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:w?'J** ui fcJ^"? 0. JB. CARSON, President G. 1?. BARNWELL, Editor Vi _-.._- *i ^BEMIDJI DAILYPIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. mm Telephoa~922 Entered t tha postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress at March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. 1* known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication, Commuwca- of eacn ^eejfe to insure publication in the current issue. .-By Carrier One Tiear Six" Months Three Months One Montlp One Week --1-" COWS BREAK BUTTER RECORD (By United Press) sr Buffalo, Dec. 20A record for pro J%ducing ICRIPTIOjN RATES .$6.00 .3.00 1.50 .55 .15 THV WEEKLY PIONEERTwelve pages, published every Thursday fcnd sen^t postage paid to any address fcr, in advance, $2.00. butter and milk never before attained- haSiheen made by five cows.! mi a yearly test, at the Pine drove Farm, Eltna, N. Y. a Buffalo sub urb. Oliver Cabana. Jr., owener of the farm and owner of a million c&llar heril of iHolsteins. has 'nn- nounted. The five cows have pro duced 100.000 pounds of milk and in excess of 5,000 pounds of butter dur in* tha 4esV according to. Cabana. **r &MA& E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. D. WINTER, City Editor ter By Mail One, Year She Months Three Months T OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS \M**he1hole ARE WE FACING MORAL BANKRUPTCY. The great war has left multitudes of our people worn, nerve-racked, care-driven, anxious, and feelmg that life will Sever be the same again. The old leisure is Practically gone In the rush for pleasure and money the old restraints that held youth back from vice have been weakened and the hedges oi custom and tradition builded by our fathers for the Protection of character have been broken down. Even a careless reading of the newspapers, with their stories.of strikes, riots, arrests, bomb throwing, flames kindled by incendanes and the arrests of bolshevists are most disturbing. Qur census indicates that our illiterate population is grow- ing more rapidly than we are building schools and churches. The census reports now 11,500,000 people who cannot read or write and yet about 100,000 school teachers and about 20,000 ministers, out of about 150,000, have within a brief time been starved out of their professions. A certain factory contains 1181 foreign-born workers, speaking Polish, Italian, Spanisn, Finnish, French Dutch, Serbian, Syrian, Japanese and Chinese. Five hundreds and thirteen of these foreigners cannot even read or write in their own language. But to these 11,000,000 reported as illiterate there must be added other millions who /for one reason or another have never been able to analyze the problems of tariffs and taxation. In an autocracy it is an easy task to educate the ruler, edu- cate tha czar or the kaiser, and the task is fulfilled. In a re- public the task of educating the rulers means the higher edu- cation for every boy and girl. It does not promise well for the next generation that 10,- 000 000 of the 20,000,000 of our youth under eighteen years of age'never cross the threshold of,any churchProtestant or Catholic, Gentile or Jew. Yet the Ten Commandments are asernoon. universal and unsectarian as the laws of gravity or the multipli- cation table: ..$5.00 2.50 1.25 a low standard, which, before the war, did not even exist in}For instance, are "quic business circles. The result is a condition approaching chaos, lunch" restaurants in Mexico city. It is" quite possible for Americans in a short time to throw away a reputation for fair play and honest dealing that Was achieved by long time and the highest standards of honor in business. known, the record, which is unoffi cial, never before has been approach ed. The cow making the best butter average was Segis Fayne ^fiertje, tvith 1,115 pounds of butter and 20,- 866 pounds of milk- As high asx24,-(menu. 000 pounds of milk was produced by one cow. Unlucky Thirteen. Nearly a dozen important streets in London have no houses numbered 13, evidently in deference to the popular superstition which regards that num- uptacky. a T**a Would be an kverage of three _ Mauds of hntter per day. So far as I Subscribe for\ The MEXICO NOW SEES NEW HOPE IN PRES. OBREGON Weakness of Nation Is the Ab sence of Any Middle Class of People By Ralph*H. Turner (United Press Correspondent.) Washington, Dec. 20.^-People be come keenly philosophical in A coun try where revolutions have been fea-. tured thruoutr that country's history. Every-dayv philosophy in 'Mexico, thereforea philosophy which fre quently is expressed by no more than la shrug of the shouldershas been 'developed to the highest point. And yet even the Mexican, despite his feeling of.indifferentce, is preparing today to begin life over agaiit. He is going ahead in anticipation of a "new deal", believing that he and his children have greater cause for hope than at any time in the last ten years. That spirit, with its varied manl Ifestations, is the index to the- Social conaitio 0f se Mexico today. It repre nts the thought of Mr. Average population ret^t^te^ But tne present Ai A If a boy is allowed to grow up without knowledge oi the fundamental principles of wrong arid right, has the state to disclaim all responsibility when it imprisons that boy, or possibly nuts a rope around his neck and chokes him to death? London, in 1916, with a population of over 7 000,000, had nine premeditated murders Chicago, with one-third the popu- lation, had 105. If Chicago and London had had the same popu- lation, Chicago would have had 315 murders, against London 9. New York, with approximately a population equal to Lon- don's, had six timeTmore homicides, and has a larger number of homicides than the total population of 38,000,000 in England and Wales. During the three-year period between 1916 and 1918, Glasgow had 38 homicides Philadelphia, 281. Los An- geles is,only one-twenthieth the size of London,, and yet hasof more homicides than the English capital. Immigration from Europe threatens to become an inundat- ing flood. The commissioner of immigration tells us that 1,000,- 000 Poles and 260,000 Polish Jews, have applied for permis- sion to come to the United States. The government of Italy is encouraging its men to seek work in our country, and it is be- lieved that about four millions of Italians will, during this year, seek entrance. Once peace has been made with Russia, and the gates of exit have been thrown open, it is absolutely cer- tain that the very first movement among many, many miUions|JJ2hwovers will be to seek permission to leave Russia and enter the United States. One of our great experts estimates the number of prob- able immigrants within the next fifteen months at a million and a half, with ten millions-more seeking entrance. Left to them- selves, this Would mean an inundation of mud. But if intelligent and patriotic Americans bestir themselves and put bur institu- tions to their full use, these millions of newcomers can be Ameri- canized, assimilated and brought into full touch with our free Institutions. Immediately after the armistice several thousand Ameri- can, business men hurried to G-ceat Britain and entered into enormous contracts for cotton and woolen goods. Some of these contracts were formal documents, and some represented informal letters. Having full confidence in the word and bond -o -oe of Americans, English manufacturers produced the goods in I.JJJJJ ^"t ta- aceordance with the specifications. But during the past sum-1 a sombrero and a pair of san- mer the goods dropped in value, and the Americans found ft!dais are the principal forms of rai- impossible to sell the goods at a profit upon the basis of the meht wornj the people of the poor- price agreed upon. Many cabled that they must withdraw from ^^T^nTLn^^iZTl their contracts. Meanwhile, British manufacturers have com- pleted the goods according to specifications. The British Board of Trade has sent to the American Chamber of Commerce over /twenty millions of dollars of contractskwith Americans that have been repudiated. The bitterness of the British financial journals and trade papers is beyond all words, These Americans, who repudiated their contracts, are., ~n ."^^"^'"ti^ojH^n^tnetp breaking down the morals of the business world, and illustrate LJ with the ex Iception of a few disgruntled politi cians and military men, is sick of revolution the country his been looted.from one end to the other And so the Mexican makes ready for another start. People who flood ed into Mexico City from the provin ces, because the capital offered a i greater degree of shelter from ma- r: back to the farm or the store. Ex-1 consumption for that reason. iles who were expelled by one or the other of the various regimes since the fall of Porfirid Diaz in 1910 areamong streaming home from New York and London, Paris and,Madrid is- oll Daily Pioneer. Un.' 1 ^^Wl.lg.1 UU\IUB i*.iuu of transition. Not until the^new gov ernment finds its stride arid turns its attention to a score of pressing do mestic and international problems, at the same time obtaining financial and moral aid from abroad? will Mex ican national life'approach a state of well-being. In the meantime, the Mexican offers further proofif such were neededthat human nature re mains the same, no matter how many J-international houndary lines are crosssed. The Mexican goes to the movies (American movies), grumbles about the high cost or living, and iovea his children. Jn Mexico City, a thoroughly mod ern capital, he attends the theatre, stages an exuberant party with about the same regularity as an American did in the pre-amendment days and goes to the bull fight on Sunda^aft He is a deVout Catholic, but has never heard of a "blue law." He probably spends his money^morc lav ishly than an AnglorSaxon pertan with a similar income. The c~-.it cf living, for a" Mexican with a* comfort able income, needn't vary much frOm I what it costs in the United State. One thing just about balances another. He must pay .more for a great many articles, because they are imported, I but he can maintain a-whole corps i of servants for the same expenditure that one would involve froni the Rio Grande north. Vegetables, fruit and some kinds of the meats (the goat, especially thej kid, is popular), cost less than in! an American metropolis. tFueI maffnatherr The Mexican sens is a minor item in Mexico City, ^because the temperate climate. If the iMex lean lives at a hotel, he may pay any where from $2 to ?6 (United States! currency) a day for his room, though he won't receive the modern accom'o dations that most Americans d%nand, House rents are high, as practically no building has been done during the revolutionary days. It is begin ning now to revive. One difficulty with life in Mexico Citythe one that most Americans encounterii the social condition that has overlooked any provision for the middle class. The "high ciass" Mexican generally limits his busi ness activities to either owning prop-, erty, and deriving the income there from, or praying some part in the management of the government, Both have been paying propositions in the past. The merchandisingt business and the operation of mines, oil properties .andj other resources Is generally in the hanas of foreigners, The poorer glasses get along ^he best they can. Frequently their condition.! seems\pitifl to an American. It is common for three or- four people to live, sleep and eat in one room. Thej room dosen't have t be a larg one, month, and present a good appear- i ance, may seem beyond comprehen-' sion, but it is done. Almost the best in Mexican servants may be obtained for tweny or twenty-five pesos monthly. i As a result of the social structure, American may have difficulty an te a dayo laborer, Dinner, in the middle of the day, is an event which requires the, fullest attention. Business houses close from 1 to 3, sometimes longer.. The time is devoted largely to eating, and then to sleeping. After a full Mexican metl the siesta Is almost indispen-' sable and comes easily, as sleep comes to one who is drugged. But there's another alibi for sleep: besides the length of Mexican Mexico City is about 7.500 foet above sea levol and the alti tude has strange and varied effects. One requires more sleep, the doctors explnin, because many of the 6?ga.n3 of the body are forced to work over time. Ah. ejrer^ muat be- boiled! lontrer. if one takes them that way. I "Pried, straight up," is not affected I by the altitude. Consumption of al- i coholic drinks is held to be extreme-j ly dansrerous. because of the alti-! tude's manipulations with the heart, SUBSCRIBE FOK THE DAILY PIONEER V-.- View of the "Mark T^ain Rock" This is the "Mark Twain Rock" on the west coast of Vancouver island, IBritish Columbia, so-cnllcd because of Its remarkahle resemblance to the great humorist. ,0S S i oparticularlis humor developed,e highly the peon classes. There is the story, for instance, that involves Caruso, when the famous tenor visit- But the present is stillsthe period ed Mexico City aftd san in bull ring., It was the largesk placthe avail able and was thronged at every per formance, the Mexicans of every so cial class having a keen appreciation of music. Caruso had finished "Car- men." The tremendous applause was followed by a hush, when a pe on, a bull fight fan as well a& a mu sic lover, arose in his seat and de manded loudly: "Otro toro!" (an- other bull). -*/-_ The Roses. The tea rose was formerly known as the tea-scented China rose, be cause of its peculiar fragrance, said to resemble that of a newly ope/ted tea chest. It originated in China, Sir Abraham Hume receiving from that country, in 1809, the first of this variety sent to Europe, a specimen with double pink flowers. The Latin name for the tea rose is rosa indlca odorata. "French Leave." Many authorities believe that the term "French leave" originated in a Fren^ custom in the eighteenth cen tury of withdrawing from crowded as semblies without taking leave of host or hostess. Others^maintain that the word "French" is a corruption" of "frank." meaning "free." ^(V JUST-WHAT^ WANTED It's the natural expression, when the gift package is opened and a pair of shoes meets their gaze. V& '*r Holy Cities of the World. Allahabad is the holy city of the Indian Mohammedans, Benares Is the holy city of the Hindoos, while Cuzco is that of the ancient Incas. Jeru-. saleift is the holy city of the Jews and Christians. Mecca,Medina and Da mascus have first, place in the affec tions of the Mohammedans. Lines to Be Remembered. We should give'as we would re ceive: cheerfully, quickly (and without hesitation for there is np,grace in benefit that sticks torthe fingersS eca. PUT A SHOE IN THE STACKING FOR CHRISTMAS It*s the practical thing to do and when you realizeL^**0"! spends two-thirds of a life-time in shoes it is the SENSIBLE GIFT for a man, woman or child. You Are ^Thinking What to BuySo Are We These May Help You to Decide u..(t STORE OPEN EVENINGS THIS WEEK an r." (Next to City Drug Store) 307 BELTRAMI-AVE. PHONE 45-W M.HU ^A '*$*.- dfciiiiiiiif Noticeto Tel. 970 -MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2^m** JJUL, Gerke's Cabinet Shoj Repairing all kinds of fur niture and builder of Tables, Desks, Pedestals, Phono graph Cabinets,'etc. ,-v Call and see me or phone your orderWe pick up and deliver on request. 119 Minnesota Ave. 980 Phoike 980 Here is^omethirig new, direct from the Ford factory. A Genuine ForcL Part which enables us to furnish yoi* a choice of two different gear ratios for both the Ford car and FordHruck. We can give you either more power or more speed. This is something en-' tirely new, see us at once. C.W. JEWETT COMPANY Inc. JUST WHAT I NEEDED "Horray for the slippers. I never needed anything quite so mueh." That's the kind of appreciation which makes giving worth while. LADIESGIRLS 12 in. high.top.boots Utz & Dunn dress shoes Satin boudoir slippers Hylo felt slippers House moccasins 1 strap suede, pumps MEN-*BOYS Hylo felt slippers Dress shoes Heavy boots" House moccasins I CHILDREN Simplex high top boota "Puss in Boot" iJress shoes House moccasins & y}-: S. 9 i r^. S. -s*?. i&tt*.