THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SICK CHILDREN? defective gerous conditions as tuberculous glands of the neck, and teeth, which shoul be immediately attended to. with Again, when these children are sick from any condition, Never has so much been said, written and done for the health AND BORDER BUDGET they of children than now. The state, through its board of health, and a fever, vimiting, and other symptoms, they are left to do as Publishers of the Official County Proceedings every city, village and township, is empowered by, with can without a doctor. Many of the parents would not do this statute to protect the health of children from contagious every a sick cow. In every instance skilled help should be had, and at the Post Office at International Tails Xlnn as Second-class Matter diseases and unhealthy conditions. child given the best chance. These provisions of the governments of the COMPANY INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING Selfrespecting citizens should provide all these things for the states and country at large has given rise to a paternalistic GEO. F. WATSON, Editor and Manager health and well-being of their children. idea of the state. In some minds there is an expectation that it is up to some individual or body of the county or state officiary to provide W. T. U. NOTES of the social and political life Be sure and vote for Amendment No. at the coming general medical care and treatment for all the ailments county. election, November 7th. It provides that out of the sale of school The W. C. T. U. meeting which and sicknesses of the children. During the business' meeting lands $250 shall be set aside for clearing purposes, and that whenever was to have been held Tuesday It is true that the state has seen fit to provide 0. took Swlxmerton, several lively discussions v. IS. D. a man buys land which has been in part cleared by the state of this week was postponed owing a county physician and a state hospital for place. The business of building to the Chautauqua being he shall pay back to the state the cost of the clearing in addition to the care of the sick. But these, under the law, are only for the sick a club house has met with several held in town this week. the price paid for the land, and his money then goes on helping to obstacles and the building ones of poor and destitute families. The poor we have always with The next meeting will be held clear additional acres. The amendment makes it easier for a man time committee was given more us. So that the state has provided for these. the third Tuesday in September, with s^nall means to secure a farm home on the vacant acres of to clear these up. The meeting It is well to know this, for often there are pitiable cases of which is on the 19th. The place adjournd after accepting'aiTin* state lands, without a cent of expense to the taxpayer. children throughout even Koochiching county, whose parents are of meeting has not yet been de-jvitation to meet next month very poor, and these children suffer much for the want of proper cided upon but will be announced with Mr. and Mrs. Aad Tone. "Northern Minnesota," a magazine which is published monthly medical care and attention. They suffer both from diseases and, next week. Remember the date, Mrs. Carl Sjostrom, at Duluth, and which is doing considerable to give favorable advertising sometimes defects, such as adenoids, enlarged tonsils, and other September 19th, and plan to attend, Press Cor. to this section of the state, gives practically its entire August similar things. These cases should all be brought to the attention as this is to be an important number to splendid write-ups of Koochiching county, with one meeting. Every member of the county commissioner of the district in which they reside. good article by Superintendent D. B. Jewell on the county schools, should be present. He then has power t-o direct them to the county physician for such and another by Attorney F. J. McPartlin on the county's agricultural Friends of the work are cordially treatment as they need, free of cost. In cases of severe disease or resources, one on Rainy Lake as a summer resort, by Cashier invited to attend. Men may grave surgical conditions they can be secured admission to he W. G. Anderson of Ranier, also a good write-up by the editor on join as honorary members, and University Hospitals in Minneapolis. This they ca'n have without are invited to do so. International Falls as a prosperous manufacturing city. The entire other cost than the railroad fare to go and return. W. C. T. U. COR. volume is finely illustrated with farm, stock, lake and industrial Now as far as the care of children afflicted with a contagious cuts which easily confirm the statements of the many writers. disease is concerned, the health laws give ample power to every Highland Farmers' Club. health board of. townships, villages and cities, to make all necessary There is an expression of general satisfaction because of the expenditures where the people are poor, not only to get the A very sociable meeting of action taken by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist toward an investigation child better but more especially to protect the rest of the children the Highland Farmers' club of the financial condition and road construction work o»f this county. from these dangerous diseases. was held at the home of Mr. and Koochiching county has been under a serious cloud of suspicion Mrs. Lynn Garrison. Now, Mr. After all these cases are covered there still remain the large and disrespect for many months because of serious and apparently Garrison is some cook and the majority of children of parents of average means. This is the great "well-founded rumors of something wrong with the administration attractively served dinner under class of Americans who manage to get along, and provide their of its affairs. Whether the allegations made by the four reputable the trees had no trouble disappearing. families with things needful. citizens who filed the complaints necessary for this investigation A few of the late Regarding the children of these people, when they are sick it are true, only a careful examination of the records can prove until arrivals had to hurry in out of is the duty of the parents to provide them proper medical care and the rain but that did riot spoil which time the public should withold its judgment. The investgation attention. their dinner as they saw to it will undoubetly be carried to the limit. The resignation of But one of the crying shames of some agricultural parts, even that the eatables went in also. Auditor Slocum simply makes unnecessary the proceedings through of Minnesota, has been that a farmer would sooner call a doctor As a special treat the club entertained which he was to have shown cause why he should not be removed for a sick horse, cow or pig than for his own sick child Such lamentable "company." Mr. and Mrs. from office, but does not, as we understand it, stop the investigation Geo. P. Watson of International ignorance and selfishness needs the scorn dnd contempt into the county's affairs, upon which Attorney Howes has been Falls, and Mr. and Mrs. M. C. GEO. P. WATSON of all neighbors and associates of such parents to awaken within ••J "working for many months under Governor Burnquist's direction. Paul of Northome. Perhaps I them a sense of their duty. Some of these parents will make many a Candidate for Clerk of Court should say that the club was entertained child do almost an adult's work around the farm and then deny KOOCHICHING COUNTY by the "company." Ihem a doctor when they are sick. Mrs. Paul was given the role of He has resided in the county Some such people will even try to work some scheme to get 2,010,240 acres of land, practically every acre fertile. organist for the day and Mr. continuously for the past fifteen NOT A county where there is a chance for every man but a the service provided only for the poor. Nothing too strong can be Watson gave an interesting talk. years. man for every chance. said in condemnation of such methods and people. He spoke of the fearlessness of He is well acquainted with Soil is largely a limy clay, more or less mixed with fine sand. the farmer in expressing his It is not only the duty but. the privilege of this class of citizens all its needs. opinions on all important questions. The soil is the best in 49 states by government test. to care for their children in all conditions of illhealth or defect. He said the farmer's opinions JFully 25 per cent of the so-called muskeg lands are less than There is need for a finer sen^e of the need of many childrer for He has always worked vigorously are his own and are formed two feet deep, over 50 per cent are less than six feet deep.. «k"Med medical attention. Many of our children in the rural schools, for its best interests. without regard to what his Over 1000 miles of ditch-roads under construction, giving us as well as those of the cities,! are improperly developed owing to neighbor will think or what If elected he will take personal communication and drainage. defective clothing or impropejr food. Many of them are laboring work harm they will do to his business. and continual care of the. $5 You can buy state land, without the timber, for up home­ along with, defects of the nose and throat which .if corrected would He told something of the. influence of office and will give the best $1.25 $5 stead land along the ditches for cut-over timber land, up improve their health tenfold. Many of them even have such dan­ of the farmers* clubs on the service to all its patrons. $5 private homesteads, often with many improvements, for up. Lumbering and land-clearing give plenty of work near home, COUNTY AGENT IS summer and winter at good wages, for the man without capital. BUSINESS BARGAIN You do not need to send to a catalog house for building material and fencing. A county agent is a bargain A. J. McGuire, after ten years in charge of the experimental as a business proposition to the farm at Grand Rapids, Minn., claims that 40 acres, half of it under county employing him. Of the plow, will support a family in comfort. $3,000 a year needed, nearly half Our standard rotation is grain, followed by clover, which for is paid from state funds and the the third year is plowed under and followed by potatoes and other the United States Department of root crops or fodder corn. Agriculture.. One thousand dollars The greatest grass fcountry on earth. Two to four tons of is applied annually to the work in a county from the funds timothy-clover hay per acre. The future dairy center of Minnesota. of the state. To get this aid the A creamery was started this year at Northome and others will county must raise $1,000 for one follow. year and give assurance that a More hours of sunlight in the growing season than in any part like sum will be raised for another of the United States. year. The board of county All grains do well. We are getting fine yields of wheat, oats, commissioners then agree to hire barley, rye, buckwheat and flax. an agent approved by the dean of the Department of Agriculture, 200 Root crops thrive here. Potatoes average bushels to the University Farm, St. Paul. 600 acre. Some of our best farmers double that and yields of bushels The Piccadilly The agent must also meet the have been known. requirements of the United The flint varieties will ripen Corn can be grown successfully. States Department of Agriculture. belt. The dent corns of the as regularly as do the corns in the corn Minnesota 13 type have Minnesota 23, Northwestern dent, and The county commissioners matured. been successfully Were Known may appropriate annually as much as $1,000 subject to the the liquor traffic in Febru­ No saloons. The county outlawed order of the dean of the Department ary, 1916. of Agriculture. In addition Poultry do well here and we fatten hogs, cattle and sheep on to this, there is available for as the store for "Styles of the Times"—the home-grown feed. each of the next two years, $300 live, new models of the season—our windows MARKETS. There is a ready sale for poultry and dairy products from the United States Department tell the story and we have a complete assortment at prices well above average quotations. Eggs usually bring 25 and of Agriculture and the of sizes and widths so we can fit 50 cents a dozen butter 30 to 40 cents a pound. The lumber camps franking privilege is given each you accurately. use great quantities of potatoes and other vegetables. Dressed beef agent to be used in connection with official correspondence. and pork sells for from 10 to 13 cents a pound. This season's Florsheims are snappier than In addition to this total of and win a home, then Koochiching county wants you and can give ever—you feet out-of-the-ordinary style without $2,300, from $700 to $1000 should you that chance. be made available annually sacrificing comfort. SCHOOLS. We invite comparison with any county in the United through subscriptions or annual States. A $ 50,000 school building in International Falls, 7 graded & dues to a county organization. Why not follow the crowd to the and consolidated schools, with two others consolidated only, and The subscription or membership Store for the Man Who Cares? three semi-graded, all with fine modern buildings. Of the 58 rural IMUOWITZ & SUMNEBFIEU) fund should be used for keeping schools all but 13 are supervised all have agricultural teaching, up a central office or agricultural domestic science, and hot-lunch equipment over a dozen have clearing house, with competent manual training. office assistant in charge. CLOTHIERS Counties qualifying for the THE PLACE FOR YOU. The settler owns his own home. He does International Fails, Minnisota maintenance of county agent not have to pay house rent or for fuel. He grows his own vegetables, work should apply to^the dean dairy products, meat and fruit.„ of the Department of Agriculture. If you are tired of doing what someone tells you to do, if you 3 -i 3PW i( are tired of working land for someone else, if you want a place where you can put your ability, industry/and pluck against time SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS pi