^W^trS PAGE FOUR INTERNATIONAL FALLS FEBRUARY 13, 1919 PRESS, THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS other things he might'have had in addition he wept in vexation hundred thousand dollars. The range HOME SERVICE, ALPHABET and got no more pleasure from the whistle. He never forgot the members made a lot of noise, but in Soldier*' Insurance incident. .Afterwards, whenevef"he was tempteel to make too great our opinion Chairman Ted Christen-son "AND BORDER BUDGET had. the'right angle on the situation, an outlay in time energy or money he would say to himself. "Don't Many people have worried because thundering lot of money one their soldier has beeij paying for pay too much for the whistle." INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY asked for, and if conditions are as insurance and no certificate has been Mark Twain tells a story of a man who piled a tugboat up arid represented the fire sufferers GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager wont received by his family. In little a down the river. This man was terribly envious of a steamer which be kept waiting for the money. The over a year our government has written commanded much attention every time she blew a blast from her Entered at the Post Office at International Fall#. Minn., aa Second-claw Matte* gnerosity of the legislature in this insurance for more than fcur matter is well illustrated by the fact great whistle. Finally the man woke up to the fact that he could million men, for a total of over thirty-five SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR that at the time of the BaudetseSpooner purchase just such a whistle and make as much noise with his little billion dollars. It is no wonder fire only twenty-five thousand tugboat as the. steamer. But after he got the big whistle he they are six months behind in John Marleycorn has lost "his place in the sun" but his devotees was granted. sending out certificates. The insurance found his boat stopped every time he blew it. The engine had will gather in the moonshine, still. is perfectly good, the policy is only enough power for the boat of the whistle. Mi. Nord's menu in the senate w'il filed at Washington, and the certificate Lots of folks are using up their energy on some showy thin^ be explained in a later letter. His will come in due time. While some Minnesota Legislators are straining every nerve program calls for several measures, that gives them no comfort. Some are lavishing valuable time! Every soldier should be urged to to pass a tonnage tax on ore mined in, this state, every province in sure and you may be they won't on a few unimportant tasks. Others willinglyv"blow in" an entirej keep up his insurance. It is good the Dominion of Canada is urging the Canadian government to assist rt northern Minnesota, and a .• he for five years after his discharge if week's salary on one evening of frivolity, robbing themselves of ail, the iron mining industry there by a bonus of one dollar per ton. is lming#up a very strong support he keeps up the monthly premiums, manner of pleasure for an indefinite period. Others sacrifice the' several of his bills are sure to find though the rate increases slightly best of thtir talents in pursuing some fruitless ambition. Still P^es in the law encyclopedia which each year. At any time within five By a solid Non-partisan league vote the North Dakota legislature will be issued at the close of the session. others forego the simple, natural joys of life in worshiping a snobbish years the government will exchange has invited wholesale destruction of the property of industries ideal. the present policy for one of the ordinary and farms such as has characterized the doings of the I. W. W. They are all paying too much for their whistles. forms of insurance^ which during the past few years, of all who oppose their anarchistic A fine young crop of nonessentials may be continued as long as he lives. How is it with you? •c—^ in the form of bills are finding their methods, by killing the bill proposing to make it a crime to advocate A young man, leaving the army in Are you paying too much for your whistle Or are there some way to the desk, and many of them good health may not think he need sabotage. 1919 war savings stamps in your life? Franklin's picture is on will find a burial in the political grave life insurance. But if he has no one them his ideas are back of them.—Rock Island Argus. yard. If the legislature insists on dependent on him now, he will have One of the stock arguments of those opposed to prohibition is producing laws we wish they would one of these days. By continuing that former drunkards will turn to the drug habit as a substitute manufacture one regulating the prices the government insurance he secures RUSSIA'S SILENT MAJORITY ojt meals charged by the first cousins for intoxicants. Even if this were so it is high time to cut out the a lower rate than if he waited until of the late Jesse James, who arc intoxicant habit and let the present generation struggle along as he was older. No new medical examination Four-fifths of Russia's vast population are engaged in some form working under the disguise of restaurent is necessary, if he waited best it can and raise a new generation that will not be so handi of agriculture. Nowhere do farmers welcome the red flag. Th?t| men down here. If you want he might not be able to pass the test capped and cursed. to flag a decent meal you have to use wild emblem of anarchy and general irresponsibility has no hold .n' and secure insurance. The government a two dollar bill as a semaphore, and insurance is a third cheaper those whb must wrest a living from hard work on the soil and the Speaking of the co£t of operation of a city owned water plant, it puts an awful dent in your pocketbook. than that of private companies because processes of the seasons! For the moment the great mass *of Russians we find that the fuel and labor cost of the municipal plant at Brainerd he does not pay for commissions are submerged in their affairs of government, but these conditions or office expenses. Government for the year 1918 was $24,000 or over $2,000 per month, as compared are necessarily transient. Russia is still troubled with the The first robin showed up in St. insurance is absolutely safe. It cannot with a total cost of $550 per month for a much greater effects of old court intrigue and crafty imperial propaganda. The Paul last week and by this time his be claimed by creditors. It is amount of water under the present water pumping contract In empires that cultivated such falsities have crumbled, but the Russian wife is probably a widow, our fine free from taxation. It helps him our own city. Braine-rd pumps its water direct from the Mississippi §ummery weather having given way save money regularly. If he changes people have not been obliterated nor have they rotted out like river as ours is pumped from Rainy river. to the zero brand. to endowment insurance, he provides the systems of autocracy. Russians have never been volatile. They for his own old age. are slow and serious, have often been called dreamy, even melancholy. Speaking of cheap rough fish as furnished to many towns in A gang of robbers in taxi cabs ar? Don't let your soldier drop his It was said long ago that it was not enough to kill a Russian plying their trade in the two cities policy. He has a chance which does our state under the state fishing and marketing plan we find according soldier—he must afterwards be knocked off his feet. Strong relieving banks and safes of their not come to the rest of us, and which tp the report of Carlos Avery, fish and game commissioner, to courageous, stocial, industrous the Russian is yet somewhatf tehiMlike loot, and the police are having a will not come to him again. If his the legislature that fish to the value of $132,262.00 has been handl 1 busy time. After hiring a taxi the insurance has lapsed, there is a way in the movements of the twentieth century. Russia was 'brave, by the state at a profit of $33,232.00 and a capital outlany of only other night we think we have discovered to get it back within six months. but not effective in the recent war. In the main it was battered $1,000. Under this arrangement, according to Mr.-Avery's report the reason why the yeggs are Any questions about soldiers' insurance around at the will of a highly-trained antagonist, who had previously doing all the robbing. They probably will be gladly answered by the "millions of pounds of fish, mostly of the so called £ough variety ha sapped its ruling class. rjeb have to the banks to pay. the informtaion bureau of the Red Cross been supplied Minnesota people by the state at prices about oa ,third The Bolsheviki are a part of the froth on the surface of the taxi drivers. Home Service. lower than commercial quotations." We ask again, how r"X Russian situation. They are a foul excerescence from an underworld B. H. Phinney is in charge of the it that the people of this city and county, who live right by the IN DOUBT that would destroy all stable, well-meaning authority. The information bureau. Information '-cal side of the finest fishing grounds of the entire state cannot be sup A Chicago vegetarian engaged a may also be secured from Richard taint is not distinctly Russian. It is an inoculation from a virus plied with fish at these same reasonable rates? German cook lady not long ago. His Liljeblad and Adolph Krohn, that originated in other countries and is probably more dangerous in­ wife liked the appearance of the applicant ternational Falls, Minn. elsewhere. Russia occupies a large place on the world's map and her references were good, Several people throughout the county are enquiring as to when in the world's undeveloped resources. A task taken in hand by and the wages she demanded not exorbitant. THE LAST WAIL BEFORE a bill is going to be introduced into the legislature appropriating civilization is to get Russia on its feet again, to give its many virtues WE GO DRY sufficient funds for the paying of the state's debts to this county. "I'd like to have you come," said a chance to make good. As we understand it the state of Minnesota is indebted to the county the lady of the house, "but perhaps It is cheering to know that the foundation for the new structure The iceman is a pleasant soul, of Koochiching about one and a half millions of dollars in road and you won't like to live with us. We He is a man of cheer. is intrinsicallv sound.—Globe-Democrat. are vegetarians and never have any ditch assessments and taxes, $i80,000.00 of which will be due Augusi: He drops a cake within the box _____ meat in the house. Woud you be satplan: 1st, 1919. The 1919 legislature passed an appropriation for taking And drinks one pint of beer. LEGISLATIVE NEWS bets to help put the Babcock isfied with a vegetable diet? care of this indebtedness to our county, but for obivious reasDiis The grocery boy delivers eggs, over. The fraulein scratched her head. By W. T. Noonan. it was vetoed. Now it is necessary that appropriations should be The fruit that Js most dear. "Vel," she said dubiously, "iss beer a made not only to cover the amount due to this county August 1st, He puts them in the icebox and wegetable?" F. J: McPartlin gained his first It is our honest opinion that many He drinks one pint of beer. but also for enough more to take care of the amount of the state's victory in the house the other day moons will pass before any cow is when he got by with a bill providing "That bald-headed man who just indebtedness which will become due before the next legislature can killed on a railroad between Kelliher The plumber comes to fix the pipes went out is the greatest optimist I free tuition in the state university and Baudette, but we are finding meet two years hence. When the state pays its indebtedness to this And, with a knowing leer, ever met," said the druggist. for everybody who has been in the difficult to convince J. J. Opshal that He straightway finds the icebox and county it can pay indebtedness on bonds and interest to the amount service. Some opposition developed That so?" asked the customer. his recipe for the road isn't the real He' drinks three pints of beer. of over $60,000, but we cannot pay .it until the state takes care of "Yes," replied the druggist. "When and there was a lively tilt thing. He is bombarding members its obligations to lis. This deplorable condition of things not only I guaranteed my brand of hair restorer But when I am athirst myself, floor of the house, but when he got the legislature on the scheme, a he bought a bottle and bought gives this county a~"black eye," but also gives one to every county through with a fifteen minute talkit And seek the, cheer that flows. when it comes to manufacturing let comb and brush because he figured evaporated in a hurry. When Margets I find my icebox empty and in the state and also to the state itself. There is little doubt but ters J. J. has sure developed the a he need them in a few days." to his feet his speeches are abou I hustle down to Joe's.—Ex. in habit forming quantities. How that before the legislature closes ample provision will be made to as welcome to his apponents as & ever the local members are going clean up this undesirable "'condition of our county's and the state's a sugar bowl, and he is rap give his plan a trial, and they have' mouse in finances. made arrangements for the attorne .- gaining the distinction of bei She joined general to pass on it. We hope he best orators in the house, one THE ONE-MAN FARM puts his O. K. on it, because there is case he carried his point by our nothing that Baudette would rathe:-j which is only one jumy away get in its stocking than the proposed fr0m being unanimous. The rarest workman in America, probably the rarest anywhere, Christina road, but our guess is that Mr. Hilton is the competent farm hand. He must have farm sense and experience, You can't tell-which way a flee is will shoot it as full holes as a Swiss initative and self control, and be so faithful that he will deal-| going to jump by the way his ears cheese. In our humble opinion a Banking do a full day's work without supervision. Few but farmer's sons are pointed, but if members vote the to buy the Rocky mountains would be can qualify- for this work, and many farmers' sons do'not. way they talk Pat McCarry's bill for easy compared to Mr. Opsahl's plan CLUb a hundred thousand dollars ,to lure Exasperated by incompetent and dishonest farm labor, farmers to have Beltrami county build railroads. witK tourists to Minnesota's ten^ thousand are turning to tractors and gang plows and motor driven machinery lakes is going to go through with a of all sorts in order that they and their sons may multiply their labor whoop. Pat only asking ten dollars production and be rid of the pestilent field loafer. Some relief Every little hamlet and egglet along for each lake, which i«j rather the route will have paved streets if has come in this way. Machinery will continue to multiply the modest when you come to think of it /Vtext the Babcock plan of hard surfaced power of the farmer and his family, but it cannot eliminate the human that way. ,,. roads manages to travel the rocky hand in stock farming. Xmas road ahead of it. Unlike the Elweli The Sullivan-Wilcox contest was a There is a certain balance between farm acreage and population road it does not provide that villages she will regular three ring circus with several of live stock that must be maintained, if the soil is to be kept productive. and cities shall pay the cost of ideal features. For six long hours And more, live stock means more hand labor. Modern construction within their boundir- HAVE ies so that they will be donated pave-^ ^!^SPe^*n^.rS to battling farm equipments aid the live stock farmer, but a human hand must ments eighteen wide. The bffl' w,'h homemade feet be on the domestic animal if it is to be made profitable to its owner. will be reported into the senate Wed- tj .' 'Vfce stuc'c A competent stock hand is even rarer than a competent farm hand through to the finish. Ole SaeeAc Oesday by Pat McGarry and while farmt,r Qltertail had W the from The farmer and his help are the ideal farm laborers. But his it is likely to pass, members whose' aa our nt sons are\ot a steady factor in his labor problem. Schooling takes doors the proposed road is not to hi°l pass are getting ready to start the /-„^t U? Put up a great its share of their time and about when the son becomes an able fireworks. S JT W,)cox from be"* farm hand, he is eager to leave the parental farm for business of his eliminated from the tournament. If you haven't joined oi|r Christmas banking club, come own. If the farmer is to be rid of the problem of regular hired labo: the Every time he was getting worst in and do so today. An interesting statement in connection he must cut his farm to suit the size of his family. it he would change the of subir with the bill comes from the the Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should Join and we ur*?e This means that the average farm of the future will be smaller which shows that Ole knows highway commission, who state that rules of the game as played in the you to join for you own good. But if farming is to be made a mode of living rather than a monev if Beltrami county should be divided big building Ori the hill. It is making enterprise, this one-family farm may be a better venture they will build, a hard surfaced road There are clubs to ft every purse—I cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, of opinion one and all that Ole than the extensive farm with its vexations labor problem.—Minneapolis from Blackduck to Baudette via Kelliher. ft goo marking goo eyes at the governorship, 10 cents, where you increase your deposits each week with Journal. r- and if that looks two tough the amount you started with. V_ he will make an effort in 1921 to PAYING FOR THE WHISTLE Ed Rako is going to take the first pack his business in Congressman We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 clubs where you pay IP $ jump in explaining the details of the Stennerson's shoes, using theji ncnroad in the same amount each week. to Beltrami county residents on partisan league route. Are you paying too much for your whistle? •.%- February 8th, when he will address But join—join today. ffc. Benjamin Franklin did once. a meeting at the Cass Loke school, There was a big row in the house When Franklin was a child of seven he was given a lot of peilnies at which he hopes many residents of FIRST NATIONAL BANK the other day when the appropriations one holiday. Hastening into a nearby toyshop he voluntarily Bemidji will be present. He will ha committee reconsended thatva a big map and other data to illustrate gave all he had for a whistle. A/little later he discovered that he commission be sent to the burnt area International^Falls, Minnesota his talk. Ed is on the highway conmittee before granting the request of the tfiad paid four times to much for his toy. ^Realizing how mjiny 1 and he isn't overlooking anv fire sufferers for a million and eigfit