,«P»?!m J? 1»FWWV, •lll't»l. "if! INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS TEACHER'S RETIRE- sent to clerks by the County Si&>MENT in every town who damns the town most—if a call was sent out tomorrow FUND AND I erintendent. to hold a meeting to organize a young men's Booster Club THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PENSION LAW| A circular from the State we will wager you wouldn't be there, and if the organization was %V Superintendent's office is enclosed perfected and gave promise of amounting to something, you would AND BORDER BUDGET *Jb with the letter to clerks. It is The last session of the Legislature wonder and damn again because they hadn't made you president of Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. expected that all members of passed a Teacher's Pension v« the club.—-Wabasha Herald. school boards will inform themselves Law which requires that the Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at 1= on the requirements of this v# International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. clerks of all school districts shall UNPUBLISHED COMMUNICATION TO COUNCIL law and be ready, when necessary retain from the salaries of teachers INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. to remind clerks and to assist a certain amount. The following them in the discharge of their |jj George P. Watson, Editor and Manager The following is the letter sent to the city council relative to are required to pay into' 3 duties. The law says: "Th$, saloon matters in this city. It was read in the city council a week the Pension Fund. failure of any member of a sdw„ 1st. All those who teach for ago last Monday night by President L. W. Wilson, and on motion Next Monday Hennepin, Nicolett and LeSeur counties vote as "board or board of education to the first time in Minnesota in jof Alderman litis was laid on the table in the presence of Mayor to whether the sale of liquor shall be prohibited in them. The fight perform any of the duties required September, 1915, or later, must F. H. Keyes. herein shall be a misdemeanor." •especially in Hennepin county is being watched with great interest. become members of the association This letter should have been published as a part of the council So it is the duty of all members and required to pay the iproceeding. It is not only a matter of public business but also a of school boards to assist in assessments. The public official has no right to demand that the private citizen matter of vital importance to the government of this city at this time putting into operation the provisions 2nd. Those who were not shall put himself and his business in jeopardy by ferreting out all the the least it shows poor judgment to keep such a communi To say of the law. teachers in Minnesota April 20, details necessary to conviction of crimes that everybody knows are cation out of the published proceedings. 1915, but who teach in this state Teachers, upon application, mayreceive leing committd. in the future, are required to become additional printed information members of the association, and all necessary blanks Sept. 17, 1915 The civic league did good work when they got permission from even though they may have from this office. /City Council, Mr. Backus to clean up and underbush the river bank west of the -taught in this state pervious to A. E. SHELLAND, 1 International Falls, Minn. lower dock for park purposes, and the city council made no mistake the passage of the law. Such £upt. of Koochiching Co. SchoM* Gentlemen: & H- by paying the bill. teachers must make application I am advised by the attorney general that your Council had no to the Board of Trustees to secure authority to grant any license, the term of which commenced after credit for past experience. If it is true, as we believe it is, that blind pigs are being conducted If such application is not made the (the date of holding the County Option election. As I understand in almost every village in this county it is up to the village clerk will collect assessments it, this means that your body would have no authority to grant any 4 authorities and county attorney to get busy with their contingent from a beginning teacher. license to begin after August 1915. I am advised that some 2, tunds to get the evidence necessary for conviction. Those who were teaching 3rd licenses have been granted, the terms of which commence later than in Minnesota April when 20, 1915, August 1915. 2, If Minneapolis votes dry next Monday as we believe it will, it the bill was passed, may become I realize of course, that your council in granting these licenses members by making application will be the largest city in this country to take this advanced step. acted in perfect good faith and that the licensees also applied for the to the Board of Trustees. Such It will also insure the passage of a statutary state wide prohibition licenses and accepted the licenses in good faith and with no intent application must be made before bill and also a state constitutional prohibition bill. It will to violate the law. I herefore do not feel inclined to institute any September, if credit is de­ 1917, also almost compel St. Paul to take the same step as a business prosecutions in the matter against any of the licensees, and it seems sired for past experience. School necessity. clerks must ascertain what teachers '.to me that the best way out of the difficulty is for your council to come under the law as stated refund the holders of these licenses and to have such licenses surrendered Judge Greenland of Warren ordered the grand jury of his district and the amount they must pay and cancelled. If that can be done. I ask that you take each year. This information last July to bring in an indictment against every member of the matter under prompt consideration and g'o over the matter with should be secured from the teacher a city council for allowing saloons to continue in business on the city attorney, Mr. McPartlin, and possibly he can suggest a when school opens, or as soon licenses granted before their county option election, but which Sheriff Thos. P. White who endeavors better way out. as possible thereafter. licenses began after the county had voted dry, which it did. to do his duty without You realize, of course, that while the attorney general has rendered Teachers are required to pay fear or favor—He is a credit tc the opinion above referred to, it is still only an opinion, and so as follows: a year for the first $5 his office. The Fairmont Sentinal says: "The saloon roughnecks are rotten far as I know has not yet been passed on by the court however, five years of teaching service $10 egging the dry workers in Minneapolis. For shame upon such a nasmuch as I have this opinion from the attorney general I feel a year for the next five years $20 city! Such things could not occur if the men who are paid to enforce a year for the next ten years vthat I must proceed to enforce the law as it is construed by the Mr. Gemmell in a recent interview $30 a year for the next five years. the law and protect society were not hand in glove with the stated that the passenger attorney general. I shall therefore be obliged to issue warrants After a teacher has paid assessments travel north of Brainerd has toughs." This condition is charcteristic of most every city and little for the licensees if your council does not consider it proper to act on years of teaching ser­ shown a steady falling off over 25 town where saloon are licensed. They act as though the palty in the matter. By issuing warrants we can have the matter tried vice assessments cease even if the previous years all summer, and license money also purchased special rowdy and indiecent privileges. out under habeas corpus proceedings. teaching is continued. If the annual as the winter months approach, Yours respectfully, salary of a teacher is the decrease is becoming more $1500 If we can get time from our strenuous duty of endeavoring to Franz Jevne, or more, assessments must be noticeable. Such being the case keep our public official out of jail, we are going to celebrate "Newspaper County Attorney paid on a percentage as follows: some curtailment of train service Week" by getting out a good boosting number for this city One and one-half per cent, but is absolutely necessary,and to benot over a year, for the first gin with, the Sunday night south- •and county and the state in general in the issue of Oct. We CROWDING OUT THE SMALL MERCHANTS $20 14th. ten years two per cent, but not bound and Monday morning shall print at least copies and want every body to buy a few 3000 'over a year for the remain-! northbound passenger trains will $40 •extra ones at each to send to their friends. It will be worth it. A great economic question is going to be brought squarely before 5c der of the time. be withdrawn sometime in October. 0 the American people within the next few months, and upon the The law requires clerks to retain The exact date will be announced If the city council had followed the opinion of city attorney determination of the issues raised by the so-called Stevens Bill, this money in equal monthly later. McPartlin on the legality of the saloons whose "new year" began pending in Congress, depends in a very large measure the fate of the installments, but the teacher may since the county voted dry, they would not be in their present ''jackpot." instruct the clerk to deduct it small dealer, and especially those in the smaller towns, in the unequal S S from his salaary in two installments, The people of this city want to know what authority the struggle that they are waging for existence against the great THE SENSATION OF 1915 to save time and trouble. council has to fail to confer, as a body, with the city attorney, city department stores and the mail order houses. Every person THE ALTER AUTOMOBILE When this is done, payments simply because they have reason to believe that the accurate legal who has kept his eyes open, must have observed that for some reason should be made not later than advice which he would give them might be contrary to what they the big city merchants have been gaining ground, while the tradesmen December and April of each year. evidently wanted to do in order to be looked upon as "stand patters" in the interior have found the struggle growing constantly It will greatly simplify matters to O VR DEMONSTRATOR by the defunct saloon gang. harder. The records of postoffice and express money order issues, jay in this manner, and teachers IS HERE 0 fcnd bank drafts purchased, clearly show that great sums of money should apply to the County Superintendent that should be used in trading at home, is going to the mail order Attorney General Smith takes the position that the state legislature for blanks upon which 27 Horse Power houses in the large cities. And the department stores in the great to notify the clerks. The clerk meant what it said when it enacted a law that no license Electric Starter should find out from the teacher centers are monopolizing the trade, and the little stores are becoming should be issued for the sale of intoxicating liquors in any place Lights sin what manner payments are desired. fewer and poorer. This condition is attributed to "cut-throat where such sale is forbidden, but the city council evidently refuses Foot Accelerator competition, or price cutting, and from every part of the country to be governed by this law even though the attorney general, School boards must send to the through the county attorney, called their special attention to it, and there has come a demand for the enactment of a federal statute Everything Complete at County Treasurer twice a year the that will enable manufacturers of staple articles to fix a price on the city attorney had given his opinion to members of the council, amounts collected from teachers. their goods and compel the retailing at a standard figure, no matter as well as to the saloon keepers and some brewery interests that $745.00 These remittances must be made where the goods are sold. The Federal Trade Commission is working the four licenses granted by the city council to begin after the county between the first and fifteenth of had voted dry are null and void. As we understand it, the opinion in this direction, and the indications are that there is badweather July. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, ahead for the handful of city interests that have been driving out the Between the first and fifteenth of the attorney general, in this state, is law until it is reversed by the •day of July, in each year, school smaller dealers, and growing opulent and arrogant at the expense supreme court. Does the city council of this city set itself up as a Ready to pusK the Button boards must also send a statement of the country merchants. high authority, or is it just seeing how long it can run its little Built for Rough Roads to the County Superintendent, bluff without being interferred with, or does it consider that it is up giving the name of each teacher As good as any $1200. car made .to the mayor as executive officer to enforce the law against these A BEST POEM in the district who becomes a Strictly in a Class by Itself blind pigs. "There's a nigger in the wood pile" somewhere. member of the Fund Association and the amount of salary witheld. Laugh and the world laughs with you, LET US SHOW YOU SOUND ADVICE (A report must be made even Weep and you weep alone, ^though no teacher in the district For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth S. E. THOMPSON &S0N Jias become a member, in which Young man, what right have you to damn and cuss the town It has troubles enough of its own. case the report must so state. International Falls, Minn* I! Sing and the hills will answer in which you live? Blanks for this purpose will be What have ever done for the good of the town that very likely Sigh—it is lost on the air has done much for you? You were born in the town, raised in it, The echoes abound to a joyful sound, been given a good chance for an education in it, and yet you holler But shirk from voicing care. TO PROPERTY OWNERS:— •and won't work. You laugh at every man or woman who honestly suggests that Rejoice and men will seek you We are in the business of selling real estate. which would improve the town you stand away back in the crowd Grieve and they turn and go Send or bring in descriptions of your farm when your services are ueeded to back up those at the front. When They want full measure of all your pleasure, lands or city,,property. Price them conservatively. it comes to a clean-up campaign and others have their coats off— But they do not want your woe, We advertise is localities where you are afraid to soil your hands, and stand back with your thumbs Be glad and your friends are many there are buyers looking for bargains. in arm holes and pass jeering remarks at the workers. Be sad and you lose them all When a public meeting is called to further something that would There are none to decline your nectared wine, LANGLAND-BENNETT REALTY CO. help, you haven't time to go for fear you might miss a meeting of But alone you must drink life's gall. Street Floor, litis Bldg. others like you who have been petted and babied so long that they think the town should always be doing something for them instead Feast and your halls are crowded of them doing something for the town. Young man, you ought to Fast and the world goes by CR00KST0N COLLEGE is one of the largest business be ashamed to act as you sometimes do. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, colleges in the northwest. They No town is so good but that it can be made better, and no town But no man can help you die. I place all their graduates in good is so bad that, with your help, it can not be made better. There is room in the halls of pleasure positions. Besides their splendid courses in Bookkeeping and Shorthand, Then if you have the ability you seem to think you have, why For along and lordly train. they also give a course in Auto, Gas and Steam Engineering. *iot take interest in affairs and make your influence for betterment But one by one we must all file on Board and room in private family $3.00 to $3.50 a week. Write to* felt. Through the narrow aisles of pain. J. C. Sathre, Crookston, Minn. Now in all seriousness, and speaking directly to the young man —Ella Wheeler Wilcox