Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 7

PA:TROL SYSTEM IS FAVORED Pointed Out by Department of Agrie P culture as lllustration of Eco- ] nomical Maintenance. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The road patrol system used in Grant county, Wash,, is pointed out by the United States Department of Agriculture as an illustration of how highways can be maintained most suc- cessfully and economically. ~ Other countles fn the state use the “gang” system, assigning to each gang a long section, upon which they make repairs at Intervals, seldom reaching all the necessary points. In Grant county the plan is to prevent a road from getting into bad condition rather than to make repairs, There are 13 patrol sections, each from six to ten miles long, in the 87.83 miles of county highways. Each sec- tion is in charge of a patrolman, who works constantly on his piece of road, R Patroiman 'Is Responsible for Condl- tion of His Section of Highway. fecling that he.alone 1is responsible for its condition. While these men work under the direction of the coun- ty engineer, the details are left large- ly to their judgment. A specially constructed light road machine, called locally a.‘road fixer,” is used. It has a long wheel base and two cutting blades rigidly connected with the carrying frame of the ma- chine, The' rear wheels are on sep- arate axles, controlled by separate levers. The patrolman carries the necessary small - tools - for clearing weeds, trimming shoulders, cleaning ditches, and for handling surfacing material. He makes his‘own repairs in the county repair shop under the direction of a skilled mechanie. The annual cost of this system, states~the bureau of public roads, av- erages $223 a mile, which is less than other counties pay where roads receive attention “only when they need it.” Grant county has graveled roads sec- ond to none in the state, and its peo- ple are enthusiastic supporters of the patrol system. TONNAGE ON COUNTRY ROADS Report of Bureau of Markets Shows Extent to Which Highwaya Are Being Used. The necessity of keeping country roads in-good. condition is shown by a report recently compiled by the bureau of markets and crop estl- mates, United States Department of Agriculture, showing the extent to which they are used in hauling farm products to market. According to the report, which shows the tonnage of 11 products hauled on country roads, giving the yearly average for the pe- riod from 1915 to 1919, there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled for ev- ery 100 acres of land. The average tonnage of the 11 crops hauled on country roads each year for.the pe- riod mentioned amounted to 86,560,000 tons. The 11 crops referred to in the report are corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice, flaxseed, cotton (including seed), tobacco, potatoes, and culti- vated hay. BUILD IN FALL AND WINTER According to Engineers Money Spent In Constructing Roads in Spring, Is ‘Wasted. The building of roads in the spring 1s opposed by good engineers, who in- sist that money spent at that season is largely wasted. They hold that work should be done in the fall and | winter, when the ground is in better condition and when foundations can be laid with greater permanence. They also criticize the skimpy manner in which foundations are laid, pointing out that subsequent repair bills make the whole cost much greater than the cost of solidly-built roads. Big Work in Ohio. The great highway system of Ohio for this year includes the construction of 500 miles of heavy duty roads, re- presenting an outlay of $11,000,000, Right of Way in France. In France at crossroads the auto-} mobile coming from the right has the right of way. A Cash Value of Good Roud. The actual cash value of a good road is something that is hard to de- termine. - | American Lumberman the utmost degree. have been exhausted. Weak-Kneed Officials Are Destroying the Local Self-Governments. R i By J. FOSTMR SYMES, U. 8. District Attorney for Colorado, THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER .-W" | MINNESOTA ! HISTORICA! | One does not have to be connected with the legal department of the United States government for a great length of time to be impressed with the extent of federal jurisdiction and the powers exercised from Washing- | ton over the health, safety, business and morals of the average citizen. | covered with appeals to the voters Frightened citizens are too wont to call for outside help, not only to | preserye law and ovder, but to regulate the habits of their fellowmen to | of selectman or half mayor, an officlal If- the village constable will not maintain order, it | whose powers or perquisites made the inevitably follows that the state and national government will, and when this happens, the authority of the smaller political units is permanently found on the walls of Pompeli, usually crippled. Federal power should be called upon only after all other means Week-kneed local “officials are causing this destruction of local self- i government, which is going on today, by shirking their public duties and | teaving them for the authorities of the larger jurisdiction to perform. | DEMAND FOR LUMBER CONTINUES TO GROW Hardwood Market Continues to . Improve and Supplies May Be Adequate The demand for lumber continues brisk and prices still ‘exhibit an up- ward tendency, according to the Weekly Market report from the at Chicago. The volume of buying will probably be slightly less this week than last week, but this is largely due to the diminishing supplies of stock in most demand. = Factory business is pick- a certain amount of material. possibility of the railroad strike has caused some companies to buy tran- sit shipments, but on the whole it has had little effect upon the lumber market. The hardwood market continues to improve and everywhere predictions are heard that supplies of stock will be inadequate to meet the demand. In the south, logging can not be done economically in the winter and con- sequently little progress in filling up stecks can be made untli next spring. ‘While winter logging can be conduct- ed to some extent in the north, saw- ing operations will not be heavy un- til next year. 1 Horseshoe Myth Universal. The horseshoe in its most primitive form is of great antiquity. . An old and very popular superstition, almost universally prevalent among peasantry ascribes to the horseshoe (especially to- one which ‘has been found in the road by chance) the power of barring the passage of witches. For this pur- pose the shoe is nailed to the dodr of the tlireshold, and Hone in his “Year Book,” says, “Nailing of horseshoes seems to have been practiced as well to keep witches in as to keep them out. In Monmouth street, London, many horseshoes nailed to the thresh- olds, were to be seen in 1797; in 1813 Sir Henry Ellis counted ' seventeen horseshoes in that street, but in 1852 only eleven remained. The great Nel- son was of a superstitious turn, and having great faith in the luck of a horseshoe had one nailed to the mast of the “Victory.” Jugglers in Olden Days. Our -word “juggler” comes to us from the. Latin “joculator,” which means a “jester” or “player of tricks.” Among\the Romans’there were many kinds oF jugglers., One. sort, which they performed wonderful tricks. Another kind known as “ven- tilatores,” were the same as our mod- ern knife-throwers, ~A third variety was known as “pilarii,” or ball play- ers. All of these varieties of jugglers exhibited thelr skill at the ‘ludi” or public games of Rome. Understanding. Some people—even married people— never get really to know. each other. Leonard Merrick writes: “It is not time . that enables people to under- stand one another; it is temperament. The world is heavy with couples who have sat opposite each other for 40 years and are still stone deaf to each other’s humor and stone blind to each other’s moods; and a recent acquaint- ance may say the right things to both.,” “Ghauffeur” a Fireman in French. The word “chauffeur” means fire- man or stoker in French, and be- cause the early cars were steamers and required- two men to operate them, the French termed the oper- ators the “mechanician” ~and the “chauffeur”—the “mechanic and the fireman.” Meridian of Greenwich. The meridian of Greenwich is gen- erally accepted as the starting line from which to reckon longitude and time all over the earth. But objec- tions are, from time to time, raised against the universal adoption of the Greenwich meridian for such pur- poses. Recently Italian savants have emphasized these objections by point- ing out that on the meridian of Green- wich clouds and bad weather are fre- quent, interfering with astronomical observations. They suggest that the civilized world should agree to adopt the meridian of Jerusalem as a com- mon reference line, because there the | skleg are clearer, and the possihility of making Palestine neutral territosy ; 2 Supscribe for The Dauy Ploneer. would eliminae politica) objections. ing up and the railroads are buying! The | called | “acetabularii,” used little pebbles with ' \ | | | | their carriages. ‘ARE SYMBOLS OF AFFECTION Nicknames Never Bestowed on Those Who Prove Unpopular or Are Unduly Dignified. The selection’ of a name for the baby is a very important matter in most households, and of course it should be considered sufficiently to in- sure the poor helpless mite of hu- manity having a label that it will not be ashamed to sign the rest of its life, Any gobd plain English name will do that. But a matter even more impor- tant and not so easily disposed of is that of the nickname. What names will this young person acquire as he goes through life? That depends largely on himself and the kind of as- soclates he has. The very last thing | to be wished for him is that he should | never be nicknamed. Usually the only people who are never nicknamed are either very unpopular or very dig- nified, though there gre exceptio But the nickname is a sort of expr sion of affection, and those who ac: cumulate many as they go through lif should regard them as insignia of friendship and hence of honor. The final word on nicknames was written many years ago by Oliver Wendell Holmes: When fadd - T e S e R Byl o e hosity Ut dovs e et « —Ohio State Journal. Dumb Animals Pay Taxes. It will be surprising to some people to learn that all income-tax payers are not human beings, and ‘that some of .the. Canadian government’s income is @erlved from pet animals whose hu- man owners and benefactors provided for thelr future comfort by an endow- ment. Such is the case at London, Ont., where several such pets are dnnual contributors to the city’s cof- fers. One large dog in that city re- ceives an annual income that many small familles would appreciate, due to_the fact that the animal's legacy was a large one and grew from year to yvear by the accretionary process. Gold bouds, deposited in trust, keep him in comfort and also yield a small return to the city tax office in income levy. A beautiful Persian cat, now sleepily rounding out a life of adven- ture, also receives an income left by an eccentri¢c master. There is a par- rot, too. All these are contributors, | though some one else has to flll out | the tax form for them. There are | doubtless many such animals in other countries. No Proof of Race of Giants. The myth of a race of giants has its counterpart in those other crea- tures of the imagination, the ancient pygmies. These fabled people, who were so small that a stalk of grain was a tree to them, which they chopped down with tiny hatchets and brushhooks, were said to inhabit Ethiopia. They were always at war with the cranes, but lived on such ex- cellent terms with the partridges that they were able to harness them into They lived at first, | according to the fable, in Thrace, but | were driven out of Europe by the | cranes and took refuge in Ethiopia. — Truly Wonderful Language. A missionary in Madagascar, in a recent letter home, declared that some- times a whole line of a hymn consists of a single word in the Malagasy lan- guage. There are three words that came In the first lesson the other Sun- day: “ikotokelimiadilaona,” “fanitsa- hanareo,” and “nampandoavanareo.” | And if you want the word for “your | neighbor,” here it is: “mpifarolo- bodirindrinares.” . Don’t Breathe lodine Fumes. lf‘umei of fodine have recently been | urged as a method of administering that drug preferable to the usual | tincture, It has been shown by ex- periments that fumes are absorbed throngh the skin; and when inhaled | are absorbed by the lungs, but it was shown also that inhalation is very dangerous even in small quantit especially when there is any dise: of the respiratory pa ges. All Egotists, Jud Tunkins says nobody does any- thing so well that somebody doesn’t thinic he could do it better if he was to take the trouble to try. 8till in Trim. ess to get a woman to It i usel agree to bury the hatchet as long as ‘slm has a hairpin. WORLD HAS CHANGED LITTLE Electioneering Methods In Old Pompeil { Much Like Those in Vogue in i Our Own Time, ‘Archeologists have uncovered at | Pompeil a barroom singularly reminis- cent of the neater sort of drinking | places that were to be found in Ameri: can cities before the .days of pro- hibition, and they have found the dried lees of the liquor in the jars, The outside walls of the saloon are of the city to “Vote for Lollius for duumvir.” The dunmvir was a sort office one that was much coveted. The election notices are everywhere to be in red paint, sometimes in black. They | seem to have been the customary means of notifying the citizeng of nominations that had been made, The crafts seem to- have acted in place of party caucuses. ‘“The bar- bers nominate Trebius for aedile,” says one placard, “All the goldsmiths nominate C. Cuspius Pansa for aedile,” says another, Sometimes a man is referred to as v. b, which means vir bonus, or a good man. One is certi- fled as “an honest young man.’ Of another it is sald that “he will save the people’s money.” Happiness in Labor. Nothing is more talked about than happiness.” But what is it? Here is the answer: Happiness s great love and much service. The great mass of men. are reasonably happy because ‘they are in love and at work., They complain of their work; even call la- bor a curse. They dream of a life of idleness”and self-indulgence, and imagine that is heaven, It is not. It is hell. This world was made for lovers and servants.—Exchange. Tells of Cyclone’s Movements, The “barocyclonometer” is an in- strument for determining the location nd movements of a tropical cyclone from observations at a single place, + as on shipboard. You Lose Either Way. Don’t argue with a woman. If you convince her that she is wrong she will* think you are contemptible for being right. IZESFE RS AR S 4 x BAGLEY * KX KRR KK KKK A. J. Wiltse of Bemidji spent tiec week end at the home of his paren:s, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wiltse. Miss Heien Oleun, and Richard Samnuelson . of /Crookston spent Sun- day with Mr. ‘and Mrs. Henry Helge- son. . Alvin' Hain returned home last week from Minneapolis after a short visit with friends. Miss Marie. Barness arrived home Friday from Bemidji, having recover- ed from an operation performed some time ago at St. Anthony’s hospital. Mr. and Mrs. S. Helgeson and fam- ily and Mrs. M. Helgeson who were guests at the H. Helgeson home here Saturday, returned home last Sunday. * Miss Ella Larson spent Sunday with relatives, returning to St. Vincent Saturday. Mrs. A. J. Peterson left on Thurs- day for Bemidji where she will spend Dollar Day Bargains Wednesday, Nov. 2 spent Wednesday ~with Miss Anna Olson. Miss Margaret McPherson returned to her home here Thursg!y after -a Father Flanagan’s Boys entertain- ed a large audience at the Family theater Monday evening. The com- pany of boys presented an excellent program. visit at Bena. ¥ Mrs. Fred Housely and son of Oliver Anderson, who has been em- Phoenix, Ariz., left Monday after|ployed for the past few months at spending a few days with her sister|the Automotive Garage, left last and mother, Mrs. Nels Nelson and | Tuesday for Remer, Minn. Mrs. Boutwell. Mrs, Boutwell will| Miss Anna Furuseth returned spend several days here before re-|home from Grand Forks, N. D., last turning to her home. Thursday after visiting' with rela- Miss Viola Johnson of Gonvick|tives for the past week. a few days with her sister, Mrs. R. E. Richardson. Albert Heckleman of Bemidji spent the week end with friends in Bagley. Misses Alice and Theresa Peterson spent the week end at their home here. . A. C. Lukkasson returned Wednes- day from the Twin Cities where he spent several days attending to busi- ness matters connected with his busi- ness here. En route he visited briefly SPECIALS 37 | Flashlights — French Flasher type; $1.25 to $2 grades; your choice for one day One $1.10 Wearever Alu- minum Fry Pan, One $1.30 Wearever Aluminum Ket- tle — Total value $2.40; both on Dollar Day for...... Rural Mail Boxes—Ap- proved by the Postmaster General; regular $1.50; Special at ... §1.00 §1.00 Handled Single-Bit Axes— American Company make, No. 2 Galvanized Wash | Tubs — Double seamed, 1 standard weight, corrugat- Quart Cans Minnesota Cut- i ed bottom and sides; pres- & side Paint — Dollar Day, ] 00 s ent price $1.25, at. ° b per can 26-inch Hand Saw—Two- foot rule on back; sells at - . | $1.50; for Dollar Day n French Furniture Polish— i ‘ ONIY wmmssmaiadoinie s Our best seller, and the { best furniture and floor §1.00 Emememi SLO0 $1.00 8-quart Berlin Kettles— With cover, mottled Enam- eled Ware; $1.75 value; at Knickerbocker Bath Brush Sets—$2, $2.50, $3 regu- lar value; sale price for Dollar Day GIVEN HARDWARE PHONE 57 1 Hammer, 1 pair Plyers, 1 5-inch Screw Driver— All for One Ever-ready Razor, including 8 blades, metallic mirror, Army kit and shaving brush, complete for $1.00 6 pairs Jersey Gloves .......... $1.00 4 pairs heavy Blue Sox ...... $1.00 2 pairs heavy Grey Sox ...... $1.00 Khaki Shirts, new .............. $1.00 Heavy Overalls Khaki Overall Jackets ...... $1.00 Gas Masks ......cccoormmremnencennes $1.00 7 cans Velvet Tobacco ........ $1.00 2 pairs Army Canvas Leg- F-37 ¢f: JRRRAC ISP DR IR $1.00 Heavy Navy Blanket Shirts $1.00 . 50 pair double Harriman Wool Blankets; sold on the market for $10.00 and up—while our stock lasts, at .. RN ) 100 new Horse Blankets, extra heavy, Army issue—while they last, each $2.75 50 pair Army 4-buckle Overshoes, rubber oles and tops, per pair ..$2.00 U. S. SURPLUS ARMY GOODS STORE - 126 MINNESOTA AVE. Navy Water-proof Suits......$1.00 Army Ponchos [ R $1.00 Used Army Sheep-lined Coats, A, IRV W R e e $1.00 18 pairs Used, Army, black, home-spun S0X ......ccccoeeeree-.$1.00 Angora Wool Mufflers........ $1.00 Used Army Shirts, class C....$1.00 Army Mattress Ticks, heavy Mus- lin, 2 for .. ...$1.00 EXTRA SPECIALS 300 O. D. Wool, 64x84, genuine Army Blankets, all in perfect con- dition; to be sold for a limited time only, at (Limit of 3 to a cus 200 pair Army issue Unionalls, good, heavy weight, special NEW KAPLAN BLDG.