Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 30, 1921, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER 7737 =F7oF] (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) RANCH FOR EX-SERVICE MEN Founder of National Loyalty League Extends Invitation to Leglon- naires to Visit His Playground. Col. R. P. Dickerson, founder and national commander of the National Toyalty -League, {attendert: the re- cent . convention [ o e’ Amierfean iLegion; 4t Kansas City and extended invitation fo s 110 his _ranch near {pringtield,”’ Mo, v can fish romp, “ride, to a playgroundi for ex-seryice men,” declared Colonel Dickerson. The ranch i8™ K i as the Five Bar Mule ranct dnd s probably the largest in Missourl; - Sitce the fvar rhe ranch has beéen muleless and the owner has had cottages bullt for the accommodation of Njg ‘ex-service men friends. Colonel Dickerson is a veferan of the Spanish-American war. When the United States entered the World war he organized n regiment of cowboys, prize fighters and sporting men and offered their services to the War de- partment. Later he organized the Natfonal Loyalty league which co- operated with other patriotic organj- zations in promoting loyalty through educational propagandu. LOSS OF THE NAVAL RESERVE Pergonnel of Force Has Shrunk Last Few Weeks from 230,000 to Nothing. xperts disagree as to the possibil- ity of a “next war,” but they agree nbsolufely that if the ‘‘next war” does come, It is llkely to he on the seas and In the alr. We are warned that we must have adequate naval amd uir forces, We must have adequate reserves, Yet in spite of these warn- Ings, the pald personnel of the naval reserve force has shrunk in the last few weeks from 230,000 to nothing. The paval reserve, in '-which hun- dreds of thousands served faithfully and vallantly during the war, has prac- tically been ubolished by congres which falled to appropriate enough money to pay the meager retainer fees of personnel. ment, asserting it bad no alternative, discontinued the pald reserve. All members were disenvolled, having only an opportunity, to Join class 6 fthe, reserve, a class in which persomiel-1s not paid, no matfer hew much time may be devoted to drills . and qun- aeuvers, Thousands of reserve sailors went on crulses this summer at navy. ex- pense, receiving only navy pay and training, which is more valunble to the navy than to the reserves. To disenroll these men is to waste their summer's work, yet they have heen disenrolled. Toward the close of the World war, thousands of men Jjolned the naval re- serve who were tralned after the Arm- Istice. All that tralning seems lost to the navy. Many reserves recently “shipped over” after expiration of thelr enrollment. Good Intentions have not been considered. ‘The navy appreclates “lle reserve force. 'I'he reserves appreciate that the navy needs them. Only congress seems unaware that thered#”in time of war a need for trained sailors out- slde our permanent forces,—American Legion Weekly. HE IS 'VALUABLE LEGION MAN Judge Hanley of Mandan, North Da- kota, Has Given Miith Service to His Country. = In the last ten years James M. Han- ley, Mandan, North Dakota, has served as speaker of the North Dakota house of repre- sentatives; as state’s attornay L of Mbrton county In the suie state; . S a state senator; as president of the Mandan Ro- tary clob and as judge of the Dis. trict court. Be- sidey this record of service he gave =95 ~ nearly four years of the teh’in the gervice of his country, und finds time to be a:good dad (o four children. He went to the Mexican border in 1916 as major v command of a hat- tallon- of the First North Dakota in- fantry. He enrered the World war In 1917 and went to France with the dlst division, serviug Iater with the _ Both - division. Judge Hanley has heen a member of the. American Leglon since its incep. tion. He was a delegate to the St. Louls caucns and was chairman of the firgt " department convention of the erican Legion in North Dakota. i fimflh' for Tks mni Pu_murf The Navy depart- | Jase of the Humorist as Seen ‘in a Contemporary Novelist. VERYONE has seen a tight rope walker camouflage good hard work under a jocular smilo yet ‘ew people seem to realize thé fact that o be a humorist means being in a Vvery similar state to that of laughing very heartily when a misstep will send one headlong. And all the fret and ull tho strain have to be buried, laid away out of sight or mind of the laughter- jexpecting audience. Yet they do it, these humorists, fool ou into thinking that that side-split- king scene was rolled off just so easily d smoothly! An example is that of foseph ' C. Lincoln, whose mnovels tickle the nation’s risibles these days with such care-free and potent effect. {His latest starts oft with the resound- ing title of “Galusha the Magnificent,” and through the whole length of fts 400-0dd pages Mr. Lincoln treads a triumphantly smiling measure, gid- dily poised on the tightest of humorous tight ropes. The effect is one of easy /and spontancous humor. | And yet! Well, even such a dyed-in- the-wool humorist as Joe Lincoln must |work hard for his laurels. In “Galusha” he has turned to an American village, created a whole population for it and entangled them all in a series of events that pile laugh on laugh. Each charac- ter is a distinct human being and the author has made them appear con- sistent in the most diverse scenes. The sensibly nonsensical extrava- gances of Primmle, the irresistible “‘bean-spiller,” we will wager cost Mr. Lindoln no cnd of wrestling for the well-chosen words he puts in the !maiden’s pleturesque lips. Lincoln is being called ‘Mark "Twain's successor” as the outstanding ,American humorist. Prof. William Lyon Phelps has spoken ‘wp for the JOSEPH C. LINCOLN audience o calling Jos: benefacto secms to make 1 man just about Making a Selection. Selling a church bell by mail order hous what a Troy I actually did recently tive customer called up from B He was chairman of u appointed to seleet n bell for in one of the suburbs of Bos it the hell Troy. mitted the so the committee telephone. Accordingly, the committee ton at the appointed time, and, cording o arr: pany at ing of its bells over the long-d telephone. whi and saved the e WANT ) they were thor pense of a trip. paper Writer, f this_laughter creator by ph_C. Lincoln a *“public To give cheer by hard can home is now discernible. not the spacious ten or MANY FAST DAYS IN YEAR Greek Church Insists on Rigorous Ob- servance of Recognized Periods of Abstinence. More strict than any other c¢hurch in its observance of fast days, the Gireek Church also Is more rigorous fn its fasting than other churches. The Lenten faster must abstain not only from flesh, but niust do without fish, eggs, butter, cheese and even the oil which 0 much a part of Greek cooking. During Holy week the ortho- dox Greeks eat hardly anything but bread. As soon as Lent approaches—the Greek fast, it is called—the shops where fvod Is sold are decorated with evergreen, and the Lenten fare is temptingly di 1. As the Greeks do not consider shellfish either meat or fish, crabs, lobsters and other crus- taceans are sold and eaten with par- ticular relish, The longest fasting time for the Greeks Is “The - Great Fast,” which Tnsts 48 day The next longest fast is of 40 days. It heglns Nov. 15 and ends the day before the great feast of Christmus, During August there are 15 days of fasting. Beginning the Monday after the first Sunday after Pentecost, until June 2 is the next longest fast. 'This year it was 10 full days, . Add to these long fasts six scat- tered fusts of one day each, and there is a total of 119 fast days which or- thodox Greeks and all visitors must observe each year: Life As | Sew It Man Is just a handtul of mud, but a good womun ecan mold him into something worth while.—Lohisville Courfer-Journal. Wealth of Fertilizer in Coal. A four-fout semm of coal contalng enough ammonium sulphate to fertil- ize the land above It for more thun 600 yenrs, Drops of Water in Fog. A dense fog contains anywhere from 20,000 to a million drople cubie Inch, according to the the droplets. 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