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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

were all anxious and willing to pay our share Of
the slight increase in taxes to allow the payment OF
a bonus to our former service men who literally
fought our fight" while we remained comfortably
1t home and they received $40 per month and keep
These men are entitled to additional compensation
and our national government has been too dilatory
teachers i bonus Of $40 at the end Of the present
term of school. This will require an additional
81 900 or more The taxpayer furnishes this
money. The teachers began work last fall under
increase Of SO per month during the beginning
Of the year, and an additional increase during the
year: Perhaps if the taxpayers knew exactly what
be willing to give each one the additional $50 as
bonus. The records of the school district show
that the fund from which this money is taken is now
Germs win not give bonuses unless they have sur
plus on hand. Why should public business be
handled differently?
[:.1~ (Siened) An Interested Taxpayer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11
SAVE PERISHABLE PRODUCTS
Rurai Motor Transportatien A@seds
Opportunity 70 Get Crepe to Mar
ko& Quickly.

With the advent and development
Of rural motor transportation comes
direct encouragement to raise better
and bigger crops because Of the better
and broader market thus afforded. In
the production Of marketable produce
there comes a opportunity fer the
saving Of psrishable products BY
quick deliveries, and for higher prices
hecaBaay 8 the excslleet seQndiflen u
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

American dead in France and to3asslt
relatives who come from the United
States to visit soldier graves.
IAN organization known as&''sEEeAGh,
Homes" initiated the movement. The
French Red Cross and the Society OF
Liberated Villages, hayel1nst&a IN ounc-
I'd their support and are soliciting
funds. r.... u, -.> .s,g,z .,>,.., ,...;, .s,,,
III, tn G. organizations rlan to es-
...-,;s,, rn.,narer:' rc.t; H. VILLAGES
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11
SEEKING ANOTHER PLUNGE:

Is civilization in reality the decline?
Is humanity gradually sinking to the level OF the
savage?
The rivers of blood have hardly dried upon the
battlefelds of France, and yet the nations OF the
earth are steadily preparing for the next war;
Powerful air fleets are being constructed, engines
of destruction capable of dropping tons Of high
explosives upon armies and civilians alike.
The U-boat is being perfected to Guido its
previous exploits in sending ship loads of helpless
people to the bottom of the without warning
and with no avenue of escape
Almost everywhere we turn we find the brightest
minds and the keenest intelects concentrated upon
the construction of machines for the destruction
Such condition Immediately following the great
war is unthinkable, is appalling and yet it is true
The world entertained hopes that the war just
closed would be the last !
Bat that hope is becoming blasted day by day.
One has only to read the foreign news dispatches
to see the handwriting the wall-letters written
in the blood of humanity and inscribed by the hands
of hatred, avarice and greed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

thread its way through every village
on the way. OF course this would not
appeal to the local tradesman/ who
hopes. to catch an occasional penny
from the passing cars, nor to the local
who initiates his own In
come, and the funds Of his town. by
his Interpretation. Of the law; but this
IL matter Of national interest and
not to be restricted BY petty local con.
sidera dons.-Sctentifc American.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

which these commodities can be de-
liyered. ,.-,-..-....
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11
weak for our road work here, SO we de-
vised certain improvements, which are
improved Form :of Road DRAG

shown III the sketch, the most impor-
tant Of which was that we shod the
front log with strip two inches
wide, one-hah. inch thick, Of wrought
iron, said strip being placed at the
lower edge with the two-inch width
extending vertically along the front
log" (
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

The two-cent piece has been authorized but
who knows what it is to be used for.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

near sat- psino cGsfl 81 4.
in charge OF, French women speak-3
ing English, who will held locate
graves and do everything to assist
the visitors, as we'll as looking after
tie carefof the cemeteries themselves. J.
NJ ! =
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE -.
~ '' .'.' --'.'' >. DAILY > PIONEER
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FRENCH ORGANIZATION To >,rl
CARE FOR AMERICAN GRAVES

.UBy International News Servicel
Paris, May 11.--Tnreea French or
ganizati9nss with large memberships.
have united in "A movement the object
of which is to care for the remaining
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11
Civilization should be civilized.
It is slipping . cog. 4 ,%s ssG.
THE OTHER FELLOWS SISTER.

-l@ THE OTHER FELLOWS SISTER.
The editor happened TO be standing on street
corner the other afternoon in conversation with
party when he overheard three young men talking
q few feet from him. In the course OF their con-
versation two we'll dressed young ladies' passed by
on the street but apparently did not notice the
three young men, After passing, one Of the young
men made suggestive remark concerning one of
the young ladies' and for his pains got very good
piece of advice from one of the other men who
happened to be the brother of one Of the young
ladies. >e- :"
Generally, there is no thought Of injuring the
innocent object of these remarks. They are born
in thoughtlessness and uttered in spirit of idle
ness, but they carry Ia sting that lasts
If men would conhne their remarks to such as
they would approve if made regarding their own
sisters, such they would make in the presence
of the father or brother of the GIRL there would
be less vicious rumors and innuendoes circulating
from lin to lip, and fewer heartaches when this
idle gossip reaches the parties concerned.
The Lord made tongues that they might be used
to good purpose, but the devil often twists them
to suit his own evil ways. And it makes world
of difference when it is the other fellows sister.
"Minnehaha" is the name suggested for the Twin
Cities, when they united into one great metrop
oils of nearly 100000 people. The mill city "boys'
would like to give St. Paul the laugh" by taking
the Minnie to represent Minneapolis and "Haha'
for St. Paul. i
The northern Baptsts started out less than two
weeks ago to raise $10O,000,000. Despite rainy
weather, impossible roads and snowstorms in the
Rocky mountain states they are half way to their
mark.
For months the educational propaganda OF the
denomination has been published throughout the
United States Baptists then gave promise to
attain their mark and according to their leaders
in New York the campaign will last until $780,
00O, 900 has been pledged
The two-cent piece has been authorized, but
who knows what it is to be used for.
''Did you get in on that proposition" asked the
promoter.
"Sprs! They let me in on the ground h00r'
Eyes, and then the bottom fell out."-Minneap-
oils Tribune.
The senate has saved America and America will
sustain the senate. It is great victory, victory
for straight Americanism at home and abroad
Cortland IN. " Standard
When man achieves sudden fame and proceeds
to make = noise aboutyit he is quickly forgotten.
The world has little use for a false alarm.-Ex:
.,..-u,--~n. .,r.s~n ~,
Earth holds many blessings for you, but it is not
hunting you with brass band and q delegatlon OF
oratorA Get out and disadvantages Press. ~
1853. ls%K - - -,------O--- H@G; a..1 Az 5zaH3 RI
There is no end to the financial wants OF mankind
Those of US who have no money wasn't it, and those
who have it want more.--Winnipeg Bulletins s%F &
Burleson still lives, and the mail service continues
to grow worse.-Concord IN, H. Evening Monitor
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

j., Inasmuch as Palmer seems to be suffering under
the deusion that he has reduced the cost Of living
it will be well if he is nominated that he may tour
the country and hear what the people think about it.
He will be a wiser man, anyhow.-Baltimore Md
American. '~ *@F@' '.tt% = <....t
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11
PRESS COMMENSURATE ALL

''Mary" said the mistress, 81 hope you have taken
good care of my pets while have been away"
'Indeed, have ma'am," replied Mary. "Only
once did forget to feed the cat"
II hope she didn't suffer-"
@Oh, no, pa'am," said Mary. "She ate the canary
and The parrot."-Pioneer Press. b.. ~"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-11

Mr. McAdoo says he is waiting for the democratic
presidential nomination to seek him. He IS surely
due for a long 'watchful waiting. "-Mt Vernon
<Iud) Unafraid Republican. 5.'&5a.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05

From the Louisville Courier-Journal- NN THEN a bugler from the Seventy
 WW first New York regiment sound
 U ed taps as the last edition of the New York Herald as an independent paper went to press, W. A. Rogers, for 20 years the Herald's cartoonist, retired from the Munsey staff undeE> ruling which will puzzle many newspaper read CTS as well as many publishers. MT: Munsey's dislike of cartoons and of feat ures is expressed in the assertion that liked spaces are intolerable in journal ism"
 Was it not Sir John Tenniel who drew a cartoon depicting Wilhelm II as shipmaster dropping the pilotT when he showed Bismarck aside2 What article written upon that event is as well re- rr,embered today? Who among the wrrrers of the history of Germany's ill-fated. and last, Emperor does not refer to the Tenniel cartoon as having put into 8 nutshell all that could be said of the event?
 Political satire has not reached greater heights, or both more effective, in written articles than in cartoons. The daily news na ner has had no more popular, and nc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
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Carrying a Pistol
 Leads To Murder

COMMENTING on a tragedy NJ which cost two men their lives at country danes in Georgia, the Atlanta Gonstit tion concludes an editorial with this observation:
 "A pistol is made for only one pur- pose: To kill. And when man puts one of the murderous nttle grave filters into his pocket he is from that moment a potential man killer"
 There is something wrong with the man who habitually carries a pistol who walks the streets of town or city with one of these weapons in his pocket, conscious of the superiority it gives him over nine out of ten other men he passes and secretly gloating over this advantage
 The psychology of carryin~ pis- tol, or gun-toting, as it i5 better known in police circles, is as simple as the letters of inc alphabet, For every life pistol has saved it has made a hundred murderers. The knowledge that he has a deadly weapon in his pocket works insldi- ously on tho mind of certain type of man. Almost unconsciously he be- comes truculent and easily offended, He gets into the habit of losing his temper on the slightest provocation, instead of trying to control it, as all law-abiding citizens do. He feels that, regardless of what happens, he is prepared for the worst, and acts accordingly.
 Sooner or later he is involved in a quarrel Perhaps liquor has helped to make him reckless and defiant His first thought is of the pistol ir his pocket and he whips it out, The result is apt to be another tragedy his hands or someone else's stained with human blood.
 Carrying a pistol is not only con trary to the law, but it is inexcusablt in civilized community. There i' no more reason why the average gun toter should be walking arsena than there would be for him to gt about town dragging a machine gun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05

wise to let him go free. The prison, the scaffold and the electric clair are needed to protect society.
 Judge Parker points out that the American government has the right, long established fundamental of in- ternational law, to close the doors on undesirable aliens at any time it sees fit. Likewise, it has an equal right to deport anyone whose activities constitute a menace to the American government. The American govern ment is the American people, fa& which many sentimentalists who cry out against the deportation of rad icals are prone to overlook.
 There is a difference of opinion among thoughtful persons as to whether or not deportation will solve the problem or merely feed the fires of bolshevism, but as to the legal aspects of the matter there is agrat- flying unanimity of opinion am mong the nations foremost lawyers and jurists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05

Audrie Alspaugh Chase, in the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 ONHAT a man should fall in love
 with girl from seeing the pho S tograph of her hand is theme for fiction of ye olden time, not fact of recent day. And yet that's exactly what Poet James whitcomb Riley did. He was shown a tintype picture of girls hand holding a fan--and she came into the romance of his life. He called her 'The Golden Girl" but he never married her, though he wrote her many beautiful letters and many spe- cial verses and though he believed in marriage. writing once:
 And my soul will sing in ceaseiess
 glee When find woman that rhymes with
 me-"
 The tintype was shown Riley by his chum. James Mechanism, who asked him to write to the young woman
 He told Riley all about the girfs youth and beauty and i'll health and many suitors All these facts are re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
Dressed Up and Broke.

T was recently told by a friend that the collector of internal revenue and his deputies could look at a man and almost tell how much income tax he should pay" said Scott Chestnut, we'll known baseball umpire and motion picture salesman, "but I had to take issue with him on that score. told him wise man bought good clothes when he had money so as to be able, to dress up when he didn't have. for many times I have been dressed up and practically broke.
 My friend then stated there was no need for me to be broke, as on many occasions when the game was close and I had made good decision for the home team the enthusiastic fans had thrown money to me. I don't remem- Der anything about any money rain- ing around me, but I asked him if he knew anything about the pop bottles thrown when the fans thought I had made a bad decision"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05

From the Youths Companion.
 One of Hogarth's pictures portrays the famous actor. David Garrick, and his wife. The actor is seated writing, and the lady, standing behind him, reaches forward with a roguish smile 10 take away his pen. Perhaps no other English actor of the past enjoys renown still as fresh as that of Lit tle Davy'' Garrick the vivacious, in- telligent and winning friend of so nany of the great men of his day-Sir Joshua Reynolds, Goldsmith. the pom derous and thunderous Dr. Johnson. the inimitable biographer. Boswell, and all their circle.
 History gives us, too. occasional glimpses. few. but vivid. of Garricks s wife, who was originally Viennese dancer, Eva Marie violette Those were the days when England had a German king. with German mind and methods-else it had not lost America-but few Germans indeed among it's population except in royal circles, Eva Garrick's Germanism was. however, not of the arrogant and ob- stinate type. but of the harmlessly do- mestic and sentimental.
 Garrick died in 17T9. Eva Garric1 survived him forty three years-in her long old age "a little bowed down old woman. who went about leaning on a
 gold d-headed cane. dressed in deep widows mourning. and always talking of her dear Davy." Until death divided l them the husband and wife had never been separated for more than twenty four hours. They were reunited when ! at the age of s9.~Mrs. Garrick died and i was buried, wrapped in her fine 'linen i wedding sheets in the same grave with her Dear Little Spouse,r at the foot of Shakespeare's monument in the his
 toric and reverend precincts of West minister Abbey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
Deportation of Reds"
 Is Upheld By the Law

N LTHOUGH Judge Alton B. Par G7A ker figured in one of the most disastrous presidential campaigns this country has ever witnessed, he is regarded as one of the most emi- nent members of the American bar.
 Consequently, Judge Parker's con tention that the government has a legal right to deport "reds" will carry more weight with the average citizen than the counter claim of six bishops and sixteen clergymen that it oversteps the bounds of justice and becomes an oppressor when it loads a ssoyiet ark" and starts it back to Russia or some other country.
 It is little to the credit of clergy men who have opposed deportation, even though they are actuated hy humane motives. That they have any legal basis for doing so is rendered improbable by the fact that theology is one thing and the law another. There are able lawyers who might make good clergymen, but the aver age clergyman would never make a successful lawyer It is all very well tp forgive a murderer, but 1t is un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
ALWAYS GO WRONG

From the Pittsburg Chronicle.
 Observing that the caves over his kitchen had become clogged by au- tumn leaves. Mir. Higgins, valiant head of the family, climbed d tree that stood near the house while his beloved Sophia watched him from below
 Just as he was about to scoop out d handful of leaves the dead limb on which he was standing gave way and he started to fall.
 lnstinctively grasping al other limbs he managed to check his fall and hung there head downward, his face the color of boiled beet "Sophia-auick" he gasped.
 "Oh, Arthurr' she yelled Quick. chair,' In flash it was there Now stand upon it." But Arthur she expostulated. I'm not strong enough to help you down. "In get down all right-soon as ] can get right end upward,' he panted But what I want you to do is to take this fountain pen out of my vest pocket It's leaking like the iiickens,"s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
House Painting Comes
 With Spring Season

WITT the approach of spring w property holders should get ready for putting their premises in repair and painting their houses.
 Birmingham owners of homes and owners of tenements have been back ward in the use of paint. A building allowed to go without fresh paint for three or four years at time wears a hlapidated appearance. It not only looks unsightly, but if it is frame structure falls into decay. Three out of every four homes hereabouts need paint-at least two coats of the best quality
 As for the cheap houses occupied by negroes, many have never known what paint was. Every little two room cottage, as well as the more pfetentlouS houses, should be well painted, this for the matter of econ- omy as well as appearances.
 And what applies to city houses applies just the same to the builiings on the farm. Nothing makes such a favorable impression on homeseekers and the public in general as farm with freshly painted dwelling.
 Before the day of the automobile unpainted houses along the line of a railroad made an unfavorable impress sion. Now the unkept condition is all the more remarked.
 Throughout the coming spring and
 1mmer every painter in the Bir- .angham district should be in de-
 and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
Sharp Decline in
 Foreign Exchange.

'1N HE panicky feature of the finan-
 4 cial world yesterday as the re- suit of the drop in the price of for eign exchange will be followed by a steadying feeling today
 Financial interests are hopeful, at any rate, that the several govern ment investigations now under way will bring early and favorable re- suits.
 The New York stock market con tinued to decline, although some of the unimportant shares showed ten dency to rally after the noon hour.
 Senator Thomas of Colorado, demo- crat, announced in the Senate that he would seek action next week on his resolution to appoint an interna- t.onal monetary commission with the purpose of establishing a parity be- tween gold and silver. This vii probably meet with favor. In thu meanwhile the situation will improve steadily.
 The threat that England wills buy no more cotton need hot be taken seriously. Great Britain is hungry for cotton and our export trade vii not be permanently disturbed I~. Just how much juggling there is il the present furry remains to be seen but there is no occasion for alarm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
LUKE McLUKE SAYS

At that, there is a difference between leg and limb After looking at what fills a corn-fed girls stocking you wouldn't call it limb, would you?
 man can get through life without having any wealthy relatives But a woman will go ahead and invent some
 A lot of people in this world are against thing merely because they have some man who is for it.
 The reason why two can live as eheaply a sio a week salary looks like hobo and q single man with a s20 a week sal ary looks like dude.
 Getting married in June doesn't make matrimony any more of a picnic than getting married in December
 A woman has the same sort of affec- ton for an old corset that man has for an old pipe.
 We never could understand why the married man with eight kids at home calls his better half ''the wife, and why the married man who has nothing but a poodle at home refers to his wife as mother.
 Love may be blind during the honey r.soon But from then on it develops mi croscopic sight.
 Some of these days We suppose they will revise the Ten Commandments arI add two more. the eleventh being: Thou shalt not drink and the twelfth being. Thou shalt not smoke
 Most of us are like the lightning .fod
 r.- who hasn't anytlizhtning rods on his own home We are all great on pre- scribing for the other fellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-05
RILEY'S GOLDEN GIRL ROMANCE

lated, along with many other interest ing ones having nothing at all to do with love, by Marcus Dickey in a vol Z ume called The Youth of James Whit comb Riley
 So Riley wrote a poem. Her BeanH~ full Hands from the inspiration of the tintype, and many more besides later Many of Riley's poems came from this acquaintanceship, among them -Famas Y according to Riley's father, the great est poem his son ever wrote: If My Wishes Come True Lines in Letter Inclosing a Picture" "A Tress of Hair. < Say Something to Me-" .An Empty Song," and Song of Parting"
 He called her his Little Woman and Badger Girl" and, Dame Burden~ from Bleak House." besides the Gol- den Girl" And he drew much insptra- ton, happiness and sorrow from know ing her. She encouraged him. fnffu- enced him to give up the law, wrote him beautiful letters-but married James Mechanism. Not tin after there had been lovers difficulties. though, and Riley had acted ss inter mediary for his friend and the Golden Girl After her marriage her health steadily failed and within two years she died though she will live always in Riley's poems.