Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 3, 1917, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER® :——Pfl ISHED -EVERY- AFTERNOON. EXCEPT. SUNDAY- 3 §LTHE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ) TELEPHONE 922 ; Enmsd' at the postoffice at Bemidi, Minn.. as neond-chn matter wmder act of Congress of March 3,-1879. "~ - = 77 "No attention paid ‘to anonymous contributions. Writer’s name must be known to. the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pioneer should reach this office mot hulr than Tueldly of uch week to insure publication in the current issue. UBSCRIPTION BATES ‘ ¥ o BY MAILL Ono FOAT .o vvniensnue $400- “Six' months. Three monflu._..-....... 100 " THE WEEKLY PIONEER Ten peges, containing & summary of ‘the news of the week.. Pub- hlhequnuudlymduntpuhgepudhnyldhufor,' e S ORI I S I R A R e OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS .= Tho Daily Pioneer i8 a member of the United Prm Auocuuon, and rcynunted for torelsn advertising by the } WILL HUNGER COME? We may put it down as a self evident fact that if the people of this country persist, during the coming year, in living on the same extravagant scale of former years, we as a nation will strike the rocks. Experts in the agricultural department have estimated that the actual waste of food in the United States is $700,000,000 annually. This is in addition to the enormous consumption in excess of what is really needed to support life comfortably. The International Institute of Agriculture sends this solemn warn- ing from Rome: ‘‘The world’s food crop is deficient and the situation is becoming alarming.” Now we are doing much talking as to the duty of raising bumper crops, of increasing our production in every way possible, which is per- fectly right. But more than this is needed. We must act as well as talk. Heretofore the United States has always had a safe surplus of food- stuffs from one harvest when the next was garnered. This very fact, pos- sibly, has had more to do with fostering our extravagance than anything else. We have felt that our resourées were boundless and that we could never come to want. Now, however, the surplus has vanished, and in its place we have only gold, the most useless commodity in the world unless it can be ex- changed for-thdt which we need. And at last we must wake up and face the fact that we are up against a food shortage, and gold can not buy food where no food exists. The solution of the food problem is up to every man, woman and child in the country. It is useless to mince words for ‘fear of hurting some one's feelings—EXTRAVAGANCE AND WASTE MUST CEASE. It is use- less to undertake to solace ourselves with the prospect of a large increase in production. That of itself will not relieve the situation if extrava- gance continues. ALL must exert themselves to PRODUCE, and ALL must exert themselves to save. ’ You, our farmer friend, because you have plenty and are raising plenty more, have NO RIGHT to waste that plenty or to throw it away in needless extravagance. Others will NEED it, and it is their RIGHT that they shauld be able to get it. You, Mr. Rich Man, just because you have plenty of money to pay for it, have NO RIGHT to waste that which OTHERS NEED, and of which your extravagance will deprive them. Let us not be deceived. It is up to each one—rich, poor, high or low —to conserve the food supply. Food waste this year will be nothing less than a CRIME, and should be so recognized and treated. A few months ago, when gold was flowing into our coffers, in yellow streams, we strutted and boasted of our boundless wealth. We compared ourselves to Midas—that everything we touched turned into gold. And now we are in grave danger of finding ourselves in his predicament—our gold useless because we can not eat it. Economy in any line is praiseworthy, but economy in food products just now is the highest type of patriotism, and the most disloyal of all is the man or woman who wilfully wastes the nation’s food. NEW GAME LAWS ARE DRASTIC Drastic game laws were enacted by the staté/legislature which re- cently closed its session, and as a result the prairie chicken open season begins at a later date and the day, and season bag limits are decreased and the number of birds allowed in possession is also decreased. The prairie chicken and duck season, formerly opening on September 7, has been extended to September 16. Prairie chicken shooting ends on September 30. Hunters are allowed but five birds a day, 15 in possession at one time and a season bag limit of 25 birds. There is no change in the duck laws but the change of the opening of the season. Other important regulations in small game hunting were: = Not al- lowing the shooting of game from automobiles; a three-year closed sea- son on ruffled grouse and partridges; the allowing of hunters to retrieve birds wounded from a blind or pass falling in open water, and requiring all persons over 14 years of age to take out a license to hunt small game. Aliens, who have not declared their intention of becoming citizens of the United States, are not allowed to hunt or even to have fire arms in their possession. innesota has been divided into two zones, a north and south zone, in northern Minnesota the opening of the black bass season has been shifted to June 15 from May 29 and the trout season has been changed to May 1 from April 15. The quail season will be open during the month of November. Ten quail a day is allowed, but no hunter will be allowed to shoot miore than 30 of this 'variet,v of birds during one season. Local dealers report heavy sales of dynamite which indicates unusual activity in the clearing of lands in this vicinity. And it will not be so long before we can include in Bemidji's com- plement of municipal advantages that of gas. Zero in vocal gymnastics—trying to tell some one else how to run THE BEMIDJI DL({LY PIONEER DEVELOPMENTASS'N..~ |+ N FOOD_CAMPAIGN ‘ -~ ' Unbeatable Externfin Plans for a patriotic cmnalgn ¢ Mice n!ld : Used the: wcu-ld Over. < ed by throughout the stateiwill be consid- The OId. R.,,, e Thad Never (a,,‘ S ,53 ered at a special meeting of the All- fl'll RICO IZED. STANDARD -AVOID ‘S%.IOBS TU' Minnesota Development . association at the state cnpuol St. Paul May 16 at 10 a. m. A call for this meeting is being sent out by F.-W. Murphy; president, and Charles T. Kelley, secretary of the assoclation. Mr. Murphy says that the significance of the present situation of the country ig not fully appreciated and that the call to ser- vice in placing' the state upon a war basis ought to be accompanied by a campaign to arouse patriotic emthu- siasm, and to make plain to all the people their individual-dutjes, The proposed campaign 18 expected to aid materially the work of the state committee on food -production and conservation, and also that of the public safety commission. Harnesses and Vehicl 9 Hoberg constructlon Co Conbet(onory. Glnnlnd Founu_in Goqdp 36 Minn. Ave, D im;, Organs and Bawln; _K etare 1 pt 2 | i Machines K. w'fir'b you a'world'of | {18l « 117 Thira st .. Bemidyt %% sae “ Grand THEATRE X Phone 678-W Mon.Tues. May 7.8 B 4 J. BISIAR, Manager BEMIDJI HORSE M ‘gy 3 ‘We Buy and Sell Hor: 1) mpa Old customers continually greet us with a hand shake and say: *““Here I am again for another suit?’—of S lepius Gores ST “The same price the vorld over” The Price Remains The Same. One known medium price, $17, the nation over, satisfaction guaranteed. We sell them because they are adver- tised nationally, because they are made by one of the oldest and largest makers, because these two things are guarante& that the quality will be held up standard and because the price stlll remains the same. Popularity doubled the makers business and made great economies possible in manufacturing. That 18 why the price can remain the same. Style plus all wool fabrics, plus expert tailoring, plus guaranteed wear—all at the price that again remains the same, $17. We believe in complete, clean stocks—there is no advantage . in waiting because the choice is best now. We are fortunate in being the only Styleplus Store because these clothes make permanent customers. KEXK XXX KK XK KX NEW JITNEY STAND IN % MRS AN d Fred Graut i J?imz:dea@i* opey to. M{hw mmun- B gl o x % W0k R k% GENERAS %, Groceries, Dry Ww. G. 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