INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS -NOVEMBER 21, 1918 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS STATE-WIDE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS the United ^States ever equals Britain's contribution to date the American Republic will have nearly 16,000,000 soldiers in khaki, AND BORDER BUDGET The time came in the development of rail transportation in and nearly 2,000,000 Americans will have given their lives for the America when it became necessary to abandon the program o:: common cause."—Literary Digest. INTERNATIONAL FALLS .PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY loosely linked up local roads and form interstate and transcontinen GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager tal systems. When we made that change, commerce took a leaf SLAMS OF LIFE forward. America has now reached that point in the highway By J. P. McEvoy Entered at the Post OfBce at International Falls. Minn., aa Second-elaaa Hatter system, for the use of the highway has become something more SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR than the carrying of stuff from a million railway stations. Highway Is victory won? Then don't forget freight lines must now parellel railway lines. The lads who helped win it The slackers in "dry" counties are more to blame for the 756 Almost every economic problem today corns back sooner or Give something else besides some cheers Wet majority in the state on the Pink ballot than anyone else. later to the transportation factor so inevitably, that it is plain ho-\y A cheer has nothing in it, a bad wagon rdad increases directly the cost of living. The highway Dig down into your dovelike dimes The disposition of the Hollanders seems to be to tell Queen has become an auxiliary freight way, and to function properly it And freely give your tin Wilhelma to slip her night shirt into her grip and seek refuge must have its fixed trunk system. The wagon road which in our Let's keep the fun in war fund, palsKick elsewhere if she wants to pull off a pink tea in honor of the Kaiser. father's day was a purely township or county question, has nowgrown in, old tops, kick in. to be a state-wide and an inter-state problem. You noticed how much Marshall Foch could trust even the Illinois by a vote of three to one has recently approved of Let's help the "Y" the "K. C." too Peace Envoys of the Kaiser when he would not even mention the bond issue of sixty million dollars to pave a trunk highway system And "A. L. A." as well, place where they were 16 meet him. Bring them to-a stated place of some thing more than four thousand miles. The counties wil And all those others stanch and true on th front lines and they will receive safe escort, was the best be empowered to issue bonds to build systems connecting with the Who've brought into that hell information given. main trunk lines. The trunk system will be paved with materia Of dreary days and lonely nights suited to the heaviest motor freight traffic. Iowa is making a campaign Amid the warring din \yhile the sailor and soldier boys of this city and county have for a similar system. The systems of both Illinois and Iowa 1 he cheer of home to all our boys. been in the service fighting our battles or preparing to do so, they contemplate connections with a state-wide system in Minnesota. Kick in, you guys, kick in. have been surrounded with every moral safeguard. It is the duty It costs no more to build a system of roads than to build the same of our city and county officials to so clean out the lawless elment mileage without system. Continuous trunk highways make possible Kick in and give them all you can, here that this will be a safe place for the boys to return to. the longer haul of freight and so make for cheaper transportation. And smilingly—don't fuss But no system of trunk highways can be built, if the planning Our boys will need their helping hands Pool halls which harbor gambling dens and hip pocket artists and the distribution of cost is only county-wide. One county Till they come back lo us. and are left in the care of aliens, should not be countenanced. cannot furnish the costly trunk while the adjoining county contributes Remember, you who long to see Persons who have little or no regard for the laws of the land and only the cheaper branches. The whole state benefits from a Those shining ships come in, do not care enough about this country to become citizens of it state-wide system, and to it the whole state should largely contribute. They'll help our boys, you help them, too— should not be licensed nor allowed to be emplyed by a person holding Kick in, my friends, kick in. a license of any kind and their business should not .receive the patronaze America must become accustomed to think of trunk highways Chisholm Tribune Herald of any American citizen. in terms of paved streets. Concrete, brick, bitulithic concrete and CLIMBING NEWSPAPER COSTS creosoted blocks on concrete base are enduring material. Nothing creased in price. The newspapers Every news Agency which furnishes the German propoganda less durable should be used on heavy traffic road. Gravel, dirt or has increased in. price. The newspaper During the Tast week two important items and every newspaper which publishes them should be forthwith macadam may be used on light traffic roads, but they become that does not have sufficient newspapers of Milwaukee consolidated. put out of business. Peace terms and commercial agreements income to pay the increased expenses the most expensive of all road materials under heavy truck roads. A few weeks, ago there for th^ benefit of the United States and Allies are what the world must of course, suspend. There is Permanent roads are the only economical roads, and before permanent was a consolidation at Muscatine. no other alternative. needs today. Twenty-five years hence will be soon enough to roads are laid down, the large plan, the state-wide, the The suspension of the Chicago Her* A newspaper has but two sources listen to the cowardly appeals of a nation that has ruthlessly slain aid, which was combined with the inter-state plan is necessary—Minneapolis Journal. of income—one is money paid for innocent women and children and utterly demolished the industries, Examiner, is still fresh in mind. All subscriptions and the other is money hospitals, churches and schools of non-combatant cities and village*. oyer this country newspapers have WHAT CANADA AND BRITAIN HAVE DONE paid for advertising. Next to been forced to suspend or to consolidate labor, print paper is the largest item until now the number that A LITTLE SELF- PRAISE of expense in producing a newspa^ Generous appreciation is shown in the British press of the part have ceased publication since the per. This ruling compels the newspaper beginning of the war is over 1,200. the Overseas Dominions have, t^ken in the war. Recently London The press is one of the most valuable institutions of a free nation to pay for the paper it has used These changes have been forced by celebrated the fourth anniversary of the arrival in England of the it is a real necessity for the public it is a vital factor in the the ever-increasing costs of publishing for the past nine months 13 per cent first Canadian contingent, and the London Times seized the opportunity bringing about of reforms where conditions show that they art* newspapers. in addition to what it has already to present Canada's record, and it is indeed a ftotable"/one, One of these is the increase in price paid. This is= retroactive for the period necessary, but to continue of service to the nation, it must remain when we consider how small a population Canada has, just a of white paper. Early in the war back to January 1, 1918. The untrammelled and free from Prussianized restriction, free to uphoM, little more than seven million, all told. The Times tabulates price of print paper in rolls was $37 newspaper cannot make its business whatever is best for the community which serves, and what is Canada's contribution thus to $39 a ton. After a few months the retroactive. All it can do is put into best for the nation, for the Empire and for civilization.—Kingston ex-' Regular .Canadian troops oftawa-r .:.'.? 3,000 government undertook* to regulate effect increases effective at the Whig. the prices and the' supply 'for•the Nurnber of 1st Contingent 33,000 piration of existing subscription and reason that the shipment, of print advertising contracts and hope that' Canadian soldiers sent overseas up to September 1 1918 400,000 THE PRESIDENT SAYS REJOICE AND BE paper requires railway facilities and it has credit sufficient to carry it aver Troops in training ....... 60,000 the manufacture of print paper co GRATEFUL, JUSTICE REPLACES FORCE the period of deficit.—Ottumwa Canadian soldiers killed in action ,,, 50,000 sumes wood and coal. (la.) Courier Casualties, over 175,000 Prices Rise Rapidly Washington, Nov. 17—President Wilson, in a proclamation Wounded returned to the front ..... 40,000 The first price was $62 a ton, r» HIS WRATH BETRAYED HIM today, designated Thursday, Nov. 28, as Thanksgivng day and said Returned to Canada 50,000 large increase over normal, beginning this year the American people have special and moving cause to be January 1, 1918. The print paper Number who have received decorations _.jssu__ 10,000 A Dublin car driver was stopped grateful and rejoce. Complete victory, he said, has brought not manufacturers protested to the Awarded the Victoria Cross 40 for dangerous driving by a zealous only peace, but the confident promise of anew day as well, in which federal trade commission that this Carrying on the tale, we are told that— constable. He refused to give his price was not adequate. Finally the "justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations" I name. "Apart from her fighting men, Canada has furnished various question was referred to the circuit «Ye must give me yer name," was The proclamation follows: special corps which have proved, off inestimable value to the British court of New York, which ruled that «Ye'll only get yerself in- the teply Armies—the Canadian Forestry Corps, the Canadian Corps Salvage THANKSGIVING 1918 the price should be( $70 a ton and man„ to worse tr0ublei y0ung gaid companies, and the* Canadian Railway trops. that newspapers would have to pav the constable, "if ye don't give me the print-paper manufacturers $8^ yer name." "The splendid health in which the Canadian Corps has been By the President of the United States of America. a ton additional for all the paper "I won't give my name," said the maintained is due to the unceasing vigilance and tireless efforts of A proclamation. they had used since the first of last dogged driver. It has long been our custom to turn in the autumn of the year the Canadian Army Medical Corps, supported by a highly efficient January. Thus the newspapers had "Now, then what is it?" persisted in praise and thanksjgiving to Almighty God for his many blessings system of baths and laundries. The bacteriological work of the the constable. to pay $8 a ton in addition to the sanitary sections contribute materially to this gratifying condition. iind mercies to us as a nation. price they had already paid for nine "Ye had better find out," retorted This year we have special and moving cause to be grateful and It is estimated that seventy-five per cent of the medical profession months back. the driver. in Canada are engaged in some professional capacity in connection But that is not all. The judges of Sure and I will" said the constale, to rejoice. proceeding around to the side the circuit court of New York recommended with the armed forces of Canada, either at home or overseas. Canadian God has in his good pleasure given us peace. It has not come of the car where the name ought to that the paper manufacturers as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from the strain and hospital units have also seen service with the Imperial Forces have been only to find it rubbed off. were entitled to even more tragedy of war. It has come as a great triumph of right. at Mudros and at Saloniki, where they earned the warmest commendation "Aha!" said the constable. "Now than $70 a ton. The court says they Complete victory has brought us not peace alone, but the confident from all the Imperial authorities under whom they served." ought to have $2 a ton more for for in­ in-f J®*11 y°«rself into worse disgrace get ever for yer name's oblither- promise of a new day as well, in which justice shall replace Not to be outdone in appreciation, the editor of the Toronto creased freight rates—not of the pa ated." force and jealous intrigue among nations. Daily News, just back from the front, tells that Canada's share Us per to the newspapers for the papers "You're wrong," roared the driver, Our gallant armies have participated in a triumph which is not is as nothing compared with what the mother country has done. have to pay that in addition to "tis O'Brien!" marred or stained by another purpose of selfish aggression. He says, and it is worthy of note, that this is, after all, a naval war: the cost of paper at the mill—but increase In a ritghteous cause they have won immortal glory and have "The British people have borne with unequaled determination, of freight rates the paper WHAT AN OLD GEESER DID manufacturers have to pay for shipping nobly served their nation in serving mankind. the burden of two vast wars, the one at sea and the other in wood and sulphite to the paper There was an old geeser, he had a God has, indeed, been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing many widely separated theatres on land. Since the beginning of mills. The court also recommends lot of sense. He started up a business as revives and strengthens in us all the best traditions of our the war 160 enemy submarines have been sunk, most of them by on a dollar eighty cents. The that $8 a ton should be added to the national history. the British. One and one-half million' men.are occupied today in price of paper to cover the increase dollar for stock and the eighty for A new day seines about us, in which our hearts take new manning and maintaining the British Navy and merchant marine. of wages of the men working in the brought him three lovely dol- an ad Britain has lost 3,817,000 tons of her precious shipping. The other courage and look forward with new hope to new and greater duties. paper mills and in the woods getting *ars 'n a da^ bJ dad- Well, he bought more goods and a little more While we render thanks for these things, let us not forget to Allies and neutrals have gained 1,208,000 tons. She can not replace out the raw material. I space and he played that system with seek the divine guidance in the performance of those duties, and her tonnage sunk, for two reasons—she is using her man-power jl hjs The customers Publishers Face Difficulty a sm on ace divine mercy and forgivenss for all errors of act or purpo'se, and prav to the utmost, not for her own interests, but in the common cause. This will add $10 more to the flocked to his two-by-four and soon that in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship In her shipbuilding yards two-fifths of the labor and machinery price of paper and will date back had to hustle for a regular store, and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new are required for repair work done as much for her Allies as for several months, making the ,^P are where the people on price I $80 a ton—more than double the nor- Pass gobbled up a corner that structure of peace and good will among the nations. herself. Yet in four years by an almost superhuman effort she has an ud 'nut-' plate glass. He fixed the was mal price. An increase of freight UP tne Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States increased the strength of her Navy by'fifty, per cent. This means 1 nJ ™dow -r wlth the best he had and rates effective since July 1 to 2s per, 4-t,™ _ii •, .. -of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-eTght ..y that in spite of all other calls- she has,-during four years of warstrain, told them all about it a half-page cent further adds to the cost of pa-j f«- of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite constructed the second largest navy in the world—that is, au -"c soon iracl em coming, and per when it is delivered to the news-| he lleyer nev£r quit and he didnt the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from .their a new navy larger than any other save her.original fleet." papers, the old days the price of down his ads one jit And he's ordinary occunpations and in their several homes and places of Cllt Finally, he gives us a hint of how much we should have to do paper used to include its delivery at. kept things humminig in the town worship to render thanks God, the ruler of nations. if America's share of service is to approximate Britain's altho she the newspaper office, freight paid. ever since, and everybody "calls, him In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused hopes that America will never be called upon to bear' so great a.bur the merchant prince. Some say it's Now it does not. the seal of the United States to be affixed. den: luck, but that's all bunk, why he was Every daily newspaper has to make doing business when the times were Done in the District of Columbia, this sixteenth day of Novmber to the government a ^daily :report "Upward of 1,000,000 British soldiers have given their lives punk. People have to purchase and in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen showing the exact number of papers in the last four years. Last year alone her list of casualties— dead, geeser was wise—for l\e knew the printed, the number of pounds used and of the independence of the United States of America the one •wounded and missing—aggregated 880,000. Her donation of men way to get 'em was to advertise.— and the number of pouunds on hand hundred and forty-third. to the Allied cause exceeds 8,000,00 In proportion to herjpopulation Aledo (111.) Standard. The government strictly prohibit^ Woodrow Wilson, she has given nearly thred times as many men as Canada. If Canada complimentary copies. By the President. Influenza masks for families *ha'.ring had done as much it would have 120,000 dead. Even as it is, half, Every other- thing that is used in Influena may be obtained free at Robert Lansing, Secretary of State.. of the men in the Canadian Army,'were born in Great Britain.: If the. making of newspapers has in- either drug store. u'• wSi 'h H1 1 r-H-