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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
ACCEPTS POSITION HERE.
Frank Lamson of Wright County Will
Assume Duties as Deputy Au-
ditor Next Tuesday.
PROMINENT IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Frank Lamson, of Buffalo, where
he has held the position of deputy au-
ditor for Wright county. has accepted
a similar position here, and will as
sumo his new duties next Tuesday,
announced James L. George, auditor,
this morning.
Mr.. Lamson will move his family
to Bemidji soon and plans to make
this city his permanent home In
speaking Of Mr.. Lamson, the Delano
Eagle, Wright county, says:
From Memorial Of Elder Eben-
ezer Lamson, of Concord, Mass, we
learn that Frank B. Lamson is the
57th decendent in direct line of Bar
nabas Lamson, who embarked from
Harwich, England, in the ship De-
fence, August 10, 1886. Frank B.
Lamson was born at Mount Carmel,
Conn, 1867
I'm 1884 he moved to Meeker coun-
ty, Mimi, and later taught in the
schools for seven years, and was
principal Of the schools at Cokato
from 1S91-1S92. He was editor Of
the Cokato Enterprise 1890-1S91, and
in the fall of 1892 was elected audi
tor of Wright county, being reelected
in 1894.
I'm 1897 he was appointed postmas-
ter of Buffalo, Mimi, where he found
ed the Buffalo Standard in 1897,
which was later Incorporated with
the Buffalo Journal.
''It will be seen from this record
that Mr.. Lamson has been prominent
in public affairs and has won favor
in the eyes of his fellow citizens. The
Eagle and his host of friends wish
him success in his new field of labor. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
FIREMEN TO MEET TONIGHT
Will Nominate 0ficers-Refresh
ments to Be Served Members.

Scott Stewart, secretary of the Be-
midi Volunteer Fire department, this
morning announced that there will
be an important meeting of that or
ganization this evening. 1t will be
one of the regular monthly sessions,
and nomination of officers will be
held Following the disposal of
business matters refreshm will be
served The meeting will be held in
the council chambers of the City
hall.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
INDIAN AGENT SHOT

Rumors reached Bemidji this morn
ing, telling of a shooting which took
place at Ogema, Becker county, last
night, when an Indian agent was
shot by man who refused to allow
search of his grip. While the Pho
'neer has made effort to learn of the
affair, definite details cannot be Sc
cured. At Mahnomen, it is reported.
several shots were fired but that no
one was injured Ogema is within
the confines of the 1855 Indian
treaty.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
TEAM TO BE STRONG.
Bemidji Basketball Five Should Win
From Akeley Thursday.

Bemidji basketball enthusiasts will
be given their first opportunity to
witness the City five in action
day evening when the
Akeley aggregation will be met on
the Armory floor. It is probable that
the game will start with Brandon and
Howe at forwards, Peck at center and
=Bestul and Trafton at guards, while
Miller, Bell and several
others will play during portion of
the contest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
HAMMOND PRAISES
BUDGET SYSTE N
Governor-elect Also Commends Eli
cheney and Economy Plan in
Speech at st. Paul Yesterday
APPROPRIATIONS ExTRAvAGANT
sSuch Conditions Will Exist Until
Businesslike Method is Devised
for Making Expenditures. .

Governor-elect Hammond urged
the adoption by the Legislature of
the budget system of making state
appropriations and praised the state
economy and efficiency commission
for it's plan for the reorganization of
the governmental system in an adj
dress at st. Paul yesterday.
System Should Appeal.
''The budget SYSTEM" said Mr..
Hammond, fought to appeal to all
business men with special force. If
a business man desires to make any
Improvement or to expend any certain
sum of money, he ought to know
what he has to do with before he. de-
cides on making the outlay
Not Doing It's Best.
"a Legislature, be it state of Fed
eral, is not doing it's best and most
efficient work when it appropriates
money before it believes need ex-
lists, without any previous knowledge
OF what the aggregated appropriation
will amount to or how much it has
to spend.
Both Parties Guilty.
This is exactly what Congress and
the state Legislature has been doing
for many years. Charges of Demo
cratic extravaganza made during the
last campaign are absolutely true,
but the speakers that made them
might just as we'll have referred to
Republican extravagances, as both
parties have been guilty and equally
so in this respect.
Appropriations Extravagant.
1.-THE appropriations of the last
Democratic Congress in the aggre-
gate were extravagant, because I
define extravaganza as unnecessary
expenditure, and I think considerable
money was paid out for things which
might just as well have been omitted.
This unnecessary expenditure will
continue in both state and Federal
until the budget system
is adopted and a business1ike method
devised for the making of appropria-
tions.
Shall Urge Action.
I shall earnestly urge the next
to take some action along
this line"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
DECLARES WAGE
ACT IS ILLEGAL

st. Paul. Nov. 24.-Holding the min
imum wage law passed by the 1913
legislature to be unconstitutional
Judge CatliLl handed down decision
ordering temporary Injunction
against State Auditor Iverson and
members of the minimum wage COM
mission from expanding further mon
ey in the work of the commission.
The ruling also suspends the orders
of the commission fixing minimum
wage for women and minor workers.
Judge Catlin's order makes the
minimum wage law ineffective until
the case has been tried ON It's merits.
His decision will be appealed to the
supreme court
In granting the petition of E. W.
Williams, shoe manufacturer of Wi
mona, for a temporary Injunction
Judge Catlin ordered that Williams
be required to furnish $1,000 bond.
Might Increase immortality.
would be apt to increase immortality
if morals are dependent upon wages,
Judge Catlin asserted in the ruling.
The law was held to be unconstitu-
tional because 1t delegated the legis-
lative powers to an appointive COM
mission and placed in that commits
sion discretion as to whether there
should be minimum wage.
Even the state cannot lawfully
become a 'pater familias' until the
form of government has been entire
ly changed" Judge Catlin declared
The second constitutional ground
on which the court based the decision
was the abridgement of the right OF
the individual to contract The Law
interferes with both the employe and
the employer, according to the court
The abridgement of contract was held
to be in violation OF the Fourteenth
amendment to the constitution Of the
United States
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
RECEIVE DITCH MONEY.
Cash From Bond Sale Received by
County Auditor George.

James L. George, county auditor,
has received $4,000 in cash secured
through the sale of judicial ditch
bonds. The money is for payment
of work done on drains Is, 16, II and
20. No. Is is located east of Red
Lake, Nos. Is and II in the north
ern part of the county and No. 20
north of No. IS.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
NO COUNCIL MEETING.
Only Four Aldermen Appeared at
Council Chambers Last Night.

There was no meeting of the Be
midi council last evening, only four
of the nine aldermen appearing at
the City hall. There was but little
business to come before the council
and only q few bills. The next meet
ing will be held Monday evening, De-
cember Z.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
william Wrenn Dead.

William Wrenn, who lives two and
a half miles northwest of this city,
on the Titus farm, died yesterday
noon, from dropsy. He leaves wife
and four children to mourn his
death. The funeral services will be
held Thanksgiving day from the
house. Interment will be made in
Greenwood cemetery
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
Two Make Final Proof.

Two final proofs were made before
Fred Rhoda, clerk of court, at the
court house this morning, being those
of Mathia Dotseth and Emile Than
essen. Both own 160-acre tracts in
the town of Shotley
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
Hold No School Session.

In observance of Thanksgiving
there will be no sessions in the Be-
midi public schools on Thursday or
Friday of this week. Being legal
holiday the banks will be closed and
the postoffice will observe Sunday
hours
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

A silver medal has been awarded
to Miss Phoeba Briggs, a Vassar col
lege student, by the Carnegie Hero
Fund commission for her bravery in
saving the lives of four classmates
from drowning in an icy lake
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

Mrs. E. R. Evans Sunday school
class, known as the Rosebud" will
entertain in honor of Miss Katherine
Richards, this evening at the home
of Mrs Evans.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

London, Nov. 24-Desperate fight.
ing in Russian Poland, but without
details as to the outcome, and a re-
sumption of similar activity in West
Flanders and other points in the west
ern battle line, are the outstanding
features In the two principal areas Of
military operations in Europe.
In Russian Poland the appearance
Of Russian reinforcements is postpon-
ing decision of the battle, according
to official advices from Berlin. The
German press, however, accounts the
battle In Russian Poland as virtually
won and already Is estimating the ef.
feet upon future military operations.
Vienna officially reports successes in
Russian Poland and the capture of 49,
900 Russian prisoners.
In Berlin it is said the outcome of
the main battle with the Russians may
decide not only that phase of the
many sided war, but the whole Eu-
ropean struggle. A decisive triumph
in the east, it is pointed out. will free
part of the German army engaged
there, enabling it to assist the forces
which are facing the British and Bel
CLANS in the west.
Little News From Front.
Upon what information the conf.
dent Berlin predictions were based
was not fully apparent. An early
German official statomant-said marely
that fighting in Poland continued, the
struggle going on to the south Of
Flock, in the vicinity Of Lodz and
near Geenstochau. Russia officially
admits that the Germans have won
partial successes, but there is nothing
from this source to show that the con-
tinued German advance toward War
saw is influencing the campaign to the
north, In East Prussia, or to the south,
near Cracow, Galicia.
In the west the fighting in Belgium,
which has been slow for several days,
has broken out with renewed ferocity
at Ypres, with the artillery playing
the main part. London observers
suggest that this may be the prelude
to another German attempt to pierce
the line. The town hall and central
market at Ypres have been destroyed
by artillery fire and other buildings
were set on fire. Ypres is in the CEN
ter of the allied line blocking the way
h.
English are hc'ding this position.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
Donate simplicity Incubator"

OUUdtc 0HP1ClIy HCQU0tU1'
The Indianapolis Corrugating COM
pany, of Indianapolis, Indiana, has
donated to the Northern Minnesota
Development association meeting at
Brainerd, December 1, 2, and 4, one
Simplicity Incubator" as premium
to the northern counties
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
EQUAL SUPER VISION
| IN RURAL SCHOOLS
Education Commission Says Country
Institutions Should Have as Com
petent Supervision as Cities.
CONSOLIDATION PLAN
Day of Only Alphabet and Multiplica.
ton Table Has Been Passed
Good Instructors Needed.

BY uniting the small districts, Of
ten feebly maintained, often poorly
equipped, sometimes wretched1y
taught, the rural schools may be put
on an even footing with the indie
pendent districts, is the conclusion
reached by the education commission
which is investigating educational
conditions in Minnesota.
This is strong endorsement of the
consolidated plan which is proving
SO successful here, and is constantly
recommended by W. B. Stewart.
county superintendent
They can do more than that They
can get not only Just as good build
ings for their purpose, pust as COM
petent teaching and just as adequate
equipment-they can also get just as
capable supervision.
Best Man Hired.
The city district hires the best man
lit can find for superintendent of
schools. The Independent district in
the village is just as careful about
hiring it's superintendent as in engag-
ing it's teachers. The rural district
has no supervision of it's own. 1t
depends solely upon the county super
int tot r0t
reach the individual district. Four
men can't cover more than seven
thousand districts for any effective
lday-to-day purpose.
The district that need supervision
! most gets it least. The schools that
have to rub along with inexperienced
teachers are visited once or twice
year by the county superintendent or
his assistant. They need great deal
of the help that a trained teacher
can give novice. They get almost
none
Must Have Qualifications.
The common school district, in
which all the country schools of
county will be united, will be able
to hire Just as good supervisors rs
Instead of the county superintend-
ent, who is usually fully capable but
may be primarily master of the art Of
getting votes, there will be the super
intendent chosen by the board, just
as the city superintendent is chosen
by the board of education in the in
dependent districts. He must have
knowledge, capacity and experience.
@.a Is Worth While.
When a cooperative creamery Is
started the farmers do not take turns
making butter. They hire the best
butter maker they can get. If the
common school education is as i'm
portant as the state seems to think
when it spends $14,000,000 a year
on it, nearly 100000 of that state
IuuUS anu SLdte tdAcS, IL Is dS we'll
, worth while to hire competent man
or woman for manager of the CO..
operative school district as for man
ager of the cooperative creamery.
Has Been Passed.
When school was a place where
children went to learn the alphabet
and the multiplication table, one
teacher was perhaps as good as an
other Our schools have outgrown
that Teaching is trade not less in
tricate than making creamery butter.
The city schools get the best teach
ers they can find and the best super
yisors they can hire. The country
schools are entitled to just as good
teaching and just as good supervi-
sion In the cooperative common
school districts they can get it.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

Photo by American Press Association
An increase in the number of cases
of tuberculosis among the troops in
the Philippines, believed to be direct
~ due to long term Of tropical serv-
ice, has again directed official atten-
tion to the recommendation of Gen
eral Thomas H. Barry, in command
of the Philippine division, that the
tour of duty in the Philippines be re-
duced to two years
The only objection that has found
weight against the shortening of the
terms is the extra expense involved
in transportation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
43 SURVIVE WRECK
american Press

Bolinas, Cal, Nov. 24.-Forty-
three survivors and fifteen dead from
the wrecked coasting steamer, Han
a'ei. which went ashore yesterday on
Duxbury reef, near here, have been
accounted for. OF the survivors.
thirty were toWed ashore by life lines
or struggled through the surf by
their own strength.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

Milwaukee industries are said to
be paying women less than living
wages.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

Pioneer want ads bring results.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

London, Nov. 24.-British war
ships have bombarded the German
positions at Lombaertzyde and Zee
brugge, Belgium, doing but little
damage. Land operations in Bel
GUM and Northern France are prac-
tically at a standstill. The French
report some progress in the Argonne
forest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24
GERMANS TO HACK
WAY THROUGH
ALLIED LINES
american Press)

Paris, Nov. 24.-Whiie vigorous
attacks upon the allies are being
made along the Aisne and in the Ar
gonnes region, heavy German REIN
forcements are moving through Bel
GUM to the west. It is accepted
here that another desperate attempt
will be made by the Kaiser's forces
to hack their way through the allied
lines, it about to be made.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-11-24

Petrograd, Nov. 24.-The German
forces engaged yesterday in a hot
battle about Lodz, have fallen back
twenty-five miles west of that point.
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Greenwood cemetery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
COURT OFFICIALS
RECTIFY ERROR
Presentation to British Monarch
Doesn't Confer Title 10 Sab.
sequent Invitation.

London, March 2s-A matter that the
court officials have felt ii necessary TO
impress upon foreigners presented 10 the
King and Queen is that the fact OF hay-
Ing been presented at court does not
carry all the privileges that are some
times suggested. Nobody who has not
been presented at court or levee can be
asked TO meet the King and Queen, but
the fact that they have been presented
does not mean that they will be invited
to meet their majesties on some other
occasion.
The presentation at courts or levees has
no further results than the appearance
Of the names OF the presented in the
following mornings papers. 1t confers
no privilege except that of entry-when
invited-to British Embassy abroad.
The suggestion that presentees are en-
titled TO receive ut least one invitation to
state ball, Of course. lacks any author
ity. The lists Of invitations for royal
functions are compiled from the book
containing the names of those presented
at court, but in the first place the Lord
Chamberlain makes out the lists and then
they are carefully scrutinzed by the
Queen. In the last reign King Edward
went over the lists, but King George has
left this task to his consort, so that
every name is carefully considered be-
fore it is passed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
GLOOMY DEAN" RAPS
u. BUSINESS MEN
DR.. Inge Thinks Inscriptions
Spectator the Product of
Protestant Asceticism.

London, March 2S.-Dr. William Ralph
Inge, dean of st. Paul's, whose sermons
and lectures on things modern have won
for him the sobrquet of the gloomy
dean" declares that Protestant ascetcsm
is responsible for that singular product Of
our civilization known as the modern
business man.
When one reflects that a man is conSti-
tutionally indoent, that his natural de-
sires are easily satisfied, and that unre-
hitting attention TO money making dis
qualities it's votary from enjoying the
finer pleasures of life, IT must be clear.
he said that nothing but queer sort OF
religious standardization could induce
many persons to choose the life which
the successful business man has to lead
When the money maker was an honest
merchant, subduing the earth and really
creating wealth to the public advant2 sc,
his work might be an instrument of val
liable moral discipline. But now that the
hnancier had dethroned the merchant;
now that wealth was appropriated rather
than created, the connection between re-
liglous austerity and business was almost
dissolved and there was the modifying
spectacle. so common in America. OF the
INSCRIPTIONS Spectator, who made his
home in his Office, while his wife squan-
dercd his i'll gotten millions i'm vulgar and
senseless oxtraya eance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
ALL FOOLS BALL
BY LONDON ARTISTS
Futurists Out-Futurized and Cub.
lists OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in
Weird Costume Effects.
IBy cable TO The Tribune. |

London, April 4.-The most picturesque
event OF the week i'm London was an All
FOOLS Day ball given by ST. Johns Wood
artists at the Covent Garden Opera
House. The futurists were out-futurized
and the cubists fourth imensoncd. for
never were so many curious, weird. gro
tesque and incxplicable costumes seen un-
der one roof. One man was partly
sheep and partly a fish. with dashes or
an Egyptian mummy and mail-clad
knight. A girl wore a sort of checkered
Pierrot costume. with thin plume at
least five feet high.
One couple had Aubrey Beardsley land
scapes oil their backs and little black
walnut shells for hats. Another woman's
dress drew Inspiration partly from Marie
de Medici and partly from the peacock.
Yet another was dressed as "A swan. the
effect being enhanced by an arman's
helmet A rubicund monk wore a halo,
inside Of which were bright blue cobwebs.
All IN ail. II was probably the most
Kaleidoscope and fantastic dance of the
whole year-in fact. absolutely the last
word in bizarre costumes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
SUFfRAGETTES IN FUNDS
Great Outpouring Likely at
Next General Election.

London. March 2s.-The suffragettes
have introduced a new phase into the
political situation by their determination
not only to support labor candidates but
10 finance them as well. There Is 10 De
a great outpouring of funds.
A well informed political writer says
There is no question of patriotism
suffragettes care nothing for empire.
They mean to have the vote. and they
are not likely TO shrink from financing
irresponsible individual candidates drawn
from labor when they pour chemicals
INTO letter boxes, burn country houses
and destroy masterpieces such as the
Velasquez Venus.
IAN illustrious statesman said that he
regarded the danger OF sunragette IN
reference in elections as greater peril
than any civil war in our Islands. Their
funds cannot be conhscated, for they are
lodged in Paris and Brussels; their re-
sources seem practically limitless. ana
now they would exercise power II they
ever acquire It may be diagnosed by the
means they are taking to obtain inc
vote"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
NEW TYPE SUBMARINE
To Have Watertight Compart :
ments and a Detacha BILE Keel.

London, April An the new subma-
rines which the Admiralty is building
and about which a great deal Of secrecy
is maintained departure has been made
for the first time in this country from
the Holland type. The 81, now building
at Greenock is of the laurent type.
Enormous precautions were taken to
screen her from the view of unauthorized
persons, but it is known that she is built
under license from an Italian company's
design. which is very favorably regarded
by the Admiralty.
The chief feature of II is the provision
Of watertight compartments when find
no rIace i'm the design OF previous British
submarines, and of a detachable Keel
weighing twelve tons, when can pe re-
leased by those OIL board should all re-
serve buoyancy be exhausted. Two other
vessels of the same design are now on
order and will be known AZ the 81 ana
the SO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
FLEAS AS FEVER AGENTS
Prevalence of Insect Identical
with That of Scarlet Fever

London, March 2S.-Suspicion has fall.
EN- upon the flea as responsible for scar.
let fever The public health department
OF London has tried since 1909 to obtai,
a detailed record OF the seasonal preva
renee OF heas In London. Last year ad
di'lohai Information was made available
by the examination of elementary schooi
children. The records show that the
curve OF fiea prevalence is almost
Identical with that of scarlet fever epA
denies
While no actual conclusions can be
drawn. II Is regarded as possibly posses
sing great significance