Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 19, 1920, Page 6

BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED BVERY AFTERANOON EXOBPT SUNDAY THES BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISKING CO.° ®. B. CARSON, Pres. E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWELL, Editor Telephone 932 - Entared at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second- elass matter under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. —_— No attention paid to aenonymous contributions. Writer's name must be known to the editor, but not mecessarily for publication. Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the eurrent issue. ‘e THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in advance, $3.00. TOWNLEY ON THE BABCOCK PLAN. The Duluth Herald of May 15th “kicks the props” out from under the “poisoned excuses” offered by Townley agents, who assert that the passage of Amendment No. 1 will mean loading the state with a big bond issue. The Herald in this connection “The Nonpartisan league is divided on the Bab- cock road plan, by no means all its farmer members being shortsighted enough to heed the leaders who oppose it because they fear the financing of the . plan might interfere with their schemes for bond- ing the state to raise huge sums for socialistic ex- periments. Nevertheless, Townley’s agents are “bor- ing within,” and workers for the Babcock plan find traces here and there for the poison they are spreading. " For instance, there is the assertion that adoption of the Babcock plan means loading the state with a big bond issue. 5 ‘That assertion, coming from a crowd whose aim here, as in North Dakota, is to load the state with a big bond issue to be used in hazardous experi- ments instead of in building good hard roads, is pretty good. > But what about the facts? In the first place, if the people adopt the Bab- cock amendment in November, as they should, they will not vote a dollar’s worth of bonds. : They will simply authorize the legislature to provide for bonds for building the Babcock highway system IF BONDS ARE NECESSARY. The legis- Jature need mot provide for a dollar’s worth of bonds if it doesn’t choose to, and it may very. easily turn out that no bonds at all will be needed. The revenue from automobile licenses, together with government aid, may be enough to provide for each year’s building program. It is estimated that, by the time the legislature meets, at the present rate of increase there will be three hundred thousand licensed automobiles in this state. The av‘e‘rage license fee contemplated js eighteen dollars—owners of small cars will bear in mind that this is an AVERAGE. Three hundred- thousand ..cars and...trucks .at. eighteen dollars each - will produce 45,400,000, which with the federal aid:that will be. forthcom- ing would bring the 1921 receipts up to more than seven million dollars. That is pretty nearly all the state could supervise the spending of in one year. The bond issue needed would be very small, if any were needed at all. So much for the “big bond issue” argument.” DULUTH AS A SEAPORT. There is no feasible argument why Duluth should not be made a harbor for ocean going ships. Every . month’s delay in building a deep water way ‘for this purpose means millions of dollars loss to cen- tral and western United States; yes, more than this, it means much to eastern states as well, if they but give it careful study. The co-operation of every state in and west of the great Mississippi valley should be available and would be if the great advantages of such a water- way were pointed out to them. Nature intended that Duluth should harbor all sea going vessels when it providéd her with the best landing port in existence. It may not have counted on such monster boats as now sail the seas but if it did surely it counted on this nation having sense enough to dig a channel deep enough for them to pass. 5 The great empire which would be served and the millions of dollars its people would have should appeal to edst and west alike and selfish ambition on the part of eastern ocean ports should meet with rebuke from every corner of the continent. / —_———— SILENCE SOMETIMES IS GOLDEN. The editor is popularly supposed to.see every- thing, hear everything, know everything and pub- lish everything that is going on. = But some times he doesn’t see it—doesn’t want to see it—because, being an editor and trained to weigh all angles of every question, he knows that it is better for the community if he does not see it. There are many things the editor does not publish because ' they contain no element of news, are distressing to many innocent people, and their pub- lication could serve no good purpose. Some times the editor is criticised for his forbear- ance, but at least some of his critics do not stop to remember that possibly the paper is just as for- bearing regarding an incident or two of their own lives. There are many things to be considered before putting it in cold type. LR S Summer is with us again and the gma!l boy is casting around for avenues of amusement. Don’t discourage him. Rather he should be encouraged, and that encouragement could well be in the line of athletic sports. There is no other form of amusement so calcu- lated to develop both mind and body as athletics. They bring into play every muscle, and are con- ducive to quick and accurate action of mind. Athletics are the sports of all sports, and they produce men among men. —_— . Discipline is necessary in conducting a successful business, just as'it is in the army. But the dis- * cipline that is voluntary on the part of the employe and not enforced by the employer is the kind that produces best results. MONTREAL. LARGEST CANADIAN CITY, HAS NO LARGE HALL Difficulty in Securing Place for A. F. of L. Meet Shows Need of Auditorium g (By United Press) Montreal, May 19.—Ten months after this city was awarded the 1920 convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor, Montreal .has with great difficulty found a building suitable to house the gathering of wunion heads—the St. Denis theatre. As soon as this, the largest city in Canada secured the convention last year local labor men and city officials began the search for a suitable hall for the two weeks beginning June 7. Several trips here by Frank Morris- on, secretary of the A. F. of L., and the strenuous efforts of the Canadian labor men brought no results. At- tempts were made to obtain the large Craig Street Armory, but these efforts proved unavailing and when it looked as though the convention wouid be switched to Toronto or some Ameri- can city it was learned that tue. St. Denis theatre in the heart of the French quarter of the city, was to close June 1 for the summer months and negotiations soon brought about an arrangement whereby the theatre and its officers will be used for the deliberation of the unionists. The widespread publicity given the fact that Montreal, a city of almost one million inhabitants, has no audi- torium or. public building suitable for holding conventions of the mag- nitude of this annual labor gathering has caused a general demand for the city council to take action towards the erection of, a building along the lines if not as large, as the Coliseum in Chicago, the Auditorium. in Mil- waikee and other great halls in eities south of the border, and it seems that before many more months pass ground will be broken for the con- struction of such an edifice. The awarding of the laboer con- vention to Montreal this year has de- veloped a keen interest in the union movement throughout Canada and la- bor circles heretofore not generally active are watching the proceedings branch of organized labor in the Unit- ed States and Canada and represent- ing in all about 4,500 workers. In addition to the accredited delegates, however, there will be hundreds of other labor men present and many of their wives and daughters. The convention will be -called to|, order by President Samuel, Gompers after the delegates and visitors have ‘marched from the Windsor hotel to the St. Denis theatre. City and pro- vincial officials and representatives of the dominion government have been invited te take part in the opening session. STUMP PULLING SPECIAL " MAKES HIT AT MILACA Milaca, May 18.—The first -of a series of twenty-one land clearing demonstrations by experts travelling in a special train under the auspices of the University of Minnpesota, was staged here today. The land-clearing special includes’ nine cars. Demonstrations will be made in fourteen counties during the six weeks the experts are out. ‘A big crowd attended the demonstration here today and the attendance at many places is expected to exceed 1,000. The special will be at Ogilvie Thursday and Hinckley Saturday. 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Eastern Canadian labor lead- | ers predict the union _ movement, hitherto. not very strong in the east- ern provinces, will have a rejuven- ation that will put the east on an equal footing with western Canada as regards the percentage of ‘workers organized. At the convention proper there will be between 500 and 600 delegates, nominated by the unions of every y 4 and rub in lightly with fcegers; i add water slowly umtil of right consistency to roll out. Divide in halves; roll out one half thin; put on in small pieces half rve- ining shortening; fold upper and lower edges in to center; fold sides in to center, fold sides to center again; roll out thin and - put on pie plate. Repeat with other half for top crust. Apple Pi¢ 1% cups flour 1% teas; A o mov aang ‘teaspoon salt tpblespoons shortening wlu. or 1 quart sliced apples milk ol The_re' are Goods Canned - And there are LODGES CANNED ‘Bemidji Lodge No. 119, ;_ = ltram] We Are Proud Of Qur Barns 0,0, 27 o y ev Friday evening J “ lt"By.o'clockz Fr THIS WEEK | FIRST DEGREE AND .- LUNCH C. J. Winter, N. G., Tel. 862J R. A. Hannah, Rec. Sec., Tel 719W ‘We’ve never had to do the former because our goods are too goo';i to can. Our Canned Goods including Fruits, Vegetables, Soups and Pickled Dainties are the real ingredients of the QuAick' Lunch. and The Animals they Shelter Some of the finest animals in the Northwest are housed in SHEVLIN' BUILDINGS. They have found them satisfactory—so will your stock Bakery Goods are received daily. ‘ BEMIDJ! LODGE Loyal Order of MOOSE, NO. 1452, Our dairy products are always fresh and direct from your neighbors’ farms. EAT WHOLESOMELY AND ECONOMICALLY BY WAY OF OUR CATERING ting brothers C. B. 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