Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 6, 1910, Page 4

Grand Rapids Weratas'Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second- Class Matter. THE HERALD-REVIEW ISTHE Oficial Paper of Itasca Courry, Kerrwa' NasHWAUK, He RRAND RAPips, Paper of onhase [OLMAM, Com asser. @iiaial Pi of U. 8. Distnicr Count in Bankcaptey Proceedings. } SHIP SUBSIDY DEVICES. It is clearly high time either that the ship subsidy propaganda abate its that a sharp indiscriminate zeal or and convincing reprimand be ad- ministered that will make it more circumspect in its methods. It is hard of course to see others their elbow deep, in dipping arms, the trough of special privilege and to be kept back from it yourself; and for the des- ion of those who have been ren- that accounts perhaps, dered so frantic py balk greed that they are ready to resort to almost ny device if it promises to bring hem near the trough. Not content with reasonable argu ments intended to convince congress- men that they should vote to tax people for the benefit of ship} owners, or seeing that that method | will fail, the ship subside propaganda is trying a new method. It is seek- ing to scare congressmen into voting for the ship subsidy bill by charges that those who oppose it are bribed by foreign hnterests. Included in the charges upon which the coming investigation of the meth of the ship! subsidy lobby are to be based is a quotation from the Ameri-| can Flag, the periodical tract which the publication is the vehicle for of ship subsidy arguments and at- tacks, in which a third hand quo- tation from a steamship captain is used to that corporation for foreign) interests iis] back of the op- The Ameri- show position to ship subsidy. can flag, a strange name for a pub- lication given over to advancing a public treas- that the with projecied raid upon the ury for private benefit says | an American traveler crossing fell the captain of the shipand that Atlantic into conversation the captain told him that while the ship pill was beaten by a narrow subsidy majority, “we could have had a great-| r majority df we had wanted it.” On this slender foundation the} American Flag bases the following “It means bribery, It means} charges: if this foreign captain is to be believ- ed that the great foreign shipping combinations have debauched the public si ants of the United States in the past and are boasting boldly of their abiilty to further debauch the national congress. We know the mame of this European steam ship captain, and can bring him into court if necessal That is a challenge that should not go unanswered. The American Flag and the subsidy port it should he forced to bring in- to court not only the ship captain thus quoted but the traveler who talked with him and the man who reported the traveler’s conversatior to the ship subsidy journal. The object of this attack, is of course to Beare the opponents of gship subsidy voting for the steal. It is an absurd hope of course and it is far more likely that such methods will alienate support from the ship subsidy standard than it is that it will whip im recruits. But in any event, congress should compel the American Flag to prove its case, and to produce that talk- ative steam jship captain. If the in- cident ever happened at all, which is extremely doubtful, probably all that itramounted to is that the captain is into seekers that sup-| begins on that day. The city government is in its own place, he ‘state government has its necessary functions and the Federal government serves the common pur- pose of ‘the nation. The city has its health department, and the state, too has one; only the Federal sovern- ment is lacking, and that there shoul: be a Federal department of health is as necessary as that there should be state and city health departments. Here are a few reasons urged by the committee of One Hundred of Public Health in behalf of the crea- tion of a Federal department of health: 1. To stop the spread of typhoid fever through the polluted water of interstate streams. 2. To enforce adequate quarantine regulations. : 3. To provide supervision of com- mon carriers in the interest of the public (health. 4. To provide a central organiza- tion of state and c health acti- vities. 5. To work toward uniform state legislation. 6. To act as a cleaning house of state and and to codify the same. 7. To draw up a ‘model scheme of local health regulations sanitary legislation for the assistance of state and municipal health of- ficers. 8. To gather accurate data on all questions of sanitation throughout the United States. 9. To establish the chief causes of preventable diseases and unnec- lassary jill health. 10. To study conditions and causes of diseases recurring in different part of the United (States. 11. To correlate and assist investi- gations carried on in many separate and unrelated biological and patho- logical laboratories, public and pri- vate, the many separate government bur- eaus now engaged in independent health work. 13. To effect economies in the ad- ministration of these bureaus. 14. To publish and distribute health bulletines« hygiene to actual living conditions. 16. To cut in two the present death rate in the United States, as the authorities agree might be done. There are plenty of reasons, obvi- ous, a Federal department of health should be created. Its fields for useful work is incalculable, the lack of it means kw ‘wicked waste in the work now being done, ‘which could be overcome by correlating all these activities and giving them a system and direction and a common objective. Peet rama Eie BEA Sors as COMING OF SPRING. It is impossible to say just when agpring is coming, or even when it has come. You can’t put your fing- em on a day in the calendar and say jthlat spring will begin on that day. Neither can you look back to a day im the calendar and say that spring The calendar tells you that spring begins on March why and jhalf sq much about the seasons as it pretends to know. It presumes to fix a definite date, the day in which the sun happens to be in a certain relation with the earth and because that day ought to be the beginning ‘beginning. (Which is a species of reasoning that lacks logic, and that Gs seldom supported by facts. The coming of spring is much more subtle than that. Some time in March when ‘the sun has come closer than it has been all winter and when the days are longer it is not bol cold as it the snow melts and the dampness almost dries out of the earth, and you say, Behold, it is spring. And next day was , ene of those fellows who love to hear themselves talk and that in the end he will come ko the same conclusion that the plucked parrot did—Duluth Herald, A Federal Department of Health. Congress is being asked to pro- vide a federal department of health, and if human health is as sacred in fits eyes as the health of hogs and milich cows, congress will heed the a blizzard spreads a blanket of snow- banks over the earth and you know that you were mistaken; it fis not yet spring. ij A little later when the snow has gone and the drab earth is bare once more, there is in the air a gentld lanquor, a touch of mellowness that is new, and you say it is spring. And sweeps over the hills from the north @emand. ‘and there’ the new life is bust4ng 12. To consolidate and co-ordinate | 15, To apply existing knowledge of | 21, but the calendar doesn’t know! of sprimg, the calendar says it is the before night falls a boisterous wind | 4¢ favors selling bonds of other state the mercury bubbles in the bottom | py available trust funds, but he show GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1910. HENRY HUGHES & CO. not yet \spring. And then, after many disappoint- ments, just when you have ceased to predict any more, you look about you again. There is ja green on the lawns that) is not like that unwhole- some green kept by last years grass under the snow banks. The buds are swelling on the trees, and here its warm weather covering. The first venturesome robin was reported some time ago, and reproached for a gay deceiver because he did not bring spring with him. But now there are many robins and the bare limbs of the trees are filled with feathered optimists fillimg the air with hopeful chorus. Back in the woods here and and there you can find a tender shoo’ | of pale green and If you look closely you will find the first blossoms— spring beauties, anemones the blood- roots there are the pale heralds of the splendid army of bloom that by June will have ripened into the luxurious reds and purples of summer, and that will be engaging in a riotous compet- ition of scents and colors to attrack ithe fecundating attdntion of the winged insects who respond to this wanton invitation and in their search for honey mate the plant sexes with the pollen carried on their ‘wings. And from that day when you first notice ‘that mature’s workshop in her soil and under her red bark is throb- bing with busy energy, spring marche on rapidly. Yesterday you were sure spring hadn’t come. Today you know it is here. By tomorrow it has march- ed linto summer. You don’t }know just how and when spring comes but fou Know that it is wonderful and beautiful, and the miracle of its new birth out of death and corruption and its message of immorality humble you in awe.—Duluth Herald. GOOD NEWS The announcement that the Oliver Iron Mining company, the mining cor- poration of the United States Steel corporation, has voluntarily increas- ed the wages of iits employees 8 to 10 per cent, is particularly gratifying news ‘td St. Louis county as well as Itasca county, which will share in the benefilt, The voluntary increase is a recog- nition of the difficulties presented pe the workers im (the high cost of living. .- It is not a restoration, be- cause during the depression of 1907 and 1908 wages in the iron country were kept at their old level though in many other industries wages were cut. ; Coupled with the fact that \mgu- ing operations on the Vermilion, Mes- aba and Canisteo districts will pro- @>ly be more extensive this year than ever before the increase in wage means that a larger number of men will Ibe employed at higher wages and that} means letting loose in the iron country} vast sums of money, from the expenditure of which the merchants and business men of the range communities and of Duluth will profit, and grom the savings of which the banks will receive deposits |very helpful to general business con- ditions—Duluth Herald. STATE HAS MONEY FOR DEVELOPMENT Treasurer Shows Only $6,109,000 Invested Outside and the Local Demands Met. bs cecBectechechochechesechechectecReche ote cRechockostecheckestocResBectecheckestectetonte aatnchosteckeostoctockechochecboctockoctectockockechs Rachesfostockebeckocheokechs ch, chest, checks ct, ct, ot, The state of Minnesota has $16814.- 000 of trust funds drawing interest and of that amount $10,705,000 is Idaned on the bonds of Minnesota counties, cities, villages, townships and school districts. The other $6,-| 109,000 is held in bonds of other state | chiefly Virginia and Massachusetts. | Statistics on the states holdings | are given in a letter from State Treasurer C. C. Dineheart to W. R. Mackenzie of Bemidji‘ secretary of the Northern Minnesota Develop- ment association. The resolutions passed Feb. 19 by that organization dedlared in favor of selling all out side bonds owned by the state and loaning the money on drainage and other development work. These re- solutions were sent to-officials who make up the state investment board. Treasurer Dinehart in his reply say whenever the demands from Minneso‘ @re too great to be taken care of of {the tube and you know that it is|that all applications approved by Suits, Coats SP ESRRESS Capes Skirts EVERYTHING NEW Waists and Dresses at the usual close prices Fancy Ginghams Zephyrs ’ Lorraines Neptune Moire Linen Suitings, etc. Everything in new rugs, draperies and shades Clothing Department Men’s and Young Men’s Suits Fine tailored suits, ready-to-wear suits made of plaids and fancy material; all newstyles worth Special Men’s fine dress shirts, all sizes, light and dark effects worth $1.75 for 988c Friday and Sat. Men’s Fine Caps—Men’s assorted colors. All sizes.... $14 to $25 All Men’s fine light and dark latest style caps, ...-50c to $1.50 on the market at Shoes for Men Tan, grey, oxblood, gun metal and pstent leather; oxfords worth pair $3.50 to $4.50 the Latest Styles. 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There has been strong pressure on the investment board to get state ‘money at 8 per cent for drainagd bonds. ‘An act was passed legalizing | this low rate of interest. The board refused to oan at less than 4 per cent, which is the legal rate on school bonds. Then another act was put through permitting school loans to ‘be taken at 3 per cent. Still ithe board refused to lopn at less than 4 per cent, taking the position thhat as trustees of the school and university funds it must get the best income possible. It is claimed by the ‘Northa Minnesota developers that loans on ditches bonds at 3 per cent would multiply drainage work and hasten the reclamation of the swamp | areas wonderfully. Marshall county > State | | alone, it is said, would spend $600,- '000 om drainage work. The bonds of | other States owned by Minnesota ‘are bearing 3 and 3% per cent inter- est. About $2,000,000 of the trust funds jis already imvested in 4 per cent | county ditch bonds. 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