Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 4

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY ‘THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY Pttt G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Secy-Mgt. ... D. WINTER, News Editor z TELEPHONE 922-923 : Ttered at the Postoffice at Bemidl], & ta, 1 Mhroh 3, 1879, 111 it P e e e e —— MEMBER, NATIONAL. EDITORIAL . ASSOCIATION Forelgn Advertising Eepresentatives 5. © Thels'Co.. Chicago, Jit, and New: Yorl, N, ¥. No attention pald to anonymous contributions, Writér's name must be known to the editor, but not waruy for publication. Communjcations for the reekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each Week to insure publication in the cure ‘rent 1ssue. i . 3 Y SUBSORIFTION BATES By Mald One Year wuuvssessev.§5.00 5ix Months weecvsree 3,60 Three Months o...... 1.38 & THR WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve rcel. published FXF’{..““""" and sent postage pald to any address advance, $2.00. proSiSme, SO 1a lven, thiz pepers S, on 7 el Dows dispatches. creditea to it, or otherwise ted, and also the local news published herein. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY —r—— REVISE THE WOOD RATES d £ Deftite action by the Minnesota Railroad and i Warehouse commission in revising the present high i rates for the transportation of fuel timber can not | % come a second, too soon. To serve the needs of this .} part of the state there must be' a, sharp reduction } in these freight costs. 2 ; The time that these rates are needed is Tight now. Had they been in effect this winter a means of employment would have been provided man‘i farmers whose axes now are kept dull because they know they can not handle the fire wood at a, profit. 1t is a little difficult to understand the attitude of the railroads in reference to the problem. With- . out cxception, the transportation companies -have jndicated a desire to co-operate to the fullest ex- . tent in any movement that will tend to clear up our lands and get them to work as profitable farms, which, of course, would mean more population, | more goods to carry, more crops to haul. In many ways the railroads have taken an active and, of course, important part in the development work now going on here. So it seems more a case of negligence than anything else that has caused | the delay in granting ‘freight rates on those com: modities that can be ‘sold only when the rates are’ low, and the movement of which means so much to the rapid development of the territory served by the railroads. Perhaps at a public hearing the sentiment for these reductions, and necessity for the reductions, will be brought home with such overwhelming force that the railroads will be jolted into action. If the proposition must be argued ‘out on- its J A merits so that the state commission will be in.a position to promulgate an order establishing a’low- er rate, then, by all means, let’s get started. ~The entire affair 'h been hanging fire much too long. Thia part of the in no frame of mind to permit the unuecossary rther d of o condi- | tion that is worl 5| hardship on -its' peo- ple and 3 in view of the apparent con- - | clusive, evidence thut everyone, the railronds in- eluded, will share in the activity that will mark the establishment of a rate that will mean that these T BN forest products ca A men who do the work of handling them. 3 ! As the matter stands now, it is in the hands of " the Ruilroud and Warehouse commission, and the attitude of that body indicates that it will offer its MADE REALISTIC ON SCREEN @fect of Tree Being Struck by theux B be handled at a profiq to the [ il S ] (¥ . when they are counted you'll. find ‘the large ma- | 7 will yemaln Somewhere in_the vicinity of the knees. green stome hatchets naturally wantéd They had no money, as we facilities for speedy relief of a situation that-has been permitted to exist for too long a time. Asa matter of fact, the low war-time rates never should have been lifted. | § § ! NO NEED TQ 'WORRY. . The Northern News! evidently, ‘believes L (hat, gie’.fiegiu_n feditor would have a better 11idhhniee fo belefected to R tu t e legislature if the ..voters.of this section ere Baude! - Region: - i § .. We~have-a—~‘twin’..vote “down “Kere,” for every Ghe. you“caét up there Bill, and ‘then some—~and- jority for you. We'll just spring a surprise on the Northern News. By the way, if Mr." Erickson only | knew how sincerc the citizens of Bemidji are in | supporting the candidate for the house from the north end and for the senate from the south end, be would express no further doubts. § $ VOTE TOMORROW Tomorrow is election day. City officials will be elected for the ensuing term. The polls will be open from 6 a. m. to 9 pym._ We have had some fun and more -or less joking about city polities, but when, you cast your vote tomorrow, do it sin- cerely and with a view of giving Bemidji the best officials on the ballot. Support the candidates you sincerely think will- make .the best officers. The kind wha will be a credit to the office and for whom no apologiés need be made. : 5 5 '»";IH!RLWIND CAMPAIGNS Some. enterprising newspaper advises that Me~ Partlin 'él"(pects to get busy with a whirlwind cam- paign later on. First we've heard of it. When he does, he’ll run into several hundred “whirlwinds” already started by the people in behalf of A. P. Ritchie for the state senate. R §——t After having been in congress for 46 years, Uncle Joe Cannon is going to retire. There was a time when Unele Joe could have made more of & hit by retiring than he does now, but just the same, the passing “of - this_sturdy, old square-toed American will" bring regret. oS § . \ Down at the Markham this morning a traveling man was>talking about the wonders of the short month of February. “At least three great men,” he said, “were born in February: Lincoln, Wash- ington and St. Valentine.” § § A Duluth man, all smeared up with moonshine, tried to drive his automobile over a baby carriage. n %ourt . they fined him $100. Still, some pepole say things are getting cheaper. —3 Bemidji is designated as a landing station of a proposed aerial passenger and freight service. It is “plane” to see that Bemidji is on the map. 1t's a grent platform, Abe, all right, but you'd better put: chains on' it—it’s been skidding ever since the Kiwanis meeting. . One of. the girl basketball players has a happy idea; she ‘wants them to make the baskets larger and the ball smaller. We are waiting for something hot from the Rail- road and, Warehouse commission ‘on firewood rates. ' § § Spring styles indicate that the height of fashion 'An Towa man married his mother-in-law. - That's cnrrying‘the joke too far. § —3 Have you noticed how cool the nights are get- ting?".* Bz the Taii Tn predsely e~ wame object throughout, a T2-hour awing of & hun- dred millton miles of tall through two { i1 fed and il clothed. Lightning Produced With Re- markable Kffectiveness. Tn ene of the leading film produc- Hons there is a very realistic sterm scene, and as a team of horses 18 be- jog driven. by, a tree is struck by lghtning. "fhis wonderful lightning effect was entirely srtificlal. A charge of flashlight powder was Jaid in the tree, over which the bark was re- placed, - An electrle wire ran from the charge to a battery a little distance away. Two big searchlights were then con- nected up with a portable electric generator & few feet behind the camera and focused on the {ree at the spot where the flashlight charge was placed. The night was piteh dark when {he scene wns taken. e «haracter-in the geene was placed, and the signal give The camera 10a0 started “shooting.” At a word from the director, the two Hig lights were suddenly flashed on, und off again, fMuminating the entire scene with a gudden blinding flash of light, At the same time the Aashlight charge in the tree was exploded, giv- ing the effect of a bolt.of lightuing eoming in: contact with the tree. Then all was darkness again, A few care- fully placed seratches ofl the emulsioh of the film ahead of the scene sorved as perfect *fightning’ streaks Just bes fore the Dig-flash. 'SHELLS USED AS CURRENCY Probably the Earliest Form of Meney of Which There Is Any Real Knowledge, The earilest tribes did mot need foney because no individual in the {ribe owned anything personally, All property belonged to the tribe ns a ‘whole and hone te any one persoin. Later on ‘when the tribes met there rose thé'custom of barter or trade,’ the simplest form of which was the eschange of articles pussessed Ry one tribe for those owned by another. For instance, some of the Australian tribes & rough-green stone which was know it today, but they had red ochre with, which they pminted their bodies. ‘Ths it developed-that the tribe own- ing the green stones wanted soroe red wchre, and each article became a kind of money—euch hocame valuable for trading purposes. ¥ 1t was necessary, however, to awalt the developments of a “unit of value”. befure. money ,became elaatic, It required something, valuable in the eyes of thexe tribes. One_of thae enrllest forms of this elastic ‘money was shells.- The skins of uniials were long used by suvage tribes as money. but these could not.be carried about like shells. The skins, however, were valuable in trading and fortunes .were reckoned by the nunmber of skins owned. As soon as unimals becaine domesticated the lve. animel itself re- placed the sKin as money. AS COMET SWINGS ITS TAIL Speed Mecords of Celestial Bodies Are All Broken When They Turn Around the Sun. One of the most rémarkable things about comets i85 the préséuce, of & tail. Not that all have them {Maryy possesy. suchy appendages, -nad- som| s proximnity, to the sun. A “sorbet which displays s magnitiogntysnit, ae one apparition may shaw Hitleornoth- | tug of this character upon ‘another oc- | caslon. As a typical comet swings swiftly round the sun, the tail séems:to swing for wigking batchety, - Mem- 3 ».3, ; [ of the tall around as well. Always it stretches from tha comet in a. directlon away from the sun, Ag the tall: may be many millions_ of ailes in. Jength, an explanation 18 needed. to coyer the question a8 to how it is possible in i n few days to swing the tall through { an arc.of 180 degreed. . Sonie' comets are extrsordinarily, yapid movers as they round the sut. Thus, the periodic comet of 1813 reached, In ity swing round, ‘the, -wonderful, veloctts: o€ 300 miles per second. However, it4s m particularly .the rapld- angulac swin i e ¢ o 08 o 43 o air? komehow due to right angles woull menn that the terminnl particles coversd an arc con- aderably - over 150,000,000 wiles loug at the rate of soms 600 miles per sec- ond.—Sclentlic American. Bret Harte. Bret Harte, American poet and nove ellst, was born at Albany; N. Y., Au- gust 25, 1839, \While & youth he went to Calitornin, where, several years later he founded the Overland Month- ly.in San Francisco, In 1870 he was made professor of recent ltersture In the. University of Oulifornia, but re- signed- and.returned to New York the following year. He was United States consul at Creford, Germany, 1878-80, and at Glasgow, 1880-85, and afterward lived In England. Among his many works are “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” “Condensett Novels, etc, “The of the Slerras,” “Tales of the Argo- nauts,” “Gabriel! Cofiroy,” ‘Thankful Blossom,”. “Twe Men -of “Sandy 'Bar,” “California Storles, A Millionairé o Rough .and Regdvy - - Redwool Camp? sudt’ fSlerras.” | N One Way 1, Dees Not Rain. to answet ington. “Lots of people are content to say sized rain-drops,” he said. duys witheut giving u drop of rain.” Heathen _Chinee,” “Poems,” “Storles The teather men have been trying, “Hotv ‘does [t Tata?”. It 18 | & hard question, says Dr, WiJ.(Homph- Weys of, the weather bureau at Wash: that the droplets at the top of the cloud plck .up others on their way down and comie out at the hottom fulls “That | sounds nice, but those who give this explanation seem to_overlook the fact that clouds can float in the sky for! He has calculuted how big & drop would result from such a fall, and it | turns out that & cloud particle falling | wrom fop to.bottom .of & dense cloud p 1 mile.thick. aud picking up every other T0 TAKE PLACE .OF GASOLINE Prizes Offered for Invention of Fusl That Shall Be Less Costly _and as Useful. [} The rapid increase In the use of au- tomobliles, motortrucks and motor- --propelled agricultural machinery, to- gether with the high cost of gasoline 4n._France, has hrought about much study of the possible use of other mo- five fuels which might” be manufac- tured from native materials ‘at lower | éost to the consumer thau gasoline. }'*"At the annual meeting of the Agri- caltural soelety at Beriers, a commit- tee was authorized to organize a com- petition with a view to discovering a practical and economical motor fuel with alcohol as the basis of ‘its com- position. Prizes totaling 200,000 francs have been placed at the dis position of the committee, of which amount 100,000 francs will be award- ed to the vompetitor .whose product gives the hest results, The competi- tion will be opén from: January to March, 1922, While the. motor fuel seught for is intended for consumption in the exist- ipg type of motor engines, & product which could be ‘employed in a modl- fied type of engine will he considered. ~ Brightening Up a Corner. — The \Woman, one chill, stormy day was forced by -the importance of an errand through a squalid, swarming: section of the city. The street was narrow aund dirty, the people looked Their hope- Jessness impressed jtself upon her worbidly. Everything was drab and @reary, the weather, the gray, littered pavement, the sad-colored buildings, the dull, grimy faces of the crowd that loltered and bartered vn the thorough- fare. Her spirit struggled against de- pression. And then she warmed to one little ray of sunshine in that gloomy chasm. It was a brass doorknob upon the sagging door of a dingy entrance. But It shone with splendid -and cheerful courage. A shining bit. of brass is such a cheerful thing anywhere. It suggests warm hearthsides and thrifty | homekeepers, comfort and cleanliness. Among those surroundings 1t suggest- ed something more—a brave soul who carried through this valley of poverty & dauntless heart, an unfsiling belief that cleanliness is godliness.—New York Tribune. Future. Monarch Runi élmply. In an-article describing; the trafn-. ing of the fourteen-year-old prince of the Asturias, King Alfo hetr; the Madrid - -Héraldo' says “hd 4s ' being brought up in’the-atuiosplitre of home | life that*his parents’love. - -Queen Victoria, as_ well ns King’Alfonso, dis- likes. all, forms . of ‘ceremonial. and the prince Is being trained as-simply us possible; - He has wmany tutors with whom he visits TactorlesCdockysards, engipeering works, newspaper offices, museums and all centers ‘of culture and - activity.. The. customs ‘of the Spanish -court have prevented him from'entering @ university or military college; but he will probably he sent later on to a inilitary academy. | The ‘prince is fair ‘withblue eyes, | and for this reason he has the nv—! pearance of a “foreigner,” for Spain | is.a country of dark-eved people. But 1 those who speak of his fereign ap- pearance maintain that he is thorough- ly Sanish. He speaks English and | Freuch fiuently and takes an active Interest In_ science and art—Lomdon Daily Mail. - N — KEMP'S BALSAM for that COUGH / RATES DOWN THE WEST HOTEL Minneapolis, Minn. Now Quoti:g Rooms al .$1.50 to $2.00 Without Bath . $2.00 to $5.00 With Bath i Moderate Priced Cife in Coprright, by Doubladay, Page & Ce- (Continued from Page 2) he thumbed his rifie’s hammer back without a sound. | “I looked toward the river and saw | Bill Dale. a-walkin’ up, the nearest bank, and I saw. Black Adam slip be- hind a tree not far away. Bill saw Adam, and he slipped behind a tree, too. Adam. shot at -Bill's hat, and teased Bill;:- Bill shot-at Adam’s hat— and then Adam Ball jumped up groan- in’ like he was done for,.:and fell, all a- twistin’, to‘the ground, But he wasi't lit. Fle put'his guil out by the tree to kill Bill as soon as he showed: himself. I 1t was one o' his old tricks.” . Elizabeth Littleford ralsed her head slowly and wenton in a volce that was much shakens - - 70 - i “I had always talked against killin', and yet I stood there and begged Sam |. Heck to finish him. The rest happened in no time. Ball was already a-lookin’ along his sights. - Bill Dale was nearly out ia the open. I—" she faltered, and then came a rush of words: “Iwouldn’t warry him without tellin’ him, because it wouldn't be fair to him; and if.I told him, he—he wouldn’'t have me. The woman he marries mustn’t be a— a s-savage.” d She stolgn-d and stared at Mrs, Dale almost defiantly. Her head was high, and her hands were clasped in her lap so hard that they. trembled. i “I think you have made a mountain out of a molehill, my dear,” the older woman said gently. - ‘What you did | was right, not wrong; any good woman | would have done just what you did, Elizabeth, I am sure.”; Elizabeth Littleford faced Mrs. John K. Dale squarely. There was a strange glow in her eyes. % “But I haven’t told you everything,” she murmured—*T took :Sam Heck's, rifile from him, and. killed Adam Ball myself.” (Cuntmu;d in Next issue) SCIENCE REVEALS that foods that abound in the Vih“lilim best promote | ScottsEmnision as an aid to growth and strength should have a pl in th . diet of most children. Seott & Bowne, Bleomfield, N. J. ~———ALSO MAKERS OF-—— Ki-M0IDS | (Tablets or @ranules) c_g_n INI?IGEST!OIQ I Have Gained 20 Pounds and Feel Like a Brand New Man Since Taking TANLAC says Edward Perry, of 1010 Burnett St., Syra- cuse, N. Y. Many thou- sands have been bene- | _ fited as Mr. Perry was. Tanlac can help ycu. Do not hesitate. If you feel the need of something fto build you up and-make you feel fine, ask your druggist today for Tanlac. At.all gocd druggists. i Connection .B. 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