Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 25, 1917, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ——— PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUND_AY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. G. B. CARSON E. H. DENU TELEPHONE 22 under act of Congmn of Mareh 3, 1879. Nd, Mtenth: )fld? to nonyno\u contributions, Writer’s nsme must be known to thé editor; but not Hecesssrily for publication. Com-unielflnnl for the Weekly. Pioneer should reach this office not later mn m, of each veqk 6 insure publication in '.he curreént fssue. Onme year ... Six months Three months One month .. ) THE WEEKLY PIONEER £ Rnpugenmnmnmglmmmmafflunmofflnweek. Pub- 4 lished every Thursday and sent postage pud to my uldren (or, in OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS _— The Daily Pioneer is & member of the United Press Assoclation, and s represented for foreign advertising by the General offices in New York and Chicago, branches in all principal Cities. GREATER PROSPERITY AHEAD In business, prosperity awaits the American nation—not business de- CaE pression or panic. . ! For two years we have had proeperity more universal than at any R time most of us can recollect. ¢ Farmers have had good crops and have made money. There is every B reason to believe that they will make even greater profits this year. | The entrance of America into the war means a tremendously in- £ creased demand upon the farmers for the products of their soil. 1 Even though the government may find it neceesary to establish maxi- mum prices for the protection of the consumer, nevertheless, it is cer- tain that this maximum price will be large encugh to leave the producer a satisfactory profit—probably a larger profit, eo far as farm products are concerned, than in ordinary times. Labor in some way will be supplied to the farms. Production of food i8 so essential that the government may be depended upon to fill the ranks of farm labor just as it is certain the government will fill the ranks of fighting men. Study carefully the financial history of all great wars, and you will i ! find that business has invariably increased during and for some years after those wars. ’,{ The expenditure of the vast sums of money—such as the seven bil- | lion dollars ($7,000,000,000) recently appropriated—even though it be for war purposes, stimulates business in every other line. All of this B amount, even the three billions loaned to our allies, will be spent here in the United States. All of us recall that two years or so ago, many factories were not operating, hundreds of thousands of laboring men were unemployed, and we were in the midst of a real business depression, even though all basic causes indicated business should be prosperous. When the allied governments spent their first fifty million dollars § in America for war materials, business started to boom. The orders ¥ placed with the munition plants gradually affected other lines of in- ¥ dustry. Laboring men had more money to spend for clothing, food and furniture; transportation lines had more business; the manufacture of war goods required clothing and clothing required wool and cotton; mu- nitions required metals, and thus stimulated mine production; the pur- § chase of food supplies reached clear back until it was felt on the farm. f And when it was realized that instead of only a $50,000,000 pur- chase, $1,000,000,000 worth of our products would be needed by foreign E governments at war, the flow of prosperity became a flood, and we still feel its effect. Our present prosperity was started by that first $50,000,000 purchase. " How tremendous then, will be the increase in business prosperity that will follow the ex ependiture during the next twelve months of the $7,000,- 000,000 recently appropriated for war purposes? Have you any conception of how much $7,000,000,000 is? There are 6,362,000 farms in the United States. If the seven billion dollars were all spent for farm products, it would be the equivalent of b an $1.100 order for each farm in the country. There are approximately 3,000 counties in the United States. If the seven billion dollar order were divided equally by counties, the average would be a two and a third millions. Would orders totaling $2.333,333 placed in your county this year for farm and manufactured products of all descriptions help your busi- ness? Would it increase property values? Would it benefit your farm- ers, your retail merchants and your traveling men? Of course it would. A PLEA FOR SPORT The sporting writers of the country, who, in using their influence and making extra efforts in the columns of their newspapers to see that athletics indoors and out-of-doors are kept going and thereby following out the wishes of President Wilson in having sport continued, are *“doing their bit” for their country in these upset times, Those editors and writers of sports who have joined the college alarmists in helping to curtail and stop athletic competition and sports Entered at the postoffige at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter. | THE BEMIDJ1 DL(LY PIUNEER from the millionaire down to the laboring man with nothing but his weekly pay from which to draw. Even young working girls and the lit- tle Boy Scouts dug down when Uncle Sam asked for help. It is signifi- cant that our first loan of the war is also the greatest loan in the history of the world, and fifty per cent oversubscribed at that. The kl[m should worry! “SENATORIAL DIGNITY” Washington dispatches advise us that a certain United States sena- tor offered a bribe of $5,000 if his son were’ exempted from the draft. The party to whom the offer was made promptly communicnted the fact to the attorney general of the United States. ‘We are watching for the next act in the drama of “senatorial dignity.” win it come? The state capitol took om am old-time convention appearance this week when county representatives of the state safety commission met with the head organization in the state senate chamber. .. The,county: repre- ne(ruuvol were addressed by Jobn Lind and other members of the com- mission and much enthusiasm was shown. The commission is desfrous of getting in close touch with the rural districts to the extent of flndlng out needed farm help and eneounginx crop extension and better methods of reaching en early market. When this letter was in the making Minnesota restaurant and liquor interests were reported to be preparing papers for a legal attack on the state safety commission. The commission’s recent early saloon closing order and the denial of liquor to women in any place where liquor was dispensed was said to be the basis of the attack. Restaurant and public dining room proprietors who have lost heavily by the order doubt the commission’s authority. The merchant who advertises is like the spider that builds its net to actch the fly. He gets what he goes after—but unlike the spider he gives an equivalent for what he gets. Don’t let the spider put one over on you, Mr. Merchant. This paper makes an excellent net for the catch- ing of local trade. How much “evidence” constitutes a club? How much a saloon, and how much an unlicensed ldnlnklng place? Will somebody coin a new word for “club,” and another for boot- legger, please. —_———— A Needless Lack of Tact. We don’t care who knows what we buy, but it does look as if the grocery- man would have too much sense to Foundation of Japan. - Every Feb. 11 is celebrated in Japan the great annual festival of Kigenset- the anniversary o fo :: the empire b;y “; ‘::“ :::flp.eur:: speak l: a ';oud voice ?rhen he repeats Jimmu Tenno, B. C. 660, Thé Japa- your order for 10 cents’ worth.—Claude Cailap in Fort Worth Star-Telegram. nege reckon their present era as trom — . this date, and it was Feb. 11, 1689, that Mutsubito, the one bundred and twen- tyfimt of the dynasty. promalgated thé present constitution of the empire of Japan, the fundamental principle of which is clearly stated in its first article, “The empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of einperors unbroken from ages eternal.” The organization of a parliament took place in 1890. AMOUNT OF SEED CORN. [Natiens! Crop Improvement Serviee) From twelve to fifteen ears of seed corn are required to plant an acre. All corn should be germinated right now in order to test its vitality and you should throw out every weak ear you can find. It will not pay YOII to plant poor .corn this year, ONE WHOLE DAY. a little life, and but a day re- Every day our whole li peated. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal, those that dare mis- spend it desperate.—~Bishop Hall. o e o« Watch Red Cross Mercury Rise weekly—is: in general are doing the future of young .}merican manhood untold harm, and can be classed among the “slackers.” Back of the trenches over in France and Belgium and throughout England, baseball is now being played and fast gathering in its fascin- ating meshes the French., English, Scotch and Irish soldiers and the Am- erican and Canadian lads who packed in their kits an equipment of balls and bats are fast finding their llies adept pupils. The United States army authorities, realizing the value of the play- ing of baseball and other competitive sports, are seeing to it that con- tests and systematic play are a part of the physical fitting of the student officers and enlisted men in the various training camps. A sytematic canvassing and tabulating of the country has shown that the writings and preachments of the ‘‘sporting slackers” and college “alarmists are having no effect on “Young America” and that more baseball than ever is now being played by lads 21 years of age and under. THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN The government asked a loan of the people of $2,000,000,000 for war purposes. The people responded by promptly offering nearly $3,- 000,000,000, and this tremendous sum was subscribed in all walks of life, «which SHANTIAN Bemid] BLACK SAFETY. 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