Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 29, 1911, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING GO. E, N. DENU. Q.. CARSON. Entored In (ho Paslofticn af Bemid)l, Miangasta, elass matter, l“l!flllfllfl---ii 00 PER YFAR CITY OF BEHIDH County Seat. Population—In 5099. Summer Resort---Hundreds of outsid- ers make their summer home on Lake Bemidji. Fishing boating and bath- ing accommodations are second to none in the United States. Area—Ten Square miles incorporated. Altltude—1400 ‘eet above sea level. Water Power—2200 developed horse- power, Mississippi river. ‘Water—Absolitely pure. sian wells. ‘Water Mains—About ten miles. Boating—500 miles by lake and river. Death B: 5.4 a thousand in 1908. Annual Bainfall—33.7 inches. Temperature—20 above, winter; 75 summer, mean. Sewer Mains—About five miles. Cement Sidewalks—Twelve miles. Lakeshore Drive—Ten miles. Parks—Two. 3 ‘Water Prontage—Ten miles, two lakes and Mississippi river. A Home Town—1600 residences. Taxpayers—1200 Churches—: School Houses—Tour. Bank Deposits—3$800,000. Manufacturers—slardwood handles, lumber, lath, shingles and various other industries. Great Distributing Point—Lumber preducts, groceries flour, feed and hay. Postal Recelpts—$20,375 for 10th place in the state outside of St Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth. Postal Savings Bank—Orly one in Minnesota. Railroads—Grea? Northern, Minne- sota & International, M., R. L. & M, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, Wilton & Nerthern, Grand Forks to Duluth and Bemidji-Sauk Centre, mlroau Depots—Three. nger Trains—Fourteen daily. z pitals—One Distances—To St Duluth, 167 miles. Hotels—Fifteen. Breweries—One. Sawmills—Four. Handle Factories—One. Boat Factories—One. Wholesale Houses—Four. Banks—Three. Auto Garages—One. 1900, 1600; in 1910 Paul, 230 miles; to ADMITTED HIS ERROR. It was during the course of de- bate over the Klemer episode that “Bob” Dunn called Clinton Robinson the young democratic representa- tive from St. Charles, Winona county, a “whiffet,,. Afterward, when accused by Rob- ingon of having used unparliament- ary language, Dunn arose and humbly—so humbly in fact as to be sarcastic—offered a complete apology which calls to ‘mind the neatness with which a member of the British Parliament got the bet- ter of his adversary. An irate member of the House of Parliament had described another as “not having even the manners of a pig.” At the cry of “withdraw” he promptly did so, by rising to his fleet and saying: “I withdraw and apologize and beg to say that the honorable mem- ber HAS the manners of a pig.” THREE WEEKS MORE. Three weeks from today the Min- nesota legislature by constitutional limitation must take final adjourn- ment. Of more than 2,000 bills intro- duced less than half a hundred have been enacted into law and a major- ity of these are not of general inter- est. The Dunn good roads bills and the $600,000 emergency appropria- tion for the university of Minnesota are the two most important mea- sures passed by both houses and signed by the governor. The House has passed the initiative and refer- endum, local option for cities of the fourth class, extension of employers’ liability in case of an employe’s death, ratification of the proposed federal income tax amendment and a reapportionment bill. There still remains to be consid- ered a new reapportionment bill by the senate, the woman’s suffrage bill, the capital punishment bill passed by the house, the employer’s liabil- ity bill and the omnibus appropria- tion bill. As a result hundreds of bills, some of which are meritorious mea- sures, will be sinothered because of the avalanche which is now bearing down on both houses and which will continue with increasing pressure up to midnight on April 18 which is the extmeme limit on the passage of bills. Not a little of this last hour congestion is due to the unfortunate Klemer incident which already has consumed considerable time by the house, throwing that body into such a turmoil that rapid progress is now almost impossible and being so far reaching as to even affect the sen- It has taken up parts of four days and all of one and the end is not yet. ate. Of course in the mass of bills now penaing there must be a good deal of chaff but this only goes to block. Two arte-! 1910, | the proposed measures which are of| real necessity for: the hest welfare of the state. It is likely that from now on only the most important measures will stand any real show of getting through. WILLING WOODROW WILSON. “Get out and stay out” was the way in which Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who quit be- ing president of Princeton Univers- ity to entet politics—and perhaps the White House—addressed one Nugent, chairman of the state com- mittee a few days ago. This is but one of many instances sincé Woodrow became the chief ex- ecutive in which he has shown his willingness to take issue with any man or clique of men who, to the governor’s notion, are inclined to play crooked politics. Governor Wilson has been at war with the state machine ever since he { shattered the boss rule in naming a | new United States senator. It will be remembered that, despite the gen- erally accepted opinion in New Jer- sey to the contrary, he favored and finally won a senator representative | of the people rather than the trusts. And so there are many persons { both in and out of democratic ranks who begin to look upon the former college president as the strongest candidate the democrats have for the nomination of president in 191z and it cannot be denied but that if he continues as he has begun he will make a formidable opponent to Taft, presuming that the president will be renominated. Governor Harmon, of Ohio, is known to lave a yearning for the | presidency and Champ Clark’s ambi- tion may be characterized in even stronger language but there is great | difficulties to be overcome before | either can hope to win the prize. In the case of Harmon, he lacks the support of Bryan and it must be acknowledged that the MNebrackan still wields a big influence within Champ Clark can hard- 1y be compared with either Harmon or Wilson as presidential timber and in the ordinary course of events his name probably will be eliminated. Thus we find that already Wilson is running neck and neck with, Har- mon and if he has succeeded in hit- ting this swift pace so soon after hay- ing been elevated to public office, it seems a pretty good guess that he will outdistance the Ohio man be- fore next year and if hasn’t had enough of rule via the House of his party. the public democratic Representa- tives, Wilson, it would seem, has a fair show to be second democratic president since the Civil War. The Change That Was Wrought. The little man was explaining to his audience the benefits of physical cul- ture. “Three years ago,” he said, 1 was a miserable wreck. Now, what do you suppose brought about this great change in me?” ‘“What cliange?” said a voice from the audience. There was a succession of loud smiles, and some persons thought to see him . collapse. But the little man was not to be put out. “Will the gentleman who asked ‘What change? kindly step up here?” he asked suavely. “I shall then be better able to explain. *That’s right!” Then, grabbing the witty gentleman by the neck: “When I first took up physical culture I could not even lift a little man. Now (sulting action to word) I can throw one about like a bundle of rags.” And finally he flung the. interrupter half a dozen yards along the floor. “I trust, gentlemen, that you will see the force of my argu- ment and that I have not hurt this gentleman’s feelings by my explana- tion.” There were no more interrup- tions. Two Collars on a Dog. Having bought a dog that he admir- ed, a man undertook to buy a dog col- lar. The dog had a neck nearly as big as his head, and the dealer advised the man to buy two collars. “What for?” said the man. “He's only got one neck, so I guess he can get along with only one collar, can’t he?” “Maybe so,” said the man, so the man went away leading the dog by his new collar and chain. In less than a ‘week he brought the dog back. “I'm afraid I can’t keep him,” he said. “He is too obstreperous. I can’t keep him tied up. His neck is the big- gest part of him, and he is as strong | as an ox, therefore it is a cinch for him to slip his collar off.” “That was why I wanted you to take two collars,” said the dealer. ‘“Put both on and fasten the chain to. the back collar, and he can tug away al night without. getting loose. He may commit suicide, but he won’t get loose.”—New York Sun. A Marked Judge. The descriptive reporter of a certain daily paper in describing the turning| of a dog out of court by order of the bench recently detailed the occurrence, as follows: “The ejected canine as he. was _ignominjously. dragged from. the room cast a glance at the judge for the purpose of being able to identify him at some future. time.” Work of Providence. “The man died eating watermelons,” some.one said to Brother Dickey. “Yes, suh,” he said. “Proyidence sometimes puts us in paradise befo' we gits ter heaven.”—Atlanta Consti tution. ,; Objections to the ++++++++++++++*€-+ i Consolidated School. S e i s e o L ol # By C.R. Barns, Minnesota Uni- versity Farm. 5 el odolched b oh bbb e So natural it is that every proposed reform should meet ‘with .opposition, that, if opposition. were absent, one might well believe the reform to be lacking in merit. That educators and others. are found, therefore, who op- pose the .consolidation- of country school-districts, and who adhere to the “little red” school, with its single teacher, as something whose place can be adequately filled by nothing else, is on the whole an encouraging sign. Opposition is the food of Prog: ress. The principal objections. conjured up against .consolidation may be enumerated as. follows: i First—With only one school to a township, the distance to be traveled by a majority of the pupils will be too great. Second—If vehicles are used 'to col- lect pupils living at a distance, in the morning, and distribute them to their homes at close of school, the promis- cuous crowding in such vehicles will be harmful to both manners and morals. Third—It is not well to send very young children, especially, so far away from their homes. They should be within reach of parents in case of any little emergency. Fourth—In the small district schaol, €ach child receives more individual attention from the teacher than is possible in a graded school, where she has 50 many to look after. Fifth.—Better results can be at- tained by improving the district school —by paying higher salaries to teach- ers; by employing, perhaps, two teach- ers instead of one; by supplying bet. ter books and apparatus, and making the school-house more attractive— than by consolidating a nu r these to create a single graded school. Sixth—Service on E X the district. school-board has ever afforded a be- neficent outlet for public spirit—some- thing which, without it, is likely to be dormant and undeveloped, to the manifest loss of the community. Added to these general objections there is, of course, a chorus from teachers who apprehend a loss of their jobs, and from families especial- ly favored by existing conditions. The average reader, however, is inter- ested only in those above named. The answer to each, in brief, is as follows: | First—It is by no means necessary, | and seldom desirable, that the terri- | oo oo ol e e sie ofe ole e ol o ol B b ol THE OLD WAY. “Footing it” to the District school. tory in a “consplidated” district should cover an. entire township. six miles square. Ofter the population may be large.enough to support two or more good eight-room graded schools. Un- der what is called the “Ideal” plan, in Towa, township lines are in part disre- garded, and-the-consolidated schools 80, located that no house is more than three and a half miles distant. And readers should rémember that, now-a- days, distances are to be calculated, not by the capacity of juvenile legs, but by that of swift teams and auto- mobile omnibuses. With such vehicles at.command, the consolidated school, even if its: territory includes a town- ship, is really nearer to the farm house ‘than the “little red” school house only a mile'away, but to reach which the juvenile must. usually rely on “Foot and.Walker’s line.” Second—Against this objection may be . pitted the fact that the well-be- haved and respectable’ almost fnvari- ably dominate in any crowd of Ameri- can boys.and girls. Youths who have Mining Stacks | Bougm and. Sold If you have North American or Vermillion to sell; Call on C. G. JOHNSON - BROKER MM INSTITUTION AT LEWISTON, MINN SCHOOL VANS ON RUNMNERS. come out unscathed from hay-ride, sleighride, husking bee, and pountry frolics innumerable, won’t often mis- behave in the school "bus. The driver can_easily. control any who show an inclination to boorishness or inde- cency. And, by the way, since so many country women are excellent drivers, why. shouldn’t the primmest of “0ld maids” be, often secured to serve in the double capacity of .driver and chaperone? Third—The . telephone places the consolidated school in instant commu- nication with all the homes in its ter- ritory, and a little one needing paren- tal care, can be reached more speedily, i most cases, than in the “district” school. Here again, objectors forget how modern. invention. has annihilated distance, Fourth—This is a fallacy. In the district-school, pupils of all grades are in one room, and the teacher is obliged to divide her attention.among pupils in so many studies, and in so THE NEW. WAY, These country children, going to the Consolidated school, do not have to walk. many stages.of advancement, that it is impossible for each to receive as much instruction as in a roomful of pupils of his own grade at the graded school. Fifth—The facts do not justify this claim; and the cost of such improve- ment would be vastly in excess of the cost of equipping and maintaining a consolidated school which would do far more satisfactory work. Sixth—Displaced district school offi- cers will find sufficient scope for the exercise of their public spirit in or- ganizing farmers’ clubs and co-opera- tive associations These call for as much- ability and lo- i cal patriotism as does service on a school board. o b The remainder of March is practically -all that is left -of time for planning the farm work of 1911. To push, that work ahead without a well-de- fined, well-considered plan is a good .deal like starting to build a home without having first de- termined on a design. In either case the work is likely to be more expensive and the results unsatisfactory. G e e b b e b B R A A OPPOBTUNITIES ON.THE FARM Boys Should Be Taught Advantages of Country. Life. “If the boy is to.be kept on the farm and- become a trained-farmer, he must be shown that there.are just as great opportunities financially, so- cially. and otherwise on.the farm as elsewhere. There. should: be an at- mosphere in the public school, in the high school, and in the college,.that will attract the boys to the farm and lead them to see that individual suc- cess and the opportunities for social service are unsurpassed.in a career on the farm.”—D. H. Otis, University of Wisconsin. E3 oo ole s o oo oo ofo oo oo ofe ofe oo obe oo oo ofe oo ofe b There is nothing. more. cer- tain than that “it pays.” when watering dairy cows in winter, to “take the chill off the wa- ter” by means of a tank heater. When compelled to drink wa- ter that is icy cold, the cow. is sure to give less milk. Other classes of stock will also thrive better if their drink, in cold weather, 1s slightly warmed. oo ole oo e oo oo ke vl e ol b b b e + +* o+ B e i i ot i i Automobils, Gas: Engine and Motor -Boat EXPERT: REPAIR WORK Aoy o Blde. . BEMIDH, MINN, .| could abandon Disappointed In Her." “And so your father refuses to con- { sent to our union.” “He does, Rodolphus.” The sad youth.swallowed a sob. “Is there nothing left for us; thenm, but an elopement ?” said he. " “Nothing.” The. girl was fond, but firm. “Do_you think, Clementine, that yom this luxurious home, forget; all ‘the enjoyments of greni [ wealth, banish yourself forever from your devoted :parents’ hearts and go west. with 1 poor young man to euter a home of lifelong poverty and self denial 7 “I.eonld, Rodolphus.” The sad youth rose reached for his hat: “Then,” said he, wenrily and ‘“you are 'far from being practical girl I have all siong taken you to he.” And with one last look around on the sumptuonsness that some day he had hoped to, share he sohbed and said farewell.—Browning’s Magazine. OM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Aesidonco Phoss 58 618 America Ave. T. BEAUDETTE Merchant Tailor Ladies' and Gents' Suits to Order. Dry Cleaning, Preuml and Repairing a Specialty. 315 Beltrami Avenue READY FOR GEMENT WORK I do all kinds of Cement Work —Lay Sidewalks, Curbing, Etc. 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