Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 21, 1920, Page 2

May 28-—High School Commence- | ment at Grand theatre. f: May 29—St. Paul Business Men's Trade Tour will spend noon hour in Bemidji., : ©" June 2=Normal S¢hool Commence- ment at Normal school. : June 6 to lsl)‘;-l\éatifi:ml Guard En- pment. at Ft. Snelling. ?..?une 7—Stump Pulling * Demon- stration. . . % Junpe 16 and 17 — Convention of League of Municipalities of Minne- ??.une 16 — Opening of Birchmont Beach. June 17 and 18—Northern Minne- sota Development Association annual summ iting. Jun‘erz‘%‘: 23;‘24, 25—Northwestern Fire Insurance Underwriters annual outing, at Birchmont. JAPANESE MAKING STRONG BD FOR FOREIGN TRAD Increase of Trade Threefold Since Outbreak of Great War — (By International News Service) London, May 21.—*Japan has in- ‘¢reased her foreign trade threefold aince the outbreak of the great war. She has abundant and well-dieciplin- od labor, gladly accepting about one- ‘tenth the rate asked by the English “workers. Her textiles and silk goods gell from Lancashire to the heart of 1. Her shipping lines are tak- 4ng . the place in world trade once Jeld by Germany,” writes F. A, Mc- {Kenzie, in the London Express. . . .. M“Her. great weakness is that many of the Japanese goods are slight, trumpery and unreliable. The world took them when it could buy no bet- ter, but the world is already return- ing to its old producers. “The experienced Bast India mer- H LE s« ¢hant laughs at Japanese competi- tion. ‘They will never do anything really big,’ he tells you ‘They-are <commercial hogs and want to grab everything for themselves. You can- not trust them. Permanent business cannot be built up without trust. #Their expansion is a mere flash in the an.’ w.“The old-timer is partly right in his_facts. But wholly wrong in his conclusions. The Japanese conduct business according to a standard of their own, which is not altogether our standard. 'But their methods are improving, and every year we feel their competition more. This is the more remarkable because of the tre- mendous handicaps they have impos- ed on themselves. 3 “The great Japanese industrial or- ganizations work hand-and-glove with the government _co-operation between politicians and traders, to the mutual interests of both, is car- ried in Japan at least as far as in any country in the world. The Mi- kado’s government, when it became firmly established, recognized that foreign trade was essenfial for world greatness, and so it started to foster it. High protection, heavy subsidies and liberal orders to infant industries were inaugurated. Pick- ed young men were sent at govern- ment expense to manufacturing cen- ters all over the world, particularly to England—to Newcastle and Shef- field, Oldham and Bradford, Thames- side and Glasgow. They noted ev- erything. A certain amount of ma- chinery was imported.. In some cases one machine was enough. The Japan- ese took it to pieces and made. it their model to build others. “A factory system was introduced without factory laws. Child labor and girl labor were driven to the maximum. Young women from the country came under contract to the great mills that sprang- up around Osaka. They were herded in com- pounds, paid about two-pence a day .and their food, housed sometimes in the roughest sheds, warksd twelve hours a day. The factories ran the whole twenty-four hours round, sev- en days a week, on two twelve-hour shifts. Here was a happy land where there were no strikes, no un:ons, no organized labor troubles. It was an industrjal parade—for the employers. A few people did try to introduce So- cialistic doctrines among the work- ers: they were arrested in a bunch convicted of plotting against the Em- peror, and executed. “The factories grew to a hunded thousand workers, half a million workers, seven hundred thousand workers! Eventually factory laws ' had to be passed. “At the same time the Japahese be- gan to make sure of exclusive mar- gets outside their own country. They were hampered by European and Am- erican diplomatic supersitions about the maintenance of the ‘‘open door” in the Far East. Now, the Russian in his attempt to monopolize .he Far East, bragged a lot about how he was |. Pl going to have everything for himself, while actually his advance helped out trade. The Japanése tried another plan. They solemnly promised that the door should be open, then shut it,’ declaring that their meaning of ‘open door’ was different from our meaning of the same words. “REurope, after a time, gradually awakened to the fact that Japan was building her own ships in place of buying them from us; that she was sselling to our own customers, that ~:she was making machinery not only for herself, but for her neighbors, and that the output at the Osaka -mills' was underselling Lancashire in Lancashire itself. #:*Then came the war. The world was now forced to go mainly to two countries; for its supplies. America and Japan. .“Had - Japan been five years fur- “gher forward she might then have "May 30th THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER Nationwide Outdoor Program Planned by Boy Scouts to June 6th To Be Boy Scout Week Throughout ‘the United States, the week of May 30th to June 6th will be observed as Boy Scout Week, with a program of outdoor activities par- ticipated in. by the half a million Scouts and Scout officlals who com- pose the 17,000 local troops of the Boy Scouts of America. P The program of the week will be opened Sunday, May 30th, in 'the churchés of the country, talks being made in churches of all denomina- tions on the merits of Scouting in helping the boyhood of the commun- ity. In many instances Boy Scouts will make four minute addresses and will otherwise participate in the pro- gram. Scouts to Promote Overnight Hikes. Friday, June 4th, will be known as Overnight Hike Day, and it is expect~ ed at least two houndred thousand Boy Scouts will spend the night in the woods, and in many communities plans have been made to invite fath- ers of Scouts on the Overnight hike. National Scout field day is planned for Saturday, June bth, with compe- tition in tent pitching, fire building, wall scaling, signalling, trew-cart da_monstratlons, tower and bridge MAY SUPPLY WOOL FOR GERMAN FACTORIES (By International News Service) .London, May : 21.—British - busi- nees men are behind a scheme to fur- 'nish supplies of wool, jute and leath- ‘er 80 as to start factories in Central ‘Burope. The Department of overseas|’ Trade has 0. K.’d the plan, but the British treasury opposes it. Other business men say only manufactured articles sh6uld be exported from Eng- land. Those who would export raw ma- terial do not desire to do so until the government is prepared to under- 'write any losses that might occur. - Now another scheme is on foot for extension of credits to certain Euro- pean factories for purchase of raw materials, or for putting out—=sub- letting—manufacturing work by British manufacturers to Central European factories. Thus could they take advantage of the depreciated exchange rate and get cheap labor. | Lord Faringdon, among others, has been pushing the campaign, but ex- perts say that oply when the British government “takes the risk” by guaranteeing payments can this: en- terprise be carried out. FIELD MEET OF 8. D. SCHOOLS OPENED TODAY (By United Press) Brookings, S. D., May 21—The an- nual track and field meet of South Dakota schools opened here today. All of the most important schools in the state are participating. Winners in the various events are expected to take part in the national games at Chicago. R made her position secure over half of the world. But the opportunity came before she was really prepared to meet it. She turned out goods om an enormous scale. South America, Australia, India and the islands of the Pacific had to rely on her, but the| Japanese killed their trade in many itnes in Europe and America for a generation ahead by shoddy produe- tion. . “There was great improvement in quality, however, even during the war. Many of the Japanege' goods which reachel .England in 1919 were far superiér to those that came in 1915. The Japanese are shrewd enough to learn, as Germany, learn- ed, that ‘cheap and nasty’ is not enough. “We are only. at the beginning of Japanese commercial competition. It will replace German in many mark- ets.” f No. 3.7 THE TERRORS OF RHEUMATISM NOW A THING OF THE PAST Yes—we mean _every ‘word “of thisi wvery suffefer of . .rheumatism, . nel lumbaga or eczema and skin .eruption: now get ‘bléssed relief without taki drop ‘of | medicine—and never' have -any experiencing such . excruciating following ' unsolicited® “testi- “I . believe . your - SULFLUID Atreatment should , be “kh by everybody. ‘oday °I' am ‘altogether: a-new man- after two. weeks’ tréatment;;of SULFLUID. Be- lieve me, it is the treatment I ever used, and' I have used quite' a few in the past ‘year. Doctors: here gave me up, but todfin after two weeks of your. SUL- FLUID treatment, I am feeling. great. ‘When: I first - wrote you. I canlSn’t get out of bed and from the way I am now Amproving I think (I may be back to work Soon. That’s what your wonderful ‘SUL- FLUID treatment done for me. ED- ‘WARD JAMES MILLER, 21 E. 4th St., Chester, Pa.” SULFLUID is one of the greatest chemi- discoveries: of modern times. It is' mot a_patent medicine. It is a harmless sul- }fl\nr. solutién, . used ‘as a -bath, = It is identically : 'the _same? treatment given to | those who go to the Hot Sulphur ‘Springs, and gives precisely ‘the same_results. So 'pom‘nve are the results following ‘the use of this unique treatment, that we guar- antee relief in every case, no matter how chronic oflacute it’ lmny be, or refund Sfl‘l‘: money. t us tel u more about FLUID. Bookter free. "~ Re ménial E. A. Barker, 217 Third St building and first aid and life saving work, Scout games, etc. Camp cook- ery with free samples of miniature flap-jacks will be a feature-of the field day program. Demonstrations of all Scouting ac- tivities 'will be held during the week throughout the country in commun- ities where Scout troops exist in ord- er to-show' the work dope by the scouts,’ This ‘will include’life sav- FRECKLEFACE Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly How to Remove Easily. Here’s a chance, Miss Freckle-face, to try a.remedy for freckles with the guarantee of a reliable concern that it will not cost you a penny unless it removes the freckles; while if it does give you a'clear complexion the ex- pense is trifling. Simply get an'ounce of Othine— double strength—from any druggist and a few applications should show you how easy .it is to rid yourself of the homely freckles and get a beautiful complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce needed for the worst case. 5 Be sure to ask the druggist for the double strength Othine. as this strength is sold under guarantee of money back if it fails to remove freckles. Spots. ing, safety-first, ‘clean-up "and good |’ health ‘campaigns. and various other factivities for ‘which “the “Boy Scouts are noted. g & %To Stimulete Extension.” “The outstanding purpose of Boy Scout week is to stimulate interest in |- scouting so as to reach a large pro- portion of the nation’s boyhood,” said James E., West, chief scout_executive of the Boy Scouts of America. “We want to.project the light of public attention on the Boy Scouts of America as a movement which has grown to be the largest of.its kind the world has ever known, a'brother- hood of organized boyhood which builds solidly for the future, which prepares the young of today for the responsibilities of citizenship tomor- raw.” s 2 - [ENERY MORNING Get into the habit of drinking a breakfast. - Millions of folks bathe internally| now instead of loading their system with drugs. “What’s an inside bath”? you say. Well it is guaranteed to perform miracles according to hot water enthusiasts. j ; There are vast numbers of men and women who, immediately upon arising in the morning, drink a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it. This is a very excellent health m re. It is intended to flush the stonfach, liver, kidneys and intestines of the previous | day’s waste, sour bile and indigestible material left over in the body which if not eliminated every day, become food for millions of bacteria which infest the bowels, the quick result is poisons and toxins which are then ab- sorbed into the blood, causing head- ache, bilious attacks, foul breath, bad taste, colds, stomach trouble, kidney misery, sleeplessness, impure blood and all sorts of ailments. People who feel good qne day and badly the next, but who simply can not get feeling right are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store. This will cost very little but is sufficient to make anyone a real crank on the subject of internal sanitation. 7 TON DOUBLE TAX [ldpayumll Mnnypoopl.tl'-kth!thinnd‘ taxes as other property. This is NOT TRUE. NAGE TAX CALUMET BAKING POWDER § —its wonderful leav-, ening- strength and: . absolute purity in-] surethis. That’swhy’ ‘cooking experts, do-- mesticscience teach- | ers, ‘big ‘hotels, rail-1 roads and millions } ll of . America’s. - best. housewives always’ use it. ' Calumet contains. only,| “such ingredients as have beenapproved officially by the U.S.Food Authorities.' Youarevhenyee by Subscribe for The Ploneer. PR Iron ore pays MORE taxes than ANY OTHER FORM OF PROPERTY in the state. HOW MUCH MORE? Iron ore is assessed 25% more than city property. Iron ore is assessed 50% more than farm lands. assessed 100% Iron ore Not more than household goods. does iron ore pay on a higher valuation but it pays a HIGHER RATE than Southern Minnesota. HOW MUCH HIGHER? Mm:hlgfin&.irmmdo not pay THE The average tax rate of the forty-one counties of Southern Minnesota is The avérage tax rate on all iron ore . mines in Minnesota is............. The tax rate on iron ore is higher than the tax rate ' of the counties of Southern Minnesota ., which are demanding a tonnage tax. Not a single Southern Minnesota county pays as high a tax rate as does iron ore. NOT ONE. 41.65 ‘mills 55.36 mille - This is what the STATE gets. For the year 1919 the iron ore properties of the state pay the state In direct taxes ........ -.$2,340,403.00 . In gross earnings taxes ; Total ... In state royalties ........... . 1,708,164.00 ..$4,048,567.00 954,679.00 . Grand total ..........c......$5,003,246.00 object to being double-taxed yourself? why do you insist upon double-taxing someone else? Published by the MINNESOTA FAIR TAX ASS' N believer in fair taxation is invited to join the Mombers association. hips $1 each. Headquarters St. Francis Hotel, St. Paul, Minn. 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First correct the cause of that pain in your feet, then see how good your shoes will feel.'(‘ If your feet ache, if they tire easily, if your instep or ankles pain, you probably have a tendency to “weak foot.” If neglected, this condition will grow Give the foot a scientific support to keep the arch We Understand Feet . Come into this store any timeand let our foot ex- pert examine your feet and advise you how to have constant foot comfort. 'Heis able to relieve and cor= rect your foot troubles by fitting and adjusting the‘ proper appliance to your feet. = Let him demoastrate’ to you on your own feet -2 DrScholls Foot Cmfort Appliances The tenderest and sorest feet can be relieved and ‘ corrected. Come in any time, no charge, no obli- Bemidji Shoe Store ' 315 Minnesota Avenue OPPOSITE GIVEN HARDWARE COMPANY i