INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS No mart can live as he pleases when what he pleases adverse-" r^s OtfR best customer. i_ -#*5, sT •T? ly affects his neighbor? or those must'come in personal con­ who* THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS tact with him. No community has this right. Community school -Canada is'tne best cu&tome^ the Unitea States lias among the limits have been extended far beyond village boundaries shalL Americas. One reason probably is that there is no problem of AND BORDER BUDGET- -S. 2 parents be denied all right as to"the moral tone and character of? transportation to overcome. The miitual boundary line is crossed ft Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. •, j| the village where their children must attend school and recrossed by 'railroads that are indistinguishable in their 85 Entered as Second Class Matter June' 23., 1909, at the Post Office at'', 2*2 The county also is not only trading unit, but the recognized operation as Canadian or American. 2*2 International Falls,' Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879, political unit of the state. This gives all the people of a county the: L- »V O N he us in as a a to a right to say what the character of their county shall be, and jf one $345,000,000. This was more than the purchases of all the, republics INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. J* or more communities, for,their selfish purposes shall destroy the to the south "and'.this is by no means because of greater wealth or George P. Watson, Editor and Manager character of the whole county and maintain ajplague spot in it. greater^esire, -but ease of communication and the nearness which $ The overwhelming vote -on "county option proves beyond promotes personal intercourse.. ••-, •.V question that they regard' the saloon as both a moral and' economicdetriment. Of our other American customers Cuba bought $69,000,000 of V# V# V# V# f# iV V» Vt O iV 4V That the saloon no longer attracts trade to a town and our products Argentina, $45,000*000 Mexico, $39,000,000 Brazil, that it is not an essential to its economic well being. The farmer $30,000,000 Panama, $23,000,000 and Chile, $17,000,000. This It is with much appreciation that we acknowledge totals $1-12,000,000 less than was sold to Canada alone but she quite evidently does not want saloons and just-as-, evidently no the kindly thoughtfulness of the many new a a a a also far exceeds all the rest in her sales to this country. 7 subscribers who are adding their names to the All of which indicates that while Canada occasionally scolds Probably if saloons could b£ quarantined so their contagion Press list of patrons, and also to ttye many old would be confined to their immediate location* those outside might us and says things to lis that do not. sound complimentary, these ones who are paying up their back subscriptions not interfere. But since their doors are wide open and the invitation express a feeling that is outcoming and not ingrowing.- and renewing them as a'token of appreciation for merely to share the disease is urgent, 110 town can claim the right News Tribune. ...'• the policy of this paper. to nourish this disease for its own revenue~only and spread it over All the articles and editorials that have appeared an entire county.—News Tribune. BRITAIN'S CONTRIBUTION. for several weeks past in this paper have been written and published without money and without By the understanding with France Britain "was "pledged price. It is the people's movement-. for better Great OVESQN'S INCINERATOR [STRICT COURT to dispatch an expeditionsrv force of one hundred and. sixt\ WANTED IN DULUTH. government that is so much needed, and it is' with CONVENED TUESDAY thousand men to .the Continent to ^:o-operate with the armies of much'pleasure that we are. able to do our little the •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 29 Siach Incinerators Should Be seven hundred thousand British soldiers under Sir John French, term of the District Court convened Located At Convenient Points. who himself—is subject to the orders-of General Foch, commanding in this city, Judge W. S. •V V# *V 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 dispatc.hed a force to tlie 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 of 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 ap Nine out of the twelve counties that voted last Monday make waste disposal more efficient the judge appointed Mr. C. W. pear from the facts. It must be considered that unlike. the five under the county option law voted dry. and prompt, are under consideration Speelman as foreman. great Powers now^at war upon the Continent, she has not been by Safety Commissioner The calendar was called and a great military Power. She has been the great naval Power, Many adverse comments are being made because Billy Sunday 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 for his services at $25,000 The safety chief 'yesterday fifty-four civil cases on the calendar, this war. conferred with G. A. Oveson of Philadelphia, where people professed conversion during with the provision that 15,000 his which 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 installeckunit Avhatever criminal cases would be meetings, to the formal obligations of her contract with her Allies. Nor incinerators in several heard when the "state" was these converts had paid a saloon keeper many times :this-»amount cities of the northwest.\ ready to-proceed. ior them "gloriously" drunk complaint would have has she shown any disposition to so limit them. She is creating a making 110 "I will investigate incinerators great army. To create that requires time. been made. under the unit system, as the The lesson to America in the British experience is that what idea appeals'strongly- to me," ever the good will, the raw mate'rial in men, the lavish expenditure We welcome to our city once more the Hon. W. S. .McClenahan, said the commissioner. "Before Presiding Judge of the District Court session which convened of. money, still time is required to work up the best volunteers making any local recommendation, last Tuesday. Ourrt Reporter W. Moody, the several visiting into an effective modern army. And Kitchener is showing I will visit' cities having his strength'by refusing to use his army in the field, until it is attorneys and the members of the Grand and Petit Juries who represent this system of 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 True, it may then be too late. That is a possibility. But the midst may be enjoyable and helpful to all concerned. provide for incinerator units 20 at $1,500 each, located at convenient possibility cannot be averted^by a premature experiment with 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 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 would already have been vanquished. Moreover, the British fleet I tell you," said he, "there is nothing to this argument, and 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 can estimate but does not know. Germany has organized to resist provides one for every 5,000 population. Silberstein will The liking for liquor is not a natural one, but an acquired its effects, so that the usual consequences of .a blockade may not reckon on the basis of 100,000 taste, and with the temptation taken away from the younger set, be as pronounced in her case. But the effects, no doubt, have been 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 howl to retain the saloon? It is more to the point to say that prohibition 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 on land,, anc June 14 is Flag Day, the" one 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. You have no enemies? Then you have neyer stood up for year to give' the observance of George Holler, South Int'l Falls, "'right or against wrong you never protected the weak against the this occassion a new impetus. THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE* M. Moe, Loman. bully you never even dared defend your own right against persecution. Under the Stars and Stripes, the birthday of which occurs on Had you done these things you would have made enemies. O. P. Larson, Margie. One of the stock arguments against the county option law is that day, are gathered in peace Lyen it you had none of these things, 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 McDonald, Int'l Falls. were a little brighter in school a little better behaved out of from countries now at war. them by those who do not live there. It is a meddling with a local 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. Tiie man who has no enemies, should be ashamed of himself.-— flame that is destroying civilization. Certainly if does take from communities the sole right to say William Mielke, Ray. Austin Herald. in Europe this glorious "Mac Loman, Indus. if they shall or shall not have saloons. But it shares this right with 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 son, do not linger in the wine shop or drink too much new poignancy. "My A. N. Bugner, Birchdale. the little differ from the big only in the narrow ^radius of their Surely this is a year when Flag wine. It causeth thee to utter words regarding thy neighbor which Ed Johnson, Ranch. trading area, and all must recognize a reciprocal responsibility Day should be widely observed, thou rememberest not. Thou fallest upon the ground, thy limbs 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 Joseph Jones, NorthomeEric xind findcth thee so. Then they say: 'Take away the fellow, for he affection, and dedicate himself center. They are formed to serve the trade needs of the farming Sundin, Ray. as drunk.' -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 14, 1777, the continental supported by it, growing as land settlement grows and rural as recorded on an Egyptian papyrus which ha*s been dug up in one Thomas Laidlaw, Laurel. 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 anc written 3,500 years' before Christ. That makes this-lecture about Fred. Getchell, Littlefork. of blue in addition to the stripes. keep a stock to suit its patrons, as a town to declare it is under no William Fraley, Mizpah. 5,500 years old. Also, it will be noted that there were saloons in This was the original sta„r_spangled obligations to so conduct its affairs as riot to adversely affect Geo. P. Watson, Int'l Falls. a S a a N 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' E. A. Backe, Margie. certainly have a right to demand that it shall be the sort of WHAT'S THE ANSWER. made it. Falls. Martin Anderson, Big -community that is morally fit and that shall not rob their families Boosters of the booze business are flooding the newspapers of John Shelrud, Ranier. of their livlihood. the country with' free offerings from high priced "press bureaus" A soldier in a hospital in August Quarum, MargieJohn Many, a farmer has been ruined financially by the liquor business which contain more statistics than a patent medicine almanac. Europe was asked what a battle Glava, Ray. -v in his trading center. Many a farm has suffered by neglect Kansas comes for the greatest number of figures. It is shown by Falls.' was like and this was his reply: John Starkweather, Big because of the drunkenness induced by the saloons of the villages. the B. B. boys that more liquor is consumed in prohibition Kansas "Well, the bugle sounds the— Herb Eddy, Rauch. Farmers go to town to trade, are held there by the saloons until than in the beautiful boozerine commonwealth of .Nebraska. then there's a devil of a row, Even Lund, Clementson. ^h^James hours past the time when they should be. at their evening tasks on In another installment we have another array of facts to prove and then the nurse says :'Sit up Uran, Northome. their lands and in their barns. and take this.'" Falls. that there is more crime, chicken stealing, general lawlessness James McDevitt, Int'l 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. S. E. Thompson, Int'l 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 What business are you going Ole Nelson, Wildwood. & and the worthlessness of the ifiam with befuddled or sodden =brain. prohibition Kansas drinks more booze than her saloon supporting 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't1 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 natui^ E. W. Webb, Birchdale. Iff Sentinel. 1PJ1S1 feel ally cut out for a mjlkjtiifin.'U, William Thayer,~ Northome s,«$ wm%M