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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07
WILSON BETTER TODAY.

President Wilson's condition con-
tinued to show improvement today.
but Rear Admiral Grayson ordered
him to remain In bed. He Is able to
voice his opinions at the peace con-
ference through Colonel House who
is acting as his representative.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07
BEMIDJI TO HAVE BABY
CLINIC: 16 PROMISE AID

During the next month. the date
has not been definitely decided. Be
1nidji is going to have a baby clinic.
and a doctor and two nurses Of the
state health department are to be in
attendance At the meeting of the
Bemidji Women s Community and
Civic club Saturday afternoon is
women volunteered to assist In max
ing the clinic a success
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07
CHIMNEY FIRE THIS MORNING.

At $50 this morning the fire de-
partment was called to the Sandland
home in consequence Of a chimney
fire. No damage resulted from the
blaze
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07

Mrs. w. Rundell, who has been the
guest Of her daughter. Mrs. J. w.
Diedrich for the past two weeks, re-
turned to her home at Glendon to-
day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07
BAKER SAILS FOR FRANCE.

New York, April 7.-Secretary Of
War Baker sailed for France at noon
today
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07

Bemidji Is to be visited by ar
American "whippet" tank, recently
returned from the battle fields Of Eu
rope, April II, the fighting machpc
being sent here in the interest Of the
victory loan.
The tank pictured above is 6 feet
long, has maximum speed of 2
miles an hour and can travel almos'
impossible trails. It can climb hills
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-04-07

90 headfrst over cliffs and can wade
slough like a duck.
Earl W. Byer, who has been named
by w. l.. Brooks, chairman Of the
loan drive in Bcltrami county, to
complete arrangements for a street
parade while the. tank is in Bemidji,
is working out details for the event
and expects that a number Of fea-
lures wifi be included
Evening star., 1919-07-14
GOV. L0WDEN URGED ON
! c. 0.P. FOR PRESIDENCY

Gov. Frank o. Lowden of Illinois,
as the favorite son of the middle
west" is proposed for the republican
presidential nomination by Frank L.
Smith. chairman OF the Illinois re-
publican state central committee.
The middle west" says Mr.. Smith
in a statement. may not have as
many ambitious. financial or social.
as the east: it may not have as many
dreams. or Nightmares. as the west.
But it has decision and is practical l.
and heaven knows the Mexican situa-
ton needs decisive and practical
treatment. 1t has Americanism. and
our foreign affairs will not be hurt
by an infection of that. 1t has horse
sense in getting things done. and
while the application of horse sense
to the affairs of the government
might seem rank innovation. 1
don't believe the country would suffer
from the treatment. These things are
the birthright of the men of the mid
die west who come to count. and we
offer them to the republican party and
to the country in Gov. Lowden. Also
we invite the republican leaders and
the people in general to fare as far
as they please and see if they can
fare better
THE middle west has already talked
candidates, and we have agreed upon
one-Gov. Frank o. Lowden. We offer
him to the party, not as mere
'favorte son. but as man big enough
for the job. And we invite attention to
his record to prove our claim Gov.
Lowden has worked for his living, and
is governor of great state: he is a
la wyer and he knows business affairs:
he has sat in Congress, and he runs
a farm. Because he is of the middle
west he is inspired by the unfrilled
Americanism Of the Mississippi valley
and has absorbed its common sense.
Born in Minnesota. brought up and
educated in Iowa. and now Governor of
Illinois. he is of a section of the
country where a man has to make good
on his own hook before he counts-and
Coz LoXden counts"
Evening star., 1919-07-14
BUSINESS CHANCE
WANTED FOR ROADS
Judge lovett Asks Congress
for Sound Solution of
Rail Problem.
OPPOSES STATE BOARDS

Suggestions to members of Congress
problem" by Robert S. Love.t. former
president of the Union Pacific rail-
road system, formerly head OF the
division of capital expenditures OF
the United States Railroad Adminlstra-
fundamental principle the necessity Of
legislation that will give ra,lroad
capital "a business chance"
IF Congress will enact the neces-
sary laws giving railroad capital a
business chance" declared Judge
take business risk and the money
required to provide the requisite
railroad facilities for the future will
be forthcoming
Four Contingencies.
The head Of the Union Pacific de-
clares that. in his opinion. the coun-
try is confronted with four contingent
cies: Inadequate and poor service.
guaranty of a reasonable return upon
railroad capital. or reasonable rate
fixing by a government agency. the
latter providing Consideration of the
needs of the traffic and the carrier,
with the right of each carrier to keep
rates SO established. by good man
agement, good service. economy. wise
investment and success in competing
for business
Regarding rate-making. Judge Low
EFT maintains that the regulation pro-
vided by Congress should require
that the rates, be sufficient to enable
the carriers to provide the requisite
service and facilities, protect existing
investments and provide the new cap
ital necessary in the public interest"
as advocated by the committee of
railroad executives and submitted to
the Senate committee on interstate
and foreign commerce.
Judge Lovett, likewise. favorS five
other features of the railroad com
mittee's report as being remedial and
wise as a national railroad policy;
namely. compulsory federal incorpor-
alton. exclusive federal regulation of
securities and rates, the creation of
a department of transportation in the
Presidents cabinet the head of which
would have power ito act quickly
and deal with emergencies" and mod
if1cation of restrictions upon railroad
consultations and provision for the
merging of lines when in the public
interest.
Evening star., 1919-07-14
B0OMS SENATOR JOHNSON
FOR G. 0. P. NOMINATION
San Francisco Chronicle Declares
He Is "The One Man This
Nation Needs"

The San Francisco Chronicle has
launched the boom Of United States
Senator Hiram W. johnson Of California
for the republican presidential nomina-
ton. 1t says: In this period OF up
heaval Of the world Senator johnson is
the one man whom this nation needs.
He is the great American. The mantle
OF an lliustrlouS predecessor has de-
Scended upon him and he prophesies.
he warns his countrymen that the one
great duty which this nation owes to
the world today is to keep itself sane:
to keep itself solvent: to keep alive here
the ideals which have made this coun-
try not merely the refuge of the op-
pressed but the home of independent
citizenship based on individual char
acter: where each is free to develop all
that is in him, with no questions asked
as to family or origin; where opportunity
is equal so far as human foresight can
make 1t 50: where the people make the
laws and obey the laws; where comfort
Is found in the home of every indus
trious and self respecting family: where
life is made worth living and all are
equal before the law.
I'VE shall best serve the world by re-
manning American. helpful to all. so far
as may be possible. but interfering with
none. That is the Americanism for
which Hiram johnson stands. and the
fact that he is the most forceful Ameri-
can now living. in the prime of life and
yet with rich experience behind him.
indehbly marks him, regardless Of any
previous difference whatever, as the one
supreme personality around whom all
loyal Americans should rally in behalf
Of a sane and virile Americanism as op-
posed to a mawkish and unstable inter
nationalism.'
Evening star., 1919-07-14
Federal Incorporation

Judge Lovett says he favors COM
pulsory federal Incorporation. because
then the railroads would cease to be
mere creatures Of the states" and
cease to be tiled hand and foot when
it comes to the issue and sale of
stocks and bonds" a restriction that
too often threw them back upon
short term borrowing, with dangerous
and often unfortunate consequences"
Exclusive federal regulation of the
issue Of railroad securities. says
Judge Lovett, is SO vital to railroad
credit and to the success of any sys-
ed that 'it must not be overlooked" :"
Federal regulation of freight and
passenger rates. also, he thinks I'M
perative because Of the notorious"
discrimination by many state railroad
commissions in favor Of their own
citizens against citizens of other
states.
Establishment Of department of
transportation. with a secretary in
the Presidents cabinet, is emphasized
as needfuI for the reason that the
railroad business. "the largest single
industry in the United States next to
agriculture" is unrepresented in the
government and without and friend
Lovett says, would be able TO meet
emergencies resulting from excep-
tional congestion in traffic or through
blockades in transportation by quick
ly mobilizing the nations transporta-
tion resources and by the arbitrary
diversion. if need be, of traffic from
lines which cannot handle it to lines
which can and by other instant and
heroic methods"
Evening star., 1919-07-14
BERNSTORFF ADVOCATES
PRO-AMERlCAN POLICY
Advises Germans That They Must
Convince United States Of
Good Intentions.

BERLIN, July 13 Cby the Associated
Pre,s)-Count Won Bernstorff, for
mer German ambassador at Washing
ton, writing in the Weekly Demo-
cratic Germany, advocates pro-
American policy and points out that
a revision of the treaty OF peace can
come only through the league Of na-
when Germany is received into the
league" he says. she can hope for q
world order checking imperialism by
individual powers and bringing about
q system binding peoples together
across the frontiers OF states.
hardly need to point out that such .
policy would lead us to the side Of the
United States. There tho idea of q
league Of nations Is a living one.
There alone are funds to be found.
and there the principal champion Of
the league idea will be At the helm
for another twenty months"
Count Won Bernstorn says that So
cialism 10 unpopular in tho United
States and therefore. II Germans wish
to cultivate friendly relations with
that country. they must convince
Americans not only that militarism 10
dead, but that now Germany has no
intention OF fostering a socialist world
revolution.
Evening star., 1919-07-14
Takes an Advanced Stand on
Issues Pertinent to Labor
Council of Protestant Church Declares State
Should Secure to Worker Income Sufficient for
Family at Standard Community Can Approve

NEW YORK. July 1.-THE Protes-
tant Church of this country. repre-
sented in the Federal Council of the
Church Of Christ in America.
issued a declaration that the state
should attempt to secure to the work
er an income sufficient to maintain
his family at standard of living
which the community can approve
This was part of a pronouncement
on the attitude of the church toward
social reconstruction which was
drawn up by the commission on the
eral Council. The Federal Council is
a congress of thirty leading Christian
bodies for united action.
For Share in Control.
The statement asserts that "it is a
false idea that the churches are only
concerned with religious. educational
and charitable enterprises. They are.
or should be. vitality concerned with
civic. economic and other social in
terests."
Rights of workingmen to share in
the control of industries are set forth
in this statement at length. We have
come upon times when people arc not
submissive to injustice or to unnec-
essary privation and suffering" de-
clares the church commission. They
are deeply and justly in earnest. If
those who are the actual Industrial,
political and social leaders of the ma
ton will not act upon the principle
that the greatest shall be the servant
of all then the people themselves, with
indignation and bitterness. are sure
TO take their destiny and that of the
Evening star., 1919-07-14

ductione. even when accompanied by
reduced hours OF work. should receive
moral support from the community
except where the demand is clearly
unreasonable. Wage levels must be
high enough to maintain a standard
of living worthy OF responsible free
citizenship in a damocracy
Wage Adjustment tc Conditions.
Actual wages-that is, wages reck-
oned in power to purchase commodi-
ties. have been decreasing for several
years in spite of wage increases
There is urgent need of provision by
industry under the guidance of the
government for some regular method
of adjustment of wages and salaries
to the purchasing power OF money.
High wages are desirable as gem
eral principle" Employers who Justify
low wages or wage reductions should
open their books and submit their
figures to public scrutiny, adds the
comm ission.
To provide employment the COM
mission advocates that a nation W ide
employment service be maintained
and suggests adoption OF policy Of
public works and land settlement. a
guarded extension of opportunities
for social insurance to cover unem-
ployment due TO industrial conditions
or Ill health. and the rehabilitatiOn OK
industrial cripples under the direc-
tion of the state and at the expense
OF industry. a general policy of ro-
cational training is approved.
Concerning the payment Of the
war debt. il is pointed out that pow
erful Influences are organized to
shift the burdens of this debt on the
public, while the public itself is un-
organized and practically unable to
protect itself" A revolt. the com
mission says. already has taken place
against the policy OF levying direct
taxes upon minor luxurics of the
people. Resolute use, II adds, should
be of the graduated income and in
heritance taxes as "a just method for
placing the heavier burdens upon
those most able to bear them
The church asserts that il stands
for living wage for industrial won-
en- and equal pay for equal work 1t
urges persons having free capital to
invest IL in homes for workers. II
points to the need of community cen
ters to replace the saloon. and de
clares that churches should be open
seven days in the week
Evening star., 1919-07-14

Tho municipal administration Of
Flensburg. Schleswig. has planned to
distribute . leadet On the coming ple-,
biseite end gather the answerS Of a.
poDula15o1
Evening star., 1919-07-14

world into their own hands.
Glass consciousness and the use or
violence are not confined to the revo-
lutionary groups. The possession of
wealth and education tend to the for
nation of classes and industrial own
ership and management to 4 class con
scious ruling group. We observe the
dangerous tendency of many state and
municipal officials to deny fair hear
ings to radical offenders and to use
unnecessary and provocative brutality
during strikes.
legislatures. judges and officials
should act firmly but justly. without
buster and with unnecessary vio-
lencc.
''W orkingmen believe that they do
not get an equal chance before the
law. and it is highly important that
whatever real basis there is for this
conviction should be removed.
Living Wage First Charge.
"A deep cause of unrest in industry
is the denial to labor of a share
in industrial management Laborers
must be recognized as being entitled
to as much consideration as employers
and their rights must be equally safe
guarded. This may be accomplished
by assuring the workers as rapidly
as il can he done with due conside dera-
ton to conditions fair share in con-
troll: by opportunity for ownership
with corresponding representation. or
by a com bination of ownership and
control in cooperative production.
The living wage should be made
the first charge upon industry before
dividends are considered. The re-
siStance OF labor. to general wage re-
Evening star., 1919-07-14

Cool ana inviting ve1aada at Ward
man Park Hotel fs delightful and
charming for luncheon partes.-Ad-
vertiSement.
Evening star., 1919-07-14

British merchant shipping sunk by
the Germans during the war is Of
ficially estimated at 2,197 vessels. hav-
ffg an aggregate tonnage Of 7.63S.020
Evening star., 1919-07-14
Rescue From State Agencies.

"Our railroad transportation sys-
tenn" observed Judge Lovett, which
is essentially national, should be res
cued from the irresponsible and con-
f1icting state agencies, and brought
under uniform control and regulation
in the national interest, except as to
strictly local matters.
Without government ownership or
operation the only reliance for rail-
road revenue to support railroad
credit must be upon the adoption by
Congress of a sound railroad policy
involving absolute justice to railroad
capital and requiring specifically and
plainly that the rates to be fixed
shall be sufi1cient to enable the car
riers to provide safe and adequate
service. to protect existing values and
to attract the new capital necessary
in the public interest"
Railroad investors, according to
Judge Lovett, are deserving as much
of encouragement, liberal treatment
and appreciation as stockholders in
other enterprises with no public in
terest involved"
mo money except that devoted
purely to benevolence is employed
more in the public interest or Is en-
titled to more encouragement or fair
er treatment and consideration than
that which is invested in the con-
struction and development Of railroad
facilities" declared Judge Lovett,
who added that "it is about time that
we were introducing common sense
into some of our theories about rail-
road capital"
Evening star., 1919-07-14

d.l,at.aseomparedwithsu,ighS
Turkish cigarettes. Fatimas en-.
able them to smoke without any
worry as to TOO many.
Do you suppose Fatimssmi8
be an improvement over your
present cigarette on this question
OF How much Turkish?"
Evening star., 1919-07-14
<.Just enough Turkish''

NEWPORT, In otherwords, has
~ found the answer to ~How
much Turkish?"-the same an.
swer as that shown by Fatima's
leadership PalmB Beach, Atlantic
City and French Lick.
These smokers like Fatima's
taste and-more important-they
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-02-05
HOOVER,S POLICIES
DETERMINED BY THE
PACKERS, NOW CLAIMED

Washington. Feb 81 Edward G.
lasatcr. former chief NJ the livestock
and markets division of tho food ad-
mlnlstrHtion, continued his attack on
the food administration today before
the house interstate commerce com.
mittec, asserting that the policies Of
Administrator Hoover hnd been de-
termiued Tor him hy tho five lcndirs
meat packers Vud carried OUT hy cin-
plnscs ~ the packers serving TIE gov
cTnmrut fur dollar u year
when Mf Hoover took the OFFICE
he assumed the responsibility OF rep'
rescntng uli Interests" Mr. i.aratrf
suid. "hut he never did he protected
tho milling interests the parking ih
tcrosts aud The compound feed inter
eats. but hr disregardtd entirely the
Interests uf the producer nnd the con
sumer n would hc difficult 20 sHt-
mnte how much the country has lnai
as "a result
Nh lasnicr said Mr. Hoover told
him shortly after tahng office that
he would not invite "a ainHlc pnrkft
10 Hit ut his counsel table hrruuN
every one ni them had trputatigr
which skunk tu heaven"
hut within three weeks from thH
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-02-05
ItaIy's Debt Now
Over IL Billions

Rome. lUN. H. lthlNH nNiNN''
debit nov is munn than gt2 100000.
600. declared lNri iuyzntti, former
premier und l,liiug Italian unnuo
im AUTHORITY BOO statement TODAY,
urgug UuHnglI HId to luN. iir Hiu
that whom u,na0ur and other urrrs.
mry expenses Iiu been paid tho uH.
uoupl d,nt probably would total So.
900 .0OO. 600
Italy. I Hm Hi 90 nN leads mo
whole world u tho relative height lt
itH war drUf' hr suid "suhsirHDinr
ituy's Inss,H u mrn and mono, h,f
national wealth iH only uhnut 34n.-
600 900. o. 900 the war loans ui tho
entente shouII Boo thrown toguth,r %
ono consolidated sum, Italy and
Franco. Whose efforts unl lusHrs in
mon ana sHIHuurr have been ih,
greatest. NIII up compensated hS bear
nR a smaller rrppurilon of the wti
loit
Tho tutrd HHtos and Great Brit
um aro moi uuly strong but rencroul
ANA thoy wIll acknowledge that ituh
and France. iHg Two principal r,u
trrH of truttniu slaughter nnd de,HH
tauon, shmli Doc supported nulue
ially therefore. With corresponding
greater help
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-02-05
OF This Number, 2,OO4,o35 Officers
and Enlisted Men Were Either
in France or on Route, on No.
vember IL.
ALLIED STRENGTH GREATER
THAN HUNS AFTER JULY 1
On November 1, Entente Rifle
Power Was 1885 as
Against 100000 German Sol.
diers.

Washington. Foh Tho total
strength ~ tho United States army on
November ~. whom thu ufmlHtre waH
signed and when tho American wur
effort was 90 uH peak. waa 3.50a,gI3
ufnttr4 aud Wsn. Including thc marine
CnfuH un du' with tho army iu Eu-
tupD. s statistical table uihdu uuhH,
today hN The vu department gives
this inquire.
Included boz thr tublo Is compare
tive statement of tho strength uf ul-
lied and Gofmnu forces an the west
ofu front hN months. beginning April
a. 1915. showing that un July I Tor
tho nfst time fho allied rifle
strength" exceeded that Of the Ger
mans.
IN ufle strength. which mcpus men
STANDING iu the trenches read tu
go over th, top with tho hANoust'
The allied totHl on Iuh I. WIS i,hht,.
600. compared with i,ti2.uoO for th,
Germans
ON November first when the
onoml's rrb,Nos had been exhausted
aud hiH front un, strength rrdurcd
hy about half the allies had rifle
strength OF i,tti.0oO, representing
odir of upwards OF two 90 one.
From July d. no. the Americans con.
tlnucd 20 arrive. the allied superior
rs showed continued EruWth over tht
G.rmbnH. who had dropped ON No.
vemb,r first 60 n strength Of 100000
Whom the great German drive was
launched In tho Hprur OF lHlh tho
enemy had definite superiority of
uppruN lmutoh go per cent the fir.
ur,s for Apul . showing gn allied
uflp strength ut i4t6.OOU and u Cor.
man total ot ihtg.UUu Tho Cor,
mans reached their maximum june
with l.tJR. 900. Will, the allies reach
cd their maximum ON september 3,
with l.tAe.uuu.
The meaning uf tho uflr strength
upon which the table be- based iH made
clear hy the fact that uu American
division with o. total strength OF ap'
pfuNtmuirlN 900 fighting mon 10
rated ar 1880 ufl,s.
The departments table shows that
the rush ot American troops tu Eu'
rope. when the gicnt German dri,,
WHs launched. not only succeeded ir
making good ul allied LOSSES from
month to month ht the front, hu
steadily increased the strength ui IN,
allied Irmi,H actually yuEug,d. fir
urvs on the hundred ct thousands of
Americans, who were iu training he
hind the lines, are not glygn.
rhv tAnlv prepared ly Genera
rcrrhinplH staff FhaWlng the com
purutlNc strength uf The allies for thi
I eight months covered. follows.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-02-05

time" said tho witness. Hoover hnI
arranged for haying the packers take
lofc charge OF the meat end OF tho
department Influence had been
brought 10 bear ~ heavy IN the rlcan-
time that Hoover decided TO disre-
gard the raracfn odOt"
Mt lusater teaiifivd that from that
time The pnckcra had q vrtcc m do
tefmining al policits Of the food adj
ministraiion In 40 iar us the meat M
huaifY wis concerned He aid TINT
! a. cotton. described hy him as a
packer LAWYER OF New York" wna
placed In charge nf the meat 6ig's'on
nnd tlarry A Wheeler "a packer
tanker of rhlsagp," as appointed 10
Wt With the pHrkers "a Their meei,o'.i.
Dollar yspr men IN the nay ~
ne packers Her,ed the food nhini ~
truiion lu many denor rlments." niai.
irr Haid, and thnt not a thing was da~e
which was not known ot rud pprr
~ ~ the raslffH ilrfero ths| nn
sfa' influsrre herap ~ ~ o."
rHetar rf hn refs vet ~ heal 4
Tho iivi stock e~d mrr, ~.
ninhfrr is ~ afaf fte rt.
,'.~ 'hf = 80. '.i.' s'.. 'a.sr
ihfsc Ncnt TO glfiof,ag nanda.