Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 8

= . ._T_ bt - . = | [ THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER “TTT™TITT. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1922 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|III|IIIIIIIIIIIlllllI||IIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIII|IIIIIlIIIIlIII!IIIIIlIIIfiIlllllllllllll'—s ST Gfie Typewriter Has Practically Put the Upon the Integrity of American Homes i i | 3 S FRICAN elFGloNe (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) FORMER SOLDIER AN ARTIST John Avardo WIll Be Sent to Rome by Veterans’ Bureau to Com- plete His Course. Betore the war John Avardo was a walter in a restaurant in Baltimore, Md. Now heis a student of art, and, according to the American Legion at Wash- ington, D. C., will be sent to Rome to complete his course. While recover- ing from war in- Jjuries at a Balti- more hospital, Avardo displayed considerable skill in moulding clny. The Veteruns’ hureau became interested in the case, and sent him to an art school where he shortly afterward won first prize in a modelling contest. His growing ability has led the bureau to under- | take to send him abroad. Avardo’s is only one of a number of vases of rehabilitation in which men who before the war were driving frucks or pushing shovels have dis- covered their true talents course of being vocationalized. Men who previously had been content with unskilled labor are now attending classes In auto-mechanics, radio-work, drafting, machine design, agriculture, and varlous other trades and pro- fessions. “WHEN WE SALUTE THE FLAG” | Toledo (0.) Boy Wins First Prize in Essay Contest Conducted by Buckeye Legion Post. It took the thirteen-vear-old son of a sailor to give the best reason for saluting the Stars and Stripes. Mark Winchester of To- ledo, O., received $15 for the work of his patriotic pen, winning first prize in the essay contest given by the American glon post in To- ledo. “When we sa- lute the flag," Mark wrote, “it is but an outwand motion of the patriot- ic feeling within. It is not the mere physical movement that counts.” It is what it.signifies. = When we salute the Stars and Stripes we show rever- ence for the flag that our forefathers made and preserved. It shows that we realize what the red, white and blue typifies.” A little Russian gir! won the second prize, She said she liked to salute our flag because this country, unlike Russia, had so few pogroms and starving children. EDITORIAL ON “CASH BONUS” Chicago Newspaper Comments on Com- mander MacNider’s Plan for Ro- tating Fund to Be Loaned. “The soundest policy which has been oftered with respect to a cash bonus” is the editorial comment of a Chicago paper on Hanford MacNlider's plan for a rotating fund to be loaned out to needy ex-service men. The editorial, in part, follows: “In many cases the bonus, distrib- uted to all nlike, will be given to men who are not In actual need of it, to some who do not need it at all. Al degrees of financial competency were in the army. For other men the al- lotment will not be enough. They need more credit than that to recover. “Men who have no need of a bonus could take it without scruple if they intended to place it in the fund. Men who have need of it could get it from the tund, pay it back when they could, and keep the money availuble for con. tinuing relief.” “Over.? Mr. Jessaway was fussy about the correct” use of the English language, 100 fussy perhaps, and was always ready to find fault with offenders. Also be was in agything but a good tem- per as he sat down in his favorite res- tanraat. “Give me a steak.” he said, “and some corn and some baked potatoes.” “Baked potatoes are all over,” sald the girl. ‘Oh, they're all over, huh," snorted Mr. Jessaway. “And what are they all over®’ “With." can Legion Weekly, Adopts Destroyed French Village. Drifting back to Apremont-la-Foret, near the Saiut Mihiel sector, American Legion men find a little community Iouse raised amid the ruins of the town. It has been erected by the city of Holyoke, Mass.. which has adopted in the | she replied simply.—Amert- | Pen Out of Business, With Some Unfortunate Results. Who remembers the old days when men of commerce and industry wrote a “good bustness hand”—when hand- writing was one of the accomplish- ments and letters written in Ink could | he read with small effort? asks the Nation's Business. Handwriting has gone out of style because it gave way to something infinitely better. It was the old story. Hand work could not | compete with machine work—the pen could not compete with the type- | writer. But we view with sorrow the fact that the decline and fall of hand-writ- ing has also meant the decline and fall of the business signature. You pick up the ordinary business letter these days, and while the body of the communication stands forth in clean-cut typography, you are lucky 1f you can make out the signature. Unless you know who wrote it, the name may be anything from “Blatz” to “Jones.” Some of them appear to be perfect; they are wade up of regu- lar, sharp saw teeth, but when you try to decode them you can’t tell the “u's” from the “n’s” or the “I's” from the “t’s.” Others confuse and dazzle | You with scrolls and flourishes. And still another type is just plain awful. Plainly something should be done about it. Maybe congress could be in- duced to pass & law making it com- pulsory for every letter to have the name of the signer typewritten in the near neighborhood of the signature. APPRECIATED GIFT OF SHOES Mismated Footgear Eagerly Welcomed 1 by the Unfortunate Children of Wretched Armenia. | | | | | | i R i A shoe factory in Boston recently of- fered the Near East relief a conslgn- ment of mismated shoes—offered them doubtfully, not knowing whether such a gift would be acceptable. Neverthe- less, the gift was joyfully accepted by 'l,lm organization, and the odd shoes were more than eagefly received by i the little folks in Near East relief or- | phanages, For children in Armenia are no dif- ferent frow children anywhere. They | love new shoes. Although these shoes | were not mates they were without holes, they were shiny, they were solid and they creaked. They were, in short, shoes—real shoes—and when one has | been entirely shoeless for a long time, | | or has worn at best old, wornout pleces ! shoes full of holes, which | ot shoes, have not seen polish for so long that | ! they are quite the color of the earth— cven mismated shoes, that are shiny and new, seem a veritable boon from heaven. Ard the mismated shoes meant for the Near East children more than +| plensure.- ‘They meant health itself. A | recent report from an overseas work- er contalns a simple statement which makes one realize the larger value of the gift. “As a result of giving shoes to the children,” the statement reads, “dls- pensary cases dropped from over forty to about twenty."—New York Herald. Big Price for a Flower. Ten thousand dollars is an extraor- dinary price for a sipgle plant; yet it was paid by English horticulturists for an orchld raised in the United States, the Catteleyagigas alba. This Catteleyn was flowered in 1910, and ex- hibited at an orchid show in the United States, where it was awarded a gold medal. The plant was found In 1909 in a lot of other specimens of Catteleyn gigas. It was only by chance that the plant was not sold for a dol- lar or two. The only reason was that after most of its companions had been disposed of thls one, with some others that were not in very good condition, | was set aside. Finally, all the speci- mens were potted. To the great sur- prise of the horticulturists when, next | spring, the plant came up it was with | pure white flowers. The plant was sold in London for perhaps the highest figures that an orchid ever brought. Not in the Ritual, but Effective. General Pershing tells the story of a volunteer battalion of rough back- woodsmen that once joined General Grant. He adwmired their fine phy- sique, but distrusted the capacity of their uncouth commander to handle troops promptly and efliciengy in the field, so he said: “Colonel, I want to see your men at work; call them to attention and order them to march with shouldered arms In close column to the left flank.” Without a moment's hesitation the { colonel yelled to his fellow rufians: “Boys, look wild thar! Make ready to | thicken and go left end-ways. Tote | ver guns! Git!” | The maneuver proved a brilliant | success and the selt-elected colonel | was forthwith officlally commissioned. —The Boys' Own Paper. e T Found Big Water. Silas Wright Titus, the “water wiz- d” is dead. Since boyhood, it 13 «afd, that he never failed to find un- devground water when he went after it. He made water hunting his life | work. One of his big jobs was locat- | ing the underground water that sup- ! plies Brooklyn, N. Y., 10,000,000 gal- lons a day. No matter how peculiar a demand rises, up from the people always comes some man intuitively fitted to handle the job. We may be masters of our own destinies, but there's a wonderful system back of it all, distributing hu- ; man abilitles to meet demands. Depends Our Whole National Life By RT. REV. W. A, GUERRY, Episcopal Bishop South Carolina. The startling statement that one-twentieth of all marriages in the: .United States eud in divorce is of itself sufficient to arouse every earnest man and woman to the seriousness of the situation that confronts us. Upon the integrity and purity of the American home depends the whole superstructurc of our national life. Where the home is undermined “and destroyed and children cast adrift by a selfish and self-centered indi- vidualism, there is an end of all social and moral restraint. To combat the growing evil of divorce in this country a group of pub-’ Jic-spirited men and women have been trying to get through congress a "uniform divorce law. What is known as the Edmonds bill aims to accom- plish this end. The purpose of this bill is to limit the grounds of divorce. One difficulty in the way of a wide-spread publicity and agitation in favor of more stringent divorce laws grows out of the fact that the divorce evil has become universal. Another trouble is that most people who are seeking divorce are not satisfied with a legal separation. The underlying purpose of it all is too often the intention of marrying again as soon as the ‘divorce has been grante FORTY.-TWO BADGES AWARDED On December 16, the Newark, N. J., council held its quarterly meeting in the city hall, and 28 life ahd star and seven Eagle badges were awarded. Frank Dlorihy of Troop 69, and Georga ‘Wagner, were given troop aid insignin. Service budges were presented to John Paterson and Paul Kraneter of Troop 8, to William Perry of Troop 71, to C. Brower Woodward, Troop 7, and Mil- ford Vieser, Troop 100. Deputy Com- missioner Hugo Cederhola and his son Oscar, Troop 56, received Eagle budges at the same time. The more talk there is about Shan. tunz the greater the reason why the world would like to hear some mein- ber of the Shantung proletariat tell just where he stands on the subject. You can now get 1,000 Austrian | erowns for a dollar, but think of the useful things you could buy with a dollar. The weather bureau frequently re- fers to it as a “mean” temperature, Laymen use adjectives of a little highe er horse power. DOINGS OF BOY SCOUTS Boy scouts will “co-operate in the planting of the memorlal trees which it is planned to place all along the main highway from New York to Buf- falo, as a memorial to the soldler dead. - Ofticers of Endicott Post, N. Y., American Legion, have announced that they are ready to back scouting to the limit in the new Town of Union coun- cil, which will embrace Johnson and Endicott citles. Improvement on Banjo. A new bavjo is specially designed to weet the requirement of dance or- chestras, stuge performances and play- ing in iarge halls. The banjo, de- scribed in P'opular Mechanics Maga- zine, has a wooden sounding board set just hack of the head. A lhorn, opening from the space between the head and ‘sounding board, passes through the frame of the instrument and throws (ne entire volure of sound forward into the hall. A second board covers the back of the instrument. 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