Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 2, 1912, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Published every afiernoon except Sun- fay by the Bemldjl Ploneer Publishing Company. €. B. CARSON, 1. w. vENv. HWAROLD J. DANY, Bditor. “In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery 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 ara continued until an ex- plicit order to discontinue is received, and until arreages are paid. Subscription Raf One month, by carrier . One year, by carrier .. . Three months, postage paid . Six Months, postage paid . One year, postage paid .. ‘The Weekly Pion Bight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Published every 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. April 2 1720—Joseph Dudler, governor of Massachusetts colony, died in Rox- bury, Mass. Born there July 23, 1647, 1801-—British fleet under Nelsnni bombarded Copenhagen. 1810—Marriage of Napoleon I and the Archduchess Maria Louisa of Austria. 1830-—Survey made for laying out the city ‘of Chicago. 1838—Leon Gambetta, French statesman, born. Died Dec. 31, 1882, 1844-——The famous Fleet Prison in London abolished. 1865—Gen. Ambrose P. Hill, not- ed Confederate leader, killed in the assault on Petersburg. Born in Vir- ginia in 1824, 1866—First issue of the Philadel- phia “Evening Star.” 1894—Coxey’s “army” moving on Washington, reached Pittsburg. Congratulations to: Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, fifty years old today. George S. Nixon, United States Senator from Nevada, fifty-two years old today. The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, the oldest of living rulers, 86 years old today. Up to Steenerson. Now that Bemidji has reached the $20,000 mark in .postal receipts for two successive years and is therefore entitled to a government building to house the post office, recruiting stations, etc., it devolves upon Con- gressman Steenerson to see that the appropriation is made and the build- ing erected as soon as possible. He has introduced a bill_’tu that effect and it is expected to be passed at this session of the legislature. By reaching the $20,000 mark this year Bemidji puts itself in a class in which there is no other city of Northern Minnesota within a ‘wide radius. Duluth, = Brainerd, and Crookston are the nearest cities hav- ing Federal buildings and the near- est of them is 100 miles from Bemid- ji. It more than points out the fact that Bemidji is the hub of Northern Minnerota. Wita the way in which the coun- try adjacent to this city is growing, there is no reason-why the postal re- ceipts shall nit continue to climb uniil this office will be one of the largesi in the state.. The govern- ment reeds a Federal building here; it needs the room for proper hand- ling of the mail; it needs it to supply room for the army, navy, and marine recruiling offices. On Commercial Agencies. A New York man was recently sentenced to fifteen months in a Fed- eral prison for sending a false state- ment through the mails. The state- ment was made to one of the large commercial agencies as a basis for a capital and credit rating. According to the press report, other prosecu- tions will follow. This is considered by business men a material step in the doing away with fraudulent finanéial statements. Many times it is necessary for the commercial agencies to write mer- chants and ask them for a late finan- clal statement and the last one made may not be considered good to date. ‘Without a man on the ground it is often hard to check these statements and establish their accuracy. Under the present Federal law, using the mails for a wrong statement of this kind is a criminal offense and pun- ishable by imprisonment. Commercial agencies of which R. G. Dun and.company and the Brad- street company are the largest omes, are protectors of the retailers as well as the wholesalers, for through their reports they assist greatly in the ‘weeding out of the unreliable dealer. Their files contain complete records of every business man in this coun- try from the time he first became known in a business sense until the present. Once he goes wrong, it is known throughout the trade and his record is sent out all over the coun- try. This publicity makes it hard for him to obtain credit in the future and the reliable retailer is protected to the extent that his competition is lessened and he is not called upon to stand his share of unjust losses. The commercial agencies serve a great purpose and should have the hearty co—operation af eyery live bus- in2ss man, Is the message that came over- the telephone to this office a hundred times today and yesterday, “Tll be in and settle foritina day or two.” A This is the reason why the publishers of the Daily Pioneer have decided to extend the time of payment another week. ‘Many of the laboring men had their pay day the last of the month and as yet have been unable to call at the office to make -arrangements for continuing the Pioneer. ‘To those who are unable to pay up their old account, special arrangements will be made. The Pioneér has arranged to tranfer their old account to a separate ledger and and will allow them to make an advance payment from April 1, to July 1,and carry the back account to suit their convenience. If you wish our collector to call Phone 31. He will explain in detail this method of Payment. “DON’T STOP MY PAPER”