Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 22, 1921, Page 2

JAPANESE SPOKESMAN HEIR TO THE SHOGUNS| By Clarence Dubose- {United Press Staft Correspondent) . Tokyo, (By Mail),—The man who Shogun, or Big Boss Japan today— the_ heir to the To-| kugawas, who ruled Japan two. cen-| \'turies and a half—heads the Japanese | delegation to Washington. A Prince lIyesato Tokugawa, presi- dent of the. house of peers, frock- coated, English educated, a suave and capable modern stitesman, easily have been, a8 all his family heads before him, the mediaeval ruler of a mediaeval people. But an’ Amerigan ' naval officer, Commodove Perry opened Japan's closed doors ‘when lyesato, last heir ‘. of Tokugawa Shoguns, was five years . old. The Shoguns passed from power. | Thes boy who would have been lord | of every two-sworded samurai in Jap- | an was, instead, sent to Oxford. To-| day, the representative of a new or- der in his land, he is in° America de- | termined to chart, if he can, paths of peace for his country and the world. | “I do mot know what the confer- ence will do or how long it will last,” he said to the United Press just be- fore leaving Tokyo. “I ‘am xsost op- timistic but all any of us can do is to | await developments and meet the situ- ations-as they arise. But this-I do know—nothing is so absurd in all the world as talk of war between Japan and the United States.” Because of the prestige of his fam- ily name, the great significance it re- tains in his country; Prince Togu- kawa is popularly thought of in Japan as the head ‘of the delegation. How- ever, while generally so referred to | here, there is in fact, no officially designated ‘“head” of the delegation. | The government has been at pains| to ‘point out ‘that fact, and .so has| ¢ Prince Tokugawa, but all in vain.| The name means leadership’' to his ' countrymen. | Tokugawa was born in 1863 near Tokyo and in 1868«was designated by the Shogun as his heir, just before the Shoguns were -swept from the rule of Nippon. In addition to his English education he has toured American and other parts of the world, and visited Presi- :i.flnt Taft during a trip to Washing- on. One Japanese newspaper emphas ed the fact that the Shoguns main- tained good relations with the United States, from Perr restoration of the empecror. | “The Americans looked uponjthe Shogun as | the supreme ruler of Japan,” it con- | tin'ard, “and even today they tend to | surround the Toknzawa with some- | thing of a halo. If this feeling is| nroperly utilized the presence of the ' descendant of the Shoguns will do | much’ to cement the friendship of the | country.” i | HEN FAITHFULLY DID DUTY | Clever Wonan's Cohfidénce in Her: Pet “Biddy” Proved to Be Abun. 1 dantly Justitied, | t,“There was an ofl_womap ‘who lived ~not in a shoe but on a farm in New Hawmpshire. She made a contract to deliver two dozen fresh eggs to an angemic family from New York who were building up on milk and eggs ! after a wearlng season, and these eggs | were to be dellvered at a certain hour | dally. Although she had to. go by buckboard she always fulfilled her contract to the last egg. But one dny as the old woman was putting on her “bunnit” preparatory to start an accident broke one of the twenty-four fresh eggs and there was no time to wait for the Jaying of an- other. What was she to do? Fall to keep her appointment®or deliver the twenty-three eggs with an excuse? This clever old woman did nelther of these things, SHe snatched up a squawking hen which had a record as u good layer, cramped it into a coop and started out. On the trip the needed fresh egg arrived, and it was . ndded to the others and made up the quota, When the customer was counting | the eggs she noticed the warm one nnd asked the reason. The old wom- un laughed and told the story of how her favorite dependable hen had al- most literally laid an egg in her hand. ‘Che story has been told over and over ‘since then In ever-widening areas un- t1l with the return home of the New York family, no longer anaemic, it has reached thé¢ metropolis—New York Herald, ! A Man's Weight in Gold. How much Is a billion dollars? One | billion dollars’ worth of coin silver | would malke a cube nearly 50 feet on an, | edge. Y you were worth your weight ! in silver that would not make you rich. The weight of a 180-pound man would be balanced on the scales with | $2500 worth of coln silver. His welght in coined gold would be worth | only $40,000. - : | 4 Mother's Oversight. | A _friend of niine has n daumnarf whotis fond of curls, The other day. sho. stood looking at &' curly-hended girl at play for a long time, and floal- 1y turned and said to her mother, “Oh, | dear, why didn’t you buy me with ' ‘curls?"—Chlcago Tribune. : | 3 The -Simple Lire, “Prof. George Santifyana writes: ' | . “To be poor in order to be simple, | to produce less in order that the prod- | ‘et may be more choice and beautiful, | and may leave us less burdened with | \pnecessdry duties and, useless pos- | sessions—that is an ideal not yet artic- | ‘ulate in the American mind; yet here | and there I seem to have heard a | sigh after It, a groun at the perpetual ] Ineubus of busiess and shuill society.” 1 might | - THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Thanksgiving Day "The first presidential Thanksgiving proclamation was that of Pres- ident Washington in 1789, on the occasion of the adoption of the Consti- tution, the day curiously enough being November 26—the day of the celebration of 1863, The latter was the real forerunner of our present: Thanksgiving Day. often‘been appointed:by:di for its decisive national victories, marked -also the beginning. of the Occ: erent-presidents, but th annual series of Thanksgiving Days. The great victories of Gettysburg and Vicksburg were really the ¥ cause of Lincoln’s proclamation, and his example has been followed by all his successors until the annual festival has become one of ‘our na- k tional institutions. The spirit of Thanksg ional and special times -of thanksgiving had e year 1863; famous iving is abroad in the worid today for'a new reason. ~ While Lincoln gave thanks for the victories of arms, the'spirit of Tha sgiving abroad today is for a victory of peace. Thanksgiving Day in 1921 will be celebrated for the hope that has suddenly lit up the nations of the world that armaments may be gradually laid aside and ' that swords shall be beaten into plow shares and spears into pruning hooks. : Thanks to the Creator will be returned by millions of lips and hearts that the great nations of the earth have come to realize that national greatness cannot be built upon a prowess of conquest and force, but only upon the prowess of good will. If, through the instrumentality of the great conference now in session in our national capital, peace and good will may come to all nations, with what devont thanks shall the people of all nations turn to America for the lifting of the greatest burden and curse ever put upon mankind—-war! And no less shall bé the thankfulness of our nation itself that we have in some way been instrumental in helping lift the burden of humanity. It will be the greatest victory of conquest ever achieved by any nation. _ While many of the nations of the world are today in a sea of un- rest and even despair, consequent upon the aftermath of a world’s holocaust, we are today rapidly attairing our normal pre-war condition and are the envy of the nations about us in our prosperity If the staunch Pilgrims of three centuries ago had that for which to be thankful upon the bleak shores of the old New England coast, how much mere haven’t we to be thankful for today in a land of peace and plenty. Mercenary, indeed, would be he who can find in his heart no cause for gratitude and thanksgiving. Those staunch Pilgrims of the Mayflower brought little with them, but left much to posterity. If the American Thanksgiving Day were the only thing they left us, their names would be immortalized. It gives joy to the humblest of peoples. It gives occasion for us to express our appreciation, not only for what we have received but, also, for that we have escaped. On both counts the American people have abundant reason to express their gratitude, < Of wealth, our nation ranks first; in prosperity, none.can com- pare with it. If there be any danger point of which we must beware, it is in the veiy profligacy of our living. Nations of ancient times prosper- ed and flourished, but in the heyday of their prosperity they were sow- ing the very germs which caused their downfall. Frugality and industry have ever produced stamina in a nation, while luxury and profligate living have ever brought their own reward in a life of decay, both in-, dividual and national. e For the prosperity of the nation we are devoutly thankful, but in our thanksgiving let us not be unmindful of the obligation our very prosperity has placed upon !“DOG TAG” SAVES SOLDIER | l Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. ~The |little “dog tag” "of the army is all that saved “Private William Ausman | No. 1698987 from a grave in the ! Potters field here following his death | by falling from a downtown building. | " When Vietory Post of the Ameri- | can. Legion learned that the former isoldier faced a pauper’s burial, ar- | rangements were made for a military | funeral, A firing squad and a delega- tion of Legionaires attended the ser- \'vices at the mortuary, but when the | cortege drew. up to a newly-dug grave lin the Potters field, the Legion men | objected to the burial there of their comrade. The body was interred at Forrest Lawn cemetery. aires revealed that several World war heroes who gdied friendless and penni- {less had been buried in the Potters % I .| Subscribe for Tbs Daillv Ploneer: FROM POTTERS FIELD GRAVE i An investigation by the Legion- ' field: The bodies wil! be disinterred. VAKE YOUR THANKSGIVING TOILET with accessories from our ;oilet goods department. T'hat will insure the very best results and you will have the self-satisfaction of knowing that you are looking your best. The use/of our toilet wares is an evidence of re- fined taste. The very best people in town are among yur most regular patrons. LALIBERTE & ERICKSON Phone 62 Bemidji | v?/zeVifl'g “Man, why don’t you try it?” hat ;oD “douT g avoT flia Cigarette —and for cigareties Virginia tobacca is the best P s g = - WON'T DIE AND LEAVE WORK ' for e Japanese Mortality Rate Lower In 8ilkworm Season, It is Said, for Remarkable Reason. There avre many reasons for death. But it Is a remarkable thing that dur- lng the silkworm rearing time in the ! sllk districts, even the sickest people, contrary to all expectation, do not die. The rate of death ammong old people and invalids in the silk regions dur- ing the buslest season is very low in- deed. What 1s the reason? Well, most of these people unconsclously think, “well, if I die now, everything will be very much upset because I do not finish my worlk, and if T die, I too will be very much upset in the other world because no one here will have time to glve me a good funeral and to see that T am properly and comfortably burled. So I gucss I had better live Just a Dbit longer.” And remarkuble to relate they do go on living. The will to llve makes them bear the ills of llving and they do not die during the growing season. i But after the transfer of the ma- turad sllkwarms to tha eocoon heds. §there e peopls” dyMing everywhere. That is strange, too. But really it 1s because the spirit no long- er holds them up. The excitement is over and with rest comes death; the time of anxiety is over and the strain fs Joosened and with the loasening comes the end of life. In the silk regions there are not many deaths in efther the extremely hot or the extremely cold times. But Just after the silkworms are trans- ferred to the cocoon beds, after the strenuous days of rearing them frowm the egg are over, then they die like flies in winter, It is’all a matter of spirit, or as some would call it “mind."—Japan Advertiser. g Fortified. ) “Are you going to polish up. your Yrench in order to engage in-‘diplo- matie convertsations?” “It might be valuable” sald .Sena- tor Sorghum. “A man’speaking in a foreign tongue naturally commands forbearance and gets lots of -chances to correct himself. “But I guess I've had enough practice in filibustering to make myself sufliciently misunder- stood without going outside the Eng- lish language.” aniwals, and in some cases these wills | B have been upheld by the courts. Mueh | attention was uttracted to the will of a woman who left £70 a year for the maintenance of three goldfish. That there might be no misunderstanding | K she described them as follows: “One | is bigger than the other two, and these latter ar¢ to be easily recog- nized, as one is fat and the other jean.” flowers to be pltced on the graves of the goldfish. - 1lR I Possibly. i An expert announces that there are | ten cavses of crime. die young” is one of them. _— First English Girls to Write. The daughters of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, were the first Eng. |} lishwomen who ‘knéw how to write. Africa's River Navigation. ! Afrlca has 40,000 miles of river and | lake navigation. ' 18 MILLIONS OF POUNDS BOUGHT BY THE GOVERNMENT baf SAME PRICE For more than 30 years. 5 Ounccé‘for 25¢ WHY PAY WAR PRICES? She also made provision for i Wouder if be- i|8 lief in the old adage that “the good ||# Remembered Goldfish in- Will. 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