Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 2

B st e e PRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1922 +— The —= Scrap Book! HAVE MANY KINDS OF BELIEF Almost Every Denomination Would Seem to Be Represented in Con- gressional Membership. That the churches are well repre- | sénted in both houses of cODETess is evidenced by a statement issued by {2e board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church, which recently made a survey and issued the following statement : Qut of the total of 435 members of | and | congress 24 are non-members, church affiliation of 98 could mot be ascertained. The following are the church affiliations: United Brethren, Mormon, Independ- ent, Mennonite, Dutch Reformed, Evan- gelical have one member each. There are two Universalists. There are three members of the Quaker church and three of the Jewish church, five Uni- tarians, ten Dlisciples, ten Lutherans, 11 Christians, 18 Catholics, 23 Congre- gationalists, 35 Episcopalians, 20 Bap- tists, 56 Presbyterlans and 99 Meth- odlsts. In the senate the survey that out of a total of 96 senators the church affiliations of 23 was unknown ! were non-members. | end only four There was one Protestant Episcopal- fan, one Christian. The Lutherans, Dutch Reformed, Unitarians and Mor- mons all have two members each. There are six Catholics and six Bap- tste, seven Congregationalists, 11 Presbytetians, 12 Episcopalians and 17 Methodists. BTARTING A FAD Mra. Fussbedy: |f you must wear patched trousers while you're doing my werk why don't you use patches that mateh? The Serving Man: Oh, dear me! Didn't you notice? These pants are the very latest. It's the popular camoufiage pattern, copled from the afmy motor lorrl Shows Footprints of Dinosaurs. The department of geology at Mount Holyoke college, in replacing collec- tions lost by fire, has obtained a slab of Connecticut valley sandstone on which are found fossilized mud cracks | and ripple marks of bygone ages, and with them seven footprints made by glant dinosaurs. usually good specimen, measures 12 by G feet. The ripple marks were made in the ooze millions of years ago, when the | region of the present Connecticut val- . ley was a large river bottom, occa- slopally flooded. They are unusually | distinct. The footprints show that at least | two dinoeaurs, one a big one, the oth- er apparently its young, roamed over the mud flats on their hind legs. The larger tracks are about 8 inches long and the indicated stride 4 or 5 feet. ——— Alfleln King's Curious Custom. In Central Africa is a little kingdom ' that has a ferocious king that has an old and curious custom of frightening his subjects, no matter whether they wish to speuk to him or he to them. If one of his subjects wishes to in- terview the king, the subject must cough three times and the king will roar at him and iry to frighten him away. If the subject is unafrald and repeats his cough, he can gain audience with the king, but it he shows the least sign of fear and starts | ®ackward, the king follows him until the man is off and away. Tom Cat “Adopted” Turkeys. An Alberta woman who owns a farm says that she had two turkeys hatched out late ih the summwer, by an old hen. The hen would have nothing to do with the chicks so she brought them up around the door yard. At night she covered the birds up but in the daytime they wandered at will ' A voung tom cat took a fancy to the Jittle turkeys and it was a common sight to sce Tom curled up in tite sun- shine with a turkey on either side of him. Lived Long With Broken Neck. A ten-year-old Walsall, Staffordshive, Eng., schoolboy went {n school regu- larly for tive wgeks ‘with. a broken neck. ‘The Jad, when in a hospital for treatment, made a slight movement which causcd pressure on the spival cord and Instant death. The surgeon said that the boy had been protected by nature's own method of contrace tien of the muscles. t Ancient Legislative Body. } 1t is sald that the “House of Keyx” of the Isle jof Map, which is the faiand’s parliament, Is the most an- elent existing legislative body, as 1t dates back to many years before the Norman conquest. The lnws are sttt promulgated in the Manx lun sartation of Gaelic. e = @ubseribe tor The DAy Pionesr showed ' The slab is an un-| as both sides | have marks of geological interest. It By FRANE 0. LOWDEN, F of the world than matics to feel su “ought to be worth of the 12,000,000 , sooner or later in We know that no commodity wil production, These problems have been met There Is No Nation That Cannot Teach Us Something About Farming The farmer believes in the value of what he pro- | duces and knaws _m t i 3 ,xndmpenwhlv to theaworld it civilization is to go on. When he s value of an unusually large crop is less i bh‘mark(:ts r,z‘ ihgs 'ormer Governor of Illinois. s 'that the total | the value of a small crop, he knows | that something is wrong in our methods of dl:lnbunun He does not need be familigr with hwlur,pmt re” fint 12,000,000 bales of more-than 0000000 bales ; forieack bales will be genuinely serviceable 4 clothing the world. 1 be long produced below the cost of and therefore it ought never be necessary to market any farm commodity below such cost; for if that commodity can be stored and held, I the world will have to pay the cost some day. and solved, in a large measure, in Holland and Denmark and among the fruit growers of California, by the attempt arbitrarily to fix prices. organization of farmer’s co-opcrative societics. They do study the probable demand and attempt to adjust production to meet that demand. These societies do not Tnstead of throwing the entire season’s crop upon the market within kot of any product is in the end best a few short weeks, they provide for orderly marketing of their products. "The tendancy of this is to stabilize the market. And stabilizing the mar- for the consumer and the producer. Tt is never a good thing for anyone when any useful commodity is fluctuations. about farming. CAN DO WONDERS IN CANOE | Eskimes Are Literally Part of the Frall Craft Which They Have Named a “Kayak.” Buill of sealskin, with the fur inside, stretched over a framework. of wood, the Eekimo canoe—called a “kayak” —is only about ten feet long, and often not two feet wide at its widest part, tapering *“to nothing” at both ends. The greatest width of the Kayak is at the middle. Here there | is a combing which slightly rises above the deck. The rest of the deck, save | this hole just large enough to admit | of the passage of the body of a wan, is' covered with sealskin. When the Eskimo goes out in a kayak, he puts on a special sealskin, waterproof shirt over his regular cloth- ing. With very great carc he steps Into the kayak, sliding his feet over the tender bottom until he Is scated on the wooden seat which is only the thickness of the wood above the bot- | tom. Then he draws over the comb- ing the end of his shirt, which tightly fits the combing part of the kayak. Experts of Greenland learn to turn a somersault ib i canoe and come up again on even keel, an exchange states. But the best of the Eskimos of Green- land are not content with merely be- ing able to right the kayak when it overturns. They practice until they are able to. paddle the kayak in snch a way that they shoot ahead on their course even as they turn that danger- ous somersault in the sea. POOR PLACE TO HIDE MONEY I ——— French Peasant Now Convinced That Shotgun Is Unrellable as a Bank of Deposit. The Ingenuity of French peasants in hiding money has surpassed itself In the case of a man pear Lorient who recelved n 1,000 franc note and a 500 franc note in payment for prod- uce. He hid them in the muazles of his double-barreled shotgun, believing that would be the last.place thieves would search for money, He made a mistake, however, in not taking his wite into the secret. A, nelghbor called a few days later, in the absence of the man of the house, and asked for the loan of the gun (o get a hare, The hare escaped and when the pedsant canie In that evening his wife remarked that the neighbor must be a very bad shot. “Why?" the peasaunt asked. “Recanse he used both charges of Your gun on a hare withont hitting it." “My shotgun?” inguired the peasant with a gasp, at the same time making | for the corner where the weapon bung. 'The civil court of the department of Morbihan will have te decide the deli- cate point of law whether the neigh- | hor is responsible for the loss of the | 1,500 francs. Few Slang Phrases Last, The lenfency with which some school | teachers look on the use of slang, as reported in various interviews, may shock those of an age to have secured | thelr idea of correct English fromn the | McGuffey series of readers. It is true that the selections composing thove readers were of an era wherein the language was &t varignce with what is tieard today. It may have been stilted, but it did not corrupt the mind of the pupil. In fact, many persons got from the old. fifth and sixth readers thelr knowledge of“'good IlMterature. There was not a word resembling | Slang in the booke. It is &ue that dang is expressive. While in every other industry we are abreast of the most advauced | | vations—in commerce, in manufacture, in banking and merchurdflmg—- there is not a nation in the world that cannot teach America something sold for less than the cost, for under the inexorable laws of economics cur- tailed production will follow until prices abnormally high are the result. | Any commodity that is produced profitably year after year will in’a long | reries of ycars be produced more chenply than where there are uo'lent That is why it is used. Yet much of | 1t quickly passes out of use because it it overworked. Few ‘words suffer a like fale, though occasionally under stress of circumstances a word of creditable origin is repeated to the puint where it becomes necessary to. diseard it because it is “shopworn.”"— Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Express Dragon Flies. When we come to birds, we find many very high speeds. Nwifts have been known to overtake an airplane | in flight, Their speed has heen calcu- lated to exceed one hundred miles an hour sometimes. The racing pigeon hus on’ several occasions done short Journeys at sixty miles an hour. The golden plover is very .speedy, but his turning, twisting flight makes it diffi- cult’ to time him accurately over any distance. The pheasant, though he does not look a very rapid flier, can do 45 wiles an hour. Among inseets, the most rapid is probably the dragon-fly, who does as rauch as 30 miles an hour in his swift dashes from place to place. The bee is capable of traveling at n speed of 20 miles an hour, and he achieves it by beating his wings more than 600 times a second—sixty beats for every yard he travels. Stamp Profiteering Slow.” The lowest Lilliputians in the whole hierarchy of international finance are probably the stamp peddlers. There is lardly a person who was born on, the other side who is not dabbling in'! some angle of foreign exchange, but, the stamp men seem willing to oper- ate on the most fractional margin of| profit. Up and down the market streets of the Itallan sections they go! evel Saturday night, displaying| stamps that were made in Italy, ‘They offer them to shoppers, generally fol- lowing a boy who sells writing paper. No doubt they are to encourage early replies to letters in which they are inclosed. Occasionally a transaction involving a half-sheet or so of stamps may be seen, so that small amounts of money may also be sent in this way to friends on the other side.—New { ork Sun.’ g The Daily and Weekly Pioneer - | "COUPON New Universities Dictionary | THE NEW UNIVERSITIES DiC Tl()\ RY o | mobile made a sale to a Swedish farm+ | eccur in generation after generation, OLE WAS OBEYING ORDERS First Five Hundred Miles Slowly, Said Agent, and ‘He Intended to Do “ds Directed. ‘The agent of & certaln popular auto- er in a small town near Topeka. In; his instractions to ;the purchaser he said: ‘‘You must he careful,” “Ay skall do dat® 3 ;“Also for the. fi u00 mil n!ust drive slowly—nhot over 15 miles nur;?r you “m burn out' your “Ay do dat, !uo." said Ole. “Your car has two gears, high and| If you want to gd fast put ’er high,:y It you want to go slow, put “Yas, sirpe, you can_bet on me—m ay want to go fast lak evertang ay put heem In high, if ay want to zo slow ay put heem in low. Shure, ay | no.” The next day the nelghbors noticed Ole driving his new car up and down the road in “low.” He kept it up un- til it began to snort and stemn and was developing a terrifie’ knock. “Ole, you mustn't do that, don’t you know you'll ruin your car that way—; ! you'll burn up the bearivgs,” they cau- tioned ‘him, “Ya can’t fool Ole. Da boss who | sold me das ear told ma ay skull uot | drive over faffteen miles hour for 500 miles. He sald to go in hurry put car in high gear, to go slow, lak turtle, | put heem. in low gear. Ay skall nml 500 miles in low gear; get out va,\' quick, ay got 400 miles to go.” The uneighbors argued, expostulated, then laughed, and Ole, with, “Yo skall | al go to h—1” struck out down the | road at 15 miles an hour in low gear. CAUSE OF CANCER UNKNOWN Dread Discase Has Baffled the Best - Efforts of the Medical Fraternity fer Centuries, ' Medical science today knows no more about the cause of cancer than was known 1.000 years ago. Some families seem to be immune. In other fawilies deaths frow cancer | as if to show a hereditary tendency. There are many so-called “cancer houses,” in which deaths from the dis- ease have occurred with such lament- able repetition as to destroy their mar- ket value for-selling or renting. pur- poses. An evil repute attaches to cer- tain well-known “cancer districts,” in which the death rate from this malady is extraordinarily high. There Is one such district in the Berkshives of Mas- | sachusetts, another is in the middle of New York state. One of the many theories regarding the cause of dancer Is that it is at- tributable to an undiscovered germ, carried by the bedbug or some other insect. If that were correct, the dis- ease would surely be more prevalent among the slum-dwelling poor than among well-to-do people who enjoy the benefit of <anzu|ry surroundings. But such is not ‘the case; cancer is as common among the rich as in the tene- ment and poorer quarters of our cities. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. Early English His‘ory. The reason that the Norman - con- quest did not subjugate the English is explained by the fact that “Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Dunes and Normans” were all kindred in race and so they united 'in one race; the Welsh, Irish and Scots were of the Celtic race. The Normans were not Frenchmen in the beginning but pirates from Scundl- navia, who had come to France nnd had been given a tract of land. The& adopted the French language and be- | came in time the most courteous and | noble people in Europe, but when they | won the battle of Hastings, they were | more nearly akin to the English m Anglo-Saxons than to the Krench, al-| though they brought the French lnn- guage to England, and many of their | words were incorporated into the lan- guage. Because of racial differences | the Welsh, Irish and Scotch did oot | unite with the' English as easily, but| the centuries have. obliterated many ! racial characteristics because of many | intermarriages.—St, Louls Globe-Dem- ociat. a How to, Get It l.&hmcmd Mansfacture end Distributien "Coupons soces ths NEW, sutheatic i et e-umeualb-fl'-. ! i supply is almost unlimited, the bank SAFER THAN ANY STEEL VAULT Bank of England Lowers Its Bullion Into Well at Close of Business Each Day. In one sense the Bank of England is the safest bank In the world. Its unique protection is due to an artesi- an well in the bans. This well sup: plies the bank with its water inde- pendently of the. rest of the city; itis|: 400 feet deep ‘and supplies 7,000 cuble feet ‘o2 water an hour. : hed The bullion department, which hoids|- “Is economical the !ngots of precious metal, is nightly ln COSt and use by the action of special machinery. Anyone attempting to the bank, ther 3 Mlmmer and . 23 {58 nj e water is, « way @8 the ts are read- | w5 , 4 However, the water ufl?mroiecta the other departments of the bank. Its akes the Sweetest and most whole~ some foods knows, and its protection s practical- ly absolute when it is used. The bank{ has very delicate machinery arranged ! so that even the lifting of a coin from a pile will release a catch which, in turn, releases a supply of \\ater——De troit News. Too Crowded. . « « So Daniel Boone was now on | his way westward to Missonr], to a| new land of fabled herds and wide| spaces. Waving his last fare-| wells, he floated past the little groups; —till their shouts of good will were; long silenced, and his fleet swung, out | upon the Onio. As Boone salled down the beaulf- ful river which forms the nortbern boundary of Kentucky, old friends and newcomers who had only heard his fame rode from far and near to greet and godspeed him on his way. Some- times he paused for a day with them. Once at least—this was in Cincinnati where he was taking - on supplies— some one asked him why he was leav- | ing the settled country to dare the frontier once more, “Too crowded,” he answered; “I want more elbow-room !"—Constance Lindsay Skinner. Is the largest selling brand in the'world- it never fails rnund can of Calumet contains full 16 oz. Some hakung powders come in 12 oz. cans instead of 16 oz. cans. Be sure you et @ pound when vou went®it Read The Pionger Want Ads [ Think of lt' Better Ford Automoblles Than Ever Better Prices than Ever Before (ALL PRICES F. O. B. DETROIT) Some manufacturers are advertising automobiles at 1913 prices. We cannot do this, because our prices are lower than 1913. We are compelled to advertise new 1922 prices, because we must now establish or set a new low record. FORD AUTOMOBILES ARE LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY! THINK OF IT! Ford vanadium steel CHASSIS, kaown the world over for its durability and performance, at the modest sum of $285.00. Think! Nearly down to the cost of a good bicycle. THINK OF IT! . Ford ROADSTERS, the car that leads the list of economic values, for .. . $319.00 And again we think, when we speak of the wonderful Ford ....... $348.00 TOURING CAR, at a price never equalled . THEN THINK SOME MORE! About closed car values in the delightful FORD COUPE, all complete with self-starter and demountable rims ...... $580.00 And that classy, stylish SEDAN, all complete with self-starter and demountable rims, for................... R $645.00 AND THESE PRICES SIMPLY MEAN THIS— Thatthe sale of FORD AUTOMOBILES is going to be great- er in 1922 than ever before in the history of the nation. “Already, the COUPE and SEDAN orders have come so fast " that the factory is behind in deliveries. The last drop-in the price -of FORD CARS, which was slight, demonstrated beyond any ques- tion of doubt that FORD CARS have hit rock: ‘bottom. We have taken more orders this January than during any previous January. A small deposit with your order now insures delivery of your car when you want it. Come in and ask us questions. We have a world of information to give you. Cc. W. Jewett Go. " TELEPHONE 970 BEMIDJI, MINN. t+ +