Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 16, 1922, Page 1

The Pionesr is the only within 100 miles of Bemidji and nas the largest circulation i= Northern Minnesota. I daily VOLUME XX. NO. 179 — District Basket B g 3 a. ‘Quints Getting Ready ‘For Very Biisy Season Bemul;l # ,'i'o Open &non With ‘Aitkin Team Here On December 8th STRONG SCHEDULE IS ARRANGED FOR LOCALS District Tournament to be Played at St. Cloud by Four Leading Teams With the winding up of the 1922 high school foctball schedule, fan- dom is turning ity attention to the coming basketball season for the loc- al high school. Athletic djrectors of the.various sehools in the third athletic district announce that in- terclass games are scheduled to start during the next week to give the coackes a chance to look over the material and aid them in the select- jon of quints to represent the various schools. The high schools are looking for- ward to a great year in the sport of hardwood lanes. All the student teams are stacking up good on paper and past records seem to indicate that many surprises will be handed out “when the season gets underway the first of next month. Coach Kovach of the Bemidji high school has odrede the stowing away of the moleskins, shimmels and head- gear along with the heavy corked shoes and ordered them en in the various classes to get ready for the inter-clags basketball games that will start next week according to the present arrangements. . District Schedule Arranged At the meating of superintendents and coaches of the schools in the third athletic district held at’ Brain- erd recently, J. W. Smith, principal of thé Bemidji high school, repre- sented the navy blue and ‘white and scheduled eleven district games. A few changes were ‘made in ‘the local schedule, including the dropping of Brainerd and Crosby-Ironton, who have appeared on the Bemidji sched- ule for a number of years. Brain- erd was dropped from the local schedule on acount of the railroad city not having, a desirab.e gym- nasium 2nd Aitkin was substituted in Crosby-Ironton’s place at the re- quest of the Aitken superintendent. Pine River, which has just recently joined the Minnesota State high - school athletic association was taken on in place of Brainerd. Pine River has a nice new armory where they have an excellent basketball court and where the new member of the association will play its games. Every school in the district was represent- (Continued on Page 8.) | F. E. FINN SHOWS SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT TODAY F. E. Finn, who was very seriously injured when knocked down by an au- tomobile Tuesday evening, is report- ed to be showing signs of improve- ment today, although he is still in a serious condition. He is confined to the Bemidji Lutheran hospital, where he was taken soon after being found unconscious, lying on the pavement near the Nymore railroad crossing carly Tuesday evening- He is said to have been struck by an antomohi)e after trying to catch a ride on a passing auto truck, the auto which knocked him down not even stopping to offer him assist- ance in any way. CUNO ACCEPTS OFFER TO FORM GERMAN CABINET (By: United Press) Berlin, Nov. 16—William Cuno, director of the Hamburg-American steamship line, today accepted the offer of President Ebert to organize a new German cabinet in which it is believed Cuno’s selection of ' as- sociates will be made from the in- dustrial ranks’ and that he will in- vite into the cabinet men high in the busines world. PROHIBITION CUTTING DEMAND FOR FLOWERS (By United Press) Boston, Nov. 16—Prohibition has teen blamed for many things and the latest crop up is said to be a serious cffect on the sale of flowers to men. 4ecording to Miss Marion Bush, l.ead of a fashionable florist shop here, the sale of flowers in the “old days” could be estimated on the number of cocktails sold. One cocktail usually inspired the sale of a half-dozen pinks, accord- ing to Miss Bush, and two drinks averaged a boquet of violets, while three cocktails was almost sure to| be followed by purchase of orchids. “In these days,” Miss Bush said, “the men folk gaze at the flowers, but seldom do more than remark upon their beauty- \ “Cocktails of grape juice and ging- er ale do not bring the same degree of - admiration for flowers.” fl DRYS. HOLD MAJORITY IN CONGRESS, SURVEY SHOWS (By United Press) Washington, Nov.. 16—The drys hold a two-thirds majority in the new congress, Wet hopes of amending the Volstead act must be deferred until after the next election at least. Wayne B. Wheeler, legislative chief of ' the Anti-Saloon League told the United Press today a careful ¢, canvass of the new congressmen had been made, and that as the result the dry leaders are confi- dent they still control. CHILDREN'S BUREAU TO UNDERTAKE NEW SERVICE The inauguration of special service in the field or recreation is announc- ced by the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, with the appointment to its permanent staff of Martha Travilla Speakman, recreation expert. Miss Speakmann was in charge of the organization of of play in the schools of Porto Rico during. the “Children’s Year” cam- paign recently concluded by the Childrens’ Bureau. She conducted classes in various cities thropghout the island to. teach the school teach- ers games and instruct them in play direction. Regular courses were conducted in San Juan and Santurce and at the various ieachers’ insti- tutes part of each program was de- voted to recreational work. The methods of teaching games were dem- onstrated with local groups ?f child- n. In addition to her work in Porto Rico, Miss Speakmann has served as head of I’Esperance, a.home for French war orphans and participat- ed in the Friends’ Relief Work in France and Austria. She directed and organized recreational centers and playgrounds and summer camps in various parts of the United States after completing her training in’ Swarthmore college and tne recrea- tion department of the Chicago School of Civies and Philanthropy. ODD FELLOWS LODGE® MEETS FRIDAY NIGHT The regular business meeting of the L. 0. O. F. will be held Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the K. C. hall and all members are requested to be present. Supper will be served at 6:30 at the hall and all members are urged to attend this feed as well as the meeting. b LAKE JULIA SANATORIUM RUN VERY ECONOMICALLY Report for First Half of 1922 Shows Commission Is Doing Fine Work It will no doubt be of interest to the people of Beltrami, Hubbard and Koochiching counties to know that their tuberculosis sanatorium, which is situated on Lake Julia at Pupos- ky, is being maintained ‘more eco- nomically than the average institu- tion of like character in the'state. In fact, for the first six months of this year, of all the other 12 state and county sanitoria in Minn- esota only one has been maiptained at a lower cost than the Lake Julia Sanatorium. The Lake Julia Sanitorium, with a |, bed capacity of 48, operated during the first six months of 1922 at a total cost of $2.50 per day per pat- ient, with a net cost of $1.' The cost per meal per patient was $.151 for raw food and $.178 for food served. Other sanitoria throughout the state showed much higher figures the average cost per day per patient being: total cost $2.82, net cost $1.66 per meal per individual: raw food $.175, served food $.201. From these figures it will be seen that from January 1 to July 1, 1922, it has only cost the three counties $1 per day to keep each of the patients in the sanitorium. This includes food, fuel, laundry, medicines, sal- aries—in fact everything. When it is taken into considera- tion that none of the costs in this report are considered unusually high, the people of the 3 counties owning Lake Julia sanatorium have every reason to be well satisfied with and proud of the work their sanitorium commissioners have been doing. The report has been prepared in detail by Dr. R. L. Laney, M. D., super- intendent of the sanitorium. The present sanitorium board con- sists of A. P. Ritchie, president; Be- midji; G. E. Carson, vice-president, Bemidji; Dr. E. W. Johnson, Bemidji; Dr. P. A. Walling, Park Rapids; Dr. C. J. Goodheart, Akeley; A. A. Tone, Northome; and William Durrin, Northonme. 'BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Minnesota: night and Friday" night and in east and so tions Friday. BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 16, 1922 COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW PASSED IN OREGON Children _Eight to. Sixteen Years of Age Must Attend During School Year Washington, Nov. 16, (Capital News Service)—The Compulsary Education bill, put before Oregon voters by initiative petition, was pass- ed by a comfortable majority in ex- cess of eight thousand. The provi- sions of the bill have been much dis- cussed and also falsely reported, its enemies contending that it would close all private schools and elimi- nate denomination schools. According to the bill, attendance of children from eight to sixteen years, in the public schools, is made compulsory “for a period of time a public school shall be held.” There is nothing in the bill to prevent children going to other schools at other times.” Children physically unable to at- tend school because of being sub- normal or abnormal, children who have completed the eighth grade, and children of certain ages who live at certain specified distances from the nearest public school, are exempt. Private instruction in place of public school instruction is allowed with a written permission from the county superintendent with ~ provision that children -receiving such private in- struction must report for examina- tion every three months. If the result of such examination shows the privately taught child being improp- ely taught, his or her attendance at a public school may be required. The law has “teeth,” being provid- ed \with penalties for parents or for guardians, of both fines and impris- onment, end every day’s failure to send or_cause to be sent, a child to the public school, is a separate of- fense. GENERAL ALARMS FOR CHIMNEY FIRES COSTLY The high cost of living in Bemidji is being increased.by the high cost of needless fire alarms; reports C. S. Dailey, chief of the Bemidji Fire Department. Many are the occas- sions when a silent alarm would an- swer the purpose just as effectively but & general alarm is turned in and the entire department is turned out. The result is that the general alarm for a small chimney fire usual- ly costs the city from $25 to $30, whereas if the alarm had merely been telephoned to Numebr 22 and a réquest made for two or three firemen to come to the scéne of the chimney fire, the cost would be cut down to $2 or $3. . Fire Chief Dailey and Assistant Fire Chief J. J. Doran were on the job at the Nangle store Wednesday evening when the general alarm was turned in by some person not con- nected with the store in any way. The chimney fire was being care- fully watched by these men, at little cost to the city, but the general alatn ran the city’s bill up to about $30. The alarm was sounded at 8:45 p. m. - YEOMEN LODGE HOLDS MEETING THIS EVENING Yeomen Homestead No. 270 will meet in regular session tonight at the Moose hall at 8 o’clock. All mem- bers are requested to be present. After the meeting, a dance will be held, to which the public is invited. OF BIG NEXT THURSDAY Miss Bertha Farner, Soprano, To Appear in Bemidji On November 23 1 HERALDED AS SINGER OF EXCEPTIONAL WORTH Season Tickets at Reduced Prices Still on Sale for Remainder of Course Heralded as a singer whose work has already established her fame in musical America and marked her as one of the finest artists that this country has ever produced, Miss Bertha Farner, soprano, is scheduled to give the second number of the ex- cellent entertainment course being staged in Bemidji this fall and winter under the auspices of the Bemidji State Teachers college. Those who attended the opening number, the lecture by Major E. ( Alexander Powell, will easily recog- nize the value of the course which the college has arranged, and every one of those 500 persons who heard Major Powell are boosters for the en- tire course, which consists of six numbers. s Miss Farner will appear at the Methodist church Thursday evening November, 23, the performance to begin at 8 o’clock. ~ Season tickets are still on sale and have been reduced somewhat in price for the remaining five numbers, adult tickets now being on sale at $2.75 and Junior tickets at $1.75. Single admission for the next number will be $1 for adults and 75 cents for juniors. Season tickets will also be on sale at the door on the night of the entertainment. Tickets may be secured by telephoning the col- lege, No. 249. A The remaining numbers of the course are: Nov. 23, Miss Bertha Farner, soprano; Jan. 27, James A. Burns; Feb. 9, Peter Clark Macfar- lane; Feb. 16, Zoellner String Quar- tet; March 17, Hinshaw Concert Quartet. Miss Farner is a California girl, of exceptional personal beauty, and with unusual native gifts as a sing- er- These gifts have been ampli- fed by intensive training in this country and abroad among her teach- ers there being numbered the great (Continued on Page §) —_— TRIBE OF HUMANS SAID TO HAVE TAIL LIKE MONKEY (By United Press) San Francisco, Nov. 16— Stories of a tribe of humans with . tails like monkeys, who live in the tree-tops and are afraid of dogs, were brought here today by Mrs. Wanda Hel- big, wife of Captain Helbig of the South Sea Trading Schoon- “Eclipse™. “They live on the Island of Palowan, north of Borneo,” she said. “They are peaceful and child-like, innocent to look at, and have little intelligence.” er COURSE | FINE ANIMALS SHOWN AT JUNIOR STOCK SHOW Boys and Girls, Winners in County Contests, Display Pets at So. St. Paul ‘Boy and Girl winers in feeding clubs from 70 counties in Minnesota have 267 pet calves, pigs and shecp at South St. Paul this week, com- peting for honors in the Fifth Jun- ior Livestock show. The 1922 event is bigger and better in every way than its predecessors. This year there are 190 calves entered, compared with 178 a year ago. Critics who viewed the well- groomed animals just before they were taken to the judging ring, said the quality was noticeably better. Interest in the grand championship was keen, but hardly more so than it was to win in the pure bred and grade classes. There are 38 entries in the pig show; three more than last year. Sheep judges Lad to inspect 39 ani- mals, five more than in 1921. With the judging in the afternoon and the banquet in the evening out of the way Thnursday the youngsters were looking forward to the sale on Friday, ior that event will deter- mine what each will have to show for the season’s work in caring for and feeding the animals. The sale committee had assurances from the big hotels and restaurants in St. Paul and Minneapplis and several of the exclusive clubs s dinig car supply -houses that pric bid for the winners would be high; probably above those of a year ago when the grand champion bought its owner 50 cents a pound. The calf show this year was judged by H. W. Vaugin of St. Paul, chosen not only because of his recognized ability but also because he is unin- terested in any particular breed of cattle. H. O. Tellier of Farmington will be in charge of the auctioneer- ing. ALLEGED GAME WARDEN FRAUD IN HIGH COURT Bisniarck, N. D., Nov. 16—The supreme court has before it today the alleged game warden fraud case in Which Col. J. H. Bloom, former state game warden and fish commissioner, George M. Hague, a former member of the commission, and L. C. Petti- bone, as a real estate agent for the two, were accused of conspiring to commit fraud in the purchase of the game farm near Dawson. The suits, which the defendants charged was a political suit brought just before the primaries to arousc resentment, was brought to recover $5,440 and asks an accounting for the entire sum used in the purchase. It was charged the state was charged at the rate of $10 an acre on 1,360 acres of land whereby only $6 was paid. It is further declared that the purchase was unauthorized. In reply to the charges, Col. Bloom declared that $10 an acre was a low price for land near Dawson where the game farm is situated, and that sportsmen have declared the land excellent for the purpose for which it was bought. ELKS LODGE WILL STAGE DANCE FRIDAY EVENING Invitations have been issued for an informal dancing party to be giv- en by the Bemidji lodge of Elks at the Elks hall Friday evening. Danc- ing will be from 9 to 12, Good music is assured and it is expected - that the dance will be well attended: AMBITION ‘ 0 §HEN YOUR ONE ol uP AND JIMINY, 1L % 6LAD'\%HENH IT”o ENOUG 3}&2 (ON0 PANTS AND (AN 60 TO WORK WAS TO GROW WORR, AND— | 4 | ! o d | eous PRICE 3¢ National Education Is Subject of Article By President of Columbia EASTER ISLAND REPORTED SUNKEN BY EARTHQUAKE (By United Press) Santiago, Chile, _Nov. 16— Rumors were persistent here to- day that Easter Island complete- ly disappeared in recent earth. quake, This report was not con- firmed, however, and many gov- ernment officials believe it un- true. Easter nd is located off the South Chilean coast, It has an area of 50 square miles and a population of 1,250, THIRD PARTY FORESEEN BEFORE 1924 ELECTION (By United Press) Washington, Nov. 16 (By Law- rence Martin. Copyrighted 1922 by the United Press)—A third party will be manufactured for 1924 whether there is a public demand for it or not. Politicians of both great parties predict this, declaring that the next two years will see a determined ef- fort to create a third party and that whether it will appear as a spontan- expression of defeat with ex- depends on three isting factions, things: L Taxation and cost of living, . Industrial and economic poli- ics of the government. 3. How fast Europe gets back on 3. its feet. But whether public sentiment de- mands it or not, observers whose dictions seldom go wrong, see a third party presidential ticket in the fall of 1924 drawing many votes. The third party will be organized and mainly supported by people who are now republicans or democr The kind of a third party the re- publicans and demoerats are concern- ed about is one made up of republi- can and democrat voters or a both- party that will reconstruct cither one or both of the now dominant polit- ical groups. A. F. & A. M, HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING AT NEXT SESSION The first regular meeting in De- cember is the annual meeting of the Bemidji lodge, A. F. & A. M., which met in stated communication at the a short business session. Officers for the new year will be elected at that meeting and a number of other im- portant annual business matters will come to a vote in the lodge. Tt is cespecially desired that the members keep this meeting in mind since a large attendance is requested. VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA APPRECIATE AID GIVEN State Representative of Work Béing Done by This Organization Rev. Ross [. Cummings, state rep- resentative of the Volunteers of America, under the national leader- ship of General and Mrs. Ballington Booth, and with headquarters in St. Paul, has been in Bemidji for several days in the interests of their various activities. This organization purcly an American institution, founded in 1896 by General Booth and his wife, Maud B. Booth, who is nationally recognized as the greatest work: among the prisoners and their fami. lies in America. Major and Mrs. Irving Starr, who have charge of the work of the Vol- unteers in Paul and vicinity fer the past 12 years, have this scason crected 16 cottages on the North Oaks farm property which was don- ated by Louis W. Hill, for a health camp: _Several hundred children and needy mothers were cared for during the summer months. The Volunteers expect to ereet 20 additional cottages before next scas- cn, as they have many on the wait- ing list for admission. No charge is made upon any of the cases handl- ed, as the work is supported by vol- untary contributions. The work of the Voluntteers of America is in no way connetted with that of the Salvation Army. Gen- erzl Ballington Booth of the Volun- teers ‘of Anferican at one time was commander-in-chief oft the Ameri- can work of the Salvation Army, but resigned from that organization and founded the Volunteers of America The Rev. Cummings desires to thank the many friends who in sympathy with {fe volunteer + able support to his « had the endorsem nd Commer Masonic hall Wednesday evening for | Tells| 1 | | ucation,” Dr. Buf | Nicholas® Murray Butler of Columbia University Urges Public Observance | DECEMBER 3 TO 9 SET AS EDUCATIONAL WEEK Complete Program is Mapped Out, Giving Interesting Subject Each Day Education Week, set aside by the American Legion for national ob- servance December 3 to 9, is the subject of special article written for the American Legion by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Colum- tia University. John J. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Edu- cation, and the National Education Association are co-operating with the Americanism Commission of the Le- gion in making the weeck a success. President Harding will issue a nation- al proclamation, which will be fol. lowed by proclamations from gover- nors and ma “Education W should be & time for strengthening our understandin of the foundations of Am ays in the a- ticle which follo; “From the beginning the interest in education of the founders and makers of America has been unique. Harvard college was established in M. chusetts Bay only sixteen yc after the pilgrims landed at Ply mouth. The conmon school quickly grew up in New England and spread over the whole United States as a typieal American institution. Hor- ace Mann and Henry Barnard put new life and higher tdeals into the American school system nearly a century ago. The Ordinance for the government of the Northwest territory, made in 1787, out of which territory so many of the middlewest- ern states have been carved, con- tained express provision for the sup- port and development of public cd- ucation. Long ago it became estab- lished public law that an American state, or sub-division thereof, might maintain by a publie tax any type of instruction that it saw fit, how- ever advanced. This principle tin- derlies the public high schools and the uported universities and the “It is an American doctrine, for- tunately, that while education is a proper state function, it is in no (Continued on Page 8.) BERGER BOY LAID TO REST IN GREENWOOD TUESDAY Robert Berger, s iM"' and Mrs. George Berger, Fif- teenth and Norton, passed away Monday at his home, following a short illy with diphtheria. Pri- (vate funeral services were held on | Tuesday, Dr. G. H. Zentz, officiating, under the di on of H. N. McKee, funeral dir r, and interment was made in Greenwood cemetery. He leaves to mourn his loss besides his parents, three brothers and four sisters. SEARCHES TWO: WEEKS FOR SON iFTER PARDON (By United Press) St. Paul, Nov. 16—Mrs. Margarct Erickson, 68, of Sioux- Falls, who made a pilgrimage to Washington to cbtain a pardon for her son from President Harding, started today for Alexandria, South Dakota, in an at- tempt to find the boy after he was pardoned from Ft. Leavenworth. The son visited relatives in Marion, -| Ohio, and failed to return to Sioux Fall Mrs. Erickson spent two W ching for him and through the American Legion learncd he was working at Al LLOYD GEORGE BEATEN IN WEDNESDAY VOTING (By United. Press) London, Nov. 16—Former Premier Lloyd George has been defeated in his efforts to win a balance of power in th¢ next House of Commons on the face of incomplete returns this after- noon. A count announced at 1 p.m. show- ed the conservative candidates of Premier Law with a clear majority over all parties, and the conscrva- i rining at that time, have won nine add nal te since the re- ports were posted. Lloyd George’s candidates were a bad fourth in the running, but this { *he results of his point uch as the fact that Taw y to secure hence Lloyd George‘s Houze would not have sufficient power to overturn the gov- rk ternment. Premier Bonar Law’s conservatives oht d a clear majority at the gen- ~ction yesterday, it was ane officially at 4 p. m, N working