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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
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Thursday will be the anniversary
Of the independence of America,
when the famous Declaration Of In
dependence was signed by those col
onials which proclaimed to all the
world the freedom of what is now
the United States of America. The
colonies had fought their mother
country for their liberty from a mon
archial yoke and so we'll did they
fight that their independence was
finally acknowledged.
With the aid of France the strug-
Cling loyalists battled their way to
freedom. With the aid Of French
money and French generals the
handful of patriots won the most
notable victories in the annals of
the worlds history. And today the
country which France saved to lib
erty is on the borders of her bene-
factor, battling for the freedom of
the nation who needed the cry Of
the struggling handful in the days
|of the Revolution.
Bemidii Will Celebrate.
Thursday Bemidji will celebrate
the day most sacred in the annals
of the nation-her Independence
day. The day will be given over to
patriotic fervor. There will be STIR
ring music, sports of various nature
for entertainment, and patriotic ut
terances, the orator Of the day be-
ing A. A. Harrington of Duluth, a
speaker of unusual ability.
The Twenty-first battalion band
will play, the Grand Army veterans
drum corps will tap the cadence as
in the days of the Civil war, the
Home Guard will be out and SO will
the Fourth Minnesota.
Speaking at Court House.
/ The speaking will be at the court
1house grounds and there will be q
raising Of the service flag, and the
day will close with concert by the
band in the city park.
| Sports Start Eearly..
The street sports begin in th'
morning at 8 o'clock. Foot races
for boys, girls and men, potato races
bicycle races, cracker eating con
tests and tug-of-war will take place
on the down town streets. Use the
program to guide you.
The relay race, which Is scheduled
Oh LuG pIOSlGul W Ltho pIdSC AAAAiS
diately after the ball game will be
put on Immediately before the bal
game. Only one entry has been re,
ccived thus far for the relay race
and towns and cities wishing to en-
ter a four-man team in this race are
requested to notify E. H. Denu,
chairman of the sports committee.
Evening Program.
Evening sports are also provided
| opening with a firemens competitive
race at 7 o'clock, horse shoe throw
| ing contest at 7:45 and the band
! concert at s o'clock.
The sports committee consists OF
E. H. Denu, chairman; A. L. Bar
ker, Sergeant Clarence Foucault and
A. p Ritchie.
Tie day will be replete with en-
| tertainment and "something doing
every minute" is the slogan for the
| celebration.
The entire program is found else
where in this issue. Cut 1t out for
reference.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
KNIGHT OF SKIES LEFT
FUNDS FOR PALS TOAST
By FRANK 7. TAYLOR

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
With the American Army in
France, June 10.-(By maiD This
Is the story of man who was born
to be king. In his way he was one,
and he died as a knight of chival-
rous days should die.
He did everything as he considered
it ought to be done, OIL a knightly
scale.
He was an aviator because avia-
tors are the knights of the army. He
was a fighting aviator because they
play the dramatic, romantic, gallant
est part Of aviation.
1t was no cheap chivalry this man
had. He lived beyond all that was
sordid, and his comrades admired his
ability. They believed in him as he
believed in himself.
One day in fight high, high above
the clouds, he was wounded. He had
been protecting an observer and de-
spite his wound he stayed on the
patrol until it finished. Coming
back home he tainted, and his ma
chine crashed near the aviation field.
His story does not end here, be-
cause he was born to do things as
knights do them. They buried him
as a knight of the air should be
buried.
Then they gathered together his
possessions to send them to his
mother in America Among them
they found an envelope, check and
this note.
Comrades, I died fighting and I
am satisfied.
Enclosed is a check to pay my
debts and buy you each bottle of
champagne.
Drink toast to victory and
sweep the Germans from the skies.
Here's to YOU
His comrades are sweeping down
the Germans, but the champagne is
unOrdered.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
25|0MlO ! OreN||en
| CaIledJu|ly22; d J ||l|y
Order Received

The Beltrami county draft
board today received an order
from the war department for
25O additional men by July 22.
i: No details Of the order were
given but are expected to ar
rive soon. .5 .s;a - 7. ~ i : -':g ..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
BOLSHEVIKI WINS
ELECTION IS REPORT
(Rv United PresS)

(By UHILeu TIesSJ
Stockholm, July 2.-Closely censored
DISPATCHES today indicate that the
Boisheviki have won a complete vic
tory in the elections there.
The poletariat was absolutely
against the Bolsheviki and the en-
ployes of several of the largest fac
tories voted against the Bolsheviki,
the latter winning by the votes of
the unemployed, Red Guards, arti-
ficially created government organic
ers and alleged unions.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
FURNISHING LIQUOR
.... ]: TO SOLDIERS TABOO

: Washington. July 2.-Furnishing
of liquor to officers and men of the
army within private homes is prohib-
sited under the law regulations for
mulated by President Wilson and
Secretary of Baker and made public
by the commission on training camp
activities. Dry zones around every
camp where, as many as ESQ men are
stationed for more than thirty days,
also are established.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
PROUD OF WAR GARDENS
(RY United Pressl

Parrais, N j., July 2.-Four hun
dred 1--WE Have War Garden win
dow hangers contributed by the Ma
tional War Garden commission of
Washington are displaced in local
h ONES. Canning operations have be-
gun on a large scale.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
IA DESTROYER LAUNCHINGS
TO BE NAVY'S CELEBRATION

Washington, July 2.-Fourteen
destroyers will be launched from
American yards July 4. These,
with a number of Eagle boats, Will
represent the navy's share of ton
mage to take the water in celebra-
tion of Independence day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02

Mrs. Frank A.. Vanderlip, whose hus-
band is "dollar-a-year" man serving
Uncle Sam, is smashing up heirlooms
Of gold and silver at the new metal
market established in New York city.
After she gets through vigorously
pounding the metal, it will be melted
ands assayed. Then the government
will send the original owner the
equivalent of the bullion value in War
Savings stamps. If you have any old
gold, silver or platinum around now
is the time to put it to work for Uncle
Sam. Send it in to the metal market
and it will soon be converted into War
Savings stamps.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
WILSON TO RESTATE
WHY AMERICA BATTLES
(By United Press)

Washington, July. 2,--President
Wilson. has completed tae formation
of doctrine of aid and will soon
tell the definite purposes of the
United States in bringing to an end
the world struggle by 1920.
-. The president believes the time
has come for a recapitulation of
aims.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
20 DIE IN BLAST
(Rv limited PreSSl

London, July 2-Between 60 and
70 persons were killed in an explo-
sion in a munition factory in Mid
land county this afternoon, Ihe
women behaved splendidly,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02
TODAY'S CASUALTY LIST
(Rv United PresS)

4. (By United Press)
WASHINGTON, July o. General
Pershing today reported 81 casual
ties in his army an dalso three mar
inc casualties. J
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02

Minnesotans are convir ced there
is, such a thing as a rare day in
June.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02

The small tractors are gaining in
popularity with the Minnesota farm
ers. -.-.--
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02

Mrs. Ruby Lester Fleming, director;
Of the Red Cross stenographic forces
In France, has just returned for a
visit after seven months abroad. She.
Has brought back some interesting OBJ.
iservations on the courage and devo-
hon of the Americ can girls who, are
faithfully performing their uninspir.
ing task under nerye-racking condi-
'tions. Operating a typewriter under
fire, she says, takes as much courage
and grit as driving an ambulance. The
Office staff of the, Red Cross in Paris
has stuck to work through the strain
of air raids and long-distance bonn
bardment. 80. aZ-~es,-<
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1918-07-02

program to be held indoors. The
governor and party are here on
business and at the same time enjoy
ing a needed recreation period. =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

and let your judgment be frank with me about this. Has any army in history, ever since the beginning of time, been so raised and cared for as thls army has2
 Can the picture be duplicated? We have raised this army. taking the regu- lar army and the national guard, ra.s- ing to war strength and supplementing 1t by the operation of a draft. and there are senators in this room who said to me with grief when we proposed that that form of raising the soldiers should be had, they shook their heads and said: MT. Secretary, 1t cannot be done. It Is too sudden to address to the American people that mode of se- lecting soldiers And yet, has any great enterprise within the knowledge of any man in this room ever been carried odt with more unfailing justice, with mere intelligent explanation and commenda- tion to the good sense of patriotism of the American people, and has any great and revolutionary change in our mode of practice ever been accepted so splendidly as the operation of the selective service system?
 "We have got those young men in camp and they are surrounded from
 the time they left home until the day they come back to it, if in Gods provi- utIlCG they CdIl COIilS pdCk, WllH more agencies for their protection and com fort and health and happiness. phys icai, spiritual and mental, than any army that ever went out on a field.
 "They are classified by a system un- der classification so that men who have mechanical instincts and training will be given mechanical opportunities in the army. The round man is not sought to be put into the 'square place. The Y. NJ. c. A., the Ameri- can people have subscribed literally for the purpose. the Y. M. c. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Young Women's Christian association, the training camp activities committee, the training camp athletic committee and the Red Cross. have all been brought in to live with the soldiers and by virtue of activities started in the war department the communities whicff surround these camps have been in- Stantly gotten away from the notion which used to prevail of certain alienation between civilian and sol- dier group, and these soldier boys in these camps have been adopted into , the homes and hearts of the people among whom they live. No such rela- tion has ever existed between an army and civilian population as exists with regard to this
 And then. with your aid, the army has been able to practically stamp out intemperance and vice among the sol- diers by the establishment of zones, by the establishment of patrol sys- tems of one kind or another, by the training of these young officers in those training camps, young men of experience and fine feeling and all that, we have gotten into this great army the idea that it can be a strong and effective military army and still be free from things which have hith- erto weakened and sapped the vitality and virility of armies.
 'I have gone from camp to camp among these cantonments and my first question almost invariably is to tho camp commander, What about your disciplinary problem?
 "Old men In the army, men whose lives have been spent in it from their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
FOR COLDS AND GRIPPE
 DOCTORS FIND REMEDY

Physicians and druggists are elated over the fact that they have at last edy for colds, sore throat and Ia grippe. upon the old style calomel. which Is certainly fine. but unfortunately many people would not take 1t because of it's nauseating and dasngerous qualities.
 ists have perfected a .nausealess calo- mel. called "Calotabs;' whose medic doctors and druggists are claiming abort a cold over night and cut short an attack of sore, throat or la grippe. as the first step in the treatment of one Caiotab on the tongue at bed- time with a swallow of water-that's All. No salts, no nausea nor tho slight est interference with your eating or your work and pleasure. The next morning your cold has vanished and your whole system is purified and re freshed Calotabs are sold only in original sealed packages; price thirty five cents. Your druggist recommends and guarantees them by. refunding the price if you are not delighted.-Adv.
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THIS IS PICTURE

That is picture of what has been going on over there, gentlemen. On this side much of what has had to be done, and in addition to it. all the things we have done and I ask you to remember among the achievements on this side is the building of this army, not of 10000 or 100000 or 5O0,0O0. but of sub. stantially million and one-half men.
 And now let me be frank with you
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boyhood, and who have been all over the continental United States and through it's insular possessions wherever our armies have been, who know the life of the soldier in the camp and the post, all say with one accord, and no exception, that they have never seen anything like this, that the disciplinary problems of the army are reduced to negligible quantity, and instead or melancholy and pathetic parade through the Secretary of Wars office of court martial after court-martial, of men who have fallen down and yielded to tempta- tion under these unusual circumstances, which used to obtain, I have an infre- quent case now of court-martial by req son of such weaknesses"
 Here, at the request of the chairman, Mir. Baker put into the record state ment showing the number of hospitals, army and Red Cross established in France, with the number of the per sonnel of each.
 The Secretary then resumed his testi- mony:
 When Lord Northciffe returned to England, he was invited, as recall it, by Lloyd George to accept a position in his cabinet. He wrote letter which was printed in the papers, and in that he made this casual reference to the GiAllCu DNdNCS. IlC SPONC VI AlAl NAStN AASAO and spoke of our war preparations in this fashion:
 War preparations are proceeding in the virile atmosphere of the United States and Canada with a fervor and enthusiasm little understood on this side of the Atlantic
 WHAT GERMANS SAY
 He was then in England I happen to have copy of confidential ln- struction issued by the German gov- ernment in June, 1917, to the German press as to what course they should take in dealing with American matters, and they say:
 While the news about American war preparations, such as the organiz- ing and outfitting of an army of 1,000,000 men strong, to reinforce the French English front is looked upon in that form as bluff, the spreading of which may unfavorably affect the opinion of the German people, yet the fact must not be overlooked on the other hand that the United States, with the support of its capacity for material and indus trial management, is arming itself fof War with great energy and tenacity.'
 Your committee will have full op- portunity and will doubtless go into those things. If you will deal with the hospital situation. the medical corps, the signal corps, you will hear the wonderful work done by the en- gineering department of the army. but when it is all told, Mir. Chairman, it will be a story which I am sure your committee will be glad to report to the Senate of the United States as being a tremendous response to tre- mendous responsibility and when you have made this investigation I know that the American people will feel. as Continued on Page Seven)
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but even while they told us the story grew old
 NO STATIC THING
 "The one thing they told us from the very beginning to the end was that this war, of all others, was not static thing; that our adversary was versatile and agile adversary; that every day he re- vamped and changed his weapons of at tack and his methods of defense; that the stories they were telling us were true when they left England and France, but an entirely different thing was probably taking place there now, and they told us or large supplies of weapons of one kind and another which they had developed in France and England and which, even be- fore they got them in sufficient quantity manufactured to take them from the in dustrial plants to the front, were sup erseded by new ideas and had to De thrown into the scrap heap.
 MOVING PICTURE
 "They said to us, this is moving pie tura; it is something that nobody can paint and give you an idea of. It Is not a static thing
 ssTherefore it became necessary for us to have eyes there in an instant and immediate communication with us, ana we sent over to France General Persh- ing, and we sent with him not merely a division of troops-to that snail re- fer in a moment-but we sent with nim, perhaps can say safely, the major part of the trained, expert personnel or the army,
 'sYou know the size of the official corps of the regular army in this country when the war broke out It was pitt ful handful of trained men, and yet it was necessary ep divide them up and send over to France officers of the high est quality, so that they would be at the front and see in the workshops and in the factories and in the war offices and in the armies where consultations would take place immediately back of the front so that they could see the thing with their own eyes and send us back the details by cable every day of the chang ing character of this war.
 THOUSANDS OF CABLES
 General Pershings staff of experts and officers over there runs into the thousands, and they are busy every min ute and every day that the sun rises get cablegrams from General Pershtng from 10 to 16 and 20 pages long filled with measurements and formulas and changes of a mllimeter in size, great long specifications of changes in de- tails of things which were agreed upon last week and changed this week and needed to be changed again next week, so that what we are doing at this end, is attempting by using the eyes of the army there to keep up to what they want us to do.
 Already you will find in your fur ther examination into some of the bureau work of the department, some of the di- visions, when they come down, you will find that schedules which were agreed upon, weapons which were selected, and we had started to manufacture, have been so far discarded that people have forgot ten the names of them almost, and new things substituted in their places and those forgotten and new things in their places
 "So that if one gets the idea that this is the sort of war we used to have, or if he gets the idea that this is a static thing it is an entirely erroneous idea, and when you remember that we had to di- vide this little handful of officers that
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might well have been that the army that We sent over was just one thing that trey did not need, and that some other thing which We might have supplied would have been the thing essential to fEeir Si1ecass
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

be over there in large force and the question that then had to be answered was, How will we maintain an army in France? Special studies had to be made of that problem, and this is what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
MICA WORTH s PER POUND.

MICA WORTH 8 PER POUND. Enormous increase in use of mica in cleo trical industry (even scrap mica). to- gether with war conditions. has created a tremendous demand and a handsome price. I have located fine vein of mica in Alabama and want a few men with some ready cash to join me in forming corporation to .pur- chase the land and mine the mica. For tune in sight for even small investors. Better than gold mine. oil wells, any thing. Write now. stating how much you can invest. Ad won't appear again. ESQ, Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-29

We wish to thank our many friends for the kindness and sympathy shown us in our recent bereavement, the death of our mother, also for the beautiful floral of- ferings.
 MRS. w. B. HARRIS,
 MRS. VIVIAN PARKER.
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might well have been that the army that we sent over was just one thing that they did not need, and that some other thing which We might have supplied would have been the thing essential to their success.
 NO ABSTRACT STUDY
 ''So that from the very beginning it was not a question of abstract spec ulation here but question of study there to find out where our shoulder to the wheel could be put.
 They realized that. And so Great Britain sent over to us Mr Balfour and General Briges and staff of experts. They came over here and you saw MT. Balfour in the House of Congress and at the White House. and in public meet ings at one place and another, but the groups of experts whom they brought over with them you did not see much of, and yet they distributed themselves through the war department and their ordnance experts sat down with General Crozier, their supply experts with the army war college and all over this city there were these confidential groups ex- changing information, telling how the thing was done over there. what we could do, what they advised us to do, what ex- perience they had had in developing this, that and the other implement or supply, how certain plans which one might nat urally evolve out of the past experi- ence of this world had been tried there and found not to work at all.
 EXCHANGED INFORMATION
 They were exchanging information. giving us all that they thought was help f,,1 4..I l. T-Ef AL. derful reputation and hiS great and charming personality, and he made great figure here and we welcomed him. It was a tremendous inspiration to see the hero of the Marne but with him came this unobserved staff of 15 or 20 or 9 young men, the most brilliant men in the French army-strategsts, mechanical ex- perts, experts in arms, experts in SUD- plies, experts in industry and manufac- ture-and they told us not merely the formal and military problems, but they brought over with them men who were in from the beginning, in their reorganiza- tions of their industries in their mobili- zation of their industrial plants, and we sat down with them in little groups un- til finally we collated and collected and extracted all the information which they could give us from their respective coun- tries. And every country which has been brought in the war has brought us that sort, or sent us that sort or Staff or experts and 1t has been necessary to con- pare notes and with this as a basis to form such an idea as might be formed of what was the thing for us to do over there.
 NOT ENOUGH
 But that was not enough. They ad- mitted that it was impossible to draw that picture. They could describe to us and bring the specifications and draw ings for a piece of artillery, but they could not tell us why the British theory of the use of artillery was by the Brit ish preferred to that of the French. They could not picture to us a narrage of heavy howitzers as compared to barrage of '.77-mm." guns. They could not pie ture to us the association of aircraft, balloons and mobile aircraft with artil- lery uses. They could tell us about it,