?rs INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS|2 4*W? i?I PAGE FOUR RJ ^S'- -r -V THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS U.S. AND US. FIRST DRAWING ON HOW THE WAR TAX— IS BEING RAISED GREAT DRAFT AND BORDER BUDGET We celebrated Dominion^ day, the jubilee of our confederation, Direct Taxation Placed Largely Upon (Continued from Page One), this week. The United States celebrated the anniversary of its independence—a Luxuries, Swollen Fortunes and m, Publishers of the Official County Proceedings with,the responsibility _of knowing 'ivr*: :. closely parallelled event in the history of that nation. Unusual Business Profits. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY requirements, it behooves the youth Nothing could have demonstrated the wide difference in our A study of the following list of of America to keep close tabs- on GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager amounts to be raised for War purposes national characteristics more than the methods of celebration. We newspapers from now on. shows how congress has levied Entered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., as Second-class Matter The first set of instructions will be took our pleasures sadly. As Kipling once mentioned: the heaviest taxes upon those who given officially to the press in the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. "Soberly under my white man's laws, can b'est afford to pay them, proving next few days. My white men go their ways." once more that, proportionate to A finaL plan of the unique method "Can the Kaiser," is Germany's best move now. Across the border it was different. Every man, woman and their income, the rich and well-to-do of singling out the men for the first are doing their share to carry the child in International Falls gave some outward sign of joy on the levy is before Secretary Baker today. unusual war expenses. Orville Wright says that ten thousand flying machines would nation's birthday. Some held or wore flags sober dignified citizens 1—Additional tax on Unless a shift is made in present end the war in ten weeks. Let's get at it then and get back to peaceful tooted horns less "formal tickled their "friends on the back of the large incomes, the arrangements, this is the method of occupations. neck with small feather ticklers especially made for the purpose. tax to bring in, per the draft lottery: year $ 532,700,000.00 The whole population, in the modern language of the United How Drawings Will Be Done. 2—A tax on the profits One convenience always suggests another. The Crystal beach States, was "tickled to death," and you could tell it by looking at Squares of paper numbered serially of every business, the will be placed in gelatine capsules. road being completed, a telephone was suggested and will be in them. tax to be levied in This will be thrown into a big transparent operation before Sunday. The Americans carried their gladness over to us when the addition to the income globe. On the day of the draft procession crossed the river to Fort Frances. Perhaps nothing tax and to capsules will be drawn at random graduate upward as Who said the State Medical association met here Tuesday? could" give a better indication of the enthusiasm of our new elly from the globe. Each slip indicates the profits increase. If there is nothing secret about it we would like to .get some particulars for draft every man bearing that than that procession, especially when it is remembered that the Estimated that this number in each of the more than 4,000 about it for next week's paper. spirit of it reached from here to the most southern part of the states. extra tax will bring, counties and cities of the nation. Our methods may be different but Uncle Sam's children have per year 505,000,000.00 The slips are numered from one The national registration is about 9,700,000 men. It ie believed 3—Additional tax on made us very glad. We feel the vibration of once broken chords up as hgih as the number of men registered wines and spirits, that 1,200,000 of this number will be drawn in the first selection, in the knowledge that the brother in whom our blood flows is by in the largest precinct in expected to bring or one man out of eight the nation over. the country. our side at this time. We are even thankful for the event celebrated per year 165,000,000.00 President Wilson's advisory board by our kinsmen on the Fourth of July.—Fort Frances Times. 4—Additional tax on has settled upon this method as the The carpenter and others who are making trips to Virginia cigars and cigarettes, fairest that can be devised. Every and bringing back booze in suit cases will not be warned again. expected to bring, WHY THE MAGNET FAILED. action is open to the public scrutiny. per year 57,000,000.00 You had better quit, boys, while. 4he quitting is good. The drawing will probably be held By "A Townsman." 5—Tax on passenger a.S* in some large room of the war department. tickets, freight shipments, A committee of prominent The brutal drunken murder .at Loman on the Fourth should be From time to time there flits inv and out of International Falls pullman berths, men will be appointed to act as official vigorously and persistently looked into. If the county board can't telegraph messages, relics of by-gone days, phantoms of former "characters," reminiscent witnesses, testifying as to the see its way to provide a contingent fund to care for such cases the telephone messages, of lost chapters in the history of the town, who, having been impartiality of the drawing. express shipments state should be called upon £§rit is too serious a matter to be allowed In the provost marshal general's gone a long time, are drawn back by the mighty reaches of the invisible and advertising, to drift along. office today clerks were busy numbering and powerful arms of the God-defiant giant, Booze. expected to the half inch slips that will bring, per year ...... 160,000,000.00 Such a one, having the sobriquet of Grosshall and wearing an choose the draft army. Federal Judge Amidon has ruled that carrying liquor into 6—Tax on perfumes, expression of eager expectation, gathered his old and fast atrophying As soon as the last local precinct automobiles, kodaks, dry territory, though it is intended only for personal use and not has completed its organization and body together and crawled from John Gagne's ferryboat the and sporting goods, for sale, is contrary to the interstate commerce law and therefore affixed in red ink serial numbers to other evening. He advanced slowly along the wooden approach to expected to bring, the registration cards the draft lottery in violation of the federal "bone-dry" law. the little wooden Customs building, and there, upon the platform, per year 48,000,000.00 will take place in Washington. 7—Tax on admission.... stood gazing earnestly and perplexedly about him. The Immition Although General Crowder urged The United States armies in Europe will establish new standards tickets, to theatres officer on duty noted the stranger's hesitant manner. He approached every board to complete this labor and other places of of courtesy to noncombatants and humanitarian treatment by today, officials assert that the him. amusement, expected of prisoners by soldiers in warfare as they observe the unwritten requirements draft may be delayed to the middle After a few preliminaries the stranger informed the officer to bring, per year .. 23,000,000.00 and perhaps through next week by of everyday life in this country, while on the battlefronts. that he had lived at the Falls a long time ago, but had gone west 8—Tax on playing cards N resignations from the local boards. and all amusement where he made a strike in a gold discovery, that he was now on President Considers Plan. features, expected to W his way east to spend his last remaining days in comfort before he President Wilson himself has given bring, per year 30,000,000.00 It is reported that the kaiser is going to "can" his foreign consideration to the various plans died. But, as he explained, the Falls called to him as he was going 9—Extra cost of letter secretary, Zimmermann. He should have done this before he for the draft lottery. through oi the Canadian Northern, and he decided to stop over postage, expected to It has not yet been decided whe "balled" things up by trying to array Mexico and Japan against bring, per year 53,000,000.00 and have "one more good time with the boys and lick up a few ther the first drawing should cover the United States. Even emperors' "hindsight" is better than their 10—This schedule is the lzr% last bottles of good old bourbon." Then, after asking the officer if only enough men for the first levy only one which hits "foresight." he was sure this was the Falls, he took another hasty look about, or the entire 9,649,938 registered. In the home and average the latter case the numbers of every drew a deep sigh and started off ti^ town. man directly. It man registered will be listed in the The lakes in the southern and central part of the state are It must have been an hour and a half later when Grosshall is a tax on sugar, tea, order drawn and" this list will stand being seined for rough fish with which to supply the state institutions. coffee and cocoa and returned and passed crestfallen 'and sad-faced through the little for future levies, the second draft It seems as though some arrangements could be made is expected to bring, Customs building. A few minutes later the Inspector noticed him to- begin at the serial number in each per year 86,000,000.00 with the fishermen in our lakes so that the large amount of rough district where the first draft ended. leaning across the wooden rail of the ferry approach with head •A study of the schedules will show fish they catch could be marketed here instead of being thrown Twenty men selected by Provost bowed and apparently in deep distress. .The officer, thinking the that about the same class of people Marshal Crowder will do the actual back into the lake. man was in need of assistance, approached and made inquiry of him. drawing of the numbers from the are hit by every schedule, and that "Drunk?" Crosshall raised his head. "Sick? Huh! I guess not!" glass globe. this class of people are the so-called a In sentencing Goldman and Berkman, the leading anarchists He hitched himself around so as to face the Inspector. "Robbed!" "well-to-do" and the business interests in this country, three days ago, Judge Mayer said: "This is not BE NATURALIZED OR he grinned. "By this bunch o' sky folks?" The grin disappeared and of the country generally. a question of free speech, for free speech is guaranteed to us under DEPORTED, IS OPINION* a look of disgust spread over his old features. "Not on y'ur life," the constitution. But free speech means not license, not councelling he finished, leaning across the rail. Washington, July 9.— A bill designed disobedience to the law." W "But something went wrong, with you," insisted the officer, NOTICE. to reach men of military age who noted that Grosshall's breath was singularly free from the born in Great Britain, Canada, Italy There is no reason why all men between the ages of 18 and Notice is hereby given that unless fumes of liquor and that he was unquestionably sober. and other foreign countries, who the heirs of Tom Beaton call and 40 years of age should not accept the privilege of volunteering have never taken steps toward naturalization, Crosshall turned to him again. "Nothin' went wrong wi' me," pay for the following property within will be introduced today for service with one of the departments of the regular army. Even he said emphatically. "The darn trouble is that everything is gone thirty days said property will be and urged for passage at this session though the first draft doe^ not take them in, the regular army recruiting wrong wi' the blamed town." Then he added as an afterthought, sold to pay the bill against it as follows by Chairman J. L. Burnett of stations will be kept open for the benefit of such volunteers. "And wi' the people, too." the house immigration committee. It Find your place and "do your bit." Mounting two moose heads ..$45.00 will propose such men be given 30 or "How's ±hat?" inquired the Inspector. Mounting two deer heads 14.00 60 days, from enactment of the bill, Crosshall stared a moment to make sure the Inspector was Mounting one loon 3.00 Those who are drawn from the draft wheel at Washington to take out their first citizenship not trying to make game of him, then he pointed to the river bank papers, so as to be subject to military will not know it until they are notified to appear before the local .Total $62.00 in front of the little Customs building where the light from the service here, and that if they exemption board, and their reason for exemption will need to be Erickson Bros, seventeen hundred and fifty candle power arc showed the vegetables fail to do so within the period prescribedr supported by corroborated affidavits which will be sent to Washington Jul5-26 Ranier, Minn. they shall be deported. and art of a terraced garden. "Now, looka that!" he exclaimed, for final decision as to whether they will be excused from "and tell me if that there is International Falls!" He thumped the service.. This plan practically excliides possibility of local partiality. rail. "No siree^ If I remember anything, and I think I do, there Is Your Figure Inclined never was nothin' but an ash heap in front o' that place before." He shook his head. No siree nothin' like them fancy things grew Both our senators, Knute Nelson and Frank B. Kellogg, voted A Little Towards Fullness there. No sir this ain't no Falls!" "bone dry" last Friday. Their votes were cast against the manufacture He slowly turned and flittered toward the outgoing ferryboat. of beer and wines, against the importation of liquor during In a minute he had disappeared.. If so, here is a new corset the war and against the withdrawal of spirits in bond. As long as The following morning the inspector learned that the Public that will take care of all our state is represented by men of this kind, who work and vote ffe' Safety "commission had been in town, and that the "pigs" had been in favor of the greatest good to the greatest number, Minnesota will flesh. The Designer planned i- obliged to hold their tears. continue to prosper. this stylish model so that it ft# performs a definite function, W According to the twiri city papers the brewers of the state are and like all offering to assist the safety commission and the state administration A Bit of American History. to enforce the laws against the illegal sale of booze. Have BON TON things come to such a pass that the state of Minnesota needs assistance of that sort in view of the attitude of brazen defiance "We have met the enemy and they are ours!" That Corsets heretofore always assumed by these same brewers on all questions means something! Who said it? Commodore Oliver H. of law enforcement? It sure looks like a clear case of knuckling Perry in his message to General Harrison, after the it has the quality which you down. great naval battle on Lake Erie. It meant that the expect and sell at a price United States Navy, always ready to defend and protect i... you are willing to pay. A "bone dry" nation is what is needed. While distilled liquors the nation, and that means YOU and YOUR PROPERTY, may contsain more kicks and quarrels than beer, it is the manufacturers One notable feature is the had again scored a home run for the .United of beer who furnish money to control local and state politics States. There are many Perrys in this Great Northwest bust, not too low or too high, and continually, encourage lawlessness in order that they may and Uncle Sam is now looking for them to offer but just right. It means sell more beer and make greater profits. It is also the manufacturer a chance to MAKE HISTORY. Wake up, Mr. American, comfort. Note the smart of beer that requires more than a hundred million bushels and answer the call. Volunteer for service on torpedo contour lines. Several of grain, the profitless use of car space and ship tonnage, and the boats, submarines and dreadnoughts, and do your models at $3.50 to $5. misapplication of sorely needed labor and the degredatioji of man duty. Your grandchildren will be glad to be your grandchildren •cfr-rr?.' Let us show you your size. power. Why then should this congress deliberately vote to continlue when they read._the history of the future, the manufacture of beer? if you do. The Navy recruiting station is at No. 304 t* Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, with branches at St. 'YOU CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER"' at Cloud, Brainerd, etc. Men most needed are machinists, I1 o. Subscribe for the Press 0. M. CARR & CO. electricians, carpenters, firemen and apprentices. THE STORE OF QUALITY trv\