l», V" *--.•* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLIC CARRIERS OF THIS CITY. BE DECENT! AND BORDER BUDGET If you are killed by a railroad company, your friends have some chance of compensation. With the automobile, passenger carriers Publishers of the Official Cotfnty Proceedings that ply their trade about this city, and between adjacent villages, INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY your chances are small in such an event. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager REMEMBER YOUR MOTHER The recent catastrophy which occurred in this city, where two lives were lost, and others injured, by a collision between a public Entered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., as Second-class Matter automobile and a freight train, is an example in point. it SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR Supposing that an automobile loaded with passengers is wrecked from some cause within itself, such as the condition of thq, machine' The bill also provides that the initial petition for such a road "Many things may be preserved in alcohol, but law and order or the mishap of the driver, what recourse have the occupants of shall be signed by a majority of the "resident" land owners to be are not on the list." that machine, in case of accident? assessed for the highway. But it adds that this number need "in no case exceed 20 signatures." Many of these drivers are plying their trade with all they have Elect the right kind of a: mayor thirty-four days from now and in the world invested in the machine. What indemnity would This clause should be stricken out. It is too wide open. It it won't take more than ten minutes to clean up this city. widows or dependent children have in such a case has no regard to the length of the road nor the character of the It is time that our city require all these public carriers, by automobile, land development. In many localities small farms are becoming If you see an editor that pleases everybody, there will be a not only to secure licenses, but to carry suitable bonds to a habit and a good one. glass plate over his face and he will not be standing up.—Thomasville indemnify the public in case of accident, or loss of life. The nonresident land owners are disregarded and with them Times, Ga. This is being required in almost all cities now. It should be given no consideration, certainly a majority of those actually resident required. This means of transportation is one fraught with much on the land should want the improvement if it is to be made. More blind pigs and more houses of prostitution are operating more danger, than the old horse bus of the. past. A public carrier Otherwise it may be too easy to bond a county and to assess these in and near this city than there were two weeks ago. We've sure of this character should be compelled to be in a position to protect lands. got some city government. the public from the results of accident as much as other corporate We have no sympathy whatever with the demand that bonds public carriers. for such a road should not be issued without a referendum to the If this legislature has the best interests of the state at heart it county as a whole. That alone would make an improved highway will pass a bill making this state dry by statutory enactment not WORMS AND WORMS. impossible for those who want it and are willing to pay their share. later than January 1st, 1918. It would work section against section, locality against locality BY G. F. SWIXNERTON, M. D„ COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER. to balk any improvement. The financial provisions are sufficiently Make her bone dr^l Don't cut the poor man off his beer and Mothers! God bless them! Yet how many ideas, our mothers guarded. Only 60 per cent of the available state aid could be used have or had, which now make us smile. yet allow the rich man to have his toddy. Treat them both alike. and the benefited lands would pay a fourth of the total cost, the One of the commonest ideas mother has, when she sees the boys Booze do^s neither of them any good. county a fourth and a half would come from this 60 per cent. or girls a little blue round the mouth, or complaining of something We indeed find only one fault in the bill, which is the one cited wrong with their "innards," is, that all this is due to "worms." In all fairness to the voters they should have a, chance to "try as to the petition, but we regard this as very material.—News This idea would only be funny, but for one thing. The mother out" state-wide prohibition at least a year before they are required Tribune. with this idea of worms ever uppermost in her mind, always has to vote on the constitutional amendment to that effect. some desperate, nauseous medicine in the cupboard to cure them. THAT ANCIENT TREATY. The medicine in many instances does the child far more harm The city election thirty-four days hence will prove whether than the worms, for in nine cases out of ten, Mary or Johnny haven't reputable business men of this city would rather see the money continue One of the most interesting incidents in the relations of this worms at all. country and Germany is the proposal by Germany to renew and to go over the blind pig bars and the roulette wheel than over There are three general kinds of worms which occasionally infest their own counters. strengthen the ancient treaty with Prussia which controls or should the human body:—Pin worms, round worms and tapeworms. control our relations with all Germany. They enter the body as eggs in the food eaten, and later develop. It has never been formally denounced by either country. It is In British India snakes and wild animals killed 28,000 people in In most instances, their presence can only be detected in the excreta still in full effect so far as law goes between nations. It was used one year. That's nothing. The reputed cure for snake bite kills of the body. Their presence is very difficult to tell, simply from early in the war in the settlement of the Frye case where an American more people than that every year in any state in the Union.—Northland symptoms. Farmer and Dairyman. vessel carrying grain was sunk by a German cruiser. Th reason of this is, that by far the greater number of instances It would protect the German ships interned here and all Germans in which a mother thinks she notices symptoms of worms, she has resident here or engaged in business. It has been appealed to The Tennessee "bone-dry" prohibition law goes into effect today. only a case of ordinary disturbance of digestion, which a simple dose on occasion by Germany and has veen violated by her whenever It is now unlawful to ship4ooze into the state, or even to of castor oil will cure. it suited her convenience. These repeated violations form sufficient have it in one's possession. Minnesota and every other state will If a mother is really worried about her child having worms, she cause for the United States to ignore it if this government desired to soon be in the same sensible class. should see a doctor. Let him make the correct diagnosis. If he do so, even without formal notice. should be convinced the child has worms, he and he alone should direct The crippling of the interned German ships on orders from that If the sale of booze is a bad thing for the people, business and what medicine should be given, and how to give it. government was a direct violation of the treaty. It showed conclusively institutions of £he state, as the legislature admitted when they passed For the only medicines that do any good in this condition, are also that Germany considers the treaty not binding and the constitutional amendment for its abolishment, why did they provide powerful, and should only be used under a doctor's orders. does not expect the United States to give it any more validity than for its continuance for two years after the time the people are 'The idea that to give a chifti, supposed to have worms, candy, she would or has. expected to vote it out? "will set the worms to working," has no basis in fact. The entire submarine controversy is directly covered by this Yet on general principles, children should not be given unlimited treaty. All of Germany's interference with our trade on the high "Liquor is like a glandered mule in a stable of healthy stock, a amounts of candy, as the digestion is commonly disturbed by it, and seas makes it but another "scrap of paper." Her making our seamen cockle burr in young corn, crab grass drawing away the life from above all, many cases of diabetes often never discovered till the condition prisoners of war and the detention of Americans in Germany the cotton plant. They have got ashamed of the word 'bar' and is serious, are caused by this practice. are equally contrary to its letter and spirit. now say 'buffet.' The poison is there just the same. 'Buffet'—a But most cases of so-called worms in children exist only in the Yet Germany now asks for its renewal and to amplify one of its word only to juggle with."—Star, Washington, D. C. imagination of the parents, where they should look for a plain case provisions. 'The proposal states that this article, and if this one, of disturbance of the stomach and bowels, from something wrong then of course all, "it without question in full force as regards the that has been eaten. It's all poppycock to say that the drunken, shameless condition relations between the German empire and the United States." This of this city is due to the absence of the licensed saloon. The only of a treaty that is being deliberately nullified every day by the Ger A New Departure of Service. trouble is that the mayor thinks more highly of the good will of the man U-boats. lawless criminal element along these particular lines than he does of The new proposal would give Germans in this country in time the best welfare of the city he was elected to protect and govern. of war as in time of peace, as great liberty and freedom as citizens From now on, this department of public health of the Press, will devote a limited space to answering questions on these and kindred matters of this country. It would protect them and their properties, their of public and school health. We have made arrangements for a number of interesting letters business and possessions. All questions must be addressed: Dr. G. F. Swinnerton, County Health of a "Correspondence School Detective to His Mother," purported More than this, pne article would obligate our government to Officer, International Falls. to be written while on his first job in this city. They are provide safe passage for all Germans desiring to leave this country All letters must be short and to the point. Letters must' be signed by amusing and yet instructive and will be read from week to week with all their possessions all patent rights would be protected there the writer, bona fide, but name will be withheld from publication. with much pleasure. In case of a large number of letters being received, replies may hot be could be no concentration of Germans in time of war and in general published in the immediately following issue, but will appear as soon as complete freedom would be guaranteed an enemy people in a hostile space will permit. A potato buyer was here the last of the week and informed us country. In writing, name the township or village in which you live, and in relation that he had purchased three cars of potatoes and rutabagas in the It was this revision which, according to report, Ambassador to which your question refers. territory tributary to Northome.—Northome Record. Gerard refused to sign after he had ceased to be ambassador and Say, we didn't know there was money enough in the world to under a mild form of coercion. His signature would have had no R. F., Northome "Is mumps a serious disease, and should children go buy that many potatoes. to school with it?" legal effect as he was then but a private citizen, his official status Mumps is a contagious disease which may involve complications in had ended, and no treaty becomes effective as to this country until BEING THE LETTERS OF A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL males which may result in sterility. No such case or any who have been ratified by the senate. DETECTIVE TO HIS MOTHER, exposed to it, are allowed under the law to attend school. It could only have been another agency for creating false impressions O. S., Littlefork: Are skin diseases, which a child has had before at among the German people while their government was certain times of the year, carried from one child to another in school?" St. Paul, Feby. 2-1917. In some instances these repeated skin outbreaks may be caused by a making ducks and drakes of a treaty it officially declares is in effect. Dear Ma:— communicable cause, such as germs, or animal parasites, or vegetable parasites. —News Tribune. These cases should be seen by a physician and an opinion had as to At last I got my diplomar from the "Watchful Eye Correspond their character. Constitutional skin diseases such as eczema- may not be ence School of Criminal* Detecting." I finished my last examples and CITY SCHOOL NOTES. dent, Edna Oveson secretary, Ebba' communicated from one to another. Children with such conditions may sent them in and they sadi I past high. Of course it has not a frame Yernberg. attend school, if properly cared for. Mr. Gaynor left Thursday to attend 1 Lilian Olson from Grand View, (the diplomar I mean) yet, but a fellow here who runs a auto shop P. J., Loman: "Is every town board supposed to hire a doctor as health a teachers' meeting at Duluth and returned I Wisconsin, entered the Freshman is going to make one for it. officer for the town, by the year?" Sunday morning. class this week. That is distinctly the law in this state, and at present many of our townships You will be as glad as me over the glorious news and what a Monthly examinations are being Mina Myllenbach, who has been are totally neglecting to observe the law. given this week. The ancient history triump my future will be. The old man should of lived a few months absent since^ Christmas because of illness, class have resolved to get better was at school this week, to say longer, instead of dieing suddenly of red eye the way he did, and THE NEW "ELWELL LAW." marks this month. goodby, as she leaves soon for her scene his only son a detective instead of a flat-foot bull like hisself. The program Friday, given chiefly former home in Iroquois, S. D. Ma, now that I can detect and have got my official star I seen There are just two things that should be guarded in any special by the Freshmen, was greatly enjoyed. The basket ball boys went to Eveleth things lots quicker and I bet that Doc who took care of the old iiian The debate, "Resolved, that last Friday. The scores \vere^j road law. One is the forcing of such improvements on unwilling was putting something over on us, cause I never knew anything the peace at the present time is inadvisable," 18 to 4 in favor of Eveleth. The boys or financially unable land owners. The other is that the improvement who went were: was won by the affirmative, matter with Pa's eyes and they were not red either. I'll bet it was should equal in value the cost. presented by Loren Miner and Florence Clarence Shaw, Nathan Shapira, booze that did it. The old Elwell law left both these doors wide open. It was repealed Kinshella, of the Beaver Society. Roy Frank, Oscar Ogren, Frank surprise for you Ma. I am not going to open a office yet here after a riot of expenditures in a number of couties. It should The judges were selected from the O'Malley. St. Paul but am going to do some outside work first and praetize student-body, Mildred Keller, Clarence Miss Thorson" accompanied the have been repealed. It did, in many instances, more harm than good, Shaw and Roy Frank being disguizes and things in a quiet yilliage and then take some cases in boys and visited at the home of Miss like the ditch law which it applied to road building. chosen. Driscol. St. Louey or Minneapolis. There's lots of Socialism and other The new so-called "Elwell Law" measure is much more carefully Sarah and Henry Rifkin returned crimes in both places every day. A good fellow who boards near drawn. It will be in fact what the other never was, a road law. to school Monday morning after an HOME TALENT DRAMA. hear says, that International Falls is a good quiet place to start in at It provides as fully as is possible for getting value. The state highway absence of a few weeks. home talent play, "The Colleen for me. There's good churches there and it's a dry town also. That An election in the Gopher Society commission is made responsible for that. Bawn,"' will be presented Saturday sounds good cause I ain't going) to booze, not much I ain't. took place last Friday and the following evening, March 17. This production The engineer in charge will be appointed on the commission's officers were elected: promises to be the most successful There wont be much for a good detective like me to do in a quiet approval. The route, survey, specifications and report of the benefits President, Clarence Shaw secretary, of the amateur plays ever staged village but it will be fine practize to show those- country jays good and damages with estimates of cost must be approved by the Tresa Noll vice president, Hazel here. The author, Dion Boucfcault, is stuff from the big town. Just as soon as I get there I will write you commission as must be the completed work before final payment.. I! Ringleka sergeant-at-arnis, Henry a foremost dramatist. All his plays all about it and my success with crim.e v. Stubee. have a true native ring. Watch for This is good, mighty good ^It makes impossible most of the Officers of the High School Civic Your one son, sale of tickets and reserved seats. former mistakes—or worse. It assures, if this ever can be absolutely League_ elected were: Grand Theatre. Benefit St. Thomas —PINKERTON BURNS CARTERS assured, that no money will be wasted. 1 .. President, .Roy Frank !j%ice pr'e^i- Churd! in. JriS ™|lii DEFECTIVE PAGE