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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-08-02
Their Ships Passed In the Middle Of
the Pacific.

General Pershing into Mexico. Mean
time the Yukon was frozen and weeks
elapsed before navigation was re-
sumed. The return trip was made by
slow stages, and Mrs. Whaling finally
reached Ell Paso, Tex, where a COM
munication from her husband Informed
her that he had passed the border and
would be in Mexico for some time.
Mrs. Whaling waited in Texas some
weeks, expecting the return Of her hus-
band, only to be again disappointed by
learning that months would elapse be-
fore the return of the American forces.
When Captain Whaling's regiment
finally reached It's Ohio camp Mrs.
Whaling, who had been with her rela-
tives in Kansas City, started for Ohio.
TO her CONSERVATION she learned that
two hours before her husband had left
for Long Island. She then came east
by express and was trying to learn the
location Of her husbands regiment at
Camp Mills when she met an army Of
ficer with whom she was acquainted in
the Philippines. After some search
Captain and Mrs. Whaling met in front
of his tent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-08-02
.u. s. Food Admlnistratio

3 3 ~ y. s. Food Administration.
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bait he say, seq EFT gwine ter
sprize you all wild a mess >er fishes
cause you alls mus save de meat
en- eat sumpin' else instid en- ies git
out dat OF game bag en- make it
work, too" SEE ee. Den he kotch
a big fish and say, seq ee, "t-liOot---
t-hoot-t-Suh-sti-tO seq ee., Wen
he say dat he means dat@When You
alls make riz biscuits jos don't make
'em-use corn meal ter save wheat
4 flour fer de sojers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-08-02
Slightly MIixed.

Slightly =fdixed. d
Mrs. Mix-There was a time when
you minded what said, but now it's
,ttke water onza ducks back-in at one
ear and out at the other. .s.,-> Pm
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
American Consul
AT Moscow Dies
From Overwork
Maddin Summers Sue
cumbs After Illness Of
Only One Day
Praised as War Hero
His Duties as Heavy as Those
Of an Ambassador, Say
Officials

W WASHINGTON, May 5.-The death
of Maddin Summers, United States
Consul General at Moscow, was an
nounced to-day in a cablegram to the
State Department. Mr. Summers col
lapsed under the strain of long months
OF overwork, the message said, and was
i'll only one day.
AS head of the American Consulate
General at the Bolsheviki capital
Mr.. Summers probably had the most
extraordinary and most exacting task
of any man in the consular service. He
directed the activities OF a great or
ganization of consular officers and
agents extending throughout Eastern
Russia, all the way to Vladivostok, and
even before the Bolshovik government
moved to Moscow the work of the Of
flee there was vast
Officials of the State Department
spoke tonight of the dead officer in
terms of almost unmeasured praise
They said few men had given such
important service to the country, and
that he should be regarded as wa1
40 ulJ do enough he ndU lOSl
his life in the trenches.
Charles R. Crane, who as a member
OF the American Mission to Russia
after the overthrow of the Car, spent
several months at Moscow, said Mr.
Summers not only worked night anc
day, but handled in masterful fashion
responsibility as great as that of any
ambassador.
A native of Nashville, Tenn. Mr.
Summers was forty-one years old HI
had been in the service since 1899
when, after attending Vanderbilt ant
Columbia universities, he was ap
pointed consular clerk
Soon afterward he went to Barcelona
Spain, as vice and deputy consul gen
eral, and during the years that fol
lowed he served at Madrid at Belgrade
Serbia, and at various Latin American
cities: In August, 1916, he was re-
called to Washington from Sac Paulo
Brazil. to act as secretary of the Pan
American Scientific Congress.
Then he was detailed to the Latin
American division of the State Depart
ment until April, 1917, when he ven
to Moscow
In Spain Mr. Summers married Rus
sian woman Of q prominent Moscow
family, and at Belgrade he ACQUIRED
much knowledge of value to him in hi,
Russian consulate generalship.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Art
Designated Targets" Used
at Army Camps, on Ex-
hibition Here

An exhibition of "Designated Tar
gets" used in the training camps of
the United States army, is on view at
the Arden Galleries, 500 Fifth Avenue.
These targets are one of the interest
ing developments of modern military
training, habituating, as they do, the
young recruit who has been ordered to
fire to locate with great rapidity the
different points of a landscape at
which he Is to shoot.
Many Of our best known painters,
members of the National Academy OF
Design and the Salmagundi Club, have
lent their talents to the production Of
these targets. Among them are H
Bolton Jones, Cecilia Beaux, Colin
Campbell Cooper, George Elmer Brown
and Louis Bornelair. The canvases
shown may be changed from time to
time during the exhibition, which will
continue for the month.
The Anderson Galleries have placed
on exhibition French and English lit
erature from the library of the late
Charles I. McBurney, also the library
Of the late Winston II. Hagen. The
latter consists OF many Of the monu.
mental works Of the leading authors
from from, Chaucer to the present day
These two collections will be sold BY
auction later in the month
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Yale Poem Prize
Goes to Winner
Of Cross of War
Tells How He Brought
Broken, Moaning Men"
Back From Barrage

NEW HAVEN, May 5-Yale's an
nual award of its prize fog the best
poem written by student Of the uni
versity has gone for the first time to
war description. The prize, the Albert
5. Cook premium, has just been won BY
Howard 5. Buck, brilliant student OF
Englsh, as well as d prominent inter
collegiate athlete, and the poem is o.
exceptional interest in that it tells of
the scenes in which the winner also
won the war cross OF France for dis
tinguished bravery. So FAR as is known
1t is the only poem written by a..
American describing his own act in
winning the Croix de Guerre.
Mr. Buck was one of the best track
athletes of Yale while an undergradu-
ate. To-day he holds the record for
Yale-Harvard dual athletic meets in the
pole vault, his achievement consisting
of clearing the bar al II feet 6 inches
in the annual Yale-Harvard game in
which Buck received his Yale academic
| diploma.
He went to the Harvard Graduate
School the next fall, studying advanced
English. Just a year ago he entered
the American ambulance corps in
France, remaining in service and un-
der fire most Of the time till last Octo-
per, When he returned to America,
entering the Yale Graduate School
His war poem which had the honor
of winning the Albert S. Cook prize is
entitled The Tempering: Leaves from
a Notebook"
On September 7, 1917. Buck risked
his. life by bringing several wounded
and dying Allied soldiers out of the
Boche barrage after they had been
wounded by the hail Of shellfre Bucks
graphic description of the incident
which won for him tie war cross is a
part of the poem, as follows:
Running. running. staggering. torture-speed,
Bringer of fearful tiding came.
His face was like ror-laughing fame
his knees were crimson with undarkened red
From comrades dying already dead
Gasping he gave his message. and we fed
Down the lean. barren, shel-combcd road,
his tace before Us as living goad.
There by the ditch we found them. as he said.
Bllndly the Needless thunaers broke
With yelling laughter up the summer sky.
And rocks and trees were idly tossed on high.
We lifted them. the broken. moaning men.
And those that never spoke.
And staggered back that glaring way again
One bleeding being. ever. ever nigh
Days. days and nights. The curious gold
ring
His hands strange warmth. Until the day
die '
know shall remember everything.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06

.ne camera man nor the actors them
selVes seemed to care particularly
whether they were within range of the
camera or not. In more than one scene
lhe leading character played his part
parently. "p
But what matters it-for in "Masks
ana races one may see Forbes Rob
ertson; without his divine golden voice
~ IS true, but the same Forbes Robert
SUh 30 that Americans know and love.
ne e, picture would be very much worth
while III if that were all, but it is not
9, me cast includes George Bernard
SChaw, Gerald du Maurier, Weeden
nrossemith, n Irene Vanbrugh, H. B. Irv-
ras, sir John Hare, Sir James Barrie
Deshnls &c Nelson Terry, Gertrude Elliott,
Nloia Tree. Lillah McCarty, Dion Bou
cicault, Ben Webster and a number Of
o'hers of equal note.
Inc mover which Charles Reade wrote
ana called Peg Wellington" has been
used as the groundwork of the pict,1re
rene Vanbrugh is Peg, the actress who
steals away the hearts of the sires with
n Ter "lies. Forbes Robertson is poor
lrlpIet, who also seems to be wait
M Nng Tor something to turn up. Dennis
iNcilson Terry is Ernest Vane, who
~. ~ HiiIooille reg w OfhngtOn.
! cry y is handsome and gallant lover,
amu @ lne clothes and colts of the period
arr r., particularly becoming to him.
:, ne story opens with Ernest bid
rla,.o a'ng goodby to Mabel, his wife,
Played by Gladys Cooper. To London
ne Ts goes and there he meets the
, laMous Peg. Peg is even more Won
eerlui than would seem on the sur
lace' tor she succeeds in hoodwinling
we" her contemporaries into think
ing 'hat she is the famous Brace
ESIio'e' and later she cuts a hole in
ner portrait, which Trplet is paint
ing not any too successfully, it must
90 admitted, and impersonates her
The art critics view the picture and
CUNT Cunt that 1t is pretty, but that it
pears no likeness to the original.
~ was evident that the players were
interested in the picture merely from
d patriotic standpoint. for they looked
at inc director or at the camera when
ever they wished to and they took
thelr time about what they were do
ing. Just as in real life.
All of this gave a DELIGHTFUL air
OF intimay to the picture, almost the
same feeling that one has when his
1avorlte screen artists make personal
appearances.
Never before has such an sggre-
CATION Of notables been seen on the
screen. So we shall take the respon-
slolil1y OF recommending the picture
TO every one and we hope that thew
Will enjoy it as much as we did.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Plays and Players

Declaring that the best is none too
good for Billie Burke, Florenz Ziegfeld,
Jr., has accepted Avery Hopwoods new
comedy, THE Little Clown" in which
ne Will present his wife in the early
fall. Little Miss Burke-Ziegfeld has
requested that the manuscript be
brought home and read to her, saying
mat II IN her judgment the play con-
talns the elements of a big success
written in for her.
Whenever the librettists nod man.
ayers look over dusty shelves whereon
are stored half-forgotten comedies and
farces to which music may be set.
The success of excuse Me-" "Over-
night" and others less frankly meta
stein and the Selwyns to think of the
possibilities of that excellent farce.
Seven Days" And what with music
by Rudolph Friml and book by Otto
Hauerbach, it would seem that no one
is taking much of a chance this time.
"The Maid Of France" a playlet by
Harold Brighouse, in which the Euro
pean war is explained to a Jeanne
dare redivius is to be taken into
vaudeville by Josephine Victor The
49, Hoo pocii q pdit OIL CHe GrcenW1Cn
Village Theatre bill for the last two
weeks.
The traffic and mounted divisions Of
tn New York Police Department are
going to have the party of their lives
next Saturday when they attend mid
night performance Of "Sinbad" at the
Winter Garden through the courtesy
of the Shuberts. With the possible ex-
ception of Mayor Hylan, Commissioner
Harriss and Police Commissioner En-
right, each guest upon entering the
theatre will shut his eyes, pray hard
and thrust his hand into a grab bag.
What he gets will tell him whether he
is to sit in the front row, stage box
or the last row Of the balcony.
Seventy-fve stars of vaudeville will
appear at the Hippodrome Sunday
night for the benefit of the new club
house to be opened for the National
Vaudeville Artists. Each has promised
not to stay on the stage for more than
five minutes, and a promise is a prom
Use.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Would Regulate
Use by the Young

1 would regulate especially the use
of alcohol by those who are under the
age of twenty-five Or thirty. | have
shown that practically all alcoholism
develops before the latter age. Iwould
urge a violent intensive education IA
voring temperance in all things, and
especially in alcohol.
There should be definite effort to
inculcate in young and old the view
that drunkenness is shameful and
even criminal thing-and not a Joke,
as 1t is often considered in college and
society and on the stage.
Teach women to hate drunkards and
drunkenness. Many women now love a
drunkard-for time.
The evils of alcohol can be con-
trolled rather easily, believe, by such
measures. Already in Massachusetts, l
am told, the state inebriate colony is
empty for want of patients. And this
is made still more evident by the work
of other countries.
In England S4 per cent of the popu-
lation are under control board regula-
tions, under which only a limited
amount of spirits is allowed to be sold
and the most liquor strength is not
much over 2 per cent alcohol
The result is shown in the following
table. showing the fall in drunkenness
among 45,O0O,O00 population:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
This Is Belgian Relief Day
Flowers, in Honor of Queen,
to Aid Infants, Will Be Sold

To-day is Queen Of the Belgians.
Flower Day. Young women will sell
forget-me-nots at ten cents a bunch
Their activity will be directed by the
Mayors Committee Of Women on Ma
tional Defence. The proceeds will be
used for the relief of infants in Bel
GUM.
Among those who will sell in the
downtown districts are Marion Tiffany,
Lucille Baldwin, Melissa Yuile, Leila
Burden, Elizabeth Manning, Katherine
Kent, Adele Brown, Sheila Byrne,
Tiffany, Grace Franklin, Betty Jack
son, Priscilla Taylor, Mrs. C. J. Past,
Miss Hilda Holmes, Evelyn Gleaves,
Louise Grace, Mrs. Julian Ripley, Mrs.
Osgood Pell, Helen Hitchcock, Alice
Davidson and Mrs. Jack Barrymore.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Y. NJ. c. A. Seeks Recruits
Volunteer War Workers
Above Draft Age Needed

The tremendous increases planned
for the army during the next year have
made it necessary for the National War
Work Council of the Young Mems
Christian Association to increase its
personnel as soon as possible.
1t is intended to launch recruiting
drive for men above the draft age who
will serve as athletic directors, hut
secretaries, automobile drivers and
other mechanics required for the work
of the organization.
A recruiting expedition will start out
to-day for tour of the South and will
go as far as Texas, with their offer of
q real opportunity for patriotic service.
The need of the association is for near
ly 1900 workers a month.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Miss Campbell to Wed Nav II

and Mrs. Clarence C. Campbell. of this
city, will be married to Captain Clar-
ence G. Michalis. 1O4th Field Artillery.
OF Saturday, May IL, in the Church of
the Heavenly Rest. The ceremony viii
be followed by reception at 457 Madi-
son Avenue. The brides attendants
will be Miss Julester Shrady, as maid
OF honor; Mrs. John Pierrepont Con4
stable, matron of honor, and Mrs. Syl-
Miss Evelyn Walker and Miss Muriel
Ashwell. John Pierrepont Constabfa
will be best man. Captain Michalis.
who is with the 104th Field Artillery
at Camp Wadsworth. is son of the
late E. Martin Michalis and Mrs. Mich
alis
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06

shapmad this Of taSs ths dSe5 aSe5
Control Board, said recently:
I'VE can claim in this country to
have made more rapid progress
toward the solution of the drink
problem than any country in the
world. We can claim further to be
on more durable basis, because the
restrictions imposed have not created
any tendency among the public to
resort, to drugs or worse alterna-
He adds:
personally, I see no call for-and
no justification of-any more severe
measures than those in force. In
deed, l am convinced that greater
severity in the past would have meant
less progress and less efficiency. Had
achieved less.
"In itself there Is nothing admir-.
able in severity. Merit does not re-
side in restricting refreshment or re-
creation, but in preventing excess.
1t is by its result that any system
must be judged; and the results in
our own case | have already indi-
Gated"
"The change in the condition Of
things produced by these efforts of
the control board show that the drink
problem as regards national efficiency
has been solved"
Let me say finally that there i
nothing in history which tells US exact
ly what complete prohibition will d.
to us. 1t has not elevated China, no
the Turks-and Mahomet was its frs
great prophet. 1t seems to me that a
this time, with all the strain put upol
us and with all the difficult problem
ahead. a course like that of England
is wiser, saner and more efficient thar
that championed by Mahomet an.
William J. Bryan. So | advise stat
control and a modified prohibition.
CHARLES L. DANA.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Dare Devils Here Tonight
Death Defying Stunts To Be
Shown at Garden

"Dare Devils" will try to show
"Blue Devils" few hair raising stunts
that have not yet come into vogue on
the Western front in France, at a con-
gress Of the worlds desperate chance
performers, which opens tonight in
Madison Square Garden.
The first performance, given especi-
ally for Allied and American soldiers
in New York will reveal Captain
Schell riding bareback on a herd of
lions; Mae OLaughlin, who hangs by
into barrel Of water; Nervo, who
flings himself to the ground from four
feet higher than any human ever
flung himself before; the four Lukens,
who bouncce one another about like
dice and come right side up, and
others.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Strict Regulation Of Alcohol Traffic
Better Than Prohibition, Says C.L. Dana

did drink they would become i'll and
shorter-lived The people who have
this popularity, but are mentally not
well balanced, yield to temptation
and become short-lived drunkards and
the race is by so much the better.
Alcohol is thus, sometimes, in a
way, desirable calamity, in that it
offers test of manhood. self-control
ana sanity. 1t is wisely considered a
dangerous stimulant 1t does not in
crease efficiency and it is of modest
value as a food. But a man, family
or race that knows how to handle
It's polsons and utilize its explosives is
a more vigorous and valuable express
SION OF human capacity and has
greater potentiality for progress than
one that has to live behind defences.
one class of persons who make up
aicohollcs is of the same type as that
which makes up delinquents and Grim
lnals These people are not feeble
minded; they often have more than the
average OF sensory defects, but their
real trouble is a lack of balance and
character, defects of morals, feeble in
hlbltlon and strongly egotistic feelings.
Whlle generous of personal gifts and
often popular. any course of life in
volvlng self-restraint, discomfort and
real sacrifice for others makes no an
peal. This class of the unstable ard
delinquent exists and makes trouble
with or without alcohol. Keeping al
cohol from them does not cure them of
thelr instability; they live longer and
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Miss du Vivier Bride This Week

Miss Nathalie du Vivier. daughter of
Mrs. Charles Girault du Vivier, will
be married to John A. O'Connor, on
Wednesday, In the Lady Chapel of St.
Patrick's Cathedral. The ceremony will
be followed by reception at the home
Of the brides aunt. Mrs. Maurice La
Montague, 81 Park Avenue The bride
will be attended by Miss Suzanne du
Vivier, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
du Vivier. Benjamin w. Brush, of Bos-
ton, will be the best man.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06
Trust the Lady Voters,
God Bless En-!

Here is testimonial from d man
of sixty-five that distillers will be
delighted to publish in such publica-
tions as still accept their advertise
ments: Whiskey daily for twenty
years and in perfect health at sixty
five. Let James Pickens, of Brook
lyn, speak for "fine old Bourbon:
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May ! say the analysis shows
the ones backing the prohibition idea
divide into the following classes:
|. The mere politician, of whom
William j. Bryan is the leader. Since
II is we'll known that these men draw
from 5000 to $500 per night, or day, for
iecturing on this or some other sub
ject, we may dismiss their views, for
probably they would talk on any sub
iect if paid to do so.
2. The preachers representing the
Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian
denominations, with possibly some
from smaller religious circles. OF
these it may be truly said they are
! no doubt honest in their views, but lead
relatively narrow lives and hence are
I, not good judges of the actions Of men
who do not hold to their individual
faiths.
Thus, point out that the representa-
tives OF the Roman Catholic Church,
the, Jews and the Lutheran Church,
also the Episcopal faith, are antagonis.
tic to the prohibition movement.
Wby. then. should the three churches
New-York tribune., 1918-05-06

mentioned seek to force their views on
them? w ''''
SO far as ladies are concerned,
now that they are voters. may say in
my experience have found women God
biess 'em!) to have good judgment on
such matters? | trust them to see
clearer than the cheap lecturer, the mar
row-hved preacher and the average
politician. So. on that score. the wom-
en- will mother the men, not bind them.
since they know that men are unlike
them physically as we'll as mentally.
In discussing this matter | beg to
say l am an engineer, living on the
proceeds of my inventions. Mr. Thomas
Edlson our greatest inventor, derives
his solace from tobacco, while draw
my ideas from another source. name
~, alcohol. obtained from fine old
Bourbon. ] am absolutely temperate,
however, not exceeding my portion of
sixteen ounces per day in the past
twenty years. l do not drink wines,
beer or ales, confining myself to
whiskey solely.
At the age of sixty-fve I am in
perfect health, physically and mentally,
never requiring the services of ply
ician. JAMES PICKENS.