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THE BEHIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER
-PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY
THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO.
O. E. CARSON
TELEPHONE 922
Entered at the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second-class matter
under act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
No attention paid to anonymous contributions. Writer's name must
be known to the editor, but not necessarily for publication.
Communications for the Weekly Pioneer must reach this office not
later than Tuesday of each week to insure publication in the current issue.
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
BY CABBIEB
One year $5.00
Six months 2.50
Three months 1.25
One month 45
One week 12
THE WEEKLY PIONEER
Ten pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Pub-
lished every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address, for, in
advance $1.50
OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PROCEEDINGS
The Daily Pioneer is a member of the United Press Association, and
Is represented for foreign advertising by the
General offices in New York and Chicago, branches in all principal cities.
DEMAND A SQUARE DEAL
We as a people are in danger of losing our grip on one of our most
cherished traits of characterfairness. Time was when this word and
all it stands for was written broad on our national life, and we have
prided ourselves on our readiness to accord to any and all people a square
deal.
And, paradoxical as it may seem, this trait still predominates. We
are as ready as we ever were to grant large justice all. But GRANTING
justice is only one-sided fairnessbut one side of the human equation.
We should DEMAND justice and fairness, each for self and for all
others.
This we are rapidly ceasing to do. Year by year we are more and
more sleeping on our individual and collective rights, and others, more
active and aggressive, are usurping them.
The resourcesyes, the actual productionsof this great nation are
so abundant that "want" should be an unknown word with us. Yet want
exists, and exists largely.
With our great wealth we should be the most care free people the
world has ever seen, but we are not. Lines of care are deep upon the
national brow.
And all of this because we sleep upon our rights and will not rise
up and demand a square deal. We allow congress to misrepresent us and
have not the energy or nerve to elect a congress which will force justice
and fairness for us.
It is time we arose in our might and demanded that the price booster
and speculator must go, and he will not go until we do.
We are hopelessly in the hands of the exploiterthe speculator in
other people's rights and privileges. From the man on the corner who
sells us a pair of shoestrings for twice their worth because he knows we
would not walk a block for the difference, up to the giant corporation
that furnishes the steel for our buildings at more than its worth because
he KNOWS that we can get it nowhere else, all are out for the exploita-
tion of the other fellow.
We have said that we as a people are as ready as ever to accord fair-
ness to all. Yet the very presence of oppression and extortion in our
midst has a tendency to breed in us a disregard for this principle.
Doubtless you are familiar with the story of the Arab and his camel
how it intruded its head into its master's tent, which the latter kindly
permitted. But meeting no resistance, it was not long before the camel
was in the tent and its master was excluded.
It is so with us. We are systematically exploited and Jield up by the
speculators and the Shylocks until we are in danger of supinely surrender-
ing to their every demand.
There is absolutely no reason for the extortionate prices we have been
paying for many months, except the machinations of the trusts, the stor-
age companies, the speculators, or all who can in any way hold in restraint
the supply, and by unfair means stimulate the demand and the price.
When permitted free movement, the products of this country are al-
ways equal to any demand. This is not true, however, when a large pro-
portion of our production is cornered and retired from the channels of
trade until scarcity forces prices to a fictitious level.
When cold storage first came into general use it was hailed as one
of the greatest discoveries of any age. We very much fear, however, that
it is fast becoming our chief oppressor, unless we can take its power out
of unscrupulous hands.
It is time for us to awake to the importance of DEMANDING the
square deal, as well as according it.
National disaster faces us if we do not.
Mankind is prone to regard a good memory as a possession beyond
price. This it certainly iswithin limitations. Yet there are condi
tions under which a short memory would be much more valuable. We
would benefit by forgetting the petty slights and insults by ceasing to
envy those more fortunate by wiping from our mind all traces of bitter-
ness over wrongs and injustice. Such a faculty for forgetting would leave
in the human mind memories of the antithesis of these, that would bless
and sweeten our lives and the lives of those about us.
There are two things that will make a blind man see. One is a well
shaped leg, and the other is another one.
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E. H. DENU
BY MAIL
One year $4l00
Six months 2.00
Three months 1.00
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BEMIDJI HORSE MARKET
We Buy and Sell Horses,
Harnesses and Vehicles.
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A. V. GARLOCK, M. D.
SPECIALIST
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Qlbbona Bldg. Phone lOi
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DR. EINEB JOHNSON
PHY8ICIAJT AND SURGEON
Bemidji, Minn.
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Office 0*Leary-Bowser Bid*.
Office Phone 376-W
Res. Phone 376-R
DB. L. A. WAED
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Troppman Block
Bemidji, Minn.
DB, 7. T. TW0MT
DBNTI8T
North of Markkas* Hotel
Gibbons Block. TeL ttf
GRAHAM M. TORBANGE
LAWYER
Mile* Block Phone It*
DB, H. SMITH
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Security Bank Block
DR. E. A. SHANVON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office in Mayo Block
Phone 396 Res. Phone 397
DR. G. M. PALMER
DENTI8T
Office Phone 134, Residence S4C
Miles Block, Bemidji
T9M SMART
DRAY AND TRANAFBR
Safe and Piano Moving
Res. Phone SS 81S America
Office Phone IS
IDA VIRGINIA BROWN
Instructor in
PIANO VOICE DRAMATIC
ART
Phone 633
1017 Minn. Ave. Bemidji
TH0BWALD LUNDE
CHIROPRACTOR
Acute and Chronic Diseases
handled with great success
First National Bank Building
Bemidji, Minn., Phone 406-W
Hours: 10-12 a.m. 2-5 7-8 p.m.
DR. C. R. SANBORN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
OfficeMiles Block
J. WARNINOER
VETERINARY SURGEON
Office and Hospital 3 doen
west of Troppman Store
Phono No. 301
DR. H. A. NORTHROP
OSTEOBATHIC PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON
Suite I O-Leary-Boweer Bldg
Office Phew lit
Hair dressing, manicuring/
face massage, scalp treat
ment, switches made from
combings $1.50. Corns, in
grown nails treated a spe
clalty.
MINA MYERS
311 6th St. Phone 112-W
W. K. DRNI80N, D. Y. M.
VETERINARIAN
ft Office Phone 3-R Res. tt-J
ft 3rd St. and Irvine Are.
DRS. QILMOBE A McCANK
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OfficeMiles Block
DR. D. LSTANTON
DBNTUT
Office In Winter Block
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DRY CLEANING
Clothes Cleaners for Men,
Women and Children
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THE BEMUWI DlfX? PIONEER
School
INK PAPER
5c Tablets
Superior School, wide
Superior School, narrow
Superior School, Medium
High School No. 8
High School No. 7
Eclipse Very Keen
Rosedale Scratch Pads, wide
Scratch Pads, narrow
Theme Tablets
Note Books, all sizes
SPELLING TABLETS
Narrow .5c
Wide So
High School 5c
ERASEBS
Erasers lc
Erasers 5c
Erasers 10c
Art Gum 5c
Soap Erasers 5c & 10c
COMPASSES
Combination pen and pencil
dividers .25c
There is perhaps no store in North Central Min-
nesota better equipped to provide school wants than
ours. Particularly is this true from a WHOLESALE
viewpoint. We make a specialty of selling to dealers.
They buy their supplies here WHOLESALE. Oiir
buying power and large distribution facilities enable us
to secure shipments direct from th^ mills and factories.
They are not bought through jobbers, but direct, be-
cause we are jobbers
Merchants Get 0ti Prices
Tablets, Pencils, Inks, Erasers, Paints,
Crayolas, Pens, Art gum, Pen Holders^
Books, Spelling Tablets, Note 6ook Paper, hJote
Covers, Drawing Paper White, Drawing Paper
Manilla, Theme Paper, Scratch Pads, Paste, Mu-
cilage, Compasses, Blotters, Etc.
Notice To the School Children
We have prepared for the opening of school. We
have arranged for your particular benefit and conven-
ience all the things you need blurry. Our clerks
know nowwhat you need in schooland are readywith the
utmost courtesy to serve you. Mother may send the
little folk here and be assured that they will feceiye
the same careful consideration as the grown folk.
Yes, even more so.
PENCIL PAPER
5c Tablets
Run For Tour Money
A Full Load
The Fox
COMPOSITION TABLETS So
School Camp
Superior School
Extra Large Comp. 15c
NOTE BOOKS 5o
Double 0 Hote
Handy Note
Utopia Note
Student's Note
Pocket Note
WATER COLORS
Milton-Bradley paints, colors
in box, with brush, all com
plete 25c
We have also a supply of
Prang's and Devoe's paints
at 25c and lOo
FOUNTAIN PENS
Moore Fountain Pens from
$2.50 to |3.50
Special Fountain Pens.. .$1.00
Stylo Fountain Pens $1.00
Hundreds ofother school articles in stock not listed above T"
Bemidj i SchoolSupplyStore I
Security State Bank Bldg. Phone 922. Bemidji 1
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MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1917
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INK PAPER
10c Tablets
Liberty Tablet, wide
Empress Irish Linen
Mozart, all sizes
And numerous other varieties
LOOSE LEAF NOTEBOOKS
Pioneer Note Book, with clasp
holders ,25c
Fillers .5o & lOe
Reliance Solid Ring, complete
with filler 25o
Several sizes
Large Ring I. P. Note Books,
complete with filler 45o
DRAWING PAPER
In packages 6c
White and Manilla
Tablets &,
CRAYONS
No. 8 Crayola 8c
No. 16 Crayola lfc
Embeco Crayons 5o
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