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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04
FOUR WESTERN STATES
ASK GRAIN RATES CUT
(By United Press)

Washington, Nov. 4.-Four west
ern states, Kansas, Arizona, North
Dakota and Nevada applied to the
Interstate Commerce Commission to-
day for reduction on interstate and
interstate freight rates on wheat and
course grains of approximately 16
per cent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04
VICTORY BONDS REACH
PAR VALUE AGAIN TODAY

New York, Nov. 4.-Victory bonds
reached par again today. A large
block of Victory AZ sold at 500
even. The 3& issue reached a nigh
mark of $99.9S. .a..... s..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04
PRESIDENT HARDING MAKES
NOVEMBER LEGAL HOLIDAY
(By United PresS)

Washington, Nov. 4.-President
Harding today signed the resolution
making November II legal holiday.
Under the resolution the holiday is to
be observed only this year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04
HOUSE OF COMMONS VOTES
IN FAVOR OF ARMS FARLEY

London, Nov. 4.-7The British
House of Commons approved the
Washington disarmament conference
this afternoon.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04
BANDITS HOLD UP DRIVERS
AND GET SEVERAL THOUSAND
(By United PreSS)

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 4.--Six armed
bandits today held up drivers Of the
Gordon-Cagel Baking company and
escaped with several thousand dollars.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04

The Pioneer IL the only daily
within 100 miles Of BemidJi and
has the largest circulation in
Northern Minnesota .. 49,.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-11-04

WEATHER REPORT
Minnesota - Fair tonight and
E. Saturday,; somewhat colder to-
night.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
Irrigation Canal Kept
Open by Odd Dredge

For a great many years Florida held the
record for early-vegetablc and garden
truck production on a commercial scale
But no more, for the Imperial Valley in
Southeastern California is now providing
enormous quantities OF garden sass" even
for the Christmas holidays, writes E. l.
Poor, in an illustrated article in the Jan
uary Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The soil OF the valley, hundreds of feet
deep, consists of silt washed down by the
Colorado River, most of it through the
Grand Canyon. 1t is so impalpably fine
that it follows wherever the water runs
One would even draw it at the kitchen
sink or into the bath, if special precau-
tions were not taken to settle it. So it
finds its way into the irrigation canals
and spreads out over the land, the best
fertilizer in the world, but it would soon
fill the canals unless cleaned OUT frequently
No satisfactory method was found until
a continuously operating dredge was built
by a blacksmith resident in the valley
The work is done by large steel buckets
of special design, attached to an endless
chain operating on an elevator at the rear
of the machine As the machine advances
the buckets rcvolve with this chain, and
scoop up the mud in the ditch depositing
it on the bank This elevator may be op-
Grated for the excavation of a new ditch
or to clean the bottom of a canal eight or
ten feet deep.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
What in the W0rLdi
VIII the President Do;

Senator Capper will not accept the pos-
ton of Secretary of Agriculture in the
Cabinet of President Harding; Frank E
Grimes has advised Senators Curtis and
Capper that he will not accept the post
mastership at Topeka or the job as United
States marshal or collector. of internal
revenue; and one or two others have de-
clined Offices that have not been offered to
them. We are very much pleased at this
unselhsh devotion to party welfare and do
not purpose to be outdone in the good
work. We therefore take this means to
say to President Harding that under no
circumstances shall we accept the appoint
ment as Secretary of State in his Cabinet,
Ambassador to the Court of St James or
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court-Jack Harris in Beloit (Kansas)
Gazette.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
The Physical Handicap.

In a recent volume called "The Privi-
lege of Pain" the author in her ioreword
says: "No physical disablement is bar
rier to achievement This is the glorious
fact which 1lustrious men and women
have proved beyond the rcs ,iti!ity of
dispute.
"To cripple and hunchback, to blind,
deaf and dumb, to those chained to "a
mattress-grave' and to those who have
been mentally unbalanced, they have be-
queathed this precious legacy of Hope"
1t is no doubt true that we have 100
press agents of health to the one press
agent of the casualty ward of genius.
There are too many notable instances of
success won by physical failures" for the
disabled to be discouraged.
Young men who have returned from the
world war disabled, will find that history
provides a parallel debility transmitted into
strength. Alexander the Great was an
epileptic and so were julius Caesar and
Napoleon.
Lord Nelson at the height of his eff
cheney had lost an arm and an eye and
was sick every time he went to sea. Ger
vantes health was shattered when he
wrote Don Quixote" and Fielding was
martyr to gout when he wrote tom
Jones'" Sir Walter Scott was lame from
childhood. Horace was a man of feeble
health. Milton was blind. Pope deformed.
Keats suffered from consumption and
Moliere lived on a milk diet. Heine, one
eye gone, spent eight years on a mattress.
Rosseau and Voltairs were physical weak
lings and most of US can remember the
struggles of Robert Louis Stevenson
against tuberculosis.
In our business life of today many of
the men who are doing things have been
victims of physical handcaps. Steinmetz,
the electrical wizard, is a hunchback. A.
NJ. Andrews, the Chicago banker, had
lung trouble at I6 and was forced to quit
selling newspapers. At 30 he is multi
millionaire and in perfect health.
John T. Brush, who owned and directed
the New York Giants, was a hopeless
cripple Breckenridge Ellis, the Missouri
novelist, who has written 28 volumes
three Of them best sellers-has been I'M
able to walk since birth. And so on and
so on. Hundreds of cases could be noted
The truth is that we can no longer
plead our infrmities as an excuse for our
weakness, our mental sterility or failure.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
GIVE A HAND.

In every community there are successful
mcn-men OF experience, men Of means In
every community there are young men who
might make-a success OF life They have
it in them, all they lack is some one 10
give a hand. II may not be money they
need, perhaps only an interested friend
Somebody helps whenever a young man
gets started right in anything Somewhere
every successful man got a start BY some
ones help. To keep the world moving on
an upwawrd slope the process must be
made perpetual Each man, once started.
should become a starter of others And
who starts another gets himself along at
a more rapid gait. There IS that in help
ing another that reflects not credit alone
to the agent, but bent Of mind, an out
look on life, a generosity Of soul, that wins
a way forward for himself also.-From the
Thrift Magazine
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
AUTUMN NOSEGAY.

There are more kinds of poets today
than there arc Heinz varieties If you have
a we'll developed palate no one is enough
In fact you only begin to appreciate favors
when they are considered together or con-
trastcd sharply. B. w. Huebsch, Inc,
makes an autumn arrangement of unusual
variety. D. H. Lawrence, writer of
strange prose and still stranger verse, is
author OF two books, New Poems" con-
tanning the provocative preface, and the
prosodic announcement Of his success as a
married man, Look, We Have Come
Through" issued in its second printing
No one could set him off more completely
than Winifred Welles whose "Hesitant
Heart" has no such victorious shouting in
it, rather the charm of quiet words that fall
like water Lola Ridge, as sharp as her
name, is issuing her second book, "Sun-Up," 4"
psychological free verse. William Ellery
Leonard, the thoughtful professor from our
Lake country ignores his old subjects for
a new and compelling one, the Negro, in
his book, "The Lynching' Bee and Other
Poems"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
A Warning to Germany

The German people, so far as can be
foreseen-and l am forced to acknowledge
it with the deepest sorrow-will not awake
until it is too late. Just as the old impe-
rial Germany of 1914 slept through four
years Of war and awoke only at the defeat,
so the republican Germany of today will
slumber until the flourish of trumpets of
the new miltarism announces to it the
downfall of all that has been painfully
won by the revolution Then will follow
a Titanic combat between the military
caste and the psoletariat, wherein the great
mass of the bourgeoise, again as in 1918,
will take no active part. Unhappy Ger
many will be devoured by an internecine
war such as the world has not yet seen.
Then will come the political and economic
disaster, already showing its grinning
deaths head, which will carry down with
it all that is still standing From this
supreme misfortune. may some kind of fate
save my peoplel But, if they are to be
saved immediate action must be taken.
Therefore, in this last remaining hour, |
cry aloud this warning to the leading men
of Germany: "Vidednt consmIes nc oGd
detrimenti respabEeG cdPiGt."-Dr Richard
Grelling (author of '"JAccuseg) in the
January Yale Review
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09

civilian is of use only as a support
to the army. The civilian in office is but
a nuisance; he is apt to stand in the
way of military operations and control.
He holds that all branches of the gov
ernment should be in the hands of men
who wear uniforms. He has no sympathy
with or appreciation of ANY factor of
government that is not devoted to the
upbuilding of military power.
Since the war General Ludendorf,
who speaks for General Won Hinden-
burg as well as for himself, has written
two books to show that victory was
lost to Germany not by the army, but by
the civil government and the German
people.
He contends that the army would have
won but for discomfort, amounting to
revolution among the people and failure
OF the government to give the limit of
support in armament. His theory was to
supply the lack of man power with ma
chine guns.
By this agency he would have equal
lied the superior numbers of the allies
He wanted them in enormous quantity
They were not furnished.
The civil authorities did not defy pub
lie opinion. They were close to the war
WEAKNESS of the people. They felt the
pressure for peace at almost any price
They faced the difficulty of meeting the
labor demand
Against their better judgment, they
yielded to the army and navy demand for
ruthless submarine warfare which finally
brought the United States into the war
So far as the actual record goes they, in
fact, did all that was possible to meet the
Ludendorf demands.
1t is only because Ludendorf is what he
is that he still maintains as he always has,
that the army was undefeated Yet it was
he and Hindenburg who urged peace upon
the Kaiser. They first admitted defeat
and that to prolong the war would assure
military disaster.
The fundamental mistake OF the armis-
tice was that it permitted the German
armies to march back with their arms and
colors. This made possible for the Grand
Staff to claim that it was undefeated. The
army paraded home with bands playing
and colors flying.
But Ludendorf knows better He is
blovating in truly Prussian style to once
more deceive the German people, to bolster
the conceit and 'Kultur" of Prussia to
consolidate the militarist spirit of the
Prussians, to arouse their arrogance and
dominant pride and confirm his leadership
He is the worst enemy Germany has.
So long as he lives he will menace his
own country's peace. Mr.. Kerensky's
story that he now heads the monarchial
cabal that would recombine the Prussian,
Hungarian and Austrian monarchists in a
revolution to restore the Hohenzollerns
and Hapsburgs, may have little substance.
But that Ludendorf is ready and willing
for this or any other like venture, is wholly
probable. He is a dangerous piece Of
furniture; he embodies the hatred and
vengeance of disappointment, with the
distilled materialistic spirit of unadulterated
Prussianism.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
THE VALLEY OF VISION.

A book of deep religious faith and mys-
teal beauty is The Valley of Vision" a
small volume OF spiritual experience and
reflection. published, with preface by the
Bishop OF Edinburgh, by Z. p Dutton &
Co. The unnamed author is a Sister Of
the Scottish Church, and the little record Of
things seen and experienced in the spirit
ual world is very simple and very beauti-
full. The Bishop OF Edinburgh says in his
foreword: cit contains so many passages Of
spiritual beauty that none who peruSe it
will do so without feeling the better even
though they may not agree with all that is
written"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
Shadow Thoughts.

When the lights of the autumn nights burn
low,
When hours .lengthen and the shadows
grow,
And forms of things are lost in gathering
gloom
see your shadowy hair about the room.
Late in the night, when people say sleep.
l think of you and thought and feeling
flies;
AS in a trance l deeper sink, sink deep
Into the glowing iris of your eyes.
From the Japanese of H. Arai by Yukio
Ozaki in Asia.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09

Norval Richardson's picture OF diplomatic
Fire" just published by Charles Scribner's
Sons, is grounded on personal knowledge
and experience The author spent some
years in diplomatic service in the Italian
capital, and is thoroughly familiar with life
both in the American colony and in upper
Italian society. He is now in charge of
the American Legation in Chill
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1921.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Cotton.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
History Teaching.

HR GEORGE w. FULLER, head of
the Michigan State Historical
Commission, is we'll within the
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
Ludendorf the Prussian.

Ludendorf is a typical Prussian. He
has not changed since the war. He cannot
change He is a miitarist and nothing
else.
He never has had and never can have
the civilian point of view. To him,
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09
I'm CHANCERY. a."

an Cnnneery," John Galsworthys pow
erful new novel (Scribners) headed the
list of fiction IN demand at the Mercantile
Library, Philadelphia for the week ended
December 49,
The Washington herald., 1921-01-09

"For King Country"
A phrase kin to medievalism and the recruiting
Cut deep the above your dusts eternal home
I wonder if your lean, jaunty
Ever by and reads
Do when the green frost o the moonlight
Congeas the
Into motley dim of
vclvets?
Or do by daylight pcaryfaccd
Who leave upon your
In hope that be all but sharp
And Soldier of the Shadows! Has she who
And known there without sign 0 the air?
Or, do you wait like little boy alone
Hoping that she will come sometime somehow.
MARY V HARRIS
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
DEVELOP PMENTS
in IRELAND ARE !.
!. EXPECTED | SOON
Art O'Brien Arrives in Dub
lin; Many Rumors Are
Ahoat Today.

.lF Il. f.. , q
London, Aug. 1.-Developments in
the peace negotiations between Prime
Minister Lloyd George and leaders Of
the Irish Republicans. are imminent,
it was reported here today but gov
ernment leaders refused to lift the
veil Of secrecy. There were certain
deductions made from the arrival in
Dublin yesterday morning of Art
.O'Brien. president Of the Gaelic lea cue
in London, but they could not be
verified. '
One rumor was that Mr.. O'Brien
was the courier who would take the
Sim. Fein reply to Mr.. Lloyd George,
while another story declared that
Eamonnt de Valera would himself re-
turn to London during this week. and
that Sir James Craig. the premier of
Ulster, was also coming here. It also
was reported that members Of the
Irish Republican parliament which
has been expected to meet during the
coming week, have made preparations
to receive sudden call to Dublin, and
the British government was declared
to be, ready to release imprisoned
members Of the Republican parlia
ment Immediately after being ap-
praised Of the date upon which the
parliament would meet.
1t was admitted in Sim Fein quar-
ters that there was a considerable diff
ference of opinion among me m bers OF
the Republican parliament respecting
the concessions to be demanded from
England. Some members were de-
clared adhering resolutely to the de-
mand for full national independence
and for this reason predictions were
made that the meeting Of the parla
ment. when held, would probably de
velop some stiff opposition to- the
leaders, who were represented as beine
resolved TO adopt compromise
/ measure.
1t was maintained, however, thai
! Mr.. de Valera and his immediate lcol
leagues retained control of the Stu.
alton and would carry the principle
iot compromise against the demand.
OF extremists.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
FINAL ARGUMENTS
In BASEBALL CASE
ARE OPENED TO-DAY

Chicago, Aug. 1.-Opening its final
argument in the baseball trial, the de-
fense today pictured the baseball
scandal investigation and trial as a
theatrical burlesque in which Ban
Johnson, president of the American
league was the villain and Charles A.
Comiskey. owner of the Chicago club,
the goat.
The entire case was merely another
outbreak Of the Comiskey- j ohnson
feud, said Henry Berger. first of the
nine defense attorneys to talk during
the day. He defied the jury to And
anything in Illinois laws making the
throwing of a baseball game a, crime
There is no proof that the ball
players intended through throwing
games in the 1919 world series to in
jure their club or their league said
Mr.. Bergef. .'To have intended to dc
SO would have meant that they were
trying to destroy themselves, and thai
is absurd.
"The whole affair is theatrica,
playa farce, burlesque-with it
villains and its heroes
Mr.. Berger analyzed conspirac,
lawssin an attempt to prove there was
no crime in the case.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
EIGHT HUNDRED
REGISTER FOR
LEGION MEET

Winona, Mimi, Aug. Eight hun
dred delegates to the American Legion
third annual state convention, depart
ment Of Minnesota, were registered
here this morning. while approximate
ly 800 delegates to the ladies' auxili-
ary to the American Legion were reg
istered IN their headquarters.
The convention sessions opened aft
er a series OF welcoming addresses by
the city and Legion Officials had been
accepted by State Commander Vernon
Annual reports of the officers are
listed as {today.s business. !. Mrs: Helen
Hughes Hielsher of Mankato, state
president Of the auxiliary. will preside
over the women's convention.
An elaborate entertainment program
has been arranged;
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION BROKE LAW COURT HOLDS
Entertained Norma
Talmadge; Students
Are To Be Punished


Madison, Wis, Aug. Forty
students attending summer ses-
sions at the university here face
discipling as result OF formal
dinner dance held in Middleton
! last. week Mt which Norma Tai
madge, movie star, was the hon
or guest.
III. Goodnight, dean OF men,
declares the affair was arranged
by students without observing
faculty regulations with regard
TO chaperons and hours. He said
those In attendance will be called
before the students life and in
4 tercst committee of the faculty to
explain why they should not be
punished.
Students present at the party
say 1t was arranged privately and
was not a university affair.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
Will Try T'o Force
Sale From Gravel Pit
AT Government Prics

s Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. /. Action
on behalf Of the county commission
ers by States Attorney Sivert Thomp-
son will begun this week to force the
owners OF the Manseau estate to sell
gravel from a gravel pit on that es-
tate for the government price Of 10
cents per yard instead Of 20 per yard
as asked by the owners.
| The states attorney delayed action
for. some time thinking that the at
torney general should take action, but
the me ed Of gravel for county roads
has become SO urgent that longer de-
,, lay was deemed inadvisable.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
ONLY Y NE GRO AVIATOR
WILL CARRY MANY
"GOODsLUcK" CHARMS

New Orleans, Aug. Two
left hind feet Of rabbits, said to
have been killed in a country
graveyard, a slick dime and a,
padded leather helmet will fur
nish protection for George Fish
er, claiming TO- be the only nc
gro aviator, when he makes his
first fight in a. home made ma
chine at the fair grounds here
this afternoon.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
PAYMENT OF LOAN
TO LIBERIA ASKED
BY THE PRESIDENT

/ WasisinGton, sAux. i.-Legfsln-
ton anthoFiEing payments to Li-tt
heria under the 5000 200 loan 10
that country previously arranged
for, was asked by President Hard
Ing today IN 4 letter transmitted
to the senatc. An accompanying
letter from Secretary Huehce to
the rrs4dent said 4 ssyipueal abll-
cation rested on the Unifod
Esasee fns usalkc this lonn.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
MINERs co BACK.

Nottingham, AnE., Coal mfnetoE
went back to the pits after their - 4
orIly 10 discover that their hands had
become too soft for the work.
Thousands Of Nottinghanshire coal
.aigsers TINS were obliged to lay on
work again FOR i few Days Handling
cf the pick ana shovei raased bilsterz
which were very patnfti oWinr 70 ~
coal dust enterinx them
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
DOYLE REQUESTED
TO QUIT POSITION
OF u. S. MARSHAL

Fargo, Nd. Aug. is. y.
Doyle, United States marshal for
North Dakota, today received q
letter from Attorney General
Daugherty. advising him OF the
latters desire to make q, new ap-
pointment to fill the position Of
marshal, and requesting that Mr..
Doyle resign. Mr.. Doyle hasn't
answered, but probably Will not
resign.
United States Senator Porter j.
McCumber has promised the APP.
pointment to James F.. Shea Of
Wahpeton, formerly marshal for
this state.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
Emb King Postmaster /
81 80, ,7O9. 50 And
Il. Spend s Years In Pen

Salt Lake July Is 0.-fa Iieading
guilty to smb bezzlins $40. .70s.s0 while
postmaster at Clear Creek Utah,
Farley j.. sNeys was sentenced toy pay
a fine of the amount OF his shortage
and to three years innprisonnentHat
Leavenworth when he appeared be-
fore Judge T. D. Johnson of the
United States court here today.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
BROWN RETURNs

y E.aJ. Brown, assistant manager Of
the Russell-Miller Milling Co. who
has been out on a tour of the state
investigating crop conditions. re-
turned to Grand Forks Sunday night.
Mr.. Brown reports practically no
crop from Valley City to Dickinson.
good crops around Killdeer. good
crops west of Minot, and spotted con-
dftions between Minot and Grand
Forks, -.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-01
POLICEMAN KILLED.

|, WEIGH. w. Va, Aug. 1.-Sid Hat
field, former chief of police of Mate
wan. and Ed. Cham bers. a policeman
of that place, were. killed in a gun
fight in the court house yard here
shortly before noon today. T.. G.
! Lively, private detective. and four
other persons were arrested in CON
nection with the shooting.