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Miss Olivia MCGOWAN is expected
this week from Charlottesville, Va.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
New Phonetic Language
Learning Shows Great Increase
With Adoption of Plan

The adoption of the new national
Chinese phonetic writing, the Chu Yin
Tzu-Mu, that was established by gov
ernment decree as the national written
language, and is now being taught far
and wide throughout the nation, is
the future of China, according to q
writer in "Asia." Books and magazines
have already come into print. news
papers are finding wider and wider
constituencies, the typewriter has en-
tered Chinese business, while week by
week a larger number of Chinese be-
come able to read.
Where the Chinese scholar formerly
needed five or six years to master the
10000 or more Geographic characters
of the past system Of writing, a month
or two serves to acquire a working
acquaintance with the characters of the
phonetic system. Chu Yin Tzu-Mu
uses thirty-nine symbols, consisting of
twenty-four initials, twelve finals and
three medals, or connecting sounds,
and with this equipment accomplishes
the important business of changing
spoken into written or printed speech.
The characters in the Chinese al
phabet have no resemblance to the Ro-
man, but they represent all the sounds
in what is evidently destined to be-
come the national language. The So
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Sterling Bill Denounced
As Gag to Free Press
Placing Dangerous Power in the
Hands of Postmaster General,
Says Senator Norris
New York Tribune
WdshiH0t0n Bureau


WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-The Sterling
bill to punish seditious utterances,
which is pending in the Senate, would
give tho Postmaster General permanent
censorship over all newspapers and
other publications sent through the
mails, Senator Norris, Republican, Of
Nebraska, declared in the Senate. to-
day.
Senator Norris bitterly criticized the
bill, asserting that 1T sought to "con-
troll the Liberties Of the press" and
that the country "is suffering now from
the fact that VIC have travelled toward
coercion and the suppression Of the
press and free speech"
"Section 3 of this BILL" he said.
"giyes the Postmaster General power
over both free speech and free press
Criticism of public official should be
constructive, but even il it is not in
tended to be 80 1t will be helpful, and
the truth should be defense. Yet
Congress has refused to declare that
the truth would be defense. This
bill will, in effect, continue In peace
the war lcgislation which gives the
Postmaster General power to suppress
matter ho~~ disapprovcs. That means
destruction OF the publishers property.
1t should not be donc until after hear
ing, trial and conviction.
1--WE arc placing In the Postmast ter
General dangerous power; dangerous
not because an occasional paper is
suppressed or some man wrongfully de-
prIycd Of liberty, but because whore tho
mind OF tho citizen is subdued, where
he must remain silent, wishing to
speak, the effect Is inevitably bad"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
10 From Steamer
Mine Cut in Two
Brought to Port
Seven Men Frozen to Death
i'm 7-Mile Dash to Dutch
Coast After Ships Keel
Snapped During Storm

Sixteen men of the American steam
ship Liberty Clio, which was cut in two
by a mine off the Netherlands coast
December 5, arrived here yesterday on
the transport Mercury, with an odd tale
of the disaster\
The Liberty Clio, they said, had had
serene trip ON her journey to Bre-
men until she hit the mine, about
twenty-five miles off Armuland Light
house. The mine hit her near the
bridge, tearing her in two sections.
The stout keel, however, refused to let
the two portions separate and the
bulkhead held out the flood. Although
cut into two sections above the water
line, the skipper kept his craft under
way and dropped anchor at 5 p M,
when within seven miles of the light.
Her wireless calls for help had been
answered, and with this assurance
many of the crew turned in for the
night.
Meanwhile heavy storm with snow
and sleet came up from the north, and
the high seas snapped the keel that
AoO uC1O tuc tWO ScCClOnS COEoLner. lC
was then that the crew took to the life
boats and rowed seven miles to the
beach.
The first boat over the side jammed
and tossed three men into the sea, but
they were later picked up. Including
the master, the Liberty Clio carried
forty-three men, and forty-one men in
three lifeboats were landed on the
shore. Four men were frozen to death
in one lifeboat during the seven-mile
pull shoreward, and three were frozen
in another boat. One of the men who
succumbed to the cold was George H.
Weston, the chief engineer, who lived
at ITO Windsor Place, Brooklyn.
Captain Etansland and Michael J.
Taggert, of Long Island, elected to re.
main aboard the stern section, which
drifted to sandbar four miles from
land. Both were rescued by Dutch life
guards at daybreak.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09

given them safety razors, in response
TO their request for razors, and that
they were being given every facility for
bathing.
Cleanliness Surprises Him
II must say that, to my surprise,
they are cleanly lot," said Mr.. Uhl.
He also said that the legal department.
on Ellis Island was trying to puzzle
out tangle caused by the arrival
there of Russian girl and a newly
born child.
1--WE do not believe we have any
right to deport this child" said Mr..
Uhl, because it was born in the
United States, and, therefore, is q
potential citizen in every sense Of the
word. However, we have no desire to
separate it from its mother"
For the purpose Of caring for the
families Of radicals who have been or
are about to be deported. Miss Eleanor
Fitzgerald Is organizing a committee
OF American women to raise q relief
fund. Associated with her are Mar
garet Sanger, the advocate Of birth
control; Chrystal Eastman, Helen Todd,
Frances Witherspoon, Tracy Dickin-
son Mygatt and others. Miss Fitz-
gerald said yesterday that they had
written Secretary of Labor Wilson and
Commissioner General of immigration
Caminetti asking if some way could
not be found to permit the deportees
to take their families with them. They
said they had received no reply. Now
they are trying to get Secretary Lam
sing to grant passports for these peo-
pie, and Miss Fitzgerald says that if
he will grant the passports they will
provide passage money for the women
and children, who otherwise, according
to Miss Fitzgerald, will be left here
to depend on charity or starve.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Law Urged to
Keep Socialists
Out of Office
Continued from page 1

by force. They can appeal from the
decision of the Judiciary Committee
should it be adverse and ratified by tho
Assembly. But if the Assembly should
unseat the Socialists this cannot be ap-
pealed to the courts, as under the state
constitution the Assembly is Judge oi
the eligibility of its own members.
The one big point made by those be
hind the prosecution of the Socialist
members is that aliens and enemy
aliens are members of the Socialist
party, and that since all Socialists sub
scribe to an obligation which makes
them subject to the orders of the party
its representatives in public Office are
subject to the orders of aliens and en-
emy aliens.
The judiciary committee will be com
posed of the best lawyers of the new
Assembly. Speaker Sweet will reap
point all the members of last years
committee who were returned They
are George H. Rowe, Republican, of
Erie; James M. Lown, Republican, of
Yates; Edmund B. jerks, Republican,
of Broome; Edward A. Everett, Repub-
lican, of St. Lawrence: William ".
Pellet, Republican,, of New York: Ed
ward j. Wilson, Republican, of West
chester, and Maurice Bloch, Democrat,
of New York. Five vacancies will bs
filled on Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
'S0uiet Ark'' Believed
To BE Bound for Riga;
Enters the KieL Canal

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-The "soviet
ark" Buford, with its cargo Of 249 rad
ical aliens, is about to enter the Kiel
Canal, according to official dispatches
received here to-day. While still re-
fusing to disclose the. destination Of
ns SNIP S Stfas Sa yentned sad "a n very good
ing through the canal has become
known"
1t was believed the Buford would 20
to Riga, port in Livonia, to discharge
its radicals for transportation across
the country into Soviet Russia.
So far as has been made known nego-
tiations for the transportation Of the
inces adjacent to Russia have not been
completed and the government will
await the outcome of the Buford's voy-
age before deporting any more radicals
to Russia.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Socialist Club to Sue
Jersey City Police Chief
For sUnLn,ufuI Detaii1er'

Trustees of the Socialist Educa-
tional Club, 256 Central Avenue, Jer-
sey City, announced yesterday that the
club intended to sue Charles F. K.
O'Brien, Director of Public Safety, and
Police Chief Richard T.. Battersby for
keeping members out Of the meeting
Tuesday evening, which Victor L. Ber-
ger was prevented from addressing. 1t
was said that individual suits Would
be filed also by all the members ex-
cluded.
"The club will sue O'Brien and Bat
ttersby in a district court of Jersey
City" said Frederick A. Schwarting,
Socialist leader in Hudson County. "fo1
damages by unlawful detainer; that is,
for being kept out of our meeting
place. Then each member Of the club
who was kept out will bring a civil
suit in the same court. If we decide
to have Berger come again there are
legal ways of defending our rights
mean by restraining order"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09

so elected IS dangerous precedent to
set. This chamber therefore calls upon
action"
The room buzzed with excitement as
Mr.. Price sat down. Members looked
about at their neighbors, apparently in
surprise and doubt.
William II. Williams rose to charac-
terlze the resolution as hasty and pre-
mature. He moved to appoint a COM
mlttee to investigate the question. A
cnorus OF seconds responded to his
motion.
Then William B. Murphy made a pro-
posal which appealed even more to the
sentiment of the chamber, and in favor
OF which Mr.. Williams withdrew his
amendment.
'"Since the subject touches CLOSELY on
politics." said Mr.. Murphy, "and this
chamber has made practice of refrain
ing from participation in politics. l
move that the matter be laid ON tha
table," Wv
With two dissenting votes the
Chamber agreed. The members an
plauded, sighed in relief and listened
to Major Stanley Washburn, secretary
OF the Root mission to Russia. warn
ing them OF the dangers of Bolshevism.
Inere are number of soft-minded
and dizzy individuals in our colleges
ana woman's clubs who are knocking
the Constitution by innuendo, and
vism," Major Washburn said. "The
thing for us to do is to tell Americans,
particularly laboring men, that to-
chase after an economic fallacy is
disastrous"
Mr.. Price, who offered the resolu-
tlon in favor of the Socialist Assem-
blymen, is chairman of the board Of
trustees Of the City Club. He was
chairman of the Committee of One
Hundred and Seven, which nominated
John Purrop Mitchell for Mayor.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Louvre Buys ''L'Atelier"

PARIS, Jan. s.-Gustave Courbet's
noted painting "L'Atelierv ("The
Studio'C has been acquired for the
Louvre. The painting was sold by tho
owner to q dealer for 100000 francs
(normally $120,000). The dealer, with
whom other dealers were acting, placed
price of 100000 francs (s1SO000) on
it, and, in the hope that it would BE-
retained in France, opened public
subscription for its purchase.
There was much criticism of this pro.
ceedlng, and there were many mo ad.
vocated that the painting seould be al
lowed to go to an American purchasef
rather than that the Louvre should be
forced to pay such a high price. The
criticism, apparently, was effective, ard
it was announced to-day that the
Louvre had acquired the picture for
100000 francs ($140,0OO).
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
A. E. F. Quits France
With Bills All Paid
Connor in Farewell Message
Voices Thanks to People
for Their Welcome

PARIS, Jan. 8.-Brigadier General II.
D. Connor, chief of staff of the Amer
can Department of Supply, before his
departure from Paris for the United
States, sent to the French press a fare
we'll message, thanking France for its
welcome and expressing the regret
felt that the A. E. F. no longer existed
in France.
"The rearguard of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces" he says in his mes
fairs in France. Practically all our
bills are paid our claims are settled
and arrangements have been made to
satisfy the few outstanding.
eve have done our best to deal justly
with our friends and allies. We have
done our best to leave the country with
clean slate"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
South Americar, Countries
Combine to Fight ssReds''

Police authorities of South Ameri-
can countries will send representatives
to meeting in Buenos Ayres in Feb
ruary, it was ascertained yesterday
from delegates to the Pan-American
Financial Conference, which will begin
at Washington on January 10. The
object of the police conference will be
to determine uniform policy for. deal
ing with undesirable alien agitators.
they drift into tho neighboring state,
where they are equally unwelcome.
it is said. If new policy Is worked
out legislation to enforce 1t will be
needed in every country in Latin
America,
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Berger Asks Delay
Wishes to Postpone Presenting
Credentials tn House

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-Victor Ber-
ger. Milwaukee Socialist, who was re-
elected to the House after having been
denied his seat during the special ses-
sion, telegraphed Speaker Gillett to-
day, asking permission to delay pre-
senting his credentials until the con-
testant in his election could file the
necessary papers and Berger's attor-
ney could appear before the House
Election Committee.
Speaker Gillett replied that he would
discuss his case with other House lead
erS SATURDAY.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Chamber Of Commerce
AIoof From, Politics

ResOlustOn COndemning Sus-
pension of Socialists by the
albany Assembly Is Tabled
The calm Of yesterdays monthly
meeting Of the Chamber Of Commerce
Of the State Of New York was disturbed
when Joseph NJ. Price rose and offered
this resolutions:
Resolved: That the Chamber Of
Commerce Of the State of New York
deplores the action Of the Assembly
Of the State Of New York in suspendina
the five Socialist Assemblymen.
"Tbis action it considers un-Ameri-
can, undemocratic and dangerous to the
liberties Of the American people. These
representatives Of their districts were
elected in an orderly, legal and consti-
tutional manner, and as the American
Republic is founded on the ballot ana
can live only by an orderly appeal to
thA ballot. tha denial NJ ranresAp n ~ tsv~.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09

to prevent an influx Of radicals into this
country from the United States. F. G.
Blair Of the Immigration Department,
announced to-day.
"All our immigration officers have
been instructed to use their greatest
care," he said. eve have little fear
that large numbers Of these objection
ables are entering Canada without de-
lection"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Cables to Hungary Accepted

Cable messages for Hungary will now
be accepted by the Commercial Cable
Company in the Uni.ed States, subject
to the Hungarian censorship and at the
sender's risk, according to an announce
ment made by that company yesterday.
The rate is 81 cents word.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09

called Mandarin is the basis of tho
new national language, and it begins
by Introducing a standardized pronun--
citation. Natives of various provinces,
although nominally speaking Manda-
rim, have pronounced it so differently
that each province had separate
language.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
BeIcium mn Inclined Plane

Belgium resembles an inclined plane,
the surface at tho sea coast being
practically at ysa ievel. From tho ssa
coast tho land rises slowly TO m al
tifuds of about 1000 feet In the lilly
district of thu Ardthnes IN the south
New-York tribune., 1920-01-09
Canada Guards against
Inftsr Of u. S. Radicals

OTTAWA, Jan. S.--Canadian immi-
grafton officers have bean instructed to
jucreasa their yie!lanc at horaar town.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
GO IMMUNITY AND CIVIC
CLUB MEETS SATURDAY
Interesting Program Arranged
for Federation Day Meeting
,s:sss p Mt Association Rooms

The Woman Community and
Civic club will hold its regular
mont thly meeting at the. rooms of the
Henaidji Civic =; and Commerce asso-
ciaUon on Saturday afternoon at
9.3(j o'clock. - IT, p s6!t III.
-! This will be the Federation DAY
meeting. at which astime two other
fe1eyated clubs Of the city, the Wo.
III fss Study cluBsand the Mothers
will meet With this organiza-
program which will be Of espec-
ilinterest to the members of these
clubs will be given. It will deal with
H2ims and advantages of federated
clubs, both national and local. In
forma tion as to the work accomplish
ed by federated clubs and their aims
for :the future welfare of their coun-
try win be sought by many women
who are not we'll versed at present
on club affairs, in order to cope with
problems that are constantly arising
now THAT women have come into a
larger political and civil life.
A large attendance is especially
urged for this worthwhile Fedora
tion Day meeting. d..
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
MINNESOTA COMMISSION !.
FIRST TO GRANT RAISE

St. Paul, Sept. '29. 9.-IThe Mime
sofa railroad and warehouse commits
sion was among the first of the state
railway guiding bodies to grant in
creases on intrastate freight rates
following the action of the inter-
state commerce commission in award
ing like increases on interstate traffic.
The Minnesota commission in its
investigation found that in the
western district railroad operating
expenses increased 1868 per cent
from 1911 to 1919, while operating
revenues in the same period increased
only 81.99 per cent, leaving marked
loss to the railways. The commission
further found that material costs for
this year are 20 per cent greater than
in 1919; that locomotives purchased
in December, 1914, for $4,000 now
cost $4,000 and that steel coaches
costing $15,236 in 1910 now cost
$38,O0O. Some railroad labor pay
has increased 14O per cent, the COM
mission also discovered. Besides, it
found that all other railroad labor
costs materially more, aside from the
bulk item of $6O0,OOO,OOO which
the roads of the nation were con-
fronted with as an added outlay in
one lump.
The commission decided it was
self evident that railroad revenues
must be materially enhanced if the
carriers are to be enabled to pay
the new wage scales, maintain their
equipment, buy more equipment and
bring their service up to the present
traffic demands.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
THE AMERICAN LEGION.
ADoPYRESOLUTloN TO
BAR JR IMMIGRANTS
Move w..\yspon.ored b.
Delegate. From California 7.
and Western States
(By United Press)

clevela nd, sept: ptss2s.-The .Ameri-
can Legion conyentfon today adopted
a resolution fatoring excluding jap
anese immigrants "a n d picture
brides" from the United States,
charging that tue agreement with
Japan was being constantly violated
and that increasing numbers Of Jap
anese were crossing the border into
this country. An uproar followed the
introduction Of. the measure.
1t was sponsored by California
delegates and josl.er western dele
gates, also those from Hawaii. New
York delegates attempted to have
the matter put over for another year,
and Col: Milton u: Foreman, of Illi-
nois, sprang to;his feet with the mo-
tion, "that the United States imme-
diately prepare tosmeet the japanese
menace His motion wasiaost in the
uproar and no action was taken upon
it.4saF j ~ i, "a
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
ORGANIZE PERMANENT
i. CONSERVATION BOARD
(By Omitted Press)

: Albany, n Y, Sept. 29. (By Ray
mond Clapper. .)-Fighting hard to
protect forests from fire and arouse
the public sentiment for conserva-
ton, will he sought by a. committee
named here Tuesday to organize a
permanent conservation and safety
body. s..,.,s. ~. ".:.. r-, ... $.Syast&4-.,. H.
w. T. Cox, Minnesota state forest
sr, was named on the COMMITTEES The
committee will act as a permanent
steering body, and will launch at once
activities intended to educate the peo
pie of the: nation in the necessity of
projecting forests from fire. :,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
SCHOOL At
cRooksToN OPENS OCT. g

Crookston, Sept. 20. The NortA- il
west school opens it's fifteenth year
on Wednesday, October s. The AT
est senior and junior classes IN the aa
history of the school will assemble az
that time. An exceptionally large:
number of first year students have ei-.
ready registered which will maks ~
schools enrolment unusually heay 4
exceeding last year when 30 4
dents weresin attendance Thesd La
Of opening will follow the Northwest
Agricultural school dedication pro-
gram scheduled for October 5.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
NELSON FOUND GUILTY !.
OF MIDDLETON MURDER
(By United Press

Alexandria, Mimi, Sept. 23.-Gus-
tav Nelson, son-in-law of = Senator
Knute Nelson, is guilty of the murd-
.er of.:Joseph Middleton. a farm hand.
the jury decided at 10 O'Clock last
night The case was deliberated for
six hours. E x Jgt1 = s&.S-
81 Nelson scuffled with Middleton on
the farm leased by John; Jacobson.
following an argumentswit Jacobson
regarding wood. Nelson held that
the shotgun was discharged accident
ally during the scuffle. The case will
he aDpealBd gss
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
The Horse Of Thirty-Five.

! The Horse OF Thlrty-F Va.
Study OF the relation between the 10.
Til length of life and the time required
to reach maturity has brought out an
Interesting comparison between men
aiid horses. A horse at five years old
issaid to be, comparatively, as old as
nan at twenty, aud doubtless may be
eEpected to behave, according to
eoufue standards, after the manner Of
III average college student, following
human standards. A ten-year-oid
horse resembles, SO far as age and ex-
perience go, d man Of forty. while a
horse that has attained the ripe age OF
t6irty-flve is comparable with a man OF
Ainety.-New York Evening Post
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
COMMITTEE NAMED TO
SPONSOR VOLSTEAD CAMPAIGN

St. Paul, Sept. pa special COM
mittee to conduct the campaign for
the election Of Representative An
drew J. Volstead to congress from
the Seventh district, was appointed
today at the meeting of the repub-
ican state: central committee execu-
tives. The committee win place Vol:
stead's name on the ballot and ar
range details for his campaign.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
CENSUS REPORT

Washington, Sept. 29.-The census
bureau today announced the 1920
population of Hubbard county, Mimi.
rs 1O,136, an increase of 305 or 81
per cent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
. T..
HIDES
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN MARKET.

AT close of business September 29:
=: - Low High
Ma Nortborn nork
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVE STOCK
= Z s->s =, MARKET.

Cattle-Receipts, $500; market,
steady to weak; top, SIS; bulk of
sales; $5.75@15.00.
Hog-Receipts, 5000; market,
sharply lower; top, $11.75; bulk of
sales, $14.4O@14.6O.
Sheep-Receipts, $500; market,
SOC higher; top, $12: bulk of sales,
$5.5O@12.00.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
PAIGE CARS TAKE DROP
(By. United Press }

: Detroit, Mich.,& Sept. 29.-The
Paige Detroit automobile -cempany
today announced reductions on the
prices of all models of Paige cars
ranging. from $155 to $3.50, effective
Immediately. -. = Ct
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-09-29
PATIENT HANGS
SELF AFTER ESCAPING
{Rv United Press

(By United Press.)
Minneapolis, Sept. 29.-Mrs. EN-
ma johnson, so, escaped from the
general hospital here early today.
Later her body was found hanging
from a tree in the yard of her
former home. She was being held for
examination as to her mental con-
dition.