Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 11, 1917, Page 2

' g represented for foreign advertising by the ‘mistletoe—just take & Second thought. . BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER _PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BXCEPT SUNDAY——-— THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. ‘ 8. E. CARSON i i ., B.H. DENU, ; ; HONE. 923 ' Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter under act of Congress of March '3, 1879, E No attention paid t‘o.aqon,yméul .ccnmlbutl:)li:l'. _ Writer's name ‘must be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. i Communications for the Weekly Ploneer must reach this office not Iater than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current: issue. taining & ‘summary of ‘the news of the week. Pub- Hshed every Thursdsy and sent postage to any address, for, in sdvance ....... X ey e e e e o - +$1.50 OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS « The Daily Pioneer is & member of the United Press Association, an MER| k?fi'_;{lzis ATEAETRTION. | General offices in New York aud Chicago, branches {n all principal cittes. GOING “TO. GIVE IT T0” AD WILSON The United States has her Wilson and so has the state of Minnesota— A. D. Wilson, state food director—and we're going to 'fess right up that this Wilson personage has always been a sort of mystery to us, and we dare say to thousands more, but we're “next’ = to him now and we are go* ing “to give it to him,” as the popular saying goes, apd tell the people of Bemidji and Beltrami county and vicinity the reason they don’t know him because he is just about the busiest individual to be found in many moons and he’s working for the people of Minnesota. We have received considerable literature from the Wilson_ state food administration, pretty good stuft at that, and have used much of it for the ‘campaign of food conservation for the state, and we thought, like many others, no doubt, that A. D. Wilson was a sort of swivel chair executive with a competent corps’ of typawrlfer' hammerers and a theoretical knowl- edge of how to make a snowball serve as a square meal for a chap who works 'about ’steen hours per day in sub-zero weather, but, as we said, we're “next” to him now. y Sunday, this Wilson man, was up to the Crookston lumber camps. He was out in the dense forests in weather that would make an ordinary mor- tal steal a red hot stove. He drove from Tenstrike to Kelliher. He was looking after the interests of the lumber company and the men in the camps in the co-operative campaign of food conservation, for the best in- terests of all concerned. He was working like a dockwalloper when others wre listening to a radiator sing, and what’s more he has been doing just such work with the brass band ,nccompnniment a long way off. He is “there” on getting out information for the ‘‘other fellow” in Minnesota’s war work, but he's a poor press agent for A. D. Wilson. i3 In his jaunt Sunday he was accompanied by an assistant who will re- main in the lumber camps in that vicinity for at least a couple of weeks, instructing the cooks of the camps and the lumber company camp managers and officials in the campaign of food conservation, and yet obtain satis- factory results so far as it affects the men and the interests of the com- panies. «Phat fellow is doing more than I had any idea of,” remarked B. W. Lakin, logging superintendent of the Crookston company, to the editor of the Pioneer. “At first I considered it a lot of bother when we were asked to take him and his men garound on our roads land into the camps, but he’s looking after our interests and the l_umber interests and we're doing all we can to co-operate. Anyone who will get out on a job like he is and stay out all day in zero weather away up here in the woods has got me guessing and I'm for him. He's got some job all right.” And now we know what sort of a hairpin Wilson is and what he is doing and we're going “to give it to him” for being on the job—and he hasn’t any snap, by any means. “THE OQTHER SIDE” OF WAR WORK There is aleo “ihe cther side” in the work of the special recruiting committee of Bemidji, ramed at the request of the then Captain Ned M. Green of Duluth, and there is ¢1so the “other side” of the work of the Red Cross chapter of Beltrami county. i Bemidji is the home of the cpzeial committee and also the headquar- ters of the county chapter of the Red Cross, but there are organizations throughout the county which are units of the county chapter. It was a time like yesterday that the special committee and.the Red Cross are felt for their work and influence. There arrived in Bemidji yes- . terday morning a delegation of young men from various points of the county to enlist for the cause of Uncle Sam. The boys who left for Du- luth and on to Jefferson Barracks were splendid of young manhood. They were, for the most part, strangers in Bemidji, so far as being identified with the community was concerned, yet they were youth of Beltrami county and they were some mothers’ boys, and-they were heartily welcome. They were not permitted to pass unnoticed. The time was short and it was regretted a more fitting farowell could not be arranged but, withal, the special committee saw to it that the volunteers were plentifully sup- plied with smokes, candy, gum, chocolates, etc.” The Red Cross gave to each young volunteer a “housewife,” a specially prepared, compact kit containing needles, thread pins and a variety of what will be useful in’ caring for clothing. : They didn’t pass unnoticed through Bemidji. BRAINERD'S BIG “THREE RING CIRCUS” Brainerd had the biggest show in the history of Northern Minnesota last week, when the Northern Minnesota Development association met in that city, also the state potato growers and the sheep growers of northern Minnesota, making “three big rings” under the same tent. And the way Brainerd took care of the affair speaks highly for Brainerd and her live wire business men. Returning delegates and visitors to Brainerd speak enthusiastically of the ‘“attractions” and the hospitality of Brainerd. Aside from the social feature and the program of entertainment, the meetings of the association mean much to this part of the state. They are the start of the sheep growers and the continuation of the good work being done by the other associations. The men interested are the farm- ers and business men of Northern Minnesota and the state at large, the live wires who do things. They are looking ahead and they are building for the future. Northern Minnesota is pushing rapidly to the fromt in development and there will be no letup on the part of the officers and members of these three associations. They are the men who do not do things by halves nor in any manner except that of a workman, and what they have cut out for the future will be finished. ~ - If any further proof were needed to convince one that “the pen is mightier than the sword,” one has only to recall the price of pork. If you see her standing pensively and absent-mindedly beneath the GENERAL MERCHANDISE Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes, Flour, Feed, etc. The careful buyers buy here. o Automobile LIGHTNING HAS STRUCK, SO WE ARE GOING TQ PUT IT SQUARELY UP TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD WHO INTENDS TO PURCHASE A FORD AR, AND WHO IS PUTTING. IT OFF FROM: DAY TO DAY, OR UNTIL SPRING. LT THE FORD,MOTOR COMPANY OF MINNEAPOLIS ' HAS CUT' ITS. PRODUC: TION FROM TWO HUNDRED AND.FIFTY CARS PER DAY TO ONE HUNDRED AND, EIGHTY, ON ACSOUNT.OF THE SCHARCITY OF MATERIAL. THEY WERE WAY BE: HIND ON ORDERS, WITH A PRODUCTION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY CARS - PER DAY; WHAT WILL IT-MEAN NOW THAT THEIR OUT-PUT 18 CUT PRACTIC- ALLY IN TWO? ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION, THEN THINK IT "OVER, 'AND. YOUR ANSWER CAN: BE-BUT ONE THING. IF YOU WANT A FORD CAR; OR-EVEN. THINK YOU ARE GOING TO WANT IT; BUY IT NOW, TODAY. S HERE IS THE PLAIN: TRUTH: SOME OF THE BIG MANUFACTURERS WILL NOT BE ABLE-TO BUILD ANY AUTOMOBILES NEXT SEASON, BECAUSE THE GOV- ERNMENT IS USING, OR PREPARING TO USE, THEIR FACTORIES FOR BUILDING- AEROPLANES, MOTOR: TRUCKS, MUNITIONS. OTHER MANUFACTURERS, FRIGHT- ENED BY WAR CONDITIONS, SUCH AS SCARCITY, AND HIGH COST OF LABOR, SCARCITY. OF FREIGHT CARS, UNCERTAINTY OF MATERIAL, - SUPPLIES, "ETG, HAVE CUT THEIR 1918 PRODUCTION TO ONE-HALF OR LESS. MANUFACTURERS. THAT HAVE HERBROFORE BEEN BEST ABLE TO DELIVER, WILL NOW BB LEAST _ABLE, BECAUSE THE BIG,WELL EQUIPPED PLANTS ARE.THE VERY ONES THE GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE. THIS IN.INDEED UNFORTUNATE FOR'THE AUTOMOBILE DEALER WHO WILL BE UNABLE :TQ. GET CARS, BECAUSE WE ARE ON THE EVE OF THE GREAT- . EST ERA OF PROSPERITY THIS OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY. HAS EVER;ENOWN, THE UNITED,STATES HAS. BECOME.THE MARKET PLACE OF THE WORLD. MIL- LIONS UPON: MILLIONS :OF: DOLLARS ARE BEING PAID TO US, NOT ONLY "‘BY THE NATIONS AT WAR, BUT BY NEUTRAL' COUNTRIES THAT FOBMERLY BOUGHT FRQM THE-WARRING NATIONS. f FARMERS, HAVE .NEVER RECEIVED SUCH HIGH PRICES FOR CROPS ‘AR, THEY WILL UNDER-THE PRESENT .CONDITIONS. ' THE WAGE EARNER WILL GET 'MORE MONEY THAN HE HAS EVER GOTTEN IN HIS LIFE BEFORE. WE STAND, ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE COUNTRY’S GREATEST PROSPERITY, 'BUT 'WE. . MUST FIGURE.AS. WE HAVE NEVER FIGURED BEFORE, IN ORDER TO BENEFIT BY THIS PROSPERITY. : THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY HAS PUT IT UP:TO US “COLD "TURKEY.” HERE IS THEIR LETTER: “WE CAN.ONLY SHIP YOU CARS.TO TAKE CARE QF . BONA FIDE ORDERS FROM:YQUR CUSTOMERS.” HERE IS ' WHERE WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE CO-OPERATE WITH US. WE HAVE A SPECIAL PROPOSITION WHICH. WE CAN EXPLAIN IN A FEW MOMENTS, THAT WILL ARRANGE MATTERS SO THAT YOU CAN BE-ASSURED OT HAVING YOUR FORD CAR NEXT SPRING WHEN YOU WANT IT. BUT, YOU AND.WE MUST HAVE A LITTLE VISIT ON, THE MAT- TER AND. THE SOQNER THE BETTER. IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR CAR YOU ARE OUT THE USE OF IT, AND'WE HAVE LOST MONEY BECAUSE WE LOST THE SALE, BUT THE MANUFACTURER IS MAKING MONEY .JUST THE SAME, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SALE FOR ALL THE CARS THEY CAN MAKE, OR POSSIBLY OAN MANUFAC- TURE SOME OTHER ARTICLE(THAT IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN AUTOMOBILES. 'THE CAR IS THE SAME IN PRICE, TOURING - CAR- $360.00, RUNABQUT $345.00, ¥ 0. B. THE FACTORY. BUT THERE IS A SLIGHT RAISE, THIS SOON'WHEN:YOU FIGURE.THE PRICE AT THIS POINT. 'BUY NOW, YOU CAN'T LOSE. EVERY COM: MODITY IS GOING. UP,.AND THIS PRICE OF §360.00 1S NOT GUARANTEED AGAINST A RAISE, EVEN.FOR.TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. PLEASE CO.OPEBATE WITH US. 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