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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-29
CHILDREN OF STREET-LAND
Fly PHIIIp DAVIS of Licensed Minors. Roston PuhIlc schaol.
Formerly Supervisor of

Bureau).
 Many growing boys and girls loiter Tn the market places in search of food to supplement their meals. Some fill themselves with pickles, cakes and the refuse of the pushcart. Chronic indi- gestion Is the only price these street children pay for this market food. But the cost to the community in wasted effort to educate such groups of chill dren, labeled backward or indolent in school. while in reality half nourished, is greater than that of the school luncheons now provided by some con- munities. These findings are the result of
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devoted to the needs of garbage, is as urgent as the conversion of the par Tor into a playroom. Roof gardens are similarly possible. In the justly called lung blocks," where tenements are damned in, side to side, often sharing a party wall. roof garden could run from end to end thus restoring to the children nearly every inch of space the tenement took from them.
 Children of Mothers Who Work
 One of the surest ways of taking large groups of children off the streets is to return mothers to their homes. The movement for widows pensions Is due to a growing conviction that the children of a wage earning widow, who are either locked up in the house or locked out on the street, may even tually cost the state more than pen sion. But what of a working mother who is not widow? Is she better able to look after the children while out washing or scrubbing? Is a drunken husband who shifts the~ bur den of support on his wife any more useful to the home than a dead hus- band?< State aid for such mothers is gaining ground in different states be- cause, as one judge put 1t, "If poverty compels them to leave the home. the obvious remedy is to remove poverty itself" The eight-hour day which gives working parents more time for homes and children Is also a wise eco- homie expedient and social neces- sity.
 AS the kindegartens effectively take off the streets in the morning thou sands of little children under compul- sory school age, so the rapid conver- sion of schools into social centers Is now taking off the streets at night the youth above the compulsory age. Four hundred social centers have been opened in the United States within a decade. with phenomenal attendance and a multitude of activities.
 Tn line with the second movement. to improve conditions for children on the streets, is to close certain side streets to through traffic and set them aside for play under supervision. There is precedent in other fields for such trlfticless streets. Commercial zones have frequently been established for various purposes: for example. for ped d1ers during certain hours. Safety is- lands. or guarded spaces and squares. encouraged by European examples, are common in New York. Heavy teaming has been excluded for years from ave- nues bearing the legend. For pleasure driving only"
 Residential streets will. 1t Is hoped. bear similar legends. flor play only" or "childrens playground Do not en tci.' The suggestion of the creation of streets for children only'' was en- tnusiastical1y adopted by the first city aad town planning conference of Mas sachusetts as basic plank in its plat
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ground of 95 per cent of the children of most American cities.
 How to extract the good from street life and suppress the evil; how to get the street to cooperate rather than compete with home and school, are the great educational problems of twentieth century.
 There are two distinct movements: The first, an effort to take, and keep, children off the streets: the second, an attempt to improve the conditions for children who are on the streets.
 The first movement has always stimulated home and school reform and the demand for more playgrounds. IL may well be, as Charlotte Perkins Gilman has argued for years. that TO- organizing the home will dispense with numerous adjuncts which literally crowd out children. Wash days are certainly hard on children. Why not let the children use the so-called par ior or front room as a playroom on such days-indeed every day. Moth ing could be more useless than the farlor, generally crowded with stiff furniture and locked. while the chil- 1ren play in the gutters.
 The use of the back yard, too often
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SWAPPING CHINCH BUG
 LATEST SPORT IN KANSAS

From the Kansas City Star
 The finest and most popular sport in Kansas and Nebraska at present, judg- ing by the numbers engaged in it., Is bug is the ravenous little chap that does the brother act on the wheat cir cult with the Hessian fly, but the most remunerative engagements of the com blnation are on the wheat market, where the bulls employ them to put crimps in the bears.
 In the latter part of May the adults take to the small grain, where they de- posit their eggs. These will hatch into young bugs along about harvest time and deprived of their provander by the iipening of the wheat they will mil grate to where corn, Kaffir and sor- ghun, are growing.
 If the wheat harvest is delayed until the bugs mature they take to the wing and the farmers are helpless. If 1t ripens on schedule or little ahead of time the bugs have to make a land march, and there Is the swatter's op- portunity. Fastening the march by rushing the harvesting Is the order of the general in charge of the swat ting.
 The usual plan Is to make a dust barrier between the infected fields and those upon which the bugs intend to march. A deep furrow Is ploughed with a lister and the sides and bottom of 1t are reduced to fine dust by drag sing them with log attached to chain. The bugs find crossing this barrier hard task and they are either trapped in holes and crushed or else the drag is drawn over them.
 The latest method Is to use a gaso- line torch to burn them up, A gasoline torch Is passed along the tops and sides of the furrow at regular intervals and the destruction Is complete.
 Still another method is the road oil barrier. After ploughing a furrow two blanks nailed together in the shape of d hog trough and faced with galvanized iron are dragged It's full length. The result Ia a compact ridge with a groove along the ton. Into this oil and, yorne- times coal tar is poured. When tho
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just finish me. I'd rather he dressed like policeman or a brigand I could marry him cheerfully then, but I couldn't marry a man who wears a flaring collar and V-cut shirt. I would rather he'd be mistaken for a burglar or a buccaneer any time than to wear a low-necked waist like mine. He'd soon be patronizing my dress maker"
 It's final them" asked
 Absolutely Our engagement is broken. world without end" she said emphatically.
 How did MT. Twostep take it?'' I asked.
 Like a man, I'm glad to say she re piled, "I suppose because I handed it out to him like a man. One look at him and my dream was o'er., I. think in my delirium and anger I called him Lizette .
 ''I think that was a dreadful way to treat the poor creature said apol- ogetioally. Perhaps. he. like many others
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who are wearing the low-necks. thinks they are sweetly becoming"
 But 1t was hopeless. the girls mind was made up and her former fiance had been given his ''conge" good and proper.
 After this conversation I was more de- termined than ever to find out not only the feminine opinion of the low-necked man but the masculine, which had been my original intention. Something from those who don't wear them; not from low neck himself So after repeated ef- forts I found several victims, each of whom I petitioned to tell me why this style was prevalent and to what end it would portend, but at every request I was met with a gasp-it was beyond them.
 They admitted that the low-necked col lar was seen everywhere, but each man denied that he had ever worn one.
 Hammer 'em though, good and prop CT for me-" was the parting words uni versally spoken, and so I became rather
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form. New York and other cities are experimenting this summer with such streets with very promising results. Undoubtedly this Is the he'entering wedge of a system of street supervision of child life which Is certain to become nation wide, and which will guarantee 10 every community that the cherished ideals of home and school shall hence forth be not destroyed. but reinforced by street influences
 Tolstoi says somewhere that Russia s greatest needs are schools, schools and schools" Congested Americas greatest needs are playgrounds. playgrounds and playgrounds.
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the frst organized attempt at supervising the life and labor of boys and girs on the street.
 Observation In Many Cities
 The work was undertaken under the auspices of the Boston school board, with the idea of discovering how SC . iiously the labor of these street traders interferes with their school work. It Legan with the appointment of a di- rector to supervise the licensed minors of Boston-some 5000 newsboys, boot blacks, peddlers. messengers, delivery boys, bag boys. wood pickers. who were found everywhere on the streets, too often during school hours. It led to visits to many cities in order to find out what the children of street-land were doing and what was being done for them.
 Everywhere the investigation showed the same problem and the same re- suits While the children of Boston frequent the city dumps. those of Bal tlmore use the gutter as their play grounds-the open sewers their laugh ing brook of the kindergarten story. The Eastside of New York is so crowded that a vacant lot Is luxury Each side of the street Is pre-empted by pushcart peddlers hours before the children rise in the morning. Even in ;he famous Chicago loop one of the most congested business districts in the world, children were found playing and working and loafing in the midst cf danger.
 And likewise. although each city may be singled out for some special phase of the street problem the data proved that certain quarters in all cities de- velop the same street environment and the same street product. Every ju- venile court proves the same conten- ton regardless of the nationality of the child and the country from which he came. Close, crowded homes, of lering little opportunity for study or play poverty in varying degrees, un- dermining the basis of family life, these are universal causes driving boys and girls onto the street.
 Streets As Fairgrounds
 Other investigations. those of tene- ment house commissions, immigration commissions, city surveys, and espe- eially recreation surveys all point to one conclusion: The street, though un. fit for play. ts nevertheless. the play
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discouraged as to how might find out the why and the wherefore" of the male shirtwaist.
 They do say that at Atlantic City mere males are carrying parasols, but that isn't surprising. since with their threats barred, they must have some pro. lection from the blistering rays of ths sun.
 But if this-what next?
 Scanning the newspapers for some word on the advance styles for men for the season of 1915 made the following dis covery in the form of a bulletin from the National Clothing Designers association of America:
 The styles will follow the tendency ofl the last few years to make frock coat out of a sack coat. or rather to make sack coat into a frock coat Padless shoulders, snug waists and fareless, ab- breviated coats will be the order with frightened trousers and shortened over- coats. The broad lapel and the deep girdle will go out this year. The con- servative business man will get a digni- fled garment instead of college clothes as ! the theatre programme picture and. the covers of magazines portray. Neat, trim oyercoats will be worn instead of the potato sack kind, as the Balmacaan craze of last year caused all artistic natures many most unhappy hours"
 Somehow frock coats always suggest the pictures we have seen of ex-Senator Beveridge
 Of course, this isn't a political affair. but I hope you don't mind my bringing the x-senator in, for if you remember ~ him as I do, you always recall his pic lures taken in silk hat and froclx coat his right hand partially resting between the second and third buttons with only a few fingers showing.
 When our fathers wore these awful looking things, they called them Prince Alberts.'
 At any rate thought if any man ofs my acquaintance should appear in silk lat and frock coat. with a red geranium in the lapel, and a low-neck shirtwaist- well. he'd be arrested instanter, or else he'd be taken for patent medicine man." or minstrel
 One thing we've been spared so far. the Lord be praised, and that is the "slit trousers"
 Just suppose these low-neck males should adopt them and wear lace frilled pantalettes and diamond studded garters what would the poor women do to have their rights (and perfectly good lefts) in-t fringed upon in this manner?
 The really well dressed man, dare say, will go on wearing the same old conserva. tive clothes he has always worn; ha doesn't change his attire for every whim, which is as it should be.
 It would seem as if the peacock had come into his own were men to really, adopt all the silly. foolish, freaksh things that are suggested for them by MT. Fashion,
 It would indeed look as if the male ' bird wanted to snatch the premier place away from woman, lovely woman
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night. Very rarely do they move be- fore o'clock or after ' o'clock.
 The barriers are manned by men at intervals of q quarter or q third of . mile. and If they are vigilant in the use of the torch very few of the army get past. Those that do are usually killed by spraying the corn they attack first with . solution of water and laun- dry soap, or the gasoline torch may be used on them.
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bugs come along a torch sets the oil or tar on fire and the bugs roast to death.
 The chiach bugs move in a solid formation, and they have regular hour for marching. Usually they start moving about o'clock In the after noon. First comes 6 long line of skir- mishers. Then about or, 5:?0 o'clock the main body arrivcss and when 2 o'clock comes camp is struck for the
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bl Dixey- M. Lou-Tellegen, MT. te68J Francis x. Bushman, MT. Har-
 old Blackwood or some of the other perfect in all beauties" and get their opinion of the "low-neck' shirts the men wearing!
 Thank you
 l knew they'd say 1t; knew that with their beautiful, faultlessly white and ex- qusitely graceful throats they'd never be so devoid of pride as to dare to wear one of those awful low-neck shirts with the Little Lord Fauntleroy" collars, that some mere males are now disporting As the poet has wisely sung: That collar, oh that collar, It was worth at least dollar To hold a thing goriously "cute." It looks, somehow or other As if someone's little brother
 Had been parted from his pretty Sunday
 suit. That collar, oh, that collar It's enough to make you holler
 As it floats along the street in jauntt
 pride
 It is fashions new creation; It's paraded with elaton;
 And a modern summer man is just
 inside.
 Of course there is no use to ask YOU 1T you've seen the low-necked, wide-col- Jared men, who are infesting the streets and hotels and cafes and trolley cars These days because I'm sure you have There are smooth-faced men, bearded men, fat men, slim men, medium-siz men, tall men, small men, ugly men, and sood looking men exposing their perfect ly good Adams apple" proudly show ing their red, yellow, white, bronze tan. or pink necks. as the case may be, so as to give full sweep to the low-neck shirts. Where oh. where has their vanity gone?
 Is 1t possible that they are so conceited as to think that they look-well? But they don't; that's the point: they couldn't
 Some one kindly suggests:
 They are so much cooler-the low necks!
 Oh, yes; I see-but they are so un beautiful
 Somehow, you picture a 'sho' huff" man, as the darkeys say, wearing a nice. nigh, clean collar. snug fitting and be- comingly tight up about his fine. manly chin and underneath it a well made Ascot or "four-in-hand" tied neatly and sporting good looking scarr pm. But low neck; mercy guide usl
 '1 can't see a low neck"
 The question comes up:
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the first organized attempt at supervising the life and labor of boys and girs on the street.
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)MEBODY please page MT. James K. Hackett, MT. "Adonis"
 Dixey, M. Lou-Tellegen, MT. Francis x. Bushman, MT. Har-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
FARMERS SHIP CATTLE
TO SOUTH ST. PAUL

W. G. Schroeder has returned from
South St. Paul where he shipped a
carload of cattle and hogs from this
city.
The cattle brought from $3.50 to
$3.50 a hundred, calves $3.50 and
hogs from $500 to $3.50 a hundred.
They were sold at the Union stock
yards.
The farmers owning live stock in
the shipment were John Sukert, two
COWS; J. X. Given, one COW; o. N.
Johnson, one cow and two hogs, Le-
Roy Hanks, one hog; F. Wagner, one
cow; Hans Nelson, four cows; John
Kreuger, one COW; A. Utech, two
COWS; w. G.. Schroeder, 16 COWS and
calves; John Maltrude, one COW; A.
e. Hanson, one COW, and Otto Malt
rude, one COW.
Mr.. Schroeder is making arrange
ments for another shipment Oct. 8
and desires to cooperate with all
farmers who wish to secure cash for
their stock.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
MOBILE ESCAPES
MOST OF STORM

Mobile, Ala, Sept. 30.--New Or
leans and the Mississippi. gulf coast
were swept last night by tropical
hurricane that demoralized commune
cation and led to fear of heavy loss
of life and property. The Mississippi
river levees below New Orleans have
broken, houses have been washed
away and several lost in that Sec
ton, according to a wireless message
last night from the Morgan. liner
Creole, upward bound from New Or
leans. Late last night indications
were that the storm was subsiding.
Mobile escaped the worst of the
storm, but the wind here was suffi-
cient to drive the water over the
wharves at the river front and un-
roof several houses.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
AMERICAN SHIP STRIKES
NINE AND SINKS

Washington, Sept. 30.-American
Ambassador. Marye has. cabled the
state department that the American
sailing ship Vincent struck a mine
in Russian waters and was complete
ly destroyed.
Officials here state that there is no
danger of a dispute arising between
the United States and Russia over
the sinking.
Financial reparation has been de-
manded
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
FUNERAL OF EDWARD
ROCkENSOCK IS Hello

The funeral of Edward ROcken-
sock was held from the Huffman &
O'Leary undertaking rooms at 2
o'clock this afternoon. Services at
the cemetery were conducted by Rev.
S. E. P. White. John Rockensock,
brother of the deceased, from Lyon
county and Richard Polesky, a
brother-in-law, from Arco, Minn.,
arrived in the city yesterday and took
charge of the arrangements. Inter-
ment was made in Greenwood GENE
terry.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
BISHOP MORRISON HERE
FOR CONFIRMATION SUNDAY

Bishop Morrison of Duluth will be
at the Bemidji Episcopal church Sun
day to confirm class. The services
will be held at eight o'clock in the
evening and the bishop will deliver
the confirmation sermon.
Bishop Morrison and Archdeacon
H. F. Parshall were visitors in Be-
midi last night and are at Red Lake
today. ''~~t ~ 2=..@&@
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
Report Made by Frank Ripple, c.
of Police, for Months of July,
August and September.
BELIEVED DECREASE IS DUE
TO CLOSING OF SALOONS
Only 500 in Fines Paid as Compared
to 1856 Last Year; Report Shows
Officers Are Active.

Twenty-six arrests were made in
Bemidji during the months of July,
August and September as against
126 arrests made last year during the
same months, according to the quar-
terly report made today by Chief of
Police Frank Ripple.
The cause for the decrease in the
number of arrests, it is believed, is
due to the closing of the saloons.
The report of Mr.. Ripple's is as
follows:
Is for Drunkenness.
The number of arrests during July,
August and September, this year, for
drunkenness were sixteen, bringing
$50 in fines.
There were five arrests for viola
ton of the auto law Of which two
paid fines of 50 each, one five-dol-
lar fine and sentence suspended and
two other speeders' cases are still
penang.
Three for Liquor Sales.
There were three arrests for illegal
selling of intoxicating liquors Of
which two paid fines of $25 each
or total of $50, and one was fined
$25 and the case was appealed to
the district court.
There were two arrests for running
unlicensed drinking places. Both
cases were appealed
State Receives Share.
The total amount of fines received
was $93, Of which the city received
$50 and the state received $500 for
auto law violations.
The total fines received last year
during the same three months was
1856.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
Dress Up

When young goes to see his sweetheart,
he smoothes down his hair, puts his best suit,
dons clean shirt and collar, carefully arranges
his prettiest tie, polishes his shoes
Why? .-. ~ -.
When man out Of employment applies for a
position he cleans up, dasts his clothes, looks his
very best. " 7*# a-r n ~
Why? --~=
e
When you go to formal dinner party, you
put on your dress suit swell with pride under your
'boiled 'front.'" carefully polish your nails
Why? ~ a~a-i E-~@
-
When you have business engagement with
the man higher up you put on your best business
suit, get good rest the night BEFORE look as keen
and wide awake possible get clean shave.
Why? ~:
When caller is announced you unconsciously
straighten your necktie, adjust your scarf pin
Why?
Why? Why? Why? ~ .>.. r ~--.,@~
Why, that's almost instinct .@-~->~ 80 - =,
- '5 + =" &-~ -;
Everyone knows that clothes make the man
The young sutton, the man out of work, the guest,
the business man, the host all want to look their
BEST They realize that their chance for success
is multiplied many times if they look WE'LL if they
dress the part :.
Everyone appreciates the Importance of dress
that is why Dress-Up Week in Bemidji is going
to be so popular. Of course, every one here be-
ieves in dressing as neatly and hastily possible
throughout the whole year and here is an oppor-
tunity of seeing what the latest styles are-an op
portunity of planning your winters wardrobe
Some tV1n ShO md Incl a17u
charge a good price for admission. Here, however,
is an opportunity Of visiting every store and all
will be in their gala attire, to the prettiest
tunes, living models gowned in exquisite robes, all
the latest styles and all without obligation your
part. The merchants want you their guest
they will be glad to entertain you.
Bemidji Dress-Up Week, Oct. to 9. E.zs
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
|HENNESSEY TO 60
TO LIBBY, MONT.

j. p. Hennessy, who has been 1um-
Der manager at the Crookston Lumber
company offices here, expects soon to
receive orders to take charge Of the
shevlin plant at Libby, Mont. Mr..
Hennessy succeeds T.. A.. Mccain at
that point, Mr.. Mccain having been
given charge Of the new plant at
Bend, Ore.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
ZEPPELINS HEADED
FOR ENGLAND -...-

Amsterdam, Sept. 3O.-Six Zeppe-
Inns have been sighted, bound west
over Belgium. If their present
course is maintained they are enroute
to England.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-09-30
STORM ADVANCES
NORTHWARD

Washington, Sept. 30.-A special
bulletin issued by the weather bu-
reau says the great storm raging on
the gulf coast advanced northward
and rapidly lost it's intensity after
leaving the coast. .'. -