Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 27, 1913, Page 6

» ‘PAGE FOUR Rapes HreraiasReview Published Every Wednesday By KILEY @ SPENCER Two DOLLARS A YEAR. IN ADVANCE €ntered 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, 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 superintendent of the Northeast Ex-, purposes, but the Trouble lies in 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. 2». 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- lic service to ‘he state—Faremont Sentinel. —_a President Wilson’s attitude to- ward Mexico is more and more convincing that at last the Ameri- ean 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. oo 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. 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 on the cost -H.D. POWERS 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, asit needs guardianship in such mat- ters.” That’s a hot one on the commissioners. If the county board as @ whole, or any of the members thereof, are dishonest, irresponsible and extravagant, why not proceed forthwith to prefer 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 embers 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 fhe very fel- dow who will graft if given a chance. a i a 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, jsome 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 in Can- ada; money is scarce and banks re- fuse even the smallest loans on improved 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- tiveable 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 eame forth magic music the dead- esi of silence reigns. A report from ere Canadian city says that in one uftfernoon 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 such unequalled advantages that they deemitadvisable to get rid of their property in the states at a sacrifice and move there, a re- cent 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 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- ers who must harvest their crops within a single calendar week or lose them. To the southwest of the Missouri river are millions of acres of fertile land where crops are being burned to a cinder by a GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1913. Between these two territories stands the American northwes., secure ™ , abundant moisture, a temperate summer heat and an 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- jged by an unendurable winter. While across the international boundary many of the very farmeit who have staked their all upon ie chance of a single frost, crossed the line and changed their flag to find a land where conditions were ‘easier.’ aes One whose chief occupation is to | study movements of settlers advis- jes us of Minnesota to be ready this jyear 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- jself 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. 2 5 The settlement of Minnesota in the most efficient sense waits up- on a campaign of intelligent, con- servative, wholly truthful and jtrustworthy 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 lew a price. These statements once tested and heralded widely would multiply the population of Minnescta. Even without such advertisement these conditions may be expected {to make themselves Lnown, quietly but persuasively. This is now oc- curing. And the special incentive to investigate produced by _ the drought which this summer afflicts ya, 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. $a AN’ ALL-AMERICAN VIEW One of the most pleasing ‘and gratifying signs of the times is the manner blazing sun. 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 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. | c; Americans having property .in that country may prefer te take the a 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 itselfto warrant. inter- vention. ae 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 recy Pega ag A between the belliger- ents. © In sending John Liind on this delicate mission he picked the right man. Events are proving this. Mr. Lind may not succeed in gaining a settlement, but he will, if any one can, and at least. he will definitely fix the issue. Hé will do this, too, so sharply and definitely, and this on such a clearly defined basis as in which newspapers politically op- these papers are displaying a fair-| 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. _—_Ss— 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 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 great many 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- find potatoes a drug, and prices unsatisfactory. zs In fact, the potato growers find themselves facing the same condi- tions thatymade 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 second year. 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 onganiza- 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- jative 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 eagugh to absorb the flocd of fall shipments, nor could they assimilate the crop were it er to find a wider market, and to pay a higher cost of transporta- ket. The South and West already. from the Northwest. This tradé must be expanded. Localities that have organized shipping associa- tions, that are producing an even 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 ;these 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 Leing 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 heing small and without means to make a legal battle,have felt them- selves helpless. Such towns are centers of sentiment for state con- 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 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- of 1912. Counting upon the low}| ceeds the local demand are apt to/| Boy’s dull cali button, dull finished-tops, double half soles and feather stayed back. Size 9 to 33, at pair 1.59 Size 13% to 2, at pair---- 1.78 Sixe 216 to 746, at pair... 1.98 We ask comparison of this shoe ‘with Sears, Roebuck’s No. 903 that costs you $1.99. Girl’s dull calf button, school heel, double half sole, leather back stay. Sizes 84% to 1144, at pair 1.55 Sizes 12 to 2, at pair. Sizes 3 to 7, at pair. | Children’s kid blucher with school heel and patent tip. Sizes 5 to 8, at pair Boy’s box calf blucher, with double half soles,leather back SALE BEGINS SATURDAY MORNING tion in order to reach that mar-. stay and regular heei. 946 to 13, at pair 1.48 Sizes 13% to 2, at pair_ Sizes 2 to 7, at pair. Boy’s box blucher, pair Sizes 1314 to2 at pair Sizes 214 to 5, at pair__ buck’s 907 that costs $1.89. Sizes 814 to 11, at pair 1.28 Sizes 12 to 2, at pair. Compare with S. No. 375 that costs $1. Sizes 1.7: 38 medium heel, double half sole, leather back stay. Sizes 9% to 13, at ----1.48 5 1:68 Compare this with Sears, Roe- Girl’s kid button, patent tip, double half sole, school heel. ----1.55 & Co.’s Sizes’814 to 11, at pair__-.1.13 EXTRA SPECIAL Boy’s gun metal or patent tie oxfords with extension soles and school heel, Buster Brown quality. Sizes 844 to 1014, $2.00 value at pair 1.50 Sizes 11 to 2, $2.50 value, at Co a ES 1.88 HOSE SPECIAL A lot of men’s, ladies’ and children’s hose, samples and odd pairs, colors, black, white, brown, oxblood, gray, green, blue, etc. Worth 25, 35 and 50c. Choice of the lot, at Ft + aaa AEN SEN G2: 1 5c ITASCA DRY GOODS CO: tively few, working for the most part through the new Minnesota Home Rule league. Outside of this organization, there are hundreds disturbed carefully throughout the|who concede that state control is year. It is necessary forthe grow- probably the best system, but, think there is no crisis in the state’s affairs that calls for aspe- cial session to legislate on the sub- are supplied in part by shipments’| ject. They think the matter should go over to the next regular ses- sion, when about the only construc- tive problems left for treatment kind and quality of tuber, and that | Will be reorganization of state de- have established satisfactory busi-|partments-and public utility regu- lation. = Surprisés on the other side come from thé @ttitude of some members of the legislature who are friendly to the governor, but who have had their eafs-to the ground, and find that sentiment in their districts ‘Senator Marden is said to ‘have written, asking the governor not to call the special session. He is quoted in the Fargo paper as say- ing that the governor cannot push the bill through the legislature at this time. Big Fair At Bear River Bear River farmers are becoming interested in the farmers’ institute ‘which is to be held there August. 25 and 26. 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- 1 does not-warrant their support of|sity of Minnesota; Dr. J. L. Shell- the rush. program. Senator C. §,|man and Andrew Nelson, members Marden ig:an instance. He support- of the Itasca county board of ed both’ ef the governor's vetoes, ene ne eae pages The Bear River Farmers’ club, and is régdrded as an organization| which has charge of the institute, man. In-a Fargo paper recently he intend to hustle for the first place was quoted as saying that he had|ia the competitive community ex- Leen unable to find any demand hibits and are using this meeting for the legislation in Clay county, to classify their produce, and two : ; days will be set apart for practical or any decided opposition either.|tarm instruction. THE LUMBERJACK Swampers, choppers and cross-cut men Teamsters and skidding crew, x We are the men you look for when There’s work in the woods to do. "Ae We are the race that fi'nds it’s place " oie eae ee ae nd _ follow his lines through the spruce and pines— We are the lumberjacks. is . German and Finn and Austrian, Lusty and young and strong, Our heart-throbs sing to the rythmic swing And lilt of a brave, new song. We tumble out to the foreman’s shout, _ When the eastern sky is black, With never a shirk tothe long day's work ae That waits for the lumberjack. |. Through crackling snow when it’s fort; 1 _ We wage the unending fight ye is With sentinel pines, whose somber lines = Are piercing the frosty light; ‘eae Till the fitful blaze of the sun’s last rays Shows crimson off in the west, And the northland night like a mother broods £ With the tired world on her breast. ‘ Clearing the way fa a larger For the men who wt of aths are here for the “pioneer,” x _ Who will follow and own the land. Fighting the new world’s battles we, maxc? of Sis ay waar _ d, _ Making a place in the north woods Heeding the cry of need. = Swampers, choppers and -cut men, Z Teamsters and skidding crew, ‘ " “We are the men you look for when = There’s work in the woods to do. . We are the folk at whom you joke, : Felli amp oerting A ee cites dre ‘elling ms for your ; We are the iemborncks, Bs; cre i —May Stanley in Duluth News Tribune. Our ~