Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 9, 1921, Page 2

e s e TR 1 B i it i ‘ THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER LOCKS OF THE PANAMA CANAL' "ALREADY ALMOST TOO SMALL " FOR_BIGGEST WARSHIPS. iContinuous and Rapid Development in ' 8ize and Efficiency of War Materiel Has Bearing on the Conference on Armaments, & By EDWARD B. CLARK. ‘Washington.—It was only elght ears ago that the water from Gatun ilake was turyed Into the Culebra cut, mow known as the Gaillard cut. The jcanal then was opened for commerce and for the passage of battleships. Tt was thought at that time, October, 1918, that the locks had been made large enough to accommodate any war lvesscl which was likely to be built for a century to come. Yet today, only eight years from tl ime of the lopemuu of the waterway, there ure nlllp; of the American navy which have ito “scrunch” in order to et through ithe Gutun, the Pedro Miguel and the ‘Miraflores lock This fact 1 sowe bearing on the { teonference for the limitation of arma- unenl-x and Far East problems 1t|mu;.h on the surface it may not ;ln any way to be related to the prob- lems to be solved. % There may be a {limitation set on the number of ships Iwhich sny nation may keep in com- {mission, and there may bLe ordered {a reduction in the number of vessels | at present commissioned in the various pavies, but it is known, of course, ithat every country will be allowed ito keep a navy of sufficient slze to |protect .its vi us interest Of course there will be navles in the future just as there are navies today, land it is not believed that anything 'will be done at the conference to pre- vent haprovements and enlargements of the ships 6f the present tim vessel replacements are nec are suthorized under the rale ing limitation agreements. It has been suggested from time to {time, more because of the humor of ifancy than for any other reason, that the naticns of the world go back to the {days of old wooden ships and smooth- ibore-guns in order to suve money for the taxpayers. The argument was that it no natious had anything but wood- len ships and smooth hores they would 'he on the same war level as they ave govern- when cuch possesses its steel-clads and, | its 16-inch rifles. What Future Battles May Be. Of “courge any- such, suggestion llh\‘ -ithis instantly wils repudiated, but it is within the range of remote poss| .[-11“103 that something. may A {Zested at the coming conference to ‘bring 2 pause to the further develop- iment of destructive engines of war- when |; v and | ernment has had nothing to do wlth' the prosecutl on of the two men, Sacco and Vancetti, whose conviction for muvder in . Braintree, Mass, has aroused the iie of the Reds here and in Europe. Even great governments of the world do not ‘understand ‘thoroughly | ‘where the authority of the United' and the authority of the | individual states begin. In 1882, or | States ends thereabouts, some public oficials in the city of New Orleans were killed by assassins, several of whom later were shot” and killed by an aroused populace. The Italian government in- stantly made representations to the United States in the mat fer. of repara- tions, because some of the wen killed in retallation 2ar their alleged acts were Italian subgjects. How Italy Was /Appeased. It seemed to ' be an. impossibility for the United :States governmen: to make the Italian government under- stand that the vdfair was a state and not a federal'matter. The Italian gov- ernment said: *“This thing happened in the United {States and therefore the United States govermment is re- sponsible.” Virtually the only answer that could be made was, “The affair happened in Louisiana aind Louisiana in such matters is a sovereign state.” Of course Italy could not proceed against Louisiana and so Uncle Sam took the matter over and, without smashing the Constitution, or invading states rights, or making final admis- sion that nothing oould be done, took some money out of a contingent fund which happened to be in existence and paid it over to the widows and chil- dren of the Italian subjects who had been killed in the Crescent City fr: ‘Phis satistied the Italian gov- ernment, but it did nothing to change ithe situation in the United States as Ibetween the government and the states, onditions which remain just where ey were. g There has been a gradual develop- ‘ment of the practice of throwing bombs and of sending infernal ma- {chines through the mail, or by express, ito men marked for death. Prior to the [_u-.u' 1870 little or nothing was known jof such deeds in the United States. {In Burope bombs had been thrown on joccasion and sometimes they hit their huoark, Claims Court Needs Relief. The great war has brought an added amount of business to many jof the United States courts, but the |tribunal which fairly must stagger junder the weight of accumulating vork Is the United States court of felaims which sits in the city of Washs Jington, 1 Comparatively little ever Is written ‘about the court of claims, and yet mnder its jurisdiction come many of ‘the most Interesting suits at law which the courts of the country know. It is understood that even today the court of cluims “has cases before it ‘\vhhh have grown out of the Revolu- tionary war and of the early Indian wars in which the United States was engaged. It was only recently that under a Dlanket act of congress the last French spoliation claims were settled. These grew out of losses to American mer- Ifare, Probubly, of course, this \ull\vlmntq engaged in sea-trade during Inot be done, and if sclence and inven- | the time of the troubles with France |tlon go forward as the; lward in the Jast 50 years, the day will'| |come when man cltinot go to war on jsen or land without knowing that jeither his srmy or his fleet, or the jarmy or the fleet of the cnemy is to {be annihilated. No.one left to tell ithe tale, may be the history of some igreat battle of the future. i A few weeks ago 4,000 marines of Ithe United States navy engaged in tbattle maneuvers at the Wilderness Iulmu the Grant and Lee forces met fifty-odd years ago. Such has heen ,tlu- iniprovement, if you want to ull[ 1t improvement, in the machinery war that it those 4,000 marine tas they were the other day and with iall the modern machinery of warture | fat theie command, had met in actual | tbattle on the field a force numerically | "equal to the combined armies of Grant | and Lee, armed as those armies were in 1864, the marines could have swept | [the combined forces opposed to them ‘oft the face of the earth and nevy have lost a man. In the Spaulsh war there was ao ' American. merchant. ve heen converted into a crui mounted four H-inch-guns, It w a0 merchant vessel, and yet alone it ‘eould have destroyed in battle every man-of-war which the Novth and the South together put on theyseas in the duys of the Civil war, and could have done it in.a singlé fight, Oue of our newest and greatest bat- tleships today could destroy without muceh of an effort the combined Ameri- can andd Spanish fleets as they existed in-the days of the Spanish wa The /Brookly, . the New York, the Oregon, the Indiana, the lown, and all the vest plus the steel clads of Cervera would Lave been sent to the bottom after q short engagement with one cap- ital ship of our present day navy. Ignorance in-Red's Attack. In the attempt of (he Red element I [of “human’ soclety to assassinate the o Amerlcan ~ ambilssador to France, iMyron . Herrick, and In threats of I violence to United States ambassadors {and consuls elsewhere, theve 1s seen m»w evidence of the fact that certain rforemum\ stil! are unable o differen- !tiate between the federal government {of the United States and the lidividu- tal governments of the states. Ambassador HNH(‘ , directly or in- {divectly, had as much to do i an off- iy murder in: Massachusetts as he had or ssel which had | s Just | have gone for- in the closing days of the Righteenth century. The great war Is responsible for ‘the accumulation of many cases be- for¢ the United States co of ‘elaims. Any cltizen of the United States who thinks that he suffered a doss for which the government was wesponsible is at lbeity to enter a suit in thix court, even if thé amount of loss was trivial. The court, in ct, ean take up cases in which the runs anywhere from one cent to billion dollars, although it«is not presumable that what might be called nickel.or 50-cent cases ever will trou- ble the jurists, Today there Is one cuse before the court in which evidence Is being taken which imvolves a claim for damages ‘amounting to $125,000,000. This case has to do with certain losses supposed to have been sustained by reason of some trouble In which submarines and torpedoes played a part. Plan to Expedite Its Cases. Today before congress there is a bill in the form.of an amendment to the law governing the operation of the court of claims, which is intend- «l to expedite the!busine of the tribunal. - The jurists desire that they shall be given authority to appoint examiners who may go into the merits of good muny of the cases in ad- "vance of the court proceedings. To- day this is the right of all the federal courts except this particular one, and vet this court, it is said, needs the authority move than any other. The bill has passed the senate, but it is now hung up in the committee on ju- diciary of the house of vepresenta- tives, Lawyers say that its passage Wil save the veople money and the court much time. Court of claims | rases under present conditions ave apt to drag through' loug periods of time, { When -a United States citizen se- | cures a verdict in his | court of claims for dama es ngainst | tbe United States government his troubles are not ended. The . court cannot ovder a government official to levy on the government for the dam- uges which it has awarded. 'The man who has a verdict in his favor must o to congress and secure the passage Y with the trial and conv; lLtuny fof the two Ttallans who committed || . ‘has had ‘to’do_with' the market price | 2 ,.»r pawpaws in southern Indiana, T h\c‘Aenul to of an appropriation bill to meet the amount which the court has decided a« his due, - There's a Conscience. Old Lady—I hope you don't sell | papers oun Sunday. Newsboy (sadly)—No'm; I ain't big the Sunday ’ditions yit. 'L'mtul States government as a gov-| —Virginia Reel. " DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS l|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII All Ladies’ Suits, Coats And Dresses Must Go In This F |rst Of The Season Ready--To-Wear Clearance Sale 1 PER 3 CENT Can you what an opportunity this is, when we offer high grade Garménts at— One Racoon Fur Coat Formerly $275.00— Now—:$235.00 One that was $150. 00»— for $112.00 vor from the THE iy ltIIIIIIIIlIIHIIII!IIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIl I!llmllIll!llIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIH|l|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|III||III||IIIII|III| IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IlmIII|IIIIllIIIlllllIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIHIIII|I|IIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllIIll_]|IIlllIIIIIIIIIllllllllllIIllllIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIHHHIIIIIIIllllllIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII mIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIHIIIIIIIIIII|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII E REALIZE NOW THAT WE HAVE TOO MANY \HIGH GRADE GARMENTS IN STOCK—AND WE ARE NOT GO- ING TO WAIT UNTIL JANUARY TO DISPOSE OF THEM AT A SACRIFICE. ORDERED TO SELL—AND SELL THEY MUST! THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER THE TENTH We Offer, With a Few Exceptions, Your Choice of Our ‘ Entire Stock of New Wraps at— . DISCOUNT This is your one great chance to dress up at a saving that usually comes at the end of the season. 1-3 Off You will fifid a great number of very fash- ionable high-class Suits—at prices that should be on lower guality— Were Now G500 -eeissorihrrnsoendh s $50.00 $60.00 —ooeenenennn- $40.00 $50.00 ... $33.33 " $40.00 ... $26.66 $30.00 .0 ..........$20.00 ALL SKIRTS GO AT 25% OFF PRESENT PRICES THEY WERE WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMEBER 9, 1921 llHIIIIIIlfill;llllIHIIIIllilililllllillllI"!lllilIIfilllilIIIIll|I_||IiII|IIIIIII!lmlflIHIHI|lllllIIIHIIIIIlIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IS THE WHOLE SE_ASON IS BEFORE YOU TO WEAR 'l‘HESE, GARMENTS ladles’ Coats At Ladies' Suifs ~Af|Ladies’ Dresses At 1-3 Off All high grade; made by the famous “‘Sun- shine Coat & Suit Co. of Cleveland; best ma- terials and made by high-class tailors— $15.00 Coats go at $20.00 Coats go at $25.00 Coats go at . $30.00 Coats go at $40.00 Coats go at $50.00 Coats go at . $60.00 Coats go at $75.00 Coats go at 1-3- Ofi Woo) and Silk Dresses—the top of the sea- son’s assortment. We take our loss now in- stead of at the end-of the qeason—Dresses that are Worth— 375.60— $60.00—will go at. $50.00—will go at rill go at 12 Chappie Coats GO IN THIS SALE AT— 25 & Off Sale Begins Thursday A. M. - For 10 Days BAZAAR STORE NOTHING RESERVED-—ALL READY-TO-WEAR MUST GO! 1 i { { ] RSO R 1 1 O A Iill!IIIHIIIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHIHiIIIIiIIIIH!IIIi!IIIHIllllllIIIIIIllIIiHIIJHIIIHHIIHIIIIiIIlI!NIII!IIl