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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
Well Paid and Treated

The men in the north woods if left
alone would be satisfied. They know
they are being we'll treated and well
paid. Nevertheless they are not be-
ing left alone. Agents of the I. w. w.
organization are constantly visiting
the camps, urging the woodsmen to
join with them to get higher pay and
do less work. Fully so per cent of
the lumberjacks in northern Mime
sofa belong to the I. w. w. Most
of them have no excuse save they
"like to belong to something" and
are satisfied with the life and con-
ditions in the woods. The working
conditions in the Crookston camps
can not we'll be bettered than they
are at present.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
GRAIN AND HAY
VEGETABLES

VEGETABLES
Beans, hand picked, navy, cwt. $3.50
Beans, Swedish, cwt. .... $3.50
3eets, per bushel .40c
Carrots, per bushel .......... soc
Domestic cabbage, ton ......$l6.00
Holland cabbage, per ton $4,000
Onions, dry, per cwt. .$5.75
Rutabages per cwt. ..........$1.00
Butterfat Ito
HdChluS DuLt6I tVC
MEATS
MuCCOn, I'D 1UC-1 OC
E1OSo 4tV"AO " y
veal oC
beeI, uFeSSeu. &C. 4C
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12

MEATS

SH1DDS
Cow hides, Nd 1, pound. :. .22c-2sc
Bull hides, No. l, pound. ). .18o-19c
Kip hides, No. I, pound. -. .30c-32c
Calf skins, No. 1, pound. >. .45c-48c
Dsacons, each .........$2.50-$3.0O
Horse hides, large, each $S.00-$9.00
Tallow, pound .10c-12c
Wool, bright .............4O .4Oc-45c
Wool, semi bright. .a0c
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-01-12
VEGETABLES.

The following prices were being p
Il time of going to press Of today's Piol
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
MARY MIlNES MlNTER HAS CREATED FINE CHARACTER
 IN LATE REALART PICTURE

Mary Miles Minter, as Ann Shirley n Ann of Green Gables" which will be shown at the Coliseum Thea tre Sunday and Monday nights has succeeded in creating one of the most lovable characters in the silent drama.
 By some error on the part of the orphanage authorities Ann was sent to an upstate minister and his spin ster sister instead of the boy they had asked for to help out on the farm And Anne stuck. Her life there is faithfully portrayed. If she was always in hot water, she kept he villagers there also. She went to a picnic and-she busted il rp. When it came to imagination, Baron Munchausen was a piker compared to Anne. All of which adds t0 the interest of the story so faithfully de- picted by Miss Minter.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20

in the Coliseum's Saturday night feature, "A Trick of Fate" is a star who doe not need much publicity liant work on both stage and screen an actress who portrays all char acters to life. To see her is to adore her for she is not only good-looking. but an actress whose personality makes her a favorite. She will be scum and in conjunction with the feature there will be shown a news feature, a travelog and a comedy, making it all show worth the money.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
MRS. MONS ANDERSON IN SPECIAL SUNDAY PROGRAM

A special engagement Gf Mrs. Mons Anderson. who will ar2ear at inc Fclace Tha1.:e on Sunday evening i' vocal sa.cDiions acecmpania {; by Mrs. s. Wallstedt at the piano was announced by Manager John T. Gric- kett. This will be the last appear of Mrs Anderson as she will Lave for the South. next week to enter into an engagement with the Chautauqua Mrs. Anderson has gen. erously donated her services on many occasions to various causes and heI many friends here regret to see hel leave and wish her success in hei new field
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
BIG ALL COMEDY BILL AT PALACE THEATRE TONIGHT HEADED BY ZASU PITTS

Tonights bill at the Palace Theatre is all comedy of the bright, spark ling kind that pleases the big run of theatre -goers For his feature Man ager Spickett has selected "Brigh; Skies" a Robertson Cole Superior picture in which Zasu Pitts as a "slavey," in an East Side New York boarding house has the leading role Miss Pitts had a similar role while supporting Mary Pickford in The Little Princess" The outdoor scenes in this picture are said to be particu larly attractive.
 The other picture is a genuine Christy Comedy, one of the kind that only Christie Comedies can produce A weekly completes the bill which will be shown tonight and Sunday matinee.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
ELSIE JANIS PLAYS ROLE OF A FEMALE JEKYL AND MIR. HYDE

Speaking of safe cracking. Elsie Janis is about the best little safe blower in the country
 In her latest Selznick picture. "The Imp" which will be shown at the Palace Sunday night and Monday, she has an opportunity to demon
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
NOTABLE CAST IN
 1.-THE SPEAk-EASY"

"The Speak Easy" the new Para mount-Mack Sennett comedy which comes ColiseumsothteeN vbgkqj comes to the Coliseum Theatre for Sunday and Mondays bill contains brilliant cast in which are includ- ed many Mack Sennett favorites. Charlie Murray. the genial Irishman, plays the leading role, that of a hotel keeper. who runs a blind pig" in the cellar of his hostelry. Marie Provost of bathing girl fame, is his daughter, whose quick thinking brain conceives a way to get pa out of jail when the contents of his cellar are discovered by the authorities. Ma Is played by Fannie Kelly while Garry Odell is the successful suitor. Eddie Gribbon and Kalla Pasha are two young men who have been supported by the government for a spell
 See us for your next coal or wood order. We handle only the best
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
SUNDAYS ATTRACTIONS

PALACE-Else Janis in "The Imp, Snub Pollard in "GiVng the Bride Away" COLISEUM-Mary Miles Minter in "Ann of Green Gables" Mack Sennett Comedy "The Speak Easy"
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
ATTRACTIONS Tc%i6hT

PALACE-Zasu Pitts in Bright 4 Skies" Christy Comedy "Wei-
 come Home," and Weekly. LiSEUM-Ressie BarriscaIe in "A
 Trick of Fate" Comedy, "f1e's d
 Devil" Weekly.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20

strate her knowledge or soup" and "jimmies" and the other burglar de- vices. She has been cast in role similar to that of the famous Dr. Jekyl and MT Hyde. Normally we ire quite shocked and disapprove of l character of this kind But in ''The Imp" even an attempt at nor alizing is valuless. For 1t is quite impossible to hold up the horrors ard nerve-rac king dangers of the safe crackers trade when the 'hor rible example" is a charming and beautiful young woman. who seems perfectly contented with her lot.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20

See us for your next coal or wood order. We handle only the best TRIMMER & RITTER, Phone IA.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
FIRST FIGURES FOR R0WE::FUND
 ARE ANNOUNCED
Anchorage Leads in Towns Reporting So Far Native
 Missions Responsive.

Il Although but few towns have been heard from, there has already been
 donated to the Bishop Rowe Testi-1
 monial and Foundation Fund more Ethan $1,200, according to a statement
 made today by the Territorial com
 mittee in answer to inquiries as to1 l the status of the movement Anchor I age, the only large town for which Ereports have been received, has for
 warded so farye $500 and leads all Eothers reporting up to date.
 ! The movement, 1t is stated, was gotten under way so late in the
 season that it will not be possible | to hear from some sections for some | time while others will be heard from
 next week. The places so far re- 1 porting and the amounts subscribed 1 from each are as follows:
 Anvik native mission, S 95 1 Panama native mission, - 40 Stephens Village mission m 30 1 Anchorage, ............................ 800 1 Thane and Perseverance, m 174 Juneau (besides com s) .. 200 ] Douglas. ............................R 200. i I Total for Alaska, .239. I In addition. about $3,000 has been received from former Alaskans and I from friends in the States.
 The main fund Gin the States) will 9.be sent to National Chairman Stephen { Baker No. 40 Wall St., New York, Ihy the various congregations, to Ilwhom letters have been sent by the | livice-chairman of the National Com liTittee, Bishop Sumner of Oregon. ! l Those who may not have been seen by the Juneau Committee, and who
 wish to be represented (by any amount) in the testimonial (the in- come from which will be used by Bishop Rowe for the maintenance of the hospitals. etc, in the Interior), are asked to hand in their contribu-
 tions today or not later than Monday, ! Or their pledge which can be col
 ected later, in order that the canvas
 may not be carried into next week
 Checks can be made out to Bishop Rowe Fund" and mailed to Gov. , Riggs or to Box S37, Juneau.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-20
BESSIE BARRISCALE IN "A TRICK OF FATE" AT COLISEUM TONIGHT ONLY
 Da--;a DO r,-;.oolo ,,-Io ,,-;lI l.,

Bessie Barriscale who will be star
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
The Automobile Deaths.

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
automobile death lis,s are piling up
SO fast that there is renewed talk Of
doing something to stop them In
Chicago nine persons have been killed
each week since January /, that is at
the rate of one and half a day for
all working days. At that rate there
will be almost 500 killed in that city
this year for the last half of the year
has more motoring in it than the first
Why talk about putting a stop to the
killings of war, when the automobile
lis keeping pace with the war records?
Speeding? Yes. but not always.
Some are killed standing still-when
they stall an engine on a railroad
crossing because they overwork the
accelerator in an effort to get across
ahead of a fast train. In Chicago
they are talking of reducing the miles
per hour to fifteen But what good
VIII that do when many drivers have
no respect for law, unless the see
a policeman around. 1t is not a
question Of what the law says, but of
the policeman they see. One man
predicts that the time will come when
automobiles viii be geared to run only
"a limited number Of miles per hour.
But what would that limit be and who
viii fix it?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
mob is merely matter Of arithmetic
Multiply the thoughtless and you nave sle
brutal Alexander Black
FUNDING LUXURY.

The increase In the past year IN the imports
of precious stones and other things ciassed as
luxnries IS seven-fold and the market Is not YET
showing any decline It is useless TO go on russ
ing over the nations run toward extrayagant
spending: people having money Will spend Il
as they please But it is interesting 90 note
whore the money is coming from to fund thus
s,ending for Injuries. The men IN trade say
that the number of buyers has increased Tar
more than seven-fold; that a greater number Oh
people are buying expensive articles who never
before did So IF this be true, then 1t Is not the
increased buying by those who have always
bought Injuries, but the rapid rise in the num-
her who buy Injuries that makes the market.
It follows that the number of people to whom
the high cost of living is a dread problem is de-
creasing: that more people than ever before can
pay high costs for necessaries and have plenty
Ia snare for non-essentials. The burden Of high
costs then rests on a lesser number than 1t used
to. The farmers. the clerical and professional
workers say they are bearing the brInt of it,
and this appears to be true Instead Of general
philippics against extravaganza, an examina-
ton of the buying public for non-essentials
might contribute something Of worth to econ
omic reasoning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
THE COUNTRY'S POOR MAIL SERVICE

Davenport Democrat. What's
service7 This is question re-
peated day after day by hundreds
of patrons of the postoffsce de-
partmeni
Some years back a letter
dropped in the mail in New York
would be reasonably sure OF
reaching its destination in Chi
cago in two days. Now it may
require two days or it may re-
quire a week. It's a toss-up as
TO time.
What's the underlying cause Of
the present day deficiency. The
question Is not difficult to ans
wer.
To be sure, Mr. Bnrleson has
not been an oyerpopular postmas-
ter general and much criticism
for the poor mail service has been
laid at his door. 1t is even
claimed by the postal employees
that at no time since Mr. Burle-
son has held office. has he been
In sympathy with them. This
may have had something to do
with diminishing the morale Of
The force, but il is far from
being the main fault
Everybody knows that the pos
tai service has been shot TO piec-
es for number of years Dur
ing the war. as in all lines of bus
mess, allowance was made for this
poor service We were told that
thousands of employees had joined
the colors and that entire mail
trains had been diverted from
their customary channels and
were being used in transporting
troops.
The explanation was SO thor
oughly logical that every loyal
American accepted it at face value
and patiently awaited the time
when the service would again be-
come normal.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
Newspaper Readiustments

Des Moines Capital: In many OF
the eastern cities daily newspapers
have been advancing in price. This
advance at first meant going from
one cent to two cents per copy Now
the advance is from two cents io
three cents per copy. All the evening
papers in New York are sold for
three cents The World, Times and
Tribune, being morning papers. are
sold for two cents. All publishers
anticipate an additional rise in the
cost of white paper at the end of the
present year. They are not informed
in regard to the amount they viii
have to pay per ton for paper. but
they have been assured that tha pres.
ent prices will be advanced
All materials entering into the pro
duction Of newspaper have more
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
.PEaKlNe up IN THE WEST.

New York Times: Beauty SHOPS
are becoming more numerous ana
popular in the middle west. ACCORDING
to Josephine Webb, department
store buyer from Detroit, who is III
the Claridge hotel Miss Webb says
there il a constantly growing interest
in beauty articles and treatment lor
beaiItifying the skin, and women
everywhere are taking greater inter
est in their personal appearance
tTt Is not that women are becom-
ing more vain, but they are coming
to realize the importance OF giving
more care to their personal appear
ance,s said Miss Webb More atten-
ton IS being given to the details
that go to make up the welidressed
woman and the result IS THAI there
is an increased demand for q Ecles
rarely supplied by the shops IN the
small towns.
The hairdressing and manicurlns
parlors are crowded these days and
one must make an appointment FOR
hairdressing and eyebrow pencillng
Just as for the dentists attention.
Women are now taking the attitude
that they owe it to themselves TO be
as attractive as possible.
Nowadays the style books and
ma gaines get TO eve--- nook and cor
ner Of the country and the tendency
for better clothes is the result. The
woman who carries herself well can
put on a $3.50 suit and look as
though dressed in much more ex-
pensive garment, but the whole effect
ia lost /. she does not give equal
,l,opoh. and attention to her hair,
nails and complexion.
II see little chance fer any reduc-
ton in women's clothing this year, a.
we are now buying for fail and win
ter trade at the prevailing high
prices. With materials and work
manship at such premium there
can be little reduction until spring.
There are always cheap goods in the
stores. but the tendency is always for
the best There is a difference. how
ever, between being well-dressed and
being extravagant. and I could noint
out many young womn and matrons
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
TOO MUCH TALK; TOO LITTLE DONE

Either there is danger OF a coal famine next
winter or there is not. Some people VINO ought
To know what fley are talking about say there
is danger; others OF equal opportunity 70
know facts say there is not. But both sets OF
nropbets make a number of provisions part
of their argument; there are lot OF lis IN
tile setting forth of the situation 1t seems SEN
sible to suppose that these Ifs could be re-
moved from the situation if the people VINO con-
troll things went about this business. Cne OF
the Ifs concerns transport. The railroads
warned the people months ago that equipment
must be had to move needed coal. Has 1t been
provided The public does not know Gan It
be provided? There are reports OF diminished
production. Are they true? The public does
not know. But if they true diminished pro-
duction can be changed to maximum production
by cooperation Now is the time to provide
against coal famine, not by talking about II
but by doing what is possible to prevent it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19

with the war over for nearly
two years, they are still waiting.
This fact again brings us back to
where we started, namely. the
cause of this Decentralization
1t started with shabby treat
ment ON the part of congress OF
its postal employees They were
greatly underpaid. On account
OF this Higgardiy policy. many OF
the best trained and dependable
men were forced out OF the ser
vice to accept more profitable EN-
ployment-
The great wonder is that Uncle
Sam maintained his mail service
as well as he did on the mere
pitances allowed the employees.
During a recent investigation at
Washington the case Of a Cam
den, n. T., mail carrier was cited
This man had been in the postal
service for thirty years. His av-
erage pay during that entire per-
iod was 1856 year.
1t is true that conditions in re-
gard to salaries were somewhat
improved by the recent congress
1t allowed an additional S34,375,-
087 in pay. This amount is TO
be distributed among 100000 men.
The average annual increase is
therefore slightly less than $115
per man.
But there are other obstacles
to be overcome in addition to the
wage problem. The morale and
efficiency of the entire mail ser
vice must be restored. This res
toration does not apply to any one
particular branch of the mail ser
vice, but to every department.
The mail service has been poor
from one end of the country TO
the other. Complaints have not
been confined to any one zone or
section. They have been gen
eral
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
Wilbur. Ed. Claude Et Al.

Cedar Rapids Republican: That the
administration forces did not want
Cox is a fact that has left its marks
i on the democratic organization in
Iowa. Secretary Meredith and cur
Claude Porter are administration
men, for they are both Office holders.
At San Francisco they were agas ,st
Cox They were McAdoo men. VIII
bur W. Marsh, the Waterloo genius
of business and politics, was for Cox
and finally voted the Iowa delegation
for the Onion over the protests Of
] ten delegates-sixteen counted more
than ten in the Marsh system and 80
1.-THE ten were disfranchised. The Dit
iterness between Meredith and Porter
ION the one hand and Marsh on the
other is said to have been sizzling
hot at one time. They threaten to
carry it into the coming state coz
yention which will be held in Cedar.
/ Rapids. but they will probably com
ipose their differences. Mr.. Marsh
had his way and when man mas
that he can be generous to the others
and Ed and Claude are well satisfied
with the Offices which they have
drawn for leading forlorn hopes in
Iowa politics. And the democratic
.'leaders" are wise men. The Mere
idiths and Marshes and Murphys OF
dubuque. arrange all matters among
themselves and then they deliver
their decisions to the people of the
party, the plain pee-pul," who in the
democratic party seldom ask ques-
itions about how 1t was done or what
lit means. Before they go to the pri-
maries these Eds and W:lburs and
iCiaudes get their heads together and
decide who may run in their pri-
:maries, and that Is not so foolish
either, for 1t saves whole lot of
confusion such as we have In the re-
publican party.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19

thereby restricted Trade viii necessary "
conducted on barter basis, as Russia eul,
rency is practically worthless ana her ohis soio
lis that confscated from the Imperial Tesii
Her exportable surplus OF comnodites 70 -
small however, that it could not be eAchahgeu
for any appreciable amount OF goods rom tiliS
country The United States postofice depart
nent has not re-establishea the mail service
with Russia and al present there is no au.nor-
ity in Russia to which business men could ap-
peal for counsel or for the protection normally
available 10 foreign traders
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
TAKING CHANCES IN RUSSIAN TRADE.

The state department order lifting the en-
barge on trade with soviet Russia, although 1t
will not result Immediately in any decided
change in trade relations between that country
and the United States, stands on. as the most
absorbing foreign trade development of the last
fortnight Commercially, the state depart
mcnt's action probably means little at this
time; politically it can be taken as arsight-
ed policy which may react on and ultimately
weaken the bolshevist influence in Russia.
Soviet authorities havo continually held that
their failure to bring relief to the Russian peo-
pie has been due to tho allied blockade against
trade With the embargo lifted, one of bolshe
Hism's chief excuses will be shattered and the
bolshevilli viii lose one Of Their most formidable
means Of foreign propaganda
Present chaotic conditions ID Russia will pre-
tent serious difficulties to whatever trade ma
result from this countIys action Russia is i
lire need of locomotives and railroad materials
but these, as well as many other commodities
ire likely to- be considered capable of bein
Used for war purposes and their exportatio
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
MEXICO.

Henry p Fletcher, late ambassador to Mexi-
co, who is better informed, perhaps than any
other American about conditions down there,
has warned our state department against mis-
takes it might easily make He suggests that
the present regime should be recognized as de
facto only and provisional, full recognition be-
ing withheld until it is apparent that the new
government intends to do justly by us and Is
strong enough to establish order and a reign OF
law We should demand, as Mr.. Fletcher sees
lit. that the constitution and laws OF 1917 shall
not have retroactive effect which would deprive
our citizens of rights heretofore lawfully ac-
Equired; and that property taken from our ma
tionals Illegally shall be restored. Our unfor-
tunate experience with the Carranza govern
rnent, as he well says, should make US wary In
our future dealings with revolutionary regimes
below the Rio Grande.
Presumably Secretary Colby will see the
wisdom of these suggestions and, unless over
ruled by the white house occupant, will enter
cautiously into permanent arrangements
For seven years. however, the personal feelings
of the president-his hostility towards Huerta
and mistaken confidence in Carranza-have
controlled our relations with the Mexican re.
public Diplomatic usages and precedents were
thrown to the winds, and Secretary Lansing
was thrown after them when he ventured mild
dissent 1t is yet uncertain, therefore, whether
this personal viewpoint attitude will still con
troll the department Of state.