-%4 -*r~ ~*f: 'pf-ctl w*vt mrem & .-•.' J* %:~u "k S ^sssir' ",*t -7*' 11C"T "i 't ""V »*Wf rt- (t. ~*V & »$'* N ~i 4* -4 -t INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS mfcl: by Ts RAILROAD SITUATION AS PRICES RISE IS NOW LARGELY HI6H COST OF LIVING UP TO CONGRESS HITS THE RAILROADS Most Share Responsibility In Sanies Will Be Crippled Unless There are only 4 more days 'till Easter—as the 't Future Development. Relief Gomes Soon. day draws near interest in our showing of new­ est spring apparel increases. The result is that the guarments are moving ROBERT S. LOVETT'S VIEWS EXPENSES UP, RATES DOWN out rapidly. MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW FOR EASTER. "Unification of Regulation J« Essential." Wasteful and Conflicting Regulations SUITS, COATS, DRESSES, SKIRTS Hamper Railroad Credit, While Advance A Complete, Harmonious, Consistent In "Labor and Materials Outstrips and Related System Needed—Federal' Revenues, Chairman Kruttschnitt Incorporation of Railroads by General WAISTS AND ACCESSORIES Tells Congress Committee. Law Favored. Unified Federal Control Will Improve Washington, March 26.—Responsibility Conditions. for the railway development of the Washington. April 2.—The condition country, for providing necessary transportation in which the railroads find facilities to care for the growing themselves as a result of constant increases in business and population of tho Spring's Most Attractive Modes in wages, prices of material, taxes and EASTER HOSERY country, now rests largely with congress other expenses, while their revenues and not entirely with the railroad SUITS are restricted by legislation, was strik managers. This was the statement lngly described by Julius Kruttschnitt, of Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman Chairman of the Executive Committee of the executive committee of the of the Southern Pacific Company, in Union Pacific system, to the Newlands We are showing a complete line of bis testimony during the past few days joint congressional committee when before the Joint Congressional Com $25.00 that body resumed its inquiry into finest silk hose in "all shades to $16.00 $18.00 $20.00 mittee on interstate Commerce, which the subject of railroad regulation this Is making a study of the question of match your new spring dress or week. railroad regulation. Mr. Kruttschnitt In making this statement of the and Up urged the committee to recommend a suit, also the new fancy striped hose. changed conditions of the railroad situation plan of regulation which will center Judge Lovett undoubtedly had Very reasonably priced. responsibility for regulation and Its Our Suit Displays provide an attractive selection in mind the decision of the supreme results in tbe federal government, so court on the Adamson law, handed 50c, 75c, $1.25 that conditions affecting both expenses for new wardrobes. New styles, new materials— down last week, which establishes the and revenues may be made subject to right of the federal government to fix a uniform policy Instead of the waste a variety to suit the particular persnality of each railroad wages and to prevent strikes. and tip ful and often conflicting policies in This decision is regarded by railroad volved in the system of combined state chooser. Come and let us show you these new men and lawyers as marking an epoch and federal regulation. In the development of transportation styles. in the United States. Why Reads Need More-Money. "We have our share of responsibility," Mr. Kruttschnitt's testimony also had jr EASTER NECKWEAR said Judge Lovett, "but it rests a bearing on the reasons for the application primarily on congress! When the gov* of the roads to the Interstate ernment regulates the rates and the Commerce Commission for a general COATS financial administration of the railroads, advance in freight rates. He showed the borrowing of money and the that while the price of transportation issuance of securities it relieves the has declined in recent years, the cost The very newest in Spring Neck­ railroad officers of the responsibility of of-producing transportation, like the providing and developing transpox*tation 'cost of almost everything else, has rap wear are here in collars and sets. systems, except within the limits Idly advanced. This be illustrated by In a complete assortment of the Season's becom­ of the revenue that can be realized from showing that if freight and passenger Georgette crepes, voils, etc., both such rates and under such restrictions. rates bad increased during the past ing styles. "For a country such as ours, for a embroidered and lace trimmed. twenty years in the same proportion as people situated as we are, to blunder average commodity prices the railroad* $10.00 $13.50 $15.00 $20.00 Priced at along with a series of unrelated, inconsistent, of the United States^ would have re conflicting statutes enacted by celved $1,654,000,000 more for trans 35c, 50c, $1.00 different states without relation to porta tion in 1915 than they did receive and Up each other, instead of providing a complete This saving to the public was effect and carefully studied and prepared ed, in spite of an increase of 93 pet system of regulation for a business cent in the Cost of operation of trains and up f||j These are the very latest models, direct from that is so vital to the life of the by a reduction in the average passeu nation, is worse than folly." ger rate per mile from 2.04 in cents the great style centers. He summed up the present problems 1895 to 1.98 cents in 1915. a decrease and difficulties of the railroads as follows: of 3 per cent, and by a reduction iu Inaverage EASTER SHOES freight rate per tou mile EASTER BLOUSES from First.—The multiplicity of regulations 8.39 mills in 1895 to 7.3 mills In 101ft. or "You Can Always Do Better" by the several states with respect 13 per cent. During the same period !is^i to the issue of securities, involving delays the cost of operation per train mile and conflicting state policies generally rose from 92 cents to $1.78, almost dangerous and possibly disastrous. Just came in yesterday. Kid lea­ doubling. At the same time the aver Newest styles in organdies, crepe 0. N. CARR & CO. age pricq of 346 commodities enumer ther vamps, black or brown, the tops de chine,, radium silk—beautiful Second.—The state regulation of ated in a bulletin of the Department of rates in such a manner as to unduly correctly matched. Button or lace. Agriculture, increased 115 per cent shades, priced reduce revenues, to discriminate in. favor Transportation is practically the only of localities and shippers within $4.50 and Up commodity in general use that has not its own borders as against localities increased tremendously in price during THE STORE OF QUALITY $1.25, $2.50, $4.00 AND UP and shippers in other states and to disturb tbe past twenty years, freight and pas and disarrange the structure of senger charges being lower than tbe interstate rates. were twenty years ago. Third.—The inability "of the Interstate S. Big 8aving to Publie. Commerce Commission, whoever If rates had risen proportionately to the commissioners may be, to perform the increase in the cost of other art! the vast duties devolving upon it under SAVED BY BUTTER ARE YOU EFFICIENT? cles of ordinary use, Mr. Kruttschnitt existing laws, resulting in delay— slid across the deckhand shot out into told the committee, tbe average passenger answers In SO seconds are rare they Which should never occur in commer the sea by an opposite porthole. rate in 1916 would have, been should have secretaries, limousines and clal matters—and compelling the commissioners Not one of them could stand on his 2.95 cents a mile, or 50 per cent higher big black cigars. to accept the conclusions of feet, and as pirates are generally superstitions, than it was, and tbe average freight Next try to answer five "difficult" their employees as final in deciding an idea seized them thai rate would have been 1.21 cents, or 60 questions in 20 seconds. matters of great importance to the SEA CAPTAIN'S WONDERFUI. the ship was possessed of the devil. HERE IS A TEST WHICH MAY BE per cent higher than it was. The saving 1. Who is the greatest living general? commercial and railroad interests of They hurried back into their own vessel, PRESENCE OF MIND. OF INTEREST. to tbe public in passenger fares the country. cast loose, and Captain Davis got through this difference was $314,000. Lucky for you if you are pro-ally. Fourth.—The practical legality that safely into port at the expense of I 000 and in freight rates $1,340,000,000. "Joffre" or "Haig" is written so much has been accorded conspiracies to tie few pounds of butter. Slippery Story of How He Discom* Anyway It's One Which Very Few Universal railroad bankruptcy undei more quickly than "Hindenburg" or up and suspend the operation of the flted Pirates Who Had Boarded Persons Find It Easy to Master, this reduction in rates and increased "Mackensen." railroads of the country by strikes and 1 Why Living Comes High in Russia. His Ship With Murder in cost of operation, be said, was avoided So Dont Be Distressed If You violence and the absence of any law 2. What is the most powerful force "A little time ago one of the highest only by heavy expenditures to obtain Their Sinful Hearts. to compel the settlement of such disputes Should Fail. In the world? government offices sent their representative increased efficiency in train movement, by arbitration or other judicial Perhaps love isn't, but it's a shorter to Siberia to buy buttei making it possible to haul more tons of Sea captains have many adventures, means, as all other issues between citizens word than militarism. Are you efficient? The awful query for a hospital," says a Petrograd correspondent. freight per locomotive. This bad reduced and the stories of theirwonderful escapes in civilized states are to be settled. refuses to down. The clocks tick it, 3. What is the greatest modern dis-f *t~^ "The civil servant in the average cost of hauling a seldom lose by repetition. Many covery? the flat wheels in the subway thump question was lucky enough to buy at ton of freight, but the decline in the years ago pirates cruised up and down Fifth.—The phenomenal increase in Quick, man I Radium will do. a shilling a pound, which was rather It, the ungreased curves of the elevated average freight rate had reduced the the English channel, to the great peril the taxation of railroads in recent 4. What is the greatest necessity of screech It. If you are an old cheap, but when it came to shipping, net revenue of the roads from each too years. of the merchantmen. The story is commerce? business fogy, the question burns in he met with a point-blank refusal on hauled, if the operating costs of the told of a Captain Davis, who was Sixth.—The cumulative effect of Secretary Redfield probably would the eye of every pitying employee. the part of the station master to give railroads, including the prices of coal, these conditions upon the investing noted for his quick wit as well as for not answer that in less than 11,840 You find your wife measuring the him the half wagon he required The labor and material, continue to advance public, to which railroad companies his skill in navigation, that he was words. Tou perhaps will write "ships" distance froin the range to the kitchen excuse was that only a whole wagon at' the present rate a lot of railroads niust look for the capital necessary to returning from Ireland with a cargo or "railroads" and pass on to the could be. provided. The man had to cabinet and your son computing the will be in tbe hands of receivers continue development consisting mainly of butter. last: find a contractor, who for a certain power necessary to propel a football by 1918 unless some relief is afforded, "We believe that the unification of He had not been Out very long whjen 5. What is the cheapest food for tho bribe consented to cede him half a in the lowest arc. The telephone company Mr. Kruttschnitt told the committee. regulation is essential," said Judge a pirate was seen coming down upon human race? wagon. And then the station master advises you to give yOur name "Owing to the rise of commodity Lovett, "and that with the rapid increase him. In vain all sails were spread Bread, unless you are a fiend for Instead of saying "Hello." Intervened, and refused to allow a r'r prices," he said, "the purchasing power of state commissions in -recent every moment brought the pirate lentils or employed by the makers ot„ wagon to be shared by two he too Blessed he the concrete of thought, of the dollar has fallen 55 per cent and Eh- years congress will in time be compelled nearer. fluted oat-corn. But you ought to an-.-^X£v had to be bribed. If not. of heed. Concreteness enables the railroads are In the position of being to exercise its power in the The men were at their wit's end, but swer three of these questions in 20 sec- .--r -, "As a result, when the butter at last you to see just what the efficiency compelled by law to accept pay* premises. To unify regulation there the captain-knew a trick or two. He onds, says Mr. Kemble. If you answer arrived In Petrograd, the total expenses master mean. One of them William ment for their service to the public In should be a complete, harmonious, cpnslstent ordered his men to take off their fewer, it indicates "slowness or d»^ were 2s 7%d a pound, lr7%d Fretz Kemble, tells in Industrial iwrrency worth 45 cents on the dollar. and related system. We believe liberation in thought." boots and stockings, and directed that being shipping and bribing expenses Management "How to Test Tour Employees." the best, if not the only practical Publio's Chief Interest. a score of butter barrels be brought for each shilling spent on butter.". Of course, every man who plan,. Is the federal Incorporation of "The public's greatest Interest Is In !&: on deck. Sheep-Raising In the East reads it will first test his most Important railroads by genera] law, which will adequate transportation facilities and fe In a few minutes the barrels had K& If the abandoned forms could be Romance In the Present War. employee, his father's son. make Incorporation thereunder compulsory, not so much In low rates. At to most been knocked to pieces, and the but* The romance of war is far from utilised for sheep-raising, it will be a Watch with pad and pencil are all thus imposing on all railroad commodities freight rates form avexy te^"-: tor was thickly spread alloverthe long way togard reducing the cost of dead. Witness the reports of the that is. needed to acquaint yourself tompanles throughout the United jv |p£r\' small proportion of-their cost Excluding deck and outside the ship. Not ropt living in this country. The sheep industry French, parachutist at Mpnastlr, who with your virtues and faults. In 30 States the same corporate powers ind low grade commodities, the nor a spar that was not slipiefc& was originally started On the Jumped from his balloon at a height seconds answer as many of these questions restrictions with respect to their financial percentage of the freight rate to the wmc:{v Even without their boots and stockings Atlantic seaboard* of course but lt|.|%^has of 3,500 feet, who took out his pocket* as you can: operations and the same duties cost Is ao slight as to offer no justification the sailors could scarcely keep worked its way westward untU^^S book with one hand and, holding it in Give the name of a vegetable, a And obligations to the public and the for any substantial Increase in w:-, on their legs. now there are only a few sheep breed-i" his teeth, inserted therein all his important metal, an Insect, a reptile, a fish, a government, so that every investor will prices to this consumer. It may be On came the pirate, not dreaming papers, threw it into the era in the East. That the industry7 man, a woman, an ocean, a lake, a know precisely, what every railroad stated with Kittle fear of contradiction bow smoothly he was to be received. can be brought back to the East Is French lines as he sailed over them, town.^ Corporation may and may not lawfully that the consumer seldom, if ever, jOaptaln Davis assumed an air of' submlsslon, sure thing. Sheep, it is well kno and himself reached the Serbian front. If a! the end of the half- minute A." 7J-. profits from a lowering of freight rates. W:' and. allowed-the enemy to are the most economical domestic anp Then again,, we have the account of you have written only "beet, gold, Judge Lovett contended that'ue solution ''Extortionate charges area thing Of come alongsidequietly. mals produced. They can live on almost the fight-in the Adriatic between an of these problems and difficulties flea, adder," you are pretty poor. If the past, and under the attempt to cut JgfBut when they Jumped oyer* fully* nothing. It has been estimatedthat -Italian torpedo boat and an Austrian you have also put down "trout, rested with congress. He told the rates to tlielr lowest possible figure armed, with pistol In one hancLand every sheep in the United States submarine. Both were sunk, but the Hughes, Pickford, Atlantic," you are committee that under the constitution tbe Interest: of the whole public In the P, produces a profit of $10 annually. If sword In the other, they slipped about survivors of the torpedo boat cap? the authority of the federal government up to, human average of eight answers. character and standard of transportation p»#- and tumbled over one another on the we can bring back the industry to the tured the submarine crew.. Our novelists If you feel that you can fo Is paramount, that congress has Is subordinated to the interest of eastern states and use the abandoned buttered deck like so many rats. have never ventured on imaginary tbe power to legislate for a centralized beyond ten answers, you may describe that part of the public only that profits forms for, grasing^ we shall, very StOne fellow shothead*foremost down Control of railroads under federal char* exploits that beat these realities., of the color, of water,, tea beer, ivory, by lowerrates-^that is tosayitbeshlp. wm