ECHOES OF BABY WEEK." Those excused from fast or abstinence WHY DISCRIMINATE •, By G. F. Swinnerton, M. D.. County Health Officer are obliged to some other THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Let one but pass a bogus check form of self denial, abstinence Baby Week is past, but the babies are still with us. The dangers Or pass a home-made dollar AND BORDER BUDGET. from strong drink being especially to babies will always be with us, till mothers and fathers, all The law will grab him by the neck recommended by the Holy Father. Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. For every one will holler. over the country learn the art of caring for babies He pays the penalty for crime, properly. Good Catholics during Lent will Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at For he is sure indicted International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. This is not learned in a week, or a mpnth, or abstain also from all public and And gets the maximum of time longer. It is something to be learned all the time. noisy amusements, such as dancing, INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. And every one's delighted. The dangers are all around the baby. They must card parties,' visiting theatres GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager. And, then again, the curfew bell 'and picture shows. be discovered, and avoided. Dirt, bad dirt, everywhere Just sounds its evening toll, In all cases of doubt, ones pastor haunts the lives of babies like a grim But children loiter there a spell Would you like a little "tonic" in it? or Confessor should be consulted. spectre. Statistics show that dirt, on the hands, Before they homeward stroll. dirt in the milk, dirt in the bottle and nipple from They're grabbed and placed within The devotions of the Way of T?ie best solution of the Mexican problem is to move the border a which the baby sucks, dirt everywhere, least suspected, a cell the Cross will be held in all a. The law must be obeyed, few hundred miles to the south. P. Swinnerton, is a big cause of deaths among these little M. S. [churches on the Friday evenings ones. And each in turn is made to tell of Lent. The reason why he stayed. This, and many other things have been talked about during the If no murderer was arrested until as much evidence was obtained P. J. Killeen, Priest. A lecture well worth thirty cents past week. It has been seed sown. Some will spring up. Some as the attorneys seem to require before warrants can issue against They hear before they go, babies will be saved by just this week's educational campaign. But blind piggers in this city, very few murderers would ever be arrested. EASTER COMES LATE And all because these litle gents this work of education must go on all the time. Not only that, but THIS YEAR—APRIL 23. In starting were too slow. the work, and care and effort caring for these helpless babies must If is being more and more generally believed by thinking people We don't complain, but recommend be a daily and hourly duty, in the dead of night as well as the day. that by the year 1920 it will be unlawful to manufacture, sell, or This year's calendar presents This, and this alone, is the work that will save babies. That all this "law and order," h?\e intoxicating liquor in one's possession, as a beverage, in the numerous unusual features and No mother can learn this noble art at once. It is a continuous Shall not abruptly reach its end one of the most interesting is the United States or any of its territories. In our city on the border, growth in knowledge and the application of that knowledge to her late-coming of Easter, which falls own baby. O, never in your good work halt, on April 23, nineteen days later On another page in this issue will be found an educative article You're too extremely kind The present age is only now learning the importance of the care than last year and the latest since on the economic necessity for the abolition of the liquor traffic, because I And tenderhearted to a fault, 1905. In the year 325 A. D., the ,of all young human life. There are people yet who fail to appreciate of the stand taken by one hundred seven of the largest employers With your "porkers" when they're old council of Nice established |the medical care of their children in school. And yet the very need of labor in the United States. Everyone should read it. The blind. —Max Mulhulligan. Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, jjfor such care at the School age is often due to parental neglect during young men and boys should study it carefully and allow themselves the former always to come the first years of a child's life before it is of school age. SOLDIERS WILL GO to be guided by its helpful suggestion. This good article was prepared forty days in advance of Easter, That period from birth to school age has been the time when the TO WORK ON FARMS. which is fixed by solar and lunar by the Martin County Temperance League and appeared in the diseases of childhood have been rampant. Not that this is necessary. calculations. According to Nicene Martin County Sentinel, of which Hon. Frank A. Day is editor. Planting Problem in West Canadian jNot at all. There is no more need for a child under six years of age laws, Easter shall come annually Provinces Solved by (having the so-called diseases of childhood, than that a lot of grownjups on or after March 21. Therefore, Department Order. One of the most striking evidences of the new dawning of civic should have them. It is only another instance of the lack of it will be seen that the earliest Winnipeg, March 13. The pride is found in the fact that since Thief River Falls went dry it date on which Easter Sunday may knowledge, and intelligent care of these children during those tender problem oi western Canada to has become dissatisfied with its name. Sure thing. Since there is jyears. fall is March 21 and the latest rind help to plant this year's grain 10 longer a "river of booze" flowing down its main streets stealing date April 25. Inasmuch as Easter We are now waking up to these things. It will not long be the crop seems to have been practically iiway the sensibilities of its men folks, and thieving the food, shoes this year comes on April 23, the rule that two out of every three children of school age will have had solved by an official order and clothing from its women and children, it is certainly right and Lenten period will begin- March [measles or whooping cough. It will become a stigma upon the parents, from the militia department allowing 8. Again, the year 1916 was ushered pioper that the beautiful and prosperous city should receive a new as an evidence of their lack of proper knowledge and care of every noncommissioned in on Saturday and will go n?me, one that is in perfect harmony with the awakened civic conscience their children. officer and man on active service out on Sunday. This is a happening oi that municipality. in Canada leave of absence not So that Baby Week is only a beginning of what is to become the that very seldom occurrs and exceeding one month to go out on jlife study of every present and prospective parent. It will be considered one that gives to 1916 fifty-three the farms. The man who persists in his effort to do good will find ample a disgrace in a few years for any man and woman to enter Saturdays. This would occur Moreover, the offer of the department reward. Billy Sunday, who has been at times severely criticised for regularly every 28 years except jwedded life without a reasonable knowledge of the proper care of is of such an attractive the methods he employs in his work has just been rewarded for his that the compilers of the Gregorian babies, and children of tender years. nature that thousads of men are successful work in Trenton, N. J. He received a free will offering calendar provided that centuries After all, is it not a crime that the life of tiny babies is to be dependent bound to td.ke advantage of it. of over $30,000, when he was ready to leave that city, but he earned not divisible evenly by four for its safety and continuance on this earth upon the care of The soldiers will draw double pay years shall not be leap years. it, and more, for over eight hundred thousand attended his meetings, a couple of humans who elect to become parents, and know no more while they are at work, that is, When a century occurs as did over sixteen thousand "hit the trail" toward better living, and over |of parental duties than the babes in the woods The care of infants will receive full pay and allowance I9°° there is a lapse of forty years Let the two thousand joined the churches. any of critics do half as as usual for their services is of such supreme importance to be taught to every man and woman between leap years that begin on much good before they criticise any man's efforts to do good.—Still^water as soldiers in addition to what before marriage. And thus equipped they are then sanely prepared Saturday and end on Sunday. Prison Mirror. they can earn from the farmers. for the duties of the relation. From this year on the 28-year The dominion government will The time will be that the whole marriage relation will not be a period proceeds according to the provide free transportation foj^ There seems to be a serious conflict of legal opinion between the established rule. mere matter of "by guess and by gosh," as it has been in the past. the round trip from camp* to farm, dty and county attorneys. The city attorney acts as though it is But properly trained people will undertake this serious matter with not exceeding a distance of 300 MOVE TO CHANGE *he county attorney's duty to enforce the county option law, while an adequate preparation. Graduation from a school of matrimony miles. Leave will start as soon THIEF RIVER NAME the county attorney says it's the city attorney's business to issue \.will be of more importance, as far as the future of the race is concerned, as it is possible to get out on the warrants within the city limits and that he wants to give Mac a and the saving of babies, than all the diplomas from all the land. Thief River Falls, Minn., March chance. Meanwhile bottled beer is selling openly at 25 cents, whiskey schools and colleges in the land. Yet, hitherto, the most important Approximately 27,000 men are 14-—"What's in a name?" Everything, at 15 cents straight, and barrel beer at 10 cents per glass, and under arms in military district relationship of life, with all its intricate problems, has been left to it would appear from the 'he chiefof police says he is helpless because neither the city, nor No. 10 and the proportionate luck. No wonder the babies die by tens of thousands before the age agitation to change the ancient number who can go out to put in county attorney will give him a warrant for the arrest of persons of one year. and time-honored Indian name of the crop should be adequate for whom he knows are selling booze. We don't claim to know much A special course, not hitherto found in the curriculum of any university, Thief River Falls to some more Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The about these fine legal points of jurisdiction, but we do know that leading to the degrees of P. A. and M. A., will do more for euphoneous sounding one, a number :ir province of Alberta will be taken iii the county seats of both Beltrami and Carlton, men are being arrested future generations than anything else that has been done. of prominent local men have care of by the units farther west. and ccnt to jail every week for selling liquor without a license. started and it may be that something This is to ,be a purely working will develop out of what HOW TO AID THE INJURED. proposition, and there are string-, LENT BEGAN LAST THURSDAY. was at first considered but a tempest A SHERIFF WITH A BACKBONE. ent regulations which will prevent in a teapot. men from simply taking a One out of every ten persons in A prominent banker recently Regulations Promulgated by Bishop holiday. Leave of absence will Springfield, 111., is justly proud of her sheriff. Recently that Minnesota meets with an accident made a business trip east and he be given *for no other purpose of this Diocese Relative more or less serious, every year. 'official addressed a great Epworth League meeting that filled First returned much less satisfied with to Fasting. but to work 03 the land. The There are reported annually about Church, where he spoke on the enforcement of law. Among the the nameof the old home town man applying for work must present 2,000 fatal accidents and some sentiments he expressed was the following: than when he departed. "It is a proof that the promise of Today is Ash Wednesday, the 200,000 non-fatal ones. Dr. I. J. 1 may be facing political bankruptcy for enforcing laws passed fact," said the financier, "that this work has actually been obtained. beginning of Lent, and the following Murphy, secretary of the Minnesota name our town has tacked onto by the Legislature, but it is my capital that is invested and I am On his return from the fields he rules have been promulgated Public Health association, it is a joke and a by-word and I going through with the program. There is no road to efficient success must produce a certificate from by Bishop McGolride of has given this list of first aid rules for one do not like to have our the person for whom he worked, but through an honest, sincere purpose. The pressing demands this diocese, relative to its observance for accident cases: city ridiculed. Men asked me in In the case of a man working of the hour are officials entrusted with law enforcement who will The patient should be made as all earnestness, 'What, trying to his own land he will issue his own dare to do right though the heavens fall. If there are officials All days of Lent except Sundays comfortable as possible in a safe sell mortgages and from a town certificate and have it countersigned are days of Fast and Abstinence. throughout the state who will not enforce the law, the voters are place.- He should be insured plenty with such a name.' in the same manner. responsible for the violation of their official oaths." of fresh air. But the banker had no trouble The provincial governments of All those under 21 years of age Isn't that splendid? And the gratifying fact is that he is living Do not try to do too much in disposing of his mortgages and the west are expected to co-operate and over 60 are obliged to abstinence, tip to his ideal. He has become the outstanding political figure in keep cool. loans are sought here by men of in the distribution of the men, and those over 21 and under the community because of his work of closing the saloons on Sunclay, Do not let the injured person means. With a different and less and Premier T. C. Norris of Manitoba 60 to both fast and abstinence, as well as all places of immoral resort in the city. This is the known it, if his condition is serious. suggestive name, local men allow already has the work in under pain of mortal sin. first time in forty-two years that Springfield has known what law hand. that this city would be under a All, who are obliged to fast, are •enforcement means as it refers to these places. We give room for Hot coffee or hot tea, or even small er handicap than at present allowed: and the Commercial club has been CITATION FOB HSABXVCt OH PETZ.TZON hot water, is a better stimulant this strong sentiment coming from a humble official because it is all 1. A cup of coffee, tea or chocolate FOR PROBATE OP Will. than whisky. opportuned to take the proposition too rare. An official like this should have the backing of every with a smalh slice of bread ESTATE OP SARAH L. JAQUITH seriously. In summer a glass of cold water in the morning. Christian in the community, as doubtless he has.—From the Northwestern STATE OP MINNESOTA "Pennington" has been suggested may be best. Remember there is Christian Advocate. 2. A full meal at noon or toward 88. and seems tlie_ most popular County of Koochiching some shock with even the slightest the middle of the day. IN PROBATE COURT. with the masses. The fact that injury. 3. The fourth part of an ordinary In the Matter of the Estate of Sarak L. That a Fairmont working man the Soo line has accomplished kind for me not while have the I meal at supper time. If the patient vomits,, turn him Jaquith, Decedent: much for Thief River Falls since who was a patron of the saloons my right mind.—Fairmont Sentinel. The State of Minnesota to all persons All who are obliged to abstinence to one side keep the head low. interested in the allowance and probata here gave pt tapped this section of Minnesota when they existed us are allowed flesh meat at Supply external heat if the patient of the will of said decedent: day and it con­ this one the other is advanced as a good reason why The petition of John F. Jaquith, being all times, and those obliged to is cold and clammy. dul filed in this court, representing that thought: "I President Edmund Pennington of tains food for have It has been figured out that it 'Ms Sarah L. Jaquith, then a resident of th» fast, at the principle meal on r. Qothing should be cut away. been doing a little figuring and a that line should be honored. The County of Manpaca, State of Wisconsin, costs per cent to sell goods 12 Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays Do not tear or pull it off., died on the 15th dayf of January, 191«, Jot of thinking since this city voted without advertising, and only natives are actually talking the leaving a last will and testament which and Saturdays (except the Saturday Do not touch an open wound is presented to this court with said petition, no license last spring and find from to per cent to sell them matter seriously and at the next 5 6 of lumber Week and Holy and praying that said instrument be that two drinks of whiskey cost with the fingers or with anything advertising. This will knock club meeting the subject will be allowed as the last will and testament by Saturday.) not surgically clean.. of said decedent, and that letters testamentary the price of a pound of beef steak up for a round table discussion. into a cocked hat all that dope of Manual laborers may use flesh be issued thereon to John F. dinner of mutton Jaquith four beers a Never wash away blood clots the gentry who claim that the ultimate meat at all meals and their families NOW THEREFORE, You. and each of chops one cocktail a nice'juicy consumer must pay for the bind them up. Open and bleeding CREAMERY OPEN. you, are hereby cited and required to at the principle meal, oil all in fam­ k. orange for each one the wounds should be covered show cause, if any you have, before this publicity given any certain article. days of Lent, except Ash Wednesday court, at the Probate Court rooms in the ily 'what-will-you-have-Charley' WM with a piece of sterile gauze or The advertisement is the On and after March 1st, the Court House, in International Falls, and the Wednesday/ and means sugar in the house for a County of Koochiching, State o£ THHimy freshly laundered linen. lowest salaried selling agent in Norther^ Co-operative Creamery Saturday of Holy Week. sota, on the 7th day of April, 1916, at month 'set-em-up-again' represents, the world and the sooner this fact association will be prepared to receive 10 o'clock A. M., why the prayer of said When a physician's services are The use of both flesh and,' flesh petition should not be granted. anything from a pair "of is appreciated by the merchant cream at its creamery in apparently needed, promptness in meat at the same meal is forbidden Witness the honorable John Berg, I warm stockings for the baby_tb a Judge of said court, and the seal of said and consumer the better off both Northome at market prices.^ getting one there is the most important oh all diays during Le^t, even court, this 16th day of March. 1S1». |:Jsack of flour. Nothing more of will be. Earle Carlton, 1 first aid measure. (Court Seal) on Sundays. SiS* 1 Vi-jSflSiSS O N Secretary. DEFECTIVE PAGE