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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-05-20
EVERY0NE SHoULD'sEE1T,,S

Gould any one of us who feels
called upon to pass criticism Of any
Of our fellows, first see !. THE
Eternal MADELEINE the world, 1 do
believe, would be better, We. would
be slower to condemn without first
feeling that we had something better
to offer than the thing we criticized
This is the statement Of a prominent
Bemidji woman in. speaking of the
Wonderful play which will be shown
at the Grand theatre for the last
time this evening. -. ,. ..r
E3t The Eternal Madalene"' deals with
q social condition that is as old
as the human race and which has
withstood the attempted reform of
many centuries. The author neither
praised nor condemned this condition!
but presented a story which argued
for charity. Everyone In sBemidii
should see this powerful and interest
ing play.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-05-20
CARRYING THE MAILS THROUGH THE AIR

appeared in the Pioneer several
days ago that had been established between
Chicago and Cleveland there many comments as 10
whether undertaking would be Ready answer
may given, for than remarkable showing
made by the operation of aerial mail service pc
tween New York and Washington ~ IL. !, :
The figures given indeed, do not quite prove that the
credit 03 claimed real one for no mention
of original investment in apanes OF the big term
ina charges that private company would have but as
Government bookkeeping general and Post Office
ing particular wont the account can be Tor
what presumably san accurate presentation OF operating
expenses truly interesting and important experiment
And even admirable than the financial showing is
that respect the rsworthness OF the service rendered
by the apanes and it's freedom from serious accidents TO
ayiators by conducted The machines went back and
forth regardless of weather. the delivery OF they
carried delayed beyond schedule time neither longer nor
more than that Of mail sent by train and was
good There only crash during the year.
that occurred while tesng plane to ascertain It's hnes Tor
the worke to be done, not while duty Il. - -.+
convincing demonstration than this or the ar
planes utility for the practical OF could not be
asked. It will not be surprising if at least one month"; now
hear of which the one real hylng macnne
the world that said with all due respect to the
dgible baloonshas beenpu The war proved it's lighting
capacities the better days will give more desr
able fame to this most sensational Inventions
beautiful weather ofhe several days again brings
the necessity and convenient bath
Diamond point That houses now IN use should
replaced generally admitted In fact they reflection
upon the enterprise Of CITY, There much discussion about
erection bath house and the residents OF Be-
midi fully appreciate the value Of its erection will
courage members of the Park board to provide for them is
probable that want which is truly needed will be met
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

7 TO the very apparent formation of cOan-
ton. between the Lodge Bo-aN-Johnson-
watson-M cCormick- New POM exter- Knox
Penrose anti-admnistration forces with the forces
of Haywood Debs, Berger and Wilhelm Hohenzol-
lern, almost inclined to favor pardon for
Berger, Haywood. Debs and the pro-Germans just
things up. 1t is not equality of justice and
il is un-American, Notwithstanding that have
laws applying TO the / ". VS.. socialists
kaisertes, that United states senators !ndugirg
the same brands disloyalty should be protected
because OF their senatorships
However now that johnson and Borah. represen-
tat've OF the anti-administraon Clique have taken
10 touring the country. openly espousing the
tentions for which Debs and Haywood were sent 10
jail numerous pro-Germans informed and Berger
sentenced receiving their applause from the follow.
ers Of these convicts-espeeially for expression OF
their sentimentsthe coalition too plain just-
~ pardons for anyone
Johnson's speeches everywhere, giving much
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

thing about it; that he has had anything to do with
it-but bear this in mind, that the Hearst and
Brisbane newspapers fighting like the demons
that they are, both against the League of Nations
and the Paris treaty and for and light wines;
a very significant combination.
1t is easy enough then to understand The beer
was put aboard the presidential train by German
lied brewery interests to dscredit the president
with the temperance people OF the country. well
known, not alone by pro-Germans but by the
brewery gang and the Hearst and Brisbane organs,
to be the thinking people who following the
president and supporting the League and the treaty
and it is perfectly natural that the Hearst and
Brisbane rags should be the first to find it out
The fight against the League. as thus being en-
gneered by the German interests in America, is
accordingly taking all the old scandalzing. libel
cheap chicanery of a booze controlled cam
paign for ward aldermancy. 1t is Germany max
ing her last fight, and she is making it here on
American soil, employing all the hosts of un-Ameri-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14
John Barycom Joins Hosts of AntiLeague1S as Scadaeer

- COOPED The Hearst newspapers in Chicago
and the Arthur Brisbane newspapers in Mil
waukee and Washington. purchase the
latter two especially having been financed by
brewery interests-and possibly with German
money at that-as proven by the Investigations Of
the Alien Enemy Property Custodian, have dis
covered twoand- three-fourths percent beer aboard
the presidential train The question is who put it
there?
The is that it is queer, very queer, that the
Hearst and Brisbane papers-which have been
lighting the battles Of the quite alone with
the assistance OF the New York World and a few
other beer-g uzzled sheets-should the first and
only to get wise to it; that the beer should
have gone aboard at brewery-bound st. Louis; that
it should be conceded to have been put there by the
quite equally brewery-bound st. Louis chamber OF
commerce, without charge, consigned to Joseph P.
Tumulty
1t is claimed that the president knew any
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14
D NEWS TIMES SUNDAY EDITORIAL PAGE

is a certain snobbishness about the mass of
Americans, creative of class consciousness, that
gives the rich advantage over the poor, not
only socially, but IN the making and In the exc
cution Of our Lawsuit therein lies the fault
in our not living up to our ideals, rather than
in the idea" itselfs
Get that relationship-of an ''ideal' TO an
"dea-" An ideal is an idea spiritualized and
reverenced.
THE Declaration Of independence, however,
barely gave good start. 1t pronounced
the thirteen colonies, and their people, free
from foreign control, but it did not make them
a nation.
The articles Of confederation created an ALI
ance between them-a league of nations, it
were,-but it left them thirteen different states
under separate governments; mainly
alliance against external aggression.
1t was the constitution, which after twelve
years Of independence. welded these thirteen
colonies together and made them one nation
not without opposition either, the histories tell
us,-but observe how well it chung to the
fundamentals laid down in '76. After all: "we,
the people," did it.
And why? "In order to form a more per-
feet union, (the federation had been very i'm
perfect), establish justice (the justice Of
equality), insure domestic tranquility (get rid
of intercolonial bickerings), provide for the
common defense (of all the states against for
eign interference), promote the general well
fare and secure the blessings Of liberty TO our
selves and our posterity.
That is why ''we, the people of the United
States" ordained and established the "constitu-
ton Of the United States of America" 1t
wasn't that there might be president, cabi-
net, senate, house of representatives, and
a whole galaxy of courts, at all. These are
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

have just such PrusSianesque minds; look upon
the Declaration of independence, for instance,
exPedient of the moment, well calculated
to humbug the colonists into making common
cause-but decry reiteraton of the basic prin-
ciples, akin to bolshevism, if not treason.
1t is infinitely farther from bolshevism than is
Prussanism, or even American capitalism,
while eff it be treason, well make the most of
it"-for the claim that "all men are created
equal; that they are endowed by their creator
with certain inaienabls rights; that among
these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness; that to preserve them, governments
are instituted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent Of the governed, us
Americas complete gospel.
Russian bclshevism is PrrIssianism appropri-
ated by the proletariat same as American cap
itslism is Prussianism initiated by the plutocrat
All three born of self-conceited super
egoism that presumes self-superiority - the
superiority of might" over right" in every
instsnce,-and right there is where Simon-pwe
Americansm and these invading forces are for
ever going to clash. PTussianism does not con-
cede, or respect, the basic principle of equal
ity,-which is Americanism's long suit
Assuredly men are not always born equal In
physical sense, nor equal in mentality. There
such things dyvarfs and giants, and there
have been natural-born idots-but quite as
commonly, in proportion to numbers, among
the socalled royalty, the nobility and the aris-
tocratic, and among the common herd.
The equality enunciated in the Declaration
of independence spells political equality, max
ing fool of fool, regardless of his parentage,
recognizing the genius Of the wise, throwing the
same protecting arm around, and affording the
same opportunities to ALL
That is what American equality means
equality before the law. We may not always
practice what we preach. 1t is true that there
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

canism and ant-Amercanism as her allies-includ
ing John Barley corn and the Prussan- minded
"copperheads" of a great political party.
Anything to dscredit the president with people
sober enough to think, knowing that they the
people who thinking and who favoring
the world League-which Germany and her Amer-
allies do not want,-and they put some 275
percent beer the presidential train, is
article which in it's every might well
have been labeled "Germany"-only they not
that honest
That is all there is to it. John Barleycorn has
been employed in such capacities that before,
and by very similar processes It isn't the first
of beer that has been found where brewery inter
ests have planted it to scandaze some unconscious
possessor by the finding Of #; a splendid confess
sion indeed that liquor is thing that should for
be suppressed; something that it IS always
disgrace to have around, a fact seemingly recog-
nzed even by those who employ It for such nefarI-
purposes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

time to criticisms of the espionage law, too clear
" appeal to the Debs-H Haywood Berger pro Ger
man rabble to be easily mistaken and reveals some
what what the Californian must have had in his
mind during the He a moral coward,
merely lacking the courage Of his convictions. and
kept still because he afraid OF the law and
not because OF any virtue He less
than Berger. Haywood and Debs.
Add to this the Johnson-B orah attitudes toward
the League and the treaty disclosed IN their ad-
dresses-not attitudes toward the League and the
treaty at all. but toward tho president.-and you
have the depth of their mental pabulum pretty well
fathomed. The president is going about the
country GUESSING this senator and that. He tells
people about the League and the treaty and is Civ
ing tbs. his Interpretation OF it. Doing he has
driven the opposition to a fury and understanding
they do the depth OF a great many American
minds capable OF approaching nothing In
diligence in personalities they have ushered forth
% martial that brand OF American hosts in support
OF their
10 illustrate the point there is old story told
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14
More Incense From the Holy of Holes at the City Hall

TT7HAT the evidence taken from the "bookies"
arrested the past week at the Interstate
fair should have disappeared in advance of
their arraignment is only a commonplace affair in
cident TO local police methods That all such
evidence-the books. etc.-should have been
turned back TO the "bookies" as explained by
the officials upon their giving bond for their al-
poarance in court. may or may have been
blunder of the officers due 10 their innocence but
e innocence, how blssful?
We fear very much that it was much tho same
brand of innocence that has liquor dis
appear between the and trial of bootleggers
that has caused liquor to turn to sweetened water;
perhaps the brand of innocence as that un-
der which the chief Of police recently returned
SIPS TO George Hosler. without awaiting
disposition OF his case, the money having been Sc
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

tence would have been just sensible the rest.
1t to be all in the there at the city
hall 1t is the administration ideal of Americaniza-
ton and Americanism. guess; play the law for
any old kind OF 'joker!"
And then the police ushered forth to rake in
gamblers at the fair; of course along
toward the close of the fair. but they raked them
in, and Samantha, you go to your church
this morning and thank the Good Lord for
splendid Christian administration almost theocratic
in its divine purity enforcing decency, order and
maintaining justice without fear-or favor-and
so on and so forth.
No guilty man is being permitted to escape, Sam
antha This is the administration Of which church
elders prophesied conversion of the city hall into
a Holy of Holies--the Sunday before the NUM-
cipal election-urgng a strict adherence at the
polls, to such end, to the offerings placed there
upon the altar by Gods Own Party"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

only expedients introduced In the constitution
machinery for carrying out the purposes for
which that constitution ordained. Neither
it done by particular families of royal, no
bic, or aristocratic birth; securing to them
selves special privileges.
Remember, it was done by the people, by
delegates of the people, and was adopted by
and for the people-no special consideration
being given to any labor union, farmers
league, special interest, or other clique; yea,
not even to the church or the press, save to Sc
cure to them their freedom along with the free
dom of speech.
1t is no wonder that the Prussian-minded are
so prone to sneer when you talk of American
ideals and begin to enumerate such principles
of democracy-particular If you presume to
prescribe them as good enough for the whole
world. Americanism has use for snobs.
Prussianism is the latest of the old world
"divine rights barbarisms to be dethroned, and
it is not surprising at all that there should be
An1ericans-even nativists without German an
ceStry, and perhaps never touched by the Ger
man propaganda or teaching,-just as PruS-
sian-minded as the most determined of the
junkers of Potsdam.
Prussian or American-they inherited il
barism; the same school of Orang- Outangs;
barism; the same school of Orang- Outrangs;
the same ingrown self-conceited, super-egoistic,
and seIf-assumed superiority, that gave rise to
the doctrine of the divine rigSt of kings" and
the excuse for social and political distinctions
The only clique genuinely known by true
Annericanism is the whole human family.
Fundamentally it is hunanitarianism and that is
all it Is.
BEWARE of an Americanization program
II that regards the form and respects not the
spirit of America in advancing Americas cause;
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

OF Roscoe ConIlng in his younger days being call
ed upon defend criminal thinking the
advice Of some older lawyer might be OF assistance
him. went to William Evarts. then at the
height of his brilliant How he handle
the case?
Well" said Evarts. ~ the evidence is strong
against you, and you have any law, hammer hard
the law and forget the evidence If the evidence
is weak and the law strong, lay your the
lack Of evidence and forget the And if both
the evidence and the law against you, then
hammer hell OF the district attorney"
That is the game exactly. Hammer hi out Of
Wilson; anything and everything that he did
Ego after the district attorney if you
become traitorous in the It is very Johnsonian
too; ditto. Borahesque Johnson especially-Borah
is excusable since he honest enough
openly oppose the League altogether.-is getting
beyond his depth United States senator. Cali
fornia is his size. Re is proving more every day
that about the only thing he knows is the japanese.
and he poisoned with German propaganda
regarding them. that he talks like fool about that
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

ouestered at the time of Hoslers arrest for running
a gambling house.
OF course. it hasn't made much difference in
the of the "bookies" They pleaded guilty any
way; insisted upon pleading guilty after the
deputy prosecutor had conceded that without the
evidence that had disappeared, he without the
evidence with which to convict Accordingly Il
would that there must been nego-
tiations somewhere WHY all this insistence upon
pleading guilty when the state admitted itself with
out the evidence to prove guilt. Were there
those books, perhaps of city officials, other
prominent citizens, that needed to be protected?
So the 'bookes" their books restored paid a
measley fine and were left TO We won't criticise
the fine Having kept their part of the quite ap-
paren' understanding. despite the fact that they
could not have been convicted with the evidence
lost that had Misrepresentation the police sta
tion-we do not know but that a suspended
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

Copies with
er by mail nrst and second
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14
The Birthday Of the Constitution and the An1ericmuzaon of Anne

IEDNE5DAY, the present week, is the
I hunGred-thirty-second birthday of the
--..t;a..a;--, e he United States On
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-09-14

OF COURSE, to the Prussisnesque. ii is
~ buniNlike, always bunkEke, to rehearse,
review, set forth with any degree of emphasis,
The basic principles of Americanism--the ideals
that have made Americanism all that It is.
Prussian practioalism calls it visionary, dream
ike, inpossble-and pushes it aside with a
wave of the hand.
Too many Americans of these latter days
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
Cocoanut Oil Makes
A Splendid Shampoo

II you want to keep your hair IN good
condition. be careful what you wash II
with,
Most soap. and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali. This dries the
scalp. makes tho hair brittle, and IS very
harmful. just plain mulsiaed c%ocoanGt
oil (Which is pure and entirely grease
less). IS much better than the most ex-
pensive soap or anything else You Gan
use for shampooing. as this can't pcs
sbIy injura the hair.
Simply moisten your hair with water
and rub it in. one or two teaspoonruis
VIII make an abundance % rich. creamy
lather. and c~leanses the hair and scalp
thoroughly. The lather rinses out easily
and removes every particle Of dust, dirt.
dandruf and excessive oil. The hair
dries quickly and evenly, and ID leaves
It fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy
to manage.
You can set mulsihod cocoanut oil At
most any drug store. 1t is very cheap.
and a few ounces is enough to last
everyone in the family for months
Adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17

Express at British headquarters in
France. The London Express is cover
ing Europe as no other London paper
does and special dispatches from its cor
respondents in Berlin. in Holland and in
Russia AVE supplied practically all the
sensations from those countries for
months.
AS a part Of tho alliance entered into
etwee the Express and the Interna-
tional News Service. the latter organi-
cation places at the disposal Of the
london Express for simultaneous publi-
cation all special news received from
the correspondents of the international
News Service in Europe. while. to pro-
tect the exclusive rights of the Inter
national Service. the London Daily Ex-
press and the London Sunday Express
VIII carry standing in their columns q
notice 10 the effect that all its dis
patches have been acquired by the In
ternational News Service for use ia the
H. S. and Canada and that all special
American news printed IN the London
Daily Express is 20 be derived FROM the
international News Service. through the
special correspondent IN New York Of
the London Daily Express.
There never has been a more Inn
portant news alliance made fer Am,ri-
can publishers than this. It is a well
known fact that the London Daily EN
press has been consistently "on the in
side in ala matters relating to British
and Continental politics. It has been
distinctly In the know. but j. has
nevertheless been a perfectly free agent
and has not hesitated 20 print all the
news as * developed The London In
press has been quoted more IN American
newspapers than amy other London pa
per
The clients Of The international News
Service hereafter may be assured thai
they have tine exclusive rights 20 pub
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
STEEL WORKERS GET AMAZING RELIEF IN
SEVERE CASE OF NFLAMATORY RHEUMATISM
Advises Goth Century Liniment in All Cases of Rheu-
matism, Lumba go, Sciatica, Etc.

pain. In one week 7 was UP and around
and the end Of the second week was back
the merits Of goth Century Liniment
and VIII write me, 7 viii dispel any
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20TH CENTURY EMINENT has
brought relief To thousands of sufferers
1t draws all the painful soreness and
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IL SO surely and speedily. - seems al
most like magic. If you don't find quick
relief. take the bottle back to your drug
gist and get your money back. What
this truly wonderful Iiniment has done
for others. it can do for YOU also.
Any druggist can supply you-Adv
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
TIMES IN
BIC NEWS
ALLIANCE
Has Exclusive Right to
Publish Foreign News
Service of London
Papers.

one OF the biggest news alliances
perfected IN ears was to-
Gay when the International News Ser
vice In which The Times has a leased
telegraph wire n It's own office. began
J7 receive exclusively the complete
service OF the London Daily Express.
wh.cl' for a long time has stood oue
fn front Or all London papers for en-
.erprise and information.
By the terms Of the contract entered
trto with the Express. the I~nterna-
tonal News Service is entitled is OK
clasivs right q republication in the
p. s. aud Canada OF the complete news
-ethered By the London Daily Ex-
press, and the London Sunday Express.
This includes all kilograms ana cables
from the correspondents Of the Daily
Express all over Europe. with the single
exception CT the correspondent of the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
LANSING.

Mrs. Fred Hecht and Mrs. VIM.
Schmidt was to Chicago Monday 10 see
thelr brother Otto.
Mrs. Fred Hecht, Mrs Floyd Struble,
Mrs. Wilt5er and Mrs. Chas. Schultz and
daughter Elva were Hammond shoppers
Wednesday.
Chas. WOLF had his electric lights
connected today.
Dick Schcon loaded his furniture in q
car for Shipment TO South Dakota.
Fred Koehn ard wife were I'm Chicago
Monday shopping and saw Tho Black