JOHN H. BROWN Attorney at Law Office over O. M. Carr & Co. of of Timely Speech Secretary Interior, International Falls, Minnesota MRS. HEINRICH RITTMEISTER CAPITOLA BILLINGS DR. H. H. IHRIG Franklin K. Lane on Reasons Why Dentist Office over Holler's Confectionery United States is in World's War International Falls, Minnesota GEO. S. LANGLAND Why are we fighting Germany? The brief answer is that ours Lawyer is a war of selfdefense. We did not wish to fight Germany. She In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue made the attack upon us, not nour shores, but on our ships, our International Falls, Minnesota lives, our rights, our future: For two years and more we held to F. J. McPARTLIN a neutrality that made us apologists for things whiph outraged Lawyer man's common sense of fair play and humanity. Office over.International State Bank At each new offense—the invasion of Belgium, the killing of International Falls, Minnesota civilian Belgians, the attacks on Scarborough and other defenseless towns, the laying of mines in neutral waters, the fencing off of G. F. SWINNERTON, M. D., C. M, the seas—and on and on through the months we said: "This is Physician and Surgeon war—archaic, uncivilized war, but war. All rules have been thrown Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted away all nobility. Man has come down to the primitive-brute, Office over City Drug Store and while we cannot justify we will not intervene. It is not our International Falls, Minnesota war. DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE Then why are we in? Because we could not keep out. The Physician and Surgeon invasion of Belgium, which opened the war, led to the invasion of Office over litis Drug Store the United States by slow, steady, logical steps. Our sympathies Phone 11 PIANIST. evolved into a conviction of selfinterest. Our love of fair play Mrs. Heinrich Rittmeister, pianist Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching ripened into alarm at our own peril. and accompanist, has had excellent International Falls, Minnesota Schooling and invaluable experience as We talked in the language and in the spirit of good faith ensemble player. Her early training PHINNEY & CAMPBELL and sincerity, as honest men should talk, until we discovered our was received in Chicago, completing Lawyers talk was construed as cowardice. And Mexico was called upon her studies there with two years of »SS»K study with Emil Liebling. In New International Falls, Minnesota to cow us. We talked as men would talk who cared alone for York she made a special study of ensemble peace and the advancement of their own material interests, until playing, and was given many W. E. LAWRENCE we discovered that we thought to be a nation of mere money makers, opportunities to appear before Eastern The Rexall Store audiences as pianiste in various chamber devoid of all character—until, indeed, we were told that we music organizations, as well as accompanist International Falls, Minnesota could not walk the highways of the world without permission of for many prominent sololsts. a Prussian soldier, that our ships might not sail without wearing a DR. E. A. THOMPSON PRESS NOTICE. striped uniform of humilation, a narrow path of national subservience. Dentist Mrs. Rittmeister played the Chopin We talked as men talk who hope for honest agreement, Phone 245 G. minor Ballade and two Nocturnes, not for war until we found that the treaty torn to pieces at large with understanding and style. In the Office over litis Drug Store ensemble she displayed sympathy, was but the symbol of a policy that made agreements worthless International Falls, Minnesota of clean phrasing and appreciation against a purpose that knew no word but success. dynamics and coloring.—Rochester (N. W. E. MARTIN J.) Times. And so we came into this war for ourselves. It is a war to Contractor and Builder save America, to preserve selfrespect, to justify our right to live Repairs Promptly Done as we have lived, not as someone else wishes us to live. In the Phone 159 705 8th St. BETHEL ANTOINETTE SMITH, name of freedom we challenge with ships and men, money and an HARPIST AND PIANIST WITH THE MAC DOWELL QUARTET—MAD DY'S The Shoe Hospital CODY, WYOMING. undaunted spirit, that word "berboten" which Germany has written SYMPHONY ARTISTS. upon the sea and upon the land. For America it is not the Capitola Billings, a pupil of Henry Williams, the famous harpist with J. REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, is an experienced concert performer^ name of so much territory. It is a living spirit, born in travail, Her ability as an accompanist is well known and recognized. The services of NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor grown in the rough school of bitter experiences, a living spirit which Capitola Billings have been secured by the American for several seasons in. 213 Third Street has purpose and pride, knows why it wishes to live and to what end, advance. A musician from childhood—and a real woman. Next to Boston Lunch knows how it comes to be respected of the world and hopes to retain that respect by living on with the light of Lincoln's love of NORTHERN MINNESOTA GRISWOLD SISTERS QUARTET OF BOSTON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION man as its old and new testament. it is more precious that this America should live than that we Dr. R. H. Monahan ..Phone 223 Americans should live. And this America as we now see has been Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 challenged from the first of this war by the strong arm of a power Eudestine Hospital Phone 79 that has no sympothy with our purpose and will not hesitate to destroy Office over International State Bank us if the law that we respect, the rights that are to us sacred, Phone 155 or the spirit that we have, stand across her set will to make this International Falls, Minnesota world bow before her policies, backed by her organized and scientific military system. The world of Christ-—a neglected but not re jected Christ—has come again face to face with the world of & Mahomet, who willed to win by .force. With this background of history and in this sense, then we fight Germany: eperators BECAUSE OF BELGIUM—Invaded, outraged, enslaved, impoverished Belgium. We cannot forget Liege, Louvain and Cardinal I LYCEUM GIRLS. A!\i£IR»CAN dinal Mercier. Translated into terms of American history these •iSu'! Antoinette Smith, pianist and I -«i st. a punil of Mine. Karris names stand for Bunker Hill, Lexington and Patrick Henry. :hv' soloists to their BECAUSE OF FRANCE—Invaded, desecrated France, a million i"! she possesses a By contracting for fifteen new a S of whose heroic sons have died to save the land of Lafayette. machines direct with the Sterling Factory, we have secured Glorious golden France, the preserver of the arts, the land of noble ORJOEIE BRUNER Whether in ensemble or solo numbers, these four young ladies strike a a price never before heard of. spirit. The first land to follow our lead into republican liberty. popular chord with music love.-s generally, while as entertainers, they also These Cream Seperators are BECAUSE OF ENGLAND—From whom came the laws, tradi please. Here are four sisters, presenting a delightful and varied program, equal to any on the market. each one contributing capably to make a pleasing whole. Their programs are tions, standards of life and inherent love of liberty which we once We will have them in two appropriate anywhere. Freedom from affectation, a sympathetic interpretation sizes—the No. 4 will handle enjoyed on the land and once upon the sea. But Australia, New of the theme in hand and an appreciation for the best in music and literature, five hundred pounds of milk Zealand, Africa and Canada are free because of what we did. And mark each member's work. Instrumental and vocal solos, duos, trios, quartets per hour and the No. 5 six and sketches are further augmented by the selections of Jessalyn GriswoldEvans, they are with us in the fight for the freedom of the seas. hundred pounds per hour. erf* reader and impersonator. The Griswold Sisters Quartet employs competent BECAUSE OF RUSSL\—New Russia. She must not be overwhelmed These Seperators give the best coaches to perfect the programs. now. Not now, surely, when she is just born into freedom. of satisfaction and have some PRESS COMMENTS. features that are superior to "Entertainment in Clayville, N. Y., theater by Griswold Sisters' Quartet Her peasants must have their chance they must go to school other makes. was one of the best things ever here."-—Utica Press. We will sell the to Washington, to Jefferson, and to Lincoln, until theJy know their "Miss Florence Griswold 'delighted the audience with both her vocal and No. 4 for $45.00 and the No. 5 way about in this new, strange world of government by the piano solos."—Schenectady (N. Y,) Gazette. -for $55.00 and give a liberal discount fa popular will. for cash. RAGNHILD H0LMQUIST And because of other peoples, with their rising hope that the world may be freed from government by the soldier. S. E. THOMPSON & SON We are fighting Germany because she sought to terrorize us m- -r-. and then to fool us. We could not believe what Germany would 4 do upon the s^as. mm Wfe still hear the piteous cry of children coming up out of the PATRIOTIC CITIZENS Iflptl sea where the Lusitania went down. And Germany has never FLY THE FLAG We will ship by parcel post to your 'asked forgiveness of the world. address one of our Prepaid Fast Color We saw the Sussex sunk, crowded with the sons and daughters 4x6 foot sewed "All Weather Brand" V. S. tor fl.50. These flags have Flags of neutral nations. Iv-iider of national repute wit? strong canvas headings and brass grommets We saw ship after ship sent to the bottom—ships of mercy s%rt- .-!iu Lyceum girls. and will stand all kinds of weather and are of our own manufacture. bound out of America for the Belgian starving, ships carrying the The scarcity ana advance in price of Red Cross and laden with thevwounded of all nations ships carrying tha Co*Jirait- 23 of Civil Ass at a a is a is fer limited. Send in your order at once. food and clothing to friendly, harmless, terrorized peoples 3 A 1 Send check, money order or draft with th'a-'"- a pp* i- t3 t--3 I'-tfl ships flying the stars arid stripes—sent to the bottom hundreds of order. Prices on other sies upon application. •amms$. U0&"'' miles from shore, manned by American seaman, murdered against i-io wjiaiii x'.iz Iwft Northwestern Flag & Decorating Co. Voi r.zl s-T.i iy oi I-. «•. all law, without warning. Wholesale Manufacturers We believed Germany's promise that she would respect the Fines, Banners and Decorations ""-d to vr 4 for all occasions neutral flag and the rights of neutrals, and we held our anger and ST. PANL, MINNESOTA pl'-cvV, iii T- 1=: outrage in check. But now we see that she was holding us off pi ft- with fair promises until she could build her huge fleet of submarines^ NOTICE 7 '"i'Ti Xl'.lh the 7fi J:r For when spring came she blew her promise into the air, the inillz-i'•, If the public will get the habit ., V.% f-?] _V7 Tre -i-T-1 just as at the beginning she had torn up that "scrap of paper." of using their street address on ali WITH AMERICAN LYCEUM GIRLS. 1 Ragnhild Holmquist, a pupil of Oscar Seagle in London, England, and Gustaf mails it will give them better service Then we saw cle'arly that there was but one. law for Germany— ia?„v. en us: ic Holmquist of Chicago, has a lyric soprano voice of great beauty. Her rare when the carriers are put in I n. ..minister --t-v tv-ani her will to rule. gift of interpretation makes her especially fitted for the folk and art songs of service and also be appreciated by lest of l'sti tti'E._— We are fighting"Germany because she. violated our confidence. which in costume, to V? different nations, she does tSrus lending peculiar interest the postal department. .her programs. Postmaster. (Continued on Page Four)