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PAGE TWO I I fr 8# **r SLggA BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER --triTBXiXSHSD 8TEBT APTEBKOOJI BZOBFT BUHDAT THE BEXXDJX PIONEER FUBUSKXXfil OO. 0AB80B W TK&SFKCUTX Ma Entered at the poatofflce at Bemidji, Minn, econd-ela matter under act of Congress of March 3. 187. No attention paid to annonytnoua contribution* Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insu re publication in the curre nt issue StTBSCBXVXION SATB8 XT CABBIXB 8 SCAX& One yew 98.00 One year 14.00 lx months Three months Six months 8.00 gKwsrt*.:::::..:::::::::: am IM TXS WZBXXT 3FZOHBBB Tea sexes, oontainlng* a summary of the news of the week. Published rerr Tharsday and sent pottage paid to any address, for, In advance $1.50 OTTCCXAK OOTJKTT AWD COT FBOCBDUrQS A LIABILITYOR AN ASSET? We don't need to be told that war is wasteful. We have already surmised it. If generals of all ages, down to Napoleon, can watch us from their present habitation, they will take on an increase of cynicism. They were probably cynical enough before they died. They learned the futility of trying to create something by a policy of destruction, and must feel some disappointment at this epoch. We have learned nothing from their mistakes. We build cathedrals, and shoot them to bits with cannon. We raise and educate a generation to make hecatombs of it. Most of us have at least the excuse that we are fighting to destroy something that .hoped for aggrandizement out of conquest. But it is absurd that such a policy should have sur- vived. Angels weep, the poets tell us, but at times they must feel tempted to laugh. And yet, for us in progressive America, the process is not one of waste. Our young men will return from France with a developed efficiency heretofore undreamed of. Have you ever read figures giving details of the system of piping that carries water to the battle-front? As the front changes the system changes, and the new formations can be foreseen. Here are problems which our young engineers learn to solve with a speed and precision never developed in time of peace, because they were unnecessary. Do you know that armored tanks charge into battle with telephone wires laid out to keep them in touch with the main command? Field batteries also manuever without failing to get answers to "Hello, Central." Do you know that by teamwork forty American soldiers erected a steel bridge over a hundred feet long in five minutes? We didn't need to do these things in time of peace: so we didn't learn how. In scores of other ways young Americans in France daily achieve the impossible. The fruits of their experience will be reaped in Americahere in Bemidji when peace is declared. Many peaceful trades are dangerous. The half-built sky- scraper, the railroad, the machine-shop daily make work for the surgeon but in half a century surgery would never have made the strides that it has made in four years of war. Even the telephone wire is now used to locate an internal wound, and this is only one of thousands of expedients lately devised for relieving human pain. War is wasteful but for that voiv reason it teaches con- servation and inventiveness. We shall icilize this when 5,000, 000 young American magicians return hom Europe. BIRDS OF A FEATHER. (Duluth News-Tribune.) It is not difficult to understand the indignation of loyal citizens at the appointment of C. A. Lindbergh of this state, to be an attorney representing labor the federal war in- dustries board. But why the surprise? Lindbergh was but one more of his kind singled out for distinction by this adminis- tration. He was given -but a subordinate position along with more prominent and important authority bestowed upon Baker, Creel, Walsh and the rest, while Henry Ford is especially se- lected for the senate. Lindbergh as candidate of the Non- partisan league, was emphatically repudiated by the people ot this state largely because of disloyal statements in his book, "Why Our Country Is In the War," and because of the disloyal record of the league leaders. But is he any worse than Creel who thanked God our country was unprepared when war came and who has given "priority" to publicity that has bamfoozled the people? Has this administration at any time or anywhere shown any hos- tility to the Nonpartisan league or any disfavor toward it? In Minnesota thn prosecutions of league leaders for sedition have all been on the initiative of state and county officials. The federal department has been very kind to them. It has expended its energies on men like Jim Peterson and the Princeton veterinary, who needed it in the opinion of many, no more than Townley's brood. Yet there may be surprise at the sort of men the adminis- tration seemed to think represent labor, and working men have a right to take judicial notice, as. it were of the estimate placed upon their loyalty. It was not enough to have Walsh who is distinctly Bolshevik in his expressed sentiments, to head the wage board as labor's exponent, but Lindbergh was picked as their especial attorney. It was Walsh who favored the I. W. W. in Minnesota and Arizona. It was Lindbergh who in one of his speeches in congress showed like sentiments. Do such men distinctly and actually voice the beliefs of the wage earners of this country? Evidently this administra- tion believes they do. The president has placed his ban on several congressional candidates who certainly were no more opposed to his war policies than was Lindbergh. These war times surely are strange times. Well! Well! Well! If the "volunteer" democrats in the state capital, St Paul, haven't trotted out a candidate to put dear old Knute Nelson out of his senatorial seat at Washington, and they are getting ready to launch a tirade of abuse upon the veteran statesman. And if you want to see one of the most artistic trimings administered to a political interloper, just keep your eye on Senator Nelson on election day. War against China has been declared by the Bolsheviki. It is a'strife that has long existed in the kitchens of America and has been charcterized, by many a great smash. ^^gti&H^ffi^^tl^^- NEWRULESFB3USE OF WHEftT FL Mr, Hoover Changesfe^ilation3 Puts Americans on An Equality With Allies. TWENTY-EIGHTY RATIO INSTEAD OF FIFTY-FIFTY This Mean* That Only 20 Per Cent of Substitutes Are Required Now. In the new wheat flour regulations recently announced by Herbert C. Hoover, United States food admini strator, in a message to A Wilson, federal food administrator for Minne sota, it is declared to be the intention to place the United States, England, France, and Italy all on an equality as to war breads, that all may "share and share alike" Consequently it is pro vided that the wheat bread of all shall contain 20 per cent ot other grains than wheat In line with this plan, the new regu lations call for the use and sale of flours to be known as "Victory Mixed Flours" and to be labeled with the in gredients in the order of their propor tion. The mixed flours, however, must be mixed and milled in accordance with the standards of the food admini stration The rules for mixing the Victory Mixed Flours follow: Mixed wheat and barley flour shall be In the proportion of four pounds of wheat Hour for every pound of barley flour Mixed wheat and corn flour sha ll contain the proportions of four pounds of wheat flour to one pou nd of corn flour Mixed wheat, barley and corn flour shall contain eight pounds of wheat (lour to one pound of barley and one of corn flour Mixed wheat and rye flour shall contain the proportions of thiea pounds of wheat flour to wo pounds of rye flour Whole whea t, entire whea t, or graham flour or meal shall con tain at least 95 per cent of the wheat ber ry All of these mixed flours may be sold witho ut substitutei but at no greater price from the miller, wholesaler,' or retailer th an in the case of standard wheat flout Present stocks ot mixed flours, containi ng 20 par cent or mme of substitute s, may be without substitut es until exhausted If thev contain less than 20 per cent of substitutes, a pound of subst i tutes must be sold with every fojur pounds of the mixed flours Pancake and self-rising flours con taining substitutes may be manu factured only upon special permit from the food administration, and may be Sold without substitut es if they contain 20 per cent oi more of substitut es othei than rye Fifty-Flfty Rule Suspended. The new regulations do away with the 50-50 rule The retail* dealer, sell ing standard wheat flour 1B required to carry in stock either barley flour, corn meal, or corn flour, and with every sale of wheat flour must sell in com bination one pound of substitute for every four pounds of standard flour The following flours may also be sold in combination Kaffir flour, milo flour, feterita flour or meal, rice flour, oat flour, peanut flour, bean flour, po tato flour, sweet potato flour, buck wheat flour Pure flour or meal may be sold as substitute in the pro portion of at leaBt two pounds of rye to three pounds of wheat flour Caking Rules Changed. The following changes have been made In the rules governing the bak ing trade. Utile 1 A, requiti ng that the con sumption of wheat In bakery prod ucts shall not exceed 70 per tent of the'" 1917 consumption, is re scinded Rule 2 A. with rega id to wheat flour substitutes remains as here tofore except as to rye, which will be a substitu te t-n used uptr i a basis of not less than 40 per cent, or two pounds ot r\e flour to three pounds of -wheat flour If less tit in this proportion of r\ flour is used the dlfTerente between the amount used a nd 40 per rent must be ma de up from oth er substitutes Rule A will now require bak ers to use one pound of substitutes for ever\ four pounds of whe at flour in all products sa\ Class 3 A Crackers, in which only 10 per cent of substitutes other than rye will be requited The use of the word "Victory" will be allowed In naming all -products com plying with any of the foregoing re quirements All limits on quantity sales to con turners including the thirty days' sup ply to consumers and supplies for a specified period to farmers on ex change transactions are removed The food administration expects the con sumer however to purchase with mod eration and practice conservation with great care Manufacturers ot Victory Mixed Flours must take out internal revenue licenses and pay special taxes as here tofore On all custom and exchange trans actions, mills, elevators, or grain deal era must either deliver to the farmer whole wheat, graham or prescribed mixed flours or sell him the required proportion of substitutes in cbmbina lion with standard wheat flour, except that the federal food administrators, with the approval of their zone oom mittees may authorize in their states the usual certificate to be* accepted from the farmer showing that he has purchased or ground the required amount of substitutes. Secret of True Industry. How profitable is it for erery one of us to be reminded, as we are remind ed when we make ourselves aware of the derivation of diligence from "dill go to love, that the only secret or true induatrv is loYe of tint worfc! R. C. Trench. 3S**S rf^i _***- 1 A I5n&&^-T33&**^T*2&y-iSTJ^ f^j*?Sf^^ *Sffcft. \r-j THE &EMIDJI DAILY PIONEER 9L/ j?~*,'xs &* hr RESTING AMONG DEADLY BOMBS British Tommies take possession of a Geiman hand grenade dump after a counter-attack in Picardy. They are shown resting at ease among the death-dealing bombs. Orde To Stop Paper The War Industries Board at Washington has issued the following ruling: "ALL NEWSPAPERS MUST DISCON- TINUE SENDING PAPERS AFTER DATE OF EXPIRATION, UNLESS SUBSCRIPTION IS RENEWED AND PAID FOR." Of course newspapers will be compelled to obey this order and must stop papers when the time is up. Subscribers receiving their paper by mail are hereby notified to watch the YELLOW LABEL ADDRESS which is pasted on*the front page of your paper and which shows you the date your subscription expires. When the time of expiration approaches renew your subscription' so that you will not miss a single issue. City subscribers, whose papers are delivered by carrier, will be notified by collector or through the mail of their expiration, and we trust they will renew promptly, thus insuring continuous service. We will win this war Nothing else really matters until we do! The Flavor Lasts AM"** *m jr' MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1913 BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DOCTORS Dr. A. E. Henderson Office iu O'Leary-Bowser Blk Bemidji Telepho ne 72-R TH0RWALD LUNDE DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC Acute and Chronic Diseases handled with great success 1st Nat: Bank Bldg Phone 406-W Hours 10-12 a 2-5 7-8 OB. C. B. SAWBOBN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OfficeMIIPS Block A. fcrAJ&LOCiC, Jtt. 1 SPECIALIST EYE BAR NOSE THROAT Gldbses Pitted ra. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Security Bank Block DH. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 39? Res phone 397 DB. L. A. WAED PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bemidji, Minn. i)KS. GILM0EE & McCANN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OfficeMiles Block Ms3- A DENTISTS DR. J. W. DIEDRICH DENTIST Offlfe, O'Leary-Bowser Bide Office Phone 376-W Res. 376-H SB. J. T. TTJOMT DENTIST _.,. North of Markham Hotel Gibbons Block Tel 230 DR. D. L. STANTON DEN Tlin OfMoB hi Winter Block LAWYERS GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYl Miles Blo.k Phone 660 VETERINARIANS E. R. BURGESS, D. V. M. Veterinarian Office Phone 3-R 3rd St. and Irvine Ave. Office and Hospital 3 doors west of Troppman's Phone No. 209 3rd St and Irvine Ave BUSINESS NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY Dwight Miller-^ W E CAN Insure Anything Anywhere Offices Security Bank BldgTel 747 PHOTOGRAPHS i in LIIM Bojs raiiie Sittings Made Day or Nieht HAKKERUP STUDIO UNERAL, DIRECTOR M. E. IBEBTS0N UNDERTAKER 105 Rpltrami Ave Bemidji, Minn DRY CLEANING letbt-s ^ie~uers tor Men, Women etui Children fflte GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, Dry Gooda, Shoes, Flour, Feed, etc W G. SCHR0EDER Bemidji Phone 66 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines 117 Third St, Bemidji BISIAR, Mgr Phone 573-W TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER Res Phone 68 818 America Office Phone 12 4 +r- NORTHROP OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Ibertso* Block Office Phone 163 DR. EINER JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Bemidji, Minn ft *jr ..lafcra ^ay V* Htfn