Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 27, 1913, Page 4

ee? » ‘PAGE FOUR : Repias Hreraias'Review Published Every Wednesday By KILEY @® SPENCER} Two DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. ids, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County The Little Fork Times pays a glowing tribute to A. J. McGuire, superintendent of the Northeast Ex-, periment farm at Grand Rapids, and the Crosby Cruicible supple- ments the sentiment with _ the statement that Mr. McGuire has done more to make agriculture a reality in northern Minnesota than any one man we know of. He can be induced to tell how he makes things grow in this region, but his} way is to show how it canbe done. —_—_—_——____—_ In a recent decision involving a Socialist’s claims to county office at Bemidji, Judge Stanton held for the Socialist. His decision has now | been upheld by the state supreme court. The Sentinel knows nothing as to the facts, but Judge Stanton’s decision breaks down the Social- ists’ claim that the poor man has not an equal chance with the afflu- ent before the courts of this coun- try. His decision may not be locally popular, but it was evidently the right one and in deciding the case as he did he has performed a pub- lie serviee to ‘he state-—Farémont Sentinel. Gere SSS President Wilson’s attitude to- ward Mexico is more and more convincing that at last the Ameri- can people have a pure minded statesman in the White House. His regard for human rights, in Mexico as in the United States of America, is paramount to consider- ations of “vested rights,” foreign concessions, blatant jingoism and mock patriotism. We doubt if a single citizen who last fall voted for Woodrow Wilson regrets it, and! as for the thousands who placed their faith elsewhere politically, many of them only await an op- portunity to correct their judg- ment.—Fairmont Sentinel. se Some of the papers hereabouts have funny ideas about the state game and fish commission and its deputies. Now that ex-Game War- den Harry has resigned they attri- bute his retirement from the ser- vice to politics, and ona par with the removal of Wood of Virginia. But Mr. Harry’s retirement was not requested by the commission by any means. He was regarded as one of the most effictent wardens in the employ of the commission and might have remained indefn- nitely, had he so elected. After serving the state for a number of years at $100 per month he found it impossible to properly support his family and lay aside anything for the future. He resigned to ac- cept a much more lucrative posi- tion with a contracting firm in Western Canada. It would be bet- ter for all concerned, as to the en- forcement of game and fish laws, if the press of northern Minnesota would get in touch with the com- mission and work in harmony with it, rather than listen to the wild stories of suck fellows as Wood. } He’s a fake. That Old Furniture We'll cheerfully give you in- formation and suggestions for the best method of refinishing old pieces of furniture, refrig- erators, chairs, tables, beds, etc., the Chi-Namel Way and give you estimates The Deer River News editor doesn’t know very much that is worth ‘knowing. He supported the county bond proposition and he opposed it. He said it was a good thing and he said it was a bad thing. Before the election he dem- onstrated that he didn’t know any- thing about the merits or de- merits of the issue. Now he star- tles the public with the bold de- claration that it was all right to vote the bonds for road building purposes, but the Trouble lies in the dishonesty and extravagance of | the board of county commissioners. He wants the County Booster club to act as official detective to pre- vent the board from stealing the $300,000. The News says, referring | {o the Booster club: “It first of all ought to override the county board, act as guardian of it, as it) needs guardianship in such mat- ters.” That’s a hot one on the commissioners. If the county board as 2 whole, or any of the members thereof, are dishonest, irresponsible ; and extravagant, why not proceed forthwith toprefer charges against them and cause their removal} from office? The Booster club, or | any other club couldn't reform puch a bunch of bandits as_ the Deer River paper pictures the members of the board to be. It’s a mighty good thing for the public that some people are not county commissioners. The man who takes it for granted that a public official will graft, is the very fel- | dow who will graft if given a chance. Sen Wauseon A REASON FOR SILENCE. What has become of the songs of Canada and her glowing oppor- tunites? It wasn’t so very long ago that the state was flooded with literature and real estate agents) telling of the grandeur of the Do- minion, her boundless resources and wonderful advantages over the good old U.S. People hearkened, some heeded the cries and others very wisely stayed at home. Now one hears not even an imi- tation whisper from up _ north. There’s a reason. "Tis said that stringent times have set in im Can- ada; money is scarce and banks re- fuse even the smallest loans on ir-proved properties; building oper- ations are at a standstill because of lack of capital, and property values are going down, down, and then some. But the chief reason for the no- ticeable calm which is in the at- mosphere lies in the fact that the choir of Canadian real estate agents has been disbanded and where once came forth magic music the dead- esi of silence reigns. A report from| ere Canadian city says that in one atiernoon eighty-six real estate| agents packed up their collar-but- tons and such other belongings as they might have possessed and “moved on.” Bye and bye we may expect to hear a chorus singing the praises of some other new found country —a country of sunshine, honey and chances for fortunes to be amas- sed in a few months. Then we'll know that the choir has once more been reorganized and that the usual program of songs will be ren- dered.—Fairmont Sentinel. MINNESOTA’S ADVANTAGE. To those who think that the prairie lands of Canada hold out they deemitadvisable to get rid of their propery in the states at a sacrifice and move there, a re- ceat editorial in the Minneapolis Tribune should prove of _ interest. That Minnesota will during the coming summer receive a large ad- dition to its farming population through the return to God’s coun- try of those who were lured past its doors by persistent advertising there is no doubt, and the Tri- bune also calls attention to other \to investigate produced by such unequalled advantages that) sections from which this state may be expected to draw heavily. The Minneapolis paper says: To the north of the internation-+ al boundary are thousands of farm- n the cost -H.D. POWERS within a single calendar week or lose them. To the southwest of the Missouri river are millions of |f: acres of fertile land where crops are being burned to a cinder by a ers who must harvest their crops |L GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEW. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST. 27, 1913. blazing sun. Between these two territories stands the American northwes., secure ™ , abundant moisture, a temperate summer heat and am ample harvest season. Yet the farmers now sweltering in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, do not think of Minnesota, the Da- \otas and Montana as a territory protected by nature. They think of the northwest. as a territory scour- ged by an unendurable winter. While across the international boundary many of the very farmeit who have staked their all upon ine chance of a single frost, crossed the line and changed their flag to find a land where conditions were ‘easier.’ ‘ One whose chief occupation is to study movements of settlers advis- es us of Minnesota to be ready this year for an unprecedented immigra- gration. The farmer to the south would rather endure even the win- ter he thinks we suffer than to see his year’s product wither and die in the summer with which he him- self has contended. British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, wonderfully inviting as they are in immigration litera- ture, do not bear the test of day- after-day comparison with the United States. Canada is growing and will continue to grow wonder- fully. But the day of her strongest appeal to prospective settlers from the United States passed with this year’s general report’ from those who have gone thither from the United States. E : The settlement of Minnesota in the most efficient sense waits up- on a campaign of intelligent, con- servative, wholly truthful and trustworthy advertising of the conditions in the state. No other section of the globe offers land so fertile, so near to market, so well providec with . neighbors, in which the erops are so well secure, at sc low a price. These statements cnee tested and heralded widely | would multiply the population of Minnescta. Even without such advertisement those conditions may be expected to make themselves Lnown, quietly but persuasively. This is now oc- curing. And the special eye he drought which this summer afflicts na, Kansas and Missouri, and by the present discouragement of our neighbors in Canada, is a light in which the advantages of } Minnesota are particularly clear. tela aes IS Gas eh AN ALL-AMERICAN VIEW One of the most pleasing and gratifying signs of the times is the manner in which newspapers politically op- posed to the present administra- tion at Washington are upholding} the policy of President Wilson in the present crisis in Mexico. In discussing the program followed these papers are displaying a fair-| ness and a helpfulness that marks them as being thoroughly Amer- ican long before they. are Repub- lican or anything else. As an ex- ample may be taken the stand of the Duluth News Tribune on the appointment of Ex-Governor Lind as the president’s personal repre- sentative at the scene of the trouble. Time was when the News Tribune would not have been able to see in John Lind aught of either ability or fitness, nor in his se- lection by the president anything but a national calamity and a poli- tical mistake. Now that paper comes forward and, without any jingoism or gushing, sensibly dis- cusses the situation as follows: It is not the part of patriotic citi- zenship to criticise the action or policy of the administration as re- gards Mexico. When Senator Pen- rose injects this into a senate de- bate and threatens to extend the discussion over several days, he is injecting partisanship where_there should be only patriotism. There are, without question, American citizens in Mexico who are in danger. Indeed it may well be doubted if any one is overly safe there. Presi- dent Huerta publicly announced that he could not guarantee... the safety from physical harm of John Lind. This was something less than a week before Mr. Lind’s arrival there. dy Americans having property .in that country may prefer te take the personal risk of staying there, but they have all had ample op- portunity to send their wives and families home. The fact of such danger, even if general, is not suf- ficient of itself to warrant. inter- vention. ;, these to make a policy. : In the meanwhile, no man in congress or out, can be excused for using the Mexican situation to make party capital. A PROBLEM OF NOW.” Everything points to the likeli- hood that the fall of 1913 will wit- ness a repetition, in many locali- ties, of the potato price disaster of 1912. Counting upon the low prices of last year as an indication that few would plant this season, and further taking into account the fact that they -had the potatoes and no sale for them, a greatmany farmers last spring planted a much latger acreage than usual. Unless some provision is made, and made immediately, for the proper stor- age and marketing of the crop now coming to the harvest, neighbor- hoods where the local supply ex- ceeds the local demand are apt to find potatoes a drug, and prices unsatisfactory. In fact, the potato growers find themselves facing the same condi- tions that‘made wheat growing in the early ’80’s a rather wearisome job. No adequate storage system has been developed, and the ship- ping and marketing part of the deal has not been worked out. The potato grower is in more urgent need of self-help than the wheat grower because the latter could, if he had to, hold his crop over, and market it the secondyear. This the potato grower cannot do. Until the business is much farther along than at present, local consumpticn of the crop for manufacturing pur- poses, say for the making of indus- trial alcohol, is not practically pos- sible. Storage to check the ‘““dump- ing’ tendency, and an organiza- tion to get into touch with the con- suming’ public, are absolutely es- sential to fair prices and success in the business. What wheat grow- ing would be without the co-oper- ative elevator the potato crop without the warehouse and the shipping association now is. This explains in large measure the break in the 1912 market, and may forecast the market season of 1913. The ‘twin City markets are nol large enough to absorb the flocd of fall shipments, nor could they assimilate the crop were it disturbed carefully throughout the year. It is necessary for the grow- er to find a wider market, and .to pay a higher cost of transporta- tion in order to reach that mar- ket. The South and West already, are supplied in part by shipments from the Northwest. This tradé must be expanded. Localities that have organized shipping associa- tions, that are producing an even kind and quality of tuber, and that have established satisfactory busi- ness connections, have a decided advantage over the neighborhood where everybody is trusting tothe local storekeeper to handle _ the sale crop. The one way out for latter communities is for them to get busy—mighty busy— and put from $2,500 to $3,000 into a good warehouse, band themselves together in co-operative associa- tions, hire good business-hunting Managers, and advertise to the potato-buying world the fact that they have a product that is worth bidding for. Where such a solution of the impending tie-up and logs in hand- ling of the coming potato crop is at all possible it should be under- taken at once. Traveling the road of personal indifference to the fate of the other fellow has come to mean, in this business as in many another, a crimp in one’s own pocketbook. STATE REGULATION. Sentiment for state regulation is being developed in a good many localities, says a political writer. There are communities here and there which have had trouble with public service corporations, and being small and without means to make a legal battle,have felt them- selves helpless. Such towns are centers of sentiment for state con- Nor if there was acute danger, would this warrant at this time any senator’s seeking to force the hand of the president. Mr. Wilson is not unmindful of his duty; he is not remiss, he is not inactive. That he has a definite policy is certain, and he is at this time en- titled to the serious, earnest and united support of all citizens. Moreover, it should be the wish of all Americans to avoid war, and intervention means war; it means another conquest of Mexico. It is president's evident desire and de- termination to avoid war. He is exhausting every resource of di- plomacy to bring about a peaceful safusient between the Peiliger- 8. « In sending John Liind on this delicate mission he picked the right man. Events are proving this. Mr. ind may not succeed in gaining a settlement, but he will, if any one can, and at least. he will definitely ix the issue. Hé will do this, too, so sharply and definitely,. this on such a clearly defined basis as trol. Outside of these centers, the feeling is apathetic. Members re- port that it is hard to stir up any interest in the subject. Most people seem to know liftle or nothing about public utility regulation, and as a rule they donot care to learn about it. 2 There are surprises in the sit- uation for each side. The governor has been getting newspaper support from unexpected quarters. Several Boy's dull calt button, dull finished:tops, double half soles and Jeather stayed back. 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Surprisés on the other side come from thé attitude of some members of the legislature who are friendly to the gevernor, but who have had their earsto the ground, and find that sentiment in their districts does not-warrant their support of the rusk: program. Senator C. S. Marden isan instance. He support- jed both’ ef the governor’s vetoes, and is régarded as an organization man. In-a Fargo paper recently he was quoted as saying that he had keen unable to find any demand for the legislation in Clay county, or any decided opposition either. We ask comparison of this Roebuck’s Boy’s box calf blucher, with double half soles,leather back Sizes Sizes 1314 to 2, at pair__..1.73 -1.98 medium heel, double half sole, leather back stay. Sizes 9% to 13, at Compzire this with Sears, Roe- Girl’s kid button, patent tip, double half sole, school heel. Sizes 12 to 2, at pair__..._ 1.55 S. R. & Co.’s Girl’s dull calf button, school heel, double half sole, leather back stay. 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The exhibits which will be had at the institute will be clas- sified and brought here to the county fair. Among the institute workers who will be present are: A. B. Hostetter, of Duluth; Fred Ward, agricultural agent for St. Louis county, Duluth; Dr. Thompson of the State Dem- onstration farm, Duluth; W. A. Dickenson, D.& I. Ry., Duluth; Mrs. Margaret E. Baker of the farmex- tension department of the Univer- sity of Minnesota; Dr. J. L. Shell- man and Andrew Nelson, members of the Itasca county board of commissioners. The Bear River Farmers’ club, which has charge of the institute, intend to hustle for the first place in the competitive community ex- hibits and are using this meeting to classify their produce, and two days will be set apart for practical farm instruction. ‘ fa Till the fitful democratic papers, including the Fairmont Sentinel, the Albert Lea Standard and the St. Cloud Times, are backing him up, and the Du- luth Herald has declared for state regulation. The active opposition to state control comes from compara- elders of saw and Felling the beams f ci dreams— Wo are the lemberjacke ee nee THE LUMBERJACK : Swampers, choppzyrs and cross-cut men Teamsters and skidding crew, We are the men you look for when There’s work in the woods to do. We are the race that finds it’s place By the timber cruiser’s tracks, And follow his lines through the spruce and pines— We are the lumberjacks. German and Finn and Austrian, Lusty and young and strong, 4 Our heart-throbs sing to the rythmic swing And lilt of a brave, new song. We tumble out to the foreman’s shout, 5 cate the ort is black, ith never a shirk tothe long day’s work That waits for the lumberjack. . Through crackling snow when it’s fort; 1 "We wage the unending fight, °"” DeloW : With sentinel pines, whose somber lines bes: Are Deen the frosty light; 1 blaze of the sun’s last rays Pre og a Ee Fas west, e northland night like a mother broods é With the tired world on her want 5 Clearing the way fo a larger da; For the men who understand. Our ae are here for the “pioneer,” a _ Who will follow and own the land. Fighting the new world’s battles we, Men of free ra oats Scape _Making a place in the north woods space, Heeding the cry of need. = Swampers, choppers and cross-cut men, Teamsters and skidding crew, -“We are the men you look for when Pe “ There’s work in the woods to do. We are the folk at whom you joke, ~ j pat