Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 2

T “THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PROPAGANDA BY ~ PARADING FILS |HOBTS CARRYING BANNERS IN WABHINGTON' DON'T ACCOM- PLISH THEIR AIMS. | | |BARRED FROM WHITE HOUSE 'Latest Gang of Marchers Sought Re- i lease of Those Who Tried to Undo { . United States During the War— . Pacifist Women Busy. | — 9 By EDWARD B. CLARK ‘Washington.—General Coxey’s army, ,which marched over the mountalns !from Ohio and descended on the capl- ital about thirty years ago, is looked Ion as the progenitor, if that be the iword, of all the bebannered hosts {which come here to attempt In !a spectacular way to force congress ‘or the administration to do something jwhich the parading ones want done. ' Washington is a hotbed today, and {has been a hotbed for some time, of propaganda of this, that or the other kind. Much of the effort is expended in typewriting and nwuch in parading. ‘The paraders seldom get anywhere iand the typewriters fail or succeed as their cases happen to appeal to the 'wwers that be. If a Washington cor- respondent were moved to write in behalf of this or that cause by the Istuft which comes to his office every day he could do little else than con- stitute himself a pleader, pro or con, Ifor a hundred different endeavors. : .The latest street demonstration has been in behalf of prisoners who today are where they are because they at- témpted to undo the United States in the time of trouble. A procession of lmen, women and children has tried \séveral times to make Its way into the White House, carrying banners lof various Kinds, in order to Induce the President of the United States to lset free men 'vho did their best to {Jeopardize’ the liberties of their coun- itry when it was In the throes of war. Sentimentality That Fails. President Harding refused to meet Ithe paraders in behalf of the so-called rpolitical prisoners. One of the ban- 'nérs which has appeared, and at this (writing still is appearing, at the head iof the column of paraders, is borne by the side of a child who holds one hand jupon _the staff. The banner Is In- scribed: “I never have seen my fa- ther @ It.was belleved by these paraders in _behalt of the seditious that this ibanner certainly would win the day with- the President and the people. ‘There are some hard-headed patriotic 'ones: In" this town, however, who know that there are a good many American children whose (athers died for their icountry in France some months befora ‘the little ‘ones were born and who probably would not have died if the prisoners of today whose release Is sdught and the’thousands of persons ‘who escaped imprisonment for like italk and llke deeds, had not by thelr ln)‘uence prevented the United States ifrom preparing its men fully for the ‘battlefleld, giving them adequate means of personal defense and ade- ‘quate means for defense against bat- terles of artillery and ships of the air. Judging from the present-day ca- pers of persons akin in sympathy and in: pollcy to those who are parading \in-behalf of the imprisoned ones, there i§s' to be no ceasing from the endeavor to propagandize In America In behalf lof un-American policies. Women Who Would Be Disloyal. Recently in this city there was held a meeting of women who form the American section of an international league which declares its object to be ¢o- secure lasting peace In the world. ‘At 8 meeting of representatives of this international league In Geneva not lohg ago it was voted to be the sense of the gathering that In the years to come no woman of any land should iralse her hand to help her country in ‘ease It was called upon to take up ‘arms against another nation, or even Af the call was to arm itself for purely defensive purposes agninst invasion '‘and tyranny from without. Any amount of printed propaganda ‘material was received by the Wash- fAngton correspondents from the repre- :sentatives of the American sectlon of /this international league. The inti- /mation was that the American women (who were to meet were to pledge them- |selves to refrain from all war work in rcase the United States should become iinvolved in a conflict. ‘What would this mean? It would mean simply that if this country i@ome day should find it necessary to defend itself against foreign nggres- slon the women members of the !American section of the International league and all the women they could influence to follow their own course, iwould refuse to do works of mercy for !American wounded, or to do those lother things which woman knows how jto do for the comfort of the soldiers fighting in the fleld for their country’s isnke, i Three foreign women, it is an- pounced, will travel through the |nited States to spenk in behalf of {the objects of this International ileague. Omne of them s an English ,woman, another is a French woman iand the third IS a German woman. \They all have the nonresistance idea .and their endeavor probably will be to attempt to bring American opinion to the point where it will be willing to make a second Russia out of the United States. . Senate’s Tariff Bill Changes. .The finance committee of the senatq made 2,057 changes in the tarift bill as it was formulated and passed by the house of represeniatives. Figures oc- casionally tell a story. Seemingly they do so in this case. With more than two thousand ‘amendments proposed by the senate ‘for the house bill it I8 easy enough to ‘understand why the debate on the :measure is expected to run along until tired nature calls a halt. Any stumper ‘who desires to discuss the tariff bill Intelligently during the coming con- gressional campaign must sit up late nights and burn much ofl in his stu- dent's lamp. The tariff measure is a formidable looking document. Just how much of a figure the bill will cut in the com- Ing election nobody as yet knows. Vir- tually every day the Congressional Regord gives some thirty-five or forty pages of print to the speeches made In the senate on the day previous. The tariff is one thing apparently that cannot be talked to death. Occasionally there is some humor to be found in the customs laws or in their preparation, or In their enforce- ment or non-enforcement. During the hearings in the finance committee of the senate on the Payne-Aldrich bill the provision of the measure affecting chemicals was under consideration. A New York man representing the manu- facture of celluloid in New Jersey was on the stand. The committee was dis- cussing the question of the duty on things which enter into celluloid man- ufacture. Suddenly Senator Kern of Indiana, who since that day has dled, turned to the witness and said sternly but with something of a glint in his eye, “Are you responsible for the celluloid col- lars?” “Yes, I Invented them,” replied the witness, “Well,” sald the senator, “my search is over. I have been trying to locate the responsibility for celluloid collars for years.” John Wilkie's Tariff Story. John E. Wilkle of Chicago, one time and for a long time chief of the Unit- ed States secret service, wrote a tarift or a near tariff story some years ago which, like Charles Reade's “Hard Cash,” was a matter-of-fact tale. The story lingers in the memory of Wash- ingtonians. A prominent American woman was visiting in China. Just before she was to set sail for the United States a friend presented her with some spe- clally grown Chinese tea, worth, it was sald, something like $25 a pound. The glft was recelved, and then the Amer- fcan woman knew the beginning of a hard fight with consclence. She did not want to pay tariff on the tea when she took It into America and yet she knew that to smuggle it in was something like a crime. Taking the tea she put it into small, separate packages and hid it in varlous places about her personal belongings. On the way from China to Honolu!u where the vessel stopped the Amer- lcan woman dreamed nightly of men in uniform boarding the ship at the Hawallan port, discovering the smug- gled article and lugging her off to jail. She slept more uneaslly than a crowned king. She was wretched day and night, but her determination held to get that tea home without paylng the government anything. Her Conscience Conquered. From Honolulu to San Franclsco her consclence and her fears jolntly kept her sleepless, but she hung on grimly to the determination to get her spolls in unobserved at any hazard. Her baggage was examined at San Franclsco and apparently the customs officer discovered nothing dutiable. The danger over and with her tea safely in her trunk and with no furth- cr fear of detection, the American woman sped to ‘Washington, After arriving In the capital she found that her consclence still troubled her and that sleep was not wooed as easlly as in the days of her non-smuggling innocence. She invited her friends to partake of the delect- able ten, but she had little gladness at her five o'clocks. Finally consclence conquered her and she went stralght to the Treasury department, to the proper official thereof, and tearfully told him of her guilt. saying that she was willing to pay the duty thrice over to get back the innocencc that once was hers. In her mind she reviewed the terrors of the voyage including the sleeplessness of her nights. “How much duty shall I pay on the tea?” she asked. “And please don't send me to jall.” The officlal looked at her with amused kindness. He said: “Madam, there s no duty on tea.” Telepathy. The word “telepathy” 1s sald to have been invented by the soclety for Psychical Research about 36 years ago to describe the supposed process of transmitting thoughts at a distance, It means the communication of minds —thought transference—without any means known to science. Telepathy might be compared with wireless telegraphy, which also transmits ideas at a distance. — Dog Knew Too Much. “I once possessed a splendid dog,” said Percy. “He could distinguish be- tween a vagabond and a respectable person.” = “What became of him?” Grace. “Oh, I was obliged to give him away. He bit me.” asked Crime of the Future. ‘When we note the large number of automobile thieves now In evidence, we wonder how long it will be before airplane robbers will be lifting things through the skylight.—Boston Tran- s_cl:lpt. t.. DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS The Purposes of the Farm Bloc in Congress Are Economic, Not Political By ARTHUR CAPPER, Senator From Kansas. Agriculture has been brought to a point where its future iz in peril, where it is bound to go backward un- less real relief is forthcoming. The need of a con- structive national program looking to the rehabilita- fiwrd long enough. tion of agriculture is imperative. I think that fact is appreciated by business men as well as by farmers. It is generally accepted that prosperity must come’ first to the farms before it can prevail in the city. Evils that have grown up must be corrected before agricul- ture can function in & normal and profitable way. The charge has been made that the farm bloc seeks ! class legislation, and that its aim is to profit agriculture, no matter at what cost to other industry. The men who make that charge lose sight of the fundamental fact that agriculture is basic, that what contributes to its prosperity and well-being unquestionably benefits all industry. When ag- i riculture is profitable the nation is prosperous. It is not class legislation to demand that agriculture have as good ‘eredit facilities as any other business; that farmers be encouraged to work together to improve their marketing condition ; that the market gamblers and speculators and the selfish class which has grafted off of the farmers for many years be unmasked and controlled. The farm bloc does not recognize the right of any class to have an advantage at the expense of another group or of the population as a whole. The interests which oppose it fight the farm bloc because it does not toler- ate their pet piracies. Vested interests have been bloodsucking the farmer The purposes of the farm. bloc are economic, not political. It is striving for a more sensible program of national development in which agriculture will occupy its rightful position and be accorded the interest it deserves. Its aim is to bring about a better understanding and greater co-operation among all worthy elements of the population, to the end that all may be aided ; and it will fight, and fight hard, to accomplish that aim. X know that congress and the administration are in sympathy with the nceds of agriculture. That is why so much already has been accom- plished, and why so much more will be done. MAKE TESTS ON BATES ROAD Has 63 Different Sections and Repre- sents That Many Kinds of Construction. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Final series of tests on one of the largest and most comprehensive road experiments ever attempted began March 27. . This road, located at Bates, Illinols, was designed and con- structed - by the Illinois division of highways under the direction of Clf- ford ' Older, chief highway engineer, with the bureau of public roads, Unit- ed States Department of Agriculture co-operating. It Is two miles long and includes 63 different sectlons rep- resenting as many different methods and kinds of construction, having various thicknesses of concrete, cement grout and asphalt-filled brick as well as asphait concretes and concrete with rolled stone bases. has beeri kept busy making observa- tions for effect of temperature changes, static and repeated loads and sub- grade conditions, thus collecting data which when analyzed will supplement the information necessary for the ra- tional design of roads. The road will now be subjected to the final test, that of very heavy truck trafiic, for the application of which wiIl be used a fleet of 10 motor trucks recelved by the state from the sur- plus of the War department. At first these trucks will be lightly loaded, but as the test progresses the load will be increased until maximum is reached giving a 12,000-pound rear wheel load. The results will show definitely the types of pavements which can be expected to support Building a Section of Bates Road. heavy trafic, as well as those which will not satisfy the requirements of such trafic conditions as might be ex- pected during the next 10 or 20 years. The careful observation of the varions sections in the absence of trafiic which has formed the first part of the Investigation, it is expected, will enable the engineers to ascertaln tie structural weaknesses which cause such failures as may tase place in the fraffic tests, After the experiment has been com- pleted, this road with its broken sec- tions replaced will form a part of Illi- nois federal_ald project No, 13 from Since the completion of its construc- | tion In April, 1921, a corps of engineers | Springfield, Iilinois, to St. Louls, Mis- souri. The test wili be carried on under the dlrection of Clifford Older, with H. F. Clemmer in direct charge of the ex- perimental work and R. R. Benedict in charge of the trucks and main- tenance. The bureau of public roads will be represented by A. T. Gold- beck and C. A. Hogentogler. @Wm-wam‘-«;’-.»-«n i ROADS PAY- DIVIDENDS A wagon with a load of 3,000 pounds required an average draft of 108 pounds on a gravel road in dry ‘condition, in a re- cent test at the Missouri College of Agricultufe. The same load on a dry clay'road required a draft of 321 pounds. This shows the great variation in the work done in hauling and in the size of load a team can handle, says i J. C. Wooley, chairman of the agricultural engineering depart- { ment, which conducted this test. ¢ The gravel roads prove their value even more completely un- der spring conditions. This load on the same roads after a heavy rain required a draft of 180 pounds on the gravel, and 372 pounds on the clay. This is only one of the many advantages of- i fered by all-the-yes= roads. + & | | | | Father of Three Kings. Charles Bonaparte, father of the great Emperor Napoleon, was a hum- ble lawyer, with no very extensive practice, in the sleepy little town of Alacclo, in the isle of Corsica. He seems to have been a most affection- ate and exemplary parent, and as the father of three sons who became kings (Joseph, king of Naples and Spain; Louls, King of Holland, and Jerome, King of Westphalia), and a fourth who beenme the greatest military com- mander, monarch and king-maker of modern times, he holds an unique place In history. There were thirteen children in the family, Napoleon being the second. Charles Bonaparte, although hardly well-to-do, strove to give his sons the best possible education, and had he not decided to send Napoleon (then aged ten) to the military school at Brienne, the whole course of the world's history might have been changed. Plant’s Remarkable Growth. A recent note in science records what is believed to be the temperate zone record for a single season’s growth of a shoot of the tree type of woody plant. This quite phenomenal shoot grew from the stump of a be- hended Paulownin and reached a height of 21 feet 6 inches, a circum- ference of 10 -inches at the base, and had 24 leaves, ofie of which, measured in late July,’'was found to be 38 Incheg long in the largest dimension. Survival of Old Roman Custom. The custom of appointing proml- nent cltizens to act as a guard of houor at a great man’s funecral is the survival of an ancient Roman custom. from the old doys in the “City of the Seven Hllls.” “pall” comes from the Latin word “palla,” the long sweeping robes worn only by priests and men and women of the' highest standing. When a great personage died his “palla” was thrown over his coffin and a number of his distinguished friends were permitted to “bear the palla” to the grave and to act as guard of honor to the dead. RENOWNED AS GREAT RULER Roman Emperor, Trajan, Spread the Boundaries of the Empire and Governed Justly at Home. The Roman emperor, Trajan, whose full name “was Marcus ‘ Ulpius Tra- janus, was born about the year 56 at Nalica in Spain, which was then a Roman province. He was trained for a military career and gained distinc- tion in the Parthian and German cam- paigns, and after holding two cfvil offices was adopted by' the Emperor Nerva, whom he succeeded on the imperial throne in the year 98. The greater part of his time as emperor was spent in the field commanding his troops. His first campaign was carried on beyond the Danube against. the Daeians, whom he conquercd after a long struggle. In the conquered country he planted a Romap colony, and the descendants of those colonists are the Roumanians of today. Trajan’s next war was carriéd on in the East. He made Armenia and Mesopotamia into Roman provinces, but suffered defeat at Ctesiphon, not far from Kut-el-Amara, where a British force was cut off and compelled to sur- render during the World war. In his rear the Jews of Cyrus and Cyrene rose in revolt and made fearful mas- |. sacres, and disorders also arose in the West. Trajan returned to the coast and took ship for Italy. His health was broken and while on the Journey he died at Selinus in Cilicia, Asia Minor, in August, 117. Trajan found time to accomplish much in the Internal improvement of the empire. He beautified Rome; he constructed canals, great military roads, and har- bors, and built up towns. Law was enforced and justice fairly admin- istered. FISH MISTAKEN FOR VESSEL Peculiar Appearance of Swordfish Gave Rise to Many Strange Stories Concerning It. In the warm waters of the Indian ocean there lives a strange mariner, who is the cause of many tales among the natives of the near-by coasts. They tell of a wonderful sail often seen in the calm seasons, when not a breath disturbs the water, and the sea rises and falls like an jmmense sheet of glass. Suddenly a sail appears, ap- parently driven along by a mighty wind.” This sail glistens with rich purple and golden hues. On it comes, quivering and sparkling as if covered with gems; then, suddenly, it dis- appears as quickly as it came! Many travelers have listened with unbelief to this. strange tale, until, one day, this beautiful craft passed directly under the stern of a passing vessel, and It was seen to be a gigan- tic swordfish which is now known as the “sailor-fish.” .The sail was really an enormously developed. dorsal . fin, over 10- féet: high, ‘and " richly colored with blue and iridescent tints. . As the fish swam along near thé surface of "the water this great fin waved to and fro, -so that from a distance it was easily mistaken for a sail. ! 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Cunning as a fox and hard as nails, this. unspoiled man outwits and outfights the worst bad men of the metropolis., But even Arizona meets its match in the perso-x‘l ofa ~ girl as game and resourceful as Clay Lindsay himself, and. the ensuing events will satisfy the most romantic reader. § P Every one who has read “The Bifi;’:' ‘own Round Up” | says it is by far the best novel Raine ever written and will surely place him once and for all in the very front rank of writers about the West. i starting ~ In Thursday’s Issue We shall print it in serial installments racs g t El i i