being necessary, it might : be said that some~of the senators and { representatives are sorry that the vacation was taken. Prior to their i going away it was feared that on reaching home they might be asked why they were not at work. Some of asked this perhaps somewhat imperti; | nent question. Before adjournment comes. the will be fixed for another term and the United States. also will know what its tariff schedules are'to be. . There will be plenty of interest of the sharp kind in the proceedings in the senate before either of these great measures becomes the law of the land. The house and the senate disagree on many features of tariff and tax, Some of the returned members think that the country pretty generally is satisfied with the determination of congress, under the suggestion of the . President, to postpone bonus legisla- tion for the discharged soldiers of the great war. Others, however, are not entirely satisfied that the right course ‘was pursued. The viewpoint depends ing law makers talked with when they were at home, or elsewhere, on rest or pleasure bent. s Effort to Oust Chairman White. Polities is certain to .interest the national legislators during the coming months just as it has interested them more or less in the past. There re- cently has been sometliing of a tempest, although it finally may prove to have been in a teapot, over the question of a change in the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee. definitely known that some leading Democrats would like to see George White remove himself from the chair of committee direction, and there has :been more or less publicity in con- neetion with this desire of some of the leaders, 77 & : Before long there will be a meeting .of the‘Democratic national cdommittee, and.the matter will come up, possibly for discussion, and possibly for action if action can be forced by ceytain ones willing *to . take the field: ;t is held by George White's friends that. a ‘majority of the national committee is - with him and that he will hold his -place if the matter comes to what in ,the vernacular is called a “showdown.” John T. Adams, chairman of the Re- publican national committee, has been itaking an admittedly much needed :rest, He succeeded to'the duties of the dynamic Will Hays and . he kept the 'Hays pace. It did not put him out of jthe running, but he took a rest, as {everybody in Washington occasionally !must because of the partnership of {work with the terrific summer heat of itl s Potomac country. : In. the..absence of Mr. Adams, eph B. Kealing of Indianapolis, an 10 Republican wheel liorse, ‘has been i 4sitting. in” and - doing such of | Adams’ directive work as.was possible, | Chalrman Adams not only had to carry on his labor as commijttee chairman, jybut also the work of trying to Took {after patronage-in:behalf &f the ad- . ministration. One, of his jobs was to ‘placate disappointed office seekers and | to prove to their backing factions that the other factions were more deserv- hgr of recognition. It Is not altogether a thankful job. l Democratic Committee Very Busy. | The Democratic national-committee, ! notwithstanding the rumor, and prob- | ably the fact, that there is a wish on he part of certain Democrats to effect | changes, is going ahead with its work |in energetic fashion. The committee !is turning out an immense amount of ! what, men loosely call propaganda I'matter: This Is mixed more or less | with the actual political news of the }day and. it is being sent broadcast 'in the hope that the desired effects will ‘basmanifest. Legislatlon; wlhen congress is in ses- slon, frequently gets the first page of the newspapers,.but-if real politics is moving ‘leglsintion almost invariably gots only-such & sWowing: s the in- side pages can give it. - Politics inter- +it interests other citles, :towns, .vil- lages and countrysides just as much, I; - The other-day I heard one man say “tol.another,- “This, Is. an. off .yéar in spolitles.” «The other answered, “There rafn't nosuch thing,” and in truth, as Washington looks at it; the: humorous uhgrammatical- answer is thé correct one, Senators and representatives: may work all day long over a‘tax or tarift bill, but night finds them perfectly 1 Avilling and In fact sometimes eager to and means to win out next time, or to keep from losing out next time. Hot wenfher, ~cold weather and « “mild weather, it Is all the same. It is hot Washington,—Congress is back at|. the returned ones say that they were; taxation laws of the United States: entirely upon whom the vacation-seek- | It is|’ “Mr. | ects Washington keenly, and seemingly | - get lngk’o a political ‘conference on’ways #nough in'zeré weather here to keep the political pot-boiling. War Department Saves Money, The War department ‘is = trying to. save money. The 'word from | Budgetman . Charles G. ;Dawes 13 | that Secretary Weeks has succeeded in stashing tiings. Perhaps I.am put ting it ‘somewhat rudely, and perhapi Secretary Weeks' may not like it if he ' should happen to .see it, but'I am convinced that ‘he:wishes.he had not been compelled to .save money along ‘certaln. lines, although perfectly. will: ing to save’it along other 1ines: Congress has cut the American army . foree! to 150,000 men by an act ofileg: dslation. Of course here is a big sav- \ing and the credit for it cannot go to ithe secretary of war, . because it is iwhat might be called. a perforce: sav- 'ing, but it is said’ that the secyetary ‘has. saved money in other ways and ibelieves that he has done it without hurting what is leftiof the service. The American army today has about 113,000 officers, possibly 18,500. Seem- ingly this number is disproportion- ‘ate to the number of enlisted men, but the word of the War department s that there is work enough for all |/these officers to do, and that there is |'no necessity of: cutting; down the com- | ‘missioned personnel. “Your corre- spondent has reason to think that ‘Secretary Weeks is strongly opposed ‘to any decrease in the nrmy officer list. Many May Lose Commissions, There is fear, however, in_the serv- { ice that when congress gets through iwith Mr. Forduey’s tax and tariff Jlegislation it will turn its attentign to the army. and will legislate some }hundreds and perhaps thousands of ‘men out ‘of their commissions. A ‘great many of the young officers en- tered the service on the plea that they were needed, ind it was"a patri- otic duty to serve their country. ‘Some of them left ‘good paying posi- ‘tions in private business with assured ifutures to answer the call. The proc- ess of sending’them back to civil life by legislative act might be called something worse than heartless. It probably would be bad business any- way. ! . There are some ranking officers of ithe army who think that a decrease lin the commissioned personnel is-pas- sible without working an injusti¢e ito the younger officers. Probably the is being thought on by some of the§e ranking officers may seem a bit heart- iless also, but, if’ théix-method of xeduc- tion in the officers’ lists is adopted no- body .will suffer heayy pecunlary loss, ialthough they may suffer somewhat in ‘soul. o There are mllitflg men who' thidk {that there should be a lot of con {pulsory retirements in_the “service. 10fficers who have served 80 yeirs can ‘be retired by exécutive order, but al- lways in such a cage there necessarily [ ‘must be a suggestign that the officer ihas outlived his usefulness, ‘or that he | better than others can be spared from ||active ‘duty. ! There are-aiso agéod many officers | twho'veluntarily ¢un “retife ‘because of | ‘the 1ength “of " thelf’ sérvice; ‘but who ! ‘have someyears to ;l;.'eidre reaching | the age iimit when ¥etirement is com- | {pulsory. " “The “stiggestion las been |ithat sonia’of tbese’ men might be in- !“ducded to retire to make roomat the top. Creating the Regerve Corps. GeneralPershing and his_staff are 0 create a real |.reserve corps for the army. There ;“are something like 75,000. reserve offi- {‘cers who already have been commis- |isioned. 'This seems like a large ‘num- ijber, but ‘it is not enough in-case. the |{Unitea States should-be compelled to liraise another army like that which ‘went to the front,.or. was ready to go Ite the front.in 19318..° The real need ‘of the reserye. corps ‘taday, of course, ‘js. enlisted reserve {strength, ‘As:yetjthere are few en- |'listed men in the“Teserve corps. It ‘will be difticult to bring -the young Americans ‘into the:reserve unlegs fn- |,ducements are offered. .~ Just whht course will be pursued is not .yet I{nown,.hut.,ih.is snid that the gen- | eral staff: hopes to have a real re- | serve army. [ ¢ 1t s (ahned that the work of re- | constitut} 'the Nhtfonal Guard and |'of conduc. ag citizens' training camps, hag been m"rrled ofi, with energy. All the great. combat fi;fislons which won such high' distinction during’the World war, are to be reconstructed. It is known ‘that the strength of all the Natlonal’ Guard' units which the War department has revognized since ‘the | first of the year is ‘124,000. Last March there were only 8,562 federally [/hard at Averk tryl Today ‘there are virtually twice that number ‘and this’is a ‘marked and sat- isfactory increase, of course. Hy The work of organizing ‘and 16cal- izing the reserve corps units into staff corps areas is now:in:progtess. ~Offi- | cers have been selected in each aren | and ‘a small number of enlisted men | have been turned over to each corps area to help‘in the work of organization. I was brought up in a small town on the western ‘ coast’ ‘of ‘Norway, and | when a young ma g had a:girl friend. | ©One cold winter n:} t we liad attended Im ball, and as it was rather late, she lidia mot Invite Mme insidé when we ! reached her home... However, I insist: led on m little conversation ‘“under roof,” rather than being out in the cold. But -she- objected decidedly. ‘Against her wish I went inside when ‘she opened ' the .door. She ' followed ne, calmly locked the door, put the ,‘fiey in her purse, said good-night and | left me. Trapped, I passed the:night the morning her father let me out with | his “compliments,”—Exchange. | 3 recognized National' Guard officers. |1 sleeping on the floor in the hall. In | MEANT -TO HOLD PRISONERS ON_Bupjep Veea upwealjod, a%ouIyD Chances,on His Charges Getting Away From Him. “The ,late ‘'Willard Straight,” said a Cornell professor often used to tell a story which typified, he said, China -and the Chin “Straight, in his ofligiyl capicity china, once'had occasion to hand oven | to a €hifese poli an - nine- €hinese delinquents.Lhis-happ2ned-in.a s inlang villnge, and Wi Tl walked round o the o ters to!sed Mo Hig priso ting .along.. . B A RN “He found them holding hands. in a | ring—or. §o, at lenst, it seemed—and | dancing round and round a tall flag- staff, like. - children . pl . ring: around-a-rosy.. Straight drew neaver, and saw that the men were not reaily holding ‘hands, but were handeuffed wrist to wrist. “The policeman then came out and stirred them up with 2 long pole, whereupon they danced a little faster. The policeman explained to Straight that there was no village jail, and so he had adopted this of defaining h “But w do you keep them “ephat,’ said (he policeman, ‘is to prevent. them from climbing up the | flagstaff and escapin aight tried to e men, handeutred scarcely climb up u tancously, but the polices thought' it was best fo be on the safe side, and ‘his nine priseners danced. thelr weary e round (he fngstaff all night lon Brainless Discase. 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