5r f' YH-- ^i\r^ «C *W? *-a '." Vl "U 1 -"-V K? INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS JUST PLAIN DEAD ONES. W. C. T. U. NOTES. February 17 of' each year:and to ri 1 send the sum of two dollars or 1 By G. F. Swinnerton, M. D.. County Health Officer THE INTEBNATI0NAL FALLS PRESS An interesting meeting of the more, from the offering received, Union was held at the home of to the state W. C. T. U. treasurer, AND BORDER BUDGET He is a common specimen, the ."Dead One." The funny thing, p. Mrs. Kinney Tuesday m. About who will forward to the National Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. however, is that he is not often dead all over. The fellow who is, twenty-five ladies Were present to W. C. T. U. treasurer, Evanston, well, there is not much to be done with him. hear the "Frances^ E.' Willard Illinois. -'"i.-i Memorial Fund" program, which Entered as Second Class Matter June 28, 1909, at Jost office The really serious kind of death, with which The fund is used for the extension International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, lb79. was published in the W. C. T. U. and perpetuation of the principles every good and valuable^ movement has to contend, -X INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. column last week. The program and work of the Woman's affects the HEAD, more than other parts of GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager., was lengthy, but very interesting Christian Temperance Union, in the anatomy.' It may not be the whole head. It and much enjoyed by all. A memorial a general way, through the distribution is cf queer affection, it touches only certain parts collection was taken, of free literature and placing What is the ex-saloon keeper going to do with the five hundred of a man's head. which, will be sent to the state speakers in needy fields. Specifically That part of many men's heads, which should pint bottles he ordered last week. treasurer's to help carry on the (a) to extend the work be alive, and active on business matters, the government national work. The world's W. through organization in missionary of the community, large works of charity, C. T. U. is doing a grand and Sec. 3189—Revised Statutes. "The keeping for sale, selling, territory and to carry on prohibition e. v. Swinnerton, industrial progress, or public health, is. the only noble work, and by our donations, campaigns (b) to reach giving away, disposing of malt liquors, whether intoxicating or not, M. D. though small, we feel we have a dead area. One man may be much alive on some the thousands of foreigners who in any place other than .a licensed saloon, is hereby prohibited." Is part in the work. things and dead on others. each year come to America from near beer a malt liquor? The different lines of work drink-cursed countries to weir It is the "Dead One" on public health matters, one of the most which are to be taken up by our Come them at Ellis Island and impotant and valuable of all, we wish to talk to. There is no mystery about the wave of crime that is overrunning Union will be presented and discussed through our Department of Work This man may be an employer of labor. The only thing he is at our next meeting, the city of Minneapolis. When she decided to continue the licensed among Foreign Speaking People, alive to, is how to turn the labor of his employees into dollars for March 7th, at the home of Mrs. with its many agencies for instruction, saloon she invited all the thugs, tinhorns and dissolute men and !Blake. himself. The HEALTH of his employees, as an element, even in his to enlighten them as to women from the towns and cities that had voted dry to take refuge Wear your white ribbon bow, ^success, never da\vned on him. He's a dead one on that. If that idea the benefits of total abstinence under her protecting wing and they have evidently accepted her invitation. remember it stands for purity and and prohibtion (c) through the ever stikes him, there is going to be an instantaneous resurrection, pece, and portection of the home. department of Work among the in that part of his head. Also remember our motto is "Purity Indians, to instruct and warn the These dead ones on public health matters, are not cynics. Tliey in the Home and God in Government." This town has only bpen "dry" a week, but what a change. aborigines against the red man's are not merely indifferent. They are just plain dead ones. What an absence of the familiar faces of dissolute men and women curse and to interest them to use Are YOU a dead one on this matter? If so, let us chat with you Yours for "Purity in International their citizenship rights to Qutlaw who have been so conspicuous on our streets. The merchants are Falls." •1 Have you ever been sick, No. you say. Have never, had the liquor traffic (d) to instruct cash,a alreaay noticing the additional number of time checks, and while, r~ W. C. T. U. Ed. time to be sick. Well, are you married? No. Never had time to and organize the colored people business coming their way, and the number of prisoners in the coun get married, too-busy. Right there is one reason why you area dead who form so large a factor in our ty jail has reduced from twenty to five. Frances E. Willard Memorial prohibition campaigns in the one on this subject. Fund Day—February 17. southern states and who, if not If you were married, and had a bouncing baby-boy crowing LINDBERGH WITHDRAWS. This fund, for the extension and won for prohibtion, will be bought around home, the first time he sneezed, you would phone for all the :,a ^perpetuation of the principles and by the liquor interests. 11 ,• doctors in the block. Vaguely you would recall having read, in the work of the Woman's Christian Congressman Lindbergh will not be a candidate for governor. .„ .. !old bachelor days, of scarlet fever, whooping cough, and other dread Temperance Union, was established Money to loan on Northern Instead he will support Governor Burnquist. lhis is good news fori diseases of chidhood. You would get hysterical waiting for the doctor at the National W. C. T. U. Minnesota lands. Republicans and for the state. Mr. Lindbergh is satisfied that Mr. Convention in 1898. Each local to come. He wisely says: It's nothing serious. Jevne & Norton, Agents, Burnquist's policy in state affairs will have his approval. He can. W. C. T. U. is urged to arrange International Falls, Minn. But you are no longer dead. If anything in public health'Control therefore, see no gain to himself or the state in contesting his election. for a public meeting, on or near May 18. will save your boy from these contagious diseases, }'OU are for it now and always. This is ihe right view to take. The fact is that any candidate It will. Public liealth work is for the prevention of all known against the governor is up against a hard proposition. Providence International Falls Abstract Co, diseases, which are spread from one living being to another. It -selected him and made him a candidate. It is never profitable to fool searches out the cases. It corrals them. It STOPS them. It with the mills of the gods. Moreover, there is no foothold for opposition. BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. watches over your chiid, and the millions of others like him, eternally. The people like the idea that Mr. Burnquist is a young man and not an old stager. It makes, a new deal, a bringing in of new Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance A man should be alive on this one thing, if no other. For life is ideas and ideals. first, and life depends on freedom from disease. YOU are only ONE Collections, Conveying and Loans His record officially and personally is clean and has popular ap- man with a boy, think of the thousands of other parents with boys proval. He has made his own way, and owes his own preferment and and girls. J. BURDICK, E. Manager advance to his own ability, not to any favors save that of Providence. 0id) died of International Falls Minnesota Ahj you say had no dad after was ten years he With the added support Of Mr. Lindbergh, he is invincible, and Mr. typhoid fever at forty years o* ajjfc.* Yet you are a DEAD ONE on Iversbn may as well also come into the harmony camp, making it public health work? Do you know that if the State Board of Health unanimous. could have your support, and that of all the dead ones on this mat- There is no hint as to what Mr. Lindbergh intends to do. No ter, it could check the prevalence of typhoid, and other such diseases one, however, would be surprised if he again was a candidate for It could save hundreds of daddies to their little children, and thousands congress indeed there will be general surprise if he. is not. Taking of little children to their parents, MORE than it is doing now. his candidacy as governor as irrevocable, several candidates are contesting Are you "ON?" Give this thing your boost at every opportunity. DOWN DEEP IN YOUR POCKET for his seat in congress. If he re-enters the race there will Talk it. Talk it to your fellows. Talk it to your business associates. need to be an-elimination convention in that district.—News Tribune Talk it at your political club. Talk it to your legislative The coins ache for freedom. They exert an representative. Get them all going for this great work of PREVENTING WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN. DISEASE.- influence over you to be put into circulation. No temptation to spend needlessly when the money is The month of February is notable for the fact that it brings annually A WARNING AND A WELCOME. to us a reminder of two of the greatest men America has ever the bank on interest. Start an account now with }xi had. Wshington and Lincoln were born in this month. whatever surplus you have—even a dollar will open A On a recent night, Sheriff Thos: P. White, No two names stand so peerlessly^ out in our national history as With the aid of a helper or two, an account. Don't allow your money to work you these two. 1 hey are of men who have had more to do with shaping Invaded the loft of Eddie Bancroft the destiny of. this nation than any others. make it work for you, this is the way others get ahead. And the U. & H. place, too. It is fitting and right that as each year returns with the dates of the birth of these nation builders, we should pause to take inspiration I S N A I O N A A N There were gamblers galore on the second floor, from til en lives and characters. O'er the U. & H. saloon INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNPSOTA Peculiarly enough each became great, in times fraught with And several lads who'd "gone to the bads," great national issues. Washington brought order out of chaos at the "Coughed up" before next noon. very beginning of our national existence. In fact he was in at its very birth His genius and wisdom his sertngth and power of leadership, But no reflection in this connection, wrenched this nation from the intolerable toils of mere downtrodden We cast on W. C. ciJonies, and welded them into an independent nation. He is content with simple rent Lincoln, with masterly ability, rose up at a time when, from internal F.O. An innocent man is he divisions, this national solidarity was threatened, and through the flames and fires of civil war, welded it for all time into a complete He doesn't know that yekrs ago, national unit Before he took his claim, The times we now liv'e in, and the world conditions which have A I A I E That Mr. M. ran a gambling den, caused this nation so much unrest since the beginning of the European And may always have been in tlife game. war, are nothing new to us. During the days of Washington's FORT FRANCES, ONTARIO latter presidency, the French revolution burst out upon the world Now. we'd like to say1 in our simple way, with all its relentless fury. These terrific eruptions in Europe th'en The Oldest Exclusive Fur Housed That things are changing here— threatened this nation as much if not more so, Ijhan the present war Tom's thrown off his coat and^ he'll have their goat has threatened the peace ad integrity of our national life today. in the World Before another year. But through it all, including the inernal divisions of sympathy ,for various factions in Europe in those times, Washington steerec EXPORTER AND IMPORTER OF We say the above to those who love r- the new born government, without any entangling alliances, to safety To break the laws of the state. The internal feeling of our people today for the various nations This warning in rhyme is given in time— at war now, which has resulted even in destruction of public property And not when it's too late. in this country, out of sympathy for one or other belligerent, is not one whit worse than in the times of Washington. If this father of For no more here is "the cup of cheer" •our country was able then to steer a clear course, we should be able To be offered over the bar to do it now. 1 Highest Cash Price P,aid! That this is so, we all should know, Not that Washington was any weakling when force was necessary. on Raw Furs And. "thank our ldcky star.'' He was no pacifist at any price. He demanded' an adequate A4 navy to prevent the ravages of marauding pirates of Europe in those To the gambler's loot and the prostitute, times. He demanded an adequate army for the needsof the nation's H« Will Pay the .Duty and War Tax on all Furs from the United And kindred things that you love, "X States and Pay as High a Price for them as protection. •••, r- 1 You should say goodbye, without a sigh, /rr any House in the United States.- With such an example before our national government there .v v. And send them away with a shove. should be no doubt as to what is the proper line of action for the BE SURE AND SEE HIM BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY maintenance of the integrity and safety of this nation. 1 F". C. ROGERS Just be a man—as you surely can—1x May the spirit of Washington and Lincoln be the pillar of fire Find something useful to do, by night and the pillar of cloud by day, to this nation. For only We'H forgive and forget—you're our brothers yet— FORT FRANCES* ONTARIO .* .—Contributed/ rv«. *1 l'i' Mh 1