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In some quarters it is suggested that a tax of $1,000 a
gallon be placed upon liquor. And about how much, at that
rate, would be the price of a common, ordinary sniff?
Why all of this fussing about whether or not Holland shall
give up the old War Lord? Once an egg is spoiled it can
never be converted into a fighting cock.
Future generations have much for which to look forward.
They will pay the tremendous war debts of the present one.
The Exchange Editor
By Cy Perkins,
Interesting StoriesReal and Unrealas Told by the Editors of
the Press of Northern MinnesotaRetold, Rehashed
and Commented On by This Editor
PROGRESS NEEDED.
The Boston Transcript prints a story of a colored woman who had
been watching Rastus ride as much as a dollar's worth on a merry-go-round,
and when Rastus got off at the very place he got on at, she said, "Rastus,
you spent yo' money, but wha* yo' been?"
It makes us think of the Nonpartisan members of North Dakota. They
have given Townley their money, but where have they been?
QUILLEN'S QUIPS.
The essential difference between an American and a Red is that the
American would clean it up and the Red would blow it up.
Government effort to combat social unrest through the movies will
doubtless show us how to be happy though broke.
You can still buy twenty?five cent SOCKS if you have the sixty-five cents.
We shall vote for the candidate who promises least, on the theory that
h is least given to lying.
Man is master of his own destinythat is, in case he isn't married.
THE STEPHENS BILL.
It was learned today that the so-called Stephens Bill, which it is
claimed will prevent the misuse of well known trade-marked articles as
advertising bait to deceive the public, would be actively pushed by its
friends as soon as congress shall finally dispose of the railroad and water
power legislation now in their last stages. For several years representatives
of wholesale and retail organizations throughout the country, as well as
manufacturer, have been coming to Washington and urging the passage
of the Stephens Bill. It is said that more than eight hundred national
and state associations of merchants are solidly behind the measure and
that only the intervention of the war presented its consideration two
years ago.
WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS?
H. E. Reynolds in his talk to the members of the Civic and Commerce
association has some of us "guessing," while others have determined to
get busy. We all want lower insurance rates, BUT who knows how to get
them? .If we'll just keep our eyes "peeled" and ears open, while this
educational campaign is on, we might get somewhere. We will find out just
how much we are paying on our own buildings, and how much, because
some old ramshakle building hazardously kept, stands next to ours. One
merchant pays the rate of $1.74 per hundred. If his building had a fire-
proof building next to it, his rate would be only 83 cents per hundred. As
it is there is a frame fire hazard next door and he pays 91 cents more for
this reason. Your business is everybody's else business, and everybody's
business is yours.
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ORICUL OOVHTT AJtD OFTT PBOOEBSXVaS
THE JUDGE WHOM JERRARD RESEMBLES.
When E. H. Jerrard of Bemidji was mistaken for Federal
Judge Landis of Chicago by two diners at Sunday breakfast at
the Elk club cafe in St. Paul, it developed that the famous
Chicago jurist had spoken before the American Protective
league at the Y. M. C. A. Saturday night, and in the St. Paul
Dispatch an account said in part:
"Branding socialists, I. W. W., and kindred organizations,
as 'traitors to the country,' Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis of Chicago, known as 'the terror of wrongdoers,' in a
straight from the shoulder talk before 200 members of the
American Protective league at the Y. M. C. A. in Minneapolis
-Saturday, advocated execution instead of deportation of 'treason
agitators.'
"Without mincing words, Judge Landis reviewed the plat-
forms and activities of 'red' organizations, denounced them as
'atrociously out of place in the United States' and urged 'war
to clean up the whole bunch of them/
"His talk was frequently punctuated by cheers and
applause.
'What we need is a new definition' of treason,' Judge
Landis emphasized. 'Then we can use the side of the barn
for those who would destroy our government. We must destroy
the would-be destroyers.'
"Charles G. Davis, president of the Protective league, paid
tribute to Judge Landis as 'one of our most fearless and out-
spoken jurists.'
'We went into the war to save our own hide,' Judge
Landis told his audience. 'We did not go in for chivalric rea-
sons. It was a selfish war we had to save ourselves.
'The English language is bankrupt for me to express my
contempt of the profiteer. Is he immune? He had been. When
the political organization that I used to irain with gets into
power next fall, I'll point out a few of those 'gentlemen..'
"Action of 'hyphenated Americans' was condemned as
'perjured allegiance' by Judge Landis, who declared:
Smoke out those crooked politicians who placed such
a low estimate on loyalty of foreign born citizens as to figure
on popularity for themselves for disloyalty to their adopted
country during the war.'
challenged franklin P. Ellsworth to a debate on
WHAT'S THE USE?
his (Ellsworths) past record in congress. Ernest is always looking for
something easy to tackle.
NEWS OF THE
THEATERS
NORMA TALMADGE
GRANDTONIGHT
In "The Isle of Conquest," Select's
special attraction at the Grand to
night for a three day engagement,
Norma Talmadge has one of the
strongest roles of her career.
The story tells of Ethel Harmon
(Miss Talmadge), who is unhappily
wedded to a man whom she despises.
Ship-wrecked, she is cast upon a de
serted island with a single male com
panionformerly a stoker on her
husband's yachtand while there
learns true love and happiness Their
vicissitudes, both during their stay
on the island and after they have
been rescued, and the way that hap
piness ultimately comes to them
makes a fast moving story, interest
ing and absorbing Miss Talmadge's
supporting cast includes Wyndham
Standing, Natalie Talmadge, Charles
Gerard, Elder Hopper, Claire Whit
ney, Garret Hughes and Joe Smiley.
DOROTHY GISH'S
NEW COMEDY DRAMA
If a plotting aunt ana an unscrup
ulous physician .had arranged to have
you confined in a private sanitarium,
under the pretext that your mind
was unbalanced if the car was or
dered and the nurse on hand, and
if your room was already waiting for
you, what would you do'
Did you ever meet the condition in
which a nurse would say you weie
insane and you would try to prove
your sanity?
That is one of the siuations that
confront Dorothy Gish in hei latest
Paramount pictuie, "Turning the
Tables," which will be shown at the
Elko theatre tonight and Thursday.
In this case Dorothy meets it in a
way that may work in some cases and
not in others. This time it resulted
in her having the freedom of the
grounds, being courted byv
the man
she wanted to marry, and hnally es
caping. The above is*ut one of the
many situations that are said to
make this picture one of the snap
piest that Miss Gish has pre
sented.
CHARLES RAY COMING.
Charles Ray's large list of local
admirers wil be delighted to hear
that he is coming to the Elko theatre
for two days, commencing Friday, in
his new Thomas H. Ince production,
"Crooked Straight." The stoiy is
somewhat along the lines ot "The
Busher," as it depicts Mr. Ray as a
country boy who goes to the big city
and falls into evil ways. He is a
crook's assistant, but comes back to
the little town when his mother,dies
to take care of his numerous: HtJLIo
brothers and sisters. There he wins
the love of a girl and is later"'given
the chance to prove that his regen
eration is complete in a most dra
matic way.
'THE PERFECT LOVER."
Can you imagine a man being a
perfect lovera man whose charms
are so wonderful that no woman can
resist thema man whom women
will lavish with affection and riches
just to get one smile from himcan
you imagine that kind of a man? If
you can't, go to the Rex this evening
for the last showing and ibefore the
first reel of "The Perfect Layer,"
Eugene O'Brien's first Selznick Pic
ture, is over, you will not have to
imagine. You will know and under
stand why women went out of their
way to gain the favor of Brian Lazar,
formerly a poor artist.
A wonderful story, beautifully told
and exquisitely acted, that will thrill
and charm you is the gripping taje of
Brian Lazar. Eugene O'Brien 1st cer
tainly "the perfect lover," and he
will thrill you with his love scenes
as he did in the days of yore. Be
sure and see "The Perfect Lover."
"THE COUNTRY COUSIN."
The feature attraction at the Rex
theatre tomorrow is Elaine Hammer
stein in "The Country Cousin," a
Selznick picture. The photoplay is
an adaptation of the famous stage
play of the same name written by
Booth Tarkington and Julian Street,
and as a movie attraction it goes the
stage production one better in its
ability to entertain.
"The Country Cousin" is a keen
and searching analysis of life that
contrasts the more modest and honest
American ideals of several years ago,
and the looser and more dissipated
social life to be seen in many large
cities at the present time. The spirit
of the older order is typified toy a
self-reliant young woman from a
small town in the West who meets
and is contrasted with a group of
sophisticated pleasure seekers of New
York, summering at a country place
near the metropolis. Here the young
niece of Nancy Price, the country
cousin, falls into the hands of a de
signing father who has left his first
wife and married a mercenary
parvenue.
But-lhe Country Cousin, resource
ful and determined, follows her niece
to the city and after weathering
many difficulties, disheartened and
embarrassing, she plies her traits of
inherent sweetness and purity of pur
pose to the ultimate undoing of the
intriguers and the resuscitation of
her niece, who, now aware of the
error of her way, is glad to return to
the clean, wholesome life she has left
behind.
ON THE TRAIN.
"It wears me out completely to
travel."
"Your business compels you to do
it, I presume."
"No I am traveling for my
health."Boston Transcript
BELIEVES IN UNDYING SOUL
Maeterlinck Declares There Are Scien
tific Proofs, Beyond Dispute, of
Its Existence.
Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian
poet and writer, is no enemy to spir
itualism. Declaring that he had "an
open mind," he said he was giving
it much thought and thought well of
it.,
"In my lectures," he said, "I will
give to the American people the first
scientific proofs of the existence of
an immortal soul."
gave.! as one ^proof" the fact
that 50 years ago two German pro
fessors discovered a find in the hu
man body "which could be guarded
in a bottle after death and which did
not die." He also expressed the be
lief that thought is antecedent to the
brain and creates brain, drawing
from this the conclusion that thought
cannot die, even should the brain
pensh.
"The common belief that thought
is only a secretion of the brain is
faUc," .said the philosopher, who
gave as still further reason for hfl
tiehel in an undying soul examples
to prove the endless existence of a
subconscious mind.
Maeteiluuk has the greatest ad
miration lot S Oliver Lodge, who,
Mine the death of his son, has be
come a sf.mch bche\cr in spiritual
ism. "1 au tpt generally Ins theo-
ries," he saxJ, "but 1 reserve to m
self the right to study tl ese things
fuithe.
SUGAR PRESERVES FLOWERS
Experiments-Have Shown Its Value,
but Not With All Kinds, Says
London Newspaper.
It is reported that two professors
of a school of agriculture have made
bonie interesting experiments in pro
longing the lives of cut flowers. One
hundred different flowers were used
in the experiments, and it Avas found
that sugar helped to keep most of
them fresh, but was positively in
jurious to lilies and sweet peas. It
hastened the opening of roses and
orchids, but did not affect tulips,
daisies or chrysanthemums.
Experiments were made with
small quantities of chloral, ether,
glycerin, alcohol, limewater and am
monia salts, each of which served to
lengthen the lives of various flowers.
Some of the flowers kept in sugar
and water lived four times as long as
they ordinarily would.
The sugar does not have an exact
ly equal effect on the different flow
ers it preserves. Carnations seem to
like a 15 per cent solution and roses
do better in a solution of from 8 to
10 oer cent.
NORMA
THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1920
TiiEisixorETALMADG
CONQUEST*
IN
"The ISLEM
CONQUEST"
Directed by John EmersonAnita Loos
Love Romance Adventure
Sailing the seas of happinessA girlA
manthe only survivers of a shipwreck
A typical, tropical isleProspects of a
life-long isolationThe birth of lore
And then cameHER HUSBAND!
A Picture of Thrills and Beauty!
A REAL "SPECIAL"It cost us more and it's
worth more
GRAND
Prizes for English Weavers.
A gift of $10,000 from John Cromp
ton of Manchester, England, will pro
vide rewards to the designers and
weavers of original cotton fabrics de
signed and woven In technical col
loges or weaving schools in the Brit
ish empire. One-half of the fabrics
sent In for competition must be en
tirely of cotton, and the remainder
may contain 70 per cent of cotton
threads. A special committee of the
Textile Institute of Manchester will
take care of the collection of the
samples.
Buoscrlbe tor The Pioneer.
THEATRE
Mat. 2:30, 10c-25c
Night 15c and 30c
Little Falls Legion Team
VERSUS
Bemidji Legion Team
The boys showed their mettle in the last
game with Excelsior. You can't afford to miss
another chance to see real action. Little Falls*
numbers some real stars in her lineup.
COME ON OUT AND HELP
8 p. m. ARMORY
Fifty Cents for AdultsWar Tax Included
TODA and
WednesdayThursday
Matinees Daily at 2:30
NORMA
TALMADGE
RAGS
Sting your elean cot
ton rags-no buttons, bands
or woolen cloth accepted.
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