Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 1, 1922, Page 3

}Ew‘fl}ufifl‘k x‘f-":'s%'rf"' 5 &‘15’.{ Lester Jones:of Washington, D.,G., Feunder of the M ent ¥ Blek in 1919." Py Kl . Lester Jones: of Wmhlng!on.rD 10y becallse he was the founder of the y American Legion movement jn America, was called ' the- “dad- dy” of the onr ganization hack in 1919 and the title has stayed “with- -him - ever. ‘ since. [ Mr. Jones was one of a handful of ; véterans . who met in Washing- rton. March 7 1919, and formed what was known. as the John 'J. "Pershing. post. of World . War Veterans, - Later, when the sev- eral.societies of. those, who had fought :In . the World: war combined - under ' the name of the American. Legion, ‘Mr. Jones was made commander of the newly-formed ‘George Washington post No, 1, When the department of i the Dlstflct of Columbia ‘was formed, ‘he” was ‘made depamnentnl com- mander. % Legionnaire: Jones wn an enlisted' man_ with::the - District .of Columbia Nnflonnl Guard:_prior. to the World WAT. . Dnrlng the /war he rose from private to colonel, taking all the grades, LEGI ONORED 'ALL DEAD Organization. i’artl:lp'fltad In -Services at ‘Final Interment of Men Brought Home. sk i Army' transports in" which many of them went ‘across eager for the con- flict have carried back the last of the 45000 A. BE. F."dead, those relatives had requested to“be returned to-this country for permanent burial. The graves registration sefvice of the army, which had the work of return- ing these bodies in charge, did an al- most .. superhuman task. - But this service could mnot give the comradely human touch to' the hapdling of these -bodles after. they reached the United ‘States:thatseemed due- ‘them.: - No_organization was so well suited to perform_ the last rights of honor and respect for these soldler* dead as ‘was the American Legion. The men of the Leglon took upon themselves_thg obllgntion Forty ship loads ‘of-bodies came to eastern ports during & period of two and‘a half years. It was not always possible to have an elaborate service, because the arrivals were too frequent, but in every instance. there was. at least a prayer by a chaplain of:the Protestant, Catholic or Jewish . falth, an address by a prominent ‘citi- zén or army officer and a rifie salute, A number of times, however; the services were noteworthy. *-PreSident Harding delivered an address at services arranged by the, Legion, May| . 23, 1021, when the Princess: Matoika atrived - with - 451 - bodies.. ‘General Pershing and Senator Lodge spoke when the Somme and the Wheaton: rived, July 10, 1921,/ with 7,000 d :The. last cargo of- bodies- arrived i Brooklyn, in April,1922,"on the Cam- bral. On that occasion, the body of Private Charles W. Graves, Company M, Oné-hundred and Seventeenth in- .fantry, Thirteenth division, was borne on a caisson through the streets, lined | ‘with silent throngs,.to the army. base where simple. ceremonté8.marked the close of the:last.public dt-mon!tmtlon for America’s: retirned dead. 'RAN TOWKRD BER ’-Clarence Dx ar, ‘Winner, oi 25.| Mlle American Maratfion Race, In-’ terested in ‘Boy Scouts. i — Clarence H. DeMar of Melrose, ’ Mass,, winner of the 25-mil American Maratlmn race, : got: someé of his | endurante as 8 {longdistance | runner while run- i ning toward Ber- lin in 1918, and ihe undoubtedly acquired a good., ; deal of his ‘agil i Ity and sureneés of foot'w ; dodging Fr i missiles. §nutlous in the Paris. ! His chlef “Interest, not: seem to in ,flmng. but _i i) welfare of-a, rbopwt boy {seou! : which he has been fn charge foi eral years. 5 Ten Years to, Displace the Blue. It will require about ten yeara ito clothe all French troops In khakl de- | spite the efforts of the higher council of war to equip all branches of the . French army ~n uniforms of that {color. The horizon bluve and steel i gray. cloth_on hand must be used up +and. it will - takeiten yearsito do it | the ministry of war declares. Qubscride for The Dauy Piones. g vk o e IV H dt? sinmemrin On, the Great Myasteries of Nature |l mo ‘Migration of the' Winged * Voyigers. - Hue ;' ever. arisen ‘before the birds .awal ened you,. when the dawn % imr oud thn; Mfiylu moon; and henrd tar, | !-r ou, tlie speech of unseen voyhge! ove memorable blank sky at the ae: While mi- Arat n glass, you tlm plck out the specks inst & rosy, clopd:or the'moon disk. it may. bsqo arger than a hum- bird, of them, thou: ing thelr way for endless miles by the gleam’ of &' iveér far below, the dark patch ‘of-a ‘mountain forest, the S‘n:zd and glow ‘of & town—straight, lome- times; t6ldst yeat’s nest. When their little volces drop m' the mist or the, darkness, bea: message of thelr passing, it 18- a’ poor soul,. indeed, iwhich .does not thqu in answer, and ‘in answer to the gweet Canada geege, flyxng in battle forma- tlon with @ sound like the dragging of a chain over some vast corrugation of Harper’s Magazine, - e i Flowers . That Are ‘Weather Prophets. ‘We héar .a-.good- deal of birds and .nlmnll a§ weather prophets, but are: apt 'to overlook the wonderful - little harometers ‘which grow &t our feet In the flelds.” .. .What does dulay mean? Nothing but “dny’s eye”. "The .dalsy opens- wide, for a fing day, but when rain is com- it by ‘means of folding straylike outer petals - over the central, tubular florets, Best known of all such prophetical plants is--the scarlet pimpernel; the “poor. man’s weather glass,” which 1Is really a capital barometer. If it opens. wide in the morning, you can safely bet -against rain. before night. When chickwood flowers are fully open, you are -safe from rain for “many Kou¥s, but When on a seetningly fair morning the tiny blooms are slow to disclose_themselves, then' it wlll rain béfore sundown, Nevada Natural Wonde: “The Devil's Postplle”_is locatéd in the Slerra Nevada mountains the nilddle fork of the San Joaguln,river. The ““plle”: I8 a mile long hiif as wide, and 400 feet high. <Thp ‘odd formation - whence its appellation is ‘crappingtotit only”in’ certan places. ‘Fhe: most 'striking columns. conititute |, more than 1,000 feet of its western "face,” . They rise over 100 féet above in 1018’ the talus—a- vast- heap of “broken "pontn" accumulated through the proc- 88 “of weifliering. How far. down- ward, they gktend is a matter of-con- Jecture. The columns in ‘this amaz- ing’ bluff. gre arranged in rows as regularly as the pipes of an organ. together like. cells 1i a honeycomb, and_really. look as if carved by hu- man hands. . These columns rangé from 14 inches to more than 8 feet In dlameter. pentagonal, whereas elsewhere the genéii; shape 1s hexagonnl. Cuvlaio Chinese “Copy Book.” JA kind of copy-book Is used by Chinese children, The ideographs are so complicated that a youngster cannot copy them freehand, but must begin by tracing them from a model, as American children trace maps. An ordimary.copy book such as is used in the lower grades has no space for the children to write. The pages are | entirely - covered with copy. Kight churhcteta are generally shown on one page, éach In a square, and each jmade ahout' ten time§ the size of on{lm’n-y‘" writing. er this copy Is placed tracmg pa- r and the character Is drawn as oo clm(ely as possible. The books are wWritten In black and cormcted Jn red lnk‘ by fl@efi%ggolmnu “Bill” Robinson has “growed up” a whole ot since this picture was |gaken, but he still has the young ideas and the pep that goes 'with them. Altho he. may not be.seen in the Fair and Pageant he nevér-ths less hag’a Very: promifient this gigantic entertainment and ex- it. l’erhnps.. with | “Bhitids of “them, all" the spring, thtead-|' 7 twitter of gome flogk of tiny warblers:| no Yessithan ‘the herole clang of the'| -~ g Wraps up its center and protects | _The,_dandelion has a stmilar habit. deriyed 1s not everywhere.in evidence, | Almost perfect prisms, they are fitted i Most of ‘them are| the air—Walter Prichard Eaton In (i’ pagednt be Btag]ad dmug i$he Northern, Minnesota Fair, pxmdding the:ise-l = nemew Tu» Took -at the plcmres of theao two “Old Timers” one would chardly expect them to qualliy for the title, | but, they do by a good margin. In fact they sol? the first Thbbdr” col- Jar'” thd? the “first mayor “of'Beidji wore ‘whiel - exploded: * at the ‘first Fourth . of ..July celebration when' someone tried to scratch a match on (PHIL AND DAVE) TC. W. VANDERSLUIS the drug ufid Jawelry by and has been for! Many: nnyt}ung af held against hll“w * Since -yubber’ cofluqa 'huve gone | out of style, Gill' Brothers have done 8" thriving businessiinoclothes ' and haberdashery of a‘miore: substantial Yort and are ipeted: as.a -big. asset {fo Bemidji ‘business, "They: may hel }induced to take apart in the Third Strect tene in the: Pageant to' be stngcd during the big fair here: , Any of “Bill” Bowser's later pi‘c- tures show him as a much younger looking man than this one which was taken in the days before Hakkerup had learned to flatter the vanity of his customers. Up to the time that the O’Leary-Bowser Co. sold out to the Snyder Co. you could find him “ripping calico” or trying to per suade some lady that life would be miserable without one of the gar- */{| ments he sold. He ‘has watched and helped Be- ifrom a “clearing. gess” to one of the leading ies of Minnesotk. If he ke up” like thi§ picture ight find a parti as “T! sthe big pageant. time Bill is anxious o fc houses numbezed profi- was not so hecessa; iy days because! then! “his head out th and count the hotises on ode hand.’ 1of extra days in Bemidji until he B e Bbility to Pt on a “Pow’we ; windows “Charlie” Vandersluis can be ra- ted as an “Old Timer” he heing probably the first hardware man ‘to “rake” the town when he “peddled” hardware for a Duluth firm and al- tho he covered a big territory, - he ‘always mJnang to'get in a couple he ‘was one’ of ' the got, to feel like up. 71‘ r'imd work citizens and o mie Here fown A tfifl Bemxdfi Hardwure 'Co,e With W2 ; i Chief” in & uring the, played whenv he ‘was: ma)or of Be ‘midji. A S§HAVED LINCOLN FOR $10 AND A PLUG OF TOBACCO Ada, Oklay August 1 (United Press).—Charles. Wesley Ellis, 118 “Ppatriarch of Pontotoc county” is believed to be the oldest white man in Oklahoma. Ellis’ life has been one of ad- t; venture, He was born in Alaska and l P‘{]fi at the:age .of four, he was stolen being in. charge fo the publefify. for from his parents and brought to the United States. position, Ellis served under General A. J. Smith and Sheridan ", ‘in’ Téh 12! and Georgia. Once, while’ nof’ g in the Union army, Ellis acted ss a barber for Abraham meo}n who was visiting the front. He ‘got $10 and a plug of tobacce for ¢ have. He also acted as a barber, cral Grant. “Don’t ‘worry” was the best advice Ellis could gwe to ‘pros- pective centenarion —_— THE PIONEER ‘WANT ADS| snee | . Plan Your, Picnic for DIAMOND. POIRT . ) Bathing Suits for Rent 'a - THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTY | Ry Company will omploy. men at Railroad Labor Board as follows. The 'Minnesota and lntemnhannl rates pro,cribed by the United States 70c per hourv . 70c per hour: . TOc per hour - 70cperhour . Various rates . .« .. .. Various rates - 70c and 70%:c per hour . 70¢ per hour . 63c per hour . 47¢ per hour Blacksmltlu Sheet Metal Workero i Electricians .. .. .. . Stationary Engineers .. .°* Stationary Firemen .. .. . .- Boilermakers .. .. .. Pa.uen'er Car Men .. Helpfirs, all classes .. .. .. i . LA N Meclum s and helpers are nllowcd hrne and one-half for time work- ed in excess of eight hours per day Young men who desirc to learn these trades will be employed and given an opportunity to do so, APPLY TO ANY ROUNDHOUSE OR SHOPS, AT NORTH BEMIDJI OR AT GENERAL OFFICE, BRAINERD. ' Minnesota & Iternational Raibay C Dopse BROTHERS BUSINESS COUPE A _ Built and priced for practical, . %" Y everyday use. Beauty and light- * ness skillfully blended with rug=- ; ; ged strength. o ? The steel body finished in Dodge ' , Brothers baked enamel. Genuine leather upholstery. Ample doors, window. levers, heater and cord tires. A wide, straight seat. Spacious carrying compartments. ‘ In short, closed car dignity and protection at little more than the price of an open roadster. OLAF ONGSTAD Phone 118-w BRING RESULTS