311P 'IPs?-' ''W'-W11'-V"^} *1* ."wM 1 wtT-* iC?, of r^dpH INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, DECEMBER 19, 1918 4-fl£H PAGE FOUR -(98? THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS temptation to retaliate the British navy conducted its share of the -4* tgtsPp'i'-- war as'impecably as if it had,been fighting an honorable foe. The -British fleet is a protection to the world's trade in time of peac?, AND BORDER BUDGET and a bulwark against assassination in time of war. ^It is a friend to the trader, but a terror to^the pirate, as Germany kflows—NeW INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY -x\ York Evening Post. •••.* GEO. P. WATSON, Editor aa4 Manger assiSHSSsiisesa&KSSBfei: Balered at tke Post Oflce at Iateraatloaal Fall*. Mlaa* aa Secaad-daaa Matter FARMS FOR DISCHARGED SOLDIERS' E SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR While the plan for endowing ex-service men with farm lands still in a nebulous stage in the United States, all the British dominions The new "Watch on the Rhine" has already struck the hour oi have their plans well laid out and provisionally financed. .Western freedom, even tho it is of American make. r- Canada and Australia are better endowed withstands for this REV. WM. W. DALE purpose than is our own country, and in these two dominions ar Pastor "Lift Minnesota out of the mud," by building six thousand I rangements have been perfected for hutting discharged soldiers miles of hard surfaced roads connecting every county seat as soot Christmas sermon 10:30 a. m. Sole: on the soil immediately on their return. as possible is the state battle cry. r. "The Gift" Miss Marvel Bennett. Canada will grant any British ex-service man one hundred a id Quartette sixty acres with a loan up to twenty-five 4iundred dollars to buy implements The latest evidence of determination to get rid of John Barleycorn and stock and make improvements. Such a soldier mu Sunday school 11:45. hi is found in the Ohio legislature being asked to .pass laws against have had a farm experience, or take a year's, training with wages Children's service 7:30 p. booze being shipped into the state by airplane. at a government farm or with some selected farmer. Nova Scotia has set aside thousand acres for community twenty The pastor will ^ive a sermon especially Three cheers for Representative McPartlin, His talk on gooc settlements, where from one hundred to two hundred and fifty families for children, using lighted roads, at the Commercial club, was along the right lines, and while will be settled in a group about a government demonstration candles. perhaps his whole plan may not go through, it is in the right direction.—Bemidji farm, from which the settlers may hire teams and tools if they Solo: Mrs. G.' N. Millard. Pioneer. choose, To each settler will be sold from ten to a hundred acres v-.-' at a nominal price. v/ Monday evening 7 :30. Ontario will give any ex-service Britisher a year's training at :/vw-. vv-:' r:". The kindly and helpful attitude of our soldier boys to the an agricultural college, and will establish colonies, for such men Sunday school progrant free—Colored Germans, as well as to the other European people they came stereoptican views, of the Christ along lines of railway, where they will first construct a central settlement contact with is going to be the best advertisment of this country, Child. and clear land. of which each will receive eighty acres free, *s the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave," that it has ever 'V" a with a loan up to five hundred dollars for stock-and equipment. had. vh Solo: "Star of the East" Miss Etther The Canadian Pacific Railway, which owns an empire of prairie Miner. a land, will prepare a farm of one hundred and sixty acres for the exservice The bill appropriating $100,000 for the advertising the oppor Tuesday 4 to 6. Children's party man, build a house and barn, fence it and break forty acres, 1 unities and benefits of Minnesota should be unanimously passed in the "gym," frolic, gamesr and the then lend the settler a thousand dollars to stock the farm. On this without debate. If the beauties and advantages of the Rainy River big cake. ., land the pettier need pay nothing for the first three years, but have and Mississippi valleys were advertised as much as Yellowstone twenty years in which to,pay,off the 'price, forty-five dollars an acre. Park they would be twice as popular and leave tens of thousands Merry Christmas: to Australia plans colony settlements for ex-service and sailors of dollars from the tourist's pocket books. FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL on irrigated land with perpetual leases given in lieu of titles and CHURCH loans for the settler up to twenty-five hundred dollars to improve aif& By applying toward the payment of indemnities the millions of 1 Edward Kaneen, Minister stock his farm. dollars annually paid by the German people for the support of their In each case these governments have recognized the necessj^ useless royal families and their vicious and overbearing military I Rev. Dr. Craig of St Paul will of preparing land only for thos$ equipped to till it and of ^Jng hold Quarterly Conference Saturday sys't^'fn great strides could fe made each year toward the payment the soldier a real start in life-^society from the outset, a farm that evening at -8 and preach Sunday cf indemnities justly, payable by them toward restoring the lands mtfrning at 11. will yield the first year, aftd ^1ian that will' put the farmer oh his they have made desolate. m" feet from the beginning. Evening worship at 7:30. Whatever plan is prdvijied by bur own Government should 0 a a..v In sentencing a bunch of blind piggers at Bemidji last week include all these elements. Noundue risk is run providing them and The services will be keeping with Judge Stanton said: "I aim going to do my part to put an end to on the other hand: the discharged -mantis guaranteed against the risk the Christmas spirit. this business in Beltrami county, and I intend to impose sentencesthat a a of a starvation period while getting fitted to his chosen calling. A will stop not only you, but others in this illegal traffic. I The Sunday School meets at 10 a. grateful natioii could do leSs'"than give such a guarantee to the men have been especially disgusted and distressed to see men come, into m. with classes for everybody. who risked their lives to protect it —Minneapolis Journal. .....a a a .• court and apparently disregard the sancity of an oath." But unless Christmas tree and program.by he County Attorney Torrance had supplemented the sheriff's go )J Sunday school Tuesday- evenings at CONSTITUTIONAL AME work by drawing up the right kind of complaints Judge Stanton FOR ROADS 8 oclock could not have doae^his part to rid Beltraqii: cbunty 4jf Jhjese no •JA •yV Jjjjf jj^k. BELIEVES MCPARTLIIN good stiffs. .. ... Rev. Dr. Craig will preach in the Ranier church at 2:30 p. m. Svtndiy The following edit&rial fi&m a recent copy of the Minneapolis School at 2 o. m. THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS WAR Journal outlines the Opinion ,o^" F. J. McPartlin, our Representativeelect FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH and in ail probability sets forth the legal possibilities of a Rev. C. L. Kh|ibarj Mac Loman isn't saying much, but he thinks that an International safe short cut to a fifty bri iibre million dollar bond issue for hard Pastor Falls election board with Fraser leaning counting Loman surface roads in thjs state. vWe ^o not think any other members votes had an awful temptation to bump up against—Baudette Region. of the state legislative has givehXthe matters pertaining to state 11 a. m. Preaching service. Subject: lands, state roads and drainage, riibr'e careful study than has. Mr. 'A World Enterprise." McPartlin. 7:30 p. m. sermon subject: "Why "F. J. McPartlin of International Falls^ member-elect of the ARE THERE NO UNITED STATESERS? Not." Minnesota House, believes that a ^alid appropriation of money for State road building can be made the Legislature—one that will 10 a. m. bible school. Young Hokansen, who recently renounced his -citizenship at a.'a "a' stand the test of a Supreme Court decision. Baudette rather than sign up for Uncle Sam, went to Birchdale, 6:30 Christian Endeavor. The obstacle, of course, is the provision of the State Constitution where the town board gave him a job. From this distance it looks S forbidding the appropriation of m$ney for internal improvements as if the board should hunt a real American fbr a public job rath Monday evening Christmas exercises. The Court held some years ago that roads and bridges are internal 0 than hand it to an impecunious barracuda like Hokansen—Baudef.e improvements_within the meaning of this provision. 7 a a a Region. But the present exigency is the necessity of providing about Wednesday evening, prayer and There must be some mistake about this Billy. It doesn't seem praise service. four million dollars for road work, in order to^ secure from the possible that a community which has sent so many boys to the Federal Government a similar sum which will not be available unless service as Birchdale has would stand for their town board feeding Choir on Friday nigfert will rehearse, the State matches it dollar for dollar. S a a such a whelp with the taxpayers money. Mr. McPartlin points out that the Supreme Court, since the decision A Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all. referred to, has upheld drainage appropriations on the ground PROBE THE WHOLE MOONEY CASE that they are in the interests of public health. He argues not only LITTLEFORK that good roads are in the interests of public health, but that they There should be a thorough congressional probe of the Mooney are necessary for protection of the State's land* timber and other G. C. Parker and family are having case. The public should know from an impartial source the whole property interests. Surely the State is not estopped from safeguarding a taste of the Flu facts in this matter the evidence upon which Mooney was convicted, its own property. If other grounds are needed to justify The Geo. Reiman family are rePQrted 0 to be getting over the Flu in -the efforts made on both sides to procure or prevent evidence, if the Court in a retreat from its old position, he would further argue good shape. any: the outside influence, if any, behind the prosecution and the that roads are needed to make the schools more accessible, and Miss Chambers, who is teachihg defense the source of funds raised from ^individuals and organizations also as a public measure to faciliate to the movement of troops the Kaukanha school spent the week either' to prosecute or defend Mooney, and where and how the and peace officers in emergencies, end visiting her parents here money was spent the influences which produced federal intervention. These are all good arguments for better roads, but the question ,Wm. Kiever made a trip to the Falls Saturday last. This case hats been made the subject of world wide propaganda, is whether they would appeal $o the Supreme Court as legal Louis LaChafelle spent Saturday at and it should be thoroughly investigated by some tribunal and logical grounds upon which to tnake anew and permissive interpretation the Falls. whicli does not approach the matter frcm pahisat^ingle as tb the of the Constitution. Constitutions are more 'or less Missionary Gregg went to Lonua issues involved in the case. This i^vestig^tion shbt|li be cond^tcd elastic instruments?^ They cannot ^always be rigidly and literally Saturday, for the memorial service of by the next Congress if the presentCorigress fails to undertake-Mt— interpreted.! They must grow with Ithe growth of the commonwealths Allen Thomas who died :in -France. Exchange. Thos. Armstrong spent Saturday at for which they wer^drawjp. The Federal Constitution I 4 JUJI I SSSj has been changed more, perhaps by judicial interpretation than by Mrrs. Chas. Carlson, of Riverdale BRITISH FLEET FOR DEFENSE FURP06E& 11 actual amendment. WWmm was In town Friday doing her Xmas It is quite possible that our State-Court might traverse the pc The difference between Great Britainjs control of-.the ik nand & sition it took on a previous occasion, when its personnel was different Germany's, army on land is that nobody had any reason to be afraid TICKLISH TOMMY and the present exigency did not exist.^ Its original decision of the former. The British fleet is for defensive purposes onljr, Teacher of the class in physiology put and end to a vicious and wasteful "pork barrel" system of ro id .ill put'to Tommy this question: Great Britain is an island, and would have small chance of defense appropriations." A change ini inter'pretationnow would open the 'How many ribs have you?" by an army if any eneftty invaded her. She must have a great way for systematic roadhuilding that would benefit every citizen "I don't know, ma'am," said Tommy, fleet as her only sure protection.,. She has one, but never has she of the state and every acre of land in it. squirming at the very thought used it, as Germany would have used it, to strangle the trade of Mr. McPartlin may be right in his contentions His plan is "I am so awful ticklish I never could I other nations., The seas are as free to,t^adejis if Great Britain's count 'e"m—Youth's Companion. certainly worth trying. Mf the Xegislature approves, it ought to navy were the size of Venezuela's. i' pass such a bill quickly, so that it may be tested in the Supreme NOTICE TO FUR DEALERS This is why Germany's conception of "freedom of the seas" Court before the legislative session ends next April. Even if the slmrm- AND TRAPPERS in time of peace was always without a gain of foundation. As measure proved invalid, the court might in its opinion indicate a sggknvgss-^'1V, I am paying the highest market for war, Britain has used her fleet as fairly and legitimately as way out of the dilemma that' would be legal, and in that case the price for furs of all kinds in season. wA time of peace. Her navy is unstained by any of the atrocities that Legislature could still act. vj Skunk and fox skins are particularly made the world's blood run cold during-the short life of the German high at this time, Minnesota simply itiust have those four millions which Cojv army. Without it we could not have won this war, and'despite the Fred Shaw gress is about to put at her. disposal.". •International Falls, Minn. A., p35- lilSt