Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 1, 1918, Page 4

: i i FARMER ALLY 4 OF DEMOGRACY . IN GREAT WAR Tller of Soll as Essential to- Suc- cess as-the Soldier or the. Gun Maker. IMPORTANGE REALIZED Agrieuitural Interests Recelve Early Ceonsideration From Public Safety Commission—Help and Inspir- ation Given—State ' to Double Production. Democracy’s principal ally in this great war for the dethronement of Prussianism is the farmer. Though guits may thunder and cities crumble before the onslaughts of the millions now engaged in the great cause, peace, everlasting peace can come only through the lowly tiller of the soil. To the thoughtless this may not ap- peal, but how inseparably the great causo and the farmer are linked is in- dicated in the unusual deference be- ing shown him by- those directing the allied interests. No battle is complete without the farmer. God speed him, is the constant supplication. Among the first of the state war units to recognize the importance of the farmer in his relation to the great confiict was the Minnesota State Safe- ty commission. Early.was the consid- eration given the agricultural inter- ests of the state by this body and in its twelve months. of existence little hes been overlooked in the way of help and patriotic inspiration. Re- turns in consequence have been many fold and further help is contemplated. This year should see Minnesota's food production doubled and as tho main source of that production is the farmers of the state the task the Min- nesota safety commission has before it can be appreciated. And that the Commission will succeed there is lit- tle doubt as it has the confidence of the farmers and they will respond to a man. One of the most active of the Min- nesoia Safety body in an agricultural way is C. H. March, vice president of the commission and a farmer him- self. - As the head of the agricultural division of the state organization both his time and his money have been freely given in its furtherance. Re- cently Mr. March returned from ‘Washington where he went at the instance of Gov. Burnquist and the members of the Commission and his visit was not only of value to the agricultural interests of Minnesota, but to the entire Northwest. If only the promise of an increased fixed price for the 1918 wheat crop, which was one of the objects of the visit, i8 realized, this intervention alone will be worth many millions of dol- lars to the farmers of the state. At the command of Gov. Burnquist and the Minnesota Safety commission Mr. Mareh placed before President Wilson and those interested in food production a number of things neces- sary to the success of the farmers and the additional production which is so urgently desired and was successful to the extent that many reforms will undoubtedly follow. Not the least of the promises obtained was aid in behalf of a substantial increase in the government fixed price for wheat and a partial return to state grain grades which have been superseded by federal standards. Acting on be- half of the commission Mr. March pointed out to President Wilson snd his war aides the great work Minne- sota farmers are doing and urged as generous a government compensation as other lines of endeavor are now re- ceiving. Such was only justice. One of the early agricultural activi- tles of the commission was the sup- plying of farm help made necessary by the draft. With the usual sources of supply cut off by the national call to arms the Commission at once took over the free employment machinéry of the state and much financial loss was averted as a result. This year even greater plans are in preparation for the harvest call, Auncther of the early problems was transportation and how it was handled by the Commission is best told in the thousands of frelght cars that have been forwarded to every section of the state at the urgent call of farmers and communities generally. Any dearth jn this respect has been kept down to the minimum. One of the chief features of the success of the Commission in an agri- cultural way has been the confidence its activities has inspired. Education and patriotic appeal, instead of of- ficial commands have been the main feature of its propaganda and as 8 resuit general cooperation is greater than ever in the history of the state. Today the commission . has more in- timate relations and is in closer touch with the farmers of Minnesota thaam any other known agency. ‘With the opening of the new crop year efforts of the Minnesota Safety commission will be redoubled in mak- ing it a record breaker and there is every reason to believe that the fond- est Lopes of those in charge will be reslized. Anticipating such, plans that will carry the commission well into the harvest seesson are in the making and these cover every phase &8 fm work and state delp - Without a Country By . Edward Everett Hale ‘ontinued. should rémember thaf after 1817 the position of every officer who had No- ‘lan {n charge was one of the greatest delicacy. The government had failed to renew the order of 1807 regarding him. What was a man to do? Should he let him go? What, then, if he were called to account by the depart- ment for violating the order, of 18077 Should he keep him? What, then, if Nolan should be liberated some day, and should bring an action for false imprisonment or kidnaping against ev- ery man who had had him in charge? I urged and pressed this upon South- ard, and I have reason to think that other officers did the same thing. But the secretary always said, as they so often do at Washimgton, that there were no special orders to give, and that we must act on our own judg- ment. That means, “If you succeed, you will be sustained; if you fail, yov will be disavowed.” Well, as Danforth says, all that is over now, though I do not know but I expose myself to a criminal prosecution on the evidence of the very revelation I am making. Here is the letter: “Levant, 2° 2”7 8. @ 131° W. “Dear Fred—I try to find heart and life to tell you that it is all over with dear old Nolan. I have been with him on this voyage more than I ever was, and I can understarrd wholly now the way in which you used to speak of the dear old fellow. I could see that he was not strong, but I had no idea that the end was 8o near. The doctor had been watching him very carefully, and yesterday morning came to me and told me that Nolan was not so well, and had not left his stateroom—a thing I never remember before. He Lad let the doctor come and see him as he. lay there, the first time the doctor had been in the stateroom, and he said he should like to see me. Oh, dear! do you remember the mysteries we boys used to invent about his room, in the old Intrepid days? Well, I went in, and there, to be sure, the poor fel- low lay in his berth, smfling pleasant- ly as he gave me his hand, but look- ing very frail. I could not /help a glance rownd, which showed me what a little shrine he had made of the box he was lying in. The starg and stripes were triced up above amd around a picture of Waushington, and he had painted a majestic eagle, with light- nings blazing from his beak and his foot just clasping the whole globe, which - his' wings overshadowed. The dear old boy saw my glance, and said, with a sad smile, ‘Here, you see, I have a country!” And then he pointed to the foot of his bed, where I had not geen before a great map of the United States, as he had drawn it from mem- ory, and which he had there to look upon as he lay. Quaint, queer old names were on-it, in large letters: ‘Indiana Territory,’ ‘Mississippi Ter- ritory,’ and ‘Louisiana,’ as I supposed our fathers learned such things; but the old fellow had patched in Texas, too; he had carried his western boun- dary all the way to the Pacific, but on that shore he had defined nothing. “‘Oh, Danforth,’ he said, ‘T know 1 am dying. I cannot get home. Sure- ly you will tell me something now? Stop! stop! Do not speak till I say what I am sure you know, that there is not in this ship, that there is not in America—God bless her!—a more loyal man than I. There cannot be a man who loves the old flag as I do, or prays for it as I do, or hopes for it as I do. There are thirty-four.stars in it now, Danforth. I thank God for that, though I do not know what their names are. There has never been one taken away; I thank God for that. 1 know by that, that there has never been any successful Burr. Oh, Dan- forth, Danforth,” he sighed out, ‘how like a wretched night's dream a boy’s idea of personal fame or of separate sovereignty seems, when one looks back on it after such a life as mine! But tell me—tell me something—tell me everything, Danforth, before I die! “Ingham, I swear to you that I felt like & monster that I had not told him everything before. Danger or no dan- ger, delicacy or no delicacy, who was I that I should have been acting the tyrant all this time over this dear, sainted old man, who had years ago expiated, in his whole manhood’s life, the madness of a boy's treason? ‘Mr. Nolan, said I ‘I will tell you everything you ask about. Only, where shall I begin? 5 “Oh, the blessed smile that crept over his white face! and he pressed my band and sald, ‘God bless youl Tell me thelr names,” he sald, and he point- ed to the stars on the flag. ‘The last I know is Ohio. My father lived in Kentucky. But I have guessed Mich- igan and Indiana and Mississippi—that was where Fort Adams is—they make twenty. But where are your other fourteen? You have not cut up any of the old ones, I hope? “Well, that was not a bad text, and I told him the names, in as good or- der as I could, and he bade me take down his beautifdl map and draw them in as I best could with my pencil. He was wild with delight sbout Texas, o s told me how his brother” dled there; he had marked a gold cross where he supposed his brother’s grave was; and he had guessed at Texag. Then he was delighted as he saw California and Oregon—that, he sald, he had sus- pected partly, because he had never been permitted to land on that shore, though the ships were there so much. ‘And the men,’ ssaid he, laughing, ‘brought off a good deal besides furs. Then he went back—heavens, how far—to ask about the Chesapeake, and what- was done to Barron for surren- dering her to the Leopard, and wheth- er Burr ever tried again, and he ground his teeth with the only passion he showed. But in a moment that was over, and he said, ‘God forgive me, for I am'sure I forgive him. Then he nskedJ about the old war—told me the true story of his serving the “Tell Me Their Names,” He Said. gun the day we took the Java—asked about dear old David Porter, as he called him. Then he settled down more quietly, and very happily, to hear me tell in an hour the history of fifty years. “How I wished it had been some- body who knew something! But I did as well as I could. I told him of the English war. I told him about Ful- ton and the steamboat beginning. I told him about old Scott and Jackson; told him all I could think about the Mississippi, and New Orleans, and Texas, and his own old Kentucky. And do you know he asked who was In command of the ‘Legion of the West? I told him it was a very gal- lant officer named Grant, and that by our last news, he was about to estab- tish his headquarters at , Vicksburg. Then, ‘Where was Vicksburg? I worked that out on the map; it was about a hundred miles, more or less, above his old Fort Adams; and 1 thought Fort Adams must” be a ruin now. ‘It must be at old Vick's- plan- tation,” said he; ‘well, that is.a change ! & % “I tell you, Ingham, it was & hard thing to condense the history of half a century into that talk with a sick man. And I do not know what I told him—of emigration, and the means of it—of steamboats and railroads and telegraphs—of Inventions axd books and literature—of the colleges and West Point and the Naval school— but with the queerest interruptions that ever you heard. You see it was Robinson Crusoe asking all the accu- nulated questions of fifty-six years. “T remember he asked, all of a spd- den, who was president now; dnd when I told him, he asked if Old Abe was Gen. Benjamin Lincqln’s son. He said he met old General Lincoln, when he was quite a boy himself, at some] Indian treaty. I said no, that Old Abe was a Kentuckian like hiruself, but 1 could not teil him of what family; he had worked up from the ranks. ‘Good for him! cried Nolan; ‘I am glad of that. As I have brooded and won- dered, I have thought our danger was THY BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEEB in. keeplng "up those regular “Succes- sions in the first families’ Then I got talking about my visit to Wash- ington. I told him of meeting the Ore- gon congressman, Harding; I told him about Smithsonian and the- exploring expedition; I told him about the capi- tol—and the statues for the pediment —and Crawford’s ‘leefiy‘—nnd Greenough’s ‘Washington: gham, 1 told him everything I could:think of that would show the: grandeur. of his country and its:prosperity. “And he drank it in; and enjoyed it as I cannot tell you. He grew: more and®more silent, yet I never thought he was tired or faint. I gave him a (| glass of water, but he just wet his lips, and told me not to go away. Then he asked me .to bring the Presbyterian ‘Book of Public Prayer, which lay there, and said, with a smile, that it would open at the right place—and' so it did. There was- his double red .mark down the page; I knelt down and read, and he repeated with me, ‘For ourselves and our country, O gra- clous. God, we thank thee, that, not-|| withstanding our manifold transgres- sions of thy holy laws, thou hast con- tinued to us:thy marvelous kindness’— and so to the end of that thanksglv- ing. Then he turned to the end of the same book, and I read the words more familiar tg me: ‘Most heartily, we beseech thee 'with thy favor to be- hold and bless thy servant, the presie dent of the United States, and all others in authority’—and the rest of the Episcopal collect. said he, ‘I have repeated those prayers night' and morning, it is now fifty-five years. And then he sald he would go to sleep. He bent me down over him and kissed me; and ke said, ‘Look in my Bible, Danforth, when I am gone.’ And I went away. “But I had no thought it was the end. 1 thought he was tired and would sleep. I knew he was happy, and I wanted him to be alone. ‘Danforth,’ | “But in an hour, when the doctor went in gently, he found Nolan had breathed his life away with a smile. He had something pressed close- to his lips. It was his father's badge of the Order of Cincinnati. : “We-looked in his Bible, and there was a slip of paper, at the place where he had marked the text— “‘They desire a country, even & heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.’ - . “On this slip of paper he had writ- ten: ] “‘Bury me in the sea; it has been my home, and I love it. But will not someone set up a stone for my meme ory at Fort Adams or at Orleans, that my disgrace may not be more than ¥ ought to bear? Say on it: In Memory of PHILIP NOLAN Lieutenant in the Army of the United States. “‘He loved his country as no other man- has loved her; but no man ges served less at her hands."” (THE END.) Men Insist on Eating Meat. ° “There are, of course,wasteful famf- lies, but most incomes are not elastic enough to admit of much wanton throwing away of good food,” a writer says in the Woman’s Home Companion., | “It is safe to say that a large portion of such waste as there is is caused by the ‘simple, plain’—but expensive— tastes of the American man. It is-not only the big Johns, but the little Johns, : of the country who emulate in conduct the ranchman who rambled into a New York restaurant, and, having read the: menu, clenched a knife and fork in each fist, and, bringing them down on the table, cried out in a fearsome voice, ‘Meat!’ “This cry of ‘meat!’ went up in tens of thousands of homes after patriotic women . tried to put into effect the: u Children Like It B “You know it is not an easy matter to get children to take medicine, and forcing it on them does no good. Most mothers “‘Granny”” Chamberlain know that a cough medicine, while palatable, should contain no drug injurious to the child. The great popularity of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is ex- plained by the fact that it contains no opium or narcotic of any kind, and at the same time is so pleasant and agreeable to the taste that children like Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy For this reason alone it is a favorite with the mothers of young children,’ i I Don’t get the impression tjiat Mr. Hoover wants you to go on half-rations, or even'stint Come right along “to this store and yourself. get all you need of T Best Gracaries that Money Can Buy All our Government asks is that you eat d MORE of such foods asican not be sent to our soldiers, and LESS of such as-can. Live well, work well. Come to the house that . guarantees you THE BEST. " FRID AY. MARCH 1. 1918 ———————————————————————— et ¥ 3 “Nalf Rations” Not Asked x [ Ay [ This is the time that you need, THE BEST. You will find that in every line we carry. W. . SCHROEDER . Phone 66 LN Of Courée Just Spring Millinery season opening with hats of the better sort. New ideas in new tailored, pattern and untrimmed shapes. announce that our stock, if anything, will be and is right now larger and better than at any other season. 98¢, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98 to This store will not ask for any millinery busi- ness unless we can savé the trade money and eive correct styles. Of Course As usual, the largest line of children’s head- wear and auto bonnets. Of Course Now showing new line' of spring dress goods, underwear, muslin underwear, ginghams, cales, wash goods. You’ll Pay Less Here Of Course kid gloves— Of Course at . at . at . \ | Remember, Tuesday, “Meatless Day”; Wednesday, “Wheatless. Day.” 5 Bemidji, Minn. I Prices moderate— 50c to $1.98 t: Now showing new line of ladies’ silk lisle and 59¢, 75¢, 98¢, $1.89, $2.25 The new line of nobby hosiery for every member of the family will please. this really good line. Of Course Specials for Saturday 98¢ 5-sewed brooms ® 8 bars Hawkeye laundry soap Just can’t help liking 2 cans Old Dutch Cleanser 3 packages Stickiere braid 3 R. M. C. Crochet Thread, No. 5 white for .....ccccoeneeeene For. all good merchandise come to Of Course Carison “The Variety Store Man oh Beltrami” Longest Store—Shortest Prices | = am S | 1 We are glad to per- [ )