Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 12, 1915, Page 4

| | | e THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ThesBemidfi Daily Pioneer PIONEED FUS. CO. h and Proprieters. Telephone. 31. Butered at the post office at Bemidjl, Em. as second-class matter under Act Congress of March 3, 1879. Published every afternoon except Sunday Ne attention paid to anonymous cen- gributions. Writer's name must be Imown h'fig the uinor, but not necessarily for pu Glmumcaunu for the Weekly Pio- meor should resch ce not later (hgn TPuesday of each week te inasure tion in the earrent issue. Subscription Rates. ©ne month by carrier g::ey_r by carrier.. ontha, Rostege paid -olnn_ postage paid. year, gostage paid... o The Weekly Pioneer. llght pages, containing a supmary of ws Of the wenk. Publighed every and “sent pastage pald to any suldreas for 91.50 in advance. KX KKK KKK XX KK KK KE * * x The Daily Pioneer receives + & wire service of the United <« * Press Association. x x R KEK KK KKK KK KKK KKK IS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO GRANCHES N ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES LIFE WORTH WHILE. There is nothing better or more independent than a life on a well regulated farm in a prosperous sec- tion of the country. s s * In the cities and towns we are engaged in a constant game of com- petition one with another, always confrohted with the possibility that the commercial rise of the other fel- low means our own downfall. But not so on the farm, where every man is a life and a producer and a con- sumer unto himself. * * * The farmer raises his grain, and his foodstuffs, and his hogs and cat- tle and chickens and eggs, and by his own efforts alone his table is sup- plied the year round and his surplus gives a sufficiency for those articles not produced on his own acreage. It makes no material difference to him whether his neighbor is successful or a failure, for the rapid rise of one does not necessarily imply the finan- cial disintegration of another. * * * Hard times and panics may sweep over the land, strewing the path of of life with the corpses of the com- mercial wrecks, but the farmer moves steadily onward and is the last man on earth to feel the pinch of want. His crops continue to grow and thrive, his stock fattens and becomes meat for his table, his fields and his gardens furnish him the sustenance of life, and he feels, as he is, the one man on all of this earth who is absolutely independent of all other men or combinations of men. * % % When the country is staggering under the weight of depression, and buying slow and prices are down, he still has the satisfaction of knowing that his own table will be well sup- plied while people in cities and towns may be looking for bread for the next meal. * * * We hear many people deprecate a life on the farm because of the hard’| work and long hours its details, but these same people seem to oyerlook the fact that there is no other busi- ness in life which does not require its labor and its toil and its brain- racking and nerve-destroying race in competition with others of its kind. And always before those engaged in commercial pursuits is the dreaded spectre of hard times or strangula- tion at the hands of a successful com- petitor. * - * Young men of today who are com- fortably settled on the farm, or are just completing their education pre- paratory to a life career, should re- main right where they are and never leave the green fields of the country. The great cities will offer them white ligh'ts, and dissipation, and debauch- ery, and failure in nine cases out of ten, and death will find them wish- ing to God they had never strayed from the comforts of the old fireside. But not so the country. It offers them a life pf freedom, and manhood, and usefulness, with plenty to eat and to wear, and health, happiness and a clear conscience. * x x Now that the fall’s work is over and the time is at hand when young men begin to long for the gaities of city life, we suggest that you spend your -idle moments in studying the latest and most improved methods of farming. Thumb over the pages of your farm journals, and the bulletins of the agricultural schools, and ‘per- fect yourself for a winning fight in extracting wealth from the mother earth, the source from ‘which all wealth springs. Stick to'the farm. It is the greatest spot on earth. A WORLD OF IMPERFECTION. John A. Sleicher, in Leslie’s, says: Nothing is perfect in the world. The perfect man or woman is still to be born. Even the angels have their imperfections. Since the world was created, the imperfections of man have baffled science. Wars have played their brutal havoc from the time when Cain slew his brother: Humanity has been scourged from time immemorial by dreadful dis- ease, but the same diseases exist to- day. Countless cures have been pro- claimed for cancer, consumption and other scourges of humanity and all have failed. Scientific medical discoveries, like vaccination for smallpox, have put the end to the frightful epidemics of earlier ages, but medical skill is still baffled and the mystery of the origin of cancer is matched by the mystery of the origin of the common art or the prevailing badness among men and women. Astronomers measuring the height of the mountains of the moon and the orbits of the planets are still un- able to solve the riddles of the uni- verse. It is only a conjecture that Mars is inhabited. How little we know of the spots on the sun and the possibilities of their influence on our climate. Astrology still has its be- lievers and the mental forces are recognized but still defy the investi- gator. In the physical world how many theories we have had regarding the origin, purpose and effect of the gulf stream. Who has been able to solve the riddle of the germinating seed or the problem.of life in the animal or vegetable kingdom? Astronomers tell us that constella- tions spring out of the universe over night, as the new born child ap- pears in a household. The whole world, animate and inanimate, is so mysterious that our boasted scien- tists, discoverers and searchers for the light concede their inability to do more than speculate on the possi- bilities and probabilities of modern research in lifting the veil. The mystery of man, his creation, his future, the whole realm of psy- ohical investigation, of mermeric in- fluence and of telepathic power re- main in the unsearchable depths. Why are some hallucinations so strong with some men and women that the asylums for the insane are crowded? Why does credulity num- ber its countless victims day after day and year after year—filling poor- houses, jails and the potter’s field. Is it remarkable that even in this enlightened ' century of progress, some things go wrong and that all sorts of quack remedies to correét jevils that have always existed in imperfect man are urged by law- makers, themselves full of imperfec- | tions? It is only the dreamer who dreams that legislation can make a perfect world. It is only the theorist who talks of a perfect man. Man is made in the image of his Maker, but the Maker alone is perfect. JOIN COMMERCIAL CLUB. Have you enlisted? Is the important work of the Be- midji Commercial club supported by your energy .and good will? ‘Whatever helps Bemidji helps you. The Commercial club is helping Be- midji and is helping you. Do your share. Place your application for mem- bership today. KKK XK KKK KK XK DAILY WAR ANALYSIS. * * (By J. W. T. Mason.) * *‘ United Press Staf - * Correspondent. * fiiii*fii*ii*i**k# Lord Devonport’s warning in the house of lords that Great Britain may be approaching bankruptcy be- cause of the war should not be taken too seriously. The financial situation in all the belligerent countries is dis- quieting, but chiefly because of the enormous increase in taxation that the accumulating debts will fix on Europe as a permanent blight. Still in Distance. Bankruptey, for the British em- pire, is still far in the distance. Lord Devonport is the first to suggest the idea in an alarmist sense. It is prob- able his real fear is not that Great ‘Britain will repudiate her indebted- ness, but that 'the wealthy classes will he called upon to pay constantly increasing taxes to prevent national bankruptcy. Lord Devonport is re- garded by labor interests as one of the leading reactionaries of _Great Br'i"taln. As chairman of the port 'of bankruptcy. of London authority, which' controls: the docks pt the British metropolis, he has constantly antagonized the in- terests of; the workingmen and has sought to promote capitalism by every means in his power. ‘Results After War. ‘A few days ago, Lord Northcliffe cheerfully expressed the belief that is own income tax would be raised to 50 per cent before the end of the war and would not be lowered with the coming of peace. After the war, sald Northcliffe, the poor in Great Britain would be richer and the rich poorer. It is probable that this new situation, outlined by Lord North- cliffe, is causing profound uneasiness in the class represented by Lord Dev- onport. The idea of permanently parting with this wealth to a far greater extent after the war than be- fore the conflict began is abhorrent to the reactionary millionaires. Millionaires Alarmed. Under the spur of this disquietude, it is not difficult to understand that there should prevail an exaggerated sense of financial alarm among the reluctant millionaires. To couple uneasiness over a large permanent in- crease in taxation, which must be borne for the most part by men of wealth, with a warning about na- tional bankruptey, is’ but a million- aire’s method of self-protection. Lord Devonport speaks for the moneyed class when he expresses fear His plea, not direct- 1y expressed, but implied in all proba- bility is against piling up taxation for the future. To emphasize the seriousness of the situation, he uses the word bankruptey. Class is Revolting. A certain class of British million- aires is thus beginning to revolt be- cause of the vostliness of the war. These large taxpayers realize what the permanent consequences of the war may be to their bank accounts, and they want to lessen the effect as much as possible. They may compel the introduction of governmental economy; at the same time,, their discomfiture may prove to be an im- portant factor in the work of bring- ing about peace. AR KK KKK KKK KKK KKK * “READY MONEY” AT THE ¥ * GRAND THEATER TONIGHT * KKK KK KKK KK ¥ EDWARD ABELES. Jesse L. Lasky will present Ddward Abeles tonight at the Grand theater in James Montgomery’s highly inter- ;] esting Paramount production, “Ready Money,” in five reels. the play is as follows: Stephen Baird, a mining engineer and popular man about town, goes west to seek his fortune. Arriving at Gallup, a mining town, and while: making. camp,. the first night out, he and a prospector, Mike Reardon, come.across the abandoned workings of the Skyrocket mines. Steve decides to explore it. Finding a piece of rock, which he believes contained gold, he persuades Mike to look it over, and although Mike is certain that it is worthless, he goes about his work in a business-like manner and comes to the conclusion that the tunnels have been driven in the wrong direction. On the strength of their convie- tion, Steve goes to the owner of the property and purchases it for thirty thousand dollars, of which he pays one-third down apd he immediately leaves for New York to secure the remaining twenty thousand dollars to complete the purchase. In New York, Steve has made the acquaintance of Jackson Ives, with plenty of money, who agrees to pur- chase fifty thousand dollars worth of stock in Steve’s mine. Since his arrival: in New York, things have been going very bad with Steve, and have reached the crisis where he is compelled to accept the hospitality of a friend and gives up his own The story of rooms. New Year’s Eve comes and finds Steve downhearted and melan- choly, but Jackson Ives fulfills his promise and gives Steve fifty thou- sand counterfeit dollars for an in- terest in-the property. Steve’s friends, including Grace! to use this kind. Phone 126 Tyler, come to the apartments to try and persuade him to join them at a party and seeing Steve with fifty thousand dollars in bills lying on the desk, they immediately assume that he has struck gold and implore him to accept their checks in payment for stocks in his company, which they had heretofore refused to purchase. Meanwhile Mike Reardon, with in- creased force, is working night and day to discover gold. Morgan, a mine operator, learns this and fear- ing that Reardon will uncover the vein of ore which he knows to be there, causes an explosion in the Sky- rocket mine which, instead of acting as an injury, uncovers the huge vein of gold. The report scatters and NOV. 13th Wood Violet reg. $1, per bot.... 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Our dealers supply it, not only to dinner parties, banquets, church suppers and birthday feasts, but for every- day use in a great many of the best managed homes. « You will never look upon bread-eating as a self-duty after you commence You will thix_lk of this bread as a delicious confection—yet to be eaten as freely as the plainest food. Try a loaf or two today. BUY KOORS BROS' CALIFORNIA-RAISIN BREAD Koors Bros. Company Bemidji, Minn. wealth pours in on Steve and Mike and their partners. Jackson Ives, instead of being a ‘counterfeiter, is proven a man of un- ‘limited wealth, and, despite the ac- tivities of the secret service officers, he proves his honesty and becoming a partner of Steve’s, remains ever at his side, even when Steve takes Grace Tyler in his arms and asks her the all-important question, to which she smilingly answers ‘“‘yes, dear.” You can get a big, fat pencil tab- let for a nickle at the Pioneer office, and an extra big, fat ink paper com- position book for a dime. All the “kids” will want one when they see ’em. Saturday Specials During the One Cent Sale we had so many ask if we had special prices on Toilet Waters and Perfumes that we have decided to give our customers an exceptional opportunity in this line of merchandise on SATUR- §. DAY, Nov. 13, ONLY. Watch for our week end Spacials. é New England Toilet | RICKSECKERS Toilet | Waters | Theodora reg. 75¢, per bot...... 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