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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-12-19
What Happened on Christmas Day

The Pilgrims, who condemned all
church festivals, spent their first Christ
mas in America working hard all day
long, in cold and stormy weather, and
commenced the building Of the first
house in Plymouth in 1920.
Sir Isaac Newton, whose grand dis
covery Of the law Of segravitation,u re-
suited from the simple fact Of an apple
falling TO the ground, was born on
Christmas day, z.
Great battles fought on Christmas day
are an exception, but one is the Battle
of Okeechobee, Fla, in which Zachary
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-12-19
Unknown Not So Long Ago

Today when you enjoy Christmas in
comfort, have you considered how
many developments there have been
thatwere practically unknown little more
than thirty five years ago. A few are:
Asbestos, adding machines, x-rays, ra-
dunn, gas engines, safety matches, NOV
ing pictures, paper towels, miner IS cleo
trio safety lamps, the submarine, alumni
mum, hydro-aeroplane, vacuum cleaners,
department stores, automobiles, block
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-12-19

signals, motorcycles, canning factories,
power elevators, antiseptics, electric
street railway, asphalt paving, acety-
lene, automatic typewriter, aeroplane,
freless cookers, parcel post, sky scrap
ers, electric heating, electric lighting,
wireless telephoning, picture post cards,
pure food movement, rotary printing,
dyes from coal tars, seismograph, color
photography, wireless telegraphy, teleg
raphone, mesothorium, gasoline driven
farm machinery. .t-%t,= .as@@99. ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-12-19
Christmas Superstitions in Germany

If a dog bowls the night before Christ.
mas, it will go mad within the year.
If the light is extinguished on Christ
mas eve, someone in the house will die.
IF you steal anything on Christmas
eve without being caught, you can steal
safely for year.
IF you eat raw egg after fasting on
Christmas morning, you will be able to
carry heavy weights.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-12-19

It is unlucky to carry anything from
the house on Christmas morning, until
something has been brought in. q =.
If the fire burns brightly on Christ
mas morning, it will tell Of prosperity;
If it smolders, misfortunes. = :
Another belief current in certain Sec
tions Of Germany is that if one walks
in the winter corn on Christmas eve,
he will hear all that will happen.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
HOFFMAN FOR COVER.
NOR
Big Movement on Foot to Unite
Republicans Behind Popular
Coroner and Vote.Getter.

There Is a big movement on foot
among Republicans Of all factions to
nominate Coroner Peter NJ. Hoffman
for Governor.
He has proven himself to be the
best vote.getter in the party, having
carried Cook County when all other
Republican candidates were badly
defeated.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19

than required by the law. Among the
those Of IS Of the most prominent
men engaged In business In South
Water street, Is of the most active.
energetic young members of the Board
OF Trade were also among the sign.
ers 600 well known German residents
of the North Side also signed.
Among those who signed the petit.
ton were: Chas. H. Kellerman, Har-
ry r. Gibbons, Joseph Grein. Edward
J. Kelly, Daniel J. COyne, Aid. JOIN
Haderlein, Frank Roeder, Gustav See.
dorf, George Mayer, Thomas p. Keane.
James Whalen, John Denney, Thomas
O'Hearn, A. j. Caveney, John j. Leon.
ard, Daniel J.. Mcmahon, James v.
Cunningham, VIM. II. Dram, Stanley
II. Kunz, Joseph Gill, Col. Daniel Mo-
riarty, County Commissioner Daniel
Ryan, John p, Dougherty, John A. Ha.
ney, Edward J. Novak, Chas. A. Muir
ply, Chas. s. Thornton, James A.
Long. and a host of other equally we'll
known Democrats. Many of those
prominently identified in the labor
movement including Simon O'Donnell,
Joseph Morton, stephen c. Sumner,
George =. Grove, Martin McGraw, NJ.
c. Buckley, John Cleary, Robert Nc
Cauley and many other officers and
members connected with labor organi.
cations were also signers.
AS soon as the Aldermanic Prima-
ries which occur February Goth are
over, the committee on organization,
of which Daniel J. O'ConnOr Is chair
man, and James v. Cunningham Is
secretary, will be called together for
the purpose of prosecuting vigorous
campaign in the interest of Mr.. Burke.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
new N. Y. 1. IN FIELD
Old Organization Lost Its Char
ter and New One Springs Up.

The new Chicago Municipal Voters
League will issue report on the sit.
ting aldermen up for reelection and
the other candidates In the primaries
in time 10 advise the voters for pri.
mary day, Feb. 90
Mai. John V. Clinnin, who took out
the charter for the new organization,
said that work was being started on
a primary report that would be free
from the bias and partisan tone
shown by the unchartered Municipal
Voters League.
We are going ahead with this or.
ganization on big scale said Maj.
Clinnin. a meeting will be held In
a short time and the original in
corporators and directors will step out
in favor OF the representative citizens
who will manage the new voters
league. We believe the people Of Chi
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19

of the Quick Service Laundry Com.
pany one of the model establishments
of the city and his interest in public
affairs would make him model Alder.
man.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
SOCIALISTS SEE GAIN
Say That They Will Elect Two
More Aldermen This
Spring.

Encouraged by their victories OF a
year ago, Chicago Socialists are max.
ing elaborate campaign plans for the
aldermanic election. They have two
council members, William f. Rodri.
guez In the Fifteenth ward and John
c. Kennedy In the Twenty.seventh.
The party leaders express conf.
dence that Rodriguez, who Is serving
a one.year term, will be reelected.
They also have high hopes that two
new Socialist aldermen will be elected.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19

ton of the consolidation Of all Of Chi
Cages parks on the ballot at the April
aldermanic election.
The park consolidation act passed
at the last session of the legislature
provides that the proposition must
be submitted to the voters for q ref.
erendum either by petition or by the
passage Of an ordinance by the coun.
Gil.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19

cago are entitled to voters league
that really represents the community,
and not close corporation whose
personnel is guarded carefully from
the public knowledge.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
BURKE'S FIG petition
Popular Democratic Candidate for
Delegate at Large Is Strong
ly Backed.

The petition of Robert +. Burke,
candidate for Delegate at Large to the
Democratic National Convention, to
be held at st. Louis on June 14th, 1916.
was filed at Springfield on Friday last
by Mr.. Burke personally. II contained
the names OF 1880 signers or $50 more
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
LEONI WILL Win 18TH
Popular Business Man Backed
by Best Democrats for Alder
manic Nomination.

Paul p. LeOni, one of the best-knOwn
and most popular business men on
the West Side should receive the Dem
ocratic nomination for Alderman of
the Eighteenth Ward, in the opinion
of Democratic leaders who have the
good of their party at heart. Mr.
Leoni is large tax payer and pub
lie spirited citizen. He Is president
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
McnALE FOR ALDERMAN
Popular Democratic Leader in the
Twenty-Fourth Ward May
Be Elected This Spring.

George McHale, one Of the most
popular Democrats on the North Side,
is candidate for the Democratic nom.
ination for alderman of the Twenty.
fourth ward. II nominated he will be
elected. He would make an able mem.
Der of the City Council.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-19
DEMOCRATIC LIST
Candidates for Delegate at Large
Who Have Filed Petitions.

Following are the Democratic
Candidates for Delegates at
Large:
Edward F. Dunno, $500 Beacon
street.
Michael thinner. 1856 West Twenty.
first street.
John w. Eckhart. 1903 Monroe
street.
Carter II. Harrison, $3.50 Sheridan
road
Roger c. sullivan, 1850 Washington
boulevard.
Robert NJ. Sweitzer, 295S West Jack
son boulevard.
Jacob X. Creighton. Fairfield.
Reed Green. Cairo.
Henry T. Rainey. Carrollton.
jackson II. Pearce. Quincy.
Robert Emmett Burke, 1892 n. La
Sale street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
TYPHOID FEVER REDUCED
IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.

Reduction in typhoid fever and i'm
provement in sanitary conditions have
followed the intensive Investigations
Of rural communities carried on by
the United States Public Health Ser
vice in cooperation. with local and
state health officers, according to the
annual report of the surgeon general
OF that service. During the past ifs
cal year 1850 rural homes in eight
different states we're visited and many
of them revisited. In each of these
homes information was obtained as
to the prevalence of disease and in
sanitary conditions and a complete
sanitary survey of the premises con-
Quoted. This was followed by re-
inspections to determine if remedial
measures had been instituted. In
but a relatively small percentage of
the cases did the persons concerned,
after having their attention drawn to
the danger of a particular unhygienic
condition, fail to inaugurate correc-
tive measures. Stimulus was given
to the work by means of public lee
lures, the formation of active SAINT lry
organizations, and the enlisting of all
public spirited citizens in the cam
paigns for reform. Public buildings
were also inspected and local author
tiles given expert advice in solving
such sanitary problems as the disposal
Of excreta- the prevention of soil pol
luton. and the maintenance OF pure
water supplies.
The surveys made during the year
1914 had shown. that in rural COM
munities less than one per cent. of the
homes had sanitary toilets and that
more than SO per cent. Of the people
were using water from polluted
sources This condition, according
to the Public Health Service, made
the rural sanitation question loom
large among the matters vitality af-
fecting the welfare OF the nation. Fol-
lowing these studies and as a result
Of the interest aroused, the typhoid
fever rate, an excellent Indicator of
the sanitary status of a community,
has IN some places frequently been
cut to one quarter of it's previous
figure. In Berkeley County, West
Virginia, the cases of typhoid fever
were reduced from 249 to 40 in one
year. Z In Orange County, North
Carolina. the rural sanitation cam
paign resulted in a reduction OF the
cases from SO to IT.
The tangible results of operations
in rural sanitation indicate that
marked Advancement in maintaining
hygienic and satisfactory surroundings
in country districts is possible by the
application of the common principles
of preventive medicine Insanitary
exist largely because they
are not known to be such. Actual
demonstrations of their harmfulness.
together with definite recommends
of the most gratifying and successful
methods for instituting reforms and
has been, in the experience of the
Public Health Service, invariably ac-
companied by definite and measurea-
BILE results.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
LLOYD GEORGE

The man of the hour in Great
Britain-the man to whom a large
part of the population look to ''or4
ganzze victory''-is a little WeIshu1zn,
David Lloyd George, a true imam OF
the people, without a drop Of aristo-
cratic blood in his veins. Lloyd George
will be f1fty-three years old today,
having been born in Manchester on
Jan. IT, 1853. His father was a school
teacher. of Welsh yeonnan stock, and
died when David was three years old.
His mother was the daughter of a
Baptist minister. The fathers name
was William George, and the mothers
Elizabeth Lloyd, and both family
names haVe\ been perpetuated in the
patronymic Of their iI1ustrious son.
The future great man of England re-
oe1Ved the best part of his early edu-
cation in a cobb1er's shop belongiug
to his uncle, Richard Lloyd, a shoe
maker in a Welsh village. Young
David was reared by this worthy man
who was well educated, and served as
a Campbellfte Baptist preacher on
Sundays, while n1ending the footwear
or the members of the congregation
on week days thus caring for both
the souls and the so1es of the people
his uncle led Lloyd George to take up
the study of the law, in order that he
might act as the spokesman for the
downtrOdden and the oppressed. His
merry eIoQuence gained him a popular
lty which soon extended over the king
dom, and in due course Lloyd George
became chancellor of the excheouer
loved by all the poor and equally cor
daily hated by the rich and the mobiles
because of his radical measures for
the relief of the workers at the es-
pense of those possessed Of vast es-
tates and swollen fortunes. AS Minis
ter of Munitions in the war cabinet
George wa nTfP tod 49,
gigantic task Of organizing British in
dustrtes on a war basis, and the his
tory Of his efforts in that direction are
too recent to need repetition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
EGMELINE THOMAS OF
DANBURY TO CONTEST
HER BROTHERS WILL

Enmeline Thomas of Danbury is
preparing to contest the will of her
brother, Zachariah Conpbell of
French street; this city, who in his will
admitted to probate Saturday, leaves
all his estate to his housekeeper, Mrs.
Sarah Ida May. She is named as
executrix. Attorney F. E. Morgan
and Attorney A. J. Merritt were nam
ed appraisers. The principal part
OF the estate is an insurance policy
for $500. In the event of the death
of Mrs. May before the testator, he
bequeaths his estate to Anna De-
Welt Of Poughkeepsie, N. Y Mrs.
Thomas claims neither woman was
related to her brother and that she
is his sole heir-at-1aw. All parties
in interest are colored people.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
THE CALL OF THE TELEPHONE

A man who was kept at home by
an attack of grip. remarked on his
return to work, that he had been
amazed by the part the telephone was
playing in his family life. It was
his estimate that the bell rang three
times an hour on an average, from
a. m. to 10 b. M
He believed the conversations over
the wire averaged at least five minutes
apiece. He figured 40 conversations
during the day, totaI1ing over three
hours of, time. His wife at times
became desperate, and begged him to
intercept the pestiferous calls. Yet
the vivacity with which she convers-
ed over the wine suggested that the
Interruptions were not wholly unweI-
come. ~
Much of this conversation seemed
to be merely social visiting some
of it of course represented consuIta-
tons over the work of church ana
other organizations, while some of it
was the ordering Of household sup
plies.
The severe philosopher will say
lot of time over the telephone in
which a former generation used to
excel. Probably there are cases
where this criticism is correct 1t is
SO very easy for any one and every
one to gain access to the homes and
Time VI OIn6E people merely by T1ng-
ing up Central People who would
never think of calling in person viii
call by WIRE and women with social
natures find it difficult to resist the
invitation to aimless gossip.
There is much to be said on the
other side though, of the service the
telephone renders in breaking the fsg-
lation of wopnen's lives. It used to
be- stated that many farmers wives
went crazy. by reason of the loneliness
of their lives. No need for that
now, with the telephone making pos
sibIe social visiting for 1O hours day.
and if the lonely person can't think
of anything to say. she can pull down
the receiver and hear what the
neighbors are saying. It is not sur
prising that it is almost impossible
for the men to get the rural lines to
close up business deals, at any time
except when the housewives are pre-
pairing meals>
In town life the telephone facili-
tates marvellously the work Of the
many organizations through which
women perform so efficiently their
civic and 'philanthropic tasks Many
a woman is kept from becoming NOR
bid by the constant contact she now
gets with the life of other once iso-
lated women about her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
WILL THEIR LONG COURT
SHIP END IN WEDLOCK?

Dear Miss Libbey:-
ask your aid, please. I kept COM
pany with a young lady some time.
If she is around I do not go with
other girls d o other<times. A youth
goes with her she loves me. Offers
to quit going with John if I desire. I
am in no position to marry at pres
emit. I told her. Do not object to her
keeping company with John, as I once
did My folks are anxious about me
to go with her. Thus am puzzled.
I like her best Of girls. Do you ad-
wise me to become engaged under the
circumstances? We would have to re-
main single for five or six years, I
fear Had best drop out Of the
race now before it is too Hate and let
John try to win her love? am 20
years OLD Please advise.
J. A! r
It shows your. good principle in not
keeping her waiting years You are
Young yet. A heart-to-heart talk with
her is by all means advised before a
rival shows you are too late. Girls
do not long for long courtships.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17
TODAY'S POEM
THE GLORY OF FIGHTING.

(Written by Capt. Julian Grenfel1,
killed in France last May.
The naked earth is warm with
\ And with green grass and bursting
trees
Leans to the suns gaze g1orying,
And Quivers in the sunny breeze;
And life is color and warmth and
light,
And striving evermore for these;
And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase.
The fighting man shall from the sun
Take warmth and life from the
glowing earth;
Speed with the Hghtfoot winds to run
And with the trees to newer birth;
And find, when fighting shall be done,
Great rest and fullness after dearth.
All the bright company OF heaven
Hold him in their high comrades
ship,
The Dog Star and the Sisters Seven,
Orion's Belt and sworden nip.
The woodland trees that stand to-
gether,
They stand to him each one
friend;
They gently speak IN the windy
They guide to valley and ridges
end.
The kestre1 lowering by day
And the little owls that calls by
night
Bid him be swift and keen as they.
AS keen of ear. as swift of sight.
rrSE,a 111a olxJ,irdt siros 70 him "F2roTber
brother,
If this be the last song you shall
Sing well. for you may not sing
another;
Brother, sing"
In dreary doubtful waiting hours
Before the brazen frenzy STARTS
The horses show him nob1er powers;
r o patient eyes, courageous hearts!
And when the burning moment
breaks,
And all things else are out of mind,
And only joy of battles takes
Him by the throat and makes him
blind.
Through joy and blindness he shall
know,
Not caring much to know, that still
Nor lead nor steel shall reach him, so
That it be not the destined will.
The laundering line of battle stands,
And in the air death means and
sings:
But day shall clasp him with strong
And night shall fold him in soft
wings.
Saturday Review.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17


But doubts have none,
And better is despair than faithlesS
hope
Mixed with killing fear"
Because a man apparently has no
Inclination for the society of women,
it is a libel upon him to intimate that
he is a woman hater. He may be a
very noble character, who reasons it
out that 1t is unkind for a. man to put
himself in the way of impulsive wo-
men, who might be attracted to him
when hf cannot reciprocate their hk-
ing.
He is one of the kind of m9n who
do not believe in p1atonic friendship.
His creed is that man either has
affection for a woman or else he is
entirely Indifferent toward her. He
has stricter notions than other. men
in having the romance of heart dead
ened by a thousand frivolous flirta-
tions. He does not believe in offering
the one woman who will somewhere
some time cross his path, a battered,
worn-out, patched-up heart He has
keener insight perhaps into woman's
heart than most men have. If a young
woman were to fall in love with him
he would feel himself in a most awk-
ward position. He would not be the
man to wreck noble wonan's life,
believing that the personal run of wo-
mon love once and for all time
There is another. class of men who
avoid women from selfish motives. If
they are men of wealth they do not
intend to be tied down to any one
woman, but to enjoy the life of free
lances. They are mems men, jolly,
fellows at bin and board; at their
best at their club or hunters camp,
spinning yarns or taking a ctowd Of
his fellows on long pleasure 'jaunts,
where never a petticOat crosses his
path Married life to such a man
would be irkso1ne because he could
not come and go he pleased or en-
joy the cornpanionship Of men most
agreeable to him.
Z The bachelor of very moderate in
come who avoids women often does
so for reasons quite as selfish. His
small income Keeps him in cornpar-
ative ease. If he were to wed, aNwife
would have. to be supported out of it,
which would mean cutting off most of
his comforts. He avoids the entire
sex rather than perchanee meet and
fall in love With the one woman who
would tempt him to swerve from his
set notions.
But, taking all N all, no matter
how much a man may avoid fair wo-
men, he is but/a tool in the hand of
fate. There is a destiny which shapes
our ends rough 1hew them as we
may People meet where the hills
and mountains don't The clasp of a
hand, the: glance of a pair of eyes,
and he follows blindly where she leads
him, when once he would have turned
and fled.
There's no use Of attempting to be-
guile or push the man who is deere
mined to avoid women, into matr1-
rnony He must learn his lesson from
the book 81 1ovs, n + Is 5wn time ana
in his own way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-17

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