Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 11, 1922, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Laugh With Us— Not At Us— More Puposky News A short time ago “Raseberry Bill” sent in a dispateh from Puposky which evidently drew wide attention in that thriving town. Herewith is a dispatch from one of “Raseberry’s” friends, at least we judge he is a friend: “The mystery now is: Is Raspberry Bill, married or is he not? A pong elaborately furnished with hay drawn by the fastest of steeds and driven by G. P. and R. H. drove up to the M. | home and rode away with the two fair young girls, F. ang I. And as near as the citizens could figure out the picked bunch was headed for a wedding banquet at the home of his long intended bride. And as the young gentlemen dashed down the main street of Puposky they were very circumspective, and the young giris’ faces were very highly divers-coi- ored. Simultaneously the four young folks seemed hapny. Is Puposky on he map? I'il say it is. Hoping Biil a Iong happy life.”—Snuse Pouch Jim. That ought to be enough from Puposky for quite a while. —So We'll End It— Hard to Understand A reader of this column wants to know how it is that there are frogs in | the wor'd, despite the fact that on'y two were supposed to have heen ¢ ried on the ark. He states that always understgnd hat the tw on the ark croaked. As far as we can figure 3 re it out, Noah might have had a bud eold and | had a couple in his tiroat. —They Saved the Day-— Not Hard to Believa A fellow who is in a position t= know what he is talking about states that the only similarity be*ween elee- tricity and women is the fact that those'v{ho are best acquainted with | electricity admit that they do not understand it. —You Know the Qest - Helpless Hints Since you know that a doctor can’t do well when you’re well, you shou'd not expect him to fecel bad just be- cause you do. —He Won’t Anyway— No Harm in Accepting “France Accepts Curb on Undersea Warfare,” reads a headline in a re- cent Minncapolis Tribune. That may be all right, but most any woman sutomobilist will tell vou how easy it is to go over the curb. —She Will If She Wants To— Got in the Wrong Coop The United States Department of Agriculture says you should provide artificial light for chickens and they will eat more and lay longer. Judging from what we know of girls’ appe- tites and the time they get to the office in the morning we're led to be- licve that the department of agricul- ture experiviented with the wrong kind of “chickens.” —The Symptoms Are the Same— Perfectly Neutral The old saying is that what a fel- low doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him. And then, you might add to that saying that what a’ felilow doesn't know won’t do him any good. —That’s a Certainty— You Can’t Blame Them With so many schemes being offer- ed to make people live until they’re at least 100 years old, it’s no wonder that the flo: are trying hard to get the men to wear a flower in the lapel of their coats again. —Better Now Than Never— BOY SCOUT STATUE FOR FOCH ! of Pershing's army. LEGION MEN KNOW HER WELL “Ma” Burdick, Famous for Doughnute and Pies, Still Trying to Serve | World War Boys. | “As we tried to serve the boys whllel under shell fire, so we are trying to; meet their nee: of today,” Mrs. Ensign F. Burdlick of the Salvation Army. recently elected national chaplain of the American Legion auxiliary That Mrs. Bur- dick . did serve “the boys under shell fire,” thou- ands of the A, “Ma” Burdick to’ the men, ner dough- nuts and ples were known to the last Mrs. Burdick, who is sixty years old but doesn’t show it, arrived in France 1o December, 1917, with “Pa,” her hus- baud. With a stove which Mr. Bur- also an ensign of the Salvation rigged up, and a sewing ma- e which she found and repaired,! “Ma” cooked for the boys as they came from the lines, mended their clothes and made new ones out of salvaged material, i “Ma” and “Pa” were godparents of the Iirst division, and from Decem- ber of 1917 until the armistice M Burdick baked her ples and made h doughnuts in every sector of the west-| ern front, as close up to the fighting | lines as they would allow her. The war over, the couple were transferred to Brest, where they ministered to the | soldiers until they sailed for home in April, 1919, Mrs, Burdick, a resident of Wichita | Falls, Tex., is in charge of. hospital | rellet work for dlsabled ex-service' men for the Legion auxiliary of Texas | in addition to her dutles as natlonal chaplain and ensign of the army hosts. ACTRESS HEAD OF AUXILIARY Miss Thais Magrane Is Elected Presi- dent of the New York State Organization. A tribute to the stage and to those nctors and actresses who gave freely of their time and talents to keep wen happy during the war was pald by the American Leglon of New York In the elec- tion of Miss Thals Magrane as presi- dent of its state women's auxili- ary. With her broth- er in actlve serv- £ ice In the navy, ) | Miss Magrane spent, little of her time behind Manhattan's footlights and, most of it with sick and wounded sol- | diers returned from France and qum'-' tered in Polyclinic hospital. She lnh'ri assisted in the organization of the | auxiliary of S. Ruankin Drew post of the Legion, composed of Broadway's actors, writers and producers who were in service. Miss Magrane I8 a native of St Louis, Mo, She was “discovered” while playing in a stock company in Leos ! Angeles. She played -the title role in “Everywoman,” and her engagements have included the leading st ations which have tourcd the MARQUIS CURZON REACHES SIXTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY | (By United Press) London, Jan. 11.——Marquis Curzon | of Kedleston, British foreign. minister, | | colebrates his sixty-third birthday to- day, and received the’congratulations | of the diplomatic cor - | trained to statecraft almasifrom the Boy Scouts Have ‘Beén: Paying :Hom- age to Marsha!l Foch and Presenting Him With Various® Gifts; Among Which Are a Tait Makenzie Boy Scout Statue in Bronze, Presented By Lorillard Spencer, Scout. Com- missioner of Manhattan, in Behalf of the Scouts, and a Geruine Indian Pipe of Peéace and a_ War Club, | Given in Behalf of the Scouts By ' Remington Schuyler of New Ro- chelle. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING-RESULTS and is t cxpert on foreign affairs, cradle | greal haughty and. pompous bearing, he | personal standpoint, but-is widely re- | spected and trusted. ! FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO (Ry Unifed Press) | _ Washington, Jan. 11 (By James T. | Kolpert) .~—All the powers of the fed- | eral government will be used to force down prices and punish profiteers by jail sentences and fines, under the order issued by President Harding and his cabinet today. k- or- | Curzon was | probably England’s | especially as regards the Dast. Of} is not particularly ponular from the: PUNISH ALL PROFITEERS_ SCIENTIFIC ROAD BUILDINGI Test Being Made in lllinois to De- termine What Pavement Can Be Used on Highways. (Prepafed by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Some time within the next few months a new road 2% miles long is to be broken up in what is probably the most extensive study of road service ever undertaken in the United States. The road is located in Illinois, about 12 miles southwest of Springtield, and parallels the Wabsh railroad. In the test road there are no curves. The grades vary from zero to four-tenths'of 1 per cent, with an average grade of one-tenth of 1 per cent, the maximum and minimum grades extending. over very short distances, The subgrade soil is uniformly a brown silt loam, except for two small stretches where it more nearly ‘approaches gumbo. '[here ure seven gencral types of pav- ing in the road, the idea belng to have represented the chief materials used in road making, so that engineers may study the effect of known and measyred traflic of v: ng degree upon h kind of road. The seven-types Portland cement concrete. Three and four inch lug brick con- structed monolithic and with a Port- land cement concrete base. Three and four inch lug brick cons structed semimonolithic and with a Portland cement concrete base. Three and four inch bituminous filled lug and lugless brick on Portland ce- ment. concrete buse. ‘Three and four inch bituminous filled lug and lugless brick on macadam base. Asphaltic concrete with and without binder course on macadam base. The road, known as the Bates ex- perimental road, was constructed by the division of highways, Illinois de-- partment of public works and bulld- ings, in co-operation with the bureau | ot public ronds, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture. Actual work was Instrument Set Up for Obtaining In- formation on Deflection of Pavement, | Showing Method of Loading Ames Dial and Apparatus for Receding Pressure Cells. begun on the road in June, 1920, and it was finished some time ago. Since its completion the state and federal governient engineers, by nuniel daily observations, have been measur- ing the effect of heat, cold, moisture, and other elements upon its surface and on the subgrade. "These observa- tions have been taken on 63 sections, and much information has been ob- tained which will be valuable fo build- ing roads in the future. 'his information is of the utmost value. Knowing the conditions of GWAN! \» BiG WPPOPOTAMUS ! BEFORE t GIT AW PEEVED LP AN' KNOCK MER TEETH DOWN UER GOZTLE ONE MORE WKE THAT 'N | GIY traffic which are to be met, It will af- ford 2 means by which a proper paving can be selected to meet those con- ditions. It may lead to the saving of millions of dollars each year by pre- venting the construction of pavements that are found to he incapable of re- sisting modern traffie, Why some types of pavement fail and ‘others hold up will be largely determined by the test. Why a road- way eracks also-is being studied. - At | Qifferent times each section is observed i and all cracks noted. In addition, a . constderable number of cracks have been measured by a micrometer. A group of scouts and scout offi- s, representatives of the National T Geographic = society and newspaper men from Atlanta and other Georgia " towns went on an exploring expedi- tion past November into the hitherto uncharted Okefenokee swamps to Investigate its wild life. 1 . dubscrite for The Dally Pioneer. | !EXPLORE UNCHARTED SWAMPS { { | By Charles Sughroe @ Wegtern Newpapes Union PRETTY AND HARMLESS BOMB Device Would Seem to Be a Decided Improvement on the Old-Fash- ioned Firecracker, A toy bomb that really explodes is. the novel idea of Louis F. Duck of De Kalb, Iil. sters’ use, and exciting. It is quite safe for young- The plaything is of wood. The body of the bomb is spherical, but with a neck into which a plug fits. from the plug extends a little rod which passes through a disk, and upon the rod, above the disk, a rubber head fits. Upward The head is shaped like a cork, with a hale through it to admit the rod, and it carries three feathers. Two or three paper caps are put In the bottom of the hole in the bomb Pleasing and Harmless. body, Then the plug is pushed into " the hole so that its lower end shall be in eontact with the caps. The rubber Dead that earries the feathers Is stuck on the upper end of the rod and the bemb is ready for use. The way to use it is to throw It up jnto the air, or drop It from a height upon a hard pavement. The shock of she fmpact explodes the caps with a loud report, the force of the explosion serving to throw the feather-headed plug up into the air. The plug goes up with the feathers downward, but reverses and descends to the ground with a whirling motion, cansed by the feathers, that is alto- gether del:ghtful—Fhiladelphia Led- ger. ¢ —_— SCOUTS DEDICATE TABLET Scouts of the Wheeling-Moundsville district, West Virginia, dedicated on Armistice day a handsome bronze tab- let in memory of “The men and wom- en who served under the Stars and Stripes in the World war.” The scouts carned the money by their own efforts, not a cent of the necessary funds be- ing solicited from other people. The dedication was conducted jointly by the scouts and Wheeling Post, No, 1, of the Legion, - but what will make you feel better. WHY DID “THAT DENY ™! BRICK MADE IN |partmgnt expects him to do and the t]hini;s‘ that the pefiple expect him ):o 9! ] do. I don’t mean that a man can’t be CAN T BE ACHRISTIAN honest and be a policeman,” Brown s said. “But there are so many things (By United Press) a policeman has to do that don’t Marion, O., Jan. 11.—*1 don’t hold ' square with my new-born conscience. anything against the Marion police I don’t think it’s right to arrest a force, but I don’t think a man can be ; man unless you think ii’s right. a good Christian and be a policeman | . ‘Yes, there is no doubt that today anywhere.” if Jesus Christ came back and said Roy D. Brown, who made that dec- ‘he was the Savior he would be ar- laration, resigned from the Marion ' Yested and thrown into prison; no police force after he became convert-, more. policing work for me, | ed in a revival conducted at the Holy | Since quitting the force Brown has Nazerene church here. been unable to secure work, but he is} “Dve got to do it,” Brown told' confident that he will not be without! Police Chief James W. Thompson. “I work long. “Any man who is willing am just following the dictates of the © do an honest day’s toil for an hon- Lord and want to be square with ¢ :Iays wage ought not to have to Him and my fellow Christian work- He ers.’ Brown servad as an uptown patrol- man from February to December. He served in the World ‘war and came to this city at the close of the war. He is 30, married and has one child, a girl of 4. “No, no man can be a good Chris- tian and serve on a police force and do the things that the head of the de- DECLARES POLICEMAN $50 A WEEK Or more, is a normal salary for i a barber working in a normally =2 well located shop. If you are not earning near this amount now, the barber trade should interest you. Our enlarged location with- hew equipment and facilities offers you the best accommodations to learn a profitable trade. New catalog - just off the press. Write for'a free copy today. TWIN CITY BARBER COLLEGE : 204 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis. e et et Qubaprihe fur Tha Daflv Pionaer, AMES i a great ter =t imprisoned § scores of persons in the apartments |} above. The Fire-chief ordered a hose played on the blaze. His men jumped to obey. Their wagon was empty. The hose was miss- § | A missing word ie.a missing tool.” The man who can’t express his thoughts can’t convey his ideas. If you don’t know words, and how to use them, you are as bad off in business: or so- ciety as a fireman at a fire withont a hose. What chance would you stand ageinst the fires of § competition if you could ueirher write nor § F¥ bl speak? i i 3 f‘r ¥4 You must keep apace with the language to keep -./r' 7 up with the world. Education today is pro- kY NE TS gressive—not confined to yesterday’s language S and activities. War and new discoveries have or brought into general and proper ase so many N new words that all dictionaries published bex fore this one are wholly out of date. 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