Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 13, 1916, Page 4

" TOWNS AND CITIES ORGANIZE VOLUNTEERS T0 AID GOVERNMENT City Men and Farmers are a Solid Block in Russia Under Name of “The Central Committee.” COMMITTEE CENTRALIZE WORK OF ENTIRE EMPIRE Children are Taken Care of ; Refugees Housed; Army Aided, All for Russia. KK KKK KKK KK KK * * * * * Note—In this fourth of % ¥« William Philip Simms’ arti- % * cles on the new Russia he X + tells what the Citizens’ Com- % * mittee is and what it is do- X * ing. *x * * * * *H KK KK KKK KKK KK By William Philip Simms (United Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, June 15.—(By mail)— City men and farmers, the landed gentry and villages are today a solid block in Russia and, under the name of “The Central Committee” are working might and main to support the army and country generally. The organization is composed of landed gentry, peasants and village property owners and called the All- Russian Zemstvo Union. b Cities Organize. But the towns and cities of Russia have also organized themselves into a volunteer, salaryless citizens’ group to assist the government wage war, their name being the All-Russian Municipality Union. And it is this group which, with the All- Russian Zemstvo Union, completes the Central | Committee. The Central Committee, whose members serve absolutely without pay, sits Sundays and week days in Petrograd, acting as a co-ordinating body, centralizing the work of the citizens of the whole empire. So far as I can find out this com- mittee and these two great All-Rus- sian unions combined in it, have no counterpart anywhere in Europe or in the world. In France the people are heart and soul with the government in their determination to fight the war to vic- VISIT Yellowstone National Park This SEA\ ony Line 1o Summer Gardiner Via Gateway Original scenic and only northern Yellowstone Park entrance. Din- ing Car Service the best. For descriptive travel literatnre and information, call R. E. Fisher, Joint Ticket Agent Union Depot, Bemldji, Minn. A. M. Cleland, Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. Northern Pacific Railway Yellowstone National Park Line. tory, cost what it may. In that coun- try all sorts of organizations abound, providing hospitals, ambulances, ref- ugee homes, feeding stations and the like. There is no end to their la- bors. But the government feeds, clothes and equips its army through commissions who deal with industrial corporations principally, if not en- tirely. In England it is the same, Lloyd George, upon assuming the post of minister of munitions chose as his battle ery the mobilization of indus- try, which meant that the industrial plants of the land should be organ- ized to produce munitions and other needfuls for the British army. Rifferent in Russia. In Russia the difference is vast. Russia is an agricultural nation, Manufacturing corporations are few compared to England’s vast enter- prises, or to those of France or Ger- many. Russia is 80 per cent peas- ant. So the peasants got together with land owners and villagers, forming the All-Russian Zemstvo Union. And the townspeople and city dwellers got together in the All-Russian Muniei- pality Union, the two getting togeth- er in a central committee—a volun- teer citizen organization, not of manufacturers, not of commercial kings, but of rich people, poor peo- ple, gentry and peasants—offering their services gratis to the land. There is, however, in Russia, an organization resembling Lloyd Geor- ge’s mustering of English infantry. It is called the war industry commit- tee and is of considerable importance. Prior to six years ago there was no industrial group in Russia. Manu- facturers worked separately, every man for himself. But with the com- ing of the Douma, the Russian con- gress, they felt the need of an or- ganization which would look out for their joint interests in possible legis- lation to come. Also a new commer- cial treaty with Germany was to be negotiated in 1914 and here again Russian industry wished to make it- self heard. So about 1910 a “Congress of Rep- resentatives of Trade and Com- merce” met and organized themselves into what corresponds to American merchants’ and manufacturers’ asso- ciations, the object of which was to look out for the mutual inetrests of its members. Form War Committee. Last year this group of men, tak- ing the tip from Lloyd George in England, and seeing the necessity of giving aid to the army, particularly as regards munitions and kindred military needs, formed the war in- dustry committee. This body of men today is giving great help to the Rus- sian government. This is the organization similar to those in England and France. But the Zemstvo and Municipality Unions with their central committee are in themselves unique—as is the co-op- erative movement of Russia with its nearly a hundred million adherents scattered from the Baltic across the frozen steppes of Siberia to the Pa- cific, from the White Sea to the Black. The city of Moscow began the Muni- cipality Union after the big Russian retreat. Mayor Chelnokov, the tre- mendously alive head of the muni- cipal council of Russia’s second cap- itol, issued invitations to the other cities and large towns of the empire to join in a city dweller’s organiza- tion similar to the Zemstvos’ or rural one, and they all responded. Like the Zemstvo, the Municipality The New Bemidji The Pencil that satisfies both old and young. Yes, you can buy them at almost every store in town and some stores out of town. They are five cents apiece, and when you buy a NEW BEMIDJI for a moneys worth. Just say “NEW BEMIDJI” nickle, you get your Union said to the Russian govel"n- ment: ‘“Here we are! Use us!” It was soon seen that as the two unioqs were doing practically the same work, much overlapping might be obviated and more effective work accomplished if a merger could be af- fected. i So the central committee of the All- Russian Zemstvo and Municipal Unions was formed about the first of July, 1915. Woerk Phenomenal, The committee’s work has been phenomenal. It has supplied the army, at the army’s request, with mu- daggers,’ nitions, munition boxes, spades, bags, hatchets, snippers to cut barbed wire, stoves, axels, wearing’ apparel, barbed wire, hospital sup- plies, baths and scores of other things. In England and France and Russia the war industry organizations work for profit as well as for patriotic mo- tives. In Russia the most important organizations by far are the purely: citizen ones and these work without profit to themselves. They demand but one thing and that is to serve. Nor do they ever offer excuses by saying this or that is not their kind of work.On one oc- casion they lent the army 300 labor- ers to dig trenches and fed these workers while they dug. On an- other they mobilized civilians to build military bridges. If the army commissary asked the committee for supplies, the commis- sary got them, whatever their nature. In January of this year it put in a demand for 24,000,000 articles of clothing and the committee, after consulting the Zemstvo and Munieci- pality Unionms, said all right, the commissary should have them. The work of the citizen committee is not confined to the army. It has opened innumerable creches taking care of tens of thousands of children, fed seven to eight million refugees, housed the “homeless, clothed the naked. And all for Russia. SAVAGE, FAMOUS HORSEMAN, DEAD Minneapolis, Minn., July 13.—M. W. Savage, one of the foremost horse- ment of the country, died at a hos- pital here last- night after a brief illness. ' Mr. Savage was about 55 years old. He hade made his home in Minnesota since 1886. one day that of his most celebrated horse, Dan Patch, the world’s cham- | % pion pacer. Other horses owned by Mr Savage and which were known the country over, included George Gano, and Minor Heir, two-minute pacers, and Croesus, trotter. % ONLY 96 IN SHADE IN BEMIDJI THIS AFTERNOON It is only 96 degrees above zero in Bemidji this afternoon, according to a report at the school farm. The report was made shortly before one o’clock. Is This So? Cleveland, July 13.—If it’s blazing hot in your town today this story is an awful lie. But if the weather is cool, it isn’t. F. L. Odenbach, St. Ignatius college scientists, declared today that we’re not going to have any summer this year. He blames it all on 25 spots he has just dis- covered on the sun. “It’s the most spots I have ever seen on the sum at one time,” said the professor. “It indicates abnormal weather condi- tions and probably means an extreme- 1y cool summer. The sun spots don’t directly control-the weather condi- tions, but their influence is electrie and magnetic on the atmosphere and this influence, combined with local weather factors, determines the weather. This year is the 100th an- niversary of the country’s famous summerless year of 1816. In that year there were killing frosts each month and corn for seed sold for $7 a bushel. That would mean about $28 a bushel this year, by compari- son.” . MERCHANTS T0 BANQUET CLERKS AT BIRCHMONT Plans will be made in the near fu- ture for a banquet to be given by the merchants for their clerks. The ban- quet will be given at Birchmont Beach hotel and will be just before the hotel closes for the season. The Merchants’ association held a meeting at the Commercial club rooms Tues- day. CLEVELAND JUDGE MAY BE NAMED JUSTICE to your merchant. He'll know. Where they sell ’em. Eduard Netzer Pharmacy Barker’s Drug and Jewelry Store S. T. Stewart’s Grocery Store Henry Miller » W. G. Schroeder The Fair Stere Carlson’s Variety Store Abercrombie & McCready, Third St. Wm. Schmitt’s Store The Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co. William H. Schmitt’s Grocery Otto G. Schwandt Mrs. E. L. Woods FREE PENCIL SHARPENING STATIONS Pioneer Office Barker’s (By United Press.) Washington, July 13.—Indications l.are that Judge Clarke, district judge, Cleveland, will be Wilson’s choice for the supreme ocurt to succeed Hughes. CONFIRMATION AT ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH JULY 23 Right Reverend Bishop T. Corbett of Crookston will be in Bemidji Sun- day, July 23, to confirm a class of 30 at the St. Philip’s Catholic church. JUDGE OF PROBATE GOES ', TO BAUDETTE ON BD‘BJEEBS Judge M. A. 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We saw what was going to hap- pen to blues long before it hap- prices - went up we had plenty of blues at old prices. They’re being sold at old prices; a third less than present prices. Imported and domestic weaves, the pick of the best in $25-$22.50 when Here Are $15 Suits That Will Satisfy You s For men and young men who don’t want to pay any more than $15 for their suit we have a good strong line of all weaves and colors that GILL BROTHERS Bemidji's Largest Clothing Store. |l||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIlllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIII ‘ il EE KKK KKK KKK KK KK KK * * DINNER STORIES * x KRHEK KKK KKK KKK KK KK Someone “has doped it out that there are not so many bases being stolen in the big baseball leagues this season because of the fact that more southpaws are being used and these latter can keep the baserunners closer to first. It has come to be a very palsied report that is sure to appear period- ically but it’s true just the same that Hans Wagner, the.famous baseball star, in spite of his rare old years is playing one of the greatest games of his career. He is certainly the star performer of his team and he is twice as old as some of his teammates. On his last birthday Hans was forty-two. What’s more, he hasn’t missed a game this season though he hasn’t been without injuries. It takes an unus- ually severe hurt to keep Hans out of the running as he comes of the old school of ball players who worked hard on teams of a dozen men or so and had to play whether they were injured or not. Years have made ‘Wagner indifferent to the average spike-wound, Everything was in readiness. The groom, best man and the minister were gathered in the vestry. The or- ganist began to play and the minister started for the door. “Wait one moment, doctor,” called the nervous groom. “Is it the right’ or left hand the ring goes on?” “The left,” hurriedly replied ‘the minister. “And, doctor, is—is it kisstom- ary to cuss the bride?” ADDITIONAL WANT ADS ‘Too Late To Classify ‘WANTED—Woman or girl, for serul. bing. Birchment Hotel, Phon 15-F-2. HOT WEATHER SPECIALS Lot 1 7ic worth 15¢ worth $1.00..... Special lot of up-to-date skirts, cordvroy and fancy mixed, just 15 skirts, to be exact, worth up to $5.50. Special this week... “Ide” Sport Shirts for Ladies $1.50 A wide assortment of the much wanted sport shirt, tub silks HOT WEATHER PRICES! Lot 2 12ic worth 25¢ . Men’s Silk caps 786c Light, cool caps for auto or other wear 75¢ Lot 3 171c worth 35¢ The attraction must be extraordinary to draw customers out of the cool shade—A visit to the store now will repay you well for any discomfort incident to warm weather. Wash Goods CGoing at The Smallest Possible Prlces Lot 4 39¢c values to $1.00 Men’s $1.00 and $1.26 Shirts 65¢c Soft collarin colored and white, made of soiesette-not, all sizes, wonderful values. New Wash Skirts Just Arrived Made up in genuine “Palm Beach” cloth plain or “Beach Cloth” and shrunk cottons in white or colored, in the very new stripes. A late shipment marked low to sell quick $1.50 to $5.50 A good assortment of new colored and black taffetta skirts just came in $6.50 to $10.50 $5.00 and $5.50 Skirts $2.98 and “Soie Sette,” colored, striped and white all sizes...:......... g 1 “THE ECONOMY CENTER” Children’s .$1.50 gingham. BIG-DEPARTMENT STORE < 48c Sizes 2 to 10. Plain and plaid or plaid trimmed in good Special.............. 480 Gingham Dresses BEMIDJI, MINMESOTA. I glllllllfl IIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllIIIllllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|I|II|II<III 4417 o