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

"BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. @G. E. CARSON E. H. DENU TELEPHONE 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878, No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer’s name must be known to the editor, but not necessarily for pupllcsuon. Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this offiee not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. e s e, S These are _ Good-Service \ i/ 3 - - Advertisers - Offering you their “good ‘aervlc 3 and spending money to tell this community about themselves. Why not call them up? DEAN LAND CO. Land, pnnnu, Insurance and City Property Troppman Block Bamliljl SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER BY MAIL One year .... Six months .. Six months . Three months . One month . One week ... - THE WEEKLY PIONEER Ten pages, containing & summary of the news of the week. rnp- . lished every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in 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 aud Chicago, branches in all principal cities. THE BOND ISSUE FOR THE BRIDGE Now that the proposition for the issuance of $5,000 in bonds for the improvement of the city building has gone by the board, it leaves the single special election for the issuance of $25,000 in bonds for the new bridge to be voted on October 29. The $25,000 is to pay for the bridge for which no provision was ever made when that farce of a contract was let. It is up to the taxpayers to pay for the bridge and that is all there is to it. The contract has been turned up to the spotlight and its illegality asserted without any refutation. It is admitted it was illegal but on this contract has been built the bridge with all its attendant allegations and insinuations. The contractors tried time and time again to switch the details of the contract, and now at the last meeting of the council it developed that when their claims for estimates were presented they were accompanied by an affidavit that all bills had been pald. This hasn't always been true, but when the St. Hilaire Lumber company came to bat with an unpaid bill of nearly $5,800 it made the aldermen and spectators gasp. It has been a great game all around, and the taxpayers have learned something. At least they should have learned at least something, for it is now up to them at this time to dig into their pockets and pay for the costly bridge. The whole mess should be cleaned up. It has been a stench in the nostrils of the taxpayers and citizens of Bemidji. It is time to clean the slate and get it out of one’s system as much as possible, and those who have to dig up should consider themselves lucky that they didn’t get it any worse. Vote for the bonds and pay the bill. It's up to you. GERMANY “AFTER THE WAR” A consular officer, stationed in Germany prior to the rupture of rela- tions, pictures the demoralization of German industrial activity; and pre- dicts that it will be years before the Germans can regain their old position in the commercial world, even if peace should come soon. He argues that the transformation of many establishments into war factories has de- stroyed their efficiency under a return to their old lines of production, that the absence of workmen in the army will unfit them for a resumption of normal employment when they are released from the trenches, and that the idleness of mills will atrophy their effectiveness when they begin op- erations once more. It is a pleasing prospect thus presented; but it is not true. German efficiency after the war will be enhanced by the rigid military standards which the war will have set up for the men who will go back from the trenches to the factories. The pressure of taxation upon the nation will be a stimulus to increased productivity. France was not crushed by the billion francs which Bismarck exacted from her in 1871; she was stirred to redoubled energy in order to pay it off. Germany will have an even larger incentive. German genius has developed in war time, as all her cruel devices on land and sea have shown. That genius will go back to work after the war with sharpened capacity. It will be an alert and necessitous Germany which will betake itself from war to commerce—and any nation which discounts German compe- tition after the war will be even more foolish than the United States was last year, in believing that we could continue to be “kept out of war.” SHOULD BE DEPORTED FROM AMERICA From time to time we have remarked that a great portion of the I. W. W. is composed of an Austrian alien horde, using as a criterion the arrests for lawlessness made on the part of the I. W. W. on the range and through- out northern Minnesota. And now comes the statement from government authorities that practically 80 per ¢ ent of the I. W. W. is composed of Austrians. With the various cleanups on the range and in Duluth, when a bunch would be rounded up and arraigned, it was always that numbers of Aus- trians were included and upon one occasion in Duluth when seven arrests were made five of them were alien Austrians, if memory serves rightly. In other words, the United States has not declared war upon Austria and Austria being an ally of Germany has made it an easy matter for them to roam at will and commit law violations and depredations with little attention paid them until the present. But all enemies of the United States are feeling the grip of Uncle Sam in their traitorous propagandas to help Germany against America. It would seem that the government should take drastic action with all enemy aliens and in the future look out for the influx of such unde- sirables, as make up an organization like the 1. W. W. and deport those we now have who know no law. It is refreshing to hear of at least one honest excuse for raising prices. The oyster men have put up the price on their fruit “because other articles of food are dearer.” These are the days when the dealer in ice and coal gets all mixed up in an effort to determine which product to push the hardest. ’ The bachelor may contend for a right to his own opinion, but the married man knows it is a question of courage, with him. President Wilson seems to insinuate that the Kaiser is “another.” N. L. HARKERUP PHOTOGRAPHER Photos Day and Night GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour, Feed, etc. - The careful buyers buy here. W. G. SCHROEDER Bemidji Phone 66 Eat at THE HOME CAFE Gordon Burns, Prop. Corner 3rd St. and Beltrami Ave. KOORS BROTHERS CO. Bakers and Confectioners Manufacturers and Jobbers Ice Cream, Bakery Goods, Confee- tionery, Cigars and Fountain . Goods 316 Minn. Ave. Phone 126 THE DAILY PIONEER receives wire service of the UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Wholesale and Retalil Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines % 117 Third St. Phone 573-W J. BISIAR, Manager Bemidjl L. P, ECKSTRUM Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating g Get our estimate Phones 5566 and 309 Hair dressing, manicuring, face massage, scalp treatment, switches made from combings $1.50. Corns, ingrown nails treated a specialty. MINA MYERS 311 6th St. Phone 113-W HUFFMAN & O'LEARY FURNITURE & UNDERTAKING H. N. McKEE, Fyne;'ql Dlrec&or: PHONE 178-W or B FUNERAL DIRECTOR M. E. IBERTSON 'UNDERTAKER - | 405 Beltrami Ave. Bemidi Ladies’ and Gents’ Sulls t MADE to ORDER | Cleaning, pressing and alterations of allkinds. All work up-to-date, first classe workmanship | | T. Beaudette, il Merchant Tallor 210 Third Street When it is X repaired by THEBEMIDJI JEWELR YCO. Phene 488 210 3rd Street, z S ESS SSIONAL A. V. GARLOCK, M. D. SPECIALIST EYE EAR 'NOSE THROAT : Glasses Fitted ¢ ‘Gibbons Bldg. Phone 105 L.pp. RINER JOHNSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON " Bemidji, Minn, DR. J. W. DIEDRICH DENTIST Oftice O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. Oftice Phone 376-W Res. Phone 376-R " DR. L. A, WARD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Troppman Block Bemidji, Minn. DR. J. T. TUOMY DENTIST North of Markham Hotel Gibbons Block Tel. 230 GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Miles Block Phone 560 ~~DR. E. H;"SMITH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Oftice Security Bank Bleck DR. E. A, SHANNON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Mayo Block Phone 396 Res. Phone 397 DR. G. M. PALMER DENTIST Office Phone 124 Residence 346 Miles Block, Bemidji TOM SMART DRAY AND TRANSFER Safe and Piano Moving Res. Phone 68 818 America Office Phone 12 ‘IDA VIRGINIA BROWN Instructor in VOICE DRAMATIC ART Phone 633 1017 Minn. Ave. PIANO Bemidji THORWALD LUNDE CHIROPRACTOR Acute and Chronic Diseases han- 1ded with great success First National Bank Building Bemidji, Minn. Phone 406-W Hours 10-12 a. m.; 2-56 7-8 p. m. DR. C. B. SANBORN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Oftice—Miles Block J. WARNINGER VETERINARY SURGEON Office and Hospital 3 doors west of Troppman Store Phone No. 209 SCHOOL OF MUSIC Teachers of VIOLIN, PIANO AND BAND INSTRUMENTS Phone 683-W 116 3rd St. 3rd St. and Irvine Ave. "DRS. GILMORE & McCANN ° PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS ;] Oftice—Miles Block i " DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Winter Block DR. H. A. NORTHROP OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Suite 10, O'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Office Phone 153 ‘How doyou do it?” Mr, Business-man asked his wife' ‘“Here’s the cost of everything gone up sky-high and you keep the table on the same old allowance.” “Why, I buy Koor’s Bread. ] “It costs 12¢ but it's a great big loaf that tastes good and takes the place of other things that cost more. “I ecan fix it in those sandwiches you like so well, put the end of it in a bread pudding and serve it in a hundred and one ways that satisfies everybody and keeps down expenses. “It’s a godsend these days.” That’s just what it is. It’s the best and biggest value in food you can buy. Save the silverware coupons; they are actually worth over a cent apiece. Try Koors Bread—12c. Your Grocer has it. “IT"S BIGGER AND BETTER” I KOORS BROTHERS COMPANY II The Telephone’s Part in the Great War As we become larger participants in the great war, the demands of the government upon the telephone industry for men, for- equipment and for local and long distance service are greatly increasing., New construction needed to'meet the increased demands for service by the government and by private activity due to war conditions has been held back by the shortage of both labor and materials. In this time of the nation’s greatest need you can help us “do our bit” for the government by asking only fof equip- ment you must have and by making only such local and long distance calls as are absolutely necessary. - NORTHWESTERN ‘TELEPHONE EXCHANGE COMPANY The Sound of Marching Feet will soon be heard throughout the Land But--- Before YOUR boy * Falls In” see that he visits our ‘studio. We'll make you the BEST picture he ever had. The Hakkerup Studio BEMID]J, MINN BEMIDJI HORSE-MARKET: 'We Buy and SelliHorses, Harnesses and Viehicles. ' 'Moberg Construction:Company _ Yemphene 278 Semidjl, Minn. RULLLULLLL LU L WE HAVE THE LOTS What kind of a lot are you looking for? A good business site? A location for a fine residence? Or just a place for a cozy litte home? EASY PAYMENTS Pick yours out and call on our loeal agent, The Berman Agency, Markham Hotel Bldg., for prices and September discount. BEMIDJI TOWNSITE COMPANY Capital Nat. Bank Bldg. Automobile Troubles Relieved 2 Stop that knock and save your gas bill. We make a specialt . y of carbon burning and valve grinding. This work wel;l done will save you 25 per cent on your gass bill. We handle the celebrated Republic tire, guaranteed the best. LETFORD’S CARACE Eflmmmmmnnfinmmnnuwmummmwmm'