Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 29, 1921, Page 7

§ | i PAGESIX 11 THE BEMIDJI*DAILY 'PICAEER = THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1921 'BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ‘,* ! ‘pUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. @ B OARSON, President E. H. DENU, Sec. and B B CHARNWELL, Editor :.n.wmnn,quwmh Telephone 922 at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minnesots, ad second-class mattes, wnder Act of Congress of March'S, 1879. - f No attention to anonymous contributions. . Writer's name must to the. , but not necessarily for publication. .Communiea- .tions for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not later than Tuesday. of each week to insure publication in the current iasue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year i $6. g 8ix e :‘28' One Year pca—— T X Three Mon 50 gix Months —pepcii—mee 2.80 One .58 3 : ? ~ One %::{‘ .18 Thres Months .. 1.28 THE WEEKLY PIONEER—Twelve pages, published every Thursdap sad sent postage paid to any address for, in advance, $2.00. OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEED:iNGS w 1922 TAX BUDGET ™ Next Monday night the city council will consider the tax budget for next year. From the proposed budget brought in a week ago last Monday night it looks as if the budget for next year will be almost twice as high as it has been previously. This is not because twice as much money will be spent next year as in previous years. As a matter of fact, from the proposed budget, less money will be spent than on previous years, but the additional money is needed to pay for what was spent in pre- vious years and which, apparently, was hoped would be paid out of some fund from somewhere which would just naturally show up without any taxes being levied for it. . Money does not come that way and it is all foolishness to put off from one year to another the paying of expenses which should be paid at the time they are contracted. In private business that method al- ways leads to one result—bankruptey. If ‘the people of the City of Bemidji want to know why their taxes are high, or where the money is going to, they should be present at the meeting of the council next Monday night. If they have objections to raise, that is.the timeand place4o raise them. If they have a better way of getting the expenses paid, the city council will undoubtedly be very pleased to receive the information. It is impossible to spend money and still have it in the treasury. If Bemidji must have paved streets, white’ ways, bath houses, etc., they mus} be paid for. Those things don’t grow on trees. We are not objecting to them, not at all, but we hate to hear people ask for these things and then grouch about paying for them, Again we say, if there is an objection to the proposed tax budget, which was printed a week ago in The Pioneer, the time and place to raise the objection is not on the street next Tues- day morning after the city council has passed the budget Mon- day night. The place to object is before the council Monday night. If we might be permitted to make one suggestion before next Monday night, it would be this: Bemidji is big enough and poor enough to be able to afford an assessor who would devote his entire time to the assessment of the city. In fact, it is so poor it cannot afford to go along in the haphazard fashion it has for years—paying an assessor about a month and‘a half salary and expecting to get a year’s work done._ . A salary of $3,000 to $4,000 for the right kind of a man who would devote his entire time to the intelligent assessing of the city, who would get all the assessable property on the rolls and get it on at a right figure would be cheap. He would get for the city many times that amount.in taxes on property owned in the city, but never assessed—or assessed at a fraction of its value. The present method of assessment is a joke, and we have not talked with any person who has expressed himself other- wise. - Every member on the city council, we venture, down in his own heart knows that justice is not at present, and never has, been done to all citizens in the matter of taxes, and under the present system, never will be done. The honest man pays part of the burden which should be borne by the man who conceals true values of his property. An assessor should have access to every nook and corner of a man’s business and even to his records, and when such is done, there will not be such a big howl in Bemidji about the tax rate. There will be the same burden borne by a much larger number of people—and there- fore a lesser burden for each. Under the present form of city government an assessor must be elected and not always the best qualified is elected.” ‘A city should be managed as any corporation' is managed—by a manager who would select his assessor, pay him an adequate salary and demand results. Then and not until then will an equitable assessment be made. - CO-PARTNERSHIP . In the advertising columns of The Pioneer yesterday ap- peared an advertisement of Swift & Co. which contained a state- ment of really more than passing interest,* The statement made was_that more than 21,000 employees of this firm own,’or are paying for, shares in the business. employees hold nearly 2.50,000 shares representing $24,500,000 and that they represent about one-third of the regular force of the company gives evidence that whatever the public opinion may be of the huge packing firm, at least those who are em- ployed by the firm believe\in its integrity and good will, other- wise they would not be putting their earnings into the business. It is not so much the fact that it is Swift & Co. that makes public this fact in connection with their business, nor is it the amount of stock which is owned by the employees that prompts us to comment on the fact. It is the principle of a large cor- poration taking its employees into. its husiness as partners that| oclc}sions the comment. It is a hopeful sign''of ‘co-operation be- tween employer and employee, which, in the end, can be the only basis to a:proper understanding ~between the two, and which-must, as a matter of course, cement the trust and faith of employer and employee in the product of the concern. i T . ;7 Werheard;a man say yesterday he was getting about half a‘crop of potatoes off his patch. We asked him what the yield was. “Oh, abqut 176 ‘bushels-per acre.”, That is about the idea some men ’hstve of‘a crop. 'We would hate to have told him he was only getting half a crop. Makes some difference who tells the story. -0—- Calling 2 man a liar is the last word in wasted talk. If he is a lia:.‘ he already.- knows it and you are springing old stuff-on him. If he isn’t one, you are and he has found it out.—Farm Life. : PO ey The nation’s fire loss is about 15,000 lives and $500,000,000 per year. ‘A million and a quarter a day up in smoke and sev- enty-five per cent of it carelessness, ~ [RecALL oLp coLoNiAL DAYS The fact that these 21,000 Pearl.Chain of American Independence May Be Traced Through Old New England Attics. Scattered here and there all through New England are attics of more than usual interest. Many of these are in- timately connected with early history. One of them is found in the old Cod- dington house at Quincy, Mass., known as the Quincy mansion, and now in the possession of the Colonial Dames. Here, Mary Northend writes in-the Boston Transcript, in the early days before’it was remodeled by Edmund Quincy, a group of frée thinkers gath- ered, including Wheelright and Anne Hutchinson, both of whom were after- ward banished on account of their liberal views, which ‘dld not'‘coincide with those of the-Puritans. In the upper story, a low, dingy at- tle, with ‘its. secret stalrcase behind the huge chimuey, ‘still remains in- tact. On account of its peculiar con- struction. it might be termed a.double attlc., A trapdoor leads from one part into” another division through which escape can be made to the galleries below and thénce to the ground. John: Hancock, who married Doro- thy. Quincy, is Teputed to have spent a night in the nursery across the hall from the attic. By hiding here, he folled the British who were searching for him; and later on used the secret p@ssagewayto escape. All doubt.that he was at one time in this room is sat- istactorily banished by his initials “J. H.” scratched on one of the windows with a diamond. The words “Yon I love and you alone,” scribbled on the wall are also ascribed to him. BLAME ANCESTORS FOR COLDS Descendants of -Forest Dwellers In- |- herit Susceptibility to Drafts, 1t Is Asserted. - ‘Do drafts'bothér you more than oth- er people? If so, you probably have German blood' in. your-veins. This opinion -is advanced by Herr Prof. Doktor Th. :Zelt, according to the Vos- sische Zeitung. g Doctor Zell'says that certain species of animals exhibit evident dislike for drafts and that'such beasts. naturally live In forests and sheltered places. Conversely, animals - whose ~natural habitat is an open’space are content when breezes ' blow. Hence a horse lets .the wind smooth his coat while monkeys and baboons shun such ex- periences, The.. professor in conclusion asks, “Is it then a wonder that the Ger- mans, who in earlier centuries lived in wooded regions, are still today more susceptible to draftg than other peo- ples who come from treeless coun- tries?” An evident objection to this opinion as the explanation of sensitiveness to drafts is that the ancestors of ail men lived in forests, although some races: migrated earlier than others 'and therefore: it -may be presumed..lost their anicestral’ susceptibility to-drafts earlier, 3 The Clitf Dwellers, Cliff-dwellers is the name of a race of Indians, formerly living in.the ¢liffs bordering ‘on the valleys of the Rio Grande and Rio Colorado. Their homes were built in the recesses of the cliffs at a height often of seyeral hundred feet from the ground, and at the pres- ent time seemingly inaccessible, as the former paths that led to them nearly all ‘have been destroyed by the crum- bling.away-of the rocks. The dwellings sometimes consisted of many rooms, and in some cases were two, or more, stories high, hewn in the rock, with wooden lintels in the doors, and win- dows, which were -probably closed { with skins or 'blankets. The walls-were finished with a plaster.of clay. 'How the inhabitants subsisted is not known, but probably .mainly by hunting and fishing, ‘as the soil about these locali~ tles was barren. The Pueblo Indians, who still are ‘found in that section, are thought to be descendants of the cliff-dwellers. They: possess consider- able skill In making articles’of pot- tery and’ the like. 3 “The Exception Proves the Rule.” With the person who thinks about the things he says, this much-used ex- pression must “hit a snag” every. time it is used. For exception cannot prove a ‘rule. - Indeed, every bona fide ex- ception weakens a rule. It is a change in the connotation of saying, “Prove all things,” and so responsible for {ts - present ‘misuse, For in the early days of the English language “prove” meant “test,” as when St. Paul said, “Prove all things.” And so when it was said that the ex- ception “proves” the rule there was nothing fllogical about it. | Exceptions do put a-rule to-test. Either they soon vitiate the xule or the rule is strong ‘enough to bring them 'within Its mandate,” <. 5 Women's ‘Secrets. “There’s' scarcely & woman ‘in ex- {stence who. can visit the hairdresser's and avold telling the whole story: of her life to the assistant who is.giv- ing her & shampoo and hair wave, Even’ a -simple cut and singe often induces the -most reticent woman, to yield the carefully guarded se- crets :&n lifetime.” “Every woman knows that she can find it in her heart to forgive a man for many sins—she might condone lar- ceny, think lightly of arson, or even excuse murder, - but. she “will not ex- tend even a death-bed pardon to.a man who waves his hair by artificial means.”—From. “Educating Ernest- ine,” by Flarenc'e A. Kilpatrick. THE PIONEER WANT- ADS ... BRING RESULTS e ~ |operation. ¥ ¢ T s Mr. ap, ngxg(,wui.m Clark and son John returned from St. Cloud Mon- day, where Mrs. Clark underwent an Mrs. Clark is much im- proved. . Frank Horneman was a Cass Lake, caller Wednesday. Euel Smith, Robert Wymore and Edith Clark, social committee of the “Up and Go Class” held their business meeting at the William Clark home Tuesday:evening, Hattie, Edith _and Albert Clark drove, to Kitichi Friday evening to"at- t?nqltggh‘l;flg?fi go’;, S\indny School clasg=Bible, yand /class: meeting held’at’the Wilson. home All‘enjoyed the evening and:alsp a fine lunch pre- pared by MysyWilson.. 0 _ Mr. Beach, of ‘Cass. Lake, is buy- ing potnoex[jné, %q River, ' Miss Rose an, who went to j@“attend high:sehool, has returnegd won’account.of illness. the faix at Bemidji last week. The usual ctowd from here attend- ed the Kitichi Union' Sunday School Sunday. i : i Edwin Gregerson and James Corri- Bemidji_ A large érowd from here attended | gan-spent Sunday-in this vicinity. Miss Hattie. Clark has been elected ‘assistant superintendent and = M: Edith'Clark ag secretary of the Kitichi Union Sunday' School. Work has*been done on the state road again this week. The “Up and Go” Sunday School Class will:meet at the William Clark home Friday evening October 7th. .The Union Ladies Aid . will meet with Mrs.” Con. Mahoney Thursday, October 6th. .- « Farmers here are anxious to sell their livestock. News has been reeived here of the marriage of Hamond. ' va has many friends here who. wish them both happiness. Some boys were being given ihstruc- tionin diving. ‘' The partictlar lesson was - on - the swallow Jenkins,” 'said the insfructor.to the 5 ckyard . pupil,. “you take a Jenkins made a .hopeless at- mpt'an notn, swallow dive,” ‘said the EVERY ROOFING NEED FYHE NELSON label with - b thebrightred border which & bundle of Nelson Roofs is the sign of satisfaction for every roofimgf n};cflamNo mattelr what type o ilding you plan to cover, .there is a Nelso that is the cotrect and most eco- nomical one for Miss Eva Slater to Mr. The Swallow D dive. “Now, ated an alarming splash, NO DOUBT THERE HAS BEgg MORE OR LESS CON- _FUSION IN LOCATING THE CORRECT TIRE SALES AND TIRE REPAIR SHOP, YOU WISH TO PATRONIZE. . “QUALITY AND SATISFACTION” IS OUR MOTTO WHEN YOU THINK OF TIRE SERVICE—LEARN TO SAY: Please remember —Fisk and Miller Tires are sold only by the City Tire & Repair Co., formerly known as Matland’s Vulcanizing Shop—located at 402 Minnesota Ave., just -across Minnesota Ave. from the City Hall. If you have tires that need Vulcanizing, we are in a position to ‘turn out first-class guaranteed work at reasonable prices. CITY TIRE & REPAIR CO. L. T. LaLone, Prop. ——ACROSS FROM THE CITY HALL—— PR ars ‘on every roll and n Roof the purpose. The Nelson label assures you of Toofing satisfaction ‘not only when Nels toof is new but for to. come. If you don’t ‘what particular grade of - '-fRoof to usé on your B. F.\Ne\lson;Mfg. Co.; Minneapolis _Roll Roofing. For other types S e e . E f | l‘_ 1 building ask any Nelson dealer. To cover a warehouse, he will recommend Nelson A Grade of buildings, he will show you the various grades, ‘all of high quality material but constructed to suit a particular requirement. Stop in and see ‘the Nelson dealer near you. He will be glad to show you the ‘complete line of Nelson Roofs:” Write-us for, samples ‘and the booklet, “The Proof of a Roof”, an interesting. story of roofing progress _DISTRIBUTORS for NELSON ROOFS ' Blackduck Leonard s~