INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS form. They have the sincere, loyal co-operation of every true American. LETTERS OF A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL DETECTIVE The exigency of no nation can fix the limits of American TO HIS MOTHER. rights. My friends, in this sober hour, we stand loyal sons, realizing AND BORDER BUDGET the privileges of our American citizenship. It is an hour of test that Our Hero Has Some Ordinary Experiences in Internationa! Falls and Publishers of the Official County Proceedings will show what America is made of. We are desirous that whatever Feels Duly Elated Therefore. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY is done shall be done coolly and deliberately and in a manner that Feby. 9th, 1917. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager will give to every American a sense of profound satisfaction by reason Dear Ma: I got here all right and this is some town, believe me. of the wisdom with which the honor and the rights of our country Nothin is to good for a man like me so I hired a stall at a good hotel. Entered at the Post Office at International Palls, Minn., as Second-class Matter shall be maintained."—Hon. Charles Evan Hughes, late candidate The guy who hands out the mail wanted to know if I wanted a bath SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. for president. in my room-: I told him I didn't need a bath 'cause I had one when I left home. I guess he's a fresh mug. "It is much more profitable to hold a girl's hand than it is to hold RAISE YOUR OWN FOOD. I asked this desk fellow "Can I get a little high life here?" "\oit the best kind of a poker hand."—Sauk Center Herald. can get a shot in the arm or a touch any time step into the salon.'' The other day we stepped into a store and bought a few pounds Say Ma, we had a couple of drinks then and you thought this was a On another page will'be found an unusually good article on the of turnips and carrots. We paid four cents a pound for them. dry town. Of course as a detecative I soon sene how things were war situation by Prof. Franklin H. Giddins, professor of Sociology That experience is enough to start one thinking. If we had and there must be lots of "Blind Pigs" here. You know how I Ijke and History of Civilization in Columbia University. It is worth reading: raised a few rows of carrots and turnips even in our back yard last my pork chops roasted and that's what I'm doing to the piggies,, twice. summer, there wrould have been a saving in those two items alone. roastin' them. The high cost of living need not get any of us after the present After a while this guy and I got hooked up while I was looking It is the consensus of opinion in Indiana that the lax enforcement summer to come, in many particulars. for the dining room. And we lifted a few shots and he put me wise of the liquor laws had more to do with passing their most drastic Every home in this town almost, has a few square yards of soil to how he does it. The dummy behind the mahogany, with a curious state "bone dry" bill which takes effect April 1, 1^18, than anything that can be cultivated. By a judicious use of that soil, and careful smeller, pays a century note a month rent for the salon and splits else. cultivation during the few short weeks of summer, almost every the cash with the old one, and they have a agreement that if thebarkeep householder in this country can have a stock of vegetables for next has to do a stretch for pigging, he drags four beans a day Street Commissioner Burnett has forestalled the usual springsidewalk winter that won't cost four cents a pound. while he is resting with' the sheriff. So you see, Ma, the boss gets floods by spreading the piles of snow along the sidewalk Not only so, but the actual cost of living during the summer the dough and being a white haired old bird with lots of influense edges over the entire street and cleaning out the gutters. This is months may be materially reduced by raising things to be eaten and relatives he don't do.no time in the hoose-gow. good work and its benefit will soon be apparent. along through the summer. Lettuce, radishes, onions, cabbages, Only here a few days and I collected enough dope to raise hell celery, potatoes, peas, beans, and other garden products will render What do you think about Arnold's bill for January, as allowed with but they got a grand jury smelling around here now on the their help, as the days of the summer pass along, while at the same line so I close up on the info. And theres some smell to, if its the by the county board for $800? A cash income like this for a whole time leaving a surplus for storage next fall for winter use. year would be a "windfall" to the average homesteader, who will jury I don't know but something died or decaied. Since I been here Get a garden this spring and make it cut a hole in the high cost I warmed up with mister jury and they sure do kill the hot drops, have to pay his proportion of this amount in taxes. of living. even if they are going to send some of their brothers over the road for dishing up the booze. The jury and me had some fine parties If the legislature fails to pass a statutory law making the state THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. dry immediately upon its passage, they should pass a law compelling with a pill mixer who has good whiskey. They were all on the jury but they got lit up just the same as me. every booze seller to put up a surety bond for $50,000 to repay any BY G. P. S\VI\MOHTON, M. D., County Health Officer. damage done by the sale of liquor to individual or property. Theres a mayor here to. Honest Ma, he is, but he ain't the reel How many people in this county are acquainted with the American boss of the village. Another feller is the big noise. He don't Red Cross Society? How many actual members of that society If you want to realize how easily the right kind of a mayor say much but raises hell and corruption if he don't get his own way. are to be found in the county and city council could make a decent city of International Falls, ask Arid the mayor and town bull know where to cash in every time. Yet it is the official society for the relief and humanitarianism of anyone from Ranier. They did it there a few months ago, writh practically That's lots of news Ma but I got lots more from the same place this United States. President Wilson is its president. Hon. Wm. no expense to the village, county or state and they keep it decent. only I dassent spill it all at once—cause you like yours "continued in Howard Taft is its chairman. our next." This town is some corpse to work on and you dont have This association has taken an active hand in furnishing aid in all to have no coroners autopsie to get the bad smells. As a dick and parts of the area of war, without discrimination against any nation. A bill has been introduced into the legislature allowing our gum shoe I'm all there is and you can just read, my letters to the In addition it has carried on a campaign here at home in the United county commissioners a salary of $800 per year. It is a good bill, b^t rest of the gang and show them I can make good but between me States, for the spread of knowledge for the care of the injured and considering the large amount of work and responsibility of the commissioners and you Ma it aint overtime work to get an earful here. sick, for the prevention of accident and disease. of so large a county as this, $1,200 per year would be Your big dectative son, It is an organization to which every true American should belong. nearer the right figure for the service expected. —Pinkerton Burns Carter. For the sum of one dollar you can obtain a membership which P. S.—Here's a good gag for you to spring on the girls Ma: entitles you to a copy of the monthly magazine of the organization Senator L. H. Nord and Representative H. J. Miner of this district "Why does the mayor of this town look like the dog that works for which is full of illustrations and information concerning its work. are both doing good work in the legislature. The former's bill the fongraft co?" And you say, "Because he lisens for his master's This organization is chartered by congress, supervised by the to permit towns to furnish dynamite to blow out stumps has passed voice." See? government, and protected under the treaty of Geneva, known as the the senate, and the latter's bill to establish a state experiment farm —Pinkie. Red Cross Treaty. in Koochiching county has passed the house. Never, perhaps, was there a greater need for a widespread interest LABOR AND BUSINESS NOMINATE TICKET. in, and subscription to this organization as now. With our nation, Three years in prison and a $2,000 fine is the proposed penalty where there may be the wounded, and injured to care for, nation, for auto stealing in a bill now before the Minnesota legislature. (Continued from Page 1.) where there may be the rounded,^ and injured to care fur, nation-wide Good, but let an amendment be offered for alike penalty for the man at this meeting he said it would receive his support. interest in this Red Cross society is of first importance to who attempts to run an automobile while drunk. Of the two, the C. B. Kinney said he came here to listen, but that since he was all. last named is the greater and more dangerous criminal in the proportion If you are interested, as you should be as a good American called on he would congratulate them on the good platform they had that the loss of property stands to the loss of human life.—Preston citizen, in this work, send your dollar to the local branch of The drawn up for the men on their ticket. He said he had been here Times. American Red Cross. Or direct to Washington, D. C. thirteen years and that this was the first time a complete platform had been adopted for any ticket put into the field in a city election. For each dollar paid by Koochiching county to the state in taxes TEXT OF BONE DRY CLAUSE AS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT. That it was a bad thing for a city to be run by factions, but that last year, she received from the state the sum of three dollars and the men selected should be competent and honest, and that he fully thirty-six cents. But St. Louis county received only twenty-five Washington, March 3.^-The text of the "bone dry" amendment to believed there were plenty of such men among the laboring men of cents, Ramsey county only forty-five cents, and Hennepin county the postal bill, signed by the president today, follows: this city that the laboring men did perfectly right in getting together only fifty cents on the dollar. The legislative representatives of these Section 5. That no letter, postal card, circular, newspaper, in this manner, taking an interest in city affairs, and that three counties in both senate and house also almost invariably champion pamphlet or publication of any kind, containing an advertisement of he believed that they would seek to elect only the best men for the the interests of this and other northern counties in needed legislation. spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other intoxicating liquor various offices no matter who they were. of any kind, or an order or orders for said liquor, or any of them, Attorney J. H. Brown said that labor was the dominant factor shall be deposited in or carried by the mails of the United States to When we raised the alarm eight weeks igo through the editorial in this city, but that there were also other interests and business be delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier, when addressed or column of this paper as to the threatened stoppage of commercial which he was pleased to see were being considered by the laboring directed to any person, firm, corporation or association, or other address, fishing in the lakes that comprise the Rainy Lake system, and suggested people here represented. That they had drawn up and selected a at any place, or point in any state or territory of the United that the fishermen and those interested in the tourist trade first class platform and one which he believed expressed the wishes States at which it is by the law in force in the state or territory at get together so that both could flourish, we had little idea of the of the majority of the taxpayers of"this city, and that he was ready that time unlawful to advertise or solicit orders for such liquors, or commercial value of that industry to the city and surrounding country, to "go along'" with the laboring people and all others on such a platform. any of them, respectively. and Ave are sure that a study of the results of our investigation If the publisher of any newspaper or other publication, or the which are to be found on the first page will convince every fairminded O. B. Colvin said that the usual city politician and councilman agent of such publisher, or if any dealer in such liquors or his agent, reader that it is an industry which should be protected with did not know any more about running a city when he was first shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited or shall knowingly jealous care. elected than the average laboring man did, and that the only reason send or cause to be sent, anything to be conveyed or delivered by why the laboring man did not know more about these things was mail, in violation of the provisions of this action, or shall knowingly We do not agree with those who believe that the fire niarshall's because he had not been given a chance to learn the way the other deliver or cause to be delivered by mail anything herein forbidden office of this state should be made a part of the state insurance department. fellows had, but that if given the opportunity they would prove their to be carried by mail, shall be fined no more than $1,000 or imprisoned The work of each is separate and distinct and we believe ability to learn, and the fact that the laboring men were good not more than six months, or both and for any subsequent each can do better work by having its own department and by being enough financiers and managers to raise, educate and support their offense shall be imprisoned not more than one year. Any person efficiently conducted as in the past two years. families the way they did under the conditions, was pretty good violating any provision of this section may be tried and punished, proof that they could take care of city affairs economically and efficiently The report of Fire,Marshall Robert W. Hagardine for the past either in the district in which the unlawful matter or publication was year shows that his office has made 6,309 inspections of buildings. if given a chance which he believed should be given them. mailed or to which it was carried by mail for delivery, according to That there have been 2,962 fires in the state and that there have been Additional remarks by others on the same lines were made after direction thereon, or in which it was caused to be delivered by mail twenty-four arrests and convictions for arson. There is no question which the ticket and platform shown above were selected and to the persons to whom it was addressed. adopted. but that Mr. Hargadine is conducting his department^very efficiently Whoever shall order, purchase or cause intoxicating liquors to and he should not only be retained but his suggestions for a larger Thomas Tronson, who- was unanimously nominated for mayor, be transported in interstate commerce, except for scientific, sacramental, appropriation for his important work should be followed. was variously spoken of as a high class mechanic, a clean and quick medicinal and mechanical purposes, shall be punished as thinker, a thoroughly good citizen who owns his own home here and aforesaid provided, that nothing herein shall authorize the shipment THE POOR MAN'S CLUB. pays his taxes a conservatives and reasonable citizen and one who of liquor into any state contrary to the laws of such state provided will, do what,he thinks is best for the city. It is believed that there further, that the postmaster general is hereby authorized and directed Gradually in American cities, the neighborhood motion picture has never been a time before in the history of this city when such a to make from time to time in suitable bulletins or public theater is supplanting the saloon as "the poor man's club" or at least man for mayor was as real a necessity as now. notices the names of states in which it is unlawful to advertise or his place of entertainment. Many a wo^kingman, who, five years solicit orders for such liquors. ago, spent two or three evenings at what was euphemistically known THE NEW THEATRE. and up-to-date in every way. Our The house tonight adopted a resolution to delay until July 1 as a cafe, now spends his evenings with his family, either at home or citizens should show their appreciation the enforcement of this law. International Falls has long wanted by liberal patronage. at the pictures. A music settlement in New York city, now gives a theater where it's busy citizens It is Mr. Peterson's aim to have a Saturday night entertainment of instrumental arid vocal selections, THE WILL TO DO. could spend a few hours in the evening customer. every modern convenience in the remodeled and photo plays to which a nickel admits a whole family. What in solid comfort. Mr. F. V. Peterson structure and to provide a Taking the package of pork, Jim will be thought of this by the liquor interests, which have long been Jim Smith was notoriously slow a few years ago erected a modern theater with facilities in every way Smith started to go. building, in fact one of the finest credited with leading the opposition to motion pictures The reason bill pay. He owed quite a at the equal to those of Duluth and the Twin "Wait a minute,'" said the proprietor. iivNorthern Minnesota. A short time Cities. for their opposition is plain.—Christian Science Monitor. grocery for pork. One day,-as his "I thought you wanted to pay ago he leased the Grand building, and for the pork?" credit was becoming strained, he now is remodeling and putting in We wonder what happened to the ALL AMERICANS. "I do," remarked Jim, as he resumed walked calmly into the grocery, and an entire new set of scenery and new Ala Bat Ba. The last heard of them We are all Americans, standing behind our president, on whom said "Mr. Black, I want to pay you his homeward way, "but I can't."— seals and other equipment. Patrons they went to Rainy Lake via Rainy for the pork I have had, and I want may now enjoy a performance in this great responsibility rests at this time. It is riot a time to embarrass Christian Herald. River. We wonder if they are frozen some more." comfort. up. Come on, boys' let's hear from in any degree with private utterances those charged with A ventilating system is also being "Certainly/' said the delighted proprietor, you. this responsibility, They have the facts th^y haye the dutjr to per- as he hastened to wait on his installed, so that it will be modern: SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS —ff I