Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 10, 1922, Page 3

. Philadelphia.. the American Legion News Setvice.) HE WAS WELCOMED BY FOCH St. Paul Janitor, Former Comrade of the' Noted ' Generalissimo, | Is Granted'Long Inté “Djil-Alla) Taquatl” Sl These | mystic, Wwords meant’ some- thiug " that caused Marshal Foch of France to. receive an unsung janitor in his rooms at T Shidnights 00 { 4. :The incident oc- “to St. Pauly , as a guest of the American Legion. Tt is still & Leing talked | about. It was the longest interview Foch granted dur- ing his tour 6£ 42 states, The: Arabic -legend, written on a postal card by the jauitor, one Charles Schweitzer, was an open sesame. The words formed the name of two engagement§ in " which the janitor, then a sergeant, and Foch, then a lieu- tenant, fought with units of the First Colonial regiment in Algjers in 1877, it was learned. Foch remembered ‘the aames, and knowing that only a com- rade of his Algerian regiment would ' know them, sent for hiny forthwith. “The marshal is the same kindly man and good soldier, that he was in.| Algiers,” the janitor' suid, ‘after his'| visit with the gencralissimo., ; ¥Who | knows? I might have been a general 1f T'd stayed in the armyy with him.” | HIGH HONORS TO CARLSTROM Veterans of Three Wars Appreciate Work of Head of Spanish-Ameri- can Organization, Veterans of three Oscar E. Carlstrom, Illinois. national com- mander hief of the United Span- isiv War Vi He was one of the 50 men who or- ganized the fore- runner of the American Legion in Paris in 1919 e is a member by adoption of the G. A. R./ ‘ Mr. Carlstrom S, ! was ‘a private in* iz the’ war with Spain, serving in the Philippines. Later he was captain in the National Guard of Illinofs. e commanded a battery of field artillery in action in France. At Minneapolis last year he was elccted chief of the Spanish War Veterans. He was one of the 50 men chosen to represent ‘the two million members of the American expedition- ary force in France to organize what later became the Legion. Company C. One Hundred and Second Infantry, G. A. R., of lllinois, adopted him as a member. Mr. Carlstrom is a lawyer. NATION'S LOVE FOR LEGION “They Like Us—But” Is Attitude of Public, According to National Commander MacNider. wars honored | He is | “They like us—but” is-th of the nation’toirds Legion, according’ Niser, commander ofth first address- of: his 8 “We have to bull a Spirit i ‘1he! Legion and”do the right thing alway®; and. in time we will have the confi- dence of . the people,” Mr., MacNider | continued. “Men who offered all' they had7to the country have a right fo the cof- | fidence of that country. They should have a voice in its affairs,”for they never would want to do a thing con- trary to the country’s interests.” By building up a “spirit” among the members of the Legion and creating a comradeship with “our companions in arms in England. France, Italy and the other countries,” more can be done for peace than in any other ‘way, the speaker claimed. b ' To Aid of French Friends. To save from the almshouse a fam- ily in a French villige in which his | battery had been billeted, William B. | Follette, formerly (of :Oregon . but now living in Paris, recently appealed to members of his old. command to send | him’ contributions. The family was | known to all the men of Mr. Follett’s battery and they liberally responded to keep their French friends from want. To Lose Canal Zone, Jobs. 3 More (han' 700" sérvide men of the | World war may be thrown out of em- ‘, ployment in the Panama canal zene, | following the governient's sweeping | reduction in personnel, according to a report filed by the American Legion at Washington, The number of ci- vilian employces in ‘the canal zone has been reduced 40 per cent.since | March 4, 192 Subscribe for Tne Daly Ploneer. Can beEasilyAdmizzistered: | Financial Expert, Making In- vestigation for Senate Fi- nance Committee, Says New System is Feasible. The American Valuation plan of assessing import dutles, as provided in the pending Fordney ;tariff bill, is posgible-of administration and the only feasible -meays .of .compilipg, a tarif that will® afford. ‘adequate - protection to the ,American. manufacturer, ;ac~ cording to J.. B..Reynolds, former as- sistant Secretary ‘of the Treasury, and now. director. of..vajuation . investiga- tions for, the Senate;¥Finance Commit- ee. 1. a . ““There" 1§ nothing wuncanny, nothing ‘mysterious . and- nothing :at all of a tremendously’/ unusual.:or. out-of-the- way nature. about,American Valua- tion,” - Mr. Roynoids 'says, ‘“‘Today, when imports_are brought into_this “countty they are assessed on the basis of the value:in:foreign. countries. The invoice is presented and on that the importer puts his value. Invoices Practically Worthless *These invoices—to give-them all the credit that they are entitled to—in the they ‘are printed. after a. long experience ‘in - handling invoices, and-by that I mean that the certifieation. that the consul abroad has to make amounts to nothing. The in- my judgment, voices go through.on"the.day before of administration, ‘& ship sails; they. go into a consular of enforcement. office in any part of the wérld where there is a large business between that country and the United States. You is. have: a:perfect string_of people filing in-with. involces to get the invoice off find out what the American value of & on_the next boat with. the antomatic afixing of a stamp. a clerk signing the consul’s.name.. And all that it does is to eertify that that invoice: is on: the right colored paper, in-mind. The only way to take care 5. made out in the right. legal form, and ‘nothing: else. ““There is a: proposition now put up against that.. It seems.to me:it.is, a. very simple one. Insteadof putting the duties, assessing the ad valorem “ dttjes ‘which- aré - duties’ ‘assessed oif . the value of gogds,: on the foreign or * invbice value, the proposition is to put these duties on thé value of the goods fm:the United States. “The value of the goods in the United States is mot an unknown quantity. It can be found. All the books, all the papers of the manufacturers, the Jobbers and the sellers of every kind, are at the disposal of the Government, Prices ‘are known in_this country. We are dealing with an absolutely known and certain proposition and the whole idea is simply that where there {s an ad valorem rate of duty @n goods, we do not try to assess this o8 the foreign value, Which is largely WAS' NOT HIS LUCKY ‘DAY Trolley Car Patron Got Into Trouble When - He Attempted to Get Away With Umbrelia. Young Bob McIntosi’ had always prided himself on his honesty and up- rightness, 'but it was a, rainy night when hé ‘smwv -aly 'umbrella: agiparently deserted on a seat in the trolley car. He picked it up and examined it. It could not be very valuable, it was hardly worth while turning it in to the motorman of the one-man-car and —the walk from the trolley to the home of young: Bob McIntosh was a good four blocks in the pouring rain. As ‘the caf-neared the street, says the New York Sun, the honest young man looked around. and seeing that none_ of his fellow passengers was noticing him he picked up the um- | brella and walked up to the motor- man’s platform. ' There with the glib- ness of one with a guilty conscience he conversed with the pilot until the car drew up at his street. “Well, good ight ! said young Bob McIntosh as he lightly stepped from the, car -and- raiged ;his. mmbrelia. “Good right” quoth the motorman, but Aacross pud- al dnot r'ommfih oniis, way; in eyei) the door g‘ad nok' yet been ;e haa started awn “the “hi: gl‘\igl’lty tofgo with young man?’ shouted the motormy “This _time _it hap- pened fo' B¢ mifie,” safd that worthy as lze slammed the dqor, shu,t and shot thefear forward: i1y PORT FAMOU - ‘England, Was :\Ie;'y IS} THOUGH SMALL Brightlingséa, ", Ancient Town as Far Back made. Huge fortunes await the men -as- Year 1441, i | who will develop the industry of wax- —_— making. As vet, only six factorles are Tucked away among: numerous ! working. The candelilla plant grows creeks and waterworks is the town of Brightlingsea, the home of ‘“white wings,” for this little settlement is the.yachting man’s utopia and is, in this respect, peerless on the east, coast of England. It was from Brickelsey, as the inhabitants call the place, that Lord Brassey started on liis world tour bis “yacht, the Sunbemm, and Sir Thomas Lipton ;selected most of his crews for the; various.; Shamrocks. Apart from yudjtlfi ing, Brlght_llrgsél fame; for- slie is; a 01 ber of the mémfim, Ports, and Is’ She is the only federation not situateds, Sussex. It isisurmised tat poration of Brigllmingflcu in the Cinque ports may - be ! an- imitation. of the Roman system, but, unfortunately, an ancient manuscript, the Domesday of the Ports, has been lost, so that the exact date of the Brightlingsea in'the federation cannot be stated. In 1441 this membership was declared ' to have antiquo. which have hecome obs other ‘claims ; te or are not A v guess work, but upon the American average case-are worth ‘a little 1ess, yajye of thejgoods that is known in the perhaps, than the paper on Which xpited Sates, and; it is capable of Now, I:say, It pejng found out. 't is a matter of posed -to find out, the' fofeign value 1qinig and repairs | Wistea ) | o membership of existed ab | Of the many - privileges | —7.B. REYNOLDS e —— J. B. Reynolds, Former Assistant Sect retary of the Treasury, Favors ‘American Valuation A Feasible Plan i “Thé American valuation plan, in is absolutely possible and also. feasible There is nothing in it that cannot be carried on after a little practice just ag well as the present law, “he idea that it is ‘messfible to piece of , 18 when you. are sup- seems, to me nremscemusst “There_is, pné moré thing to be képt of depreciated currency at the preseny time and to make the manufacturer safe and able to carry on his business under- depreciated currericy, is to put aside'the ‘need for ‘thé manufacturer to. wonder in what, currency the duty will be assessed “on ‘thé‘goods with which he has to compete, and wonder one'day what it is going to be the next. He must have it fixed on the one stable thing in -the financial world, and that is United States money. This is something that does. not change and will not change. And the only way to have stable duties, the only way to have duties that will say ‘what they mean and mean what they say, in the tariff law, is to have a duty that when it depends on.the: value-of the goods it depends upon its Amer- jcan value and not on the value that it has in a foreign country that changes ‘from day . to day and from hour to hour,’ | éxereised, two important. concessk still enjoyed by the inhabitants are exemption from serving on juries and from military service. — Christian Sclence Monitor. | LEGENDS OF TME ESKIMOS tive People Concerning the Sun and Moon, There are many legends of the moon. Almost every ancient people has its‘ | moon story, but that of the Eskimos | is particularly interesting and poeti- cal. It tells how, long ago, hefore there were o sun and a moon in the heavens, | & brother and sister lived alone in an | igloo. One day the brother grievously ill-treated his beautiful sister, who | became so enraged that, picking up | !& flaming brand, she chased him out | of the igloo and into the sky. And ! ever since then she has been chasing | him. She is the sun and he the moon. | Since the first astrologer foretold ! the future, and the first gypsy warned of ‘a “dark stranger,” the full moon | | at the birth of a female child has been ! ! supposed “to- portend” an unfortunate carecr. Upon those male children born at: . the 1 D 8ty 0 Plant That Produces‘Wax. : In the north of Texas there is a vast, wild country 'which is ‘“paved’ with gold” for the erterprising spéculator. ! Here one can' ride overland. for six days without ever being.out:of sight | of the candelilla. plant—a weed from whjch ‘a very high grade of \wax. is from one.to three feet high, and as many as 5000 stems come: from the same root. It flourishes in the poor- est soil, and reproduces itself annual- ly. The cost of labor is-low; and the | supply of material incredibly vast. The j wax is made by boiling-and steaming { the weed. The crude wax is. refined | and used in myking candles, phonp- | graph, redords, polishes, varnfsiies.and | | even linojeum. And from tbe fibrous : i pod quality of phper 1§ tusnéd ontreal - Herald, rfow’ Snake’s Last Meal. " l"nlking through the fields, an ! pithtio weader says, he heard the ter- 1 ific chitping- and- chattering of a Fend J‘(!nrrow, as. though in fear, | He investigated and found a black snake that looked as though it had wallowed an apple. He killed the snake and cut it in two just below the swelling in its body, and shook | out a small sparrow. The bird opened | its mouth to chirp, but couldn’t, and died evidently from suffocation. The gnake which was killed a couple ‘of yards from the bird’s nest measured | about 30 inches. _the. administration ‘of the federal aid Really: Postical Belicfs Held by Primi-' - New Jersey 209 W New Mexico . %2 5 New York . RTINS North Carolina @0 12 North Dakota . TR Ohlo ... s M Oklahoma 59 Oregon . 34 Pennsylvania 16 Rhode Island ... .. 10 | South Carolina . o | Tennessee - Ifyd ghown that there is a meas) | | | WAB MOTORS FOR'ROAD WOR Vehicles Comprise. Virtually All of Surplus' Cars Turned Over by War Department, (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture,) - i More than 27,000 motor vehiclesAnd last have been distributed by the bureau ot | public ronds of the United States Der partment of Agriculture among the | And howling emptiness, various states for road-building pur-' fest poses. Up to Octobet 31 a total of 27,-| The dayx a hell,of dream 198 ‘had been s6- distributed; including 1,800. retained by the Department of i . Agriculture for use on roads in the na- Bits at ‘the window withygold fini tlonal forests and in'connection with et These comprise virtuully. ull the surplus motor vehicles. turned over to, _.thc Department of Agriculture by the Waur department to be distributed un- der the Wadsworth-Kahn, act among the states fé - SOS, or road-building purposes. PEOPLES. STATE. RANK: 0.!\ PINE- These vehicles, consisting mostly of motortrucks, are a part of the war ma- terials originally intended for use. in France. The number of motor vehicles dis- tributed to the states up to Qctober ¢ was as follow Montana Top—Ordnance Truck as Received by . ‘Government. Bottom—T! ‘Same Body as Converted by Arizona Road Department for Highway Work. Nebracka “ % Nevada .. w3 New..Hampshire .... 105 ... 2 South Dakot: Texus Utah Vermont . 106 Virginia 20 ‘Washingtor 57 West Virginia ko Wisconsin i1 20 1303 10 " ROAD MATERIALS re; Making Experiments t: De- w mine Just What Are Best and . Right Proportions. : Experiments to determine just what Kinds of materials are best for con- crete, and in what proportions to mix.| them so that they will wear well-in.a road, are belng made by engineers of the - bureau of public reads, United States Department of Agriculture. An apparatus will be used that conslsts of lieavy steel wheels which, guided by a mechanical arrangement, roll contint- } ously back and forth over the pave- ment. More than forty different sections of concrete pavement, each ten feet long, will be Iald. Materials from many dif- ferent. parts of, the country are -'/‘fi!"’-’ shipped to the government. experimént farm 4t Arlington, Va.. near Washing- ton.. They. will be mixed with vary- ing Guantitles. of cement and.water to determine which is best. K anjotnt. of wear of the surfie concrete road each year. Good Roads in Califorsl- + California, joy% for. mo- tor tourists, Is tos 000,000 more on-its good roads systen. siasm for model highways wonld ex- tend. its roads over. the borders: of | many s, . e Lead in Farm Products. Towa, Texas, Tllinois, Missouri, Kan- sas and Ohlo are smong the first ten states leading In value of farm prod- uets, and are also among the first ten lediders in farm motor vehicle registra- tion. jubscribe for The Datly Ploneer’ A ; | You see a languld river flowing down Through' opulent valleys'to a rainbow !And on a barge on silks and pillows i *# ! You sco your Inddlent, soft body lying, { With maids that flatter as they comb While your wiilte fingers, long and slim 1 see a ballroom with a squeaking jet, And raucous tongues ani SUBSCRIBE Amount of R 3 5 Amount of Reserve required by Jaw i Stdte. of Minnesota, 1ts enthus | § TR THE CHICKEN town; , - but we're afraid _they’ll ' eat «up; much of;: our. iprofif; we' sexfve sighing your gold, And waiters that bring birds on golden dishes, and cold, N Dip in a bowl and toy with golden fishes. year's clothes, aud ‘broken plumes, and debt; g 5 20 . P IIII;III ALERIN SRR BB AR TR A DS EB IR RRNNRRRE I RDDONY, and jeers hoping, The dark a dead world, where ing soul A Eroping " Vamly for goldfish in Abskn - Hermann, H: edorn, IniNew: SRR A FOR THE PIONEER B i —— L too. | 50 enerous portions; Yes, despite the high cost of * foods, materials, .Jabor,, etc. - —we can still give you qual- ity foad, well ‘cooked; neatly. served at moderate -prices. ‘And, that’s “going some!’ - - Bank No..1478 o Statement of the condition-of = WOQD, MINX. of business on_December 31st, RESOURCES - Pasteurized Milk I a Total |fme’'s ! Friicks Antos Vehigs | Harior, dther [ « Alabama 16 Cash_on ) lS c.s ! Arizoua % Cur. . e e R Arkanas . 68 S-“l"" California . 183 Sikvor : s o : IT IS PASTEURIZED Delzware 12 2 Potar ! “SAFEGUARDS YOUR:HEALTH” . ' F ida 6 < - i * Georgia Paid out for expens o e e 1§anna = o of i IT IS CLARIFIED:: ' . 109 e ” > i ‘THE CLEANEST MILK' = 2 Blgmnos v IT-IS STANDARDIZED s Notes rediscount| I8 “ T & - i s e s g ‘UNIFORM QUALITY" . 25| cates for money burfowed). 1,600.00 5 : A i % 87 Dol:’sll({x subject to % 841718 ; " Rt : o El |cashiers ‘chocks 1D 3v0ldl IF.YOU CANNOT BUY: ; W o |Totl immediate ' - Mississippi 0 484 | pyma e erieat Missouri . 06 say|TImO et & K ’s as““rl“d o 411 | Total deposits 3 ao it . famgch b b 7. s o "Tots Milk | G R Eaish e {n FROM YOUR DEALER Telephone: 175 County of Polk, ‘We, Joseph Tagle: Carl Clauson, Cashic B President, and of the above- 1y swear that the to the best of OO LA 1edge -and. beliel H TAGLI IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIHI_[IIIII!IIlII!lIlllllllllllllllljlll_llll!ll!lflmmm!fllllIlll_lllll_. QY Three reasons why. Koors = I A Subseribed ond swo this 6th day of Januw G t 4 fq.‘v (SEAL) O. M. Vi3 ‘ H Notary Public | Polk County, Minn. i My Commission expires_ April 7th, Y L " ” | ;‘Speaking of Women - "RVIN COBB points out that feminine shopping does . not. necessarily imply buying, ' It means hard work for everyone concerned—but seldom resultsin a trand action involving money. As a country minister once declaimed: ‘King Solo- : mon said, and E"ipartially!agree with him . . .” “We only partially agree with-Mr. Cobb on this subject, - .. It.i9true, there.are still some aimless shoppers left. ., /But tHey gre in the minority. Today most women——as * well ‘a8 most men—are well-informed buyers, with. a sound basis for comparing stores and values. By buy- ing goods-of recognized merit they save themselves the throes of ‘old-time “shopping trips” and at the same time get a better and bigger. money’s worth. Most women read the advertisements that appear every-day in their newspapers. They make a.practice \ of keeping strictly up-to-snuff. on. new developments, innovations and improvements. They krow just. where to go for “this” and who in:town keeps “that.” When'they shi)p they generally know just what they want; where toifind it, and how much to pay. Their knowledge saves them. endless trotting, wearisome questioning and'haggling. : The advertisements havz"taken' the “hop” out of shopping. ; Isn’t That Wdrth While? N TTTIITTTT TR T L T (0T (T e E YT T NN L U 0 (L QPO T vE T m L S