PfP ?-r ••:'. ---vmm i'^r Z~i' 1 h~ VJ r-.. ".' -. 7 'ro«i-5*i«»-« -t .As U-*#^ I ifilp syy 4*V INTERNATIONAL FALLS PREb~ THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ARE SCHOOL CHILDREN PROPERLY FED? blue room of the White House.! bitrate the entire question of rl Mr. Holden had possession of the overtime play. A N O E E Very many children going to school are not fed the right food. formal reply of the railroads re- executives asked the pre- The jecting the presidents plan and sjdent su„gestion A survey of a number of schools as to what the children have for to take this Publishers of the Official County Proceedings breakfast shows that the usual breakfast is coffee proposing arbitration of all the under advisement and to ascer- in many cases, arid bread and butter, or oatmeali ,S:r\\aCCOrda"Ce..with an'tain whether the unions would Entered at the Post Office at International Falls Minn as Second-class scatter or cereals, or cakes. The bulk of the food is ^Mr HoM COlka" P™P°sal. The presi­ the des, Mr. Holden was to present said that he would do so. of a starchy variety. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY dent *"SW" ,£. president, car_ the During the discussiorl the Nothing can be more, injurious to growing GEO. F, WATSON, Editor and Manager t? re,Ce'Ve showed the president the riers children than the use of coffee or tea. These It soon developed, however, copy o{ the strjke orders jssued things are simply stimulants which act upon the that the president was anything by the unions calling for the sus- nervous system/Not only do they not afford any T' eafCr reply, pension of traffic on Monday the Beltrami county has voted to remain in the wet column, and t0 recelve the nourishment, but are .actually harmful. No child while we don't believe in that line of hardware a little bit, we cannot Wn °f. 4th at 7 a. m. The executives should ever be allowed to drink either. had been fully acquainted. He said that there was help but admire the campaign put up by Editors Noonan and Then the list of foods as given above which ft. V. Swinnsrton, gave the employers to under- haste in the further negotiations Erickson, of Baudette and Spooner. We would it were a better SB. D. are eaten at breakfast, is made up of things stand at once that there had been for it would be imperative for I cause they fought for.—Mesaba Ore. developments which in his view them to leave for their homes which largely supply only starch to the digestive organs. Now opened the way to further nego- within starch, after digestion, only supplies fuel to keep the machinery a day or two in order tiations. Under the circumstan- prepara_ Have you noticed the increasing number of wall-eyed, syphilitic-looking, of the body going. Too much starchy foods, with the sugars assume direction of the non-taxpaying stiffs around town that remind one of ces he expressed the hope that tions to withstand the strike so often given to children as candy, without other things in hebrotherhood the knock-down-and-drag-out days of the old liquor gang rule? the railroads had not determined heads, Garunalterably proportion, is in danger of causing diabetes. This is a disturbance the., proposition on retson, These parasites ought to be told to "move on," as they have no St Lee and of the organsv in the body which turn vegetable starch the questions at issue. following visible means of support, and should not be tolerated in this city late today issned the and sugar into animal sugar. Too much of these things in the food Mr. Holden said that the rail- statement explaining their oppoway over night. will cause disease of these organs and a waste from the body of the executives were w-illing to sition to any legislation along the V. animal sugar begins through the kidneys. This is a dangerous entertain any further proposals pian 0f -^e Canadian commission, After maintaining a strict neutrality for two years, although condition and not at all uncommon among improperly fed children. the president might care to sub- "Since the abolition of slavery surrounded by warring nations, Roumania has at last gotten into The body of a child needs not only fuel to keep the machinery mit, but he made it clear that no more effectual means has the maelstrom on the side of the allies, which is a strong, indication such as the muscles, working, but it must also have supplies to they had made a definite decision been devised for insuring the of her belief that the allies will win. Roumania is reported to have build up the growing tissues which in a child are always developing. to suffer a strike rather than to bondage of the workingman well trained and well equipped soldiers, which should aid 800,000 yield to any of the demands than the passage of compulsory considerable in the success of the allied forces. without arbitration. intervention acts of the charac- The problem is very much like that of running an engine, if A protracted and rather heated ter of the Canadian Industrial you can imagine something being fed into the fire to repair the debate between the president Disputes act. The writers speak KEYES A FARCE AS MAYOR. engine where it wears out. and make it grow bigger. The coal and the railway heads ensued, from personal experience thereThe gives the heat to run it, and the repairs or enlargement of the engine president argued that the under as the organizations are After a ten days' visit at Big Falls, Mizpah, Northome and are another matter which the coal cannot take care of. eight hour day should be conced- all international in their juris- Blackduck, the editor of this paper returned without having seen The human body in childhood is somewhat similar to this idea ed by the carriers because, in diction. To cite an actual occurhis or heard of even a suspicion of illegal liquor selling in any of these of the engine.The starchy foods, such as oatmeal, bread, cakes, etc., opinion, it was the working ance: prosperous villages. But we had not been in this city two hours day sanctioned by society." The «T" Trk'_ supply the fuel which is burned up in the muscles. But other kinds 0 1 11 1 In 1910 the men upon 80 before we saw three drunks on the street at the same time, and executives challenged this as- *i ,1 of food are of the greatest importance to supply the substances .» railroads in the eastern terrisertion two policemen—but the policemen were looking the other way. and pointed out that in tt needed to make the new tisues of growth and repair. A normal ,o. 1,1 1 "A lory of the +v,United States pre-• There is no excuse for this condition of braggadocio neglect few states have laws been passed M:i child of school age increases in weight and size all the time. It tt, eiEh. hour of duty at public expense. There is no reason why the taxpayers of cannot do this properly if it does not get the right food. this city and county should have to pay a lot of court costs in trial ne Employers Terms. an increase in wages. The com- So that the foods which go to make new muscle, bone, nerves, of drunken assaults and blind pigging simply because Mayor Keyes mally the employers inforced panies refused to deal concerted,tie brain and organs, which are all growing, are such things as meat, wont do his simple duty. If he is afraid of a few bootleggers he president flatly that they ly with the proposition and it eggs, milk, cheese, beans, peas. These are what are known as proteid had better resign. wou not concede the eight was therefore taken up with the foods, and are especially valuable for growth. hour day outright unless the individual roads. Three of the So that a proper diet is a wise assortment of these things unions were willing to take eight properties were Canadian and EDUCATING FOR CITIZENSHIP. with the starchy foods mentioned above. They must, .however, be tenths of their present wages for two davs after negotiation was given with care and wisdom, considering the digestive ability of ,°U^aS f°r h°Urs' °Pened on the three Canadian IO Pay 61ght Professor Claxton, United States commissioner of education, the child. Milk is a good assimilable form of food as it contains work. They said, however, that the United States included fedthey compresses into a brief article in the current number of The New were willing to arbitrate eral mediation in the first inthe everything needed in a suitable form. But care not to use it too York Independent a lot of interesting information about the work establishment of the eight stance and arbitration in the exclusively is most important., of his department and the educational facilities which the country hour day, overtime pay and all third case. It is also important that children have suitable fruits to eat. other issues. t/^ 1 has provided for itself. These are not so much nourishing but are needed to aid the various •j-,. i. I On July 19 following, settlemdmg the executives obdur- ment was made on the last of the To select a few figures, it appears that there were 22,000,000 functions of digestion. There is a difference in the food value of li' Wilson betrayed con- American lines involved. On persons in the educational institutions in this country in of 1914 fruits. A banana has much morei actual food in it than an apple 77 siderable anger and began lec- the same date at 6 p. m. a stride whom were in the elementary schools. As teachers for 19,000,000 or many other fruits. It has much sugar, fats, alnd other ingredients tunng the carriers concerning took place on the Grand Trunk these millions of pupils there were employed people and, which feed the body. But any of the ripe fresh fruits used wisely, 700,000 their duties to, the public in the railway, one of the Canadian as evidence of the rapid growth of the public high school, the enrollment and according to the ability of the child to handle them, are of present emergency as he views railways, settlement not having in that branch was greater last year by nearly 100,000 great importance to the child's health. the question. He accused them yet been effected on any one of than for any preceeding period. 1 Above all, don't allow any child to drink tea or coffee. Water of blocking a settlement of the (the three, this growing out of We are spending on education a year which looks is better. Milk is good. Assort the food and be sure your child is question on indefensible grounds the delays, which the employers $750,000,000 getting enough for all its needs without disturbing the digestion like a lot of money until it is contrasted with three times that and asserted that they would be (were able to interpose under the held to a heavy accounting by Industrial Disputes act. amount spent for alcoholic liquors. or function of the bowels. 1 the American people. He por-1 "Moreover, the period of intrayed Food makes growing children. Good food makes strong, One hundred years ago the average school attendance of those his plan of settlement as vestigation is eternally utilized 1 healthy, normal growing children. who actually went to school was only days during their entire 82 a fair proposition to both sides, by the employer to entrench school period. The average now is 1,057 days—little enough, surely. anc* exPressed the belief that the: himself in his efforts to defeat But the figures are not the most interesting part, of Professor TRAINMEN ORDER faith with him in calling the public agrees with him and con- hte demands of the men no Claxton's exposition of the activities of his department. It is the STRIKE FOR SEP. 4 strike. They replied that there demns the railroads for rejecting matter how just their cause'may broadening of the work of education which is the most distinctive could have been no misunder- it. Gf instanc- be and in a majority feature of the progress being made. This includes new divisions (Continued from Page 1) standing, for when they served The wrath of the railroad where a verdict by an investi- eS their ultimatum last Friday they heads was visibly stirred by the gatin£ commission has been under the head of civic education, education of immigrants, home understood today, will fight the said they would send the. 600 president's remarks, but they favorable to the men, has been education, vocational education, school and home gardening, rural compulsory investigation feature union leaders home Saturday held their peace and a^ain in- repudiated by the employer education and the kindergarten division. These are adjustments of of President Wilson's legislative night and Sunday with the strike formed Mr. Wilson that they "In consequence of this attiorder the general work of the bureau of education to the particular needs program, but support his if they received no favor- had considered every possible tude, disregard for and the toable of the public. The division of civic education works in co-operation eight hour proposal. Leaders response from the carriers phase of the question before n0ring of the provisions of that with the National Municipal league, and the division of education were confident that separate votes through the White House. reaching a unanimous decision law has led to placing thousands could be obtained in congress of immigrants in connection with the North American Civic league. Charge Wilson with Desertion to stand unalterably for arbitra- of men in the attitude of lawThe on the proposition. The division of home education co-operates with the National Congress president with some heat tion. They said they were ready breakers, and the passage of laws In order to have any effect on of Mothers and the Parents' and Teachers' associations while informed the union men that his to deliver their final answer to which induce men to open violapatience the present proposed strike the school ana home gardening co-operates with the International was exhausted and that this effect. thereof is a deadly injury to tion president's legislative program Child Welfare league. he purposed to avert the strike Mr. Holden made a gesture as nation because it breeds uni- a would have to pass both houses lf possible without regard to the if he were about to present Mr. versal contempt for law The theory of our public school system is that the state owes and become a law before next consequences to either party to Wilson with the written reply, I "Tn the nresent strife if it to itselt to educate its citizens for the intelligent exercise of the Monday morning. the controversy. birt the president waved hima law weT'Led aU t^ privileges of the citizen. Experience has demonstrated that it is not Executives Reject 'Wilson Plan The brotherhood officials left aside. He indicated forcibly that would be necessary would be for enough to give the boy and girl ability to read and write and to Direct negotiations between the White House angry and,he did not wish to receive the the power of attorney to be perform simple operations in mathematics. They must be taught the railroad executives and the o___ charging that the president had answer. Inasmuch as hte answer withdrawn from the national something of the spirit of their institutions must be equipped for employes htrough President Wil- repudiated his promises and gone was prepared as the 1 result of conferen *e committee of manag- useful life work. .The new citizens who come to us without opportunities practically were closed today over to the railroads. an ultimatum from Mr. Wilson, ers" by"the'l^diill^^S" for acquiring the rudiments of an education, and particularly when the executives refused to After conferring with the the carriers regard the refusal and then immediate necessitv without instruction in the principles and operation of our institutions, accede to a proposal made to democratic steering committee,of the president to receive it would atise for 2so arbitration are entitled to assistance in preparing themselves for them yesterday by Mr. Wilson the senate for two hours and tantamount to an affront, but boards to be created if onlv of or and presented to him and presented to him a state- a half late yesterday, the presi- they still restrained their anger.'a limited number were provided the fulfillment of their neyv obligations. This the public educational ment of their position containing •system undertakes to do. ntain- dent was less fonfident that leg-| Finally the president informed for, men could be compelled to another argument for arbitration. lslation could be put through the recalcitrant employers that remain for years in involuntary The work of the public schools occupies such a large place in congress in time to avert the im- he purposed to establish the servitude if they obeyed "the propending the public eye that we are in the habit of overlooking the fact that After a 30 minute conference strike. He was advisedeight hour day on all interstate visions of such a law." "we have after all a large percentage of illiteracy. Professor says that at 11 a. m. with President Wilson, that it would be an almost in- railroads without asking the con- there are nearly 6,000,000 in the United States, nearly all of whom the committee of eight executives superable task to pass the bills I sent of the 'carriers. He said that PREPARING HISTORY announced they would have reached their majority. They are found to a greater extent he suggested before the end of 1 1 what he had failed to accomplish OF EACH COUNTY issue a statement later. They the week. in the rural districts than in the cities and the greatest number are by negotiation with the parties said htat their statement would a 2 5 a 3 5 a The democratic leaders approved to the controversy he intended Warren Upham, representing make hteir position in the controversy the legislative proposals to bring about, if possible, thro The most interesting feature of the broadened scope of the the Minnesota Historical society, clear. 1 made by hte president and assured action by congress. was a visitor in this city recently. educational work of the country is among these adult illiterates. When the president" learned him that the program When the carriers found that He is preparing a book for It is in the nature of an effort to recover the ground lost by ineffective that the strike order had been could be put through congress the president was determined to the society on the. history of the educational methods, either in this country or in some sent forth, he called the brotherhood within a very reasonable time. seek eight hour day legislation, names of the different villages other, and bring up to the standard of qualification for citizenshipall heads to the White House Convinced that there is little they informed him that they had and towns, lakes and. creeks 'in those who are clothed with its responsibilities and privileges last night and appealed to them hope of staving off the calamity a suggestion to make which the state. Each county will be to suspend the instructions or, many western railroad. presidents Professor Claxton lays emphasis upon this department of the might lead to a settlement without given a chapter in the book. at least, to postpone the date of left the capitol last night, educational work of the country and believes that the experience congressional action. They Mr. Upham is securing the the walkout. The brotherhood to reach home in time to meet said the/'would yield the- eight already had justifies the hope that the adult illiteracy may in a very information from county records IS8 presidents refused to accede to that crisis. r. 4 hour day with the understanding few years be practically eliminated. One of the most encouraging and from old citizens. the request, Mr. Wilson received the committee that the wage for eight hours Up to two years Mr. Upham facts in that connection is the remarkable avidity With which those Mr. Wilson took the^ union of employers at 2 :30 p. m. should be eight-tenths of the had for 19 years been secretary to whom such belated opportunities ire offered seize upon them leaders severely to task/ charging headed by President Hale Holden present wage for 10 hours, in and librarian of the historical and makfe the most of them.—Minneapolis Tribune. them virtually with breaking of the Burlington in jthe addition to that they would ar society.^r Jt t,«« V, •H