Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1919, Page 6

PAGE SIX | R | 0 PROSPERITY IN GOOD ROADS | i ’fé Future Development of Country Must i i i Begin With Improved Highways i 3 to Relieve Congestion. i) s { i There are today some 2,500,000 miles &f rural roads in the United States. Of #his amount perhaps 12 per cent could Be classified as improved, while only about one-fourth of one per cent can be said to be suitable for the carriage of heavy-duty motortrucks. And in the face of this condition it can be said without chance of contradiction that the future development of the United il States rests upon the roads. g The past few years have witnessed i) a tremendous turnover in transporta- i tion from the rallway to the highway, guys Roy .D. Chapin, former chairman #f the highways transport committee of the council of pational defense. The congestion which prevailed during the war made necessary the commer- #al utilization of the highway to an { i extent ghought impossible a scant few L years ago. The motortruck, little known be- i1 fore the war, sprang into prominence S | #&s a commerciglly practical form of fxonsportation, and while the fighting z“s ceagsed the need for the motor : ck remains with us, more insistent| | han ever before. i H Within certajn limitations the | freight car of the highway Is more § efficient than the rall carrler, and be- g eause of it it may be taken as a per- manent-form of trangportation and one destined to have a farge influence on R | { | | { | | | k - The hour has struck when the fast- ;. moving efficient motor vehicle of com- merce must replace the horse and the eostly terminal charges which prevail upon the short-haul branches of the ¥ cail lines. Already the motortruck % has become a “feeder” to the rallroad ; shortly it Is destined to ald enormous- 1y to the profitable long hauls, while antirely or very nearly so eliminating the unprofitable spurs. | NS Rallroad men .generally recagnize { 1 the new movement and welcome it. Street rallway men, not so keenly alert to Its possiblilities as a feeder to their lines, have yet to take the full- est advantage of the opportunities which 1t presents. But back of the motortruck rests il . & of lttle Interest fo those-outside of ' the engineering field, as a means for ) transportation it becomes of vital im- portance to every citizen of the United i States, whether he be in profession or Azade, a ‘minister, a merchant, a doc for. High and low, rich and poor, the _+ the movements of trade in the fature.: i i o ,3 i Motortruck Used to Haul Farm i nw___ Produce to Market. “ ‘ss dream the ultimate cost of all that e 11} xc¢ eat, wear, have. *No one knows how much the coun- #l gry pays for cartage,” sald Willlam C. i Redfield, secretary of commerce, re- ecntly, “but anyone who looks into the question is pretty sure to find out that the figures are larger than he thought it could be. Yet cartage Is but one phase of road ecsts. Poor roads mean isolatlon, which in turn mean fewer possibil- fties for education, fewer opportuni- tfes f6r wealth, lower real estate val- autions as well as increased costs of asspplies. Every sound, fundamental geonomic reason speaks out for the durable road, just as it protests against #he poor, inadequately constructed Wghway. Despite these facts, which will be werified by all who have studied the amestion, despite the fact that the offi- gial government figures placed the Banling over the highways at. 2,000, 00,000 ton-mliles in 1917, our roads are Soday all that they should not be. %uey are inefficient, inadequate, anti- quated. . IMPROVE TO SAVE HAULING Mardening Surface, Reducing Grade or Shortening Distance Brings Farm 3 Nearer to Town. The test of a wagon road is the smount of work that can be done on i without injury thereto, that is the Yme and labor required in hauling over % Any improvement, whether in hard- saing Its surface, easing its grade, or shovtening the distance, reduces the ihme and effort of getting to market and brings the farm nearer to town, When The Day Is Over PROPER AMERICAN IS SIMS Many Reasons Why Rear Admiral Has Obtained and Retains Gen- eral Popular Regard. Rear Admiral Sims came qulietly into town the other -day, made a speech or two, and when he left he had Washington hanging to his very abbreviated Jjacket tall. Folks here certainly did like the admiral. A popular idol trat obtains the pldudits of Washington is pretty good. These are some of the things the people liked about the admiral: He sald very positively that he will not write a book on the war: he referred to the navy’'s part in the war as its “stunt”; he boosted General Pershing to the skies, Indicating that the ad- miral is without a Jealous streak; he referred jocularly to himself as “the only rear admiral in captivity,” and sald he was glad to exhibit himself if the folks wanted to see him; and, best of all, he took time to talk with every one who could squeeze a word into his ears. Down at the Union station, when the admiral was boarding his private car, a gray-haired woman rushed up and shook his hand warmly. “This is the proudest day of my life, admiral,” she sald. “I now' have shaken hands twice with you.” “All rfght. my dear lady,” the ad- miral replied, raising his cap. 'm glad If meeting me pleases you. Come around again the next time I'm In town and we'll shake a third time.” If any further proof that the mad- miral is human were. needed, it might be stated that he plays a rattling game of handball.—Washington Star. OLD THINGS UNDER THE SUN Domocncy in Aneient Jewish Days and the League of Nations,_ " Are Two. \ The democratic ldea 13 of great antig- uity, the Christian Herald reminds its readers. Under the prophets and Judges, Israel was a democracy. It was not until they were fascinated by the barbaric splendor and unrestrained Ji- cense of the. heathen nations around them that they began to be dissatisfled with thelr own simple ways and to long for a king and a showy court. It was the lure of sin and worldly vanity. Samuel warned them against courts and kings and told them of what would happen, but his warnings went unheed- ed. - The vision of the age of peace hegan gs early as eight centuries B, ¢, the road. While the highway as such ,—————— Do Not 'fhrow Away That Pair of Shoes WM. STAKIS toad comes into contact with all of us. || ____1;113 P ro!reui!e Shoe and upon ity relative efficlency de- pends to a greater extent than most of epairer Can fix' them and will pay parcel post charges one way Corner Remore Hotel Bldg. e ——————e ) == EAl'=> Third Street Cafe Our Waiters Do the Waiting . When the household worries of everyday life have dragged you down, made you un- happy, and there is noth- ing in life but headache, backache and worry, turn to the right prescription, one gotten up by Dr. Pierce fifty years ago. Everything growing out of the ground seems intended for some use in establish- ing natural conditions. Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., long since found out what is ‘naturally best for women’s diseases. He learned it all through treating thou- sands of cases. The result of his studics was a medicine called Dr. Pierce’s Favor- ite Prescription. This medicine is made of vegetable growths that nature surely intended for backache, headache, weak- ening, bearing-down pains, irregularities, pelvic inflammations, 2nd for the many disorders common to women in all ages of life. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is made of lady’s slipper root, black cohosh root, unicorn root, blue cohosh root and Oregon grape root. Dr. Pierce knew, when he first made this standard medi- cine, that whiskey and morphine are in- jurious, and so he has always kept them out of his remedies. Women who take this standard remedy know that in Dr. Pierce’s Tavorite Prescription they are getting a safe woman's tonic so good that druggists cveryishore sell it, in liquid or tablet form. . - THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Py R s but the demand that would be arcused would be an Incentive for destroying the rats that now constitute so serious a plague. The bodies of the animals need not be wasted. as they form sult- able food for pigs, poultry and dogs. but it Was n6t untfl"thé Christian era that the world change in the existing order fully dawned upon the m.ads of men. The idea of a league of nations 1s not new. Such a league was fore- shadowed by Jean Bloch, in his re- markable book, “The Future of War,” issued 20 years ago. It was also fore- secn by Ewanucel Kant, who, in his es- say on “Perpetual Peace,” wrote that the law of nations must be based on the federation of free states. At dif- ferent times leaders in national and internantional reform have had vislons of sueh a teague, but always as a pos- sibility of the.remote future. It has remained for the United States to promulgate It at a time when the world seems prepared to listen. Didn’t Know the Groom. « u terrible break today.” i - Lothe other day I met Lilllan n the evet, ad b odidn't recognize he e with ber as the groom ™ WHAT APPRAISAL DO YOU PLACE UPON YOUR LIFE? Pass the Sait! Two reporters were boasting of the speed of their shorthand writing. “Whenever I am reporting at a meet- Ing on a warm evening, all the people try to get near to my table. “Why?" asked the other. “Because,” said the pen pusher, “my hand goes so fast that .it creates a current of air like a fan.” “A were .nothing,” sald number two. “I always have to report.on wet pa- per, or else the current.of air caused by the movement of my hand wonld Uncle Sam’s appraisal of the value of ever Soldier and Sailors is $10,000. TWIN CITY LIFE blow it away. Besides the paper has St. Paul to be wetted every few minutes, be- . cause the friction caused by the rapid will ’Guarar.lt.ee Your movements of my arm would set fire Appralsal. to it In no time.” ; Use for Rat §kins. . Exhibiting the cured skin of a brown rat, the veterinary inspector of New- castle, Eng. has pronounced such skins superior to the linings found in some expensive coats. The difficulty in creating a ratskin industry appears to be the uncevtyin source of supply: DWIGHT D. MILLER General Agent Office—Security State Bank Bldg. Bemidji, Minnesota Telephone 167 Mo ills A grade for each type-of motor /777777 FITTTTTIAAN A Solid Carload of Gargoyle Mobiloils Come in and see the display. The carload includes all grades of engine and transmission Jubricants in all sizes of containers. We are now fully equipped to supply you with the correct grades of lubricants for every part of your car. BEMIDJI AUTO CO. 412 Minnesota Ave. LICENSED AUCTIONEER LEWIS BEROUD SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 514 Mississippi Ave. WE PAY p the highest market price for rags metals, rubbers and scrap iron. We also pay freight N on all out of town shipments for "+ 100 pounds and over, Highest = prices paid for hides. "GOLDBERG’S HIDE & FUR CO. Phone 638-W 112 3d Street — | many years. ORI R THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1919 Adler-i-ka Helps Her! “After using Adler-i-ka my wife is able to do her own housework and did all housecleaning. The soreness and pain in her side disappeared.” (Signed) W. H. Brubaker, Salina, Pa. Adler-i-ka expels ALL gas and sourness, stopping stomach distress INSTANTLY. Empties BOTH upper and lowei bowel, flushing ENTIRE alimentary canal. Removes ALL foul matter which poisons system. Often CURES constipation. Prevents -ap- pendicitis. We have sold Adler-i-ka It is a mixture of buck- thorn, cascara, glycerine and nine other simple drugs. City Drug Store. AN & OLEARY FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING H. N. M’KEE, Funeral Director PHONE 178-W or R AN UMBRELLA FUND. When the skies threat- en a storm, the wise man and woman carry an um- brella. The sky of your life is likely to be overcast with clouds at any time. A Life Insurance Policy will prove to be an Um- brella Fund. D. S. Mitchell The New York Life Man Northern Natl. Bank Bldg. Room 5 Phone 676W WHEN IT IS RAINING HARD and you have to go to the BOY ain’t it grand that you can call the BEMIDJI AUTO LIVERY at Phone 470 and have them call for you. ‘They have five and seven passenger cars, careful driv- ers and their prices are mod- erate. Bemidji Auto Livery The young lady Next door Says That when her Brother Comes home From service He will Have his Photograph taken In uniform Before he Puts it away And that Hakkerup Photographs Please her The best. .JN\HE studious ¥ ‘L care given by u's in following our clients’ in- structions is cer- tain to result in arrangements in harmony with the desires of those who employ us. | PROFESSIONAL DOCTORS DR. L. A. WARD Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. DR. E. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office Security Bank Block DR. EINER JOHNSON Physician and Surgeon Bemidji, Minn. DR. E. A. SHANNON, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Office in Mays Blg Phone 896 ! Res. Phone 397 DRS. GILMORE & McCANN Physicians -and Surgeons Office: Miles Block AV OCK, M.D. Eye—Ear—Nogé—Throat Glssses Titted ; DR. H. A. NORTHROP Oslnp:lfigc Physician u an i Ibertson Block Office Phone 153 LUNDE AND DANNENBERG Chiropractors Hours 10 to 12 a. m. Phone 401-W 2tob, 7to8p m Calls made. 1st Nat. Bank Bldg. Bemidji DENTISTS DR. D. L. STANTON DEXNTIST Office in Winter Block DR. J. T. TUOMY i DENTISE North of Markham Brtr® Gibbons Block Phone + e ———————aee train or the ofi'ice, OH | | = eme————————— DR..J. W. DIEDRICH DENTIST Office—O’'Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phones—Oftice 876-W Res. 378-R 'tw GRAHAM M. TORRANC LAWYER Miles Block Phone VETERINARIANS Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGESS Veterinarians Phones: Office 3-R Bel Res. 99 ina l TP R R Ry WL (S J. WARNINGER VETERINARY SURGEON Oftice and Hospital 8 doors west of Troppman's. /Phone No. 209 8rd St. and Irvine Ave. BUSINESS T Pl o L PP P o Aottt ittt TOM SMART Dray and Tramster Res. Phone §8 Offi ; 38 Amorica | 0% 1 ——————————————————— MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Pianos, Organs, Sewing Machines 614 Minnesota Ave., Bemidji 3. Bisiar, Mgr. Phone 573-W NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY Dwight D. Miller WE CAN Insure Anything Anywhere Oftices, 'u““;t Iangk lldy.v: Tel. 167 —————————————————————————— GENERAL MERCHANDISE . Grooceries, nr; .3“::5, Shoes, Flour W. G. SCHROEDER Bemidji Phone 66 DRY. CLEANING Clothes Clen‘hen for Men, Women and . Children - 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 | .