Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 22, 1913, Page 9

STREET LITTER AND. - STREET SWEEPINGS. Ordinances Against Defacing of Towns Should Be Enforced. One considerable” source of the dirt and waste that must be removed from the streets is commonly called street litter, ¢ sting of miscellaneous wastes thrown upon the streets and sidewalks by those passing along the streets or swept ont of business houses and sidences.. Street littering is ef- fectively prevented in most European cities by ‘the rigorous enforcement of laws or ordinances prohibiting it. Most of our American cities have such laws and ordinances, but they are practically “dead Jletters.” Spasmodic attempts have been made to enforce them in a number of cities, but public opinion has not sufficiently sustained these efforts, nor have the municipal duthorities, as a rule, made their en- forcement practicable by providing an ample supply of receptacles into which such litter may be deposited. An important step in this direction must be the collection of more com- plete and accurate data as to the quan- tity of such litter handled and the ad- ditional cost of collecting it when Photo by American Press Asspeclation. CHILDREN COLLECTING STREET LITTER. thrown upon the streets. In New York city the street cleaning department has given attention to this matter and estimates that the additional cost thus imposed on the department amounts approximately to $270,000 annually. This very I sum could be saved to the city yearly by providing conven- ient receptacles for litter and then en- forcing the ample ordinances already ‘existing. European experience has proved beyond doubt that this may be done without imposing any serious in- convenience upon the public. When it is considered that this litter is handled by human hands or is swept out of residences and business. places and is therefore subject to infection by disease germs the sanitary importance of collecting xmd disposing of it as di- rectly as poss; ion of street sweepings in some way that will partly repay the cost of street cleaning is another matter that is receiving more attention than heretofore. The most promising outlook for such utilization lies in the direction of filling lowlands or building up new and very valuable areas of land by filling in shore areas now covered by shallow water and at present not useful for any purpose. Coatrary to the prevailing opinion, ex- {perience and investigation have shown “that street cleanings free from garbage anay, if properly handled in the dumps. ibe so used without danger to the pub- lic health and without serious incon- venience or offense to the public.— Americaan City. PURPOSELESS™ PILLARS. Owners Would Do Better to Erect Lights or Flowerpots, Many real estate firms and tract own- ers continue to erect pillars of stone or brick on street corners which are of no use. possess no beauty and represent a decided lack of taste and good judg- ment, Simple pillars should either carry lights, ornamental plants and vines in pots, vases or, better still, hollow cen- ters. or they should be finished by parts of walls abutting. They should never merely stand alone without use. A fraction of a wall on ope or more sides, of full height against the pillar and stepping down by sharp degrees to the base, would render them necessary to stop such winged buttresses,-but pil- lars alone are abominations and blots on the landscape. no matter how ornate or whatever their style. Bl & ks CIVIC PROGRESS. “Enow your city” is a siogan that stands for the new civic point of view. “Facing hard facts for the sake of the future” is now recognized as the first step in making our cities, towns and villages better places ia ‘which to live. The day of boast- ed bigness, of superficial pride and of unintelligent complacendy is passing. The day of the social survey as a scientific way a city may know itself is at hand. Lesd!.ng citizens and organiza- tions who once looked askance at “exposures” and “muckraking” have come to understand the constructive value of a survey -and now take active part in ef- forts to have one made in their locality. & SYSTEM GOUNTS IN - FARM MANAGEMENT to Arts of Agriculture, PAST METHODS OUT OF DATE e of Agricuiture.) In the past mest farming was con- dut.ted Wi y little regard to sys- ple crops were grown er ycar on the same land, of- yen without inanure, until the soil cduce satisfactory crops, 5 wined into pasture or al- 2d to rur wild and produce weeds to seed the r.st of the farm. No books were kept ard the ‘cost of production was unkncwn. The farmer took what he could get for his product, often less than the cost of production. Now, science and business are being applied to the arts of agriculture with in- creasing thoroughness and skill. The modern farmer must know the type of farming to which he himself is_best adapted and where it can be conducted most profitably. If he is a dairyman he must know the milk breeds of cattle and the best strains for his conditions. He must know all the sanitary regulations ‘for keep- ing his milk pure and marketing ‘it in the best condition. He must fig- ure out the rotations of crops adapted to hig conditions and his needs with due regard to maintaining the fertil- ity of his soil. He must know the demands of his market and be able to get his products to the consumer without all the profits belng absorbed in' the process. The “farmer will always have to deal with many forces and conditions -| only partially- controllable even -by men of the greatest knowledge and 8kill, but he has before him for de- velopment a wonderful field in this di- rection and he is cultivating it with a zest before unknown. ADDITIONAL WANTS TOO0 LATE TO CLASSIFY A A A A A A AN A A A A A A A AR LOST—Jap mink muff at Carlsonls store Saturday night. Finder return to Pi oneer office for reward. FOR RENT—Two or three rooms up- ‘stairs for light housekeeping, furn- ished or un'furnished. 518 Third st. WANTED—Room and board in private family by mother with eight months old baby. Address 19 Pioneer. FOUND—A sum of money which own- er can have by proving property and paying for this notice. Address E: M. Bemidji-Pioneer stating amount and where lost. Notice To parties who are indebted to W. G. Schroeder for Merchandise, dat- ing back 60 days from Nov. 1 and over are requested to settle soon as convenient and before Jan. 1, 1914. ‘W.:G. SCHROEDER. O===OO===O It Electrlcally' I] Do you use the Electrical Servants who are waiting at your door for ad- mission, who are so numerous and complete that they can serve you every hour [IDo in the tweaty-four. device of the nineteenth® and bé sure it's clean, ELECTRIC HEATING PAD of the hot water bottle and The heat un be regulated. tight lunches in a hurry. / Seience and Business Applied| (By ‘A. F. WOODS, Dszan, Department; Copyright, 1913, Syndicate Publishin Interest is'likely to be aroused very shortly by the prbpusition of Colj Goethals, and others connected with the Panama Canal work, that thef iGoethals strenuously urged that 25,- zone which has been cleared and de veloped, shall with the completit;n pf the canal be abandoned * to naturd. The proposition is to drive off th‘g slip all settlers or people not conecte,c‘i let the jungle once more over whelm the can- al. with the canal work - and That proposition has not yet come before the American people. It has not even been debated in- Congress, but the Commission has been proceed- ing calmly with its arrangements, as though the program were definitely fixed. The argument advanced by Col. Goethals and other military ex- perts is that the Canal is primarily a military work. That the Canal Zone exists only ‘be cause of and for the Canal, and should be sc¢ governed as to protect the aams and locks from any treacherous assault .is admitted. The advocates of the depopulatien program insist that with a residence on the Zone refused to any save those employed by the Commission and sub- ject to its daily control, with:the land grown iup once more into''an impenetrable ‘jungle so that access to the Cana.l can be had only throu’gh its —both easily ‘guarded—the Canal will be safe from the dynamiter hired by some hostile government. It may be so, but there is another side to the question. The Canal Zone is an out post of a high civilization in the tropics. It affords object le)s- sonsto the neighboring republics of Ctral Ameriecan in architecture, san- itation, road building, education, civil government and indeed all the prac- tical arts that go to make a State comfortable and prosperous. With- out intention to offend any of the neighboring States it may fairly be said that the Zone, if maintained ac- cording to its present standards should exercise an influence for good on all of them. It is the little leaven that may leaven the whole lump. Undoubtedly there will be a field for skilled agricultural endeavor there. Col. Goethals estimates ths necessary force for .the operation of the Canal 200. For the operation of the Panama Railroadi n 1913 five ELECTRIC IRON saves time and atrength No tiresome waiting, no walking back and ° forth, no excess heat-just comfort. * ELECTRIC WASHER——greatest labor saving century. wash day a pleasure instead of a burden. ELECTRIC SUCTION CLEANER—Ro more hard sweeping—no more scattered dust. Just the easy guiding of the cleaner. clean & room in from three to five minutes in the sick room. It 1s always My for use. ELECTRIC DISK STOVE—Just the thing ion thousand men were required but with the cessation of Canal work this num- ber would be largely reduced. Pro- bably 600 men would constitute the working force of both Canal and rail- Here are just a few: Makes THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER A SURRENDER T9 NATURE The l’roposltxon to Abandon,'rhe Canal Zone to the Original Jungle Hay _Already Been Discussed By Willls J. Abbot, Author of “Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose” 8 Co., New York. All Rights Reserved ELECTRIC PERCOLATER makes deliclous coffee just right.. A fragrant cup of coffes is more than half the breakfast. ELECTRIC TOASTER browned toast right at the table. aiways have fresh and delicious hot toast. =i = £ = road. A working force of that num- ber would create a population of about_ 15,000. There is further the military force to be considered. Col. 000 men be kept onth e Isthmus per- manently, but the opinion of Con- gress, toward the period of the open- ing of the Canal, seemed to be.that about 7,000 would be sufficient. In all probability the latter figure will be the smallest number of men that will go to malke up the military esta- blishment. There is every res,son to believe that -at Balboa part;cularly the shipping interests will create a large and: prosperous town, while already | the ‘cities of Panama and Colon, geo- graphically part.of the Zone, though | politically independent, have 'a popu; lation of at ieast 60,000 . When the Canal is once in opera- tion there will be from .75,000 to 100,000 people on the Zome to fur- nish a market for the food producté that can be raised on that fertile strip of land. Today the vegetables of the temperate zone are brought 3,000 miles to the Zone dwellers, sometimes in cold storage b,ut chiefly in cans. As for those who live in the Panama towns and are denied access to thé Commissary, they getfresh vegetables only from the limited supply furnish- ed by the few Chinese market gar- dens. #. According to:the Department of Agriculture nearly all vegetables of-the temperate clime and all trop- ical. fruits can be grown on the Zone lands. This being ‘the case it seems a flat affront to-civilization and to the intelligent utilization of natural resources to permit these lands to re- vert to the jungle, and force our citizens and soldiers in these tropic lands to go without health-giving vegetable food that could easily be raised in the outskirts of their towns and camps. Of the sufficiency of the market for the out put of all the farms for which the Zone has space and arable soil there can be no doubt, for to the townspeople, the Canal op- eratives and the garrisons there will be added the ships which reach Colon or Balboa after long voyages and with larders empty of fresh green vegeta- bles. = Doubtless there will be some dis- | 118 Thrid St. Bemid]l Near the Lake £ cussion before acquiescence i i 3 g to the m‘ilj;tgry. p:[,posmmf tl;afh;]e:! Eflllll||lllllml“l|||llllllllllllll!lllillllllllllliK!l!iIlil!iZlillliflIHHIIIHIHlllllllllIl!llHllll:l!lllll!llilIllllflllll}.flll[ll!ll![lll:lllll-i;l Canal Zone—as large as the State of li= Indiana—shall be allowed to revert to jungle, be given over to the ser- pent, the sloth and the jaguar. That would be a sorry anti-climax to the work of Gorgas in banishing yellow fever and malaria and Goethals in showing how an industrial commun- ity may ben organized, housed and fed. makes crisp, evenly You ean ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINE MOTOR does machine. Youcan a machine the time. = takes the place is indespensable makes the hair luxuriant. the dreasing table complete. The point is: Are you “getting the value of them or some of them in your daily llfe? If not. why not? e For Further Particulars Inquire of The Warfle_ld Electric Company ‘Phone 26 0==I=OO=== ‘also acts as a tonic for the hair and scalp— ELECTRIC CURLING IRON needsd to make ELECTRIC COMB 1s invaluable for quickly drying the hair after shampooing. The heat away with the drudgery of running a sewing With a good motor attachod to family sewing can be done without the slighest exertion and in half the The | Watch Case and Bracelet are both solid 14-kt gold. The movement has 15jewels. Itis tully worth 375 to $90 THE CHRISTMAS RUSH Absolutei Conditions of Skill Test: English words enly; must be MONDAY DECEMBER to the person compiling the greztes! number of words from the ten letters in the words - spelied correct], Write on cne 5 sfde of papcr,y 50 words to a Ie’c\,ers and sheet, Letters ean be repeated. make all .u‘e 1f competing lists contzin é" same number of words, neatness woras yOLl will determine award, can G Three local )ud"csLsha]l Hecllde = rom as to the winner ist must be COMEGA W delivered to our store on or before GMEGA WATCH closing date of Skill Test. The Bracelet Watch—the newest production of the OMEGA WaTcH CompaNy— is on exhibition in our show w v, together wi } s and styles of Omega Watches for Men and Women, at prices to suit every pusse. The purpose of this Skill Test, and the offer of this very high grade watch, isto i 1 around excellence of Omega W atches and so influctce yom hclnay A Skill Test Closes in Five Wee “ Geo. T. 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