OUR BEST CUSTOMER. No adversely man can live as he pleases when what he pleases contact affects his neighbors or those who" must come in personal THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS school ". Canada is the best custome^r-the. United States has among the with him. No community has this right. Community shall AND BORDER BUDGET Americas. One reason probably is that there is no problem of limits have been extended far beyond village boundaries of 3! parents be denied all right as to'the moral tone and character transportation to overcome. The mutual boundary line is crossed Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. Sjt and recrossed by railroads that: are indistinguishable in their the village where their children must attend school? & Entered as Second Class Matter June'23^ 1909, at the Post Office at The county also is not only "a trading unit, but the recognized operation as Canadian or American. International Falls,' Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, •V the Our'Northern cousins bought from us last year a total of political unit of the state. This gives all the people of a county one INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. right to say what the character of their county shall be, and Jf This was more than the purchases of all the republics $345,000,000. the to the south and this is by no means because of greater wealth or or more communities, for. their selfish purposes shall destroy George P. Watson, Editor and Manager $ character of the whole county and -maintain a_plague spot in it. greater-desire,-but ease of communication and the nearness which The overwhelming .vote-on county option proves beyond promotes personal intercourse. #.• and' economic Of our other American customers Cuba bought of question that they regard' the saloon as both a moral v# V# V# «r+ f# V# «f# «V V# $69,000,000 and detriment. That the saloon no longer attracts trade to a town our products Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, $45,000,000 $39,000,000 The farmer Panama, and Chile, This that it is not an essential to its economic well being. It is with much appreciation that we acknowledge $30,000,000 $23,000,000 $17,000,000. no totals $1-12,000,000 less than was sold to Canada alone but she quite evidently does not want saloons and just as evidently the kindly thoughtfulness of the many new town needs them to attract farm trade. also far exceeds all the rest in her sales to this country. V# subscribers who are adding their names to the iV All of which indicates that while Canada occasionally scolds Probably if saloons could be quarantined so their contagion Press list of patrons, and also to t^e many old V* us and says things to that do not. sound complimentary, these would be confined to their immediate location, those outside might Us ones who are paying up their back subscriptions V# express a feeling that is merely outcoming and not ingrowing. not interfere. But since their doors are wide open and the invitation and renewing them as a' token of appreciation for to share the disease is urgent, no town can claim the right the policy of this paper. News Tribune. to nourish this disease for its own revenue-only and spread it over All the articles and editorials that have appeared BRITAIN'S CONTRIBUTION. an entire county.—News Tribune. for several weeks past in this paper have been written and published without money and without By the understanding with France Great Britain ~was *p!edged price. ft is the people's movement- for better GVESQN'S INCINERATOR DISTRICT COURT government that is so much needed, and it is' with to dispatch an expeditionnrv force of one hundred and sixty WANTED IN DULUTH. CONVENED TUESDAY thousand men to the Continent to ^o-operate with the armies of much'pleasure that we are able to do our' little tile Republic? By all accounts there are today between six and Health Committee Believes mite in "this upward trend of civilization. On Tuesday last the June seven hundred thousand British soldiers under Sir John French, 20 Sssch Incinerators Should BeLocated term of the District Court convened *,* At Convenient Points. -*,• +4 *v v* who himself--is subject to the orders of General Foch, commanding in this city. Judge W. S. McClenahan presiding. the Allied line from the Aisne northward to the sea. Great Unit plan incinerators, which After the delivery of the usual Britain has also dispatched a force to th'e Dardanelles, one from Tell us who your enemies are and we will tell you what kind can be placed in various sections charge to the grand jury, advising India is operating at the head of the Persian Gulf, and there are a man you are. of the city to cut down the expense great care in their deliberations other British forces elsewhere. of garbage collections and and returns of indictments, That Great Britain is-shirking her part of the job does not appear Nine out of the twelve counties that voted last Monday make waste disposal more efficient the judge appointed Mr. C. W. from the facts. It must be considered that unlike. the live under the county option law voted dry. and prompt, are under consideration Speclman as foreman. ——•——o—= great Powers now at war upon the Continent, she has not been by Safety Commissioner -I he calendar was called and a great military Power. She has been the great naval Power, Many adverse comments are being made because Billy Sunda}- Silberstein. dates set for the hearing of the which seemed sufficient for her own needs until the outbreak of received a free will offering of $25,000 for his services at The safety chief yesterday fifty-four civil cases on the calendar, Philadelphia, where people professed conversion during this war. conferred with G. A. Oveson of 15,000 with the provision that his meetings, winch amounts to less than $1.75 .per convert. If To be sure, her contribution in such a crisis is not to be limited International Falls, who has in:-talle-:k,unit whatever criminal cases would be incinerators in several these converts had paid a saloon keeper many times this^amount to the formal obligations of her contract with her Allies. Nor heard when the "state" was cities of the northwest. /or making them "gloriously" drunk no complaint would have has she shown any disposition to so limit them. She is creating a ready to-proceed. "I will investigate incinerators been made. great army. To create that requires time. under the unit system, as the The lesson to America in the British experience is that whatever idea appeals strongly to me," We welcome to our city once more the Hon.*"\Y. S. McClenvihan. the good will, the raw material in men, the lavish expenditure said the commissioner. "Before Presiding judge of the District Court session which concued of. money, still time is required to work up the best volunteers making any local recommendation, last I uesday. C.«urrt Reporter W. Moody, the several visiting into an effective modern army. And Kitchener is showing I will visit' cities having attorneys and the members of the Grand and Petit Juries who represent his strength by refusing to use his army in the held, until it is this system ot waste disposal. the substantial element of our county life and civilization thoroughly well diciplined. The full British strength may not be If I find it satisfactory, I will are assembled here and we trust that their stay in our brought to bear upon the Continent until midsummer or fall. recommend that the budget 1916 ni ('st may be enjoyable and helpful to all concerned. True, it may then be too late. That is a possibility. But the provide for incinerator units 20 possibility cannot be averted^ by a premature experiment with at $1,500 each, located at convenient points in the city. "If a saloon town with a lot of dry towns tributary to it is troops still raw. "From what I know of the an unusually prosperous town," said a man in Big Falls last Friday, The contribution that has counted thus far in the war game system, it would be an excellent "why don't we see the streets of this place crowded with has been the British fleet. Without the British fleet the coasts of Ivr one. We could locate incinerating visitors and customers? Every town for nearly miles south France would have been as open to invasion ..as are -the Baltic 200 plants where they are needed of us is dry. Yet even the saloons here are scarcely making expenses. shores of Russia. But for the British fleet Russia .and France instead of building a central I tell you," said he, "there is nothing to this argument, and would already have been vanquished. Moreover, the British fleet plant and experiencing congestion nobody knows it better than the business -men right here in Big has accomplished a sea blockade of Germany. and the delay of long hauls." Falls know it." How much that blockade has damaged Germany the world Oveson's plan for unit incinerators 1 can estimate but does not know. Germany has organized to resist provides one for every The liking for liquor is not a natural one, but an acquired its effects, so that the usual consequences of .a blockade may not population. Silberstein will 5,000 taste, and with the temptation taken away from the younger set, reckon on the basis of be as pronounced in het case. But the effects, no doubt, have been 100,000 population in Duluth.—Duluth so that there is none to take the place of the old soak as he passes considerable and are likely to be more as time wears.. News Tribune. Hon. W. S. McClenahan. on, the traffic will gradually die out. If prohibition would not However, Great Britain is awakening to the fact that, what lessen the consumption, why are these fellows making such a with submarines, and what with Germany's economic self-sufficiency, The following it the list of Iiowl to retain the saloon? It is more to the point to say that proliibition command of the seas wiil not of itself suffice to win vie grand and petit jurors: FLAG DAY, JUNE 14. would have a tendency to greatly reduce the income in tory. Victory, if it is to be had at all, must be won land,., and 011 June is Flag Day, the" one 14 Grand Jury. certain quarters and anything that hits their pockets is to be condemned.—Campbell roused to that necessity Great Britain has resources she has not hundred and thirty-eighth anniversary Mike Erickson, Littlefork. Progress. yet tapped. In a military sense the war is still young.—Minneapolis of the Stars and Stripes. Hugh Mcintosh, Loman. Journal. This seems like a pretty good Guy C. Parker, Littlefork. ou have 110 enemies Then you have neyer stood up for year to give the observance of right or against wrong you never protected the weak against the George Holler, South Int'l Falls. this occassion a new impetus. THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE* bully you never even dared defend your own right against persecution. M. Moe, Loman. Under the Stars and Stripes, Had you done these things you would have made enemies. the birthday of which occurs on O. P. Larson, Margie. One of the stock arguments against the county option law is that day, are gathered in peace Even if you had none of these tilings, but acheived a little more C. W. Speelman, Int'l Falls. that it permits nonresidents to dictate as to city and village affairs. and well-being, a hundred millions success in your business than your neighbor if -your children Louis Peterson, RayAlex It makes possible voting saloons out of a community that wants of people, many of them were a little brighter in school a little better behaved out of McDonald, Int'l Falls. them by those who do not live there. It is a meddling with a local from countries now at war. Ole Peterson, Littlefork. school you would have made enemies, for failure hates success. In the red glare of the battle self-government. James Curran, Int'l Falls. I lie man who lias no enemies, should be ashamed of himself.:— flame that is destroying civilization. Certainly if does take from communities the sole right to sa William Mielke, Ray. AtiSii!] Herald. in Europe this glorious "Mac Loman, Indus. if they shall shall not have saloons. But it shares this right with 01* banner shines today with a new Nels Holmaas, Birchdale. those who make these communities possible. None of them would YEARS AGO. TEMPERANCE 5,500 splendor. Its appeal to those who Rufus Stillar, Int'l Falls. be, or being would last if their residents but swapped among themselves. live beneath its folds has gained Jacob, Pietch, Margie. They depend upon the trade from the outside and-in this "My son, do not linger in the wine shop or drink too much new poignancy. A. N. Bugner, Birchdale. the little differ from the big only in the narrow radius of their wine. It causeth thee to utter words regarding thy neighbor which Surely this is a year when Flag Ed Johnson, Rauch. trading area, and all must recognize a reciprocal responsibility tliou rememberest not. Thou fallest upon the ground, thy limbs Day should be widely observed, John Pease, Int'l Falls.^ to their supporting territory. when every citizen should regard become weak as those of a child. One cometh to trade with thee George O. Johnson, Margie. Each of these smaller communities is an agricultural trade his country's flag with a new imd hndeth thee so. Then they say: 'Take away the fellow'', for he Joseph Jones, Northome- 1 affection, and dedicate himself center. They are formed to serve the trade needs of the farming is drunk.' Eric Sundin, Ray. -to it with a new devotion. districts around them. They invite this trade and in the main are The above is the oldest temperance lecture in the world. It Petit Jurors. On June the conti­ supported by it, growing as land settlement grows and rural 14, 1777, as recorded an Egyptian papyrus which ha*s been dug up in one 011 Thomas Laidlaw, Laurel. nental congress adopted a new. wealth increases. of the ancient buried cities of Egypt. Learned men say that it was Ralph Button, Big Falls. flag with thirteen stars in a field, A store might as well say it will not conduct its business and written years before Christ. That makes this-lecture about Fred. Getchell, Littlefork. 3,500 of blue in addition to the stripes. keep a stock to suit its patrons, as a town to declare it is under no years old. Also, it will be noted that there were saloons in William Fraley, Mizpah. 5,500 This was the original stajr spangled obligations to so conduct its affairs as not to adversely affect those days.— St. Paul Daily News. Geo. P. Watson, Int'l Falls. banner, and Betsy Ross, of I those who support it. Those who spend all their surplus in a town George Smith, Big Falls. Philadelphia was the woman who' WHATS THE ANSWER. E. A. Backe, Margie. 1 certainly have a right to demand that it shall be the sort of a made it. Falls. Martin Anderson, Big I Boosters of the booze business are flooding the newspapers of -community that is morally fit and that shall not rob their families John Shelrud, Ranier. the country with- free offerings from high priced "press bureaus" of their livlihood. A soldier in a hospital in August Quarum, MargieJohn Many, a farmer has been ruined financially by the liquor business »y which contain more statistics than a patent medicine almanac. Europe was asked what a battle Glava, Ray. Kansas comes for the greatest number of figures. It is shown by in his trading center. Many a farm has suffered by neglect was like and this was his reply: Falls. John Starkweather^ Big the B. B. boys that more liquor is consumed in prohibition Kansas because of the drunkenness induced by the saloons of the villages. "Well, the bugle sounds the-^ Herb Eddy, Rauch. of than in the beautiful boozerine commonwealth .Nebraska. Farmers go to town to trade, are held there by the saloons until then there's a devil of a row, Even Lund, Clementson. of In another installment we have another array facts to prove hours past the time when they should be at their evening tasks on and then the nurse says :'Sit up James Uran, Northome. that there is more crime, chicken stealing, general lawlessness their lands and in their barns. and take this.' Int'l Falls. Jame_s McDevitt, and pauperism in Kansas than there is in Nebraska. This kind of It is not merely the money that" is spent that totals the loss, A. B. Peterson, Ericsburg. Falls. dope gets our thinking aparatus as full of kinks as a pretzel. If but even more serious is the time lost, and the inefficiency induced S. E. Thompson, Int'l "What business are you going Ole Nelson, Wildwood. prohibition Kansas drinks more booze than her saloon supporting and the worthlessness of the tfiair with befuddled or sodden brain. to put your son to, Henson?" Axel Gabrielson, Frontier. neighbor Nebraska, and there are more red eyed sinners' in Wives and mothers have the right to say if they, and their children "Well, I haven't' decided yet, E. Regal, LundgrenTheodore Kansas because Kansas drinks more booze than Nebraska, what shall be denied necessities, abused and neglected because the town but judging from the hours he Loff, Gemmell. are the B. B. boys paying their press agents to do?—Bemidji where they must trade wants saloons. They have the right of selfdefense. keeps, I should say he was naturally E. W. Webb, Birchdale. SentineL N cut out for a milkman." William Thayer," Northome. is 7- to? ia/V*. Va'4-