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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11
THE VITAL PROBLEM OF
AGRICULTURE
BY Peter Radford.

There is no escaping the market
problem and the highest development
Of agriculture will not be attained
until it is solved, for market
Is as necessary for the producer
as land on which to grow his crop.
Governmental and educational insti.
tutions have spent $180,000,000 in the
United States during the past ten
years for improving soil production
and improving seeds and plants, but
very little attention and less money
has been given to the marketing side
Of agriculture.
The problem is a monumental one
and one which will never be solved
until it gets within the grasp of a
gigantic organization where master
minds can concentrate the combined
experience and wisdom of the age
upon it. It is problem which the
farmers, merchants, bankers, editors
and statesmen must unite in solving.
The Farmers Union stands for all
there is in farming from the most
scientific methods of seed selection to
the most systematic and profitable
plans of marketing, but does not be.
lieve in promoting one to the neglect
Of the other. We consider the work
of farm demonstrators valuable and
we ask that governmental and com.
mercial agencies seeking to help US,
continue to give us their assistance
and advice, but we believe that their
influence should be extended to the
marketing side of our farm problems
also.
We cannot hope to develop manu-
featuring by over-production of the
factory; we cannot build up mercan.
tile enterprises by the merchants load
Ing their shelves with surplus goods
and no more can we develop agricul.
ture by glutting the market with a
surplus of products.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11
Ere PORTS
U|[DERS OF
COMMERCE. n ::
CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE. THEM
PREFERENCE IN APPRo.
PRiATioNs. -
BY Peter Radford.

This nation Is now entering upon
an era of marine development. The
wreckage of European commerce has
lrifted to our shores and the world
war is making unprecedented de-
mands for the products of farm and
factory. In transportation facilities
On land we lead the world but our port
facilities are inadequate, and our flag
Is seldom seen in foreign ports. II
our government would only divert the
energy we have displayed in conquer
ing the railroads to mastering the
commerce of the sea, a foreign bot
tom would be unknown on the oceans
highways.
This article will be confined to a
discussion of our ports for the pro-
ducts of the farm must pass over our
wharfs before reaching the water. We
have in this nation 81 ports, Of which
IL are on the Atlantic and 10 are on
the Pacific Coast. The Sixty-second
Congress appropriated over $51,O0O,-
900 for improving our Rivers and
Harbors and private enterprise levies
4 toll of approximately $4,000, 900
annually in wharfage and charges for
which no tangible service is rendered.
The latter item should be lifted off
he backs of the farmer of this ma
ton and this can be done by Congress
directing it's appropriations to ports
hat are free where vessels can tie up
20 a wharf and discharge her cargo
free Of any fee or charge.
A free port is progress. 1t takes
out the unnecessary link in the chain
of transactions in commerce which
mas for centuries laid a heavy hand
upon commerce. No movement is so
heavily laden with results o" will
more widely and equally distribute
it's benefits as that of a free port
and none can be more easily and eff.
,ectively secured.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11
THEMISTOCL,ES


When Themistocles was asked by
his host at a dinner party to enter
tain the guests BY playing the lutte, he
replied that he could not play the
fiddle, but that he could make small
town great city We have in this
nation many politicians who are good
"fddlers," but they cannot make
small town great city. We are over
run with orators who can play upon
the passions Of the people, but they
can't put brick and mortar together.
We need builders -4..-
Let those who hunger and thirst for
power understand that the highest
glory of statesman is to construct,
and that it is better for man that he
should build a public highway than
that he should become Governor of
state, and that he start plow than
that he become the author Of a law.
The true test Of craftsmanship is the
plow and the hammer, so let those
who would govern. first build.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11
FreckI|e-Face.
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots.
How to Remove Easily.

Here's chance, Miss Freckle-face,;
to try a remedy for freckles with
the guarantee of reliable dealer
that it will not cost you a penny un-
less it removes the freckles; while
if it does give you a clear complex
ion the expense is trifling.
Simply get an ounce Of othine-
double strength-from any druggist
and few applications should show
you how easy it is to rid yourself of
the homely freckles and get beau
tiful complexion. Rarely is more
than one ounce needed for the worst
case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for
the double strength othine as this is
the preparation sold under guarantee
Of money back if it fails to remove
freckleS
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11

Sir H. H. Raphael, member of Par
lament, the only millionaire serving
in the ranks of the British army, has
been promoted from private to cor
pOral. 81 as* 49,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11

Results are Mvst Always certain
when you use q Pioneer want ad.
Ons-half cent 4 word. Phone 81.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11

Practically all British medical stu.
dents are serving in the Royal Army
Medical corps and every community is
short of registered DOCTORS
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-11
DARIUS

The neigh Of a horse made Darius
King of Persia, the six contending
powers for the throne agreeing among
themselves that the one whose horse
should neigh first should possess the
kingdom. This ancient method of
settling disputes among politicians
could be revived with profit today:
If our partisan factions and petty pol.
iticians could only settle their dis.
putes by the neigh Of horse, the
bark of dog or the bray of donkey,
it would be great blessing and would
give our citizens better opportunity
to- pursue the vocations of industry
free from political strife. ..z
Let those who pick political plums
by raising rows and who flash swords
dripping in the blood of industry un.
derstand that they cannot turn the
public forum into a political arena and
by a clash of personal aspirations
still the hammer and stop the plow
and that their quarrels must be settled
In the back alleys of civilization.
The Pioneer is the place to buy
your rolls of adding machine paper
for Burroughs adding machines. One
roll, dozen rolls or hundred rolls
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
SPECTATORS ARE DRAWN TO THE
HEIGHTS gF MeSTMARTIE TO
WATCH DARTIEG GUARDIANS OF
THE NIGHT ON LOOKOUT FOR
GERMAN IECEyDI4RIES-Ay IN.
TERFsTTNG FEATTRE OF THE
WAR THERE.
fET Associated PyeEE. J

PARIS, July z7.-Nigat scouts Of the
aviation corps draw z2azy spectators
10 ths heights Of Mont-aartre. VITO lin
ger there 10 2 late hour watching
them cart across the aky of Paris Ike
giant fraflas. Among thsse are men
WHO watch The lights Of tie Eowz iu
stead Of tt.s lights vt TIE SKY. &nd ~ao
caz De seen carefully inspecting tae
holsatqps and raansage.s WITH field
gaassas. They arr detectives aookang
out tor night signals Every Light
where there SHOULD DE- no Light ia
promptly run cow liz hundreds o.
cases II has tprn9d out thai the rgl1
against Lights visible from the exterao,
La teen 1ntl2hged tbnoagb heeeleas
aaas Or ignorance Five cases d
really suspicious lights nave oeen dls,
covered Thus far, &ad thear authors
arrested aud properly dealt with
TINS il ouly oae q the responsible.
t4ss devoiYlng upon tbs police during
gue war IN ADDITION to 5he maintenance
Of ordas and tne chase Vi ordinary
criminals. They nust tufn out tbs
street gas lamps and warn the inhaQ
6tanGs when tAe approach vi Germah
asroplanes 81 Heppehna Is announced
occasionally Detng Obliged 10 ciimO
tour Or five flights of stairs IL re
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
GERMAN SOLDIERS
PENSIONS INCREASE
(By Associated Press.

BERLIN, July 2G.-More faz- rwa9e
as many soldiers families liz BeyI 81.
are receiving public support today .1t.s-a
in August, the number being 1860.
against $3.50 in August The BIKE
paid out, however, had almost cGs.d-
rupled. 1t was 1925 900 in Jare. eo.,,-
pared with $4,000 in the frs. -a91t+
of the war. In addition to this. s275 20
900 was paid out for rent allowances.
a sum nearly double that paid in
March, and almost so per cent naore
than the May allowances. A total OF
$9,940,00 has been paid out since the
beginning of the war for the care Of
the families left behind.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
SCOUTS LOOKING FOR NIGHT SIGNALS
A FEATURE OF INTEREST IN PARIS

monstrate with some tenant who is
unaware that light shines down from
his windows into the streets.
A considerable number of the plain
clothes men" are detailed to watch ey-
erywhere for people spreading exag-
gerated and harmful reports regard
ing military operations. It is danger
Gus TO be too pessimistic in public.
The man who is talking never knows
whether the person seated beside him
In the tramcar, the subway or the
cafe, is the civilian he appears to be.
Or a secret service man. 1t is as diff
hcult TO get anything out of him as it
In 70 recognize him, the model French
detective being closer than the oyster.
They are sometimes seen taking into
custody loud mouthed amateur strate-
gtsts, and frequently the guilty man
proves TO be a person subject to mill
tary service who has lodged his duty
Beigians sometimes as well as French.
Until recently the "apaches," the
street ruffians Of Paris, had been little
heard OF since the mobilization. Those
WAC we're neither banished or sent to
ths front seem 10 have been succeed
~ w q younger but quite ag promising
generation of oig.bt prowlers. FIRE.
Nuent pitched battles with kniyeg and
seFoifefs 40 ahe quarters IF Mont.
aftce most troquanted by sals class
nave made il neoessaFy tor Ghe police
" tahe special measures aaa many
'aids have oeen made upon suspicious
resorts
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
VETERAN ODD FEL-
LOW GIVES RULES

In the Interesting People" depart
ment o fthe August American Maya
zine apepars an article about Henry n
SWanback, the Oldest Odd Fellow in
America, who lives at the age OF 100 at
Greenwood, Nebraska. Mr.. Swanback
was a boyhood friend of Bismarck,s
His grandfather lived to be 1T. Fol.
lowing are his rules for living to be
100:
Go to bed early and get up early.
Never sleep in heated room.
Keep fresh air in the sleeping room
sleep out of doors in summer
winter. too if it can be arranged.
Drink plenty of fresh water.
Use very little red liquor.
AS old age comes on take, each
morning, small wine glass of one
third glycerin and two-thirds good
whiskey.
Smoke as often as you please, but
do not insale the smoke or blow it out
through the nostrils.
IF you are unfortunate enough to
lose your wife, get another. 1t is not
good for man or woman to live alone.
Don't worry over anything Worry
| kills more people than disease.
Keep an even temper at all times.
| Be cheerful at all times.
Keep the feet dry and the head
| COOL
Never eat meat. A little chicken
will not harm one, but must mo- noe
eaten too often. "
Eat plenty of fresh fish.
DO not drink coffee
Keep away from sweet stuff. It
ruins the stomach and kidneys
"Take plenty of outdoor exercise
Walk a great deal
Follow these rules, and any normal
man, barring accidents, can live to be
one hundred"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
$4,000 In ColdCash Is
Added To Conscience
Fund; Total 100000

WASHINGTON, D, c., July 27-Ter
thousand dollars in currency the sec
ond largest contribution to the cons
cience fund ever received by the gov
eminent arrived at the treasury de-
partment a day or two ago in a plain
envelope mailed at New York, accom-
panied by an unsigned letter saying:
The sender has paid double to the
United States the amount he stole and
still conscience is not satisfied. Here
is another payment"
The package contained three one
thousand dollar gold certificates, eight
five hundred dollar certificates and
thirty one hundred dollar silver ant
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
Odd Bits OF
News

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 81 H.
5. Bond, chemist of Wilmington, Del.
mas perfected an invention whereby
carbonic acid gas is purified by chem
lcal substances. 1t is thought the in.
vention will increase the practicability
of submarines. Bond remained in an
air tight compartment more than sew
EN- hours, although under ordinary
circumstances a man could not have
stayed in the compartment more thar
three hours.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27

| KfIDEN, TEN, July 81. VIVA
is thought to have been female tur-
tie with brood of young ones, at.
tackled the three-year-ol daughter OF
Deputy Sheriff Ed Fuller, of Ralston
when the child became caught be-
meath gate. She received seven ugly
wounds on her hands and legs, and the
turtle was swapping at her vigorously
when help arrived.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
Watch Your Children

Often children do not let parents know
they are constipated. They fear some
thing distasteful. They viii like RexaIl
Orderlies-a mild laxative that tastes
like sugar. Sold only by us, 10 cents
Murray's Pharmacy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
u'3iisssli Examination for Fssrsse g
teachers.

N"s'1e ia hefepy gffeB that the
genera ez&@apaa&op tor teachers for
Seh'te' r9pasy will ge held Friday
''t'e Sss,sf8ay July S9fh sud alsf. Tho
e@saf's4ts&a24 tpy tAs whites will b.
a@aFf ~ so 3ts@s In Tbs court house;
ssf ~ g2s @gtefed Mt the Mckay
ass&'e $e}sa@t building. Examination
Wiz s9ss vi . O'Clock All those dc.
s7'fag ~ t4a1a IN the county will be
fs99ats9 70 taks the examination.
". 4. MOORE, G. $. s.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
'CERMANYS
.NEED IS COTTON;
WELL SUPPLIED.
WITH FOODSTUFF.
{By Associated Press.)

PARIS. July 27--A correspondent
who has just returned from trip
through Germany gives a f1eeting i'm
nression of what he saw in Berlin be-
tween the time of his arrival and de-
parture for Frankfort He noticed
that there were no longer any motor
omnibuses and yer view motor cars.
but the reason in Germany is not that
the vehicles are needed by the army
so much as to lack of petrol. 1t is on
| ly by favor that a few civilians can
obtain permission to use their motor
cars. and benzine is parsimoniously
served out at the town depot at the
| price of 20 cents quart. There were
many soldiers, but also large numbers
of young and lusty civilians,
At a restaurant, the correspondent
sat beside a talkative individual who
soon, in the German fashion, offered
his visiting card. which showed that
he was no less important a person
than the director of the Cologne bank.
The banker remarked: Lately things
have been going better and better. In
another fortnight we shall have white
bread again. Hindenhurg is no fool!
We took quantities Of grain at Lihau
| l declare. We have bought potatoes
Now one hundredweight costs Sl.75,
but it will shortly be down to rs cents
The harvest, too, is excellent
But I am positivist and detest
decisions. The women and children
have given themselves up to work
Everybody has been in the fields. We
set the Russian prisoners TO work
there, as We can do what we like with
them. They are not like the British
and French, who remain untractabie.
Whatever may be said. DO not BE-
lieve that our soil is equal to produc,
ing all We need. The English have
bothered US a great deal but thai1
blockade is lot so terrible as il seems
What would you think if I were to tel
you that Russian capitalists have sup
piled US with barley and wheat /
came through Sweden The farryboa
between Trelleborg and saEshitz Ia
never ceased carrying over Who'll
trainloads. And do you believe that Al
the sailing ships that leave Califor1i:
and Oregon 60 to the port TO whic.
they are chartered?
When the war broke out there wert
100000 bags of Brazilian coffee =
|
Hamburg and 100000 bags at Bre
i men. They have not been touched VI
are not short of anything, and are no
waiting till We have to lay in stores
We want cotton and plenty of it, Il
manufacture our guncotton, and L
charge the torpedoes with which on
submarines avenge the insults of Eng
land, and so the kommondanturs haT
issued orders that everyone is TO tax
them all the rags and scraps Of cottG.
and let them know if there is more 4
be had"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27

P.TISEURG, Kas., July 81 Beer
kegs are helping to save the wheat
crop in Cherokee county. M. II. Snod-
grass, a farmer living near Columbus
conceived the idea of using the kegs
for wheels for binders, which prevent
the miring of the machines In muddy
fields. The county attorney has ap-
proved the idea of giving kegs taken in
blind tiger raids to the farmers for
the purpose.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27

gold notes.
Treasury officials found nothing in
the letter or the amount to indicate
a connection with any of the govern
ment's losses by fraud or theft, so they
placed it with 100000 more wrich
has accumulated in the treasury
vaults from conscience stricken per-
sons who have sent sums ranging
from one cent to s1S,669. The larges;
sum ever received came in 1909, prob
ably from some one who had perpe.
trated a customs fraud.
The $10,000 package came address
to Secretary McAdoo and marked
personal"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27

Bridgeport, Pa, July 27.-Drey-
full Bonham, while blowing in a field,
caught an iron chain attached to a can
containing 318 half dollars. The dates
ON the coins indicated that they had
been buried many years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
Romance Still ALiue
Despite Kaiser;s War

blance to her step-mother, has all of
her fathers industry and energy. On
many occasions she has made public
speeches in various parts of the coun-
tries, her subjects ranging from Home
Rule to Servants insurance. She
speaks very clearly and with consid-
cradle eloquent fervor. Like her faith
er, she learns languages with great
facility and speaks most of the Euro
pean tongues we'll. Since the decla-
ration of war she has given up all her
time to various works of wartime
charity. When her brother Arthur
was wounded in the Dardanelles she
Immediately went to Cairo to nurse
him, returning to her charitable work
as soon as he was out of danger. While
in Egypt she organized a branch there
of the Royal Naval Medical Informa-
ton Bureau, through which informa
ton regarding wounded men can be
sent home to relatives and friends ia
England, Canada or Australia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27

GRAND RAJ IDS, Mich, July q.
Mrs Rachel McMullen has left $500
to be used in the education of her
grandson, if he refrains from playing
football. Should he decide in favor of
the game the money is to revert to the
estate.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27
Sen<1CQ. Dyspepsia
Tablets

will relieve your indigestion. Many
people in this town have used them
and we have yet to hear of case where
they have failed. We know the for
nula. Sold only by us-25c box.
Murray's Pharmacy. ' ffs
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-07-27

LONDON, July 27.-As evidence that
romance is not to be diverted even by
the grave affairs of the political world
in war time, there comes the an
nouneement that Miss Violet Asquith,
daughter of the premier, is to marry
her fathers private secretary, Mr..
Bonham-Carter.
The official bulletin" states the
fact in the following terms: "A mar
riage has been arranged and will
shortly take place between Maurice
Bonham-Carter and Violet. elder
daughter Of the Prime Minister"
Miss AsQuith is Is years Old; Mr..
Bonham-Carter is IS. He has been
with Mr.. Asquith for eight years, and
has made himself generally popular
with his employers friends and associ-
ates. He is a graduate OF oxford,
where he distin guished himself equal
~ al cricket and in scholarship.
Miss Asqufth, who on physical ap-
pearanee bears 2 remarkable resem-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-21

will continue to carry a large line OF
ladies ready to wear and all the latest
in millinery and dress goods, and with
their large store in Columbia, can give
the ladies anything they may want and
at prices that are right.
Miss Julia Kibler, daughter OF Dr.
and Mrs. J. NJ. Kibler of Newberry,
who is teaching in the graded schools
Of Bamberg, had the misfortune to lose
her entire wardrobe by fire one day
last week. In some manner fire orig
mated in the closet and before it could
be controlled by the bucket brigade the
entire wardrobe was either burned or
badly damaged by fire.
Mr.. F. NJ. Lindsay received a mes
sage Monday afternoon conveying the
sad intelligence that mis- sister, Mrs. A,
J Walling of Pinopolis, who has beer
very i'll for some time, had passed
away that morning at 2:30 O'Clock
Mrs Walling was IS years of age and
the only surviving member of the fam
ilv is Mr.. Lindsay. MIR. Lindsay has
the sympathy Of the entire community.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-21
HarmanR~Adams.

An event of much interest to their
many friends was the surprise mar
rags on December 18th of Miss Y
Genia Hartmann of Prosperity and Mr,
w. P. Adams of Greenville. The mar
rage took place in Columbia. Soon
after marriage the couple went South
on their wedding trip. They will re-
turn to make their home in GreenTlle,
S. c., Mr. Adams being connected with
Meyers, Arnold Co., Of that city. The
bride has been a resident Of Prosper
ity from childnaad and enjoys an unus-
ual popularity both in her home town
and throughout the state. GreenVille
is to be congratulated upon having her
as its resident.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-21
0'Neail School.

DIR. Geo Y. Hunter, By invitation o.
the Rural improvement association
will make an address at o'Nean school
house Thursday night, December 2o'
at 7:3O. He will speak along lines
Of rural improvement and will lay spe-
cial stress upon the need of and benens
to be derived from the community 1alr
to be held next fall at Prosperity. The
doctor always has something practlcai
to say and those who remain at nome
will miss a rare treat.
Also bear in mind the "Old Malu
Auction
The Rural Improvement Association.