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4, !M* IA 4 nr7.VA%*j, %(f.^o* MY CENSORSHIP BEYOND THE RHINE Close Tab Kept on German Lines of Communication, MUCH LATITUDE IS ALLOWED Col. R. H. Williams, in Charge, Em ploy* 51 Officers and 273 Clerks, and Expects to Need 200 MoreMail, Telephone and Telegraph Service I Interfered With as Little as Possible Watch Like Hawk to See That Nothing Against Interests of Amer. lea or Allies Gets By. By CYRIL BROWN. I (ID New York World That occupation isn't all play and dying to Rhine castles, but involves plenty of hard work, is typicully indi cated by some statistics of our mili tary censorship, which in turn is only one of the numerous activities of G-2 Of the Third army, functioning unostentatiously but effectively unle the direction of Col. R. H. Williams, Chief of military intelligence of the army of occupation. This interesting department alone employs the services erf 51 officers, 15 field clerks and 258 Clerks, while Colonel Williams expects that at least 200 men more will be Deeded in order to achieve the ideal of thoroughness. The work of our military censorship In keeping a prudent watch on the Bpall, telegraph and telephone when %sed by the German population has reached mammoth proportions only beWuse of our broad-minded, liberal policy toward the Germans. Not mo tivated by altruism, but by common sense economic reasoning, the Ameri can military policy has from the very tart been, and continues to be, to grant the natives the utmost limit of jerty of communication consistent &fh our naturally supreme military pMprests. Jr Allowed Notable Freedom. J^'The basic Idea of our military lormulators of policy has been that the less the Germans are hampered t& the free use of the mails, telegraph mnO telephone and, in consequence, the less they are economically shackled. tbe better will be the economic lite of the American occupied area and the (renter will be the chance for every German in it to earn an honest living. It to not in our best military inter act to have the economic life of this American oasis In Germany throttled, J*or to {prake up some fine morning Wjitto a pauper population on our bands. The healthier the economic life of the area, the more smoothly Will our occupation function. The practical result of this general policy is that the Germans In our era of occupation enjoy a freedom in Che use of the malls, telegraph and telephone to a degree not enjoyed by I* their fellow Teutons in either the french, British or Belgian areas. Germans in our area may send let Including registered mail and ""flSpiclal delivery letters, also parceis post matter, to unoccupied Germany as well as to the French, British and Belgian occupied areas. Similarly Germans in our ar%a may receive mall natter from unoccupied Germany and the other occupied areas. They may send telegrams to unoc cupied Germany and the other occu pied areas, and may likewise receive telegrams from unoccupied Germany and the other unoccupied areas. Host liberal of all, Germans in the 'American area may communicate by telephone with unoccupied Germany and the other unoccupied areas. The simple common-sense general rule of our military censorship merely Imns everything detrimental to our interests or those of our allies. If they sbind their own business and don't at tempt to violate this simple, reason able role, Germans in the American area may go as far as they like in the use of the malls, telegraph and tele one. ^pr military censorship is on the JOD twenty-four hours of the twenty four, and "Military Intelligence," un der the direction of Colonel Williams, watches like an unemotional hawk to see that no Teuton gets away with anything against the interests of 'America and the allies but beyond this the square deal spirit of justice and tolerance which animates the American brand of occupation crops out in the military censorship in a very human wayparadoxically, too, since censors are not generally credited with being human. Our com petent military authorities are proud not only of the fact that the censor ship Is effective In safeguarding our legitimate interests but that it doef so with the Irreducible minimum of dPlay nd hardship to the Germans if they don't attempt to abuse our square-deal policy. Long Distance Phone. Most Interesting, pet haps. Is the long distance telephone proposition. Germans in Coblenz today ran talk with BerlinIf the bolshevik! will let them. If the operator here can get Berlin or Munich or Dresden It won be the fault of the American army of tlon. hen our army first occupied Cob tens all long distance trunk telephone lines out of Coblenz, sixteen of them. were immediately cut as a self-under stood military measure. Colonel Wil Ilnms then let it be known that, ub Jv to our censorship, a certain num ber of long distance telephone trunk Imr ironid be permitted fc resume ffiawKfes*--?s*srsT* FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1919. THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER I ousiness for such legitimate Teuton con vernations as might be required by the needs of the community. And he left It to the Germans themselves to decide I which long distance telephone lines they wanted to use most, and put It'up to the municipal authorities and the chamber of commerce and the Ger man business community generally. The Germans requested that five trunk lines be reopened for public use as^ being most essential to business and this request was complied with. Later, as business increased, three more long distance telephone lines were reopened to the public, so that the Germans in our area of occupation now enjoy under military occupation 50 per* cent of the long distance tele phone service with unoccupied Ger many and the other occupied areas blch they had before occupation. Censored 100 Per Cent. German long distance telephone con versations are censored 100 per cent on uil calls coming Into or going out of our area. This involves no loss* of time the operator pufcj all such calls through our military telephone cen sorship office, where competent khaki clad linguists umpire the flow of Teu ton talk, and cut in if anything is said against our interests or those of our allies. There Is also a partial censorship of German telephone conversations con fined within the limits of our area of occupation These Internal telephone talks are liable to be cut In on any time by our military telephone cen sors. The Germans are also availing them selves of the generous freedom ac corded them in the use of the tele graph. As In the case, of local and long distance calls confined to the In terior of our area of occupation, there Is only a partial censorship of German telegrams/ within the American area. All telegrams coming or going out of the American aiea are, however, cen sored 1( per cent. No telegram Is held up more than five minutesif legitimate All German mail going out of our area is censored 100 per cent. Ger man mail coming Into our area is cen sored up to 20 per cent, which is con sidered the ideal of necessity super vision. Our mall censorship functions at Coblenz and at TrierCoblenz, howeier, doing the bulk of the cen sorship work. E\ery precaution is taken by Colo nel Williams' section to see that no advantage is taken of our liberal pol icy regarding the German mails by at tempted smuggling In or out in the mail cars. TAME CROW IN PERIL Bird Brings Wild Mates to Owner's Cornfield. Last August Simon Tixel of Piatt Center, N Y., while working in the woods, caught a voung crow. He brought it home and it became very tame and a great pet, but its life Is now hi jeopardy, Tixel declares. For the past few weeks, he says, his farm has been overrun with wild crows His tame crow flies Into the woods, perched itself upon a limb of a tree, caws a few times, and soon the tree is full of crows. Then the tame crow flies home, followed by the wild ones Tixel says he has no objection to the crow bringing home Its broth ers, but when he coaxes them into his barn and they begin to banquet on his oats, corn and wheat, Ifels more than he can stand. He wWtve the crow one more chance, anSjpjFtt does not stop its performance off goes its head. Tixel says he has shot close to 100 crows (n his barn, but it does not de plete the ranks. They have eaten at least ten bushels of grain, he de clares. FARMER C0ULDNT MARRY Couple Told by License Man That This Wat Not Russia. A Hungarian girl and a Russian ap plied for a marriage license in the Franklin county probate court at Co lumbus, Ohio, and everything went smooth until it came to filling In the name of the officiating minister. "Who will marry yon?" asked the marriage license clerk. "Him," said the groom-to-be, point ing to another Russian who had ac comtjanied the couple. "Who's him?" asked the clerk. "Him a Russian farmer." was the reply "This Isn't Russia, and 'Him' won't do," said the clerk. "Yon will have to get a preacher or a Justice of the peace to do the splicing In this coun- try." Got Old Wedding Fee. Forty years ago Rev. J. A. Sutton of La Rue, O. performed a marriage and the bridegroom forgot to hand over the customary fee. Through the mail Rev Sutton has received a $10 bill and a note accompanying says it Is from a "stricken conscience" As Reverend Sutton has performed 714 marriage ceremonies, he does not re member the man who "forgot." Alas and Alack. "Dry" upper Michigan's oches have been cured The which began several weeks immediately followed by an hot-water bottleslint, alas, tie leaked and the officials 'em have any more. stomach epidemic, ago, was influx of one bot- won't let Hen Letters Her Egg. Tames Albert Pigg of Terre Hante has a hen The rooster name Is Tom. Now I'lgp says when he lifted the hen recently he found "she hnd laid an egs with a monngrnm Initial in raised shell at one end." MINUTE N O AID ALLIES IN RUSSIA Peasants Without Uniforms Give Valuable Assistance to Inter national Army. HAIL ALLIES AS RESCUERS In Nearly Every Attack Made on Enemy These Partisans Go Ahead of or Along the Flanks Look ing for Pot Shot. With the Americans on the North Russian Front.In this international army, whieh Is fighting numerically superior bolshevik forces in north Russia, there are, mingled with the half dozen or so varieties of uniforms, men who wear no uniforms 'at all. They fight, as did the francs tireurs in the Franco-Prussian war," and the first minute men of the American rev-, olutlon, for the protection of their firesides. They are peasants, bearded or beardless, with nothing to distinguish them from the thousands qf other peasants living mound them hut their guns and cartridge belts. They are the irregular or "partisan" troops, and I he sentiments they are showing and figh ing for In" this wilderness of snow and pine trees loom up so patri otically that the government of north ern Russia Is beginning to look upon them as the ke.vstone on which to build a Russian state that will be free from bolshevisin. Hail Allies as Rescuers. These peasants have known the rav ages of bolshevik troops in their vil lages. Tiiey have seen friends exe cuted for nntlholshevlk activities. They hail the allies as rescuers In nearly every attack the regular troops make against the enemy one finds these armed partisans, crack shots, go ing ahead of or along the flanks of the Americans, British French and trained, uniformed Russians to scout a patli or faKe a pot shot at the enemy. The point of view of these peasants Is this* The army has not yet been or ganized we are robbed and ill treated by the bolshevik! therefore we have to defend ourselves. The peasants In the Kholmogory district, along the Dwlna river, have been fighting for four months. Military authorities say they do their work as cheerfully and efficiently as regular soldiers. The red guards are helpless against the re volted population The appearance of peasants fighting voluntarily against Trotzky's forces has a demoralizing effect upon the bolsheviki, -as it disabuses the minds of some of them of the theory that they are being opposed only by "im- perial ists Scout Like Animals. The pattisnns Know that if they are captured they will be shot. But, knowing the forest country as city dwellers know their own streets, they &re seldom captured. In scouting tiiey are as tireless as wild animals. The government of the north for a long time did nothing to help the par tisan^ but .now that their usefulness fi"recognised they and their families are provisioned as if they were regu lar soldiers. In December a big dele gation of partisans went to Archangel, and, according to the local newspa pers, "this new apparition stirred up all the classes of population of the town." It became clear that a sound evolu tion from anarchy toward patriotism bad taken place among the people that the efforts of the partisans, though of a local character, must be supported, and that it was absolutely necessary to create a suitable atmos phere for further organlzatlop of par tisan detachments. A big committee. Including all political parties, has been formed In 'Archangel to aid this plan, and new partisan newspaper is to be published for the benefit of the fight ing peasants. BRITISH DEATHS PASS BIRTHS War Office, Alarmed, Releases 700 Phy sicians From Army Service in Week. London.Coincident with publica tion of the report showing that dur ing the last quarter of 1918 the num ber of deaths exceeded the birth rate for the first time in the history of civil registration in this country, the war office has announced the release in one we& of 700 physicians from the army. Influenza caused the great Increase in the death rate, the number of vic tims from that disease being 98,998, or 41 per cent of (he total deaths for the period. Lack of physicians Is held responsible for the failure to curb the epidemic. At the beginning of this month, although 1.750.000 men of the anny have been demobilized, only 1,600 out of 11,000 physicians have been re leased. QUALITY COUNTS YOU'LL ALWAYS LIKE THE BUIL NOW! Thrift Turns Savings Into a Home. Protect Your Family From This Beast. The fly isn't merely a disagreeable insect, a dangerous beast. If you could know the number of cases of serious sickness and the deaths caused by flies every year you would be amazed and THEN you would think of and treat the fly as the deadly beast that he is. He is already here in swarms for a season's work. It is now fly breeding time and if you allow them in the house at all your home will soon be full of them. I SCREEN THEM OUT EARLY I Get screens at once for all doors and windows' that are not equipped and get them on. Don't let the fly get a start. ST. HILAIRE RETAIL LBR. CO. Phone 100 BEMIDJI, MINN. GET IT AT Y0URDEALERS OR WRITE MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. DISTRIBUTORS M. H. Curry can supply you with all kinds of Shrubbery Small Fruits and Flower bulbs fresh from Wedge Nursery, Albert Lea, Minn We will carry a stock of small Shrubery and flower bulbs at A. T. Wheelock Grocery. M. H. CURRY Bemidji, Minn. Be Glad. If you see a man or woman MI. cessful, be glad of It. Don't wast time belittling* his success. U&e you force trying to equal it. Bliss Supreme. "We should strive to make a heavet here on this earth," -nl the serious citizen. "It can be done, with a lltth Hick," replied Cactus Joe. "Yesterdnj. I held a straight flush against foui aces." 1 8 He is DRY CLEANING Clothes Cleaners for Men, Women and Children &heefflodek ORY CLEANING MOUSE. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS WE PAY the highest market price for rags metals, rubbers and scrap iron. We also pay fre on all out of town shipmen* 100 pounds and over. prices paid for hides. GOLDBERG'S HIDE & FUR CO. Phone 638-W 112 3d Street O Course_ We do not say that we are the only store in town But we do say that we are pretty much alive that we do try to get for the trade the best goods that we can. That we only ask a fair margin of profitthat we do try to buy when the market conditions are the lowest that whenever there is a drop in any items we drop our selling price at the same time. We have dozens of items at reduced prices right now. We of course want your business and think, honestly, think you should trade here. Suppose you start in today. Just For Saturday and Monday, Next These 20 big Special Bargains. Do not miss any of them they are real good NO. 1Ladies ready to wear, best pattern hats. Hats right in style and in workmanship. Not any picked overs offered. Many of these, just turned out and new ones, real values, $4.98, $5.98, $6.98. $7.98 choice of lot Bargain No. 1, Saturday and Monday $3.85 No. 2.Ladies trimmed, ready to wear hats. Mono- gram and Del Monta makes. Real values and you must remember that our prices are one-third less right at the start, $8.75, $9.75, $10.00, $12.50, $18,50, $15.00choice Bargain No. 2, Saturday and Monday $6.95 Bargain No. 3.Children's and Misses hats, shapes, and ready trimmed, same sold up to $3.25, choice. .$1.98 No. 4Hats trimmings, choice of lot 19c No. 5Misses and ladies middy blouses, all new and many sold up to $3.48, special Bargain No. 5, each. .$1.98 No. 6Ladies voile waists, good grade, embroidery trimmed, $1.89, $1.48, $1.39 values, Bargain No. 6. .98c No. 7Boys blue and dark shirts, 11 to 14 sizes. Bargain No. 7 69c No. 8Childrens rompers, light tan, blue stripe, plain khaki, sizes 2 to 6, $1.48. Bargain No. 8 98c No. 9.Boys 2-piece wash suits, very good, very well made, very cheap. White and dark colors. Bargain No. 9 $2.95 No. 10Rit, 3 packages Crochet hooks, No. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, each. No. 1136-in. light and dark percales, standard grade, yard 19V4 No. 12Ladies light or dark Bungalow aprons and house dresses, $2.25, $1.98. Bargain No. 12, Saturday and Monday $1.23 No. 13Shelf Paper, plain white and colors, with rose designs, each ^c No. 14Character dolls, 11 inches long, Bargain' No. 14, each ^g No. 15Ladies black, chocolate brown and White hose, values 25c, 29c, 39c 25c No. 16Misses fine ribbed chocolate brown hose sizes 6 to 92/2, extra good grade, really worth 50c, Noc No. 17Box paper, white,, cream, pink and blue good paper and envelopes, Bargain No.regular 17, box. 15c. CUPS 18White nf*n eac and saucers $1.60, Bargain No. 18, set six each $1.19 No. 19No. 2 Galvanized tubs, heavy grade, No. 20Brass finish curtain rods, regular 15c Bar- gain No. 20, each '..lie Wish you might see all the new items in our Dry Good Department. The new notions, ruffleings, buttons, trimmings, etc. Wish you might seet the 20 different baby carriages and go-carts thathtwes have at prices we know are right. mi ^yif^ yo and children's out door toys. 23c 4c 35 $1.4.5. and $1.2 9 express and coaster wagons And garden seeds and garden tools for every need You need this, Just See Carlson of Course Who else could it be? Store on 317 Beltrami Ave. y*i "si 'V? A