Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 26, 1922, Page 11

‘fHE hmm.vrmn.f FIONEER" PLANS FOR THE “NEXT- WAR” Military Training Camps Asgociation to Open School to Cjviliang to Prepare, Officety. A If the association which Henry J. Rellly is now promoti proves as successful as the e’ i’ . organization which he helped to form,in Paris a few years ago, there will be no searcity of com- ' petent ofticers for the ‘“next war.” Mr. Reilly-is now working out plans for the Military Training Camps association - for the training of ofticers. Affer serving as a briga- dier general during the World he finished his overseas work b§ hélping form the American Legion In 1| an_abundance of exercise. Paris.” ' * The military training camps are open “to civilians who' feel the need of regular training, regular hours and Mr: Reilly has* acquired National Service, the assaciation’s - official magazine. He expects ‘to consolidate’ this magazine with” the ' Army and Navy Journal ofwhich ‘hie is now editor. The Soil Does Not Exhaust. :Dr. Curtis F. .Marbut of the United State§ Department of Agriculture has sailed on a three-months’ trip to Bu- rope, and his special mission will be to determine why it is that the soil in some parts of Europe which has been worked since the Christian era. has not been .exhausted. " He will bring home samples of the soils of va- rious countries visited and analyses will be made in the endeavor to ar- rive at the secret. In Ttaly and Gireece the soil-has Dbeen tilled for centurids and hus never been fer- tilized, and has never had the advan- tage of live stock raising. 9 ¥ $2.00, for ....... 206 THIRD ST. Khaki Shirts, new DOLLAR > SPECIALS Hatch one-buttén Union Underwear, ‘worthupto_$2.50, FOR: o s weiliosio $1.00 OFF On Every Pair of Shoes from $3.50 to $6.00 Boys’ Knee ‘Pants, worth up to WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28th QUALITY MEN’S STORE 5 pair Cashmere Sox.$].00 10 pair Cotton Sox. . .$1.00 4 pair Lisle Sox. .. ..$1.00 4 pair Wool Sox . ... . .§1.00 ---$1.00 Campaign Hats Eals m 3 Canteens . . ok _m 2 Mess Kits ... .....$1.00 Recl. O. D: Shirts. . .$1.00 4-1b Axes ..........$1.00 | JU.s. Surplus Army * Goods Store 3 DAY $1 $1 BEMIDJI, MINN. ¥ Next to Grand Theater that which has o beak like that of a Floor Paints .......$1.00 K’ki Army Breeches.$].00 Wool Army Breeches . §1,00 2 pr Canvas Leggings. $1.00 Motor Transport Gaunt- lets .............$1.00 10 pr Canvas Gloves.$].00 PARROT FISH 0DD CREATURE Must Have Been Devised When Mothe er ‘Nature Was“in' Unusually Freakish ‘Mood. It some one asked you, “What Is parrot and_chéek pouches like those of :a moiikey, lives’ in the sea and chews the I"like a _cow?” you might imagine it was some kind of catch rid- dle. Yet there is u creature which.an- swers this description. perfeetly, It is called the parrot fish, The upper, and lower jaws have be- come hardened into a sharp, curved beak, which is just the tool required for lopping off lumps of tough weed. Each piece snipped off by the beak is passed into one of the two curious pouches which adorn the cheeks, and there it remains until the parrot fish fecls that he has collected enough to make a good- meal. He then lies on the bottom and chews ; the cud by means of the splendid set of teeth which nature has placed, not in his mouth; but in his throat.—Iox- change, The Spoon. The first spoon was the palm of the land. Afterward people used shells they got at the seashore. Then they thought of fitting handles on shells. Though spoons were used ages ago in ancient Fgypt, Greece and Rome, it was a long time lll‘ffll’? they were used in the west of Europe. So late as the Fifteenth century the highest farm of the spoon was the shell with the handle, But.by the time Louis XV reigned in France the modern daintily decorated spoon was used. ? Carrying On With the American Legion JRP— G Various units of the Auxiliary have now adopted every ward in the war hospital_ at Oteen, N. C. The last “orphan” ward was taken over by the women of Sitka, Alaska. ¥ s ‘A propased reduction in the salaries of .the school teachers of Seattle, Wash,, was protested at once by the Amerlcan Legion there as being a bad thing for the public schools. * By keeping tab on alien slackers ap- plying -for naturalization, the Legion post at Spencer, Ta., has, it reports, “kept several yellow individuals from becoming American citizens.” R . The camp for disabled ex-soldiers of Minnesota, located on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, is under the man- agement of the American Legion and the - Minneapolis Council of - Social Agencies, The camp was formerly con- ducted through the summer season by the veterans’ bureau. 220 Third Street . - —_— S SUBSCRIEE FOR STANDARDIZE BRIDGE DESIGN No Sound Reason for Amount of Va- riation in Specifications That Now Exist in Building. (Prepared by the United States Department . of Agriculture.) Greater standardization of practice in the design and construction of high way bridges is urged by the bureau of public roads of the United States De- bartment of Agriculture. It is lieved that there is no sound re for the amount of variation in speciti- cations that now exists and that it! results In greater cost of bridges. State officials take the same view as the bu- reau and a committee composed of bridge engineers has been appointed by the American Association of State Highway Officials to consider the mat- ter. A nual of Practice” is being prepared, which will represent the best thought on the subject and which it is believed will be accented by all the state highway depurtments. * Not only will the adoption of such a man- ual lead to the building of bridges of good d but it will also make pos- sible a saving in money, as bridge companies will not be called upon to meet so much variation in design. \ INFORMATION HARD TO GAIN Statistics Concerning Roads of Differ- ent States in Some Cases Not Easily Obtained. P (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) With the annual expenditure for roads and streets in the United States approaching the billlon-dollar mark, more accurate information and better means for obtaining it seem necessary, says the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agricul- ture. One thing very much needed is the concentration of all sorts of in- formation -and statistles concerning the roads of the various states in the state highway departments. Engineers of the department are now gathering complete information regarding the road mileage and ex- penditures in the United States. In wmany of the states much of the In- formation desired is easily obtainable from the stute highway department. In the case of Iowa the figures were obtained almost immediately. In other cases it has been necessary to semid out numerous questionnaires and some- The Brotherton-Berlin Road in Penn- sylvania, Showing How .It Appeared Before and After It Was Improved by a Concrete Road-Bed, times the information has been ob- tained only after personal visits. In one state 1,800 questionnaires had to be sent out to bring in the necded figures, and in some it has been found that practically no records have been kept., For some of the counties in New Mexico questionnaires had to be trans- lated into Spanish before the road offi- clals could understand them, BRIDGES ON IMPROVED ROADS Few Structures Less Than 18 Feet Are Now Being Constructed, Say Engineers. Few highway bridges with a width of roadway less than 18 feet are now being constructed on improved ronds, according to engincers of the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. In the past.some 12 feet and a good many of 16-foot width have been constructed in an effort to economize, but it has proved shortsighted economy. Only one line of traflic can pass over a 12| foot roadway, and 16 fect of width| will not accommoda two lines in| safety. Many of the states, such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio and Massachusetts, have found it advisable I replacing old bridges on important roads to make them wide enough to accommodate three and four iines of traflic, Material for Good Roads. Tederal aid roads, either completed or under construction in the United States at the end of the present fiscal year, will require approximately 50,- 000,000 tons of stone and g for | the making of 28,000 miles of high- way, i Farmer Begins to Compete. ‘With smooth, hard roads from farm to town, and a big substantial 10-mile- an-hour truck .to haul grain or hogs in, the farmer will begin to compete with rall.and ‘water, transportation, THE PIONEER' FLAPPER HAD KINDLY HEART | Just Goes to Prove’ That One ls Not Always Safe in Judging by Appearances. F She got on the interurhan car a few stops the~other side of Greencastle last week—a typical little apper with wee of paint bobbed, hair, .an. abund on her cheek every avallable man in sight. Across the aisle was ‘an old-fashioned xivl, the. 80! vou-see in pictures, Livery one of the latter's glances toward the little flapper w scorm. But when they reached Green- castle a'little Japanese girl got on the car, And then both of the girls watched her. A few miles out of town the Jap- anese girl became ill. The old-fash- ioned girl sat aloof, but the little “flapper” immediately got interested, moved over to her, patted her cheek and then straightened her on the seat, taking the other girl's head in her lap. If a vote could have been taken foe the most popular girl on the train the’ “flapper” would have taken first, lagt and all honors,—Indianapolls News, SOLVED GERMAN RADIO SPEED Dperators’ Ingenuity in Use of Dicta- phone Aided in Intercepting Code Messages. On a bench in the Bols de Bologne, in company with mademoiselle, or In running or crawling toward the RBoche’s trench, the American - dough- boy couldn’t be equalled for ced. T @8 PAGE THRE! & Wlien it came time, however, to pass secret radio m nges, where no par- ticular danger was involved either for the sender’ or the recelver, thiidier- mans séemed to be ablé to miake;it'a trifle spappler. ' o The ‘ufortgoing is apropos of. the statement that German code messhges were sent so fast that radio operators of the allies, who weren't supposed to be playing, anyway, were not able/to take them. until what the allied operators lacked in speed they made up in ingenuity. A certain operator, by the triangulation method, found that messages were he- ing sent from a station in Germany to another in German East Africa. After several weeks of work, this operator took a dictaphone to his sta- tion and set the blank wax eylinder in motion at a rapid rate of spesd while a German message was on its way to Afrk After the m ge had been “caught” in the wax cylinder the cylinder was placeil on a teanseribing machine and then run so slowly that the mysterious dots and dashes could be taken with ease. Later, the mes- snge was decoded and its seeret known by the allies, 'The knowledge derived from this operator’s experiment is now employed in transcribing press mes- snges from Europe to America, The World’s Greatest Dam. Plans have been made to build a dam on the Colorado river which® will hold back a volume of water equal to two years’ ;flow of the entire, 1,800 miles of rushing river. The dam is to be 700 feet high, approximately the h of .the Woolworth bullding in N I The form It was not long, though, Yfioldness, of . conception to this en- o' reservolr with™in area ot 200 square miles and an av 2 depth of 350 | feet. This body. of water will. consti- tute” the largest artificial. Take in the world, » One western railtead system i alréady planning to operate a fleet of stewmers to carry ‘tourists over this ‘man-made lake to the Grand canyon, thewonder spot of - America. The Danagua canal. is the only: undertak- dng cver attempted in America which ftagy e compared in magnitude or gincering’ project, - which “will trans- form an empire of waste jnto a re- glon of productivity—\Werld's Work, New Observatory Opens. The municipal observatory at Des Moines, Ia, which is said to be the only municipal observatory in the world, is open to the public. The wtory huilding is to be equipped e university with an eight- ieh equatorial telescope. It is to be under the control of the university and open to the public at least three times a week, and at other time when occasion may wa nt. Deletsrious Imitation. “Dan't you sometimes lose faith in hunman nature ™ “Never,” repllied Senator Sorghum. s depend on human ous actions and un-* idiced opinions, " That refers, of . to genuine human nature, which Isn't always so ceasy to find. A “You can alw nature for e cour: good many people feel that they have to depend on human artifice and dis- simulation. Human natuve, my friend. What makes the trouble 18 all vigh 1 huma SOME REAL BARGAINS [ T A price .......... price .......... SHOP EARLY! 50 sheets Carbon Papér, 81x13 ............51.00 2 dozen Lead Pencils, reg- ular price 5¢ each, sale 1 dozen Note Books, reg- ular price 10c each, sale 2 dozen Note Books, reg- ular price 5c each, sale price .............$1.00 We present these offerings, knowing that buyers look for ex- - traordinary Bargains on Dollar Day. 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