Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 12, 1914, Page 1

s VOLUME 12, NO. 118, BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, nflnmrmu, SEPTEMBER 12, 1914, FOETY CENTS PER MONTR SUPER TAX WOULD MEET WAR DEFICIT Congressman Bailey of Pennslyvania Author of Measure Assessing In- comes of More Than $20,000. IS OPPOSED TO INDIRECT TAXES Hod Carrier Contributing Ten Thou- sand Times More Than Multi-Mil- lionaire for Government Support (By Congressman C. H. Tavenner) Washington, September 12.—Rep- resentative Warren Worth Bailey of Pennsylvania was first on deck with a “war tax Dbill. Hardly had the president finished the reading of his appeal to congress for $100,000,000 additional revenue to provide emer- gency funds for the federal treasury when the Pennsylvanian dropped a bill in the basket drawn to meet the situation. It calls for a 5 per cent | super tax on incomes of $20,000 and over and Mr. Bailey thinks it would not merely supply the deficit result- ing from decreased imports under war conditions, but go further and take care of the big navy program and leave something over to apply on pensions. Carry Enough Load. “I am opposed to indirect taxes where direct taxes are available,” Mr. Bailey said. *“And in my judg- ment the great body of the people are carrying about all the load they should be asked to carry just now. In proportion to his income the hod carrier is contributing ten thousand times as much to the support of the government today as the multi-mil- lionaire. The woman who scrubs for a living for herself and her or- phaned brood in proportion to her earnings pays for the support of this costly outfit at least a thousand times as much as the head of a big corpora- | tion. Yet I am no corporation bait- er and am making no war on the| multi-millionaire. All I want to do is to sore of even things up a bit. The poor folks have been toting the load pretty much all by themselves, for a long while and now it seems fitting that those more fortunate should shoulder it for a spell at least. A Better Plan. “This super- tax on big Incomes is not my ideal at that,” Mr. Bailey went on. *“But it is so much better than any of the proposed indirect taxes which will surely rest at last on the ultimate consumer—the man | at the furnace or in the mine or in the furrow or driving a cart—that I am disposed to forego the ideal for the practical. Not that the ideal is not practical. Only that it is a bit strange now and some would regard it as revolutionary. The ideal tax would be one laid on land values, ap- portioned among the states on the basis of population; and I have a bill in reserve providing for such a tax. Land values are community values and therefore belong of right to the whole people. To appropriate them would be merely for the community —the whole people—to take their own. | A Proper Selution. “While I feel bound to accept the president’s view of the emergency needs of the treasury, I cannot avoid thinking that the situation might possibly have been better met in an- other way than by the imposition of new taxes of any sort—say by the simple and salutary expedient of re- ducing expenditures. However, since that expedient is not to have present consideration, I offer my super tax on big incomes as a proper solution of the problem of emergency rev- enues. WAR CHECKS IKHIGRATION Marked Decrease in Mumker of Aliens Arriving in This Country. New York, Sept. 12.—Marked de- crease in the number of immigrants entering Ellis island, owing to the war, is shown in a statement issued by Frederic C. Howe, commissioner. The statement was as follows: “The following table gives statistics of alien arrivals at the port of New York for the months of June, July and August, 1913 and 1914: Month. 1913. 1914, June . 136,546 55,919 July . 108,168 49,398 August 102,958 28,112 “These fignres show the great fall- ing off in immigration since the war in Europe.” SERVIAKS Blcody Battle Pre trian O Nish, Sept. 12. which has been foici trian invaders occ city of Semlin. of the campaign prec: tory. Servian advires an enormous nunlt Semlin is a fev grade, across the Itis a city of considerable i:psrtance from a strategical point of view. ALIN s Fall of Aus- army ran i st vaitle 1 the ‘vic- y the enemy lost Noted Fighter Acting as Ad- _viser to British War Office, Swedish Lutheran. Sunday school at 12. J. H. Ran- dahl, pastor. Salvation Army. Sunday sehool at 2:30. in the evening at 8 o’clock. Services Episcopal. Sunday school 9:30. Service at 10:30. Archdeacon H. I'. Parshall. Congregational (Nymore.) Sunday school at 11 a. m. Preach- ing at 7:30. G. M. Peacock, pas- tor. Catholic. Low mass at 7 a. m. High mass at 9 a. m. Vespers at 8 p. m. These hours will be maintained during the summer months. Father Philippe. First Scandinavian Lutheran. Sunday -school at 12. Evening service in the English language at 8. All are cordially invited to attend these services. Osmund Johnson, | pastor. Free Lutheran (Nymore.) . Services Sunday evening in the English language at 8. Choir prac- tice Thursday evening at 8. Sunday school every Sunday at 10:30 a. . Classes in English and Norwegian language taught at Sunday school. George Larson, pastor. First Methodist. Morning worship at 10:45. Sub- ject, “The Teacher’s Text.” Sunday school at 12. Jr. League at 3:30. Epworth league at 7 p. m. Evening service at 8 o’clock. Subject, “The Beginning of the Gospel.” Special | music at both services. Prayer meet- ing Thursday evening at 8. All are cordially invited to attend these ser- vices. C. W. Gilman, pastor. Presbyterian. Bible class and Sunday school at 10. Morning worship and sermon at 11. Subject, “Birdseye View of the Bible.” Thosé interested in teacher training and Sunday school work especially invited to this ser- vice. Young people’s service at 7. Evening gospel service at 8. Mid- week service for prayer and bible study on Thursday evening at 8. The public is cordially invited to all these services. S. E. P. White, pastor. Baptist. Preaching services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday. Sunday school at 10 a.m. B.Y.P.U.at7 p. m. We extend a cordial invitation to attend each service. Rev. F. W. Weniger of LaPorte, Minn., occupied the pul- pit last Sunday morning in the abs- ence of the pastor. About forty 3 QQmpany Formed, Saya J. J. Opsahl, Which Will Build Plan Struc- tures on Easy Payment Plan BRING MANY OUTERS TO BEMIDJI That an organization has been formed in Minneapolis which - will provide capital for the purchase, cutting to fit, and ready to put up, material for the erecting of 100 cot- tages on the shores of Lake Bemidji, is the announcement made by J. J. Opsahl, chaltman of the develop- ment committee of the Commercial club, who is now in the twin cities. The cottages will be so planned that they can easily be put together by carpenters or laymen, according to plain specification plans. Material will be provided for fifty three-room and the same number of five-room structures. A selling office will be established in Bemidji. Each cottage will be complete, having good chimneys, while the in- side partitions will be constructed in a folding door shape, making it possible to change the three or' five rooms into one large apartment in just a few minutes. Practically the entire walls will be of folding windows toward ceiling, with a base board two and a half feet in height. This will provide an en- tirely enclosed house during rainy spells and in fair weather it will be an open porch. “Last year over one hundred more families would have spent their sum- mer here,” says Mr. Opsahl, “if cot- tages had been obtainable. I hope that every Bemidji business man and property owner and banker will as- sist in adding at least one hundred cottages in 1915 to Bemidji shores and two hundred in 1916. Every family spending sixty or ninety days in Bemidji increases business to a great extent. This is an opportu- nity to build on every vacant lot.” EXPECTED TO BE DRAFTED Canadian Couple Return Home After Visit in Bemidji. ] Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peterson and two children of Swift Current, Sas- katchewan, Canada, who have been visiting friends and relatives in Al- bert Lea; Wadena and Bemidji, for several days, returned-to their heme this morning. ,While in Bemidji they were the guests of Mr. Peter- son’s sister, Mrs. Fred Baumgardner. Mr. Peterson is a railroad man and had some trouble in securing leave of absence from his work on account of the war, and while away from Canada was expecting word any time ‘that he would be drafted to enter the army, he being a British subject. Enroute to Bemidji they saw a large company of volunteers in Winnipeg. FIVE LINERS. AT NEW YORK Thousand Americans Reach Home Safely. New York, Sept. 12.—Five transat- fantic liners bringing Americans from Europe landed 2,662 passengers in New York. Among them was the Creole, chartered by the government for relief of Americans in England, which arrived with 1,562. Other incoming vessels were the Celtic from Liverpool with 1,901 pas- sengers; the Ausonia, Glasgow, 398 passengers; the San Giorgio, Naples, 106, and the French liner Flandre, Havre, 95. Germans Deny Reports. Rotterdam, .Sept. 12.—An official German communication made public here denies that the Russians have taken many prisoners at Lemberg, that the fortress at Przemysl is sur- rounded by Russians and that Russian forces are advancing on Cracow. Several Kaiger’s Cousin Wounded. London, Sept. 12.—A message Tre- ceived here from Copenhagen says the condition of Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia, second cousin of Emperor Willidm, who received a bulle. through the thigh, is still serious. ant evening at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Alvord on Tuesday of last week at the B. Y. P. U. business meeting and social. Refreshments were serv- ed and all report a jolly time. Ira young people enjoyed a very pleas- SCCOOP frrortes ‘Defective Page D. Alvord, pastor. Have Al Heart, Captun, Have Ah Hearf! GEE-TLL BET THERE. AWT A DICTIONARY AN TH WHILE. 100 NEW COTTAGES IN 1915 ”“*““*‘““”*: © AUSTRIAN ROUT sAID To BE 00“’}-?’5 . * * <3 Lendon, Se + patch to the T * grad swys: * “Although Som of the Aus- 4 trian army oom the prov- ince of Lublin Drobably <k * & + +* &+ +- < + + + + 15‘.—A dla: * * + +* + %+ make good- theft retreat, offl- % * + + + - + L s qln Petro--- ‘clal dispatches idescribe the rout of Generals Dankl and von Auffenburg {d such a way as to warrant tha inference that the ‘enemy is ;hopelessly beaten.” e S sl St oy MUST PAY $630 T0 PROPERTY OWNERS Jury in Case of Henry Marin and Others Against Bemidji, Renders Verdiot for Plaintiffs. S WOMAN ASKS $6000 DAMAGES Action of Emma Campbell Against Martin Aarstad Taken Up in District Coutt, Today. ——iel Claims of four Bemidji property owners against the Gity of -Bemidii for approximately "$4,200 damages done to their property on Mississippi avenue, caused byfatreet grading, were reduced to $630 by a verdict returned this morning by the jury which heard the case.: The case took two days for trial, (ke jury beginningiits deliberation late Friday afternoon. The verdict as returned awards:§75 to Mary Kel- logg; $220 to Henry Marin; $110 to John Miller, and $226 to Lottie Berg. The cases were first placed on the calendar as individual actions, but hy agreement of the lawyers, Judge Marshall A. Spooner for the plain- tiffs, and P. J. Russell, city attorney, for the defendant, they were consoli- dated. At Foot of Calendar. The case of Eflgar‘ Rehnke against the Minnesota & International rail- "vay company was to have been the next for trial, but was placed at the foot of the calendar yesterday. Asks nmfim:gu An important case-1¥now on trial, being that of Mrs. Emma J. P. Camp- bell against Martin Aarstad and Lauritz Ask, in which the woman requests that she be given $6,000 damages because of her having been assaulted. Tried Two: Years Ago. The case was.tried two years ago and resulted in favor of the defend- ants. The action is the outgrowth of a disagreement over the leasing of a meadow in Clearwater county, owned by the defendants. The plain- tiff claims that she leased the mea- dow from Aarstad, but that when she began cutting the hay, the de- fendant did also. She endeavored to force him to stop cutting and took the horses of the mower by the bits. Aarstad objected and struck the wo- man, is the claim. Attorney Montreville J. Brown, as- sisted by Attorney Graham M. Tor- rance, is appearing for the plaintiff, while the defendants are represented by Attorney Thomas Keefe and At- torney E. E. McDonald. WAS ENJOYABLE AFFAIR. Athletic Club Dance of Last Evening Attended by Fifty Couples. ‘While not very largely attended, only about fifty couples being pres- ent, the Athletic club dance of last evening was a very enjoyable affair. The dance was the first of a series of social entertainments to be given by the Athletic ¢lub during the win-! ter. The next event will be a con- cert and dance by the famous Trou- Dbadors on September 25. KKK KKK KKK KKK KKK X * * *x “Seed Corn Week” *x x Sept. 14-19, 1914, * * - * KoE KKK KK KK KKK KKK FEARS FINANCIAL PANIC Congressman Lindbergh of This Dis- ctrict Says System is Threatened by Era of Wildcat Banking. MONEY MUST REMAIN STABLE Wildcat banking threatens our financial system, said C. A: Lind- bergh of this congressional district, and a member of the banking and currency committee of congress, in a statement made during a Washing- ton discussion of the proposition. ‘War emergencies have caused the introduction of scores of bills provid- ing that the government shall bear the brunt of the partial destruction of our produce markets by the Euro- pean war. Mr. Lindbergh declares that the passage of these measures would un- settle the value of our money. While it may benefit the well to do, Mr. Lindbergh says that every one else would pay- New Speculative Field. “This proposition to issue money on all kinds of goods without refer- ence to the volume of money needed for the general exchange would so unsettle the volume and value of our money that a new field for specula- tion would be created,” said’ Mr. Lindbergh. : “The plain common people who earn their living by daily work have no time to study the fluctuations in cost and prices. They could not buy and sell with any knowledge of the results to them until it is too late to save themselves from loss. What- ever burden any system bears is tax- ed against the goods, as well as against the means of exchange, thereby insuring the speculator’s pro- fits which are paid by the plain peo- tle. Money Must Be Stable. “Money must be as stable in its exchange value as it is possible to make it. When the farmer sells his butter, grain or other product and the wage earner sells his labor they want to be paid in money that will buy something else equal in value to that which he sold. He cannot afford to have an unstable exchange value in money. Therefore the indiserimin- ate issue of money upon all kinds of goods without reference to the ef- fect it would have upon the purchas- ing power would be taken advantage of by the speculators. New Currency Law Wrong. “The new currency law provides for the issue of money on credit ob- ligations. That is wholly wrong in principle and will simply multiply debt and add to the general cost of living. It is now proposed to pass a bill to-standardize certain commo- dities, like cotton and grain, and is- sue certificates on them. It is sup- posed that the certificates to be is- sued may be used by the bankers to obtain currency under the present law. To do that is nearer correct in principle than it is to issue one debt upon another debt.” CHAD JEWETT PRESIDES. Bemidji Man Toastmaster at Auto Dealers’ Minneapolis Banquet. Chad Jewett, of the'Northern Auto company of this city, and president of the Retail Automobile Dealers’ as- sociation, served as toastmaster at the Minneapolis banquet of the or- ganization which closed its first an- nual convention in the Mill City Thursday night. The convention was held at the West hotel and co- operation was the basis of discussion by dealers from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Iowa and Wisconsin. Most of the delegates journeyed in their cars to Minneapolis from their homes. Organ- ized in February, 19132, the associa- tion has enlarged its scope from a state to a northwest organization, and plans eventually to take on a national identity. ! To protect motorists from rain and wind a Wisconsin inventor has pat- ented a waterproof skirt which snaps into place with steel springs at the waist and ankles. l Nearly one-half of Spain’s rail- roads enter Madrid— Heir of the King of Wurtem- berg Directs German Division. Photo by American Press Association. Duke Albrecht of Wurtemberg is commander of one of the German ar- mies now operating in France. He is son and heir to the king of Wurtem- berg. This picture has just been re- ceived in America. BELTRAMI CORN PRAISFD Display at State Fair Booth Shows Any Skeptic That All Minne- sota is Adapted to Its Growth. GRASS COLLECTION OF MERIT Beltrami county’s exhibit at the Minnesota state fair is referred to as follows in Friday evening’s issue of the St. Paul Dispatch: “‘The most northernly county in the state, Beltrami county, produces ex- cellent corn, which matures before Sept. 1, and this should convince any skeptic that all of Minnesota is adapted to corn, say the agricultural experts. The Beltrami county booth not only has an interesting display _beavy with forage ‘‘Three cuttings of Grimm’s alfalfa hay, which runs better than four tons to the acre, clovers of unusual di- mensions and luxuriance are exhib- ited. “One’of the best collections of grasses in the agricultural building is from the country about Baudette and Spooner, which was ravaged by forest fires three years ago. “The county’s display was assem- bled by C. F. Schroeder and A. P. Ritchie, Bemidji, and John Gilstad, Blackdnck.” ELEVEN SHOWS UP WELL. High School Football Team Has First Scrimmage of Season. ‘When put through the first scrim- mage of the year, the high school football squad showed that the local institution will be represented by worthy gridiron warriors this fall. The play was fast and the backfield got its plays off well, while the line held in stonewall fashion. Coach Bestul has several men fighting hard for each position and from the pres- ent outlook the lineup for the first game which will be played next week, will be: Johnson, full; Bail- ey and Fred Graham halves; Tanner, quarter; Smith or Olson, centre; Swetzer and Slater, guards; Cameron and Simons, tackles; Elletson and George Graham, ends. Government figures recently com- piled, show that the salt production of the United States last year reached the record breaking total of 4,815,- 902 short tons. So-called Egyptian cigarets are made of Greek tobacco as very little tobacco is grown in’Egypt. Machinery has been invented for weighing and regulating the flow of material over a belt conveyor. By *HOP” GERMAN FORCES CONTINUE RETREAT; BRITISH PURSUE (American Press.) St. Petersburg, Sept. 12.—That the Russian field forces have again gain- ed notable successes over the Aus- trians and Germans along the Rus- sian Poland and Galician frontiers, Wwas announced at the war office to- day. It was also reported that mno general advance into eastern Prussia is contemplated at this time. Paris, Sept. 12.—German retreat on French left is reported as grad- ually assuming conditions of rout, war office claims. In center fighting i3 now most serious in the Argonne dis- trict, the Germans having been forced back several miles from Sez- zane. They have also fallen back from their new position near Vitry- le-Francois. Berlin, via the Hague, Sept. 12.— The Germans are driving Russians out of East Prussia, according to an official announcement by the war of- fice. German reinforcements clash- ed with the Russian advance and the latter retired in disorder in direction of the frontier. London, Sept. 12.—War bureau to- day announced that the British pur- uit of Germans continues uninter- ruptedly and numerous prisoners taken. It was also stated that the French have captured the entire ar- ‘tillery equipment of a single German army corps. |GERMANS RUSHING TROOPS T0 FRONT " Paris, Sept. 12—German reinforce- ments are being hurled in enormous numbers to the center of the pressni battle line. < Lleports from the front emphasize that the critical position, so far as the all’es are concerned, is in the terri- tory in the vicinity of Vitry-le-Fran- cofs, through Genicourt, ost to Ver- dun. ‘The British-French left continues to sweep the Germans back north of tha Marne. They have shortened their lines pending the arrival of reinforce- ments, but the .British .attack contin- ues with almost uninterrupted--suc: cess. If the French finally crush the at- tack at the center the present British movement will be successful, as it will clear all Western France of the Germans. But if the center breaks the German menace will immediately become great. . That the Germans have no intention of retreating under present circum- stances is shown by the official re- ports received by General Gallieni, which show that they are bringing their “caterpillar” siege guns forward behind their center. It is not believed that the decisive stage can be reached in the preseat battle for at least three er four more days. FRENGH AVIATORS NEARLY GET KAISER Berlin, via The Hague, Sept. 12.—It was admitted here that the kaiser and general-staff have been in dan- ger from a Belgian-French bomb at- tack by aviators. They are directing the general cam- paign against France from the Ger- man legation in Luxemburg, capital of the grand duchy of Luxemburg. This was known to the French and Belgians and a few nights ago, it is admitted, Belgian and French avia- tors flew over the city and attempted to drop bombs on the legation build- ing. ng‘our bombs fell. near it, but it is stated they did no damage. In order to ferestall another attempt, how- ever, searchlights have been mounted and aviators are constantly on the watch. The kaiser is personally directing the general offense against the French. Field telegraph lines have been comstructed from the legatiom building in Luxemburg directly to the front. Every move made is reported at once. VIEWERS START WORK. Begin Inspectior-of State Road No. 82 Along North County Line. Chris Hagen, C. G. Johnson and i'rln'al highway No. = 3 separately. Henry Pfund, viewers of the state 32, have com- pleted plans for their tour of inspec- ition and they will begin the work 2t cnce. The viewers will start from Hullc Clementson’s place on Rapid ver thence west through Spooner nnd Baudette, through Williams to Roosevelt on the county line. It will take the viewers about five days in the fleld and about ten days in the office to complete their report. Every description, each comprising two miles, will have to be reported on “Let a want ad he}p you. ——