Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 11, 1922, Page 2

. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1922 by National Council of the Boy Sceuts of America.) (Conaucted KEEPS' SCOUTS BUSY By virtue of being kept on the spot * at_ the national capital, Washington scouts find plenty of worthwhile good turns to do. A case in point is the strenuous and important service ren- dered in conmection with the cere- nionial homage to the unknown dead. From the moment the body of the un- -known soldier was transferred from the battleship Olympia to the capitol, to the hour when the last of the Armis- tice day crowd dispersed, the scouts were on duty early and late. On the Wednesday afternoon preceding Armis- tice day they helped keep the line at the capitol in the drizzling rain. The tiext morning a large delegation, con- sisting of two scouts from each troop contributing, acted asa guard of honor . to the boy scout wreath placed ou the bier of the unknown soldier and from noon until far into the evening other scouts were on guard with the marines and pollce, keeping the plaza clear and the great throng moving in orderly pro- cesslon, Early the next morning they /were again up and doing, taking their appomted places along the avenue. "With the passing of the parade, “the -boys fell in with the throngs who focked to Arlington, only to returni ugain fo duty in the afternoon to help P direct the crowd gathered informally ,10 pay Its respects to Mr. Wilson. At the ceremonial itself at Arlington a picked body of scouts participated, headed by Colin H. Livingstone, presi- dent of the Boy Scouts of America, and | accompanied by FHuston Thompson. presldent of the local council, Orville B, Drown, scout commissioner for ‘Washingten and Edward D. Shaw, scout executive. As the wreath was placed upon the bier the scouts, coming to attention, repeated the scout oath and law. Continuing during the whole period of the conference for the con- sideration of the limitation of arma- | ment, 100 sconts will be daily on duty | us pages, arrangemenfs having been made with the superintendent of L s¢hools to excuse them from school at- tendance during the days in which their respective turns to serve come, ; 8COUTS HAVE RADIO STATION Scout Executive I. R. Neibel of St. Paul s, with the aid; of the city. establishing a: wireless station, which will _be officially called the Boy Scout iMunicipal Radio station. The oper: ing room will be in the city audit ifum and the aerial on the roof of the ‘rame building. It will be the most .complete receiving and sending station in the West, It is expected that mes- .sages will carry by radio telephone as ifar as 500 miles and by telegraph |instrument 1,500 miles. The plan Is ito co-operate with troops and cor- imunities throughout the state, mak- ilng weather and crop reports acces- sible to farmers, to transmit by wire- less telephone the municipal concerts, and lectures which arve given in the auditorium. Plans are belng made alro for co-operation with the state forestry department in the reporting ot forest fires. Nixteen enthusiastic _scouts form the charter membership | lof this enterprise and their leader is an experienced scoutmaster who was the chief radio Inspector of the Pa- jcific coast fleet. DISCOVER MOONSHINE PLANT ! While taking a woodland hike, a jeroup of boy scouts of a Virginia city perceived a peculiar odor at thelr camping point. They thought little of 1t at first and went on with their ‘scont activities as scheduled. As time went on the odor remained and two iscouts poking into a thicket of tall weeds digcovered a minlature stfll. The B boys hastened back to town and re- i iported their discovery to the federal }pmhllmiwn officer, who, guided by scouts, went 1o the spot and destroyed :whatever remained of the moonshine jparaphernalia. This particular troop was only chartered September 8, and .slnce that date it has given a valuable service at the county fair, and sue- lcesstully fought « serious forest firo ;which threatened to destroy a negro igettlement. IPLEDGE AID TO U. S. CONFERENCE At a recent rally in Syracuse, N. Y., 'som@ 1,700 scouts, representing Onos- ‘daga council, listened to a stirring speg.gh on the issues at stake in the aisarmament conference, at the close of “"hlch they passed a resolution de- claring their support to the United States government in the efforts to lim- t armament. The resolutioh was prirelessed to President Harding. GOOD TURNS IN BRIEF i _+~7 A San Francisco boy, finding a. man itaken. suddenly ill on the street, took him to a hospital, spending ail the money he possessed in car fare and ‘conséquently having to walk to his own home later, a distance of three miles. ! Some ~ Smithtown, TLong Island, | scouts, scouting the woods and follow- | ing trail marks like regular Indians, finally discovered an octogenarian who had Strayed off from his home and got Social Bloc the By SENATOR W. S. Congress Agricultural Bloc Harmless; Real Menace KENYON of Iowa. nothing more than from the South to that is all there is to the so-called bloe. They dre doing nothing to injure any other industry or interest, not working agains trying to arrive at some satisfacfory action that will a The secretary of agriculture and the secretary of commerce have met with the bloc and talked over various such a terrible thing to do. gone ahead and done things. And what about the other blocs—the lumber men, bankers and other groups that come together naturally their myterests? What has done more ton that any other influence is the social'bloc. The agricultural bloeprevented July, and thus is responsible for legislation duced the war finance corporation legi ures for loaning money to farmers and a: As to the future program of the establishing a system of rural credits with longer term loans. The senators have been derided, because they did not go to the older party leaders and ask: “Please, Mr. Leader, may we pass this little bill for the benefit of agriculture?” Instead, they have The so-called agricultural bloc in congress is in which agriculture is onc of the greatest industries, to talk over the need of the farmers. There is a social bloc in Washington that offers a real menace. Well- meaning men from many states go to congress to acs complish certain things, but they find the tremendous influence of the social bloc too much for them. =~ * I see no particular harm’in the siftillg down to- gether of the senators from the West and the senators , | a Theeting ‘of members from states; ’ talk over agricultural interests, and 4 1y other bloe, but | ssist agriculture. matters and no one dreamed it was when matters come up concerning to influence legislation in Washing- the adjournment of congress last complished since. It pro- slation and the packers’ bill. .. Meas- ting them have beer passed. bloc, it favors a co-operative mar- Xeting bill, placing a practical farmer on the federal reserve board and | ROADS CONSTRUCTED IN 1921 Approximately 28,000 Miles Built Dur- ing Year Just Passed—Ma- terials Lower. | | used in hauling farm products to m (Prepared by the United States Department | ket. According to the report, wh ot Asslculture:) ghows (he tonmage of 11 products Road building has recovered from the setback received ‘during the war, and prospects are bright for the fugure. Approximately 14,000 miles of \road were constructed during the present season by the states in conjumction with federal aid, nccomling to} the Yurean of .publi¢ rouds, United Sates Department of Agriculture, and prob- ably an equal amount independet federu) aid. Moré miles of improved road were built than during any other year. Costs of road grading wml comstruc- tion with local magerials is. down prac- tically to the 1914 level. Some reduc- tions, also, have been madde in freight rates on road materials. The im- portance of this item is shown by the fact thut in some cases it has been es- timated that increased frelght rates have added 10 per cent 1o the cost of | a road. Prices of manufactured road | materials tend downwared; the present level is matertully lower than that of a year ago. With the new appropeiation by con-| gress of $75,000,000, added impesus will be given to new rondl construction. Many of the states are. considening en- | Federal-Aid Road in Western State, Just, Completed. Iarged amounts «f state aid, and the new law will have a tendency to en- courage this policy. It will also secure the construction. of n system of inter- state aud Intercdunty highways, rather | than haphazard selection of roads as | in some cases im the past. Bonds for Good Roads. Pennsylvania has just sold $11,200 000 bonds bearing 4% per cent later-, est—the last of, & $50.000,000 Issue for | road work—for $104.31, which shows, . that, however the market for other bonds may be, there’s a mighty brisk demand for nontaxables, Employ Ex-Soldiers on Roads. Fifty per cent of the men employed on the new highway projects in Min- nesota are ex-service men, according to report received by the American Teglon employment bureau at Min- meapolis. Road Rules in France. Motorists in France have beep giv- en more liberal use of the roads by a decree issued by President Millerand. Tleretofore barnyard stock had the Tight of way along country roads. ! HAUL PRODUCTS TO MARKET Enormous Amount Carried Over Coun. " roads in good { report recentl of wearkets States showing the extent to whicl try Roads Shows Necessity of Better Cendition. of Kkeeping country pdition is shown by 8 compiled by the bureny The uecessity of © Agriculture, they Department ! ship in the tropics knows what a “wa- \l erop estimates, United ! COOL WATER WITHOUT ICE *Old Idea cf “Refrigerator” Has Been Improved Upon by a Michigan Inventor. { Anybody* who has lived on board ter monkey” is. Indeed, the contri- vance is in rather common use on land in hot Iatitudes. It is n receptacle of porous earthenware with a capacity of some gallons, and filled with water is hung up in a shady and breezy place, Thereby- evaporation is encour- aged and- the water s _sufficiently| cooledto be palatable for drinking. {4 wew kind of iceless refrigerator Dased on the same principle is the invention of a Detrolt man. -1t is made! of porous carthenwaredn sections that! fit togetlity, one advuntage of the sec- ‘tional arrangement heing that the af- fair can be handled and moved about WHAT A BLUFF Alice?” “Yes, why?” you talk in your sleep.” dered less fragile. however, by wires running through the walls to serve as re-enforcement. It has a tightly fit- ting cover (with a kuob on top for lifting the latter off) and this cover 13 ye-enforeed by wires in the same way.| electric plant. was waged. 1,700 to 117, i ecattle dalries in every village. “ls your new typewriter named “You always use that name when “Well, she does such poor work that she Is always on my mind.” with less danger of breakage. The Refused to Vote Bonds. materfal of which it is made is ren- Bradford, Pa., voted aguinst bond- ing the city for a municipally owned A vigorous campaign In the election municipal ownership was defeated by a vote of Swiss Have Joint Dairies. Switzerland has many co-operative sociations, besides joint stock { Good Man, Good Citizen. By far the greatest thing a1 man can do for his eity 1s o be a good man, ;‘-_flIIIIIIIlIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIIIllIIIII|||I|I|!IIIIIIIIIII|IIII|IIIIlllllllllWHm'lmll F & man can makea better mouse-trap than his neighbor-- even tho he builds his house in the woods—the world will make a beaten path to his door Sy e PROVIDING he advertises the advantages of the mouse-trap. T [ b e llllll"lllllllv l_lll'_ill’ P Cheap “Kefrigerator.” sections interlock | The cover and the by tongues that fit into grooves, so as to fit tghtly and securely together.| And around the interior of the refriger-! ator run ledges upon which rest wire shelves for the accommodation of arti- cles of tood. i In use, the sections are first im-; . mersed. in water until well saturated. Then they are put together and the refrigérator is placed near a window or in some‘other place where it will be exposed to a. current of air, thereby hauled on country roads, giving the yearly average for the period from 19 to 1919, there were 27 tons of these 11 crops hauled:for every 100 acres of land. The average tonnaze of the 11 crops hauled on country roads each year for the period men- tioned amounted to 8GIGOHM0 -tons. The 11 crops referred to in the report are corn, wheat; oats, harley, rye, rice, flaxseed, cotton (including seed), to- waceo, potatoes and culti ted hay. To Hurry the Zoning. The Chicago zoning act should be put into effect as quickly as possible. Many a beautiful residence neighbor- hood has been ruined by the s croachment of factories, coal and the like and the sooner the city | is zoned the sooner this stupendous loss will be eliminated. t would also be a positive assurance to i man build- ing or buying a home that his property will not loose duetion of low-class fmprovements, and will also tend to stabilize real-| Joans as well as reduee fire . C. Roos in Chieago Daily b “ Once value through the intro- | encouraging evaporation. The moro; | rupid the evaporation the cooler will be the interior of the contrivance. Tol keep the walls wet and thus secure continuous operation of the device, | | narrow ring-shaped troughs that run: around the outside of the refrizerator | ave supplied with water from time to’ time. i sad Home Ownership Best. Aside from “the security which the home owuer enjoys, the possesslon. of his owp ‘home: should be the ambition of evesly man. Naturally the first step is the most difficult, for the purchase of a home means a cash payment that Iy well beyond the,$1,000 mark. it hurdle is taken, however, the { other payments are easy, for they should not exceed, t the outside, §75 a month on the kind of a home the average man can afford. When the | current business dapression, with its | deplorabie unemployment situation, oes by the boards I believe many more A 1ns will see the wisdom of own-{ their own homes and thus increns-| Ing the percentage of our peaple who are free from the clutches of the land-* Jord.——Washington Post, P | A Bemidji, | GARAGES, REPAIR SHOPS, 'ACCESSORY STORES AND HARDWARE STORES:- | By a new ruling of the Ford Motor Co., We are in a position to job 'GENUINE FORD PARTS Get Our Wholesale Prices C. W. Jewett Co., Inc. 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