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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
bRMENlANS LOYAL TO ALLIES
None Of the Conquered Peoples, Have
Shown More Devotion to Cause
Of Liberty Than They.

Il has heCn tir Armenians who have
' been most constant in their loyalty to
tie allies, and eight months ago. from
HE city of VAN l:,0 of them went forll!
70 fake III, positions which had been
vacated by E,'~,'ians. s
After. the Turks took Erzerum Inst
February they swept on against the
national armies of the Armenians and
Georginns through to Tabriz in, north
western Persia, threatening the south:
ern Caspian ports and wiping out an
lrmcnl"ns, they met, Maynard Owen
Williams writes In Asia Magazine.
They boasted that they would keep ON
until they met the Russian army, then
nonexistent. The fight by the Armen-
ians and Georgians, lacking allied sup
port, became more hopeless. The
Georgians bravely declared their in
dependence last May; but hardly n
month later 81 Georgian and Armenian
delegates in Constantinople were ut
terly unable TO do anything but ac-
cede TO the Turkish demands that they
withdraw their troops. It Is evident
that the Georgians are now complete
~ dominated.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
Delighted.

The examining officers at the pris-
oner pens talk German like natives,
but often the prisoners don't and that
leads to complications.
One inqusitor, who had just used his
best German vocabulary on an uncom-
pretending Hungarian, turned him
over to a special questioner and took
on five strangely-clad and somewhat
bcwildered prisoners who, after great
deal of shouting and arm waving, man"
aged to convey the fact that they were
neither Germans nor Austrians nor
Hungarlans nor Slovaks. They were
Ualians--five Italians taken prisoner
last fall and set to mendng roads be-
hind the German lines.
They were much pleased when il
slowly dawned on them what had hap
pened, and they wanted to kiss Gen.
eral Pershing or somebody right away.
Paris Stars and Stripes.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
YANKs DO THE .iMP0ssIBLE"
FOR First Time In History Stone
Houses Have Been Successfully
.&. Moved in France. ~.

Declaring that Is the first time that
stone house has been moved In
France, Sergeants Abe Griesner and
Mike Murphy of Company G have re-
Gently finished a job Of moving a $50
ton structure and have set 1t down on
its new site. d, %5 4 .-ass,z .,5 I.
The French said It could not be done
and declared that the only way the
road could be cleared for the new line
of railway track would be to tear the
house down. But the sergeants with
their detail of fifteen men started to
work with jacks and rollers and soon
had the house moving across the
fields. News Of the feat spread and
the authorities sent photographer
from the French Academy of Sciences
to record officially the stages Of the
work. ~ ..,,. j. sc ,,.7:. . .-g
The house was placed upon its new
site without a crack. 1t Is believed that
this demonstration Of American inge-
nuity viii save many stations along
the lines where the Yankee engineers
are building additional tracks and
switching yards.-From the Spiker,
France. 80 '...s.. 49, ,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
Our Nations Greatness Founded
on Fatherhood Of Man and
Brotherhood of God.

TnBE7ITH the growth Of the nation
&,y&HkI there has been correspond
ing growth in responsibility.
The raw experiment Of a
"a nation framed from the skel-
a-I&N-J eton colonies of the eastern
seaboard has proved the greatest sue
cess in government the world has ever
known. Democracy sits at the tables
OF the land today. Brotherhood asks
ats helping from the amply fiiied
boards Of the American home. These
two attributes of the American people
fully express the ~secret Of Americas
success as nation. The growth or
aIie nation has been in accord with the
extension of these ideas. They are
both home ideas, and therefore they
are both ideas that express the inner
spirit Of the day Of thanksgiving.
The fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man-these We're the
leading conceptions of the Pilgrim Fa-
theirs. They are the leading concep-
lions Of the sons Of those fathers to-
day. They are the conceptions that
can never be made hackneyed by hypo-
critical use or by designing abuse.
They will stand forth in the genius
and action of the American people un-
til each year shall add praise to praise
In the measure Of the fullness of rea-
sons for the giving of thanks.
Peace, provision, protectiOn-these
are the priced possessions Of a ma
zion whose one aim is to exalt the
ends of human liberty, to extend hu-
man democracy and to exalt the ideals
of human equality. AS this nation
touches the world at large it does SO
through it's leading national concep-
aIons, and only when these are vitality
nssailed can it take up arms for its
own defense. 1t has the obligation
resting upon 1t to conserve the true
needs Of liberty, and this can be done
only by insisting upon the .sacredness
of human rights and human opportu-
mites. Hence the day set aside for
thanks Is day of pure and unadul-
terated Americanism, into which no
allen sentiment can possibly enter.
Hence 1t Is that every head Of the
family in acting in his capacity at
the head Of the family board becomes
the priest Of the things made precious
Ia the life Of the country and Of which
mention Is made as thanksgiving
themes Of the day. No more can the
nation depart from its lofty mission
and progressive ideals than can the
earth swing away from the solar at
traction. The day Of home happiness,
The day Of praise, the day of felicity
is sacred and singular day in the
annals Of American progress and Amer
scan world influence =. s~a.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
New Trick.

A new method of fighting the U-boat
menace is for the attacked vessel to
irop depth charge as the torpedo
approaches. In daylight the wake of
the torpedo can usually be seen quite
clearly. When the depth charge ex-
plodes it either causes the premature
explosion OF the torpedo or else diverts
the deadly missile from its course. This
was found out quite by accident. A
ships officer in his excitement one day
threwsa depth charge overheard, it did
Ghe trick.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
Faces Ahead.

The chaplains from two Yankee
regiments that had stormed the slope
above the Ourcq came YEARLY back at
shutdown from the task of burying
their dead. They were two much M,
aifted men, and their eyes were shin
ing as they made their brief but elo-
quent report.
"In all that battlefield" they said
we found, without a single exception
that every one of those boys died
scrouching forward, died with HIS face
toward Germany" 49,.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22

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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22


k.A6 8 Thanksgiving will not be a
pagan holiday, and that
- those who do render thanks
a. will do SO not as a heather
l---&NJ philosopher, Boosting that he
Is not as other men, but in greater hui
nifty because he has perhaps been
more greatly blessed than others.
Outside Of the many material bless
ings that have come to the American
people during the past year, which are
good in so much as they contribute to
wholesome human happiness, there Is
reason for the people of this country
upon this Thanksgiving day to be I'M
usually thoughtful concerning their
place in the world, and to remember
how this eminence has been obtained.
Who can look back and not see the
band of Providence shaping the des-
tiny Of American This liberty which
is the marvel and the hope Of the
world today was set up on these shores
by Godfearing men-the pioneers who
inaugurated this very Thanksgiving
holiday. It was for the love Of the
service Of God that liberty was estab-
lished in America, and 1t was this lib
er*y that has been the basis of our ma
tional greatness and which is to be
the political salvation of the world.
America cannot-look back upon its
history without seeing God, and by
taking thought cannot fail to acknowl-
edge its gratitude for all his benefits.
With that stage Of our development
passed we are now permitted to enter
upon that new era when America par
ticipates in abolfsfing tyranny and in
Justice, ever hateful to God, and to
carry to the oppressed nations of the
world those principles of liberty
through which our own chief blessings
have come. >7.&t &@
This is the supreme service that one
nation can render to another--to safe
guard the liberties of its people. In
this momentous time the burden Of our
Thanksgiving this year it seems should
be that we are to be chief among the
ministers in working out the Divine
purpose to have all men-Greek~and
Barbarian-free. ..t-E.
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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
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No Time to Abandon Custom

1t has long been the honored custom
of our people to turn in the fruitful
autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for his
many blessings and mercies to us as
N nation. That custom we can follow
now, even In the midst of the tragedy
of a world shaken by war and immeas-
a,rable disaster, in the midst OF sorrow
and great peril.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22

and sees the mind of the Al
mighty in the fixed blessings
of existence can doubt that
~ out from the cataclysms OF
the world war the choice Of blessing
or cursing will work out in the victory
of the good? The old cry, Hath God
forgotten to be graci0us!' needs no
longer be voiced. God has not forgot
ten to be gracious. So that, as the
Americans assemble in their churches
ON the day set apart for expressing ma
Gsonai gratitude, they will rejoice
:above all else that the nation OF free
anen has adopted as its motto: Whom
The Lord makes free is free indeed
Let them rejoice that America Is bent
upon proclaiming liberty to the entire
bounds of the earth. The curse of atl-
docracy, the curse Of Il bfasphemous
assumption that God is on the side OF
she strongest battalions, the. curse of
i.cbauchery of human ideals and hui
man aspirations, the curse of tha es-
fablishment of force in taie place Of
,,,urity; Of power in the place of peace
this is the cursing that Is being
wiped out in blood. The blessing III
world peace and the prevalence of the
spirit of brotherhood and Of mutual
advancement for the pe0ples--sueh Is
the peace that is being wrought out.
The United States has placed its all
on the altar. realizing That Sacrifice
is the noblest virtue of a nation.
aTence, while exuberance may not
abound, the spirit of thanksgiving is
hlled with praise over the mighty
manner in which the mind of the Az
anighty is being made clear in the
movements of the times; with the
United States playing leading part
in its impressive unfolding.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
Politeness III Rewarded,

"A man kin be too polite an oblig-
In" said Uncle Eben. Il know a man
dat stood wifout kickin while his wife
dressed him up In fancy loungin'
coat an gorgeous necktie an a smok-
in cap. Den she inspected him an
decided dat she couldn't live wifi such
a lookin' man, nohow." v@saar
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
Much More Than Material Are
the Blessings for Which We
Now Give Thanks.

T IS to be hoped that this
Thanksgiving will not be a
pagan holiday, and that
those who do render thanks
will do so not as a heather
PHILOSOPHER. boasting that he
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22
That Also, 10 BE Thought OF.

She was leaving the city for home,
and by way OF making her departure
pleasant for those who had served her
gave a nickel to a chambermaid, say.
ing. MARY, you take a nice long car
ride" The maid replied: Eyes.
maam; thank you. ma'am, but how
will I get back?"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-11-22

This Year the Spirit of Thanks
giving Should Properly Be
z Filled With Praise. y

HO that views the universe
In It's orderly movements
and sees the mind Of the Al
mighty in the fixed blessings
of existence can doubt that
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-20

The war will be won by men and ships, by guns
and airplanes To raise armies and supply them,
to build the navy and support it. and to furnish
ships and transport, we must have money IN
large amounts. The expenditures of the Gov
eminent for the ensuing year are estimated
at $24,OO0O00O00, a sum which battles the
IMAGINATION to conceive That vast amount
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-20

must come one-third from taxes and two-thirds
from loans The success of the Fourth Loan,
like those that preceded it is, therefore, abso-
lutely necessary. We must work with the
highest speed, as if the war was to end in six
months We must prepare in every direction,
as if it was to last for years. Speed and prep
aration are both expensive.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-20
Without the Loans We Cannot, Have Either

must not be left in Geranys hands, That would mean
another war Poland must be free Sav republics must be
established to bar the way between Germany and the East
Serbia and Roumania must be redeemed All these things
essential Nothing svN bring them but complete Uictor
and peace dictated BY and allies. It is conflict
of IDEAS the principle of evil aayed against the principle
of good It is the battle of freedom and civilization against
barbarism and tyranny. We and shall tOin
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-09-20

We are fighting just righteous and lasting peace
For complete peace must have complete victory. 1t
must not be peace of bargain negotiation. No peace
which satisfies Germany satisfy U.s. No peace that
leaves Germany in position the against will
be worth having It will be far from sufficient to gain all
objects on the Western front Belgium AsaceLorraine Italia
redenta The President with wisdom and foresight and great
force expressed his determination to redeem Russia Russia
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
NEED SCOUTMASTERS

"HE Rotary Club has under
taken to underwrite Scout Ex-
ecutive Stine's request for
Scoutmasters to fill the vacancies
caused by the war and to meet the
demand for men to head the new
troops. The service Is a worthy
one. The influence of the Scout
master is as potent as that of the
school teacher over the boys with
whom he comes into contact. He
can do much to make or mar the
future of the lad who looks up to
him as leader in Scoutcraft. The
fact that Mr.. Stine will teach the
volunteers before assigning them to
service should take many men into
the work who otherwise might hesi-
tate to attend.
President Wilson has praised in
a public way the patriotic services
of the Boy Scouts in the war. They
have helped sell Liberty Bonds,
worked for the Red Cross and per-
formed many other duties. The
war has taken from them many
of their leaders. Their organization
must not be allowed to lag because
the Scoutmasters have responded to
the larger call for service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
UnintereSting Time in Life

I'm getting scar and old
have passed Life's day of gold,
And I'm nearing where the evening
breeze Us signing!
Age-dear fellow!-seems to say:
1--WE have come long, long way,
And there's little left for us that's
worth the trying!"
We have made our journey by
Rocky pathways-Age and I
And we've shared whatever For
tune CHANGED the giving;
Happy we have been and glad,
Luckless too, and drear and sad,
But we've cheerful been and known
the love of living.
Now we've reached the end al
last,
Youth and Happiness are past
Tasteless now the cheerful words OF
sage and poet:
"You are DID," the echoes say;
Though we're silent on our way
In the hearts of us tits very we'll we
know 1t!
Not by gray are we betrayed,
Nor our features do they fade;
It's apparent more in our success al
wooing;
We can still charm maids Of Six
And the "girl' of Forty sticks,
But the Queen of Twenty-one--
there's nothing doingl
John D. Wells, in the Buffalo Eve
ming News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
Intelligent Criticism

North American Review
There is real need now for intelli-
gent and fairminded criticism. We
shall get no further by the unuues-
tioning acceptance of everything
that the Administration does. Pres
ident Wilson is entitled to the SYM
pathy and support of the country in
the performance of his difficult task
But the public is entstled to ask for
results. 1t has made and is making
great sacrifices. 1t has consented
without murmur to the conscription
of its sons. 1t has given cheerfully
of its wealth. 1t has undergone
needless hardships without COM
plant, believing it was doing its
Bit toward the winning of the war
1t is now going short of coal in the
severest weather known in thirty
years, and laying the responsibility
upon the war, whereas the real re-
sponsibtlity rests upon the Admins
tration, for its failure to act prompt
ly with regard to the railroads.
Well, then, the one big gain from
getting out the truth is that the
truth is out. The truth will make
us free. Henceforth there will be
reasonable criticism. The time wher
ct was unpatriotic to say that the
ordnance bureau or the quartermas.
ter's bureau of the Army was max.
ing a failure is past. A different
spirit will prevail among the people
Shut eyes will no longer be accepted
as full evidence of loyalty. Mr.. vii.
sons subordinates will have to jus.
tify themselves to q people who al.
ready know that grievous blunders
have been made in equippmg the
Army with machine guns, supplying
it with clothing and housing 1t In
sanitary quarters.
Congress once more becomes ar
important part of the government
A few months ago Congress was
afraid even to investigate Mr.. Creel
for fear the nation would feel that
1t was nagging at the President when
he was oppressed with the burdens
of war. To-day Congress is feeling
its way carefully, but it is proving
itself capable of independent action
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
LABOR CONTRACTS
:ditor of The Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
May 1 draw your attention to sew
eral paragraphs in the wage scales
of the decorators, painters and pa
perhangers and of the carpenters and
joiners?
Here are two from the painters
scale:
"All matters in dispute shall be
submitted to arbitration, which shall
be final"
mo strikes or lockouts to take
place unless sanctioned by the local
union, which must use every hon
orable means to prevent the same"
The interests of the employer
shall be protected at all times"
And this from the Carpenters
Union:
When on account of age or any
disability a member cannot perform
a days work, he can, by permission
of the local or executive board, work
for less than the minimum wage"
ask you to publish these to show
that the union is looking after the
employer as well as the employe and
understands that If the employer
does not prosper the employe can
not.
A UNION MAN,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
THE PEOPLES FORUM
COMMUNITY SONG
10 the Editor of the Telegraph:

10 Mc Editor of the Telegraph:
we have read with interest your
recent editorials suggesting commun-
ity singing as a needed relaxation in
these strenuous times. Although it
is now too late for special plans for
the National Week of Song" to be
observed throughout the country.
February II to 23. we can make a
start and have a fine chorus ready
for Memorial Day. Flag Day, Fourth
OF July. or as you suggest, the park
concerts during the summer.
There's nothing that brings a neo-
pie closer. together than music. and
when we join in "Suanee River"
Annie Laurie" Loves Old Sweet
Song the good old patriotic songs,
coIlege songs and national anthems
as well as the newer, "Tipperary," +"
Long, Long Trail and "Old Grey
Mare we feel the uplift and closer
bonds of brotherhood.
we nave with us now, right here
IN harrisburg, a woman who has
given much attention to this class of
singing and who has been wonder
tully successful as an assistant to
Peter w. Dykema, the celebrated
community singing worker. 1 refer
to Mrs. James w. Sanders, late of
the University of Wisconsin, and wife
OF the Pennsylvania State Economic
Zoologist. Mrs. Sanders has had
wide experience with choruses of
both men and women, and perhaps
in her enthusiasm for the movement
she might be urged to make the
start. Let us hone she will.
WEDNESDAY CLUB.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
AUTO OPTIMISM

A IL records for motor licenses
~ issued by the State Highway
Department in January have
been broken, as the receipt of
s1,900,000 for the month clearly in
dicate. Automobile dealers who
have been fearing the effects of the
war on their industry doubtless will
take heart from these figures.
IF. in the face Of the hardest win
ter known to the trade and the
business, uncertainties of the war
period, the number Of motor We
hicles increases by leaps and bounds
it can mean only that the automo-
bile has ceased to be a luxury and
has became an essential factor in our
every day life. Despondent manu-
facturers and dealers would do we'll
to remember that neither war nor
weather is likely to interfere long
with a basicly necessary industry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Well, anyway, our Secretary OF
War is one Baker who doesn't give
short ts.-Philadelphia Inquirer
The Government has requisitioneo
Niagara Falls. Getting ready for
National prohibition?-Dallas News
There is really only one nation
that the United States should be
afraid of in this war, and that is
procrastination.- Louis Star.
1t is evident that when the FueI
Administration said relief is sixty
days off, it was banking on an early
spring.-Philadelph Inquirer.
Germany merely asks as a basis OF
peace that she may be permitted to
keep all she won and get BACK all
she lost.-Philadelphi North Amer
lean.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-07
The Child Problem
LFrom the Outlookl

The parent who wishes to train
his children according to the "scien-
tific method" has his troubles. Wit
ness this letter published in the Sur
vey:
II write to see if any of your
readers can help me oLt in the mat
ter of finding some book or pamph-
let that will tell me the logical and
scientific order in which to teach
my two little girls, aged 8 and 6,
the indoor games of lotto, parchesi,
checkers, backgammon, halma,
chess and the like such as authors
and the different card games.
Which should come first, checkers or
parchesi? Any information will be
welcome"
AS the problem is not solved by
the editor of the Survey suggestions
seem to be in order. Why not let
the children start with bridge and
chess and gradually work them up
the point where they can appreciate
lotto. halma and tiddledywinks?