Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 3

ever-go out finto.a fillflat beet field .on a dawp. chill mommg in sprlng at’ the .-first_crack: of dawn, get out Infant beet plnnts up endlgss ‘row ' and aching back?" Did you ke ‘Then did ‘you' welcome orth . to light tarriéd longer with th cumlng of the chill théy took Four; ] hoe. away- and gave you a‘heavy- knife? “ThHen P were you. reqiested—nay, urged— 5 to gotagain with :the dawn and il |y the beets :now grown. liug and tenacjous and “nsh nife. cut of u Iuckv seen lm-xuzn 0. your nen,h or the next row? < either by scription n - you would have:affected: yo: your. petted and ‘pampered and_spend the day therg thinning next; and ‘so 6n witliont ceasing un- ing - gave dubious. reljet-to hands;"bruised knees and | ‘| day after day for weeks? even ‘though “a melancholy one, when ‘with the' coming of the blis- tering dog’ days. You:were given’a Did: you sutline .the torture -of H nchln back and legs.and blistered palnsiand prostrating heat till with | fmagine ,hO\ steady - weeks. of- such_gruellug tolt| study of the Colorado sitnation. OF| /7 BEET WORKING FATHER ard THE: S AUMAN ASSETS — NUMBER: OF CHILDREN HE HAS DETERMINES HOW MflNY ACRES ME coNTrzAcrs FOR ¢ o \ down ; or nees | one seem- back the ep this up Y a change, the _fields even eartfer, for the.blessed day- bcen put at. it whe! mnlrncl hlmrers children:of the b cnesfourth. we = |age, A small pereen fall rains Lessithan' gne-iftl froi etds’ b s onrieen yenrs ol 3 n it runged !mm nine, you then?{ or fijne sears old ess in which the g of: sugar’ boc(s—nul’ merely | worked:-npine ljou 3 nhor&r, but l\ mone: ,;momh 10.on D \nrshl" with the proc enom;ll o] seventy per pingil by .md fificen years 'rcgulurly engt Anm)mr sormus mT l‘m]eml Childrer’s Bureau king:an Intensive.| 1,077 children included in-this-study pcmds were: obtained b | that tiese conditions Lol enerally vericent were from oue ‘to sevea ¥ears below ‘the normal grade for their .age. ~The trunsient .contract] ehild laborvers © leave schoal <in Maveh,-Aprhor M d it Isioften December or January «before they are buck Insehool agato, if at all. e nore gencral studies of the ational Child Labor Copnhittee in ‘olorado .and Michizan “lndicate thrgughout the -beet-ralsing sec: tions and that little is beipg done to better those conditions.. A farmer whu owns or I s Langl, contracts with“the sugar con ¥ 1o turalsh @ cortain number o g0 which beets are to-be, grown. < {The can pany agrees to supply the linng Ia- hor. -The. company then: contracts, with a laborer to do the work-on a definite-nuniber of aci her of acres. n Iaborer contis < [ port the fanil i m'gmw W.«% ; .rimm out ot achet wty da- | April and| nh& getting: only:goar ; moiths of sohogling& gars not beén'in achool, ‘Whea..these .chfllta ‘are farced Intd Mifi e e raticl AIn ‘Michigen, | witeh has diean: POR. TUE CHILDREN, IMPOSS) BLE] 9. e THE BEET FIELD WHlL SHETENDS THE BAI IFs- 4 NINE PERSONS LIVE \EN THIS ONB QJOMB ? ACK. is slnply contracting the -labor. of his children. , The labor employed [n the beet Melds tn Colorado is practically, all ese, howeyer, do not work' U chlldren ns much as do the Rus- slans. ‘Tlie Russiankchildren often begin work ns early as four or five cars of age. By the tme they are ten or ‘twelte ‘they are considered toughened veterans and able to stand any amount of hard labor. 1t is no .upcommon thing for parents to race with their chlldren to see how much: work they c¢an get out of them, ‘Tlie people with whom the Inves- tigntar tallied sald there were few cases where the work of the chil- dren was really necessary to sup- These Russians rms_gnudoauto 5 of thelr I, nie v wiobiles on (’hc prac ehildven’s “lubor: -| of children they can: bear, gards each child as an asset, and when he becomes the father of an- other:boy he_conslders himself five thousand dollars better off. Thelr women. are valued for the number Almost never do children of these people have to support a widowed mother. The more - children .she has the quicker she Is marvied agalv. If a voung fellow Is lucky enough to marry a widow . with children he is just that much ahead. The State. Superintendent of Schools -of Colorado considers the beet worker one of the most serfous problems, but says she has no pow- cr to handle ‘the situation.” T Denver. school antborities come n direct contact with these workers. I'he Mexichns who' work the heets bring thelr families back to Den- ver for the winter, They congre- gate tn what used to-he the old red liht district. The Bousing condi- % ——s a""‘xi‘ w wack EDGEWOOD Mrs. August Luedtke, Sr., visited Mrs. Ed. Luedtke on Wednesday of last week. "Miss Iva Wright, who- has'béen as- s;stmgA her sister,; Mrs. Harry Vogt since in'‘December, ‘came” home: last week on account of an injury receiv- ed to her wrist. Ihss Bertha Phibbs has gone to Be- midii ¢o remain there for a time. Miss Alice Willet visited Miss-Kate Luedtke on Sunday: hiolds -asocial meeting every two weceks. They :.uemw, ] 4 ,ing. -A good time was njoyed by all. Refreshments wer Missionary- Cummi ri few at xhe school “hotise I"Qn \larger. crowd:wonld have jay - the ;services .the.might >had Tiot been s stormy. - We'hope he may be able t come. again gnd the weather. be more favorable for'a good attendance. William Hanson. "called on Fred held, if ;th pent-the -week- M. school Thursday aftepy Ferris Frost-is at home er a stay. of neariy. a week He expects_to tend schpol:again soon. Leander. ;Hiltz «is at, sehool again | after an absence of two weeks He £i Messrs. L urence Steinbrook and Merle - Swavey.vil Luedtke home caused by:so'many windy days. Harry Vos: has returned to his own home e is able to walk about a little now. WHITE. PINE Mrs. F. C. Alsop was a visitor at the White Pine school last Tuesday |' afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and family were dinner guests at the Alsop home last Sunday’ | Miss Margaret Arno]d visited "at the-C. V Olmstead home Sunday aft. ernoon. Carl Winkler -was called "to ' New Germany, Minn., last week to attend d_ by Mrs. dny eve-’ d at.‘the: Fred uneral ‘of his father, who died | count | quite suddcnly following a" siege 0f manufacture of -] blood. poison. M:ke..leo«.ame F. C. Alsop called at the Matheny to .visit Mr. gnd home\Sunday afternoong, Monday. The, program commijttee: of the| D.'C, Dvoracek, county agent for Whlte Pine “Literary society met - the - home of “Mrs. from.Solwa; evening ‘to hold a farmers this ot bureau; Lovering, Mrs. L. C. Kirkpatrick, M Mrs. Clara’ beel Avho:has been: \\s- and Mrs, Taylor; Bert-Bosshardt-and | iting: relptives near :Debs 181 some Miss ‘Margaret Arnold. time rgturned -to her home. in Bemidji Joseph -Fisher and C. A. Matheny | Tuesday. were Blackduck - callers last Friday. J, Stuhr of .. Minneapolis ;was Skis are becoming. quite fashion- here Monday.- and Tuesday able aroun i here, but then styles are | after his interest here :md to forever.c! mng'm sawmill “Rere, “Mrs.. S, Aarnes called on Mrs. | . Miss “Buelah Sewell V. Olmst‘e':d lagt Thursday aft- |teacher,was a Bemidji vis emoon\ day. 7 “Mr. A. R. Lovering is at:present in Hines doing cprpenter work for Mr: B A—GIJEY The reguhr mpnthly mei 0 the White Pine Literary jso \Mie. A B. Hurd,and {ngant :noh oheld at the schaol.house:last F iday | arrive home fromi Braokings, S. D., weather. only a-smal ‘crowd atten ‘Alina Holmes of Cleu:bmok is v:smrg ‘here with her sister, Mss . [Mabe! ) bers of" Owens-- oevening. but’ owingito the: inclement afl.er & visit there. quotations and ign exce patriotic program which " lu Vance are spending the week g nRious; »o fezm the addtess of thleb we;flmt man on E. Anderson of Bemid, few._days of last week at of ‘his: son, - Frank Anderso ‘her little daughter, Mary. Mre.: Elmer Thursday:‘afternoon ‘at her home “in Tonor -of her mother, Mrs. N. Lar- ool |4on’s ;55th birthday. The following were .guests: Mrs. Lewis. -Larson, ‘Mrs. H, F..Degerness, Mrs. Olson and Mrs. Larson. - Misses Helga olberg “and. Grace "¢ A. Bye entertained the L n spent.: Saturda; Mr: dies” A0 at her Home Thursday. ‘A iarge crowd “of :ladies " :mg alarge sum’was raised-for the Aidi e, r Rev.:Sorenson -of: Shevlin held reli- Amencan Physical ¢ollege. [ gious - services -here Sunday_ in: the Misg' Anna. Wilbprg of - Clearbrook English language and a large crowd arrived ;here ‘Tuesday en route to was present which goes to show that {'Wolf Point, Mont., ‘where she s ém- it is best.to use the language-of . our | ployed. own country for everything. Henry Nassett arrived here Wed- Téd Gleasing and nesday to resume his duties at the ¥ Len weré Bemidji visitors Tuesday. iD. Rundall, gan\ge after spending A birthday party wes given by 'g few months at:Willmer. {he friends and relatives st tne howi | Miss Edna Williams arrived here Saturdey evening for Richard Elliott,|Monday frem Grand Forks, N.-D., to Velma Balmer- and. Adeline Miller. e -‘evening was-spent i games and the ') dancing and a midnight lunch-wus| Miss ‘Fserved and = seyeral presents. were|a guest at the Martin ‘Anderson Home. presented the young people. Misses: Irma - Bartholomew, Jose- W. Hanson home. alls after “a: short |Campball home. E.’H. Reff:left on Samx,dsv via Be-/ rs. Chas. Rock | midji .on o business trip to Gonvick .and Clearbrook. . Madeira’s—-home it came out of ‘the United States navy. tell his, troubles to a naval officer sta- tioued “at’ League fslana “and $oon afterward the ofticer rang the conl rifia' Fureseth left for Chi- muunlte up and satd he thought he [complete Hor course at the | kad & man who could repmir the wreck, visit her Brother Earl, who resides | {he landwriting of their favo fiend read by a graphologist. Neat gna Olson of Clearbrook is | jfttle puckets of musculine notes, curi- ously enough readdressed in a fewi- nine haund, ‘4t the Dr. i The Cess ake high sLhooX basket- Be]trnrm ‘county arrived here Monday |bal! team played the Bailey team in ‘Bagley Friday evening t! Tuesday m the- mtex'est of the Farm {ing 1% to 20, in favor of Bagley. SCORE ONE ‘MORE FOR NAVY Damaged Replica of Old Vessal, It e ‘score be- Is Believed, Can Be Repaircd by .Sailors. i; Percy.C. Madeira, Philadelphin conl magoate, has joined the ranks of those who liave taken up the fad of collect- ing ship models. with ;the nm model he ‘hought, it replica of the American <lipper ship | Southern Cross, was an interesting one, nccording to the New York Sy, This _miniature ship, 30 inches Towd, the coal operator ‘obtained recently through an agent at Nantuckel \vhn congidered, the purchaser lu _gemug a genufne.model at a ru:\fion- Charles Martine, Bennie Nelson ana' able figure. - . The model, with all masts and other ’ spars. in’ place -and with rigging, blocks, boats, etc., as they -shoild be, “was ‘a -handsome plcture: when it was , hacked’ for shipment at Nantucket. Madeira's experience But when the fraglle model reached i Mrs. J. Christenson entertained a packing case mearly wrecked: Tt had nuniber. of - children Tuesday after- ["heen poorly: piacked and roughly han- noon, the occasion being the birthday |“gied en the trip. the mass of broken spars and wreckage Lewis ' entertained |' a1jq safd things about the packer and also tle agent at Nnntuckl ured ~ the model- little ter than matehwood. and -that it ne Mrs, H, K. Rude, Mrs. L. E. 0%1&1&1, repnireqd. Madelra looked at He fig- could be He reckoned, hawever, without the He happened to GET LINE ON HIS CHARACTER, New Fad Among the Girls Is to Have Man Friend’s Handwriting Read by Graphologist. Tlie latest fad of the girls Is to have rite man eived by Diave been R"b"‘ ‘\""" from northern Mich-phine-Nelgon end, Anna ‘Olson: spent { [y gyriting experts, who will tell your ¢} Saturday in *Bemi W. C. Convey and children for International 85 here Tuesday_lookifig. ovi fl'e Stnhr sawmill-here: which e will |- Mrs, buy and mové-it to'the hardwood |left last week B character from a fe linex: Tl characteristic Lof the char- acter Aeidencies of the uns man _upon-whom you are wondering whether:to center your affections or not ave disclosed to you' through novel ‘meuns. “it's ‘o exclting that T gimply can'’t watit tI:L get @ note from every man T this = meet;" confessed one debutante. “One handwriting fortune tellers prefer ‘to have several, Written ag long hntervals apart, submitted as samples. goodness me! clous and stop wri the_graphologiét by Tistake. For reason always’he Prevents As an - and areangement, ay | shown i the.Popilar Mechaifcs Mag. azine, “side” wheets are placed .on n itly displayed at a Ber- Each side wheel is motoreycle rec lin_auto ghow. arranged at qxxcll an _angle. from body ‘as to prevent the machine from skidding or -falling over when turning in_cithier difection,. These wheels also support the motoreycle when not in ¢ glossy shine that T or dust off—that’ ‘on “that Tasts {0 Himmes 58 long s aay.ofher. Black SillStove Polish is fo a ci It's ‘more earelully {xom dtler males ‘nowadays friendships don't uhways dast that long. There urg only two things dangerous to the guwe —one i that tlie man may get suspl- , or, worst of iill, he may got hig owlt euur’fi back from g letter-will.do in a pinch, but most | g % gure to” renove all traces of nge and address from your origingl letter."—Chicago Journul. But this the | Try The New Management Mandarin Cafe ——SECOND STREET— W. H. SHORT, Manager L tional Chila:Labors 5 Aditions are’ very #imilar," & that the nutiondlitses ot erstare. mare diversifl 1 RussiADS Anirlunv lm: wmot ‘wantedibe- | catise :“a (Fankea -can!t-stamd ithe, e “""’“"?i’;f: for tne hean and )| 6 gual r the hedp, ‘;ll:-l:mg Is, ‘éngugh for:the dankie? .An old i wohd-ahed, an || ledneftiont EWQU hau,: lqmm 18- goolt ndoned bamy, & sives partial.ahelter, will; do .One-xoom Al and does. ahanties _tor TN m lx.10.0ine Heanle are com tien they have:-only. -one wlndow. Not:infrequently thexa 1o window. “Ehey:have.absalately no sanitary. facllities, and:thesfitth of $hese shack mwmo.. 4 Yet:each year aées & mi of familles from ‘the Andun ters to' the heet felds, ‘Far Phllmlnh El' 1ngg, “Cinclonath, -Chieage, -Milwas:. kee, Toledo and :8an:, Autonlo;, Tes. : To 1010 the beet laborer in Mich. 1gan -got '$24 an . acre. far Hests planted In -rows:18 toi:23 dnches apatt. and §22 ;an.acre fo¢ beets plant@ain rows. 28 inclies: oAz n Michigan, as In Colotand, fonnd almoat’ Impossible to> entor: the - ~compulsory, . educatiod laws among the migrant beet workars. Ot the families,lavestigated by the Committee’s ngents, ahput mop per. cent of the childran .of scheol age had never attented .scheol: at all, Of those :who' had -attended, most were' far:hehind ghelr. norinal grades or had dropped out of -ehwl long ago without 3rndlulun 1t §s not enopgh to. arow 1llflw hreasts .of the.general: publle plity for these | upfortuninte ..ghlldren. These conditions will ..never...he vighted to.apy conalderable. sxtent until -an appesl. s smcoesafully mnde to an enlightened : selfiintar. est, until- the i American voter. in mass .8 ma@e to realize that the beet sugar Industry is dolng con- siferably' more than its proportion- ate bit to thrust upon the'country a new crop of misfit citizens phys. lcally malformed, nervously abpor. mal, mentally dwarfed and unfit te play their part in ruling the future destinies of.a; demecratic ‘conntrs. It JllllllllfllllllllllIIIlI||II|II||l||IlIIIIIIIIIIllII|I|IIIIlIIIIIIIIIII|l||I!llllllllllllllllllll Secunly State Bank of Benudjs announces important Service change = § For the accommodation of its constantly growing = patronage, the Security State Bank will be open g Saturday until three i’ the afteroon—and also = from scven’ until ai(ht-thirty in the evening. = E = = £ A SECURITY STATE BANK muuummum|umumnu|||||u||uumumm|||u|uu|||||||||mm|||||m|m :r Our Serv:ce Under respect. faorls well lound here. and will be appreciated. DAILY I’IUNEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS American'and Chinese Dishes Expert chefs have been secured and the cafe will be first ¢lass in eveéry Clean and properly propared servad and courtecus Your trade is solicited