Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 6, 1920, Page 2

..'. fact, has been heard for several years. i, farms. BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER v PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. W G. E. CARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and Mgr. G. W. HARNWELL, Editor J. D. WINTER, City Editor Telephone 922 Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesota, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. No attention paid to anonymous contributions, Writer’s name must bé known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication. Communica- tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 6.00 ee Mont! o One Month ‘55 Six Months .. One Week .15 Three Months THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursday | and sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS A BIG STEP FORWARD. i The Minneapolis Chamber, of Commerce has told the' state! department of agriculture that it will admit to membership the| representative of a central selling agency organized by the| farmers’ elevators to market their grain. This is a wise decision, and we believe it marks a long step| forward in clarifying the relations beteween the producers and their markets. . | Indeed, if the Chamber of Commerce had admitted a farm-' ers’ representative to membership ten years ago, when it had a| chance and refused, it is very doubtful if Townley ever would| have been heard of. i It seems to go without saying that if farmers organize to gell their products co-operatively, they should have direct access to the terminal markets. Though these markets have been hui}t up virtually as private enterprises, and on this ground thel.r? , owners might have a colorable argument for refusing tQ admlt‘ - farmers’ representatives, still they have become public facilities | | of the greatest importance—of an importance too great to make| it thinkable that they can be left wholly under private control. If, when the Equity Co-operative association tried to get a| membership in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce years; ago, it had been permitted to succeed, political history of the| Northwest might have been very different. A far ers’ repre-| sentative in the Minnapolis market, in touch with all that goes on there and with all its processes, would have known that| much of the suspicion that has grown up among the wheat- growers was baseless. If there was real ground for any of it, he; s would know that too, and his knowledge, communicated to his| farmer constituents, would have enabled them to get it redress-| ed, if necessary by law. For in the making of laws governing| the marketing and sale of grain the farmer has always had full‘ . say in this state, and every such law is a farmers’ law, offered by farmers’ representatives and put through the legislature be- cause the rural districts always have had the balance of power in the legislature. The decision to admit a farmers’ representative to member-| ; ship in the Chamber of Commerce will prove, we believe, to be| the heaviest blow yet struck at Townleyism.—Dulyth Herald.i 0- | THE LURE OF THE CITIES. | ‘According to census bureau’s report the population of the| cities at the time of taking the last census was estimated at 54, .. 796,100 and the rural population 50,970,000. Ten years ago the, urban population was given as 42,623,383 and the rural popula-| - tion 49, 348,883. Thus it will be seen that in ten years the rural | - population has gone from almost 7,000,000 in excess of the ur- .. ban population to almost 4,000,000 below it. " These figures seem surprising in view of the great benefits ... and improvements which have been conferred on the rural dis-| ‘ tricts by the extension of free rural mail deliveries, rural tele- phone extension, the cheap automobile supplanting the old fash- .ii.ioned wagon and buggy and the gradual improvements being. .-.made in rural roads. The lure of the large cities is still on and, the reaching tentacles of the white lights continue to draw’ + greater than ever, it seems. The statistics show that the youth| i of the country is being led in greater numbers than ‘ever to! the cities. ! 5t There are many contributing elements to this condition., Within the last ten years in question, were four years of the # world war with its lure of higher wages and shorter working ' days. Why work on the farm twelve and fourteen hours a day! i when more money could be made in the city in eight and the bal- .i.ance of the time for amusement and recreation ? The result is serious. The nation needs food and produce and the farmer is the one to whom the nation looks for this.' * How can the farmer deliver these commodities if the cities draw away from him all the hands he needs to cultivate his fields and reap his harvests? The great congestion of the cities, the wide-! spread lack of employment and the consequent social and poli- .. tical unrest must eventually follow. Back to the land is the cry now heard on all sides, and, in If normal conditions are to come there must be a greater interest taken in the farmers’ problems. Their sons must be kept at home and their problems . must be solved so that there will be a willingness and eagerness on the part of the farmers’ sons and daughters to remain on the’ OVERHEARD BY EXCHANGE EDITOR || <. : There is a rumor, it may have no foundation, that the old five cent’ cigar has been discovered hid under a fifteen cent label. We know the five-center had been eithcr lost, strayed or stolen, but which of the three! \&'a; 'I:lt:lmo“n Glad we now know where the old friend is.—Stillwater, azette. ' The only time 3 woman dresses in a hurry is when she happens to see some other woman’s husband pass the house with a chicken. She wants *_to be the first to bring the glad news to the man’s wife.—Manitoba Free Pyess. | Warnings are being sent out for laborers to kee vy Fea N ! Dbel s p away from North Dakota now. Who'n'l would want to spend the winter there, away from the woods, anyhow?—Northern Light. i’ i coie':hr:ll’:' ::g r%aesan wl\t_\i‘ so }Tanyl‘lpeogle practise conversation instead| ion is because they have heard it is the cheapest thing i | world.—Crookston Daily Times. g Bresiiiing i thc!‘ If they can’t supply coal why don’t Judge McGee and other mumben‘ of the fuel commission put their heads togeth ive o T Baadets Region, s together and give the state a snpplyl | l | l | crashed from dense massed buank: | clouds, The “Dark Day” of 1780. The so-called “dark day” was May 19, 1780. Beginning suddenly at ten | o'clock in the morning of that date, which fell on Friday, an extraordinary darkness, for which no scientific expla- | natlon cver has been given, enveloped | all of the New Engiand st The sun was blotted out as if by a local ithout even a corona showing. ickens went to roost, the birds eir nests and the cattle went to their stalls. So complete was the s that people Were unable to| make their way about the streets with- out lighted fagots. This condition con- tinued until midnight, no stars or moon being visible. The belief that the earth was doomed to destruction spread far and wide, Heavy thunders of without any accompanying Hghtning, and a thick, gummy, black rain began to fall. i The Boyar. The word boyar is the name of a; dignity of old Russia conterminous with the history of the country. Orf-! ginally those who bore this dignity or| honor, whq were called boyars, were | §ig ! the intimate friends and confidential| B advisers of the Russian prince, and| the superior members of the order| were his bodyguard, companions and | champions. The order became divid-| ed Into two classes, the elder and the, Conversation. Talk Is common; conversation is rare. Henry Thoreau has written: “When our life ccases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor and, for the most part, the only difference between as and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we haye nat. In proportion as our in- ward-life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest numbers of letters, proud of his ex- tensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this loug while.” CANADIAN QUARTETTE JOINS nadian border -into the Marine Corps office at Detroit, and was shipped to the training depot for the sea-soldiers at Paris Island, S. C. in the status of an alien who had declared his in- tentions to become an American citi-| zen. Philias got off oh the wrong foot, however, by adding on a fiictic- ious birthday and his.parents refused consent to' his enlistment. b | Still- détermined to become an Ain-j erican’ Philias eased himseif once more into the Detroit office last week, proved to ithe satisfaction of Major Maurice E. Shearer that he had pass- ed the cighteenth-year mark, and then introduced three other young Canadians who announced their mot- to &s A Yankee or bust!” The Ca- nadian quartette passed the surgeon with flying colors, executed ‘*‘squads south’ 'and set sail foy the boot camp in South Carolina. Philiak Desor- iers had got off on the right foot this time in his devotion to 100 per cent |year ago Philias Ra ‘shook off allegiance to King George Americanism. UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS | THE PIONEER WANT ADS *.. Dec. 6.—One mond Desosiers Washington, D, AN LEATHER STORE K. Brown, Manager Third Street N Héavy and Light Har- nesses and collars. Mittens, Gloves, Trunks, Suit Cases Robes and Horse Blankets. and Poultsy and Stock Foods. Fancy Travelinngags. Harnesses Oiled. F s, H. Parts : H‘:::ir Leat}?g-leéitfa;‘ Qils gnd Greases of all kinds. Medicines, Gall Cure, - Wool Fat. Repairing promptly done. Y e PR TR P TR, BRING RESULTS of England, marched across the Ca-1 READ THE PIOCNEER WANT ADS younger boyars. Later the boyars be- came the chief members of the prince’s duma or council. As time passed they |8 became a military caste, and Reter | the Great transformed boyardom into | something resembling an aristocracy | of western Russia. i | Blessed. Quality of Mercy. “Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.” Does not that re- fer to one’s mental judgments as well | as to one’s outward acts, to the spi with which we view our nefghbor well as to our conduct towurd them? In Modern Times, Servant girl (at house phone)—*No, Mr. Blaithers ain’t in—an’ he an’ the missus can’t come over to your house next Sunday, because I''m going out myself.” Christmas Seals Are Stamping Out Tuberculosis Use Christmas Seals on All Your ‘December Mail _ THE WEST HOTEL MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA Headquarter for Beltrami County Travelers European Plan Reasonable Rates Splendid Cafe Take Home a Pound of KOORS BUTTER SUPREME bargains. 0. D. all-wool blankets, $4.85 Large Size—Perfect Condition oz ‘ CLOTHING orn, 6 cans Reclaimed O. D. shirts. $2.85 Reclaimed O. D. wool i breeches .......... 2.85 p ) @ Navy all wool blanket Catsup, per' bottle. .. .|.. shirts with hood at- tached .......... . 3.45 | Booth sardines ....... M Sentry coats ......... 9.75 : | Reclaimed: sheep ‘lined Apricots, 1 gal. ... @ coats....... REREEE 4.79 | pears, 1 gal. 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