Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 18, 1918, Page 1

" HARD SURFACE ROADNETHORK LAID OUT FOR A 'H’"bw&y Commis- “siol ) tflfie’;s Proposition;: - -Will:Go Before Voters NEEDS ROAD . BETWEEN NORTH-SOUTH | s Shofild. 'Highway From Bau- dette, Spooner and War- ¥l road:to County Seat omprehensive plans for lifting Minnesota jgut of the mud, and for:f. placing eagh county seat. on hard- surfaced- -road: connecting it with Levery ed in #’ program for road building to be submitted to the legislature next 2.-month by Charles- M. Babcock, Min- - nesota commissioner of highways. i No “piecemeal or patchwork:pro- - gram is proposed for providing means of “easy and rapid intercommunica- tion “between ~business centers and “What is contemplated is a-trunk- % 7highway system, 6000 miles in length to be built and maintained-by- the state with miotor license money and federal aid. £ Provosal to Be Put to Vaters, ‘radical (departure from our former .. .practices, duthority to carry it out .-, 'will be asked from the voters of:the “‘gtigte through ~a constitutional ainendment to. be voted on at‘the election of:1920, i T In ordler that work may begin as -~ "soon a8 it'is‘authoribed by the peo- ple, the amendment wllfl cp‘mv‘{de for the immediaf ue of -twenty-year b%n@'s;t%r “%iis “.The 'recent announce Minnesota, hecause of constitutional 1fmitations, capnot comply with the conditjons which entitle it to federal aid. in road building, has constitu- tional changes. ‘and“among the lawmakers. is said to be:overwhelmingly for a road-build- ing program that will enable Minne- sota to keep up with /the fast pace being set by neighboring states in highway construction. Babcock Outlines Plans, In outlining the tentative plans for 1§ the roposed state highway sys- ént, Babcotk says: 20 s«Piig! ‘piogram provides - for tton® of ‘d"State Trunk Highway system of approximately 6,000 miles in extent which is to be constructed, “reconstructed, improved -and forever ‘muintained by the State of Minne- sota,” he said. “The tentative lines of this system ‘‘are shown in the accompanying map, although the ‘locations are shown pnly with reference to terminal and unction points. F%5 A special fund for carrying on the work of .improving and building these highways will be created by the amendment, and the legislature will be atthorized to levy a higher license tax on motor vehicles than is ".»now levied, this license to be in lieu = .;-of all other taxes on motor vehicles. *“The income from this source, to- . gether with such federal aid money - as may be received and such other -« ‘revenues as the legisfature may au- : .- thorize will be applied to the State Truank Highway fund. Bond Issue to Be Sought. “In order that the state may pro- ceed at once to improve the trunk " highway' system, the legislature will _. be authorized to.issue bonds of the ‘State of Minnesota in the necessary amount to finance road building. “These ‘bonds will be-issued from . «¢ time to time as funds are needed to = carry on the work. The bonds will be-retired at the expiration of twenty ©iyears. i X “Another feature is:contained in { | | | { the 'amendment which will authorize the state to engage in the work of . bujlding highways, a thing it is now prevented from doing by the last part of-Sectian 5 of Article IX. of the con- stitution. - “This, in brief, is the program of the highway department relating to permanent highways. “The Highway Department, in submitting these plans to the legis- ‘lature, with the request that they be submitted to the people for ap- proval as a: constitutional amend- ment, has taken this action after due and careful. consideration of all things involved and after many con- “ferences with citizens and business fmen from all parts of the state. Suggestions Are Invited. “While the proposed plans are the best. that the department has been able to evolve, I desire to say that suggestions for changes or altera- (Continued on page frour) Ry tvae Prace ‘er county seat, are contain-|- rural communities and for giving our | ‘ urists: easy -access | Involving, ‘a4 the program will, |: = | BEMIDJI VISITOR LOOKS Sentiment throughout the state’ the FOURTH MINNESOTA The Fifst-battalion of the Fourth Minnesdta” infantry, which has been on ‘guard duty ‘in Minneapolis, Du- luth, Bemidji and Iron Range cities for sixteen morths has been. relieved from active duty by Adjutant Gen- -eral Rhinow.**About 500 men were affected.by the order. > General Rhinow also ‘announced that companies G. H. and ‘M.of -the ‘battalion have been granted ‘federal recognition, "effective July 1, 1918. These are the first companies of the new national guard to be so recog- nized, and state military officers saw in the order hope- that -this recogni- tion will be.granted other new guard units by companies: = ¢ OVER LAND FOR TWELVE The real cause of tHe coming of H. E. Harmon of Sycamore, IIL, to these parts, was disclosed today-when Mr. Harmon returned ‘from a long sleigh trip around ‘Kelliher and vi- cinity looking over ‘the land situa- tion. He incidentally bought three car loads of potatoes, as he is a large potato dealer and land owner. His sleighing’ trip was occasioned by the fact 'that he represented twelve Illinois ‘men 'who commis- sioned him to ascertain the land sit- uation in Beltrami county, each he- fng interested in ‘& “quarter section. During the jaunt ke saw three'deer and about twenty rabbits -and re- marked that he wished the law had been on his side for a chance to ghoot. From hers Mr. Harmon left for Warren where he has a large amount of grain in storage raised on one of his farms in the Red River valley. WHAT COLERAINE GETS IN CITY WATER SUPPLY Information has been received by the Beltrami Civic association, re- garding the water system at Coler- aine, Minn. This city gets its city water from deep wells, being about one hundred feet deep, placing the pumps down in the wellé eighty feet. Well No. 1, installed with a vertical pump with a 25. hp. motor, produces four hundred gallons per minute. Well No. 2. has a 35 hp. motor and produces five hundred gallons per minute. The city of Coleraine uses 750,000 gallons per-day. 3 Bemidji is using now from 150,000 to 200,000 per day. “We do not meed an elaborate water system. By changing our sys- tem pumping, we can get plenty ar- tersian water,’ says the association. 694,000 KILLED, IS OFFICIAL HUN REPORT Invaders, are holding military demonstrations of peace times. .valor. The cathedral, cloaked in wartime habiliments of sand bags, presenting a more cheery aspect, looks silently on. HAS BEEN DISBANDED, . (By United Press.) Berlin, Dec. 18.—The total numL- ber of Germans killed in the war is officially announced today as 694,000. CHRISTMAS SCHOOL PROGRAM EAST OF THE FIFTH WARD A Christmas program will be given at the school house, District 89, Sat- urday evening. The school is three and one-half miles east of Nymore and all are welcome to attend the program, specially arranged for the occasion. CASTRO HEADS PORTUGAL. Loshon, Dec. 18.—Canro Castro was elected president of Portugal by 137 votes, succeeding the iurdered President Paes Sttt e e e e e e — L ————————— ! i Under the shadow of this l—nstorlc cathedral of Reims the French forces, wi)tch retook the city from the ‘German General Malstro decorates the heroes of the campaign for A DEPORTATION OF RED FLAG * . ALIENS, PLAN IN NEW-YORK ... New York, De Miyor Hylan has notified the police department to look ~carefully “into" the™ record of every ‘person, arrersted:in: connection with Red Flag propaganda, urgiig that in cases where those arrested cannot prove their American citizen- ship, steps be taken for their depor- tation. BAGLEY BANKER'S SON - PROMOTED IN MARINES Washington, Dec.- 18, — Twenty- four Minnesotans were among the 430 enlisted marines commissioned at Quantico, Va., by Secretary Dan- ials. They had completed the sixteen weeks' “training ‘course at the third marine officers’ training camp: Among ‘the -Minnesotans commis- sioned was Roscoe Kasier of Bagley. "WO0 MORE RETURN. Walter Denean has returned from Dunwoody and A. A. Lee from Camp Cody, both having been honorably discharged from the United States army. Mr. Lee will again be em- ployed as operator at the Elko the- atre, which position he held until he enlisted. ITALY EARNED HER ' SHARE OF VICTORY By Henry Wood (United Press Correspondent.) Rome, Dec. 18.—With the end of the war, which renders no longer ne- cessary secrecy regarding the mobili- zation efforts of the various allied countries, the fact has just been made public that Italy’s total mobilization reached just 14% per cent of her en- tire population, . This figure it is believed will sur- pass that of any of the other allied nations. Of a total of 36,000,000 inhabit- ants, Italy called under arms over 5- 000,000 men. To do this it was necessary to call out not only all of her oldest classes that could possibly be of any service, but to send also her younger classes to the front in a greater porpertion than any of the other allies. Italy’s class of 1899, comprising the 19-year old boys. of the nation, were at the front a year before hostilities ceased, while all of-the more important ele- ments of the 1900 class or 18-year- old boy soldiers have been under arms for the last six months. In adition to the 5,000,000 men under arms, Italy had engaged in her establishments for the manufacture of war material 900,000 men and 200,- 000 women and boys. In addition France was supplied with over 70,- 000 Italian workmen for. keeping up the civilian work of that country, be- sides thousands of auxiliary troops who were engaged in the construc- tion of military defenses along the en- tire French front, making a total of war ‘industrial moblization of 1,300,- 000. Added to this was the agricul: tural moblization, consisting largely of old men, women and boys who re- placed the 8,000,000 Jtalian agricul- tural workers who were called under armg. Italy’s military industrial and civil moblization thus reached a total of over 8,000,000. EXTRA XMAS SLEEPERS LEAVE UNION DEPOT The Union station has made ar- rangements for an extra sleeper Fri- day, December 20, to take care of the teachers and others leaving for the holidays. Anyone expecting to leave Bemidji the 23rd or the 24th should make reservations now, and another extra sleeper will be provided for that time REALTY SALES BEGIN - T0-BOOM HEREABOUTS Realty and land transactions seem | to be getting under way in Bemidji and Beltrami county, judging from reports coming in, E. J. Willits, land dealer, reporting two more nice sales in the past few days. One of them was the Flint prop- erty -at 601 Minnesota avenue, pur- chased by E. L. Gary, a farmer from North Dakota, who will move his family td6 Bemidji that his daughters many attend school. Mr. Gary will stay on his farm during the sum- -mer months. Another sale was eighty . acres of land, located a mile west from the German Lutheran church in Frohn. It was purchased by Rev. E. F. Clover of . Watertown, Minn.,, who will {mprove the acreage with -build- ings and put it into cultivation. BEMIDJI MOTOR CORPS DRILLS THURSDAY NIGHT The Bemidji motor corps will drill again Thursday evening in the City hall at 8 o'clock, and the work will be conducted by Lieut. Clarence Foucault, The members who were present last Thursday were highly pleased with the drill given by the lieuten- ant and are anxlous to again get into uniforms, A short rehearsal of last week's work will be given and some new formations -explained. All members are urged to be pres- ent and to make every effort to be on time. At the close of the drill work Lieutenant Foucault will put the corps through a short session of setting up exercises. MONTANA DRY LAW TO BE EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 30 Butte, Dec. 18.—S8. C. Ford, attor- ney general, has ruled Montana’s prohibition law it to become effective at midnight December 30, instead of midnight December 31, as expected. All county attorneys have been noti- fied to enforce the law. There will ble a “dry” New Year's eve celebra- tion. ' PARSONS COME BACK. (By United Press.) London, Dec. 2. (By Mail.)—The war has taught a lesson to the clergyman as well as to the layman. Those priests and parsons who donned khaki and went “‘over there” to tend their flock have learnt how best to influence the men; one padre, for instance, found it was no use ex- horting them to ‘“‘come and pray,” so instead he stuck a notice out side his door saying “Come in and risk meet- ing the padre,” and they came. Padres frequently were seen wan- dering round the camps with a Bible in one hand and a box of cigarettes in the other, for they learned that Tommy, in his extremity asked, not for prayers, but for a smoke and companionship. Armed with the necessary ‘“smoke’” it became easy to give Tommy the right kind of com- panionship. Hundreds of men who, before the war, had no good word to spead for clergymen, are now enthusiastic in their praise of the padres, whom they realize to be men like themselves— men with a sense of humor, of pa- triotism and of courage. ‘When they all get back home the bond between clergymen and laymen will be strengthened by the memory of the “padre’” who so often succeed- ed in getting his men on to the right track. Daily Thought. carth gets Its price for what earth give: ns. "Tis heaven alone that is giv- en ay —JInmes Nussell Lowell ALL YOU NEED IS A HEART AND A DOLLAR; ANSWER RED CROSS CHRISTMAS FORTY-FIVE CENTS PER MO PEACE DELEGATION IN FIRST MEETING “WITH PRESIDENT; - BERLINSTILLRIOTS (By United Press.) Paris, Dec. 18.—The first conference of the complete American peace delegation will be held at 5 o’clock this after- noon, when President Wilson goes to the Crillion hotel to meet other representatives. BERLIN CONFLICT IS YET UNDECIDED. i By Frank J. Taylor. . (United Press Correspondent.) Berlin, Dec. 18.—The conflict between the. radicals and the Ebert government, which broke out afresh yesterday, is still undecided. Demonstrations by soldiers outside the reich- stag building, led by Karl Liebknecht, are more serious than appeared at first. WOMEN MAKE BONFIRE OF PRESIDENT’S SPEECHES Washington, Dec., 18.—Nearly 300 members of the National Woman's party, carrying torches and banners, paraded by the White House, and grouping around the statue of La- fayette, in a public square across the avenue from the executive mansion, ceremoniously burned copies of all speeches made by President Wilson. The demonstration was staged as a protest against the failure of the senate to adopt the resolution sub- mitting the federal sufferage consti- tutional amendment to the states. GENEROUS OFFER CAUSES RUSH AT JEWETT GARAGE The offer made by the C. W. Jewett company, to paint Ford cars- free with -each overhauling job, has caused a rush on the mechanical force of this institution. The com- pany can still handle a few more cars on this special offer, and will accept new listings until the limit number has been reached. The present summer force is still on the job and Mr. Jewett stated that this was the first year he held his entire force through the winter months, £ “I lay it to the advertising cam- paign conducted in The Pioneer dur- ing the fall months,” said Mr. Jewett, “and am thoroughly convinced that advertising pays.” During the fall months The Pioneer carried Mr. Jewett's ads regularly each week, the ads being confined to the repair work of the department almost exclusively. ELECTRIC STARTERS ON FORDS IS COMING NEXT C. W. Jewett has just returned from St. Paul where he attended the meeting of the Fordson tractor deal- ers of the state and he reports the outlook for next year’s business as flattering. 48 Mr. Jewett is also district repre- sentative of the Ford line of cars in headquarters in Bemidji and he says the new Fords are to be equipped with elelctric starters so far as the output of the starters will permit. The starter is the one development and is not produced by the Liberty Starter company and obtained a government contract for 16,600 of them. The approximate output is five hundred per day and increased factory space will be double the size of the present plant. ENTIRE CABINET OF PORTUGAL RESIGNS London, Dec. 18.—The entire Por- tuguese cabinet has resigned and the Amsterdam German government has opened negotiations with varfous fac- tions with the view of appointing Count von Bernstorff as foreign sec- retary. CANNOT BE DONE. “The man who read the Episcopal burial service over the son of a- Bap- tist minister must have been an Episcopal minister, as no Catholic priest could do such a thing. “Some Episcopal ministers like to call themselves priest while others don’t. “Without arguing about the merit of this case, 1 would profess to know what a ‘atholic priest can do in matters of religion. I would like to know the name of that priest. “FATHER PHILIPPE.” MASONIC WORK TONIGHT. The Bemidji lodge of Masons will meet this evening and all members are urged to be present. There will be work in the second degree 0 WILSON-HURLEY CONFER. Paris, Dec. 18,—FPresident Wilson conferred with Edwara N. Hurley, the shipping director, one of the sub- jects under discussion being that of shipping for the homeward move- ment of the troops. During the:last few days the foreign governments have been cancelling the charters of ships used by the United States {n transporting troops so that the ves- sels might be put back In trade. The problem {8 to hold enough tonnage to send the troops home at the rate expected by the Aneriocan people with the hope of completing the movement by December of next year. The president’s last engagement for yesterday was with Marsghaj Foch, giving the president the op- portunity to: see.for the first time: the man who %ed the allied armies to victory. THEY HAVE C iy IN ENGLAND. ALSO By Maud Berkeley-Mitchell (Written for United Pross,) London, Nov, 27. (By Mail.)J—The display of American and Red Cross flags outside thegAmerican Cross Distribution De] on Georgd street, in the heart of London’s hotel and shopping distriet,.seems to act like a magnet attracting all sorts«of visi- tors, who have all sorts of requests, appeals and {nquiries to make. In one afternoon recently, the visi- tors included: . a women who wanted to know whether the Red Cross “‘stocked’” her favorite face cream, a New York specialty which she has been unable to procure recently in the London shops; a woman who asked whether a “public dentist” was kept on the premises; and an officer who wanted to find out whether he could buy shoes manu- factured by a certain New York firm. Another visitor on the same day thought that the Red Cross ought to supply her with food cards for her sister, who was arriving in England shortly from New York. When it was explained to this visitor that she would have no difficulty in se- curing the cards from her local food officials, she reffinrked that she was disappointed at the lack of enterprise shown by the Red Cross; and that she considered American business methods “very much over-rated.” A women who applied for a posi- tion and said that she desired ‘‘exe- cutive work of high importance,” gave as one of her qualifications that she had” “no objection to working with Americans.” Some of the visitors are cranks, pure and simple. Such probably was a woman who applied for work about a year ago. She talked English with a decided German accent, but ex. pressed the utmost eagerness to work with the American Red Cross. As the depot happened to have a suffi- ciency of helpers at that time, her offer was politely declined. But as one of the women workers was bow- ing her out, the visitor siezed the American’s arm and said, . “You find your. shipments not coming so quickly now from Ameri. ca, yes? Your ships are being. tor- pedoed very fast, is it not so?” Her question was put with 80 much eagerness that the American woman was quickly on her guard and answered that she could not give any information on that subject, al- though a waiting automobile truck laden with great boxes from the “New England Surgical Dressing Committee”” was rather aendequaté answer to the question. 3 TENNSTROM COMING HOME. Carl Tennstrom, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tennstrom, will arrive in the city Saturday from the state uni- versity, where he was enrolled in the students’ army training corps, having been honorably discharged.