THE lHTERRATONAL &is«u» look*, oqta3M onfy two months *tgeodGtnre fo* *m( purpose* by ike Federal government. There are 2,500,000 mile* AND BORDER BUDGET fCoRtiotied from Page" of roads i* America, and scarcely one mile in ten is better thaf a dirt road. la Ecglandand in France there is not a public dirt road for we ia tke vici*ity and air •vt INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY to be found anywhere. All are paved in some manner. a re in GEO. P. WATSON, Bittoi nnl Mitnngrer by *to blocks machinery,' briquetted -Our excuses for our disgraceful lack of an adequate by machines, reduced to a dry or am of hard roads never have been sound. We have pointed to our Entered at the Fort Office at International Fall*. Minn* Matte* powder, which can be fed into furnaces excellent railways, both steam and electric, and have trjed to argue under forced draft, like coal SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR that their excellence excused the poorness of our roads. We have dust. Coke or charcpal may be made contrasted our greatsarea with the small areas of France and England, from peat in closed retorts, as coal Have you taken out your new'membership in the Red Cross? is reduced to gas-and coke. and have tried to make out of that an excuse of our stupendous "This coke or charcoal," says Mr. mileage of dirt roads. But all such arguments are sophistical. Preus, "is a hard and firm and fully Roosevelt's suggestion that this is a good time to make a treaty -The plain fact is that in spite of our frequent talk about "the necessity equal to the best charcoal made from of good roads" we have almost none, and mainly because the with Great Britain that all differences between Uncle Sam and hardwood. It stands up well in the farmers were either indifferent or positively antagonistic to large Johnny Bull be settled by arbitration, is a point well taken. furnace and, because of its low phosphate and sulphur, is excellent in the appropriations for roads. reduction of metals. It is predicted The automobile has at least served to open the eyes of the farmer The much cussed and discussed state swamp lands in this and byj xperts that this coke or charcoal neighboring counties may yet prove to be vertiable urns of Arabian so we shall never again'witness their opposition to road oppropriations. will be used largely in producing This was well shown by the recent balloting in Illinois on Nights fame for their productions of untold riches. wrought iron from iron ore. the proposed $60,000,000 ioad bond issue, which was carried by a Valued As Fertilizer "The process of coking liberates vote of 4 to 1. Even more striking was the result in Pennsylvania There must be something wrong with the League of Nations lirge quantities of gas which, after -fJ where the $50,000,000'Jiighway bond issue carried Nov. 5 by Was a idea when .disrreputable though infiuencial diplomats as Von such being scrubbed and byproducts removed, majority of iriore than 200,0w, whereas it defeated by 40,000 Was leaves a gas admirably adapted to Burnstaff is anxious see it formed. five years ago. for heating, lighting and fuel. It is also used in internal combustion The Divine proclamation of "Peace on earth, good will -to men': Clearly the great majority jf: both .(jmnt* and city resideftts engines. draws nearer to fulfillment each year, but it seems as though the ^-£»or '"Besides the use of peat as a fuel, who have struggled for 25 years to. arouse a.lethargic public. The experiences of the past year has hastened it several decades. it is one of the foremost fertilizers public is at last awake and ready to endorse any, sound project fdf because of its high nitrogen compiunds. the building of an adequate system of highways in this country. It is also use! for' packirtg It would be a God-send to this prosperous city of ours if every The year before America entered war we had secured the passage refrigerator plants for woven fabrics, business man would decide that he would rather be out of business of a Federal road bill providing $75,000,000, to be matched papermakjng, ^stable litter and than stay in it and be menace to the rising generation by making stock food. The moss of peat, has dollar for dollar from *the I treasuries of the states. Almost none money by the punch board, #ce box route and live up to his decision. been found to be a first-class absorbent of thi^ money has been spent^-, I# will form "a good starter," but that and has been in greait demand in If possible these innocent looking things are injurious than more is all. Congress should now be asked tc.multiply.it by-thirty, and to the hospitals on tffie Western fronf." the roulette wheel and poker table. There once wm add on a Chrisms provide it shall be expended as'rkp'idly as is consistent with economy. a GOOD ROADS ME£Ttft6 "Who nshed to the anfd (h«i Hunt The $75,000,000 was to have lee spread over five years, but conditions above, HELD PECEMBCII The wisdom of the allies in Germany to keep her ariny 18TII have changed- so .greatly that thirty times that sum should •*Oh. how I ds vwk iji^ would keep allowing lior.me is now being realized the wave of barbarism is sweeping be expanded, riot in five years, but in- one. yea# as medieval A sweet Btdc tte*t Me gH to bvc (Continued frpm Page, One.) over all of Europe east of the Rhine, and that same army will yet The officie of Public now mecely a bureau of the "A dcAr itde motfwr curf ny fadi be anxious to receive assistance from the allied armies to overthrow To iwk im ttiK^iod i» wwe nr partment of shouldr -be mad^ a department itself* "J. Hawrt, MaAitou, AgTiculture. lt up. Bolshevisrtii which 'rtiany people even iii this country seem N- P. Neilson, Loman. +. r.: To dren' roe in cute ink Aowni and for it is destined to te one of the- foost important branches of 6uf John^ Carstens, Lotttan.v to think is a sign of progress. frodit, -i government, the Department of^ Roads. Under the management And feed me with mlk mm far Wm.- Watrous, Pelland. rfver cup of an able executive who- is also- an able highway- engineer# Logsri Comissioner John Bursack, Wild another column will be found a vivid description Which we A llnrf Ut modWi who'd newer Waller Page,' the Office of ^Piiblib ^Roads has already performed my 6i Wood. A VMiord thsl wu umy. nor let me fidb publish by special request, the injurous effects of Hoffman Drops important and admirable service. But thev infant bureau ha 5 John-Cowan, Nortfiome^ f. Whb^dailwayi bc nMkqr to jct iniepky WHb brijit Mefniendi whoihwAI on the poor fellows who take them for a "cheap jag. There is no grown to man's estate, an|,should now become a separate department R. J. "Langaard, Xlizpah. comr ioair question but that this inethod of drunkenness is indulged in here H. B: Rein&rs, Getnoieli. of the government, Roads, in common railways, serve With AnA stn^&a^ thft yv^nderM ^kct ,J- W. Joyce, Xfir^ie. as well as elsewhere, from cotpplaints made, but it does not account our agricultural communities, but they also serve every pejson -n Wilson, Margie. ,-.-. 5 Thw Etde wix dofs bde wish cam* for the drunkenness that is still caused by the fellows selling wh'skey the land. Hence the office Of Public Roads should riot remain Vul}Arinate tru« J. Johnson, Margie,^. who hate to get down to honest labor or a respectable business. -.. TTb^ P»ck«d her ri^it off the Chriamw to the Department of Agriculture. 'c A.' R, Button, Big p^is tra^,' However they are fewer in number than they have ever been before Andgftve her.mydeAr fittlegiHLtoyoul With this change it v^ijll be' evident to everyone that America ftoss Slack, Big FaHs^ and-it will not be long lefore they will get nerve enough to break tt C. Grove, Big Falls. at last has joined the other great, nations of 'th£ world in regardi*.g away from this self, degrading occupation and begin to show respect Wm. Shannon, Gowdy. r°ads as being gre^n^tifljaal idssets.': Who will ever agara Ole Wt)ld, Ray Twp. for themselves by helpihg rather than injuring their fellow men. say thit roads are of purely loca|^niportarice1* JEvery qualified Ptfnl Medihg, Ri'y. 'r ^tudent the,.war hais saic|^^|^ w^hout her splendid system of tta^'on^ ohn JGlaVe R"ay.: w9|ih It ^s ve^V gratifying to evt^one interest*# in xur^^|r|U$ ^hi^j^ys, France. h^ve lost the war four years ago. Aug.,.GilcAint ,Rit^-'^'y:"^ St IVinntfred Ward, Rauch. *the ^fi'd bf the war was gre^y hastened by those same roads over Jas. city to note the gr^at infproVement in tliV heilth ofHlMisi&ht^E. and the Tree Geo. Clark, Ranier. .^bich.^nQKe..thap„. I50,0Q0^m£^i^ t^Uck^'carried both men and W. Backus of the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Co., ancl allied interests supr Geo. Anderson, Ranier. plies. At tlie end of Septenih^r a leading German military critic, here. Few men 1iave~eittier the ability or disposition to use Baron vori Ayderine, said: their time and. fortune in the organizing, financing and putting into One story of the origin of the green NEXT WAR HINTED BY JAP tree as the Christmas tree among the successful operations such mammoth .industrial plants as these which Circumstances: are n^W ^ich that only successful defense cjin UTTERS NOTE OF WARNING people of northern Europe is given in h" our aim, for the enemy, ca^ transfer reserves all over the front our city is so justly proud. May the life of this wonderful master a legend of St. Winnlfred. It is one by mparts of a countless column of mptor wagons but such wealth of industry, whom we have all learned to prize so highly, be continued of the many thousands of those simple Former Minister of Justice Deaia and beautiful beliefs that havo attached in vehicles is denied the German command. for many years, that he may have the pleasure of seeing With Racial PrwMei»i~Give« Peace themselves to the midwinter Meet Sufffitioni all his plans perfected and sucH^a. city,built biere, of which the greatest This is a tribute to allied and American motor trucks as a factor festival and which generally pass now in the war, but it Js equally a tribute to the foresight of tinder the name of "Christmas myths." of men might well be proud. Winning Tokio, Dec, 20—Belief that :he It is related that St. Winnlfred, a great Napoleon Bonaparte, for it was he|who founded the system of national next waar will be the outcome of race Christian missionary, began cutting: highways for which France has been famous for more than a down a "sacred" oak which had been prejudices is exprssed by Yqkio O^- CANADIAN RECIPROCITY centrury. ", ... the object of worship by the northern V:, formerly minister of justice, and pagans whom he was seeking to lead Entirely aside from the military need of a great system of hird a leading member of the constitutional aright While he was hewing down the The recent meeting of the Canadian Council of, Agriculture at party. Mr. Ozaki said that in his roads in America there is asocial ani industrial need of even greater huge tree it was blasted by a sudden Winnipeg demanded immediate acceptance of the reciprocity agrecr opinion, the colored rac^s which whirlwind. Close beside it was a ^importance. Elsewhere in this issue we have quoted Secretan?s steadily were developing their civilizataion ment with the United States, submitted in 1911 and rejected by young fir tree, which was not harmed Lane and Redfield on this aspect the road problem. To make of would demand finally the either by the whirlwind or by the fail Canada. farm life more attractive there must be provided roads that will of the giant oak. Then St. Winnlfred same treatment as the white races, -Eastern farmers go further and demand free trade. ... is reported to have spoken as follows be usable every day of the year. This much is social necessity. and that the result would be an arn Reciprocity encountered and will encounter stern opposition to the pagans: ®d collision. Reduction in the cost of transportation is only one of the economic "This little tree, a ^oung ciiild of from certain Canadian interests—the paper manufacturers in particular. Mr. Ozaki recommended that at ends attained by building hard roads. Hoover has stated that the forest, shall be your holy tree tonight. It is in the treatment of the paper question that Canada the peace conferenc, Japan acting It is the wood of peace, for half the perishable products of our farms rot on the farms for lack on behalf of the Asiatic races has failed to play fair with business interests on this side of the your homes are built of it. It is the of prompt delivery to the markets. Coming from any less authoritative should introduce the racial and population sign of an endless life, for its leaves border. source such a statement would seem incredible. Coming are always green. See how it points questions for consideration, Previous to 1910 American paper manufacturers fof the toward heaven! Let this be called the from Hoover we may be sure that it nvas based on facts. -Hence it is and if possible, secure a solution. approaching shortage Of wood pulp, in the United States. They tree of the Christ Child. Gather about, In a country like Japan where the claer that the nation could $pend billions of dollars to great advantage it not in the wild woods, but in your bought wood rights to spruce foriests Qn^croWn lands in Gahad^ population is increasing with alarming in building hard roads, if pnly to sate the food naw wasted for homes there it jwIU shelter no deeds and supplie.d. their mills from, this sourc^,vIn 1910 the goV^rnipeht rapidity^ he said it waas but natur^l of blood, but Jpving::glfts and. acts of lack of roads that can be used efficiently every day of the year. that the surplus- population of Quebec issued an order-in-council prohibiting? exportatioll any kindness.** ... Secretary Lane^says that the Jarmers unaided financially by should try to obtain an outlet even The fir tree, the eo^pmon .evergreen wool front crown lands except in n\ini0attured form.'•, This the public can -not be expected ^to' t^uild an adequate road system. by resorting to arms. .. of the northefn regions, became the amounted toi virtual confiscation of investments. holy tree pf (he converted pagans, and As well expect the farin^rs..^^|iance the railways" as to' finance the ^rojn Japan's standpoint, said Mr. A continuation ofth.is unfair discrfmj^ation is almostcertair iii fts honor' ibr memory' ot the Oxaki. the racial or, population questions roads. The entire public should be|r the financial burden of road thoughts it stood for they decorated It to cause reciprocal. action on thi.s sid$ -^p^Msocity were more important^ thaii uilding. Ia part tfiis is rioW accomplished by county.i:.oad appropriations, with lights and gift* at Christmas. can always work two ways. Considering: the n*u&nalhfea££i&ces Wilson's "fourteen points" in part byvst^te s^ropriati6n$i an4 in part.% .88 l^id down for a American soldiers lbth north anj tnade It about Uve federal wie'^re riationSi is appropriations: thatf n&w These racial goe$tions in Europe it is. to be hoped that. speaking. "Y 4^ ^i^concei»etf oTmi^ spirift will, play fair.anil' will l»ons^of so«l8 io Aaiifc -t The! f^eral^governineht. &ince l|o military boundary divided warne^tht has expanded less than- $2^00^060 fd^:.'rpad|i iieatty .a America. Canada would drt wrla -t knnrk Nortf| America. Canada would d0 to- deyelop^ the German jsysteni "'df pendou^debttg^ the statesi^nwho5e.rc«idsitha« b« ftate organization whleH^ i^the pri^ that support the economic v^und^yVu&t]^]||^^^^t^^^)i43' for: mful^Hl^ri^and'- ot&Br1^Vice^j«It s^ouL4 {.,v uowf eiit r*ar. had proved to be a nie^e has tDthe.^$e:*^ffMt»fih may do^^^Tepair and with, ronipound intere«t, now v^en rifillion.' i^'-'workeirr" for destroying cfri&atiofl work in the branches in the wa!* .througii^!^^ to tq«ius. and millions of soldiers are available buil4 the tramping under foot the do business—Minneapolis Daily 'K.tivs. "7'V%'-.7r other nations and peoples. 'r ®nt3 .of Ae fe:-.v daily paper editors o! naffow vision have already begur On the question of Jaj^s oppese any federal ap^op^tioi^^t^n^ed to provide fr INCREASE pupation of the Gefw| South Sea men duriiig the period of readjustment. If the work so provided ITS APPROPRIATION FOE StAgE AID IN islands, Mr. Oiaki declared that the ere useless work, such opposition wpuld be sound. But no jo X'hited States should dismantle her ROAD BUtLii*G dares icall road work useless. The argument is made that our returning urrs in the Philippio« and^Hawaii,. h\u\ that this would be moriTimportant solders neither expect nor need charity^irorn Uncle Sam. for Japan than-the taking over During the last few years this country has averaged about a True, but the ji vill hoth: expect and n^ed work. They will want useful of thf Sea islands. quarter of a billion dollars annually expenditure for road construction work, ^vork in which they will feel the pride of re'alaccom- 1 and many people have spok^x of thu as if it were a huge sum. The plishment. Such-,3voi*k'is 'the'. t^iidingl'-of public highways. NOT TO FUR DEALERS war has at least served to give Americans an economic perspet v. All r^.,aipneering societies and clubs should ally themselv^ AND TRAPPERS so that we are in little danger of evt ugidri regarding a quart*. She sat beneath the with cha of commerce and other bodies of public spirited m^ii I am paying the Highest market Without the slights a billion dollars annually for roads a •, t-ting at all adequate^ Ten in urging r^n^ess'{6 rnk^e T^le^uate .appropriations at once 'jr a-eihor.'- vnc»ugh pricij for furs of all kinds in season. She felt no wild, gli She knew h'e lingered rtear times that sum would be none'too large an amount to spend even in fdx federal road work ond for'furtiieV federal aid to the states. The Skuiik and skins are particularly ih- She sat there calm and unafraid. "'.gh at this' t'ihie normal years. In the abnormal year of post bellum readjustment Fred Shaw that confronts it would be an act of true economy were $5,000,- International Falls, Minn tern «viier^ V.^v SW- 'Mlit