THREE PAGE PROFESSIONAL CARD* WHITLOCirS STORY Sfssonne and that of Marchias the rigorous WAR PLANTS ARE REGULATED treatment with which yon have threatened them, I give my word of JOHN H. iMOWN There Has Beeir Very Little Direct honor to remit to his majesty the Management of Business by Great Attorney at Law Emperor William, should the war Britain and France, However. Office over O. M. Carr & Co. come to an end without intentional damage being caused to my residence International Falls, Minnesota Contrary to the common understanding or to these two communes, the necesrary in the United States there has sum to complete the amount of been very little direct management of of of DR. H. H. IHRIG Report German Disregard 500,000 francs imposed by you upon business by the governments of Great Sissonne. Dentist Human Rights on File in .Britain and France in those countries "As a sovereign prince, I wish to since the war began, according to a Office over Holler's Confectionery State Department. deal In this matter with the sovereign report on "the relation of the government International Falls, Minnesota who, during 15 years, called me his to war industry," made to the. friend and has decorated me with the National Civic federation by Prof. Jeremiah Order, of the Knight of the Black GEO. S. LANGLAND OVERWHELMED WITH HORROR W. Jenks. Eagle. Lawyer There has been, however, Professor "My1 conscience and my dignity Jenks explains, a "rather strict regulation In the litis Block on Fourth Avenue place me above fear, as also my personal Minister to Belgium Declared It Was of industries producing or handling will shall elevate me above regret International Falls, Minnesota Difficult to Write Calmly and Justly war supplies, but virtually no direct BANK YOUR MONEY but" should you destroy the management of business In View of the Huns? Gratuitous Outside Chateau de Marchals, which is one of the regular government arsenals and F. J. MePARTLIN Cruelty. the centers of universal science and certain special factories, few In number, AND HAVE A Lawyer charity, should you reserve to this built by or for the British government. Facts concerning the deportation archaeological and historical gem the Office over International State Bank The power given the Brit* HOME OF TOUR OWN. treatment you have given to the Cathedral of Belgians and the farced labor extorted ish government under the defense of International Falls, Minnesota of Reims—when no reprehensible by the "Runt' military leaders, the realm act is outlined in the report action has been committed there whicht excited .the indignation of as follows: G. F. SW1NNERTON, M. D* C. M. —the whole world will judge between "To require any work in any factory the. civilized world, have been thus you and myself. Physician and Surgeon or workshop to be done in accordance forth: "I tender to your excellency the expression officially set Eyes Examined and Glasses Fitted with the directions of the government. of my high regard. The plan of setting forth the essential "To regulate or restrict the carrying WHEN YOU HAVE SAVED ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY Office over City Drug Store "ALBERT, Sovereign Prince of Monaco." facts of the deportations and on of work in any factory or workshop THE PROPERTY—CHEAPER FOR CASH—YOU CAN BORROW International Falls, Minnesota forced labor of Belgians is set forth or to remove the plant. by the committee on public information Deportations and Forced Labor. ON YOUR PROPERTY TO BUILD YOUR HOUSE. BUT "To take possession of any unoccupied as follows: the documents, that Until the present war the whole civilized DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE premises for war purposes. YOU CAN'T DO A THING RIGHT UNTIL YOU START PUTTING is to say, a small fraction of those world has boasted of its advance "In actual practice, the government Physician and Surgeon MONEY IN THE BANK. which could be cited, tell the story, and in humanity. This advance has been gets its work done: only such comments are added as are Office over litis Drug Store marked in many fields, and in none "By paying liberal prices to establishments IT GROWS IN THE BANK IT IS SAFE IN THE BANK. needed to enable the reader to easily had greater progress been made than for all work done while Phone 11 THE BANKER'S ADVICE IS FREE, AND THE ALWAYS BANK grasp the connection of events. in the protection to be given to the guarding against monopolistic or other Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching ACCOMMODATES ITS PATRONS. "The deportations were the private citizen in an invaded country. extortionate prices. International Falls, Minnesota most vivid, shocking, convincing, single As far back as 1863, in the "Instructions "By restricting or forbidding the WE ADD FOUR PER CENT INTEREST. happening in all our enforced observation for the Government of Armies making of certain classes of goods and experience of German disregard of the United* States in the Field," PHINNEY & CAMPBELL not needed for war purposes. of human suffering and human the United States declared: "By prescribing rigidly the order In Lawyers COME TO OUR BANK. rights in Belgium."—Vernon Kellogg "28. Private citizens are no longer which the various classes of work are in Atlantic Monthly,. October, 1917. International Falls, Minnesota murdered, enslaved, or carried off to to be finished and delivered. distant parts, and the inoffensive individual A summary of the whole situation, "By regulating through various restrictions FIRST NATIONAL BANK is as little disturbed in his W. E. LAWRENCE down to January, 1917, can be obtained the distribution of the supply private relations as the commander by reading continuously the report of labor and the conditions under The Rexall Store of the hostile troops can afford to of Minister Whitlock, taken from which work shall be done. grant in the overruling demands of a the files of the state department. This "While the government does not directly International Falls, Minnesota vigorous war. tells of the brutality of the deportations. manage establishments," Professor "24. The almost universal rule in Jenks says, "it does tell what to DR. E. A. THOMPSON •H remote times was, and continues to be do, determine the order of work, control "Legation of the United States of i. Dentist THE STU B,EE with barbarous armies, that the private transport of goods and materials America, Brussels, Jan. 16, 1917. individual of the hostile country in proper order, forbid workmen who "The Honorable, thex Secretary of Phone 245 is destined to suffer every privation are needed for production of munitions State, Washington. Office over litis Drug Store of liberty and protection, and every to enlist and forbid trade except "Sir: I have hart it in ^ind, and I International Falls, Minnesota disruption of family ties. Protection under license. might say, on my conscience, since Sash and Door^ Factory was, and still is with uncivilized people, "These regulations," he says, "are the Germans begap to deport Belgian the exception." enforced by a committee of subordinates workmen early in November, to prepare W. E. MARTIN acting in a friendly way by for the department a detailed Reversion to Barbarism. Contractor and Builder unanimous agreement. Their decisions IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS report on this latest instance of brutality, These declarations were made in the are on disputed questions laid 'Repairs Promptly Done but there have been so many midst of our Civil war—one of the before them, and are subject to an appeal obstacles in the way of obtaining evidence Phone 159 705 8th St. world's fiercest conflicts. A half-century to their superior officers. Their on which a calm and judicious We Are Well Equipped to do All Kinds of later, after more than 50 years classifications may be put into effect opinion could be based, and one is of progress, the German government MILLWORK DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN by employers or contractors subject so overwhelmed with the horror of the has gone back to the methods used likewise to an appeal. Disputes of all thing itself, that it has been, and even by "barbarous armies" and "uncivilized Anaesthetist kinds regarding prices, wages and conditions and you will make no mistake by getting now is) difficult to write calmly and people." It has deliberately of labor are settled by committees justly about it. I have had to content their prices before ordering elsewhere adopted the policy of deporting men Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted representing all parties." myself with fragments of dispatches and women, boys and girls, and of I have from time to time sent to the Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St, forcing them to work for their captors Estate of Eccentric Irishwoman. Building and Contracting a Specialty department and with doing what I it has even compelled them to could, little as that can be, to alleviate A very eccentric lady died in County make arms and munitions for use .All Work Guaranteed The Shoe Hospital Meath, says a London correspondent. the distress that this gratuitous against their allies and their own flesh After the lady's death no will could cruelty has caused the population of and blood. be found, and it was thought she hud this unhappy land. LARS STUBEE, Prop. No other act of the German government REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT died intestate. The solicitor for the Whit!ock Opposed Belgian Idea. has aroused such horror and detestation person believed to be next of kin spent NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor "In order to understand fully the throughout the civilized fibout 40 days in the house goins 2nd Ave. and 6th St. Phone SO 213 Third Street situation, it is necessary to go back to world. Thousands of helpless men through the most extraordinary accumulation Next to Boston Lunch j, and woman, boys and girls, have been the autumn of 1914. At the time we of papers, documents and were organizing the relief work, the. enslaved. Families have been broken viiHiable property that filled the rooms Comite National—the Belgian relief organization up. Girls have been carried off to NORTHERN MINNESOTA in the house and even the hall. Not work—or worse—in a strange land, that collaborates with the HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION only every room, but every eoiril^r commission for relief in Belgium— and their relatives have not known was piled high with loose paper:?. proposed an arrangement by which where they have been taken, or what Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 223 and parcels of all sizes and the Belgian government should pay their fate has been. JOHN M. GISH Dr. Elizabeth Monahan Phone 223 wU-rions, and the litter on the stai:"4 to its own employees left in Belgium, This system of forced labor and deportation Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 vr: S almost knee deep. Various *v. meet and other unemployed men besides, embraced the whole of Belgium, Hospital Phone 79 were found in very peculiar the wages they had been accustomed Poland and the occupied lands Office over International State Bank t'rul rmin-ely places in rubbish on rtK Watchmaker and Jeweler to receive. The Belgians wished to of France. Phone 155 in band boxes, and in a pnrw do this both for humanitarian and patriotic Whitlock's Story of Horrors. International Falls, Minnesota two bank notes for £1 were ariu purposes they wished to provide In less moving phrases, but in deadly TIM i!:: "nd 'glued to the floor. the unemployed with the means corroboration, the continuation of recovered an immense strnoun-•irf.i'pfriy, S.E. THOMPSON&S0N of livelihood, and, at the same time, IN the report of Minister Whitlock says: including £7,000 in -bsuik to prevent their working for the Germans. Agent for Singer Sewing "The rage, the terror, and despair rit.'.s jjisd securities of every Ictu.I I refused to be connected in excited by this measure all over Belgium Tu also discovered the lady':? will. any way with this plan, and told the Machine Company and were beyond anything we had which various charities mucb Belgian committee that it had many Agents for |the witnessed since the day the Germans •,» iijiUed. possibilities of danger that not only Woodstock Typewriter. poured into Brussels. The delegates would it place a premium on idleness, of the commission for relief in Belgium, Bridge Has Trestle in Center. but that it would ultimately exasperate returning to Brussels, told the bridge has recently been completed the Germans. However, the policy A Lj-1 most distressing stories of the scenes feapM by the Burlington railroad was adopted, and has been continued of cruelty and sorrow attending the in practice, and on the rolls of the cross the Platte river at Yutan, Neb., seizures. And daily, hourly almost, »vh'ch has girders at either end. while Comite National have been borne the Also dealer in since that time appalling stories have names of hundreds of thousandssome the center is trestlework. This unust.al been related by Belgians coming to 700,000, I believe—of idle men form of bridge construction is described Wear-U-Well Shoes the legation. It is impossible for us receiving this dole, distributed through in the Popular Mechanics Magii*,ine. to verify them, first because it is necessary the communes. At Yutan the stream often for us to exercise all possible orerfiows, becoming over half a mile "The presence of these unemployed, tact in dealing with the subject at however, was a constant temptation Vvirie, and in winter destructive ice all, and secondly because there is no have formed on it. With a to German cupidity. Many times they Border Wholesale Neat & Grocery means of communication between the sought to obtain the lists of the chomeurs, to providing bridge strong a Occupations-Gebiet and the EtappenGebiet. oM.- gh te resist the ice and yet nor Detroit Vapor but were always foiled by the Transportation everywhere sh in cost, the width of the Company claim that under the guaranties covering Oil Stove in Belgium is difficult, the vicinal the relief work, the records of rlntve was decreased at this po'n! railways scarcely operating any more 2,000 feet to about 1,380 feM: the Comite National and its various because of tie lack of oil, while all i-Miiding an embankment on one side. suborganizations were immune. Rather The only absolutely the horses have been taken. The people C. A. YERNBERG, Manager than risk any interruption of the intensified the two currents iiifl'-ed who are forced to go from one Wickless Oil Stove no '.r the two banks and auto ravitaillement, for which, while loath pillage to another must do so on foot Wholesale and Retail Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed tKf.iically deepened their channel*'-,- s?«. on the market. to own any obligation to America, the or in vans drawn by the few miserable 'Germans have always been grateful, fei'.t the ice was more easily carrier Burns just like gas. horses that are'left. The wagons i-jf in spring. The two current ••erf? since it has had the effect of keeping of the breweries, the one institution Call and let us •vore spanned by girders placed the population .calm, the authorities Home-Made Sausage and Hamburger that the Germans have scrupulously lso?*3. set 75 feet apart, while between show you. never pressed the point, other than respected, are hauled by oxen. Give Us a Trial and You Will Stay With Us iso there was built a trestle 700 fee* with the burgomasters of the communes. One of Foulest Deeds in History. Finally, however, the military "The well-known tendency of sensational Our Prices Are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh party, always brutal, and with an S.E. THOMPSON LSON reports to exaggerate themselves, astounding ignorance of public opinion In Days of Hard Drinking. especially in time of war, and and of moral sentiment, determined In the days of George IV, when/ab" in. a situation like that existing here, litis Block, Third Street, International Falls, Minn. to put these idle men to work. Uy to drink hard was regarded as frk with no newspapers to serve as a daily "General von Bissing and the civil of distinction, every glass on thx clearing house for all the rumors that portion of his entourage had always j!" was dedicated to one or other CAR SCHEDULE. are as avidly believed as they are been and even now are opposed to this •Ti^r.iiaiy. The guest who dared to eagerly repeated, should of course be policy^and I think have sincerely done urr.il any part of this elaborate baccha considered but even if a modicum of Tfie following is the regular schedule what they could, first, to prevent its ru'.Iinn routine was" looked upon and all that is told is true there still remains for the International Falls and adoption, and secondly, to lighten the rre:tto as an unclubable fellow, the enough to stamp his deeds: as rigors of its application." ni it being identical with that of the Ranier car line: one of the foulest that history records. The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel bad man" of Bret Harte's stories whe Ranier Falls German Promises Worthless. 'v "I am constantly in receipt of reports «j untied his pistol into anyone who re 260 MODERN ROOMS In the early days of the German advance 1:45 a.m. meets Dul. train. 2:15 a.m. Dec! Direct with the from all over Belgium that tend Located in Heart of Buunoas District tus-id to drink with him. into Belgium, the people had 8:15 a.m. 9:30 a.m. ONE PRJCE--ONE DOLLAR to bear out the stories one constantly Established 1657 Lcii g^St^dOldsSf learned to fear the! worst. This was 11:30 a.m. 7 1:00 p.m. EUROPLAN RATC FOR TWO PKR8O*S $1.60 hears of brutality and cruelty. A number -r:-rr:Uousei:i the West A Poor Counter. particularly true in Antwerp. In order PRIVATE BATH, SHOWER AND TOILET EXTRA 2:15 p.m• 3:30 p.m. of men sent back to Mons are "He's an expert accountant.'' to alleviate their fears and to obtain: COMPLETE SAFETY Highest if'rifes nud Immediate 5 :10 p.m. meets Dul. train. 6 :15 p.m. said to be in a dying'condition, many "I don't believe it." AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS Hetiirris. Write iov price guaranties, which might, hasten jpf them tubercular^ At Malines and AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION Rist, tais uztd icfocmaticn. 7:30 p.m. 10 :00 p.m. the' restoration of settled!' conditions, "Why not?" R- Kook» at Antwerp returned men have died, INSURANCE RCCORDS SHOW THAT NEVER B,y "I iayed golf with him the othoi Cardinal Mercier secured from the HA8 A LIFE BEEN LOST IN ANY BUILDING tbeir^friends asserting that they have Manager. German government at Antwerp promises, 'day and the scores he handed in conduced PROTECTED BV AUTOMATIC BPRINKLERS been victims of neglect and cruelty, me that be had never studied EVERY ROOM HAS HOT AND COLD RUNNING Cut this out and paste it in your and in a circular letter dated October of WATER, STEAM HEAT, CLECTRlC LIGHT AND cold, of exposure, of hunger.*? 16th, l&14, a«ked the clergg of arnhuieilc. hat. TELEPHONE SERVICE. *S N N