The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-08-24

MI. Lyman v. Rutledge says that the Boston
Globe 'in summarizing the first ten months Of
prohibition, indicates that drunk cases in the courts
have decreased rs per cent. 1t also appears that
arrests of all kinds have been reduced SO per cent.
This gives broader meaning to the fact that there
are. 1910 empty cells in ovr various county jails
and only COS occupied. Probation may empty cells,
but prohibition keeps them empty An illustration
Of this is found in some typical cases well known
to officials Of the Deer Island house Of correction
and the Bridgeweter State farm where, before the
days Of prohibition, certain men served sentence
after sentence for drunkenness. When released on
probation they were sure to return under arrest ss
soon a. they could collect funds enough for another
SPREE
"Certainly prohibition has had a. much as proba-
ton to do with relieving our prisons from these
repeated commitments"
The editor Of st. Cloud Times wonders what has
become Of womau's intuition. He says: with
her entrance into public affairs her intuition seems
TO- be forgotten" Better wait little while, brother
and watch results. Probably she has learned by
intuition how best to use her intuition. Plenty
of time yet-give her q chance-you'u hear from
her if you stay in the newspaper game
After devoting a whole page Of perfectly good
paper to the subject Of 'lkissing'-who? when?
where? how? and how much?-a twin city daily
Sunday paper wisely winds up the article by saying
that the proper time to kiss is when you get the
opportunity. That is a subject any newspaper man
ought to know better than to fool with. It can't
be described in words Why try?
A. c. Townley is to have two hearings next
November One is before the state supreme court
and tho other before the people Of Minnesota.
We do not presume to forecast the verdict to be
rendered by the supreme court, but we predict
the verdict of the people Of Minnesota. The same
as in June, Mr.. Townlsy, only more So
Oil companies in California say there is short
age of 150,000,000 gallons in that state, in spite
Of increase of 100 100000 gallons in production
this year. The Californians went right along burn
ing that juice during the war, when other people
were stinting themselves, and evidently did not
acquire the habit of saving.
Sugar spectators in the east are said to be
appealing to the department Of justice to them
from loss on large stocks in their possession. If
there is anything in name, justice would be the
last thing they would want.-St. Paul Dispatch.
What we want to know is what is a fair price
for coal, as the government through its depart
ment Of justice, proposes to punish all the coal
pro6teers. We hope the fair price will not be s
kept 4 secret-Stillwater Gazette. =
With 3,000,000,O00 bushels Of corn, there ought
to be enough for the hogs and the humans, too
Where's that old mush kettle?-Red Wing Repub-
lcan.
Almost any married man is that the neighbor
women tell his wife more than is good for her.
st. Cloud Daily Times
Chicago.-Police went hunting for a minister
when George Lundin complained he had searched
the city unsuccessfully for three days for Presby-
terrain pastor to perform a marriage CEREMONY
Saltwater Daily Gazette.
There have been about sixty murders so far this
year Manhattan Island. And numbering each
other is nothing to what those New York people
do to the English language-Red Wing Repub-
lican.
drama Of self-sacrifice and red-b blood
led manhood as we'll as glowing pic