Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 20, 1920, Page 6

AGE SIX BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER , PUBLISED RVERY AYTEENOON NXCEPT SUNDAY TEE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISKING CO. @. B. CARSON, Pres, E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWELL, Editor Telephons 922 Entared at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second- elass matter under Act of Congress of March 8, 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 Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the surrent issue. By Mall 50 One Year .......c...$4:00 135 six Months th . o A6 % V‘P:k eeeesessse 13 Three Months ....... 1.00 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, Zer, in advance, $3.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND OITY FROCEEDINGS —_—_— A MENACE TO COUNTRY LIFE. Will our cities eventually bring disaster to our country towns? In doing this will they also bring ruin upon themselves? . . In accomplishing both of these will they become a menace even to the stability of the republic? There is grave danger that all of these may happen. A few years ago in any city a woman could be secured to clean house for $1.50 to $2 a day. Now they receive as high as $4 a day and three meals. Carpenters, plasterers, bricklayers and others in the trades formerly were content with $4 and $5 a day. Now they demand as high as $8, $10 and more a day and get it. In the factories, on the railroads, in the offices, behind the counters, everywhere the same story is told in the big cities. Wages are mounting and the amount of work accomplished in a day is decreasing. Profiteering in necessities and luxuries of life flourishes unchecked. There is no diminishing of this crime because city people have gone insane on the subject of spending. Merchants have made the bald statement that they have offered excellent articles at moderate prices only to have them rejected by the buyers as “too cheap.” Unable to dispose of them, they have tagged the same articles at double. the price and they have been immediately snapped up by the profligate spenders. g We might fill the columns of this paper with such cases and still tell only a small portion of the story. This riotous use of money in the cities is having an injurious effect upon country life. It is enticing our young men and young women from us and is leaving the rural communities stranded for help. It is forcing us to pay exorbitant prices for com- modities when we are curtailed in our own power of production and in our earning capacity. “ The false lure of sudden wealth is proving too much for the country boy and girl. They are for- aaking their happy and peaceful homes and are rushing in droves to the call of the cities gone mad. ,The bubble has been inflated almost to the burst- ing point. It cannot forever stand the increasing atrain. In time it must collapse. Already city banks are curtailing their loans for building purposes. It is necessary to stop the alarm- ing inflation of fictitious values. Following this will come a cessation of activity in the building trades, wth $10 a day laborers looking for jobs that are not to be had. Similar conditions may be expected in- other lines, with money becoming tighter as work ceases. Added to this will be the scarcity of food. If farmers lose their help they cannot produce the PRESS COMMENTS—THAT'S ALL (By EXCRANGE EDITOR) A famous orator, asked to put in few words the . secret of his success, said: “Remember, that you cannot possibly exaggerate the stupidity of the public, and you will have no trouble.” He meant that you must make things very plain, in order to be understood. A reader sends’ this note: “Many people think that Hiram Johnson, who is running for the presi- dency, is the same as ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson. Please write an editorial, explain the difference.” Evidently the orator was right.—Ex. - 0 When his constituents are seven years ahead on the free seeds and he is so proficient in speech mak- ing that he can sway the multitudes with his voice . and the world with his breath, he grabs the bug that he wants to be the next president. The cat is out of the bag with nine lives to give for his coun- try—Pittsburg Press. y ' THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER M 5 ¥ ] food necessary to feed the cities and the country towns. A.country town is'dependent largely upon the . farming community adjacent to it. If those farms become non-productive for lack of help_the coun- try town is a heavy sufferer. : And that is the condition in which we fear we will soon find ourselves in the country towns. The insanity of the cities has done its work only too well. If that insanity is checked in time disaster may yet be avoided. But if not checked soon the crash will inevitably come—and then the deluge. - Wholesale assininity has never yet been known’ to produce any permanent beneficial results. But it has toppled kings from their thrones, overturned republics, and let loose the wildest passions of ungovernable mobs. The rural population of America is not overjoyed at the prospect the cities have forced upon the nation we revere. ¢ —_— YOUR LIBERTY BOND. The United States government borrowed' money from you to finance the war. You hold the govern- ment’s promise to pay you back. This promise is called a Liberty bond or Victory note. On this bond is stated the conditions under which the gov- ernment borrowed the money from you. For instance: If you hold a bond of the Third Liberty loam,, it states that on April 16th and October 15th of each year until maturity, you will receive interest on the amount you paid for the bond. Other issues bear other rates of interest and other maturity dates, all of which are clearly stated on thé bond. i Now, if-you keep your bond until the date when ' the government pays you in full for it, you do not need to worry if, in the meantime, the price is low one day or high the next. You and Uncle Same are living up to ‘your agreement with each other, and neither will lose by it. - On the other hand, if you sell your Liberty bond now, you will find that the man you sell it to will not give you a dollar for every dollar you paid for it. The price has been brought down because so many _people are offering to sell their bonds. If the market is flooded with tomatoes, you can buy them cheap, but if everyone is clamoring for "tomatoes and there are few to be had, the price goes up. The same is true of Liberty bonds. Short-sighted people are dumping them on the market, and wise ones are buying them. The best advice that can be given to the owner of a Liberty bond is this: Hold the bond you bought during the war; it is as safe and sound as the United States government itself. - Buy as many more at the present low rate as you can afford. If you hold them to maturity, you are bound to make the difference between what they -sell at now and their fade value. You will also re- ceive good interest on your investment. Hold on to your Liberty bonds. S N B Gabriel Shipley of Hegarstown, Md., inherited seven million dollars the other day, but still insista on keeping his job as lock tender, feeding pigs, ete. “We’ll tell the ‘world” that “Gabe” will change hlu mifid" 28" soon ‘#8"his"bank ‘book ‘gets used to being— wrapped around seven million “plunks:” e Dt Experts with the stump pulling special train which will visit Bemidji soon guarantee to .extract stumps via the painless method. Now that tooth pulling is all the “rage” we suggest that a delega- tion of dentists accompany the special for a short course in “painless extraction.” . . . R Nickey Arnstein, the “master mind” of New York’s five million dollar bond theft, gave himself up the other day. Nick must have felt himself slipping a bit. ) pRETT If they capture Carranza a few more times he will soon become a rival of Villa in that respect. but if the track leads anywhere it will be a new record in the department of justice’s profiteer hunt. —Kansas City (Mo.) Star. AN N JIE While the New York World is not partial to At- torney General Palmer, yet it pays him a very hand- some compliment.. Mr. Palmer, says the World, “Jeaves a great deal to be desired as a representative of Wilsonian democracy.”—XKansas City (Mo.) Journal. 5 RENLSar IO i) The federal pension roll now amounts to approxi- mately $300,000,000 annually. Along about 1880 Garfield gave the assurance that it had reached its peak when it attained $40,000,000. Who will have the nerve to say what it will be in 1950?—St. Paul Dispatch. r One of two things must be true: Either the de- partment of justice is peddling a lot of press agent “dope” about red plots or the punishments that follow conspiracy are few and far between.—Rut- land (Vt.) Herald. O Experience teaches that the man with ten wives Shos guyouor " | ‘Bujussjoesnoy jeioueh J04 “woes K10A0 204 “§ooM oyy k) Kep Kioas 104 20 for 20c . —and its good old tobacco toste put Spur there Electrical Fixtures For the Home | We have just received a consignment of NEW ELECTRICAL | fixtures especially for the home. - The shipment contains é splendid variety of the late things for home lighting and the range inprice will be from f $6.00 to $25.00 «\Many are already making selections and we cordially invite those interested to come in and look over these new ideas. 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And probably will track it all over. the house, too often.—Ex. ) i X% K% %%¥¥¥XXKEXKEKK|here and as the supply gave out a and Sunday at home. ; * LEASANT VALLE 4 |number of people went home 'still P v Y hungry for ice cream. ) L8 AR do e ool g ’: Those who called at the A. A. Ran-| Frank Porter is trying out his new ’ The Helping Hand society me dall home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. | potato planter. «He thinks it is do- with Mrs. Norden last Wednesday. Chas Coffin and children, Audrey|ing good work as he has about four Friday nifht a su!rprge P:"Y W“; Helen and Dix Coffin, Raymond Mc-|acres planted and isn’t through yet. gsivendmi = Fi fi'é?'»w‘r’.o ar?;::mgfl 1:0 Queeney, Ralph Porter and sister,| Marvel Worden, Audrey and Helen St Paul this week. A crowd met |Eisie Bashor. Coftin spent Sunday with Lois Wat- at the Gardner home and proceeded| Mr. and Mrs. M. ‘W. Knox went to|son. | i Bemidji Monday for a few days visit.| Mrs. Cook is on the sick list again to the Geo. Fuller home, Wwhere Grandpa and Grandma Fuller were Mrs. Fahl enjoyed a visit with|this week. her sister from near Puposky. to spend the night. Quite a number were present and spent a very pleas& ThMrs. A. :x.t R\Bafldl?iljll n::dd:;m ant evening.. Son, were sung an omas, went to Bem n . games plaged. R&:treshmenta were| Raymond McQueeney finished his Subscribe for the Ploneer. served ehortly after midnight. These [term of school near Foulds Friday friepds will be missed from out neigh |and is busy now clearing up hisland. |10 g .. borhood, but we all wish them suc-| Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Williams visit~ end + cess in. their home to which they are|ed near Puposky the first of the moving. week. § Redwes 30.t0 68 We.. Of mers o OARANTED %0 wioe ' Frank Porter and George Edwards| Mr. and Mrs. Frank Porter, éon oy ) were.Bemidji callers Friday. (Howard, and his thrée daughters, Ei- berte & Ericksom “¢Fhe 1¢e cream social given at the |leem, Thelma and Elma, spent Sun- Birkér R4 : sfen Mile Lake school house Saturday |day at the Frank Stout home at Is- . night was well attended. It takes|land Lake. “fots of ice cream to satisty people up| Floyd Porter spent Saturday nl;!t ¢ pibas $