Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 17, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIRW, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1912. ” Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Emtered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids Minnesota, as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County | THE TEN DEMANDMENTS. For gross worldly wisdom it would be difficult to surpass the “Ten De- mandments” hanging in one of the many w@op, in Western Canada. 1. Don’t lie. It wastes my time and yours. I am sure to catch you fm the end, and that is the wrong end. 2. Watch your work, not the clock A long day’s work makes a long @ay short; and a short day’s work makes my face long. 3. Give me more tham I expect, and I will give you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits. 4. You owe so much to yourself you cannot afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt or keep out ef my shops. 5, Dishonesty is never an accident Good men, like good women, never aee temptation when they meet it. 6. Mind your own business and in time you'll have a business of your ewn to mind. 7. Don’t do anything here which hurts your self respect. An employe who is willing to steal for me is will- ing to steal from me. 8. It is none of my business what you do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do the next day, an you do half as much as I demand, you'll last half as long as you hoped. 9. Don’t tell me what I'd like to bear, but what I ought to hear. I don’t want a valet for my vanity, but ane for my dollars. 10. Don’t kick if I kick. worth while correcting you're worth while keeping. I don’t waste time eutting specks out of rotten apples. If you're a eer alee A WISE PROVISION. Residents of Minnesota will be in- terested in a recent decision of the supreme court of the United States upholding a Massashuetts law re- quiring the consent of the wife be- fore a married man can assign his wages. : The Minnesota legislature last win- wer passed a law, which is now in effect in this state, in terms almost identical with those of the law Which the supreme court has re- fused to declare unconstitutional. There may be women in Minnesota about this law, but who may have occasion to have recourse to it. Therefore it be worth while to explain it. Chapter 308 of the General Laws of Minnesota for 1911 contains the following language: “No assignment of, or order for, wages to be earned im the future to secure a loan of who do not know will less than two hundred dollars shall | be valid against an employer of the person making said assignment or erder until said assignment or order is accepted in writing by the employ- er, and said assignment or order and the acceptance of the same have been filed and recorded with the ~elerk of the city or town where the party making assignment or order wesides, if a resident of this state, or in which he is employed if, not such a resident. No such assign- ment of, or order for wages to be earned in the future shall be valid when made by a married man, un- less the written consent of his wife to the making of such assignment er order is attached thereto.” Under this law no man can assign Ris wages as security for a debt un- less his employer consents to the assignment, and the assignment and the employer's consent thereto are pecorded in the city clerk’s office; salmon canmeries at Steven- | | against unjustified disposal of their unearned wages. TALK OF MACKENZIE AND CYRUS M. KING | The political man on the Duluth | Herald| had the following to say of | two men prominent in the affairs of | Northern Minnescta in its issue of | Saturday last: | Admirers seem determined to drag officers of the Northern Minnesota | Development asscciation into poli- | tics; which is all right if the associa- jtion is not dragged in with them. | Up to the St. Cloud meeting the as- ! sociation had fought shy cf politics, especially as it affected individuals. It could not, of course, get away | from political issues, as almost every question with which the association is concerned is of political nature. First, H. J. Maxfield of Wadena, former president of the association, Was appointed immigration commis- sioner. It is a political office and comes by appointment of the gover- nor. : Now a boom has been started for Secretary W. R. Mackenzie for the Republican nomination for secretary of state. Mr. Mackenzie's friends will bank on the proposition -that he is not a self seeker. He has given freely of his time, energy and means to the work of the asgocia- |tion. He organized it and fostered it through its work to date and he has steered it clear of many rocks, If Mr. Mackenzie becomes a candi- | date for secretary of state, he will first be certain that the association will not be adversely affected bby it. Friends of . M. King, president of the association and chairman of the good roads committee, are talk- ing of urging him to become a can- didate for the house of nrepresenta- tives from ‘the Fifty-second district jthis year. Other good road leaders, such as R. C. Dunn of Princeton and Senator George T. Elwell cf Minne- apolis, are in the legislature and they believe Mr. King could do ef- fective work for Northern Minnesota in the state capital. Mr. King is a whole-hearted ad- ‘vocate of good roads. He has been | untiring in his work as chairman of the good roads committee since he | Was appointed last June and the | effects of his work will be seen in future years. He is in Mr. Mac- kenzie’s class as a man whose first {interest is in the association and if jhe should become a candidate for 'the house, it would be because he believed that he could further the development of Northern Minnesota in which he is so deeply interested.. | Mr. King would be at a disadvan- tage in the Fifty-second district, as he is a Democrat and the district is normally Republican. It has a full Republican representation in the leg- islature now, but Mr. King’s friends believe his personal popularity would | Offset the normal. Republican major- ity. Mr. MacKenzie and Mr. King are well fitted for the office for which their friends would have them be candidates, The only danger is that the people outside of Northern Min- nesota might lay a charge of politics against the association and so im- pair its usefulness. { Why We Drink Less. The American people are almost | cured of drunkenness. Notwithstanding the breadth of th's assertion, it is a fact, A hundred years ago most Ameri- cans were confinmed tipplers, and to be sogged with drink at bedtime was the privilege and practice of a gen- tleman. Fifty years ago inebriety had taken such a hold upon the American peo- ple that reformatory measures fol- der: The Washingtonians, Gough, Father Mathews, Reynolds, Murphy, the Sons of Temperance, Good Tem- mendable means to wean people from family wrecking, nation-threatening drunkenness. Today it is a positive disgrace to! get drunk and a serious handicap to have a name for tippling. This national transformation. has lowed one another in about this or-, plars, Knights of Columbus, Temple | of Honor and White Ribbons, all com | 7 concern for self the problem that neither prohibition, nor moral suasion nor both, could solve has been ad- justed in conserving regulation of personal lives, with no pretence to beneficence or humanitarianism. This definite cause for dimimution in drinking as an American habit is not popularly comprehended, nor con- ceded as the primal reason why drinking is less prevalent than im other countries, but it is the real reason. To prove it—had not ambition been! the stronger, the scdden practices of the sideboard of a hundred years ago and the debauching conviviality of fifty years ago would have. triumphed That’s the answer.—N. Y. Mail. CLOQUET GUESTS OF GRAND RAPIDS (Continued from page one) } sard, mayor of Grand Rapids; E. C. Kiley, president of the commercial club; Supt. McGuire, of the state farm; O. J. Niles, L. M. Bolter, C. C. \McCarthy, Editor LaFreniere and Judge Stanton, Prof. Olesen and F. D. Vibent responded in behalf of the Cloquet visitors. Thus ended a busy dhy. In the morning the party left for} Island, arriving there at 10:45 a. m., and were met by Riley D. Smith,} superintendent of the Island Farm. Here they were shown through the farm buildings and barps, one barn alone containing 150 head of high- grade and pure bred Guernsey and Holstein cattle. This farm milks 60 head of cows, the whole product of which is shipped every day to Hib-| bing, where the milk and cream is | Pasteurized and retailed. In addition to dairy cattle, this farm makes a specialty of Yorkshire hogs. Here, as at Grand Rapids, the visi- tors saw the big silos and the pro- cess of feeding ensilage, roots, etc., to the cattle. A point of interest was the massive root-house, or outdoor cellar, built at a cost of $7,500 with a driveway at each end and large enough for a team to haul a load of hay through it, They were also shown the new gasoline tractor which will be used to draw the plows on the broad fields of the farm. After this came the dinner at the farm house, given by Mr. and Mrs. Smith and it was a repetition of the sumptuous and bountiful spread .at the state farm the day before. The Island Farm comprises 12,000 acres of land, practically all swamp, and has 1000 acres now under culti- vation. Clearing is now in progress and a camp of men is maintained for this purpose. The resultant forest products in shape of ties, poles and pulp-wood being marketed. It is planned to eventually clear the whole 12,000 acres. The farm is drained by the ditches of the railroad com- pany and a state ditch, emptying in- to the Mississippi and Floodwood rivers. After dinner.the visitors plied Supt. Smith with a multitude of questions regarding the farm and the various lines of work and processes used and as Mr. Smith proved a ready and intelligent talker, much useful infor- mation was gleaned. Later at about 4 o'clock the visitors took the Great Northern train for home, arriving here about 6; the train being late. Those who went on the trip were John Prevost, Charles Frank, P. M. Nelson, H.°M. Selmser, Prof. Peter Olesen and Fred D. Vibert. The cold was intense during the two days, Dut in spite of this all unite in say- ing that the journey was a most pleasant and instructive one In our later issues we will have person- al accounts from members of the ‘party and will be able to go into de tail of the work they saw being ac- complished by intelligent and scien- tific farming. IMMIGRATION WORK TO BE PUSHED HA { (Continued from page 1.) will be few as compared to the num- mesota dealers. Prospective buyers |Builds Up a Platform With Eight y;ernment responsible chiefly = PLATFORM GIVEN TO PUBLIC Lieut-Governor Jumps Into the Po- litical Arena and Throws Down the Gauntlet. BREWERY DOMINATION MUST 60 Planks on Which He Hopes to Be Made Governor of Minnesota. Yesterday mornirg’s mail brought the official announcement of Sam Y. Gordon as a candidate for the office of chief executive of the great state of Minnesota. Sam is already lieu- tenant governor, but he wants to be the whole thing. It has been sus- pected for some time that the Brown’s Valley man had gubernatori- alitis. The following announce- ment is proof positive that the general suspicion was well founded. The epistie is addressed to the people of Minnesota. Here it is in full: Because it is time to raise square- ly in this state the issue between a government respols've to the will and needs of the people, and a gov- to the will and greed of a system of special interests, of which the brewery pow- er in politics is the keystone, I have determined to become a candidate fcr the Republican nomination for Gov- ernor. I therefore announce my can- didacy to the people of Minnesota, in whom I put my trust, and before whom I shall rest my case, and in doing so I pledge myself that if elected I shall advocate and work earnestly and uncompromisingly to ‘bring about the following changes, all of which I believe to be essential to government that shall be truly “of the people, by the people, and for the people: i 1. The absolute prohibition of| ‘brewery ownership of salcons, the chief cause for the ercesest evils of the liquor traffic, and the chief source of a brewery domination in politics and public affairs, which is} at once the most subtle, the most crude, the mcst sinister, and the most mischievous force in the pub- lic life of this commonwealth. 2. The adoption of the state- wide primary and the presidental pri- mary, to the end that bosses, back- ed and financed though they may be by the money of arrogant self- ish interests, shall be forced to sur- render their misused power to the people, to whom it belongs, and from whom it has been taken, These measures should be accompanied by the further safeguard of a rigid and effective corrupt practices act. 3. The adoption of the initiative, the referendum and the recall, to the end that the people shall have the closest possible control of gov- ernmental operations. There is a wide division of opinion as to the wisdom of applying the recall princi- ple to judges, and as this is in the experimental stage, I do not believe that it should become an issue in this state until it has been tried by the states that have adopted it. re 4. A fair, honest and equitable legislative reapportionment, that shall do exact jusiice to all, and that shall remove the gross injustice of the present legislature apportionment and so end for all time a_ sectional feeling, from which nothing but harm can come. The Pioneer Store Just Received Sample Lime of Ladies Dresses and Skirts Something Very Nobby Low Price A Few Ladies’ Furs and Coats Left Going at Half Price John Beckfelt | | GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA \ I intend this statement as a chal- lenge and as an appeal; as a chal- lenge of the right of an organiza- tion of brewery and other interests to dominate public affairs and to dic- tate party policies; and as an ap peal to the people of Minnesota to end, for all time, the intolerable dom ination that smothers popular goverr- ment in this state. Largest White Pine Felled. The largest white pine tree known in the world and called “The King of the Forest,” was felled in Idaho near Bovill a few days ago. This ‘tree, which is known to thousands of persons all over the country, scal- ed 29,800 feet. It had been estimat- ed to contain from 26,000 to 32,000 feet by timber men. It was 207 feet long and 26 feet around the butt and over eight feet in diameter. It was 428 years old. The first log cut from the butt end was 32 feet long and contained 7,200 feet of lumber, which is declared to be the largest | white pine log ever made. FRESH MILCH CQWS—I have two good, fresh milch cows, also 1600-lb. work horse for sale. E. L. Buck Cohasset. 2t For Sale. Being overstocked, I will sell @ number of good milch cows, of the Guernsey and Jersey strain, also some Barred Plymouth Rock cock- erels and other thoroughbred chick- ens. —A. M. Sisler, Laprairie, Minn. 2-18, FOR SALE. Pair of Gray mares 6 and 10 years old, both bred to our lange Percheroa! stallion. Weight 3,000 pounds. 5. A reorganization of state de- partments for economy and efficiency including the assembling under one effective department of all branches welating to the proper care and de velopment of the state’s ae of land, timber, iron ore, etc., the settlement of idle areas; ye gether with a rig’d curtailment of ing the year will fall into hands of | the expenses of the state govern- Jand men of other states, but these |Ment, legislative and executive. 6. The ratification of the Feder- ber which will be delivered to Min-|al income tax amendment. 7. Strict regulation of railroad taken place in practically the first guould receive a flood of lterature|rates and service, that shall put century’s history of our people. It is a remarkable result for which there is a remarkable and patent cause. It must not be wholly attributed to religion, education, social] dictum, moral sensibility, or any theoretical arguments. from this state alone. road Sunday morning, despite his this state on an equality with its The collection of grain and grasses|neighbor states, and that shall put which W. R. MacKenzie helped col-jevery part of the state on the same lect in Northern Minnesota will go|basis of fairness, with spcc‘al with the exhibition car sent out by} vors neither to individuals nor to the state and the Great Northern rail] communities. fa- 8.-A thorough Sie of protest.. This has been definitely| railroad and other taxes, to the end and in the case of a married man| The mania for drink has been SUD- gottied, Mr, McKenzie called on H.|that each individual and each indus- the wife’s consent to the assignment | Planted by @ more mastering manio— J. Maxfield, state immigration agent,|try shall pay according to its abil- and was promised the disputed ex-|ity to pay, and mot’ according to its must also be filed. Otherwise the assignment is void and of no effect. | ‘This is a wholesome law, and will se ee ee ie “protect the wives of improvident men ment individually, and in cold-blooded, ang personal ambition. Ambition for achievement, position| ninst on the return of the ear, and | ability, through cunning or the pros- else in the car he wanted./titution of political power, wes eatisfactory to him)ehoulder a part of its just share of and power brcoks no handicap; so whatever 4 to the tax burden off upon others. Pair grays, gelding and mare about 12 years old, weight 2,800 pounds. These are good work horses and will price them right for quick sale. Also lange, pure bred Yorkshire boar, price $40.00. ISLAND FARM, Island, Mina, For rent—7 room house, well lo cated, electric lighted and good well. Apply to George Hewis. Probate Notice. State of Minnesota, County of Itasca —Probate Court. In the matter of the Application for License to Sell the Real Estate of Walter C. Goforth, decedent. The State of Minnesota to all Whom it May Concern: On reading and filing'the petition of William A. Mackenzie, Representa- tive of the estate of said deceased, praying that license be to him grant- ed to sell the real estate of which said deceased died seized, and it appearing by said petition that such real estate should be sold to pay ex- penses of Administration and that it is advisable and for the best in- terests of the estate and of all per- sons interested therein to sell said real estate at private sale in manner prayed by said petition; It Is Therefore Ordered, that all persons interested in said estate be "\eited and required to appear before said Probate Court on Monday, the Fifth day of February, A. D. 1912, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, at the Court House, in the Village of Grand Rapids, in said County, then and there to show cause, if any there be, why license should not be granted to said representative to sell said real estate, according to the prayer of said petition, and that this citation be served by publication thereof in the Grand Rapids Herald-Review ac- cording to law. Witness the Judge of said Court, at Grand Rapids, this 5th day of | January, 1912. CLARENCE B. WEBSTER, Judge of Probate. (Seal of Probate Court) H. R. Jan 10-17-24. ACCOMMODATIONS A MODERN HOTEL THE RIVERSIDE J. F. McCORMICK, Propr. Newly Furnished Rooms, Large, Well Ventilated, Heated and Lighted. RATES REASONABLE Second Street and Leland Avenue, Grand Rapids. BY DAY OR WEEK