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-fH Tire Benridji Daily Pioneer 8EMXDJX FXOVSEB FUB. PnfcllslMra and Proprietors CO Tolopbo&o 31 Entered at the post office at Bemldjt Mlntu as second-class matter under Act f Congress of March 8, 1879. Published every afternoon except Sunday No attention paid to anonymous con Sown tations. Writer's name must be to the editor, but not necessarr for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pio ejer should reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue Subscription Bates ne month by carrier One year by carrier' Three months, postage paid Sis months, pastas* paid One year, postage paid Bight naff* TnuRia address for 11.50 in advauce.. ....$ .40 4.80 1.00 8.00 4.00 The Weekly Vioneer :es, containing a summary of of the Week. Published every and sent postafe paid to any WIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BYTHE ERICAS GENERAL OFFICES ONIW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES *m ..r- War in the Air. -#& 'Tram dusk till dawn a dozen searchlights sweep the sky from the .top of the Eiffel Tower, and other Shafts of light rise from the root of/ tho Automohile eiuib. ft is the lamounted test form of recohhoissanoe in theFrench newest type of warfare. For Paris Can no longer rely on her girdle of forts. Attack may come from, the clouds. Ait any moment those beams may show a fleet of Zeppelin air ships from Berlin armed, armored and loaded with deadly bombs. "What then? There would roar up into the Bky a swarm of French aeroplanes, and the prophecy of Tennyson would be fulfilled in a "rain of ghastly dew, from the nations' airy navies grap tpling in the central (blue." The out tome can only /be guessed at. There are no precedents. But the storyUof the French aviator who was report ed to have destroyed a Zeppelin on the frontier ait the outbreak of hos tilities shows the tactics we may ex pect from the French air corps. There are more than 2,000 trained aviators in the French army.^.And every one of them is eaid to ibe pledged to sacrifice his .life at anymany moment./ These men are fanatics who will heslitate at nothing. A French aeroplane carries one or two men, and one quick-firing gun, and costs $10,000. In the brutal arith metic of war airship for aeroplane represents a rare bargain. It need surprise no one if, the moment a Zeppelin craft is discerned above the horizon of Paris, or of jany other French city or encampment a French flier rises above it poises like an eagle over his quarry, and then, with all power on, drives his plane head flrstt into the great bulk of the ene my, spilling himself and his 25 foe-, men to the earth in a tangle of wreckage. And if the first man misses his aim or is dropped by a bullet or shell, there may be another and another -and another until the German war baloon is destroyed or every available plane is driven from the air lanes. There are land de fenses, In the form of rapid-fire guns to sweep the sky but MEN rather than artillery will be the most dependable protec tion against an air foe. What may happen in Paris may happen any where in this unparalleled war. The: first big issue to be settled is the mastery of the sea, which may be de termined at any hour by a decisive clash off the British and German fleets. iBut the fighting airships and the scouting aeroplanes are likely to be the real arbiters of sea sover eignty. The Zeppelins carry enough high-power explosives to blow up battleships by hovering over them Megroth's at a great height and dropping, bombs on their dectys. If the Brit ish fleet is to defeat the German:, ,or even preserve itself intact without a fight, in spite'of its) superior water strength, it must be shielded from such an attack ^.For that purpose the battleships may carry aeroplanes intended primarily for scouting,-but of them fitted with small guns for offense. There are believed to be fifteen German Zeppelins in com mission, each capable of a continu ous cruise at a efreed of 50 tc. 60 miles an hour. Germany has about the same number of dirigibles,,, pf a non-rigid type. France has $bout 20 dirigibles, greatly inferior to the enemy's,.f Russia has 18,^^Austria seven, and Great Britian seven, on none of which much reliance can be placed in a contest with Zeppelins! All the warring nations except .Ger many must depend chiefly on aero planes. Of these craft France has the best, and the largest nua&ber, though her 1,100 are nearly matched by Germany's fleet. France,. mjore over, is admitted to have superior aviators. Austria has perhaps 1400 war aeroplanes, Russia 800 anMBri tian 400. When the history of d$14 id written, the historians will have much, to say of these "airy navies" and their contributions to the'glor ies and horrors of war. ^,'Sr-^fw*-, -M EDITORIAL EXH,0SI0Nr** At last St. Paul has put one over that makes (Minneapolis look like -a deuce in a whilst game. The Saintly City was the home, for a time, of King Albert of Belgium, and its citi zens think they are directly respon sible for every Belgian victory.^ Fairmont Sentinel. $ That was evidently a fine trip re cently taken by the Northern Min- 320 Minnesot a Ave. $ Ope Evenings Phon 260 nesota editors. They had as guests many of the quill pushers from the south half- of the sftate, and what those Southern Minnesota boys saw u/p north was a revelation to them. Northern Minnesota isl yet in its in fancy in development ,but it has, a great future, for its possibilities .are many.Browns Valley Tribune. Editor Hitchcock of* the Ribbing Tribune has successfully made the automobile trip from Hibbing to Be midji. It took him four hours and he only encountered four miles 1 bad road and that will be fixed up this summer., Truly Northern Min nesota is growing! Five_years ago an Indian couldn't have gotten from Hibbing to Bemidji on foot to say nothing of ah automobile negotiating the trip.Virginia Enterprise.'L The visit of the Northern Minne sota Editorial association at Inter national Falls, Spooner, Baudette and Warroad was a revelation to the scribes and the members of their re spective families who took the trip. Not nl were all happy over the fine welcome accorded on every ihaml but 'the wealth and prosperity found in the extreme north of our state was good, to, behold. Thought but a few years old the towns above men tioned have grown to be among the best in the state and it won't be long ibefore the central and southern cities and villages will have to doff their hats! to their northern sisters. Cambridge Independent-Press. HORNET Herman Thorn has been cutting grain for some of his neighbors. Miss Lillian MacGregor left on Monday for her home at Baudette. Among those who went Black duck on Monday were Mrs. Torsten Two more days of This Grea Sale after which all goods left will be packed and shipped. $ Ge your Christma presents at cost, chin- a ware, silver- wear, leather goods hand bags jewelry, dry goods toys etc, every thing at cost and a good many articles at less than cost Kitchen utensils at 4c ?in 7c^ tables full Dishes at 4c arid 7c, tables full new line in gold and going at cost 7 iPdWft' Grouseth and son George, Miss Alta Batcman and J. E. Bogart. Spear Bros, of Shooks are putting up hay on shares, on the^W-ioan meadow Arnie Peltier and Oliver Horton are painling the Winan school. J. D. Bogart made a trip through 7.' NIGHT ROBES ~k jr*f#r~*~r~ X7s -ftoAT3rcfc&ST Iffr Inez, Kelliher and Shooks Wednes day, on school business, tsftSs^ciAS. Fire losses and the cos* of fire pre^ vention cost the United States more each year than the total value of its production of gold, silver, copper ^nd petroleum. Sale of Sample Night Wear Ladies' Outipg Gowns, Child ren's Outing Gowns, Ladies* i Out-door Sleeping Garments, Children's Sleeping Garments, all at....... 1- 4 Off St0 re open Saturday until 10 P. M. Oleary-Bowser Go. Bemidji, Minn. Store of this ingatkcost. %h9 -V. -^.rc y*A- abi.aMn.Mfcu v-#- 13 2% +.*r*xi me 4&-"