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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
ALL WANT HIGHWAY.

st. Paul. Dec. 31.-Representative
r. w. Hitchcock. who is writing a
weekly letter to the Hibbing Daily
Tribune, of which he is editor, is
authority for the statement that over
eighty members of the house have
asked the speaker-elect to place them
on the roads and bridges committee,
which will handle bills relating to
good roads, and that twelve members
want to be chairman.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
TOWNLEY FREED FROM
DEBT BY U. S. COURT

Fargo, N. D., Dec. 81. A. G..
Townley, president Of the Nonpar-
tisan league, was discharged from
bankruptcy by Judge c. +. Amidon
of the United States district court.
The order frees Mr.. Townley from
obligations aggregating nearly $780,
600, against which he balanced as
sets Of less than $500.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
VOTE CONTEST 0UsTED.

Pfpestone, Dec. 3o.--Because it is
claimed that C. F. Norwood, Nom
partisan candidate for state senator
for this district, was too late in serv-
ing notice of contest upon Floyd
Lindsey, Judge l.: s. Nelson in the
district court has thrown out the
contest proceedings, and Norwood is
thus unable to secure recount of
the ballots.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
ST. CLOUD .IND0RsEs ROADS.

st. Cloud, Dec. 81. - The Com
mercia1 club of st. Cloud, at its
regular meeting, Endorsed measures
providing for cooperation In estab-
fishing a system of national, state
and county. highways. d.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
TO PROTECT KAISERIN.

Berlin, Dec. 31.--A league for
safeguarding the life and freedom
of the former katserin has been
formed under the suspices OF the
Tages Zeitung. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
POLES CONTROL POsEN.

London, Dec. 31.-Polish forces
now control Posen and have execut-
ed several German offtcerss disarnr
ing many others. communication
with Berlin has been cut. r9 p.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
SIX MONTHS TO DECIDE.
BY Edwin g. Hu1lfnger

z.z..55zssy1 BY Edwin q. HuIItnger n,
London, Dec. 31.---"The coming
six months will decide whether the
Polish question will. j; be settled
peacefully or bloodily,' = Edward
Shortt, chief secretary for Ireland,
today told the United Press. : =; n
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
TELEGRAPHERs GET RAISE.

Washington, Dec. 81. - Railroad
telegraphers and station agents have
been given a further wage increase
by Director General McAdoo, rectro-
active to October /. r ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
WILSON GOING TO ITALY.

London, Dec. 31.-President Will
son has left London on his return to
France. Late tomorrow he will
leave Paris for Italy and return TO
Paris early next week. +
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
RoWLAND-PLATT.

Judge J. E. Harris wound up the
old year by uniting in marriage
Victor Rowland of Travers county
and Veda Plat of Turtle River.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
SWEDISH PASTOR ILL:
NO SERVICES TOMORROW

There will be no services In the
Swedish Lutheran church tomorrow,
ON account of the pastors illness.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-12-31
BEMIDJl WILL
SUFFER WHEN
PHONE RATES
ARE DOUBLED
Outrageous Order Issued by
Texas Politician to Add
Burden to People
LONG DISTANCE SERVICE
is NEARLY TREBLED
State to File Protest to Auto
cratic Mandate Of Wire
Executive

Long distance telephone rates,
promulgated by Postmaster General
a. s, Burleson, to become effective
January al, and announced as re-
ducingQ the charges, really Will mean
jnerGases ranging from 100 to 400
per cent over the prevailing rates IN
Minnesota, where the distance Is
more than thirty-two miles, accord
ing to James w. Howatt, telephone
supervisor for the state railroad and
warehouse commission.
Bemidii Soaked"
Bemidji and vicinity will be
SOAKED" good and proper when the
new Burleson edict becomes opera
tive. for the present long distance
nhone call to the twin cities is %
cents and will be jumped to $3.50,
more than double, and nearly three
times as much.
State to File Protest. i.
Comparison Of the proposed schea-
ule with the prevailing rates MADE
by Supervisor Howatt, showing the
inequality Of the new schedule, was
placed before the commissioners. It
Is understood the state commission
will file protest and make an effort
! 10 have the proposed long distance
rate schedule withdrawn.
Under the new order two sche edules
are proposed, known as s'station to
station" calls and person to person,
calls. The rates tor the person TO
person" calls are approximately 20
per cent higher than the Station to
station calls, where a number only
Is called but the caller is not guar
anteed that he will obtain connec,
ton with the person desired.
The Home news., 1918-05-17

Be 1t Resolved by the House of Rep resemtatives and the Senate of the State of Arkansas, the Majority 0f Both Houses Agreeing Thereto.
The Home news., 1918-05-17
NOTICE

A meeting of the farmers, business men, directors and officers of the Woodruff Coun- ty Fair Association will be held at McCrory at 2 p. m., (sharp) on Wednesday, May 29,l for the purpose of electing officers, appointing commit tees and other necessary work preparatory to the setting of the Second Annual Woodruff County Fair to be held this fall. COME and help.
 w. E.. JELKS, Pres.
 L. w. STURDIVANT, Sec.
The Home news., 1918-05-17
PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AMEND
 MENT.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
 No. 1H.

Providing credit of State may be loaned and indebtedness incurred to an amount not exceeding two per cent of the assessed valuation of property in State for the purpose of providing funds to be loaned upon the security of farm lands within the State or mak- ing farm loans: providing Governor, Secretary of State and State Land Conn missioner shall constitute State Land Board having authority to sell bonds in name of State. place money In state Treasury and loan money to bona fide purchasers of farm lands in Arkansas. and prescribing manner in which such loans shall be made and repaid; dele gating to the Legislature the authority to provide for carrying out, administer Ing and safeguarding the provisions of this amendment; providing all provis- ions of the Constitution of Arkansas in conflict with this amendment are repealed.
The Home news., 1918-05-17
She Got Good Results

This honest testimony from a woman who has suffered should be needed by all aff1ct- ed with back ache, rheumatic pains, or any symptoms of kid ney and bladder trouble: "1 have got such good results from Foley Kidney Pills that l sleep much better. Mrs. Chas. Gray, 27O Sixth St., Detroit, Mich Cross Drug Store, McCrory, Ar. k
The Home news., 1918-05-17
FOR AMENDMENT NO. 14 AGAINST AMENDMENT NO. IA

FFoDcsed Constitutional AmendmAr%
 No. 1A.
 Re 1t Resolved by the Senate .nA House of Representation of xhs State of Arkansas, the Matorttx ~s ncrn , Houses Agreeing Thereto:
 That the following Is hereby nro. posed as an amendment to the Con stltut1on of the State of Arkanaan ana the same being submitted to the sIao tors Of the State for approval or rs. section at the next general election for Senators and Representations if = majority of the electors voting at such election adopt such amendment Ike same shall become a part of the Con stitution of the State of Arkansas to- wit: 'o That Sections 3 and : of Article of the Consultation Of tho State of Ar Kansas be amended to read as follows. The Supreme Court shall be compos- ca or seven Judges. one of whom shall such. In the consideration and decis- ion of cases, all Judges may sit or the Court may be divided into two dtvis ions, and the decision of each of said divisions shall be the decision of the Court. The Chief Justice shall assign three of the Associate Justices to each oivls1on, and he may change such as- siFnments from time to time, and the Associate Justices may interchange with each other by agreement among
 
 Judges shall be necessary to a decis- ion in either division. When the Court Is sitting in banc, the Chef Jus tice shall preside. and the concurrence of four shall be necessary to a decis- ion. The Chief Justice shall allot the cases to the divisions, and he may or der any case to be decided or recon sidered by the court in banc. The Chief Justice may sit in either division and shall preside when so sitting. The Judges of each division shall elect presiding Judge for that division. who shall preside when the Chief Justice Is not sitting in that division. If the Chief Justice Is absent from the Court the senior Judge present shall perform his duties.
 The Governor shall appoint the two additional Judges provided for herein one of whom shall hold office until his successor is elected at the general cleo tfon for State officers in 1922. and qualities, and one of whom shall hold office until his successor is elected at the general election for State officers in 1924, and qualihes.
 Approved by the Governor. and nled in the office of the Secretary of State, January IT. 1917.
 Each elector may vote for or against the above amendment.
 Witness nay official signature this, the 24th day of April. 1918.
 ISeall TOM J. HERBAL
 Secretary of State.
The Home news., 1918-05-17
Helps to Keep Fit

When the digestion is out of order, it throws the whole physical being out of gear. B. B. Hayward, Unadilla, Ga., writes: Foley Cathartic Tab lets give me quicker relief than anything have ever tried" They relieve biliousness, bad breath, ~bloating, gas, indiges- tion and constipation. No griping or nausea. Red Cross Drug Store, McCrory, Ark.
The Home news., 1918-05-17

1 tice. and said note or contract shall contain a clause providing therefor.
 Sec. 2. Such loans shall be repaid w,tn istsrest .S n anu" 1 such installzpents being fixed at such sums as will cover the interest rate and will Nquidate the debt in a period to be agreed on between said board not less than i've nor more than thirty six years: but any debtor may iqui- date any part or all of his indebtedness in amounts of ss0.oe or multiples there of upon any amortization payment date.
 Sec. g. The rate of interest on loans shall be i've per cent per annum; pro vided. that no Farm Credit Bonds shall be sold for less than par; and pro- vided further that the board shall re- qutre each applicant to pay an initial charge of l per cent of the lean grant ed. the minimum charge to be $1o.oo animation of title.
 Sec. 9. All surplus funds accruing from the operation of the system of rural credits herein provided for, after said bonds, and all operating and other expenses arising from the administra- ton Of said system of rural credits, shall be placed in the State Treasury known as the Arkansas Rural Credit Reserve Fund" Said Arkansas Rural Credits Reserve Fund shall be loaned on farm lands in the manner herein provided for the Arkansas Rural Credit Loan Fund and the interest ac- cruing from loans made from said Ar kansas Rural Credits Reserve Fund shall be added to it and become a part Reserve Fund shall be irreducible, ex- cept that 1t may be drawn upon to re- imburse the State for loss incurred in the administration of said system of rural credits.
 Sec. 10. The Legislative Assembly shall provide in such detail as it shall deem advisable for the carrying out and administering of the provisions of this amendment and shall provide ad- eQuate safeguards against the of such loans as an aid to the purchas- ing and holding of lands for the pur- poses of speculation. Such safeguards herein. in the absence of such legis- lation, and subject to tho same after its enactment. the State Land Board shall proceed to administer said sys- tenn of rural credits under rules and regulations provided by itself. but sub. ject to the provisions herein contained.
 Sec. Il. The provisions of the Con. stftution of Arkansas in conflict with this amendment are hereby repealed, in so far only as they conflict herewith. The provisions of this amendment shall be self-executing, and shall take effect and be in operation so days af- ter their approval and adoption by the people of Arkansas
 Approved by the Governor, and fled in the office of the Secretary of State, March IT, 1917.
 Each elector may vote for or against the above amendment
 Witness my official signature this, the 24th day of April. 1918
 rSea11 TOM J. HERBAL
 Secretary of State.
The Home news., 1918-05-17
JUNIOR LEAGUE PROGRAM

Following is the program for the Junior League which will be rendered May 19, 1918 at 4 o'clock.
 Subject-Big Little Things. Leader-Eloise Raymond. Song-We're Marching to Zion.
 Song = Anywhere w ith Jesus.
 Scripture lesson, Luke, XIX, 11-24.-Harris Shearer.
 Prayer.
 Apostles Creed-By all. Vocal Duet-Doris Kyle ana Mable Dunehew.
 A Talent-Mary Raymond. Piano Solo-Lena Cullum. Ralph Holman-Dora liar ris.
 Song-More Love To Thee.
The Home news., 1918-05-17

Miss Elise Smith who has been teaching school at Cotton Plant for the past term, has re turned home much to the oe- light of her many friends here''
The Home news., 1918-05-17
Proposed Constitutional AmenA,
 No. IA.

Amending Sections and Of Ar+i cte of the Constitution of the stats Orar1a or naKansas; H providing that the Su- preme Court of the State shah h. composed of seven Judges. one 1,h,oe Justice and six Associate Justices, nre1 Vid1ng the Judges may sit in two d; visions. and otherwise providine tho manner in which the court shall sif and shall render its decisions Si'
 Providing for the selection and o,oo tion of the two additional Judges.
The Home news., 1918-05-17

fAe~- O~4-.| A-A-<aksIA41tE AMrcND
 NAA4tN 4.
The Home news., 1918-05-17
GENERAL DIRECTORY
 McCrory Officials

Mayor. Grover c. McCrory Marshal .........J. G. Pulley Recorder. HI. c. Shearer Treasurer. ............L. J. billiard Health Officer Dr. H.P. .Hargis
 Aldermen: Dr. LA. Jelks, H. Arnof, Dr. w. T. Mccain, l.. J. billiard and R.C. Thomp- son. Council meets at mayors office first Monday night of each month. All citizens are invited and will be welcome.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17
THE HORRORS OF ALEPPO

who have either been murdered or
have suecumbed 10 starvation,
The object Of the deportations is
the determination OF the Armenian
nation
The opinions Of our German Con-
stills and OF many foreigners resident
in the country, about the Armenian
massaeres, will some day become
known through their reports. | can
say nothing about the verdict OF the
German officers IN Turkey, / noticed,
when ia their company, an ominous
silence or convulsiye effort TO
change the subject when any German
Of warm sympathies and independent
Judgment began 10 speak about the
ArmrnianS' irightful suiierings,
The Young Turk has the European
ideal OF united national state all
ways floating before his eyes He
hopes TO Turkify the non-Turkish
MUhamnedan races The Christian
nations - Armenians. Syrians and
6reeks--alarm him By their cultural
and economic superiority, and he sees
10 their religion an obstacle to Turki-
flying them by peaceful means, They
have therefore. TO be extermiuated or
converted 10 Mohammedanism by
force The Turks do not suspect that
10 doing this, they are saving off the
branch on which they are sitting
themselves. Who is to bring progress
20 Turkey Il not the Greeks, Armeu-
ians aud SyriauS, who constitute more
than quarter OF the population oil
the empire2
We who have been teaching Greeks
Armenians, Arabs. Turks and Jews ia
German schools in Turkey for year.
can only declare that the pure Turk,
are the most unwilling and incapabl,
% all our pupils, While students from
I Christian races are often brilliant ant
as a rule patient and perseyering.
We shall not be able 70 dissipate th,
Turkish nations conviction that tht
Armenian massacres were ordered b,
Germany, unless energetic steps ar,
taken by German dipioiaatists and Of
\ fieers.
Only just before | left Alepoo las
May the crowds OF exiles encampe,
at Ras-el-Ain on the Bagdad Railway
estimated az 10000 women and chill
] dren, were slaughtered 10 the last one
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17
PLEA FOR DYING ARMENIANs

Literary Digest for Feb. 20, 1919
-R-M-E-N-I-A spells TRAGEDY,
no less in life than in death. More
than one million Armenians and
Syrians in Turkey and Western Asia
have per. -hed during the past two
years from exposure, starvation, dis
ease, heartless deportation and cruel
massacre. These are past their suffer
ings and are beyond Our help. There
are still two aud one-half millions OF
homeless and destitute people in Ar
menia and Syria who areexperiencing
living death, who are enduring the
horrors oil hunger, the torturcs Of
gnawing want, nay, even the loss OF
reason itself, through sufferings that
have become too terrible TO bear.
The young and the aged, without
food and shelter-more than two mil
lions OF thcm--this indeed is record
10 wiring the heart and 20 open the
purse-sfrings OF humanity. This is a
tragedy among nations before which
even the appalling tragedy Of Belgium
pales Here is great people upon
which even Poland, deep in her own
misery can look with pity and COM
passion, as on nation that IS ex-
pericneing an agony Of suffering
greater even than her own.
Other martyr nations have had their
hosts, their legions, Of friends. Other
stricken peoples have had bountiful,
prodigai help. But Armenia has been
virtually cut off from outside aid,
isolated, left TO bleed, TO suffer, and to
die A little more and an entire Chris
tian nation will have persisted from
the earth These two million five hun
bred thousand Armenians can be
saved from final starvation only as
America appreciates their awful con-
dition, extends them the helping hand
OF fellowship and sympathy, and null
tipiies thousandfold her diyinely in
spired benefactions,
Ii was estimated last year that $50
600 900 would be needed TO keep these
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17

Extracts from a report 10 the Ger
man government by Or. Martin Me
page, higher grade teacher ia the
German Technical School AZ Aleppo)
As teachers ia the German Tech
meal school al Aleppo. we feel il our
duty 70 draw attention 20 the fact that
our educational work will forfeit is
moral basis and The esteem OF the
natives L the German government Is
not 10 a position 90 put stop 10 the
brutality with which the wives and
children 81 slaughtered Armentans are
being treated here.
Dat 81 conveys numbering two or
three thousand men, women aud chill
dren when they left their homes on
ihe Armenian plateau, only two or
three hundred survivors arrived here
ia the south. The men are slauEkt-
cred on the way; the women and girls
dishonused and killed By Turkish sol
aiefs and officers The thousands
shrink 10 hundreds and the hundreds
10 stny remnants and even these rem
nants are driven on till The last is
dead.
Indeed, for the exile who came 10
Aleppo. help was really useless, We
could only afford those doomed TO
death a few slight alterations Of their
agony
What We saws with cur own eyes
here in Aleppo was really only the
last scene in the great tragedy Of the
determination Of the Armenians, Ii
was only 4 minute fraction Of the hor.
rihle drama that was being played on,
simultaneously 10 al the olhsr prov
inees 81 Turkey. Many more appalling
things we're reported By the engineers
Of the Bagdad Railway when they
can't back IRON their work on ,hs
section under construction. Or BY Ger.
man travellers who met the convoy,
Of exiies on their journeys Many d
these gentlemen had seen such sp,
psiling sights that they could ca
nothing for days.
The consuis arc Of opinion that. 5,
far, probably about one million Ar
menians have persisted 10 the mas
saeres 81 the last few months o
this number, one must reckon that a
least half are women and childreI
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17

A DYING NATION

Prone on the earth, by wars red path
A dying nation lies
Mother and maid and child, to hate
And lust a sacrifice.
Shall we of the church, or the world
with our ease
And our comforts satisfied,
To the groans of woe give little heed,
Pass by on the other slider
| see the Lord enthroned, where the
ways
OF the mighty future part
Earth's millions are moving toward
that throne,
There to be riven apart;
A. voice speaks forth IN tones sub
lime
l know the voice is His
Who spoke on earth, but It echoes
now
From the great Eternities:
Come, all we blessed. ye souls that
yearn
To sorrowful fellow men,;
We are my Christian, Jew
Or good Samaritan.
Amid earth's woes, in mercy's work
We lovingly have shared;
Enter with JOY the realm of love
Which the Father ina h prepared.
And ye, whose hard and needless
hearts
The appeals of woe denied,
Walk on to the end of the way ye
chose,
Pass by on the other side.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17

lage and thought we had eXterminated
its inhabitants. Here they are back
again, rebuilding their homes, blowing
their fields and gradually accumulat-
ing cattle and flocks. They can't be
destroyed"
have heard Christians with stream
ing eyes asking God to forgive those
who had so cruelty wronged them and
outraged their loved ones, and Mo-
hammedans standing by have walked
away awed, and saying, What kind
of religion is this that enables them
10 ask God to forgive uSf
DIR. ]. r. MeNaughtou, for twenty
five years a resident OF Turkey, adj
dressing the annual meeting of the
Spokane Chamber OF Commerce, said:
THE ancestors of these people
contributed more of the rich content
that has entered into the warp and
wool Of our civilization than all other
nations combined. Our prophets and
apostles, our religion, our Bible, our
Savior are some of the incalculable
gifts of these great peoples, We will
not forget, that in the early centuries
the ancestors of these sufferers I'M
stintedly gave their tears and blood
for the preservation of great intel.
leetual and spiritual sources of wealth
Without these great blessings and
their implications the broad plains Of
America would still echo the war.
whoop of the savage Indian. If tn,
ancestors of these people have made
such great contributions to our history
and civilization, is it too much to ex
peet that we shall arise and discharg,
a little of our great debt by supplying
| their children with bread9"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-17
TRAGIC SITUATION IN WESTERN ASIA

100000 Armsnans and syans Turkey have per-
during past years deportation exposure
and disease
Three million homeless and in dire distress.
Thousands Of Greeks depoed the coast Of Asia Minor
starving
100000 Of those In need orphans,
children scarcely able feed Themselves live absolutely
alone deserted
$4,000 children under twelve years age starving Syria
and Lebanon alone.
Sufferers recently dying the
of 1000 q day
100000 refugees fled the Turkish domnions and IN their
temporary homes cry for help.
ll goes Turkey uninterrupted by break Of
diplomatic freely administered Persia the Caucasus
and elsewhere
Distribution wisely and economically made by absolutely
liable agenta
Every dollar contributed goes for relief for
S3000O0O0 viii required during the next five months
Three dollars per month win child $500 will its
mother.