Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 14, 1912, Page 4

aoe | ~~ PAGE FOUR. Grand Rapids Werata-"Review Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. ‘TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap ids, Minn.. as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County See eS The action of the patrons of dist- rict No. One in voting assistance to students of the rural districts who wish to take high school work here wag without doubt the most progres- give measure ever adopted in state renowned for progress along practical educational lines. District No. One is unique in many ways, fo its size, for having a board of pai directors to bring the schools up to ‘the highest standard of efficiency an for the efforts that have been made ito meet the varying needs of the/ district in the largest measure. In woting a sum to assist students of the rural parts of the district to meet their expenses a spirit of CO operation between town and country gas shown that is not the least; pleasing.feature of the.meastire. When the residents of the villages and tthe country districts work together in this manner there is no limit to the amount of good work that can be accomplished, or the mutual bene- fits that will accrue. The time has gone past when an elementary knowl edge of reading and arithmetic is suf ficient mental equipment for a boy or girl to face the problems of life with. More and more we are com- ing to lgarn the value of the de- and trade school partment school where train given which in- along es money-earni Realizing this, the power different lines. directors of this district are leaving no stone unturned to give every stu- dent qualified to attend the district high school a chance to take ad- vantage of the instruction offered. The parents of these boys and ¢ should do their s they may secure the ildren that training offered here and insure that the high school may serve in the largest possible measure the aeeds of the district. * M—DASHES | rtosoeoeeeeteneceeeteetetite ‘ % oa —The Kansas City couple who w married in a balloon have nothi the average newly-we who are up im the clouds most of the time, any- way. —The Duluth Herald wants to kno #f the launching of the bull moose party will cost somebody deer. No, but it will probably get the colonel’s | which will certainly be a lark. a —Don’t forget girls, that the “two im a hammock” August will look fool in December. a —A Denver spinster of 91 boasts ed. Som of fun. goat, that she has never been folks certainly do miss a lot —M— —tThe International Bible Students’ sociation “in convgn at Was fd at the hell yth. It is, eh? Those students should visit Minnesota and ask some of the gub- clusion th am ernatorial candidates who are trying | to train with the Republican Bull Moose parti a a —The chief of police at Hibbing de- and elares that leather muzzles for dogs | are no good, citing an instance wher one canine sO muzzled “bit a citizen in the residence district.” reminds one of the man who making his getaway from an angry eanine and was “bit between the front porch and the gate” it —‘Just at the time when the Meth was dists were getting ready to put danc- | ing in the moral code,” says the Walker Pilot. “some shrimp comes along and invents the grizzly bear and spoils the whole thing.” ame ——“English as she wrote” receiy- ed a rude jolt in the solar plexus Jast week when the Big Fork Com- mas came across with this: “This issue of the Compass starts us out in the second year of Journalistic Views, and we have financiajly done ‘better than I hoped for, al- are by sending the pictures taken jn} assembl-! at the same time. Rather | | though we are still a long ways” from the Millionair rank in capital, we can say that we have had butter }on our bread most of the time and jsome times a little sugar, but the |future is bright in front of us, with ‘the experience we have gain- \ed in the past and the prospects in our future we sail cheerfully in- |to another year and expect to be lable to serve our patrons better in |the future and thanking them for | | past ‘courticy and kind patronage.” | —M— A CEREAL :?) POEM. |The country here is broad and wide, It offers snug retreat, And in it blows long rows and rows, Of lovely shredded wheat —Louisville Courier-Journal. ‘he country here is also great, Where farmers all wear coats, | And in it grows long rows and rows, | Of regular quaker oats —Duluth News-Tribune. The country here is fairer yet4 | Though wheat and oats we scorn, | Because it shows long rows and rows. | Of flakes of toasted corn. | = |from commenting on the fact that |Governor Wilson was “‘at sea” when he wrote his speech of acceptance. | Anyway, he struck the right tack, couched all the points of interest |and will sail in an easy winner. en ae —A little light repartee from the Mesaba Ore: “Pedestrians crossing ‘the boulevards at night shall wear la white light in front and a red \light in the rear.” sa pi —A family in Chicago sold their | cook stove recently to go to the icir- leus. Evidently there are more peo- ple than David Harum who feel that |“it ain’t the money I’ve spent for the | |good times I’ve had that I'm sorry for its the good times I might have |had and didn’t.” | —M— —The Thief River Falls Times is responsible for the statement that the clam season closes September 17. —M— —Many of the northern Minnesota newspapers seem peeved at CM. Kir oy choosing second place on the state Democratic ticket, as they consider Mr. King the logical candi- | date for gubernatorial honors. a Mondaine. Debutante Daughter—‘“Shall I ma the poor young n whom I love the rich old banker who dotes on |me?” Worldly Mother—‘Better be miserable with money than without {t.”—Life | Cause and Effect. | “You've been making speeches al) through the corn belt,” said the | political manager; “do you notice any result?” “Yes,” answered tbe spelibinder; “my voice has become quite husky.” | Why Mary Recovered. “John, I don’t want you to grieve too long when I am gone.” | “] shall have to look sorry for a | week or two, Mary, just for the looks | of things, but I shall perk up after that and begin to take notice. Don't you think Widow Jinx is a fine lookin’ | little woman?”—Houston Post. | NEW FRAME FOR MILK PAILS | Wire Structure Fits Around Recep. tacle and Protects It From Dirt at | Bottom—General Design. With the improvement in farming and dairy methods in general, and the demand for pure milk in particular, comes the milk pail frame, designed | by an Iowa man. This frame cannot ; be considered a necessary article by | any stretch of the imagination, but a great many things are being used by | the dairyman now that have decided | merit without being necessities. The New Frame for Milk Pail, illustration shows the general design of the frame, which has a pan in the bottom em which the pail rests. Two projecting U-shaped portions of the upper ring of the device fit over two bails at the top of the bucket. When the bails are under the ring the frame {s turned a few inches to afford them & purchase and prevent their slipping out again, and the dairyman thus has his pail encased in a framework that extends on all sides and protects it trom dirt at the bottom. —The paragraphers couldn’t refrain Home Course In Road Making III.—Method of Financing Improved Roads. By LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director Office of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. Copyright by American Press Asso- ciation, 1912. T is a matter of sound business policy to require that all road taxes be paid in cash. In the past the collection of labor for ! road building has been compulsory | and the collection of money voluntary, | but experience has shown that this ! system must be reversed. A tax which ; 4s levied for the purpose of developing resources hitherto undeveloped, which development would add to the people’s ' wealth, cannot be considered a burden in any respect. It is an investment. | As to the methods of raising money for road building purposes, there are | two systems which have been employ- {ed in different parts of the country, both with considerable success. One plan may be called the “pay as you go” system. Under this plan a small an- nual tax is levied, the proceeds of which may be used partly for the pur- | chase of equipment and partly for ac- | tual work on the roads. This tax may | be increased slightly at intervals, but WORKING OUT THE TAX. | it continues to be paid as an annual |tax, the proceeds of which are an, | nually expended for road building pu: poses. This system has certain ad- | Vantages, for example, in connection | with this expenditure of the annual }tax. While only a limited amount cf | work can be done each year, there is | no opportunity for wasting large sums. | The people of the county gradually | adapt themselves to the changed con- | ditions, and the persons placed in | charge of the road work have an op- | portunity of becoming efficient by their | own experience before they come to | | handle larger sums of money, and an- other thing which has considerabie | weight with a large class of people is that the county is kept out of debt. | Another advantage of this system is | that when a county has a large taxable | wealth a small annual levy will yield las large a sum as can be wisely ex- | pended. The more enlightened and the more commercial a people are the larger is | the application of the credit system in | their business. In the early settle- ment of this country the money for development and business enterprises was borrowed from Europe. ually the eastern states increased in wealth to such an extent that they not only paid their European debts, | but had money to loan for the up- | building of their sister states in the | West. At the present time some of | the western states are joining with | those in the east in lending money to | Europe. During the past 100 years on the system of “going into debt for | Dublic improvements” this country | has risen from a smal] dependent na- | tion to the head of the list. | The disadvantages of the “pay as you go” system are that the work of road building proceeds too slowly. In a county which has 500 miles of road, | 100 miles of which should be consid- | ered its main thoroughfares, if it jfaises a tax sufficient to build five | | miles of good road each year twenty | years will be required to improve the 100 miles, and many of the citizens of the county would continue to pay | taxes for years before they would re- | ceive any benefit therefrom. ; The system of raising money for road building by issuing bonds is gen- erally unpopular, because people dread the idea of debt. The great advantage in the system iss borrowing money for road building | is that by securing the larger sums of money for immediate expenditure the work can be pushed more rapidly, and quire twenty or thirty years for their improvement can, under this system. be finished in four or five years. The People of the county begin to receive benefits from the work mere quickly, | and the benefits are sufficientty great to enable them to pay the interest 2p the borrowed money and to provide « sinking fund to pay back that money with more ease than they could pay the annual taxes in advance of the completion of the road. Under the “pay as you go” plan the Present generation builds the roads and Grad- | the roads which would otherwise re-" RAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1912. the next generation gets the benefit of them. Under the bond issue policy both the present and the future genera- tions receive the benefits and both help to pay for them. It may be argued that the system of | borrowing money for road building is more expensive for the reason that the well as the interest thereon, which at 5 per cent in twenty years will amount to as much as the principal, and there- fore for each dollar borrowed two will have to be paid back at the end of twenty years. This is not strictly true, however. The money will be borrowed as needed. Furthermore, a few thou- sand dollars placed in the bank at com- pound interest is sufficient for a sink- | ing fund. The above objection would ina meas- ure apply to any similar transaction in the business world, and yet today | 90 per cent of all the business of the civilized world is done on a credit ba- sis. If nations, states, counties and in- dividuals had listened to this argu- ment this country of ours would today be almost as little known and as little developed as the continent of Africa. When a community is building pub- lic roads for the use of its people all | pf the money borrowed for this pur- pose is placed in circulation among the people. They use it in their business transactions; they make it earn an in- terest often worth far more to them than the interest which the county pays for the sum. In other words, the county has the roads and the money which has been spent upon them. | The whole structure of our indus- } trial and governmental fabric rests upon the mechanism of credit. The amount of legal tender actually in cir- culation in the United States in 1910 was only $34.52 per capita and would | be pitifully inadequate to meet the demands of business if all transactions were conducted on a cash basis. The building of our great railroads. the financing of our war of independence and subsequent conflicts have been conducted through the powerful agen- ey of credit. Our entire banking sys- tem, involving $1,853,834,000, rests up- on the foundation stone of credit. Would it be wise to advise a thrifty young farmer to refrain from buying a farm because he had not the entire | purchase price in cash? Would it have ever been possible for the vast do- mains of the early landed proprietors to be divided up into small farms if |the practice of partial payments had | not been introduced? | It is evident that the construction of la large mileage of improved roads at | per mile than if the roads were built | a mile or so at a time, as the contrac- | money borrowed must be paid back as | | one time would result in a lower cost | | tors having large plants and the quar- | | rles furnishing large quantities of ma- | | terial could utilize their equipment and material at less relative expense than on small jobs. Interests in the country all interests | should help to pay for them. A coun- | ty bond issue usually levies the cost upon the town property as well as the | country property and thus relieves the | farmer of part of the burden which ; he now bears under the old district or | | township system. In nearly every ounty in the United States which op- erates under the “pay as you go” plan |the country property alone bears the | entire cost of road building. A bond issue is not an unjust bur- den on posterity, because through the increase in the value of land and the | development of agricultural resources | posterity is benefited. Therefore the | son who inherits the wealth thus pro- ; duced by the preceding generation | Should certainly help to pay the cost | of the factors which are instrumental in bringing about this wealth. The increase in farm values as the | result of road improvement is so great | that the tax rate is frequently lower | than before the issuance of bonds. To | substantiate this point the following | BUILDING ROADS UNDER A CASH SYSTEM j OF TAXATION. Because improved roads benefit all | | extract is taken from a letter written | | by Hon. John L. Young. county judge 4 Sm Me A Leather Bag With Leather Lining Fer 9&c If we were totell you about ALL the BIG values that we pick up in the course of the season we would have to start a newspaper of our own. But here is one that we raust tell you about today. A Leather Hand Bag, with a German silver frame (guaran- teed), a leather lining and a leather coinbag costs you ordinarily about $2.00. If you come before this lot is all gone we have some to sell you now ateach only 98c__._._____________ 98c We have other ones, lots of them, and at as big bargains. How did we get them? Well, WE HAVE THEM! There are other things happening at the big Itasca store. We have this week unloaded some other things that you are inter- ested in. For instance—— NEW CLOAKS NEW SUITS NEW SHOES NEW HATS NEW BELTS NEW LACE CURTAINS NEW CURTAIN NETS This Saturday, August 17th, we offer everything left in summer hats at DROP SALE Hats that are worth all the way up to $7.00 all go in this sale to be sold. If they don’t sell for $1.00 they will sell for 10c. Look them up in the window and then come here on Saturday with your small change and get one—or more. NEW SKIRTS THE ITASCA DRY GOODS COMPANY Successor to Itasca Mercantile Co’s Dry Goods, Millinery Dept’s, Shoe and pelted IN THE BAN EVERY WEEK HERE is no doubt about meney in the bank, Mayby slow, but Pos- it is sure and positive. there is the satisfaction that it is safe. tlve in every way, both thatit will grow, and that it Issafe # HM HH HH HH HH HH OH = & 4 Dirst National Dank 3 GRAND RAPIDS. MINN. £ Copélal $25, 000,00 Stholus’ $ 5,000,00 § = 3 : OFFICERS . 3 President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge Jr. té Cashier, C. E. Aiken. $ DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. D. M. Gunn. 2 A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. 4 Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfeit H. D. Powers. Soe ein eeennteteetetenttetetetecetoeeendeeteteeededetecedetetectee ete ‘of Dallas county, Tex., on June 21. | 1911: | There is one very important item in {connection with this county that I would call your attention to, and that is the re- duction of taxes for the past five years, or, rather, since the building of good | roads in this county. The value of prop- erty has increased to such an extent that | 1905 to 62 cents in 1910, or a reduction in | taxes of $2 per cent, although we have Hl issued bonds in the sum of $1.500,000 in the \ meantime. is that we must have mioney for road | building and that this money must be | raised by taxation. Whether we adopt \the “pay as you go” policy and build | the roads only as fast as the money lean be raised by taxation or issue quantities and build the roads now is }a question for each state, county -or | township to decide for itself. In mak- ling this decision that method should be adopted which will give the quick- est and best results with the least bur- den upon the individual taxpayer. the rate has been reduced from 92 cents in | ' There is one thing certain. and that | | bonds and thus borrow money in large | Grand Rapids Village Lots $5 DOWN AND $5 PER MONTH We have choice residence lots all over town and we are selling them on such easy terms that anybody can buy. $5 down and $5 per month is certainly easy. Come in and talk the matter over. Wealso have some choice business lots on our lists. They are for sale on easy terms. REISHUS-REMER LAND COMPANY icaciiladall