Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 16, 1913, Page 1

T VOLUME 10. NUMBER 298. BETTER MARKETS T0 BE OBTAINED Southern Farmers Meeting Today in 01d Richmond to Organize Co- Operative Movement. GREAT WASTE ON PRODUCTS John Lee Conlter Estimates Loss Eac\;\i Year of $2,500,000,000 From Poor Methods Used. MINNESOTA MEN ATTENDING 1 Caldwell, Nelson, and Haecker to Tell of Work in This State— Teachers at Conference Also By United Prems. Richmond, Va., April 16.—On the theory that the farmers of Dixie an- nually lose six billion dollars which tldy might receive for their crops un- der proper systems of production and marketing, a great co-operative movement was launched here today at a farmer’s conference, the sixteenth educatfynal meeting of its kind to be held in the south. In the two-day pro- gram will appear two score authori- ties on agriculture, finance and gen- ral organization, many of them suc- cessful farmers themselves. It was pointed out that the virtual waste of six billion dollars is caused by poor farming methods, unwise borrowing of money and the purchase of supplies the farmers themselves could produce. It is proposed that the farmer market his crops co-opera- tively; buy goods in the same man- ner, and borrow money from co-oper- ative socir:@s. This plan, those be- hind the movemen? claim, will add to the farmer’s income; he will be able to spend more on the pleasant as well as the useful things of life, to build beter roads, to maintain better schools and to make country life better in every way. Check Farm Exodus. This would also have the effect of checking the exodus from the farm to ‘the cities, promoters of the idea de- clare. With this increase in the rural population, when the young people find like the gayer, will come in time an increase in the amount of food- stuffs raised and a corresponding de- crease in the cost of living, Prof. John Lee Coulter; of Minne- sota, expert special agent for the cen- sus bureau, has estimated that the value of all southern farm products is $2,500,000,000 a year, but that they cost consumers twice that amount. Southern farmers, he esti- mates, spend most of their two and a half billions for farm supplies, food, clothing and the like, and of this one billion goes to the middlemen of all classes. Southern agriculturalists, Coulter also figures, lose an additional two and a half billion each year be- cause of poor farming methods. They could double theif yield by crop diver- sification and other improvements, if it were not for the “advance system” under which the creditor forces the farmer to plant “cash crops” year in and year out. This financing of the southern farm i8 one of the biggest questions to be considered by the conference. It is estimated that the farmers south of Mason and Dixon’s line lose $163,- 000,000 yearly because of excessive interest rates—much of which toey might retain if they controlled their own credit systems and agencies for marketing and buying. Minnesota Men There. Among the experts who will start the co-operative movement by speak- ing at the conference here are J. C. Caldwll, of Lakefield, Minn.; A. O. Nelson, of Svea, Minnesota; A. L. Haecker, who will detail the results of Minnesota co-operative creameries, and C. W. Moomaw, W. J. Shuford, F. M. McKee, who were organizers of the Virginia Fruit Growers’ association, Eastern Shore of Virginia Produce exchange, Catawba county, N. C.,-and Woodford county, Ky., co-operative organizations. Professor ~ Coulter will also discuss practical plans for organization of co-operative move- ments. One of the features of the confer- ence will be an interstate meeting of state and county superintendents, teachers of agriculture and other edu- cators, at which the subject for dis- cussion will be “The Most Effective Means of Developing the Rural 00l.” -A. C. Monahan, rural school speeialist in the United States Bureau of Education, will urge the necessity for-a well-defined ‘constructive coun- Photograph by Underwood & Under- wood, N. Y. MISS ALICE CHANG, DAUGHTER OF THE MINISTER FROM CHINA TO THE UNITED STATES. ty plan in rural education. Typical rural school problems will be dis- cussed by Albert S. Cook, of Baltimore county, Md.; Zebulon Judd, Wake county, N. C.; Miss Rhea C. Scott and L. J. Hanifan, supervisors in Virgin- ia and West Virginia, respectively; Miss Jessie Yancy, Mason county, Ky.; A. R. Jones, Equality, Ala.; J. 8. Stewart, Athens, Ga., and many oth- ers. LAST LECTURE SUNDAY John W. Bennett, of Sioux City, Towa, will deliver the last lecture on the Socialist lyceum course next Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. in the city hall. He will speak on the Soc- ialist Movement.” 1In his lecture he will speak of the growth of the Soc- jalism in Germany and other foreign countries, and also tell what they have achieved in the United - States, ‘where they have gained power. ANTI-JAP BILL PASSED. Sacramento, Cal., April 16.—An anti-alien land” ownership bill, de- signed primarily to prevent the Jap- anese from acquiring title to real property within the state, but so worded to prohibit any alien from owning land more than a year, ex- cept upon a declaration of intention to become a citizen, was passed yes- terday by the lower house of the leg- islature by a vote of 60 to 16. After two hours had been spent de- bating the proposed amendments, the bill went to roll call without a word of argument. KKK KK KKK KKK KKK * WYNNE. x KRR KKK KKK KKK KKK Carl Nord has , purchased Louis Vinger's share in the saw mill. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens and baby, formerly of Mason City, Ia., are here, visiting his sister, Mrs. Roy Elliott. home in Bemidji, Chris Thorson made a flying trip to Neving one day last week. Carl Charles of Neving, was a busi- ness caller in this neighborhood Saturday. George Creighton called on Haldor Stai one day this week. Mrs. Carl Winger attended the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Barent- son, of Lengby last Monday. She was accompanied by Jas. B. Wynne, who drove her team for her. Carl Winger is visiting friends and { relatives near Bagley this week. Mrs. T. T. Weum who has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. Sy- ver Pederson during the past winter, came home Sunday. Geo. Hayes shot two of his neigh- bors the other day (with a camera). Mr. and Mrs. Pederson spent Sun- day at the Weum home. Wm. Jallen and family visited with his brother Sam near Aure, Sunday. George Elliott made a trip to Ne- bish recently. Ole Staffne drove to Pinewood one day. last week.” They will make their future| By HENRY w’ooy, (Correspondent United Press) Rome, April 16.—Pope Pius is dy- ing. His end is but a question of a few hours. This is the belief of the aged pontift’s brothers, sisters and church dignitaries at his bedside. This information was given me this afternoon by Vatican attendants in a position to know the facts Throughout this city, hope has been abandoned. Preparations are going on everywhere in a fashion to con- firm the general belief that His Holi- ness will not live through the night. At 6-p. m. this evening (Rome time), all members of the pontiff’s family were requested to remain within close call'and to héld them. selves in readiness for the final sum- mons to the bedside. They were told by Doctor Amici that the pope could not possibly survive the night. BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. St. Louis .. 2 0 1.000 Boston . . . e L 0 1.000 Brooklyn .. il 1 .667; Pittsburgh .2 2 500 Chicago . . 2 -2 2 500 Philadelphia . . 0 1 000 Cincinnati [ 2 .000 New York .... 0 2 000 Games Tuesday. R.H.E. Cincinnati .............. 3 6 2 St. Louls ............... 6 6 1 Batteries—Packard, Works and Clark; Burke; Sallee and McLean. ..: Chicago . 5 6 2 Pittsburgh . 4 9 b Battenes-—Smxth Lavender, Chen- ey, Bresnahan and Archer; Cooper, Camnitz and Gigson. Ten innings. Philadelphia-Boston poned—wet grounds. New York-Brooklyn postponed— rain. game post- AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. Pet. Philadelphia ........ 2 0 1.000 Washington ...... .. 1 0 1.000 St. Louis . 3 2 600 Chicago ... 3 2. .600 Cleveland . .2 2 .500 Boston .. 2 2 .500 Detroit 1 4 .200 New York ... 1 2 .333 Games Tuesday . R.H.E. Boston 2 81 New York . 3 8 2 Batteries—Hall and Nunamaker; Keating and Sweeney. St. Louis . .3 9 56 Chicago ... 5 9 2 Bntterles—Mitchell Alexander and Agnew; Walsh and Schalk, Cleveland B .. 911 0 Detroit .. .. 0 6 2 Batteries—Boehler and Stanage; Falkenberg, Carisch and O’Neill. Philadelphia-Washington postpon- ed—wet grounds. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. s v L. Pet. Kansas City ..... ..o 5 0 1.000 Milwaukee ......... 3 1 . .760 Minneapolis ........ 2 2 .500 St. Paul .... 2°°.2 500 Columbus .. 2 2 500 Indianapolis 2% 2. 500 SCOOP fHz S0 All Scoop Was Thinking About Was The Donkey tion of the purchase of these bonds. Louisville .......... 1 5 .167 M1 Toledo .........c... 0 3 .000 Games Tuesday. Kansas City i ot et 8110758 Toledo ......cvvvveeesss 3.8 1 Batteries—Vaughn, Schlitzer and Krichell; Stephens, Callamore and Livingstone. (Cigyrishe ) WARNER BILL " PASSED { ‘ May Not Force Sale of Virginia Bonds as They Would Go at $94,000 Less Than Cost If Released. REPORT IS DUE m TODAY, The resolution of Rep..C. H. War-{ ner providing for the disposition by the state board jof ‘inves¢ment of the Tuesday by the house.” “Those who are in fayor of the sale of the Vir- ginia bonds declare that the resolu- tion is ineffective because it requests the investment board “to dispose of all the foreign bonds held in the state permanent trust fund as soon as such -sale can. be made without loss to the state.” Members of the committee on ex- penditures of the house declare that this clause in the reselution will prevent the sale of the Virginta bonds because if they were sold now the present market price of the bonds is $94,000 less than what the state paid for them,- and that therefore they could not bd sold under the reso- lution because it would entail a loss to the state. The committee” on -expenditures expects to introduce its report Wednesday following an investiga- Game called at end of the eleventh inning to allow the Toledo players to catch a train. R.H.E. Milwaukee . caen® 1502 Louisville .. . .. 83 8 2 Batteries — Dougherty, = Watson, Hovlik and Hughes, Powell and Clemons. R.H.E. St. Paul ... 4 6 Columbus ... 917 0 Batteries—Laroy, - VanDyke and James; Moroney, Davis, Kimball and Smith. - Minneapolis .. .3 7.2 Indianapolis 7 17 3 Batteries—Lelivelt and = Owens; PLAY BLACKDUCK FIRST High School Baseball Team to Open -8eason With 0ld Opponents—Track Men Appear For Work. The High school bage ball team has scheduled a game with Blackduck to be played here one week from Satur- day. The Blackduck team lost a game to Bemidji in this city last year but later won from the local team on their home grounds. It will be the bonds. of other gates wag ‘passed Oy first game to_be played with an out side team and the boys éxpect -to have a large crowd out to help them win their first game. Riley or Bailey will hold down the pitchers box with Fuzz Johnson as catcher. Just what other candidates will play can not be determined until some time next week. «A meeting was called to secure candidates for a track team and five men put in their appearance. Coach Carson will work with these men but will try to interest more men who would make good runners. As soon as the baseball nine is selected from the present candidates there will probably be more men trying for the track as nearly all of their interest appears to have turned to base ball. S OUTLOOK FOR SHEEP. That the outlook for sheep hus- bandry has never been brighter than it is today is the opinion of Frank Kleinheinz, shepherd of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin flocks. In support In support of this contention Mr. Kleinheinz argues that the western ranges have been so cut up and divid- ed as to make it impossible to raise sheep in large numbers upon them, that the Australlan flock masters|’ have lost millions of their sheep dur- ing the past two years on account of heavy drouths and lack of feed and that many Wisconsin farmers will be induced to engage in sheep raising because of the difficulties-in employ- ing labor to carry on the more de- manding types of stock raising. It is up to.the smaller farmers of the middle West, he declares, to raise more sheep and to make up the shortage of the needed supply, and he ventures to predict that sheep will bring very high and satisfactory prices for many years to come. The frequently expressed ~fear that a Democratic president will remove the tariff from wool does not give him| grave concern, for he believes that conditions in all the wool-producing countries of the world are such as to provide a market for our wool at en- ,Schardt, Casey and Connor. tirely ‘satisfactory prices, FARMERS' PROTEST VAIN Men From Eckles Investigate Own Affairs and Find That School Dis- trict Levy-Was Double. ~ TOWN BOARD IS EXONERATED While tue county commissioners were in session last week, a group of farmiers’ from +Re‘town of Bkles ap- peared before- the« board " to6" Protest against the high taxes that were be- ing assessed for town and school pur- poses. J. L. George, who acts as clerk’ of the board, told the visitors that the matter should be taken up with the auditor’s office instead of the commissioners, E. W. Hall, one of the committee, went over the matter with the auditor Tuesday and found that. the school district had been assessed a double amount for: a state loan and that the district “will bei about. $1,200 ahead at the end of this year. Mr. Hall found that in 1911, the school dis- trict assessed §2,205 f~~ general pur- poses but that the auditor cut it down to $814:84, the legal limit. ‘The state also assessed $936 to cover a $600 loan which was then due. ‘When the state drew on the audi- tor for the loan, not all of the money had been collected and the loan was not paid. It was asSessed again last year so that the district has raised $1,872 to pay a $626 debt. The school (district will have over $1,200 this year that it had not expected. An investigation of the valuation and school tax Eckles was found as follows: assessed rate for Tax Year Valuation in mills 1908 .:. ....$78,662 -16 1909 ... .. 75,891 16.2 1970 . 5+ .00l 68,444 16.6 91T s .. 54,331 33.4 1912 ..oiiin... 65,497 34 The figures show that the'assessed valuation is less than it was four years ago and that the actual taxes paid were less each year until the as- state loan. The trouble this year was found to be with the school lmard and not the town board. MORE DOG TAGS TAKEN About 100 dog licenses have been issued by George Stein, city clerk. The charge this year for a license is $1 for a male and $3 for a female. Ten cents extra is charged for the license tag. & By "HOP" TEN CENTS PER WEEK, GOVERNOR VETOES er Directed at Measure Backed "by Minneapolis' Men. Favors a Control Which Will Include Them with Other Public Service Corporations. ADVISES SUPERVISION BY STATE Says Municipalities Cannot Take Over Work Because of the Expense And Confusion. By United Press. St. Paul, April 16—Gov. A. O. Eberhart on Tuesday vetoed the Nolan public utilities bill giving Minneapo- lis the right to prescribe the charges which any public service corpora- tion may demand for commodities. The governor also demanded in his ‘veto message to the legislature that 1ishment of an appointive _utilities commission.” sessments were made to take up the: a public utilities bill be passed dur- ing this session or he will call a spe- cial session of the legislature to en- act such a law. = Rep. W. I. Nolan, the author of the bill, had it laid over. He will make an effort to have the bill passed over the governor’s veto which requires a two-third vote of both houses. The house last Friday killed a public util- ities bill introduced by the committee on general legislation which embodied feature recommended by the governor in his inaugural message. This is the first time Eberhart has exerciged his power of veto. B,euom Appenr Sound. “message to the legislature was a lengthy one. He says that the No- lan bill has no effect except to confer power on municipalities over the pub- lic service corporation which power is now vested in the state. Some of his reasons for demanding the public utilities bill include: “Effective regulation of public util- ities is essential in order to supply the public with modern necessities at a reasonable cost. The only other al- ternative being public ownership. “The experience of the past has de- monstrated that-the municipalities have signally failed in such regula- tion. “The average municipality cannot afford intelligent regulation because of the expense of securing:informa- tion, equipment and expert service. “Statewide regulation is essential in order to secure uniformity in de- termining valuations and in securing the proper method of accounting without which intelligent rate regu- lation is impossible. “The regulation of public utilities by hundreds of municipalities is not only too expensive by reason duplica- tion but ineffective because it diffused regulative power and responsibility. * “The most signal service performed be Senator LaFollette while governor “of Wisconsin and President Wilson while governor of New Jersey for their respective states was the estab- public Minnette Bill Passed. He calls attention to the fact that the house has’passed the Minnette utilities bill to regulate telephone companies and place them under the Jurisdiction of the railroad and ware- house commission. He says this bill is proper because it provides for the state control of telephone companies and recognizes the principle of state control of public utilities. The Nolan bill is directly opposite and provides for local control. Rep- resentative Nolan may make an. at- tempt to have the bill passed over the governor’s veto. The bill pass- ed the house without any opposition and passed the senate with thirty- eight votes. The Wallace and Murray public (utilities bill which embody most of the features of the Knapp public util- 1ities bill and was killed by the house |1ast Friday, will be up for action in the senate this aftermoon. In view ‘of ‘the. governor’s veto of the Nolan bill, action may be postponed on these two measures. BACK FROM A LONG TRIP. Henry Funkley returned to Bem- dji yesterday noon after an 8,000 mile trip to Alaska and Imck‘ Funkley. said that he went Through and that there - Mr. W. 1. NOLAN'S BILL Eberhart's First Exercise of the Pow-~ TELEPHONES WERE LEFT OUT