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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-07
HERE FROM OREGON

Prof. E. G.. Bailey, superintendent
of schools at Ontario, Ore, who at
tended the funeral of his mother,
Mrs. Gideon Bailey of Upton, Ia, is
the guest of his aunt, Mrs. II. w.
Bailey. o. E. Bailey of Billings,
Mont, who has also attended the fu-
neral of his aunt, is the guest of his
mother, Mrs. H. w. Bailey. They
will both leave for their respective
homes in the morning. w..
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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-07
SINKING OF VESSELS Fl y
WILL Be KEPT,SECRE1

b, E. (By United Press) j
M Rome, March 7.-Italy has Joined
the entente in not announcing the
sinking of vessels. .-,--.~- .---~~~ - -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-07
BER RI TO R 4 N ! 3 R !
HOME, IS REPORT
lRy limited Press

(By United Press) ii
Copenhagen, Denmark, March T.
The steamer Frederick VIII, bearing
Won Bernstorff and party from the
United States, is expected to arrive
here Friday, it was announced today.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-07

overwhelming hand
plomacy its place.
tarsa and Stripes forever!
g~ URGES LAND SURVEY
Minnesota lands and the
director of the 1910 OF
the University Of Minnesota
all properties held for rising
of all northern Mnne-
properties shall be conserved
for timber ands and and cultivated
muimllonaire from war profits has
OF PROBABLY
O show himself
We
general
demand for woanda
pieces You bet! We want all we can get
yesterday saving
fol Come Bill!
Almighty only knows
Do want a million? bit of it. We want spud!
Lord did hate quit and home!
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-07
REACHING THE LIMIT

the limit
rights confess itself who is
rights.
this writing there
people,
But into
determination to leave
respect flag citizenship
abhor honorable warfare preferable to dis
peace
passed. The hour for determined and
overwhelming action is at hand.
diplomacy take it's place.
an Stripes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
Farm Junk in Demand.

From the Boston f1eEhla
Any farmer who wants to make a
few dollars. perhaps many dollars. this
fall has the opportunity in the discard
ed and rusting farm machinery that is
Invariably lying around his premises.
The demand for scrap iron of any sort,
and especially steel. is so great that
the farmer who hau1s his junk TO the
nearest foundry, or to the junkman
will get a price for ii that Will open
his eyes For example. most mowers
and binders have one or more bearings
lined with Rabbit metal. which con-
tains tin that Is now worth SO or so
, cents a pound, and lead worth 10 cents.
And il is not simply that the farmer
has IA chance to turn his junk pile into
cash on better terms than ever before
in his lifetime, but Washington sends
out an appeal to him on the ground of
patriotic duty. When the last census
was taken there was Il billion and a
quarter dollars worth of farm machin-
erv on our 5000, 900 farms-and nobody
knows how many hundred million dol
lars worth of old farm machinery in
outbuildings and barn cellars and be-
side stone walls not considered of
enough account to be included. Next to
railroad construction in normal times,
our farms take the greater part of the
steel and iron produced in this coun-
i.tTy-about $165, 600, 900 annually in i'm
plements and tools for the fields alone.
Every farmer knows how fast much of
his machinery gets broken and out
worn-which means in most cases that
il is thrown aside and allowed to ac-
cumulate year after year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
HOtDSLAck Of CARS
CAUSE OF SHORTAGE
Activities Of Sugar Refiners
Not Responsible, Mr..
Babst Says.

The car shortage and not attempts Of
rehners to manipulate supplies or prices
was attributed as largely the cause Of
the sugar shortage by Earl D. Babst.
testifying today beforethe Senate sugar
Investigating committee.
He refuted testimony of Claus A.
Spreckels that George M. Rolph. gem
eral manager Of the California Ha-
waiian Company, and director of the
sugar division of the food administra-
ton. declined to allow supplies to come
east from his own refinery at time
Mr.. Spreckels was threatened with
being forced to close his plant, by say
ing that Mr.. Rolph and another ref1ner
onered to let Mr.. Spreckels have $4,000
tons at the basic price set for Cuban
sugar by the international committee
Mr.. Babst denied he had anything to do
with liking the price OF beet sugars and
that he had any connection with setting
the price for Louisiana sugar. He adj
mitted. however. as Mr.. Spreckels charg-
ed. that he attended conferences with the
Louisiana planters and members of the
food administration in Washington, but
said that when prices were discussed he
withdrew from the conference. He stated
that he agreed with the planters to take a
part of the crop at any price the admin
istration fixed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
Walking Quite Out of Fashion.

From the Grand Forks Herald.
When the bicycle was at the height
of its popularity one of the comic pa
pers had a sauib in which a neighbor
year-old. "Can your baby sister walk
vet, Johnny" "Walk2' responded
Johnny. scornfuny. Il should say not.
She can't even ride bicycle yet"
II did seem for a time as if the hu-
man race might be about to abandon
its habit of travelling on its own feet
and taking entirely to wheels. Walk
ing seemed in danger of becoming a
lost art. Nor does there appear to have
been much of a revival of IL. The BIZ
cycle is less popular than il was. but
il is still with us, and other means of
locomotion have been edded We trav-
ell by bicycle and by automobile. on
roller skates and in flying machines.
say trip behind horse, and every
auto SHES at the spectacle. But the
practice Of going for a walk seems to
have been RELOCATED to the limbo of
things that were.
And yet, walking is good. The doc
tors tell US 1t is good for ones health.
Undertaken in the right frame of mind,
and with the right surroundings. IL is
certainly good for the spirit. Try 1T
early In the morning, at sunrise, while
the air is chill and the sky gray. Brisk
motion is needed to keep up the circu-
lations The air is clean and still, for
the wind has not yet risen. Silence
reiRns in the woods The light grows
stronger and faint twitters are heard
as birds begin to rouse themselves from
their sleep The air grows warmer and
with the warmth come faint hints OF
fragrance as the dew rises from leaves
and grass. The birds begin to fit about
in search Of food for their hungry
broods and the air is Allied with a med
ley of song. And when one walks out
on such morning. with a clear con-
science and after q good nights sleep
he will return home with an appetite
which may remind him forcefuily of the
Ugh cost Of living. but with the con-
yicti0n that lifsis worth Lying. no mat:
1 ter what the COST. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
HEALTH INVENTORIES.
BY II. ADDINGToN BRUCE.
Copyright, 1919
Copyright. 1919

All over our land physicians have for
months been hard at work taking health
inventories of the men drafted into the
National Army.
They have been searching out physical
and mental defects. Often they have de-
tected the presence of these in men who
supposed themselves to be in perfect ply
steal health.
When serious defects are found, rejec-
ton from the Army follows. Even minor
defects may be deemed cause for rejec-
ton, unless curative treatment is possible
and is promptly applied
This on the principle that mental or
physical detectives cannot be truly effl-
Client fighters. And efficiency Is basic
need for the battle front.
But SO is it a basic need for success in
any walk of life.
From the work of the Army physicians
a lesson may be drawn applicable TO all
civilians no less than to the young men
who present themselves for military medi-
cal examinations.
If staying power is needed to fight well.
it is needed likewise to work well. II a
good soldier must be free from defects
that would interfere with his ability to
think and act quickly, so should the work
er in any vocation be free from hamper
ing defects.
; Many workerS-most workers-do not
appreciate this.
They do not appreciate the advantage
it would be to them to have their doctors
take health inventories of them. Just as
the Army doctors have been taking in
ventories Of the health of the drafted
men.
Here is one man, for example, who has
selected typesetting as his vocation.
Every day he sits for hours before a
typesetting machine.
Ip,,& ~. fz,e
to admit that he is not a first-ciass COM
positor. He makes many mistakes, and
works more slowly than his fellows
So far as he knows his health is good.
There seems to be no reason that ne
should consult a physician.
But let him go to one for health in
ventory. Let him insist on a thorough
physical and mental examination.
He may discover. to his astonishment.
that he is a victim of eye-strain- He needs
only well fitting spectacfes to be able to
set type as fast and as accurately as any
man
Possibly. however, the doctor will rem
der a verdict which is equivalent to re-
lection from the army of typesetters-
your work is too combining for you, he
may say. Your lungs are not as strong
as they should be, and as they would be
II you worked in the open.
"Get a new job. Get something that will
keep you outdoors. Stick at your present
indoor work and you will continue to do
it badly and shorten your life"
Or, if the tyepsetter. protests that he
can do nothing except set type:
Very well. Sleep in the open. II you
cannot work in the open. Make milk and
eggs feature OF your diet. And take
your recreation out Of doors"
Health inventories for civilians. no less
than for soldiers. should indeed be the
rule They should be taken not less than
once every twelve months.
They would make for increased in
dividual success. happiness and length of
days And. through the benefits result
ing to individuals. they would make for
increased national strength and pros
perity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
A. D. SC0VEL JOINS u. S.
p0LLAR-A-YEAR ARMY

Another doliar-a-year volunteer has
been added to the service of the War
Department. He is A. D. Scovel, an of
fetal of the New York Telephone Com
pany. branch of the American Tele-
graph and Telephone Company. and an
expert in telephone switchboards.
One of the largest switchboards in the
country was installed in the War De-
partment recently to assist in handling
war business. Md Sovel will have per-
sona1 charge of the telephone service,
and will endeavor to have it meet the
great demands made upon it incident to
the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
Another Explanation.
From the London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle.
But really no exception should be taken
TO the word Yankee, which is an hon
orabie title. When the New England
colonies were first settled. the inhabi-
tants were obliged to fight their way
against many nations of Indians. They
found but little difficulty in subduing
them all except one tribe. who were
known by the name Of Yankoos-which
signifies invincible. After the waste of
much blood and treasure. the Yankoos
were at last subdued by the New Eng
land men. The remains of this nation
agreeable to the Indian custom) trans
ferred their name to their conquerors
For a while they were called Yankoos
but from a corruption, common to names
in all languages. they got the name of
Yankee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
To Distribute D. C. Pay Rolls.

Public school teachers of the District.
as well az all pensioners Of the police
and fire, departments. viii receive their
annual visit from Santa Claus tomor-
row. For the former. who arc compen-
stated for their services monthly, half
month payments have been made out by
Disbursing Officer Lushy and Will bs
distributed tomorrow. The roll totals
sII4,so0 Pensioners will receive $500.
which means n total extra disbursement
Of slsi0op Members OF the police and
fire departments drew their regular
semi-monthly pay envelopes December
IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
GERMAN-CHINA PACT ALLEGED
Disclosures in Trial Of Hindus and
Others for Conspiracy.

SAN FRANCISCO. December. la.--An
alleged plot to effect secret treaty
between Germany and China whereby
the former would protect the latter
from all aggression for period of
Ave years II Chinese forces were sent
into India TO aid proposed revolution
there. was disclosed yesterday In the
trial ofsa number of Hindus and others
charged with conspiring in America TO
set up a revolutionary government IA
India. The treaty was TO have been
effected in 1915
Details of the supposed plot were
outlined in code messages purported 20
have been passed between DR.. G. ".
Chakravarty, one of the Hindu de-
PENDANTS. and committee Of German
officials and others In Berlin. Copies
of these messages in the original and
decided form were introduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
More Food Arriving.

According to reports OF the bolshe-
Wiki public works department = and
railway administration, the arrivals of
food Of all kinds in the last few. days
have been satisfactory at Petrograd.
Moscow and all the populous places in
north Russia and on the north and
south fronts.
The Morning Post correspondent re-
ports that the Germans long, ago ar
ranged to flood Russia with their
manufactures at the earliest oppor-
tunity, which has now apparently
come. Trading has begun on sec
lions of the front. and the Germans
are reported to be bartering every
kind OF manufactured goods for food
stuffs on a large scale. Orders are be-
ing taken at Petrograd for German
goods, the shopkeepers promising that
they will shortly be able to satisfy the
demands of customers for commodities
they have long been without.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
Sent to Succor Serbs.

t--Gen. NJ. p. F. Sarrail has been iden-
tiled with the allied operations based
OF Saioniki since October. 1915. when
he was sent TO command the French
,expeditionary force engaged in an at
tempt to succor the Serbians during
The Teutonic-Bulgarian drive that re-
isdsted In the overrunning of Serbian
territory. When Salouiki was turned
4ufo an allied base and active opera
sftcns on the Macedonian front were
begun by the entente forces s..e next
year Gen. Sarrail directed the united
operations of the allies and has since
xsmsined in command on this front.
rYtand on this front
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
Services on West Front.

sFGen Sarrairs chief services previous
tugoing to Saloniki were performed dur
Ing the battle of the Marine, when he
held the German crown princes army
m the Argonne and prevented the ia
aestment of Verdun. and in the OAR
,da,nelles, where he commanded the
wrench expeditionary force after Gen.
,Gouraud was wounded there and, sub
NeUuentiy. relieved in August, 1915.
"a Though there are several officers
Bearing the name of GuilIemet in the
French army, it seems not improbable
that the man selected to succeed Gen.
H6rrail may be Gen. GuiIiaumat, who
commanded the French armies at Ver-
dun during their brilliant operations
last summer. when they completed the
recovery of virtually all the ground
that the Germans had won In their 1916
alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
A Group From Philadelphia.

week ago our automobile stopped
in the mud and rain in front of an old
stone house, used as French head
quarters, in a deserted village so close
to the front that the boom of the
French guns and the crash of German
shells seemed only a few yards away.
A little smiling man in a French uni
form sauntered UP to the car and spoke.
in faultless English. A correspondent
said he represented a Philadelphia
newspaper.
.Phfladelphia is my home; my name
is Paul - replied the officer in the
French uniform.
You're not Paul the famous
emit
I'm surely the. man. but l didn't
know he was famous" the other one
laughed.
The two Philadelphians praised the
city so loudly that the chauffeur SER
geant awoke from his doze. There was
no chance to boost real estate from
Chicago or any other city in that re-
union, SO everybody Joined in the homie
town stuff"
IT was born in Gainesville. once called
Midway. on the old Lancaster pike /
contributed.
Gee" said the sergeant, wide awake
My home is in Bradford Hills, right out
of Downingtown. / went to Penn Charter
School in Philadelphia and the University
started came over here to do something -
From the Antilles.
One sunny day we were at sidewalk
table in front of a busting Paris cafe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
TROOPS OVER THERE
FIND WORLD SMALL
Men in France Meet Old Time
Friends They Have Not
Seen in Years.
BY JUNIUs b. WOOD.
Especial Correspondence Of The Even
ing Star and Chicago Daily News.)

ing star and Chicago Daily Newso
/. WITH THE AMERICAN ExPEDT-
TIoNARY FORCES IN FRANCE. No
vember 25-"You get It everywhere-
this home town stuff" And it makes
you feel that the world is pretty small
in area, after all.
A few days ago / stopped at the camp
of battalion OF marines. The lieuten-
ant coloners back looked familiar. 1t
was the home town stuff' again. As
we stood in the frosty air we recalled
the last time we had seen each other
when we sat in shirt sleeves under the
shade of a gnarled mango tree and
tried to keep cool at the waterworks
plant outside of Vera Cruz. Mexico.
three years ago. He was more rotund.
grayer. a lieutenant colonel instead of
a captain. but the same man. We went
in to dinner.
On his left was seated a stocky
French officer. just arrived that day to
act as interpreter. They stole glances
at each other as the hot biscuits were
followed by pancakes and strip. and
then started to ask questions. The ma
rine officer had been almost everywhere
on the globe. The French officer had
travelled a good deal, but India was the
common ground. Both had seen serv-
ice together in Calcutta and at another
time in Bombay. The Frenchman now
had an estate in the far-of coast and
was here for the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
FUEL CHIEF DENIES
PLEA OF THEATERS
Must Comply With Recent
Order Setting Two Light
less" Nights a Week.

Washington theaters must comply
with the recent order of the fuel admin
istration, setting two "lightiess" nights
week.
The administration today refused the
requests of vaudeville theaters through
out the country to allow them to be
exempt from the order because they had
permitted use of their stages by four
minute men and by solicitors for liberty
bond, Red Cross and other patriotic
funds. This refusal, it was stated, will
apply also to all other theaters in the
country. and in all cities the order for
two '1ightless' nights week viii be
strictly enforced.
Replying to the request Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield today wired the
Vaudeville Managers Protective Associ-
alton at New York:
Although approaching the patriotic
services rendered by vaudeville houses
to the country we cannot permit ex-
ception in your favor allowing exces-
sive use OF fuel to generate power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19

Answering a railway companyss ad-
vertisement, eighty women applied yes
terday in Kansas City for positions as
street car conductors. They were told
that If accepted they would be required
to wear a gray coat, short khaki skirt,
leggins and a conductors cap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19

worcester Technical seniors have
voted to cut out all vacations this year
A2d work eight hours a day and six
80 mid-Aprii instead of in June, and
f6lis make themselves available for war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
War Demands for Coal.

War demands for coal are largely in
excess of limited production. 1t Is un-
fair to the public to allow display adj
vertising. We rely upon your patrf-
otto cooperation to induce your mem
bers to comply loyalty with our rul-
ing"
For the first time in many months
coal mines in southern Ohio today had
ia 100 per cent car supply, according to
reports to tine fuel administration
Other parts Of the country still are
suffering from car shortage and termi-
nal congestion.
Steps to relieve a widespread short
age in South Carolina were taken by
the fuel administration today. when
instructions went to Kentucky, Vir-
ginia and Tennessee producers to make
immediate shipments in as large guam
titles as possible on contracts for South
Carolina towns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-19
TROTzKY DEMANDS
TEUTON|C STAND
Central Powers Must Reveal
Attitude as to Annexations
and Contributions.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD, December 10. - Leon
Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign minister,
has notified the armistice delegates that
he will be unable to arrange to go to
Brest-Litovsk at this time. He authorized
the Russian representatives at the confer.
ence to make the following demand upon
the central powers: - I,
Are you agreeable to make peace with
out annexations or contributions and on
the principle of the self-defnition OF ma
tions?"
The Russian representatives were in
formed that if the central, powers were
willing to make peace. soon they must give
a detailed answer to the question pro-
pounded by Trotzky.
Germans Show Compromise.
Details of the scenes OF the signing
of the armistice show that up to Sat
urday afternoon the temper of the del
egates was such that 1t appeared the
might be broken on. The
German representatives suddenly dis
played an attitude of compromise ana
made only a few changes in the Rus
at s:45 o'clock Saturday evening. I'M
mediately after the signing Gen. Won
HOFFMAN, head of the German delega-
ton. arose and said:
I'VE are no longer enemies. but
friends"
I'VE never were enemies Of democracy
in any country was the reply OF the
Russians The German stan at Brest-
Litoysk gave triumphant dinner to
the Russians.
Fighting in Don Regions.
s. LONDON, December 19.-Reports on
the Russian internal situation indi-
cafe that fighting rs continuing NTH
Don regions and that reinforcements
have been sent south from Petrograd.
A Kiev dispatch reports that during
the disarming Of the rnaximalist units
there the Ukranian troops seized sew
-enty-two cannon, $50 machine guns and
5000, 600 cartridges.
It is stated in other advices that
the Russian government commissioners
are drafting an ultimatum addressed
to the Ukraine bada, recognizing the
independence of the Ukraine, but de-
handing an immediate expression of
the bada's attitude toward the bolshe-
Wiki authorities.
The maximalist organ Praya takes
occasion to denounce as untruths the
allegations that the Germans in the
armistice negotiations demanded the
evacuation of Petrograd and Finland,
the disarmament of the Russian army
and a grant to Germany OF a monopoly
in grain exports.