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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-12
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THE DOCTORS: LAMENT

With the year less than half gone, the number Of
fatal and otherwise serious automobile accidents
in Minnesota is more than the combined number,
for the IL months of 1921.
1t seems as if people had suddenly lost all sense
of responsibility and to make the tragic picture
complete, the wires are hot with mishaps in the
air, on the water and the rails
~. This sort Of thing Just naturally got one doc
tors "goat" so he sat down and wrote this to the
y Journal of the American Medical association: -
tie Last night, when Others were at rest, I've \ :
,''~"2 rode about and did my best ~
'1.n TO save some patients, called by fate,
~, From TRAVELLING through the Golden Gate.
This morning when the news spied 2, ., n >~ie
D.. thought they might as we'll have died:
&.1~~ 1.-TWO Hundred Injured in Wreck"
"Nan Falls, Sustains Broken Neck"
u, 1.-TWO Drown While Rocking Canoe"
"Grade Crossing Murders Twenty-Five"
give Killed by Falling Aeroplane,"
"Three Shot by Moron, Now lnsane,"
"Gas Blast Takes Lives of Twenty-three,"
1.-TWO Die Meath Failing Apple Tree"
"Sx Lynched in Riot in the south''
"A Thousand Die in Desert Drought
All night toiled to save one life
And millions die in useless strife;
What it help to make one we'll
When thousands harken to deaths knell?
What boots my little recompense?
Why can't the world have common sense?
1t must be admitted that the doctor wrote quite
a prescription, but for the good of all of US it
ought not to be bitter pill to take.
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PERSONAL LIBERTIES
Referring to the lecture by Col Andrews at the
Armory Thursday evening, one might infer that
the people today, under the present prohibition law,
enjoy greater 'personal liberties" than they did
under the open saloon regime. Judging from the
attendance, the people not greatly concerned
about anulling the Eighteenth amendment
4--S
Doctors tell US that eating liver and onions is
good for stomach trouble, but who, with stomach
trouble is going to eat liver and onions?
S---9
It is about this time Of the year that the average
small boy is willing to give his right leg for the
privilege of going fishing.
&S
Dry agents dropped in New Um. the other
day and before they got through they wished they
had worn bathing suits.
4-s
They getting ready to start the mail service
around Lake Bemidji. You can "letter" 60 any
time now, A. P.
It's just possible that friend Ericsson is q little
bit too fat to run very fast for the senate.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-12
ADVERTISING IN SIAM

ADVERTISING IN SIAM
Even in far-of Siam we find advertising, though
to the modern American advertiser this extract
from Siamese newspaper, The Pioneer, as quoted
by the Akron Engraving Go. in their monthly Serv-
ice Mark, is rather amusing; it says: i
"The news of English, we tell the latest Writ
in perfectly style and most earliest Do murder
get commit we hear and tell of it. Do mighty
chief die, publish it, and in borders of somber.
Staff has each one been college, and wrote like the
Kipling and the Dickens. We circulate every town
and extortionate not for advertisements Buy it."
Amusing probably to US, yet the language is such
that the readers may perfectly understand it. And
we, too, should invariably see to it that our adj
vertising is written that readers may perfectly
understand the message.
S-9
JUDGE JOSEPH E. HARRIS
The funeral of Judge Harris was held today
His death takes from midst a faithful friend
of the people. He active civic leader, kind
hearted and helpful to those in trouble and a de-
pendable friend to those in need
In the performance Of his duties as Judge of pro-
bate, he was at all times conscientious and consid
crate and conducted it's affairs with promptness
and dispatch. He enjoyed an unusually wide ac-
quaintance throughout this county and Northern
Minnesota.
Frank Drumbeater also appears to be somewhat
Of ball beaten
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-12
JUDGE JOSEPH E, HARRIS

Frank Drumbeater also appears to be somewhat
Of ball beater.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
WEATHER MANS FORECAST.
Accuracy About 35 Per Cent for
Country in Five Years.
, the Peoples Home Journal

From the People 8 home journal.
For a period of five years the United
States weather bureau in its fore
casts for the entire country has scored
above 36 per cent. This, of course, is
not perfect. and the more the forecast
it restricted in area the less the prob
ability of exactness. There are times
when storm centers and cold-wave
areas take abnormal paths, become
practically stationary or dissipate
rapidly, and these are conditions thai
are difficult to foresee.
While the forecasts are not infal-
ible, many people do not realize that
much of their lives is regulated by
them The business man takes the
weather bureau more seriously thar
the average pedestrian. Produce deal
ers who handle perishable commodl-
ties depend greatly on the forecasts
as the fortunes of their business often
hang on the turn in the weather.
Coal companies and companies whlch
have large heating contracts must
know the brand of weather expected:
Marine interests are also protected
by the display of storm warnings.
AS the forecasts are the best 1udG-.
ments of the best trained meteorolo-
gfsts, after a careful study of chart,
ed conditions telegraphed from al
over the American continent, the pup
lie should note and bear in nina the
good work OF the bureau. instead OF
drawing general conclusions from the
occasional mistakes.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
Land That Is Thrown Away.

From the Roston Transcript.
Bad fires are already raging in
various parts of eastern Massachu-
setts, but they are nothing to what
will prevail if there is dry weather
in early May The woods are full OF
fallen branches. many of them OF very
large size, the result of the ice storm
last fall. Entire trees have fallen
here and there. and only in a rev
instances has this accumulation, the
danger of which increases as 1t dries.
been removed Lacking the proV1-
Dental aid of wet season. it is in
evitable that there should be heaNy
and, in some places total destruction
of woodland growth in this section.
The condition illustrates the tradl-
tional indifference of Americans to
the wood product of the soil. Because
the scrub growth. which is al! that
the average citizen shows to develop
on his so-called woodland acres, is
of little value, the average owner
thinks of his land as worth only Whaf
it would be worth If cleared of its
timber All current <or ordinary es-
Inmates of the value of what our New
England proprietorS call crop of
wood are based upon the worth or
chance growth of scrub not more
than twenty-five years old. The slight
value of this highly indifferent prod
uct is realized by cutting it down
clean. and another accidental crop
of the same scrub growth allowed to
accumulate. In the meantime this
system. with fires which generally
destroy the carpet of leaves in the
fall and dwarf and stunt the timber,
the soil actually deteriorates and
wastes away instead of growing
richer as it should do.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
HOW VIEWS CHANGE.
Estimate of Parents, Ira nsformed
by Passing Years.
From Farm Life

From + arm LIE
boys estimate of his parents
shifts d s the years go by. Up to five
or six he thinks them the wisest in
dividuals on earth. He quotes their
sayings and considers their opinions
maternal wisdom.
BY the tim" he is old enough to
take his bath alone he thinks over
the matter and decides that mother
isn't as smart a. he thought she was,
but father knows good many things
and cites to himself their respective
opinions on swinImin. f1shin' and go
ing to the barber VS.. maternal hair
Clipping.
About the time he sneaks dads
raZcr 20 his own room and expert
ments Il little with the fuzz on his
chin he concludes father is we'll
meaning duffer enough. but mother
knows less than nothing.
Five years later he pities the ignO-
rance of the whole world. and espe-
cially that of the old folks.
AT thirty, about the time ne wants
to borrow money from dad to cover
some of his financial mistakes. he
thinks fathers and mothers advice
is pretty good sometimes.
Ten or fifteen years later when he
has had a lad or two of his own. the
old boy begins to wonder why he never
appreciated the old folks.
At sixty. when his parents are dead.
he idealizes them as the greatest
characters of their age and spends
hours telling his children how i'm
plicitly he always needed and obeyed
the slightest wish or command of his
parents and how he ever and always
took their advice in the crises of life.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
LARGEST ROYALTY CHECK.
Fortune Paid for the Memoirs of
Gen. Grant.

From the Detroit News.
In 1855 Mark Twain, who had his
financial ups and downs, was enjoy
ing a period of prosperity as the pub
Usher of his own books. The publica-
ton of the adventures of Huckle-
berry Finn" at that time had been
particularly profitable. and Clemens,
hearing that Richard Watson Glider
of the Century Company had been
discussing with Grant the publishing
Of his memoirs. called upon the gen.
eral. with whom he had long been on
intimate terms, for the purpose OF
finding out how far the project had
developed
1t soon appeared that the Century
editors desired the book. but would
not guarantee a profit of $4,000 to
the author. who had recently expert
enoed a failure in business and whose
health was breaking down.
Clemens. whose first and last
thought was to serve his friend. said:
General. l have my checkbook with
me. l will draw you check now for
S25,000 for the first volume OF your
memoirs, and will add a like amount
for each volume you may write as an
advance royalty payment.
An arrangement was made whereby
Grant received 20 per cent of the net
returns and. as is we'll known, the
book was vast success. The publi-
cation resulted in receipts by the
Grant heirs of about s450,o00. The
first check to Mrs. Julia D. Grant.
drawn February 27, 1885. for 100000.
remains the largest royalty check In
history.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
MOUNTAIN THAT SHIFTS.
Changeable Mound Of Sand in
Southwestern Desert.

From the Detroit News.
In the great desert regions of the
southwest there is remarkable
mountain of sand. The behavior of
it mystified the early settlers who
in the days of '49 followed the old
trail from Yuma to Los Angeles. The
mountain was constantly changing
form. The first pioneers mentioned 1T
to their friends as landmark by
which they might guide themselves
on their way into the new country.
but it changed its appearance SO
rapidly that many of them failed
to recognize it, wandered from the
trail and were lost in the desert.
People discovered later that 1t was
the strong winds that from time to
time sweep across the desert that
made the mountain act in so queer
a way When the wind blew II
shifted the loose sand from one spot
to another. built new domes and pin.
nacles and destroyed others, until
within short time the whole noun
tain presented an entirely new out
line against the sky.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
An American Race Type.
From the New York Sun.

lile NeW lorh sun
The assertion Of Dir. Hrdlicka of
the Smithsonian Institution that de-
scendants of the earlier Americans
exhibit distinguished physical char
acteriSticS. while not altogether novel.
is extremely interesting. occasion
ally foreign observers have spoken of
Americans al though they were TO
some extent a distinct race-as w. l..
George recently did IN writing OF
American women. The contention of
DR.. Hrdlicka tends to give some
scientific support to this impression.
DR.. Hrdlicka says that Americans
whose ancestors of three TO eight gen.
erations We're born in this country
possess a stature decidedly above the
average of others living here today,
and also above that of most Euro
peans He seems to believe that the
form of the head is also bit differ
ent. on the whole. larger.
The variation probably is due to
the fact that the earlier immigrants
to this country came mainly from
Great Britain and Ireland. while the
newcomers of the last few decades
came chiefly from other parts. Gil
mate has had time to affect descen-
dants of the early comers little.
whereas in the case of the later
arrivals it has not. Perhaps the often
discussed decline of the older stock
in relative reproduction and in virii-
inv may be partly the effect of the
survival of the fittest in the ADJUST
ment to new climate.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
Enjoys From Arab 'Empire'
Foreseen in World Capitals
Transjordania Ruler Declares Efforts of French to StiRe
Hedjaz Kingdom Sure to Fail-Mmisters
Showing Statesr,anship.

capital to secure information as to the
actual situation In the Arab world"
When IL was suggested that Trans
jordania, on account of it's geographi-
cal. political and strategical position.
would be the nucleus of the contem-
plated Arab empire, Abdullah's frm
: lips relaxed into a smile and his eyes
sparkled.
81 would not want that idea to
come from me-" he said. Yet history
never failed to support any effort for
Arab freedom"
Visited By Few Strangers.
Though Amman is only few hours'
ride from Jerusalem, it is visited by
few strangers. and travellers on the
! eastern side of the Jordan without
the turban or red fez on their heads
are looked upon with suspicion.
Transjordania is fertile country.
west. and where the farmer driving
loaded donkeys, where the BedouIn
jogging along with string or
camels and where even the goat
herder in the fields carries a rife
slung across his back. Despite this
touch of the primitive. the country has
few highways. colleges. schools and
hospitals and other improv ements
made within the last two years. in.
dicating a determination to meet ths
! west"
Great Britain created TrGnsjordanis
to satisfy the Arab ambitions for an
Independent kingdom and also fer
two purposes of its own-to form
| buffer state between its own Pales-
tine mandate and the hostile Bedouin
tribes and as counter irritant to
the French mandate in Syria. How
long Transjordania will work accord
ing to schedule remains to be seen.
Amman at the time of Alexander
! the Great was known as Philadelphia
and traces Of the Greek and Roman
occupation remain in the shape of a
ruined citadel on a hilltop and an
amphitheater on the opposite hillside.
Goats are now stabbed in the gal.
leries where once conquerors trod and
marble columns serve as benches IN
front of the Bedouin co4ee shopa.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
HARDEN WOUNDED
BY TWO ASSASS|NS
Nationalist Soldiers, Who
Marked Him for Death,
T Arrested for Attack.
Br the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN July 4. - Two men at
tackled Maximilian Harden. editor
and political writer. near his home
in the Grunewald, suburb of Berlin
yesterday. He wis taken uncon-
scious into the house, where he was
found to be suffering from five
wounds in the head. The assailants
were arrested
Herr Harden has incurred the
and was near the top of the list Of
men marked for assault. along with
Theodor Wolff and Max WarburG.
For the past six months Herr Har-
den has been less active than usual.
He also refrained from giving public
lectures. where he always was the
target for grilling by monarchists.
One OF the men arrested in connec-
tion with the attack on Harden is
named Weichardt.> the police an
bounced today. Weichardt. accord
ing to the police, possessed mem :
bership card in the Association OF
Nationalist Soldiers.
The attempt on the life of MaXimilian
Harden, one of the most noted Euro
pean publicists. comes just little more
than week after the assassination OF
Walter Rathenau, the German foreign
secretary. which took place in the
Grunewad.
Herr Harden in the course of the
war published many striking articles
in his newspaper. Die Zukunft, mostly
denouncing the policy of the German
government. He frequently aroused
the ire of the imperial authorities by
his statements. and in July. 1917, his
publication was suppressed for the re-
mander of the war.
In one of his articles that attracted
much attention he eulogiZed President
Wilson: in another he appealed for Ger
man democracy.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
LUCK AND BRIDES Wells.
Even Milliners' Models Keep Fin
gers Crossed While Trying On.

From the New York Evening Sun.
Lisette, whose clever fingers have
fashioned that miracle of beauty. the
wedding veil. for many of the smart
est brides in the city. was instructing
an apprentice. The apprentice was
young. so young that she still be-
lieved in the existence of her Prince
Charming. AS she watched Lisette's
busy fingers weaving orange blossoms
into the tulle she smiled.
When l am married l shall have
veil like that she asserted conf
IDENTIFY.
Lisette removed some pins from her
mouth and sighed a weary sigh as she
called for a model to try on her COM
pleted wedding veil.
The young apprentice was anxious
to please Lisette. Besides. she want
ed to see how she would look in a
wedding veil
IF you are in a hurry" she sug-
gested obligingly. TN stand while
you finish draping the veil
Lisette rolled her eyes in horror.
My child, no. Never. You are young
and you are pretty. Perhaps your
it by trying on wedding veil. II is
bad luck. You will never marry then. '
"Eut our models try on hundreds,
protested the young apprentice in her
disappointment.
That is different. 1t is their bus-
ness. For them it is not such bad
luck Besides. most of them stand
with their fingers crossed whenever
they have to try on wedding veil
or wedding dress. Even many
brides will not try on their wells and
dresses before their wedding day. and
they make us hunt up model that is
almost their double to stand for their
fittings
Lisette rather liked the young zap
prentice. So she leaned over con-
fidentially.
Listen. and / will tell you a secret
If you want to get husband you
must do what l say. Whenever you
work on a hat or veil for bride pull
out one Of your own hairs and sew it
up somewhere inside the crown. The
girls here almost fight for the priv
ilege of putting one of their own hairs
into each brides headcovering;'
And the young apprentice saw Lis
ette pull out one of her few fast
craving hairs and sew it into the
cloud of tulle and orange blossoms.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
NEW COMMUNITY CENTERS
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The drug store has come to be the
new center of community life and
scores of them in New York are
putting in cushioned seats around the
soda fountain, or stocking up with
tables and chairs where there is room,
and keeping open until long after
midnight. The closing of the saloon
and the shifting of women away from
pastry shops. have given the chemists
a new lease of life. At first it looked
as if the delicatesseners would fall
heir to the honor. and for a time in
Gotham they did get a strong play.
but the odors of the cooked meats,
and openly disniared prepa red salads
proved too much for the olfactory or
gans of the public.
Many discovered that eating after
midnight was harmful to the digestive
organs. In the last six months there
has been a gradual settling of custom
to accept the drug store as the legiti-
mate and only proper successor OF
the saloon. Through the brtght-liSht
belt the drug stores are crowded far
into the morning hours, and the time
worn question, where shall I meet
you?" now has for Its universal re-
sponse. AT the drug store"
What liquors are legally sold under
q physicians prescription are handed
over the counters of some drug stores.
The drug addicts find solace for their
cravings in haunting the proximity OF
the rooms and rows OF drug Jars. and
even if they cannot procure the
SNOW" to SNUFF up the nostrils or the
"shot" for the hypo needle. they like
to come in and hang around the place.
1t is possible for them in certain
places willing to take the risk to OBJ
tain their pleasure poison. Today
one can buy most anything in a drug
store, the drugs themselves forming
the smallest item in the days sales.
Just take notice from now on and
watch the steady growth in impor--
tance as a center for congregation OF
the drug store.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
FAVORS EX-C0NVICTS.
Rule of Restaurant Manager i
Engaging Walters.

John Dos Passos, in Asia.
the manager of popular New York
restaurant complacently, his gaze fol-
lowing the brisk movements of a
waiter. Il started it because /
thought those fellows ought to be
given a chance. Afterward / found
had done a good thing for myself in
giving them a trial, for most of them
have proved conscientious and more
reasonable than some of the walters
we had before"
He was speaking to patron about
his new rule of employment.
For the strange rule of employme ent
'here was to give preference to appli-
cants able to show that they had
served a term in some penal institu-
ton. Almost all the walters and some
of the other employees are eX-con
victs.
Among the walters there are only
two or three that display any of the
distinguishing features and manner
isms of the former cQpvict as he is
known to the stage, the screen. in
fiction or-for that matter-in reality.
The prevailing characteristic, how
ever, is genial desire to give satis-
factory service, and there is notable
absence of the SupercilllouSneS eSS
which some professional walters
habitually display.
There are weak faces among these
regenerated convict tray carriers, but
not one of them that suggests the
habitual criminal. Yet all seem cheer
full in their present employment and
eager to justify in every way the
trust imposed in them.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
WOMEN POOR LOSERS.
Reverses Are Taken Too Much to
Heart, Financial Expert Says.

Mary NJ Mcbride in the y. Y. Evening Mail.
Feminine psychology precludes the
possibility of woman being the
same sort of good sport" as man.
A man says so, albeit before he had
finished he seemed a little doubtful,
and finally was inclined to withdraw
his statement altogether. except as
qualified by the advice with which
he Garnished it.
eff you're woman this portentous
warning ran. don't gamble in stocks
and bonds. In other words. the bears
will probably get the woman who
buys on margin.
Since the advice giver was DR.. 5. ).
Huebner. professor of insurance ana
commerce of the Wharton School of
Finance at the University of PennSyl-
vania. possessor of an we-inspiring
string of degrees and author of books
even more awe inspiring, it may De
conceded that he speaks as one haV-
ing authority.
why aren women good sports L
demanded.
But they are" DIR. Huebner hastily
answered. Il did not say they are
not good sports. only that they are
not the same kind of good sports as
men. Men are born gamblers, most
of them, but women. being more m
petuous and less experienced, are in
clined to take losses too much TO
heart.
Besides. it is much more serious
for woman 10 lose all she has and
have TO start over again than for a
man. That is why I say woman
ought not to buy on margin. In fact,
she should leave the security market
strictly alone except where she buys
reliable securities outright for IN
vestment and puts them away
OF the eleven hundred students in
Dr. Huebner's classes. twenty-five. ne
saws. are women.
And" he added. his eyes twinkllng.
81 must confess they are some OF my
best students. Perhaps in future
years. with more contact with the
world and more study of business
problems women will overcome their
own pSNchOlogN.
Evening star., 1922-07-04
BOUND BY ROPE OF PEARLS.
So Princess Marie of Pless Remains
in Germany.
Chicago Herald and Examiner.

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
Princess Marie Theresa olivia Of
Pless, acknowledged the most beauti-
full princess in Europe, is prisoner
in Germany-bound by a strand of
pearls twenty-three feet long!+
Princess Marie, known to her
friends as Daisy" daughter of Mrs.
Corvallis West. the famous English
hostess. and sister of the Duchess
of Westminster is a virtual prisoner
at Partenkirchen, in the Bavarian
Alps. .-..-.--
She can leave Germany if she
wishes. but she would be forced to
give up her pearls, a string twenty
three feet long, numbering two thou
sand jewels in all; and she would
have to give up an annual income of
one million five hundred thousand
marks.
She is officially separated from
Prince Henry of Pless, her royal con-
sort, who lives at Castle Fuersten-
berg. Silesia.
"Td rather die here. she exclaim ed,
"than give up my pearls. my COM
panions, my badge Of coQuetry!"