Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 26, 1912, Page 7

—t PSR R 1 (Northwestern Building % FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1912. HILL PRAISES FARMERS, CALLING THEM BACKBONE OF PROSPERITY (Continued from first page.) on them and they have got to. They are in the position of the man who went to get the preacher when his wife was ill. When the preacher came over to see the woman, he asked if she was resigned. He said, “Why, she’s got to be.” Why, she ought to be and 1 think they ought to be. We are not going to quarrel with them. ‘We are not going to have any feeling over it, but if they are not going to do what we ask, we pull up stakes. That is our privilege. 1t showed me the material that we have to deal with when we find men who are not willing to help themselves, men who are not willing after we send a man to them with tested pedigree seed that we know about. Come Here Next Year. “Next year, we hope to come up here and pick out ten or a dozen plots in your neighborhood and I hope that Bemidji farmers will be willing to earn their money themselves. It isn’t for us. It isn’t for me. I am glad to have your sup- port and I am very glad to have that support and I am trying to help it to do everything within their reach and show them how to do it and what has been the foundation of the prosperity of every nation. “There is a little country in Eu- rope, Denmark. Denmark, today, is the best farming country in Europe. They have about 16,000 square miles. Thirteen thousand of them supports a population of over 2,600,000 peo- ple. And Denmark ,after raising all the provisions necessary to feed her own population, exports and sells to the other fellow farm produce equal to $9 an acre for every acre of land in the kingdom. Minnesota doesn’t raise $9 per acre for every acre in the state, but they have it to sell af- ter feeding all their own people and the people of the town and city, and their land is poor, poor land. “I remember in southern Minne- sota, when I was telling this, a Dane came up to me and told me that when he was a boy, he, like many others wanted to come to America, and his relatives were not able to ‘buy the ticket, I think, to bring him to north- ern Iowa. It cost.about $45. In the neighborhood a subscription was made and the money was raised in that way, and when I saw him, he was a man along in years, about sev- enty years, and he had eight or ten farms and lived in the town of Al- for | | | bert Lea. “1t is very hard to get a Dane to leave his own country because he is so prosperous at home now. Their land was poor land, mostly sand ridges of sand. A great deal of it had to be drained. Part of it, the peninsula of Jutland, can’t be drain- ed at all. But they are getting larg- er returns than any other country in Europe. They are getting, on land that has been cultivated for over 1,- 200 years on an average of from for- ty-two to forty-six bushels of wheat to the acre. In Holland, they get about thirty-five, in Germany twen- ty-five, in England thirty-four, and in the United States, on land infin- itely better, they get an average of fourteen. It is not anything to our credit. Have a Corn Contest. “I saw in a report of testimony given before the congressional com- mittee about two weeks ago of the results of some extension work done by the Agricultural college in the state of Georgia. Professor Souve is president of that college, and I know where he was born pear Niagara Falls, about thirty-five miles from where I was born. They were good farmers and he was educated by a man who is well known in Minneso- ta, that is, Professor Thomas Shaw. | “He showed that in his work in the state of Georgia that he had got- ten the boys together and formed Corn clubs among the boys, from fourteen up to sixteen and seventeen years old. There was a little design about it. He thought the boys’ fath- ers would take an interest and help the boys out. They got advice and knowledge and some prizes for the! best yield. “Over 500 boys raised in the state of Georgia 100 bushels or more corn per acre. Over 750 raised eighty- three bushels per acre. The average of the state of Georgia was twelve bushels per acre. That will show you just what thorough good work will do. Business Men to Help. “You business men here are all in- terested and I am sure will take hold and do everything, do their full duty, do all that is within their power to help the man who is cultivating the soil, because in that way they are | helping themselves, and without it, Bemidji might be taken off of the map. You have a good start for a city. I am surprised to see how good a start you have, and there is every reason that Bemidji should grow. You have the big lumber industry ‘THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER here with a good payroll, and a good payroll always-helps. In fact, a good payroll or payrolls are the founda- tion of the growth of all cities. Now everybody that you can get, that will come in here and employ men and women, will help you. “That money goes out and pays bills. Every dollar that a man re- ceives or a woman receives pay a great many bills; the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and the shoemaker, and the railroad gets a few cents out of it, and we would be sorry if we didn’t. Sometimes people expect that the future is going to be very bright and somebody said that ‘Hope is the anchor of the soul.” It would be rather a lonesome world if there was no hope in it, and it is alright for us to have hope and faith, but work counts for some- thing. Faith is alright and work, too, if you know how to do it. But you have got to have, tor a growing city, you have got to have occupation for the people. Promises a New Depot. “Now, this afternoon, I was down looking at your station. We will have to get a new station here. (Ap- plause). That is very nice and very encouraging, but you deserve it and if we did not think you deserved it we would be in other places, but you are now about fourteen years old and you have done well and we want you to feel that we appreciate your en- terprise. 'We enjoy our share of your prosperity and we will try and put you up a station that neither you or ourselves will have to apologize fog munity. I believe the automobile, while it is a very extravagant thing, has done one great good in the coun- try. I am not sure but that auto- mobiles, by forcing the building of | good roads, won’t do a great deal to justify’' their being tolerated. I must say when 1 see somebody turning a corner at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour and just get around without an upset, I wonder why they are allowed to do it. In older places they catch them and punish them for it, but you won’t have to run thirty or forty miles an hour here until your roads are better. “I hope you will take what I have said in good part. I mean every word of it from the bottom of my heart to be for the good of the coun- try, and I speak as one who has had some experience in that direction. Will Help the Farmers. “If this fall, or before next year comes around, if ten or a dozen of the farmers through this district here .will be ready to earn eight dollars an acre and free seed and a man to show them how to do it, we will be glad to take it up and show them how to double their crop. I think that the result of this year’s effort—and it"is the first and we ought to be able to do Dbetter after the first trial, we ought to find where the weak spots are—will jusgify us way beyond measure. “If you are going to help a man, you can’t do his work for him. It wouldn’t help him a great deal if you did. The greatest help or assist- 0% |ance you can give him is to show him We will get it ready for the fall bus- iness. Need a Lake Shore Drive. “I was looking as I went down to- wards the station and talking with Mr. Burke and asked him if it would not be an easy thing to go across and get a road on the lake shore. T don’t mean that you should be too ambi- tious, but it is worth your while to have a drive there of three or four miles right along the lake shore, It would be a beautiful drive. And while land is cheap, if you get a strip a few rods wide, six or eight rods wide, or as wide as necessary, put a good road to begin with, grade it, and later you will macadamize it, and that would be a nice place to take a little fresh air in the summer evenings. A park in itself and at the same time a beauty to the city. “People are coming in from that side as well as the other would see the beauty of it. Good roads are al- ways an advantage to every com- what he can do with his own hands on his own ground. You can take | the most highly educated agricultur- ist in the world, take the man who knows more about farming than any other, and put him on eighty acres or 160 acres of land and what can he do more than to seiect crops that are best adapted to that land. Any good farmer can do the same. “The next thing, he can choose good seed, he can have the seed test- ed. If he doesn’t know how, he can be shown in an hour how to make his test. The next step is to prepare the seed bed as it ought to be pre- pared. Proper cultivation of the soil, putting the same in condition to receive that seed, as it ought to be in, is all that the best agricultur- ist on the face of the earth can do, and that is something that every farmer can learn to do. He hasn’t got to take a short course or a long course at the Agricultural college to do it. “Extension work! That brings the work right to him. essary to go to college. you think if every boy and girl at- tending school had to go to the Uni- It isn’t nec- What would versity to be educated? The educa- tion has to be carried to them in the little red school houses all over the civilized world, and so it is with the other. ‘We have got to carry the ed- ucation to him and learn him to do it. It is simple enough. There are some things that he ought to do and a' great many things he ought not to do. He wants to know what he ought to do as well as what not to do. And we want to show him. Merchants to Help Farmers, “Some of the merchants here and some of the farmers will work to- gether and when we send a man up here to find ten or a dozen to start with and these men can try to show their neighbors how they did and see if they cannot double their crop. It is within their power to do the same thing. It is a great deal more satisfaction for him than to take two acres where he ought to cultivate one. “I am very glad to have met you here and I am going to wish you all manner of prosperity and I hope the future will bring you that prosperity and that you won’t be disappointed. I say we will share in your prosper- ity, we will share in any prosperity that you have, because we are your next neighbor and we hope to be good neighbors to you. There is nothing more unpleasant than to have a bad neighbor living close to you and nothing more pleasant than to have good neighbors living close to you.” FRECKLES There’s no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as a new drug, othine-double strength has been discovered that positively removes these homely spots . Simply get one ounce of othine- double strength, from any first class druggist and apply a little of it at night, and in the morning you will see that even the worst freckles have be- gun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than an ounce is needed to clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. i Be sure to ask for the double strength othine as this is- sold under guarantee of money back if it fails to remove BEAUTIFUL HAR AT SMALL COST A Simple Remedy Beautifies the Hair, Cures Dandruff, Stops Falling Hair. What a pity it is to see so many people with thin, wispy, faded or streaked with gray, and realiez that most most of these people might have soft, glossy, abundant hair of beauti- ful color and lustre if they would but use the proper treatment. There is no necessity for gray hair under six- ty-five years of age, and there is no excues for anyone, young or old, hav- ing thin, straggling hair, either full of dandruff or heavy and rank smeli- ing with excessive oil. You can bring back the natural color of your hair in a few days and forever rid youreslf of any dandruff and loose hairs, and make your hair grow strong and beautiful by usjng Wyeth’s Sage anq Sulphur Hair Re. medy. For generations common gard- en Sage has been used for restoring and preserving the color of the hair; and Sulphur is recognized by Scalp * Specialists as being excellent for treatment of hair and scalp troubles. If you are troubled with dandruff or itching scalp, or if your hair is losing its color or coming out, get a fifty cent bottle of Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur from your druggist, and no- tice thei miprovement in the appear- ance of your hair after a few days’ treatment. MACHINE SHOP We do general repair work of allkinds. Gasoline and steam engines a specialty. OL.AF ONGSTAD Shop—Rear of Pioneer Building NELSON & C0. SIGNS freckles. 210 Beltrami Ave. loan on real estate in the towns and villages of northern Minnesota. In 1911 1t loaned $90,000. More than 400 homes and properties now being paid for through this association. too big for it to handle, no loan too small for it to make. Ey exactly the same terms as every other member. Minnesota and has assets of more than a quarter There is no way so easy and so certain of pay- ing for a home as the small regular payment. This association affords its members every condition which makes their loans easy for Loans can be paid off at any time and partial payments can be made and thus reduce the size of the monthly payments. When you pay rent the landlord owns the home aed has the rent. a nail or stop up a crack you do it for his bene- fit. If you own the house where you live you can constantly add to its value through your When you drive own efforts and without much expense increase your comfort and pleasure. The Northwestern Building Association is not a stock selling proposition. When you want to borrow money of this association you do not have to pay in and wait until the mon- ey is accumulated. You get it as soon as the property can be examined, the loan approved and the papers signed. It loans on all classes of real estate which look good to the directors. If you want to borrow money callor write, : ery man who borrows, borrows on It 1s the largest co-operative bank in northern of a million dollars and rapidly growing. S{30000 10 LOAT —_ e e e e AT i THE NORTHWESTERN BUILDING ASSOCIATION of Fergus Falls has $150,000 to them to handle. No loan is 121 MILL STREET, OPPOSITE U. S. GOVERNMENT BUILDING, FERGUS FALLS, MINN. ELMER E. ADAMS, President JOHN LAURITZEN, Vice President ROBERT HANNAW, Secretary F. 6. BARROWS, Treasurer W. L. PARSONS, Atforr The Growth of the Northwestern Building Association Jan. 1, 1904 . —————————————— .. .Organized $ e ——————————— Places Whers Money Is Loaned Alexandria Audubon . . 30 Barnesville . Y Battle Lake 1.200 Brainerd . . 1,800 Breckenridge . . 1,400 Bemidji . 27,900 Calloway 4,500 Campbeil 1,600 Dilworth 1.300 Dent . . 5,700 Detroit . 1,900 Deer Creek 3,750 Dalton 1.000 Deerwood . . 1,500 Elbow Lake . 600 Fergus ' Falls 36,400 Frazee . 26,000 Glyndon . 750 Hawley . . 5,350 Henning . . - 2,350 International Falls ... 28,000 iR ,200 Lake Park 3.450 Melby . 1,200 Moorhead 900 New York Mill 600 Ottertail . 600 Perham . . 14,050 Park Rapids 4.300 Parkers Prairie 2,350 Pelican’ Rapids 4,850 Richville 2,750 Staples . 16.800 Dnderwoad L300 e 10,150 Vergas . . 10,100 Wadena . . 40 ‘Wengdell . ... 1,500 $241,450. e s