INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS DONT LET YOUR NOSE DECEI VE YOU. XXX sxsgggggggcxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx •VHVHwnW#VnH# THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Some folks make a great to do about bad smells. In their mind XXXX KX' "AMERICA FIRST." AND BORDER BUDGET a bad smell is synonymous with all kinds of danger of disease. ^•V Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. This idea still prevails quite widely, and many Whatever the shore that your forefathers hailed from, 8X a health officer has more calls from people about SX What ever the flag that they fought for afar :sx Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at a bad smell in their neighborhood than any one International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Whatever the lands that yourselves may have sailed from, «X thing beside. INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. Today you must cherish the land where you are. :sx XS This is an incorrect idea which has survive 1 sx MAC GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager. Today you are sons of this Nation of Nations, from the earlier days of public health teaching. •V^ «x Untroubled by war and its spirit accurst its When this science first came to be popularly vW# KX So, guarding your souls against racial temptations, sx known, smells counted for a good deal. How xa :*x v-: The proprietors of the soft drink parlors are to be congratulated Let this be your motto: "America First!" often we have heard of the dangers of sewer 8X on removing the old time beer signs from their windows gas. If there was the slightest sign of it about KX sx *ind buildings. It makes their places look more like reputable business X*£ G. P. Swinnerton, the house, or near the vent of a drain in the This Nation of ours every people has greeted, :«x M. D. houses. street the whole health department were on the Has welcomed them in to partake of her cheer KX :*x job at once. If a dead animal lay in the open decomposing, the putrid And even the humblest, despised and defeated, *JX odor was immediately a sign of danger, and something had KX Get out your flags and bunting next Tuesday and Wednesday Have felt themselves men when they came over here KX KX to be done. So all the way down the line through all hues and in honor of the ladies of our own city as well as in honor of the The victims of systems and dynasties royal & «X distinguished ladies from other parts of our state who will be in shades of odors. %z: KX With her have found freedom, their dreams to fulfill, xx KX session here during those days to discuss ways and means of bettering Now this smell business is very largely a bogey about which And surely such hearts will not now be disloyal ax «x conditions along many lines. 3W5 there is little danger. To her and her spirit of peace and good will. KX :rv Stop a moment and consider how often you have felt cold *.X.V :*x +v 8x chills at some smell as dangerous, and then sat down to a suppet God keep from our shores the dread issues of battle »*«x Roosevelt for President, Hughes for Head of the Supreme of limburger cheese. Or else you have partaken of sauerkraut, or God keep from our country the curse we abhor Court, Root for Secretary of State—in that way the country's had a meal flavored generously with garlic. Are there any more They speak not the mind of the nation who prattle greatest men could be made to serve the public in the jobs they S3X vicious smells than any one or all of these? Hardly. KX So lightly of plunging the land into war. ^ire best fitted to fill.—New York Tribune. sx But you don't call for the health officer in the presence of kx But if, proving futile our peaceful endeavor, kx these things. You have no fear that there is danger to your life from The tempest of war on her borders should burst— kx International Falls is a dry town. Some blind pigging may these odiferious emanations, Why should there be with any other kx Then, then, whatsoever your race, you must never KX still exist. But that is being attended to. We would like our friends smell, however disagreeable. KX MV Forget the great watchword, "America First!" xa of the state officiary, and others who visit this city, to remember Rest from hence in peace, for the dangerous things don't S*88 kx Dennis A. McCarthy in Sacred Heart Review KX this when in our city on official or other business. There may have xxxs usually have such an odor that any ordinary person could detect S3 been some excuse for these gentlemen when our city had a roughneck them. Have you ever seen a case of diphtheria, scarlet fever, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX3JXsSSiXX^pSS8S^S^^^^S^««^ reputation justifiably, looking on it as a suitable and out-ofthe-way whooping cough, measles, typhoid fever, which gave off such an place to throw off restraint and hit it up to their hearts' offensive odor that your sense of smell was offended? Hardly. To STANTON AND MARCUM I desire. But times are changed. The only chance for "fire water" ness of the concern which has the trained physician there may be the faintest smell characteristic BUY BEMIDJI SENTINEL been so well built up, edited, and is the disreputable and unlawful dump run by some persistent lawbreaker. of some of these diseases, but you would not notice it. operated by Editor and Mrs. F. Is it consistent that officials of the State of Minnesota If there is no smell about the disease where it occurs in the A. Wilson, whom we are sorry should come here and virtually give these disreputable joints their The many good friends of sufferer, and where the germs are more abundant than anywhere to see leave the profession in this official sanction by patronizing them? In other words, assisting Mayne Stanton will be interested else, how could the smells you are so afraid of, where there probably part of the state. these lawbreakers to violate the law in the face of the wish of the to know that he and Walter never are any of these germs, have anything to do with the disease people here that the county option law be enforced. Marcum have organized a company or the cause of it? Good roads are putting towns and purchased the Bemidji It is time to be done with this hysteria about smells. If they and counties "on the map" alL**'*through Sentinel. the country they a: "DRY," BUT BUSY. exist, seek quietly to have the cause removed, not because they Mayne, who is the son of simply a paying business invesJ are associated with disease, necessarily, but as simply an offensive Judge C. W. Stanton, has had ment for any section. A count}^*. thing to your esthetic sensibilities. considerable experience during Although Staples has been dry for about five months the town cannot have a better advertisement the past few years in the different But there is most often no smell where the greatest danger Is far from being dead. Buildings are in such demand that several than the statement that departments of newspaper lies. This is the thing to get after. Don't run off on a false trail new ones, fine brick structures, will be erected just as soon as the work, on the Bemidji Pioneer, it is a "county of good roads," after a bad smell and pass the silent, stealthy, odorless things frost is out of the ground. In fact this city is counting on one of the Minneapolis Journal, and the for well kept highways lead to that are full of danger. the busiest years in its history and a revival of business such as Grand Rapids Herald Review, progressive towns and are evidences Similarly, the false idea that another bad smell will necessarily it has not seen in years.—Staples World. which has fitted him in good of good business enterprise destroy disease, is often erroneous. Burning sulphur, wearing shape for going into business and the general prosperity camphor bags or other strong smelling substances have but little, on his own account. Walter ANNIVERSARY OF THE LUISITANIA DISASTER of the people. In Texas thfc^ if any, action upon disease germs. They grow in spite of them. A Marcum, his partner, is a good printer and all round hustler. farmers of the state have adoptmore good scrubbing brush and soap and water have it all over such Mayne is a good writer, editor, smelling substances as a remedy for germs of disease. grain more grain and A year ago 011 May as beautiful a day as spring ever yth, and all round business getter. more grazing more grit and Don't lose any sleep or worry yourself into a nervous condition knew, the Lusitania was steaming over the blue waters of the sea Bemidji is an unusually good over smells, but learn where the real danger lies. more gumption more harmony «off the coast of Ireland. Without warning she was struck by an newspaper and job printing ^assassin torpedo and a thousand souls were hurled into eternity, and more hogs.'' On this platform field, and without doubt the new of whom a hundred were good Americans, half of them women the Texas farmer is sure management and ownership of TIME TO THINK INTERNATIONALLY. snd children. the Sentinel will continue, and, to win out.—Morton Enterprise. if possible, improve both the Since then other Americans, confident in the greatness and The American people must learn to think internationally. That SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRES newspaper and the general busi­ dignity of America among the nations of the earth, have gone sXy is the supreme need of the hour. We must achieve a broader horizon, down to sea in ships to meet the same fate. 4 must see and strive to undertsand what is happening inthe Not only sheltered by the supposed greatness and power of world. Momentuous changes are impending. Shall we prepare for this nation, but under the specific agreement of nations as expressed them or shall we continue to dream on in fancied security of our in international law, these Americans sailed by right upon prosperous content? the seas. Let there be 110 confusion on this point. What are we doing this moment that touches world interests? Since the Luisitania horror, a certain section of our population We're Foot­ We are invading Mexico with a tiny "punitive expedition" that including, to their shame, members of the present democratic congress, may set off in a great blaze the tinder of anarchy and revolution. have not only decried these unfortunate ones, denying their We are holding the great Philippine Archipelago with hardly wear Specialists right to travel in safety upon the seas, but have heaped terms of an obstacle against its seizure but our prestige. even a scurrilous character upon them. 7 his was notably so in the We have just assumed a protectorate over Haiti—for the good recent discussion in congress upon the matter of warning off of that blood-stained negro Republic, no doubt, but still likely to for All the Americans from traveling to Europe. be misunderstood by those who scoff at our boasted altruism. For one long year in vaccillation the administration has allowed We are entering upon what amounts to a limited protectorate Family a certain section of the press and people of this country to of Nicaragua, in which there are seeds of possible trouble. prevent it from taking a firm and unequivocal position upon the We have cut the isthmus of Panama with a great canal which sanctity and right of safety of any and all Americans to travel must be protected at all hazzards, and which is a vital spot in our fche seas unmolested by any power whatsoever. Now, too late, the defenses. Whether it's the "wee toddler," the boy of six, President has sent the ultimatum to Germany on the matter. Our rich and inexhaustably rich possessions in Alaska, our island big brother or sister, father or mother or grandfather, A stronger hand, guided by the spirit of the Americanism of the outposts of Hawaii and beyond are but poorly defended. of the family who needs spring footwear, ^P*- the fathers of this country and of i860, would have sent such We stand for the open door in China, but can offer no effective we have just what is most wanted and of dependable an ultimatum immediately upon the destruction of the Luisitania. resistance to Japanese schemes of Japanese agrandizement there. quality. The same gang who are now assiduously organizing politics And in the background is that most cherished American principle, thioughout the counti} to secure the control of the next congress the Monroe Doctrine, which obligates us to resent and resist There is a shoe here for you, at just the price in faver of peace at any price, the denial of Americans to travel by force any aggression of foreign powers in the affairs of you want to pay, and one which will give you the the seas, and the handling of the American government as a subsidiary the Western Hemisphere. best of service from every angle. interest of a certain European power, are the same gang Surely there are enough possibilities of trouble and disaster in that have been in hand with the plots to destroy factories and these American activities outside of continental United States, to FOR WOMEN We carry the Dorothy Doddline other enterprises on American soil, and have been associated with arouse a sober and intelligent people. Surely these things shriek of footwear—which always presents the new styles -other treasonable acts since the inception of this war. their warnings aloud, save for ears that will not hear. first, and we show them here as soon as they appear Are Americans going to stand for this kind of thing? Are we If we are to get ready for eventualities Congress must lead the in the larger cities. going to lie supinely by, give up all the principles which have been way. Yet Congress is full of time-servers and demagogues and the pride and honor of our nation since the days of Washington peace fanatics. Congress dawdles along with compromises and FOR MEN We offer Bostonian and Copeland Do we want our nation to be the spineless and servile vassal of makeshifts. Congress mulls over half baked plans that will require Ryder shoes, because we .have learned from experience some overweaning monarch of Europe? No! four or five years to bring forth their meager fruit. that they are shoes that satisfy in style, We have experts as well trained, as thoroughly informed, and It were better to fight than to have the heel of any European comfort and fit. as far-seeing as any in the world. They tell us what ought to be despot on our neck. We have done it before. Shall we have to do done, but we don listen to them. Some of us, sentimentalizing' over it again Yet there are those who claim the privileges and betterment FOR CHILDREN The Kreider shoe beats them the horrors of war and the supposed imminence of a millenium of of their lives under American government and freedom who all, because it is designed especially for growing peace, wander off as followers of Bryan, with his dream of an are, nevertheless, insidiously placing the bomb of treason at the feet and has a lot of style. It gives a lot of comfort. over-night army of defense numbering a million men. root and foundation of our national life and government. That's why we sell it. Can the American nation be aroused in time, or will it sleep Will true Americans stand for such conditions Not while the on to its destruction ?-^Minneapolis Journal. mass of them have a breath of life in.them. Subscribe For The Press Give us a government of vigor and virility, and respect and BURTON'S honor for everything that has made this nation what it is. Away with hyphenism, treachery, and the hand that stabs at the very mother from whom it gets its sustenance. ft