Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 4

THE '‘BEMIDJI AILY PIONEER-{ '?AGTORS AFFECTING GRADING Labor Costs, Character of Soil Graded and Jime Limit on Contracty, All Counted, . ,’w States Department ure. 1 "A great variation in the conditlons under which grading for highways is done in different sections of the United States 1s reflected in cost data com- plled by the bureau of public roads, fUnlr.ed States Department of Agricul- ‘ture, on 1,350 miles of federal-aid road. /The figures cover the four-year puriod . 11917-1921 and are based on a total of 124,500,000 yards of earth, i For the groups of states the aver- lage price per cubic yard is as fol- Yows: New England and Middle At- 'lantic states, $1.33; East North Cen- tral, $0.68; West North Central, $0.493 South Atlantic, $0.61; East South Ce: tral, $0.41; West South Central, $0.35; Mountain, $0.52; and Pacific states, 1$0.61, The general average price was $0.56. Probably the most fmportant Tactor affecting the cost was the amount of grading to be done per mile, the ‘quantity being very small in the .groups hgving the highest prices. In «general it is noticed that where mostly old roads are rebuilt, the light work and tearing up the old pavement great- ly affected the cost. The amount of fine grading or trimming required for the higher types of pavement was also a factor. Labor costs, character of .80l to be graded, climatic conditions, ‘time limit on contracts, and cost of idetours for traffic also affected the ‘cost. (Prepared by the United o of Agricult ‘While each group of states did not have the same volume of grading each year, and therefore the average figure for the whole country {s not truly ‘representative, it 1s interesting to note | that the average cost of grading grad- Concrete Road Designed to Take Care of Great Deal More Than Local Traffic. ually rose from $0.49 in the fitst quar- ter of 1917 to $0.67 in the fourth quarter of 1919, and then gradually declined to §0.34 in the third quarter of 1921. It Is Drobable that the latter figure would be gomewhat higher had all of the states let work In that quar- ter. & i }X H : H i ans i) B e e i FIVE BIG QUESTIONS Are the roads in your county a credit to you, or are you ashamed of themn? Are the ronds in your county wide enough for the convenient passage of cars? Are the roads in your county marked, so that tourists from distant states have no difficulty keeping to the right road? Are the roads in your county all-year-round roads, or only good-weather ronds? Are the roads in your county such that tourlsts traveling over theln want to come back that way? ? | | — P R T——— KENTUCKY TO BUILD ROADS House of Representatives Approves $50,700,000 iState Bond lssus Bill By Big Vote. Kentucky, famous for several things, is now to add “good roads” to its list. The $50,000,000 state road bond Is bill has been approved by the tucky house of representatives by a vote of 63 to 34. This measure provides for submit- ting the proposition to the voters ot the state at the election next Novem- ber. If it is approved the money I8 to be used over a period of five years. To pay off this indebtedness three kinds of taxes are pledged—a gasoline tax, a license tax and a 3-cent road tax. It Sounds the Road. Facts about what happens under a rondway as traflic passes over it are being obtained. by -the use of an in- genious device perfected by the burean of public roads. The device is one of the new instruments developed to dis- cover what thickness of roadbed should be constructed for heavy ‘or light tradic on various kinds of soil. Source of Much Trouble. A common source of trouble to im- proved roads is that of poor drainage . or total lack of crainage. Sudbsoriba sor The Dally Fioneer. [EME “WAY DOWN EAST,” RETURN ENGAGEMENT, REX TONIGHT D. W. Griffith’s picturization of “Way Down East,” based on the stage play by Lottie Blair Parker, which for the past twenty-two years was one of the rural classics of the American theatre, will be presented at the Rex theatre tonight for two days, with the following cast: Lillian Gish , Richard Barthelmess, Mary Hay, Burr McIntosh, Lowell Sherman, Creighton Hale, Mrs. Mor- Nelson, George Nevile, Vivia Ogden, Porter Strong, Josephine, Bernard, Mrs, David Landau, Patricia Fruen, Florence Short, Emily Fitzroy and Myrtle Sutch. Mr. Griffith’s production’ of “Way Down .East” represent ten month’s work of the most exacting charac- ter, for in his screen version of the story he has endeavored to follow closely the narrative of the stage play, with here and there a digres- sion for the purpose of dramatic value or eladoration. “HER HUSBANDS TRADEMARK"” AT ELKO THEATRE TONIGHT Should a wife obey her marriage vows when she knows that her hus- band is compelling her to do an ac- tion utterly despicable? Should she go through with it, even tho her soul revolts at the very idea? Those are two questions most forcefully an- swered by Gloria Swanson, in her latest and truly greatest Paramount photoplay, “Her Husband’s Trade- mark,” to be shown at the Elko theatre tonight, last times. inee and evening. 2 There is a worth while theme in “Her Husband’s Trademark.” It teaches the folly of men and women who live beyond their means and who seek to attract wealth by, making lavish displays of wealth they do not possess. Miss Swanson has a strong role and is finely supported by a capable cast of players: WHAT’S WORTH WHILE?” AT ELKO THEATRE TOMORROW Lois Weber, director-producer of “What’s Worth While?”, her latest production for Paramount, in dis- cusing this picture immediately after the editing had been completed, stated that, taken as a whole, she considered this picture which will be shown at the Elko theatre tomorrow and Thursday, her greatest screen achievement. The story has all pa- thos and comedy of life as IT IS, which is faithfully portrayed in a manner that will allow the exhibiting of thig, production to a Sunday School class, without offense. and which at the same time has retained the fkick” which will satisfy the most rabid fan. Its a picture with a “kick” but no kickers, Claire Windsor has the leading woman’s rale. LETTER WRITING WINS LOVE IN “DON'T WRITE LETTERS” A wholesome and thoroughly de- lightful comedy of the ambitions of a young man to’ appear brave to a girl whom he has never met is the theme of “Don’t Write Letters,” the new photoplay in which Gareth Hughes is starred, It will be shown at the GGrand theatre tonight and Wednesday. “Don’t Write Letters” is a George D. Baker production for S-L (Ar- thur Sawyer and Herdert Lubin) and is distributed by Metro. The play is based on’ Blanche Brace’s Saturday Evening Post story, “The Adventure of a Ready Letter Writ- er”” It was photographed by Ru- dolph Bergquist. This cast includes besides Mr, Hughes, Bartine Burkett, Herbert Hayes, Margaret Mann, Har- Lorraine, Lois Lee and Victor Potel. ADDED ATTRACTION ;TONIGHT AT THE GRAND THEATRE As an added attraction, in con- juction with the regular picture pro- gram of a Pathe Weekly News reel, a short comedy and the feature pic- ture“Don’t Write Letters,” the pro- gram tonight and Wednesday at the Grand theatre will include an extra vaudeville act by Jas. Schafer & Co., who will present Harmony,:Singing, Comedy and that amusing .and. mys- tifying act “Sawing a Woman in hif”. It was this act that caused so much newspaper publicity through- out the country, it having béen an unusually strong attraction for the past season, causing no end of com- ment. In presenting this act, Mr. Schafer will invite a committee from the au- dienece to come, upon the stage and endeavor to see how it is done, allow- ing a thorough inspeetion of the box and paraphenalia at the time the wo- man is placed in the box, and after the saw has been pased through the box showing the woman in the same position as before. ; The performance will be given twice each evening at 7 with the admis for children and 30c for aduits, to- night and tomorrow. Physician Uses Airplane. A doctor In Syria, to keep in touch with his patients among the wandering Bedouin tribes, uses un airplane. From his headquarters in Palmyra he ilies over the desert, allghting wherever he finds a tribe encamped. His fame ag a physician has already spread far in- to the desert, and whenever his ‘plane lands Bedouin patients floas to con- sult him. Although his practice cov- ers a wide aren and his " nomad pa- tlents are constantly on the move, his task is compuratively easy. The clear air of the desert makes it pos- sible for him to see encampments ut a great distance. Doctor Martinet has already flown to and treated over 100 serfous cases and many minor ones. He Reads the Papers. Briggs—Every ofticeholder has his trials, T suppose. Griges—Yes, and quite a few ot them have their convictions.—Boston Transcript. PAWNEE ROCK A STATE PARK | Kansas Acquires Site of a Great Ir dian Battle Which Took Place on Old Trail. One of the real historical places in Kansas—Pawnee Rock—a monument Lor hill of rock which stood alongside of the Santa Fe trail, and which today 18 still a break in the level of the Ar- kunsas valley through which the old trail wended its way, has been made a .state -purk, according’to the Great Bend' ' correspond of ‘the Topeka Capital. » 3 ‘ Citizens of Pa the base of this P make it ‘one of thi K who live at " preparing 10 they- travel over the route which fv i many” years was. thay clpal routd to' the Pacific. The“rock 18 to bt cleanéd fup for the smpmer, the rond to the top, where a monument and pavilien are located, 1s to be made over and the place made one where tourists will find it pleasant to stop and camp. Pawnee Rock was named for the Pawnee Indians who met annually of. the rock, and tradition is that it wus the scene of ene of the greatest fights in the annals of the Indians of the plain, when an attacking body of In- diuns besieged the Pawnees while they were in annual conclave, and the fight lasted for days, the Pawnee being safely fortified on the rock but being cut off from water, though scouts man- aged to reach the river during the night and relieve their people on the rock. i In the years when the chief route to California was the Santa Fe trail and the government maintained forts every 40 to 100 miles the rock was a favorite camping place for trains go- ing through. The names of hundreds of travelers were cut in the soft sand- stone of which the rock Is composed. Among them were many men famous in" military history of the United States, including General Sherman and General Sheridan. NEW ALLOY COMES INTO USE Duralumin Said to Be Valuable for the Construction of Worm Wheels or Gears. ‘Worm wheels or gears of a new ma- terial are a recent development, says the Sclentific American. Such wheels have malnly been made of steel or fron or bronze, but now, for certain purposes and under certain conditions, they are being made of duralumin. This alloy has never before been used as gears. Duralumin is an alloy of aluminum, magnesium, manganese and a little copper, and its strength and toughness can be made equal to mild steel, and for a given section the weight is one- third that of the continental bronze. Superlor strength in the teeth is as- sured by the alloy's tensile strength and elastic limit. The same properties that make du- ralumin a suitable and desirable ma- terlal for worm wheels also make it valuable for spur gears and other gearing. Where duralumin can be run with steel rather than against itself the best results are obtained. For exam- ple, in the timing gear trains of auto- moblle motors, where both long life and quletness are essential, helical cut spur gears of duralumin alternat- ed with steel gears have been in suc- cessful service. London’s Infamous Slums. The slums of London, especially in Shoreditch and Bethnal Green, have scores of householders who have not had to pay any rent for two or three years and have not the remotest idea of who thelr landlords are. The land- lords dare not come forward and ad- mit that they own these houses, which are In a shocking state of repiir. The property is now a liability rather than an asset. = These tumbledown houses have mostly fallen Into the hands of foreigners and change hands so fre- quently that track is lost of the for- mer owners. The queen was shown some of the worst of these places by the inayor when she visited Shoreditch recently. - She had expressed awish that nothing should be “tidied up” be- forchand. In two rooms of one ram- shackle dwelling in Wilmer gardens lives a man with nc¢ less than nine children. His Affliction. A new disease has been discovered —at lenst so one of the workers of | the Pittsburgh chapter of the Ameri- can Red Cross reports. It developed the other duy when a veteran called for ald. “What can we do for you?' anx- fously inquired the worker as she looked Into the rather dejected coun- tenance of the World war soldier. “I need some asslstance.” “What does your doctor say Is the matter?” “I dunno just what it is, but he says ‘formation of the diagnosis.’” An effort is being made to ascertain the nature of this new' ailment.—Med- ical Record, nda hen recently owned hy Nels Plerson, who lives in the Mas- cotte section, has smastied the world's | record for egg production in one year [ by laying 339 eggs.” Mr. Pierson bad | another hen of the sume breed wiich | laid 335 eggs during the year 1921. The chickens were purchased from | a poultry breeder at Berea, 0., and when the breeder learned of the re- markable record of the two birds he came all the way from his Ohio home, | purchased them and took them back north for exhibition purposes.—FEustis Lake (Fla.) Region. Living on Easy Avenue. A group of wealthy New York fami- lles finding the servant and ' supply problem of private houses annoying, have built on Park avenue a great $18,000,000 apartment house with apartments that range from two rooms in a bachelor apartment at $5000 a year to 22 rooms for a nominal rental of $55,000 a year, and the tenants have all been hand-picked. As they didn’t want to be bothered with em- ploying servants they sent to France for Louls Sherry, who used to run New York's swellest restaurant in booze “diys, says Capper's Weekly. Now when:a. maid 1s wanted the ten- ant has merely to press a button and there’s always one waiting to answer as promptly -as a fire engine. Cooks likewise. A private *"household can be equipped, with every possible need from @ box of matches to a flunky to light ‘them in thirty minutes. Very Depths of Despair. Stanley Coulter, dean of Purdue university, has found a new definition for the word “pessimist,” which he gave to the Optimist club of Lafayette, Ind, at a club luncheon a few days ago. Dean Coulter, who is chairman of the Near East relief organization of Tippecanoe .county, made an appeal to the club”for Armenian orphan aid, his talk supplementing a showing of the picture, “Alice in Hungerland.” The dean asserted that all optimists must come to the relief of distressed people of the world. “I know the op- timists of this club,” he said, “and X am sure there is not one of you like the man I recently heard about—a man who feels bad when he feels good for fear he will feel worse after he feels better. That, gentlemen, is the latest explanation of a real pessimist.” ois Weber The story of a girl who fell in‘love with a man she had never seen. And when they met— watch her learn some new things about life! Admission—10c & 25¢ lELKU - Laf ay Art. “This stage beauty is billed as ' & daring dancer.” “Strictly speaking, there are no more dancers of that kind,” sald Mr. Grumpson. “The limit of daring was reached and passed long ago. Nowa- days we merely view the performance and wonder whether the show will go on or the star will be arrested.”—Bir- mingham Age-Herald. S —————— NOTICE FOR BIDS | Notice Is hereby given that Scliool. Board of School District No. onex, \Fownship, Beltram! _ Count Linn:,WR) meet ut the School Hquse in a DfSedict (commonly. known as the Woodlandi School) at 8 o'clock P. M., June. 10, 1422, for the purpose of re- ceiving sd&:fl bids_on _building a new Schabl WHekse in Baid Distri £8x38x12, ‘With «clonkrooms, porch, et all first-class matexial, where necessary, to he, furnished by ‘building contractor. All’Bida {must be aéegmpanied by a cer- tified check equal to-6%. of the amount of the7hid to insura-god faith, which check wi returned Yo each’ unsuc- cessful_bidder immédiately, and to the successful bidder it complétion of con- tract. The' School Board reserves the righ any or.all bids. Plans and specifi an be seen at the Clerld miles southeast of Solway. . Dated at my office this 18th day of May, 1922, E J. C. ANDERSON, 2d5-24 . Clerk of School Board. Such Is Life “Eighteen years ago I had three ribs broken, fourteen years ago my right leg; eleven years ago I nearly went over with typhoid fever and since_then have had awful stomach and lLver trouble. Was. filled : with gas most ‘all:the time.". Iwould have wolic attacks:so bad as-to bécome un- conscious..~No; medicine,_helped ‘me ‘and doctors‘advised an opération.-One day talking with a stranger he rec- ommended ;Mayr’s Wonderful, Rem- edy, which helped me 8t ofice. % It is a simple, harmless preparation funded. At All Drugais v. that removes; the cat from the intestinal tra¢t 4n the inflammation: which. cadges™ tically all stomach, liver “and~intésti- nal ailments, including appendicitis. the 6 Bring ws your clean oot ton rags--no buttons, bands or woolep cloth accepted. Pioneer Office | i | If your lights go out— If your iron won’t heat— If you need wiring done— If you need light globes— CALL US! Haling-Walker Electrical Co. Electrical Supplies ' & Wiring —Phone 202-J— i Brosvik Tailor Shop Pansensagessssnsasnnsapsnsenngunanas ELEGTRIGAL SERVIGE | | | | | WED. & THURS. how it was done. ADDED ATTRACTION JAS. S. SHAFER & CO. In Harmony Singing, Comedy Talk and presenting that AMUSING and MYSTIFYING Act that has thrilled audiences in ten thousand theatres— “Sawing a Woman In Half” Mr. Shafer will invite a committee on the stage to inspect his performance, and defys them to learn THE PICTURE PROGRAM—— GARETH HUGES Star of “Sentimental Tommy,” “Truth,” in— “DON’T WRITE LETTERS” A comedy of missives and misadventures; proving that it's safer to “Say It With Flowers.” PATHE WEEKLY NEWS Tonight and Wednesday THE PIONEER WANT ADS! BRING RESULTS Shows at 7:30-9:00—Admission 10c & 30c GRAND | T_' = TUESDAY ENING, MAY 23, At graduation time your friends expecy your photograph. Phone 239 for an ap- , pointment today. | = ,\/\ “The Photographer in Your Town” See this vivid romance of modern married life—the thrilling raid of Mexican bandits—the flight across the border—the great love scene in the lost forest. Toneer ELKO st Times and Wednesday RETURN ENGAGEMENT. AT-POPULAR PRICES! D. W. GRIFFITH Presents = Way Down East Based on Wm, A. Brady’s Famous Play By Lottie Blair Parker. LILLIAN GISH £ RICHARD. . BARTHELMESS in/ D:W. GRIFFITHS /AWAY "DOWN EASTY Educational C%edy—-in two parts CHESTRA ! 1 REX MAT. 2:30 :— EVE.7:10.9:00 10c & 25c e COMING—THURSDAY & FRIDAY KATHERINE McDONALD “THE WEMAN’S SIDE” ‘Read The Pioneer Want Ads