Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 14, 1914, Page 1

VOLUME 12, No. 15, =/ ki DURAND BUDGET SYSTEM APPROVED Efficiency Board Finds Program As Outlined by Taft Commission, and Added To, Is Acceptable. ESTIMATES GO TO LEGISLATURE But Department Heads Must First Request Appropriations of Director and Then Governor. St. Paul, May 14.—(Special to The Pioneer.)—Borrowing largely from the work of the Taft commission, consulting with the best authori- ties, comparing results with loecal conditions, and introducing a few ideas of his own, Dr. E. Dana Durand has outlined a budget program which appears to the efficiency commission about the nicest thing of the sort they have seen. The Taft commission spent about $300,000 and two years’ time on this and other studies. A Wisconsin in- vestigation has been published in a pamphlet as big as the fourth reader and there are various pamphlets which contain a great deal of wis- dom. The budget idea is simple enough. The head of each department makes up his estimates, and checks it up with the head of the big department. The director goes over it with them, and when they want more money they have to show him what for. He sympathizes with them and gent- ly curbs their excessive ambitions. The director in turn takes his as- sembled estimates up to the gover- nor, where the same process is re- peated. The first day the legislature is in session, all these estimates are laid before the .legislature showing what each branch of the service got in the last appropriation, how these funds were allotted and what was done with them—what they want for the next two years, and why they think they ought to have more—and what they will do with it if they get it. Such information piecemeal is be- fore the legislature at present, but there is no system covering the whole, no means of comparing in- telligently the needs of the various departments, and no system of ac- counting that tells_the legislature very much about what was done with the money. To bring all mat- ters together in a budget is the first step toward intelligent appropria- tion. Now there is a new wrinkle. Sup- pose o gtven department asked for sixty thousand dollars and the bud- zet committee shaved it to fifty-five thousand, and the legislature appro- priates fifty thousand. If the head of that division had got the sixty thousand he asks for, he would file his estimate with the auditor, and that is how he would spend his money. Cutting it down to fifty thousand, he will allot that fifty thousand to various purposes. Pos- sibly the legislature will indicate out of that fifty thousand, that ten thou- sand shall be spent for this and twenty thousand for that, but even then he will make up his allotment much more minutely than is shown by the legislative appropriation. He will spend his money under that allotment just as though it was so specified in the appropriation, ex- cept as long as he keeps within the limit of the appropriation, he can change his mind. When he does change his mind because he finds he needs more for this end and can get along with less for that, he will file with the auditor a reallotment, which probably will first be approved by his superior officer. So you have on one hand an absolute limit to the amount he can spend, or even a lim- it to what he is allowed to spend for particular purposes, but considerable flexibility in the way he shall spend it. Following out the budget idea it quet, as has been the custom as their guests the entire class and the high school faculfy, Miss Jean Richards, president of the Junior class, will preside at the lun- cheon, and toasts will be given by the various members of each class and the instructors. are: Ruth Minor, Minnick, Riley, Mae Simenson, James Sullivan, Edythe Elizabeth Titus, Marie Cahill, Mar- garet Congdon, Ella Naigle, Delbert Elletson, Huntosh, Margaret McGhee, Claire Nangle, Harry Breen, Leslie Slater, Glenn Conger, Mabel Booth, Martin Otterstad, Margaret Anderson, gene Cahill, Alvin Olson, Fern Rob- ertson and Edwin Simons. . Eliza Loe, Alene Austin, Clarice Coult, Mabel Wager, Margaret Newton, has been suggested that the legisla- ture can’ get itself more satisfactory results if it will organize its com- mittees on somewhat similar lines— in such form that a commdttee that has given special study to the nor- mal schools will be consulted as to the appropriations for the normals, or the committee that is speclally interested in live stock matters will be consulted as to the appropriation for the agricultural department. It is quite likely that when we get things to going the legislature will find it convenient to modify its com- mittee structure in that way. There is no doubt of this—that when the state adopts a form of gov- ernment lke that outlined -by the efticiency commission, the' legisla- ture will be in a position to appro- priate intelligently as never before. Venezuelan Towns Seizzed. Port of Spain, Trinidad, May 14— Venezuelan revolutionists, who are be- lleved to have made their way down from the British Guinia frontier, have seized the small towns of Imataca and Tucupita on the Orinoco river. The collector of customs at Imataca is a prisoner. One official of Tucupita was Supreme Court Justice Dele- gate to Mediation Conference. Photo by American Press Associatlon. The United States will represented at the Niagara Falls mediation con- ference by Supreme Court Justice Lamar and former Solicitor General Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louis. This government will have only two representatives in spite of the fact that Huerta has named three. TO ENTERTAIN SENIORS Juniors Complete Plans for Party to Be Given in Honor of High School Graduates—Faculty Also Guests, WILL AUTO TO JESTER FARM Instead of a Junior ball, or ban- fol- lowed in years of the past by the third year students of school, in giving a farewell party in honor of the graduates, it has been decided to give an automobile trip to the Jester farm, where a lun- ‘cheon will be served, tomorrow af- ternoon. ithe high At the party the Juniors will have Senior Among those who will be present Senior class—Harold Hayner, Hazel Hulett, Helen Dovie Plummer, Earle J. D. Winter, Florence Freese, ‘Mona Flesher, Guy Brandborg, Fred Cutter, Leon Battles, Ruth Wentworth, Alice Neely, Alma Loitved, Ina Robertson, Jessie Dodge and Verna Pugh. The Juniors — Jean Richards, (Carlson, Lucile Steidle, Fred Graham, Gertrude Bu- The high school faculty—Misses Sherwcod, Alice Aune Johnson, Helen Hoover, and Edna Hill, Supt. and Mrs. W. P. Dyer, Agriculturist and Mrs. B. M. Gile, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Bailey and Julius Bestul. To Assemble State Troops. Boston, May 14.—It is the unani- mous opinion of war department of- ficlals that orders will be issued to assemble the troops in each of the states in mobilization camps, accord- ing to a report submitted to Governor Walsh by Major J. W. Heavey of the regular army. Major Heavey, who has just returned from. a conference with Washington officials at the request of the governor, sald that volunteers would not 'be drafted into the service until the militia proved inadequate. (XK EE KKK K *x SMALL AUDIENCE AT PLAY Attendance at Season’s Beat ; ‘Bemm one of the smallest audi- ences to attend a play at_the Athletic club theatre this season, May Stew-|: —me‘ D, May 14.—No more definite word was re- ceived late last night from Mayo, but it is believed the Proposition as Placed Before Him by W. Brool vestigatl; art and her excellent company pre- federals . have ~ evacuated . i v ks of vh i sented Lucrezia Borgle, last evem- Tampleo, leaving the town to Commitiee, Meets Approval ing. Victor Hugo's powerful drama the rebels after a warm bat- ° —— as it was presented last evening wa entitled to a capacity house, but the players, everyone of them @ star, sustained their previous recommen- datigns, and the small,but appreci- tle. Previously the two fed- - eral gunboats had withdrawn to sea and joined the foreign ships there. That the rebels-encountered MEANS CLUB HOUSE THIS YEAR — |Soheme is To Ereot $5,000 Building Outlines Conditions Under Which It ative audience pronounced the play| IS Best M—MMMI Care _desperate resistance in - the | s hile Belief is That $20,000 Can to be the best seen here in some - In Séed Beleotion. final attack (they were com- Be Secured by Subsecription. time. el Lucrezia Borgia is one of the greatest plays of the past century and affords Miss Stewart plenty of opportunity to display her wonder- ful emotional powers. CAR TO VISIT BEMIDJI Farm, Dairy, Poultry and Potato Special Conducted by Northern Pa- cific and M. & L. to Make Plans. pelled to carry their fight to the heart of the town) was .~ indicated by Mayo’s report. “It stated at 1 o’clock when it was reported. the rebels had occupied the town, there was ‘heavy rifle firing in the plaza and the big gun firing contin- ued. Advices received by - the constitutionalists here stated the federals were evacuating ‘Tampico, but the details were lacking. The federals were retreat- ing by the railroads leading to San Luis Potosi, and it is assumed they hoped to reach Pathuca, the terminus of the railway line leading in- directly to Mexico City. The railroad from Tampico to Monterey is held by the con- stitutionalists. That flint corn 48 best grown in northern mnM, thet it shouid be grown on rich, sandy and well menured soll; jthat ground ahould be plowed from five 10 six inches deep and that the geed should be eelected from the choigest and most matured ears from the ihest hills, are a few of the suggestions to e found in the essay of Harry Bowers, the Eckles township boy, who'is to-be a guest of the Minnedota State Agricultural society at the;State Fair this fall. Is cflmey Winner. Out of & list of many contestants, the Bowers lad was selected as being entitled to the reward, by the three judges, W. B, Stewart, county super- intendent of ‘schools, A. E. Rako, chairman of the board of county commissioners, and E. H. Denu. Much . difficulty was encountered by the judges in'naming the winner, so close were the marks given the boys. Among 86 Boys. Harry. is a pupil of J. C. McGhee, who' teaches the Eckles school, and will be among 86 boys of the state, one from-each county, who will be the guests of the fair association at the exhibition. ~This is because of the essay contest which has been carried on during the past month. The winninig-essay follows: History of Corn. Corn in a’native of Central Am- erica or Mexico. It is a large coarse grass that sends up one stalk from each seed. Often suckers shoot up ibut they do not generally bear corn. - Buropeansicall corn maiZe,- and other grains pre known by them as corn. It is the emly cereal that is a native of America. The United States produees three-fourths of the corn of the world. The chief kinds of corn are dent, flint, sweet apd pop corn. Of these dent ‘is -the*Principal. crop .of . the. corn belt, or the central section of the country. In our country, the-flint is. better| than the dent, as:if matures: quicker; but is not liked ‘8o well because it is smaller and harder. Soil. Although corn will grow in almost any soll. The corn ground should be a rich, sandy soil, well manured: Manure. Manure_the ground evenly in the fall with a menure spreader or by hand. The manure spreader is the ‘handiest- and also the best as you can spread it more evenly than by hand. Tams Bixby’s visit to Bemidji last Wednesday may result in the con- struction of a new summer club hotel at the head of Lake Bemidji, provid- ing a co-operative spirit is shown among the citizens of this city.. The former proposition made by Mr. Bixby was the donation of a beautiful site at the head of the lake and $1,000 cash toward the - con- struction of a summer hotel, plans furnished by him, providing the city of Bemidji would raise an additional $9,000. The committee in charge »f raising this fund did not meet with enthusiastic financial support and to the present time little progress has been reported. Proposition Favored. W. L .Brooks, who is chairman of the committee, stated this morn- ing that Mr. Bixby looked with much favor upon the following proposition, ‘which was submitted to Mr. Bixby by Mr.” Brooks: . “Will you donate the site at the head of Lake Bemidji and give $1,000 in cash for the construction of a summer club house, providing the city of Bemidji raises an additional $4,000, thereby erecting & $5,000 building, instead of a $10,000 struc- ture as formerly proposed To this proposition Mr. Bixby is said to look with favor and it is be- lieved that the money could easily be raised, and that more citizens ‘would get behind the move. - Efforts are belng made to secure the serv- ices of a first class hotel man, who might be induced to subscribe for stock in the proposition. Could Raise $20,000. If F. S. Lycan, who ranks first among the hotel men of this sec- tion of the country, could be induced to take hold of the mew project, it 18 believed that enough money could be raised to build & $20,000 summer <club house. Mr. Lycsai is a member of this committee and has axpressed @ iwillingness to-co-operate and do ail ‘he can to boost the proposition. As soon as a definite plan is out- lined it is understood that the com- mittee will take hold of the active raising of the required funds. Pays Out $8,900. BONUS TOTALS $15,000 Earl Geil, treasurer of Beltrami Yesterday - noon twenty ‘members o Souneytodey neitout $0.990. ”:h“’:‘); of the Royal Nelghbor lodge of this|Tax Judgment Sale Continues With grest, oIt mMoney ~borrowed. on city went to Cass Lake, an invitation P I? 2 or Purpose of bonds and the sinking ,fund. The |y, o " o St the White Many stlll Here ditches on which the bond interest|pi; s Gamp No. 2194, R. N, A. of that Obtaining Homestead Tracts. was paid were numbers 3, 4, 11 @nd |\ ;4" 4 gelegation from the Cass 13, Lake lodge met the Bemidji mem- bers at the station, and from there were taken to the different homes of the members. A number of the vis- Work tho. ground up. well o the |, spent the afternoon on ‘the lake, spring by means of a disk and a har- row. Eckles Boy Whose Winning Essay Entitles Him to a Free State Fair Trip. : COMMENCEMENT MAY 29 Graduation Exercises to Be Held Last Day of School—Rev. Charles Gil- man To Preach Sermon. FORMING - PRELIMINARY PLAN: NINETEEN TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS Bemidji will be one of the places visited when the Northern -Pacific and Minnesota & International rail- ways, continuing the policy of co- operation with the State Agricultural college in promoting and fostering better live stock and more profita- ble and productive farming, will op- erate the new farms dairy, poultry and potato special car on the Min- nesota & International line during two weeks, June 8 to 20. The plan to be pursued in this campaign is unique. Living ac- commodations for the speakers will be furnished in a private business car. Meetings will be held when- ever practicable at country points, rather than in the towns. The car will be placed on a side track and will stand there for a full day. In the forenoons, automobiles and teams, to be furnished by the com- munities, will. be used in visiting the farms in the neighborhoods +where meetings are to be held for the pur- pose of the study of local conditions. In the afternoons two or more meet- ings will be held at such points as may be designated by the local com- mittees, and lectures and demonstra~ tions will be given by specialists in the subjects of feeding and care of live stock, dairying, poultry and po-{ tatoes. No exhibits will be carried, but live stock and other matetrial from the neighboring farms will be used for demonstration purposes. The exact dates that the car will be at the various stations on the Minnesota & International will be announced as soon as ‘the itinerary is completed. D. E. willard, Development ‘Agent of the Northern Pacific, and Professor W. A. McKerrow are visiting towns on the line this week making prelim- inary arrangements. With nineteen students as ‘mem- bers of the high school graduating class, the commencement exercisej will be held in the auditorium of the new Methodist church on Friday evening, May 29. ‘W .P. Dyer, suberintendent, this morning announced that every mem- hber of the Senior class, with but one exception, will be. presented with di- plomas, Rev. Charles Gilman, of the Me- thodist church, has accepted an in- vitation to preach the sermon to the graduates, on Sunday, May 24, said Mr. Dyer. At the graduation exercises only honor members of the class will take part, and the diplomas will be pre- sented by Dr. E. H. Smith, president of the school board. In order that students who com- plete eighth grade-work may not gain the impression that they have gone far enough in their school studies, there will be no eighth grade grad- uation this year, the pu'pil?! recelving only certificates of promotion. This change is made so as to arouse great- er- ambition among the grade stu- dents to enter and complete the high school course, thereby securing a di- ploma, “The'eighth grade merely prepares boys: and ‘girls for the high. school,” sald Mr. Dyer. “It'is the stepping stone, and a diploma is the goal, which every one should desire.” VISIT CASS LAKE LODGE. Members of Bemidji Royal Neighbors Attend Initiation. AR R KT AR KRR KRR A KA R R AR A KR RRA KA AKX RK KA ALK R KT KKK KR Ak A Ak A A A A A AR AR KRR AR AR A KA AR AR A Ak ke k|| KK EK KK KKK KKK PENDERGAST IS ENDORSED Candidacy of Bemidji Veteran forl State Legislature is Approved by Soldiers of the Civil War. ASK FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION Fourteen veterans of the Civil war have endorsed the candidacy of Judge L. G. Pendergast of this city for the house of representatives. Of five candidates for the office, Judge Pendergast is the only Be- midji man, or southern Beltrami county man, to enter the race, and indications his prospects for the nomination and election bright. : The endorsement as slg'ned:b' éthe old-soldiers.ig as foHows: = ‘“We, the| undersigned soldiers of the Civil war respectfully present the name of our comrade; L. .G. Pendergast, to the people of Beltrami ‘County as a candi- date for the house of representa- tives, and ask the favorable consid- eration of the voters.” from are HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS Floods Cause Great Property Damage at Detrolt. & Detroit, Mich., May 14.—Flood dam- age in Michigan from the continu- ous rainfall of the past forty-eight hours will total millions of dollars, it is feared. Two persons are known to have perished and it is feared that others may have died. y Hundreds of families in Detroit sub- urbs are homeless and thousands of others are marooned in their homes. The big Ford factory remained idle because of its flooded condition. The property, wage and product loss from the Ford suspension was estimated at more than $2,000,000. EXPLORER AND PARTY SLAIN Unconfirmed Report Comes From South American Missionary. Paris, May 14.—A special dispatch from Stockholm says that the govern- ment is seeking confirmation of the report that Baron Nordenskjold, the explorer, and the members of his ex- pedition have been murdered by sav: ages in South America. A missionary in the department. of Beni, Bolivia, reports that one of Nordenskjold’s companions reached Santa Ana mortally wounded. He was able to gasp only a few words from which it was gathered that Nor- COMPLIMENT AUDITOR GEORGE do not send up good strong spouts. This way you can get good seed. Plowing. Plow the manure under in the fall as fall plowing kills the bugs and worms, and it also preserves mois- ture. Plow the ground from five to six inches deep. Fall plowing is bet- ter than epring plowing, because it catclhies the rain and snow and thus holds the molsture. It dries off quicker in the spring and the crop can be put in earlier. The soil is exposed to freezing and thawing, which helps to break up the-soil par- ticles which makes more food for the plant. ° The tax.judgment sale is still in progress and the bonus, or excess, 8o vigiting beautiful Star Island and far bid and paid, amounts to approxi- others spent the afternoon auto rid-|mately $15,000. A few over-zealous Planting. ing around the city. At 8 o’clock |pidders failed to produce the requir- Plant the corn in hills about three|in ‘the evening they met at the lodge|eq ¢ash, and as a consequence there feet, six inches apart. (Corn should |hall, and initiated three mem-|tracts were resold. be planted with a two-horse check |bers, one being a gentleman, 74 years| The crowd in attendance is con- row corn planter, @ you can plantold. After the business meeting Was |giderably diminished, but many are- it all the same depth. When the|over, an elaborate fanquet = Was|gtil] here for the purpose of obtain- hand planter is used, it is often |served and the remainder of the ing homestead tracts for themselves, 'planted too deep. evening was spent in playing cards|their clients or friends. Cultivation. and dancing. The hall was artistic-| County Auditor George, by the When the corn l\sb coming up, drag ally decorated with R N A. colors |yniform courtesy, ability and pa- it with a light drag, as this forms|80d SPring flowers for the occasion. |tjence with which he is conducting a dust-blanket which heips to hold |The members of the Josephine camp |tne sale, is winning a great-deal of the moisture. Cultivate the ' corn |Of this city who went to Cass Lake|complimentary mention. four or five times. Keep the field |Were: Mesdames Lahr, Pogue, Ma- clear of weeds as the weeds rob the|Til, Crowell, Kittleson, Methven, plants of food and moisture. Cobb, Knight, Crothers, Markham, % Peterson, Nangle, Moritz, Deerborn, Conclusion. Schwandt, Clark, Neuman, Robideau,|W. B. MacLachlan Winner in First An acre should contain 3,566 hills, |59 the Misses Myrtle Neuman and Series With C. 8. Randahl Seoond. three ears to the hill, each ear|pgarriett Robideau. weighing not less than eight ounces, or a yield of 53 bushels to the acre, Seed. Select the choicest and best ma tured ears from the best hills. Choose medium sized ears with straight rows and deep grains and the ears should not teper much from butt to tip. This selecting should be done in September, and the corn should be hung from the ceiling on racks made from boards’an or on a corn tree. in a dry diry place. 1t should not be allowed: to-freeze. 'Test the seed before planting. Take CHECKER TOURNAMENT ENDS Bemidji’s first checker tournament " Soldier Dies at Vera Cruz. was brought to a close Tecently which is mearly double the average Washfngton, May 14-“Gereral PUn:| wicn’ ‘Capt. W B e yield of Minnesota. We . conclude Banins on) ' “| with ipt. . B. MacLach! ston has reported the death of Mau-|yinnine first honors and C. S. Ran- yield by careful selection of seed, bY | yioq Welsh, private Company A, Nine| Akl S i 7 i rotation of crops, by fertilizing and| teenth infantry, to the war depart- 8eCO] A percentage that each farmer should increase his| ment, He met death in a fall from|YmID- by careful cultivation, a roof top at Vera Cruz while on duty. The first prize number the squares; and nymber the ears; “take five or six:kernels from each ear, and reject all the ears that denskjold and his companions had been massacred. was an inlaid checker board with a set of checkers SCO0P BESE It Was Not The Right Spring Tonic After All By "HOP? [sf sica™ e vl 't standing of the players at the close of the tournament: = WHY- Al SAY YOU! WHAZAH MATTER?) & ’Deféctive Page - SEE BOSS, TM S\CK-OFE MY FEED- SO Games \WEAKIN FACKE- T can NOUTD Players - Played ‘Won Lost Draw & TAKE THIS NOTE OVERTO MacLachlan 38 20 . § “THE GATE WEEPER A" Randahl Lautert Norrie Geil Hayworth 12 A larger tournament is planned 'for next winter. s ‘W. ‘F. Dickens of the ‘Red Lake. agency has challenged the Bemidji players, and a contest is likely to 24 12 o Ty Baveris plang’ system of unem- ‘ployed insurance: ' Z