Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 16, 1920, Page 6

SOONTOBE SECOND LADY OF THE LAND Foreign Trade Review Empha- sixes- Importance of Devel- opm. Foreign Commerce BEMIDJI CASH'MARKET QUOTATIONS. ) GRAIN AND HAY / MEATS Mutton . Hogs, 1b. = Dressed beef, /db. .. Turkeys; live, 1b. .. Old Toms, live, Ib. . Geese, live, 1b. .. Ducks, live, 1b. Hens, 4 1bs. and ov ¢ — HIDES~_ Cow hides, No. 1, Ib.". Bull hides, No. 1, 1b. . Kipp hides, No. 1, 1b, Calf skins, No. 1, Ib. ‘Wool, bright....... Deacons, each .. orse hides, lgrge, each... Oats, #u. Red Clover, medium, lb. . Wheat, har Wheat, soft., . Rye, bu. The further development of the United States merchant marine and its gperation in. private hands under sound laws are emphasized as im- portant means for’ accelerating the development of our foreign commerce and: the maintainence of our national Prosperity,' in- the Guaranty Trust company’s foreign trade review, Am- erlcan Goods and Foreign Markets. ‘Wiith the country committed definite- 1y to an aggressive policy in the op- eration and development of her new merchant fleet, and with out domestic prosperity more dependent than ever upon overseas commerce, business in- terests must give their undivided support in fostering the growth of the merchant marine by giving profit- $1.50-51.60 eessesss $1.45 VEGETABLES . ’ Potatoes, per cwt.,.small lots ... o..ouin s Potatoes, car load lots Cabbage, cwt. .. Onions, dry . ... Beans, cwt . . Butterfat < ........ Eggs, fresh, dozen... MINNEAPOLIS CASH GRAIN. ) SOUTH ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK. At close of business October 16:( able employment to American ship- Low High ping: s No. 1 Northern Dark . Cattle~—Receipts, 1,600; market, The bulletin says, in part: Wheat .. $2.24% $2.27% | nominally steady. . B Ihdicative of the importance of|No. 1 Nor. Wheat.... 2.21% 2.24% keeping the merchant fleet profitably | No. 3 Yellow Corn. .90 91 Hogs—Receipts, 1,100; market, employed is the estomate recently|No. 3 White Oats.. & 515 | steady. made by the British Board of Trade|Choice Barley .. .95 that-the net earnings of British ship-|No. 2 Rye . 1.71% Sheep—Receipts, 3,500; market, ping this yedr will amount to approx-| Flax 2.79 |lambs 25c¢ lower, others steady. ________;__——_————_——-— COUNTY VALDATION IS [Eynitess woich ¥ o o) | oo ON CONSTANT INCREASE ool Moy vio Eight additional teachers were en- Vice: (Continued from Page 1) imately $2,200,000,000 which sum, the: Board says, will not only offset Great Britain’s excess of imports over exports for the year, but give the Kingdom a favorable balance of $100,000,000. Shipping, according to the:British Board of Trade, thus will have' brought in sufficient return to restoge Great Britain to her former position of a creditor nation. The Board of Trade figures deal with all of Great Britain’s “invisible” - revenue, including income from in- vestments abroad and from miscel- laneous services, the total of which 'may swell the favorable balance to $900,000,000, but by far the most productive source of “invisible’ trade are found.in the diversified activi- -tes of the merchant marine. In esti- mating the shipping earnings, the Board of Trade considered the gross tonnage of British ships, employed in trading between the United Kingdom and-countries overseas during first half of 1920 as 25,600,000 tons dead- weight, allowance having been made in these figures for shipping laid up for repairs. More tonnage probably will be afloat during the last half of the year than was in service during the'first six months, but the increased earnings which normally would re- sult from such tonnage increases and the lower cost of bunkers will be more. than offset by the reduced rate for charter money, so the estimate places earnings for. the six months ending December 31 at $1,050,000,000, as compared with $1,150,000,000 for the first six months of the year. | < The foregoing figures serve not only to emphasize the keenness of the oémpetition into- which American 8hipping must enter, but to demon- s ¢ Mtrite the tremendous earning power 1 \ of & large merchant marine profitably % employed. The American carrying @ trade to and from United States ports showed a steady increase (in ton- ‘nhge) during the fiscal year ending _ June 30, 1920, but, during the same period, foreign carrying trade to and from our ports increased at a more xapid rate than our own trade, with the result that American ships in July carried less than 50 per cent of our total foreign commerce. .American #hips carried about 57 per cent of our July trade with North America, about 65 per cent of our trade with South America, and less than 30 per cent of our trade with Europe. The way has béen opened for in- oreasing the importance of the Unit- ed this year above last year's staff| : E:g the increases given in salaries for| ;the mb“m nominee for teachers and employes together with| b K ARSI the salaries of the additional teach- ers account for almost thirty thous- and dollars. The levy as made by the school board is as follows: general control $10,000; instruction $100,- 000; operation $20,000; maintenance | $9,000; auxiliaries $7,600; other ex- penses $3,000; outlay $2,000; reserve for interest and retirement of bonds $14,000; total $165,500. Combining an the/rates of assess- ment the total tax rate to be paid by the citizens of Bemidji will be be- tween 138 and 140 mills as against 116'mills of last year. Whis cattle, two years old and under three years, 10 per cent; bulls, 15 per cent; all other cattle three years old and over 25 per cent; sheep, all ages, 10 per cent} hogs, three years old and over, 10 per cent; dogs 100 per cent. The state levies for the coming year in the various funds are in some cases increased and in others decreas- ed from the amounts in 1919. Rev- enue fund for 1920 is $70,150 a de- crease of $3,966; road and bridge fund, $100,800, increase of $15,296; sinking fund, $30,000, increase $5,- 913; state rural highway fund, $25,- 000 decrease, $2,952; sanitarium fund‘\$14,800 decrease of $2,988; poor fund $35,000 increase of $19,- 754. The large increase in the poor fund is accounted for by the fact that in 1918 no poor fund was set aside and when the county took over the care of the poor in 1919 theére were not funds for the purpose, conse- quently the increase for the coming year is to cover the deficiency in 1919 as well as to care for the cur- rent year's expense. ‘The assessed city valuation for the coming year also shows. considerable increase over this year. Real estate asgessed valuation is set at $1,541,- 101 as against $1,288,738 of last year, personal property $816,310 as against $728,284 last year. Monies and credits for the coming year are $818,180. This makes the total as- sessment for the coming year $3,- 175,591. \ The city levy proper is but $2,440 over last year being $82,.10. The total city rate including the school tax however will be about 108 mills as against 79 mills last year. This targe increaze is brought about by the fncrease in the school levy. The 1919-1920 levy for school purposes was $87,000 while the 19%0-1921 levy will be $165,600. This does not mean that the difference of $78,000 is the increase in expense of running the schools for the coming year. A large portion of this increase will be used to take care of last year’s ex- b L0IS JANE CAMPBELL EERK R KRR KKK KKK * .~ BAGLEY x IS TS S22 222 2 28 Mrs. J. W. Hanson returned to her home here Saturday from a visit at Antler, N: D., where she was passed the hours sahl, Helen Skinvik, Jane and All son Gibbons, Dona- Morse, Jane Bo her brother-in-law. She was accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brogan and son of Minneapolis. \Erick Dahlin of Clearbrook was a business visitor here Tuesday of this week. . Miss Julia Klevstad, who recently returned from Lakota, N. D., is now employed by the Bagley Independent. Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Nelson and sons, Curren and. Winton, of Gully, spent Sunday at the J. W. Hanson home here. On their return home they were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Brogan and son of Minneap- olis, Minn. 0. T. Holty and family spent Sun- day at Long Lake. Mr. T. Trefz and wife spent a few days of last ‘'week in Bagley as the guests of their daughter and son-in- law, Mr.Anan Mrs. .[.dA(i Cofi:well‘.a Mrs. A. Kaiser and daughter, Mrs.|,;,q 4 minjature bride. The gues! Roscoe Ks“'il”? spent Saturday after- ?:ok leave at a late hour, e novn in Shevin. \- ry pleasant evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bexell and. family, s & who have been running a hotel at Clearbrook, left for Fosston last week to make their home. 0 Art Huizenga of Ortonville, N. D., | motoring through. . . 8 | Harnwell, Dorothy Campbell. MRS. STAHL ENTERTAINED Mrs. 0. H. Stam, street. ing was spent in games and musi Later a delicious Tunch was serverd, Little Miss Lois Jane Campbell en- tertzined a number of little girls at a party at her home this aftegnoon in henor of her eighth birthday. A play hour and “pretty birthday luncheon very pleasantly. Miss Campbell’s guests were Vera Op- ~| European fleets. ENTERTAINS AT PARTY decided to replace her 305 l? i- 1- called on account of the illness o'tlgm_' Mae Webster,.Alice and Lillian and Virginia Rhea, LmianlMcKeg and Katherine AT SURPRISE SHOWER formerly Miss Pansy Gary, was pleasantly surprised last évening-by a shower given at the home of Mrs. Emma Dalby, b16.-Oak The party was arranged by ‘Miss Lucy Dalby and a number of her girl friends in honor of the bride whc was married last Tuesday. A number of useful and, beautiful gifts wore presented. The early part of*the even- c. a novel feature bging the cutting of a bridal cake adorned with candies ts having and Chas. Petsehka, N. D., spent a few hours in Bagley, Thursday, while ed States as a maritime nation. For sixty years.a large proportion of the profits of American industries has gone-overseas’ in- the form of ocean fretght charges, maritime insurance premiums and banking commissions, d' the toll has aggregated billions it dollars. From 1870 to 1890 alone, forelgn ship owners collected. more than three billion dollars from us. In the year before the war the bill aniounted to nearly $400,000,000 an last year,; it is-estimated, we paid more than $700,000,000 to enrich our combemors on the high seas. ‘ I SOCIAL AND PERSONAL — Mr and’ Mrs: George Till of Yola, shopping in Bemidji Friday. Mr. and srs: Bd: Meyers of {Lake Hattie were in Bemidji on a shopping trip Priday. They were accompanied by Mrs. Frank Vesly of Colorado. g Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bennett of St. Paul aro the guests of Mrs. C. Knop- ¢ ~ ke.! They motored here on Thursday % B “and will return tomorrow morning. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE N OF “WAR CRY” CHANGED The subscription price of the “War Cry,” the weekly publication of the Salvation Army, has just recently beeh raised to 10 cents per week, Wwhereas it was formerly 5 cents per - week. Gy An- article in the “War Cry” for - this weéek gives a number of reasons ‘why-this change was-necessary. Chief améng them is the increased price of paper and labor, also that this paper: does not sell an inch of space for ‘advertising in any of its publica- tions and hence are without any reve- nue from that scuree. It was with reluctance that this chahge was made; sirice it would have Paper to ‘reach the poorer class at 3 e it more .convenient for the 5 fofl,lu price,; the management says. FOR THE DAILY PIONEER' A FRANCE IS LOSING ~ HER NAVAL RATING By John De Gandt (United Press Correspondent) Paris, Oct. 1. (By Mail.)—Shoyld there be another big war in the near future Argentine, Brazil” and Chili would be in a position to:give-more help ‘to countries such as United States and England than France, as regards the power of her naval artil- | This is the essence of an article in | “Le Temps,” which gives at length kactual figures about the. Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean warships. It says: . g “Before the era of the dreadnaught the South American republics had war navies adapted {o the importance of their part in the world. Then the European navies had guns much big- ger tham the biggest South -Ameri- can- guns, which rendered the latter relatively powerless. But the dread- naught-came. Argentine, Chile and Brazil understood that they must not build fighting beaten in advance and ordered abroad dreadnaughts able to accept-a fight with any similar ship existing. “The: change was complete. In 1914 the three South American re- publicsr had a fleet including seven warships comparable to those of the ] This fleet was equal to the present French fleet, if not su- perior,, because the' Chilean dread- naught carrjed 356 millimeter guns superior to the French 340 millimet- er. Fugther the South American dreadnaughts would have been a very real help to the American fleet if difficulties had arisen with Europe. “The question of the warship can only have one solution; that it be at least equal, possibly superior to the ships she may have to meet. The im- portance .of the country to which she may belong does not matter any longer—the enemy alone does. And yet, in France, we have not reached the point where stood the South Am- erican republics before 1914. We adopted the same calibre of heavy ar- tillety on our dreadnaughts several years after them, and when England the 343 we timidly made out-340 millimeters, while Chile chose 356. ur 340’s’ were not yet in use when England had 381; Japan and the United States possessed the 356, and were-on the way to 407 and even 457.” “The article terminates by urging that every effort be made in France to -reach a point where her navy is able to bring valuable help to the Al- lies. It warns France that she must not lose her rank in the world nav- ies. DAIRY CATTLE JUDGING TEAM OF BOYS AT CHICAGO Two Hennepin county boys, Victor Anderson and Walter Nesbitt, both of Eden Prairie ,and James Welch of Norwood are representing Minnesota among the boy and girl club members from all over the country who are at- tending the big National Dairy Show in Chicago, All their expenses are being paid by the Minnesota Live- stock Breeders association which is cooperating with the Agricultural ex- tension division in carrying forward this work. These boys won their spurs in the annual dairy cattle judg- ing contest for club members at Uni- versity Farm. Roy Bodin of Cannon Fallg, was fourth in the contest; Or- vin Dale of Albert Lea, fifth; Clifton Smith of Cafinon Falls, sixth; Elmore Morrison of Copas, seventh; Lester Coyle of Thief River Falls, eighth. The all around state livestock judging contest for boy and girl club work- ers will be held at University Farm on November 17 in connection with the Junior Livestock show at South St. Paul, November 17sto 19. LOST—XKey to Dodge car. Pioneer. =) 5 Il OO OO OSSR OO T A Ligle Child \ tric light than its safety. dther blessings it must be uspd, not abused. That old socket; that worn wire; sag- ging wires in your attic—all of your wiring can be made safe so easily—and the money you spend in that way is insurance. throw water on it is now. you have a fire? { We'll send 2 man to see how safe your wiring is—and furnish an estimate on changes without cost. / Minnesota’ Electric Light R SALE—Reo touring ¢ Rstra tire and rim. Car in order. $550 cash'takes it 590 after 6 p. m. 1t10-16 Return to 1t10-16 taken at once. > | Can Do It There’s no better argument for Elec- But like money, water, fire and all our When a fire is burning the time to Why wait till " Phone 26 . and Power Co. Elks Bldg. 4 ;='.1|IIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!II IE | —————— and girls from- 22 counties: niors in all—will take part in the judging of cattle, hogs, sheep and horses. The winning three will have their expenses paid to the Interna- tional Liféstock Exposition at Chica- go November 27 to December 4. MINNESOTA BOY CORN GROWERS WIN HIGH HONORS Thomas Hoskins, Jr., of Redwood Falls, exhibiting Minnesota No. 455 a Minnesota vred corn, won the first prize on yellow dent in direct compe- tioion with boy rlub corn growers of lawa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis- scuri at the recent Interstate fair held at Sioux City, lowa. Young Hoskins is a member of the boys’ and girls’ club promoted by Farm Bureaus _|and agricultur4l extension division of the state unjversity. His <igtory over his competitors for the premier corn growing states mentioned is scmething of which all Minesotans may be proud. Clarence Schultz of Sleepy Eye, another boy club member, exhibited white dent at the Inter- state fair and took the second prize. It was a great day’s work for the club boy corn growers of Minnesota. GRAIN AND SEED SHOW AND CONVENTION FEB. 23 The executive conmittee of the Minnesota Crop Improvement associa- tion announces that the association’s annual convention will be held in the Ryan hotel, St. Paul, February 23, 24 and 25. A. C. Cooper of St. Cloud, is president and T. E. Odlanu of Uni- versity Farm is secretary. The prize money and variofis trophies offered exhibitors at the seed and grain show held in gonnection with the conven- tion will'aggregate $4,000. Promin- ent-speakers from outside the state, as well as several home men, will have places on the program. The further extension of seed certifica- tion work in Minnesota will be plan- ned. MAIL SERVICE PILOT MEETS DEATH TODAY Chicago, Oct. 16.—Pilot McCullen, of .the United States air mail wer- vice was killed today when his plame fell, fifty miles west of here. McCul- lens left Chicago on the Omaha mail route early today. His home is at Omaha. - His plane fell near a farm home and broke into flames. Befcre the farmer and his wife could extri- cate the body from the wreckage he was deagl. iy S . Transfer Your Records . Sk V b sl ) b in the Modern Way Records that are worth transferringare'worth, keeping in security and accessible shape.§The Allsteel transfer cases meet just such require-‘ ments. ® Safe, sanitary.’&’conveniengf;an_d,perma;‘ nent.4The first cost isAttre_last!' 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