Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 16, 1922, Page 12

WAR SUPPLIES FOR HIGHWAYS 80 Far Approximately $150,000,000 Worth of Surplus Material Hae Been Distributed, % (Propared by the United States Department by OI'M:MMR\‘IN.)” Approximately $160,000,000 worth 6f surplus war materials, turned over by the .War_ department to-the Depart- wment of Agriculture, ‘were distributed through the'bureau of public roads'to the various states for road-building purposes up to November 1 last, . Under the Wadgworth-Kahn-bill this surplus war material is sent to-the states with the :sole provision that it be used only for road-building: pur- poses. ‘A vast accumulation of ma- chinery, equipment, supplies and mo- tor vehicles that was to have been : DEADLY N | Whole Districts Wi | olent Doctrine” ‘Calling - for | Blood ‘for~ !lv-d; ! ; —_— | Long years ago, one ;u& Payeye's an-| ! gestors had .committed murder. Mur- der in New Guinea is not a crime. On { the contrary, & man is not considercd a man until he has:shed human blood He must kill somelody, be it a strong man or a decrepit old woman or a Iit- right to wear the: feather lcaddress, and until he has that mark of mun- hood he may not marry, Merlin Moore Taylor writes. in Asia Magazine. in a village perched on a mountain peak, had ambushed a citizen of a Vil- lage on a ueighboring .peak, and dis- patched him with a elub. That night { there was a great feast at Payeye’s | village, And while the. body of the | victim was betng skinned and the roast- ing stones were belng made hot.strong- lunged men shouted the achievement of Payeye's ancestor from the tiptop used in France has thus been diverted | ;¢ ¢heir peak. e S to a useful peace-time purpose, - i The relatives:of the dead man, ytung Included in' the supplies distributed | by the taunts, plotted revenge. "'he among the states are 27,198 motor | murder was a stain upon their pride vehicles, mostly trucks; 172 locomo- tives of various sizes; 25,000 ‘gross, ,—not because it was a murder, -but be- cause, as they kmew, the dead man's tons of rails; more than 4,500,000 bones would be thrown:to the mongrel pounds of powder; and nearly 10,000 | dogs - that infestéd the village. - That tons of TNT, - A compllation showing total deliv- stain could be wiped out only by the shedding of more blood. . The victim's erles of war material to the various ; Felatives did not know just who had states up to July 1, last, places the | committed the crime, put there. could value of machinery, equipment and | supplies so delivered at $30,648,779; of | motor - vehicles, $74,730,568; and of spare parts, at $11,731,424¢. The total | value of deliveries to the states up ta | that date was $117,110,771. That fig- | ure did not include material to the value of approximately $11,000,000, | which was retained by the Department | of Agriculture, largely for forest road Army su:tlenfl Bridge Erccted Over | Davidson “River, Pisgah National Park. . i which is not done by the states, ! , it i3 believed that the states have | received, In; addition ‘to the amount! above -mentioned, approximately $5,- 000,000 worth of material shipped by the War department from the varlons | army camps and not reported by the stales as dellvered. " The value of deliveries of surplus | war materlal for road-building pur- poses to the states Is in detail as fol- | lows: Alabama Arlzona Arlinsas 2,025,000 California. . 2,687,500 | Colorado . 040 | Connecticut 43,000 Delaware .. 412500 | Ylorida 1,453,900 Georgia 4,271,600 Idaho 3474000 6,462,000 ggEgEs Maryland Massachusetts . Michigan . Minnesota . Mississippi . Missourt. . Montana . Nebraska Nevada .. . New Hampshire New Jders, New Mexico New York North Carolin: North Dakot: 2,112,000 1362000 i Rhode Island, Houth Carolin: Bouth Dakot: Vermont ... Virginia Wiishington -. . West i Wisuansin Wyoming Total .. + «“Said It with Milk.” ! ! . Last year I started golng with a farmer boy wlose motto was not “Say | it ‘with flowers, candy or music” In- | stead, it seemed to be, ““ay it with' milk.” Fresh milk was very hard to ! ‘get' in the town- where ‘we lived, ‘so | every time. that he came to see me he would bring two mason fruit.jars full of milk and present them to me | with @ grin from -enr to ear. It was i all right, until some of wy friends | found it our and began to tease me | about it This was more than I could stand, bt we surely. (Bd- miss the | #eUk.—Chlcago Journal, 250 | and one day. ; bureau of standards. | fucludes such essentlal parts as' a be no doubt sbout the village he hailed from, so they directed their “pay-back’ agalnst the village. That was all very mapy years 2go. For generatlons, the epmity had per- sisted, until by the time Payeye was fifteen there was only a handful left in his village. Since they were no longer able to withstand their euemies, the villagers ' scattered to nelghboring, friendly villages, leaving 'their own | thatched huts and’ bamboo barricades to rot and fall. to.pieces. 'The ex- plorer in New Guinea comes upon | traces of countless villages that have heen wiped out, like Payeye's village, | by long and relentless”feuds. Of his own immediate family, Pay- eye was the sole survivor. He had no Tather or older brotherto counsel him . and to initiate him fnto the dutles of manhood. So far as he knew, he hud only one blood-relation‘in the world— | his mother’s brother, Fornler, the vil- | inc far-off lage constable at Raral, Mekeo. Thither he made his way, and | there we found him, Would Charge Calendar. Next April the Astronomical union 1s to meet In Rome to discuss calendar reform.’ The leader of the French del- egation to 'the .meeting, With support from England, will,” among other things, propose a scheme by which the first of January shall always fall upon a Monday, with corresponding uni- formity for every day throughout the year. Three hundred.and sixty-five Qivided by seven gives the 52 weeks of the year If that day, at present u troublesome disturber, were assigned a new name (Jour de la Paix, ‘lts ¥rench sponsors have proposed), and no longer allowed to be Sunday, Mon- day or any other day of an ordinary week, the beginning of the mext year could = place always on the same day v the week. In leap year the 29th of ‘Fiaruary would also have to stand outside the week. In the matter of bills it would be | o great convenience if Interpational agreement were obtained, as maturing periods could be of even leugth, avold- ing Sunday.—Christian Science Monl- tor. Miniature Paper Mill. An. Americau-butlt . “paper - mil, shipped to the Siamese government for esperimental purposes, according 1o an illustrated article in the Popular Mechanics Magazine, is one of the st complete mills ever bullt, Though of small size, being only 50 feet long, 1t is. equipped for. the manufacture of all kinds', of ‘writing and *printing papers, and Is patterned after the ex- perimental mill of the United States The shiprent Tourdrinler sleve, 43 inches wide and 4% feet long, - two -300-pound . wood- tuhe heaters, a small ‘engine; a €00~ | pound’rotary beater, & cslindép duster; sereen, shegt cutter, and bleaching !;.mnr, besides all fittings .and acces- 00 gories. o Out of the Mouths of Babes. Afew days dgo a leading business man of Jeffersonville, an active Ro tarlan and widely popular, as well as a most ferocicus basketball bug, which makes him popular also’ with the boysy went into a barber shop for a shave, relates the Indianapolls News. He was in the chalr and in a lather when a + little miss; of three stepped In' with her mother to lave her hale bobbed. She looked fnstantly ‘at- the ‘barber's subject and her countenance registered | first surprise, then horroi* and then dis- | ust. 01 " “Qh, mamma, look at’ that ugly|f man!” she exclaimed. Woman Students in: Prussia. During the winter semester, 1020- 1921, there: were 6,137 women study- ing {0 Prussian universities’ as against 1,680 in the winter' semester of 190S- 1000, Medicine. geems ‘to” be an es. pecially attractive subject since the war. ‘The extension of general culture wag given us, the maln yeason for study 12 years ago. There arve how definite goals™ of 4 professional nature. Ttis interesting fo note ‘that the mechanics and doy labofers’:clnsses ure’furnish- ing un - ever-inereasiug - number of womern students, ‘ d Out by the An- tle helpless child before he obtains the | EW GUINEA FEUDS BENEFIT OF “LIGHT BATHS”| Rheumatism. and Neuritis - Yield to Treatment in Which Purple Rays Play Big Part. The usefulness of “sun baths™ for health has long been récognized. Un- . limited sunshine has much to do with { the benel effect of a vaeation at the seagho . Nowadays this roatter is better un- derstood than it nsed to be, and it is known that the heat rays of the sun have nothing to do with the phy 1 | benefit obtained from such exposure. It Is the chemical ra in the sun- beam—pnrticularly the ultra-violet Well, Payeye's ancestor, who lived rays—that do the good work. Electric light is rich in these rays, and mavy cures of rheumatism and neuritis have been accomplished by exposing the affected part of the body (to a powerful incandescent lumnp. its !rays concentrated by a hemispheri | reflector. For curative purpe i sicians have turned to useful la sort of cabinet lined with jon a padded board, could be sHd. ‘'he newest method cmploys a Iquartz lamp contsining wercury va- | por, through which the eleetrie_eur- {rent Is passed. Quartz has tlie advan- Itage of heing cxtraordinavily trans- parent to ultra-violet rays. Sueh a lamp, made in the ia tube of small dinmeter, can be fu- {troduced into the nasal passages for the treatment of catarrh or into the throat for the cure of infected tonsil thus saving the p: | —Philadelphia Ledg hape of | DON'T FAVOR WEDDING RINGS ! !Men Dislike Them, but Most Women i Insist on the Gold Symbols { of Matrimony. * “When T marry, [ won't insist on my i {husband wearing a wedding. ring, as | people miglit think he was henpecked.” | sald a pretty miss to a friend re- cently, . According to a jeweler, 80 lout of 100 brides do insist, however, says the Milwaukee Journal, “During the month, of May most of rings. .Occasionally the young man, after selecting a ring for the s the clerk that he doesn’t want for himself. i » girl will look at him quickl ¥: ‘Oh, yes, you do, John de iand he buys one. cases a plain gold band Is selected, but have been sold.” This, of course, does not prove that men wear the rings. A ceriain young hoine, 1t is again slipped on bis finger. In this way both wife and hubby are perfectly satisfled. {lamps, into which the potient, lying | icnt an eperation. | the newly engaged drop in for their i In the majority of ! | man, on leaving the house in the morn- | ing, places his ring in his vest pocket. | Wlen leaving the car, on retwning Intely a few carved and engraved rings Man Who Will Lead Ascent of Mount Everest Lifts Persons in Chairs at Arm's Length. London.—Brig. Gen. Charles Grane ville Bruce. who has accepted the lendership of next year’s ascent of Mount Everest, is a man of remarkable strength. e was shot through hoth icgs In Gallipoli. His personal prowes: he could at one tin at. arm's length @ full-grown per- son sitting in a chair. His passion hag always been mountaineering. A False Start, It was the seventeenth round, two pugilists looked like drowned rats. T'he referce held up his hand. “Them last rounds don’t count!” he announced, hoarsel “The fight wil} have to start all over again!” A low growl ran through the vast was such that raise and hold assembly. “What's the trouble?” roared an in- dividual in the tenth row. . “The trouble . Is,” explained | the referce, “that the moving-picture marn |3 has struc bad spot in his film, the pictures are no good, Are you ready up there, professor? All rightt Shake hands, bo; On my right we have—" FATHER TIME —in passing, will take you our New Year Greetings and an invitation to call here of- ten during 1922 We suggest that you make a New Year's resolution ‘to induce all your friends. to come to us and sit for - HIGH-CLASS Photographs early in the New Year, An- other year may reveal many vacan: cies in our cir- cles of friends. Then such ar- tistically fin- ished, natural Portraits will be cherished. Make an .ap- pointment for vour Photo- graphs here this week. 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