GERMANS EXCUSE RECRUITS FOR TANKS— dermnn soldier^on'the eastern front: THE LAND BATTLESHIPS "Russian Poland, December 18, '14. 'Carry the Truth to theJPeople' JOHN H. BROWN "In the name of Christianity I sen? Open for enlistment of physically ATROCIOUS ACTS fou these words. Attorney at Law qualified men between the ages of 18 "Wounded Russians are killed with Skct over 0. U. Carr & G*. :he bayonet according to orders. and 21 and 31 to 40 who can present International Falls, Minnesoii "And Russians who have surrenderid references that they can successfully are often shot down in masses according fulfill the duties of the following Murder, Pillage and Arson Part to orders, in spite of their DR. H, H. IHRIG named trades and vocations: heart-rending prayers. AND Machine gun mechanics. of Deliberate Scheme of Dtatiit "In the hope that yon, as the representative Tractor drivers. Warfare. of a Christian state, will ^v Office orer Holler's Confectionery Heavy auto truck drivers. protest against this, I sign myself, International Falls, Minnesota Also a limited number of men will "A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRIS­ be accepted on the same basis as TIAN." HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD GEO.S. LANGLAND above for the following trades: AS DEVELOPED IN NORTH DAKOTA AND The third letter, from the western front, shows the same horror of the General clerks. Law|«r NOW THE GREATEST QUESTION BEFORE lystem of which the writer was a witness. Buzzer operators (wireless.) Office over International State Bank THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA No Possible Evasion of Responsibility Cooks. for Bsstial Acts Which for C«ntu International Falls. Minnesota "To the American Government, Storekeepers. Had 'r\ rise Havs No Parallel— READ THIS BOOK Washington, U. 8. A. Auto engine mechanics. l! Officially Indorsed. "Englishmen who have surrendered Auto chauffeurs. are shot down in email groups. With Stenographers (male.) LaWf«r the French one is more considerate. I The people of the United State» AND GET THE TRUE INSIDE STORY OF IT Motorcycle drivers. Office oyer International State Bank ask whether men let themselves be ore beginning to learn the truth concerning Topographers. taken prisoner In order to bo disarmed International Falls, MinnewM the conduct of the war by One Hundred.. Pages Telephone and shot down afterward! Is operators. Germany. Proof is offered that German that chivalry in battle? It is no longer Auto electricians. DR. JENNER PERRY CHANCE officials deliberately lied in A secret among the people one hears Blacksmiths. Physician and Surgaon everywhere that few prisoners are their statements concerning atrocities Storekeepers and cooks. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS—Add Two Cents for Postage taken they are shot down in small Office over International State Bank committed by the Belgians and Oxy-acetylene welders. groups. They say naively: 'We don't Phone 11 Bench machinists. lilies. That their own soldiers were want any unnecessary mouths to feed. Lathe hands. Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching disgusted by the. cruelties practiced Where there is no one to enter complaint, E E I I O N I S I I E Machine designers. international Falls, Minnesota at the order of high officers of the there is no judge.' Is there Typists (male). then no power in the world which can kaiser is shown. Extracts taken put an end to these murders and res?ue Two Other Interesting Booklets Free With Each Order PHINNEY & CAMPBELL First class machine gun mechanics from pamphlets issued follow: the victims? Where is Christianity? and mechanics with a good education Lawyers The Vorwaerts of Berlin, October 22, Where is right? Might Is A E S S men who have driven tractors or 1914, said: right. International Falls, Minnesota heavy auto trucks will be given preference "We have already been able to establish "A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS Tri-State Publishing Co. the falseness of a great number as this class of men are most NO BARBARIAN." W. E. LAWRENCE of assertions which have been made needed for this branch of service. Socialists Oppose System with great precision and published The Rexall Store All enlistments are for the period Box 595 everywhere in the press, concerning alleged St. Paul, Minn. Many of the Germans, as has been of the war only. I International Falls, Minnesota cruelties committed, by the populations already indicated, do not believe the If you have the qualifications and of the countries with which reports of the atrocities committed by experience in any of the above lines Germany is at war, upon German sol'liers the Belgian civilians,and refuse to accept DR. E. A. THOMPSON and can present references and want and civilians. We are now in position the system of frightfulness. The Dentist to'see some real service, apply at the to silence two others of these Vorwaerts, the leading socialist paper,, Phone 245 which has a very wide circle of readers fantastic stories. International Falls army recruiting! gNOCH MORGAN'S LendHim "The war correspondent of the Berliner has opposed the policy of frightfulness. Office over International State Bank station for further particulars. SONS CO. Tageblatt spoke a few weeks All honor to its editors who These units are being mobilized at AHan International Falls, Minnesota ago of cigars and cigarettes filled with have so courageously opposed the powerful Gettysburg, Pa. powder alleged to have been given out military authority! Its editorial, Obey the impulse that says, "Let's W. E. MARTIN entitled "Our Foes," published August, or sold to our soldiers with diabolical Go" and apply at once. This is an 23, 1914, reads as follows: intent. He even pretended that he had Contractor and Builder exceptional opportunity, for skilled seen with his own eyes hundreds of "What should one say when even Repairs Promptly Done this kind of cigarettes. We learn from such an organ as the Deutsches Offizier-Blatt tradesmen to do their bit towards Phone 159 705 8th St an authentic source that this story of expresses its sympathy with Buy making the world a safe place to live cigars and cigarettes is nothing but a a demand that 'the beasts' who are SAPOLIO in. brazen invention. Stories of soldiers taken as francs-tireurs should not be Here is your chance to see some DR. ELIZABETH MONAHAN For whose eyes are alleged to have been killed, but only wounded so that they real service. PATRIOTISM ECONOMY torn out by francs-tireurs are circulated may then be left to a fate 'which makes Anaesthetist Buy Liberty Bonds throughout Germany. Not a single help impossible?' Or what should Any Invest in the Third Liberty Loan we say when the Deutsches OffizierBlatt "Actions speak iouder than Eyes Examined—Glasses Fitted ease of this kind has been officially established. so "government of the people, by the states that 'a punitive destruction words-Act Dont Talk Buy Now Phone 223 Office 800 2nd St. even of whole regions' cannot 'afford people, and for the people shall not "It matters little that reports of this full recompense for the bones of a nature bear an appearance of positive perish from the earth." single murdered PomeraniftTT grenadier?' certitude, or are even vouched for by HELEN A. DE WITTE eye-witnesses. The desire for notoriety, Those are the desires of bloodthirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly the absence of criticism, and personal Public Stenographer A ashamed of ourselves because it is Stamps error play an unfortunate part in the Rex Hotel possible that there are people among days In which we are living. Every us who urge such things." International Falls, Minnesota nose shot off or simply bound up, fcvery eye removed, is immediately "Barbarism," Declares Vorwaerts. NORTHERN MINNESOTA transformed into a nose or eye torn On the following day, August 24, lway by the francs-tireurs. Already the HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION 1914, the Vorwaerts returned to the Colkszeitung of Cologne has been able, attack in an editorial "Against Barbarism." When" He" Dr. C. C. Craig Phone 223 contrary to the very categorical assertions Dr. Elizabeth Monalian Phone 223 from Aix-la-Chapelle, to prove "One might, in the first Dr. Mary Ghostly Phone 301 that there was no soldier with his eyes pla^e, possibly believe that such a demand Hospital Phone 79 torn out in the field ambulance of this for a bloody vengeance [against I town. It was said,! also, that people Office over International State Bank alleged Belgian outrages] emanates wounded in this way were under treatment Phona 155 from a single disease-racked brain in the neighborhood of Berlin International Falls, Minnesota Home but it appears that whole groups but whenever inquiries have been made among certain classes who represent regard to these reports, their absolute In German kultur want to Indulge in orgies N E falsity has been demonstrated. At of barbarism and to devise a length these reports were concentrated whole system for the purpose-of organizing at at Gross Lichterfelde. A newspaper 'a war of revenge.' published at noon and widely circulated W. M. LIRETTE'S "What of law and custom! Such in Berlin printed a few days ago '.hougjits do not stir a 'great nation.' BARBER SHOP In large type the news that at the Thus in a leading article of the Berliner Lazaretto of Lichterfelde alone there Neueste Nachrichten, the demand Frederick Hotel Tthe were 'ten German soldiers, only slightly is made that all the authorities HERE will come a day when wounded, whose eyes had been wickedly FURS BOUGHT AND SOLD in Brussels—one, the second burgomaster, torn out.' But to a request for is generously excepted—should be news that the war is over Information by Comrade Liebknecht immediately seized and subjected to WAR the fallowing written reply was sent trial in order to expiate the wrongs will thrill the world. Then our by the chief medical officer of the which, according to fragmentary and CLUB above-mentioned field hospital, dated highly uncertain reports, were said to brave men will come home to the eighteenth of the month: have been committed bjr the people. 'Sir: Happily there is no truth They demand that the captured city their little ones. No matter how whatever in these stories. should immediately pay a fine of 500,000,000 •Yours obediently, WEEK marks that all stores of the we hope, no one today knows whether •PROFESSOR RAUTENBERG. conquered territory be requisitioned German Soldiers Protested. they will come home in victory or defeat. without paying the inhabitants a single MARCH lOSNofftS Thus the teachings of the Germaa penny for them." JOIN A War Book and of the German apostles If they come home in defeat, you and Vorwaerts in Protest. df frightfulness, suspicion and hatred, WAR SAVINGS SOCIETY your children must then live under the Three years later, August 26, 1917, had now begun to bear their natural BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS the Vorwaerts quoted the following fruit. But the voice of protest was iron heel of the Hohenzollern. DECLARE FOR THRIFT .passage from the Deutsche Tageszeltung: not entirely silent. A considerable number of letters by German soldiers Aj* If they come in victory, where will who were shocked by the German "We have a ring of politicians who you stand on that day—the proudest atrocities were sent to Ambassadov hold that might makes right (Machtpolitiker), WHAT ARE YOU GOING Gerard, because he was the representative who despise the forces of day in the long .calendar of American of the United States, the leading the inner life and believe that they TO BUY THIS neiftral nation. The three letters must eliminate all ethical points of achievement. SPRING which follow, in translation, were received view -. from foreign and social by the American*, ambassador politics. For them, Germany of the On that day all Americans wiir be divided from German soldiers. present and of the future is the country into two classes. The first class will include those Here is the protest of a German sol of the Krupps and Borsigs, of the who have given their sons or lent ther dollars freely dier, an eye-witness of the slaughter ot Zeppelins and the U-boats. Any idea U' 1j! Russian soldiers in the Masurian lakes of a connection between politics and and unselfishly to their country. We will get you anything from and swamps: morals is rejected and any reference a baby cab to a htreshing machine The other will include those who did not "It was frightful, heart-rending, as to the right of a moral method of consideration .and meet any mail order these masses of human beings were is ridiculed as delusion and sacrifice their sons or their dollars or give their price. We can do this and driven to destruction. Above the terrible sentimentality." best efforts. make a small profit the same thunder of the cannon could be The German officers were provided as Sears and Roebuck, as with sheard the heart-rending*cries of the with the forms to be used in terrorizing Where will you stand on the day of victory? the buying connections we have Russians: 'O Prussians! O Prussians!' the conquered people. The com* —but there was no mercy. Our captair You can choose now—you cannot choose mon soldiers were provided with we cao buy from any factory had ordered: 'The wjiole lot must die phrase books which would enable them they can and at the same then. so rapid fire.' As I have heard, five to impose their will upon the terrified price. We are entitled to. this, men and one officer on our side went people. Minister Brand Whitlock In BUY LIBERTY BONDS business because we will give mad from these heart-rending criea his report to the state department on you better terms. Youl will But most of my comrades and the officers September 12, 1917, writes: have tb send maney with the joked as the unarmed and helplest "The German soldiers were provided order when you order, from Russians jshrieked for mercy while them while we only ask you a with phrase books giving alternate they were being suffocated in the translation in German and French ot SMALL PAYMENT DOWN swamps and shot down. The order such sentences as: .. Balance when goods are ready was 'Close up and at it harder For •"Hands up.' (It is the very first to deliver and found satisfactory. days afterwards those heart-rending sentence in the book.) 3s That is worth something, yells followed me and I dare not think 'Carry out all the furniture. and besides, we take all of the of them or I shall go mad. There is no 'I am thirsty. Bring me some beer, trouble of putting in claims, This Space Donated by God, there is no morality and no ethics gin, rum. etc., if goods are lost or damaged any more. There are no human beings 0 M. XARR &iCO. ot •"You have to supply a barrel while on the road. any more, but only beasts. Down with riijAre we not entitled to this wine and a keg of,beeK.'^ f-^^§ militarism. ^'business? •"Lead me to the wealthiest inhabitants "If you are a truth-loving man, of this village. I have orders to S.E. THOMPSON&SON please receive these lines from a conn* SMyse-. .. requisition several barrels of wine. fe «The store of Quality" non Prussian soldier^ •Show the us way to ——. If jrw the testimony anotbei Following Is of Jfll4 astray, jou will be shot*'-*' US