Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 3, 1913, Page 4

PAGE FOUR GRAND RAPIRS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1913. Grand Rapias Weratd-"Review Published Every Wednesday By KILEY © SPENCER TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rap. lds, Minn., as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County A SENSIBLE PROGRAM. Under the heading “The State and the Federal Land Grants.” the Duluth Evening Herald in an edi- torfal article shows wherein the decision of the federal government to withhold the patenting of cer- tain lands to the state until the s under which these land: conditic : ed have been complied were with, will eventually redound tq the benefit of the state. of the importance of the matten we cannot do better than repro- duce the Herald’s article in nee Evidently we are to have a show Pook - matter of the Minne- sota swamp land grants. The interior department, as re- lated in the Herald Saturday, has suspended the patenting of the re- maining half-million acres of “swampland” pending an. investi- gation; and in the meantime it has formally called on the state for an accounting of its disposition of the swamp lands heretofore patented. This land was given to the state | with the explicit prov ision that the proceeds of i exclusively, so far as necessary, for reclamation purposes. _What the government now asks is whether the state has complied with the terms of the contract. : It has not, of course, complied with them; and the terms of the state Constitution appear to mak@ it impossible for it to do so. While the lands were granted with. the understanding that the preceeds of their sale should be used for reclamation, the Constitution re- quires that the proceeds shall go into the permanent schoolj funds, and that these funds shall not be diminished. The state cannot, therefore, make a satisfactory answer to the de- mand of the! interior department, unless it takes refuge behind the words “so far as necessary” in the land grant act. But this does not tell the whole story, by any means. While not a dollar of the pro- ceeds of the sale of government grants has been used for reclama- tion, by the rather shallow pre- tense that drainage was essential to public health, the state has ‘spent considerable money out of current funds for drainage. And though even this was gross- ly neglected for years, in recent years the state probably has drain- ed submerged land about as rapid- ly as was wise. Drainage of land too far ahead of settlement is like- ly to prove worse than a waste) of money; for the peat soil of drain- dd land not put to use may be de- diroyed by fire or even blown away by wind. It is rather unfortunate that the issue as to land heretofore patent- ed has been raised; though it is altogether good that patents are to be temporarily suspended the land yet unpatented. These patents should be suspended until the state can give an assurance |'who are also the owners of the that the proceeds of the sale of the land involved will be used ex clusively, so far as necessary, reclamation purposes. And reclamation, under the terms of the new contract that should be made between the Federal government and the state of Minnesota, should In views ciation, that is a misapprehensic ts sale should be used| vj change table. mean not only reclaiming wet lands by drainage, but stump- covered lands by clearing and inaccessible lands by road- building. Land covered with stumps and brush is quite as’, much in need of reclamation; by clearing as land covered with water; and land that is useless because if is inacces- sible is quite as much in need of reclamation by road-building as either. § Nobody, we are sure, wants the Federal government to take back the lands heretofore patented, on the ground that. the state has not complied with the terms, of. its contract. To do that would be te take from the state the bulk of its permanent funds, and many valuable iron mines from the leas- ing of which these funds are get- ti large revenues and will yet s still greater revenues. While the interior department states that | the protest: comes from the North- }ern Minnesota Development a {It came from two individuals, Mr. King and Mr. Mackenzie, who acted only as individuals and without any authority whatever from the organization of which they are president and secretary respective- ly. There is grave danger thiat the ureal point will be missed in this | controversy. Nobody wants the state compellec {to forfeit. its land grants) Everybody ought to ‘want the state compelled to live up to its contract hereafter. The important thing to be gained is a new conception, legal and in common under- standing, of the term reclama- tion. that will include not only drainage but land-clearing and road-building. That conception generally under- stood and crystalized into law, j what is wanted next is that the re- maining half-million acres shall be sible. This program carried out, there |will be no need for any particular ‘campaign for settlement. The lands will settle themselves very rapidly, because their soil is rich, because rich markets are at hand, and be- ‘cause under the liberal terms of- fered by the state they will offer the grandest opportunity anywhere in the world for industrious home- seekers. The important thing to keep in mind, now is the suggestion re- cently made by the Herald that there need be no inconsistency be- tween the provisions of the Con- stitution and the terms of the state's contract with the~govern- ment if arrangements can be made to divert the proceeds of the sale of state lands temporarily for the creation of a reclamation fund that will speed the profitable de- velopment of state lands and at the same time greatly enrich’ the permanent funds of the state. pac AS Shae CE The first issue of the Steel Plant News,. published at Gary, has reached the Herald'Review ex- The new paper is published by Johnson & Small, Two Harbors Journal-News, and if they make as good a paper of their older publication, the new Uba new venture as they have of steel suburb will have a booster worth while. or s fuel, Be ako The lady of ie house: or at FR you-need a tove for as) for any room in ye price As"'trade er 1913 by The Buck's Stove and Range Company house is most in- terested in hardware for the house QWhy then shouldn’t the lad: y of the house buy household hardware herse/f? If you need anything in the line of hardware for the home, come here and look over our at- tractive stock. You can “‘shop” in this store as well as any other; and you'll enjoy it just as much. GYou'll be surprised how much there is to see; how many work-saving things you will find displayed here. More than that,you’ll be surprised to find that our prices are lower than you can find anywhere else. When you need anything in the line of hardware, come here! H. D. POWERS ee a mm MINNEAPOLIS PAPER Corrects Indigestion Cream of Rye Nature's Breakfast Food Banishes Constipation “Waiting” and “Working.” Hx-Senator C. €. McCarthy of Grand Rapids does not agree with thea sentiment expressed in John | Burrough’s famous poem ‘“Wait- ing,” and has answered it in lines of like meter, entitling his verses | “Working.” The idea of sitting back and allowing things to take their course because you can do | | | | | Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more ’gainst Time or Fate, For lo; my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it hath sown, == And garner up its fruit of tears. ! The waters know their own, and draw The brook that springs in yonder heights; So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delights. The stars come nightly to the sky; | The tidal wave comes to the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me. —John Burroughs. WORKING, I must not fold my hands and wait, And think that wind, and tide, and sea, The Universe, and Time, and Fate, Will cause my own to come to me, No, I must haste, not make delays, Must hurry on with eager pace; Not stand amid the eternal ways, And wait for mine to seek my face. “Asleep, awake, by night and day,” “The friends I seek are seeking me;” But winds can drive my bark astray, And change the tide of destiny. I know I cannot stand alone And wait with joy the coming years; I reap. but only what I've sown, I reap where I have sown in tears. | ‘Tis true there is a force to draw The brook that springs in yonder heights; i But such a force is not the law | That makes for good, and pure de- lights. The stars that come unto the sky, The tidal wave upon the sea, And time, and space, and deep,’ and high, ' Can never bring my own to me. Fine Stock Animals Sold. H. D. Hinegartner sold his Holstein bull to Park Rapids parties this week. The animal had been at the head of Mr. Hine- gartmer’s dairy herd during the past two years and another of the same breed will be substituted. He) weighed 1800 pounds and was cen- sidered the best Holstein ever brought to Itasca county. ‘ Whose Feet Was It? That caused the poet to rise up in righteous indignation. and from ‘the fullness of his heart write these beautiful and tourhing lines rélative to a great truth— Go see what I have ‘seen Go feel what I have felt Go near the feet of some seen And smell what I have smelt Friends: There is no need of. anyone liaving that kind of feet. Barker's Antiseptic will cure sore, sweaty, tired feet and de- istroy all offensive odor caused from prespiration. ¥ For sale at Itasca Mercantile Co. I've "GETS KINGS MIXED { | Attorney General Also Thinks That | N.M. D. President Has Been | Made Land Receiver. | The Minneapolis Tribune recent-' lly printed an article in which it quoted Attorney General Smith as | being of the opinion that the ap- ointment of Fred A. King, of, Grand Rapids as receiver of | land office at Cass Lake should be ' opposed, the attorney general evi- | dently getting the names some- what mixed and thinking that the new appointee was C. M. King of | Deer River, president of the North- ern Minnesota Development asso- éiatiqn: The Tribune quotes Attorney General Smith as saying: “I saw | trouble ahead for these lands, and | I had in mind just before the pro- | test was filed to go to Washington | and consult officials of the inter- ior department. With Mr. King taking the position he does, hig appointment as register of the land office at Cass Lake would be harm- ful to the state and possibly. we would be doing the right thing if we protested against confirmation of his appointment. These lands are located in the Cass Lake dis- trict and Mr. King could make the ‘state a lot of trouble. It is nof the first time that this particular. land office has made trouble for us.” : Mr. Smith. we believe, is need~ lessly alarmed and shows that he the |. Cold weather will soon be with us for good and we want you to know that we are better prepared than ever to theet your wants. Clothing Overcoats Headwear and Shoes To this add the very latest things in furnishings and haberdashery for gent- lemen and you are equipped. We have them all at prices that are right. Lieberm qatiented to the state on the ex-| nothing to change the trend of | not only faiied to place the new |presa proviso that the proceeds of|events does not appeal to Mr.|receimr of the Gass Lake land eee sale aie hao ; Pe McCarthy, who evidently thinks | office properly, but that he hasa ‘used'to drain, Yo clear, and’ to|that a man should be up and/ decidedly erroneous coneeption of ‘build to‘the state’s idle lands. to|hustling. We reprint the two | the aititude of C. M. King toward the end that they make be put un-| poems: the slaié and its lands. The presi- der cultivation as rapidly as pos sarin. | dent of the Northern, Minnesota Development association has at no time advocated anything that would in any way interfere with the state’s securing all that it can possibly get from the federal government, and has only suggest- ed that the commonwealth do a ¢ Christian Science. Society Of Hibbing, Minnesota Announces a Free Public Lec- : ture on Christian Science ,. Judge Clifford P. Smith, C.S. B. A member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, in Boston, Massachusetts In the Auditorium, City Hall, Hibbing, Minn. Thursday Evening, Dec. 11 at 8:15 o’clock. You and your ¢ friends are cordially invited to attend. 7 Irene Soeteaoedonteoctoetectontredee eect little something with the lands it already has so received. In this he is endorsed by papers like the Duluth Herald, who is much nearé these lands and knows more about them then Attorney General Smith jrever will know. C. M. King was not appointed receiver of the land offica at Gass Lake, but the state | would have nothing to fear if he had been so selected. M’GUIRE TALKS TO BELTRAMI FARMERS Repeats His Assertion That 21 Acres Properly Cultivated Will Make Man Rich. Reports of the farmers’ gather- ing held at the high school build- ing in Bemidji last Saturday after- noon prove the affair to have been, a great success. One of the prin- cipal speakers of the gathering was Spuerintendent A. J. McGuire of the Northeast experiment farm here, who repeated his oft-made assertion that 21 acres in Northern Minnesota, properly cultivated, would not only produce a_ living but make a man rich. Concerning tlhe work on the state farm here, Mr. MoeGuire said: “During the 10 years that I hava been in Grand Rapids I have tried to work out the farm problem the same as if the farm was my own property and I can say that if the state was to withdraw its support! of the Grand Rapids farm, it could Clothiers and Furnishers anBros. GRAND RAPIDS, MINN. go om just the same. The farm sales amount to between $6,000 and $7,000 a year from our tract of 128 acres.” “Mr. MeGuire took the occasion: to vepeat his plea for a threeyear crop fotation which provides that one- third ,of the land be planted to grain, one-third to grass and one- third to corn, potatoes and root ‘srops; the grain tract to be fol- lcwed withi grass and then root Topsy ees e-8 Pais Seay “The Feudists.” What is said to be one of the funniest Vitagraph dramas ever shawn to a moving picture audi- encd will be presented at the Geni theatre tonight and tomorrow night. It recites the feud exist- ing between the seniors of two neighboring families, the young people of the two houses consid- erably tangling matters up by fall- ing in love with one another. The Vitagraph company has turned its last moment to order a ens of satisfaction. Exclusive Local ealers GRAND RAPIDS, _ eee OPI III IRD ‘ Tailored-to-Measure Suit or Overcoat for Christmas Now is the time to inspect the new Winter wool- Ed. V. 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