Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 17, 1919, Page 4

llN‘SflIIND BASIS con.ress Determmed to Makv Certain Future-:Growth: of Transportatien Facilities. PLANS AGREE ON:PRINCIPLES. Return of Roads to Owners With } _ Assurance of Adequate ‘&_ # - Revenues. ‘Washington.—One of the big prob- lems before the new Congress is get- ting ‘the railroads back on a peace MWWW SECRETAHY OF LARGEST BRITISH TRADE UNION mwmmmm SHOWN IN COLLECTION Many Relics Picked Up by Amer- ican Soldiers Now to ' Be Seen. Guns, knlves, saw-edgo bayonets, gas masks for men, horses ‘and |:Pigeons; all classes of helmets, an an- ti-tank gun, a fleld amputation chair— these are some of the more striking .| features. of, ah unusually: interesting basis. These 260,000 miles of steel | highways were taken over by the Gov- ernment as an indispensable arm of || the natiomal defense; but now that| | thelr war service is over, there is a |’ country-wide demand that the Gov- .ernment restore them to their owners to be operated on normal American business standards of efficiency. But, as has been polnted out by | President Wilson as well as by many men in public life who have given | this subject years of careful study, it is not enmough simply to say to the railroad companles, “Take these rail- roads and give the country the best transportation service that money and brains can provide.” Qld Laws Obstruct Growth, L The President recently said that it would be a serious mistake to return to the old conditions of railroad regu- * lation without reforming the anti- quated laws that were obstructing the free development of transportation fa- cllities, The Director General of Rail- roads has recently made an inspection trip from coast to coast, and he has been telling the people that the time : has now come to put the rallroads on a sound foundation. The plans for a better system of national control of railroads are as varied as were the plans for-banking and currency reform when Congress received a mandate from the people to .provide Insurance against financial panics. The public now demands in- surance agalnst a breakdown of rall- road transportation, and the new Con- gress is undertaking this work as sec- ondary only to Insurance against in- ternational warfare, Congress solved the banking problem seven years ago as & non-partisan issue, in which all the people had a common interest, and Congress evidently 1s tackling the railroad problem with the same spirit. While the many plans that have been proposed differ in the methods to be adopted In teaching the desired | goal, it has been pointed out by Sena- tor Cummins of Iowa that all these plans have really very much in com- mon—so much 8o that he is confident that Congress will have little dificulty in framing a bill that will meet with popular approval, and that will take the ‘railroad question out of politics for many years to come, Many Plans With One Aim. | The Iowa Senator has a command- ing position in this Congress becanse he 1s the ranking member of the Interstate Commerce Committee of the United States Senate, and It is In this com- mittee that the new railroad bill wliil take final form. In an address before a national meeting of business men at St. Louls Senator Cummins stated that since the close of the war fully thirty complete plans for new railroad legislation had been submitted to him by business men, economists, bankers, rallroad officlals and owners, Govern- ment officials, rallroad workers and Just plain citizens. The basi¢ principles upon which all of these plans, with one exceptlon, agree are as follows: y % Private operation is more effi- clent and more economical than Government operation, ‘and the public: Interest ‘will therefore be served by a return-of the roads to private management. 2. To make certain that .new capital will be attracted to the expansion of raiiread faclilities, there ought to be greater certain- ty that a fair return will be earn- ed on the investment. 3. The merging of weak and strong roads into large competing systems should be encouraged. The making of a formula to pro- vide a fair return on rallroad capital seems likely to be the phase of the problem most thoroughly debated in Congress, The Director General has been urging that the Government ought to guarantee a certain return and share in any excess earnings. Leading bankers, especially some of the. international bankers in Wall street, who have in the past marketed many hundreds of millions of railroad securities, also. look favorably on the suggestion of a Government ‘guaran- tee, which will make it easier to sell new .gecurities, and will also_ stabilize the market for the old bonds and _ stocks. Government Guarantee Opposed. But the proposal that the Govern- ment shall guarantee the interest and dividends on private capital invested in rallroads will undoubtedly meet * with very vigorous opposition in many quarters. Even railroad executives, who might be supposed to take kindly to the idea of a Government gnarantee against failure, have frankly stated ‘that they do not want it, because they believe it is un-American in principle, would tend to:lessen efficiency, and would involve. the roads in'a Govern- ment partnership that would inevita- bly lead to Gevernmemt ewnershlp. collection. of relics of the great war now being shown to visitors at the United States National mvleum ln ‘Washington. This collection, which has been loaned to the museum by Maj. Gen. H. Rogers, ' quartermaster general,” United States army, was for the mest part plcked up by . American saldiers on the battlefields of .France,: in._the || Argonne forest, at Chateau-Thierry, at 8t. Mihiel and at Verdun. Probably the most striking single object is a cartridge case for the 420- mm. (16.55-inch) German . howitzer, | the largest fixed ammunition in the Miss Mnry MacArthur s the ‘widow| of the late W. C. Anderson, member of the British parliament. She is the Secretary of the largest -trade mion o? women 'in Great Britain and steod as a labor candidate for parliamel t e last general election. % DAIRY COW MOST PROFITABLE Animal Never Fails to Return Profit for, Feed and Care—Keep Her Comfortable. ;The dairy cow is the most profltdblo nnlmnl on the farm if rightly managed, as, under ordinary conditions, _she never falls to returnra profit for her care and feed, if she is given the rlght kind of food and just the right quan- tity. If she is underfed, her product: will be correspondingly small,, and if |- she Is overfed, she will be unhealthy. Feed the cow just right, keep her quiet and comfortable, and she will be Lequal In value to the goose that lald golden €BES. Build Roads Now. If roads are a good thing, why not build them immediately, instead of waliting and suffering inconveniences ‘for years to come, because ‘it should be remembered that we are not sav- ing any money by acting-in such a |’ wmanner. Famous Wash Heals Skin D. D. D, the m lifo hudea. That lnhlerahlnvla ‘:"'"W‘f?m“;"“imm %'5 cul 5 :::a. We mhfl flq' "nt m D. D. D. Barker’s Drug’ Store. world. These glants of destruction | artillery liorées and ammunition mules, tlogs and pigeons, which hud no means of combating the-ges. A ‘canvas chair used by the German surgeons in m.lkmg amputations in the |* field is In the, collection and’ shows’ unmistakable signs of hnvlng been ubml lmm:, times. ,\b(;ard every ship controlled by the United States shipping board the c¢om- | fort ‘of . the-men" is’ carefully looked'| after. This picture shows a tler ‘of |° Individual metal <lothes lockers where the “shore clothes” of the sallors m‘! be kept undnr lock and key. COMMON WITCHHAZEL ' | i “FINE FOR SORE EYES It is surprising: how quickly | eye inflammation is helped by common} witchhazel,. camphor, hydrastis; etc., as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash. 'One elderly-lady, who had been troubled with ‘chronic eye inflammation ; for. many_years, .was -greatly helped in [, two days. We guarantee # small bot- tle of Lavoptik to help K weak, - strained or inflamed” eyes: Alummnm eye cup FREE. Barker’s Drug Store and all druggists. ; were used in leveling the Belgian:forts, | ] which were thonght to be lndecttuctl- ble. One of the horrors of pollon gas warfare was that not only were men exposed td_it, but also animals. the The girl dressed in the cranh suit isn’t "necessarily loud. h COLLE.GIATE ACADEMIC AND COMMERCIAL COURSES A College Comblmng Finest Catholic Training’ ~ with Military Suclp'lme : NA’ BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT Dm',chs HONOR SCHQOL” .. tongue—lt is the signal that poisons are accumu- lating in the system, and | should be cleaned out at once. Auto-intoxication can bé best ascribed to our own neglect, or carelessness. ' When the organs fail in the discharge of their duties, | the putrefactive germs set in-and generate toxms—actuu.! poisons, . which fill one’s own body. Sleepiness after meals, flushing of the face, extreme lassitude, bil- iousness, dizziness, sick headache, acidity of the stomach, heartburn, offensive; breath, anemia, loss of. weight_and muscular power, de- crease of vitality or lowering of resistance to infectious diseases, disturbance of the eye, dyspepsia, - indigestion, gastritis, many forms of catarrh, asthma, ear affections and mlled ailments result from auto-intoxication orself-poisoning. Take castor oil, or procure at the drug store, a pleasant vege- | | table lax _Uve called Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant. Ll lc,ts composed of l May-apple, 2locs wod jalap, | * For Catalogue address Splendid Buildings, Gmundn L|bnry Ad:!etlamdl:'qmpmmt Over One Tbnusand Students from Twenty-eight States.Registered Last Year Goo [T T You men are saving ’ every cent you can. You ought to know that this quality tobacco costs Jess to chew—not more! You . take a smal‘ler chew. It gives you the . good. tobacco.. taste.... It .. lasts and lasts. so often. THE REAL 'r!onAcco CHEW f i You: - don’t need a fresh chew Put up in kwo styles C RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco : W-B 'CUT isa long fine-cut tobacco VERY REV H. MOYNlHAN DD Pmndem “Some Savnng'” says the qll"Judge O of the most impo cooking is to tak: arft _ Why Mazola Saves Money in Cookin and Makes In frying or shortening it tlves t}u finest results. And, pound for pound, it ‘costs conmlenbly Tess. l"oods cooked with Mazola, or lesome, healthful, very easy : Use ¥4 to % less’ Muohforsllortenmg than butter or lard. In frying, use Mazola over and over’ —=it never-absorbs oders or flnvon. whol No mohng-—no soggy cooking, ' Wonderful Cook Bool'. e Write lhdny for'it. CORN PRODUCTS REFINING co. P.O. Box 181 : NATIONAL STARCH COMPANY 306 Guardmn Life Bldg. = St. Paul, Minn. mfi tlamgs Mazola does e place of butter. nt\vhclnMuoh is used, are again to the last drop n'nohu. STARCH CO., Sales Representatives "New York mG‘rhnlathH-' St. Paul, Minn, - | BUSINESS AND PROFESSl0NAL —_— DOCTORS DR. L. A, WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemidj!, Minn, DR, H. A: NORTHROP - | Onhop:ldnge Physitian n Ibertson Bloow Oiite Phons 108 . DRS. GILMORE & McCANN Physicians and Surgeons Oftice: Miles Block B ~ A. V. GARLOCK, M.D. Specialist Eyo—Ear—Nou—'l'hnut lasses Fitted DR. E. A. SHANNON, M.D. Pbyneun and Snrnon ffice in Mayo ‘Bloc! Phone "8 lel Phono 397 DR. E. H. SMITH- Physician and Surgeon Office Security Bank Block DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgeon - Bemid§i, Minn. LUNDE AND DANNENBERG Chiropractors Hours 10 to 12 a. m. Phone 401-W 2to5, 7 to 8 p. m. Calls made. 1st Nat. Bank Bldg. Bemidji " DENTISTS DR. D. L. STANTON DENTIST Office in Wirter Block DR. .l. T. TUOMY BNTIST North ot un.rklum Ht "‘ Olbbuns Block \ 'DR. J. W.'DIEDRICH DENTIST Office—O’'Leary-Bowser. - Phones—Office 376-W Reb: J‘ft-n GRAHAM M. TORRANCE LAWYER Miles Block Phone 560 VETERINARIANS ~ Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGESS ‘Veterinarians Phones: Office 3-R Bemld]l 5 Res. 99 J. WARNINGER - VETERINARY SURGRON Office and Hospital 8 doors west of Trr?pman'a Phoné No. 209 St. and Irvine Ave. % BUSINESS ., TOM SMART Dray and Tramster Res. Phone 58 Offtes l’hona 13 818 America - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 514 Mingesota Aver S Bemidii 3. Bisiar, Mgr. NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY Dwight D. ailler ) WE CAN I Anythi mur..ec flflm Anywhere GENERAL MERCHANDISE e ) W. G. SCHROEDER Bemidji Phone 65 ENTERPRISE AUTO CO. Auto Livery and Taxi Service Day and Night Service Office Remore” Hotel, Cor. 3rd St. & Beltrami Ave. Office Phone 1 Residence Phone 10 WM. M'CUAIG Manager -& AND ’ | UNDERTAKING M’KEE, Funeral Director PHONE 178-W or R mdg., Tl 107 Defectiy