Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 15, 1922, Page 4

/PAGEFOUR ) KT ©" YHE BEMIDN DI . BEMIDJI DAILY, PIONEER PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE - BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING COMPANY 6, E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Secy-Mgr, J. D. WINTER, News Editor s—: TELEPHONE 9$22.923 31—t Entered at the Postoftice at B Minne Besond-class ter, under .:leé con;:-': :: i March 3, 1879, mm NATIONAL EDITORIAL ABSOCIATION Forelga Advertising Representatives B C. Thels Co. Chicago, Ill, and New York, N. Y, e No attention paid to anonymous contributiens. (Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not Emuuruy for publication. Communications for the eckly Ploneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each Week to insure publication in the surs published THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve address every Thursday and sent postage w& 10 any for, in advance, $2.00. “— Unless credit is given this paper, only the United Press is entitled to the use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it, or otherwise eredited and also the local news published herein. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY [ FARMERS BENEFITED BY HIGHER PRICES “Both farmers and business men are feeling much better over the general situation,” declares Charles W. Pugsley, assistant secretary of agricul- ture, in an article in Forbes Magazine. “Business men report increasing sales; bankers say that farmers are paying off their debts. Be- cause of the recent increase in farm prices, busi- ness is picking up as rapidly. as could be expected. “Even the farmer is beginning to see decided streaks of rose and gold along a horizon that, a little while ago, was all dull gray. He says that he has not much money left when he gets through paying interest on his debts and his necessary ex- penses—both in the West and in the South they told me that. But, in both sections farmers are hopeful again and are beginning to believe that they will soon be in position to do some substantial buy- ing. “During the past few weeks, we have had one of the most remarkable increases in the prices of farm products that the world ever saw, The value, the exchange power, of farm products increased from 8 to 124 per cent, hay lying sluggishly at the 8 per cent line and sheep and lambs gamboling on to the 124 per cent plane, Corn and wheat in- creased 41 per cent; cattle, 22 per cent; hogs, 67 per cent. “This increase means much to the American farmer and it means much to American business, because, as I found in every state I have visited, the farmer is using the larger returns he is getting from his crops and his livestock to pay more of his debts and to buy more of the things he needs than for a long time past. “The increase amounts to about $120 per farm in the best agricultural districts.” § § IT MIGHT BE WORSE Once upon a time within easy memory we could pack our things in the old brown grip and roll away at the rate of two cents a mile. Then one day along came the kaiser with his invincible army —and before it was all over everything had started for the moon, including railroad rates. During the flush of our war-time prosperity we failed to so much as frown at a little thing like expense. As the pendulum swings back we begin to realize what a privilege it was to buy tickets at the two-cent rate, and we talk about and hope for a return of the good old days. Here again, however, America has an edge on the peoples of Europe. It costs more to travel there today, much more, than it does here, and nei- ther do the Europeans travel in the comfort that is characteristic of American lines. The distance from Paris, France to Milan, Italy, is 522 miles and the fare first-class is $40.76; the distance from Chicago to Buffalo is 525 miles and the fare is $18.81. The railroad fare from London to Paris, 287 miles, is $33.569, while from Chicago to Cincinnati, 285 miles, the fara is $10.26. From Paris to Rome is a distance of 891 miles, and the fare is $53.50, while the trip of 908 miles from Chicago to New York may be made at a cost of $32.67. The average for all the mileage in Europe is 7.5 cents a mile, while in this country it is 3.6 cents. ‘When we stop to think that in Europe the pop- ulation is much denser than i is here and that la- bor is far less expensive, we can begin to realize that passenger rates might be much higher, al- though that is no reason why they should not be lowered whenever returns to the railroad companies warrant so doing. § t “We need politicians full of devotion to their country,” says LaFollette. Yea, verily, with so many of them full of prunes. Labor leaders in Chicago are finding it hard work to get out of jail, and it’s the first hard work some of them ever have done. f—1 . Hearst urges Hylan for governor of New York and there arc other good reasons why he should not be elected. 5 - Just because business is slow is no reason why business men should be. Now is the time to ad- vertise. §——% “First find the bones”—seems to be Harding's irrevokable stand in regard to the soldiers bonus. . §———4% The average movie kiss lasts 50 seconds, or about twice as long as dad’s pay check. [ E— ] And it just makez Bemidji sick to lose the hos- NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY on-Fiction Poems—Alan Seeger, Alexander bP:pe, Dryden, Cowper, Paul L. Dun- r. Poems of Twilight, Gustav. Melby. Poems of Joyous Children, Jas. Whitcomb_Riley. Poems Every Child Should Know. Letters and Dairy fo Alan Seeger. Light of the World, Robt. E. Speer. i Love Stories of Great Missionaries, B. M. Brain. : Frank Higgins, Trail Blazer, Thos. Whittles. Music of the Wild, Gene Stratton : Porter. Immigration and the future, F. Kellor. Old World Traits Transplanted, Robt. Park. New Homes for OM, S. P. Breck- enridge. Selected Articles on Immigration, Edith Phelps. Coins, Alexander. Economic Consequences of the Peace, J. M. Keynes. wln Tune With the Infinite, Ralph . Trine. What All the World’s A-Seeking, Ralph W. Trine. Mary Stewart, drama, John Drink- water. Oliver Cromwell, drama, John Drink- water. Roger De Coverly Papers, Addison and Steele. Essay on Addison, Macauley. 4 Morning Face, Gene Stratton Por~ er. Adult Fiction Obstacle Race, Ethel Dell. North of 53, Bertrand Sinclair. Beggar’s Gold, Ernest Poole. The Love of Lucretia Lombard, Kathleen Norris. The Wrong Mr. Right, Berta Ruck. The Great Prince Shan, E. Phil- lips Oppenheim. Bucky O’Connor, Wm. McLeod Raine. Crooked Trails and Straight, Wm. McLeod Raine. . A Daughter of the Dons, Wm. Mec- Leod Raine. Lucinda, Anthony Hope. ) Keziah Coffin, Jos Lincoln. Mary Gusta, Jos. Lincoln. Betty Zane, Zane Grey. Last of the Great Scouts, Helen Cody Wetmore. The Short Stop, Zane Grey. Heritage of the Desert, Zane Grey. Tess of the Storm Country, Grace M. White. Secret of ‘the Grace M. White. Head of the House Frances H. Burnett. Her Prairie Knight, B. M. Bower. The Long Shadow, B. M. Bower. The Lure of the Dim Trails, B. M. Bower. Casey Ryan, B. M. Bowers. The Tempering, Chas. Neville Buck:+ ) The. Foreigner, Ralph Connor. The Prospector, Ralph Connor. _Judith of the Plains, Marie Man- ning. Storm Country, of Coombe, pital that way. Ri f Hew: "PREVENTION IS BEST METHOD i ‘Wise Old Persian Had Right Idea Con- cerning Disease, Long Before Birth of Christ. ' Five hundred years before the birth of Christ a wise old Persinn father advised his son, Cyrus the Great, ‘that the thing to do is to have phy- sicians prevent disease; in modern language, keep two jumps ahead. So the Idea that there should be time health officers to prevent disense is not a thing to be looked on as an in- novation. More than twenty-five centurles ago, a conversation like the following took place between Cyrus and his father: “I have heard and seen that those states which seek for 'good health cducnte thelr physiclans, and that commanders take with them phy- slelans for the sake of the soldlers,” sald Cyrus. “I, too, therefore, as soon as my present expeditions were in- trusted to me, ‘gave my attention to the subject and thought that I had with me very competent physicians.” To which his father replied: “But these physicians, my son, of which thou speakest, are like menders of torn garments, and thus, they cure those who have fallen sick. Thy chief anxlety should be to provide for henlth, for thou oughtest to take care to prevent the army from falling into sickness at all.” HONOR GOES TO VERMONTER Thaddeus Fairbanks of that State Made First Weighing Machine in the Year 1831, The origin of weighing things dates back so far that the name of the in- is unknown, observes the Brooklyn Eagle.” When a man reached ! the stage In civilization where he ceased to depend upon his own efforts for his livellhood and began trading with his fellows he was confronted with the need of weighing things in order to determine the actual welght of whatever he traded in. The trade of the world developed by leaps and bounds over hundreds ot yeurs, but we did not have scales until about 1831, when Thaddeus Fairbanks of Vermont made and patented the first one. Before that time weighing of heavy londs was done by a crude method. When welghing a load of hay the wagon with the hay was sus- pended on a huge steelyard, originally fashioned during the days of anclent Rom Fairbanks’ first scale was in its essential principles the same as are the scales of today, and its suc- cess quickly spread over the world. Orders poured in from every direction, for his scales were not only more con- venient than the old method of holst- ing the ohject to he weighed on a steelyard but they were also more ac- curate. With the steelyard, the actual welght' might be ascertained within fitty pounds, wherens today, on scales capable of welghing 300,000 pounds, the welght can be determined within the smallest fraction of an ounce. Antiquity of Anesthetics. The artificinl induction of painless- ness by narcotlc draughts was tra- ditlonally known In anclent times, writes Dr. Charles Ballance in the London Lancet. The Chinese were ac- quainted with general anesthesia thou- sands of years ago. Tt is related of the surgeon Hoatho in the Third cen- tury A. D. that he performed ampu- tation, trephining and other major op- erntions by its ald. Dactor Browne relates two cases of anesthesig taken from a Persian man e Soript, The first story concerns Aris- totle and an Indlan surgeon named Sarnab. An earwig had entered the patient’s ear and attached itself to the brain. Aristotle gave the patient a drug so that he became unconsclous while Sarnab trephined the skull. This was excellent trentment. It Is now well known that living forelgn bodies may produce otitis and meningitis. In the second case the operation was Caesarlan section. —_— Valuable Minerals in Saskatchewan. Among the minerals found in the Wapawekka lake district of Saskatch- ewan, Canada, by the exploration par- ty sent Into the far northern part of the province by the provincial govern- ment are ochres, umbers, paint clays, bog iron ore, carbonaceous sands, shales, fire clays, glass sands and conl. Commenting upon the ochres and umbers found In the mineral waters of the lake, the 2eramic englneer of the University of Saskatchewan and geologist of the party says that the samples have proven very satisfactory, particularly the ochres. The Difference. “1 spenk four languages,” proudly hoasted the doorman of a hotel in Rome to an American guest. “Yes, four—Italian, Frénch, English and American.” “But English and American are the same,” protested the guest. “Not at all,” replied the man. “If an Englishman should come up now 1 should talk like this: ‘O, I say, what extraordinary shocking weather we're having! I dare say there'll be n bit of it ahead But when you came up 1 was just getting ready to say: ‘For the love o' Mike! Some day, ain't it? Guess this Is the sec- ond floor, all rigl Sweet Stranger, Berta Ruck. i Yeo. and Nay, Maurice T wgd ‘Without End, Grant Over- ton. . Man from the Wilds, Harold Bind- oss, © Hofnespun and Gold, Alice Brown. Prairie Child, Arthur Stringer. The Vision Splendid, Wm. McLeod Raing. Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart. The Man in Lower Ten, Mary Rob- erts Rinehart. The Street of Seven Stars, Mary Roberts Rinehart. The Flirt, Booth Tarkington. . The Two Vanrevels, Booth Tark- ington. A Son of the Sun, Jack London. God’s Good Man, Marie Corelli. A Gentleman of France, Stanley J. Weyman. The Reds of the Midi, Felix Gras. The Terror, Arthur Machen. Crimson Gardenia, Rex Beach. Rainbow‘s End, Rex Beach. Juvenile Mark Tidd in the Backwoods, Clarence Kelland. Catty Atkins, Riverman, Clarence Kelland. A Princess of Mars, E. R. Bur- roughs. Thuvia, Maid of Mars, E. R. Bur- roughs. Warlord of Mars, E. R. Burroughs. Hoof and Claw, Chas. D. Roberts. Children of the Wild, Chas. D. Roberts. Kings in Exile, Chas. D. Roberts. Boy Allies at Liege, Clair Hayes. Boy Allies in Great Peril, Clair Hayes. Boy Allies Clair Hayes. Boy Allies in the Trenches, Clair Hayes. Boy Hayes. Boy Allies Robt. E. Drake. - Boy Allies Under Two Flags, Robt. 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