"pm^^-^'^'' -s Sf^ sS"2 =~_ ^r' •c^r-'* I f'^-^L^ f¥i I INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE THREE meet her with action. "We cannot NEW SETTLERS Vr MINNESOTA HIGH IN ALIEN PROGRESS PROVES and we ought not to forbid pacifits, if VALUE OF NIGHT SCHOOLS FOR BLACKDUCK INDUSTRIAL SURVEY V. pacifits there still are, to speak. But we can refuse to listen. The press Colonization Scheme Discussed at Report Show* State Would Be Bulwark Government Engineers Oppose Improvements BE DECENT! can refuse to print their letters audiences Suggested at Red Business Men's Supper a$ of Defense in Time of War. can refuse to respond to their Lake. Palace Hotel. invitations. If they speak, they should Duluth, Feb. 21.—Minnesota is speak in vacuo.. If war- comes, any The war department at Washington Several of the business men met shown to be a bulwark in the nation's overt act in hindrance of the. work of has announced that the proposition with Judge Richards and A. A. defense, and one of the strongest the United States, or in aid of its Melges of Minneapolis at the Palace for the improvement of the Red links in the chain of business prosperity enemies is treason, and should be lakes and the Red Lake river from hotel Feb. 11th. The judge is promoting in time of peace or war, according treated accordingly. Any speaker, its outlet to its junction with the Red a company for the development to the industrial survey made public or private, who incites to treason River of the North at Grand Forks, and sale of lands tributary to by the Minnesota board of governors declared in favor of prohibiton when CITIZENS CAUCUS AND is criminal, and should be treated with a view to devising plans for Blackduck. They already own several for the naval consulting board. William 85 per cent of the territory of the NOMINATE VILLAGE TICKET accordingly. Our neutrality has been regulating works whereby the level thousand acres and plan the purchase N. Ryerson, Duluth, general United States has outlawed the saloon, manager of the Qreat Northern Power strained to the breaking-point. No of the Red Lakes and the flow of the of many more. These lands and more., than 60 per cent of A caucus called for February 12 at remnant of it should be left in either Red Lake river may be controlled in are to be divided into eighty-acre company, is a member of the state the population live in such territory Carlin's hall and attended by twentyone our actions or our hearts. the interest of navigation, has been farms, thirty acres brushed, ready to tioard. and when approximately 10,000,000. of voters of the village nominated reported upon unfavorably by those seed for pasture purposes, and ten to None of the members is at liberty Americans must meet this war, if our people residing in all sections of a village ticket as follows: who have investigated the matter. twenty acres stumped and put under to give out details of the survey, but war comes, as a united people. Many the union have petitioned directly for For president of council, M. E. Dimon The investigation was authorized by the plow. On these farms will be it is stated results have proved surprising. incidents indicate what we have always the passage of this resolution, your for trustees, E. E. Polkinghorne, an act of congress July 27 last year. built three, five or seven room houses In the matter of foodstuffs believed to be true, that the committee is of the opinion and feels Nils Muus, W. R. Deteker for The principal grounds upon which at the option of the purchaser. it is learned that the survey revealed overwhelming majority of GermanAmericans that it is incumbent on the congress Olavus Jewett for treasurer, recorder, these adverse conclusions are based This means the bringing in of many conditions which would be of great are loyal Americans. A to submit the issue to the states in Alex Erickson for justices of are that the cost of the proposed improvement, families who can begin to make a living advantage to the nation in the event son may resist his father's crime, but the manner requested as prescribed the peace, A. R. Carlin, A. V. McNeil by regulating works at and a little better right from the of war with a European nation. he will do so with an aching heart. by. the terms of the constitution itself." for constable, Ole Klefstad. the outlet of the lakes and the dredging start. It also opens upua field for the That Minnesota would be one of The German-American need not, and of the river from the'outlet of the The matter of separation of the village manufacture of all timber products the first states called on is considered will not, love his Fatherland, the less Signers of the minority report were and township and a voice of the lakes to near Highlanding would be taken from said lands and a local likely, because the board's report was because he joins with all his fellowcitizens Representatives Igos and Dyer, Missouri so great, and that the present and voters on the herd law received the roach headquarters for operation. more complete than those sent in the land of his adoption in Graham, Pennsylvania Steele, sanction of the meeting and are to be prospective commerce is so small, We are vitally interested in this in by other states, and also was one resisting the aggression of Prussionized Iowa Danforth and Dale, New York, that no reasonable co-operation by voted on at the March election.— project and anxious to co-operate of the first sent in for the navy files. Germany. So in colonial days and Gard, Ohio. Littlefork Times. the United States on the grounds of with them to the advantage of our The Minnesota report was part of English-born citizens joined with native The Webb amendment would prohibit navigation Would be warranted. Just community. With our present school, a nation wide industrial survey conducted colonists in resisting the aggressions the manufacturing, transportation, what action will be taken in the future by states by groups of governors churches, mercantile businesses and of England so in the Civil War LOAN TO FARMERS. importation and sale of alcoholic is undecided at this time, but co-operative creamery, a few such made up of prominent members Southern loyalists joined with Northern liquors for beverage purposes. there is still an opportunity to appeal farms would give a new impetus to of various engineering organizations loyalists in defending the Nation'§ To Be Considered in New Legislation from the conclusion above an the growth and prosperity of Blackduck. who served without pay. right to exist, though it involved NEW GOVERNOR OF MAINE By Ontario Government. nounced to the board of engineers A delicious supper and several them in war with their own PUTS STATE ON WATER for rivers and harbors, a permanent talks by local men added to the pleas native state. If war comes, there AMERICA'S DUTY. WAGON. Toronto, Feb. 21.—Legislation forecasted body sitting in Washington, to which ure and profit of the evening. must be neither division nor hesitation in the speech from the throne all examination and survey reports of The judge or any of his co-work in meeting it. We hope that the Outlining the Duty of This Nation in His Ouster Threats Halt Sheriffs1 at the opening this aftrnoon of the this character are referred. The ap ers will always find a warm welcome president will call to unofficial, if not the Present Crisis. Winks at Dry Law Violations— peal may be made either orally or in Ontario legislature included: Legislation among us.—Blackduck American. official, councils leaders in the Republican Drastic Steps, Including Punishment The action of the president in sundering writing, and should be in possession to provide for the settlement and Progressive parties. Whether as Penal Offense, Proposed. diplomatic relations with Germany of returned soldiers upon the land of the board by March 3, at the latest. he does so or not, his fellow-citizens MUCH PULPWOOD IS has already received the practically If, as is quite probable, an appeal is to create a fire prevention department should call on each other and BEING TAKEN OUT Augusta, Me., Feb. 17.—Young Carl unanimous approval of the made and the above time is not, suf to authorize the construction work with each other by one of those E. Milliken, the new governor of American people. His address to congress ficient an extension is possible, but of provincial highways to provide spontaneous movements common to Maine, has put that state on the water Virginia, Minn., Feb. 21.—The production was both firm in its spirit and for certain farm loans legislation relating such action must be communicated to democracy, and in city, town, and village, wagon. Though Maine has had a of pulpwood in the woods restrained in its expression. We wish to hydro-electric development the board without delay. inspire each othet with courage north and south of Virginia will surpass prohibitory law for some years it was that we could share in his confidence to regulate co-operative societies to for the performance of the nation's never enforced to any extent until that of last season by 25 per 'C- that Germany's threat to prey upon provide for votes for soldiers. The duty. America must, America will, CREAMERY ..MAKES GOOD the youthful temperance advocate became cent, according to local lumbermen \neural shipping in the open ocean operation of the prohibition act had present a united front, speak with a SHOWING. governor a few weeks ago. Now The high prices are causing the job been productive of highly beneficial will not be fulfilled. If Germany fulfills united voice, exhibit to the world a Portland, Bangor and Lewiston, as bers, loggers and others to try for her threat, war will inevitably results, it was stated. united purpose. a record output of pulpwood. It is well as the smaller cities, are as dry Report Shows That Rosby Creamery follow. Not even the president could Emphasis was attached to the necessity Our dedication to this cause need as Kansas towns. estimated that 150,000 cords of pulp longer hold the impatient nation in Made 27,724 Pounds of Butter During for the utmost thrift and not be, ought not to be, marred by Milliken's first act was to inform wood will be sent to the markets leash even if he desired to do so: economy individually and as a people,, First Six Months' Operation. any mean or narrow spirit of nationalism, from camps between here and Inter sheriffs and public prosecutors that It is true that Mr. Bryan still coun- "that the full strength of the nation any vain-glory or boasting, any he would institute ouster proceedings national Falls, while 50,000 cords will may be exerted to bring the war to v« sels non-resistance. He reported as wrath or bitterness. The cause summoning Members of the Rosby Co-opera against be the output between here and at them unless they enforced saying: "If I am on the sidewalk a speedy and victorious conclusion." us is the cause which sum tive Creamery association are much the law to the letter. Duluth. and see a drunken chauffeur running moned William of Orange and the pleased with the showing made by It is true the Maine law regarding A decrease of 40 per cent in the his car toward me, I know he has no LIQUOR SHIPPING Netherlanders, Oliver Cromwell and that institution during the first six such ouster proceedings is vague and production of logs and ties, compared right to come up on the sidewalk, WILL BE STOPPED the Ironsides, Washington and the months of its operation, and in a re the governor would have had to go with last year, is predicted for this but I will prefer to step aside and Colonials, Garibaldi and the Volunteers. port just made public by Edward to a long and technical proceeding to season. Although weather conditions •^^^settle with him when he is sober instead Federal Sleuths to Keep Contraband. The cause is too sacred, the Paulson, secretary, the condition of make good his threat. But he bluffed were never better in the history of of standing on my rights and Out of North Dakota. crisis too solemn, to leave,ny place the new establishment is found to be the lumbering industry in this county the sheriffs and prosecutors who had leaving my widow to settle with him." for self-elation or self-seeking. We most encouraging. of cars has been handicapping been winking at violations of the lack We think better of Mr. Bryan than Fargo, N. D., Feb. 21.^-11 legal shipments shall be engaged in part of dn age Since tire opening of the creamery prohibitory law for so long. Bootleggers the contractors. V- he thinks of himself. If the sidewalk of liquors into North Dakota long campaign, and we may cheer which took place at a big picnic held The Rainy Lake company is get were either arrested or warned was thronged with children, nay, if will be entirely unsafe from now on, ourselves with the hope that, as it is at Rosby June 17, last 27,724 year, ting 150 cars of logs daily from the by the officers to get out. The 'J there were a single defenseless child as United States Distrirt Attorney the greatest, so it may be the last pounds of butter have been churned mode of action depended on how north and the W. T. Bailey company in thei track of a drunken chauffeur, M. A. Hildreth proposes to make full of the world's' battles for justice, liberty from 22,473.3 pounds of butterfat, the of this city twenty-five cars daily close the alliance had been between Mr. Bryan would not step aside. Only use of the Webb-Kenyon law, which and peace.—The Outlook. total pounds of over-run being 5,251 the law violators and the officers. In the north woods, jobbers and a coward could do that. He would was recently upheld by the supreme or a percentage of over-run of 23.3 The governor has asked for four 'nterfere, though it were at the hazard others are going ten miles into the court of the United States. The average price paid for butter EDUCATION THROUGH PLAY. amendments to strengthen the prohibitory of leaving a wiow to be proud of forests for pulpwood. The department of justice under fat was 35.12 cents, the patrons of the law. These would make Many Men Employed. his honorable death. the supervision of the district attorney creamery receiving $7,673,995. Butter easier the process of removing delinque?. The Prussian military party began South of Virginia, 2,500 men are em proposes to put a stop to all illegal Recreation Plan Outlined by National FStanm bringing $8,146.62, was shipped and ployed in the various camps. The officers would make owners this campaign with a light heart. shipments into the state. Special Association Topic at Convention. $476.20 worth was sold among the pa Weyerhaeuser company has two of buildings in which liquor is s.j!d They had thirty years of preparation efforts are being made to ferret out trons of the institution, and $67.12 accountable as well as the actual sellers large camps which are sending their behind them. They cavalierly rejected such shipments and whenever possible worth locally. Milk and cream valued Education through play and games products to the mills at Cloquet. would make violators of the the proposal urged upon them by the offenders will be prosecuted at $9.69 was sold and buttermilk as recommended at the annual convention liquor law suffer both fine and jail Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia, is estimated that 15,000,000 feet to the full extent of the law. brought $36.95. During the period of sentence and would provide for the of the Playground and Re saw logs will be the output from the to seek a pacific settlement of Every concern shipping whisky and operation mentioned $119.50 was paid creation Association of America held outright confiscation of all vehicles the issue either by arbitration or by camps south of the city. There are other intoxicating liquors contrary for wood, $12.25 for ice, $203..25 for last fall in Detroit, will be discussed used in conveying liquor. a conference with the other powers. about fifty jobbers operating between to law will be reported to the grand supplies, $455 for buttermaker, $27.56 at the meeting of the Northeastern Duluth and the border. North of Vir Although the governor did not request They counted on reaching Paris jury and indictments sought. The for starter milk, and the sinking fund Minnesota Teachers' Association to it he has approved a bill already within thirty days. The resistance ginia, exclusive of the Virginia Webb-Kenyon law is very strict in benefited to the amount of $224.98 of Belgium surprised them the resistance be held in Duluth Thursday, Friday Rainy Lake company's camps, 2,500 submitted to the legislature this matter and evasion is difficult, The association has a membership and Saturday. that would make possession of liquor of England angered them men are being employed in the it is declared. It is believed that the of 100 and during the winter 75 of the resistance of their former ally, in any form prima facie evidence of woods. J. R. Batchelor, city recreational enforcement of this law will practically these have been steady patrons of the Among the well known jobbers a violation. Italy, intensified 'their anger. Their director, who is in charge of the athletic put a stop to this business in creamery. It is expected that the ill success has turned their ambition working south of Virginia are Saari It is said the provisions of this bill and play section of the program, this state. number of patrons will pass the 100 into desperation. The laws of nations, Bros., Eveleth Erickson & Long, are so wide that they would make it announced that the plan outlined at mark during the coming summer. the laws of war, their own Cloquet Finch Bros., Duluth north a penal offense for a man to take a the national gathering will be urged RESOLUTION. Butter, when the supply permits, is pledges, the honor of their nation, of Virginia are William Orr, Pendleton drink of liquor in Maine. at the local meetings. The feature shipped east, the demand for Rosbymade they have thrown to the winds. Now & Gilkey, Minneapolis John Of course the liquor traffic has not of this plan is to have schools use The following is a copy of the message butter from the eastern market they propose to take possesion of the Owens, Cook S. Bergeson, Duluth been completely stamped out the games as part of the educational system. sent to our president February being sufficient to take the entire Atlantic Ocean and forbid the world's Clement & Kennedy, Coolidge & present law is not extensive enough 12, 1917, by the Loman Farmer's club. output, should local patronage be traffic on the world's highway, and to Shusler, Minneapolis. to permit that, but compared to the Addresses at the meetings to be To the Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President neglected. The officers of the association sink at sight and without warning Wages were never higher in the Maine of former years the state now presided over by Director Batchelor of the United States of are: H. R. Gillette, president any merchant vessel found within the history of the lumber industry. Common resembles a section of the Sahara. will be made by A. W. Lewis, director America: N Edward Paulson, secretary August which by proclamation they area swampers are being paid $45 a of playgrounds at Eveleth, on "Playgrounds Jarchow, treasurer H. Larson, buttermaker.—Bemidji ^have closed to traffic. For America month and board. PATRIOTIC WALKERITES. Whereas, the cost of living hasbeen and the Value of Play Falter Sentinel. to stand aside and let a nation whose made almost prohibitive to the McMillan, athletic director at desperation has made it mad run TWO REPORTS ON PROHIBITION Hold Services, Sing Patriotic Songs common people of our country, on Hibbing, on "Competitive Athletics GETS SIXTY DAYS amuck upon the world's' highway is and Stand By President. account of the unrestricted export of Dr. H. E. Michelson, medical inspector impossible, it is unthinkable. FOR SETTING GUN Webb Resolution for Constitutional Walker, Minn., Feb. 21.—With foodstuffs, clothing, etc., to the armies in the Virginia schools, on "Hygiene Americans ought not, and will not, Amendment Back in House—Majority Prof. Wells' seven-piece orchestra of Europe, and Miss Nellie Stoughton, assistant enter on a war with a light heart. Vincent Albert, a well known character and Minority Reports Made playing patriotic airs and the people Whereas, the Germans, as a last resort director in physical training in in this section, who has been War is either a terrible crime or an By the Committee. joining in singing them with fervor, for self-preservation, have declared Duluth schools, on "Athletics for awful duty. If America enters on employed at Skelly brothers' camp the big patriotic meeting held at the a strict blockade on all vessels Girls and Folk Dancing," and M. E. south of Pokegama lake, was given this war, it will be because the American ^Washington, Feb. 21.—The Webb Congregational church here last Sunday carrying supplies to the Allies Alletzhaeusser, physical training director people see in it an awful duty. a straight sentence of sixty days at resolution proposing a national prohibition night indicated that the people Be it resolved, that a strict embargo of Duluth, on "Physical Training The fear of physical ill, the fear of hard labor by Judge 'Huson February constitutional- amendment of Walker are Americans first and be placed on all such exports in the Grade School." if moral peril, the sentiments of a 10, on a charge of having a set gun was reported to the house today with last and are with the president in and that all Americans be warned In drawing up its plan of education shrinking humanitarianism, combine in the woods near the camp. The a majority committee report in its the present crisis. The following against entering the barred zones, except through play and games, the special T:o restrain us. Nothnig but the imperative gun was discovered by Walter Cone favor and a minority report opposing resolution was adopted: at their own risk. We also demand committee at the national playground call of a slowly awakening of Cohasset who came within a few it. .Democratic Leader Kitchen "Resolved, That while we deeply that peace be preserved, except gathering used the following motto: inches of walking into the string conscience can compel us to enter on said it would be taken up in the sympathize with the nations of Europe to resist actual invasion. "If we can plant good games, a crop the war. But the call of conscience which was set across a deer runway. house within a week. He predicted now at war, and recall with LOMAN FARMER'S CLUB, jnOMMGSKB jJjgy of healthy children will come up." The gun was pointed directly at Mr. lis imperative. It is not thinkable that it would pass the house by the necessary pleasure and gratitude our long and Loman, Minn. Director Batchelor was a member of la nation with America"s population, Cone when he discovered the trap two-thirds, but probably unbroken friendly relations with Germany, this committee, which included and was so near he could touch it 'America's resources, America's ideals would not be acted upon in the senate whose sons and daughters GOING INTO SHEEP. ffr George E. Dickie, recreational director and aspirations, and America's' in-' with his hand. Suspicion fell at once before adjournment of congress, comprise so large a part of our most at Oakland, Cal.,chairman F. C. ^§$^,*.spiring history can consent to make upon^Albert, as the guii was readily March 4. '. v'-.. .valuable population and while we W. M. West of Pokegama Lake is Berry, playgrounds superintendent, ^-herself by her scared acquiescence identified, as Albert had disappeared The majority report declared that hope and pray that the bonds which the latest to join the sheep raisers of Minneapolis Harry Clarke, supervisor •JU1' accessory to the greatest crime of from the camp. He was traced to inasmuch as more than 60 per cent of have so long held, us together may Itasca county, having bought a small of physical education, Winnetka, Calumet by Deputy Sheriff Ed. Carson the population of the United States not soon be broken still, in the crisis flock this week of George Becker, tnodern history. 111. Dr. W. H. Burdick, director of ,' George Eliot well says "Better a and although he- had shaved off lives in dry territory, it is incumbent now upon us, there is but one course paying the record price of $20 a' head. the public athletic league, Baltimore wrong will than a wavering." The his mustache to avoid detection, he upon congress to submit the question for us to pursue, and that is to stand Mr. West will pasture the sheep oil Miss Elizabeth Buchenal, secretary was found in a boarding house in wild land with the end in view that time for hesitation and for discussion of national prohibition to the states. by the president in his efforts to of the public school girls' athletic has passed. The time for action has that village and brought back to maintain the rights and honor of our the sheep will help in clearing the Should Submif Issue. league, New York, and Joseph Lee, come. The Outlook thinks it came Grand Rapids. Appearing before ^'Leaving out of consideration the country." land. He is starting in a small way president of the-Playground and Recreation many months ago, but what is past is and will make a study of that branch Judge Huson, Albert entered a plea merits of the prohibition policy of The national airs rendered were Association of America. past. Let bygones be bygones. Now "The Star Spangled Banner," "Hail of animal husbandry before going of guilty and was given the maximum dealing with the*alcoholic liquor traffic^ very extensively intoj.it.—Itasca the time has come. If Germany acts sentence for the crime.—Grand Rapid$ pys the report, "when more than Columbia," "America,-" "Marching SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS County Independent. as she has threatened, America must Herald .Review. half'.of the^statfcs in the union have, l-Through Georgia," and "Dixie Land," 1 attire