Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 5

T | Legislature’s Work. The present legislative session will come to a> close in a couple jof weeks after the usual biennial By KILEY ©@ SPENCER |run of three months. The public are asking what it has accomplish- jed, Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap- | tds, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County Ottoman Empire’s Death Blow. Brand Rapias Werala-Review Published Every Wednesday ——<——— Two DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Without seeking to belittle Min- nesota’s law makers, it must be ladmitted that it has done little, practically nothing which will bene fit the public of affect the state for good or ill. ~ ¥ is is plain The fall of the Turkish fortress of Basar i aeaaelamee Zanina and the surrender of its nothing to be done. The laws un- 32,000 defenders to the Greek army, may be said to be the death blow ef the Ottoman Empire in Euorpe. der which we lived the last two years were good laws, as laws g0, |just as good as those that held us rs ae age aka eer a |down for twenty or forty years be- dous, and nae seas er Site . fore, and about the same as those more important, as it gives the under which we will manage to whole of the Epirus to the woters. | struggle for a score or so of years Adrianople will be the nex to saunas Turkey missed her chance to Too “mushiaceswectenof the leg- conclude a peace that would save her \islature by people who have no de- much. She could have retained a/ > ge thal eousiderable part of the country oe ec taatiileies coscd: mae this side of the Bosphorous had|™ car the Young Turks not seized the |too much time is devoted to tink- government and continued the war | Pine at frivolous ea unimportant at a time when terms had virtu- ally been, made. It is hardly conditions that ex | bills by those who are supposed to represent the people. By following a common _ sense | course the necessary legislative pro “am could be disposed of in two possible under the] st now that the allies will consent to leaving her | weeks, or \ less ugnatead of three a shred of her European posse: i os oe sions, unless the concert of Europe months bia we” i mer f imsists of: saving to the sultan bes aetogeas ee eee |S Biisiontinc: a and a few-miles of |the State have little interest in a aa ? adn colina e the things with which the law- poh ah |makers busy themselves. This is While the lines of “defences of | true the capital have not been broken it is general knowledge that it can- not withstan erious attack by | t spp abe 6 jare not conceived or not only in Minnesota, but all other states. Most of the bills are of a private or sectional nature and born with a me as anes aewerepiat a arr oea {view to serving avyone hut the ee eee | few directly interested. gressive movement, it is realized, | has been caused by strategic consid| pjedman’s tubercolosis cure is a erations bound up with other frac-| tions of the campaign, and the win-| ter weather. The fall of Turkish power has heen as complete as it was un cret. Some scientists say its a {secret the doctor doesn’t know a | thing about. | a | The Turkish fleet bombarded a pected. The untiring, effective and) couple of Servian towns the other merciless aggression of the allies|day. It is reported that one dog has astounded the world. | was wounded The end of Turkey will be a mo-; + mentous event in history. It will} A burglar entered a drug store mark the finish of the last of the|at Minneapolis and stole a gallon great barbaric nations that loom |Of caster oil the other night. The like black specters in history. The future historian will write the latest battles of Christian and | Saracen as a chapter of a_ story that began withthe Crusades, was continued in the conquest of Spain,}at Duluth,.but they hadn’t the capture of Constantinople, the | reported‘that rotten before. fall of Granada, and the brilliant | ARESEE RCE: Ore a career of John Sobeski. | The modern Samaritans meeting at Aud with it the Turk will pass | St. Paul was another Kilkenny cats out as a serious factor in the af-|affair. The bosses of the socie- fairs of mankind. ty are having a fine old row, but Wh Slave how are the policy holders faring? Source of White Slave: | a ae Lieutenant GoverUnor O'Hara of| An Iowa woman has been jailed Mlinois has been doing some real|for taking MONEY, ATOM men she work the jest week or two in his | promised to marry. Now, if they would only lock up the simpletons |criminal may be only sick after all. (2. A young German immigrant has gche crazy over musical comedies at Duluth. been investigation into the white slave b é traffic, and the relation to it of | Wo parted with the cash, all might the less than living wages paid to | be forgiven. oe many thousands of women by the department stores of Chicago—and The Chicago university has ad- {mitted the tango dance as proper eiher institutions who hire many | among the students—which doesn't "Ge canoe anal the s jmake the tatgo one bit better. And of the senate probing body, sa pater the Vetudenis “are” past, that there are in Chicago 50,000 | SPO! &- women who are paid five dollars a} The telephone girls of Boston week or less, and that such renum-| eration could not result otherwise than in many of the victims enter- ing upon a life of sin. Among the witness called Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. He admitted] that beginners in his store were | paid only five dollars a week, and gaid he was of the opinion that have decided to go without easter hats and suits and give the mon- jey to the garment workers, who are on strike. Verily, greater love was | hath ng woman than this. SURES NS cL Admiral Dewey says it is every man’s duty to, be cheerful. So it is—but then every man doesn’t get a pension of several thousand a there > w: no relation between |year, nor can he use all his time wages and sin. He admitted that a/in the cultivation of the cheerful woman could not live on“less than | grin. eight dollars a week. He ek The death of R. M. Stitt Ee oe aynere wt see ‘Gar donee luth last week removes a man who came fren in the case es fe ay | was known and respected by all pyres cushpreen net ee sn, |the older generation in Grand Ra- erly president, of the €hicago vice | pids and “Itasca. county, He «was commission and was strong for 4 PERS PRATT f = a logger in this vicinity in the ear- moral uplift of the city .., |ly days, and was a man unusually Other employers told practically scribd add dei lies the same story. All but Rosenwald ee pop : ymade: fhe admission in a shame faced. way, admitted the girls had |nor of North Dakota, is mentioned little choice but to go wrong, andjas a possibility for the solicitor promised to pay living wages in| general’s job in the department of the future. justice. The appointment would That O'Hara and his commission |add another real man to the big Rave started a movement that will jerew of that kind of people now wipe out the low wage disgrace of|near to the throne in the Wilson Ghicago, and. thus eliminate one | administration. afi the chief feeders of the white slave market, seems certain. That employers should have carried their) The yeapportionment bill which greed for money to the point BE cae passed last Tuesday places sacrificing their neighbors’ daugh-|jtasca county in the same senator- ters would be unbelievable were} ja} and representative district with the evidence not at hand. One / Gass, and gives the two counties, Es Honest John Burke, former gover The Reapportionment Bill. They do give a bad kin | shudders to think that in a great Ghristian city in the world’s wealthiest country fifty thousand young women must sin or starve. A similar investigation will pro- Hably be made in Minnesota, and it is safe to say like conditions will be uncovered. It is hardly necessary to make any comment. The only course left is early and effective wage weform. one senator and two representatives Aitkin, Cass and Koochiching were districted together, all having the same representation that the two counties will have in the futwe The four counties had a popula- tion of nearly 60,000 and composed one of the largest districts in the state. The new districts will be repre- sented in the legislature two years from the present winter. Proceedings at the Minnesota State Capitol for or the Past Week. SOSCCSCSCOCSCOCOCSPCOSOCCOCOCCOE=F” 4. _ St. Paul, March 17.—Bills putting) or Lake county, at a site to be desig- Minnesota in line with other states as | nated later. to a uniform diverce law and a uni- ferm wife desertion act will be intro- duced this week by the house judi- tiary committee, according to a state- ment by Representative C. E. South- wick of Wells to the Political Equal- ity club of Minneapolis at the West hotel. The two bills are in the form recommended by committees of the American Bar assosiation, and are be- ing considered by a subcommittee of the judiciary committee, consisting of 5. R. Child, C. E. Southwick and Miles Perter. The changes from the pres- ent Minnesota laws would not be im- portant, it is said. Would Limit Land Sales. As a means of barring land specula- tors from purchasing large tracts of state lands, Representative Frank Hopkins Saturday offered a bill pro- hibiting the sale of more than 320 acres to one person and requiring the purchasers to comply with certain rules for improvement. The contract pf sale will require that the purchaser within seven years shall fence in twenty-five acres for pasture, shall cultivate at least 5 per cent of the tract, shall build a house and reside gpon the land for a period of twelve months. May Give Apportionment. That the reapportionment bill will be accepted by the house just as it the senate, is the opinion of house leaders, though a definite de cision has not been reached. The senate made a number of minor changes in the house bill, besides in- preasing the membership of both houses, but the changes were made in order to get the bill through the senate, and the friends of reapportion- ment are fearful of tinkering with the bill in conference and sending it back to the senate for another vote in different form. Speaker Henry Rines’ district was shanged by the senate, and Mr. Rines was one of the men consulted yester- day about the program. As the bill passed the house, the speaker’s coun- ty, Kanabec, was joined with Isanti and Mille Lacs in a district, while Anoka and Sherburne counties were made a district. The senate changed the districts to suit Senator C. L. 5wanson of Fridley, coupling Anoka tounty with Isanti and putting Sher- burne with Mille Lacs and Kanabec. This is not pleasing to the house members, but it is likely that they will stand for it rather than take a thance on the senate again. If the house decides to accept the senate bill, it will only be necessary to accept the senate amendments and tepass the bill in the house. If the house refuses to accept the senate amendments, there would have to be a conference and a compromise of some kind, sending the bill back for another’ vote in each house. Speaker Rines said yesterday that he did not care to take the responsibility for sending the bill back to the senate, and thus jeopardizing it after the vic- tory has been won. The Minnette telephone bill is com- ing up forvaction in the senate. This measure, which places telephones un- fer the control of the railroad and warehouse comm#sion, is being fought on the grounds that telephones should be placed under the supervision of a public utilities commission. St. Paul, March 15.—Minnesota seems at last to be in a fair way of having a legislative reference bureau, the agitation for which began some years ago. The bureau, according to the Norton bill, which has passed the house, will be under the supervision of a commission to be composed of the president of the state university, the lieutenant governor and one oth- er member to be appointed by the speaker of the house. Its active head will be the director, so-called, whose salary the commission will fix. He is to be assisted by such draftsmen, li- brarians, etc., as may be mecessary. The bureau is expected to collect and keep up-to-date “such information and material as will furnish the full- est possible information practicable upon all matters pertaining to cur- rent or proposed legislation. Its di- rector is requirea to be capable of drafting bilis and must assist in do- ing so when called upon by members. Both houses have now approved Senator Clague’s bill, which author- izes voters to pass upon the liquor li- cense question in cities of the fourth class. Only towns and villages have local option under state laws, al- though some are authorized to refer the matter to voters by special char- ters. Two more fish hatcheries will be established as a result of bills passed by the house. One will be incated at Granite Falls, the other in St. Louis “statute. The house voted to appropriate $1,000 to the Cottonwood Agricultural Society. The money is to rebuild the fair building which was blown down. Fifty thousand dollars is appropri- ated in Mr. Spooner’s bill, which passed the house to investigate the feasibility of constructing a canal from Vermilion Lake and Lake of the Woods through the Red River valley and southward to Big Stone Lake; thence east to the Mississippi river, according to what is known as the Mershon plan. A survey of water- powers in the district traversed is @iso proposed. , The project was attacked as vision- ary by Representative Nolan and as impracticable by Representative Har- rison, of Washington county, himself a skilled engineer. The proposed canal, he said, would have to cross four divides. It would also cross a number of rivers at right angles, a thing unknown, Mr. Harrison said, in Europe. Mr. Hopkins, of Renville county, spoke at length in behalf of the bill, referring particularly to the advantage which would result to the state from the development of its waterpowers. R. C. Dunn’s automobile bill repeals | the present law. It provides for a reg- istration fee of $5 annually instead of $1.50 for three years, as at present, the new fee to be collected commenc- ing fanuary 1, 1915. The proceeds, whick it is estimated by that time will amount to $250,000, are to go to the state road and bridge fund. The bill passed the house by a vote of 67 to 36. —— St. Paul, March 14—The senate by a vote of 40 to 17 has declared itself in favor of retaining the present sys- tem of assessmenj by county asses- sors. The tax commission believes this system results in inside discrep- ancies in valuation and recommend- ed a system of assessment by county assessors to take its place. The rec- ommendation was embodied in a bill introduced by R. C. Dunn which passed the heuse. It was defeated in the sen- ate by the above vote. The consideration of the initiative and referendum bill which was a special order yesterday was _ post- poned until Tuesday next at 11 a. m. A bill to make uniform the law of negotiable instruments was passed by the house. There is no law concern- ing this entire subject in force in this state. The matter is regulated largely by precedent. The decisions are now codified and reduced to the form of a The bil is lengthy and makes a number of minor changes in the practice of treating paper of this character. Oleomargarine Bill Passes. The house passed the Peterson Ole- omargarine bill designed to take the place of the statute last year declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. The bill requires the labeling of pack- ages containing oleomargarine and pasting notices in restaurants, etc., where it is used. . An important section provides that it shall be unlawful to select animal or vegetable fats for the purpose of manufacturing oleomargarine to imi- tate butter of any shade of yellow. For the purposes of the act oleomar- garine shall be deemed to be in imita- tion of butter when it has less than 55 per cent of white as determined by the color analyses and measurements of the national bureau of standards. Mr. Preston’s bill prescribing maxi- mum hours of labor for women re- ceived the approval of the house. Under the bill these hours are nine in manufacturing establishments, ten in stores, restaurants, etc., and eight in telephone and telegraph offices. It is provided in Mr. Campbell's bill to regulate the treatment of depend- ent, neglected and delinquent chil- dren, that where the mother is a widow or has no means of support, she may, on application to the probate or juvenile court, be paid a pension by the county not to exceed $10 a month. To Prodvide For Vice Commission. Mr. Kneeland and others have intro- duced in the house a joint resolution providing for the appointment of what is known as a “‘vice commission” sim- ilar to that now conducting an investi- gation in Illinois. The duty of this commission is stated in the following terms: “To investigate the social and in- dustrial conditons in the state pertain- ing to poverty, vice and crime, and their relation to each other, including the wage of women and children in industry as related thereto, and other- wise, and the conditions of defectives, dependents and delinquents in the state; to consider and suggest means and measures tending toward the pre- vention thereof and remedial legisla tion therefor.” ee New Way to Smuggle Diamonds. New York, March 17. — Nathan Green, inventor of a new way to smuggle diamonds, pleaded guilty in the federal court and was fined $3,- 600. Green, a large diamond impor- ter, had his agent in Amsterdam, Hol- land, send him loose diamonds worth $20,000 hidden in a specially con- structed metal frame, inclosing the picture of an elderly woman. The scheme might have been successful had not the frame broken and the dia- monds come rattling out. Taft Chair Too Large, Washington, March 17.—Changes the being made in the furniture of the executive offices at the White House, due to the enlargement of the cabi- net and the fact that the desk and chair in President Wilson’s private office do not quite meet his require- ments. The chair especially (for President Taft was not of meager inc einer ap tidied it un rtable. It will be replaced, will the desk. - Big Val small print T HE biggest sign does not always teli the biggest falsehood. And sometimes the biggest values are found under the smallest indications. This week there are some pretty big items offered you in this small ad. These prices take effect Friday and continue a week. $20.00 CLOAKS FOR $2.98 —A full line of new spring cloaks are now shown on the second floor at prices from $6.75 to $18.50. But there are also a lot of last season’s cloaks in light winter weights that are practical for spring wear. These goods are worth from $12.50 to $20.00, and even 10¢ LACE INSERTIONS, Ic —Another lot lace insertions from sets where the edges are all gone. Half to two inches wide and worth 5, 8 and 10c. -Choice of the lot while 1 they last, at per yard__..- c 35 CENT RIBBON FOR 15c —A lot of plain and fancy more. They go on sale this wide ribbons, all silk of good week at each 98 quality. Values in the lot run ey cg . from 25c to 35c. Special 15c sale price a yard___.____ 75c DRESS GOODS FOR 29c —A line of all wool serges, poplins, suitings, plaids and cravenettes. They are good goods in staple colors and worth 50c, 69c and 75c per yard. Special sale price for 9 the week, per yard_____. Ic 50 CENT APRONS FOR 25c —The so-called Waiters Apron with bib. Large size that sold for 50c each. In this week’s sale only.-------' 25c CNE DOLLAR GLOVES, 49ce —vcuamuis Gloves in the natur- al color. Two woes length that sold at $1.00. is week’s price, pair_.-- 49c EMBROIDERY COTTON, tc —A line of colored embroidery floss in the weight that is mostly used. While this lot lasts you may buy them 1 at, per skein._._-______... c _12%e GINGHAMS FOR 61éc —A lot of plain colored Cham- brey gingham in the staple colors. Not more than ten yards to a customer at this price. While the lot 1 lasts, per yard _________- 26 $2.50 House Dresses for 75c SOc Hose for 25c, and many other Bargains for the week ITASCA DRY GOODS CO. Copyright 1909, by ©. E, Zimmerman Co.--No. i9 A man with money in our bank always has a deep feeling of security. This$is only one of many advantages derived from allowing us to take care of your savings. saan £25, = eee 00 OFFICERS President, F. P. Sheldon. Vice-Pres., A. G. Wedge Jr. Cashier, C. E. Aiken. DIRECTORS F. P. Sheldon. D. M. Gunn. A G. Wedge. W. C. Gilbert. Cc. E. Aiken John Beckfeit H. D. Powers. 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