INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR S! GOVERNOR TO THE INTERNATIONAL "FALLS SPRESi D. S. FORCE FORESTRY REGIMENT LIBERTY LOAN BONDS WILL ENROLL HERE HEAD RED CROSS OF 8,000,000 AND BORDER BUDGET The United States government, inorder Washington, June 6.—Minnesotans to secure funds with which to who wish to join the forestry regiment Publishers of the Official County Proceedings carry on the war of freedom, will issue being organized for service in INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Liberty Loan bonds which are Butfnquist Issues Proclamation Naming France can enroll either with W. T. Immediately Necessary to Take the offered for sale to the public. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager .Week Beginning June 17 Cox, state forester, in St. Paul, or G. place of the Russian Army to Prevent The bonds are the written promises For Work. E. Marshall, United States forest Defeat in France. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., as Second-clam Matter of the United States to repay the service, Cass Lake, Minn. amount of the bonds at the end of a Governor J. A. A. B'urnquist Friday The regiment, will be made up of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. certain period of time specified in accepted a commission to ledd the Washington, June 8.—The military six companies of 164 men each. Recruits the bonds. Each bond bears interest campaign to raise $2,000,000 for the collapse of Russia will require the must be citizens between 18 "Long may it wave, o'er the lands of the free and the homes at the rate of 3^4 per cent payable national Red Cross in ^Minnesota. He United States to furnish 2,000,000 a&d 45 years old. Physical tests will twice a'year. of the brave." soldiers as soon as it is physically will be official chairman of the entire be the same as for the regular army. fund activities in the state. possible to do so, in the opinion of The whole wealth of the United The men wanted are skilled axmen, The governor issued this proclamation many war officials. States is back of these bonds and sawyers, tie-hewers, skidders, teamsters, It is suggested that a aviation recruiting station be opened at asking support for Red Cross there is no better security in the It is estimated here that with Russia blacksmiths, millwrights, engi1 Crystal Beach. fund raising: world. Aside from the patriotic out of the military reckoning neers and helpers. spirit you manifest in buying them WHEREAS THE PRESIDENT OF Germany will be able to transfer The -forest service of the Agriculture you. are helping your country with the United States has proclaimed the nearly 2,000,000 troops from the esstern department is organizing the Government officials admit that in all probability the war will your money to carry on the war of week beginning June 17 as Red Cross to the western front. This regiment at the request of the war last at least three years. liberty. week and officially recognized the transfer is believed to be in progress, department. Such a regiment is American Red Cross as the proper and a terrific drive by Hindenberg You can subscribe for any amount needed in France to supply the cirihy The new government of Russia should be organized and assisted agency through which it will be possible on the British and French is expected of these bonds at any bank in your with timber needed. for all to show their patriotism within the next few weeks. locality or to the Secretary of the for a few years by a United States Suzerancy. and generosity in meeting the urgent Treasury at Washington, D. C. The SWING WAR TO U. S. England has approximately 1,500,000 need, both in the field and civilian work of the banks in handling the men in France, 1,000,000 in the Industrial leaders and employes say that unless the soaring relief and, matter is entirely free and every cent Denver, June 7.—That Germany recently levantine countries and is holding cost of living is stopped serious and widespread labor trouSles are received for the bonds goes direct to WHEREAS, THOUSANDS OF OUR had offered the Entente Allies 2,000,000 at home ostensibly to resist the gvoernment. inevitable. young men are showing themselves an indemnity of $30,000,000,000 to end the dreaded invasion of the British A bond may be bought outright willing to go to the front to suffer the war and had planned to collect isles by Germany. England is raising for cash, or if you so desire, any of hardships and, if necessary, give up this in turn from the United States an additional 500,000 to meet the This is Flag Day—It will be celebrated over all the world the banks in the county will purchase their lives, and it is evident the least was told to, a Denver audience last wastage of battle, but professes to be except in Germany and by the few others who are trying, to blot one for you! to be paid for as any man, woman or child who remains night by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, unable to increase the size of the our form of government from the face of the earth. follows: at home can do is to help in speaking in the interest of the Liberty British army on the western front. $50.00 bond to be paid for at the every way possible to reduce *the Loan. The British confession of failure in rate of $1.00 a week. front must necessarily endure and "Not long ago a tentative offer was the drive on the Hindenburg line Learn to sing "The Marseillaise", the song of our Northern $100.00 bond to be paid for at the WHEREAS, THE NECESSARY, made to the Allies to end the war by was made in an article by the military Minnesota regiment which is to be sung by the soldier boys as rate of $2.00 a week. humane and patriotic work can hest Germany paying an indemnity of $30,000,000,000," correspondent of the London they march through the streets of Paris on their way to the firing $150.00 bond to be paid for at the be accomplished through the war he said, "Germany to retain Times cabled to this country yesterday. line. rate of $3.00 a week. council of the American Red Cross her army and navy and have the A recognized military authority $200.00 bond to be paid for at the whose purpose it is to raise $100,000,000 freedom of the seas. who reflects the opinion of the war rate of $4.00 a week. for this work, of which $2,1 "Back of this proposed plan was a department expressed the belief today The Russians seem to be a good deal like the peace at any $500.00 bond to be paid for at the 000,000 is the share apportioned to purpose to send the German army that the military critic of the price people in our own county. As long as they have enoogh to rate of $10.00 a week. the state of Minnesota and navy to the United States and Times was not the author of the article, eat and wear and a good home to live in they don't want to be At the end of fifty weeks the bond collect this vast indemnity from this but that it was written with the I HEREBY URGE THAT EACH will be paid for and you will have country." bothered but want, some one else to fight their battles and defend authorization of the British general person in our state aid the committees saved the amount of the bond purchased The Allies had refused this, Dr. staff, if not by a member of the general the liberties and previleges they are enjoying. engaged in the collection of the besides rendering a patriotic Hillis declared, thereby preventing staff himself. The article contains needed funds and respond, specially service to your country. "the conquering of this country." information he asserted, not the said week, to this appeal in such This city's special opportunity to show its devotion to its country We cannot all enlist but we can [available to any civilian or other person a way as to show that spirit of loyalty and its flag has come with: the arrival of Captain R. C. Nelson, help our country by lending our money $200,000,000 UNITED STATES not connected with the British and sacriface which has ever to her. Talk it oevr with your LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED who is here for the purpose of raising a detachment to represent this war office. He characterized the article characterized the people of Minnesota. banker. as England's explanation of Washington, June 7.—For the third city in the Northern Minnesota regiment known as the Third Minnesota, the failure of the Allies, occasioned As in the liberty loan activities, time in six weeks an offering of now to be known as the "Sieur du L'Hut Battalions." by their inability to assert a superiority MEN CANNOT CROSS TO $200,000,000 in treasury certificates of Minneapolis will be the first city to Other prominent towns in, this region are raising detachments for of force over the Central empires, U. S. WITHOUT PERMITS get the Red Cross campaign under indebtedness, convertible into Liberty this regiment and we believe that International Falls will do its to maintain- an effective offensive. Loan bonds and bearing a lower way. Edward Newton Huntress, full share during the next few iays. The ladies will also take interest rate than the bond issue itself, Pittsfield, Mass,, appointed by the (Continued from Page One). The London Times writer states national Red Cross to lead the campaign has been heavily oversubscribed. unusual pleasure in aiding this particular detachment in their there are 76 German divisions on the The entire offering, which brings the here has arrived in the city Red Cross work as much as possible as their own home boys will mate business. Russian front. and details of campaign plans are being total of outstanding certificates issued The penalty for leaving the country be together in this regiment which is to carry the spirit of Sieur "These are inactive and available drafted. under the war revenue bill up by steadth or for endeavoring to -V du L'Hut back to France. for use in the west, which would give to approximately $870,000,000, was evade examination on leaving is a them a distinct superiority over the placed through the Federal Reserve fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS bank. Allies, taking in account the superior WE HAVE TO WIN two years or both. transportation facilities of the Central Permit forms may be obtained Powers over the French and from any postmaster. Persons living THE SIEUR DU LiHUT BATTALION Nothing would have influenced President Wilson to take this English armies. i"t in the towns along the river who intend lukewarm nation into war except the conviction, the knowledge, Calls on U. S. for 2,000,000 crossing the line should provide "This total of 121 divisions means (Continued from Page One) that if Germany defeated Great Britain our turn was next. We themselves with the forms before that, counting 15,000 men to the division, should have had all the money and none of the guns, wide open lfeaving home. This will save time would give the regiment a great significance. I can think of nothing the Germans and Austrians on arrival at Fort Frances or other and inviting conquest. that would give a better reception or distinguishe us more in havel,8l5,000 troops available for points of exit. The forms may be The notion that a victorious Germany would have had all the France than to let the French people know we were taking back service in the west whenever they filled in as far as possible by those are needed. This puts the Allies' war it wanted is foolish. A victorious nation is not in a weakened to that country some of the romance their country sent to us affected, in their own districts. If back to where they stood four condition. A victorious army is stronger at the end of a war than there are none of the responsible Local Spirit Helps months ago, and means that to make officers resident, the forms may be it was at the beginning. We were ready to fight both Groai Britain up the deficiency of the AngloFrench-Belgian "It's a big idea," said Capt, Ned Green, United States army completed in Fort Frances, provided anlFrance\ at the end of the Civil War to get payment for injuries armies, the United recruiting officer in the Duluth district. "It helps an organization the applicants are well and favorably done us in the war. States will have to send practically known to the police, clergy, etc. a great deal to have some local spirit behind it and the people of 2,000,000 soldiers to France. Whether the man in the street will understand that this war is The period for which the order Duluth really have a great chance in this sentiment. "The critic placed the blame for to protect the United States we do not know. It is whether the fact will apply is indefinite. W.-O. "IJike the idea immensely,"^^aid Capt. Flodin, adjudant this misfortune upon Russia. The The regulation has been unpopular can be convincingly presented or not. provisional government of Russia has of the "Battalions," as they are henceforth to be known. "It ought so far on the American side.,The But the man in the street can understand one thing at least. not been able to hold the Russian to give every person living in this section of the country a spirit U. S. immigration officers at the end We have started something that we have to finish. That is a plain troops up to the war. They are tire|ed regiment I of the international bridge say it is of possession in hearing of the exploits of the and of fighting, and lacking discipline, enough ^axiom of every life. We have to win or be whipped. quite lonesome over there just now. know it will help the men to overcome any hardships that may ithey are not moved by pleas for national There is no argument about that, and no need of explaining it —Fort Frances Times. be before them to think of how much greater were the hardships honor, for their Slav brethren, Chicago Tribune. the Serbs, or for the Allies. They of du L'Hut when he clung to his ideal of this country in spite of Japan, with few exceptions, is engaging want peace and unless they can be all the obstacles before him." her ships in a profitable business overcome they will have it. WHAT ARE WE IN FOR? Prominent men all over Dufuth echoed the sentiments of the free from all risks." "The Allies are no longer counting officers of the "Battalions" and have promised their aid in making upon assistance from Russia this If we do not conquer Germany now, we but postpone the evil the recruiting campaign, which opens today with all its force. year, and all their plans for military day. We or our children will have to hear the brunt. Either we operations in 1917 are wrecked. The The plans for the campaign, which have been maturing, were put English, the French and the Italian dispose of this evil now^or it will rise up in even more terrible shape into definite action last night and everything is set for the great offensives have been arrested the to plague our descendants, or to overwhelm them. drive for recruits which begins this liiortiing. two former have suspended entirely, Isiow is the accepted time. Postpone the decision, compromise The Sieur du Hut battalions are made up of companies! from and the latter appears to have the issue, and the generation to come will be confronted with a ceased. The Austrians are even several sections of northeastern Minnesota. There are three com driving the Italians back. hazzard even more perilous than that which confronts us at this panies, a machine gun company, a supply company, headquarters "The only hope for making the hour. If we are moving to the rescue of our Allies, nevertheless company and sanitary company here in Duluth. There are companies Russian army effective, even if Russia they are with us and already they have the German beast wounded on the range and in other sections. The recruiting campaign, does not retire from the war, is and badly spent. Whereas, if we are weak enough to forego the which is coupled with the recruiting campaign for the army, through the restoration of dicipline advantage and to "pass the buck" to our cihldren, they will fight among the troops, which would ^require proposes to secure "seven men" from* every thousand of the population. alone and, perhaps, against a coalition. many manths to accomplish Russian military dicipline was based Let us gird up the loins of our strength, therefore, and rise Under orders from the war department to fill up the regular on caste—the peasant yielded to his to the level of the need, as our fathers did in '61 when Lincoln army and National guard, 700,000 men were needed from April 16. aristocracy. When caste was swept called. It is no Cuban business to which we are summoned, but The drive is being made to get all the men necessary to make up away by the revolution military discipline mvdPj a grapple to the death with the most determined conqueror the went with it. this number. There have been -a number brought into the Sieur "An effort was made to establish world has seen. It is Prussianism or liberalism, the Hohenzollern du Hut? battalions as well as the regular army since April 16. a new discipline through orders from or the people—these are the alternatives. These are to be deducted from the original "seven men" per the workmen's and soldiers' council How are we going to answer that? The point can not be a who issued orders to the officers, but evaded. We must meet it breast on. To quibble will mean to be this failed miserably and at present The general idea of the campaign is to show how the draft can smashed. To trifle will result in bringing down upon Nus additional time the soldiers have the situation be beaten by enlisting, the officers say? They announce that all in their own hands, and they refuse woes. We have thrust upon us this enormous responsibility, which men enlisted over and above the ration of "seven men" per thousand, to fight." we must shoulder and dispose of or suffer the penalties of a frivolous will be credited to this section on the draft. Jn other words, The allied governments fear that Oil & people. Those penalties are grave: Shame, loss, decay, sufferinf if the city of Duluth supplies 1,000 men instead of the 700 the ratio »r or Russians, ignoring the central authority, underwear-thf for individuals, extinction as a nation. famous will assist Germany in replenishing would demand, there will be 300 credited to the^city in making up certificate attached to her military stores and The gravity of the situation cannot be exaggregated Because garment—the wide r^nreo^fr,1^. its quota for the draft. Therefore if the first call is for 500,000 rics weights and weaves—ma.ic food depots, being lured to this we are not next door neighbor to Germany, as Belgium is, or separated satisfy the rigid r?o-_Trenenr. ccupat men, or "five men" per thousand, Duluth would only be required to treachery by the great profits offered on~ are votir best £s?o«&nces oi nfav-i from her by narrow seas as England is, we are not exempted cemfort sr. compete unSc-vveiir furnish two men per thousand. by Germany. It, is believed this catastrophe from either the peril of the latter, or the of the Men who have registered can enlist as volunteers as well as traffic has already begun in Bessarabia fornjer. The world nowadays is narrow, and what is determined and that Germany is .obtaining others. If they enlist they can go with the men of the Sieur du in Europe will spell the fate of the world. grain through Rumania. L'Hut battalions, their neighbors and friends. If they wait for the Priced Per Suit' from $1.00 Up Will Ask Japan to Aid We should regard ourselves as embarked upon a crusade to draft they will be assigned to such regiments as the drafting offi- The' Entente governments, it is rescue civilization from the^dragon, liberty from the monster, aye, You Can Always Do Better without regard to their preferences or where they came cers said here today, will request Japan Christianity from barbarism. But the matter comes home to us V-LV' from.: With the Sieur du L'Hut battalions they will be with the soon to share in the allied shipping 0. more closely than that. For in fact we are concerned for,, pur burden.?-All the Entente nations and M. eARR & CO. home folks, the officers declare In the drafted army they will be future. We win, or go down.—Minneapolis Journal. the United- States are risking their must placed wherever the drafting officers see fit. "The Store of Quality" vessels in the common cause, while