Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 16, 1913, Page 3

NOTABLES IN THE LIMELIGHT Joseph: W.- Folk; -Solicitor of State Department.. @ by American Press Association. Joseph W. I'olk. who has been ap- pointed solicitor of thé state depart- ment by President Wilson, was for- merly governor of Missouri and has a remarkable record as a reformer. While the salary of his new office is but $4,500. the position is important. A pative of Tennessee, Mr. Folk was edueated at Vanderbilt university, graduating in law from that institu- tion in 1800. Two years later he went to St. Louis and began the practice of his profession. In 1900, when thirty- two years of age, he was elected cir- cuit attorney of the city, and. things began to happen. During his term of office he exposed a mass of official cor- ruption in both city and state. When he began bribery was the common thing. When he bhad completed his term of office a large number of city councilmen and members of the state legislature were in prison. The reve- lationa he made awoke n slumbering public conscienc md in one of the bitterest cout in the history of Missouri politics he woun the Demo- cratic nomination for governor of the state. In the campaign he was elected, while the others on the ticket, who were not fought as he was, were de- feated. That was in 1904. As governor he put ding in legisiative aff: . There was no scandal in the three legislatures heM under him. Last year he was talk- ed of as a | le candidate for the presidential nomination by the Demo- oratie party. Expert on Railroad Wrecks. H. W. Belnap, chief inspector of safety appliances of the interstate com- merce commission, who recently in- vestigated the North Haven wreck on the New York, New Haven and Hart- || ford railroad. has had a wide experi- enee in railroad disasters. ©ommenting on the great loss of life in the North Haven disaster, Inspector Belnap compares it with. the recent wreck at Tyrone, Pa. In the report of the Tyrone wreck the fact that 153 pevsons were injured, but only one || person was killed, is emphasized as preof that the lives of many pas- @ 1915, by American Press Association. H. W. BELNAP. sengers and trainmen were spared be- cause the cars comprising the wrecked trains. were of steel. "The striking comparison of the supe- rior advauntages of steel cars over wooden cars is made in the Tyrone collision from the fuct that all its cir- comstances were almost a duplication of the collision at North Haven. “The substantial construction of the maodern steel cars making up this train.” said Mr. Belnap. “is without doubt the reason that none of the pas- sengers was killed.” Mr. Belnap has been chief inspector for a number of years and has in that capacity investigated many railroad wrecks. Before being promoted to the head of his division he was a member of the staff of lnspectors SAYS POOR-SCALES Would Have. Bmmmsm o i e Bl | . you Washington.—Declaring. that rr.e\,:;h‘. | commissfon’s inquiry into the' question | glva hobe and (,mn'nge to pqmn.;' And lts Wrongs you' seek to pers all oyer the country. are suffer ! involved In hix bill, The expert of the right. fnz an enormous Joss b fuct that onfy 10 per cent of the track lrnles used by railroads are ac¢curitely tosited’ aud’ that only one-fourth of. the éeales are inspected in any way at all, eo«m Representative Willis of Obio intro- duced a bill into the house to require & complete change In this respect, Two Big Fraternal A"“"*“‘"‘ May The bill, based on a long and exbaus | Amaigamate, It Is Reported. tva examination of the subject by the ‘Shk‘fl;,q .—Steps toward the amalga- end to boo- ?,‘ inverstate: commerce commission,. re: e - — : ! gnires that the.American Railway. as- || and’ f_he ABNoc: En‘t&'flflu 1 i e e} ! s sociation be authorized to designite 'qfi’&mqflcn were recently. taken b;BOO eon! [Tt : ¥ X i c AH_SE BI,G tGSSE | the standard scale to be nsed. together |ideleg representing the two organi- || The péri d ise B with standards for pits. weights and |izations in separate conventions in'Chi- | has ended; and‘to:hold up his share’'of ik all devices pertaining to the track "ago The membership of the. !| the’bargain’ Willlany E. Garnett deeded scales:;‘The railronds would then have »repmsented is more than 6,000,000 and |to the brothers a half section of valua: ithe ' combined insurance more than |ble, land; i 1$8,000,000,000;. ; | Economy in ‘management and' ‘greater || efficiency are, desired. The' Modern | Woodmen, Woodmen of the World and s been (Ro¥al Arcanuni are ‘among’ the orders || mmerce [in the orgnninn[lon. nght:ll such a maglc hesler' :‘ Say it; say it in’thie night. & When: the Woes of earth oppress V R8s I result 1o Heavy fines. u"r wmgm“g!i Representative Willis is a member of the imterstate and- foreign commerce sommitice of the honse and | | tn rouch with (he interstute ‘e The tullowlng unsolicited tuu- monial should certalnl) be.. suflmnt 3 ol e 2L commiinsion with whom Representative: | WHlliy has been consulting isx Attorney | Marchand of the commission. ,000 IN COALITION PLAN. 7 nght of morn——the pmmisel Smoking For Ten Years, a Sioux City. la.—Ten years a; and Jay lzarnetr hrothers, " of ledged thelr word to thelr ¢ Star of. hope to. weu'y pflgzlm, Blessed light for you.and me. —Katherine Ward. The l'mm-m wants youw to know that this is flxe greatest uffex evermade by a newspaper for the beneflt of its readers. 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