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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

county, who is president of the as
ISOLATION, presided at the meeting.
It was unanimously voted to
change then of the association to
include the new territory and hence
forth it will be known as the Min
neapolis, Bemidli & Border Picnic as
sOciationc
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02
Cosse Boiling For Cereals.

In! the diet of young children DTss
Erich Klose and Heinrich Bratten pre-
fer: thick, grmels made from cereals
boiled. at, least three-quarters Of IN
hour. In, tie. Nedfzinische Klinik they
write that they have the advantage
over thin gruels made with brief cock
ing, and. their starches are so altered
in. form, - to- be much morec readily
dieested and aasfmilated.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02
HEH. SHIPlMAN AND
. T. WILLIAM DUNCAN

Goods Country and The Woman"
special: Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feat
ures from. the book by James Oliver
.CurwoOd, is a; story of the Canadian
Northwest, of the woman who loves
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

WANTED-Girl for general house.
work. Phone 33-F-22. ~zz6tI
WANTED-Plain sewing. Phone
IoSI 6-32
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

C0FnS DI1yo You Maa1 Try "Gets.Its
sa0 They'n Peel Right OF!
toe 50 big It was murder to put on
my shoe. I used salves and other
things. that ate of more Of the toe
than they did the corn. I'd cut and
now no more fooling for me. Two
drops Of 'Gets-It' did all the work.
It makes the corn shrivel and get 80
loose that you can just pick it right
on with your hngers!"
There has been nothing new dis.
covered for corns since "Gets-1t"
was born. It's the new way-th0
common-sense. simple, sure way.
"Gets-1t" is sold everywhere. 25c
bv E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. III
Sold In Bemiuji and recommends
% the worlds best corn remedy b!
e. A. Barker. Druggist.-Adv.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

WANTED-Female help. Three girls
for store counter work. Kaplan,s:
2-32
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

FOR SALE-Five-room house, Will
sell cheap, part cash, balance
monthly payments. John Cline,
City. .sEs' 100
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

and of the men who live wild and
shoot true. The. feature of this pic
ture is the famous Siberian dog
teams. It 10, q picture of the big
SHOWS wonderfully filmed, with. an
excellent cast headed by william
Duncan, George Holt and Nell Ship
man, and directed by the: mastery
producer. R0llin s. Sturgeon.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02
BOYS AND GIRLS


this yeet send ths children With
wish the order by hen
give the ticket to- " '@ "a ' =
sitting back and
having them char9a1?'
q
&1h3S,
worth sayfnEe
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

WANTED-Two barred Plymouth
Rock ROSTERS. A. Goodspeed, Be-
midi. z-5S
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

WANTED-Girl for homework. One
who can go home nights. Call 800.
228tf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

WANTED-Furnish fat or cottage,
modern preferred. Address BOX
5os 6-36
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-02

WANTED-Good girl for general
Homework. Mrs. David Gill, ~!
Beltrami Ave. 21St1
WANTED--Dishwasher. Dairy Lunch:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11

Judge Garys announcement that the Steel corporation would spend s11.OOOOOO in the Birmingham district has silenced the anvil chorus for an indefinite pe- riod
 A Pittsburg contemporary discusses the gentle art of canning. It isn't such a gentle art on sizzling hot day when the children get on mothers nerves As long as the American people let their tongues wag freely. Teuton spies will have no difficulty in finding out every thing they want to know.
 * *
 An Atlanta, youngster walked away with the southern golf championship. Old heads are no better than young heads on the links
 Russian radicals demand that Nicholas Romanoff be brought to tfiaL If Mich olas is as rich as he used to be he can pay stiff fine.
 Madame Bernhardt says Russia is a traitor country. Madame speaks in the heat of the moment. Russia may yet find herself.
 American investors are reported to be working overtime but you will notice that the U-boats have not yet been put out of business.
 A New York man suggests that the American soldier be called Teddy. :" Only one word fits his suggestion and that is "piffle."
 The Germans have set diplomatic trap for the Russians. It remains to be seen whether or not they will walk into it.
 Black Jack Pershing is not the man to get rattled simply because King George of England shook hands with him.
 The Kaiser may have contempt for America as a military power, but he can't discount Americas dollars.
 *
 At his present rate of progress the Crown Prince will never reach Paris no matter how long he lives.
 *
 An eastern man has just paid $o3,5Oo for bull calf. That bovine's blood must be as blue as indigo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
sTYMIEs AND sTYMIEs

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
 The stymie is doomed! The American Amateur Golf association has so decreed in it's ruling on the national amateur tour nament, and the decision will stand though all the golfers in the nation rage against it. The "stymie' ruling should be extended to every sport and every occu- patton and to the nation at war There are stymie golf balls and stymie men and stymie circumstances.
 Whatever is in the way of legitimate less emphasis and dropped, dropped hard, for it is either Intentionally or by acci- dent blocking the way; it is either luck or finesse; either calculated, deliberate interference with skillfully developed purpose or a f1uke. In either case it in- stymie is the obstacle-call it golf ball or whatever you please-that is in the direct line between a golf ball or given purpose having precedence in action and the goal, be it the coveted hole in the putting green or a great national purpose. The American Amateur Golf association has simply become imbued with the na- tional spirit It is rehecting the thought in the White House. a thought that is still to be reflected in its purposeful en- tirety in Congress.
 No stymies must be permitted in the way of preparations for the new army; to interfere with the accumulation and dis tribution of the nations fuel and food; with the whole-hearted prosecution of the nations determination as expressed by the chosen executive to conduct the war for the perpetuation of democracy and its extension in the earth with all the power of the United States, it's resources in money, material and men. Any inter- ference, any hampering voice or faction is a stymie. It must forthwith be abol- ished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
*
Large Percentage of m N1

TT HE actuarial bureau of the na- J tional board of fire underwrit- CTS has made an analysis of nearly i've hundred thousand fires in the United States during 1916 and shows by a series of charts, one for each state m the union and one for the United States, the ratio of preventable fires. The conclusions reached indicate that the American people are appalllngly careless. Their disregard of fire pre- cautions costs every year stagger- ing sum of money and many lives.
 For the entire country it is estl- mated that during the year under con- sideration 21.4 per cent of the fires were strictly preventable, 37.9 per cent partly preventable and 49.7 per cent were due to unknown causes, a large percentage of which were prob ably preventable. Alabama had 13 per cent of strictly preventable fires during 1915. Of all the state Nevada had the largest percentage of pre- ventable fires-43.9.
 Fire Prevention Day and an organ ized campaign conducted throughout the year have done a great deal to draw public attention to the needless loss of property by fire. While much good has been accomplished in this direction, the recklessness of the indi- vidual is still a constant source of danger, both to lives and property
 Americans are careless about throwing lighted matches around, they are careless in spending their money, in eating, in drinking and in other ways. The wealth of the coun- try encourages spendthrift habits. No other nation on the face of the earth annually wastes as much, col lectively or individually as the Amer ican people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

When dinner happens to be an hour late and hungry small boy IS waiting
 for the bell, he Is willing to bet that the
 man who said Time flies was wall
 eyed liar.
 What has become of the old-fashioned
 man who used to say that an empty
 house was better than bad tenant?
 A fat man is oftes in a big hurry to
 get to his destina ton. But he is never in such big hurry that he would accept a motorcycle as a method of transporta- ton.
 We hate to say it. But it Is fact that a punctual man wastes half Of his life In waiting for other people No matter how many medals he has
 been awarded. no man is ever hero to his children when he steps on wooden collar button with his bare foot.
 Funny how the man who growls about
 his wife's cooking three times day en- joys what he manages to pick up at a free lunch counter. A man has to have reason for doing or not doing a thing But woman s only reason is because" Even if he can't wear a uniform the man who has few liberty bonds soaked away, and who is making 50 bushels of corn grow where only 20 grew last year, need have no fear of the outcome of this war.
 ] Maybe we wouldn't object so much to being reformed if the reformers didn't charge us so much for it. | girls idea of a perfectly lovely time | is to go to a dance and walk backward all night while male boob steers her
 around the hall
 | Of course, a great many marriages are | anything but prudent. But if none but
 prudent marriages were made our popu- | lation wouldn't grow much. | A man feels almost as bad when he is l roasted by reformer as he does when he | finds a $50 bill on the street. 1 If opportunity ever came to some mems homes and rang the front door bell their wives would make old op go round to the back door and knock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
ovERALLs FOR WOMEN

From the Youngstown Telegram.
 Within a few months the bifurcated working garment for women has passed from joke to reality. Dr. Mary Ellen
 Lease, if not vindcated In her idiosyn- crasy of half century, Is at least win
 ming certain measure of assent. Over-
 alls for women are not longer curiosity in Europe while in America they are emerging from the freakish stage. Overalrs as a feminine garb have not
 yet invaded the kitchen and the work
 shop, except, perhaps, in the few Ameri-
 can cities that advance with the greatest rapidity The feminine movement to the
 workshops has in fact but begun in this country. but 1t Is a movement that must grow, if hundreds of thousands of men
 are to be taken away from their accus- | toned labor at time when industry in I the country Is being strained to It's maxi
 mum With that movement must come the adoption of a more serviceable work | ing garb for women, and it's progress to the kitchen will be natural sequence | If you jaunt through the country, how ever, you will find that overalls-clad
 woman is not even a creature of the joke
 ster nor of the future. She Is there in
 reality, taking her place among the men
 and working efficiently because rid oi | cumbersome skirts.
 | In these stirring days only an egotisi will attempt to predict confidently what
 is going to happen six months hence, ol
 what is going to be the rule before an
 other year elapses. Old standards are be-
 ing discarded for day. And it's cer- tainly not impossible that overalls-clad women will be an ordinary sight before another year begins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
THE POWER OF THE PRESS
m, inc Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the PittSpurg Dispatcu.
 little publicity. unlike little learn
 ing. is not dangerous. but wonderful,
 progressive, and successful even when in
 iected into social situations that usually
 ara nrivate and exclusive. for instance, love making. In the vicinity of Three
 Brothers Ark, which. by the way, car
 ries the fragrance of fraternity in its name, there were 23 young bachelors cul- tiyating homesteads and getting along about as well as bachelors can. Between splitting rails and other light work they hadsto cultivate the soil enough to bring a living out of the ground. but found existence not all that husky young men could desire. It is to their credit that they uttered no crnging or other kind of complaint or even criticism. hf+ Qne day bright young man the fapat psip lished at Three Brothers wrpfe sym pathetic little' story about tie nachr eiors grubbing along in that neighpornoaa and volunteered the inforr ion fnaF every last homesteader was onsix anu | felt the need of loves inspirat n. Hum bl,. the story went out of Three Brothers and on its way. That was onsy Y few weeks ago, and now there are vHl% 8S
 bachelors left. and they will no ue bach elcrs long. The little story Is ssil tfaF- cling and probably Will be tu ts love arc using rounds long after the hAehelorF' company is disbanded.
 l When letters first began tc come to Three Brothers addressed to tne post master with the request that ne place same in the hands of one of tae spneiy
 bachelors they thought it a pFest aoqd joke, but after short time or @iiem changed his mind and then taa vrfe only P. then another. then ano urAi eight succumbed to the sympatf hes of the letter writers. leaving onls s, Aa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11

proved only by the Germans them selves.
 Ire Kaiser will be glad to give up the fight on the one condition that the status quo ante be restored. But the United States will not only not agree to any such pledge but will prosecute the war for the very pur- pose of altering the status quo ante.
 This is a struggle for humanity. It is the greatest of all the wars ever waged and it has resolved itself more and more concretely into a war for liberty and against the last vestige of autocracy. President Wilson has been making that very plain so far as the United States is concerned. The United States remained neutral as long as possible but now that we are at war it will be conflict to the finish. What are we fighting for? For the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence; and now that the Stars and Stripes have been carried to Europe to wave over the battlefields of the entente allies, there will be no quitting until autocracy IS made impossible forever. The world must be made "safe for democracy" And it will be by the resolute action of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
THE TALE THAT IS TOLD

ern thought dead against it-but as labor system, clumsy and costly. Yet
 million of men, not one in ten pos
 sessed of slave, went out to fight
 for it-not one in fifty considering the
 abstract question of the ownership Of
 man-of property expressed in human
 flesh and blood except to swear at
 the abolitionists for a set of inter
 meddling varmints having the au-
 dacity to dispute the right of south ern gentleman to wal1op his own mig. ger. We saw but one thing-invasion-
 the invasion of the south by the north there was a reasonable argument
 drawn from the original compact-tt
 was war-the debate was over-man- lhood-the electromagnetic, the shot
 was fred-and, 10, the one thing want
 ing to weld us together as a unit and
 make us the nation we are today.
 big price to pay; yea, verify, very big price to pay, with the pro- voking cause, the generating and az grayating circumstance-"th nigger in the woodpile" still an unsolved prob lem Where be your dreams, or, Will liam Lloyd Garrison, your denuncia- tions. Wendell Phillips, your diatribes, Horace Greeley? Gone with the con- ceits of Yancey that cotton was king and African slavery gift from God. Germany will learn, even as the south as1earned. The time will come when our German-Americans will see, as we old Johnny Rebs have come 10 see, that whatever is is best. We are
 doing pretty well, thank you! Dld we not one and all support Horace Greeley l for President? Now there Is that good
 old Rebel Woodrow Wilson In the
 White House and that good old Rebel Edward Douglass White. chief justice of the supeme court. Turn about is fair play, you know, Brother Lodge! Never fear and never say die Keep your
 shirt on-Massachusetts being still in
 the union. thank God!-your turn will duly come, with at least half of good old Rebel-that is to say your own be- lloved Teddy Bear-maybe in the lead!
 Who said Julius Caesar?
 Taps. Go home, boys! Go to sleep, boys! It's all right, boys Time brings in with his revenges some solaces- l chief of these that we are united people whom heaven has called to full fill the reason of their national oelns the rescue of freedom from autocracy | of republication from absolutlsm- to rive meieva1ism back to the Dark Ages, the right divine of kings from ofr the earth-in short to make democ- racy afe-here-everywhe
 Curious anti-climax to thy dreams,
 Fifty golden years ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
Presidents s Note
 To New Russia

7T HE UNITED STATES delega- ll gation, headed by Elihu Root, sent to the provisional government of Russia, is at last nearing Petrograd. In travelling through Siberia the Americans have been cordially greet ed and it may be assumed that the friendly object of the "envoys extra ordinary" will be attained.
 President Wilson has assured the new Russia of Americas sympathy and of this country's readiness to as- sist in establishing republican form of government in place of the tyran- nical autocracy recently overthrown. But to accentuate the sympathetic attitude of the Washington govern ment toward the Muscovite nation the President has written one of his strongest and most characteristic state papers and sent it in the form of letter to MT. Francis, the United States ambassador at the Russian capital This communication will un- doubtedly hearten the leaders and the masses of Russia and will pave the way for MT. Roots diplomatic task. But while it is addressed to the Rus sian people, President Wilson's letter is intended as very direct message to the imperial German government.
 Ever since the European war start ed, nearly three years ago, Germany has been ready with peace" pro- rosals, but proposals that no sane beiligerent could entertain. Recently Berlin has been full of peace talk but peace on terms that could be ap-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
STORY OF VLA[DlVOSTOM

of Siberia, whilst the founding of Vladi-
 vostok, 2S0 years later, may be said to
 have marked it's completion
 Yermak carried all before him, and,
 firally, extended his Sphere of influence
 as far as the site of Tobolsk. He re-
 ceived a free pardon from the Czar, in exchange for new empire" was raised
 to the rank of prince, and wore a cloak,
 specially sent to him by his imperial mas
 ter In the years that followed, the colo~
 nization went on steadily. Little bands
 of explorers built themselves zimovie, as
 they called their winter quarters of wood,
 and, after them, came the soldiery, erect
 ing their ostogs, or wooden blockhouses, all of them moving ever steadily east
 wards So things went on until the clos
 ing years of the seventeenth century. and
 then suddenly came to a halt. Peter the
 Great had other ideas for Russian ex-
 pansion, and it was not until the nine-
 teenth century that the movement be- gan again.
 In 1S47, however, Nicholas I took the ma atter in hand By a stroke of admin istrative genius, he appointed certain young soldier, General Muravief. to the post of governor general of eastern Si- beria, and Muravief proved himself real empire builder. Under his guidance, Russia extended her influence, almost in bound, to the Pacific. He founded Petropavlofck on the Pacific coast, in 1749. The next year he established Niko- laiefsk at the mouth of the Amur, and, eight years later, concluded treaty with China which definitely established the Siberian boundaries, on the south, as they at present exist, In 1860 he selected the site for Vlsdivostok. which was to be Russia's great naval base on the Pa cific, and gave to it the name of Vladi- vostok, which means the dominion of the east" The town, today, is growing and prosperous" Travellers who know It we'll remark with surprise on the ac- tivity of it's people, and speak feelingly Of it as the one place in the empire where
 the Russian may be seen in hurry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 N 7LADIvosToK, like so much else
 w in Siberia, is a place of but yes-
 V terday. Less than 60 years ago, on the northern shore of Peter the Great Gulf, where the town now stands, there was no sign of the thriving, bustling sea- port, which today is rapidly spreading itself out in all directions along the shore and up the hills beyond. As place of importance it's history Is even shorter for the world did not begin to hear about 1t until it became the far eastern ter minus of the great Trans-Sberian rail- way in 1902.
 vladivostok itself, therefore, has no long story attached to it, but it's foun- dation in 1860 marked the climax of one of the most interesting periods in mod ern Russian history The story Is one which may be quickly told. The first scene. as it were, concerns a Volga boat man, one Vassili, the son of Timothy, the son of Athanasus Alenin. the car ter. who. in tEe latter years of the SIX teenth century, earned his bread by tow ing boats up the river. He was wild, hard man, and his neighbors called him Yermak-the millstone. As time went on, he forsook his legitimate calling, and, be- coming a pirate on the river where he piled his trade, ultimately had to flee from the wrath of Ivan the Terrible. Yer mak and several of his companions took their way east until they reached the foothills of the Urals, and there they came across a rich family of settlers and traders named Stroganof. From them they learned of the land of OstiakS, at the other side of the mountains, and of the rich sables and other precious furs which were to be found there. It was clearly just what Yermak was in search of. The Stroganofs supplied him with money and arms. He gathered around him a motley crew of adventurers, and, on New Years day. 1851. started off across the Urals into the unknown. That was the beginning of Russia's conquest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-11
ISLANDER

By John Freeman. I heard them slandering the land that
 call mine, X Saying how she yet fumbled with her
 fate. Now she had banished visitants divine, How dark her spirit had been. her sloth,
 how great; tow wisdom, being flouted. passed her
 by.
 While in luxurious ease she dreamed.
 dreamed on- She. she her own eternal enemy, And wanting brain, brain. brain would
 be undone. Bnt I thought of the splendor had
 known, Of men and women of sweet England
 bred, 0s her great purposes instnctive grown, Of the grave honor of her undying
 dead. Md forgot their talk and, thinking,
 stared ,ts'f ike lover swept with h
 influence. And whispered England! !7.'sar
 had spared ..ss' , TT hls2e5 3