The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-02-12
AMENDMENTS
TO HIGHWAYS
Bill TO HELP
This COUNTY
Counties May Start on Babcock
Il Road and Be Repaid
BY the State -<.a.
LOOKS NORMAL SCHOOL
WILL GET APPRoP oPRIATION
New Normal Will Not Be
Rural Teachers School;
Idea Nipped
LOOKS NORMAL SCHOOL
WILL GET APPROPRIATION
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's st. Paul, Feb. 1.-THE Justly Gel
ebrated American bump Of humor
will save the Babcock plan OF hard
surfaced roads from going TO the
! innk pile. When the law archi-
tects who work on Capitol Hill
tackled { the propositions recently,
they were met with an epidemic OF
amendments. which were ~still cpl
demicking until al few days ago. II
the road wasn't slated to 60 through
= members town he promptly TOOK
a vote among himself and attempted
IL, sew; on an amendment which made
1t plain that his home burg was not
to get the worst Of IT. II the pro-
posed amendments were tackled on
tie original plan there would have
been nothing left of the state trea-
s,lry but the till, and the thing
finally became SO ridiculous that
members 4began to see the humor OF
1t. Az, q. result. the law sIlow stands
good chance Of escaping, the rash
of amendments that surely would
have killed it. s>3s .-.ls#s NJ .5s. ~ {:
New Routes Added. sss :
;sHowever some new routes per-
hapSs 8 DOZEN VIII be added. Those
st ahfargst Is. residents Of northern
Minnesota are: Deer River to Big
Falls, Bagley. to Red Lake Falls, and
Fergus Falls to Moorhead. H.
Another amendment added to the
bill provides that counties may start
work on routes at once, and the
state will refund them the money
later,N Under this provision Com
missioner Martin Widsten of War
road, who is in st. Paul, states that
he will lay plans at once for a good
gravel road from Roosevelt to War
road. zgs
The bill comes up in the senate
on. Thursday and in the house on
Friday, and while several fiery, un-
tanned long, distance takers will as
sauit. it with.gyerbal bullets 1t is
likely to get bss With life sized ma
4 Several bills to,,s.give land to the
soldiers. have been introduced and
while only one will become law there
will be no bad news for Beltrami Or
;Koochiching counties, regardless OF
which bill survives. It ought to add
greatly to the development of tle
northern garden spots. - r..
For Normal Uorm1tory. %s
{ From this distance 1t looks as If
iiBenlidji is about as nervous as a
plate of jelly on wobbly table re-
garding an appropriation for the
normal school, but we think there Is
little occasion to get ,overheated un-
der. the collar over the prospects.
It is, true that through mistake 1t
was not included in the budget sub
mitted by the governor, but the error
can be healed, and at this stage 1T
looks as il will be. Appropriations
are great things, especially when
they are procurrable, and we are
willing to bet that when Mr.. Rako
Sgets on the train bound for home at
! the end of the session he will have
/ the appropriation tucked away In one
of his inside pockets.
j = No "Rural" School.
Regarding the proposal of a form
! er state superintendent to sidetrack
: the Bemidji institution to rural
school academy, we may say that his
little scheme is more than likely to
run off the track, as very few OF the.
members are in favor Of It. How
ever It won't do a bit Of harm TO
manufacture some noise on the sub
ject Just to show the lads down here
that you are alive. With an even
break Bemidji can stake Minnesota
! to the best normal school in the state
in less than decade, and little
! campaign to let the legislators in
on the secret would not be out of
the way.
/ Fire Protection Bill. II
The proposal to do away with the
state forestry department and have
each township handle its own fire
protection is on the menu, bill hav-
ing been introduced with that end in
view. Frankly we think that such
a plan would be about as useful as
a Ford with all the. mileage extract
ed. Just take an astigmatic peep at
the manner in which township
boards handle the proposition of cut
ting noxious weeds and you will get
an idea. of how much fire protection
the lsettlers5would get underrt tl1e1 pro-
poseif 3aws II Messrs. aNord, 8Rako and
McPartfin got the attorneysg general
into q corner the other day to sub