Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 5, 1912, Page 4

4. PRESIDENT VINCENT COMING ON JUNE 17 (Continued from first page.) and applications should be made to him at once. The week has the strong endorse- ment of the Commercial club as it will mean a large amount of adver- tising for Bemidji. The speakers are the best, the evening entertainments cannot be improved and members of the committee in charge want the season tickets taken at once so that they may know where they stand financially. SPECIAL SESSION NOT HARMONIOUS (Continued from first page.) 1899, when a direct primary law was enacted for Hennepin county. “At the following session—1901— this law was amended in some par- ticulars, extended to the whole state and included all positions except state officers and certain minor officials. Since that date, it has governod our political action in making party nom- inations for office. “Tried by more than ten years of actual experience in this state, the di- rect primary law has so established itself in the judgment and convictions of the people that no aspirant for public favor would have the hardi- hood to propose its repeal. It simply substitutes the direct action of the people themselves for the system of delegated authority exemplified in conventions. It makes public officials directly responsible to the people and it makes the people directly respon- sible for the selection of their repre- sentatives. It eliminates the domi- nation of special interests by plac- ing the people—who are the source of all political power—in direct control, “The insistent demand of the peo- ple for the right of direct and un- hindered participation in all matters of government is attested by their un- swerving support of the existing di- rect primary law and by the passage at your last session of a law for the direct nomination and practically di- rect election of United States sena- tors. The recent action of the con- gress of the United States in propos- ing an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the elec- tion of United States senators direct- ly by the people is a further proof of the settled purpose of the people to exercise their political power directly and not through representative bod- ies. “Under the constitution you are the law-making power of this state, and it is primarily your right and duty to determine what the law shall be ,and in reaching that determina- tion it is for you to consider the var- ious details of the proposed legisla- tion. Whether or not the direct pri- mary law shall be non-partizan, what provisions it shall contain as to sec- ond choice, just how it shall be ap- plied to the selection of delegates to national conventions and many bther questions of detail wkich will arise in the consideration of this measure, are for you to primarily determine, and it is not my purpose to suggest any particular plan of direct primary but confidently relying on your wis- dom and patriotism, I earnestly rec- ommend the prompt passage of a law providing for the nomination of all public officials by a direct vote of the people. Corrupt Practices Law. “To pass a direct primary law with- out enacting a stringent and effec- tive corrupt practices act would be to merely adopt the nomenclature of re- form and reject the reform itself. The !present law on the subject—passed {over seventeen years ago—has. ac- cording to common report and belief, been ‘more honored in the breach than observance,” and should be sup- plemented by a law that absolutely eliminates the improper use of mon- ey in conducting campaigns for nomi- nation and election. Legislative Reapportionment. “Section 23, Article IV. of the con- stitution of the state provides: ‘The legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of this state in the year 1865 and every tenth year thereafter. At their first session after -each enumeration so made and also at their first session af- ter each enumeration made by the au- scribe the bounds of congressional, thority of the United States, the leg- islature shall have the power to pre- senatorial and representative dis- | tricts, and to apportion anew the sen- ators and representatives among the several districts, according to the pro- visions of Section 2 of this article.” “Section 2, Article TV. provides: ‘The number of members who com- pose the senate and house of repre- sentatives shall be preseribed by law, but the representation in the senate shall never exceed one member for every 5,000 inhabitants, and in the house of representatives one member for every 2,000 inhabitants. The rep- resentation in both houses shall be apportioned equally throughout the different sections of the state in pro- portion to the population thereof, ex- clusive of Indians not taxable under the provisions of law.’ “The last legislative apportion- ment was made in 1897, over fifteen years ago, and it is a matter of com- mon knowledge that representation in our legislature today is grossly un- equal under the constitutional pro- visions just quoted. “In the last campaign all political parties in their platforms distinetly pledged the people a legislative reap- portionment as required by the con- stitution. You were unable to pass a legislative reapportionment at the last session, but in this special ses- sion, with but few subjects pressing for your consideration, failure to pass a legislative reapportionment in ac- cordance with the constitution would be a deliberate defiance of the right of the people to govern themszlves. To deny the people equal represen- tation in the lawmaking branch of | their government is to strike down All the Way from Switzerland INQUIRE OF Bemidji or write, This space reserved by the Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co. For price of lots, terms etc., T. C. BAILEY, the fundamental principle of popular government by subjecting the major- ity to the rule of the minority. “I earnestly recommend the early passage of a legislative reapportion- ment according to the constitution. Direct Election of Senators. “The legislature of Minnesota has repeatedly memorialized the congress to provide for the direct election of United States senators and congress has at last proposed such an amend- ment. ~ I herewith . transmit this amendment for your consideration and recommend its immediate ratifi- cation. “The last legislature failed to rati- fy the proposed amendment to the United States’ constitution providing for a federal income tax, and I here- with again transmit this proposed amendment for your consideration and recommend its ratification. Congressional Reapportionment. “Since your adjournment congress has assigned ten members of the na- tional house of representatives to the state of Minnesota instead of nine, as at present. This necessitates the re- districting the state into ten congres- sional districts, and there is no valid reason why this session should not provide for such congressional reap- portionment. Importance of G. 0. P. Contests. Chicago, Tll., June 5.-—Practically all of the members of the Republican National committee arn in Chicago in readiness to begin the hearing of delegates’ contests tomorrow. The function of the National Committee is always important, because it de- cides in advance who are to have seats when the convention'is called to order. In other words, it makes up the temporary roll. The work is especially important this year, be- cause of the unusually large number of contests. With upwards of 250 contests to consider and act upon, it is likely that the committee will find it necessary to continue its hearings almost up to the day the convention assembles. In hearing the contests, the Na- tional Committee will sit as a court. Attorneys:will represent the opposing sides, and they will argue their case and introduce as much testimony as time will permit, both iu the form of affidavits and of oral witnesses. Af- ter the testimony is all in the attor- neys will sum up in closing argu- ments, and then it will be left to the committee, by majority vote, in exe- cutive session, to determine which side is right. From the committee’s decision there is no appeal, for the committee must make up the tempo- rary roll call of the convention, and there can be no regularly organized convention until the committee’s roll is submitted and adopted. The National Committee is com- posed of fifty-three members, ome from each of the forty-eight states, and one each from thc District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the Phil- ippines and Porto Rico. Much spec- ulation has been indulged in concern- ing the personal preferences of the committeemen on the question of the presidential nomination. The ma- jority has been claimed for both Taft and Roosevelt. On the other hand, those who are best acquainted with the high personnel of the committee are of the opinion that each contest will be decided upon the evidence. They believe that the cases will be settled as they would be settled in a court of equity and that the delegates entitled to seats in the convention will be seated. In a general Senator Dixon and Representative McKinley, the rival campaign man- agers, will look after the contests. But those more directly in charge will be ex-Senator Charles Dick of Chio, who will look out for the in- terests of President 'Taft, and Ormsby B. McHarg of New York; who will serve in a similar capacity for Col- onel Roosevelt. At Alabama Polytechnic. Auburn, Ala., June 5.—One hun- dred and twenty-seven graduates re- eeived their degrees this morning at the commencement exercises' of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Rev. James 1. Vance, D. D., of Nashville, delivered the address to the graduat- ing class. FOR SALE—Yoke of oxen, five years old, well broke. Address E. O. Pearson, Becida, Minn. Evil of Worrying. By constant worry the power of self- control is lost. The ability to be cheer- ful, courageous and sometimes. even interesting, 1s gradually undermined. Eventually this affects the heaith, the appetite is banished and the diges- tion and probably the heart affected. The unhappiness shows in the face. Lines appear between the eyes, the eyes look dull, and the skin unhealthy and probably wrinkled. Cheerfully Subscribed, Mrs. Noopop—*“Charlie, what do you think? Dad just sent us a $1,000 check for our new baby! Wasn’t that good of him?” Mr. Noopop—*I should say so! Tl write at once and thank bim for his contribution to the Fresh Heir Fund.”—Judge. Steam of the Earth. heat emitted is due chiefly to the af- fnity of potter's clay and bumus for water. . That.afinity is so powerful ;lut the two subatances release 20 and calo) c If dry earth s wet suddenly the | THE BEMIDJI DAILY:PIONEER. Collision Device Now Adopted In United States Navy. COMPRESSED AIR IS SECRET By Its Use, When Existing Equipmeny ts Coupled Up, Water Is Expelied From Damaged Compartments and Is Kept Out. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington.—The United ' States Battleship North Carolina, now lying In the Portsmouth navy yard, is being fitted with a- few simple devices which, according to her commander, Capt. C. C. Marsh, will permit her to bit a8 big_an fceberg as did the 1il- fated Titanlc, to hit it just as hard and yet to stay afloat for perhaps long enough ‘to come into port under ber own steam—at any rate long enough so that the crew could be picked up and brought to safety. Two words sum up the whole story—com- pressed alr. It is the story not of a new inven- tion, but of the new application of a well-known and well-tried method. Perhaps the most vivid fllustration ot what the North Carolina expects to be able to do is what actually was done In the case of the Yankee. The engineers who ‘trled to ralse phat foundered ship—and Captain Marsh was one of them—Afirst set the pumps to going. Nothing happened except the throb-throb of the pumpe. The water refused to go down. The pngineers were astounded. They thought it over and they set-out on & new tack. On top of the coffer dam which reached down to just above the water line they buflt a little air lock. Com- pressed air was forced into the water- filled compartments below, and, in the words of Captain Marsh, “the water went out like pushing a ball” The workmen descended into the cavity pnd found the leak—five small rivet holes. Had there been compressed air pumps on the Titanic a similar miracle might have been worked. Water Forced Out and Kept Out. “l have seen,” writes a man who thinks that compressed air will be the solution of many of the dangers which threaten modern ocean-going liners, “Captaln Marsh open the sea cocks, flood his forward trimming tanks, and then, by turning on the compressed &lr, force out the sea water in five minutes, and by keeping on the com- pressed air keep the water .out, al- though all sea cocks remained open.” Every one familiar with the wreck- fng operations of today will at once comprehend the simple physical prin- ciple involved. Your ship, let us say, strikes another ship, an iceberg, or a derelict, and a hole is stove in her. The water rushes in. It finds itself confined to a reasonably water-tight chamber which can be shut off from the rest of thé' vessel by doors. If the walls of the bulkhead are strong enough the ship can go ahead, carry- it is better, of course, to remove the water and close the hole, or at the very least to strengthen the walls of the bulkhead so that they may with- stand the added pressure of the water —a pressure which-at a depth of 30 feet below the surface of the sea would amount to 16 pounds per square foot. The proposition then is to turn com- pressed alr into the neighboring com- partments, re-enforcing them and pre- venting water from leaking into them either from the damaged one or from a strained plate on the hull of the ves- sel. This accomplished, you have in- pured your ship from sinking for the time being. The next step is-to turn the compressed air into the bulkhead where the tear 1s, thus driving out the way | water to the level of the bottom of the tear. Conditions now are such that workmen can patch up the rent more or less effectually, after which the Fest of the watér can be sucked out pnd the ship proceed to repair dock. Expense Is Not Great. As has been sald, the North Caro- Mna is now being fitted up so that she can rescue herself after this fashion. he new crulser Utah is already pro- vided with the necessary apparatus. Commander Andrews has stated to your correspondent that he believes merchant vessels could be equipped pimilarly and at small expense. “In fact,” he says, “I think that you will shortly find Lloyd‘s requiring them to be.” * At first blush it sounds as if a com- pressed air equipment which would be owerful enough' and widely enough istributed to be‘able to flil any bulk- head on a great steel vessel with com- pressed air at a moment's notice would be prohibitively expensive. But Captain Marsh’s experience is quite ptherwise. A few hundred dollars— tertainly less than a thousand—will way of it: 5 The modern battieship already has the two essential things—the com- pressed air pump and the system of pipes running everywhere. The com- pressed air apparatus 1is regularly ssed for blowing smoke and gases out of the big guns, the pipes are the Bre mains, the ventllator pipes—es:- pecially those from the coal bunkers —and the “sounding 4ubes”—the ver- Heal pipes which drop: straight from the deck into the hold, and through which soundings. of the bilge water pre taken. Your system, then, re res only coupling up to be com- That, fn & word, 1 what s being done on board the North Carolina. 2 Good.. Breeding. ‘We see & world of pains taken, and the' best years of life spent, in col- lecting a set of thoughts in'a college for the conduct of life; and, after all, the man 0 ‘qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a: good suit of clothes and ‘want common. sense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valor, justice and learning co | - SAFETY FOR SHPS ing the extra burden of water. But. cover the entire cost. Here is the | JUNE_S, 1912. Lake Bemidji 7 v [ 3! TIME TABLE City of Bemidji i Fast Mail and Passenger Bost. Leaves | | Bemidfi For | ¢ East Bemidfi..6:30 . m. and 5:30 p. m. Fare 10c. | Grand Forks Bay and Down | RIVED o0 s o4 s e 22 o P 9a m. | Fare 25c. All Points on the Lake........ 1p m [ Fare 25c. { All Summer Resorts. .7:30 and $:30 p. m. | Fare 26c. Down the Mississippl River to the Dam 1 22 mile trip and 1 hour stop at the < { dam. Boat leaves 2:30 p. m., return- L4 ing at 5:30. — 3 Fare, Round Trip, 50c. Children Half Pare. Phone 348 epartment [ _crwswwms P00 ROOOPOOOPOS® ® LODGEDOM IN BEMIDR. € == The Pioneer Want AdS |:c--ccccccc0s00 A. 0. T. W. © OASH WITH OOPY jooemidil Lodge No. . Regular mesting % oent per word per lssue PASRIE Rt and ihirs 2 Monday, at 8 o'cl Regular charge rate 1 cent per word per insertion. No ad taken for less than —at 0Odd Feunw‘: 1?:1‘:'. 15 cents. 4 Phone 31 402 Beltrami Ave. HOW THOSE WANT ADS j B. PO B R Bemidji Lodge No. 1052. DO THE BUSINESS Regular mesting ights— The ‘Ploneer goes everywhere so that everyone has a neighbor who Qrat snpithind Thurscars, s S en 3 Masonic hall, takes it and people whodo not take the paper generally read their neighbor's e Fifth 80 your want ad gets to them all. ; ?2“""‘“ Ave.tand 3 15 Cent.a Word Is All It Costs = 65 every second and fourth ire Raymond’s residence, Ny- Sunday evening, at 8 CLASSIFIED CHICKEN AND EGG ;‘L:: ym sidense; “Ny: Tedodn i Demeat of i DEPARTMENT. - Catholie church. i~ | X08 DEGRER OF HONOR o | FOR RENT—Furnished cottage on Meeting nights every - t Diamond Point. Write Oscar Hol- second and 'f“g;‘;' ;_‘;}“’" | den, Fosston, Minn. ;;‘fi:mp' - a | FOR RENT—5 room cottage, fur- nished or unfurnished. 208 Irvine i) | Ave. So. Regular meeting nights | 004 every 1st and 2nd Wednes- | FOR RENT—Furnished rooms with g’;fi’:fi'fif at’ 4. 0clock, | bath. Cver @rotte's Varlety store = o> e e e e { FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms at | 415 Minnesota Ave. SAs { FOR RENT—Front room, upstairs. Trs o i i) { FOR SALE—Breeding stock and eggs 513 Minnesota Ave. noons, at 2:30—at 0dd Fel. | for hatching from the best flock \, lows Halls, 402 Beltrami N of full blood Barred Plymouth MISCELLANEOUS > Ave. : f Rocks to be had, come and s —~ them at 706 14th. 0. C. Simme: ADVERTISERS—The great state of | 208, S S North Dakota offers unlimited op- L o.0.» | B portunities for business to classi- Bemidji Lodge No. 110 i fied advertisers. The recognized Regular meeting nights 1 HELP WANTED advertising medium is the Fargo O el Yook | GIRL WANTED—At once at the Daily and Sunday Courier-News. 402 Beltrami. - | the ouly seven day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified Erickson Hotel. ‘WANTED—Girl wanted at 311 Be- L 0. 0. F. Camp No. 34 Regular meeting every second | midji Ave, advertising. = The Courier-News and fourth Wednesdays at 8 covers North Dakota like a blank- | gD/ o'clock at 0dd Fellows Hall | FOR SALE et; reaching ali parts of the state > the day of publication; it is the paper to use in order to get re- sults; rates one cent per word first insertion, one-half cent per word succeeding insertion; fifty cents = per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. Rebecca_ Lodge. Regular meetng nights — first wnd third Wednesday at 8o'clock. & —L 0. 0. F. Hall. XNIGETS OF PYTHIAS Bemidjf Lodge No. 168. Regular meeting nights—ex- FOR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the warket at 50 cents and 76 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 75 cents guaranteed. Phone orders oromptly.filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when | | . ~ you appear in person. Fhone 81.| WANTED—100 merchants in North- ::Zlo::—n ’m.‘;;"::: ;:l' The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply| ern Minnesota to sell “The Bemid- Third street. ; Store. FOR SALE—The Bemidjl lead pen- pencil (the best nickle pencil 1n the world) at Netzer’s, Barker's, 0. C. Rood’s, McCuaig’s, Omich’s, 3i” lead pencil. Will carry name of every merchant In advertising columns of Pioneer in order that all receive advantage of advertis- ing. For wholesale prices write Regular meeting night { last Wednesday evening Roe and Markusen’s and the Pio-| ©F Phonme the Bemidji Pioneer Of- s in each month. e fice Supply Co. Phone 31. Be- | ueer Office Supply Store at 6 cents miafi, Minn. MASONIC. f each and 60 cents a dozen. | A F. & A * FOR SALE—Small fonts of type,| HOMESTEAD LOCATER — Parties 253, " Hepmiany” &:{i‘n’k ! several different points and {n| desiring to take homesteads should g;gg;'m—“:ru: nd third | first class condition. Call or write| Write to James Cole, Redby, Minn. Masonic Hall, * Beitrami this office for proofs. Address Be-| Can locate about 70 families on Ave., and Fifth st. . | midji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. homestead land bordering judicial RB:_mdu Chapter No. 70, | ditch north of Red Lake. Charges —flnlul.m'is z:.mc::::, tions i FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The| reasonable: oclock " p. merat patnd { Ploneer will procure any kind of ?&:Jela fdh'lml Ave, and Fifth - | « rubber stamp for you on short | WANTED — Furnished room and o | otice, board with private family by gen- Kn’lrm.z. Commandery No. 30 b tleman and wife. Address D3, and iomhmr‘:lodl:;]:."l—o-’:lo n: ! FOR. SALE—Good 16 in. dry jack| care Pioneer. P- m.—at Masonic Temple, ;:1. b i pine and ' tamarack wood. Olger trami Ave., and Fifth St. | and Beroud. Phone 602. BOUGHT AND SOLD—3Second hand O. £. 8. Chapter No. 171, . { turniture. Odd Fellows building, f:-i“:fdfl:;‘fi;n% Dights— 7 FOR ' SALE—Business building on| across from postoffice, phone 129. o'clock — at. mnnxdc':".' " 3rd St. Easy terms. W. C. Klein, Beltrami Ave., and Fifth I Bemidji, Minn. d WANTED—Board and room in ex- St. | change for light house work by 3 A FOR- SALE—Fresh milk cow. In- lady. Address P. O Box 495. Roosevelt, No. 1528, Regular meeting nights o'cl a Fellows | o WA - Bemid)i Camp No. 5012 Fy ey T e rst an at P 8 o'clock at 0dd Fellows Hall, 402 Beltrami Ave. MODERN. SAMARITANS. Regular meeting nights on ° the first and third Thursdays in the L O. O. F. Hall at 8§ P. m. SONS OF NERMAN. N *|> Meetings held thira Sunday afternoon of each month at Troppman’s Hall ~B TROMANS. Meetings the first Friday evening of ‘the month at the home of Mrs. H. F. Schmidt, 306 Third street. Try a Want Ad I-2 Cent a Word-—Cash CLASSIFIED FAdvertisements I‘l/any ,who’ have been seeking for work have found it through our Classified ads. They cost one-half cent a Vv('ordv per ‘inser= THE SPALDING PLAN Dllufllih hm.-‘bx:-d:nm ULUTH MINNESOT.