Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 5, 1922, Page 3

dand Punished. T! 28 b it By‘EDWARD B GLARK Wnshmgtbn.—lhe new wur contract dlvlflon organized. in- the’Department of “Justice has - begun “its; work. m; + duty will be to lnvqpugale and, whgré‘ the evidence ls 8 cases against ‘Wl ers, A special grand Jury. in Washington to consl "-of “grafting pr Lows by this | general” has’ promised to’do ‘about the ecuti porations and individuals agninst- which:-and; . who “ there is evldfince leading to a falr: pre- sumption th fraud the gomm&m ”Tl Pl ,ress of. the .wi y. ital today. realizes, and" says- SO, : there would be no necessity for pros- ~ecution of ‘war proflteers, nor. iwould % there' be’any bonus bill to worry. tI country if a-logical course had ‘been pursued at the'time’' whén' the draft. - law, 'was framed. Men, regardless of politics, say: foday-‘that if.'¢apit: _ bor, and, everything “and ““everybouy else. had been conscripted, just as the .} soldiers were conscripted, the finuncial ~ and court troubles of the United States would be less today by at ‘lenst 75 per ‘cent. There is a vast amount of work to be done by the new war conmu;t dl\;l- “sion ‘of “the attorney” general’s- office: All sorts, of frauds against the govern- : ment ‘have been chatged. "It is. sald ¢ that concerns of various kinds made enormboiis broms. not * only by “over- . ‘charges-but by skimping -work-and by: £ flulng other things which not only : “robbed the country, but imperiled .the lives of its soldiers. Some Prnnti‘rl G and-‘eoncerns Who" took - advantage of | & : the general war condltluns to over- - charge’ the o_;d i lgnd. for the neeessurl also for Its. luxuries; 'for durm i tiyne of high wages for. Amellcan ork- { fighters; persons who ‘ne P: ‘In luxuries’ before ktruggled 'to get ¢ ‘pluces at the sales counters. The writer of this was told at ofie: time by n merchant that he had sold {. thousands of luxuries to girl workers, i In ‘munition factories,-'and "that ‘his ! i business ‘had been booming, and that ¢ ‘thierefore he felt he could afford at ! last to take life extremely, easy, dt least for a season. It ‘may not have : been that this man was a profiteer in _the ordinary senst ,-possibly - he made a small profit‘ofily-on each drti- . cle sold, but the fact thag high'wa were paid enabled’:certalii workers t buy for themselves mny uxuries, some of ‘which probably were ‘useless, | fh _After every war seemingly., the: must be'a harvest of scandal. * In the 2ld days the country heard of wormy; . biscuits, ‘shoddy blankets, embalmedt] beef and _varlous* other: commodities:|{hig" . for which thé taxpayers paid in money. |1 and the soldiers paid in prlvntlons. "It seems'likely: that before” the’ ht- - torney ~ general’s’ office - through with its work this ‘land’ Wwill‘have Jearned much ‘about what some of its citizens did to feather their nests while other citizens were going up against machine gun ‘nests”in the: forest- qf the Argonne. y Disclosures MgyiBe Startling.".\” Washington does not know whether or not a harvest of results is to be reaped hy the ‘hands: of the attorney f is snmd grafting. ngmm thes goyernment, the, case Wili ‘be preserited: dnd prosecute to the limit. The “coutitry ‘may ‘as well ‘mike ‘it gelf ready to receive some -highly:in- 2 teresting disclosures. . The. charges of. graft and profiteering have been made dnly sitice s the country - entered : the, 1, 1917 It now is to lw are particularly. interested in Teain| whether the gentlemen who'took thelr’ ense at home also were: tak toll out of the pe:;pl It is rece meanest grox'f;::,;e is ‘the “war " grafter, | Ever> time that he puts out a bad arti- cle when he is supposed to ‘put out'a good one, and is paid for a good one, he puts in jeopardy mot only ‘the |i safety of his country, but the lives of its soldlers. Profitéering, as the word { suggests, was profitable. 1t now is: fo be found .out whether. or_not it is to - be uhpunishable. titerary Gem From & ccnuul It Is not ‘the cugtom today, once it was,’ to appointments ‘to” Americans. because of thelr literary distiiction. Othier factors, Srequemly mutio.. ust 'ter into the equatto + | gray ‘sand-dunes from-the:shore of the {1and have become serried fortresses e -diplematicy. Jpercentage of Illemry men, h; th iula; service, In : iting fame' %o ‘that they little fnr melr" er greater: lights, When Albjon W, Tonrgee W s ‘serv- ing his country as consul at Bordeaux, nc& :he-wrote for the pages of the “Reforestution in France.” 'l‘he tirst few lines ' showed ‘little of 'interest. Then. the: eye reached this: ne. after another great waves ot, sand, moved hy the rekuess wlnds that Hlalhs o goughern B alns 6t gouthern ‘befor th%amg ds, yards, ‘'houses, churches, even vlllug —leaving’ behind. them only gray, M lcws .to which clung bunches of , a few starved bushes of find thickets of white and, putple. ‘fighting stubbornly. for a h shifting sands, ‘with ‘h some -straggiing:groups of pine, the ratésting-remains of a igrent forest "which “wind, and sand, water -had- spared.” This‘was the beginning-of a- descrlp- tion of the frresistible -march of :the Bay. of Biscay toward the heart of ‘the most productive 1and in Burope. The smry’tor this - old-official-communica: tion a_true story, continues: “On [ ithe sesward side the great furrows, 1ying one within the other, were. bara. fand gray. - The western" winds Niged: ‘the-light-sands;-and dropped them Jju! ‘beyond, the crest to:drown and smot] er the shrubs which struggled up the 'leeward side. Here.and there;in fa- f_forgotten commerce. ‘rhxe ‘brought’with them, not' onty ;eckleus greed, but still more reckless ‘flame, which, co-opérating’ with'the steady ‘western' ‘winds ‘and the :sand thrown-up; by: the restless ‘waves, ate laway. the" forests:and left only ‘the shifting ‘dunes—great ~'sand bilfows crept on inch by and’ year Y. yea! éntonibing ino! the bright- lossorted bruyeres and genets, . no matter: how. bravely they: ‘fought -for. exlstenee. leaving behind’ them ‘only pry roots, which-the. ‘forestiers’, gath- ered for their 'hearths. Nlpeteon Stopped the Devastation, “On and on crept the ngmla the_ terrible, dunes, sl gqt S ‘Bremontier, one of the nons' of the lseémiiigly’ doofnéd region, : conceived | I fn dea of saving the country. It'was' poleo: o seizediupon the thought: f Bremontier. “His wision penemted the centuries and he saw the margl phe deadly ‘dunes arrested and the des- ert they, bad created made t.o blonom Todiy; as, we_are told, the seedu pls ; [ the “pin" maritime” of* the Fren ‘l\vere gathered and sprouted and. the young trees planted. .Now “the dark Squadrons of the pin Lmaritime: are postéd. .on. thousands of nnndy slopes, faithful guardians in the ‘shelter 'of. which 'the :vineyards and unés which were!'sweeping over: the which shelter ‘eclvilization and’ pros- Mode! of “Buffalo Nl:kel" Dead. The o ul el of the: "Buflnlo o‘ham mounted, hangs'in the nnch house of the Mi] Jler brothers, ost Iere and cumprehenslve plan possible | m) owing’ & ece of slgned to the mfim N with its hay. - The barbs penetra(ed the livem of the 'beast and he#ed, d&'p‘flea‘ efpEspf ‘Veterigariady. Wasted Effort. _Sportsman—Stick to one game. ‘You can’t bring down a’ buck with bfrd-j shot. Anglet==That's;’ right, ‘and fishing for compliments never lands a hus- Cause of Evil. Billson—The good die young. ‘Netley—That must be why so many dflreuldv [taw in193p arch el and his heml propery SLaited: under llght h‘ cks* érli\en along] Jedge of the surfaces on-the first 'dny of theitest: s Elmsrondwhich was, especially :constructed .for. 'the experi- 'ménts’ now.’ being conducted' by :the state shighwity 'department”of :Iilinols in ico-opération with;' the: bureau’ of ic ‘roads, United . States: Depart- nient’ of Agiiculture, is twoimilés long and consistsof 'numerous- sections of different:itypes .of: construction. On Mnrch 80, the day the road was| opened-‘for the ests, 12 “tracks with Bodfes ‘rénioved”to “make “a load of 500 pounds on-each 'rear wheel' were | started on' trips, ‘which” will continue with ‘inCreasing ‘loads until ‘the ‘sult- ability ‘of ‘each type:is determinéd. The trncks ‘were driven 50 hat the sections beg L rhis expected, ds the’ afigc‘do"? wé\(m :f: figafl* design and .hiténded , to - demonstrate t.he futility of ‘such’ constructior f tests under the destructive 4 e trucks, and it Is ex- fl.%wad will be subjected to a num- ng Deflection and ‘Deformation::. of " Pavement : Under Load When Sub-grade Has Been Ro— L moved. tion_ will begained for use.in futyre rond construction. In addition to spe- ciallsts. assigned..to investigate soll” conditions, témperature ‘effects, and other _factors, five engineers are_con- stantly observing. the. .effect 'as the trucks continue their dafly grind. The experiments will continue until All the sections "have been thorouzhly tested. Nara, | Istlg, Treasures, Wi Once cln'%ul:’hnters:l st:r:lo 2 vl baAuRSyinig bekin | fip%lioldeq,‘ el YA O Nkl poost. 11 avell: M sz0pke: of jtheygeven Wi head, of, Bud- ”3 - %fi ‘e f%’B‘ ered soie’ 20’&01’& Girroy o Efl the £ S0l , Ni Mon; the great' Halll of Buddha, the nnqent And, most. interesting. vld shrine called ‘Ka The.Great South Gate was built In 762 A. D. and temodeled in 1199, On elther side nre two glgamm Higuves, Nio, gr_the Deva kings, ® pupil Unkel. “With the two_ stone’ lions close by, éxcellent speciniens-of Tayelfth ~ century Chm@.se scujptute. they. are listed and protected as “Na- (Ionu\’h'eusures iy The" ‘Nara-no-Dabiutsu, ‘Buddha in.749 A, D, is. the largest of ‘Kind_in annn. if not in the v.orld belng 5214 feet ln height. The Kaidan-in 18. remarkuble;for its |unusual _construction the . vast ment " insid ing onp‘ iibove:th other. to support the € {fia e ot 'the Devi “Kirigs, Thdra' and Brahma, which ate sald to be aniong the bes of 'the art of Nafa era, alfo are counted among the “Na- tional Treasurés.” “RAWTHER.DEEP, YOU KNOW™ Antrodus Latedt Particu. “Test of Amer- Says"Sindlalr Lewls, back from Eu- rope with the mamlscrlpt of a sequel to “Main" Street” T had’ the power ra make Henry Mencken the pope of He fiprends ‘Just the mes- suge aopmntlcauon ‘that - we need 80 badly.“ How, badly, We'néed, fl“i g)ph;;tlc ' de- 1" ‘huhle the, fi\h)e one we ‘saw ln\\xt ‘night?” 41 cawn't say. too’ long.” It the flock gets the polnt it 18 adeqm\t@lv mpl\lstlcatcd. £ “the potit }efirnpes “thy n_and-, es them' pnhled “fnd” puzzied it 18 ‘a slgn " that " this f.mlly, At least,s wonld ! be benefited by a Menckian nontm te, for Henry The. wbleeloth is 'phlst!uxmm," but “other things: as Tolk * Virgl Pllots 1kt B e LA L \ ) vozadapatd anan.t, bot He. Didiy a5t One:day as-Twassittingin the, \\hp, - dow. X saw a man;goming. upithe steeet, dressed, ke :a- favmer: ,; Now: I hag, but a'few wminutes before.f6en 2 §e05e. trying ‘to fly.over thecbushes In. the yard. As the man seemed to be 100king for. something, 1 called out to him: “Are you looking for a“goose?” He gtopped ‘short and gum\ su&]vl- clously, a8 my reads ‘not only=4 “message “of 'so- | 3 are H'l & poi to ‘our-‘old : 0#1 Sale- everywherefromNowm EN“USCO"anniounced its ‘éw low 'pritevof. '$10.90 "l1ast * Fall, the ‘makers wereaiready budy dévbl pfdg ill er “Usco” The new:and bettcr “Usco” as fu'see it today—withno change . Price —and tax: abaorbed by the manufacturer. You'l nptq: ‘i b 5c0” lc:lle ""Thicker -tread, . gl ng - greater nh:skid protection, Smutgn side. *, walls : ' ‘Altogether | handsomertite “that. will take inside and out. The ‘greatest money’s worth of fabiic tire in the history of pneu- matics. flock. Tt 'nhq ‘One, ¢haj the new apd Atues— Dmtcd S‘tatcs' Tires |/ 4 Alwayrih Style ‘ § H‘nited States @ Rubher Company 8 .».mm., BOOM N MATERIAL TESTING' - The gvedt sbboR T Blghway ol ing which has come since the federal- ald act of 1916 has led to an Increase ln the facllmes for testing high\vuy of ent o Agriculture keeps in touch with "al laboratorles” which test material for: ral- un] roads. and repotts, that ' niraber ' has -grown from & scatté rat least one in‘’avery. Istate” with tivo ‘exceptions. They are itributed -as. follows:.-State highway, {department 1aboratories 20; Umiversity: laboratories 27, and commercial labar- iakories. 2136 total of T Conditions have become such’ thal it ‘s practically, & necessity for ' each, ‘state to have means of quick testing in m-der not3¢ dalay work, - In |pass: ‘ing’ on"materials the ‘laboratories ar governed by ‘the idea that-ronds’ mitst'f be constructed with”materials clgse hand; wherevat possible and’ give A surance’ for-the use of ‘such materinl where it is guitable. ROAD BES GNATED BY UMBEB i The mnew method of deslgnnfing' mgjwmys by numbers, officially adopt:] the, b nb]efi} ts fully-carried out t:will provide a com- routes'by the hlghwuy commissioners, | E 4 ez ‘!Ioadfi;;go ‘o Country. Al *"'Rond’ miléage in the United States [} per square mile area is .739.. England ! has 2.57 miles of road per square mile ‘area; and France 1.75. WInnim Has “Widest Streets. Winnipeg, Canadd, clalms’ to have. the widest streets of any city in Amer-. y The first time we hit-a rock in the’ 'Can Buy U, S Tiress C.W.JEWETT & CO. F.M.MALZAHN" ence in Advertising Is the Difference in Men - Of itself, advertising is little; *.And 'the. differences in it are the “difi‘erences which exist in men. It pays the men whose product deserves the payment, whose brains are keen enough to organize _for success and judge enough of . the human-mind to know how to “virfle ‘and interesting, so is some = to)] their story w1th sincerity and advertising. And just as'some M. ifiterest. .are ineffectual, and wéak and bo e 'ing, so is some other advertlsmg. So when you Judge advertising, v,]u(’ige it by how.it.is.used and by ‘whom—not,6f, isélf’ and of itself ‘alone. o Eah e 3 ‘Justras some men are strong and wyiy ! ~ “Does it pay to’ advert1se'7”. It pays those metk»who .are quen enotigh students of the' publicto make it pay them.” It pays those men who are truthful, sincere, - teresting and believable. ; ‘Rye‘memb’é‘ri, an ugly ma’n looks just as ugly in a mirror. Gt Fablistied by the Bemiait Ploneer in co-operatien with’ The Afnerican ~Association of Advertising Agencies. d; is 80, uflde.nwhe Secopd. time