scope of morals. All the trickery and schemery of the political game and remote things as disease causes. Now we know it shadpws the has a sort of "Gott mit uns" quality which eliminates it from the commonest details of daily life. THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS realm of right and wrong. We also know that disease may be largely prevented. Typhoid AND BORDER BUDGET fever especially so. Let the politicians howl and throw themselves violently, but •A Official Paper of Koockichiag County, Minnesota. as long as Jake Preus does right by the people of this state, standing Eating and drinking are the means, and the germs on the food as a faithful watchdog over the resources of the people of this are the cause. The hands are the medium of bringing them together. Watch the hands. Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at sovereign state, so long will the politicians fail to sway the judgment International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. of the people against him, or any other state official who INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. stands for right first, last, and all the time. RICHARD HARDING DAVIS JAPS TO SEIZE U. S. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager. If this is politics it is politics of the right sort. A man with a CAREER CLOSED BY DEATH TRADE IN ORIENT clean record, who stands for the sanctity of the people's possessions, Mount Kisco N. Y., April 15. Will Newer Surrender Pacific has an incidental political capital that stands high with the All the churches of this city invite you to celebrate the glad —Richard Harding Davis, who: Conquests—Will Wait to Take people. ^Eastertide with them next Sunday. died suddenly at his home herej Philippines, says Rep. Austin. Today, as never before, the timeserving politician is becoming Tuesday night, lived a life as a back number. Morals DO form an integral part of public life and full of romance and adventurej By Rep. Richard R. Austin sr. ''Whiskey puts weeds in many a cornfield, but nothing in the service. The people are looking for men of rectitude to serve them. as the youthful heroes that of Tennessee •crib whiskey causes plenty of accidents, but it never moved a The discard is the inevitable destiny of the corrupt. swashbuckle through the pages!. Japan will never surrender freight car or ginned a pound of cotton whiskey turns men into of his stories. conquests in the Pacific. he He was born April 18, 1864 at Who ever believed she would? swine, but it never hangs a ham in the smokehouse whiskey PREPAREDNESS, AND GOVERNMENT MANUFACTURE Philadelphia. One of his remark- How can anybody expect her to keeps the courts and jails busy, but it does less than nothing for OF MUNITIONS. able characteristics was the im- give them up when she is trying the schools and churches. To argue that the South cannot do without pression of youth that he kept' to swallow all of China and is whisky is like arguing that it cannot do without hookworm. Americans don't want militarism. They do want adequate defense until the very day of his death. patiently waiting for the United Whiskey is a drain on the life of any community tolerating it, for our people and country. Few people suspected that Rich-j States to surrender the Philipard and its relation to legitimate industries is one of cost and hinder.ance."—Collier's Harding Davis, /Dick" Davis pine Islands, which are equal to This adequate defense, however, must be provided, not as a Weekly. to his intimates, was past 50 all of New England and New profit making thing for munitions makers, greedy for big profits years of age. His father was L., York state combined? from the national treasury, but by the government itself at cost. Clarke Davis, editor of the Phila-j Japan will not only take away The city has now one of the best councils directing its affairs Sufficient data is at hand to prove that even prominent organizations delphia Public Ledger, and his' these islands whenever she can it has had for some time. The start they have made is good and such as the Army and Navy League, presumably disinterested mother, Rebecca Harding Davis,' but she will also take away indicates they intend to be businesslike, and have the efficiency of patriotic organizations, are run officially by men immediately widely known as a magazine American trade established there 'the administration of the city as a proper end in view. It was, however, writer. His brother, Charles Bel-j which is about $30,000,000 per and financially interested in the making of war materials. disappointing at the last meeting to find, when a member from mont Davis, is a magazine editor annum. What is the inevitable inference? That these men, under the the third ward introduced a resolution directing the city attorney to in New York. Recently we sold $30,000,000 subterfuge of national defense and patriotism, are eagerly crying enforce the law, a want of spontaneous conviction of the meaning of He began his literary life as worth of American cotton to ample preparedness for the dollars and cents there are in it. their oath of office. In this oath every member swears to uphold the a newspaper reporter, won no- China per annum. Now Japan "War is hell." As a nation we abhor it, and are willing to go a laws and constitution of the United States and the State of Minnesota. tice as a short story writer with has taken all that trade awav long way to avoid it. The best provision against it is to be ready. Should it be necessary to wait for a moment to instruct any "Gallegher," and became one of from us except $1,300,000 worth, the world's foremost war corre-! American cotton sales in the But we don't want a bunch of millionaires, whose millions have officer to enforce the law? Or to give him unanimous support in spondents. Richard Harding Da been milked from the mass of the American people in the past, to Philippines under Spanish rule all and every effort he may put forth to that end? Perhaps the vis was not a gre^t writer. His was $325 in twelve months. Last be able to start the cry of war at their own will, to swell their newness of some to the work may account for this diffidence. When kindest critics never claimed year they amounted to over $6,000,000. a motion to do what is right is before the body there should be already bursting pocket books by supplying the United States with that. But he was a great reporter When we lose control *io' need for hesitancy or delay. Right is right, and law enforcement munitions of war at huge profits. If there are any profits in this who saw events clearly and of the Philippine Islands Japan is right. thing the people have a right to them in reduced contributions to forcefully and had the facile pen will take this trade from us. the treasury of our government. required to transfer his impres Japan gave as her excuse for What profits these munitions makers have been making is a sions to readers around the war with Russia that she purposed GO TO CHURCH ON EASTER SUNDAY. world. matter of record. That the United Statfes can make these things to maintain the independ- .Ar- He was a lover of the heroic, —. .— ence of Korea, preserve the ter- jf as needed at a much reduced figure below what these makers have The "go-to-church" movement has struck Koochiching county. the romantic and the adventur- ritorial integrity and autonomy charged in the past, and want to charge now, are facts any one It is a good movement. As Easter Sunday is a day that all recoganize ous, and his writings abound'of China, and preserve there the can learn. There should be no profit in war for anyone. as of especial religious note, it will be a good day to go to with men who radiate those' open door. This is emphatically of importance in view of who it is that church. characteristics. Korea has lost her independ- pays for these things. The common people. There is no income tax His first war was that between ence, the name of the country is No, you don't have any kick at the church. You only think sufficient, or any other system of taxation, to make the immensely Greece and Turkey. An incident province of Japan. ^you have. The church stands for all that is decent and good about rich pay their proportionate share of the federal income so of that campaign will illustrate The twenty-four demands by .you. No, you're not an atheist, nor a non-believer in religion or that the burden of paying for such munitions would be justly his reporting ability. A little,' Japan upon China constitute a church. You only think you are. It is only a flimsy excuse in frontier battle that was hardly death blow to the open door polworth theirs. The mass of-Americans pay the bill. And the mass of Americans ,your own mind for the knowledge of your own wrong doing against a line became a 500 word icy, and also, if granted, will have the right to demand, in this particular, that where your own conscience. Now be honest, is that not so? cable, dispatch by his tale of a mean a Japanese protectorate wealthy munitions makers would favor inciting war for the The church has always been woven intimately into the life of 12 year old Greek boy who guid- for China. profits in it for them, the government alone' should produce at America. The first emmigrants made the church a vital part of ed the Greek army to victory. Japan's purpose iin making first cost everything needed for an adequate army and navy. He made that boy as real as conquests in the Pacific is to be their life. It has continued to be such. And while there are many The nation needs preparedness, up to the minute, free from Booth Tarkington's "Penrod" the dominating influence in govand "wayward ones among us who have deserted the ways of the old pork and profit and any danger of jingoism. dismissed the battle with ernmental and trade affairs, to Solks at home, regarding religion and church, we are not as good the line it merited. monopolize and shut out her ?as they were in many ways. He was next in Cuba with competitors in the Pacific. HIDDEN DANGERS OF PUBLIC EATING AND It is not a question of creed. It is a question of being right. Shafter's army. He was in South! My information is that when DRINKING PLACES Any church, whatever the form of worship or creed, can be a means Africa in 1900 and watched the Roosevelt was President, Japan of making you better. Beneath all these exterior distinctions which British army crawl toward Pre- submitted an ultimatum to thte Califor-V The greatest danger of disease lies in the common things we do. are accidents due to the different kinds of minds interested, there toria. He was next in the Bal- United States over the Eating and drinking bring all the dangers of contaminated food, kans, saw native uprising in nia question. 3'S a common ground upon which we all can meet. God is the Father west Africa, went to Japan for The ultimatum was answered together with infected articles used for handling «of us all. We are his children. If we are right with our Father we the Japanese-Russian war and by Roosevelt by, sending the food and drink. shall be right with our brethren, his children. then traveled through the Bel- United States fleet to Japanese Not from the air, but from the common acts Is any of us so good we don't need to know God? Does not gian Congo and was one of the ports. of life do we contract disease. •our inner soul tell us of our faults, weaknesses, and wrongdoing? writers who forced Belgium to When I was in Manila last Public places of eating and drinking have It is said of Voltaire, the socalled infidel, of the last century, give that colony better treat- summer I was told by a number dangers peculiar to themselves. The glasses used yet one of its greatest men, that on his own estate in France he ment. of army officers that they slept over and over again in the saloon or soft drink He followed half a dozen Cen- on their arms three nights and erected a church where all and any could come and worship God in parlor, especially if nicked or cracked, may have tral American revolutions, was during that time gathered their his own way. He believed in going to church. He was misunderstood lurking about them the infection of loathsome at Vera Cruz with Funston and families together and kept them by his age, for such a man was no infidel. He believed in God. venereal disease. The infection of any disease hurried to Europe in time to tell at the Corregidor fortifications He lived knowing God. So can you. the world how Germany had expecting, momentarily, a Japan"woven G. P. Swinnerton, communicated by the secretions of the nose and Go to church on Easter Sunday. Go to any church. Jew or M. D. the gray mists of sun- ese attack. mouth may be contracted the same way. All pub­ gentile, socalled infidel, or unbeliever, careless and indifferent. No rise" into a uniform for its troops When I was at Nagasaki I lic places of this character should be required to use the most exact matter what you are, or think you are, go. You will be better for it. At times Richard Harding was informed by our officials and scrupulous care in cleansing most thoroughly these utensils. The community will be better for it. Davis approached the mock there that When the Japanese Every place where food of any kind is handled while being heroic. Yet his personal heroism were called to the colors for the served or sold, may be a source of typhoid infection. The numerous never was doubted. He smiled present was, they thought they JAKE PREUS AND THE POLITICIANS. cases of this disease contracted when no epidemic is present at death at Guasimas when Span- were to fight the Unitedl States, from some cause, are traceable to this source. ish artillery got the American' Absolute assurance against furange. State Auditor Preus is to be complimented on the thoroughr Any employee of a restaurant or store who handles food for He argued with a British ture serious trouble with Japan sentry in South Africa whose can be secured by the construc- ness with which he is opening up the whole matter of state timber others, who has had typhoid at some time in the past, may be a 1 trembling finger was playing tion of a navy in every respeclf' scaling, and incidentally, revealing a degree of rottenness and source of such infection. Carelessness about cleansing the hands with a rifle trigger. superior to that of Japan. It will graft of big proportions. after visiting the toilet, and then handling food for a patron to eat, All can remember his daring certainly take such a navy to intrip has caused a great number of cases of this disease. Co-incident with this action a hypocritical howl of "politics" to Mexico City, when he sure an open door in China and It is absolutely imperative as a public health piinciple that lias been lustily raised in certain quarters, among a bunch whose came near facing a firing squad also the territorial integrity of mouths are always set for political pap. eyery employer insist upon absolute cleanliness of the hands of with his back to an adobe waft that country against the designs all who work for him, in, this matter. But the people of Minnesota are not to be thus blinded by the in the fashion of many of his of Japan. It should be 'the invariable rule that an employer distinctly fiction characters I predict that Japan will never /•dust of these political sandmen. Good men, of an integrity above impiress this on every employee, when given work in any place He was married first to Cecil yield to Great Britain an inch of all suspicion of being corrupt, are not so numerous in the public Clark, of Chicago. His wooing the territory she has captured where food is handled. This should apply to all hotels, restaurants, life of this state that the people can afford to be bamboozled by the was characteristic of the man. from Germany, and in that respect groceries, soft drink parlors, butcher shops, saloons, or any other cry wolf, wolf, from a band of time-serving politicians, when an He went to London and cabled she is wiser' than the present permanent or temporary institution for the serving of human food honest man does his duty fearlessly. his confession of love. He was administration of theUnited or drink. This is a government for the people, The resources of the state divorced three years ago- and States, which is willing to sur--^^ This samp rule is applicable to the home. Have you a hired girl are for the good of all the people. State officials are appointed by married Bessie McCoy, the render the Philippines—our Do you know her health history? Has she ever had typhoid fever? the popular choice to conserve and handle these resources for the "Yama Yama" girl in vThe gateway to the Orient. Does she cleanse her hands on every occasion before preparing Three Twins." .good of the people, and the people as a whole, solely. The countries of Europe are food for the household? These are matters worthy of investigation At the time of his marriage to engaged in the greatest war the To listen to the cry of these political harpies, when an officer by every housewife. It will save life and big. doctors' bills. Miss McCoy, Davis, instead of world has ever known, for trade •of the state proceeds to do his clear and unquestionable sworn In fact every housewife, or other person handling food for the usual honeymoon, provided and territorial expansion. •duty and catches a bunch in the act of stealing wholesale from the T- themselves or others, should be as careful about cleansing the children of New York's poorer While they are thus engage*. people's resources, one would imagine that the state, its officiary, 1 classes. hands before handling food, as the rest. Congress is about to surrender and its resources, existed solely and by divine right for the replenishment our territory and trade in .the This matter of cleansing the hands should be a habit. Many of their personal resources. The people be d-d! Women—-$30 for distributing Orient, which, in the end, will be have it now, but everyone should attend to this matter, just as much To listen to their cries and comments upon this plain" and 100 free skeins Wear-Proof darn- taken over by our commercial as any other matter of toilet. simple execution of duty by a sworn officer of the. people, you ing cotton with hosiery, your and military rival in the East^,/ jfeb 'c' Care in the common things is where the safety lies. Disease section. Experience unnecessary, to make that nation more powerInternational would imagine that the question of any right or wrong had no .Z gjfcv %$v jurks insidiously near at hand where often we least think of it. Mills, Dept. 600,! ful and put it in better shape to .« part in the matter. Politics, to their mind, is above and beyond the popular mind has in the past looked too far afield at secondary Norristown, Pa. ,, give us serious trouble. DEFECTIVE PAGE