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B it o A TUREN BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER { G.E. CABSON, President - . E. H. DENU, Secy.-Mgr. % e e t J..D. WINTER, News Editor * ¥ i i 7 d: tter, urd T—— # } P » ON' No sttentton ul& to anonymous;gontributions. K 3 bt necessarily, for|publication. - Ct e Tougt Toath. lo [got/ later than Tu for the Weekly ‘week- to insure o Month- e hed Thursday and zent WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve. pages, publis] every urs %~M 13 any address for, in sdvance, $2.00, s he use 3 n thig paper, only the United Press is entitled to t! ffor, ‘r’.’f'.:.'infe':fl?n“of' il ne,! dispatches credited to it, or otherwise credited snd also blished herein. e oo AL, COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS WILD-CAT ADVERTISING g/ @y #The Mssociated -Advertising clubs of the World through itg: vigilance committee, is making every effort to create a maximum public confidence in advertise- ing -by~endeavoring to make all advertising trust- m-)lfi‘h:‘cimulu issued December 14 this committee ex- poses one ‘Abner, Davis, who has promoted 17 oil pro- jects: during the past seven years, not one of which is said:to, have made a profit for the stockholders. ) Banks ‘are the small investor’s anchorage and Davis endeavors.to weaken public .cpnfidemce in th?m. . He an- ticipates questions apt to arise in a prospect’s mind and endeavors to angwer them »bdfi:orehand to remove any urking doubt. M P : l{“'l‘ki::gcdifomia merger advertising quoted below il- oint: : R e ot e O If T could téil you all of the facts —_the good fcats—about the property, the'o d the men which go to make up this organization, “you would say: Why don’t you, just go down to -%-+.-¥he banks and borrow all the money you want?” ANSWER—And this is-exactly where I come in _and through me you can come in also. - I actually had to keep these men from going to the bank and SEiay Taust be knowd] , 'FROM OTHER PAPERS I YOS S8 EVERETT TRUE A —— THAT HEATER OV DESLIVECRING THE HOT WwoulD. I WANT You To CoM® ALONG | {Jout To THE MOULSQ. 4 AND LOOK |t OVsR. H A | weLC, MR D - . By Condo SoLlD M& S NoT X WATER: ‘oL s,qo [ o TRUE, MAY BE. h Y V) "t GIVEN T4 One of the principal , objects of the Ku Klux Klan, as festified to before an investigating committee recently, was to expedite the punish- ment of criminals. To this the ‘borrowing the money, and 1 will tell you just ex- actly why— 4 - “{f theyse gentlemen had gone to the bank for the money they ‘would,-of course, have to pay it back in'a short time, say sixty or ninety days. et “To pay back such a large sum at one time or in guch a short:time would take the ready money out ' . of the oil'company’s hands and out of the business —prevent .expansion. and - prevent making more . money out of the profits earned. A ". . “If the public furnishes the money, it is on:an‘in- vestment basis, not a'loan. The company can pay **'you back on'instailment as. the oil comes in and is. ' -gold, and the cmopany’can use the surplus ’to bring in other wells to earn more money with whiih to . continue to pay you more and larger dividends.” ... 'As’an example of the art of attemptnig to explain the - unexplainable, the foregoing quotation cannot be durpassed. - A bank -will’ loan money only on tangible : assets and’ collateral of value, provided the manage- -—-—-ment of the enterprise is in responsible hands. A great 7" portion of the legitimate buiness of the country is con- L R g,z_eted and developed on money borrowed from banks. !~ "“Phe flismy excuses made by Davis do not stand analysis. ‘Savings banks are-also brought into the focus of his *. s@ftack on established financial institutions. bk How Fortunes Are Made . The time to make money is when you can get in at the start of a sound proposition where your wsiimoney is safe, where it is invested gnd made to = earn big returns. N “I noticed a sign in the window of one of the " largest banks in Los Angeles the other day which! -read: ‘No -man ever. got rich buying wild-cat stocks.” i A - “I say to you no man.ever got rich drawing 4 per cent on a savnigs deposit. g “I say to you, many fortunes have been made by drilling wild-cat oil wells, THERE IS A DIFFER- ENCE AND FURTHERMORE. I SAY TO YOU THAT NO MAN WILL EVER AGAIN. THROW THE DOOR OF OPPORTUNITY. OPEN:SO-WIDE ‘AS 1 HAVE DONE IN THIS PRE-MERGER OF- FERING. 'And I say to you'that I believe with all my heart that I am offering you the. greatest op- portunity for laying the foundation "for fortune with a small investment that was ever offered by any man.” A final sulr is cast at banks as he declares that his own enterprise will be “free from the worry of debt” because he will not borrow money from a bank. “This is FINANCING. This is. CO-OPERA- TION. This is BUSINESS BUILDING. This is PERMANENCY and SUCCESS. This is the MODERN METHOD OF ORGANIZING for BIG BUSINESS as against:-the doubtful policy of bor- rowing at the bank.” ¢ Results so far produced by ‘Abner; Dayis.in his many promotions ' should ' be convincing:to ;1 apers.and -the pyblic that such representation - his advertising are ot entitléd tos § i i e consideration. B WET OR DRY2.:..._... Harold Knutson, our: popular. congressm B ¥, ing into print on the wet and dryi & He'» ¢ ¢ — g . “world to know he.is dry, but dislikes the idea of the chil- § ;‘ R drgn‘of his homg t?wn-, St. Cloud, going toiperidition. Hej § 5 | aider admits the law isn’t enforced properly, but seems to fav-: 1 or a cut.in the’appropriation of prohibition enforcement.. 5 Harold, we're wfraid you talked too much. ~Better get 'off the fence and stay off. . ; § § 3 MR. FATTY ARBUCKLE I'a‘tty_ Arbuckle, it seems; got his share of advertising Zo at the time he was on trial, but now that Will Hays has given him a “clean bill of health” he:is getting a lot’ more, and practically all.of it of the same brand. The -pulpit, the press, edueational associations. and Xtheatre associations dre ‘expressing their ‘disapproval of ‘Mr. Hay’s action. Ini the. final annalysis it will de- -_pend upon the people and they are almost always fair, Spooner Northern News very per- tinently remarks: “If authorities would put in more time attending to the public business, there -would be no Ku Klux Klan, or similar or- ganizations to bother about.”—La- porte News. " If the name of President Woj- ceichowski of Poland is pronounced as it is spelleq just how would you pronounce it?—Grand Forks Herald. : You ' .would. ' pronounce it “Wojc’iech’ow’ski, " but not very often. . et A lot of these-fellows who have been knocking the women for their immodest short -skirts, are now get- ting ready to knock them for their unsanitary long skirts.—Clearbrook Leader. ‘The Minneapolis Journal says: Representative Knutson apparently wants that little sinkhole, the sa- loon, back again. Any man ‘who wishes the saloon:back: must be something of a Knut.—Stillwater Gazette. TOM SIMS SAYS Moore’s poem “The Night Before Christmas” has been fjlmed.; Bet they call the picture “Nothing Stir- ring.” 4 If every day vaas- Sunday there would be no insomnia. Father always ‘learns Christmas present cost. what his Near West Rumney, N. H., a man caught an eagle in a skunk, trap, mu’_ch_to the eagle's dfsgust.’ The sewing machine was patented in 1790 and neighbors have dropped in to ‘use it eyver'since. A Washington man paid $500 for 20 eggs that haven’t been laid, so this must' make the hen mnervous. Seattle auto driver ran into a new building going up and may claim that it was on the wrong side of the street. A bird sang over the Detroit News’ radio. Why not broadeast chicken frying in some country kitchen. BLUNDERS THATCRER What two mistakes s this man making? J : The answer ‘will bé found:-among ‘to-day’s warit“ads " St 2 “WHITE SHOULDERS” AT ELKO -~ THEATRE AGAIN TONIGHT ty is magnificiently set off by a ser- ies of gowns that are said to be the last word, .in dressmakers’ art, in “White Shoulders” the First National attraction in which she is starred. Miss McDogald, however, does not rely upon'h}!fi beautiful dressing for her success in” “White Shoulders”, but contributeés- some -notably fine acting in -the Tole of a young girl whose mother has' determined that she shall-marry only a rich man, a fact wich will'be disclosed when this mew First National attractions is seen for the last time ‘in thig city at the Elko theatretonight. “Fresh Air"“a two part comedy’ completes ‘the program. “SATURDAY:NIGHT” COMING_ TO ELKO THEATRE SOON Lingerie 'plays such an important part in Cecil’B. DeMille’s latest Par- ‘amount production “Saturday Night” which is to be shown at the Elko thea- tre very soon, that Clare - West, fash- ion designer for Mr. De Mille was forced to devote the entire attention of her force of seamstresseg to the making of these articles of milady's wardrobe for several days prior to the production work. Leatrice Joy, Edith Roberts, Con- rad Nagel, Jack Mower, Julia Faye, Edyth Chapman Sylvia Ashton, Theo- dore Roberts, James Neill, John Da- vidson and others appear in the all- star cast of “Saturday Night”. Not all of them are intimately associated with the lingerie but most of the fem- inine players find pictorial use for it at one point or another in the story. * “ON THE HIGH SEAS” AT ELKO FRIDAY, SATURDAY Appearing in one of the strongest sea pictures ~ever filmed, Dorothy Dalton and Jack Holt, featured play- ers will be seen in Paramount's “On The High Seas” at the Elko theatre next Friday and Saturday The act- ion opens on an.ocean liner which is wrecked and the principal players are saved in a leaky boat when almost dead from thirst and exhaustion, run upon a derelict which is deserted save for a black kitten, all on board hav- ing died from a plague. On this ship many incidents ensue as the storm arises and beastly passion becomes up permost in the mind of Pollack, the M.E.IBERTSON .Euneral Director. .. Uééqnd Embalmer Ag smplete stock of skets on hand eltrami Ave. (Copyright, 1922, Associated K Editors.) v Katherine McDonald’s regal beau- |. . YR (THORSDAY EVENIONG, DECEMBER 26, 1922 burly stoker, who attacks the girl, a ‘woman of’high station and is wursted in a fight by Jim, the other stoker, who at the finish of the story, proves to be a wealthy man who had worked his way back on the line in searca os adventure. Jim and the girl are fi- nally rescued from the' derelict as it is about to.sink and taken back to port where they again resume their sociAaI positions of lady and stoker, until in the surprise:finish’Jim kid- naps the -girl .and ‘then reveals his real identity. & . A twosparth Dogs” will ¢o! | An GRAY SILVER ON STATE" T |acmsg a ‘FEDERATION’S' PROGRAN! ‘Gray. Silver, director of the Farm. : ‘Bureau office at Washington, D. C.,} Wae p and the world weep with you will come to Minnesota January 2 |laugh ;and they think you have coal to tell farm folks - attending *the\|in\thci cellar. fourth annual meeting of the Minne-. isota Farm ‘Bureau Federation of the uctivities of his office:to obtain na- | tional legislation’ wanted by:farmers of the country. The annual tion will be featured by a'r what has been accomplisheé ,‘“‘d. B & ‘what.‘is planned for the future by| co-operative marketing agencies With hich the state federation is co-oper- & The CURTIS HOTEL . _MINNEAPOLIS The Northweat's Newest and Largi :st Transient; Ho pelry Nort e ;-7.—.-—-;.,- ave I ich combin miic. bemuty, with 'story is “The Valley of Si adapted from ' James ~Olver ‘wood’s famous novel . of _the same name as a Cosmopolitan production and released by Paramount. ! The picture was directed by Frank 'Borzage, and which features Alma Rubens at the head of a small but powerful cast, ig coming to the Elko ‘theatre next Sunday for two days. It is well worth seeing. *" One whole city block of by :autiful Lobbies, i Restaurants anc\ Sh ops. Y Pipe Organ Music during tie - Noon luncheon hour. "™ Orchestra Music ‘at nigixt| during dinoer. “THE HOTTENTOT” AT GRAND THEATRE, SUNDAY, MONDAY None of the humor and.action of the original stage play of ‘“The Hot- tentot” in which William-Collier kept |8 Broadway laughing for over a year Ala C4 rte and Table d'H ote Service 'iy\ the Main Rest: ¥ TARIFFS, 78 K ¥oms, Private TAtns, i Single $204" Double $3.00 has been lost jn: the-film version of 324 Re loma, Privatd Bathe. the story, which is coming to the 22 R} stp;‘e! 40, Dauble 13.40 Grand theatre ‘on_Sunday. ; 1 irie S50 Bouble 34.00 The cleverest wit: in the stage pla! 7 Others on Suite has been reproduced on the screen in the titles. Additional funnysit uations have been ‘Worked in, while the steeple-chase,- which could;only: be talked about--in.the play, is & thrilling piece of realism in the pic- ture. It is the exciting climax of the. fun and thrills that arise from the embarrassing situations in which a yachtsman who is;afraid of horses and who is mistaken for a rider of the same name gets himself: Douglas MacLean as Sam. Har- rington wins the race and.the love of a-girl who is. portrayed by preity Madge Béllamy. Raymond- Hattoin takes the part of Swift, the eccent- # STUDEBAKER A'JTO LIVERY 'NIGHT AND.D/AY SERVICE Enclosed and 'Heated Cars , PHONE 622 = | ‘ Opposite Hotel Markham I G e — g JANUARY 1st, 1923 7 207 Y§elt. Ave, J Many business firms will'start the new y ear with a new.setbf books.. It is the #ime to:change from the old to the new and we have made 'prepara’ti for your needs. 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