Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1913, Page 5

VOLUME 11. 200. WALL STREET PINS HOPE ON ROOT TALK / Tavenner Brings Out Point That|| Senator Spoke From Viewpoint of The Money Trust WANT CURRENCY BILL KILLED Pomerene Gives Five Reasons Why In- flation Would be Impossible Under Conditions Suggested From Congressman C. H. Tavenner. Washington, December 19—The bankers of the county—the Big Bank- ers of Wall Street, that is—have pin-} ned their hope on Senator Root’s speech, of which so much is being made by the reactionary news papers, for defeating or dractically amending the administration’s currency bill. ‘When Root spoke he spoke from the viewpoint of the Money Trust, the monarchs of finance who, under the present banking system, have a large control of the vast commercial de- posits of the entire country. Big business does not want the cur- rency bill passed, and so the word has gone down the banking line to draw to credits. There is no econo- What Red Cross Seals Do Every Red Cross Christmas Seal that is sold is a real bullet in the fight against tuberculosis. These seals last year helped to support thousands of needy tuberculosis pa- tients and to give them a chance for life. They provided for many visiting nurses, whose hundreds of thousands visits brought instruction and cheer to numerous patients. They helped inmintain dispensares in scores of cit- ies from the Atlantic to the' Pac- fiic where thousands of consumptive patients received free treatment, aid means to purchase millions of copies of circulars, pamphlets and other literature with which the public has been educated about tuberculosis. They have established and helped to maintain more than 150 open-air schools for children who needed op- en air treatment. These are just a few of the ways in which the $400,- 000 received last year was expended. This year $1,000,000 is needed. Sure- ly every one can help by buying at least ten seals. TWO HARBORS - COMING mic reason for this restriction, but it is in force pust the same, presenting the anomoly of business dullness in the midst of great prosperity. And ‘the situation is adding to the burden of the patient, resolute man in the ‘White House. Senator Root did not mention the Teal reason for Wall Street’s opposi- tion to the bill, namely, that Wall Street will lose its precious privilege of gambling with ~ other people's money. Oh, no. Mr. Root spoke of the dangers of currency inflation, and the abstract Gresham’s Law of cheap money driving gold into hiding or out of the country. And so those who jump when the hand of Morgan pulls the strings are heralding his speech as a masterpiece of statesmanship, and are nominating him 'for Presi- dent. Senator Pomerene, one of the deep-| est students of banking in the Sen- ate, told the writer why, under the proposed legislation, the currency is in no danger of inflation. | “There are a half doxen checks against it” he said, “and if all our | provisions are powerless to control a| reckless Federal Reserve Board, Con- gress will be continually in sessicn to enact any needed amendments in short order. But these are the! checks against inflation: “1. The individual bank will limit a depositor’s credit by the usual: guides: “2. The credit of the individual bank will be limited by the federal reserve bank—the latfer can refuse to discount commercial paper when the currency is becoming inflated; “3. TIn the same way the credit ©of the reserve bank is limited by the Tederal Reserve Board: ‘4. The Federal Reserve Board, ‘with power to fix rates of discount, can check any tendency toward in- flation by daising rates. This func- tion really includes the taxing pro- vision which Senator Root advocates as an amendment: “5. Finally the board has the| power to assess a graduated tax on note above a certain point.” Joe McTaggart Injured ‘While working on his dray last evening Joe MacTaggart fell back- wards off the high wagon and dis- located his arm and fractured sev- eral ribs. Dr. Marcum and Dr. San- Lorn set the arm and attended to ‘his injuries which were found to be Team From Head of Lakes To Play With Bemidji Athletic Club Five —Are Out for Honors NEXT GAME NEW YEAR’S NIGHT Members of the Athletic Club Basketball team have two more hard games to play during the month of January that promise to be equally as good as the games to be played with the Superior Y. M. E. A. quint January 15 and 16 were set as the dates for the games to be played ‘here. Owing to the fact that the ex- penses are exceptionally heavy when bringing a team from a city over 100 miles it is mecessary to play two| games to meet all expenses. This contest will be the first time Bemidji has ever met a Two Harbors’ team on. the athletic field although both cities are credited with turn- ing out some of the best athletes in the north half of the state. Arrangements may be made for a trip to Duluth, Superior; Two Har- bors and several cities on the range for the Bemidji team if the athletes comprising this organization can make arrangements with their em- ployers. ROGERS SENTENCED Sent To Red Wing Training School For Indeterminate Period Stanley Rogers, the fifteen year old boy who recently stole $182 from a Bemidji cigar store, today confessed to having taken the money and was sentencted by Judge C. W. Stanton to the Red Wing Training school. Deputy Sheriff Cahill said that he did not know whether the lad would be taken to Red Wing this evening or some time tomorrow. Judge Stanton gave young Rogers some advice and told him that if he behaved himself that his stay in Red Wing would be! materially shortened. To this Rogers replied that he would do his best. Sorenson Funeral Tomorrow S. Sorenson of Puposky, age sixty- nine, died of heart failure Wednes- day at 1:30 a. m. The funeral will be held Saturday at 2 o’clock p. m. from the church of the town of Nor- thern. The -deceased is survived by two sons and one daughter, Axel and S. Sorenson and Maryl Sm'ensun.| Attorney General Decides That Thief River Falls Newly Elected Officers. Can Remain In Contest SAME RESULT AT CROOKSTON Residents of Crookston and Thief River Falls are jubilant over a-de- cision which has been handed down by the attorney general’s office, in which it is - held that the officials elected at the last election are entitled to office. At the last election an entire new board of aldermen was elected. All candidates. however, failed to com- uly with thé corrupt practices act in not filing their election expenses. Supporters of the old council con- tended that the election was invalid and therefore that the old board would hol@ over another term. The attorney general’s opinion, however, is that as no contest has been in- stitued the men receiving the major- itv of votes should be deemed elected. BINGERS WIN POOR MATCH Defeat Spillers i1‘1 Bowling Contest Almost Entirely Lacking in In- terest—Few Good Scores’ CLIPPERS VS ORIOLES NEXT In the poorest match game since the organization of the City Bowling league; the Bingers, led by Captain Hud Britten, defeated Captain Gil- lete’s Spillers by 117 pins, toppling 2,335 while there opponents tured but 2,218. The Bingers started off in the first game in fine shape and at the end of the battle led by 119 pine. They increased there lead in the second game, a poorly rolled contest, the third the Spillers were able to take by 47 pins decrcasing the lead of the first match two pins. cap- city are on the teams which bowled last night, Gillette, who holds one of the best records of any of the Bemidji rollers, and has the record or having made the two highest scores ever made on the Bemidji alley, 289 and 288, in one game last night totaled only 129 pins. Berrigan usually a star got 135 in one game. The score last night follows: Bingers Hubert 167 128 186 Bell 189 159 128 Stanton 188 117 129 Howe 131 175 140 Britten, Capt.. 164 207 127 : 8d9 786 710 Tetal 2,335 Spillers Gillete, Capt 160 172 129 Hansen 138 106 157 Fenton 121 135 151 Willey 138 193 169 Berrigan 163 135 151 720 741 757 Total 2,218 Ace Willey carned off the high average last night. bowling 167 while Hud Britten secured high score, 207. The next contest will take place next Monday evening when the Orioles and . Clippers will bowl Both these teams have not lost a game and the contest should be in- teresting. Standing of the Clubs. Bingers 1 0 1.000 Clippers 1 0 1.000 Orioles 1 0 1.000 Spillers 0 1 .000 Gophers 0 1 .000 Phoenix 0 il and | BEMIDJT MINNESOTA FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER 19, 1013, i 10LD ELECTION IS VALDIBOSTON PAPER .| States. jsvrvey. Land is not all a* k- C ltmzr Smexwe Mnmtor Snys Sml Sh;'vey Is of Importance In Axdmg i Pu.rchasen of Land: Wqfim INFORM FARMER OF USE Beueves That Suggestlons Made By N\n'them Minnesota Development Assoc_mhon Are of Proper Order. at the accomplishments of the | Nosthern ‘Minnesota Development a socfittmn are attractmg otheT than that of this stdte alons, is évidenced by'the following article ,priiited in a recent issue of the Chnsman Sc1ence Momtor, published at Boston, and recognized as one of Lhe;leadmg newspapers of the United The Monitor says: * Supposing that any omne of the eastern states of the United States wlfefrein farm land. is " invitingly ché;p at present should, through the mafilum of maps and pamphlets and m“(%rmatlon bureaus, explain to those people thinking of getting back to theisoil just what they could raise on 'ihese lands, and just how they could raise it, is it not within reason that the demand. for abandoned or uncultivated farms would greatly in- crease? It would be necessary to have the word and the official honor of the state behind all representations of this character. The assertion of pri- vate.persons or firms or corporations would not he sufficient to create the demand necessary to the reopening of {the ‘rural districts. Every word should be authorative. ‘If there were a fair living for an industrious family on fifteen acres ;anywhere, and the state should not hesitate to guarantee this to be the At present the thing that deters tbe would-be small farmer -of “the town and city from mmvesting in ru- ral property is the praciica]'absence Qf anything like an assurance that the property offered him is what it is represented to be, and the lack of dependable information in regard to the fitness or unfitness of the soil, even when it ig fertile for certain crops. There is an organized movement in Minnesota operating under the name of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association, the purpose of which seems to be the thorough en- lightenment of those seeking home- steads in that quarter. This associa- tion has succeeded in calling atten- tion to a territory that offers in- ducements comparable with any i the American homeseekers. Its ae: complishments thus far have been set forth in the news columns of the Mcnitor. But now it proposes to take a pew and forward step. It is asking the stat; for a soil ir north- err Minnessta any more thin it is 'n Maine or California. It is of vast importance, firstly, that the settler ’ |shall know whether he is buying good land; and secondly, how he can best use the soil of fertile land. From time to time, and hers and there, steps have been taken to make * [the course clear for those who would 2o back to the soil if only they knew the way. It is of the greatcst impor- tance to some of the states, and to all the nation, that the way shall = ha shown these people. The state guar- antee behind the land, skilfully sur- veyed under state auspices, would give it the value and security that .QOObe a trust company. goes with ,city property guaranteed “attention case, the fifteen acres would not long = 1 3 ay/ajt a customer Several of the best bowlers in the| KKK K KKK KK KKK KK . Snow Coming % The ‘U. 8. weather x forecast ¥ x- Dredicts snow or rain for tomor- % % row and local prophets are ready * * to say, ““I told you s0.” *x ¥ ' The forecast: Gk ¥ Minnesota—Fair Friday; Sat- % ¥ urday snow or rain. x fi**i‘_"#?*flfi%\(***i;l RANGERS FIGHT TWO FIRES L. F. Johnson and His Deputies Have Difficulty in Stopping Flame In ~_Pennington County | MEADOWS ‘NARROWLY ESCAPE While -during the hot months of summer Fire Ranger L. F.:Johnson, of this city has been called upen to fight only a few fires of any im- portance, the last few days have brought him much work. Two fires in Pennington county, near the Soo right-of-way have given trouble during the last few days. One ‘was caused by a man who in burning slashings had left his fire unattended and it géined such headway. that as- sitance had to be called in putting it out. The other had burned over more than sixty acres when Mr. Johnson and his deputies were able to stop it, just in time to prevent its entering a wealthy meadow, in which hundreds of dollars of hay was stacked. _According to Mr. Johnson, fires this year have been stopped before gaining such headway that heavy losses were the result and as a conse- quence the fire loss this year will be much smaller than that of former years. x ALUMNI MAY PLAY HIGH Former Stars of Blue and White Be- lieve That They Could Show Up Present School Basketball Five 1 PLAY DURING XMAS. VACATION Former stars of Bemidji high school athletics are considering or- ,gamzing a basketball five in’ order 'that a game might be arranged with the blue and white to. be played sometime during the Christmas holi- days. While-the All-Stars would not c:miprise,au entirely alumni five, it would be made up of some of the cleverest basket shooters ever to have represented the local institu- tion. Peck at one guard would be in a class by himself, while James Malone and Charles Gould, both reliable men in their day, could alternate at the other. Al Neuman at centre ought to be able to take the ball from his more inexperienced opponent at al- most every toss up. At forwards Lee Heffron, of Big |Bemidg renown, and a graduate of the high school, Earle Bailey, one of the cleverest litle athletes ever turn- ed out by coaches of the blue and white, and Ralph Lycan, providing he could be induced to don a suit, would be able to secure the neces- sary points to win. ‘While the all-stars would be some- what larger then the high school athletes, the latter boys would ex- ceed in spéed, which would give El- letson and Tanner plenty of op- portunity to connect with the basket. The school guards would have lots of trouble with Bailey and Heffron, but ought ‘to be able to keep the count low. The high school is lacking a first class centre. Hayner and Cameron have never played the game before and find trouble in handling the ball. Neuman would have “easy pickings” with either of these men in the jump and in gener- |al play. not serious. THE CUB SCOO REPORTER NOw THAT TVE- GOT THE> B_OS’)ES PRESENT-GULESS 1LL PUMP THE. OLb BoY AN’ SEE \F T H\T ON THE MOST SUITABLE (r\FE(:‘B;R. WM P i S A B055—HOWD ITAW L\KE \T \F saNTY BROVGHT 0L SOME SILK PATAMAS 2 lll(llllllllfllll e [[SeN-WHEN T weaR SILK PATAMAS-TW) A FIT SUBTECT FOR THE o> LADIES’ Home | t. 6 Days From Today Is Christmas By "HOP' . FORTY CENTS PER MONTE POLITICAL POT BEGINS T0 SIMMER Opposition To Several Gity Officlals Talked Of And February Election " Campaign to Be Hot McCUAIG HAS MADE GOOD Voters of Bemidji Appear Unanimous In Agreeing That Chief Executive Should Be Given Another Term. 0 With the spring election of city officials less than two months away the political pot is beginning to sim- mer; and during the“past week ward leaders have ‘begun discussing prob- able candidates. W. C. Klein, who has been one of the representatives of the first ward for several years, will have complet- ed his term. Alderman Tom Smart, will be through, providing he does not desire re-election, while the other members of the council who will complete ‘their service for the city March first will® be Alder- man Hannah of the third and Al- derman Miller, of the Fourth. Several Mentioned There is talk of J. P. Lahr, Charles Vandersluis, Ted Getchell and sev- eral others for candidates in the first ward, while in the second should Tom Smart announce his intention of seeking re-election it is expected but little opposition will be made unless from a Socialist; although sev- eral names have been suggested. The third ward will likely be the scene of the most strenuous fight. In this ward Alderman Han- nah will in ‘all probability be nominated by the - Socialists for a second term. Should this be the case the fight will be a warm one, for the third is recognized as being the strong Socialist ward of the city. It was the third ward that practically decided the election two years ago when Fred Malzahn was placed in the mayor’s chair and Han- nah defeated Knute . Roe. Both Malzahn and Hannah were Socialist candidates. At the present time Han- nak and Judge Crowell of the muni- cipal court are the only Socialists who are city officials, the latter holding his office, which was ob-- tained by the scant margin of two votes ,in a field of four, for three more years. Beat Socialist. Last year Joe Bisair was returned to the council in this same ward over his Socialist opponent, showing that the Socialist strength of the ward was some what decreased. Then again in the charter election'it was evidenced that the voting power of the Socialist was not sufficent to carry the ward. Taking these things into consideration it likely that the next representative of the third will be other than the man picked by the Socialist leaders of the city, at their January meeting in the Postoffice block. There is practical- ly little talk of oppoSition to Miller in the fourth. But three other’city officials will be up for re-election, should they de- cide to again enter the race. These are William McCuaig, mayor, George Stein, city clerk and George Rhea, treasurer. It is™ practically certain that the mayor will seek the office a second year and if he should be the unanimous choice of the voters, it would not be surprising. Mr. Mc- Cuaig has made one of the best may- ors the city of Bemidji has ever had, and as election nears his record seems to be meeting with much ap- proval, The other offices will pro- bably be filled by the present offi- cials. BREAK PLATE GLASS WINDOW Delay Caused In Placing Front In © Gibbons’ Block When placing one of the large plate glass windows in the Gibbons block this morning the carpenters in charge accidentally broke the glass which will cause a delay of several days in completiig the front. The remainder of the carpentry work on the building is nearly completed and the building will be ready for oecu- pancy in a few weeks. Rem Bell To Play Remson Bell, forward on the Be-. midji Athletic club basketball team, who was injured in practice Tues- day evening is improving rapidly angt will again report for practice early next week: