•v .•? W\* '"J 7, •p tp| j®^53H 5 PAGE FOUR 'r INTERNATIONAL FAJ-LS PRESi uT £v4 IKE INTERNATIONAL FALLS P.RESS LEARNING TO BE A SOLDIER THE BOARDING OF. ing together, trouble can be reduced SCHOOL CHILDREN to a minimum and the children receive Lessons F"orDrafted Men gg AND BORDER BUDGET an education. Th^re are three principal' things D. B. Jewell, Publishers of th« Official County Proceedings County Superintendent of Schools. the County Board of Education takes Cleanliness in Camp. has been more than met by increased vl- August 28, 1917. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY into consideration in allowing applications efficiency in maintaining, the When large numbers of men are for board. They are as follows GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager health of troops and in caring for assembled in camp, it is necessa$y those who are: wounded. for the good of all that strict rules BIRCHDALE Entered at the Post OJBce at International Falls, Minn* as Second-class Matte* 1. Distance from school. of personal conduct arid sanitation Good Sense a Requisite. 2. Age of child., should be enforced. But the responsibility for keeping SUBSCRIPTION RATES: S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER ^EAR. Grace Halvorsen visited friends 3. Place of boarding. These rules are by no means a your self in good health can not rest here oyer Sunday. She will teach in The price of board set for" the hardship. They are a protection. wholly upon your officers. Just as in "No peace till German rulers are curbed by people at home," Norman county the coming year.. school year 1917-1918 is $3.00 per insisting on strict obedience to the$er civil life, you are expected to use a is President Wilson's reply to the popdte peace proposal Sheep farming is the latest thingto week, based on actual attendance. rules, the diseases which once took reasonable amount of good sense "in interest the farmers. All that is The parent or teacher makes out the so heavy a toll in nearly all military looking after yourself. lacking is cheap land and sheep. bill giving month, inclusive dates or camps have been brought under control You will do this partly because it The one who is a "good American, but"—is not a good American Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wells are number of days the child has attended some have been practically adds to your own comfort and safety. visiting at Mrs. Wells' parents. Mr. at all. There are no "buts" of this kind in the truly American heart. during month. The teacher certifies iliminated. You will take care of yourself, also, and Mrs. Sheare. They came in their to the attendance. The number If you are true at heart there will be no "buts" like this tempted to Suppose you were asked to make /because it is a duty that every soldier Ford from their home at Walker, of days attendance times 60c gives a choice either to live under conditions get into your voice. owes to the country.. where Mr. Wells has charge of the the amount. Five days at 60c per day in which* smallpox, typhoid fever, I You will have plenty of fresh air, agricultural department of the is equal to $3.00 per school week. diarrhea, dysentery and cholera exercise and." good food, which are, school. There are two kinds of complaint Steps are being taken for loyalty day program and patriotic flourish or to live under strict regulations, 'after' all, the chief essentials of good On account of the extended drouth which come frequently to the County demonstration to be held-here Sept. 4th and 5th inxhonor of the which make these diseases health. It should be a comparatively some ara hauling water from the river Board of Education. First is the price far more of a rarity in military thkn Koochiching county boys who will leave at that time for the training easy thing for you to look after the for stock and household purposes. of board. People say children cannot in civil life. smaller things. camps. It is not too early to get your flags ready and to plan be boarded at $3.00 per week. The Your good sense would lead to to Playing the Game. Oats are a much better crop this for the part you can best take in* such an important occasion. ^ttitude of the County Board of Education choose the latter. Bear this in min|J There is a gripping interest about year than- the1916 crop was. relative to this is as follows: See to it that you cooperate with enthusiasm the soldier's life that makes a strong Tommie Smart's broken shoulder If the parents lived near a school, in the measures that will *&- appeal to vigorous Americans. This The successful business man who has not loyalty and patriotism is doing nicely and he" can walk out they would have to board the children be taken to keep your camps clean 'is doubly true in time of war when around some. and get no aid. If the children enough to say, "Yes, I'll be glad to do my bit toward buying uniforms comfortable and healthful. Ithe soldier has a serious object in The Red Cross have another ice are boarded away from home and the for the home guards," instead of cussing the movement or Flies Camp Menace view and gives his whole rtiind to cream social Thursday "in the church. $3.00 covers all the board, then the asking the committee to take up their valuable donated time by One of the pests of camp life, if ,his new duties. The Proceeds will be used in sending parents who- have children boarded perfecst cleanliness is not observed, coming back again and getting, down on their knees and pleading 'You will find this interest growing some one to Minneapolis to perfect are at an advantage because it costs is the presence of swarms of flies. as you advance. New scenes and associates them in Red Cross work. with him, has no right to expecit the protection of this government them nothing whatever for the Flies are not merely annoying. will bring you a new point Peter Sathre is appointed special boarding of their children. What in nor the support of his fellow citizens. They are dangerous. Somebody hai of view. You will be less wrapped officer to look after the indigents of fairness the County Board of Education said, with perhaps a slight exaggeration, u0 than you have been in many the town of Sault. should pay would be the excess that to soldiers they are mor6 purely personal questions. You "will To all the pupils of our city and county schools we say, don't The big tractor of Dahl and Co. cost of boarding the children dangerous than bullets. cut loose from many of the petty derails will soon be leveling the ditch road away from home over th&t of boarding get in too big a hurry—do your work well. Finish your course with This is because flies carry disease which tend to smother a man's near Cresh Gragen's. them at home. For example, if honor. These are trying times especially for the boys. Work is germs. They feed on manure, garbage, individuality. You will devote time Hilmer Rud is the janitor for the the board of a child is worth $4.00 abundant and patriotism fills the air. It may seem as though this uncovered food, human excretia to thinking. coming year. per week away from home, but it and the like. They also lay their eggs is the time for you to get out'of school and into something else, The healthy good fellowship of the Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt, two of our would cost the parent $2.00 a week to wherever the same kind is found. camp also cannot fail to stimulate teachers are here ready for the winter but that something else will be there when you have finished your board the child at home, then the The best way to keep flies from you. Thousands of men drawn from term of school. ditsrict should putup $?*00 and the course, and you will do it better and more profitably if you go to camps is to destroy the places where all walks of life cannot be thrown The town board will meet at the parent $2.00. People say, "I cannot it equipped with a good education and a more mature judgment they breed and feed in other words, suddenly together without bringing town board's office Thursday to apportion boarjd a child for $3.00 per week." It which monts and years will bring you. So stay in school and make keep the camp spotlessly clean. to light many qualities previously unknown. the road and bridge fund. wpul cost the parent something to For this reason the daily "policing" this the best school year you have had. You will have better teachers It is hoped that all the monejt will boarjd the child at home and the parent (or cleaning up) of the camp is Good Start Half the Battle be worked out this year and all put than you have ever had and last year's work and discipline has should be willing to pay at a matter of first importance. You on the road. In order to get 'the most out of least part of the amount in addition prepared you for better work more easily accomplished. The will be required to keep your company this 'new life you must devote yourself to the $3.00 paid by the school district. teachers who are returning know you better and also know better street free from even small objects, to it heart and soul. A good PHILIPPINOS READY Very few parents would say the conditions under which you labor, and this knowledge makes bits of food and the like, start is half the battle in making ithey could board a child of school TO AID U. S. IN WAR which might attrect flies or other insects. them more helpful tA you than ^ver before. So stay by the school your way in the army. Even if you age for less than $1.00 per week at are not now much interested in work, be as helpful as possible to your teachers, and in the years home. If each parent supplemented At least once a day a squad will be The Philippines have organized a military affairs—if you are entering the $3.00 paid by the Board of Education to come you will not regret it. detailed to inspect every square foot militia force of 25,000 men ready to the service, not because of personal by $1.00 a week, there would of space in or near your living quarters. serve and already have thousands of W inclination, but solely because it is be no trouble in getting boarding men in the navy, according to James one of your obligations as a citizen It is very gratifying to allr!the taxpayers in this county to learn jplaces at $4.00. In fact, the school This is a duty which an experienced J. Rafferty, who was in the twin —you are going to become keenly board is paying more than its share fv.^ of the prospective settlement all the county cases at Brainerd "Of cities recently. soldier usually performs with interested after you once get into and it is willing to do this betause throngh the successful efforts of Assistant Attorney General Palmer, more, interest and thoroughness than "The loyalty of the Philippines the swing and spirit of the army. of the fact that even a-small weekly the raw recruits for he more clearly, who was the means of settling all the Slocum cases while cannot be questioned," he said. "A This: will be true in at least 90 cases I sum is hard for many families to realizes its importance. militia of 25,000 men has been organized *®ut of every 100. Recognize it how court "was in session here, and also in getting the trial of the remainder r^is'e, especially if there be many Soap anifl Sunshine. and thousands are nthe nav^r Aiid play the game hard from the of them transferred to Brainerd. He succeeded itf getting 'children in the ramily. ...... or employed "in' the Cavite navy The best safeguards against disease, very start Complaints often/ come in frOm a jury verdict of guilty against Geo. A. Elder, the commission man, yard repairing the 23 German vessels either in the army or out of it, While the men in the national army people boarding children as to pay. and it now seems as though he may be able to settle all the cases are soap and sunshine. You will be damaged by the crews when they are serving at the call of duty for,board over Saturday and Sunday were interned." and get considerable money into the county treasury instead of required to keep everything in the and not for money, nevertheless and while the child is ill. The reason camp well scrubbed and well aired. everyone will be paid more than Mr. Rafferty sjaid the islands were. prolonging the needless agony at, $50 per day, in addition to the payment is made only. on. days of If it were not required, you would enough to take care of^-all necessary making great progress industrially. actual attendance is as follows: expensive court costs, as well as dispel the doubt of successful doubhless be anxious to do it anyway. expenses. These expenses are verj^ More than $500,000 was subscribed to The school board is interested prir prosecution that always characterizes such actions. If the attorney slight. Clothing, food and transportation the Liberty loan. marijly in the children in school. On general's office had been given a nopportunity they would have The good soldier is almost "fussy" are furnished by the government. Manuel Quezon, president of the Saturdays and Sundays an.d^ when in the care of his person, his clothing, cleaned up this disagreeable and expensive proposition to the taxpayers In addition the private soldier Philippine senate, who has been conferring the child is ill and not in school, the his bedding and his other belongings. receives $30 per month while, he is of this county several months ago. If Mr. Palmer succeeds with officials of the war department duty of caring for the rchild rests Personal cleanliness includes abroad. Following is a table which regarding the disposition not upon the school but upon the in thus cleaning these matters up so that Koochiching county can using only your own linen, toilet ^hows the pay for some of the highnontfommissioned 'of the men in the militia, passed thru .parents or guardians. If the parents receive a "clean bill of health'," he will be entitled to much credit. articles, cup and mess kit. ranks: Minneapolis recently on his way to are too poor to care for the child, Many annoying skin troubles and Monthly Pay. a western port. then there are provisions made by such diseases as colds and infectious In statute to cover the case. OUR SENTIMENTS EXACTLY. fevers, are often passed from one Rank United Abroad In a thinly settled country there person to another by using articles States are1bound to be many isolated families'^rithout Let's Go in common. private $30.00 $30.00 Don't be a slacker if asketf to assist in purchasing uniforms for enough children to form In the training camps there will be First class private .. 33.00 36.60 a school, and practically the only the home guardsmen, who are as necessary as an army in France.— plenty of shower baths, and you will, Corporal 36.00 40.20 way of getting these children in of course, make free use of them. If International Falls Press. Sergeant 38.00 44.00 school is to board them. It is not in temporary camps or at any other First' sergeant 51.00 60.00 Our sentiments exactly. Any man who refuses to support the best arrangement as children time you cannot obtain a bath, give A man may allot such portions of his own home guard for personal reasons has a lop-sided brand of should be at home, but it is a condition yourself a good stiff rub with a dry to the his pay as he desires for-rthe support patriotism that will shrink in the? wash and fade in the light of we cannot get away from at towel. of his family or relatives. He may present and should be borne with publicity.—Bemidii Pioneer. Minnesota Twice a week, or oftener if- neces-. deposit his savings with any quartermaster patience as many other drawbacks sary, your shirts, drawers, and socks in sums of not less than $5. of pioneer life are borne. With the should be washed and fresh underclothes The quartermaster will furnish to LET THEM GO TO HELL. Board of Education, the parents, and put on. In cas£ it is-necessary each depositor a book giving record those who board children all work- to sleep in your underwear, as of his deposits. On the discharge of it probably will be, put one aside to a soldier (but not before) the-total The extreme difficulty- with which the home guard committee wear at night, so that you will always spare time off duty is a good test amount of his deposits wlil be entered is able to squeeze a dollar 6r t\$ti*6!tit of some few of our merchants of his character and of his capacity feel fresh and clean in the on his final statement and will be remindful of a story wihch we read long years ago. It seems a morning. for growth. The good soldier is self paid to him on presentation of his AS restrained. Don't spend .your time repeating SEPTEMBER 3-8, 1917 certain rich man, when the time came for him to shuffle off his The scalp should be thoroughly deposit book. indecent stories. They add cleaned about as frequently as the The rate'of interest allowance is stained mortal garb, appeared at the pparly gates for admission. rest of the body. 'This will be. made nothing -whatever to your standing, 4 per cent. This is one convenient Said St. Peter, "Mortal, what hast thou done that you should enter Go easier if you keep your hair cut either with the men to whom you method of saving money which many here?" The rich man: "I once gave a poor, cold news boy a short. tell them or wjth your officers. Avoid soldiers will desire to use. It is" easier penny." St. Peter: "Is there aught else?" Rich man: "I gave, two Care of Teeth Important. boisterousness, vulgarity and profanity. Northern Pacific to save in the army than in civil The teeth should be brushed at V, 7- cents to my laundress, a widow." St. Peter, to Gabriel: Gatpe^ what life. Railway least once a day twice a day is better. 'Saving money is not only good in This doesn't mean at all that you shall we do with this fellow?" Gabriel: "Give him back his three Neglecting this practise will be itself but "is a sign that you are concentrating should keep yourself in the background an to he I the cause of decay of the teeth, resulting your time and energy on or that you should fail t© Safety in failure to chew food properly, your military duties that you are be a good "mixer." Let your personality icm and probably ending in stomach really 'playing- the game. stand out. Broaden your influence Comfort and Courtesy WHAT WE FIGHT. troubles. The majority of the men who are by every proper method. But Cleanliness also includes the practise joining the national army are old use your personality and. your influence Frequent Service—Good Trains of emptying your bowels at enough and have sufficientgood to help the men in your own "The war was begun by the military masters of Germany, who least opice a day. Get into the habit sense and self control to conduct squad and company carry on their C. G. WHITNEY, Agent, proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hungary. These men have jOf doing this at a certain time each themselves' properly, both off duty International Falls, Minn. work and prepare as quickly as possible never regarded nations as peoples, men, women, and children ofxlike morning. It is a habit that can be cultivated, and on duty, without special advice for the big task ahead of you. just like any other Kabit. Do blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments existed arid or supervision. However, some suggestions Save some of your spare time for not let a little personal inconvenience may prove helpful. in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them study. The manuals* and drill regulations or laziness stand in the way. '^A man in uniform is always regarded, will grow more and more interesting fg* merely as servicable organizations which they could by force or in^vtrigue Th^ medical corps of the army and whether he wishes it' or not, to you"as you become more bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They have regarded your own officers will use every as a representative -of the army to familiar with your new duties. Memorize the smaller states, in particular, and the peoples who could be overwhelmed means within their power to safeguard which he belongs. See tO/it that you some of the important passages. and improve your general by force, as their natural tools and instruments of domina- conduct yourself^ in such a way to Make yourself an authority on health. Within recent years better add your bit, not only to your ow^ J^ition. Their purpose has long been avowed. everything that pertains to company methods of medical supervision have reputation, but to the reputation of drill.. .5 '$1' "If they succeed they are safe,'and Germany and the world Oman'S#®!i greatly reduced the«, losses and disabilities the army "and, of the country. .These are "simple rules that will fefare undone if they fail Germany is saved and thejyvorld will be at due to warfare. Making Use of Spare Time. 'sV*, ......... -y§lr help any man, whether in or out of Sead For Free Travel Literature peace. If they succeed America wall fall within the menace. We The increased power of weapons ~.,The that a man- maizes of his use the army, to make himself liked and and all the rest of the world must remain armed as they will remain, j^A. M. CLELAND, G. P. A., respected. They are easy rules to abserve. St. Paul, Minn. and must make ready for the next step in their aggression Follow them and you will add if they fail, the world may unite fo rpeace, and Germany may be greatly tb your enjoyment of ar^ny No Hay Fever in Yellowstone life/, and 'tp your chances for promotion. of the union."—Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States.# National Park u. 18® -IJ