The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-03-24
.DEsCE NDANTS OF
GREAT AMERICANS n | |: 4 A N"s'
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
OF FORMER PRESIDENTS ARE ).
E" WASHINGTON RESIDENTS. <
ROBERT TODD LINCOLN FIRST.
Princess cantacuzene, Former Julia
Grant, and Mrs. Lonoworth. Also
(. Prominent-Deeisio Definitely Fix
Ing Status Of Newspaper Men," IA
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

Ing Status Of Newspaper Men,"
~ BY EDWARD 3. CLARK ,52
Washington.-Pres pOsterity
is popular and plentiful in our prolific
midst. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant
secretary Of the navy, is u notable ad-,
dition. = r. Y ~ 49,. i
President Ulysses S. Grant has lent a
distinguished addition to the coterie Of
Presidents children and grandchildren
now citizens of the capital, in the res
idence here of Prince and Princess
Cantacuzene, of Russia. The princess,
the, former Julia Grant. here as q.
child, became more popular with her
lectures, magazine articles and work
in tile interest Of the Russian SUI
ferers! II -. &c., i. XIX. -, ~ II
+. In the group with Grants distin-,
guished granddaughter are Robert
Todd Lincoln. son Of the first mar
ztyred President, and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, the former PRINCESS Alice.
Mrs. Rosa Gouverneur Hoes, great
granddaughter of President James
Monroe, with relationship to several
other Presidents, is an expert III col
lecting costumes for the Presidential
display in the national museums from
Martha Washington to Florence King
Harding. -. 49,. .t,,9.. n. r.; - -
=: Engaged in Law: Practice. III
Thomas Watt Gregory, Wilson's at
tOrney general from Texas, has law
office in Washington, as has a. Mitch
ell Palmer, his successor in Office. The
whole. of Mr.. Wilson'S three Sec
retaries of state are in receptive
mood for briefs. William Jennings
Bryan is prepared fully to practice BE-
fore the District courts.
Two former Presidents are settled
down here for the rest of their nat
.ural lives. DIR. Woodrow Wilson has
hung out his shingle, as pledge thar
he means to stick to law. Joe Tumul-
ty has announced his Washington in
tentions legally and locally. William,
Howard Taft, chief Justice Of the Unit
ed States, surely is fixed for life. #
Another > secretary of state, Balm,
bridge Colby. junior member OF the
legal firm of Wilson &. Colby, is fixed:
fast in this fair city. Robert Lansing.
busy in the practice Of law the year
before he hooked III with DR.. Wilson
as secretary Of state, is now in part
nership here with Lester H. Woolsey.!
OF Learned Profession"
BY authority of the United States
government, it has been decided that
a newspaper man is a member Of a
LEARNED profession" -. =. III.
The decision will bring deep relief
to many persons in and out of the
game For long there has been con-
fusion on this vital question. Some
newspaper men have described them
selves as Journalists" which has
moved others to define a Journalist as
a newspaper man out Of q job. Others
have frankly aligned themselves with
labor, accepting the benefits and the
deprivations Of such alliance with up
parent equanimity.
Demand for Pure-Bred Horses.
That the horse is more than hold
ing his own in spite of the increased
use of motor vehicles is the surprising
condition revealed by the census bu-
reau figures, just issued, which show
that there is one horse for every house
in the United States, while only one
family in four can hope to have an
automobile. -.
The horse census shows total Of
21,S4e,OG6 horses in the country, Iowa
leading all other states with a total
of 1886, 522; with Illinois a close sec.
ond, Kansas third, then Texas, Ne
braska, Minnesota and Missouri. Only
six in every thousand horses, however,
are pure-bred. = I, ~. ''-%'
The government is giving practical
assistance to farmers and breeders in
improving the breed of American
horses, through the remount service
Of the army, which last year supplied
the use of 120 highly bred stations
purchased at a cost Of $4,000, by
congressional appropriation. The num-
Der was further augmented through
the donation of s. pure-bred stations.
valued conservatively at $2JO,OOO, by
members Of the American Remount as
ISOLATION. Ssl r .rf.r > - 49,.
"While the number of horses in the
country at present is sufficient and our
draft stock unsurpassed, there is a
woeful shortage Of good horses" said
A. A.. Cederwald,. secretary Of the as
ISOLATION. here recently. "This is evil
dent from the demand and the prices
Mt which the best sell, while the in
ferior ones cannot be sold for what it
has cost to raise them. = -
.'''Tfis is the age of efficiency in
everything. and this applies as strong
" to the horse as to anything else.
The demand Is for the horse that can
do the job efficiently and economically,
pulling Il heavy load Or working I'M
der the saddle. If one is breeding
draft horses, he should produce the