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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

Miss Bumstad of Minneapolis was
in the city Saturday enroute to Leon
ard where she will visit friends until
the new year. r. i
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sprague of
town of Northern were among the
out Of town business visitors In the
city Saturday.
Keep 'em smiling" Send your
boy over there portraits, post cards,
kodak prints. Rich Studio, 20
10th st. 1mo1214
Mrs. C. E. Hawkins, Dorothy Dare,
Bernice o. Morrow, and Mrs. j. s.
Scribner of Walker were among the
out of town visitors at the Markham
Saturday.
Harold White, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. P. White, has returned from Min
neapolis, having been honorably dis
charged from the Students Army
Training corps.
Mrs. VIII Hagadon and Mrs. A. B.
Wilson of Tenstrike were visitors in
the city Saturday, and while here at
tended the motion picture play, "The
Hearts of the World"
Roller masquerade at the Armory
Tuesday, december il. Prizes Will
be given. General admission 10c.
States 15c. 2d1216
Mrs. A. S. Jamtaas and Miss Esther
Burr of Blackduck were between
train shoppers in the city Saturday,
and while here attended the motion
picture play. The Hearts Of the
World"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16
NOTICE.

Secondhand clothes bought and
sold. Kemp's Dry Cleaning House.
GOT Beltrami Ave. Phone 581. 6d1216
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. {
shall force collections on all past
due accounts after January Is, 1919.
No exceptions. w. G.. Schroeder.
12l1t3
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

Miss Alice Nelson and Lulu Bonn
stea of Pinewood were visitors in Be-
midi Saturday. ~ 4.... T.. s.. .@
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

One dozen photographs makes
twelve Christmas presents. Flax
St,idfo. O.. 11lf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

G. w. Clifford, merchant Of KEEL
liner, is transacting business In Be-
midi today. s~1, = NJ .s.#
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

ON account Of her sisttr's dsatfi,
which was due to the Spanish FLU"
A girl demands equal rights" and
goes to see prize fight. See what
happens to her in Opportunity" at
the Rex theatre Sunday, starring the
popular little Viola Dana 2d1214
Mrs. Ross Miller and children left
yesterday, for state of Washington,
where Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs.
Hattie Spenceh lives, and where they
will make their home. Mr.. Miller
will join his family later. ..
~ Your friends can buy anything y0n
give them except your photograph.
Call 239 and make arrangement with
Hak's Studio for your Christmas
sitting today. ~> &c -rs:.@ 111tf
Miss Sally Whiting has returned
from Minneapolis. where she teaches
music in the public schools, and will
remain here the guest Of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Whiting, until
after the holidays. ~. r..
" Paul Busch of Grand Forks, N. D.,
engineer, is in the city and will ap-
pear as a witness in the case of
Hansman VS. the Western Union Tele-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

n YOU want a car cal. Enterprise
Auto Co. Office phone !, residence
nhone 10. 56ti
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PERSONALS AND
NEWsY NOTES

*. w. p. Clayton Of Minneapolis is a
business visitor In the city.
$4,000 to loan on FARMS Dean
Land Co. ...s...,...... oolIti
FL A. B. Willing and wife Of Brainerd
spent Saturday in sBemidJi. - !.
p p. A. r. Ref of Bagley is among the
out Of town business visitors. '
/. Mrs. O. e. Greenslit, who lives on
the A., P. Richie farm, IS Ill at hef
home. IT, -@ s.r -
Mr.. and Mrs. George Till Of Iola
: were the weekend guests OF BemldJ1
1iends. s.:s s& r. z 4 -1f n.y.
Olive M. Krockowizer and Edna |.
Murphy of Grand Rapids, are visitors
in Bemidji.
J. G. .Thayer of Chicago is spend
ing short time in the city on busi-
ness matters.
n you want a car cal. Enterprise
Z Auto Co. Office phone !. residence
u nhona 10, 56ti
c. w. Clifford, merchant of+kel'
liner, is transacting business In Be"
nidji today. ss~5.-. = NJ H.. ....#
Miss Alice Nelson and Lulu Bonn
stea of Pinewood were visitors in Be-
midi Saturday. ~ XII. - s.. .@
Mrs. C. A. Baker of Virginia passed
Saturday In Bemidji, being guest
at the Markham. -c- no, .r-a.S.
Mrs. r.. w. Evans of Schoolcraft
was among the Christmas shoppers in
Bemidji Saturday. i '~ft~a< -:@rz. - r-a-s
>One dozen photographs makes
twelve Christmas presents. Hak
Studio. ..- ..<.... II llltt
Mrs. George Geror of Sugar Bush
L.
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Miss Bumstad of Minneapolis was
in the city Saturday enroute to Leon
ard where she will visit friends until
the new year. e. x
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-16

JIG. Thayer Of Chicago is spend
ing short time in the city on bust
ness matters.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05

, cal days-the power Of that eternal
spirit of freedom which lives in every
true American heart?
The independence OF no nation is
safe, the liberty of no individual is
sure, until tho military despotism
whtch holds the German people in tho
hollow OF It's hand has been made inn
potent and harmless forever. Appeals
to Justice. 10 moral Obligation, to
honor, no longer avail with such n
power There Is but ono way to re-
store peace to the world. and that Is
ny overcoming the physical might Of
German imperialism by force of arms.
FOR its own safety as we'll as for tho
cause OF human libetry. this great re-
public Is marshaling its armies and
preparing with all Its vsor to aid In
riou,nS Germany, as well as the world.
OF me most ambitious and most an
principled autocracy which has
arisen TO stay the wheels of progress
ana imperil Christian civilization.
hundreds Of thousands Of loyal
americans have dedicated themselves
much depends. They are going forth
into foreign lands not only as guar
dians OF the flag of our country aud
OF the liberties of our countrymen.
Dut as guardians OF the national honor
OF the United States. American char
acter will be judged by their conduct:
American spirit by their deeds. AS
they maintain themselves Courageous
~ and honorably, 80 will they bring
glory to the flag which we ali love ~.
the emblem of our national unity and
independence.
IT is in the toll and danger OF so
great an adventure that a mans true
character will become manifest He
realities. The little things which
once engrossed his thought and called
forth his energies will be forgotten in
the stern events OF his new life. The
sternncss OF 1t all will not deprive hin,
of the satisfaction which comes from
doing his best
AS he found qualification and joy in
the peaceful pursuits of the old life.
so Will he find q deeper qualification
and greater JOY In serving his country
Loyalty and doing his part in molding
the future Alright.
And, when their task Is completed,
when the grim days OF battle are over
and they return once more to the quiet
life 10 their professions or occupations,
which they have so generously aban-
doned at their countrys call they will
md in the gratitude OF their country
men an ample reward for the greater
sacrifice which they have made.
If enthusiasm and ardor can make
success sure. then we Americans have
no cause for anxiety, no reason to
doubt the outcome OF the conflict But
enthusiasm and ardor not all.
They must be founded on n profound
conviction o: the righteousness OF our
cause and on an implicit faith that
the god OF battles Will strengthen the
arm OF him who fphts for the right.
In the time Of stress and peril, when a
man stands face 10 face with death In
It's most terrible forms. God VIII not
desert HIM who puts his trust in Hin.
II is At such n time that the eternal
verities will be disclosed.
There is no higher praise that can
be bestowed upon soldier of the re-
public than to say that he served his
country faithfully and trusted In his
God.--Copyright. 1915.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05

II you had been told before the wal
that German submarine commanders
would sink peaceful vessels of com
merce and send to sudden death men,
women and little children, you would
have declared such scientific brutality
to be impossible.
Or IL you had been told that German
aviutors would fly over thickly popu-
lated cities. scattering missiles OF
death and destruction. with no other
purpose than to terrorize the innocent
inhabitants you would have denounced
the very thought as unworthy of be-
lief and as Il calumny upon German
honor. Yet, God help US. these things
have come to pass, and Iron Crosses
have rewarded the perpetrators.
But there is more, far more, which
might he added to this record Of un-
Dclievuble things which the German
government has done. We need only
to mention the attempt OF the Foreign
Office at Berl!n to bride Mexico to
make war upon us by promising her
American territory.
1t was only one of many intrigues
which the German government was
carrying on in many lands. Spies and
conspirators were sent throughout the
world. Civil discord was encouraged
TO weaken the potential strength OF
nations which might be obstacles to
mastery. Those of German blood who
owed allcgiancei to other countries
were appealed to to support the Father
land. which beloved name masked the
military clique at Berlin.
Some day tho whole tale may be
told. 1t Will be an astounding tale in
deed. But enough has been told SO
that there no longer remains the
shadow of a doubt as to the character
of Gcrmany's rulers, Of their amazing
ambition for world empire. and OF
their intense hatred fpr democracy.
The day has gone by when we can
measure possibilities by past expert
ences. or whcn We believe that any
physical obstacle is so great or any
moral influence Is so potent as TO
cause the German autocracy TO aban-
don it's mad purpose OF world con-
quest.
1t was the policy of those who
plotted and made ready Tor the time
TO accomplish the desire OF the Ger
man rulers to lull into false security
the great nations which they intended
TO subdne, so that when the storm
broke they would be unprepared. How
we'll they succeeded we all know.
But democracy no longer sleeps. II
is fully awake to the menace which
threatens II. The American people.
trastful and friendly. were reluctant
10 believe that imperialism again
threatened the peace and liberty OF
the world. Conviction canS to them
at last. and with il prompt action.
The American nation arrayed- itse!.
with the other great democracles of
the earth against the genius of evil
which, broods over the destinics OF
GENITAL Europe.
No thought OF material gain and no
thought Of material loss impelled this
action. Inspired by the highest mo-
tives, American manhood prepared 10
risk all for the right. With lofty pur-
pose. with patriotic fervor, with in
tense earnestness, the American de-
mocracy has drawn the sword. Who
can longer doubt--and there have been
many who have doubted in these criti-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05
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-.. go
A RAW Deal.

(For Tho Times Dispatch.)
tThe American people are forward
looking in politics. This attitude very
naturally results from our form of
democratic representative government.
such government opens wide the door
of political opportunity TO every class
of citizenship In very large sense,
each individual is the architect OF his
own fortune under conditions nowhere
else 80 favorable. He may rise to tho
highest positions of influence. or he
may go through life without influence.
Whatsoever he purposes in his heart
to be. is for him the limit. Editorial
Times-Dispatch, June 80. 1879
1t must be great to be a politician
For a wise and forwardlooking guy.
For every voter knows
If his ambition grows
The limit he can get for it's the sky.
We have been told that in this land OF
freedom
Any man can rise as he desires.
No one can say him nay
AS he hikes along his way
To that goal 10 which his yearnins
soul aspires.
certainly would dislike 10 be a woman
In a country that we say is democratic.
1t must be rather boring
To watch the men asoaring
While her condition must perforce be
static.
1t must be fierce to wan, to carve your
fortune
Lying right before you Zig as life:
And then to have it said:
"Why just go right ahead
But you'll have to carve it, dear, with
out the knife"
Then. too, you know the ladies want to
open
The door that leads to opportunity.
OF course the door is locked
And yet when they have knocked
They're told: Come in, hut do not use
the key"
They say this to the woman of am
bition
(Thcre's nothing. I am sure, could. make
me madder.)
why certainly aspire
To climb a lttie higher
Come up. my dear. but do not use the
ladder"
Now tell N, fellows wouldn't you get
wrathy
And claim your BOSSES surely werc the
fools
If they told you not to shirk,
Hurry up and do the work,
But don't you dare lay hands upon the
tools?
There're chances for the man in old
Virginia
Who seeks them It'll the ballot In his
fist.
But I resent like Hades 1H
The status Of the ladies
Who politically simply don't exist. I
Richmond, Va, July 2, 1918.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05
SEEN ON THE SIDE
BY HENRY EDWARD WARNER

ProHraess.
man invented something necessary to tho
peace
or every woman working in households toll
of grease:
He put it in the kitchen and a million women
said
They'd bless that fellows memory until thcy
all were dead.
chap designed scheme to save two motions
out Of three
And right away, public benefactor king
was he;
The world worked wreaths OF laurel for their
benefactors brow
He started life pauper. but he rides on cushions
The tallow dip has yielded to the incandescents
glow.
And motors show the horses how a carriage
The courier of Yesterday is but a memory
To do his work of thirty days. we simply press
key.
built like hotels
continent connected by the phones magnetic
bells;
The message that was relayed flashes once from
Here to There
And we've no use for wires. for wire through
the air.
And in the field of conquest-o the leap that we
have made!
And in the field Of horI ors, see the PROSTATE
world afraid
The God we used to- worship He is coupled in
prayer
For scientific victory at slaughter. Over There.
oh yes. we've seen the progress; we have shared
its blessings. too;
We've best of esterday give way to
something new;
And all the triumphs of to-day to morrow will
be dead
And the devil take the laggard while we cheer
the man ahead
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05
Rcdedicated to Freedom
the war.

THE occasion, the surroundings and the
l unselfshness Of American purpose in
entering the combined to give added sig
nifcance to the impressive words spoken by
the President at the tomb OF Washington
renewing the nations pledge Of unqualified
conservation to the struggle 10 rid the world
OF military autocracy. Here, in the presence
of the representatives of thirty nationalities,
he proclaimed anew as the common right of
all mankind the gospel Of freedom wrought
into the fabric OF government founded by the
patriot fathers of the great republic whose
birth of liberty tho audience which he i'm
mediatcly addressed had gathered to COM
memorate.
lnsprited by the associations which the
time and place revived in his own compre-
hending grasp of the far-reaching principles
which the group OF men who had often coun-
seled together on that sacred spot applied to
set this nation free, he rang the clarion call
to the hundred million OF American citizens,
to whom. has been transmitted this glorious
inheritance of liberty, to conceive anew the
purposes which must set free all the peoples
OF the earth. Il stand here now to speak,"
declared the President-"speak proudly and
with confident hope-of the spread of this
revolt, this liberation to the great stage of
the world itself"
Passing up the opportunity which the
the accomplishments already attained by the
nation in its determined purpose to meet
autocracy's challenge that the world shall be
ruled by brutal force, and without referring
directly to recent peace feelors" of enemy
statesmen, the President boldly brushed all
such propaganda aside with the emphatic
statement: There can be but one issue. The
settlement must be final No halfway de-
cision would be tolerable. No halfway de-
cision is conceivable" in restating briefly
the ends for which the associated peoples of
the world are fighting and which must he
conceded before there can be peace he
summed up the whole of these objects in
the one sentence: what we seek is the reign
Of law, based upon the consent of the gov
erned and sustained by the organized opinion
Of mankind"
In planning that men of every class in
America should be free the patriot fathers
looked ahead to the future, and in their in
vitation to the oppressed Of all nations to
come here and share with them and their
descendants the rights and privileges OF free
men, they realized that from these shores
would be launched the unquenchable spirit of
liberty that would set aiire the hearts of
courageous men everywhere longing for the
blessings OF free aud enlightened govern
ment. 1t has been left for US, declared the
stood that Washington and his associates
spoke and acted, not for single people
only, but for all mankind
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05
Books and Authors

10 " Ut ungaraonaels SIN is tho title Of new
~ ha HSshet ss aim
eps whe out of faes w ss0fx is
women are caug lit by the pitiless invaders Of
Belgium BE- a third ATTEMPTS TO save them from
GERS. When the Germans sacked Louvain Cap
sources Of information avaiabie only to to him.
Out of these tragic facts he has written .'The
James Francis Abbott. tho author OF "Jupa-
nese Expansion and .ir,rr..un Policies" one OF
,ns sane and really books
has been granted leave OF absence from Wash
for the sovernment in npan lie f is NOW S tem
porariiy attached to the american Embassy at
work because Of his familiarity with tho peo-
mery taught at hs Gr f NsHa fo
Etajima. Japan.
n Th", w n does not destroy mans OF
paTtunss for nogh'er IS we'll usratsd in
tells of the story of one Of the majors attached
action Mno n's anos Enhsd Sod
disturb. One day he was attending a course or
to be taken during e gas att cancers rRe
gas gas, EXPERTS had shown carefully how the gas
and NM . the officers were applying them They were
Which Of them coSo o put "s his oa is m to
Tine To the he, surprise of all present the slow
the others. on inauiring Of him how it was
possible for him to accomplish tn. thing in so
in his eye-"Why. see, 1 ,lidn't bother to
take 1t off after the first trial"
Huntly Carter, an English publicist. has con-
Quoted ana edited Il symposium of the Ideas Of
a great number of English men and women of
the waT s regard espn
commerce. education and other important mat
tcrs and what measures should be taken TO IN
it. Z. j.. Dutton x Co are bringing cut the
book. which is entitled industrial Reconstruct
ton in the United states. Thirty men and
women have contributed articles Disgusting one
or another phase OF che problem. They repre-
sent the interests and viewpoints of capital as
invested in manufactures. transportation. trade
and other ways. organized trade unionists
in half dozen or more kinds OF labor. of
inanciers economists. scientists, religious lead
crS, lawyers. authors Among then. q. Is.
chesterion. Haveloek Ellis, hilaire Belloc Ber-
nard Shaw. Edward Codhury. Sir Arch ba Id
Denny Rev. William Temple. Sir Graham, John
Bower, H. q. Wells. George Russell
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-05
Recruiting War Labor

HE Federal government has undertaken
the complete supervision of the national
labor market, and is about to undertake the
detailed distribution of labor. These steps
are OF vital Importance to the country's in
dustrial system, and it may be assumed that
they are imperatively necessary to the ma
tons wartime efficiency. The first move
made is an order from the President that all
recruiting for war industries be centralized
in the United States Employment Service an
organization created under the Department
OF Labor to bring the employer and the
employee into immediate contact
Necessity for this Capitalization is mani
fest to any one who considers the la Dor situa-
ton as a whole and the demands that are
being made and will continue to be made
upon Americas wOrkngmens army Wide
open competition between either those gov
ernmental agencies which need labor or be-
tween private interests holding war con-
tracts, for the available supply of labor must
inevitably result in an unfortunate situa-
ton One plant might thereby be stripped
OF its best men by competitor which is in
position to offer IA little higher wages. An
emergency feet shpyard might walk into
navy-yard and take labor which the navy
yard could not spare.
The same thing might occur with raw or
unskilled labor. The organization which had
.lHe pesl recruiting agency might easily
secure more than its share Of the fresh labor
supply. Not only might all this happen but
experience has shown that it actually has
happened, not once, but scores of times
only the Federal government has the power
ana the machinery for preventing such COM
petition. The President has exercised that
power IN his recent statement and by the
same order has put that machinery in motion
IL Is for the United States Employment Ser
vice TO determine where the labor is to 20
and how much OF it is to be turned over to
given industry or a given plant
rms control of the labor market has raised
another question--the question of priority
between industries. For weeks the govern
nent has been working upon system of
prlorities In the matter of raw materials.
Such as steel and iron. fuel and building
materials. Necessarily this has drawn more
or less sharp line between what is regarded
as essential and what is nonessentia1 in
industry. The essential interests having been
llsted, there is yet to be settled the question
OF the more and the less vital employers OF
| labor Only d tentative plan of distribution
has been brought about. but rigid scheme
Is promised within short time Under this
the government will apporton the available
iaDor supply among the war industries and
then viii have completed the mobilization of
'he conntry's army Of industrial workers