r* "7" ^v 1 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JANUARY 9, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS shift from corn to wheat. Sheep farming is a science to be mastered 1903—Averted trouble between European nations and Venezuela by long practice but it is an essential part of permanent farming, over latter's debts and its history has showfi that the farmers who havg had the wisdom ~1 ^'i^:% AND BORDER BUDGET ft 1903—United- States recognized republic of Panama and ca lal to stick to it have made money. .was made possible. /•', Grain farming is but a temporary industry, when ryn independently INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1904—Re-elected president by largest popular vote ever given of livestock. Sooner.or later it must be supplemented by to candidate. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager animals and no livestock brings fertility to land as does the farm 1906—Forced Hepburn railway reform bill through congress Entered at the Poat Office at International Fall*. Minn., as Second-class Hatter flock of sheep. There are sheep pastures in England which have 1906—Brought end to Russo-Japanese war by peace negotiations not had the touch of a plow nor commercial fertilizer for a hundred at Portsmouth, N. H. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR years, but which are more fertile today than they were a century 3* 1906—-Sent army^to end Cuban revolt, set up provisional government. fr- ago. The sheep has fed himself off the land and has left the land Along with hard surfaced roads legislation should go a bill better than he found it, and that with little expense of human labor. 1906—Visited Panama canal zone to push work on waterways requiring that sleighs, wagons and other road vehicles should be o* Of no'other livestock can this be so truly said, -v: undertaking. 3. standard width so that the roads will not be so badly cut up. "This northwest must in self-defense take up the sheep industry. 1907—Ordered American fleet on world tour. When one man undertakes to make, a crop off two hundred acres' or 1909—Retired from presidency and left for Africa^on hunting In the death of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt this nation loses more unaided, his land is losing fertility rapidly. With the aid of trip. its greatest citizen. He was a most typical American. A-man a band of sheep this fertility will be greatly prolonged.. With wise 1910—Received record reception in tour of Europe. not only of strong convictions but also with courage enough to make care the sheep crop may be made to pay a larger dividend than any 1912—Became .candidate for republican nomination for presi- them know and energy ancl political sagacity enough to get many other crop on the farm, It is the farm band of sheep that not only cent. of them incorporated into our national life. His death is mourned will assure America of meat and clothing, but will insure the soil 1912—Left republican convention charging Taft delegates by friends and enemies alike, and his place will be difficult to fill. against poverty and exhaustion.—Minneapolis Journal. stole seats, and organized progressive party, accepting presidential nomination. In giving to special Attorney N. B. Arnold his "walking papers" MOONEY CASE AGITATION 19l2r—Wounded by shot fired by John Schrank at Milwaukee. and asking thfe Attorney General's office to assist in cleaning up 1912 Defeate'd by Wilson for presidency, Taft running third. the so called investigation tangle, the new county board has respected The action of Gov. Stephens of California in communting the 1912 Left on exploration tour of South American jungles, the wishes of the great majority of the taxpayers of this county sentence of Thomas J. Mooney to life imprisonment has not ended where he discovered the River of Doubt. and the sooner the mess can be cleaned up and this county given a the case, nor ,in light of the numerous charges affecting its merits, 1916—Announced he would support Hughes fop presidency and "clean bill of health" from the state department the better- it will should it end it. Mooney should be tried for the murder of some of campaigned for him. please all concerned. the other victims of the explosion at San Francisco, and this trial 1918—Became seriously ill, but recovered much of his old time should be attended with such safeguards as to make its fairness beyond vigor. Sheriff H. T. Mcintosh wishes us to say that he intends to question. Should he be acquitted at that trial, his pardon in 1918—Son Quentin killed in air battle in France enforce all the laws and to fulfill all the duties of his office to the the present, case would naturally follow. 1919—Died suddenly at home in Oyster Bay. best of his ability. He also asks us to serve notice on the blind But the international agitation of the question is a dangierous piggers and purveyors of immorality in this county that thati kind thing. It is not based on any special knowledge of his guilt or his ROOSEVELT'S LAST MESSAGE have room for but one language here of business will not be tolerated under his regime. We are glad innocence. The pretense is made that "labor is on trial." This PLEA FOR AMERICANISM and that is the English language, for to be able to make this statement for him and to pledge to him is not true. It*is a murder case, which should be decided on the we intend to see that the crucible Tkera Must Be No Skgging the heartiest support of this paper in his endeavor to put an end Back law and the evidence. Gov. Stephens made this clear in the statement turns our people out as Americans, Because War Is Over." to these forms of blatdiit lawlessness which are so demoralizing to of American nationality and not as accompanying the commutation. But a congress, composed dwellers in a polygot boarding house, any community where they are permitted. of delegates elected by labor organizations with a membership of NO ROOM HERE FOR and we have room for but one soul 1,250,000, is to meet in Chicago January 14 to discuss the Mooney DIVIDED ALLEGIANCE loyalty, and that is loyalty to tht oi STRANGE IS RIGHT case. Why the congress should be held half way across the c*^-. American people." tinent from the scene of the trial is difficult to comprehend Laborers New York, Jan. (in-Colonel Roosevelt's JUVENILE FARM CLUBS Ji" It is strange that a newspaper man should be compelled to in Italy have also taken the matter up and the Italian labor last message to the American MADE $441390 IN 1918 people was a plea to continue the .solicit advertising, or give arguments for its use, remarks one commission is soon Jo visit San Francisco to look into the case, it fight for "Americanism." who knows what he is talking about. Funny, isn't it, that the is reported that English labdrtng'men have called on Albert Thomas, It was delivered at the All-American Nearly 30,000 boys and girls were man who thinks he is a business man, will get up in the morning labor leader and minister of munitions, to call a meeting in French benefit concert, giv£n by the enrolled in clubs doing farm project from an advertised mattress, shave himself with an advertised razor, Paris to protest the further imjprisonment of Mooney. The Russian American Defense society in the Hippodrome work in Minnesota lasat year, the value Bolsheviki long ago passed on the merits of the case, without using an advertised Shaving soap, take off his advertised pajamas* last night.' It was read by. of their products was $441,990. and .7" Henry C. Quimby, a trustee of the and put on advertised underwear, advertised hose and shirt, tie, any of the misgivings of the courts of America. California should of the amount $192,112 was net profit society, because of the colonel's indisposition. This is be able to decide its own murder cases, without being swayed by club members. according and an advertised suit,, sit himself at the table, eat advertised to the annual report to the federal breakfast food, drink advertised coffee or substitute, put on an advertised resolutions passed by bodies in" Chicago, Paris, Rome or Moscow, "I cannot be with you .and so all I Department of Agriculture, made by which Have only hearsay knowledge of the facts.—St. Louis Democrat. hat, light an advertisied cigar, go to his place'of business, can do is wish you Godspeed," the T. A. Erickson of the University of where he turns down the advertising solicitor or salesman for his message said. ., Minnesota, state leader of boys' and home newspaper, on the ground that advertising does not pay. Must Be No 'Sagging Back girls' club work. WHY AMERICA SHOULD HAVE A BOOM 1,628 Clubs Organized Strange, indeed!—Grand Rapids Independent. "There must be nb sagging back 111 .to the fight for Americanism merely Mr. Erickson's report,, confined ,2cause clubs and not touching results of individual the war is over. 'There are JJnparralled prosperity in the industrial fields of the United WAR PROFITS plenty of persons who have already workers, covers such projects States should come before spring] Every sign points to an era of as corn, potato, baby beef, pig, made the assertion that they believe activity in this country greater than was ever known before. If The Hughes aircraft investigation brings out the fact that Henry the American people have a short home garden, home canning and prosperity does not follow the war with a few months—if there memory and that they intend to revive bread making. It states that 1,628 Ford's profit on his Liberty motor contract is approximately $5,000,000 clubs were organized, that 28,258 isn't a job for every man in America who wants one—than a little all the foreign associations on an investment of less than $12,000,000. The DaytonWright boys and girls were enrolled in all investigation probably will show that politicians or industrial m:»narchs corporation, starting with a capital of $1,000,0000 and drawing projects and'that 18,711 members actually have blocked it. $1,405,000 in advance payments from the government will make reported results of their work. America is now shifting back from a warring nation to a peaceful a profit of more than $6,000,000 this year—600 per cent. The Fisher Forty per cent of the clubs were one. Huge industrial plants converted into munition factories Body corporation will make a profit of $3,500,000 on an investment new for the year and 60 per cent bf when the war came, are.being changed back again. That will the membership was new. of $860,000. The government financed this company to the extent In the corn growing contest, 101 take a little time during which the plants will not be able to employ of $2,000,000. clubs were organized, within a state regular labor. Furthermore^!••will be a fairly difficult task for a We rteeded airplanes, and the government was willing to pay enrollment of 710. The 394 members while to fit back into jobs the millions of soldiers and sailors who l^rge profits to get them quickly. We needed pork, and the government produced 43,206 bushels of corn, an are returning from our fighting ships, frorri our cantonments and agreed to insure farmers a reasonable profit—not 600 or average yield of 62.8 bushels, valued from the battlefields of France and Belgium. even 30 per cent—to get it. The government has carried out its at $55,386 of which $29,397 was considered profit. But long before the summer of 1919 this nation should been jo, agreement with the airplane manufacturers. We are informed that Potato Yield Hick ing a boom unlike any ever known before. it is unable to carry out its agreement with the ipork producers. An average yield of 244 bushels 1 True, war industries have ceased—but with their end has come We do not wish to criticize, but we do feel that the interests the acre was reported by the 864 tremendous demand for peace materials. In the building trades of food producers have not received the same consideration accorded z, youthful growers that turned in results alone there should be work for every man ever indentified with it. the interests of the manufacturers or of organized labor. of their efforts in the potato project. Europe already has started on the process of rebuilding. It needs Agriculture needs a Sam Gompers at Washington.—Prairie Farmer. In the baby beef project 395 persons billions of dollars' worth of material—and it looks to us to supply it. reported out of a state enrollment In our own country, building operations have been at a standstill for BAKER BULLS COFFEE MARKET of 512 at the beginning of ths nearly two years. Now they are to be resumed on an immense contest. Eight hundred and ten reported scale. in the pig contest of 1,112 Secretary Baker's department boasts of having saved something out That means work for all workers in the the building: trades—and who started in. In home gardening more than one million dollars by "shrewd buying on the part of 14,240 were enrolled and 9,968 we it also work for the men who manufacture building materials. the Government of 15,210,000 pounds of coffee for the army." This x* through the season and made final reports. The United States will need approximately as much coal now purchase was made "just before the recent sharp rise in price." In home canning, 3,578 finished and for years to come as it has needed in the past two years. We Saved one million dollars for whom? The taxpayers have to pay out of 5,982. In bread making will need steel in almost unlimited quantities. We are building the cost of running the War Department, which has been beyond 2,497 out of 4,100 beginners actually ships at a marvelous rate of production—and that means work. reported. all reason under the baker regime, notwithstanding the requirements Europe needs machinery, agricultural implements, trucks and of war. If the Government jumped into the market and bought Syhich most directly interfere with NUMBER OF DELEGATES TO every other commodity. It cannot supply its own needs at this time. 15,000,000 pounds of coffee, who can estimate the effect this had in the complete Americanization of jur PEACE CONGRESS FIXED The United States must supply itv And that means work for the creating the sharp rise in price? And who have to meet this increase people. American workers. uv- in price or go without coffee? The people, the consumers, "Our principle in this matter shouM Paris, Jan. 3—It is understood that Those who are in close touch with food conditions in {he world be absolutely simple. In th« fir*t who are the taxpayers. An analogous situation was brought about France, England, the United States, place we should insist that if the hvpe to partially feed itself—two years^ before its agricultural Italy and Japan will have five delegates on our entry into the war, when the Navy Department hopped migrant who comes here in goo each with additional specialists. system can be restored. Until that time comes it will call upon us into the market and bought steel to the limit, whereupon the advance faiih becomes an American and assimilates Belgium and Serbia will have for food—arid that meahs work for every farm hand in the nation. in price became tremendous. When the Government becomes a himself to us he shall be three each and Greece and Portugal Every sign points to prosperous conditions in this couhtrv buyer on such a colossal scale the saving to the people is not a rial treated on an exact equality with will be represented by two. Honduras, such as we. never have known before of an industrial boom that one, because they are obliged to meet the increased prices caused everyone else, for it is an outrage to Bolivia, Panama, Cuba, San Salvador, will eclipse everything in the past, work for every man that wants discriminate against any such man by this shock to the market. A foresighted policy would be to China, Sjam and various other because of creed or birthplace or work and work for all the women, too, who wish to remain in the nations, including the Czecho-Slovacks, buy gradually with a view to future demands and thus obivate origin. the Jugo-Slavs and Rumania fields.—Samuel Gompers. such market disturbances. Room Here for But One Flag will have one each. "But this is predicated upon the ROOSEVELT'S LIFE FILLED WITH ACTION THE INDISPENSABLE SHEEP man's becoming in fact an American THE POWER OF WILSON and nothing but an American. But (Continued from page one) if hie tries to keep segregated with From 1861 to 1914 sheep in America were crowded off the well One dusky citizen was in uniform. men of his own origin and separate tilled land into rough corners and the stingy wilderness. Sheep The other clung to his civilian garb Kinley. from the rest of America then lie ,~V and railed against the draft. could not compete with corn and wheat as a quick, unskilled, money isn't doing his part ^as an American. 1898—Organized "Rough Riders," giving command of. regito "I ain't goin'," he asserted, "and making crop. Then came the war with its shoddy coats and short "There can be no divided allegiance on a W no one is goin' to make me." meat rations, and farmers began again to think of sheep. The here. Any man who says he is an 1898—Led his regiment at battle of San Juan hill. "Niggah," replied the other, earnestly, American, but something else also, American wool crop of 1918 exceeded that of 1917 by eight per cent 1898—Elected governor of New York. ,' "if Mr. Woodrow Wilson wants isn't an American at all. We have —the first time in more than a score of years that the wool industryhad 1900—Nominated for vice presidency over his own protest. you, you go! That man just took an room for but one flag, the American shown growth.,. This growth was chiefly from an increase ir 1901—Assumed vice presidency in second McKinley adminis- flag, and this excludes the red flag hour of daylight from God Almighty. small farm flocks. S tration. which symbolizes all wars against liberty Then he took all the. railroads away 1 rt The sheep -industry is not an industry into which men may and civilization just as much as from white folks and give 'em to his 1901—Became president at death of McKinley. ... rush when wool is high and-back out when it is low, as one might it excludes any foreign flag of a nation son-in-law. What chance has you *^?~Arbitrated Pennyslvania coal miners' strike -v to which we are hostile^'We grot ^H IM