Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 18, 1911, Page 4

*why this is the best town with the eof ore has been proven on a forty .has always fraternized. PAGE FOUR. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911. Brand Rapids Mera 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. Official Paper of Itasca County Say, doesn’t it make you sick to have a bunch of fellows shake a big roll under your nose and then have | your team win by a score of 44 to 0? eo WILL GRAND RAPIDS PROGRESS? A community no more than an in- dividual can progress, grow and pros- per without effort. It is not enough to say: ‘‘Here we are, lots of room to expand; natural advantages to be had by all who wish to take them; good place for manufacturing plants—if anyone happens to look up the matter; lots of fine agricul- tural lands—if anybody wants to work them; this is a good town to ive in—if anybody wants to live: this is a good county in which to build roads’—and let it go at that. What the people of a community must do, if they would progress and prosper, is to better themselves by united action. Every citizen should educate himself to know this is the best town in northern Minnesota, and He should reasons then proceed to prove it. acquaint himself with the best opportunities, and tell about it whenever and wherever he finds @ chance. Every property owner should be a member of the Grand Rapids Commercial club and attend the meet- ings. This duty to the community requires very little time or effort and still less money. It does not re- quire a very large bank account to pay the expense of maintaining a live Commercial club in a town the size of Grand Rapids, but some | necessary expenses are incurred that must be met. A nominal yearly fee from each member will solve — this problem. Of late the regular meet- ings of the club have been attended by a dozen or so members and very little interest shown in the welfare of the community. Keep this up and Grand Rapids will be a dead one. As an illustration of what a very litle effort will do in accom- ng results, a news report in will show. plist today’s Herald-Review A meeting of the Commercial club was held last Friday evening when consideration was given to two highways and a bridge leading in- to this village. In the northwest corner of this township there are located about twenty substantial farmers. Grand Rapids is their near- est trading point, but up to the pres- ent time they have no means of getting here except by way of Co- hasset. This condition has existed for some time. The merchants of Grand Rapids have been the losers. The necessity of a bridge over the Mississippi river above town has long been felt by the people of this especially since the} government dam bridge was remov- community, ed. Committees were appointed to present these matters to the coun- ty commissioners at their meeting Saturday last. The committees act- ed as directed and favorable action was taken in both cases. Commun- ity interests need attention in this If the business men of a community remain inactive the community itself will surely re- manner at all times. flect that same inactivity. It is time to wake up. oo If our long-time friend, Judge G. W. Holland of Brainerd, don’t watch out he'll soon be classed with the Rockefellers, Morgans, et al. Now comes the news that a million tons acre tract owned by the judge near the city limits. He is already rated as a capitalist of the first magnitude, and with his new iron possessions scattered over the Cuyuna range he is in danger of losing cast with the common people, with whom he However, great wealth will not change Judge Holland. He is still a plain, staid, steady- going Democrat of the old school, and so he will remain through life. In the meantime his iron mine will hasten Brainerd on to still greater growth and importance among the cities of northern Minne- sota. pk Governor Eberart’s attention is called to the necessity of calling an extra session of the legislature by the Bemidji Pioneer in a leading edi- torial. The Pioneer insists that the governor make good his pledge to convene the state law-makers in ex- tra session should that body fail to reapportion in 1910. They failed. Now it is put up to the chief execu- tive to issue his call. With the Duluth Herald taking the lead in a general demand for legislation to increase the state railroad tax forth- with and a majority of both house andj} senate favorable to such action, the action of Governor Eberhart will be awaited with more than passing in- terest. ee ee THE BEAR’S CUB’S VIEW. One of the cleverest columns in any paper in the northwest is that signed by “The Bear’s Cub”, which runs daily in the Duluth News Trib- une. Bach day a timely and pertin- ent subject is taken up in a manner that indicates the writer is familiar with the situation. In the issue of last Saturday he dealt with the rate situation in regard to the Itasca logging road under the title head: “Logging Road’s Duty To Become Citizen.” The article follows: From Deer River north there runs a logging road, in one of those queer leaf patterns that logging roads take, to the edge of Koochiching county. Settlers have come into that coun- try which includes some of the prettiest lakes in northern Minneso- ta and some of the best agricultural land that lies outdoors. One time or another the have tried to ship potatoes over the logging road, the Minneapolis & Rainy River, or cream to the Grand Rapids creamery. They found the freight rate ate up the produce so they had to give it up. Consequently action has been tak- en before state railroad commission to establish reasonable rates on this road. The railroad company files answer that it is not making any money, it has never earned one per cent on the investment and it cannot afford And there isn’t enough business offered to make it pay anyhow. To which the settlers reply the earnings of the road are a mere matter of bookkeeping, since it is the property of the Itasca Lumber Com- pany; that as long as rates are pro- hibitive there could not be any busi- ness offered, and that fixing reason- able rates would not make the road any less profitable than it is now. On the face of it, the settlers are correct in that last statement. As a matter of fact that is the center Fixing rea- sonable rates might entail a heavy loss on the company. Because a log- ging road is not a railroad. It has not the equipment of a railroad. It is not manned as a railroad must be. It does not maintain the service re- settlers to concede lower rates. of the whole question. | wonder that the logging road tries to jers would see that their only hope H age traffic. TS Rubber Tires ‘For Buggies Put On and Adjusted sees t* Senay Christ Vann BLACKSMITH Coleraine, Minnesota Tires put on while you wait. Immediate attention given to each customer. quired of a railroad. As long asa logging road can shoo away freight traffic, it is free from all the burdens of a railroad company. Once admit freight, and it finds it- self confronted with the necessity of building stations, hiring agents, hav- ing telegraph operators, keeping books and a lot of expense that the logging road avoids. Being there for profit, it is no shirk that duty. if this was a railroad, it would be a very different situation. The own- was in developing traffic and that rates must be established to encour- ‘With the eye of imag- ination they could see those fertile fields bringing forth in abundance, those lovely lakes lined with summer cottages. They would give the very best of service they could manage and fix the lowest rates they could afford and would gain in the development of the country their reward. But this is not a railroad, it is a logging road. It is built perhaps where no railroad would have gone, It might take so long to develop a rail- road property out of it that it would be eaten up in running losses before the reward came. In view of all those conditions, it is an open question whether a logging road should be compelled to be a real railroad. It is also an open question whether a logging road, if it assumes no duties, should exercise any rights. Apparently each casé must be decided upon its immediate facts. The state cannot demand of any corporation that [Judge of what is possible. Thei: judge that it do impossible things and the railway commission is an excellent ment of the possibilities would be better than the owners of a logging road who see nothing but logs, who wear blinders when the development of the country is on exhibition. who often resent the coming of settlers as a hindrance to their operations and! a menace of forest fires. A lumber company does not want roads nor schools because they will add nothing to the value of its posses- sions and will cost something in taxes, That is one view of it, entirely nat- ural as a business way of looking at it, the view that you or I would take in the same place. It is natural and proper that the A MODERN HOTEL THE RIVERSIDE J. F. McCORMICK, Propr. Newly Furnished Rooms, Large, Well . Ventilated, Heated and Lighted. ACCOMMODATIONS BY DAY OR WEEK RATES REASONABLE Second Street and Leland Avenue, Grand Rapids. lumber companies should take that po- sition. It is equally natural and prop- er that the state should take a little different position. It is the most natural thing in the world for the state to assume that these enterpris- ing gentlemen are depleting the re- sources of a portion of the state and that they should, therefore, be called upon to make good the impairment of; the taxpaying ability of that section. It is natural and proper that the state should require a part of their profits for making roads for the set- tlers when they arrive. It is natural] and proper that the state should call upon ,them to furnish a_ liberal share of the support of the first schools. It is natural and proper thet the state should require the lumber- men who own logging roads to strain a point if necessary to furnish ser- vice to the incoming settlers. In time, the lumbermen will have gone, leaving cut-over lands of much {less value than the original forest. In time the settlers will have making values vastly greater than what the lumberman found. It is the state’s business to adjust those burdens, exacting from the lumberman what is due for the prep- | aration of the country, exacting from the logging road the service that it is | competent to furnish, applying to arrived, each of these parties that noble max- im of railroad rate making: ‘Charge what the traffic will bear.” It is cold business with the lumber companies. It is cold business for the state. companies would not voluntarily pay any taxes, The lumber the logging roads would not voluntari- ly assume any burdens. Perfectly natural and proper. The state, looking forward to what must be done, comprehending the needs of development and the means available, is in a position to assess against the lumber companies so and so much of the cost. of the country will be hindered. If the state takes too much, lumbering operations will be discouraged and again the developmnet will be hind- ered. It is the state’s business to make the adjustment of burdens that will hasten development. But about the duty of logging roads) —I don’t know. Let’s leave that to the railway commission for the pres- 6.1». BEST BET IS ON they will be entered egg laying contest compete, the contest to last one year. In view of the importance of} the contest and the fact that the hens come from the range country our bet is that the gopher hens win. Superintendent McGuire has quite a poultry department at the farm and is erecting a building 210 feet long which will provide room for 800 chickens.—Virginia Virginian. Put your money on range products and watch it grow. MILICH MADE FALSE WAGE ASSIGNMENT In justice court Saturday morning befcre Judge Huson, the case of John Milich was continued for a@ period of ten days. Chas. Lieberman ef Coleraine, is the complaining wit- ness avd in the complaint it is alleg- ed that Milich, who was employed by the Oliver Iron Mining company, gave the firm of Lieberman Bros. a writ- ten assignment of his wages after ne had previously drawn all he had coming, in payment for a suit of clothes. Milich then left the coun- try, but was located at Grand Forks and brovght back by Deputy Sheriff Logan last Friday. SUPERIOR BOYS ARE GOOD SPORTS The members of the South Super- ior baseball team are certainly good sports and game losers. They cinch- ed the city championship of the Twin It the there appeared tue following: state takes too little, the development] was but little dispute of their claim THE GOPHER HENS)»: from all parts of the country will|that these Don’t Kindle Youwillneverhave any troublelikethat with a FAVORITE BASE BURNER. The Favoritewillhold fire longer and more evenly thanany other Base Burner made. It will keep the tem- peraturein yourhome even, day and night. When you wake in the morning your house will be as warm as when you went to bed. You'll find the reason in the fluesand perfect fitting of the Favorite. Every door, joint and, frame is paper tight. The Favorite has held fire continuously for five successive days and nights without going out. Let us ex- plain why the Favor- ite will save you full one-half in fuel bills and throw out more heat. Every Morning This Winter Ever get up on a cold morning and find the fire in your Base Burner alldead around the edges---a dim red spot of fire in the center? The house was chilly, and it was a mighty disagreeable job to get up a good fire with only a few live coals to start it with. W.J.& H. D. POWERS A Fire UML hs 44 (A leer Rapids. A picture of the team was reproduced in Sunday’s News Trib- une and in the write-up of the team ‘There to the Twin Ports title, but the Grand Rapids, Minn., team stepped between them and the greater laurels.” PROSPEROUS YEAR ON MESABA RANGE From Iron Index, Marble: Despite the fact that at the pres- ent. ent time we will have to admit the outlook is gloomy enough to satisfy the most confirmed pessimist, still, merchants on the western end of the range really have not cause for com- Take it here at Marble, for instance. During the present season, jUp to three weeks ago, the Oliver Six white leghorn hens have been| employed a force of 600 men and ov- sent from the state experiment farm|er, continually. at Grand Rapids to Missouri where| takes into consideration the fact in a nationa)| that nearly half of this number have in which hens| families then it can readily be seen When one then have been prosperous times, indeed. Now, instead of sitting back on your haunches and declaring the country is dead, you should comfort yourself with the reflection that busi- ness has been good this summer and cannot help but be so the coming year. You will probably reply that the coming year is presidential year and that the company won’t turn a wheel. That’s where you’re way off. The reason for the slump is over-production and not politics. The time is past when people can be seared into voting for any one party on account of. business conditions and no one realizes this better than the steel trust. The report has gone forth that ex- tensive stripping will be done the coming year, and, while we may be gullible, The Iron Index for one be- lieves that next spring will see the beginning of an extremely busy and prosperous season. You won't need the fortune of a ‘John D. Rockefeller to wear the fin- est clothes made if you get them at The Art Tailors. 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