Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 10, 1918, Page 2

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISNING CO. @. B. CARSON E. X. DENT Bl et Entered at the postoffice Ié Bemidjl, Minn., as second-class matter under 8ot of Congress of March 3, 1878, No attentiom 4 to annonymous coptributions. Writer's name must be kn:wn to thep‘:ditor. ‘but not. necessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office. not . Iater than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in:the current issue. SUBSORIPTION RATES One.year . Six ‘months Three months . Ten pages, containing & summary of the news of the week. Published every Thursday and un‘pflm'l paid to any address, for, in advance §1.80 — e OFFPICIAL COUNTY AND OITY FROCEDINGS AS OTHERS VIEW IT. (Sherburne Advance-Herald.) We hear so much about the state public safety commission these days. It’s the whine of socialists, liquor dealers and abso- lute pro-Huns. They tell us the commission is the most auto- cratic body in the country. They want to'know why Minnesota is the only state in the Union having a war board. Naturally a lot of people who never read enough to learn differently be- lieve all that. The fact of the matter is that we have only to step across the line into Iowa to have all this idle chatter refuted. Not only has Iowa a war commission, but it has a governor who has a spinal column. .Do you know that the governor of that state passed an order forbidding the use of all foreign language, even in churches?. That's a fact. They have no saloons there. If they had them, there is no doubt but what their war com- mission would have found .it necessary- to institute just as radical rulings as have been instituted in Minnesota by our safety commission. A good many people don’t appear to_get it through their heads that this is war time. A state safety commission is created for the public welfare. It is delegated with powers to make such rules and institute such orders as will best serve the govrnment of the United States in its successful prosecution of the war. To fly in the face of these war boards, to heap abuse and vituperation upon its members because of un- important personal inconveniences is not only unbecoming a good citizen at this time, but unpatriotic as well. ? Without a state public safety commission and without a governor with a wartime spinal column to guard against the wiles of the kaiser sympathizers, it is safe to say that Minnesota today would be an unsafe place to.live in. The very fact that the commission is so roundly abused is ample proof of this statement. It’s the socialists, pro-Huns, Townleyites and others in the state who at first sought to niake political capital out of anti- war antagonists (thinking they were in the majority) who are today trying to make politics by abusing the state public safety commission because the commission is standing back of the government. _ Taking into account the sacrifices of the American boys in France, the man in this country—better than ;3,000 miles from the hell of war—who can find nothing better to do than abuse those at home who are unselfishly laboring to aid their govern- ment, is simply stabbing the boys in the back. (Editor’s Note: Every state in the union has a_state council of defense or a public safety’ commission, or similar organization, and they are all under a national council ap- pointed by the president under an act passed by congress.) —— e SUPREME COURT DECISION CORRECT. < r —————— The decision of the Minnesota supreme court, sustaining the action of Governor Burnquist in the Blooming Prairie saloon matter, was to our opinion absolutely correct. In Blooming Prairie, saloons had become flagrant in law violation and had been watched. They continued their nefari- ous tactics and were closed upon order by the governor as a war measure. Then the liquor gang got busy. They attempted to secure a restraining order but a common sense judge denied it. They then hiked until they found a county judge who rendered a learned decision in favor of the booze grafters, and armed with this the booze joint landlords exulted in their vic- tory. But the governor sent guards to Blooming Prairie with grders to keep the offending saloons closed and it has been one. " The matter was carried to the supreme court which sus- ‘tained the governor in his act which had for its object the observance of the laws and support of the peace, dignity and patriotism of the state. It will take more than a mere handful of booze dealers and their henchmen to handcuff and muzzle Minnesota’s war governor, and the newspapers of the state are highly commend- ing his splendid stand. . g ) 4 That “poor insignificent, ill-trained” bunch of Americans that make up the forces in France seem to be changing the tune of the German powers that be and the poor deluded Boches and their widely heralded ferociousness. Their feroci- ousness is confined to the wanton slaughter-of helpless women and children, but a red blooded Yankee—well, that’s different. OTTSA v o The first unit of the new normal is to be designated as the Main Building. It will not carry any name in honor of any individual. But when the first hall is erected we are still advocating naming it Pendergast Hall in honor of Beltrami’s late legislative representative, who worked so earnestly in behalf of the normal—and won. B e et . A Duluth partolman was shot down in cold blood a few mghts ago by a desperate specimen of humanity caught com- mitting burglary- and robbery. The patrolman was performing his duty -and leaves-a wife and family. The murderer leaves nothing. Somehow, the state penalty seems to us too lenient in such cases. e eee—— Why not inaugurate a deliveryless order to the coal deal- ers? Then the consumers could carry their coal home. That would even save more “labor” and help win the war. Might try it, anyway, along with other experiments. e gt cu It would be well for all men, who will come in the new draft registry, to remember that when drafted they cannot choose the branch they desire. The time to enlist is right now. Get busy. Select the service desired. NP S Mrs. L. F. Johnson lost her precious-glasses. What did she do? Put a small ad in The Pioneer. It ran one time. Result, Mrs. Johnson again has her prized spectacles. MAKES FORTUNE "~ BY SMUGGLING Swedish “Rubber Baron” Tells How He Profited by Trad- ing on Frontier. WAS CLERK BEFCAE THE WAR Made His First Money Dealing In Russian Rubles—Then Engages in Smuggling Rubber From Fin- land arid Gets Rich Quickly. Stockholm, Sweden.—“You want to know what people smuggle? Go. up the river then, and you will soon find out.” They smuggle nearly everything, g0 it is rather difficult to answer the question offhand.” ‘So sald a custom house officer at Haparanda, the little Swedish town on the frontier of Fin- land, to Herbert Ericson, a Swedish writer, who went up the Tornea valley to investigate the smuggling stories. “While I was waiting for the Over- Tornea train to start, a motorcycle chugged into the station yard,” said Bricson. “That is one of our rubber barons,” temarked an acquaintance to me. A rubber baron, in Haparanda talk, is a man who suddenly gets rich on smuggling rubber in from Finland. I was in luck, for the baron—Karlsson T will call him—traveled north in my compartment. He was & pleasant fel- low. He did not remind me of the smart speculators I had met in Norr- land. He even looked embarrassed when I began to talk about smuggling. Clerk Before the War. “presently he told me that at the outbreak of the war he had been & clerk in one of Norrland’s coast towns, He had earned his money in rubles. “It is not generally known' that many hundred Swedes have made big fortunes out of rubles. It happened like this: -~ After: the occupation of Poland and other reglons of Russia, thie Germans found that the population refused to take marks in payment for such supplies as were paid for. The people demanded - rubles, and rubles the Germans did ‘not have. The only way of getting them was through Sweden. The "Russian government permitted no more than 500 to be tak- en out of the government by each traveler, but with the incentive of a good reward smugglers were not lack- ing. The Haparanda agents bought up these rubles and sent them ‘down to Germany by bales. “When the Germans had bought all the rubles they wanted Karlsson tried to smuggle drugs to Finland. That fatled absolutely. He met with a dis- aster at the outset. His first consign- ment of several kilos of acetylsalicy- He acid and 100 clinical thermometers was seized by the -Swedish customs au- thorities and a heavy fine was im- posed. “So he got into touch with some Finnish merchants who, for a price, guaranteed to havé a large quantity of rubber rings on the Swedish side of the river at a certain minute on a cer- tain day. “Entering into relations with a firm In Stockholm and finding that he could make many thousand kroner profit thereby, Karlsson told the Finns to go nhead. One night he went to Mattila, where the rubber was to be ready. Mattila is a tiny station on the Hap- aranda-Over-Tornea stretch of rail- way, and almost on the bank of the river. No Sign of Customs Officer. “When he arrived there was no sign of a Russian custom house officer across stream. The revolution has al- tered matters. - The Cossacks whe used to pafrol the Russian shore had disappeared. The new guards appoint- ed by the revolutionaries found it more interesting to stay in Tornea. Ki.rlsson picked up the rubber. This was only the first of a chain of such transac- tlons he managed with financiak sue- cess. - “Karlsson has meticulously taken the goods so smuggled to the Swedish-cus- toms authorities, to-be assessed for duty. Quantities of tin, flour and lin- seed oil have similarly come over the river for many months past. Tin gives the Finns ‘an advantage. I found one case where a druggist had come to grief by taking delivery of and paying heavily for a thousand kilos of a cheap alloy. The flour smuggling seems to indicate that the Finns engaged must be blackguards of a particularly ob- noxious type, for they ship flour out of their land while they know that tens of thousands of their fellow countrymen are nearly starving and that their government is sending out commissions full of piteous appeals to other lands, -America included, to spare them a little flour. It seems curious that these commissions could not have -tarried a week at the frontier and or- ganized a guard to put a stop to the drain of flour there.” PHONE COMPANY PUTS BAN ON HUN MESSAGES Brookfield, Mo. — Complying with the request of the Linn county council of defense, the 3 Bell Telephone company of this X city, has issued an order to all . patrons of its system prohibiting ¥ any other language than English 3 over the telephone lines. 11 A Flood of Wine. The Argentiniaus are a wine-drink- Ing nation. The natives are of Span- ish descent and are accustomed to having wine with their meals, The im- migfants, who have come in by the millions and who form perhaps one- halt ‘of the population, are mostly {tallans and Spaniards, all of whom drink wine every day. All of the small Italian farmers have their own wine supply and every one.who can afford it lays in a number -of casks for his own use. 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