Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 24, 1919, Page 1

' FOR BEMIDJI Appropriation for Educational Institution Approved in Bud- get—Lawmakers Through SESSION'S END IS * TOLD OF BY NOONAN Salary Boost Provided for Aud- itors of Beltrami and Kooch- 3 iching Counties. . (By W. T. Noonan.) St Paul, April :.;a.‘—wmt; ?{uy Pt:‘v): maining, it 18 awfully g;:'d?wn here at the legislature. Like the chap who bought a ticket on the Canadian Northern, every- body wants to go home the worst way, and they are about as genial as a centipede with sore feet. All that we do these days and nights 1s work, ‘and when Thursday evening rattles along you can bet your old brown derby that everybody will be tickled to death to wave a sweet good-bye to the beer-laden breezes of St. Paul and point their toes towards bu¢kwheat cakes and home. They surely have extracted all the romance from the They start in to work ad talk in the morning, stage an én- core in the afternoonm, pull off an- other talk marathon at night, and when they finally turn the building over to the janitors it looks like a barrom floor on Saturday night} "Pomorrow county division and its _opponents will tangle, and by 'the . timie yon are tossing an optic at this o xarticle it will be gettled. Senator ‘Brooks who has been tossing all the ‘gherpreornered bricks at it says that B will he good and behave on con- L#stton that the Backus-Brooks com- pany gets a square deal when' the county is divided. The senator was ‘prompti, assured that his company ‘whtild be treated like one of the fam- ily, so there will be few votes against “Me measure. . “vTmis _ afternoon Senator Nord caught the speaker’s eye and pushed over the bill giving an additional five hundred dollars salary to the tors of Beltrami and Koochiching . counties, and as it had already passed the house it is now a law. Had Plentv of Company. The appropriations committee has acted on Mr. McPartlin’s bill provid- ing twenty-five thousand dollars for ap experimental farm at Internation- 2 Falls. They recommended it for “-passage With the slight amendment that Mac could have the farm, but not the twenty-five thousand, which makes the bill about as useful as an jce cream parlor at the nqQrth pole. Mac’s emotions were near the break- ing point when the tidings reached him, and he was about as genial as a giraffe with a sore neck. However, his cup of misery was not overflow- ing, as the same day the governor signed his bill giving free tuition in the university and colleges to boys who served their country, and it fell to Mac's lot to have the honor of put- ting over the first soldiers’ compen- sation law. : If Mac was peeved over the fail- f ure of his farm bill he had plenty of company, when the house gave Sena- tor Nord's colonization bill the grand razoo. Leonard’s rage knew 10 bounds for about an hour, but his good nature and sunny smile soon reappeared. Like all good measures it F wasn’t thoroughly understood, and the general prediction is that it will become a law two years hence. : To night Ed. Rakd tried to get through a bill putting the fdrestry department -under the control of the board of timber commissioners, and he came within a few votes of doing jt. If the bill had passed Mr. Cox's job would have been wobbly to say the least . The battle will be re- sumed tomorrow and may 80 either Toway. Ed. secured an appropriation of ot thirty-two thousand dollars for im- provements to Itasca State Park the other day, and was as tickled as a kid wjth new gun. The appropriation bill totes an in- crease of six hundred dollars for Otto Deircks, former Baudette boy, who is state superintendent of tim- ber, and as a result Otto now drags down the princely stipend of four thousand two hundred dollars a year, which isn't so bad for a chap who has just passed the thirty-year mark. The Bemidji Normal appropria. tion is now official and under con- trol. - There has been mno question about it for weeks, but with the bud- get passed it makes it certain. $25.000 For Armory. A bill raising the amount from fifteen to twenty-five thousand dol- fars whi¢h the'state it to give for armories, has passed, which shouldn’t cause any gloom in Bemidii, which has been flirting with an armory for rome time. Another bill providing for an cp!-‘ leptic colony in the northern part of | the state also paszed, and Beltrami county can make goo_goo eyes at it with fair chances of landing it. Ed. Rako, who has been playing et ayh (Continued on Page Eight) P * NORMAL FUNDS |, audi- | wet nurse to a drainage bill provid-i SCIENCE CLUB WILL ‘““Not on the Program,” is the title 4 play which is to be presented next Tuesday evening by the rixperi- mental Science club of the high schopl, the purpose of the play being to vaise funds with which to pay for pages the club is to have in “The Meddler,” the high school annual. ‘The play promises to be of ex- céptional merit, and it will occupy abourt forty minutes. There will be selections by the high school orches- tra, and a number of solos and read. ings by the scheols best talent will '|:add ‘interest: 1o the program: " There will/ also be . a .chemical demonstra- tion. . The program will start at eight o'clock and will be held in the high sehobl assembly hall. " A small ad- ‘mission charge will be made, BEMIDJI NO PLACE FOR ‘WOBBLIES’ RED - CARD MEN DISCOVER I. W. W., Agitator and New Assistant Arraigned in Municipal Court Today. “Wobblies,” as 1. W. W., members are commonly known, are not to be tolerated in Bemidji. This was emphatically made known this morn- ing when John McDonald and Henry Brown were arraigned in municipal court on charges of vagrangy, having been arrested yesterday by patrol- men Lex and Arnold who found that ! the two men had been busy circulat- ing I. W. W., propaganda and iusist- ed on being permitted to sing favor- ite songs of the ‘“wobblies” on the igtreets of Bemidji. City Attorney Hallan L. Huffman asked the court that no leniency be shown the men and argued that agi- tators of their type should be treat- ed with such severity as to crush their activities. It developed during the examination of the men that Brown is an 1. W. W,, organizer, but that his companion had only recently received his red card and does not approve of the methods of the or- ganization. Both men pleaded guilty, McDon- ald paying a fine of $10,” while } Brown must spend the next 60 days lin the county jail, being unable tb pay a $75 fine, imposed by Judge John F. Gibbons, ANNUAL SCHOOL FOR TRACTION ENGINEERES DJI_D i/ 'Nurses bandaging wounded Spartacans on the Frankfurter Aliee in Berll Many Spartacans were left dead or wounded on the streets of the capltfi after the latest hot battle between the two factions. i ———————————————————————— GIVE PLAY TUESDAY BEMIDJI, MINN., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1919 ivTATOMAGAZINE TELLS OF WORK IN BELTRAMI' COUNTY Interesting Article by Agricul- turist Aamodt of Bemidji Appears in Last Issue. Importance of standardization in the growing of potatoes is interest- ingly discussed n an article written by A. W. Aamodt, agrioyltural agent for the southern part of Beltrami county, which appears in the last issue of the Potato Magazine, pub- lished at Mount Morris, Uiinois," - The article tells of the progress 12ing made in potato plot work by the Sourthern Beltrami' County Seed Potito association, and deal with the, importance of proper’Beéd selection, treatment and th¢ pécessity of 'plot development. Mr. Aamodt recommends the grow- ing of three standard varieties of po- tatoes, these being the Green Moun- tain, Bliss Triumph and Burbank Russet, but since the article was Iwrltten the potato 'growers associa- tion has added the Irish Cobbler to the list. Reasons for planting these varieties are discussed by Mr. Aamodt in his article. Today Mr. Aamodt is at Pinewood where he will speak on potato grow- ing at a meeting. Yesterday he was in Blackduck and vicinity on offi- cial business and in connection with the Home Makers week which is now in progress. The first meeting was held at Quirtng yesterday. CROP CENSUS GIVES INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING COUNTY Public Safety Commission Re- port Also Shocws Growth of Stock in 1917-18 Information of interest to Beltra- mj county residents is found in the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety report of 1917 and 1918 crop and stock census. \ Among’ other things the report shows that last year five new silos were erected in Beltrami county, giv- ing the county a total of 75 of these invalyable structures. The report, showing the crop production by acreg and the number of live stock in Bel- trami county during last year and the year before follows: . Crop Census. The regular annual session of the school for traction engineers at uni- l994157 ll,gég versity farm, will open this year on|C 1,062 1,160 May ‘19°and close June 14. The school 11,733 11,856 offers an opportunity for the fntem- 5,221 sive study of both gas and steam en- 2,691 3,148 gines, and includes such subjects as 8956 1,441 blacksmithing, soldering, babbitting, 299 136 beltlacing, ptpe-fitting, tube-fitting, - 28 31 mechanical calculations, electricity ! Buckwheat 48 33 and heat, gas and steam engine|Fruit ... 116 109 specifications. Rutabagas . 300 330 In the course of their stay the stu-|R; 6567 715 dents in this dourse will visit the 6 Stillwater thwlne and machinery 91 170 plant and other points of special in- terest in relation to their work in Stosk cem‘;"g the twin cities. /691 1,424 Those interested should address 2,168 2,314 William Boss, head of the engineer- Milch Cows 3,918 4,100 ing division at university farm, St. Other Cattle 6,067 5,686 Panl. who will have general charge | Eoultry 23,273 20,600 of the school. Sheep - 2,218 3,057 DAVISRESIGNS AS SANATORIUM HEAD Dr. E. C. Davis who has been su- perintendent of the Lake Julia sana- torium since last July, has resigned and was in Bemidji yesterday en i route to Eagle Butte, S. D., where he will be suprrintendent of the gen- eral hospital. Dr. Davis will be sue- | ceeded hy Captain G. B. Bushee, | M. C., of Chicago, Tll., who has re- cently returned from military serv- ice in France. sumed his new duties at the sana- itor(un.. He has already as-| beets were planted in this county either last year or in 1917. ON INSPECTION TRIP. . W. R. Hitchcock, of the state in- surance departmeént, and L. F. John- son, Bemidji forest ranger, devoted Monday and Tuesday to a yard in- spection on the Red Lake and Great Northern railroads. Ranger John- |=on 4lso inspected the right-of-way lof both lines. Fe reports that much | progress is being made in the burn- ]inz of slashings throughout his dis- ltrict, | Some men act like hogs and there lare some who do not need to act. Accor-ding to the report no sugar | BENIDII PRIDE WILL PREVENT - DROPBELOW . LOAN QUOTA hai¥man Brooks Calls Upon . ‘Citizens to Subscribe $20,- 000 Not Yet Pledged. RESERVE DISTRICT FAR . SHORT—ROGERS TALKS : yl He is Confident Quota ‘Will be Met and Calls for _}le‘p From Every Citizen. < #Benidji's pride will not permit our- city to fall short of its Victory toan quota,” said Wi L. Brooks, county” campaign chairman, -'today. Ne went over the top in splendid @ in the previous loan, we have sha ;| contributed well to all war activities ang our people are uetermined to s&i_crlbe the $135,000 which has beén alloted to Bemidii. ur returned soldiers are asking why Bemidji hasn’'t gone over the top, Fhere is but one explanation; thé ungualified successes of the pre. vigys campaigns and the belief that Bemidji will ‘surely go over the top whether individuals support the loan or got.” Chairman Brooks stated that more thap 100 persons who bought bonds amounting to from $100 to $2,000 in the last campaign uave failed to subscribe for the Victory loan notes and they have not heen officially re- lieved from so doing. If these men will come to the support of the loan fAuota will be pledged. .. Committee To Start, » Saturday will be the last.day for the returned soi..ers committee will start its.canvass amonilz citizens who have not subscribed their allotment. All who subscribed §100 or more in the Fourth loan are asked to pledge the same amount to this loan. But 20 of the 286 counties of the Ninth Federal resirve district have pledged their entire quota, is the annocuncement which comes from dis: trict loan headquarters in Minne- apolis today. In a statement request- ing: greater effort on the part of loan workers, A. R. Rogers, chairman of the district campaign suys: ‘“We are not at all discouraged by the report so far received. The peo- ple of the district will not fail to do their full duty, but the fact that less than 10 per cent of the counties in his district are ‘over the top’ after three days of campaigning is positive proot that ‘the job is a big one, and that it will require the earnest and | continuous efforts of every loyal efti- zen if it is to be finished as it must be finished.” | MUSSCAL COMEDY AT ' GRAND TOMORROW NIGHT Au opportunity for universal re- | joicing which invariably attends the {announcement of a new Mutt and Jeff play will in all probability be enhanced by the fact that these two renowned personages of cartoon fame are to appear at the Grand theatre tomorrow. On this occasion the lo- cale of their latest exploits and i frolics is the Gdlden West, which should open a valve for endless op. portunities for some of the best fun the public has been able to witness in many a day. Critics all over the country have proclaimed the produe- tion one of the best that Manager Gus Hill has arranged since he took the pair of popular, “Bud” Figher comics and presented them upon the stage. The company is composed of a se- lect cast. This includes a champion beauty chorus of the prettiest young 7,259 {women gathered in a single offering. The music comprises a dozen song hits, while there i8 an attractive ar- ‘'ray of inimitable specialties, surprigse features and novelties. DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT. Invitations have been issffed by the Elks entertainment committee for a dance which is to be held tomorrow evening. Splendid music will be pro- vided and an enjoyable evening is promised. LEADERS FOR CLUB WORK ARE WANTED H. H. Olin, agriculturist in the Bemidji schools, and county leader of boys’ and girls’ club work, is anxious to secure club leaders in the | various sections of the county. Tt is desired that perzons whe can devote a portion of their time uuring the wummer volunteer to assist in this meritorious work. Mr. Olin de- sires to organize potato, bread, poul- try, garden and canning clubs throughout the county. Splendid organizations have been | perfected in ceveral communities, | Blackdueck being ampng the first to {do active work. Miss Olson, a teach- er in the Lincoln schools, will be the leader in the Nymore district, ‘volutidgry -pledges, -apd ‘on “Monday- Y PION ! the $80,000 remaining to meet the |l EE / 7 /&'} 7~{ \f . \:\ 0¥ = CENTS PER MONTH Mayor Jobmon - |STATESOLONS Proclamation Bemidji is widely known as the “City of Enterprise’” and her peoplé are justly proud of such a title. Na- ture has done much for her and she is noted for her scenic beauty. ' We gan ‘do much to help nature. Our women are doing much to help beau- tify and keep our city in a good, sani- tary condition, especially the Wo- men's Community and Civie club. Now let us help them by taking a week for this purpose. fore, 1. L. F. Johnson Mayor, do pro oclaim a week to be known as Clean- up week, to commeénce, Satutrday, April 26 and continue until Satur- day night, May 3, 1919, Let every- body, men, women, boys and girls do all they can in this good work, of making our city, clean, healthy and more attractive to all our people and to the visitors of whom we will have many this year. Bemidji, Minn., April 24, 1919, L. F. Johnson, TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL IN BEMIDJI WILL BEGIN JUNE 23 M. W. Deputy, Normal Presi- dent, Who Will Reach City Soon Is To Be In Charge. M. W. Deputy, president of the Be- midji Normal school, has notified J. Q. McGhee, county superintendent of schools, that he will reach the'gity’ within the next few days to assume his new duties and to make arrange- ments for the summer teachers training school which is to start June 23 and continue until August Mr. Deputy expegts to take up his permanent reeidenge in Bemidji the firgt of ‘the month. The purpose of the summer school Now, there- | ADJOURN; PASS MANY BILLS OF " IMPORTANCE Session Appropri;‘iom Total $32,000,000. — Taxes Go - Higher as Consequence. SPEAKER NOLAN IS GIVEN AUTOMOBILE Brief Review of Measures Which Will Now Become Laws in Minnesota. {By United Press.) St. Paul, April. 234.—The Minne- sota legislature adjourned today af- ter appropriating about $32,000,000 and making taxes the highest in Minnesota’s history. Taxes for this and next year will be three and five tenths mills and for 1921 three mills. Leaders in both houses were pre- sented with gifts 1oday and ‘Speaker W. 1. Nolan received an automobiie. The legislalures passed the Bac- ‘cock good roads bill; ratified Na- tional prohibition; gave women the right to vote for presidential elect- ors; established a state department of agriculture; appropriated over $13,000,000 for educational pur- poses; adopted prew fish and game code; adopted red flag bill and estab- lished English as the basis language in all schools and provided free tui- ‘tion “in certain universities and col- lv?ges for those who served in the ar. Did Not Pass These. The legislature did not pass a ton- nage tax measure; an oight hour day for employes; the perty pomination conventions bill; ner did it pass an i8 tqg-ofter academic instruction in the siibjects required for' common gchool certificates, first and second class; to offer in the normal schools professional training in the common school subjects and to provide means by which teachers seeking to earn a first class certificate may meet the standards in those subjects®which are required by law; to afford ingtruc- tion and professional training in such special subjects as will entitle teachers to first class certificates or to certificates of highersank; to give fnstruction in agriculture, manual training and home training, as now raquired of teachers of there subjects in consolidated schools. President Deputy Is to be the prin- cipal speaker at the high school com- mencement exe es to be held Fri- day evening, May 30. BRANDT SAYS SIOUX CITY SHOULD RECALL ITS MAYOR J. P. Brandt, federal Indian agent, who is in Bemidji today, is pleased with the move which has been started at Sloux City, Iowa, to recall the mayor of that city, who is an out and out I. W. W. leutenant. Officer Brandt has been in Sioux City on ofticial business to a large extent of late and says that the mayor, W. M. Short, recently gave an address of welcome to the national convention of I. W. W., which was forcibly end- ed Tuesday night by Sheriff Jones and seventy-flve deputies. MISS ANDERSON AIDING IN ORGANIZATION WORK Miss Mabel Anderson, of St. Paul, federal home demonstration agent, arrived in Bemidji this morning to assist Miss Alma Samdahl, super- visor of domestic science in the Be- midji school, in organizing bread making teams. Miss Anderson is de- voting much of her time to club work. BOYS ATHLETIC CLUB TO HAVE CAMP FIRE SUPPER Members of the B. A. C. club wilk meet tomorrow night at the Presby- terian church at 6:30. From there they will go for a hike up the lake shore, build their fires and eat supper together. Around the camp fire there will be the usual story hour and Dr. G. M. Palmer will go over his diary recounting interesting experiences as a Y. M..C. A. leader in thé war. MOTHERS’ CLUB TO MEET. There will be a meeting of the Mathers’ Study elub in the Library building Saturday afterroon at 3 o’clock. An enjoyable program has heen arranged for the afternoon, Miss Vera Backus will give a reading and Mrs. E. F. Netzer, Mrs. J. W, Diedrich and Mrs. Durbahn will take part in the program. DEMOBILIZATION SERVICE. Sunday evening at 8 o’clock, at the Presbyterian church there will be a demobilization service. Miss May MacGregor will speak of her expefi. | ences as a Red Cress nurse at the front. The choir will render specia’ mugic. The gilver bar wil! be placed | across each star in the Service Flag representing a returned soldier. This will be a vitally Interesting and in/ 'sette development bill lost out in the spiring service. All are invited to attend. appropriation for soldiers’ memorials or war- bonuses, It did- not pase & 1and devetoptient bill of anyKking.~ The Nord coloniaation measure "wns defeated in the house and Bas- senate. The legislature did not abol- ish the state safety commission and it did not establish a state motor corps. L eaders Meet In Attempt To Settle Trouble (By United Press.) Paris, April 24.—Allied leaders met at four o'clock this afternoon in final effort to induce the Italian del- egation to remain in the peace con- ference. The invitation was issued by Premier Lloyd George to President Wilson, Premier Orlando and Pre- mier Clemencean. When Orlando appeared he was accompanied by Foreign - Minister Sonnino. This was the first time the Italian delegates had faced President Wilson since Monday. Neither the president nor the Italian delegates had shown any disposition before go-~ ing into the conference to reced from their stand. President Wilsoh's statement re- garding Fiume was read and approv- ed by Premier Lloyd George and Pre- mier Clemenceau before it was fs- sued, according to information from reliable scources today. COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE ENTERTAINMENT APPOINTED R. L. Given, president of the Be- midji Commercial club, today named the committee which is to complete plans for the entertainment of edi- tors of the state who are to attend the summer convention of the Northern Minnesota Editorial association which is to be held here June 27-29. The members of the committee are Henry 7. Mitchell, editor of the Be- midji Sentinel, G. W. Harnwell, Frank\Koors and H. Mayne Stanton, editor of the Bemidji Daily Pioneer. EARL COCHRAN LEADS 1919 FOOTBALL SOUAD At a meeting of letter men of the high school basket ball and football team this afternoon, Earl Cochran was elected captain of the 1919 grid- iron warriors and Rupert Stechman was named to lead the basket tossers. SERVED WITH MARINES. Mrs. Hallan L. Huffman will leave tomorrow night for Minneapolis where she will be the guest of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Byrnes. Mrs. Huffman will al'o visit _her brother, Captain W. A. Byrnes, who has juet returned from overseas serv- lce._belng a naval physician attached !r; the marine corps. He participated in several of the chief engagements of the marines and was gasded twice.