SCRATCH ME. THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS you buy a Red Cross Christmas seal you help of popular government. For this fundamental •NS BOBBER BUDCtET Minnesota to "take them in time'* and to eliminate reasoh there is an almost literal truth in the By G. F. Swinnerton, M. D., County Health Officer the needless suffering and needless loss statement that the Allies are fighting America's Official Paper of Koochiching County, occasioned by the white plague in this state. battles.—New Republic. the That's the mute cry of Minnesota. Tuberculosis leaves more destitute widows and school greater part of the COURTS CAN REFORM THEMSELVES. orphans than any other disease—Red Cross It is children of this city. Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., seals save families from misery. same Under Act of Congress of probably true of the March 3, 1879. If Minnesota raises the fund which it Legislation for eliminating delays and all proportion of children technical obstructions in court practice is well should, it will mean that poverty will not prevent Koochiching. over this county of internationl Falls Press Publishing Company enough, but the Federal courts and the District the proper treatment of tuberculosis victims. George P. Watson,. Editor and Manager courts of Minnesota have proved that the Adequate funds will make possible the That What does it mean courts themselves can work more quickly and free services of physicians for diagnosis and That there are exceptions to all rules is 473 health out of recorded effectively by revising their rules and exer-, treatment, the care of a visiting nurse, and -again proven^in the fact that in the vote of 6 the histories of children in cising their authority. An Iowa court gives the provision of proper diet and open air living to I on the city council, the I is proving to be ONLY 150 were city school, another fine example. for the patient and protective care for the families part. ever vaccinated. That's not the worst the majority. of the poor. A bunch of ambulance-chasers in St. Paul is The greatest number of the unvaccinated make a comfortable living by bringing damage Of course we want our community to rank among the younger children. Hibbing and Chisholm saloons must go out suits against corporations for residents of among the first in per capita seal sales this of business without delay according to the 72 44 Of high school records of health, other states. year. The way to do this is not to talk about decision of Federal Judge Page Morris who 401 have been vaccinated. Of cords of children The Minnesota courts are probably at it, but to buy seals. Let us put them on our denied their application for an injunction only in lower gradgs than the high school, calling cards, on our private business correspondence, least as fair as those of Iowa, but the cost of against being closed by the Indian agents. 78 for have been vaccinated. The per centage bills, packages, and everything transportation and scarcity of witnesses makes the high school is two thirds are vaccinated. that will hold them from now until the end defense so costly that the ambulance-chasers been Of the lower grades only one-fifth have Sheriff Johnson armed with ''John D°e" of the year. If each of us purchased one hundred frequently get an unjust settlement as the vaccinated. and Richard Roe" warrants recently arrested seals, thing of what our community and cheapest way out. This is doubtful citizenship a few liquor criminals in his county of Beltrami. eye. Let us look this thing squarely in the A the state could do in ridding itself of disease on the part of the defending corporations, Where would Sheriff White go to get The city of Montreal, Canada, had a large next year! but good business. similar warrants in the prosecution of his duty 1885. number of unvaccinated people, up to Now Judge Maxwell of Creston, Iowa, in this county In that year a colored pullman porter, came to SENATOR ROOT. enlivens a curt refusal to dissolve an injunction the city with Smallpox. In nine months from The City Council let the Fred Shaw liquor against suit by an Iowa resident in the liis coming, 3000 people died of the disease. Root as a candidate for the presidency is license mouse out a little while Monday night Ramsey District Court with a brusk denunciation UNDER Of these over 2500 were CHILDREN the cry of one section of the republican party and played with it then put it back in the of the ''scandalous and unethical" practice. 10 YEARS OF AGE. of the nation. Root as he is now would be trap and are going to give a public playing The Minnesota Bar Association sought vainly What is true in this case, is true wherever hard to beat. But Root with a past record is exhibition in two weeks before they kill it. to get laws against such practices through the the many epidemics of the disease have occurred. going to have heavy going. They've got another to play with next Monday last legislature. But it would seem that the The UNVACCINATED suffer, and The man who climbs upon the "stepping night. offenders might somehow be disciplined.— die. In the ease of Montreal there had been stones of his dead self," to better things is to Minneapolis Journal. no' smallpox for 10 years. Everyone sat back, Which Alderman did you say was playing be admired. In public life however, these neglecting to get themselves and their children JAUNDICE EPIDEMIC cards and drinking in a saloon in this city at stepping stones become the stumbling blocks vaccinated. They thought there was nothing 130 o'clock Sunday morning with the proprietor of the future. He cast off the yoke at last of to it. THEN the epidemic came. You and another old resident while four others allegiance, to the big interests, who, popularly By Geo. F. Swinnerton, M. D. see the result ESPECIALLY among the were drinking at the bar. This is probably have always been suspected by the mass of CHILDREN, A special bulletin has been issued with its the saloon regulation which the gang "hollered Americans. In later years he launched out into regular monthly report of health conditions It is no good to lock the stable after the their heads off about" before election. a freer life of usefulness, untrammelled by in the state by the Department of Prevention liorse is stolen. The time to be vaccinated is these powers of finance. BUT the alliances, NOW, when there is no epidemic. The few^~ of the State Board of Health. A school boy defined an inebriate as an of the past are not forgotten by^the people. cases that may occur now, and mild at that5*' This bulletin deals with an epidemic of animal without a backbone. Who shall say So the acts of the past will cast their unwelcome perhaps, are 110 sure proof that a severe outbreak Jaundice, which appeared first in Minneapolis that he was very far from the truth Count shadows athwart the path of the greatest may never come. and Vicinity. over the inebriates you know and you will find, man's life. They become a hinderance to The Towns of Baudette and Spooner, up if their conduct be taken as the standard of It is of interest to the city, and townships his future progress., however much he may to five years ago, had many small fires around of Koochiching county, as already several judgment, that they have at'best nothing more have reformed. them year after year. BUT that did not prove -substantial than a wishbone where the backbone cases have been observed in International To be great continuously, the beginnings that the real haulocost would NOT come. Falls. ought to be.—Catholic Bulletin. of life need to be free from the things, which Smallpox is by 110 means reduced to a mild Regarding this Epidemic Catarrhal Jaundice as skeletons in our closet, may step out like disease. Here in this city, four or five years Upon motion of Alderman litis the hearing the bulletin says gaunt spectres, some time in the future, and ago, some of the most virulent cases occured, on the Fred Shaw liquor license was postponed thwart our dearest, highest ambitions. Symptons are as tollows 1st day, patient in unvaccinated people. But once the disease by the city Council on its usual vote An ancient sage has said "He that sOweth Jeels too tired to work or play. Has headache. should START among these hundreds of our of 6 to 1 in order that "a public hearing" might to the wind shall reap the whirlwind." 2nd day, complains of nausea, abdominal pains, unvaccinated children, in school and at hom^ be had 011 it. We supposed that a public hearing loss of appetite Is constipated. Unusually under school age, no one could prevent a hor-* on the right of the council to grant liquor REAR ADMIRAL BEATTY vomits bitter, bile-stained mucous and fluid. rible state of affairs. No one could estimate licenses had been held on Aug. 2nd last and Stools are clay-colored. 3rd to 6th days, the high death rate there is chance of among that everybody knew the decision. Yes, "let The retirement of Rear Admiral .Beatty Prostration is often extreme. Acute sfmptoms the children. the people rule." from active service in the navy of this country gradually abate, and jaundice, or yellowish In the October report of the State Board is of more than passing interest, locally and appearance shows. Senator S. D. Works of the State Insurance of Health for Minnesota, 50 cases of Smallpox nationally. Recovery is usually slow. Duration of Department, is beginning to do business are reported. Of these none were in persons Locally, the impression gained of him mild cases is about five days of severe cases by requiring the Fire Insurance companies to who had been vaccinated once or oftener. when he addressed the citizens of International up to five weeks. give the northern half of the state as low a They were all fifty among UNVACCINATED Falls almost a year ago, will long be remembered. Disease prevalent chiefly among children rate as they have been giving the southern people. Vaccination does protect from Smallpox. Nationally, that which impressed this of school age. Spreads by contact during half for many years past. It has been hard The oftener it is done the more thorough city will render him a valuable citizen, though acute stages. May possible be spread also work for public officials living south of Brainerd the protection. no longer active, still in reserve. Not perhaps through milk or other foods eaten without being to make themselves believe that the ''north officially in reserve., but the very best kind of A calm investigation of this matter leaves cooked, after handling by affected persons. country" had any other claim on their attention private citizen, still virile, and laden with an no ground for opposition to vaccination. IF Cause is unknown. Apparently it is a than that of paying most of the state experience, and knowledge, of the utmost germ disease. with the government inspected vaccine, the taxes. value to this nation at this juncture. only kind sold, absolutely pure, strict surgical Prevention demands that affected persons We are talking proper preparedness, to cleanliness is used in scartching the skin of be excluded from school and all public places Good highways are and always have been protect the people and interests of this nation arm or leg, to vaccinate, there is NO danger. while symptoms exist. That only pasteurized ti necessary adjunct to the welfare of the state, from the aggressive acts of any other nation Then if the sore is dressed antiseptically till milk be used. That fruits etc., to be eaten raw community and the individual. The argument in the future. From one who has had years all is well again, there is nothing to fear, more be horoughly washed or peeled. Patients discharges "Good roads cost lots of money," may be than taking gas to have a tooth out. of actual experience in the navy during its should be disinfected. true when figured in dollars and miles, but is evolution into the modern fighting machine it Parents of school children should co-operate DON'T PUT OFF TILL TOMORROW incorrect when considered in reality. Good is to-day, though a private citizen, much of with the school and health authorities, report WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY. PROTECT roads must be paid for, but they are paid for value can be learned. cases to health officer or town health board of THE CHILDREN. whether built or not. The wear and breakage Rear Admiral Beatty is not the class of their town, and assist in measures for control Have your family doctor do it at once. «6n teams, harness and vehicles and the increased man to be oslerized. His years have not made of the condition. Have him attend to it from beginning to end. cost of hauling on poor roads is costing him decandent, or senile. But rather given Have him dress it properly, and watch it so the farmer far more than the price of 'OLD DOG TRAY" IN BUSINESS. him a maturity of judgment, with an accumulation that no infection can get into it. Have all building and keeping in repair the very best of rich experience, which can be of immersp the children done at ONCE. To avoid an roads. ,He is actually paying for the roads value to the nation. Frank Emerson was not a brillant man, epidemic, prepare for it. without getting them and, besides, is put to We shall doubtless hear of him again, if and he knew it. Industry and fidelity rather THINK THIS OVER. Of 2853 cases of much inconvenience and worry. In short, no longer from the active arena of naval affairs, than unusual ability had won for him a position Smallpox in Minnesota in 1913, 92 per cent had good roads cost nothing. They are paid for possibly from the forum of public information, of responsibility and a salary of $3,000 a never been vaccinated. DOES Vaccination in many ways by the increased value of the in.a manner which will be of great benefit at year. His own frugality and the excellent prevent Smallpox lands served, by the decrease in the cost of this time. management of his wife had given them their hauling and upkeep *f vehicles and by the increased May the years of his retirement be merehr home and had proved Mabel with a college GET UP RIGHT. satisfaction with and pride in the the transfer of his efficiency to a large education. He had worked for the Acme mills community and individual farm.—Northern sphere. for a quarter of a century. He knew the trade Get up right in the morning. Go to bed Minnesota. as he knew his own street and was familiar right at night. Start with joy in your heart, ALLIES FIGHT AMERICA'S BATTLES. Avith every detail of credit and billing and hope in the future, kindness in your purpose. WHAT IT MEANS TO MINNESOTA. shipping. Experience had ripened. his judgment, If it is a dark day, never mind you will At present Europe is in, the throes of an and it is the business getters who count lighten it up. If it is a bright day, you will When we realize that one person out of interecine war in which the future of civilization in the Crises. Besides, he was one of those add to the brightness. Give a word of cheer every four in America who dies between the is at stake. Upon the outcome depends not unaggressive workers who come to be taken a kindly greeting and a warm handshake to ages of fifteen and fifty dies from tuberculosis, only the liberties of Europe and "of the world, as a matter of course and whose true value your friends. and that it is mainly through voluntary subscriptions but. also the future of democarcy. For in a may be overlooked in a mass of routine. At If you have enemies, look up, pass them that the fight against the disease world so unorganized politically that its peace any rate, now that the crisis had come, it by, forget and try to forgive. is initiated, we realize what the sale of Red is at the mercy of one power, the crucial test seemed possible for the mills, with their decreased of' If all of us would only think how much Cross Christmas seals means to Minnesota. of any form of political organization cannot output, to dispense with his services, theres human happiness is made by ourselves, The economic loss to this state annually be the more or less satisfactory nature of its and the decision appeared to be final. of misery. would be less human from tuberculosis is ten million dollars, whi.ch inner life, but must perforce be its ability to For a man of 54, whose whole business experience If all of us would bear in mind that happi-• means that every one of us loses five dollars im- -J defend itself and to survive in a struggle had tended to make him valuable to ness is- from within and not from without,nil 2,500 personally. Practically all of the annual "j posed by others.. Were European democracy ijone conecrn only, and who realize#s his own of every there would be a wellspring jfly in deaths from tuberculosis are preventable if crisis, its fate would be fail in this sealed, 'to limitations, such an event becomes a decided iheart and the sun would shine forever. y) taken in time and properly treated^ When America would become the last bulwark and catastrophe.—American Magazine. Try it!—Leslies.,Weekly. ..