Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 8, 1912, Page 4

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER BENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN,, UNDER THE:ACT OF MARCH 38, 1879. In the City of Bemidji the papers are delivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ary is irregular please make immediate somplaint to this office. Telephone 31. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they 8¢ not get their papers promptly. Every subscriber to the Daily Pioneer will receive notice about ten days be- fore his time expires, giving him an epportunity to make an advance pay- ment before the paper is finally stopped. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier One year, by carrier .. Three months, postage 8ix months, postage paid One year, postage paid The Weekly Pioneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid te any address for 1.50 in advance. .$ .40 4.00 1.00 2.00 4.00 Published every afternoon except Sun—] 4day by the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing ~Company, l & E. CARSON. i, . RN | Eattor. | HAROLD J. DANE, Editor. Business Builders. Mix with people. Dulled knives -don’t sharpen themselves. Price offers an inducement. Qual- ity offers a reason. A snail faster thana man without ambition. will move farther and Advertise only with a definite pur- pose. Good houses aren’t built with- plans. Responsibility is an acid test—of the employer, in his ability to dele- gate it—of the employe, in his abil- ity to shoulder it. The other day I walked into the office of a business friend, and as I entered, a young man passed me on the way out—a clean cut fellow, no different, however, from many I have seen filling clerkships and there. “There goes a young chap who has a future ahead of him, I believe,” said my friend. Then he continued: “Six months ago he was working as an assistant in the office. head of our largest department left suddenly, place. I gave him absolute author- ity to follow his own ideas, subject only to the prescribed rules of the ‘house. “He has come to me for advice and suggestions, and I have gladly given them, but I have never forced any of my ideas upon him. I put him there to make or break himself, and so joaded him with responsibility that even 1 could see at the start that he was half scared at what he’d under- taken. “Yet today he has brought in his| monthly report, 4s in better shape than it ever has: been in its history.” “But,” I suggested, just a bit afraid to give such a re- here and I put him into the and his department “weren’t you sponsible position to an inexperienc- ed man, who knew little or nothing about the job?” “No,” he answered, “for I knew what he had been doing under others, and | have confidence in my ability to pick the right man, atw least fifty-one per cent of the time. Of course, 1 knew there was a chance falling things up badly, { of his down and messmg‘ but the man who isn’t willing to take fair chances oc- | casionally ought never to be at thei head of a business.” Wise employer — fortunate em-| ploye! The one able to judge his; man, delegate full authority, aud\ watch and wait with equanimity (he‘ result. The others, to be freed from! petty rules, regulations, “don’ts’’ and “do’s,” and to be given enough re- sponsibility to make or break him- elf. s Then the . even for a brief hour. But the big employer never does this—he makes suggestions, advances theories, gives advice when asked, but he never makes demands, save in matters of house policy, not of departmental procedure. The very greatest service that such an employer renders to himself and to his business by his method of pass- ing along responsibility is in the greater freedom of time and move- ment that it gives {o him — the chance it offers him to enlarge the house, not merely to keep it in good repair. But what about the employe on whom the mantle of responsibility is dropped? It is either the making or breaking of him. There are those who cannot as- the isume a maximum of responsibility. It either intoxicates them or intimi- dates them. They become so big in their own eyes that they ask or ac- cept suggestions from no one, and run their departments into a blind alley; or they take every little prob- lem to the boss, because of a fear of making mistakes. Neither sort last long, unless they change their ways. But the right sort of fellow will accept responsibility in the spirit in which it is conferred—with a de- termination to merit confidence and a resolution to profit by the knowl- edge of others, but to assume the re- sponsibility for himself. Responsibility offers a chance that every man should welcome—the chance to “make good.” That many have failed to meet the responsibil- ity offered and have been forced to give way to others, is no reason at all for fearing responsibility. To do one’s best and fail, isn’t half so bad as to fail to accept the chance to do one’s best. Many a man, clothed only with a semi-authority, forced to have the majority of his acts passed or vetoed by a higher power, will make snap decisions, only half study his prob- lems, scan but superficially the ex- penditures made, feeling rightly or wrongly that after all he’s not re- sponsible. But the man who carries all the responsibility and knows he carries it thinks twice before he acts, studies his problems fully before he writes the answer, keeps a keen eye on ex- penditures—and, in fine, comes near- er than any one else to considering his work as he would if he alone owned the business. Responsibility weeds out incompe- tents and makes men. The greater the responsibility the surer the weeding process. It is the acid test of fitness.—The Business Builder. Exonerating the Police. “Yes, sir,” averred the New York man, “my house was robbed. Looted in broad daylight.” “Where were the police?” “Now hold on. I don't say the po lice were mixed up in it.” Back to the Ranch. “Mr. Spooned, isn’'t this the third | time you have asked me to be your wife?” “I—I believe-it is, Miss Jennie.” “Well, you've fanned the air three time. You're out on strikes.” A Lively One. “I hear when you have your chi} dren gathered around you, it is quitq a picture.” “Well, when we all went to our new house, I can tell you it was a moving picture.” {{Ever “hunt a needle in a haystack?” One of the signs by which anyone €an pick out the “big” business man, as opposed to the “little” one, is this ability to delegate absolute rasponsx- bility. | it predicates a sound belief in one’s’ ability to pick the right man for the right place, at least in the majority of cases—and the man who’s right, in the majority of cases, not the min- ority, is the one who never need fear for himself in his business. It also suggests a lack of impa- tience—the bugbear that harasses so many otherwise good business men. For necessity, the delegation of au- (]I It's a long, discourag- ing job. QYou are hunting a needle in a haystack with that “room for rent,”” “boy wanted”’ ior other placard in your window. ( The want ads make a thorough canvass of thoi‘ity means that things won’t al- ways be done just as you would do want to step in and assert authorlty‘ them, that now and then you will this town between suns for your wants. Depar ID twice as much canned fruit as I * Mrs Woodson—Whnt do you da with the rest? Mrs. Bronson—Why, nobody ever seems to believe I have such luck with my canning, and I have to send each one of the doubters a can ta prove my claim. _— i Expensive Spot. “Gilt Crest is considered a healthy place, yet all the guests who leave the g botel look sick.” “Oh, they don’t look sick until they g get their bills.” A Silly Season Jest. Owens—Do you know, I find it eas ier to borrow money in hot weather. Bowns—That’s not surprising. Onr dinary friends become warm friendsy when the mercury is in the nineties tment The Pioneer Want Ads ' OASH WITH coPY % oent per word por Issue 15 cents. 80 your want ad gets to them all. HELP WANTED WANTED—Girl or woman to cook for superintendent’s family at Red Lake Agency. Salary $20.00. Position is for one who can take charge and be her own boss. In- quire at this office or call W. F. Dickens by telephone or on a re- verse ticket at the Red Lake Agency. WANTED — Carpenters. Large job. Inquire Geo. E. Kreatz, contractor, 607 Bemidji avenue, or telephone 25. WANTED—Competent girl ktoi'_gen— eral housework. Mrs. Sarah Rob- erts, 609 Lake Boulevard. WANTED—Cook at Svea hotel. Regular charge rate 1 cent per word per nsertion. No ad taken for less than Phone 31 HOW THOSE WANT ADS?S DO THE BUSINESS m"—"““ P The "Ploneer goes everywhere so that everyone has a neighbor who takes it and people who.do not take the paper generally read their uexghbor s 14 Cent a Word Is All It Costs 2il (the best nickel pencil in the world, at Netzer’s, Barker's, O. C. Rood’s, McCuaig’s, Omich’s, Roe & Markusen’s and the Pioneer Office Supply Store at § cents each and 50 cents a dozen. FOR SALE—104 acres or nhardwood timber land in section 31, township 148, north range 34, town of Lib- erty, Beltrami county. Price for whole tract $1,600. Apply at Pio- neer office. FOR RENT—Rooming house, twelve rooms upstairs over Model Bak- ery. Partly furnished. Good lo- cation. Inquire at the Henrion- net Millinery Parlors, or phone 210. FOR SALE—Sman fonts of type, several different points and in trapping season. bines............... . {FOUND:—Two barrels for.................... for........ - el No. 0 Victor $1.35 doz. No.1% Victor $2.45 doz. 316-318 Minn. Ave. 30-30 Savage Rlfies, round 26-inch barrels, for..................... 303 Savage Fifles, octagon 26-inch 32 and 35 Remington Automatic Rlfles We also have a complete stock of Victor and Newhouse Traps BEMIDJI Hunters--and Trapners | GET READY Sunday, Nov. 10th, opens the big game and We have a large and well assorted stock of big game rifles including 30-30 and 32 Winchester Special Rifles with 26-inch octagon barrels for 30-30 and 32 Winchester Special Car- $16.54 .$19.50 .$25.00 No. 1 Victor $1.65 doz. No. 2 Victor $3.50 doz. No. 3 Victor $4.50 doz. GIVEN HARDWARE CO. Phone 57 first class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Be- midji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—If you want to hire seven teams of good horses for winter’s work, write Hugh Mal- colm, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of rubber stamp for you on short no- tice. FOR S’ALE-Sev;nv room house. Mod- ern. 716 Minnesota avenue. In- quire at residence. FOR SALE—Kitchen range, bed and dresser. Inquire 1018 Bemidji avenue. FOR SALE—Horse. Will sell cheap. Inquire J. B. Hansen, 523 Minne- sota. FOR BENT FOR RENT—Two houses on Tenth and Minnesota. Inquire 1215 Bel- trami avenue. FOR RENT The Heffron house, 903 Eleventh St. Inquire at First National Bank, Bemidji, Minn. FOR RENT—Two steam heated office rooms. O’Leary-Bowser building. FOR RENT—Warm house. of’John G. Ziegler. Inquire LOST AND FOUND A A A A A A A A A A A e safety vault keys. Owner can have same by calling at the Pioneer office ana paying for this ad. MISCELLANEOUS B VNI Y ADVERTISERS—The great state of North Dakota offers unlimited op- portunities for business to clasei- fied advertisers. The recognized advertising medium is the Fargo Daily and Sunday Courier-News, the only seven-day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertising. The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reaching all 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, on-half cent per word succeeding insertions; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. WANTED—100 merchants in North- ern Minnesota to sell “The Bemid- ji” 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 or phone the Bemidji Pioneer Of- fice Supply Co. Phone 31. Be- midji, Minn. WANTED—Stenographer wants po- sition. Has had some experience. Address, Turtle River, Minn., R. F. D. No. 1, Box. 44. WANTED—OIld cotton rags, clean, free from buttons. No silk cloth, gunny sack or wool cloth accepted. Pioneer Office. BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. 0dd Fellows building, across from postoffice, phone 12 800 “ 500 “ 350 $12.00 Blankets . G Wool Blankets We are overstocked on .. 6.00 . 3.75 . 2.62% High Grade Wool Blankets To reduce the stock we offer the choice of any wool blanket in the store at OMNE-FOURTH OFF. $9.00 $10.00 Blankets . 600 “ 400 “ 3.00 “ ~BowaerGo: $7.50 . 4.50 . 3.00 . 2.25 Minnesota