Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 9, 1921, Page 6

PAGE SIX 7 THE BEMIDJ?’DA!LY FIONEER . v _ BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJ1 PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARWNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor ——TELEPHONE 922.923—— Entered at the Bemidji, off under Act of Cousre ane \e<om as secgndwlnss Matter, MEMBER OF NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Foreign Aflverdllnr Representatives S, C, Theis Co., Chicago, ill, S. C. Theis Co.. New York, N. Y, | No attention paid to anonymous ns. Writer's name. must be known to the editor, but not nccessarily for publication, Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to Insure publication in the current issue. i By Maul i .$5.00 . 2.50 SUBSCRIFTION RATES $9-20 One Year ....ein.. 1.50 six Months .. By Carrier One Year . Six Months Three Months One Month .. One Week .. THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelvo pages, published every Thursday and_sent | postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00, | Unless credit is given this paper, only the United Press is entitled to the usé | tor re-publication of all news dispatches Credited to it, or otherwlise credited, and | also the local news published herein, OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS THE CANADIAN ELECTIONS Canada, this week, decided to change horses and elected a{to Shepardstown and later to Han- parliament with a very large majority Liberals, turning out the Conservative party which has been in power since 1912, at which time Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberal party was snow- ed under on their platform of reciprocity with the United States. Especially did Western Canada repudiate the policy.of| Laurier at that time. The significant thing about the election of this week is the fact that the Progressive party, a new varty whose stronghold is confined to the western provinces of Canada, and whose plat- form is for even a greater tariff reduction than the Liberal party itself, swept into office 62 representatives, British Columbia only, of all the western provinces, retaining its Conservative majority. The results show that Canada wants a lower tariff wall be- twgen itself and the United States. A number of issues, impor-| tant in Canada’s future expansion, have been deferred by the! Meighen government. This was resented by the country. Mack- enzie King, the new Liberal lead®r, will now have an opportu- nity to bring these issues to the attention of parliament. The western portion of Canada is showing an increased influence at each election in the political outcome and no leader now can! afford to disregard the demands of that great growing empire in| order to cater to the industrial and financial interests of the east. This has been one of the causes of the landslide of the| | IF OLD ORGAN COULD SPEAK! ~{1s one at the National museum that | | was there at the time. - | grandfather-clockish ! size from a rattle to a grand piano | together and told them to be of good Instrument in National Museum Might Settle Interesting Question Con. cerning “Immortal George.” If church organs could talk, there ! could settle the question whether or not George Washington napped through Sunday sermons in Christ church. The decision could be strictly relied on, for the reason that the organ Unfortunately the tall and somewhat instrument is | dumb in every key of its five octaves, | though to any mathematician able to | put two and two together and make | five of it, its dim mahogany and | | tarnished gilt speaks for the prosperity of our ancestors, two centuries back, who could afford to import luxuries | umtil a war came along and gave us ® |liberty and home-made melodeons. “The George Washington organ” was brought from England in 1700, but was not placed in the Alexandria edifice until it had 'served in-the choir of a_ church in another part of Vir- glnia.. After an uncertain stay in Christ church (so far as the label | will divulge) its adventures took it far history, cock, Md., where it remained until the vestry donated it to the museum, where it now heads a collection of musical instruments which vary in and represent every world-period, from Pan's plpes to jazz. TOO MUCH FOR CARTHAGINIAN How Action of Legendary Glant of Italian Town Saved the Place From Pillage. The old town of Molfetta, on the Adriatic, is rich in legends, one of which Constance M. Panunzio narrates in his book, “The Soul of an Immi- grant.” While Hannibal was ravag- ing Italla Antica the news reached Molfetta that a mighty host was about_ to descend upon it. The Roman cen- turion in command called the people cheer, for did they not boast one citi- zen alone, the giant of the place, who could drive back an entire army? The recent election Premier Meighen’s high protective policy has been shatter-| ed, ten of his cabinel ministers were defeated at the polls, as was‘ \Iexghen himself, in his own constituency in Manitoba. The Consel\'atlve government must be content to accept the verdict of the people. They are now third in strength in the! new parliament. TR BUY RED CROSS SEALS : The little red Christmas seals offered for sale everywhere in our city offer a chance for life to the many ill with tubercu-| losis.., The money is used to provide for the needy who have the disease and whose continued presence at home or i a place of business is a menace not only to themselves but to all with whom they come in contact. Hundreds are waiting to get into sanatoriums. But tuber- culosis doesn’t wait.. All the time the money from the chari- table is being collected, the disease is going ahead, entrenching itself in weakened systems and making itself surer of its ulti- | mate goal. All the time, too, thousands are being needlessly exposed. | The best thing about this charity is that it is one in which everyone can participate. One penny will buy one stamp. One dollar will buy one hundred. Affixed to mail or Christmas pack- ages they not only present a cheerfully decorative appearance, but also prove that the sender thinks not only of himself or the one to whom the parvcel is sent, but also has in mind the suffer- ers who, unless speedly helped, have but a little while on éarth. The little seals are the enemies of tuberculosis. By buying them you help fight one of the worst diseases of modern times. R JAPAN GIVES IN Japan’s acceptance of a 60 per cent naval ratio, as proposed | by Mr. Hughes, is the first important aLcomph‘lhment of the! armament limitations conference, Japan’s insistence at first! upon a greater naval proportion than proposed by the Ameri- can chairman of the conference need not have threatened the | success of the conference, as was so seriously feared in some| quarters, Armament ratios are not so important, since when war comes to.a nation its who'e resources are mobilized for its, prosecution. Armament ratios will not change the ratios of resources and man-power of the different nations. A With naval ratios settled, the big task still before the con- Jerence is to agree on peace. Limitation of quarreling is as im- vortant ds limitation of armaments. The measure of success of he parley will lay, not so much in the degree to which navies are reduced, as in the degree to which the cause of friction in the Far East is eliminated or brought under control. If the major points of friction in the Pacific are adjusted, «nd an agency established for peaceful settlement of other dis- putes that may arise, the matter of naval ratio will be unim- portant. Nations do not, as a usual thing, fight for the love of fighting. OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR ENDING THE OPIUM EVIL “At one stroke,” writes a physician, “the congress of the United States and the parliament of the Dominion of Canada ean end the opium evil on the American continent.” How great the evil has become is indicated by his estimate that there is imported into this country about 750,000 pounds of opium a year, enough to give every man, woman and child more than 40 grains. No other civilized country imports more than three grains per capita. - We are thus using a dozen times as much opium as any other people, and using nearly all of it not.in the legitimate relief of pain, but as “dope.” Tere are regulative and restrictive laws, federal and national, but they do_not work because they are not drastic enough and because there is not cenough state and federal co- -operation. The physician quoted suggestions that there ,ought to be international control. That, however, seems yet far off, though the subject is before the League of Nations. He suggests that for America, the matter could be han- dled effectively by joint agreement of Canada and the United States. each: country, he says, determine the amount of opium and its derivatives needed for medicinal purposes. That might be 70,000 pounds for the States and 8,000 or 10,000 pounds for the Dominion. Then let imports be restricted to: the agreed figure, as we now restrict nnnng\at:on, and let opium, mor- phine, ete., be sold only by druggists under strict supervision. The “dope” plague is hardly so easily climinated as this doctor thinks, but undoubtedly great improvement could be made by some such method, if it were backed up by widespread publicity and strict enforcement efl'otts‘ —Little Falls Transcript. ;nuts).lrts af the village, | As the invading army approached he Let‘ people had an uncanny regard for the giant's muscular drive, although they hardly felt that he would be able | \m rout, single-handed, Hannibal's combat divisions. He did it, however, by a ruse. At the command of the centurion he made his way to the where he {lay down In the middle of the road. began to utter unearthly howls and screams. Hannibal's chief of staff ame up to him and asked him what | was the matter. He replied: “I am the smallest man in the town, and my heartless neighbors have driven me out so that I may not be in thelr way when the fight really starts.” The Carthaginian army retreated n record time, | Rulned by Best Work. ! “The Night Watch,” the best paint- |ing of the famous artist Rembrandt was the cause of his ruln, says the Mentor magazine. Popular, rich, and married to a beautiful woman whom he loved de- votedly, he was at the tide of his for- tunes when Capt. Franz Banning Cock and his company of wealthy | young guardsmen commissioned him to paint them, He put the captain and his lieuten- | ant in the foreground. The other | members were mere incidental fig- | ures. Because of this they refused-| to pay their pro rata and withdrew ! “their patronage. | From that time Rembrandt's mls- fortunes grew. He was disconsolate | through the death of his wife and | children. His house was sold for debt. At sicty-two he died, leaving | barely enough money for his funeral expenses. { Oddest of Nests. A great colony of ospreys, or fich. | hawks, built their nests at one tin » upon the property of various owners of land on an island near New York, a fact that enabled ornithologists to ! gather some Interesting data with re- spect to the breeding habits of this bird. One osprey’'s nest was built upon a pile of old fence rails, only seven or eight fe¢t from the ground. It had been added: to. annually until its bulk of sticks, sods, decayed wood, sea- weed and the like amounted to some- thing like three carloads. Two other nests were built in cedar trees. These, too, had been occupied every year for many seasons, and had.heen increased by the addition of fresh material un- til they filled the whole upper parts of the trees. Tomb of Sir Walter Scott. A visitor to_the tomb of Sir Walter Scott thus describes the resting place of the famous author: He was lald to rest In Dryburgh abbey. Dryburgh, eight or nine miles | from Abbotsford, has all the heauty of surroundings which Melrose lacks. The | latter is a_more magnificent ruin, but the charm- of Dryburgh, beantiful « though it is in itself, lies in its setting, in the open sweeps of perfect turf, in the - great - heeches, the cedars of ‘Lebanon, and immemorial yews (some of which were reported to be 600 yeavs old in Scott’s day), and in the Tweed —nhis beloved river—which flows here | close by below steep sundstone hanka. It is a lovely spot, In which he lis lain now for almost a century beside his wife. AMERICAN GIRLS NOT SO BAD Our Flappers May Smoke, but They Did Not Start the “Fad,” Is the Defense. It would be deplorable if all Amerl- edn girls, or the average American girl, or a majority of American girls, or a considerable proportion of Amer- | fean girls, could be described truth- fully as an English novelist describes the Amerlcan girl: “Unbalanced, cigarette smoking, un- dlsciplined morsels of sex, luring men to find new lips‘to be kissed.” There are “undisciplined morsels of sex,” as there were when danced before Herod and Thais ac- companied Alexander the Great upon his Asian marches, comments the Louisville Courier-Journal. One re- members Salome and Thais without having heard of the millions of their contemporaries who knew how to knead and bake and sweep and make swaddling clothes. One *“undisciplined morsel of sex” gives her set, fn jaundiced eyes, its standing. By the exception, as often as otherwise, is proved the type that rules. Denunciation sometimes serves the ! ends of publicity to a certain class of writers, But while denouncing the Amerlcan girl March chick how could any one charge the American girl . peculiarly Mth smokmg cigarettes? White women—squaws had the hab- it before America was discovered— first smoked tobacco in England and France. When this country was a wilderness, with the white settlers hacking with their axes at its edges, London women of fashion were smok- ing pipes in places .of public enter- tainment. The modern revival of® smoking bv women began, American women are assured, in England. Twenty years ago the astonished American corre- spondent cabled the news that British debutantes smoked .cigarettes “openly” at the Ascot races. TELLS ALL ABOUT AIRPLANE Explanations of the Mystery of FI ing, Made for the Benefit of the Uninitiated. < The alrplane Is being used more and more today for travel, so, if you want | to know about the latest means of transportation, you want to know something about the airplane and fly- ing, remarks a writer in the Christian Science Monitor. Instead of a driver, you call the man who handles the plane a pilot. When_the pum wvants to start the en- Salome | as a very forward® iliIII!HHHIl!li_l!fllIlIIIIIEIll!lIII gine or motor In the plane, he pulls on the propeller in front just as you would pull to ecrank an automo- bile, and when he gets the propeller spinning, then the motor is ready for flight. The pilot always rides.several hun- dred feet on the ground before he gdes up in the air, to start flying in the face of the wind lnerewd of with it. < Do you know what is meant when a plane skids in the air? The pilot has not tipped his airplane enough in mak- ing a turn or circle and the plane goes along level. instead of following the turn, Slipping is just the opposite of skidding, for then the aviator has tipped his plane too much.to one side ‘and it actually slips or falls a dis- tance before he can Tight it. A monoplane is an airplane that has one plane or wing, a biplane has two and a triplane has three. Next tlme you see an airplane notice what kind it is and see what else you can learn about it. ki Lacks Architectural Treasures. bes, birthplace of Marshal Foch, lacks the architectural treasures of the towns of northern France. Its an- cient cathedval suffers {rom heaviness and a mixture of style. The only re- maining t of the castle of the counts of Bigorre is a tower which He always tries ' i the Sixteeath century,” scene of a victory by Wellington over the French $n 1814.—National Geo- graphic Society Bulletin. Trade Talk. A New York woman, who kept house in a New England town the last sum- mer, tells of an occasion when she in- quired in a certain shop whether there were any fresh eggs. “Yes, ma'am,” said the clerk. “Them with a hen on ’em are fresh.” “But,” said the lady as shé looked around, “I don’t see any with a hen on themY She expected, of course, to see a nest. © “The létter ‘hen, ma’am,” said the clerk, who, of course, was of Cockney extraction. “The letter ‘hen, mot the bird. ‘Hen’ stands for ‘new-laid’, ma’am.” Vanishing Vicunas. The llama and alpaca are extensive- ly domesticated in South America. A relative of theirs, the vicuna, smaller in size, is a wild animal, native to the high plateau of the Andes. The vicuna has been hunted almost to the point of extermination by the Indians, and before long it is likely to become an extinct species. Its fine silky wool, of a tawny color, is woven into very attractive ponchos, and rugs made of its skin are much sought as bed coverings. latterly has Dbeen converted into & prison. Turl some miles away from the present-day Tarbes, was capital of a Roman state, and the bishopric of Tarbes appears as early as the Fifth in Luer hls(ory Vicuna rugs occasionally find their way to the United States, where they fetch high prices. They are usually six feet by four, and in Bolivia sell'at 150 to 250 bolivianos. A boliviano is sbout thirty-eight cents. “and " the, Give Hhotographs Hor Christmas You cannot give family or friends a more acceptable gift than your pho- tograph ina charming ULTRAFINE Mountin g. 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