Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 20, 1922, Page 8

: THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEEK SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1922 THE i Twentieth Century ‘ R whird LIMITED d Attention, Ladies! Testimony in a recent lawsuit be- fore a London, court was to the ef-| fect that a woman who aspires “to hold her own” .in the exclusive cir- cles“of English society must have from 30 to 40 new gowns a year at | an average cost of $200 each. Won- der how many Bemidji women could hold their own! —Ask Father— A Requisite Nearly two million tons of sand is used in the United States each year in making glass. Then, in other words, in order to make glass, a fel- | low haa to have a lot-of sand. —Ain't It a Fact?— Changed “Pll never feel the same to you,” And @ sad farewell he waved; | For he straightway to the barber went, And had his mustache shaved. —Princeton- Tiger. Less Than That WERE QOMES ABE GONMIGK! WiLL HE RAVE? OH, BABY! A STRANGE GLMY JUMPED 1 AND DROVE (¥ AWAN Y WWM DIDKY “oL gL M OLMKHERD ! | \SAD S AW RIGHY, NUMBER OF W' CAR' Ole Sherloc ‘Mickiel X < \ GoY ™! A Chinese philosopher declares that there is an ounce of wisdom at ! the root of every hair. How about the bald-headed barbers? 3 —You Tell 'Em— June issue, Good Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s | ‘Home Companion and other maga-| zines at the Bemidji Book and Sta-| tionery Store. 1t FHEY DIE OUTSIDE! No .lr'lurkA’ll'lnull\ l./l":flfl rats, :\'D tra) Send only $1 for 3 Doll strength bottles. Use ono fr oher 2 to your nelghbors for S2. We pay postage, SEND NO MONEY! [ >7inie wi threo Doliar-bottles D uall f CLOVER FLOURISHES ON CLEARED ACRES One of the direct results of land clearing in Beltrami county This section ofi the state is is the increased acreage of clover. in Beltrami county. { known far and wide for its wonderful crops of clover, much | of which is raised for seed surposes. Housckeeping, | this section will easily convince anyone that clover is “a weed” News erime Trips along, the roads of crime 5120 | DISTRIBUTION OF PIKE FRY NEARS COMPLETION Distribution of pike fry in all lakes within a radius of 150 miles of Bemidj being completed today un- der the direction of Game Warden John Cline of this city, with the as- sistance of Game Wardens Munch of Crookston, MeBride of Walker and Murphy of Grand Rapids. The dis- tribution has been very successful, all lakes being stecked and all applica- tions being filled. JUDGE STANTON SENTENCES | KILLER OF WIFE'S RELATIVES (By United Press) Brainerd, May 20—Ernest Brandt ! charged with Killing his father-in- law and wife’s grandfather, plead guilty to a charge of first degree murder today and was sentenced {to the Stillwater penitentiary for 1 C. W. Stanton of Be- tence. Brandt was also indicted for at- tempting to kill his wife’s grand- mother, 73, who was wounded. 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Approximate number of consumers for lights, pow- Lavinia cottage owners quested to send us the following questiothaire properly er and heat. filled out. THE FOLLOWING RATES WILL BE EFFECTIVE Class “E” Consumers—Lighting First 25 KW.H...... 15¢ per k.w.h. . .14c per k.w.h. ..10c per k.w.h. Next 75 K.W.H. Next 200 K.W.H. All in excess Monthly minimum of $3.00 per month net. A de- posit equal to two months minimum charge shall be made by eaclt consumer who is not-a:property owner. This deposit will be returned by the Company at the time service is discontinued, provided all bills due the company are paid in full. A discount of five per cent of the above rates will be made on bills paid before the 10th of the month following the use of the current. Meters will be fur- nished by the Company. Class “B’’—1 Power Rate To be the same as the rate, our Chicago office for the city of Bemidji. Claes “C”—Cooking and Heating Rate 4Y,c per K.W.H. net, with $2.00 per month. No discount. e e S s S RS 3. FILL OUT THIS QUESTIONNAIRE Minnesota Electric Light & Power Co., /Bemidji, Minn.: The undersigne}d will require the following Electric Service: About Minnesota’ ‘Light and Pewer pany E.E. SWANSON, Com Phone 26-J TO WHAT EXTENT IS LAW RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME? Question Is Asked By Capitol Lawyers as Violation of Washington, .May 20.—(Capital national capital, especially those with legal training, and lawyers are much interested in the report of the com- mittee appointed by the American Bar association ‘to jnvestigate the causes of crime. from preliminary reports of the com- mittee largely: laid to “years of mollycod- dling and sympathy by misinformed and all-advised meddlers” which has “disintegrated the administration of justice.” community in step with the swiftness| or slowness of the administration of justice. ly, crime decreases; where there are the proverbial “law’s delays” between What no committee from a Bar Law Increases Chicago. It is understood ers! that, among- other things, in volume in large cities is bad law, It hds also been said that| crime. increases or decreases in a association “could be expected to re-, A further cause for crime is stated port is called attention to by many who have. the best interests of the law at heart; that ~much crime is caused by inequalities and injustices within the body of the law itself. A case in point is the committal to jail on contempt of court sentences three years old of a number of women in tween the offense and the punish- ment the women have married and have babies, and four mothers with children in_arms were incarcerated. Service)—Legislators at the! Governor Small, taking cognizance of their changed conditions, prompt- ly pardoned could not though he had to pay for the keep of the children from his own pocket, ! 2! because the lawyers held the pardon- ing power of the governor does not extend to contempt of court offend- They were finally released by action of the judge. Law which makes innocent chil- dren suffer, and which finds diffi- culties_in correction of its injustice, it is pointed out in Washington, is to be the intolerance and fanaticism tof the reformer, which brackets an offence against a law of man with an offense against ‘a law of nature, and makes no differentiation between the two offenders. As an instance of this, Congressmen in Washington point to the statement of a well] known senator that the offender i against the dry law is as criminal as one who commits murder, a_senti- ment which finds no echoes in any Jjudicial mind. That the United States govern- not by any means free from of unnecessary delays and has been pointed out with eresting if absurd example. During - the interval be- them, but the jailer turn them loose, even ! CHOICE BEMIDJI FLORAL ©0.] CUT FLOWERS AN PLANTS Artistis Designs PROMPT ATTENTION 3 GIVEN TO MAIL ORDERS 512 Beltrami Ave. Phone 418-W Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee told the house that {he was threatened with arrest for; failure to pay a bill of 72 cents inl his 1917 income tax. He made the point that if . the government was four years behind in auditing and could find no better method of cor- recting errors than by arresting men who had done their best.to meet the laws of the country, it was time the laws were revised. and bad law makes for Where the courts act quick- and trial, crime increases. work, we must have fe urgently re- AN AID TO BEAUTY is soudn, white, even, beau- tiful teeth. Our Ny-Denta tooth paste will help to keep them so. 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