Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 4

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE. BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ' . E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. . G.W.HARWNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor ——TELEPHONE 922-923—— Entered at the Postoftics at Beridji, Minnesotn, as Second-class Matter, under Act of Congress of March i. 1879, MEMBER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION . J Forelgn Ad resentatives 1 6. 0 mhets 0o, o sl R Thets Con New Yark, N Y., - - o attention paid to anonymous contributionsy Writer's. name oust be ho‘(r"l‘{ t0 the ‘udltor.v but not necessarily for ublleauo%,‘ ‘Communications ‘for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office mot later than Tuesday of each week to insure-; ication-in the-current issue. - A7 " ' SUBSORIPTION BATEZS .15 Three “Moriths: THR WEBRL/ R—"Twelve ublifhed ‘every, Thursday and sent e et s A o oA, S o, BT 1 dit Ta'given this paper, only the Unite ess 18 Y for rggu%!usc:.‘t?ontoz n‘l‘l news dispatches credited to it, or otherwise credited, and also- the local news vpblished herein, E OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS JUST AS OUR GRANDFATHERS THOUGHT We are sometimes inclined to think the great World war 1 | ever called upon to pass through. . Dr. J. W. Holland, the product of an Iowa farm, has writ- ten a little story in The Farmer, December 3 issue, which is worthy of passing on. May we suggest that you read. it all: “The date was 1867.:' The place was Northern Missouri. The Civil war was two years away. The persons were two farmers sitting together on a form fence. The theme was the only one they knew—HARD TIMES! s “You know what they were saying. Their world of finance was warped and twisted. Interest rates were high and money almost impossible to get. . Their good wives were gathering up eggs and selling them for 8 cents per dozen. They had to beg the dealer to buy their pork. Their corn was worth 14 cents and their oats were not worth hauling away over the poor roads. “It was a hard time, “What did they do?' They faced the situation with hope and hard work; and in a few years their farms were paid for, their children educated, and they had a ' comfortable nest built for old age. But in 1867 the clouds of i gloom hung close over their puzzled heads. ; “In 1893, the sons of those two farmers were sitting near the same place discussing hard times. They even went so far as to threaten to move off the farms, Nothing paid. Those were black times for the man who was trying to pay for his farm. Those discouraged farmers talked the language of their fathers a generation before. “That was in 1893. Today those two farmers have good| farms, and have succeeded in giving their children a better| chance in the world than they themselves had, and they have| had, in all, more luxuries than their fathers had comforts. “Today the grandsons of the farmers of 1867 are sitting in their automobiles talking hard times, and poor markets, and i low prices. They are talking the language of their fa}hers. ' 'Abraham Lincoln had a poem written by a Scotchman which he i kept over his desk in the White House' which read, ‘We are the same our fathers. have been’ We are surely the same when depression hits our pocketbooks. i . “Times has shown that the farmers of 1867 and.1893 did not have all the facts, for had they been-able to forecast the future ‘days they would have been singing instead of moaning. Better days came just astruly as better days are sure to come to us. “Now, it might be a good deal worse! *The money and gold of the world might be in foreign countries instead of in our i own vaults. That is something, Then, the hatvest of the past | year has been, generally, 60 per cent to the good. The pros- ] perity of the country as a whole leaves:much to be desired, but it is eadily 60 per cent normal. Some of the foreign loans will 1 be matyring soon, and that will start more capital moving. i “Then we need to remember that $2.50 wheat, and $1.70 | corn, and 80-cent oats were the exception, and were war-time | values. We thought that that sort of thing would last forever, | so weadvanced the price of land far beyond where it can rea- ' sonably stay, and bought more land that we thought we might 12 need, not thinking that the war was burning up more wealth { S + i than the\excessive values we were adding to the land. After all is‘'said and done, it is the land that stays where it is and has to bear the burden of the taxes for war. In addition, we borrowed a few billions from the banks, which billions belonged to the people, just to pay down on high-priced land or for new cars, and now the banks want their money. | “It i a bad situation, but not so badithat we shall not r cover. We are going to need patience, ;andcharity, and op- timism, and hard work, and a lot of other good things, to tide us over. This war, which was not of our own choosing, has still to be paid for. Taxes are certain to be hiigh for years to come, ‘We had better face the facts. People seldom fail who are brave enough to face facts, for it stiffens the spine. The American Farmer and his Good Wife are the very people who are going to do their part to pull us all out of the N'l%,tional Slough of De- spond, : “Just as our fathers and grandfathers faced the financial chaos of their times, and turned it into otder, so will we. In the meantime, there are two things we can do to help: “Let’s stop talking to each other about hard times. We are not starving yet, and there is no prospect 'of that. If we keep on suggesting to each other that things are' “going to the devil,” it will grease the slide to'that state of things. “Then we must keep suggesting to each other that we be- lieve in each other; pledge each other our mutual faith, to our ' Country and the God above us, that we will stay on the job and plug and save and dig until the new economical day dawns. If we will all do that, our eyes will be wide open to enjoy the new day when it comes.” %1 The \lgeomotive ngineer bas his hand on the; hrottie and hj‘! eyes on fllg #rack; the automobile driver has his' eyes on ‘anywhere and perhfii! one hl_m}.an the whedl—depands on''who is mqm;hapnf:xjs -on.the road than on the railroad.~Portland Oregonian. Sl d 3 % .&‘he railroad operators may really believe that there.is rio’ connection between the high freight rates and the low cond’ifion of freight business, ‘but it is going to be hard to inypnotize the' public into an unconseiousness of the obvious conncction.—Detroit Free Press, i 1Examinink‘ a package that he failed to kick ‘into the sewer, a man in 'bkhhomx? fou_nd it contained certificates of deposit 6 the amount of $43,000. ;lfhs;gra is bringing to ligght some startling values sowhen it comes to a kick. w-St. Cloud Daily Times. i 3 bequeathed to us conditions worse than our forefathers were a ‘|a fair or exposition of some kind, it iding beside him. - Which is why{ y/‘) New York, Dec. 3 Fancy-80 miles | of live eels! I can’t thing.of anything more horrible, but there’sia fascina- tion - lout the very awfulness of it. That's what came dpwn. the Hudson river into New York the'other day. Three barges brought them—200.000 live eels, trapped along the St. Law- rence river ‘and'brought ‘down here for the holiday trade. They ave val- ued at $100,000.. : Three hundred Chinese dead are to be taken back to China from Cypress Hills cemetery on Long Isiand. The Department of Health of Greater New York has received a request from President Hsm Shih Chang of China for permission to disinter the bodies, buried in the Chinese section of Cypress Hills cemetery, so that be reburied in China and ts consort with those of rs. The request wiil be granted. It is the belief of the Chi- nese that so long as their bodi re buried in foreign soil, their ts haven’t a chance of reaching the celestial realms of their fathers. Be- sides the necessary shipping labels in English, each coffin will be inscribed in Chinese with the occupant’s name nnd”the direction, “To the Hereaf- ter. One more sign of prosperity—-and how I do love 'them xhibitions! Every time a city has decided to hold has always meant either that we were enjoying -one of our peaks ‘of good times or that we were climbing the upgrade fast enough to see a pretty good hilltop not far ahead. So every. exhibition we hear of in any part of the country, we here in New York ew Yor' Letter Lucy Jearine Price MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1921 travel from outskirt to outskirt. It’s a great idea and a great thing to put it through. I'm proud that I was born in Ohio! “An oracle for some; a game for others” is the subtitle on a' small | pasteboard” box now selling down- | town. Within'is a square piece of stiff paper, divided into sixteen parts, with the names of four stocks in each, making 64 names in all, many of which are speculative favorites. On a pivot in the center is an arrow which one spins. The announcement which ¢omes with the game .says, \ “Ail the fun of Wall street with none of its dangers.'” 3 56 we certainlly do feel and unkind. winds,, fortune about as emphatically, # Vi city in thiéfesantry. And reports begun’ to, cojrte ig “of * these e eep up, but art once nyore, Somei city on t ave fallen, anywa: rnia coast puts one on for.the ' vase of the Sung - enjoyment, of.the winter ' visitors. known*ss the Ostrick Egg Vase, sold LA mmv]vé- 0;.\‘»th»(1 .f‘/ex- h:recthte utherB day, for $1,200. At dlace reports usy “season the Ca; . Brinkley salc in 1903 ahead. of..trade . exhibitions. Fine! ey e I 190, it brought- $2 ’s Then comes ‘word of Cleveland with Iebronght- $2,800 e its nothihn.lf;.: eSS, t:mn Derman.e]r;.v. busic | FF s . exhibition. to open within an- v“onl 0 v e ly One Thing Breaks My Cold” ‘bther two months. Could anything be 'HE relief that Dr. King’s' New greater than that? Of course Cleve | iand has the advantage of being a big manufacturjn, y and turning out pretty nearly v kind of prod- uct under the sun. But still it could Discovery gives from stubborn old colds, and onrushing new oncs, grippe and throat-torturing coughs has “made it the standard remedy it is today. Time-tried for fifty ycars and never not 'pake a thing like that go if it didn’t have faith in its own good more popular than toddy. No harmful drugs. - Y gimv A year around exhibition, fill- You will soor notice the relief in ew eight-floor building with orts of products made there in Cleveland! Think of the time saved loosened phlegm and cased cough. Always reliable, and good for the whole family. Has a convincing, heal- ing taste with all jts good:meclicinal qualities. At all druggists, 60 cents. Dr. King’s New Discov For Colds.and Cough's The Results of Constipation arc sick headaches, biliousness, sallow waste matter in ‘the intestinal system.’ C't_)r.rec!:b thisk health-under- mining: condition by taking Dr. King’s Pills. * 25 cents, All druggists. i PROMPT! WON'T GRIPE Dr. King’s Pills rejoice, the fay The price of -eggs ,an may —_— Learn correct .breathing, control of-breath, relaxation of tongue and chin and you have: gone a long way in voice . development. Ap- pointments made and voices tried. Make Appointments by Phones -142—458 ANDREW ROOD e |the poor buyer, who was wont to|’ “Murder on the' Half Shell: or|a gol which will enable her Buckets of Blood” was. the dainty ! to play her daily 18 Loles game, or jtle of this year’s production Dy (he | its equivalent. The polf-meter is set unior Guild. 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