Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 2, 1921, Page 4

s AT N sy b THE'BEMIDJ DAILY PIONEER ° bl R S el ¥ =i PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY ‘THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. . @ B CABSON, President E. H. DENU, Bee. and ' 7 @, W. HARNWELL, Edtos :.n.wmm.cuyww'" Telephone 922 second-clase 879. postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesots, as mattes, sndez. Act of Congress of March 3, 1 Mutered at the No Mu:.mto anonymous contributions. Writer’s name must i, 0 known to'the , but not necessarily for publication. Communica- foz the Weekly Pioneer must reach this ofl{u not latex than Tuesday current issue. { of each week to insure publication in the WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thuraday ‘postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. e - OFFICIAL ‘COUNTY AND CITY :PROCEEDiINGS —_————————— THE STATISTICAL DRUNK The drunk, as an item for statistics, is as unreliable as he is in any other capacity, and conclusions drawn from comparisons in which the inebriate figures are liable to a wide margin of er- ror, . Minneapolis workhouse figures show that 124 per cent more prisoners are sentenced for drunkenness now than before the prohibition law went more or less into effect. ‘As a statis- tical fact, this is true, and perhaps disquieting, But its sngmfi- cance is strictly limited to this one statement of fact. Any in- ference drawn from these figures regarding drunkenness as a whole is to be avoided. Most emphatically, these figures do not speak an increaseI of,#2runkenness. - They tell of more arrects and convictions for| drunkenness, which is an entirely different matter. In the pre- prohibition days the drunk was an offender whose offense be- gan and sometimes ended with himself, Given a reasonable! amount of discretion, and any capacity for self-locomotion, and| j1uhe'was tolerated. -His arrest only meant that the policeman who arvested, him would have ‘to take the trouble to appear against him in-court:should the prisoiier awake in the morning with the _ill-founded conviction that he had:not been intoxicated the; night before ! " Since' t drunk on the agsage of the prohibitoin law the status of the| /streets has been altered. No longer is the drunk a reproach to himself exclusively. He is now a living and tot- tering witness to the fact that liquor is being sold in violation of the law. He is a reflection on the police department. He bears bibulous testimony to the fact that the police are not prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor. He is therefore an objection of| much more strict attention than previously. Instead of being| given his freedom in the morning, he is tried, convicted and| sent to the workhouse. The courts do not now, as they: once| did, look with leniency on drunkenness. When saloon doors| Wwere open, courts took into account the temptation. Now they realize that the drunk before them was a violator of the law be- fore he took his second drink; that he got drunk with malice aforethought, Bearing these undisputed facts in mind, it is easy to under- stand how the workhouse should show a greater drunk record than previously in face of the fact that drunkenness as a whole! has greatly decreased. There may be more drunks in the work- house now, but there are fewer on the streets and fewer in thel homes.—Minneapolis Tribune. 0 HOME OWNING IN AMERICA The report of the department’of the ‘census which brings! the news that more than 50 per cent of the homeg in the United States are rented should give food for some thought. There are 24,351,676 homes in the United:States of which 12,943,698 are| rented. Of the homes owned, 6,522,119 are free of encum- brances and 4,059,593 are encumbered. This means that only about 27 per cent of the total homes in the country are free from encumbrances. In view of such facts, can we justify the tremendous ex- penditure for the luxuries, which we, as a nation, have been heaping up year after year in increasing amounts? There are evidences about us, plenty of them, of those who-should be placing their savings in homes instead of somg of the luxuries they purchase with them. In Minnesota, out of a total of 526,026 homes, there are 202,222 rented. Of a total of 312,367 homes owned, 181,253 are free and 123,768 encumbered, with 7,328 unknown as to| encumbrance. i In New York City there are 1,278,341 total homes, of which 1,105,900 are rented, which is a percentage of 87.3, with 12.7 per cent owned, And yet we speak of America as a nation of homes. We mean a nation of houses more properly. A home is really not a home in the true sense of the word until the occu- pant owns it and feels it is his. In the last twenty years the per cént of homes owned in the ‘United States;has decreased one-half of one per cent. This is surely not a step forward. - We would say it is backward. - “One of the things that has contributed at least to a large xtent to this condition has'been the extension of the easy pay- %ihent plan for the purchase of articles thereby placing many under obligations which require months, and, many times, years to lguidate ; ... America must get back to a sane basis of expenditure both individually and nationally, or she will reap a harvest of bank- ruptcy. . The individual expenditures for 'unnecessary things must be pruned if the necessities are to be purchased. ——0 NATIONALITY CANNOT BE SUBMERGED (President Harding, Yorktown, Va., Address, Oct. 19, 1921) 1 believe the time is some when there must be recognition of essential co-operation among nations, devoted, each of them, in its own peculiar national way, to the common good, the prog- ress, the advance of all human kind. Let us hope that we stand at the dawn of a new day, in which nations shall be stronger for the contribution to the world’s betterment, because each will feel the assurance of common purpose and united aspiration and ‘gl}e security of a common devotion to the ends of peace and civ- ilization. 3 One. need not picture a world sovereignty, ruling over all th.e varying 'ridces; traditions and national cultures, because it w!]l never.be.! No program which seeks to submerge nationality ¢ will succeed. - This.republic. will,nevey surrender so priceless-a heritage, will never destroythe soul which impelled our grati- | | _ fying attainmen 5% IT WILL HELP 2 Baudette is joyfully agitated over the decision of the state to stage a A Detroit girl who was married over the telephone has been granted 4 diyoree. She got the wrong number.—St. Cloud Daily Times. hu‘ndre(l thousand dollar bridge party here this winter. We need the bridge, “and the work of construction isn’t going to hurt business.—Baudette Region. | i | KX K AKX KRR KKK KSR *x PINEWOOD * IESEREEE L8R S0 R A0 Mr. and Mrs. A, Eaton made a busi- ness trip to Bemidji Tuesday. George Sthol and wife came up Friday and will build a little home on their place near Pinewod. The Misses Helgeson and Bakken were shopping in Bemidji Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Howbuken accom- panied Mrs. C: Clauson from Pelican Rapids Saturday. Services were held in the school house Sunday and a large crowd was present and all enjoyed the meeting. Mrs., Alfred Dalby-of Debs to, Cass LakeMonday to cof ult her 'that proving! Kota Saturday apd will stay a few months. v& - Cagl Schmitt with «Mr.:a A Georgé ‘Secrest motored - to: Bem the last of the week. —— i _Grand _ Prairie, Alberta.—Indica- tions point to'an“era‘in the immediate future-of unprecedented prosperity for thig district. The crop is expected to run‘in value from ten to fifteen million dollars, and there is a large influx of high class settlers, with the introduction 'of substantial capital. Heavy orders for lumber have been received. and business in general is showing marked activity. ! > We are glad to see) ji| LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES KRR KR KKK KRN * " TURTLE RIVER * e st L EL TR RS R Anton Otterstad came back to Tur- tle River from North Dakota harvest fields last Friday and will spend the winter here. Mons Erickson had an auction sale last Saturday on all his household goods and other personal property of all descriptions. He is planning on making a trip to Norway this winter. George Cochran, the logger, is now cutting and grading a road out from Turtle River station west to® Gnat lake, and later on will lay ties and steel for theipurpdse of hauling hi & 1. geailroad. fg ve .been hert in logs to the Several partigs’ the last ‘few uying and mak- erstad is doing g 4 home, NSAL 4] glocnting for the parties. SUFFER'HEAVIEY IN JAPAN' Tokyo. (By: il to United Press).. —During this periad. of hard times in Japan many "deviods methods are be-’ ing resortedi:to forthe purpose of obtaining’ money, and 'among those who are suffering the most are life insurance’ companies, a host of vari- ous insurance frauds being brought to light recently. There have been several cases in which men insured their wives, poi- soned them, married new ones, poi- | { i x B e h ¥ ,Jobking over larid |- Iver "RockVvog returned fre m%:iwuh the ‘intentjt fie ¥ i soned them also and so, ad libitum. The extreme looseness of Japanese marriage. bonds makes this process very easy, and it seems to be becom- ing popular, except possibly with the wives. A few days ago such a “‘Blue- beard” was arrested in Nagoya, just as he was collecting the premium on his fourth heavily insured wife. A still more novel scheme is that practiced in Northern Japan. Here the villagers have used insurance com- panies in order:to obtain funds for village improvements. 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