Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 5, 1913, Page 1

VOLUME 11. SAYS NEW TRUST- IS BEING FORMED Congressman Tavenner Deolares Mail Order Houses are Tighten- ing Grip on Small Towns, $10,000,000 MERGER PLANNED @ Urges That -Immediate Legislation Should Place Heavy Tax on : Mail Order Business, By Congressman Clyde. H. Tavenner. Washington, July 65,—So silently and insidiously that the great pub- lic is as yet almost unaware of its Dresence, a new trust is extending its tentacles out over the country. It is the mail order trust. Already its strangling grip is tightening about the million small town and country merchants who are the bnckbone of national prosperity. The mail order trust has capitaliz- ed women and child labor. It has capitalized prison labor. It has cap- italized misfortune. It has capital- ized vice. It has turned all these. things into dollars—dollars which should have found their way into the tills of the country merchant, in- stead of flowing into the trust's Wall Street hoard. One mail order house recently ‘in- creased its capital stock from $500,- 000 to $40,000,000. A new $10,- 000,000 merger of mail order houses has been formed. Wall Street finan- ciers, including the Morgan banking firm, has had charge of both these financial operations. Still another mail order house, with 63 acres of floor space, made a net profit of $17,~ 000,000 1last year. It is evident that the greedy eyes of the great mail order financiers are turned upon the entire retail busi- ness of the United States outsider of the great cities. It is also plain that a gigantic trust is rapidly forming. The small retail merchant is facing ruin. That the grip of the octupus - 18 alreadywbeing. xekvu.sh«wm,by th population statistics. Nearly 7,000 small towns lost population in the census of 1910. It is declared that something must be done by immediate legislation, or the parcel post will not be the complete blessing it ought to be. It 1is asserted the solution of the prob- lem will be in the form of a heavy tax on mail order business. This tax would, it is contended, tend to stop the expansion of the mail business, and to reduce its present formidable size. The money thus collected would be spent for road building or other local improvements in the districts which contributed to the mail order houses. The small retail merchant is lhe prop of distributed prosperity, and the growth of the mail order trust serves no common good. Here is a principle which works out: “If you spend your money where you get it, you will be able to get it where you spend it.” Through a systematic advertising campaign, the mail order capitalists have sought to poison the public mind against the small merchant. The people have been told that there are too many merchants, and that their retail methods are wasteful and costly. But I would point out the other side of the question. The Chicago vice investigation showed that 50,000 women employes of mail order houses are existing on starvation wages, many of them be- ing driven by poverty to lives of shame. The mail order houses are the great distributors of prison-made goods, They are the exploiters of misfortune, buying much of their goods at bankrupts’ sales. But who takes an interest in local affairssand has a hand in the up- building of communities? Whose goods are assesed for the taxes to pay for local improvement? Who, when the crops have failed or the strike is on, and there is no cash to send away, extends the credit which en- ables the community to live? The local merchant and not the Wall Street owned mail order house. We want cheapness, a lower cost of living: that is what we are all working for. But we do not want it at the expense of the women wage slaves of Chicago and of the million little merchants of this country. Breaks Lock—Tears Up Track. 3 * “Some hair-brained auto driver broke the lock on the fair grounds gate last night to take a spin around on the wet track, cutting it up in bad shape and making it necessary to spend several dollars to repair it be- fore the races this afternqon,” said a member of the race committee this morning. He further stated that if any clue could be gained of “who the gullty party was he would help around the track once inore. = * NUMBER 60 Lucile Belmont will make her fam- ous balloon . ascension at 2:30 p. m. today at the fair grounds. A bade- ball game:will beplayed ‘betwéen “‘Blg Beml dg",und “Little Bamldg 4 track is to wet for any races bht-if| cundltinns*permlt they will ‘ber eld No admission charge will'be made to the grounds today and every: spoft will be free to all. x * Results of Today’s Sports. Potato race—First Prize, A. Breen; second prize, Caldwell Davis, Little Girls Race—First Grace Riley; second prize, Smith, Sack Race—First prize. Don Rid- dell; second prize, Carl Tenstrom. . Yo\mg men’s hundred yard-dash— First prize, Bud Cokem; second prize, Albert. Gilbert. Fat man’s race—First prize, 0. H. Manaugh; second prize, P. J. Wolf. Tug-of-War—Crookston . Lumber Company vs. City-of Bemidji.: Lumbermen—Hans Anderson, I.'B. Trent, T. Knutsen, Geo. Tiffany,’J. Martin, God Olson, - 8. 0. Netland, Mike Smith, E. Tolstad, Olof Huff. City of Bemidji—P. J. Wolf,. L. Lind, L. P. Eckstrum, G. Begsley, M. H. Hazen, Ed. Anderson, O. H. Man- augh, A. MB. Palmer, John Marin. WHITE CAR WINS PRIZE Krit Car Driven By Miss Vera Backus Carries Away the Second Honors, prize; Hazel POGUE HAS MOST UNIQUE CAR With moré than one hundred gaily| decorated autonrobiles in the big Fourth of July pnrade, Bemidils big Gature ovent wad . F-and BeCtor] than those in charge had even hoped for, and the selections made by ‘the judges met with popular approval; The A. P. White car was awarded first prize for having the best decor- ated car and the G. D. Backus car second prize. For the most unique J. P. Pogue was given first and Clyde Bacon second. The Reynolds and Winter car was given first prize. for the oldest car and Louis Eckstrum second. No awards were made for the most comical decorated car as none apparently made an effort for this prize. Bazaar Has Swell Carriage The Bazaar store had by far the best and most extensively decorated carriage in the parade, Which brought up the rear of the proces- sion. The decorations were made by H. M. Halversen of that store-and received considerable favorable com- ment and praise. The carriage was an open one drawn by a fine team of horses from the Foley livery stables. The clerks of the store rode in the carriage which was in charge of a coachman appropriately dressed for the occasiomn. The parade was formed on Irvine avenue beyond, the ceremetery and was led by John Hillaby on horse- back, with the mayor’s car and Be- midji band following in turn. The judges stand was arranged on' the Markham hotel balcony, which place the procession passed several titnes. The judges were Mrs. D. L. Stamton, Mrs. E. H. Denu "and Mrs. J. T. Toumy. 3 Auto Party Has Accident. ) Driving through Nymore yes- terday an auto party of 4 six local young men narrowly ' es- caped serious injury when their car turned turtle into the ditch. The members of the party were brought to Bemidji where they were examined by a local physician, who stated that they were uninjured further than a few minor bruises and badly shaken up. SCOO REPORTER De The judges have dechfed thnt theruce ¥ as had .been planned for yesterday.| THE CUB That They Secured About Five : Thousand Dollars. * Al Bloodhonndl Were Placed on Then- Trail and Posse is Now in Memphis, Tenn., July 5.—Four ban- dits held up southbound passenger train No. 1 ‘on the Illinois Central railroad south. of Batesville, Mies, awed the train and locomotive crews' wlth'weapons. blew open the safe in the“express: car, ransacked tha mail pncklgen and ‘escaped. “None'of the passengers was" molea!- ed because the bandits compelled-the locomotive ‘crew to. detach: the miail; express. and_baggage cars and run them some distance from the passen: ger coaches. After they finished their. work in the mail car the robbers ran the locomotive - tq: Enid, Miss. " and fled to the open: country. Bloodhounds were placed on their |¢ trail ‘and a few’ hours after the rob- bery -a big posse was in pursuit. ‘Whether - the bandits escaped with much loot is not known. It has not been determined whether other than route shipments were carried pn the express car. NO SERIOUS ACCIDENTS-OCCURED Bemidi Has Safe and Sane Fourth of July Celebration, Checked by Rain Bemidji’s big celebration started out to be, what was predicted of it, but rain during the afternoon made it necessary to postpone all events until today. No serious accidents have been reported at either of the hospitals and with the exception of a few burned fingers and singed halr nothing serious occurred. ADDRESS BLACKDUCK FARMERS Bueford M. Gile, Bemidji High School Agriculturists Speaks on Alfalfa Bueford M. Gile, agriculturist of the Bemidji High School, will leave for Blackduck tonight, and will ad- dress the Town of Summit Farmer’s club at Galstead Lake near Black- duck Sunday afternoon. He has chosen as his subject, “Alfalfa.” The farmers in this vieinity will hold a picnic on the shores of Gal- stead lake Sunday and have added this edcational featuer in addition to the regular social event. KERKKKK KKK KKK KKK CUPID’S COURT, ¥ KKK KK KRKKKK KKK KK On Thursday afternoon at the Baptits parsonage, the marriage of Miss Ethel F. Sibre to Elof M. Ohn- gren was solemnized in the presence of a few immediate relatives and friends,, Rev. Charles G. Chandler officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Ohngren will make their future home in this city upon their return from a wed- ding trip to. points in Michigan. ook ok ook ol ok ok e b b ok b b W. J. BRYAN PRESIDENT AT LAST. ‘Washington, July 5.—Will- lam Jennings Bryan is “acting president of the United States.” This title for years has been given popularly to the rank- ing officer of the administra- tion in Washington in the ab- sence of the president and vice ' president and the pres- ent time finds Mr. Bryan “sit- ting on the lid” with Presi- dent Wilson, Vice President Marshall and every member Phy{hz seven 2 were durisg ‘a heavy down “Ipour’of ‘rain th Blg Bemidg” and Crookston L béf\*company baseball team- played Bame yesterday Tted in #itte. - * Befrring none of the games played ) year ‘the: uncfy terday was the mdst exclting, and most hotly con- teflifl'\‘ol the seaggn. Every man was &' i 1y~ four errors were made during:the game. Mc- ey for the:Luml men’ proved them- selves slab arnstl seme skill and retired many meng without letting them- touch the i, g u'nqble to catch: a par‘neg came. hi A great deal of as to the right of. testing ‘that on taken on a Dlfifl 1 the decision to’theld declared it al “tying the score. gument resulted play, many pro- e base could be One umpire left testerl as the gameiwas called on ac- er and fhey ap- peared anxious clare themselves. Vesterday but the fimbermen use the following rule to Back their claims: Sec. 3. ~In all ihses where there are no spectators j.on’the . playing field ,and where hrown hal] goes into a stand for speetators, or over or through any fem:e"fiurmunding the playing field, ‘or’; n{n the players’ bench {whether t¥e ball regounds into the fleld or Mot), the runier or runners shall be entitled to two bases. The umpi bases shall be gaver tion of the runneripr-runners at the time the throw is-xgade.’ The lineup for thie two teams was a8, tolows 2 (Herbert: Smiley..... Riddell...... 1st. b. -Johnson. .... 2nd. b. . Bailey. . 3rd. b. Cords........ ss. Achenbach..... . Malone: . . c.f. ...Tanner DeRushie..... r.f. .....B. Erickson Umpire—Bill Wilson. « If some satisfactory agreement is not reached today it is probable that the two teams will play one more game in the near future to decide the tie. ~Baoscoe McKeig .Jacobson . .Brandon Rice Howe . Bailey p. LE. . EREKKKKK KKK KK « SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES * KX KKK KKK KKK KK Episcopal : Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Eve- ning services at 7:30 p. m. Archdea- con Parshall. First Scandinavian Lutheran: Services in the evening at 8 o’clock. There will be no Sunday school as the Sunday school children are having a vacation. T. S. Kolste, pastor. Swedish Lutheran: Sunday school at 12 o’clock. Serv- ices in the‘evening at 8. J. H. Ran- dahl, pastor, Presbyterian: Sunday school and Bible class at 10 a. m. Junior Endeayor at 4 p. m. Young Peoples’ meeting at 7 p. m. ‘Vesper praise services at 8 p. m. Come and join with the choir and chorus in singing the tabernacle songs. A cordial invitation is extended to the public. 8. E. P. White, pastor. First Methodist Episcopal : Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preach- ing at'11 a. m. and.8 p. m. Epworth League at 7 p. m. lead by Dr. E. H. + +* + + £ * * * [ * + * * £ * * * + * &+ o oo oo b e ele b oo fe e ok o b ke kb b b b 'ot the cabinet except himself out of the city. * L4 +(++++++++++++++_+ Smith. - Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 p. m. The public is in- vited to all our services. Charles H. Flesher, pastor.. victors. No final fiocision was made, «iiifliiiiilli%iifiifiiiiiil*#iii* * Copyright by International News Service; tro Corporation, New York. 'WARRIORS OF OLD MEET IN FRIENDLY RE-UNION. !*i**##flf’lilllill‘&iiiiilii#i**.fltii ; * | supplied by New Process Elec- Union and Confederate Veterans of the Civil War are Assembled Beneath "~ the Same Flag, the Stars and Stripes, on the Battlefield Where Fifty Years Ago They Fought in Deadly Combat for the Principles Which Each Then Thougth Were Right.. This photograph was taken at. Gettysburg just as two Union veter- ans and two Confederate veterans, men who had faced each other in mor- tal combat fifty years ago, paused in their conversation as General Dan- iel E. Sickles, who. distinguished himself as a Union ‘soldier, approached the group. Captain Willlam Page, shown second from the left, a Confed- erate veteran, cried “Here comes Dan Sickles!” and the man whom at least two of those in the group would have a half century ago considered a deadly enemy, joined them. HONOR PERRY VICTORY Dedicate Monument at Putu-In-Bny, Ohio, Under. Auspices of the Ma- WHITEHEAD SPEAKER OF DAY Put-in-Bay, 0., July 5.—The Perry centennial celebration, commemorat- ing Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's victory over the British on Lake Erie, the campaigh of General William Hen- ry Harrison and the 100 years of peace that will have ensued between the English speaking nations sinc? the signing of the treaty of Ghent on Dec. 24, 1814, was formally opened here. It will continue until Oct. 5, with celebrations at Toledo, Detroit. Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Erie, Pa., and other lake ports and Louis- ville, Ky. The centennial era began at day- break with a salute of 100 guns. At 10 a. m. the program called for deco- ration of the graves of the American and British officers killed in the bat- tle of Lake Erie. At 1 p. m. the cor- nerstone of the magnificent Perry memorial. was laid under the auspices of the Ohio Grand Lodge of Masons. Clark Presents Memorial. Following this ceremony the ora-| torical program of the day was car- ried out in the large coliseum at Put- in-Bay. John H. Clarke of Cleveland, president of the Ohio commission, formally presented the memorial res- ervation. The oration of the day was delivered by former Senator John M. ‘Whitehead of the Wisconsin commis- sion. A display of fireworks was on the program for the evening. Following this, a .banquet was -given by the Ohio centennial commissioners in honor of Onio state officlals, members of_the legislature, supreme court, the Masonic fraternity and. other guests. The memorial, which is to be the permanent monument to Perry’s vic- |y tory, will consist of a Doric column of granite 330 feet high and 45 feet. in diameter.. At one end of the plaza will be a historical museum contain- ing relics -of American historical events ‘and at the other end a build- ing emblematic. of a century. of peace between Great Britain and the Unit- ed States. The Boss Doesn’t Believe l i : fective Page GREEK TROOPS RETREAT ng Wires Athens; Confirming the %a’t"fi tizens and Soldiers -~ Were-Slain- By Bulgarians. BULGARIAN MOVEMENT SUCCESS Vienna, Austria, July 5.—Lieutenant Herminigild Wagner, the war corre- spondent of the Reichspost, tele- graphed from the front that the Ser- vian army suffered terribly at Gherg- heli and that the Servian victory over the Bulgarians at Istip was only a mo- mentary success of merely local im- portance. The outflanking operations of the Bulgarian troops toward Kretovo and Egri Palanka have been successfully accomplished, he says, so that the Bulgarians are now advancing on Ku- manova and the Servian frontier. The Bulgarian offensive movement against Saloniki, he says, also is be- ing continued successfully and por- tlons of the Greek army have begun to retreat. Saloniki, July 5.—Singe their victory over the Bulgarians at Kilkish the Greek troops have been successful in & number of smaller engagements in which the fighting was very severe. During the fighting which resulted In the occupation of Ghevgheli by the Greeks the Bulgarians became panic stricken and hundreds of them jumped into the river Vardar and were drowned. London, July 6.—King Constantine of Greece telegraphed personally to the Greek minister here confirming the report of the massacre of Greek soldiers by Bulgarians in Macedonia and the extermination under the most horrible. circumstances of the Greek populations in the villages through which' the Bulgarians retreated. Riddleton Burns Face. George Riddleton of East Bemidji, was badly burned by the explosion of a toy cannon, Wednesday afternoon the powder flying into his face and eyes. The injury though painful is not considered serious. He was tak- en to the St. Anthony’s hospital, where treatmenf was administered. BY uHOPu President - Woodrow Wlhon,'! = Gettysburg Heroes Iaumjag the Conflmt. Meetmg Marked Ch.maxA of Prohbly the Last Great Reqmpg of Civil War Veterans;: Gettysburg, Pa., July 5—The prui- dent of the United States in person honored the veterans of the Civil war. Incidentally for the first time a Southern born executive mingled with the warrfors of half a century ago on- the Gettysburg battlefield and’ talad to them of what the conflict-in which they participated meant to the men and women of the present generation. It was the climax of an eventful week and marked the end of what will probably be the last great reunion of the survivors of the war between the states. The president made the trip from ‘Washington to this town by train, As he stepped from his car he was greeted by a presidential salute from the battlefield and mingled cheers and rebel yells from ‘the blue and gray garbed veterans who had thronged to the station to greet him. An escort of cavalry was waiting to convey the car with the president and his party to the big tent just off the Emmettsburg road on the battle- field, where the formal exercises took place. President Wilson’s address was in part as follows: Old Wounds Are Healed, “Friends and Fellow Citizens—I need not tell you what the battle of Gettysburg meant. These gallant men in blue and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met here upon this ground in grim and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died -about. them. In thelr ‘presence it weré an fmperti- -|-nence to-disecurse-upon how:-the:bat- tle went, how it ended, what it signi- fled. But fifty years have gone by since then, and I crave the privilege of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those fifty years have meant. “What have they meant? They have meant peace and union and vigor and the maturity and might of a great na- tion. How wholesome and healing the peace has been! We have found one another again as brothers and com- rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen- erous friends rather, our battles long past,- the quarrel forgotten, except that we shall not forget the-splendid valor, the manly devotion, of the men then arrayed against one another, now grasping hands and smiling into each other's eyes. How complete the union has become and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign ‘and majestic, as state after state has been added to this, our great family of free- men! How handsome the vigor, the maturity, the might, of the great na- tion we love with undivided hearts— how full of large and confident prom- ise that a life will be wrought out that will crown its strength with gra- clous justice and with a happy welfare that will touch all alike with deep contentment! We are debtors to those fitty crowded years. They have made us helrs to a mighty heritage. Died That People Might Live. “But do we deem the nation com- plete and finished? These venerable men crowding- here to this famous field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that the people might live. But their task is done. Their day is turned into evening. They - look to us to perfect what they estab- ligshed. Their work is handed on to . us to be done in another way, but not in another spirit. Our day is not onr, 1t 1s upon us in full tide. & “Have affairs paused? Does the na- tion stand still? Is what the fifty X years have wrought since '?P“ ‘days of battle finished, rounded and completed? Here 18 a great people, great with every force that has ever beaten in the lifeblood of mankind, And it 18 secure. There s no one within its borders, there is no power among the natlons of the earth, to make it afraid. But has it yet squared. . itself with its own great standards set up at ts birth, when it made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judg- ment of mankind to take notfce that a government had now at last beem stablighed which was to serve men, not masters? It is secure in every- thing ‘except the satisfaction that its. 1ife 18 right, adjusted to the uttermost to the standards of rightousness and cleansing are not .closed.” harder things to do than we cause harder to see clearly, rm}dn‘ more vision, more calm bala; judgment, a more-candid seas Mn‘ ol 4 the very springs of right.