Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 1, 1920, Page 6

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER FUBLISXED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY TEE BEMIDJI PIONBER FUBLISKING CO. @. E. CARSON, Pres. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. 'W. HARNWELL, Editor Telephione 933 Entared at the postoffice at Bemidi, Minn., as second- elass matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions. ‘Writer’s name must be known to the editor, but not mecessarily for publication. Communications for the Woeekly Ploneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the eurrent issue. One Week ..oevvnens 18 Three Months ...... 1.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in advance, $3.00. OFYICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS THE GREAT AMERICAN COW. Nothing is going to make the northern portion of Minnesota more prosperous in years to come than the products of the cow. This is particularly true of Beltrami county. It therefore is of im- portance to us that we thoroughly appreciate the value of our’dairy products. Among the American manufactures to be carried to the uttermost ends of the world has been & product of the farm-milk in the form of condensed milk, butter and cheese. Eighty-four billion pounds of milk were pro- duced in a single year in the United States. This huge amount was produced from 2,768,000 cows. Figuring the price of milk at three and one-half cents a pound the value of the milk would be over three billion dollars. Forty-one per cent of the milk produced was made into butter. Five per cent was made into cheese. Two and nine-tenths per cent was made into condensed milk products. Three and .seven- tenths per cent was made into ice cream. The great dairying states are: Wisconsin, with 1,803,000 cows; New York, 1,478,000; Iowa, 1,- 881,000; Minnesots, 1,368,000; Illinois, 1,060,000; Ohio, 1,080,000, and Pennsyivania, 979,000. In the year 1918 the state of Minnesota pro- A BRAVE, OR A FOOLISH MAN—OR WOMAN. The Bemidji Pioneer has a correspondent in Sol- way, wherever that may be, who is either a very brave or a very foolhardy person. Uncle Si has no hesitancy in tackling “Maud,” or Jiggs to chance “Maggie’s rolling-pin”; but anyone who would take such a chance on a village choir certainly needs to be looked up, and maybe examined by the sanity board and the Carnegie medal experts. This is the paragraph that takes away the breath of the initiated: “The Solway choir practiced on Monday-evening. They are now able to sing one song, and we sin- eerely hope they will have two prepared by Sn'qdny." At that, Solway must be some town, as witness another paragraph in the same column. ‘When bucking broncos, fail to get business it must be a blase town. Read this: . “A herd of western horses came up from Bemidji and stayed over Monday. The owners were unnb_le to sell any here, as tin lizzies are preferred in Solway.”—Daily Virginian. i e YOU CAN'T BLUFF FRANK DAY. Frank Day asserts, in his Fairmont Sentinel, that the. republican candidates for governor are an e———————————_ WHAT OTHERS SAY he Editor: i ;;’let school board haye at last decided to build an addition to the present high school, _but in their plans they have forgotten, or at least failed to make ovision for, the really important and much needed nasium. yl';:emidji high school is one of the very few gchools in the state where an adequate gymnasium 18 lack- ing. For the last five or six years the basket ball teams have been obliged to practice and play games in the Armory. Any person who has ever attended a game knows what a barn-like structure the Armory js. Dusty from roller skating and with little 'dmgy windows, dark and drafty, and worst o.f.all with no shower bath of any kind for the perspiring athletes to bath in. The basket ball team usu.ally gets a cold from the first night's practice \yhlch lasts to the end of the season from playing in that drafty old shack, thereby endgngering their health as well as their playing ability. . The taxpayers must pay the $40 a month rent for four months every year plus the sum oil» $15 for every night that a game is played, and with from eighteen to twenty-five games a season éne can readily see that a big sum of money is pgld out every year and with nothing gained. . This sum would go quite a ways towards building a_good gym and we would have something to show for it. duced 121,909,314 pounds of butter. There were 119,202 men producing and selling butter fat and they received $56,893,193 as compensation. Before the war we imported more butter and ‘ cheese than we exported, while our condensed milk imports about equalled our exports. In 1915 our exports increased and our imports decreased until last year there was a net export so large that about two billion pounds of milk or 100 pounds from each cow in the United States were required to make the products exported. Our foreign trade in the future is more or less an unknown quantity, yet there are already indica- tions that our exports will decrease and our imports increase with the exception of condensed milk products. The scarcity of farm labor is bound to make serious inroads into the milk production in the future and with a .less production-and in- creased consumption the export trade is bound to drop. With the above facts in mind, we cannot but conclude that the price of dairy products will un- doubtedly rise quickly and the farmer who can ,continue to produce milk in large quantities will reap a large reward. Every,Beltrami county farmer will do well to increase his production. SIS T G, WANT A RAISE? Roger W. Babson in Milwaukee Journal: There was a chap named Smithers who rose in the great world of commerce to the exalted position of book- keeper. He made this progress in just eleven years by doing just what he was paid to do, and not one mite more. Smithers was a consistent chap and this idea of “getting-before-you-give” had become a habit with him. One Sunday Smithers went down cellar to feed the furnace. He decided to dicker with it just as he dickered with the boss, so he opened the door, got a shovel of coal, and said to the furnace: “Now, you give me some heat, then I'll give you this coal.” The poor dub froze to death. He didn’t know that the first law of nature re- quires that you give before you get. Seeds must be planted before the harvest. If we want more money, we must first give a helping measure of service for our present salary. If we want a raise, we'll never get it by follow- ing the Smithers plan. We will get more money only by doing more than we are paid to do. There are no crop failures in the field of service. Your "' boss doesn’t determine your salary. You do! inferior lot. What about the democratic bunch, Frank?—Worthington Globe. If the democratic bunch can’t beat the republican lay-out in looks and brains we’ll eat the greaser. Trot 'em out.—Fairmont Sentinel. —_————— Mayne Stanton of Bemidji, who has been editor of both the Bemidji Sentinel and Pioneer at differ- ent times, and who for the past year has been secretary of the Bemidji Civic and Commerce asso- ciation, has accepted the secretaryship of the Grand Forks Commercial club. Mayne is a hustler and the Grand Forks club is to be congratulated in securing his services.—Crookston Times. RS N—— Headlines: “Allies Prepare for War with Tur- key.” “Germans Send Demand for Increased Army to Allied Council at San Remo.” '‘“American War- ships Leave for Mexico.” And yet those scientists experimenting with wireless in Nebraska say no messages from Mars have been received.—Crooks- ton Times. : . SN S When neighbors were called into consultation on the marital relations of a New York pastor and his wife, a separation was arranged. That might have been expected.—St. Cloud Times. 4 RECk NSl Food experts say that nuts are destined to take the place of meat hereafter, and constitute the big thihg in agriculture. Maybe the epithet “nut” may yet become a compliment.—Crookston Times. B. H. S. needs a gym badly and should have one, and as long as a new addition is to be built why not include a large modern gym in it? The present so-called gym at the high school, which. is being used as a manual training room, is a 2x4 match box with nice steam pipes and sharp bricks for walls. What Bemidji should have is a brand new high school, but as there seems little hope of ever convincing the school board, at least let’s have a good gymnasium. Only those who are lucky enough to make the first and second team receive any physical benefit out of school while if we had a gym regular classes could be formed, giving everyone a physical as well as mental education. St. Cloud, with her gym and swimming pool, and Little Falls, Crosby, Wadena and countless other schools with their fine gyms, all are surprised that we have no gym at all. What’s the matter with Bemidji? Let’s have one to be proud of. Honorable School Board, please wake up. —A Student Who Has Played Basket Ball. The above is the first contribution received for this department and it is a worthy one. We be- lieve a most important topic has been touched and we say “You bet” to the sentiment contained in it. We believe, however, that the school board have not forgotten to consider this important matter as is evidenced by their desire to consult the citi- zens as indicated in the article in yesterday’s Pioneer, inserted at the request of the board.— Editor. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1920 — Rev. Paul Matthews, Bishop of New Jersey, with presenting recently. The plan implies the expenditure of $8,- 400 for a “rolling pulpit.” The pul- pit would be on a motor truck, which also would provide quarters for e clergyman. — or his employee, guilty of a gross| ROLLING PULPIT NEXT misdemeanor. Any violation of the law as far as dealers are concerned USE FOR MOTOR CAR will not be tolerated any longer. 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