'17 INTERNATIONAL FALLS, PRESS, *r INTERNATIONAL FALLS. PRESS f, ?v, W AND BORDER BUDGET Publishers of the Official County Proceedings a /T ff- #!*J 1 1 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING A vV GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager Ot-- A* tr "*^K"' Entered at the Post OIBce at International Alia. Minn., Second-claaw Matter 'X& SUBSCRIPTION RATES: "JU. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR A lri? 4P It is the cause of considerable favorable comment that not withstanding the steady stream of lumberjacks who have been arriving •,Mcrr JS5.I for several days past, very *few hang around as formerly •PI but go right out to their camps and get to work. aasfe^:^ -dM££IB£M!ss&4 International Falls is to be congratulated upon the fact that such good professional men as Dr. Monahan, who is now a cap Sffc tain in the army at Fort Pike, Ark., and Dr. Thompson who according to the recently published list of officers appointed fias received his commission as first lieutenant, are willing to sacrifice 7 their unusually good practise and comfortable home conditions for the service they can render to the boys at the front in their respective profession. Rev. Fr. P. J. Killeen is also to be corTgratu lated on the willing sacrifice he is making by volunteering as a chaplin for army service at this, time, and we understand his offer has been accepted and he has been notified to be ready for service when called. We understand he is the only priest who-lias volunteered in the Duluth Diocese. A GET TOGETHER. Oscar Straus, than whom, in spite of his German name and origin, the United States 4ias few more loyal citizens, and who served under Roosevelt as head of the department of commerce and labor. said*at a recent meeting: "If capitalists have differences they should compose them, anfc CopyH(lit 1917 Houm if the laborers have differences they should compose them^This Tbt Kupp«Dheiiatr of is no time at which even remotely to weaken the country by internal dissensions—for there is an enemy without. Every effort should be put forth to keep production of necessities at the maximum, and every shadow of difference ^within our own borders should be obliterated." fe WHAT CANADA HAS DONE. 4 1% There's a world of joy in Canada has no more to lose /by a German victory than has the United States. Canada has no more to gain by*defeating the kaiser than have Thanksgiving Day the sort of joy that we. What has Canada done to win the war? s. From-a population half a'million smarter than Pennsylvania's gets way down under a man's over­ Canada has raised 430,000 troops, of which 333,000 "have already crossed the sea- coat and strikes a note on his heartstrings. The man loss among those sent "over there" h«as been 50 per cent. .r we leave it to Canada's war debt exceeds,, a. billion dOllors. My authority for these statements is^Major M. S. Boehn, of Canada. poets to sing of home and Mother, but When the United States has 5,000,000 men in uniform, 4,000,000 in Europe and a casualty list of 2,000,000 we shall have ^matched at Thanksgiving time we ourselves sort of like to what Canada has already done.—"Girard's Talk of the Day" in the Philadelphia Telegraph. hover around home and rtiother. Of course we do 7 —all of us—now 'fess up! EVERYBODY'S WAR. ... _• The laboring men and women of England and'of France, and, It is such supreme occasions as this N we believe, the laboring men and women of America know this charge is nonsense. What would be the result to the British work-, that make a man want to "spruce up" and look his er with Belgium held by Germany? What would be the result of best. It tickles us all to make the good old home the French worker with Germany in control of the Briey mine fields? What would be the result of the workers of every European folks proud of us, and appearance is the thing by country and of our country if a Germany organized for war, which they judge us. It is for such supreme occasions drunk with success, convinced of its destiny to conquer, rule, ^nd that men select Germanize the whole world, should rise from vthis war to dictate the commercial conditions, and threaten, wifh a perpetual armed KUPPENHEIMER might the independence of every other people? "A rich man's war," yes, perhaps and a poor man's too. The American Bolsheviki want us to make peafce with the rich man's system of Germany, ,M- the worst of all rich men's systems, for it carries a sword CLOTHES and makes war its business.—Chicago Tribune*? v-_ 7 TH5 TOY-STREWN HOUSE. Give rrje the houSe whpre the toys are strewn*'r'} -St: Where the dolls are asleep in the chairs, --V' 7 7 -VT :"Y'." v'' -. v'\v Where the building blocks and the toy'balloons, 1 In fact, many .men feel that every The soldiers guard the stairs: V,. Let me sleep in the house ^here the tiny cart occasion is a supreme one, so they wear. Kuppenheimer With its horses rules the floor^ clothes all the time. 5 And rest comes into my 'weary heart, sh,.- For I am at h^tne once'more. Give me the house with the toys abcrtit, 7 We've helped many a man lobk his With the battered old train of cars, The box of pamts and the books left out best we're doing it every day. We're ready to help 7 And the .ship yith the broken spars you, sir, with Kuppenheimer Clothes at Let me step in a house, at the close! ofday^©l§l5l^5 rk: That is littered, with children's toys, And dwbll once more(in the haufitk of play*^With the echoes 'of bygone noise?' Give me the house where^ the toys are..seen,* "V A -The house where the children romp, *e /ft1 4 And I'll be happier than man has been i*- ,4-^h' r- fv 5' "T 'Neath the gilded dome of'pomp vr^ ^^thmgQlp£ th_a^ & nrian wants to wear. 7 311(1 Let me see the lifter of brighteyed play -'Ste )r,^' *^1 Strewn over the parlor floor, k^t\ And the jays I»knew in a far-off day rS. fM will gladden my heart Non$e more.# rr Whoever lias lived in a toy-strewn hopie, rK 4 Though feeble he b^ and grey, Will yearn, nb ittatiter, how!far he roam,, S»i 'i vFor a glorious disarray Of the little home with its .littered floor That was in!Wie begone days, ki I a a a "And his heart will throb as it throbbed Jbefore, When he rdsts^where a baby plajrs —Ransomet Mctcalfe, in ftte Stqd