Ipsr -A -ir &. »fl*s»7i5Pra ''til it SKawre^* *w »^4t •AP*' 'M'"-, is#f INTgl^4JIgN^. FALL3 PRESS PAGE TOUR DEDICATION OF THE COMMUNICATION ON COUNTY AFFAIRS. ed, fcandy was furnished for the children. RAY SCHOOL After the supper Kimpton's or— The writer interviewed a number of the citizens of this city .who AND BORDER BUDGET chestra furnished music for those waited on the county board at'its: last meeting relative to road matters, who wished to dance. Publishers of the Official County Proceedings and it appears that after Senator Nord stated the purpose of The occasion was the best attended The new school building at Ray INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY^ the visit and inquired for the sentimen^ of the'board regarding the and most successful community one of the most up-to-date community GEO. P. WATSON, Editor nnd Manager gatherings ever held in Ray. Besides finishing of road number nine, the board sat silent. The members center building^ in the state, the people in and about Ray, Eitered at the Post Office at International Fall*.3Ilnn., as Second-class Matter seemed in a daze. They had no ideas of a constructive character. was dedicated Jan. 31. a number were present from Ericsburg, It then developed that the boss—-the man who could read their SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. Though the building is a so-called Ranier and International Falls. two-room school, it embraces "many minds—the fifteen hundred dollar man, Dr.. M. E. Withrow, arose The building was occupied at once features not found in most two-room Good for our high school basket ball team. Saturday night's and advised the Senator of the sentiment of the board. How he and school will be held there the schools which increases it usefulness game showed they could win if they had a ghost a show of remainder of the year. oi found out their sentiment no one there appeared to know, as up to the entire community. The fair play. to that tifne the members were silent. Can it be that the board two school rooms are separated by MANY ALIENS HAVE a folding partition which can be moved does as he says? Or is it that he has star-chamber sessions with aside, making the two rooms into VOTED FOR YEARS Look out for the fellow that sidesteps the great moral and the members and they tell him what they are or are not going to one large auditorium. The furniture economic question during his election campaign. Whefi elected he do When was he elected by the people of this county to dictate to is all movable so that it can be moved Numerous cases of aliens who continues to be a sidestepper and gets nothing for his constituency, the board what it is supposed to have in mind. to one side leaving a large floor have voted for years and even held outside of his own imagination. public office besides enjoying other space for social functions. In addition It is a characteristic of..all men who# possess a disposition to to the two regular school rooms, privileges of full citizenship, State criticise and investigate the official actions of others that they there is a principals office and library Auditor J. A.1 O. Preus said today, Necessarily the government cannot be continually publishing cannot furnish at any time a constructive ^policy. The present on the first floor as well as are coming to light in advance of preparations for war, but a great deal that is done must be kept county board and its Arnoldite advisors have been in control of this its space for the manual training benches. registration of Minnesota aliens near secret as possible- Criticism of the governmen at this time February 25, 26 and 27 by order of county now for about eighteen months and have done absolutely as the state public safety commission. The four rooms on the second floor a mighty poor way of supporting it.—Milaca Times. nothing of a constructive nature. The roads of this county have is Although many inquiries regarding serv? as a teacherage and domestic been left untouched and abandoned while they spent the people's the registration have been received, science department. The teacherage money like drunken sailors to enrich a little gang of destructionists The serious illness of Colonel Roosevelt has brought to the the auditor said, none of the aliens furnishes a homelike place for the who now find themselves absolutely without policy for construction. have yet made any objection. country again a keen sense of the value of this courageous "first teachers to live. Besides a bedroom Auditor Preus' staff today is sending with two large closets, there is a They have disgusted the state highway commissioner^ citizen" to his day and generation. Enemies and friends alike admit questionaires and other registration dining room, living room, kitchen the public examiner, and every prospective investor in the county's that his death at this time would be a real calamity. supplies to county boards and "pantry as well as a very large lands or business enterprises and now when asked by the businsesmen throughout the state. He recommended store room. of this city they are unable to make a helpful suggestion as to that all men and women who The building is finished with plasterboard The few disreputable remnants of the old whiskey gang here, have any reason to doubt their status constructive methods. If they have collected any money by their and natural pine. The latest may .have to use some other method of getting the booze wherewith register according to the order. prinerples of lighting, heating, settlements it "has gone into the general fund to pay the warrants to fill this city arid county with drunks, between now and their proposed City clerks in Minneapolis and St. and ventilating have been carried issued to the attorneys, and others in on the swag, and not one fall election on county option, in order to prove that it is Paul are asking for the voluntary out in this building. In making the dollar has gone to help the roads that caused all the complaint. services of several hundred clerks, impossible to enforce the county option law as a^i argument to get plans as well as greater use of the also a number of interpreters, especially If the homesteaders haven'tbeen double crossed for fair then the building by the outlying neighborhoods back the licensed saloon into this county. those speaking the Slavonic were considered jnd provision bunch made some mistake. Every dollar Arnold collected he used languages. made for adding two or four more to pay himself and those who stuck by him, and not a cent went Auditor Preus said that one of the The sad calamity which occurred last week in the torpedoing rooms to the building. The entire for roads, and now they are waiting for some of the same ones cases to develop under the order is of the Tuscania and caused the death of so many of our soldiers building is wired for electric lighting. that of an old resident of Dodge whom they have libeled and slandered to tell them, on the eve As soon as the roads will permit has' been effective in more strongly uniting the various elemelnts county, who called Sunday at Mr. transportation, the school at of an election, how to get funds to build roads and pacify the homesteaders, in this county and also bringing all to realize more fully the fact Preus* home to inquire about the Ray will serve the entire community or hoodwink them some more so that they can hang on tq we are really at war, and that with a skulking enemy who are not registration and reluctantly acknowledged tributary to it. The pupils now attending office. Trotski is out-trotted by the bunch in this county in lacking he is not a citizen. willing to give our soldiers a fighter's chance. the rural schools will thus "Having been very successful in constructive methods. get the advantage of a better system this country and having delayed taking of grading, more time for each Senator Nord gave assuranfjqs of th.e support of the businessmen On.jb^prJ pages of this issue will be found the complete story out his naturalization papers so subject* and also much more thorough of this community in anyi constructive policy the board might long, he said he felt like an ingrate," of that splendid production of Edward Everett Hale, entitled, "A instructions in the industrial subjects. adopt, and when they failed to: show that they had any idea of said the auditor. "He returned home Man Without a Country" which we published a few ago at At the same time fewer teachers Aveeks last night,, resolved to take out his what to do, and the high-salaried advisers ducked out of sight so will be required and the burden our own expense. We republish it this week at the request of the papers this., morning." on the district lessened. that their ignorance of anything constructive might not be disclosed, Minnesota Public Safety Commission, who furnished the story in -Jf The auditor told of a Lq ..Sueur Instead of building on the' $rte of the Senator outlined a. plan of action and. finally got the board plate form free of charge and trust all will read and carefully ponder county man who came to this country the: old ^school additional''land was to appoint a committee to act with other committees from other from Germany with his parents over the helpful lesson that it teaches. purchased so that" the building1 is how bodies to bring about some real- ^accomplishment irt which all the forty years ago, when he was but 7 located on the summit of the' hill years old, and thinking that his first overlooking the town. Ample room1 people of this county may shafe, 'kitiT not a little bunch bf highsalaried At passing the buck, no one can beat the Guv, and his Safety papers made him, a citizien, never is now afforded for pliy grounds,' incompetents^ Everything that was, accomplished in the Commish. This week they passed the closing of the saloons of the jfcomleted his naturalization. He etc. interests pf good roads at that meeting was brought about by has been active in. Le Sueur county state over for action by the Federal Government. It wouldn't The dedication eiercfse^ weW' op­i Senator Nord, (and the writef^Sihot: boosting Nord either) while (•politics and has, always voted. ened With a program'by pupils of the do to close the gin dispensaries at St. Paul and Minneapolis, but, ,4???:ther case .reported is that of a the gents who drew severity* (ddllafs each,''and expenses, for that schools in the vicinity of Ray, namely there was no hesitation in closing down on the places^ up here in St* Paul. resident ,48...years old. an.d the Ray kchool 'Lyrrian school, dne day's wbrk"for theJmohth ,pJ February, had to let the health J^erfiaps!an."operiat the back woods even though the dealers had just paid the enormous for .forty-seven,, y.ears a. resident! of 2 Beaver 1 school, and Beaver schdol. officer disclose their viewsl iQni woul^ lie neces­ the city. The man's father died war tax and were on their uppers. The twin cities is where The pupils of each school gave their sary to find out what some- of :th,c board .members think and that is forty-five years agp without having l5 numbers Under the ^dii-ection of their the Commish lives and it is strictly proper to have it wide open been naturalised. why the doctor was on hand. own teacher.' This- was the first there.—Spooner News. Discovering that he wat not a. The taxpayers of some of the districts of this county must meeting of parents and pupils of all citizen, the. St. Paul .man went directly the schools* but now that the new feel proud of the brains they have provided the board with in the from the capitol to the court building makes it possible, many We trust that the investigation now in progress because of the representatives they send. Arid yet to hear those who profit by the house to take out his first naturalization more are sure to follow.' recent illegal shipment pf booze into this city, under the guise of papers. official acts and lengthy resolutions included in printed proceedings Since the purpose of the school is "groceries" will be probed to the bottom, and that not only those tell it one would think that .with the exception of the Russian education for development of the immediately responsible for the shipments but also those implicated UNITED STATES READY mind along lines such that the knowledge cabinet our board isthe greatest living exponent of human wisdom. FOR THIRD WAR LOAN in the sale and distribution of similar part shipments, be vigorously gained may be applied in industrial By-the-way will it, not be interesting to see who buys the development and meeting prosecuted-ami given the maximum jail sentence provided by law.. lands offered for sale to satisfy the Slocum judgment? So far as the problems of life, an agricultural Washington, Feb. 7.—Three billion Many grave rumors have been floatng around for month that the records show Slocum ha.sn'* otirned that property for years development speaker was next introduced dollars will be raised in advance of some merchants here have been selling whiskey and allowing their on the program. Mr. J: J. the third liberty loan, which* probably, and years. Monty gets the p^lica^ori fee just the same, Arnold stores to be a medium of distribution for it in direct defia.ice of the Opsahl of "Bemidji, president of the will be launched in: April by a^er diem, and someone may'get' slipped a law-suit unawares, which law- Now, these merchants are not ignorant Bohunks, but men of t*P6rtherh' Minnesota Sheep Grower* sales of certificates of indebtedness will give Arrioid another job. Association, jgave a- short but interring under a plan looking to systematic intelligence and with a full knowledge of the enormity of the ime How much money the county has to spend—except for rpads! address on the possibilities of investment by every bank in these they were committing and of the penalty attacheU to it, bat in sheep 'raising as an aid in building short term securities. Afrbther Taxpayer. sneaking stealth have made enormous profits at the expense of the up the community. A scheme, for preparirlg the w^y.. good name of this city and county under the guise of a reputable Superintendent' Hay, bf Thief River for the third, loan, announced lastnight Falls was then introduced who by Secretary McAdoo, provides business. THE SLACKER." gave the principal addfess of the for the. issuance, of $500,000,000 or evening in behalf of the State Board more of these certificates every two /l REVISING THE HISTORIES. Now, since we've joined the navy, of Education. The school was dedicated weeks until the total runs to $3,000,000,000 to the development of the intellectual by the middle of March. Do you think it's doing right powers, cultivating moral Every national bank, state bank and To treat the slacker better An excellent effect of the situation in* which Canada and the qualities, honor of the industrial pursuits, trust company is asked to set aside "Than the man whe^has to fight United States find themselves on the same side in the war is the especially agriculture because each week about one per cent of its movement in Montreal of a revision of school histories in order of its primal importance in the community gross resources for investment in If he won't defend his country, and to training for American the certificates. that passages bearing on the past relations of the two countries He is hardly worth a damn, citizenship. The first of the $500,000,00)0 certificate which tend to perpetuate national antagonisms may be toned down And nothing %but a. nuisance The program was followed by a issues under this plan was announced or eliminated. The Canadian school histories sin as deeply as those chicken supper served in,the upper last night. They will bear In the eyes of tJncle Sam. of the United States in saturating with prejudice the minds of the four per cent the same as other recent rooms of the -school. "About two' From eighteen years to forty, young on account of bygone quarrels.—Springfield Republican. hundred and fifty persons were serv­ issues. He's supposed to voluteer And buckle on his armor CANADA AND THE WAR. With little sign of fear Canada has reached a true appreciation of the meaning of this But you'll find him chasing dollars, war and the direct bearing it has upon the future. Her people real Playing games or at a dance, ize that a German victory in Europe would be followed" by a cam -For he'd rather go to hell paign of German conquest throughout the world, with the western Than take a trip to France. ^hemisphere offering the most' attractive prizes. Once the 'Allied line on the Western front crumble^ before the Central Powers, the battle line would be transferred to the eastern seaboard of Amer active in its local affairs. Recently PARK REGION EDITOR ica, and Canada and the United States would then berface to face he was knocked down for publishing HELD FOR SEDITION with the invaders.—Washington Post. .• an article attacking F. W. Murphy, president bf the America First association Alexandria, Minn., Feb.- 11—Carl and at another time the GERMANY LAUGHS NO MORE. A. Wold, editor of the Park Region printing plant was wrecked and for Echo, and his wife. Eva ^Emerson several weeks put out of commission. Wold, were arrested here Saturday Germany affected to laugh as one by one the neutral states Mr. Wold, at one time was a representative afternoon on a warrant issued by which are not great military powers fell off from her in horror of ity the lower house of the the state attorney general'^ office State Legislature. her crimes. She laughs rio more. It is not, indeed, the moral condemnation charging them with making seditions of so many peoples Ayhich disturbs her seared and hardened and disloyal statements fn their paper. l?IRE KILLED WOOD WANTED: conscience. At that she cati still scoff. But she is finding The Wolds went before' a local Contract with us immediately for yhat the raw materials for her industries in war and in peace tpgether justice and waived hearings arid were all fire killed poplar, balsam, balm, withf no small share of her food supplies are under the control and, spruce. Cut 55 inches in length. released on bond to1 be tried at the of those who are her declared enemies, or who refuse to continue no splitting no peeling. For particulars circuit court in February/ Mr. Wold said his' paper waft closely write 'i' diplomatic relations with her. She is beginning to preceive ,, affiliated with the' Nonpartisan i'l't Minneapolis Mfg. Co.,_ what this may .mean for her.—London Times. .league, and. that he had been "most- tf-f?' St tf M&M