Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 5, 1914, Page 1

VOLUME 12, NO. 34. REDFIELD REPLIES TO TARIFF ATTACK Efforts to Discredit Underwood-Sim- mons Law by Quoting Figures of Imports and Exports is Refuted. LETTER OF FARMER IS READ Shows Where Tillers of the Soil Are Benefited--Compares Differences in Present and Former Tariffs. By Congressman C. H. Tavenner. \Washington, June 5.—The re- peated efforts of standpat Republic- an members of congress to discredit the Underwood-Simmons tariff law by quoting figures of imports and exports for selected months since the law has been in operation, were very neatly refuted in the senate recently, cretary of Commerce Redfield and «nator Stone of Missouri collabora- ring the refutation. The reply of Senator Stone, who quoted extensively from a letter writ- ten by Secretary Redfield, to Sena- tor Reed Smoot of Utah, delivered a typical fulmination azainst the tariff, should silence sim- ilar attacks for some time to come. Senator Smoot picked out the month of April to give him the fig- ures to serve his purpose, and with figures he was able to show lmt there was “a loss in exports of 134,586 in a single month.” Senator Smoot also called attention to the fact that in April imports ex- ceeded exports by $10,271,872. This is a balance of trade against the Uni- ted States, and Smoot gave the point proper emphasis. But Secretary Redfield replied completely. In his letter he wrote: “Looking back to the last time when imports exceeded exports, discover that it was while the Payne-Aldrich law was in effect that this event ook place. “The trade balance in our favor during the ten months ending with 1914, S these \pril, over the ten months ending with the present April. Not only so, but during the first year of the Payne- Aldrich taffiff law five months show- § i o the imports in excess of the ex-| months-—! and one of these March, 1910,—shiwed an excess of imports of $19,341,528. ‘Any statement as to the effects of « tariff based upon these figures for ports, e, but if the present tariff is to judged that way and condemned cause of the excess ol ¢ month age, what all be said of the Payne-Aldrich iw when in a like period after it| ue into effect there tlnLL mths in which the since its pas were imports and in one of these! 1t excess was nearly double that cut which so muceh is now said.” The truth is, of cours I"iderwood-Simmons tariff is failing o make good the gloomy prediction the standpat Republican leaders the tariff debate, and they ave ing Dblindly upon statist fel seem to bear out these predic- ms hut which fail down sded exports, ring W when ana- The tariff is wor 8 tudl when it is relieved of its pres- nut handieap of temporary busine dness it will prove to be the st blessing which congress has o tho country in recent yeal the most partisan of Re- re attributin 1 business the pres- to the tar- n it is worldwide. ituation is possibly ted by the pending lation. It is only natural ess should mark time wher tion is pending. roone re T e American who had | was $170,931,416, ol’i $300,000.000 less than during or eight months is necessarily il-| imports in‘ that Lll(" 8 ! O derwood tariff is already an unmixed blessing. Senator Stone read an ex- tract from a letter from a prominent farmer of Republic, Mo., who wrote: “Wool is selling at 21 cents per pound, the highest price in ten years; frying chickens, 35 cents; old hens, 13 cents; hogs, 8 cents on foot, and an ordinary yearling calf brings $40 and up; horses and mules, almost out of sight. Manufactured goods are lower—clothes from one-fourth to one-third; hardware down some, and sugar $4.50 a hundred pounds— it ‘has been $6.50, and $4 per hun- dred for eight or ten years.® A man can sell a 200-pound hog for $16, buy a hundred pounds of sugar and have $12.50 left; under the Repub- lican tariff he could have only $9 left. Some difference; see?”” SELECT BUILDING SITE Elks to Erect $40,000 Lodge Struc- ture on Property at Fourth Street and Beltrami Avenue. WORK TO START IMMEDIATELY to be erected on the Fourth street and Beltrami avenue, opposite the Security State bank. This was decided at a meeting of the Elks lodge held last night. The site by the site committee. The first and third lots will be purchased by the Elks, the second who have agreed to move the build- ing now standing there to the next lot, thereby providing a fifty-foot frontage for the Elks structure. James ' L. George, exalted ruler, will name committees to have charge !of the arrangements, and all pre- liminary plans will be disposed of as rapidly as possible in order that the building will be ready for use within the shofrtest possible time. The subscription committee reported that $17,000 has now been secured and it is expected that the additioa- $3,000 will soon be promised. When completed the building will ‘have a frontage of 50 feet and will be 140 feet deep. will be had and the first floor will be divided into three stores, facing Fourth and the other two Bel- trami. The entire third floor be occupied by the Elks. The front part of the second floor 1 will be used as a lodge room, to be hx,\uo. while the rear will comprise "a reading room, library, banquet thall and kitchen. The ceiling of the lodge room will fr(my will be provided, making an lideal meeting and dance hall. ! Anton Erickson, W. | George Baker, the ‘l we N. Bowser and lodge trustees, ux the plnperty selected 1mmed1ately ex-1T0 OPERATE FIRST CLASS SHOPl_. Will Be Endeavor of Palace Market New Owners, Iu ovder to i make its change of ssue comes out with a full nnouncement, telling of the change and extolling the principles | of its conduct in the future. Quality, r of any successful business and it i.c; which the new owners’ amount issues. Hillaby and there three ke pe DNevan are the new owners as pre- v ¥ stated in the Pioneer. Both ; energetic young men of high standing in the community and their friends predict success to them in | their new undertaking. Tor cutting meals under water, a Bemidji’'s $40,000 Elks building is| property at! “igument over the money, selected is one of four recommended ; being owned py Eckstrum and Smart, | A full basement . one will | nstructed to make the purchase‘ ship more explicit to the 1)|1b-FG the Palace Meat Market in to-, and price are the three es-' i I requirements in the conduct POLITICIANS VISIT BEMIDJI Rines, Hayden and Dare Return From Convention. County and state politicians were the guests of Bemidji last evening, while enroute to their homes from the Thief River Falls convention of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association. Among them here were Charles Hayden, candidate for the state senate from this dis- trict, who resides at Blackduck; !Henr_v Rines, speaker at the last ses- sion of the lower house, and who is a candidate for state auditor in op- position to J. A. O. Preus; F. A. Dare, editor of the Walker Pilot, a candi- date for the house of representa- tives.- A. H. Turritin, of St. Paul, state bank examiner, Charles Kelley of Menagha, one of northern Minne- |sota’s most strénuous boosters, D. B. Jewell of International Falls, Koo- chiching county agriculturist and one of the convention speakers, were also here. LEG BROKEN IN SCRAP. Because he was unable to pay sev- |enty-five cents lost in a dice game at a local saloon this morning,'Martin Duer, a laborer is this afternoon nursing a broken leg. The propri- jetor of the saloon is alleged| to have struck Duer following an ar- knocking the latter down, his leg being broken {at the ankle by the fall. POWELL TALKS TONIGHT 4 Will Give Closing Address at Conven- | tion of Beltrami County Sunday School ‘Association. TEEN AGE PROBLEMS—IS TOPIC Taking as his subject “Teen Ag e‘ Problems,” A. T. Powell of St. Paul, ! one of the state’s most prominent iSunday school workers, and who had much to do with the successful staging of the Boys’ Congress held here several months ago, will give County Sunday School convention at the Swedish Lutheran church this evening. BAND CONCERT THIS EVENING Weather Permitting First Out Door | Affair Will be Held. If the weather this evening will| permit the Bemidpi concert band. i junder the direction of ‘Alden Rem- |trey, will give a concert this |evening, the first out-of-door affair of the season: ! The Program. Field and Torest—Albert. Waltz — Envapturéd Hearts— Peifter. | 13. Overture—The Knight Errant—| ! Laurendeau. - | 4. Medley March—Don’t Stop—! | Von Tilzer. 5. Morcean (‘haractenshc-—ForPst Whispers—Losey. March—The T)pewuter G\rl— Neilsson. Serenade- Fair Florida—Tobani. | \ Ov extlue—'\l&nonuette —_ Bau- i mann, | 9. March—The Love Letter—Nexls-‘ son. | e L SN . } 0. F. Spindler, freight agent, W. assistant general | G. Mitch, distriet! BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY E VERING, JUNE 5, 1914, the closing address of the Beltrami fso. (the university grade. _ ithat the students taking the lanvanced BEMIDJI MAY ADOPT NEW COLLEGE PLAN[:™ Short Course for First and Second Year Students in University Work is Approved by Supt. W. P. Dyer. “MOVE . IN RIGHT DIRECTION” Provides That mgh School Graduates Can Prepare for Sophomore and Junior Years at Home--Is Benéfit Bemidji high school students are likely to profit by ‘the plan of the Minnesota universuy senate, mak-'| ing it possible hereafter for any high school or accredited private school in Minnesota to offer-a mini- mum of one year and a maximum of two years of university work, ac- cording to W. P. Dyer, the local su- perintendent. Although this plan has been successfully tried out in other states, never has it been done in Minnesota, and teday Mr. Dyer said: “It "is surely a step in the right direction, and I intend to bring the plan to the attention of the school board with the hope that it will give its approval.” The significance of the action is in the possibilities it opens up to ‘high schools. In the past if a school offered courses in advanced sngects regarded as university sub- jects the students taking such cour- ses would not be given ecredit for such work at the university toward their degree. Get University Credits at Home. Under the new rule the university | “will .recognize toward advanced standing credits earned in a school giving a partial college course” if such school complies with certain re- quu‘ements The consequence then is that any standard high school in the state that wishes to offer advanced work, and thus allow its own students to do. university wopk without going away from their home town, may do ¢ Ttids~the belief of the members of the university faculty that the high schools in the larger towns of the state will take advantage of the liberal ruling of the university sen- ate and establish a year's college jcourse for the benefit and conven- ience of their students. . Conditions of New Plan. The conditions laid down by the university for granting college cred- {its for advanced high school work ‘ijare considered as simple as they could | !be made to accomodate the schools and at the same time insure work of The first is the full course at an accredited high school. This has always been one of the conditions for entrance to the! university. .The school at which the university on the recommendation nt an puthorized representative who _has visited the school and made an | e\ammatmn of its equipment, fa- lcilities and methods of instruction. Instructors Must Be Qualified. The university must be satisfied ‘that the instructors offering the ad- (vanced work are qualified to teach {college classes and that the equip | ment and facilitiés for the work are | high | ad-\ ivanced work must have completed work is to be done must ! offer al least cne full year of college | {work that has been approved by the| high schools, "upon satisl ng mu the ‘entrance requirements to the versity, and presenting credits for at least one-half year of college work shall be admitted to the university without examination. Credit Given After Year. “Upon. completing a year’s work in the university without conditions or failures, Yeach student shall receive credit for college work done in such school to the extent that such work is recognized in the school or college of the university in which the stu- dent is enrolled. If, however, a stu- dent shall receive any conditions or failures in his year at the university, | his case shall be considered by the appropriate committee for the pur- pose of adjusting credits.” Must Offer Many Courses. For a high school to take advan- tage of this rule it will be necessary for it to offer such a number .of uni- versity courses as to enable a student to take a minimum of fourteen credit hours in a year. By a credit hour is meant that the advanced courses to take subjects in which they would have fourteen recitations of an hour each during the year. Two-Year Credit the Limit.. The rule provides that in no case for more than two years’ work in such schools. The rule was passed by a practically unanimous vote of the university senate. Should the plan be adopted here, another teacher woul be necessary. T0 BUILD ANOTHER DITCH Judge C. W. Stanton Holds™ Final Hearing Concerning Construction of Judicial Ditch No. 13. COST $92,466—44 MILES LONG Final hearing on judicial ditech No. 13 in Koochiching cdunty was held before Judge C. W. Stanton at the court house yesterday afternoon, with the result that the drain was ordered constructed. . The ditch when completed will be 44 miles in length, providing a road of the same length necessitating the removal of 535,810 yards of dirt. Its estimated cost is $92,466. At- torney A. A. Andrews of this city appeared for the petitioners at the hearing, and E. W. Kibbey, county surveyor for Koochiching county. The ditch, as are the others of the pervision of O. L. Dent, feree. ' : On June 24 a meeting will be held {at International Falls of the county auditors and commissioners of Koo- | chiching and Beltrami counties and {Judge C. W. Stanton, at which the ditch projects will be entirely review- ed and plans to be followed in the fu- ture concerning them. .‘ MRS. RELYEA DEAD. Aged Bemidji Resident Dies Follow- ing Illness of Month. Mrs. Jane N. Relyea, 89, mother of Mrs. M. W. Knox and Mrs. B. J. Neely of this city, died at the home of Mrs. Neely last evening. She has \been ill for the past month. The the Neely farm, a quarter a mile 'south of the brick yard, and Rev. S. E. P. White, pastor of the Presby- terian church, will preach the ser- passenger agent and W. L. Lighthart, | |adequate for work of college grade. | a P .traveling freight agent of the Chi- i ‘cago Great Western Railroad com- l ipany, where in Bemidji today. | Several young men of the city ha‘e‘ jissued invitations for a dance which After a school has been recognized | for university - credit, -it will be re- quired each year to notify the uni- versity of any changes in’ its curn- culum and instructional staff. “A student from, a séhool whose mon. Interment will be made in IiGreenwood cemetery. Mrs. { Wolcott, another daughter, and her husband from St. Paul, arrived in the Ic1ty just half an hour after her mother died. They will remain un- iis to be given in the city hall this|work has been recognized for uni-; 1til after the funeral. evening. The affair is private and To the farmer, however, the Un- gen torch. ~door. THE CUE SCOOP RCCAPTER NA-AS-T CAN JUST SEE YOU SNOOP As CORRESPONDENT F0R OUR PAPER. \N MEXICO -AND A MEX\CAN SNIPER POT“\"(Nlr\(UU BING-BNG-JES' L\KE. THATY versity credit,” states the rule whlch erman has invented an oxy-hydro-'invitations will be presented at the|opens up the possibility of .univer-! [ The man who travels on his cheek |sity work ‘being offered- hereafter in ought to have a pretty strong face. —_—— = Mexican Smipers vs U. S, Battleships 15 “OURE. IN MEXICO NOW-WRITING DOPE. FOR THE PAPER AND I™M a MeXicaN WHUTS A SNIPER?-TLL ¢ TM A SNIPER UP ON TH' SHOW YOU WHUT & SNIPER ROOF OF A NICE. HIGH BUILDING— AND WHUT DO T DOWHEN T SEE NOU - WHY T TAKE AiM WATH MY TRUSTY INKWELL GUN—, i I ) I IH,’!‘J(II Bv “HOP” LOO-KOWY FORME- & FOURTEEMN INCHGUN ON TH BATTLE SHP ) o, NOOYORKS ! e/ ._\ ~ = = = = = = = = = @M= Hrios 0B Lrs a5, will the university give college credit | ETRTY ICENTS PER MONTH ONE THOUSAND AT N. M. D. A, MEETING Thief River Falls Convention is the " Largest Ever Held by Northern Minnesota Boosting Organization ATTRACTS MANY IMMIGRANTS fiemidji Man Placed at Head, of Reso- Iutions Committee—Willard Claims Great Things for This Section. _All records for attendance formed at previous meetings of the Northern Minnesota Development association, have been shattered at the Thief River Falls convention which comes to @ close ‘this afterncon after a three-days’ session. One thousand live-wire boosters of this section of the state have been present at thé meeting, and many men of state and national prominence have taken part on the program, and the meeting is without doubt the most successfnl in the history of the league. Wilson -is Chairman. The following committees named yesterday: Resolutions—Beltrami county, F. A. Wilson, of Bemidji; Benton, J. M. Thien, Rice; Cass, M. N. Koll, Cass Lake; (Clearwdter, Martin Turn, Clearbrook; Crow Wing, M. T. Dunn, Brainerd; Carlton, C. H. Mahnke, Moose Lake; Itasca, W. J. Stock, Coleraine; Kanabec, Henry Rines, Mora; Hpbbard, C. F. Scheers, Ako- ley; Koochiching, D. B. Jewell, In- ‘were district, will be built under the su-! difen re-| funeral will be held tomorrow from | 0. P.; - ternational Falls; Mahnomen, E. J. Peterson, Mahnomen; Marshall, R. D. Carr Middle River; Pennington, D. P. O’Neill, Thief River Falls; Polk, C. L. Connor, McIntosh; Wa-- dena, C. L. Kelly, Menagha; Stearns, Alvah Eastman, St. Cloud; Red Lake, P. ‘B. Grass, Red Lake Falls; St. Louis, A. P. Silliman, J. L. Lewis.and G..D. McCarthy. The credentials committee is: A. L. Thompson,-Mahnomen; -~ E. A. Simmons, Brainerd; J. M. Sneserud, LaPorte; J. U. Williams, Baudette; E. E. Erickson, Clearwater. When the men met at the Audi- torium, the woman’s auxiliary met for a session at the high school with Miss Anna Shelland of International Falls presiding, Mrs. F. C. Cornell of Big Falls acting as secretary, and Mrs. Charles A. Pitkin of Thiet River Falls as treasurer, Willard Emphatic. At the men’s meeting at the Audi- jtorium, D. A. Willard, development lagent of the Northern Pacific declar- ed that no part of the country was attracting more attention from im- migrants than Northern Minnesota and that now one of the most impor- tant parts of development work here is to get the farmers, old and new, to understand the needs and require- ments for successful farming in this territory. He was emphatic in his the farming line for Northern Min- nesota. In his address to the convention, F. R. Crane, agricultural extension agent of the Great Northern, said that company has forty-four men de- ]voting their time to farm work. | « County Agents. Talks, plain to the point of blunt- ness, characterizer the program of the opening day. A. D. Wilson, su- perintendent of the extension depart- ment of the Minnesota College of Agriculture, strongly defended coun- |ty agricultural lands and explained that appropriations from now available, and because of the appropriation by congress of $10,- '000 for this state, the sum of $1,300 is at the disposal of thirty-five coun- ties, but that twenty-eight counties have improved the opportunity to employ these agents. Four c¢ounties will be supplied with agents as soon as competent men can be obtained. Judge Simons IIl. | Judge H. A. Simons, United States Commissioner, has been confined to this home during the past couple {days because of a severe attack of ltyphoid fever. The judge is a trifle impro‘ved today and his rapid recov- ery._is expected. Newall Johnson, formerly of Be- midji, is here as the guest of his ‘brother, Dr. E. W. Johnson. ‘Fuzz,” as he is best known by his Bemidji friends, has just completed his first year as a student at Pillsbury aca- demy, where he captained the foot- ball eleven last year and was prom- inent in other athletics. prophecy for great achievements in ° the state .