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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
ARMY CLUB OPEN ". !. :. !.
!. !. ..... !. +: !: {: HOUSE POPULAR

Every Friday evening open house
is held at the Army and Navy club,
the affairs proving very popular.
Women friends of the soldiers and all
interested in the work
of the club are, cordially Invited to
attend. The evening !is spent IN sen-
tertainment of various kinds, dane
ing and refreshments are served. 1t
is pointed out that visitors need not
remain during, the entire evening.
but may drop in while enroute to or
returning from q show or other en-
.tertainment. The. soldier boys are
enjoying 6 the affairs and. they &are
anxious that the number attending
them be Increased; -: : -. :; p
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
HOST TO PHILOMATHIANS.

G. W. Harnwell entertained the
Philomathian club at his home last
evening. "The Federal Reserve
Banking System" was the topic for
the evening and G. w. Rhea, Of the
Northern National bank and C. M.
Jacobson, formerly with the First
National bank, now Of the Kohier
Construction company, discussed the
topic Lunch was served at the close
of the evening. Superintendent w.
G. Bolcom will he host to the club
in three weeks. =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
PRESENT GERMAN
GOVERNMENT HAS
FAILED; ED CANNOT
X. LAST,SAYSHARDEN
BY Frank J. Taylor

Copyright 1919 by United Press)
Berlin by courier to Harden, editor of
Zukan and Germany most outspoken Citizen informed
the United Press today that the present German
should be and will be overthrown.
He the German people and that the kaiser
he not coward could return to Germany and regain
the throne. ~"&2'. -
Harden believes that the of the league nations
and world depends close and friendly relations be-
tween Germany Great Britain and America Harden who has
just recovered from several weeks Illness discussed conditions
in Germany freely and frankly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
BEM1DH GIRL COLLEGE STAR


Miss Corrine; Carlson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r: Carlson Of Be-
midi, has Just completed a remark
able season as captain Of the Ham
line university Women's basket bali
team. ! Miss Carlson is junior at
Hamline. The sextet is undefeated,
against "a made by its opponents, an
average Of to /, against the strong
est coed basket ball teams in the
state. This record makes the COM
bination undisputed champions of
the Twin Cities and probably Of the
state. A large amount Of the credit
tor this unusual showing Is due to
the leadership of Miss Carlson and to
her noteworthy work on the floor.
She is the only member OF the team
who has not been scored on this sea-
son. = -, -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
BEMIDN MEN FAVOR
RED LAKE FISHERY

Bemidji business men are eagerly
placing their signatures on petitions
requesting that the legislature pass
the bill providing for revolving
/ fund to enable the game and fish COM
missioner to continue the work of
taking fish from the waters of the
state and disposing of them to the
people of the state at low cost. The
bill includes within its scope the
fisheries which have been 80 success
fully operated at Red Lake.
We are informed" says the petit
tion, "that certain interests who are
engaged in the business Of selling
fish in the markets are opposing this
bill. We believe the people of the
state shout dbe given the benefit of
this supply of fish at the lowest pos
stble price. We know from the ex-
perience Of the past year, the work
OF the commissioner in gathering and
Opposing of such fish throughout the
state has been of great benefit to the
people. Every encouragement should
be given to this industry"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
FRED STEVENS DEAD.

Fred Stevens, co.. who has made
his home in Bemidjf for some time,
died yesterday. Relatives at Durand,
Wis, and Graceville, Mimi, have
been notified of his death, but no
word as what shall be done with the
body, which is being held at the Huff
man & O'Leary undertaking parlors,
has been received. If no instructions
are received burial will be made at
the expense of the county. a,,-.s. &
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
ERTLE AND WHELAN
WIN AT MILL CITY

Minneapolis. Mimi, March 49,
Johnny Ertle of St. Paul, defeated
Roy Moore, Minneapolis, by con-
siderable margin in the last six
rounds of their ten-round match last
night. Both boxers are bantam
weights. In the seventh Moore was
in bad shape, but recovered in the
latter rounds. Billy Whelan, st.
Paul lightweight, outpointed by a
narrow margin Johnny Noye, also Of
st. Paul. in the other half of the
double bill
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
COUNTY DIVISION
BILL PASSES HOUSE

With hardly word against 1t, the
county division bill, which will pro-
vide the citizens of Beltrami county
an opportunity to vote on division
next year, was passed by the house
of representatives yesterday. The
bill now goes to the senate, where II
ia expected to pass without opposition
Of serious nature.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
PALACE CAFE OPENS SOON.

William Abell and Adolph Billea-
deau, we'll known restaurant men Of
Bemidjl, who recently returned from
army service, announce that the
Palace, their new cafe, will be opened
for business the latter Of the week.
The cafe. at 3l2 Minnesota avenue,
is being rushed to completion and
will afford Bemidti another tirst class
eating place. .
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
ENTERS PLEA OF GUILTY.

John Connolly. switchman for the
Minnesota G. International railway
company, was arraigned before Judge
B. f. Wright OF the district court
last night and was fined SIS follow
ing his plea Of guilty to a charge Of
having sold liquor to miner.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
PURCHASE NEWS SERVICE.

Mr.. and Mrs. o. e. Erwig have pur-
chased the Bemidji News Service
from p. e. Welch, the deal just hav-
Ing been closed. Mrs. Erwig will
have charge of the store and Mr.. Err
wig will still continue his work at
Barkers Drug G. Jewelry store. Mr..
Welch will open up public account
ing office here.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
PEACE TREATY READY SATURDAY.

Paris March 18--The League of Nations covenant as
submitted for inclusion in the preliminary treaty
with Germany ready Saturday. according to indications
official circles today At the time is stated that
the entire treaty. including covenant will be completed by
week from Saturday
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
ELKs DANCE ENJOYED.

Eighty couple enjoyed the St.
Patrick's day dance given by the
Elks last evening. Splendid music
was provided by Mrs. Charles Vans
orchestra.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18
FICHTERS0N
- .''' - H. y
RETURN MAKE
oSA A - AtAA 0e SA0 4
REQUEST FOR
DUTY BONUS
= - v. - S~ 0A
Home Service Workers Aiding
Discharged Soldiers to Se-
cure $50 Extra Pay. u
EACH MAN ALSO ENTITLED
TO FIVE CENT MILAGE
Attention Being Given Rights
of Military Men to Convert
Government Insurance y

In the, past few days many dis
charged soldiers, sailors and marines
have applied to the Bemidji Home
Service section of the American Red
Cross, and to the Army and Navy
club, for assistance in making out
their application for the $50 bonus
recently authorized by congress to be
paid all men honorably discharged
from service since April s, 1877
"All officers and enlisted men OF
the army, navy or marine corps"
says D. S. Mitchell, one Of the Home
Service workers, "are entitled also to
total of five cents per mile travel
pay from the place of discharge to
the place of enlistment. This point
has not been brought to the atten-
tion OF many of the returned boys
and they should take advantage Of
this privilege" This same act also
provides that all men may retain
their uniforms and clothing equip
ment issued them at the time Of their
discharge. s :-,5,
= ~ Each Application Checked. a. Il 4. I.
= Applicants for. the $50 bonus and
increased travel pay are provided
With blank forms by the Home Serv-
ice. These forms are filled out
under the direction Of skilled
war workers, e who carefully check
each application to guard against
mistakes = , 1>@5';'. ~. .5g u /. -. d.
Each letter must be accompanied
by ti1et hon orabae discharge paper OF
at1lee sender. ETh hiB,twil III be returned
when. the check is sent from Wash
ington. * >a+&,.
That each service man may be pro-
tected and have something to show
for his discharge paper while 1t is.
away, he is given receipt on hfling
out the blank forms. .}.'&,:. ,@',5-',Ez
Soldiers applications for the $50
bonus and travel pay must be sent to
the Zone Finance Officer Lemon
building. Washington. Applications
from sailors and marines must be ad-
dressed to the Discussing Officer,
Bureau Of Supplies and Accounts,
Navy Department, Washington, D. G.
About Insurance.
1 Detailed information as to the cost
Of converting their government in
surance without medical examina-
tion can be given returned soldiers
by the Home service. The rates are
now obtainable and the insurance
can be converted into ordinary life,
Repayment life, 20-year-end or 30
year-end. The rates are net rates
based upon the American Experience
Table Of Mortality with interest at
three and one-half per cent, figured
upon a monthly base. This means
that the monthly net rate will aver
age Is per cent below a similar rate
in participating private companies.
Policies will contain a waiver OF
premium and total disability clause,
making them payable at any time the
insured becomes totally and perman-
emily disabled, regardless Of his age.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18

But for adversely some men would
never know how little they can oof-
row
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18

After being tortured and imprisoned
blythe Turks, acting under the leader
ship Of their German masters, Miss
Aurora Mardiganian. an Armenian
girl, is in America with tales of cruelty
and suffering beyond imagination. i'm
posed upon the people, OF Armenia,
Her left leg bears eyides 'e of the
tortures to which she has been sub
jected. She will appear in conjunction
with the photoplay written from her
life story) called "Ravished Armenia"
the official picture of the American
committee for relief in the near East.
Mrs. Oliver Hartman. who is shown
with Miss Mardiganian. has interested
society in this work.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-03-18

To the father Of twins life seems
but a span.
The sun., 1919-09-28
THE WEEKS OFFERINGS.

MoNDAY-Henry Miers Theatre:
the atmosphere of milk and honey Scarboroug
comedy Moonlght and HSne{sucke which old
Charon in the role Judith the debuante daughter of
Senator Arizona
dilemma that other to face
bravey James Renn Edward Fielding Eddinger
Lucille Watson those who
Manhattan Opera House, David production
Roaeen the Hepensa and Kane comedy
mysticism will start the fall theatrical racing with
two weeks The which appeared
Beaso Theatre last season including Dodon L. Mitchell Eileen
slight alterations in the ensemble of
Theatre: David Belasco the hoodgates
for his talent this with the
in her magnitude in "The Gold Dggers" comedy by
Avery Hopwood which gd the profession
McRae H. ReevesSmit and obyna Rowland among
who Miss Claire through the trying
Street THEATRE George Broadhu
presents THE Storm by Langdon Mccormick which
all over The big woods Helen Mackea Edward Arnold Robert
Rendel and Charles Henderson the
Mrs Lillian Trmb Bradley talked in nice moherly fashion
in staging this
Harris Theatre: THE comedy by Edward Locke
will be propelled toward the goal of popular favor
Shuberts Isabelle John Halliday
ham Pinto among those decorating the piece
THURSDAYNew Amsterdam Roof Ziegfeid presents
edition of The Midnight Frol with the speciality
and coruscating chorus that have made New Yors mdngh
so highly esteemed
The sun., 1919-09-28

stillS Mr.. Root has pointed his COM
ment throughout with phraseology
similar to that used by the distin-
guished playwright.
Now what does the police strike in
Boston mean?" demands Mr.. Root. at
means that the men who have been
employed and taken their oaths to
maintain order and suppress crime as
the servants of all the people are re-
fusing to perform that solemn duty
unless they are permitted to ally them
selves, affiliate themselves. become
members of the great organization
which contains perhaps per cent. of
the people. Now If that is done, that
is the end, except for a revolution.
Government cannot be maintained I'M
less it has the power TO use force.
Wherever the shoe of the law
pinches there is a loud cutlery against
the system Of government" Mr.. Root
continues. "Now, the Constitution
settles things; 1t settles certain rules
and so long as they are settled good
people like to attend to their own
business, earn their own living, go to
their own church, bring up their own
complishing the object for which all
government is intended; but II you
wipe out the rule SO that nothing is
settled, and everybody is disputing
about every question as to how every
thing should be done, then there is no
peace or security for anybody in living
his life,
1t is exactly this challenge Of the
old law and order Of things, the peace
and security of mankind, by radical
Socialism that Eugene Walters new
play called THE Challenge" has to do
Harry Winthrop as the mouthpiece OF
established government, the dSfend:r
of culture, civilization and order, pro-
claims his position when he says to
Dick Putnam, his radical friend; I'm
following in the footsteps of every
thing good that's ever been done by
any of the Wtnthrops. I'm standing
pat for my people and my country and
every institution that we believe in"
And in trying to dis,llusion his friend
Winthrop tells him:
You are at the head of a great herd
| of sheep, leading them out of the cool
shade of the old meadows of law and
order and system into new pastures
with promises OF sweetened grass and
cleaner waters, but once you pass the
frontiers OF civilization the wolves will
throw on the masquerade of their
ideals, drive you from the flock and
devour the poor little sheep"
And before the end of the play Eu-
gene Walter proves the futility of an
archy and bloodshed, and that the only
way to industrial, social and political
peace is to center quietly and put the
worlds house in order, not to tear It
down and stand bloody and naked In
It's ruins"
In 1.-THE Challenge" the playwright
gives radicalism every opportunity to
state it's case. but when the evidence is
all in the audience has come to ex-
actly the conclusion which Mr.. Root
makes in his keen analysis of the Bos-
ton strike as an attack upon the Gov
ernment.
Impersonating Harry Winthrop. Hol-
brook Blinn sums 1t ap in the epilogue
Of the play when he tells the disillu-
stoned Dick:
What you want to do in a day
know that time must do in its slow
march OF evolution. To-day is Thurs
The sun., 1919-09-28
SCANDAL" BUT A SLICE FROM
LIFE,

II Scandal" at the Thirty ninth
Street Theatre Cosmo Hamilton.
the author, has deserted what hi
terms the ordinary people, Because
it is the ordinary people who rer
ceive the greatest exploitation in the
hands of the authors and the play-
wrights, Mr.. Hamilton decided that he
would give the upper strata" an airing
on the stage. Accordingly in this darr
ing and unusual comedy he deals with
the silk of society" The following r.
Mr.. Hamilton's version of how he came
to write Scandal:
81 wrote Scandal In a spirit Of ex-
pertinent. Since the great bulk Of the
plays that find their way on the stage
deal with what George Moore calls the
Ordinary people, 1 thought that the
time was opportune for me to give the
other people a chance. l mean those
rebulous creatures who are never to
be seen with their noses to the great
high windows of their pompous houses
on Fifth avenue, and whose names ap-
pear from time to time in the news
papers os patrons of charities and en-
tertainments.
And so with my imagination and
my pen I marched boldly up the long
fights of steps which led to a certain
mansion in Fifth avenue, and with that
cool cheek which is part and parcel OF
the dramatists bag OF tricks I used
family for my own ends and put them
into a play. All I hope is that they
won't recognize themselves and bring
an action for libel against me.
1.-THE girl of this family. high
spirited little autocrat, with face or
an angel and the mischief Of monkey,
had been educated at one OF those
fashionable girls schools in which the
young idea is taught to shoot with the
aid of personal maids, saddle horses,
addresses by well known poets with
dreamy eyes and slightly dirty collars.
and where the large staff Of mistresses
! do everything in their power to teach
girls sophistication ana turn them out.
finally. little women or the world. cool,
calm and immaculate. In other words.
they are spoiled with the idea that
the world is their toy and that II IL
only necessary for them to touch
bell with their pink, manicured nails.
and men and women will rush humbly
| to obey their orders.
with such a girl at the command
of my pen, l brought her up against
a snag which was the outcome Of her
autocratic training and her innate be-
| lief that she could use people as pawns
upon her little chessboard. In order
! to make this scheme interesting,
| brought into her life a grown man,
widely travelled, who vastly preferred
! big game hunting and the wide spaces
of the sea with his sportsmen pals to
drawing room stuff, / pitted those two
against each other just to see the
/ sparks fly and to see how soon, under
! the stress OF wounded vanity. all their
| stucco of sham refinement would fall
/ to pieces and leave them ordinary
common people. Having done that /
| experimental once more. and being a
great believer in human nature
made them find themselves in finding
| each other and come back to a much
truer and sincerer plane through the
one passion in all tbs world which
| humaniZes-love."
The sun., 1919-09-28
PLAYS THATLAST.

Aston, East Is West; Bijou,
An Exchange of Wives; Booth,
The Better OLE; Broadhurst,
The Crimson Alibi"; Casino, "A
Lonely Romeo; Century, "Chu
Chin Chow; Conan & Harris,
The Royal Vagabond"; Comedy,
up From Nowhere; Cort, "a
Regular Teller; Criterion,
Ihunder"; Forty-fourth Street,
,Shubert Gaieties"; Fulton, John
Ferguson; Gaiety, "Lightnin' -;
George M. Cohan, "See-Saw";
Globe, Thurston; Hudson, "Clar-
ence"; Knickerbocker, "Roly-
Boly Eyes; Longacre, adam
and Eva; Maxine Elliotts,
First Is Last; Morosco. Civil
Ian Clothes; New Amsterdam,
",,Ziegfeld Follies"; Nora Bayes,
Greenwich Village Follies";
Playhouse, AT o:45"; Plymouth,
The Jest; Princess, "Nightie
Night; Republic, "a Voice in
the Dark; Sclwyn, "The Chal-
lenge"; Shubert, "Oh, What a
Girl"; Thirty-ninth Street, Scan
daP'; Vanderbilt. "She Would and
She Did,; Winter Garden,
Monte Cristo, Jr."
The sun., 1919-09-28

stage during the second act. There
was to be sure a final division of the
play which passed in New Orleans. 1t
began In a hotel apartment that looked
like q converted yacht. Then a bed
room az spacious as any in the palace
of Fontainebleau contained the hero
inc when her husband arrived. 1t is
possible that this conclusion may have
been the last act to the comic operetta
of the second division Of the play. But
It bore little or no relation to the gen.
uine vitality and force of the opening
scenes.
The authors reply that play which
is filing the Morosco Theatre nightly
with happy audiences is doing very
well, thank you, certainly has its
force. But there Is SO much in the
opening act OF Civilian Clothes that
one would prefer to see the sequel to 1t
rather than the incidental and In
congruous scenes that follow.
Whatever else the play may be in
its later passages, however. it serves
The sun., 1919-09-28

r T must entertain Booth Harrington
to be congratulated on the lack
OF theatrical machinery in "Clar-
ence," which seems to move so smooth
ly at the Hudson Theatre that in the
belief Of the authorities it can be moth
ing else than the result of that inspi-
ration which just sits down and writes
the play out of its head. Such in
spired dramas are familiar. Oppor-
tunity to observe them is. however.
limited. since they rarely remain In
view long enough for deep study. Mr..
Harrington has never written a play
which showed such Difference to the
right laws Of his craft as this four
act study of American domestic life.
His success is due to his obedience to
the right laws and not to his neglect
to observe them. Plays which may be
denounced for being theatric and me-
chanical are usually the result of I'M
skilful Difference to the wrong frules.
to have artifced SO well as play
wright that he has learned to conceal
art
What could be more familiar than
the discussion between the governess
and her employer as to the name OF
the hero who happens to have been for
three weeks in the home of a million
aire without mentioning what his real
name is? The girl maintains that 1t is
Moon" The man of business insists
that 1t Is "Smun," which she very
truthfully asserts could not be the
name of anybody. They play battle
dore and shuttlecock with his joke.
throwing 1t from one to the other, re-
asserting at Every point the convic-
lion as to the real name, Az a matter
Of fact, it is Smith" This device for
humor is one of those written on the
most sacred scrolls and kept in the in
nermost sanctuary of the most holy
temple Of the God of Hokum.
Equally skilful and professional in
Its evolution is the gradual revelation
OF the identity of this singular dough
boy who had found asylum in the
nome of a stranger. To have told the
audience at once that he was a scien-
list temporarily out of a job and not
curious sort of genius would have
been very mistaken effort to obey a
rule which is too often misunderstood.
There would have been little or no in
terest in his adventures had the whole
Truth been told at once. Then the
haoit of beginning so many OF his
humorous speeches with some such
phrase as well, you've been in the
war" is another trick OF the oldtimers.
II came perilously hear. being over
played in Clarence" but Mr.. Tarl1lng-
ton saved himself in time. He is
likely to be more and more certain of
The sun., 1919-09-28
ELIHU ROOT AND "THE CHAL-
LENGE."

TN his recent denunciation Of the
Boston police strike. say Selwyn
= & Co., Elihu Root makes exactly
the same plea for organized govern
ment. and points exactly the same re-
suits through our failure to maintain
the Constitution which Eugene Walter
has made in 1.-THE Challenge" Amer
ica's most brilliant legal mind and the
most virile play wright of the American
stage thus entertain the same vision
and arrive at precisely the same con-
clusion. The thought contained in
Mr.. Roots dissection OF the Boston
police situation runs parallel with that
which Mr.. Walter has dramatized In
THE ChaAlsnse." and. moro singular