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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
CARL,S'ONM|A.K|E||'S
STATEMENT | | / ON !.
!. THE i NEAR ! |: r EAST
!. relief J / J DRIVE Nv
Beltra1n,i County Fell a Little
r. % 7 Short in Securing it, =
" T. .,:,.r.@ Allotment i.
4 CRooKsToN MILLS AND :
!. M. 4 /. SHOPS GENEROUS
Women. Civic Association and
..F*.' B b, Mfg. Co. Also Lend !:
i . !. Cooperation
4.
ROOKsTON MILLS AND : :
4 M. 4 /. SHOPS GENEROUS

Y A. T. Carlson, city chairman OF the
Near East Relief drive, recently held
in Bemidji, has made a report OF the
result Of the campaign, in which
81, 0O7.40 was secured, while the ex-
penses were only $17.os, the move
mont being cooperated with by the
Women's Community and Civic club
and assisted by the Ladies aids of the
churches. s,.>. 9.:rs =.
d.. Liberal contributors, according to
the report, give the sum of 1911 from
the employees of the CrOokston mllls
and the M. & I. round house.
Mrs. "A. e. Elletson and committee
secured $500, and Mrs. K. H. Olson
and Mrs. E. A. Grier collected $84.50.
g. The Bemidji Manufacturing COM
many contributed $50. To- the Presby-
sterfan Sunday school gave us. :.
! II Mrs. p. e. WEIGH and Mrs. J. C..
McGhee's committee received $77s and
Mrs. A. H.. Knutson turned in $f3.
Mrs. /. B.. Olson's workers brought in
SEATS and Mrs. G. j. Mattson and
Mrs. Georgia CONNER committee
rounded up $101.50. b.
Mrs. Gould, ST., and Is Miss Finn
raised $67.25; Rev. Blaine Lambert
and Rev. Kamphenkel turned, in
$685.; the Evangelical Ladies' Aid
contributed $3.50 and the :Bemidji
public schools showed their, spirit by
donating $S7.52 while "tag day. net
ted 1868. The Presbyterian church
gym class gave 1924 and from
various other sources 5000 came in.
" minnesota has been apportioned
5000 orphans and it is necessary
that each city and county raise their
allotment. Our county fell short
some,,' says Mr.. Carlson, yet he is
appreciative to all who helped in the
Campaign.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
State Department Read to SEN
ate Committee Probing !
\. \. s Russian Propaganda !.
THREE MILLION RUBLES !:
rs $. FOUND ON HIS PERSON
=. - F6TLTIEa9E"
New Bonu. Plan Advocated
by. Veteran. Of Foreign
+ Wars to Government
,(By United Press.)

Washington, March 3-Hearing to-
day on soldier aid legislation before
the house ways and means committee
came near breaking up in fight.
az Criticism Of the American Legion
by Edward H. Hale, representative
Of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars,
caused storm Of debate in the COM
mittee.
y Hale claimed the statement Of the
American Legion representatives be-
fore the committee yesterday were
entirely erroneous. =. =. - 2
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
FARMS NEAR BAUDEITE
SELL FOR $3.50 PER ACRE

Baudette, March 3.-The Clover
leaf creamery has resumed business
after few months suspension and
farmers In this section have assured
the buttermaker he will receive all
the cream he can handle.
Many farmers are coming here this
month from the Dakotas and Illinois
with cattle. Farms near town are
selling for as high as $50 an acre.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
R, L. GIVEN PURCHASES
ROOD HOME PROPERTY

r. L. Given of the Given Hardware
company has purchased the 0. c.
Rood home on corner of Bemidji
avenue and Twelfth street. They
expect to occupy their new home
some time this spring.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
FRENCH RAIL STRIKE ENDS;
PARTIES REACH AGREEMENT

Paris, March 3.-The strike on the
French railroads has ended. An I'M
Outstanding was reached between the
directors of the railways and the rail-
road men, and the national fedora
ton Immediately ordered the resump-
ton of work.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
(By United Press

= Washington, March 3.-lnstruc-
tions for organization Of a bolshevist
revolution il the United States and
diamonds and jewels valued at three
million rubles were found on a cap
tured soviet courier bound from Mos
te6w to New York, according to state
department: documents read today to
the senate committee. investigating
Russian propaganda. l..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
MARY ACTS THE PART;
DIVORCES HUSBAND

Carson City New, March 3.-Mary
Pickford Moore was divorced here
from Owen Moore in Douglas county,
Nevada, Monday, it was learned to-
day.
Few people knew she was in Ne
vada. She was dressed shabbily and
cried on the witness stand. There
was no contest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
WOOD IS OUT OF COP.
RACE IN NORTH DAKOTA

Bismarck, N. D., March 3.-Maj.
Gen. LeonafRsWood.; will not enter
the North Dakota Republican presi-
Dental preference election on March
16, it is announced here. The Wood
headquarters in Chicago telegraphed
Thomas Hall, secretary OF state, not
to accept petitions nominating Cen
eral Wood.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
KILLS SELF WITH RIFLE.

Brainerd, March 3.-Foiled once
by his wife in an attempt to shoot
himself with a rifle, and again pre-
vented by the woman from slashing
his throat with a razor, Elmer j..
Decker, "a. years old, Monday night
managed to get the rifle from her
a second time and killed himself.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
WILSON TAKES AUTO DRIVE.
(By United Press.)

Washington, March .1.-President
Wilson today took his first automo-
bile drive, since he became ill early
in October.
Mrs. Wilson and DR.. Grayson ac-
companied the president in a closed
car, leaving the White House after
II O'Clock.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
DR.. JOHNSON ADDS
ASSOCIATE PRACTITIONER

:. DR.. E. w. johnson has entered into
association with DR.. Baldwin Borre-
son of Warren, Mimi, who was for
merly with DR.. Theodore Bratrud at
that place. DR.. Borreson is grad
uate of the University of Minnesota
medical college and comes we'll
recommended.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
FOUR ST. PAUL DEATHS
FROM WOOD ALCOHOL
(Ry United Pressl

st. Paul, March 3.-Four deaths
within twenty-four hours from
drinking wood alcohol concoctions,,
established a record for St. Paul and
aroused police officials today.
Neil and Patrick Mullen, brothers;
Martin Barrett and an unidentified
&c. B." were the. victims.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
STATE RETAIL SHOE
DEALERS MEET MARCH IS

Minneapolis, March 3-Everything
pertaining to the shoe retailing bust
ness-styles, prices, the future trend
Of business-will be explained when
the fourth annual convention of the
Minnesota Shoe Retailers association
is held here in the West hotel, March
Is, 16 and II, C.. M. Stendel, execu-
tive secretary Of the organization,
has announced.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
PALMER INVESTIGATES
SUGAR; PRICES JUMP
(By United Press)

Washington, March 3.-The house
rules committee today authorized the
of Attorney General
Palmer's Investigation of the Louis
lana sugar situation, which is alleged
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300 PASTORS CONFER.
(By United Press)

Grand Forks, March 3.-Approxi-
mately 800 pastors of various Pro-
testant churches Of the state are in
attendance at the conference here
designed for the promotion Of the
Inter-Church World Movement.
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PRO LAW WILL BE FOUGHT.
-. .S:..:s' (By United: Press

Washington, : March, 3.-7Whether
the constitutional prohibition law Is
valid will be! fought out In the. SUI
.preme court early next week, Assis-
tant Attorney General Friereson an
nounced today. -. --.'.... 1:
Prohibition cases have been given
the right of way in court. No dect-
sion is expected before early in April.
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STATES OPPOSE DRY TEST.

Washington, March 3.-Twenty-
one states joined with the federal
government Monday in asking SUI
preme court to dismiss the original
suit brought by Rhode Island to test
the validity of the prohibition amend
ment to the constitution.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03
NEW SOLDIER BONUS PLAN.
(By United Press)

ny OH1tou 4 7 0o57
Washington, March IA bonus
of $50 for each months service with
500 additional for overseas service,
is the minimum that the government
should give service men," represen-
tatives of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars declared before the house ways
and means committee today.
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ARTILLERY STYLE SHOW.
(By United Press)

Minneapolis, March 3.-The First
regiment, First Minnesota Field Ar
tillery will stage benefit style show
and indoor-outdoor carnival here to-
day to raise fundsfor*equipment
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ANOTHER OFFICIAL RESIGNS.
(By United Press.)

Washington, March 3. - Albert
Strauss, vice-governor Of the federal
reserve hoard, today rendered his
resignation to President, Wilson, it
was announced at the White House.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-03-03

Editors Note-There are also calls
for conditions of state banks in Min
nesota and Wisconsin for the same
date.
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BANK CALLS ISSUED TODAY.

(By United Press.)
Washington, March 3.-The comp
troller of currency today issued
call for the condition of National
banks, at the close of business Sat-
urday, February %.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-29

u VENTS make sport of the Sschemes
IL Of mice and men. Mckinley en-
tered the race for the presidency on
the tariff issue, was elected on the
money issue and the greatest
problems that confronted him in the
White House were the fate Of chain
of islands off the coast Of Asia and
the destiny Of China!
Spain had been engaged for two
years in a desolating struggle to hold
in subsection the revolving island Of
Cuba, and two happenings pushed
Mckinley into the conflict in spite Of
himself. In private letter, the Span
ish minister at Washington scoffed at
the president as "politicastro'''-
in plain American, "a peanut poll
tician"-and plainly intimated that
the fair promises which the Spaniards
were giving him were only a trick to
fool the administration and the Amer
lean people. Within a week of that
exposure, the battleship Maine was
blown up in Havana harbor, with the
loss of 266 American lives.
After withstanding for nearly two
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-29

A S THE Democrats had lost power
n under bachelor president, James
Buchanan, they regained it after
quarter of century under another
bachelor president. That strange CO.
incidence was brought to an end by
Cleveland's marriage in the second
year Of his administration.
From the day Cleveland entered the
executive mansion at Albany, gossip
busily made matches for him with one
after another Of the eligible women
who appeared at his receptions. A spe
cial favorite Of those persistent ru.
mors was the pretty widow Of one of
his old law partners, Oscar Folsom,
whose home was one of the few homes
in Buffalo where this unsocial person
had been in the habit of visiting. It
was not suspected that all along his
own choice had been the daughter
rather than the mother.
Mrs. Folsom and her daughter were
guests of the president and Miss Cleve-
land in their first month at the White
House. Even the wiseacres Of Wash.
ington did not guess that the beautiful
young girl who was present at re.
ception-all in white-would in anoth'
er year be the bride of her host.
Miss Folsom had graduated and was
travelling in Europe when the country
was set in a flutter by the announce
ment Of her engagement. She return.
ed home to meet such an ordeal as NC
other American girl of twenty-five ever
has faced. Her name was on every
tongue In America; her portrait was
in every paper, and the press boats
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-29

JULIAN MCKINLEY challenged
" and disproved the old saying
that the presidency casts its shadow
on no man but once and that If the
chance be missed then it will never
come again.. Twice the Republican
nomination seemed to be within Nc.
Kinley's reach-ins the national con.
ventions Of 1888 and 1892. Each time
he put it away, content to wait his
proper turn, when he did not have to
shake the tree to bring down the
ripened fruit of his patience.
Mckinley was beaten for the speak
ership by Thomas B. Reed in 1889, and
he left Washington defeated con.
gresham only six years before he re
turned as president-elect. Had he
been speaker, and, instead Of Reed, in
Cured the title of, "Czar," or had he
not been turned out Of congress -
had he won those smaller honors he
we'll might never have won the highest
honor. A disappointment manfully
borne enlists the popular sympathy
and the author of the Mckinley bill
entered the contest for the presiden
tial nomination in 1895 as one who had
suffered martyrdom in the cause OF
the protective tariff.
After teaching school term or so
Mckinley was called in the Civil war
that hard university which graduated
the men who were to lead the nation
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-29

MO OTHER man has stepped so
~ quickly from obscurity to the
presidency as Grover Cleveland. When
Garfield stood on the steps of the cap
itol to be inaugurated he never had
heard the name Of this Buffalo attor-
ney, who was to stand in the same
place four years afterward.
At forty-five Cleveland remained IN
known outside his county. At forty
seven he was in the White House.
1t was a meteoric RISE Yet this man
was no meteor. Slow of mind, with
narrow range Of reading and Of intel
lectual interests, Cleveland was stolid
In manner and without brilliant quail
flies. But he had character as rug
ged and immovable as mountain. It
had been built up in rural parsonages,
where his father, Presbyterian min
lister, was required to rear large fam
fly and set an example to the c0mmu-
nifty on 5000 year.
For more than quarter of Gen.
fury he plodded along in Buffalo, a
quiet, trusted, but not distinguished
lawyer. Unmarried and without family
or home, he took no part in the So
cial life of his community, where 100
other Buffalonians may have been bet
ter known to their fellow-townsmen.
He had been an assistant district at
torney of Erie county and also it's
sheriff. The first that was ever heard
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A S he stood at the clerks desk In
"A the hall Of the house Of repre-
sentatives on the evening Of April 2,
1917, President Wilson was the central
figure in one of the great moments of
world history. Not only his own people
but mankind stopped to listen.
The president had been reelected
only five months before because he
kept US out Of the war;" Alas, the
war would not keep out Of the United
States.
The war took on new fury, with the
resumption of ruthless summarizing
which Germany had modified the year
before at our demand. The president
thereupon handed the German ambaS
sador his passports, and next he pro-
posed that we should arm our mer'
chant ships. The filibustertng seq
ate failing to give him this authority,
he proceeded himself to arm them. But
shipping vanished from the sea, with
its hidden terror, and at last he called
the newly elected congress in extraor
binary session to receive communi'
cation-concerning grave matters OF
national policy"
No other president in the whole
course of his service has had to make
80 many momentous decisions as
Woodrow Wilson has had to make in
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-29

through four decades. Having gone
into the army as private in the
regiment of another president-t0-be-
Rutherford B. Hayes-he came out al
twenty-five a captain, with the brevet
title Of major.
Becoming a lawyer at Canton. O..
again he found himself in the midst OF
industries in their struggling infancy
And for Ia years he was the spokes'
man in congress of that industrial
district.
The young major. when he came tc
Canton, was a clean-cut, outstanding
figure, genial in his nature, but with a
sober dignity. His readiness of speech
when on his feet, came from his prac'
tice of the art in the debating societies
Of his school days. His habits also
had been properly formed in his boy
hood when he joined the Methodist
church at ten and grew up youth
who was as careful to keep his tongue
as his collar clean.
All doors in the little town natural.
ly swung open with welcome tc
"such a nice young man." and ma
jor to boot. Although he was YET
poor, when Ida Saxton, the bankers
daughter, who had been to school in
New York city and who had just come
back from Europe. smiled yes to him
while they were taking q buggy ride
the banker smiled, too, and made them
a wedding gift of one Of the best
houses in Canton. 1t was from the
front porch Of that honeymoon dwell
ing that Mckinley made his campaign
for the presidency In 1895.
McKinley's is one of the best-and
one of the most pathetic-love stories
in the domestic records of the presi
dency. With the birth of her second
child, the wife was left an invalid
The death of both Of her children with
in five years Of her wedding day utter
~ overwhelmed her nervous organiza
ton, and her shattered health remain
ed thenceforth the constant object OF
her husbands tender care.
Although he never could know from
minute to minute when she would
pass into swoon, he made her his
companion on his travels. Once when
he hurried home from congress, and
the physicians had given up hope Of
saving her, his own ministrations ane
his prayers through a long night a
her bedside recalled her to life.
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of him outside his neighborhood were
his sledge-hammer vetoes from the
mayors office only two years before his
election to the presidency. The whole
state Of New York stopped to listen
to his resounding whacks and next the
whole country took notice.
The sudden, the theatrical rise OF
the man was not a mere caprice,
blind stroke of luck. On the contrary,
he was nominated and elected presl-
dent because he was the logical, COM
nonsense choice; because this un-
known. unambitious lawyer of Buffalo
had become in two swift years the
most conspicuous embodiment OF the
things that the times called for-lnde-
pendence in politics and a hgher
standard of conduct in office.
Here was a man vino was to make
his own presidents, a man VINO was
to care for nothing that had hap
pened before he happened. The first
president after the Civil war to have
had no part in that strife, he was with
out political past, and his face was
turned wholly to the future.
He struck dismay to the greedy
hopes of the Democrats, after their
long wandering in wilderness WIN
ont spoils, by announcing that he,
would let the Republican office-holo-
orr finish their terms, with the ex-
cention of those who had been guilty
Of "offensive partisanship." When'
tho Republican senate attempted to
interfere with such removals as ne
did make, he objected to the revival
If an old statute "after an existence
of nearly 20 years Of almost lnnocu'
ous desuetude." This phrase was too
much for the senators, and the act WAS
repealed. .ars
At last Cleveland deliberately sac
rifced himself for the sake OF PLAIN
speaking. The prospects of his re-
election were bright. His native con
servation had made him a favorlte
in the great financial centers OF Ne"
York, and the all-powerful business
interests of the country were salts
f,ed with him. But on the eve OF the
election Of 1888 he upset the entire
situation by sending to congress ms
sensational tariff message, opening
with the now oft-quoted words: IL
n 4 condition which confronts US
not Z theory"
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crowded about her ship from which
she was struggled aboard revenue
cutter to avoid the curious crowd at
New York dock.
There had been only one marriage
of a president, and John Tyler was
widower. which took some Of the ro-
nance out of the occasion. For the
first time a president was to marry
in the White House. AS Miss Folsom's
mother had given up her home and as
her grandfather's house was in mourn
ing for his recent death, like the
affianced Of a sovereign she went to
her husbands home to be married.
The wedding in the blue room was
extremely simple, the only guests be.
ing a few relatives of the bride and
groom and the members Of the cabi'
net. After the cake had been cut In
the state dining room, the bridal pair
succeeded in stealing out the back door
under cover of darkness to waiting
train in a switch yard. They had
eluded the curious crowds gathered in
front of the White House and at the
station, but not the ubiquitous press,
whose locomotive was under steam and
in readiness to pursue them, with q
trainload of reporters, to their honey.
moon retreat in the Maryland noun
tains.
The continued attention Of vigt
liant press wherever the presidential
couple went was Indignantly resented
by the bridegroom, who holly de-
nounced the "ghoulish glee" with which
his family affairs were discussed. More
malicious, more cruel were the imprint
ed tales which were persistently circu.
lated as long as he remained in public
life.
Mrs. Cleveland is said on one occa'
sion to have given pathetic hint OF
what the strokes aimed at the presi'
dent through her little ones meant to
a mother. With childlike bashfulness
a daughter was holding back from the
greetings Of a small company at the
White House, when Mrs. Cleveland
said, "Speak up, dear, or the people
will be told that you are deaf and
dumb"
Mrs. Cleveland herself was spared
At first her girlish charms, afterward
her womanly dignity and her materna!
devotion made this most youthful the
most beloved mistress of the White
House.
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months the popular outcry Of "Re-
member the Maine" the president
yielded, and war was declared. In
ten days Dewey had smashed the
enemy squadron in Manila bay; in ten
weeks another squadron was sunk
or captured off Santiago; in three
months and a half poor old Spain
threw up the sponge.
It took twice as long to make peace
as to make war. The Philippines
caused all the trouble. AS we had not
captured the islands in the war, many
believed that we should let them
alone. But Mckinley decided to de-
mand from Spain the surrender OF
the Philippines.
Without waiting for ratification, the
president dispatched military expe-
dition to take over the Philippines,
proclaiming to the revolving Fi'ipinos
the policy Of benevolent assimila-
ton" The resulting war dragged its
unpleasant length for two years be-
fore the Inhabitants unwillingly bowed
to their new master.
1t was the strange fortune Of a
president whose entire public life had
been given exclusively to domestic
questions to plant the flag In the dis
tant Philippines and to send it to the
Uink walls of the Forbidden City OF
China. In the march on Picking for the
rescue Of the forgein legations from
the siege Of the Boxers, or Chinese
revolutionists, the United States Joined
other powers for the first time in q
military expedition.
Under the high craftsmanship Of
John Hay, the secretary of state, the
United States had already, before the
Boxer rebellion, laid restraining hand
upon the nations that were lootine
Chinese territory and had drawn from
them pledges to keep an "open door
to trade in the ports they were SELF
ing at the point Of the gun. The
"open door, has remained ever since
the chart Of our course in the East
If we will only continue to follow Il
and should succeed IN inducing other
to follow it while longer, until the
giant of the Orient awakens from his
long slumber and shakes OF his tor
eign despoilers, an emancipated China
viii be the imposing monument q
william NcKinleys presidency.