Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 1, 1911, Page 1

— i \ FIFTY BOYS AND GIRLS GRADUATE Large Class Complete Eighth Grade Work and Will Hold Their Com- mencement This Evening. WILL PRESENT CLASS PLAY “The Sweet Girl Graduate” Will Be Staged in Armory By Young Tal- ent—Is Very Amusing. DIPLOMAS T0O BE GIVEN Excellent Musical Program Has Also Been Arranged for and Public is Invited. This evening in the Armory fifty boys and girls of the eighth grade of the Bemidji public schools will be awarded their diplomas, at the eighth grade commencement’ exercises. Along with the presentation of the diplomas, the class play entitled, “The Sweet Girl Graduate” will be presented, by a cast of eleven students of the graduating class. The cast will be as follows: Miss Maude DeSmythe......... . ...... +..... Margaret Anderson Mrs. DeSmythe. ......Clare Nang'e Mr. DeSmythe......Raymond Lord Mr. Jack Hamilton...Merle Spencer Miss Matilda Happenhoer...... Genevieve Crouch Miss Valeria Reynolds, Jean Richards Madam Sateene.......Julia Moritz Miss Rantum. .. Mabel Booth Professor Grindem...Clyde Spencer Mr. Chinese Bulbus..Edwin Simons Katherine........ Margaret Thome Rehearsals for the play have been in progress for some weeks, under the, directions of Misses McGillan and Anderson, both instructors of eighth grade subjects. Act one is staged in the sitting room of the DeSmythe home, where the nervous mother and a French dressmaker plan a new outfit for Maude (Margaret Anderson). Much trouble is confronted in its making, and Aunt Matilda (Genevieve Crouch) thanks heaven that she never graduated. The remaining two acts are staged in the same room and shows the youg graduate rehearsing her essay and the preparations which are made for the exercises on com-| mencement day. The play is very amusing from the beginning to its end, and as an un- usual interest has been taken in the rehearsals it is believed that it will be a success. A rare musical program has also been arranged for, and the sixth and eighth grade chorus will take part, as will the high school orchestra. Olive green and old gold have been selected by the class as their colors and their motto is, “Onward.” No admittance will be charged to the exercises and the public is in- vited. Human Pack Horses. “A Ohinese coolie,” said a mission- ary, “will carry 107 pounds forty miles a day over difficult and mountainous roads. His pay will be threepence per day, and on this he will live well enough, eggs, for example, costing only a penny a dozen in inland China. “There is no porter on earth equal to the Chinese coolie. The coolles who carry Szechuen tea into Tibet travel over snow choked mountain passes 7,000 feet above the sea with loads-of 432 pounds of compressed tea on their patient backs. “Salt. conl, calico, copper and tea are carrled by coolies thousands of miles. The express coolie, with his light load of 107 pounds, swings along at the rate of forty miles a day. The accommodation coolle, with 160 pounds, does thirty miles. The various freight coolies, londed respectively with 200 pounds, 300 pounds and 400 pounds, do twenty, fifteen and ten miles.—Pear-’ son’s Weekly. An Oyster Gormandizer. “When should oysters be eaten?” Our question would have received a ready answer from a certain seven- teenth century worthy. Henry Has- tings, second son of the Earl of Hun- tingdon, was the man. An invitation to his parlor and the guest would have met an oyster table where his host ate oysters twice a day—wet or fine—from Jan. 1 onward to Dec. 81, In other respects he might be called ‘“eccen- tric” His great hall, for instance, was strewn with marrowbones and full of hawks' perches, hounds, span- fels and terriers,” and all his old hats— and here is a use for the old hat—were stuffed with pheasant eggs. When he dled in 1650 he had missed his century by one year. Opysters three times & day and he might have achieved the distinction, He was a sportsman.— London Chronicle. HER FAVORITE PHOTOCRAPH @ s HE photograph of Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, which she llkes best, is the one reproduced herewith. She posed for it in the Red ‘room of the White House and wore a gown of “Helen pink,” the shade which she has made popular. [CEPPTVN DOCTOR SMITH IS NAMED St. Paul Minister Selected for Third Member of New State Board of Parole. GOVERNOR MADE APPOINTMENT BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, THU DULUTHCONVENTION IS ENTHUSIASTIC What is Thought to Be Most Success- .~ ful Northern Minnesota Develop- ment Meeting in Progress. GOVERNOR EBERHART SPEAKS Chief Executive Avoids Talking on Reapportionment—Chief Foregt- er Cox Talks. BEMIDJI MAN ON PROGRAM Ferman Wilson, Editor Daily Pioneer Tells of “Commission Plan of State Government:”’ Duluth, June 1.—(Daily Pioneer Speclfil Wire Service.)—Between five and six hundred residents of northern Minnesota gathered at the Duluth Armory this morning for the first session of the fourth convention of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment Association. They heard Mayor Cullum welcome them to Duluth, Governor Eberhart sroke on good roads and state devel- opment, Right Rev. James McGol- rick told of the opportunities offered to the settlers in northern Minnesota, F. A. Wilson advocated the commis- sion form of government and C. L. Hanson advocated a boosting pro- gram for the commercial clubs of northern Minnesota. Fight Shy of Reapportionment. Governor Eberhart fought shy .of the reapportionment issue. In fact vé‘;{ge did not touch upon the subject Rev. Samuel G. Smith, pastor of the People’'s church, St. Paul, was appointed Dby Governor Eberhart Tuesday as a member of the state board of parole—the new board created at the last session of the leg- islature. Associated with him will be Warden Henry Wolfer of the state prison, and P. M. Ringdal, chairman of the board of control. The board of parole will hear all applications for parole and will have full author- ity with the exception of cases wherein the applicant has been con- victed of murder. In that case, the consent of the state pardon board is necessary. Rev., Mr. Smith is well known as a sociolgist, and the gov- ernor has been considering his ap- pointment for some time. Psychology of Store Planning. The busement of a store was former- Iy regarded merely as a cellar, fit for storage, packing boxes, ete. Then came a merchant of the present day, gifted with an imagination to an un- usual degree, who recognized—though, perhaps, not in these terms—that the 'customer was guided by subconscious control and argued that the lack of effort in going downstairs would ap- yeal to the subconsciousness and that the glimpse of displays seen at the foot of the stairs would lead customers to the basement, notwithstanding the low ceiling, the imperfect ventilation and the absence of daylight. This merchant has lived to see not only a daily attendance on a basement floor ten or a dozen times greater than that on the average foor above the first, but also to' see his discovery copied by practically every store in the land. The real gist of his discovery was that subconscious control leads us to do the easy thing frst—namely, go downstairs—without reckoning with the next problem, which was, of course, getting out of the basement.— Cassler's Magazine. . The Kangaroo's Defe: In the kangaroo hunts of Australia capture is sufficiently easy, but some- times the kangaroo makes an original defense. If possible the kangaroo directs his flight toward a river. It he reaches it bhe enters, and, thanks to his great height, he is able to go on foot to a depth where the dogs are obliged to swim. There he plants himself on his two hind legs and his tail and. up to his shoulders in the water, awaits the arrival of the pack. With his fore- paws he seizes by the head the first dog that approaches, and as he is more solidly balanced than his assailant be holdg the dog's nose beneath the wa- ter as long as he can. Unless a second dog speedily comes to the rescue the first one is inevitably drowred. If a companion arrives and sets bhim free he is glad to regain the bank as quick: ly as possible. 4. strong and cour ageous old kangaroo will hold his own against twenty or thirty dogs, drown- ing some and frightening others, and the hunter is obliged to intervene with a bullet.—New York Press. at_all. His ‘talk, which lasted for twenty-five minutes, was “simply along the linie of state development. President Maxfield this afternoon announced the following credential committee: L. B. Arnold, St. Louis county; D. H. Lawrence, Lake coun- ty; Albert Clevin, Beltrami county; J. W. Wheeler, Polk county. Ritchie on Resolution Committee. C. A. Albright of Brainerd will be chairman of the resolution committee and some of the other members of that committee will be, A. P. Ritchie, Bemidji; E. H. Reff, Bagley; M. N. Koll, Cass Lake and L. H. Rice, Park Rapids. . In his address on “The Settler and the Forest,” Mr. Cox said: “Minnesota is still in need of set- tlers. The prairie districts of the state have been turned to farms and the hardwood region formerly known as the big woods has experienced a like fate. Thousands of homes have replaced the forest of oak and maple and elm that not so long ago stretch- ed with few openings, from St. Cloud to the Pomme de Terre. But the great coniferous forest of pine and spruce has been slower to appeal to the homeseeker, who too often has gone on to the dry lands further west or to the alluring wheat fields of Canada. “People have at last commenced to realize, however, what Northern Minnesota has to offer in the way of agricultural possibilities. Not only is the climate and the varieties of soil adapted to the raising of a long list of grains and vegetables and stock but, very often, the homestead- er or the new comer finds a valuable crop already upon the land. Some- time this crop is mature and all ready for the harvest; more often it is young and growing but holding out the promise of a big yield in a few years. . “The protection of the forest is not a sentimental proposition. It is just common sense business. The lum- berman is interested and willing to help, for his timber is in danger and the young growth on his cut-over land is increasing in value. The railroads are interested for they lose much property through fires and have to pay damages as a result of them; then too they lose the freight which would have been furnished by the timber consumed. But the set- tler above all others is interested for he has not only the mature timber and young growth on his homestead at stake but his home and his family may be sacrificed by his carelessness or that of his neighbor inthe case of fire. “The state has made a gocd start in the matter of forest fire preven- tion. The new law is a good one. The 200 rangers which I hope to have in the woods this season should do much toward reducing the fire risk, especially on the state lands which it will be their first duty to protect, but we are going:to need the active A with King Edwudn-. Pars [AREWELL NDREW CARNEGIE has started on his annual trip to Scotland and his Castle Skibo, He was not sure, when he left Ngw York, whether he would attend the coronation festivities as a guest, the reason for his un- certainty “being thé'fact that e i not quite on such a footing of intimate friendship with King George as he was co-operation of ever‘y one; above all that of the setth;.'z 2 The talk given by Mr, Wilson fol- lows: i Mr.' President, Ladigs and@ Men of Minnesota: e s To boost for Minnéou' through a newspaper is a pleafant duty, but at this moment I showld not be will- ng to sign an affidayit to the effect that there is any delij in boosting for the good old North:Star State on a public- platform ‘which, like the door mat on certail casions, has a tendency to revolve.l I feel feeble in the task of elucidgting to you in terr minutes’ time hi the commis- sion plan of governuiént would make a sick. state well a well state weller:-+ I couldn't 4o/ it thengh I had the power of Demosthemes' or even Jimmy Boyle and I assure you that in any sort of an oratorial con- test I would stand about as much show as'a glass of beer looking for a home in Milwaukee. But, with your kind permission, I shall ramble along for a few minutes in the sin- cere hope that something I may say may lead to a new batch of boosts. I shall digress for a moment from my subject to say a word of that late, but perhaps not late enough, great- est aggregation of bomb throwers ever assembled under one roof, the Minnesota of Legislature of 1911, of which I have some personal know- ledge. But, in justice to the men who served in that famous 37th, it is only fair that this great conven- tion give serious attention to the many really splendid and valuable measures which were dragged safe- ly through the carnage; the new drainage law, the reclamation board, the consolodation of rural schools, good roads, free seeds and above all a modern system for forest fire pre- ventjon and many other acts which stand as everlasting memories-to the members of that body. But the one thing which the Legislature did not do, which we of the North prayed seven times a day that it would do, was to grant that added representa- tion to which the North believes it is entitled. Certain members of the Senate scented a beast not in the jungle but in the three big cities of which Duluth—God bless her!— is one and reapportionment went down with a splash, carrying with it, I venture to say, the political future of more than one member of the up- per branch of the legislature. But1 tread near the forbidden path of politics and shall only add that although disappointed, the North does not stop to cry either over spill- ed milk or ripe lemons. This, I do believe: That, if the North is to ob- tain a fair representation without years of delay, this convention, with all its mighty power, must appeal to the governor to reassemble the Legislature in extraordinary ses- sion. And while T speak of the North, probably because I come from that part of the state, I gleefully join in the more general movement of “Boost Yor Minnesota!” Once upon a time there was an aged colored preacher who, although his voice was better than his educa- tion, was greatly impressed by his own self importance. He was par- ticularly peeved if any member of the congregation took exception to the manner in which he interpreted the Holy word. One Sunday, he surprised - his congregation. by mak- ing the flat-footed statement that no| miracle ever had been performed. This was too-much for one old deacon who breke out with: “Man, what am de matter wif you? If dey don’t was no miracles, den how you ex- plain de Hebrews crossing the Red Sea and de 'Gyptians come and half way over get up?” ‘Without the slightest hesitation the colored preacher replied: “Dat was no miracle. Dem He- along swallowed ‘brews sure nuf crossed de Red Sea as recorded but dey done crossed on de ice. De next day de ’Gyptians come aiong but by that time de ice was rotten and dey all fall in.” . But the old deacon knew some- thing about geography so he said: “Don’t you know, parson, dat ice never does form south of de equa- tor?” This irritated the minister came back with: .“Now_look a here. . You:set dowfl‘; Deacon Jones, and don’t ‘be abuttin’ in to my business any mo’. You try to cornah me and you jes show yo own ignowagice. No ice south of de ’quator! You ignoramuses you! Don’t you know dat in dose days dere never was no equatah?”’ And there is no equator or other dividing line in Minnesota. Sec- tionalism should not be a bar to the prosperity of the commonwealth. The interests of Rock county should be in harmory with St. Louis; Wi- nona should glory in the prosperity of Koochiching and vice versa. It is all one city—even to the cities— and as Schley said after the Battle of Santiago,—“There is glory enough for all.”” We are all proud of Min- nesota as one of the most richly en- dowed states of that Union which goes to make the grandest nation ever devised by man. And so, while we would not for a moment detract from the splendor of the South, with her waving fields of golden grain, we will, T feel, be pardoned for remind- ing the public at large of the fact that we grow a pumpkin or two in our neck of the woods. Residents of the South point with pride to their thriving villages, the richnessof their soil and the brilliance of their men but you will search the map in vain to find a more prosperous, thriving, progressive district than the pine- perfumed, ore-laden, prairie-stretch- ing counties of the North. You from the South can boast of the sturdy little Yankee from Watonwan but we claim a® good a citizen in the strenuous little Scott from Beltrami. ‘You may harp on the bigness of your population and we warn you to chain down your settlers for they are com- ing up north where life is really worth living and where an 80 year. old man with a wooden leg will run a foot race before breakfast every morning just for exercise; you dangla tassels of corn in our face and we defy you to point out the corn line. You talk of favors from Nature and we tell you truthfully that in natur- al wealth St. Louis county alone hag the rest of the state tipped up at an angle of 45 degrees. Winona county has good Tands and so has Aitkin; Fillmore, for 50 years, has been a garden spot, but the tim- ber of Hubbard has sung a merry tune through the.saw mills and the soil that grew the trees is now grow- ing everything that Fillmore can grow, the representative from Wi- nona county to the contrary notwith- standing. And so, while the south has grown and settled and prosper- ed, the north, in a period of new awakening is sweeping onward with strides that astonish the ignorant visitor from the south and causes him to say fervently that Minnesota is a great state. And because of this greatness it should be our de- sire, and I believe it properly one of who the duties of this great convention to do what it can'in bringing about 0 U ED gED S0 TP LG AN S A oSm SN a more nearly ideal form of govern- ment. ‘When the men who wrote the Con- stitution of the United States gave that document to the world, they Presented the foundation of the most nearly perfect government ever con- ceived but unfortunately, when the system of federal government is ap- plied to municipalities or states its success is less pronounced and for that reason we may well inquire in- to the virtues of a commission plan. I shall not tire you with any attempt at a long treatise on the subject for the best I could hope to do at this time would be to arouse sufficient in- terest to cause & more thorough in- vesugm :"'.@3 ‘ “In‘&-word, the commission plan-of government as proposed for use by the state would crystalize in the hands of a few experts all that cum- bersome, half oiled, cog-missing, rattlety bang machinery which now churns the state government along. Our officials, generally speaking, are efficient, competenf, conscientious men so that it must be the fault of the present system rather than in- dividuals which is to blame for the present undesirable conditions. Moré than 150 cities are now gov- erned by the so called “commission plan” and within a score of years it ig likely that more than 5,000,000 persons will be living in commission regulated municipalities. The idea of the commission plan is simply an effort at a complete cen- tralization and concentration of all the power and regponsibility in a small council or commission. A certain lion hunter, Theodore is his name, once said: “Governmental powers should be concentrated in the hands of a very few men who would be so conspicu- ous that no citizen could help know- ing all about them and elections should not come frequently.” I can imagine of no more convine- ing argument in favor of a commis- sion plan and if the commission plan works well—and it has worked well, since Galveston, after the great flood of 1900 which threatened to swal- low her up, launched the idea—why cannot the same idea be applied to states? If the state government of Minne- sota were to be placed in the hands of a commission of say nine men picked carefully and on merit alone, it seems more than likely that a great improvement over the present system of state departments, seeped and steeped as they are and ever must be in politics. And not only should such a com- mission have the power to appoint subordinate administrative officials but likewise the power to remove them at will. Members of the com- mission chosen for their competency and honesty rather than for politi- cal reasons would have the power and responsibility of all branches of state government. All questions would be simply and finally settled by a majority vote of the commission. It would be a simple, direct and above all a business-like way of ad- ministering the affairs of the com- monwealth. Simplicity, directness and effective control are the strong features of the commission plan. Under this plan there could be no dodging or beating about the bush— the responsibility would be fixed on the head of each department it could quickly be shopped off, It would sound the death knell of graft and I notice by the Long Prairie ‘Leader that the state has some. i BEMIDJI VOTERS FAVOR BOND ISSUE {Majority is Nearly Two Hundred— Vote Being 324 for and 50 Against Proposition. ELEVEN BLOCKS TO BE PAVED All of Which Are in Business Section of City and Will Mean Much in Future. . Says Action Will Be Taken at Spec- ial Meeting Which Means That Paving Will Begin Soon. By the overwhelming vote of 324 to 50, the voters of Bemidjl yester- day decided in favor of the $20,000 paving bond issue. ‘ : The result of the vote on the issue means that during the coming uum-- mer eleven blocks of the business portion of the city will be paved. Special lieetin_g\Tonigbfi A special meeting of the city coun- cil has been called by Mayor Parker for this evening, and the results of the vote yesterday will be canvassed. The meeting this evening is for the purpose of so arranging the af- fairs of the bond issue that no un- necessary delay will occur, and it is very probable that City Treasurer Gell will be sent to St.‘Paul tomor- state treasurer. A At the regular meeting of the council next Monday evening the clerk, George Stein, will be author- 1760 “to advertise “for ‘bids for the building. of the pavement, and work will undoubtedly be begun within the next few weeks. Parker Much Pleased. The result of the vote yesterday, as to wards follows: First ward— 88 to 14 in favor of bonds. Second ward— 102 to 14 in favor of bonds. Third ward— 63 to 19 in favor of bonds. Fourth ward— 71 to 3 in favor of bonds. Mayor Parker who has' been a strong ‘advocate of paving since it was first talked of for Bemidji, is much elated over the outcome of the election and says: “I watched the vote yesterday as best I could and had no fear as to the result, but the more than 6 to 1 vote was better than I had expected. Of course I am very much pleased, and will do.all in my power to make the paving a success. I see no rea- son why the entire eleven blocks as has been planned by the council can- not be paved, and by paving a little every year, we will soon have enough of our city paved, so that we may not be ashamed in the least. “The special meeting tonight is just for the purpose of doing certain business which means that we.can go right on with the securing of the $20,000 from the state.” HAVE THRILLING ACCIDENT Two Prominent Bemidji Jump Into Lake Bemidji When Boat Catches Fire. RECEIVED NO SERIOUS REBUI,’.[‘S Considerable excitement . was caused last evening just before eight o’clock, when the “Alice’” a staunch little motor boat owned by the City Boat company caught fire. _ There were three prominent Be- midji women in the boat at the time, and it had just left the dock, when a spark from one of the connections, caused a small amount of gasoline, which had dripped from the tank, to ignite. To the alarmed women it seemed that their fate was near, and without hesitation two of them plunged into’ Lake Bemidji, the water reaching to their shoulders, while the third was “rescued”. before taking the evening bath. ] Aside from being chilled, they suf- fered no more serious injuries, and It eertainly is true that under the (Canlll‘fl!fl on last page.) - & request was made at this office to withhold the names. MAYOR PARKER MUCH PLEASED row to secure the $20,000 from the & ‘Women