Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1913, Page 18

i { Spirells Corsets (Not sold in stores) Wear a corset made to fit you. Ask for a demonstration. Tele phone or send postcard to Mus. C. B. Evritt 930 Minn. Ave. Phone 854 VETERINARY SURGEON USUUUN S UURUSUOUUUSPI U IPRS SR W. K. DENISON VEBTERINARIAN Phese 164 Pogue's Livery — DRAY LINE A A A AN AA AN A A AAANAA AN PO SHART DRAY AND TRANSFER SAFE AND PIANO MOVING Tee. Phone 58 818 America Ave Office Phone 12. MUSIC INSTRUCTOR WSTHER M. KOLSTE, THACHER OF PIANO @raduate of Chicago Musieal College Phone 523. DENTISTS BR. D. L. STANTON, DENTIST Offiice in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY - DENTIST Prst Natienal Bank Bildg. BR. G. M. PALMER DENTIST 4 Miles Block Rveaing Work by Appointment Only ‘Tel. $3¢ LAWYERS GRAHAM M. TORRANOE BAWYER Miles Blook Phone 560 JOHN F. GIBBONS ATTORNEY AT LAW First National Bank Building Bemidji, Minn. D. H. FISK, Court Commissioner ATTORNEY AT LAW ®fciee second floor O'Leary-Bowser Bldg PHYSICIAN, SURGEONS DR. ROWLAND GILMORE . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office—Miles Block DR. E. A. SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo_Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 3z BB, €. R. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offiice—Miles Block DR. L. A. WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ©ver First National bank, Bemidji, Mia» DR. A. E. HENDERSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ©ver TNirst National bank, Bemidji, Mint Oflice Phone 26 Residence Phone #f BR. E. H. SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office In Winter Block BR. E. H MARCUM PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Ofiice in Mayo Block Poone 12 Residence Phone 21 R K KKK KKK KKK KKK K * RAILROAD TIIE CARDS ¥ KKK KKK KR KKK R KRS MPLS, BED LAKEL & MAN. T % North Bound Arrives. % North Bound Leaves.. . S00 RAILRCAD 162 Bast Bound Leaves...... 9:64 an 163 West Bound Leaves 4.37 pu 186 Fast Bound Leaves 2:46 pno 187 West Bound Leaves.. 9:64 an GREAT NORT: 32 West Bound Leaves. 3:15 pu 34 East Bound Leaves 2.08 pn 85 West Bound Leaves. 23 ai 36 East Bound Leaves. . 58 am 105 North Bound Arrives. 40 px 106 South Bound Leaves. 30 am Preight West .Leaves 00 am Freight East ueaves at . 6:00 o MINNESOTA & INTERNATIONAL 83 South Bound Leaves...... 8:15 an NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday, 1 to 6 m, 7t09p Sunday, ry' roon'o P. m. ealy, 3 to 6 p m. R. F. MURPHY ' FUNERAL DIRECTOR . AND EMBALME?" Offies’818 Saitrami Ave. | great advantage over the econgested OWN PLANNING; WHAT [T MEANS A Civic Awakening Among: Communities. THE IDEAL GOMMUNITY. Town Planning Means the Guidance and Control of Community Building to Insure Social Efficiency—It Means That the ldeal Town of Yesterday Can Be Built Today. i S As all evils must sooner or later find their vemedy, so our abhorrent meth- ods of city building are finding their remedy in the development of the town planning idea. Town planning means the guidance and control of community building and rebuilding with a view to insuring the highest degree of human and social efficiency and the conservation of all human re- sources. - Commurities are built for the people and not people for communities. The cities and towns should therefore| tributing the American share toward be laid out and developed so as to serve the interests of the people. Parks, playgrounds, proper homes, transportation. water supply, amuse- ment centers. art galleries. schools, museums, etc., are essentials of civil- ized community life. The town and city planuner must co-ordinate these es- sentials and so humanize his plans as to embrace the highest ideals of pres- ent community development backed by a community patriotism that will stand the test of the highest standard of so- cial well beiug. The cost of community planning may be measured in dollars and cents. but a more accurate measurement is to be found in the rate of infant mortality and the daily deaths and the amount of ill health and crime that we must suffer and pay for. 'The well planned garden cities of England and Germany are teaching us the lesson that health, morals and industrial efficiency are possible of control by proper communi- ty planning. Statistics show us that density of population goes hand in hand with frequency of deaths. sick- ness and crime. On every side we find overwhelming evidence of the val- ue of proper community planning and development and the growing desire for better living conditions among the people. The diagnosis is made, the remedy—town planning—is known and we shall pay a well deserved penalty if we do not apply it. There is present in every stratum of population an all embracing civie awakening which affects both men and women. Discontent with the pres- ent order is everywhere pregnant with great prom for the future. Democ- racy in its broadest interpretation is taking the place of bureaucracy and plutoc v. while political parties are coming to represent true public senti- ment and interest, where partisanship based upon a spoils system is-being relegated to the junk heap of social inefficiency. The women are taking a large share of the social burden that social inefficiency has created in the past. and they should be among the first to realize the importance of sub- urbanizing the wage earner and re- storing to him the right to a proper home located in fitting surroundings and related to the community in a way that will make his or her pres- ence in the community count for its full value. Town planning deals with the dis- tribution and arrangement of building land so as to avoid congestion. It deals with the location of shops and factories so as to make them more ac- cessible and yet unobjectionable to the home dis s in which the wage earn- ers must live. Community planning deals with transportation and street development so as to provide the great- est facility of distribution of popula- rility to the industrinl and | asy access to food | markets neces: v to insurd a proper standard of living on a moderate in- come. Town planning deals with sew- age systems. water supply. waste dis- posal systems. so as to insure the greatest protection of the health of the people, while it concerns. itself with the distribution of churches, schools, parks and playgrounds. so as to give every man, woman and child an oppor- tunity to develop spiritually. intellec tually and physically. The distribution and development of civic centers are the last but not the least of the functions of town planning. and the presence or absence of these centers determines success or failure of a plan. ¥ These are large claims, but they are faithful to the facts. The large cities present an opportunity for reconstrnc- tion. for palllative town planning, while the younger cities and towns have the open country before them, little to rebuild and readjust and a nter city slums which they have now the opportunity to condemn to everlasting death by their superior living advan- tages and their free opportunity for shaping their future growth to meet future as well as present needs. ‘The utopian city of yesterday can he bullt today, and the future will blame U8 or praise us as we realize. as re- alive we can. the practical Ideals that science and art and a living democra- ey make possible this day _Try Ploneer Want Ads, EXTENSION OF i luxuriantly as the bananas on his es- |/ THE PLAYGROUNDS Orientals Are Adopting the Idea From America. PLAYGROUNDS OF THE EAST A Sacramento Business Man: Tells of Introducing American System In the East—Filipino Legislature Quick to Appreciate Work Toward Social Bet- terment, On a recent trip around the world | C. M. Goethe, a business man of Sacra. mento, Cal.. sought to spréead among missionaries and the leaders of the “new east,” the message of the Amer- ican movement for play and recreation. Prior to this journey he had establish- ed a playground at an orphanage in Sacramento and helped to organize the playground work of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Goethe are now backing play- ground work in Calcutta untll a point is reached where the government will take it over, and they are also con- a playground leader in Korea. Mr. Goethe has written an article for the Survey on the spread of the Amer- ican recreation movement in the coun- tries in the orient, in which he says that China shows the most progress. The title of his subject is “Exporting Playgrounds.”- In the course of it he says: “Recreation is a world need. To what extent has our splendid Ameri- can recreation movement spread to the countries of the orient? There are only a few little beginnings. A start has been made in Manila. Through the co-operation of the Young Men's -Christian association and the Play- ground and Recreation association, a committee was appointed by Aecting Governor General Gilbert, who granted an appropriation for an experimental playground in the Tondo, a congested district. Success came at the very first. - The attendance ran into thou- sands. “The effort now is for a complete Manila system. and then should come extension throughout the islands. The AN ESAMPLE FOR THE EAST. Filipino legislature is quick to appreci- ate work toward social betterment. Members return to their homes with strong convictions that their towns should have the same improveinents as the capital. “Talk of the typical Chinese mer- chant of Singapore or Penang. owner of tin mines and plantations of pine- apple and rubber. with one son perhaps at Princeton. another at Oxford, wha poured his wealth into China to back the theories of Sun Yat Sen against the Manchu. How his knowledge of American institutions surprises you. and how eager be is to learn of Amer: can playgrounds! The soil here awaits the playground seed. It will grow as tate.” Mr. Goethe tells how he has started to organize a playground in a suburb of Calcutta, which will be the first playground in overcrowded India, and goes on to 83y: “The whole value of such experi- mental work must be educational. A good fleld for another playground is Bombay, center of the wealthy Par- sees. We criticise them for their tow- ers of silence. where bodies of the dead are exposed to the vultures. We crit- | § fcise them for giving funds to hospi- tals for sick dogs and neglecting hu- man needs. But they are a benevolent people, and they have that shrewd in- telligence which gives them the con- trol of great Industries, such as the vast Bombay cotton mills. They need only to have knowledge of American playgrounds to start them at work, “Publicity is needed. When a break- fast food manufacturer wants to dem- onstrate its merits he plans a cam- paign costing hundreds of thousands. If there was an opportunity to make 1 cent a year on each of India's 300, 000.000, how American capital would be poured in! Yet a very modest sum spent’ in a campaign of education such as the Playground association conducts in this country would start these peo- ple working to heln themselves.” | Bubseribe for the Pleneer. - 320 MINNESOTA AVE. OPEN EVENINGS 600DS DELIVERED TELEPHONE 260 TOYLAND IS WAITING FOR YOU —Not necessary for you to wait till the last few days before Christmas. With this department in complete readiness for you, there’s very good reason why you should make your selections NOW. Many thing are specially priced to induce early buying. Come to Toy- land tomorrow—bring the children if you can. See the big enlarged department full of >anta Claus’ ware. THE LARGEST TOY DEPARTMENT : IN THE CITY ONE LARGE ROOV, OUR ANNEX, DEVOIED TO NOTHING BUT TOYS —We have our toys ar- ranged on b5e, 10c, 15¢ counters so it is easy to make selections. Dolls of all kinds Doll Dresses Doll Heads Campbell Kids Doll Go=carts Walking Dogs Toy Ranges Table Croquet Toy Dishes i | ! Toy Furniture Chairs J Tables, folding teddy Bears, 1oc to $5 Iron toys Blackboards Mechanical toys Crokinole Boards Electrical toys Shoo Flys Registering Banks Banks from s5c up Toy Pianos Games Tool Chests . Toy Grocery Store Toy Stables Swinging Horses Air Rifles Toy Railroads Toy Drums Sleds and Skis |Hundreds of other |Toys to numerous to € mention Steam Engines Big line of Xmas tree Electric Motors | trimmings. IN OUR MAIN STORE WE HAVE SUITABLE GIFTS FOR THE OLDER FOLKS You cannot find a better place to get just the right thing for everyvone SILVERWARE SHAVING SETS LEATHER GOODS MANICURE SETS IVORY GOODS TOILET SETS FANCY WRITING PAPER, in Xmas boxes, 15¢c up HAND PAINTED PIN CUSHIONS DISHES —A word about our dish department: Nowhere in the city can you find a bet- ter or larger stock of fancy and common dishes than here. We have the best selected stock, largest stock and best variety of dishes in town, and you will find upon investigating that Megroth’s Variety Store sells its merchandise at a lower price than you can buy it elsewhere. Look around, compare stocks and prices, but don’t buy until you have been here. Our prices will convince you we can save you money. THE LARGEST VARIETY STORE IN BET1IDJI iR 0. Jaa W 469510 £y 2