The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-08-23

suffered not only personal hardship
and pecuniary losses. but actual as
sault and even massacre. Neverthe-
less, out Of the three provinces Of
Eastern Siberia. where Japanese
troops originally were stationed, two
provinces already have been complete
~ evacuated
ut is only in the southern frontier
region Of the maritime province, in
Guiding, Nladivostok. that these troops
still ARD maintained. Yet it is the in
tentiOn of Japan to withdraw her
troops from this region also as soon
as adequate provision is made for the
protection of lives and, property of
Japanese residents and for the defense
of the border of Korea%R g..
Then the official statement takes no
zap as follows: s. r. -, rs
GAS to zap, the question: is actually
under discussion betweensgthe. -Aneri-
can and Japaiiese governments, and
there IS every indication, of nsaarly
settlement$of the controversy satfsfdc-
tory to an PARTIES alike. fEs#@fs&'&.s
Japan has nothing to lose by a
policy Of cOnciiiation toward China.
and is anxious. therefore, to reach
with the United States. Great Britain
and other interested powers the full
est and quickest accord, that will de-
termine and settle the status of the
various foreign nations which have in
terests in that troubled! country"
Printing Bill to Be Reduced.
Members of congress have heard
; that the public printer and the direc
tor of the budget between them intend
to save a large part OF the fourteen
million dollars which it was estimated
! it would cost this year to pay Uncle
Sans printing bill. In other words,
&: the estimates are. to be%cut radically.
: Fourteen millions is d large sum Of
=; money, but when men are talking In
billions ttssdoes, not seem to be such
Z .sstaggei.ing sum. aftersail. Neverthe-
less theshope is to bringathe bill down
as closeoas. possible to the pre-war fig
:,tres, witch were about 9eight millions
; of, dollars If six. or seven millions
car, be Saved It IS worth while. ( q
j.; The intention is tG Top off here and
lop off there from the printing ex-
penses, and this Of course means that
! a lot of government material which
;erdinarily has been put through the
preSs will go into the waste paper
basket, or in manuscript form will be
eaten by the office cat or disposed of
,surreptitiously in some way by the
printers devil.
; Everybody who receives public doc
uments from the printing Office be-
,lieves that a lot Of stuff is printed
(which never should have been put
through the press, but it must be re-
'membered that this is the individual
viewpoint, and what does not inter-
est one man maM interest another. SO.
,brOadly speaking, it IS impossible for
any one person. to pass Judgment on
the general value of much Of the print
ed material WITCH the public. shop
turns out for the reading public.
j.: Congressional Record Is Expensive.
!: All the FOREGOING has reference,
however, to documents which come
from the departments of government,
land it has nothing whatsoever to do
with the Congressional Record which
lis, as it's name implies, a record Of
>the dongs in congress, including the
speeches.
" As someone else has put it: "Lo-
:quacity in the senate and house ac'
count FOL: the largest single item Of
!expenditure-$5OO,OOO to print and cir
:culate the Congressional Record,
(which has a daily circulation of 49,
600 to $4,000
|. Each representative in congress is
entitled to 60 copies each day of the
Record, while each senator gets IS
tcOpies. or course the senators and
representatives put favored constitu-
ents on their mailing lists for Con-
,gressional Records and keep some
copies for themselves. Taking it by
and large, the numbers of free copies
are not many, but there is great deal
printed in the Congressional Record
(which is intended only to exploit, for
his constituents sake. the personal
and political views of the individual
congressman.
In order that the folk back in the
home district may know that their rep
resentative in congress is familiar
with the classics, or that he likes to
read modern poetry and essays.
speech after speech has been printed
i'm the Congressional Record at consid-
cradle cost to the neotle. The repre-