Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 13, 1917, Page 2

THE BErIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. @. B. CARSON E. H. DENU TELEPHONE 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer’s name must be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pionger must reach this office not & later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES G BY CARRIER BY MAIL One year ... : .$500 Onmeyear .............. Six months .. . 250 Six months ...... Three months .. . 125 Three months One month .... 45 One week .... 12 2] ORCANIZED 1867 l. Bemidjf, Minn. BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL S R S R R A. V. GARLOCEK, M. D. SPECIALIST BYE EAR NOSE THROAT *® Glasses Fitted % Gibbons Bldg. Phone 105 XKEEEEXEXKEARNEXE & IR E R R R R RS B EEE R ' DR. EINER JOHNSON & PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON * * * x EXEREXRXRXXRNEX X X& I EE SRR R R RS LR EER] DR. J, W, DIEDRICH & Oftice O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Oftice Phone 376-W Res. Phone 376-R XXX EXEXKXETXXEXE I EE SRR R R EEEEE RN *hk K * %k * DR. L. A. WARD &« PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON x Troppman Block * Bemidji, Minn. KR XXX R R KRR KEH EEEX KRR KEAER RS THE WEEKLY PIONEER Ten pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Pub- lished every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in advance ...... s SeR e v s vance SIS P $1.50 OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS The Daily Pioneer is a member of the United Press Association, and 1s represented for foreign advertising by the General offices in New York and Chicago, branches in all principal cities. CO-OPERATION OR CALAMITY? (By HENRY M. HYDE) The railroad prospect in the United States for the coming fall and winter is extremely serious, not to say alarming. It will require the great- est co-operation on the part of shippers, railroads and public officials to prevent something like a disaster. It is admitted that the railroads have done almost miracles in pooling their resources and increasing their efficiency. It is also true that ship- pers generally have, by promptly loading and unloading cars and by in- creasing the load carried by each car, helped to greatly increase the traffic handled with the same equipment. But if experience proves anything, it will be necessary for railroads, their patrons and everybody else concerned to make still greater exertions or the wheels of ordinary business w1 be largely blocked before next spring. Here are some admitted facts which should help the reader, who cares to take the trouble, to form his own conclusions as to what is likely to bappen: For the first time in history the railroads of the United States show a summer shortage of freight cars in 1917. On Aug. 1, 1917, the roads had a demand for 33,700 more cars than they could furnish. On July 1, 1916, there was a surplus of unused freight cars in the country amounting to 52,000. On Aug. 1, 1916—one year ago—there were still 10,000 freight cars idle. 1t is greatly to the credit of both railroads and shippers that the car surplus of last year was not changed into a much greater car shortage than 33,000 when one considers that the actual freight traffic handled has in- creased during the year by 26 per cent. The railroads have added practically nothing to their equipment in the way of freight cars and locomotives since a year ago. The official figures show an increase of 3 per cent in the number of freight cars over 1916. But in that year the number of cars was actually less than in 1915. This year's tiny jump brings back the number to about what it was two years ago. . 1t is certain that the demands which will be made on the railroads during the next six months will be enormously greater than during the same period last year. During the next sixty days more than 1,500,000 men must be moved, some of them more than once. Thirty-two canton- ments and tent cities of 40,000 inhabitants each must be.furnished and constantly supplied with food munitions and equipment. Some of these great training camps are located far from railroad centers on branch lines. It will take more time to serve such encampments than if the same num- ber of people were located in or near a great city. The government has bought and is buying incredably large quanti- ties of raw and manufactured materials. They must all be moved. The wheat and oat crops are beginning to move. The biggest potato crop in the history of the country is being dug. An enormous corn crop will be harvested within sixty gdays. We have undertaken to supply food and fuel to half the world. All these things will make huge demands on the railroads. “We must win the war at whatever cost or sacrifice,”” said Daniel Willard. president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and chairman of the advizory council of the national council of defense. ‘No cost or sac- rifice could be so great as that involved in a national defeat. Troops, mu- nitions. war material of whatever nature will be given right of way on the railroads. Everything else must wait on the military needs of the gov- ernment.” E Nashville, Tenn., which is *bone dry,” has $50,000 worth of contra-| bhand hoeze stored in the death crll in the county jail, and old soaks of that city are wondering if a death sentence would not be a blessing in disguise. “Wilson Names 184 Generals,” caid a recent headline. While noth- ing is stated to that effect, we presume the colonels will continue to be created in Kentucky, as heretofore. RAA A AT ARAAKNAAKRAAKRAARAARRE AAX K AR KA R AN A AR AKRAXRT A ARARAARRAE AARAAAARN AR RN N RS Kk k ok Fellow ‘tother day remarked to a friend of ours, ‘““Can’t understand that fellow. Can't make out what he’s writing about most of the time.” Neither can we. i - i Subscribe for the Pioneer | NN NN nannnm - * DR. J. T. TUOMY . * DENTIST oottt il Sl Bl Sttt il * North of Markham Hotel L ¥ Gibbons Block. Tel. 330 9 IR R ER R R R R R BN :tllttl'nt.tlttz GRAHAM M. TORRANCE * LAWYER . +« Miles Block Phone 560 ¢ I EE R SRR R R EE R RN ISR R EE R R BB KR EEERE] DR. E. H. SMITH hd * * * & PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON %] % Office Security Bank Block # IEEEREEEEEEE L ERRL KX XXX R XX XXX EKED * DR.E. A SHANNON, M.D. * & PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ¢ * Office in Mayo Block * % Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 ¢ HEEKEEE KKK ED I EE SRR R E LS LR R RN DR. G, M. PALMER * DENTIST ) Office Phone 124, Residence 340 ¢ Mtles Block, Bemidji 4 B2 W NN IS AR E R R R R ' TOM SMART . Safe and Plano Moving . Res. 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Marked in plain figures at prices that should prove satisfactory to you, ranging at $9.90, $12.50, $14.75, $16.50, $18.50 SaltsPlushes.satin lined, $22.50 t0$29.75 A Visit through Our Ready-to-Wear.Department Will Benefit You 209- 3rd Street - Bemidji, Minn, L dg oo fncorporated 75 BUSY STORES T —— e e > --- It You Fail to See --- C. E. Battle’s Exhibit At Fair Qo A Moline Universal Farm Tractor will be found plowing in the field adjoining. It is a one-man machine cvred by Carl Opsata and will be operated by him, showing the farmers some real plow- ing with a tractor. E Splittsloser Potato Diggers E. W. Splittsloser, maker of this potato digger, from North Branch, Minn., will be here demon- strating the new picker and buncher-digger. N. Steneide, representing Minnesota Moline Plow Co., will be in attendance and gladly answer any questions regarding Moline Universal Tractors, Splittsloser Potato Diggers or anything else about the Moline Plow Company’s line of farming tools. See Tent Exhibit In our tents we will show Sheldon, “Pride of Sweden” Separators, Hercules Gas Engines, Be- " midji-Made Stump Pullers, Splittsloser Regular Potato Diggers, with Mr. J. Ford in charge of the Gas Engine Department. Remember that you will not have seen all the Fair until you visit C. E. BATTLES SPECIAL EXHIBITS UNDER TENT AND IN THE OPEN R, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER o ey THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1917 A handsome new line of Ladies’ tailored Suits in materials as, Men’s Wear Serges, Poriet Twill, Broad-’ cloth, Gabardine and Tricotine, fashioned by recog-¢ nized designers to meet the demands in the present | modes. Our buyers are in the best marts daily, keep- ' " v R e s e —— i | | ! e S ——— ™ P i st e