Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 1

U S IN WAR UNTIL KAISERIS § i | \ PRS- " oAl e THE BEMIDJI DALILY PLON VOLUME XV. NO. 201. BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY EVENING. AUGUST 30, 1917. BELTRAMI FARMS ARE RESPONDING WELL T0 STATE -~ FAIR EXHIBITS Despite Peculiar Weather Conditions Many High Class Farm Speci- mens Are Ready. B. M. GILE IS ANXIOUS TO HAVE DISPLAY TO STANDARD _— Everything Conceivable Grown in Northern Minnesota Will Be Sent From Beltrami County. Contributors to the Minnesota state fair are responding loyally to the call to fill the quota of Beltrami county exhibits and the showing this year, despite the unusual weather conditions promises to be one of the best in the history of the fair. Contributors thus far for the Bel- % trami exhibit at the state fair are \na follows: Lee Hiltz—Seven kinds o. toma- toes, three varieties of cabbage, cau- liflower, six varieties of onions, three kinds of table beets, parsnips, two kinds of carrots, kohl rabi, kale, brussels sprouts, collards, peppers, cranberries, choke cherry, Swi%s chard, catnip, sage, borage, pepper- mint, spearmint, wild plums, salsify, peas, beans, rutabaga, turnips, en- dive, tame hops and wild hops. Nels Willet — Marquis wheat, onions, alfalfa, hazel nuts, filberts, Early Ohio potatoes, wild rice, pin cherries, pumpkins and onion sets. cucumbers, ground cherry, high bush |- OPSAHL CANT SEE SHORTAGE IN HAY; STATES REASONS The reported hay shortage in this section of the country is entirely un- called for, according to J. J. Opsahl, who has recently returned from an inspection trip to the northern part of the county. “There are 100,000 acres of mixed red top and timothy ready to cut the first week in September,” said Mr. Opsahl, “and about 84,000 acres of meadow land. Rivers and creeks are all dried up and the crop can yet be harvested. “Farmers’ clubs in this section could group together and get a per- mit from W. F. Dickens, superintend- ent of the Red Lake agency, and go to cutting hay. Others could win- ter cattle there, as it would be un- wise to try to cut and haul hay such a distance. I merely Thention this in order that the rumor of cattle star- vation up here may be dispelled.” Farmers’ clubs are co-operating with Bueford M. Gile, high school ag- riculturist, who has been named county member of the food depart- ment of the Public Safety commis- sion. Information regarding such matters will receive prompt atten- tion by Mr. Gile. FINAL EFFORT BEING MADE TO FURNISH GUARD UNIFORMS To place the Bemidji company of the Home Guard on an equal basis with the other companies of the Tenth battalion, of which this com- pany is a unit, a final effort is be- A. W. Hoskins—Wild alfalfa, mil-|ing made to finance the uniforms for lets. sunflower, rutabagas, potatoes,ithe men. All the equipment,- except sweet corn, carrots, vetch, soy beans|the uniforms, will be furnished by and cow peas. Peter Narum—Red Bliss Triumph potatoes, Green Mountain potatoes, Rural New Yorker potatoes, Cobbler potatoes, tobacco, grapes and crabs. Carl Opsata—Extracted and comb honey and bee’s wax. Charles Ohrberg—Green Mountain potatoes and wild raspberries. Gust Berg—Compass cherries. 1. E. Raymond—Potatoes and vege- ables. Herman Eickstad—Blue joint, tur- key foot grass, timothy, millet, bearded spring wheat, brome grass and silver mine oats. A. J. Speck—Potatoes and corn. G. F. Eickstadt—Winter wheat. ¥Fred Westphal—Pickling onions, ripe cucumbers, caulifiower, potatoes. sweet corn, tomatoes, perennial onions and mangels. Ralph Ripley—Buckwheat, rasp- the government and these must be furnished either by the men or by the community. Siitve these men en- listed in the guard are giving their time, it does not seem fair that they {should have to do further duty by buying their uniforms. Hence, sub- scription money is being raised to apply on the uniforms, dividing the balance pro rata among the men, each paying an equal amount. No uniforms will be purchased for men not attending drills and the 'muster roll will be decreased in the next week. Those men showing no {interest by not attending drills with- out excuses will be given their dis- charge from t..e service. | The equipment from the govern- ment is expected every day and it is hoped that it will be here by next Tuesday, drill night. he lockers for- merly used by United States Naval hen;ies. peas, strawberries and cur-|Militia will be used by Company rants. “D.” E. K. Anderson—Winter rye and . clover. Dan Grey—Early Ohio potatoes. Cowan Grey—Black oats, alsac clover, pie plant, stock rutabagas, wheat and white Russian oats. Mrs. T. J. Andrews—Tame plums E. J. Willets—Citron. Reynolds & Winter—Potatoes and grasses. Otto Johnson—Minn. No. 13 corn, stock vegetables, grains, flax peannts and alfalfa. N. G. Reynolds—Sweet clover, muskmelons, rape, onions and peas. Mrs. C. E. Craig—Parsley, kaffir corn and sudan grass. H. M. Merryman—Early *sugar cane and vegetables. Alex Hensley—Apples. Gennes & Lyon farm—Crabs. Ed Raco—Potatoes. Dr. Gilmore—Clover. A. P. White—Potatoes and grain. Charles Olson — Speltz, bearded spring wheat, hulless barley, beard- less barley, fife wheat, oderbrucker barley, grasses, celery, oats and vege- table oysters. Amber B e J. W. Skinner—Cobbler potatoes, grasses, grains vegetables and mil- lets. Esther McGhee—Canned bles and jellies. Rosby Creamery—Print of butter. Carl Blom—Triumph potatoes. S. K. Braaten—Tame plums. John Gilstad, Blackduck—Alsac clover. Herman Fenske—Rura] New York- er and King potatoes, mangels, ruta- bagas. cucumbers, cabbage and crabs. Alfred Moen—Tomatoes, cucum- bers and cabbage. Additional contributions will be published next week. Pumpkins, squash, citrons, musk and water- melons are still badly needed. Al- through gathered under unfavorable circumstances, the splendid co-opera- tion given the management by the farmers has made possible a very creditable exhibit which will leave a good impression of Beltrami county on the thousands of people who will see it at Hamline next week. vegeta- Lieut.LycanLeavesTonight ToReport, Accompanied By Bride; Ceremony Today The leave of absence of Second Lieutenant Ralph B. Lycan, station- ed aboard the battleship Massachus- etts on the Atlantic coast, turns out to be a bridal trip, for this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Cochran in Bemidji will take place the marriage cere- mony with Miss Evalyn Nutting as; e bride-to-be. After the ceremony, which will be performed by Rev. L. P. Warford of the Presbyterian church, the bridal couple and immediate families of the principals will be seated at dinner at the Birchmont, of which Mr. Coch- ran is the owner. The prospective bride is a niece of Mrs. Cochran. Will Chichester, son-in-law of the Cochrans, will attend the groom-to- be and Mrs. Lee LaBaw will attend Miss Nutting. Miss Nutting is from Brookings, Ore., and an attractive and accom- plished young woman. Mr. Lycan is !a son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Lycan of Bemidji. He is second junior lieu- tenant of the Fifth division, Minne- sota Naval Militia, and when the di- {vision left Bemidji it first boarded (the Massachusetts, the major portion jof the division being transferred to the battieship Massachusetts. This evening the newlyweds will go to Minneapolis, thence to Wash- ington, and then to Philadelphia, where Lieutenant Lycan will rejoin his ship, having completed his “vaca- tion.” ; - » * b W < (= % e § - A TR Pope’s Proposals Are Rejected By President Washington, Aug. 28.—The text of the President’s note Benedict follows in full: “To His Holiness, Benedictus XV, Pope: “In acknowledgement of the communication of your Holiness to the belligerent peoples, dated Aug. 1, 1917, the President of the United States requests me to transmit the following reply: “Every heart that has not been blinded and hardened by this terrible war must be touched by this moving appeal of His Highness, the Pope, must feel the dignity and force of the, humane and generous motives which prompted it, and must fervently wish #hat we might take the path of peace But it would be folly to take it if it does Our response must be based up- he so persuasively points out. not in fact lead to the goal he proposes. on the stern facts and upon nothing else. It is not a mere cessation of arms he desires; it is a stable and enduring peace. This agony must not be gone through with again, and it must be a matter of very sober judg- ment what will insure us against it. “His Holiness in substance proposes that we return to the status quo ante bellum, and that then there be a general condonation, disarmament, and a concert of nations based upon an acceptance of the principle of ar- bitration; that by a similar concert freedom of the seas be established; and that the territorial claims of France and Italy, the perplexing problems of the Balkan states, and the restitution of Poland be left to such concilia- tory adjustments as may be possible in the new temper of such a peace, due regard being paid to the aspirations of the peoples whose political for- tunes and affiliations will be involved. “It is manifest that no part of this program can be successfully car- ried out uxless the restitution of the status quo arnté beHum furnishes a firm and satisfactory basis for it. The object of this war is to deliver the free peoples of the world from the menace and the actual power of a vast military establishment controlled by an- irresponsible government which, having secretly planned to dominate the world, proceeded to carry out the plan without regard either to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long established practices and long cherished principles of international action and honor; which chose its own time for the war; delivered its blow fiercely and suddenly; stopped at no barrier either of law or mercy; swept a whole continent within the tide of blood—not the blood of soldiers only, but the blood of innocent women and children also, and of the helpless poor; and now stands balked, but not defeated, the enemy of four-fifths of the world. This power is not the German people. It is the ruthless masters of the German people. It is no business of ours how thhat great people came under its control or submitted with temporary zest to the domination of its purpose; but it is our business to see to it that the his- tory of the rest of the world is no longer left to its handling. “To deal with such a power by way of peace upon the plan proposed by His Holiness the Pope, would, so far as we can see, involve a recupera- tion of its strength and a renewal of itspo licy; would make it necessary to create a permanent hostile combination of nations’against the German people, who are its instruments; and would result in abandoning the new- born Russia to the intrigue, the manifold subtle interference and the cer- tain counter revolution which would be attempted by all the malignant influences which the German government has of late accustomed the world. Can peace be based upon a restitution of its power or upon any word of honor it could pledge in a treaty of settlement and accommodation? “Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see, if they never saw before, that no peace can rest securely upon political or economic restric- tions meant to benefit some nations and cripple or embarrass others, upon vindictive action of any sort, or any kind of revenge or deliberate injury. The American people have suffered intolerable wrongs at the hands of the imperial German government, but they desire no reprisal upon the German people who have themselves suffered all things in this war, which they did not choose. They believe that peace should rest upon the rights of peoples, not the rights of governments—the rights of peoples great or small, weak or powerful—their equal right to freedom and security and self-government and to a participation upon fair terms in the economic opportunities of the worldi—the German people of course included, if they will accept equality and not seek domination. “The test, therefore, of every plan of peace is this: It is based upon the faith of all the peoples involved or merely upon the word of an ambi- tious and intriguing government, on the one hand, and of a group of free people, on the other? This is a test which goes to the root of the matter, and it is the test which must be applied. “The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world—to every people to whom the truth has permitted to come. They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We beleive that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the imperial German government ought to be repaired, but not at the expense of the sovereignity of any people—rather a vindication of the sovereignity both of those that are weak and those that are strong. Punitive damages, the dismemberment of empires, the establishment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues, we deem inexpe- dient and in the end worse than futile, no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind. “We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guar- antee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people them- selves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting. Without such guarantees, treaties of settlement, agreements of disarma- ment covenants to set up arbitration in the place of force, territorial ad- justments, reconstitutions of small nations, if made with the German gov- ernment no man, no nation could now depend on. We must await some new evidence of the purposes of the great peoples of the central powers. God grant it may be given seen and in a way to restore the confidence of all people everywhere in the faith of nations and the possibilities of a covenanted peace. “ROBERT LANSING.” A i STOF » (4 a FORTY FIVE CENTS PER MONTH {IPPED L NO WAVERING BY AMERICA OR ALLIES UNTIL DEMOCRACY Hudson, Wis. Is People’s L'uu_m:il Site (Bulletin) By United Press Minneapolis, Aug. 30.—The Peo- ple’s Council will meet at Hudson, Wis., instead of at Fargo, Lochner announced this afternoon. The hall formerly used by a boxing club will be used. Governor Phillips of Wis- consin will permit the meeting, it is announced today. New l{fi}:fi‘ gfllxgr‘é%m—}(‘)ney hundred and fifty delegates to the Council at Fargo, N. D,, left today on a special train. the Minneapolis meeting will be held in Fargo. Lochner Silent. Minneanolis. Aug. 30.—Rumors that the People’s Council would not meet at Fargo, N. D.,, as planned could not be confirmed here. Loch- ner is in the city but refuses to see anyone. Headauarters will not deny the report but the convention has given up the Fargo plan tnough the officials assert the convention will be held at some place. ) Report No, Change. New YOI‘}(’?I\U[L 30.—The People’s Council office here reports no change in the plan to hold the convention at Fargo. Eastern delegates expect to leave this afternoon as originally planned. CATHOLICS PROTEST “MEXICAN TYRANNY” Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 30.—A resolution protesting against the “‘ir- religious tyranny masquerading un- der the name of democratic govern- ment in Mexico” and urging that the United States withhold any loan “until such iniquitous laws are re- pealed and religion made free” was adopted here by the convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies. DEATH PENALTY TO RESTORE DISCIPLINE (By United Press) London, Aug. 30.—The Russian provisional government has decided on a partial re-establishment of the death penalty to restore discipline in the army, says a Moscow dispatch. GREENBLAT RECEIVES WORD BROTHER WOUNDED AT FRONT M. A. Greenblat of this city re- ceived word today from his sister at Fort William, Canada, that she had a wire from the Canadian govern- ment to the effect that James Green- blat had been wounded in battle “somewhere in France.” The mes- sage was short and stated that the wound was in the left arm and that he was taken to a hospital. FORECAST OF OFFICIALS (By United Press) St. Paul, Aug. 30.—Not less than $2.50 per bushel, the price of wheat for 1917, will be set by the price fix- ing committee, Washington believes. Colonel March of the state public safety commission is back from the |conference at Washington. AN plarns made for many’s readiness to evacuate -~ REIGNS IN GERMANY (By United Press) Washington, Aug. 30.—The United States is going right ahead with war preparations and will not waver un- til the German people have stripped their kaiser of his autocratic powers. Peace this winter or next spring, or at least two more years of war is the prospect ahead. Military men and diplomats see that outlook. The allied diplomats have given their word that their nations agree with President Wilson as to no post bellum trade war. London Admires London, Aug. BOS.VRE?)IIYdon is moved to admiration to the reply of President Wilson to the pope’s peace proposal. More than one newspaper hails Wilson as the new leader of the allied cause. Chancellor Attacked. Copenhagen, Aug. 30.—Attacks up- on Imperial Chancellor Michaelis continue. 1In the Prussian year book Prof. Hans Delbrueck inquires of Dr. Michaelis why, if he really accepts the reichstag resolutions as the basis of his policy, he neglects to answer the inquiry made on July 26 in the People's English house of commons by For- mer Premier Asquith regarding Ger- and restore Belgium. Prof. Delbrueck, who openly ques- tions the good faith of the chancel- lor in professing to agree with the terms of the resolution, asks whether his silence in the face of Mr. As- quith’'s summons does not show that those are right who insist that Dr. Michaclis takes another standpoint from that contained in the resolu- tion. This Detail ? " Why If the German “government is ready to conclude a peace upon the basis of no annexations and no in- demnities,” asks the professor, “why all this unprecedented apparatus of a joint committee of the reichstag tand bundesrat to assist the chancel- lor in drawing up a simple answer to the pope’s proposal of peace on that basis?"” The reichstag’s resolution, Dr. Del- brueck concludes, would have had a different effect if it was not believed abroad that the reichstag is power- less and that the chancellor is double- tongued. In his speech in the house of com- mons on July 26 Former Premier Asquith asked if Germany was pre- pared to evacuate Belgium, to make reparation and to restore absolute in- dependence to Belgium. He said he would like to know the German an- swer to these questions. FARMERS ARE LOOKING TOWARD MAIL ROUTE B. J. Tollefson of Nary was a busi- ness visitor in Bemidji today. Mr. Tollefson is one of the progressive farmers of his community anu is in- terested in the development of this country. “The mail route which will be es- tablished through our part of the country is bound to help in every way,” said Mr. Tollefson, ‘“and we're anxious to get it started.” Mail will be delivered on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays beginning October 1, from the Bemidji post- office over this new route. RAIN HAMPERS BRITISH (By United Press) London, Aug. 30.—Rain is hamp- ering the British operations on the west front. NEW YORK'S GUARD LEAVE FOR TRAINING (By United Press) New York, Aug. 30.—Over 2,000,- 000 New Yorkers turned out today to bid farewell to the guardsmen who left for the cantonments. It took five hours for the parade to pdss. VISITING PARENTS Mrs. L. H. HeetlanG and children have arrived from Sibley, Ia., to visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Busn, and her sister, Mrs. E. Hollenbeck. T o e e v i e e