s. INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR Voluntary Service THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS SUCCESSFUL FAIR sota State Potato Growers'association. .the Littlefork communit-y ---~puttmg Agriculturist A. N. Smith demonstrated things across that a successful fair LITTLEFORK the desirable jtoints of might be an assurity. The willing AND BORDE BUDGET The agricultural fair at Littlefork a dairy cow, and Miss Burgari of the help that he received from 'several It is daily becoming more and last Saturday was a decided success. state department demonstrated war of the Littlefork people shpw that Publishers of theOfficial County Proceedings more apparent that this war is to be A big exhibit was displayed and a breads, and lectured on the emergencies there's ^at least' one town alongthe won or lost in the- solution of thp INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY good crowd attended the fair. ,-T~ of the war. The Misses Hunt line that is widely awake. An anntfal food problem. With six leading nations GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager Among the leading features of the fair at the town is the chief topic Of and Erickson of the Koochiching of the world—our allies—nbn day was the demonstration byfc Prof. county schools had charge of the conversation. Entered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn, aa Second-elaaa Matter productive—it means that the United M.' M. Abbott of the true type of the fancy work and cooking exhibits. States must send them food. It SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S„ $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. eight varieties chosen by the Minne­ Mr. Smith spent several days in SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS ,will, of course, be sent, but no one knows any better than the food ad BUY A LIBERTY BOND ministrator that it can only be do,ne by wise anc| loyal- economy on the part of every citizen. The production 1 It is wonderful how Sober some men can stay under the right has been tremendous but so is the kind of an administration. ... .., demand. Production must be still V, .• "a further stimulated, organized handfing, our There isn't such a word as "can't" in the vocabulary of the waste eliminated and. all possible substitutes used for whea£, beef, officer who really wants to do his duty. pork, dairy products, sugar,, and excessive consumption avoided. This When you buy a Liberty bond you are not making a donation great task can only be accomplished to the government, but making an investment. by the combined personal and' voluntary service of every loyal and patiotic citizen. Every day emphasizes We take off our hats to Governor J. A. Burnquist and every the necessity of food conservation member of the State Safety Commission. Long may they reign. Are you awake, to your duty in the matter? It hasn't proved to be such a hard task to stop the suitcase Investment Not a Sacrifice. Thousands of Minnesota boys have and trunk whisky line as the officers used to. try to make us think. invested their lives in the /fight for W liberty. We have been asked whether the gambling joints that have Will you invest your dollars been operating unmolested all these years closed last week of They' will buy a Liberty bond. The men in khaki are fighting their own volition or whether our city police really did find out OUR fight—the fight of those who where they were located. stay at homg. "OUR boy is leaving to fight you at the battle for The least we can do is to stand How about the ex-gamblers, bootleggers, and those" even more back of them. front. He is leaving father and mother, wife disgusting gentlemen of leisure? Are they going to be allowed to Money means munitions and food. A lack, of enther one mean lay around and watch their chance to prey on the unsuspecting and friends. He is giving all that he has to give. misery in the trenches, half-hearted laboring man, or are they going to be told to go tp Superior? fighting and a sickening rout on He is giving it for you—your life—your freedom—1 W bloody battlefields. A This city has become one of the most law-abiding in the America's second Liberty .loan your liberty—your America! must be subscribed. There is no little United States since the new mayor began his administration, simply course. & because he is performing his duty instead of*watching for the No sacrifice is asked. A Liberty^ beck and call of a few fellows who have made money out of lawlessness. Will you stand back of him? bond is the safest investment in the Liberty Bonds may be pui^ world. .The United Ssates government »r'» W chased in any amounts in guarantees it. Its income from Buy a Liberty Bond so there interest is not subject to taxation., OUR COUNTRY. units of $50. The share of BUY A BOND—on the installment will be plenty of shells to provide plan, if not for cash. Any bank will every American family on the "Arfid for your Country, boy, and for that Flag, never dream a curtain of fire behind tell you how to subscribe. a dream btit of serving her as she bids you, even though the service Second Liberty Bond issue is which he may advance. Recommends The Plan carry you through a thousand hells No matter what happens $150. This makes $250 for to you, no matter who flatters you of abuses you, never look at Buy a Liberty Bond so he another flag never pass a night but you pray God to bless that the two issues. That there is a certain a,mount of may have good food, warm Flag. Remember, boy, that behind officers and government, and opposition to the plans of the food administration is a fine recommendation people even, there is the, Cquntry herself—your Country—and blankets, clothing and shoes. You can buy Liberty Bonds for it.The opposition is insidiously that you belong to her as you?(belD«g to your own mother. Stand inspired by our friend, the ^by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother."—Edward on easy payments as follows: Buying a Liberty Bond does enemy, and it operates through people E re a who are innocent of wrong in^tention. .SgSSTil^J .... giving not mean your money. Stories to the effect that if $M $100 1600 91000 Bond ",ii .'{S7f VI'-. you, sign a pledge card, your' hpme^ Bond Bond Bond It means loaning your money BLIWfcPQfclCE. will be invad&d later and'your canned 91.00 S2.Q0 10.00 $20.00 On Application goods taken away, is an example and receiving every cent of it November 16th 9.00 18.00 90.00 180.00 Private investigation disclciser^'200 blind pigs in Minneapolis. of an appeal to the ignorance arid December 15th 20.00 40.00 200.00 400.00 prejudice of many people. This arid back with A% interest The evidence is to be taken—t-e-the grand jury. Many facts as to January 15th 20.00 40.00 200.00 similar stories are cunningly prepared |his condition and worse have been* made public. Whereupon VanX-ear's and circulated. They indicate that Plus accrued interest to be chief of police is Liberty Bonds are backed enemy propagandists realize that a He complains because all the evidence was not brought to settled with final payment huge food conservation army is an by all of the resources of the him that he might have closed up these joints of various kinds example of the efficient organization January 15th. richest government in the of a democratic people and the biggest and punished the guilty. No chief of police in arty city is worth thing in American history. "It his salt, much less his salary, who has to have vice conditions world and are the safest investment will prove that our form of government Don't i^ait for someone to disci, scd to him by private individuals. is really worth fighting for," man has ever known. Vice cannot thrive, indeed it cannot exist, in a city without at says Dr. Wilbur, president of StanT ask you to buy a bond. Go (V ford University arid head of the food being known to the police. No one need waste any Sympathy qjj a Purchases of Liberty Bonds once to your nearest bank, conservation division of the: Food chief of police when suddenly confronted by facts showing that Administration. up to $5000 are exempt from evil flourishes in the-city he is supposed to guard. post office or department store Policemen do not sleep on their .rounds, unless that is part As To Fuel if government taxes, and subscribe.y of the regulations. They do not hesitate to report what they see unless thy find that this "gets them in bad." They are quicki to act The^ coal situation is not any too against vice as against crime, if such are their orders. If you do not furnish bright at this writing and desperate Van Lear's chief is getting little sympathy and deserves none. efforts are being made on the part of your troops with the There are slackers in peace as well as in war, and official life is the Commission of Public Safety to not a stranger to the species.—Duluth News-Tribune. see that an adequate supply is sent sinews of war, and thereby to Minnesota and to the" northwest. allow the German armies It is well at this time, to call attention THE VALUE IN THE BOND. to the advantage of laying, an to conquer, the fate extra supply'of wood so as to guard An Ohio newspaper suggests this scheme of helping along against .the almost certain coal of your home will be that shortage. Many families in villages the Liberty bond issue. When a man cannot buy a bond,because and rural communities can buy wood he has a debt to pay, let him buy bonds for the amount of his debt of the homes of Belgium, nearby at reasonable prices and instead and tender them to his creditor. They will be gladly accepted by A of waiting in uncertainty for and your money will ^be any creditor, because they are worth more than their face. coal, every effort should be made to taken from you by force. Or suppose one intends buying an automobile or a house. Buy use wood as far as possible in order to conserve the coal supply now bonds for the amount and tender them in payment. They wil be on hand. Farmers can easily supply Today you haVe a choice gladly accepted. For they are today the^best security in the world, themselves by shouldering an ax and A broker in Philadelphia* when the first Liberty bond issue saw^and securing a supply from their Between this awful condition was quoted at $99.80, was asked by a small customer to sell a own timber land. The coal question and an opportunity is a vital one to the "northwest and hundred dollar Liberty bond in order to pay a debt! What happened, the Commission' of Public, Safety according to this broker's story, was this: to live in peace and Liberty urges stringent conservation and "I carefully explained to Itiiji ,that there would be a loss of the useN of substitutes to a large degree* in a prosperous nation. twenty cents, as the bonds- were ^selling at $99.80, also the commission wherever possible. would entail a f^|her.-dgduction of twenty-five cents. He If you da not act today it was much surprised, therefbr^jjvljen his chpck was for $100.47, WHEATLESS AND may be too late. for, as he said, he had only: p&itfj $100 for it. The accrued interest '***vv MEATLESS DAYS at three and one-half per cen^^nce his purchase of the bond was Again the call for wheatless and Federal Reserve f' /ninety-two cents, which is always added to ,the price quoted in meatless days is emphasized, the ^"selling a bond, and this more t^p^pffset the small se fling charge." seriousness of war problems force -Bank of If, As this first issue of Libert^ bBtfds is tax free) it .is almostt c€rtain, themselves in the minds of the people ,s Ufa of-Minnesota, we find them responding after the war, to go. to a good premium, for it will be sought Minneapolis patriotically more and more eagerly as an investment for futtdtj^ And it is worth today more each day to the call to do their "bit" than the actual cash represented by its face in conserving the supplies of wheat Fiscal Agents of the United StstM So aside from the value of teaching one to save and to invest and meat. The Commission, of Public Government In Minnesota, North P\safely, and aside from its use-?# helping the country, the Liberty Safety urges thit the people of Minnesotar Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, 'co-operate to the fullest extent bond is worth actually more ^nYdollars and cents to the purchaser Upper Northern Wisconsin and with the Food A&jmnistration, than the hard cash itself, and will continue after the war to be increasingly along these linps./It is likely^that a more than its face.v^No-w proclamation setting. aside a certain" it the#iitie -to lay in Liberty bonds at a low price. The day or days-each week as a "wheat world does not afford better security ^nd, incidentally—ifx yotf less and meatless!' day will shortly be issued' by «A. D. Wilson, wlio^is wish to look at it as irtcidental-^y|fct ai^elonig .something to -help, «,o,.w working- oqt practicaland feasible ^the best government on earth.^Minneapolis Journal/ plans along similar lines |1L^^ & CaSCi '1& -r 1 »x it