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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-08-08

Chances are that even H. N. Nc
Kee wouldn't recognize this picture
if his name wasn't used in connec-
ton with it. Even then he may not
admit it. But it's him and there's
mo getting around that. Like all un-
dertakers, he leads quite life es-
pecially in this live community where
the only dead ones are in no position
to interfere with the progress Of the
cimmunity. .
Since this fellow "buries' his dead'
he might be induced to take the
part of Indian Brave during the
showing of the pageant at the North
ern Minnesota fair,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-08-08
TROOPER ONEIL'' At REX
TONIGHT AND. TOMORROW

"Trooper O'Neil" will be shown
at the Rex thester for two days be-
ginning today. :,
This is the kind Of outdoor tale
that William Fox presents in
"Trooper O'Neil' starring Charles
Jones. It was written by George
Goodchild, the well known fiction
author, who has contributed other
stories to the screen, The picture
has been received very favorably
wherever shown. Charles Jones
ability as an actor has long been
recognized by the most discriminate
ing picture followers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-08-08


"E. M. Satire hasn't been here
very long" remarked an old timer
the other day. But at that he has
been here nearly longi enough to
be classed as an old timer even
though he may not look it. If he
could be induced to talk trifle
faster, he might be good material for
the pageant to be staged here this
month, provided of course he is not
given much to say.
At the present time, Mr. Satire
is engaged in farming, in the abb
stract business and is also active
in the Bemidji Business College to
some extent. He might be asked to
take part in the pageant. He always
did appreciate a good joke.
YYAT vi
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-08-08

Fred Malzahn was a pioneer res
ident of this community before they
ever began to call it a community.
1t wasn't even a "burg" in those
days. 1t was just a "place." He has
watched Bemidji grow and prosper
and from all indications he will
spend the balance of his days here
and at that he still has quite a bal
ance.
Ere dis anothe rof those fellows
who might be consulted by the pag-
cant directors in securing details of
the early history of Northern Mimi
esota to be used in the staging Of
Of the pageant here this month in
connection with the fair.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-08-08
A1qlKIE;lNlEYB&
"HEAD OVER HEELS" AT THE
GRAND THEATER TOMORROW

GRAND THEATER TOMORROW
There is no droller coincidence on
the screen than Mabel Normand and
in her newest Goldwyn comedy
"Head Over Heels" coming to the
Grand .theater Tor two days Begin
ming tomorrow, Wednesday she is
seen at her drollest and most laugh
provoking. It's q whirlwind theatre
cal love story in which athletic
Mabel plays the part of a little
Italian acrobat. It has the most con-
tagious fun Of the seasons screen
comedies. -
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
The PubLic's Interest in
Street RaiLUay Matters
BY BILL PRICE.

The attitude of the chairman of the Public Utilities
Commission that he has "no objection to street
railways selling three tokens for 20 cents is beside
the question.
1t is extremely kind to give railways 'permisson'
to do if they desire. Unless there is change in
their policies they will not care to do SO, because
reduction in the number of tokens allowed to be sold
at one time will be equivalent to loss in the cash
fares of cents paid by poor people, who do not
find cash so plentiful.
1t should not be function of the public Utilities
Commission to merely grant PERMISSION. The
Commission is clothed with definite authority and
if it should order the sale of three tokens the street
railways will promptly comply
1t ought not to be forgotten that street railways
run for the benefit of the public. To serve the
public in the most satisfactory should be
the aim of every utility. The Public Utility Commits
sion created to that the public is not over
looked.
SO long as the Commission protects public utility
In obtaining fair returns upon watered stocks
and bonds 1t has done its duty 1t is not corporations
that need guarantees against oppression Their we'll
paid lawyers and their organizations that THEY
GET what's coming to them But there isn't any
body to look after the public except the few volun-
teer civic leaders, who do their best.
The joke of the present cartoken situation is that
the companies would like to sell tokens in larger
numbers that conductors will not be disturbed 50
often, but they refuse to sell fifteen tokens for an
even dollar because that would set precedent for
selling three for 20 cents
Just square deal for the poor is all that is asked
in the sale of tokens. The small loss to the railways
that would follow three-for-twenty order by the
Commission would be insignificant in comparison to
the principle involved that the interests and con-
venience of the public-and even poor people are
part of the publc-should at all times be considered
in transportation matters
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
We TOWNE GOSSIP

BY K. C.. B.

Dear X. c. b have read your letter IN
the New Yorr American regarding letter you
received from Private MoGrath in reference to
a testament he found and forwarded to you.
with the name Of L, G. Brown in It and ON the
ny leaf TO my soldier boy. Lowell. from Aunt
Nsttie."
Lowell g Brown Il think you have made
mistake In the "o") was my lifelong chum and
dear friend. We grew up together. here In
Dover, N. j.. he stood up with me At my wed
ding. and he enlisted In the Engineer Corps In
October 1917. He was killed in action on
July 10 at the beginning of the second battle
of the Marne and his body now lies in a GENE
terry at Easton, Pa, where his parents now
reside The American Legion In the latter
named city have named their post In his honor
as he was the first enlisted man from Baston
to die. know his entire family and he has an
Aunt Nettis who lives In Boston His fathers
name 10 Clarence Brown
1t would certainly make me very happy and
glad II you would send me the testament,
which could forward to his aunt II such be
her wishes. or. II not It would be q priceless
treasure to me. Respectfully,
RAYMOND ]. BAYLOR
II West Clinton st. Dover, N. J.
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
THEY'RE HUMAN
William Anterior Du Puy.

When Raymond Poncare. the premier OF
France, was a student in Nancy, he bore the
nickname, prudence Lorraine" it being bred
Of that characteristic which even then domi.
mated his actions, and OF the community in
which he born.
He of line OF students, and Henri
Poincare Of the most famous mathema-
tcians of his age, is his first cousin.
AS young lawyer he came down to Paris
and for three years worked a journalist.
He listens to the interviewer's English and
followed it perfectly, but responds in French.
Col. John McElroy, civil war veteran, and
guiding spirit in the G. A. r., fought in many
battles and spent much time in Andersonvie
prison. This latter experience he capitalized,
however, by putting 1t into a book Of which
100000 copies were sold
Not long ago a young friend OF the colonel
tried to pin him down to a statement of fact
to just whether not he had killed a man
during the war. Finally he admitted that he
aware of personal responsibility for the
death of one Southerner.
They had quite fight and the Confederates
won. The Union forces beat precptous
retreat. One Southerner seemed to pick on
McElroy, pursued him hotly for ten miles,
but never quite overlook him. Finally he fell
dead from exhaustion.
Around the Supreme Court OF the United
States they still tell Of the intellectual feats
of Associate Justice Louis d. Brandeis when he
a practitioner with hobby for taking cases
where the public interest involved.
There the time, for instance, when Oregon
made so bold as to pass a law forbidding women
being worked more than ten hours day.
There a great hulabsloo about interference
with the right to contract"
Mr. Brandeis prepared brief of 104 pages.
Three of these pages were devoted to law and
101 of them to the effect of long working hours
on women and on the Brandeis won his
case
Realizing, however. that this but the first
skrmish in long campaign, Mr.. Brandies kept
eighteen researchers at work for six months
more compiling information upon the subject
Of the woman worker and long hours. His
brief was expanded to 5000 pages, but his legal
argument remained three pages in length.
When, later, the same Constitutional questions
arose in Illinois and in Ohio, the advocate Of
the people ready.
Copyright, 1922.
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
Winter Sport
BY Angela Morgan.

n RISK is the wind that sets my pace,
II Sharp is the snow upon my face
~ The cold and l shall run a race.
Too long, unfriendly and afraid,
The cold and l apart have staid;
Now we shall romp as youth and maid.
Now shall the foolish tale be told
Of how a mortal hates the cold
And bargains for the firelight's gold.
Now shall the silly mood of woe
That held me but an hour ago
Be lost in flying wind and snow.
A singing race shall now begin
OF Will against the stupid sin
OF soft indulgence who shall win?
Brisk is the wind and keen the sky.
o trees and homes that filter by
You cannot stay me If you try!
Now shall / laugh, who once with pain
Would hide from icy wind and rain - =
My hearth shall beckon me in vain.
o hearth that hade a slave of one
Who finds her life at last begun,
Your tyranny for me is done!
Copyright BY King Features Syndicate. Ine.l
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
America Will See
1t All Through

past, and so forth and so on ad
nauseam.
AS a matter Of fact, we have
never been isolated. But there
is no more need today than ever
before of meddlesome relations or
of entangling alliances or of
partial pacts.
On the contrary, it is high time
that we saw through all the
machinations-whether of. Eng
land or France or any other ma
tion-which undertake to win our
material might and our moral in
fluence for the support of their
transparency selfish national
schemes.
To international complications
we can always offer that demo-
cratic remedy which we are ready
to take for our own internal
TROUBLES"
If we really believe in America
and her sovereign remedy of
democracy for all the worlds
desperation and aspiration, we
shall easily see through it all and
safely see it all through.
The Washington times., 1922-03-06

l am a farmer, also a retail
merchant. Have $50 pounds of
wool to sell. I sold my wool to
a manufacturer. got $37.70
for my wool, 10 cents and IT
cents a pound. l ordered a
suit of clothes from a manu-
facturer. The suit of clothes
cost me $49.02. There
is four pounds Of wool in
the suit of clothes. could
have bought the same suit in
cotton material for $1,000, and
cotton is worth s cents more
than wool per pound today, and
it takes five pounds of cotton
to make a suit of clothes.
There were no retailers in
either proposition.
am a farmer. / have goats
to sell. I cannot sell the goats,
so | order my men to kill them.
I bring the goat skins to town,
send them to a dealer, who
sends me back 5 cents for a
goat hide. One goat hide makes
three pairs Of pebble goat
shoes. These shoes retail for
$3.50 a pair, therefore realiz-
ing $1,000 from one goat hide
that brought me 8 cents. The
next time / had goats to kill
told my man to throw the
hides to the hogs, as il cost me
10 cents to get the goat skinned
and I only realized 5 cents for
the skin.
A farmer lives sixteen miles
from the railroad. He has
raised 400 barrels of corn. The
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
DO You Wonder the
Farmers GrOUL?

n H. JONAS, of Nashville, Tenn, wholesaler in mil
Nl lnery notions coaks, ribbons silks, etc., sends
letter from one of his customers, farmer as well
as retail merchant That letter. printed here lets you
know how the farmer feels, what happens to him and
WHY he is disconnected.
1t interests you, although you may be neither farmer
nor retailer For you buy shoes and Clothes and like
others, you wonder what is wrong Do not imagine that
those that sell the clothes shoes making all the
money Last January there were more failures among
retailers than ever before in the United States
THERE is SOMETHING THE NATTER WITH THE
WAY WE DO BUSINESS!
There are too many false notions too much wasted
effort, too many mddlemen.
If the farmers who their intention to rn the
country hereafter can fix that for u.s. shall be obliged
to them Here is the communication from the farmer
merchant
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
OLd-Tinle
Etiquette
.HESTERTON goes so far as
to saw that this must be the

1
~ grouchiest, gloomiest and
most despairing epoch of all time
because there is so much cheer-up
literature. A happy people would
not need continually to be told to
look pleasant.
You can tell the manners of any
people by the Don'ts directed at
them.
There wouldn't be any sign
"Wipe Your Feet" unless people
had the habit of tracking mud in
from the street onto the carpet.
There would be no placard "No
Smoking" if gentlemen did not
smoke.
So by a kind of negative, back
action and reflex process you can
tell the temper of any time, the
character of any society and the
tendency of any age by the warn
ings and exhortations that are
leveled at them.
A little old book recently fell
into our hands which, by the
above course of argument, would
go to prove that present-day man.
ners must be rather good and
that our honored ancestors must
have been pretty rough.
It is "The Gentlewomen's Com
panion," and its author was Mrs.
Hannah Woolley. 1t seems to
have been a standard book On Ell
quette in the seventeenth century
and we commend it to those who
say that the "former days were
better than these"
Mrs. Woolley finds it needful
to warn her gentle readers as fol-
lows:
Discover not by any raven
Gus gesture your hungry appe-
tite, nor fix your eyes too
greedily on the meat before
you, as if you would devour
more that way than your throat
could swallow.
Close your lips when you eat,
and do not smack like a pig.
(And this was not written for
farm hands and railroad construc.
ton gangs, but for nice young
ladies.) The writer continues:
1t is very uncomely to drink
so large a draught that your
breath is almost gone, and you
are forced to blow strongly to
recover yourself.
The elegant and accomplished
adviser did not add that it is not
good form to put your foot on the
ham bone in endeavoring to sepa-
rate the meat, nor to throw hard
boiled eggs across the table, nor,
in sudden anger, to swat your ia
BILE companion with a pumpkin pie
still, they did not have pumpkin
pies in those days.
A committee of humorists should
be appointed to bring Mrs. Wool
ley's book up to date.
The Washington times., 1922-03-06

Price that he might realize from
the corn from the time |. is
delivered to the station and the
freight rates would not pay
back to pay fnf the taxes on
taxes on his property. There
fore, he is holding his corn
his farm
A cotton dealer in a Tennes-
see town wanting TO ship his
cotton to a manufacturer of
hosiery sixteen miles away by
railroad, placed his cotton on
the railroad PLATFORM and Off
cred it to the railroad company
for shipment. The price the
agent required at regular
freight rates for shipping was
so abnormally high that he
applied to some farmers sons
to haul the cotton to it's des.
tination, which was twenty.
four miles by a dirt road, and
they hauled it for AZ cents a
bale less than the railroad COM
pany, and made one load in two
days, and made IS a day for
hauling, and the parties who
did the hauling were glad to
have the chance to make this
money, whereas the railroad
company could have hauled it
in forty minutes. This cotton
was transported over a country
dirt road, no pike, for he men
toned that II it were a pike
road, he could have hauled It
in half the time, and the
charges would have been half
thu amount.
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
Do You Know

The pulse gradually slows
down through life. A new.
born infant has a pulse Of
100 to 40 beats per minute.
An adults pulse ranges
from seventy to seventy.
five in health, while in old
age the rate Ia from sixty
to seventy.five.
The Dead sea Is so-called
because no living thing can
exist in II, on account Of
the extreme salinity Of It's
waters. The Red sea was
originally named the Sea OF
"Edon," Eden meaning
red" or muddy"
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
wRONGED.
] THANK you.

WRONGED.
81 wish could diet" she said. Nov stand
there like fool, too cowardly to say what
you're thinkngp
"My DEAR he replied, 'T'm not thinking
what you think I'm thinking. don't want
you to die until the baby's at least two years
older"
Love laughs at locksmiths, but not when a
man is jailed for the non.payment of alimony.
1t is very difficult for any young woman to
keep a permanent roll in her stocking-with
prices where they are. "
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
A MERICA needs the full faith
~ of all her citizens. She must
L. Lr.;JIaI o,.k &c H. Lol;oc


of her children.
More truly than any other great
nation, the United States is the
composite of the character of her
citizenry. Older nations, physical
ly made up more nearly of one
kind and, spiritually, of long
continued traditions, can more
easily maintain their historic
type.
Like a certain make of automo-
bile, such nations may run for a
time on the reputation of their
past record.
America is relatively young and
variously human. She is distinct
ly in a state of unstable equilibri-
UNI. Her policies, therefore, are
subject to change, because even
the elemental proportions of her
population continuously change.
America is brooding over the
situation. We are studying our
population and our problems, and
their relation to the rest of the
world and its problems.
WE SHALL NOT SHIRK OUR
PROBLEMS; BUT WE DO NOT
MEAN TO SOLVE THOSE OF
OTHER PEOPLES.
Like Mr.. Brittling, we shall see
it all through!
However, it is time that we
added discernment to determina-
ton. Not only should we see all
our own affairs through, BUT WE
SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE
THROUGH ALL THAT THE
OTHER POWERS SEEK TO
PROPOSE TO US OR TO I'M
POSE UPON US.
In other words, however young
we are as a nation, we are old
enough now to know what we
want; to have fixed purposes and
definite principles; to have a ma
tional character sufficiently devel-
oped so that we shall be beyond
the vagaries of immaturity and
beyond the suggestibility of sus-
ceptible youth.
Again, however mixed may be
our elements, we should by this
time be so we'll Americanized
land that demand is made of
Mayflower descendant and recent
immigrant alikeD that both do
nestle and foreign policy shall be
dependably expressive of our dem
ocratic character.
Knowing that the ultimate
ruler of our democracy is Public
Opinion, we mean to compose that
Opinion of the responsible and
intelligent private opinions of as
many millions of enlightened
Americans as possible.
BY this process we expect to
bring to bear upon our internal
problems the increasing demand
of the Democratic Ideal, so that
gradually all our institutions, po-
litical, economic, educational,
and all our multiform American
life, shall become fully democra-
tized.
Neither Old World traditions
nor rooted prejudices can halt
this process, short of complete re-
alization. For instance, not even
our momentary terror of bolshe-
vism (real or pretended) can pre-
vent our progress toward an in
dustrial democracy which will be
neither the domination of pluto
cracy nor the dictatorship of the
proletariat, but the rule Of all the
people in their economic rela-
tons.
The working out of democracy
in our industrial concerns is our
The Washington times., 1922-03-06

TO LoWELI's chum.
AND THE wounded
boy.
WHO saouoHrn
back.
AND w.o still lies,
ON A narrow white
bed.
WILL BE glad to
know.
IT WAS through him.
THAT THE little
book.
IN The cycle Of time.
AsrouNo 1T. way.
BACK INTO the
hands.
OF THOSE who loved.
THE SOLDIER boy.
WHO DIED in France
The Washington times., 1922-03-06

Science steps on doormat
Of civilization and rubs
welcome" right off.
I LANDMARKS OF Ameri-
can history are evap.
Grating like bootleggers in
raid. Only thing left is
Plymouth Rock, where Pill
grims landed without oppo.
sition. They developed
that themselves just re.
Gently. II we could crack
Plymouth Rock up and
spend II that would also go
into cash register of finance.
MANHATTAN was traded
AVA for string Of beads and
bottle of whiskey. Where is
either now? Gone before
march OF progress. You can
have beads.
HISTORIC mounds of st.
- Louis are being SHOW
eled away to make room
for factories. Battlefields
also. Where Washington
fought and bled, profiteers
have bought and fled.
OUR famous battlescow
" Oregon is being busted
up into shoe horns. Where
Is our original Constitution
Of U. s.? Have you seen
that lately? Doesn't matter.
We amt using 1t.
NOUS buildings got
= ripped out to make way
for home for flivvers. Place
where Franklin first flew
kite is now dizzy sanitarium
where everybody flies kites.
II UT we must progress,
~ and romance never paid
interest on mortgages.
Monticello, Valley Forge,
Ticonderoga, Mt. Vernon,
Independence Hall. Bunker
Hill will soon be only back
seats in some new palatial
moving picture theaters.
CADDEST Of all Is Texas
~ Alamo. Where Travis,
Crockett and Bowie gazed
out into eyes Of inflamed
Mexicans, scampering tour
lists now stand and gaze
into hooks and eyes of five
and ten-cent store.
IVES, sir, Mr.. Woolworth
- has big store right
across from the Alamo.
The Washington times., 1922-03-06
HISTORY A
LA MODE
BY BUGS" BAER.

A LII things must wither
up like whiskers being
singed by graduate OF pyro-
maniac branch of barber
college. Progress makes
history look like 1t Is in
on one old raincheck. In
dustry flattens out romance
like thumbs in door lambs.
Science steps on doormat
Of civilization and rubs
welcome" right off.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-31
COTTON DOOMED
NEAR HENRIETTA
Farmers and Tenants
Agree to Plant Feed
Crops

HENRYETTA, Aug. S0.--Realiz-
Tsde by the boil weevil on the cot
Ion crop OF this section, aud the dlf-
nculty In checking the ravages OF
the pest, the Henryetta chamber OF
commerce has begun u campaign
among the farmers to induce them
10 produCe other crops. lnvestiga-
uon finds both the landlord and
the tenant will gladly give up cot
ton for a more certain and profit
able crop Further investigation
leads to the fact that while the
sweet potato and the white or irish
potato were abundant crops, and 80
per cent certain. wheat and oats
we're also good producers in certain
lands Of the district.
Taking this as n que, the matter
o. wheat was offered with the view
Of establishing "A Touring mill in
Henryetta. and one land owner who
was in the city with his tenant try
,ng to raise premium on the first
hale OF the season. It being the en-
tire produce of six acres that is
what the boil weevil left, said he
Wolld start the wheat subscription
acres with 500 acres, ana allow his
tenant 500 acres more, and that
tsyer again would he attempt 10
Toy a stalk of cotton. Another
land owner followed with 500 acres
and from this a wheat growing as
so,ation was Immediately formed
With q subscription list left at the
chamber of commerce. and~the vari-
on; business houses, where pledges
to' wheat acreage are TO be taken.
w. D, Marler. a merchant-farmer,
sao heads the list with 1000 acres
divided between himself and tenant,
has also started stock list for the
erection Of a flour mill, and with the
sn,ouragement already received
states that he will have the mill in
ope!ation when the first crop Of
EAea, OF 1928 is brought to the Hem
Vetta market, and that he hopes TO
see the end OF cotton growing IN
me Henryetta district.