Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 30, 1912, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Published every afternqon except Sun- day by the Bemidji Ploneer Publishing ~ gompany. @ X. CARSOXN. D. K. DENU. HAROLD J. DANE, Editor. In the City of Bemidjl the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ory is irregular please make immedlate complaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor If they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. All papers are continued until an ex- pligit order to discontinue Is received, | and until arreages are pald. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier .. $ 45 One year, by carrier ... 5.00 Three months, postage pald . 1.25 Six Months, postage pald . 2.60 One year, postage paid .. . 5.00 ‘The Weekly Pioneer. Kight pages, contalning a summary of the news of the week. Published svery Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for $1.50 in advance. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN.,, UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879. THIS DATE IN HISTORY. March 30. 1282—Massacre of pers at Palermo. 1697—Hannah Dustin, of Haver- Rill, Mass., killed her twelve Indian guards and escaped. 1796—John Sevier inaugurated first governor of Tennessee. 1837-—John Constable, noted land- scape painter, died. Born June 11, 1775. 1843—Sir Charles Metcalfe pointed governor of Canada. Sieilian Ves- ap- 1870—Congress readmitted Texas| into the Union. 1903—Statue of William E. Glad- stone erected in Westminster Abbey. THIS IS MY 72ND BIRTHDAY. Charles Booth. Rt. Hon. Charles Booth, an Eng- lishman of wealth who has made a special study of the problems affect- ing capital and labor, was born in Liverpool, March 30, 1840. For fif- ty vears he has been a partner in one of the great mercantile and steamship companies for which Liv- erpool is famous. At the same time he has devoted much of his attention to the solution of problems relating to the public welfare, and has writ- ten extensively on pauperism and the condition of the working people, old age pensions, and kindred subjects. Mr. Booth was appointed to the Privy Council in 1904. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has received honorary degrees from Oxford, Cam- bridge and Liverpool universities. Congratulations to: De Wolf Hopper, for many years a star in comic opera, fifty-four years old today. Frederick W. Hamilton, president of Tufts College, eighty-two years old today. Hon. Peter Talbot, member of the Senate of Canada, fifty-eight years old today. Opponent for Steenerson. A. G. Anderson, mayor of Fergus Falls, appears to be the choice of many Otter Tail county people of a man to oppose Congressman Steener- son for re-election from the Ninth district. It appears that the oppo- sition which has been felt for Mr. Steenerson for some time is becoming stronger in some sections and that an announcement of the Anderson candidacy may be expected soon. The Fergus Falls Free Press has the following to say of the situation: “Two years ago Mr. Anderson was also under consideration as good tim- ber for congressman, and the Free Press has known that he would be suggested this year. Congressman Steenerson was never personally pop- ular in the district and the White Earth revelations have made him weaker than ever. Indeed, we know that men who have hitherto been his supporters have now turned away from him in disgust, and it is quite probable that there will be a concert- ed movement to bring out a good, clean, able man in opposition, and we have known that some of the foremost of the anti-Steenerson men believe that it is up to Otter Tail county to furnish the candidate.” The Matthews Murder One week ago tonight, a young Minneapolis girl was murdered with- in a few steps of her home. The in- vestigations of the police and news- papers during the past week have established one fact without a doubt- that she had been visiting public cafes of the second class without proper escort and that her parents did not know how she was spending her evenings. As much sorrow and pity as may be expressed over the murder of this girl, the fact is that had her parents guarded her closer she probably would not have had to sacrifice her life in the defense of her. honor. They allowed her to be out late hours unescorted. They did not warn her of the evils connected with the cafes she visited. In an indirect way, they are the responsible parties for her death. Bemidji probably has not cafes and amusement places of the nature of those Miss Matthews visited in Minneapolis, but it is a fact that many. unescorted girls may be seen|after a fair trisl. on our down town streets late at night, More may be seen in groups of two and three which scatter in the residence section each girl going to her home alone. The question here is, “How many parents know how, where and with whom their daughters are spending their even- ings.” Concerning the ‘erime murder and the in Minneapolis, the Journal has the following editorial: wave The killing of a young woman on a public street in this city calls for more than passing notice. She had visited public cafes of the second class without proper escort. This act was possibly the false step that led to her death. If this does not apply in this case it does in many others. Is the public in any way re- spounsible? The people permit these resorts to flourish. The police do nothing to prevent them. Minneapolis has a police admini- stration that is wholly incompetent. It may take more murders to arouse the public conscience. We pay for the police department over four hundred thousand dollars a year, and yet vice flourishes on all sides. Prove it? There is the rub, and be- cause of this the police heads feel safe in their delinquency. One can enter and see it, but this appears to be inconclusive evidence in a court, Minneapolis has a large staff of detecives. What are they doing? Do we hear of any of them except Burnskill and Faltico? Last sum- mer when Mayor Haynes prosecuted his “bunk” raids following various resort exposures by the Journal, it was in nearly every case these fam- ous men who figured in them. Why call them “bunk” raids? Because The Journal established the fact to its own satisfaction that out of sixty- four of them at least fifty opened the day after the raid and went on as be- fore. Is that “bunk” or “zeal and vigor”? There are hundreds of vice dens in this city. They are largely patron- ized by young people. How much longer shall we as citizens permit the police fiasco to continue? In the meantime daring robberies with now and then a horrifying mur- der go on without an arrest that counts. The business man-who reasons that the way to make a city prosper- ous and attractive it to make it tough, is shortsighted. The way to make a city strong is to make it clean. Filth is not pleas- ant under any guise. We make the allegation that May- or Haynes is the greatest delinquent that has ever occupied the mayor’s chair in this city. You judge a man not by what he promises to do, but by what he has done. That is the only true test. i Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy judged by this standard has no superior. People everywhere speak of it in the highest terms of praise. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. Amusing Artistic Conceptions. Many a child, as well as some older persong, has puzzled over that “beam” In the eye of which the New Testa- ment speaks. It is not always under: stood that this means a beam of light. But it was left to Solomon Bernard, In his woodcuts iWWistrating the Bible, published at Lyons, in 1553, to pic ture this beam as one of wood, rectan- gular in section, and several feet in length. Then there is the case of an English painter who depicted an elab- srate rainbow. TUnfortunately, he painted it wrong side out. But we for- get amazement at such stupldity in admiration for the artist’s magnificent audacity when we learn that he charged twenty pounds for repainting the ralnbow colored in accordance with nature’s arrangement, Learned His Error. “So you have fired that red-headed »fice boy?” “Yes. And that youngster thought 1l the time he was a fireproof office boy." GRANDMOTHERS USED SAGE TEA To Darken the Hair and Restore Gray and Faded Hair to Its Natural Color It is easler to preserve the color of the hair than to restore it, al- though it is possible to do both. Our grandmothers understood the secret They made a “sage tea,” and their dark, glossy hair long after middla life was due to this fact. Our moth- ers have gray hairs before they are fifty, but they are beginning to ap- preciate the wisdom of our grand- mothers in using “sage tea” for their hair and are fast following suit. The present generation has the ad- vantage of the past in that it can get a ready-to-use preparation call- ed Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. As a scalp tonic and color restorer this prepartion is vastly su- perior to the ordinary ‘“sage tea” made by our grandmothers. The growth and beauty of the haif depends on a healthy condition of the scalp. Weyth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy quickly kills the dand- ruft germs which rob the hair of 1its life, color and lustre, makes the scalp clean and healthy, gives the hair strength, color and heauty, and makes it grow. Get a 50 cent bottle - from your drugglst-today, -He will give your money back if you are not satisfied ‘Home Coursa Road: Makmtg XI.—The Relltion of Au- tomoblles to Modern 3 nghways. By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, . Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by Amerlcan Press Asso- clation, 1912, HE' most comples problem now engaging the - attention” of highway engineers all over the world is. the presetvation ‘ot the crushed stone road under the de- structive action of motor vehicles and the devising of new wethods of con- struction adapted to the requirements of this twentieth century traffic. That the automobile has come to stay no one will dispute. It is estimated that there are already about 450,000 ma- AN OILFD MACADAM ROAD WITH MACHINE TRAVELING SIXTY MILES PER HOUR—NO DUST. chines ownel in the United States, and the number ‘is increasing at a marvel- ous rate. 3 The fact that must give us concern 18 that the old methods of construction which have stood every test for more than 100 years are inadequate to meet the conditions of this new form of traf- fic and that we are in the midst of a transition period which must eventual- ly revolutionize the science and art of the road builder. The highway en- gineer of today is called upon-to asc tain in what way the automobile in- Jures the road, what is the exact cause of the injury, and finally to devise an adequate remedy. | When Tresaguet, the great French engineer, made his report to the coun- cil of bridges and roads in 1775 he ‘set forth the principles of construction which, as modified and added to by John L. Macadam in the early part of the nineteenth century, have proved Iadeq\mte until the twentieth century.. These great road builders and their successors sought to secure a road ca- pable.of withstanding the wear of iron tired horse drawn' vehicles, for the mio-| tor driven vehicles had no, place in their philosopby. -They worked upon the theory that the dust abraded from the crushed stone would fill the voids between the angular fragments and when wet serve as a cement, thereby !mnklng the road surface practically a monolith. The iron shod horses and the iron tired wheels passing over the road from time to time were depended upon to wear off a sufficient amount of rock dust to replace that carried away by wind and water, and this under the action of moisture recemented, thereby automatically renewing the bond of the road surface. The rubber tired wheels, moving at excessive speed, fall to:produce any new dust from the rock, but the tre- mendous shearing effect of the driving wheels loosens this dust, and as the body of the machine displaces a.large volume of air the deflected currents carry the rock dust off the road, there- by effecting a permanent loss of the all essential binder. It follows that the road is- soon stripped of its fine bind- ing material, exposing the upper or wearing course of the stone. These stones robbed of the binding material are soon loosened by the shear of the driving wheels, leaving the road badly raveled or disintegrated. It is, of course, apparent that the effects de- seribed ave greatly intensified on curves, where skidding is most fre- quent. Highway and mechanical engineers have given much study to the action-of the automobile on the. road 'surface, and many ingenious theories have been Advanced. While it is true that the slipping of the tire, skidding, shape of tires, all contribute to .produce. the ef- fect, the most conclusive experiments seem to.warrant the assertion that the great. tractive force or shear exerted. by the driving wheels of motorcars is the main factor of injury. A series of tests conducted by the United States office of public roads 1908 produced some interesting results along this line. Cars of:various welghts and types were run over a.measured course at different: rates of speed and right angle photographs taken of each run. A sisty horsepower car stripped for racing, weighing with its driver and mechanician about 2,800 pounds, was driven over this stretch of road at rates of speed varying from five to six- ty miles per hour. the speed being:in- creased five miles per hour for each trip over the road. Up to fifteen miles an hour little or no effect was produced on the road, but from twenty miles an hour the effect was striking with each increase in speed. These demonstra- tions proved that little or no effect is produced by the front wheels and that practically the entire disturbance -of the road is produced by the rear or duced by suction or vacuum the action of both front and rear wheels should the car body, -suction of the pneumatic-| | driving wheels. If the effect were pro- ||l be somewhat similar at least. Itseems apparent to the writer, therefore, that ‘the road best adapted to. motor traffic is the road which will best resist this powerful traetive shear. It as-already been demonstrated that no plain mae. :flam road 18 capable of resisting thll force; 6sed ‘and praised by the most competent and careful pas-- cooks,-the:'world over ‘The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of “Tartar~~made: from . grapes 1y toward the preservation of our stone surfaced roads and the construction of dustless roads by the use of a binder more powerful than stone dust and. secondly, to minimizing, or mitigating the dust nuisince. For the purpose of discussing intellj- gently the experiments thus far cov- ducted with special binders the term “dust preventives™ has- been applied to all of the various binders having for their main object either suppression or the prevention of dust. These may be divided into two classes, temporary and permanent. The temporary binders serve merely as palliatives and require frequent renewal. The permanent bind- ers, so ealled, enter into the structure of the road as a constitutent element and are either incorporated with the other materials at the time of the con- struction or applied later by-a surface treatment. In the class of temporary binders may be included water, salt solutions, light oils and tars and oil and tar emulsions. wasie sulphite liquors. etc. while the permanent binders include the heavy petroleums and tars. pitches and numerous oil, tar and asphalt prep- arations. The value of salt solutions. which have been used to some extent. lies in the bygroscopic character of the dissolved salt, which, having consider- able affinity for water, keeps the road, surface in a moist condition long after a surface treated with water alone would have ln-come dry throngh evapo- ration. The light oils and tars as well as the ofl and tar emulsions. depend for their effect upon a comparatively small amount of true binding base left upon the road surface after.the volatile Dproducts have evaporated. These ma terials, prove effective only so long as they.retain their binding power. When the binding power is destroyed it is necessary to apply more material. The heavy oils and tars differ from the lighter products in that they con- tain,a much greater amount of true binding base. The results are. there- fore, of a more lasting character and hence the name “permanent binders." The semisolid and solid preparations usually contain a still greater amount of binder. With some few exceptions all.of. the true binders are bitumens. . The usual method of applying thcse‘ materials to the road surface is by sprinkling. The temporary binders can usually, be applied cold, but the perma- nent binders bécause of their much greater viscosity must be beated until sufficiently fluid. In England and France the use of coal tar-is practiced to a lurge extent. and their methods of application have been highly developed. Machines are in general use which are self propelling and in which the tar is | beated and applied to the road surface as a spray under high pressure. These so called “tar sprayers” are not only very economical in the nse of tar. but insure a more even distribution and better penetration of the road surface than it is possible to obtain in almost any other w: In the construction of dustless roads the erucial question is that of cost. The effort must be to-develop a form of construction which will withstafid fast automobile traffic and at the same time be within the financial resources of the community. This is largely being doune at present by the use of a bituminous | binder instead of rock dus The two methods generally employed are known as the penetration and the mixing methods. In the former the lot liquid binder is sprinkled or sprayed over the stone and allowed to pemertate through T AN, UNTREATED BOAD - WITH MAOHINE TRAVELING SIXTY MILES AN HOUR—PLEN- TY-OF DUST, the voids and coat the stones usually to a:depth of two or three inches. In the mixing: method the: stones and binder are thoroughly. mixed either by hand or machine, so that each stone is covered with a thin film of the binder. This method in general insures the bet- ter and more even distribution of the binder. throughout the road surface. bnt.the cost is greater than that of the penetration method. number of. failures which have béen recorded in the use of bituminous road materials is the failure of the user as well as manufacturer to understand certain fundamental principles. To many a tar.is simply a tar and an oil an.oil, while in reality there is a vast difference sometimes even in the tars produced at the same works. The olls also range from those of a paraffin- base to those almost wholly asphalde. Specifications for the bitumens should be prepared by nn expert and materfals should be tested. in.the laboratory. BON'T MISS CHECKERS—THE DE- LIGHTFUL CONFECTION. Crispy, crackley —mouth melting | goodness—you'll chew it and roll it around in your mouth. It tastes so good you'H let it linger before you swallow it. A. box costs 5 cents— you'll get more taste and more satis- faction out of it than ever you got out of a rickel before. Only the finest, tenderest pop-corn | —mixed with highest grade Virginia | peanuts—then coated with pure Lou- | Isiana sugar and molasses. Can the | mind imagine a more delicious mor- sel? Human hands never touch Check- ers in the making. They are packed in triple-sealed boxes—are always pure, clean, crisp. Dust or air cannot come in contact with this closely- guarded confection until the box is opened. | In each B cent box is packed a beau- tiful little souvenir. Most of these souvenirs come from Germany, im- ported in enormous quantities, so the manufacturers can really afford to give something worth while. | ‘Why not get a box of Checkers from the nearest dealer. Look for the red and white checker-board box. Pay the dealer 5 cents and enjoy a box of Checkers. | Barker's Dru 0. C. Rood Wm. McCuaig 5 In the World ’ you would- do it: without much coaxmg—wouldnt you? Arrangements are being made with every first class dealer to sell Bemld 1 * (The.best nickel-pencil in the world) . he -Sold now:at - and Jewelry Go. J. P, Ummh’s Cigar Store Rne & Markusen * SATORDAY, MARCH 30, One of the chief causes of the great 1912. 6YUBCOHOOL00696 6 LODG] IN BEMIDJI. ¢ 0666000666666 66 A 0. U. W. Bemidjl Lodge No. 277. Regular meeting nights—first and third Monday, at 8 o'clock, —at -0dd Fellows hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. Bemidjl Lodge No. 1052. Regular meeting nights— first and third Thursdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic hall, Beltram! Ave, and. Tifth s c.o every second and fourth Sunday evening, at 8§ o'clockin basement of Catholic church, DEGREE OF HONOR Meeting nights every Y second and fourth Monday evenings, at Odd Fellows Hall. F. 0. E. Regular meeting nights every 1st and 2nd Wednes- day evening at 8 o'clock. En.xle! hall. G A R Regular meetings—First and third Saturday after- noons, at 2:30—at Odd Fel- L 0. 0. F. Bemidji Lodge No. 110 Regular meeting nights —every Friday, 8 o'clock at 0dd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami. 1 0. 0. F. Camp No. 34 Regular meeting every second and fourth Wednesdays at § o'clock at Odd Fellows Hall. 705 TRebecca Lodge. Regular meeting nights — first and third Wednesday at 8o'clock. —L. 0. 0. F. Hall. ENIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Bemidji Lodge No. 168. Regular meeting nights—ex- ery Tuesday evening at § o'clock—at the Eagles' Hall, Third street. LADIES OF THE MAC- CABEES. Regular meeting night last \Wednesday evening in each month. MABONIC. A. F. & A. M, Bemidji, 233. Regular meeting nights — first and thira Wednesdays, 8 o'clock—at Masonic Hall, Beltrami Ave, and Fifth St . Bemidji Chapter No. 70, R. A. M. Stated convocations— = —first and third Mondays, $ o'clock p. m.—at Masonic Hall Zeltrami Ave., and Fifth street. kanah Commandery No. 30 'K T. Stated conclave—second € and fourth Fridays, 8 o'clock p. m.—at Masonic Temple, Bel- trami Ave, and Fifth St. O. E£. S. Chapter No. 171, Regular meeting nights— first and third Fridays, 8 o'clock — at Masonic Hall, Eelu'ami Ave, and Fifth St. M. B. A. Roosevelt, No. 1523, Regular meeting nights Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock in 0dd Fellows Hall. M. W. A Bemidji Camp No. 5012. Regular meeting nights — j irst and third Tuesdays at 8 o'clock at 0Odd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. Store ve unmedmte ahxpment in_gross lots ling Phone 31. Arrangements have above, f ; MODERN SAMARITANS. Regular meeting nights on the first and third Thursdays in the L O. O. F. Hall at 8 p. m. SONS OF HERMAN. Meetings held _ third Sunday afternoon of each. month at Troppman’s Hall, YEOMANS. Meetings the first Friday evening of the month at the home of Mrs. H. F. Schmidt, . 306 Third street. Try a Want Ad R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Beitrami A Phone 318-2. William C. Kiein INSURANCE Rentals, -Bonds,- Real Estate First Mortgage Loans on City and Farm ° Property