Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 16, 1922, Page 15

MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1922 BOgUS PATRIOTS STILL ARE BUSY ! THEY INSIST ON RECOGNITION OF PRINCIPLE OF AMNESTY FOR WAR OFFENDERS. MAKE MARTYRS OF PRISONERS i Something About the Mischievous Work of the Propagandists Who Abused the Right of Free Speech and Ham- | pered Nation’s War Efforts. By EDWARD B. CLARK ‘Washington.—1t 18 said in a state- ment just issued here by members of an organization that is werking to se- cure the release of all war prisoners that the campaign will continue with renewed energy through Lhe aew yeat. A member of an organization whose twork lUes along these lines has said that the President’s Christmas pardons {“wholly failed to recognlze the prin- ciple of amnesty for war oftenses.” Therc is a tireless and ceaseless campaign in progress In the Uaited States tc make it appear to the Amer- ican people that -the men and women who tried in one svay or another .to cripple the United States in fts: war activitles are the real patriots of the land, and that those whe are in prisor are:there almost entirely because of their “super-patriotism,” as' shown by - {their willlnguess to suffer martyrgor in behalf of free speech. ! There are evidences in Washington and the presamption Is that they can be found more fully disclosed thar elsowhere in the letters received by the attorney general’s office, thet the people generally throughout the cour tzy do not understand fully why the men who ‘are in prison for wartime offenses were put there. There is an effort being madc, so salient that it cannof, be overlooked, to make it ap- pear to the people that many of the imprisoned ones are there only ve cause’ they indulged in (helr “constitu- tional rights” of free speech. Right of Free Speech Abused. Free speech in the minds of the apologists for (ke prisoners and for those men and women who never were put in prison but who probabl to have been puy there, includes “free writing.” . During. the war . the activties: of hundreds of :the propa gandists against war manifested them: selves in writing, They were not slow to_put forth arguments sustaining the right of an American to refuse to de- fend his country.” They weére stroug in their efforts in behalf of so-called'con- scientious wbjectors.. They were tire-, less In their efforts to defeat the pur-' poses-of, the draft, and in every way that they could they sought so to crip- ple the eftorts of the military authork ties as to make difficult the prosecu- tion of hostilities and to increase the chances of America's defeat in the fight. > There are, or have been, in Wash- ington, to engage in the work of edu- cating the American people into the. belief that all soldiers fn the late war were criminals, some men who were convicted of sedition or near sedition during.the war and who served prison sentences for their offenses. It must not be supposed that the activities ot these persens are devoted entirely to the cause of those still In prison. Their work in considerable measure Is as! thelr work was in war time, that of radicalizing the land, of creating sym- pathy for forms of government-that have been proved to be impossible and of doing other things which would turn sane democracy into insane anar- chy. They are, generally speaking, a, precious bunch. Making “Conscientious Objectors.” The fact that exemptior: was granted to boua fide conscientlous objectors| was selzed upon, by some of the er- gunizations which did not”want theit country to enter the fight for civiliza. tion, to enter into 8 campaign “to cre- ate conscientious objectors,” or, iz oth. er words, to make it easy. for men who did not want to ught to pretend to consclentious scruples and to- cover their pretense with a camouflage of sincerity sufficient to fool the author- Ities. 1t 1s men and women cut of these various organizationg who did what they could to defeat thelr country in battle, who Gow not only sre trying to get alt their fellows out of. prison, but are trying to induce all Amerlcans to look upon license of specch as free- dom 'of speech, and are trylng in a general way to Russianize the United States.’ | of the earth for a depth of 15 to 20 Jublic, New Year's reception, callea! by the uuregenerate “a free-fot-all” was beld at the White House. The ' news tales of this recention already have been fold, but there ure some things which seem to have interest connected with the Junuary -doings in Waehington and - which apparently have escaped notice. f It always has been the custom o’ Washington for many of the old res- idents to nppear at the public recep- tions - at the White House on New Year's day, even if they never leave | their homes for any other sucial event | during the twelve-month. Sowe of the old ihabitants vather | pride themselves on being able to sy | that they “have shaken ,hands with every Dresident since Jackson's day There are still living one or two | men in Washingzton who saw Geseral | Jackson when he was in the White | House, : | Some of the Old Timers. Phere are in the capital today a con- siderable number of women who as children made the White House more or lesy their playgrouad. The writer, of this was talking early this month with one woman not yet old and al- ways active in good works fo the capital,” who told how as a child and as a daughter of u representative in congress she stood with her moiher ‘a3, n special guest of President and Mrs, Grant while they were receivis the public on New Year's day back in the first administration of the Civil war soldier. This woman still goes to the White House receptions, and . for years has been' the guest of Presidents and their wives. She is Mrs, Frank H. Briges, wife of the marshal of the United States -court of customs appeals and the daughter, of the late Senator Wil- lintn P. Frye of Maine, fucre are in Washington toduy a tew army and navy officers whose com- missions were signed by President James K. Polk, who was in ofifee from 1843 to 1849. It was only a few vears ago that there died here Drigadier | General Rucker whose commission was signed by Andrew Jacksou. General | Rucker's daughter is living in Wash- ington. She is the widow of Gen. Phillp | .. Sheridan. Only a few years ago the writer was talking to a man born in this city who was present, when the re- mains of George Washington were re- moved fromn:one tomb to xnother at Mount Vernon in the year 1832, This man died recently. It is possible al-} ways. to. find some living person in Waghington who can link the remote past;with the present, men who knew | this town when its streets were mud; lanes and its lighting ‘means were tal- tow dips and whale ol lamps. Many Changes in the City. Aen who have been absent from this ! city not longer than‘a dozen or fifteen years do ot recoguize it on their re-| turn save for the’ width of 1ts streets ' nnd for its continued preserce of the, old-fime . public” ‘buildings. - Changes | have come here rapldly. It Is ‘teue ' (lere arc no skyscrapers in the ori nary aceeptance of the meaning ‘o that term, but there are blg commer- cial buildings, big bank buildings, and in addition there is an activity which was almost entirely absent in the elder days when everybody here took things iin a leisurely way and did not’seem Ito care about the pecunlary matters ‘of tomorrow. Today Washington. like other places, seems to be hustling for the mighty dollar. Perhaps the change is for the better and perhaps it Is not. fhe changes that have come to this city within the short time of four years are little else than astounding. War in o way altered the whole face | of the place. Instead of one great freasury department building, today {here are three, for two big permanent structures have been erected for the purpose of housing treasury activities made necessary by the World war. Orie of the new structures is the scene of taxation proceedings, and the other houses the war risk Insurance plant and the veterans' bureau. The navy cdepartment has wmoved from the old state, war and navy building, and Seeretary Denby and As- sistant Secovetary Roosevelt, their staffs oud thelr employees are housed in a new structure not fav. removec from the Pan-American building, Near the new navy building is the munitions building, which covers acres of ground, and in which the War department px- pends a large part of its post-wer en- ergies. The Wonderful Giobe. | Some new data have recently been published by F. W. Clarke, under the auspices of the United States geolog- feal survey, with regard to the cle- ments of which our globe consists so ' far as they are known to us. Oxygen constitutes nearly half (47 per cent) of the lithosphere, that is, the crust POPPIIII000000000r00000000000000000000000000 0000000y -were examined for types of bacteria.” i GET $28,000,000 OUT OF SHIP “January, 1917, off the morth coast of "ing to his own statement in the Su- i by };hmms, which mention kisses by When the writer of this artlclg asked gjigmeters, and wore than 8 per cent one of the propagaudists what they' .¢ ¢he hydrosphere. that ig, the ocesn. | would do if an enemy landed on our Nest to this s eilicon, which is the | ehores, he replied: “We will meet the golig elenient most widely found. Tak- encrles at the seashore, shake hands ipg the three spheres together (alr, with them and ask them to dinmer. \ater ond earth), oxygen represents This will disarm them completely; the apout 50 per cent of them and silicon United States will be safe, and the 25 per cent. Next in order are alum- example of the thing will bring peace jnum (7 per cent), iron (4 per cent), to all the world.” ! calddam (3 per cent), magnesium, This answer gives an insight into the kind of imentality possessed by nbout 90 per cent of the members of the associations that stil: are engaged; in their un-American work. Social Revival in Washington. |- Washlngion in & way is feeling the comtinuing impulse of the New Year. Perhaps it is feeling it more in a social way than in a business way because, so to speak, Washington has! been born again socially within mei last few month H For the first time In nine years | sodfum, and potassium (a little more than 2 per cent each) and hydrogen (less than 1 per .cent).—Scientific American. 1 ‘The Personal Attitude. “Have vou ever tried to show that | nervous constituent that, so far as all fmportant prospects =are concerned, | the country is perfectly safe?” “No,” replied Senator Sorghum. “He is ome. of thosce people who don’t be- | lieve-the country can possibly be safe anliess T get hi n government job.t | Ly - READ THE PIONEER WANT ADS i Almost Catches Fox After 130-Mile Chase Cadlllae, Mich—~A clond of dust—denoting speed-—rose from the hind legs of a pup owned by Heury Keeler of Cadillac. A cloud, no less large or speedy, also rose from the pair of posterior appendages of a fox. The fox was being pursued. Two days later the pup and the fox arrived in Mackinaw City, 150 miles away, where a hunter saw the pursnit and shot the fox. By that time both were walk- ing. i Mr. Keeler's name and address were on the pup’'s collar and the - hunter has premised him the fox-skin ‘when he arrives there 16 clam the footsore and some- what set setter. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004 | s GERMS CAN'T LIVE ON MONEY Test at University of 1ilinois Shows Coins Generally Not Disease Carriers, Urbana, 1L.—Thete seems to'be little | Vasis for the bellef that coins bear | any close relation to the spread of | disease, according to an announcement | made at the University of Ilinois here | by Drs, Charlotte B. Ward aud Fred| W. Tanner, following a series of tests. | “Colns of the lower clcuommnuousf says the report. “It has often been | sfated that money is dangefous, sinco | it 1s handled by all sorts of persons and because it usually moves so auickly from one person to another. Tt has also been stated that cashiers and others whose vocations require them fo handle money in larger quantities than the gverage person might be more sus- | ceptible to disease, but this does not seem 1o be the case. | “It seems that the very metals from which the coins arc made act to de-| stroy the bacteria which reach the coins. In the study only the more re- sistant of bacteria, the spore-forming bacteria, were found. This indicites that money need not be feared, for bacteria cannot live long on It. “These findings, however,. do not' justify holding colns in.the mouth while (he hands are serving other purposes.” 5 Divers Recover Bullion From Lauren-, tic, U-Boat Victim, After Three Years' Work. London.—Nearly $28.000,000 worth of bullion has been recovered from the liner Laurentic, which was supk in| Ireland by.a -German, sabmarige. Operations have been suspended for | the winter, but they will be resumed sgain in the spring, when an effort will he made to recover the remaining $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 worth of bullion which is sald to be still at the bottom of the sea. Great difticulties have been encoun- tered by the. salvage crew, for after| three years’ pounding by the Atlantic swells the linerr has been transformed | into a heap of twisted debris. Her decks, which settled down on the sea botton, cover an area of several hun- dreds of feet. The wreck was prac- tically covered with gravel and silt, as it is in a position which received the full force of the Atlantic gales. This obstruction had to be removed. as far as possible, by powerful pumps placed in position by the divers, as the gold was at the bottom of the kuge mass of wreckage, “LOVE IS A FUNNY THING” Philadeiphian tan’t Sure He Meant It ~Mer Hubby Wants $25,000 Love Baim. 1 i Philadelphia.~“Love is -a fuony thing.” That, at least, is the viewpoint of Clarence G. Smallwood, a real estate broker, formerly of this city, accord- preme court at Mineola, L. L Mr. Smallwood’s sensg of humor dif- fers materially from that of Nels6n Abrams of Oceanside, L. L, who is de- manding $25.000 from Smallwood, al- legiug that the broker has aliepated his wife's affections. Mr, Smallwood admitted (he au- thorship of sundry letters produced “trainloads,” “mountains” and “mil- Ilons,” but added that he guessedl he did oot mean all that he wrote. Mrs, Mabel Abroms, wife of the plaintiff, =aid her husband has sworn ot her and was jealous and put her out when Smallwood had obursed her affer Abrams bad gone to bed, jeaving her {1l and unattended. More Beds for Service Men, Washington. 1. © C.—Government facilitles for the treatment of nearly 6,000 more former s patients will Ye provided hy additiona! beds to be established in hospitals in- 13 states carly this gear, it was annonneed by Director Forhes of the veterans' bureau. | | Woman to Be Executioner. | Waukon, Jowai—When Earl Throst is hanged next March for killing a school teacher, Mrs. Gnnda Martindale, eheriff of Alamakee county, will be the cxecutfoner. It is the first hang- ing during her term f8 eherlff. She eaid sbe would not display any fem- ipnine fears. - LYCURGUS DID NOT “BELONG” Old Gentieman Wrong in Classing Him as One of Seven Wise Men of Greece. The wise men of Greece, whose names and sayings have come down to us from antiquity, bave been distinetly secondary in renown re cently (o the several score wise men of the nations gathered here in the conference on the Nmltation of arma- ents, But the ancient wise men are no. forgotten, Here and there are men seven ! who treasure the sayings which those worthies handed down to us. They are keen on the proper pronnnci of thelr names, nnd know to de- i gree in which Greeian state they lived. One of these geholars came In last week to settle a dispute, says the Waskington Star. Several of his friends, in whom the fine flower of learning had not withered any more than 1t had in him, were disputing about those seven wise men of Greece. “They could ouly think of six,” de- clared the genileman, nodding his white head. “I safd the seventh was Lycurgus. Am I right? The seven wise wmen of Greece, not having figured in the news for a few years, it was no easy task to locate them, But a fat volume finally gave 1hem up—and Lycurgus was not in the lst. Tias, Chilo, Cleobulos, Pittacos, So. | lon. Thales and Periander were the seven wise men. Everybody remem- bers Solon 88 the man who got off ihat Feally tremendous saying “Know thyself.” Cleobulos is credited with a goed ane too. “Avold extremes.” This latter {3 the famous “golden mean” of Epleurns. “And to think [ would have put Lycurgas In that list!” exclalmed the old gentleman, VAST TREASURE WAITS FINDER Hidden Somewhere in the Sudan Desert !s Osman Digna’s Store of Gold and Ivory. In my travels, when a young girl in Egypt and later in the Sudum, in Tsmailta, 1 met with a woman who nhad fled from the Sudan during the war with the British. She was related to the once famous Osman Digna, the mahdi’s genernl and most trusted friend. She related the following, which I transtate: Every vear Osman Digpa used to take 50 Sudanese wen and load them up with ivory, gold and precious stones which the mahdi obtained frow traders from the Congo. He led these men in a march which lasted three days into | the wilds of Khartoumn, to a moun- iain where was his eache. When every- thing was put in safely, they started oft to return, but haltway another trusted man, nawed Mahomoud, met ! Osman. Digna wih o hundred men, who killed everyone of the men used to.carry the valuables, When that deed was done they returned to the mabdi, - waiting for the next year's carusan. Osman Digna consequently was the only man who knew the cache. When | taken prisoner he was offered a large 1 sum of money to couduct a patty to the place but he absolutely refused 1o speak. The last I heard of him he was still lingering in prison-in Cairo nearly blind and insave.~Montreal Family Herald. For Twenty-Seven Cents, An unforeseen interruption of travel occurred on the West side elevated raflroad one morning last week., A short, somewhat stout, middle-aged woman ambling her way to the down- town platform at Ninety-(hird street dropped her purse, as well as her ticket, in the box The son of Erin whose special duty it is to see that tickets are dropped in the box trled to extricate the purse with a wire. He falled and then the woman wanted to try. The ticket. seller was called out. Potential passengers were held up, A crowd collected. Variegated re- marks enlivened the occasion, Final- 1y a mechanfc was summoned. took the top off the box and reco: ered the purse. o Tt contained 27 cenis, Travel had been delayed almost an hour—~New York Sun. Church Treasure Recovered, An Italian ice cream dealer in at. tempting to dispose of a solid silver crogs for $00,000 in Glasgow disclosed the whereabouts of a Thirteenth cen- wury church ornawent worth $500,000 which Jisappeared scveral years 8go from the Church of Borgo Collefa- cato, near Aquila, Italy. The evl- dence presented in court wasg to the effect that the cross was one of the most valuable antiquities of Italy, and was thought to have bheen smuggled out of the country by an art collector. The ice cream vendor's effort to scll it at a $60,000 figure aroused the suspi- clops of an antiquarian because of its greater intrinsic worth. Whe Ttal- ian contended {bat it has been in the possession of his family for genora- tiong, that it bad been lost in the carthquake at Messina and had been recovered by him from the rujus. “Perfect 36” Is No More. ‘The perfect 36 bas! a sartorial correspondent. In the days of her prime, before flappers owned their own cigarettes, she flourished. Now she is gone, forever. In her place is the willowy creature with a figure like a twelve-year-old boy and dresses that are suspended from sharp shoul- ders. 'The fashionable figure now, is smaller than the 86, more undeveloped. The stylish girl accentuates this thin, wispy @DDeATAnce. |3ubscribe for Tne Dally Plonesr.| Subscribe for The Daiyy Ploneer, tion | 2 no more, swrites | FORGOT HIS CAB WAS T:ERE Absentmindedness of Sir Merbert Tree Was a Matter of Some Expense | Durina Year. Mal, Fitzroy ¢ bert Tree’s ey and tells some varns about the famnous actor, who was often abseut- minded. “On ene occasion, on leaving # fhouse, not noting that there was a cab waiting, he hniled another and drawe oft elsewhere, the #irst” driver, who knew his sllowing hehind. After the nest call he hailed a third eah, and so the actor mrived at his theater | leading a lttle procession of eabs, and all three had to be for. “When riding back to London from a country house near town where he had been spending the week-end, he became impaticnt, and gtopped at 2 wayside inn, left his horse there. und hired a dog-cart for the rest of the Journey. . He quite forgot that he had not brought his horse buck to the livery stable where it had its home un- 1il, several days afterward, it was Ted up to the stage door of the Hay- market theater, its owner having been recognized LY the Inukeeper."—kdin- burgh Scotsman. zed Up.” The size of & man's cranium has nothing to do with the size of his head. Truly dig-headed men are usually so modest you have to push them into rheir onors, Often big bones are bestowed by n pitying providence o compensate for the lack of gray matter thelr bigness would suggest. Napoleon was a ‘small man with a bulletshaped head, - Te was dletator- ial and imperative, But then you can forgive such a fellow, when he las the goods. It's the would-be's that try i wen’s souls. Many of the nation’s greatest men have very ordinary-sized heads when measured by their hat bands, In fact, they offer no suggestion of the hig head when viewed from any nngle.— Grit Did - tne B8irds Know? Many beautiful birds are now be- coming so scarce In Australia that the Queensland government has recently turned Brible island into a bird sane- teary. Uardly & bird was to be s on Brible island before, but now it crowded with parrots, parral doves, blue eranes, quails, peewits all Kinds of other birds. which the island n wonderful sight, The transformation of the island oo place in the course of » few week: and Queenslanders are wondering how so many different kinds of birds eame to know of this refuge fn so st flme. ~iud vtoa | ' PAGE SEVEN QTR T S T A T T TR O T TR LTV T UL MEN ARE GOOD EATERS not too 1w o rule, but we're afraid theyll eat up ich of our profit and so enerous portions, ite the high cost of foods, materials, labor, etc. —awe can still give you qual- ity food, well cooked, neatly served at moderate pri And that's “yoing some!” U HITHTUTR T T T T e T T TR DR PR L REFTHTHITHT TR TR U AT DT The l?aily a_n_d \/Yeekly Pioneer “bictonsy - COUBON How to Get It 'For the Mere Neminal Cost of SR Manufacture amd Distributie: : Coupons ' 3 and 8¢ A'Y HE ;Nl:\\ UNIVERSITIES * “TIONARY P USTRATED secures this NEW, authentic Dictionary bound in black seal grain, illustrated with full pages ia color end duotooe. 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