5ff^?« ^Tv: ,a^y ',* •"^tT1 ygg","^" ••iij.j^fyj- i^JTTrrn^pBiii^mit im^ ^J.'1IJ MjL J^'^feL^i. lij^ I'^J&a^B-i^JjJiait.^ 1*^ a'' »i»"S!XaPBj8'WH nil*' "LI IU ^Mi'lwilJIiNii ill ,v -y— 7 3^- "3r^ 7s53Jg&e»fc"'t* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, FEBRUARY 20, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS up he may do so by increasing his efficiency, and the labofieost to by those who have read it. Leonard's FEDERAL FARM LOANS the employer will not be increased in the least, in fact may be actuaily bill would bring a regular rush of settlers and farmers to. northern less. The articles says AND BORDER BUDGET ^The Koochiching National Farm Minnesota and would put the land "Much discussion relative to the continuance of the present Loan Association as well as "fevery in reach of all by the issuing of bonds high wages seems to lack full appreciation of what constitutes a INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY other National Farm Loan Association with long time payments. He has put high wage. To the worker who has a certan number of hours per throughout this country is organized in a lot of time on it, eliminating any GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager day or week to sell, the rate per hour or day is the important point, kinks that might collide with the la\y, for the purpose of getting and it is likely to pass with a few if farm loans to actual farmers at the as giving him a definite number of dollars for his necessities or Catered at the Foat Offlce at International Falls. Minn., aa Seeoad-elaaa Matter any amendments. lowest possible rate. The Koochiching luxuries. To the employer the actual number of dollars paid per SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 'U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR National Farm Loan Association, week is not a matter of concern. What really counts with him is of Internatoinal Falls, is an organization Every time a red flag comes up for the quantity of output by the worker over which his work is to be of farmers banded together HABITS MAY HELP air Representative McPartlin takes spread. for the express purpose of a swat at him, and last week he centered barrowing money on their farms "Thus five dollars per day to a man producing five completed his attack on Miner, of Minneapolis, Sometimes we refer to habits as though they were harmful. through the Federal Land Bank of articles a day is a high wage compared to the same sum paid to who objected to the motor They are not. They are as indispensable as air and food and sleep. St. Paul, Minnesota, giving a first 10 another man who can produce of the same articles in a day. To corps bill and who published an edition Habits! We can never escape them. The whole universe runs by mortgage as security. of Bolshevik noise in the house. the worker the wage is thie same. To the employer the second habit. The birds build their nests by habit and the roses bloom by The rate of interest charged is 5J4 When Miner got through making a man costs only half as much, since the wage, figured as a cost fictor, per cent at the present time. This habit. There are the habits of the autumn and the habits of the nuisance of himself Mac ups and lets is only half as great on each article. rate will be maintained and will loose a flow of oratory that made springtime. There are the good old habits of love and marriage "This view of the situation furnishes the key to the question never go higher, but may go lower. Miner's arguments look as queer as and friendship. There are the indespensable habits of courage and of maintaining present wage levels. If limitation of output to Every borrower takes out stock in Is a it do a a as iv sympathy and cheerfulness. There is the habit of playing with the the association equal to 5 per cent prevail, employers cannot afford to continue present rates if prices en a great hand. Everything is being kiddies on Sunday morning and wearing a flower in your button of the loan. This is returned to the waved in red, white and blue down for completed work go lower. But if the worker will produce more he le and kissing your wife when you leave home and when you come borrower when the loan is paid up. here this year, and the Bolsheviks and thus spread his wage, which is cost to the employer, over a No salaries are paid to any officer or are having a tough time of it back and of spending a wee bit less than you earn. In every shop larger output, the employer can continue the present rate without member of the association thus keeping and factory there are work-habits—either right ones or wrong ones. loss. the expenses at a minimun. Application At a committee meeting the other! So, the main thing is not to try to escape from habit. That is a fees are charged and these "An illustration of this is found in steel erection cost in New day someone asked if it didn't look! childish idea, conceived by artists and idlers and geniuses The fees together with the dividends on York. They are lower now than they were ten years ago althougl as if some members of the St. Paul| main thing is to improve your habits. Study them. Criticise them. the stock from time to time it is hoped and Minneapolis police force weren't actual wages have doubled in that time. This is because the men will pay all expenses. While several Make them better. That is the, scientific method of progress—the in "cahoots" with keepers of dives are now producing more perdolla of wages than they did ten years applications for loans have been improvement of personal and social habits.—Efficiency Magazine. whose main object in life is to iclieve ago. When labor leaders realize that production can be increased refused on account of insufficient returning soldiers and sailors in order to maintain high wages the question will be solved."—Grand land under cultivation the number is of their money. Some people ire growing less, and as the clearings are Rapids Herald Review. A PARALLEL 70 YEARS SINCE always wasting breath asking use made larger from year to year, more less questions, aren't they? The olice LEGISLATIVE NEWS The lack of means to clear land 'ias and more people will take advantage department down here is only An instructive if not very reassuring parallel to the present been an awful thump to settlers, and of this opportunity to get loans at missing on one cylinder. The trouble 1848, situation in Germany is to be found in the France of when the By W. T. Noonan. this bill gives them an opportunity to low rates. is that it only has one cylinder, A bill introduced in the house the provisional government which was in charge till the constituent assembly overcome many of the troubles that Some of the advantages of a Federal other day will help land speculators are now in their paths. A bill somewhat should meet was menaced on the one side by the imperialists^ Farm Loan are as follows: The bill to annihilate the state of Beltrami, Koochiching and other similar was enacted two years .Even within the government there was a clash between the forestry department has been introduced, 1. It is the cheapest loan. northern counties just about as much ago, but it had many faultsf yvhich parliamentary republicans, headed by Lamartine, and the social and it is difficult to what Say 2. It is tlie safest loan. Nothing a? Hei.! Ford helped the horse dortors. this bill corrects. will become of it. The department is could be safer. republicans, headed by Louis Blanc, a division in many respects corresponding It provides that unimproved accused of being long on conversation 3. It is a long-time loan. It may to the division between the bourgeois and socialists elements land will be smeared with an assessment Ed. Rako's bill to create a fuiid .for and short on conservation, and be paid up any time between 5 and of fifty per cent of its actual in the German provisional government. the certification of seed potatoes while it may have its faults, abolishing 34 years inclusive. value, while improved land will be 23, shipped out of the state is able -.o The sequel is well known. At the elections held May the. it looks pretty much like cutting 4. It is the best method yet devised taxed on a basis of ten. per,-cent? of. walk without a crutch and is likely moderates polled a great majority in the country at large, and even off a chap's head to cure his headache. for paying off a mortgage. The its value.. The lads who have been to be among those present when the won as manyseats as the right in Paris and left together. But this borrower really pays 6% per cent on holding idle acres with the idea of laws are counted at the end of the the loan every year, and this automatically put an end to the hopes of socialistic reforms, which even the moderate allowing the honest-to-goodness, session. The bill aims to restore to pays up both interest and socialists had cherished, while combining with the bourgeois hard-working settler boost the value FARM BUREAUS SEEK Minnesota "spuds" the fair na.nc principal at the end of 34 years. At of them by developing the countrv PERMANENT PLACE liberals to support law and order. they once possessed and which was a low rate of interest the farmer is will be about as happy as a dry fish lost because certain farmers persisted The dissatisfaction of the bolsheviki of that day was so great paying interest on the mortgage and if the bill becomes a law, but ^verybody The farm bureaus of Minnesota are in shipping a shoddy product to that they appealed to forec, and the civil war resulting was far the mortgage it self at the same time. else will be satisfied. The bill making an effort to persuade the legislature the southern markets. The result more serious than any clash which has yet occured in Germany. 5. It clears up titles and prevents doesn't bear a single tax label, but to appropriate funds permanently has been that there hasn't been a 23 26 10,000 legal complications later on Before Between June and more than men were killed or wounded in many respects the receipt resembles to establish the work of good demand for our potatoes, but if the Federal Land Bank will loan it. county farm bureaus. A conference in the street fighting in Paris. The revolt was put down, but Mr. Rako's bill passes the potatoes money the title must be absolutely to consider such legislation was held at the cost of a reaction which made Louis Napoleon first president will be tested and guaranteed, and it clear and the land free from all liens at the state capitol, St. Paul, Saturday, There was a nice little row inlthe won't be long before the people of and then Emperor, and France did not escape this military autocracy and encumbrances. January 18. Delegates from house the other day when a bill allowing the south will be hollering for potatoes 1870. till Germany overthrew it in Victor Hugo then said he was 6. Last but not least—It is a nearly every county in the state were Chiropractics to be placed on grown in Minnesota. glad Germany had dethroned Nepoleon III and hoped that France great co-operative enterprise under present and look for the success of the same standard as the regular government supervision which is some day would dethrone the King of Prussia. their plan. medical sharks was introduced. Opponents Ex-President Taft spoke in the bound to grow stronger every year. Whether the moderate forces in Germany, as compared with of the bill contended thai house for an hour the other day, and The greater the number of farmers what the Chiropractics didn't know THEN HE FELT CHEAP the militarists and the radicals, are stronger now then they were in we had a reserved seat only a fewfeet who become borrowers and likewise about healing would fill a cemeterv, 1848 things still t5 be away from him. Bill was introduced the France of is one of the tested. In an members of the association the and there promises to be a genuine A newspaper man was with a as one of the world's biggest case, it is well to remember that the danger comes from both sides.— greater will be the success of the speeching spree before the bill is friend who was campaigning for the mind only, as he has eliminated about Springfield Republican. association, the greater the dividends finally disposd of. Red Cross. The friend knocked at a one hundred pounds from his frame, and the less the proportionate expense. door and a voice said, "Come n." and he is almost graceful now. He The advantage of a Federal His friend tried the door, then shouted. DIGGING OWN GRAVE Besides inheriting a Normal school has a habit of chuckling when he has Farm Loan will become more and appropriation Bemidji may have a "It's locked." Come in," repeated something humorous to say, and it more apparent every year. new Capitol in the "City of Enterprise" the voice, and the campaigner replied makes his audience warm up to him The Daily Farm Journal of Sioux Falls, S. D., an "official" organ W. J. Freed if a bill introduced by Representative "It's locked." "Come in." "It's right off the reel. He was given a of the Non-Partisan league in that state, publishes the following Sec.-Treas., Koochiching National Charlie Bouck goes througAll locked." At this point a woman put splendid ovation, and his address on editorial: Farm Loan Association. he asks is that Minnesota be di her head out of a window next door the League to Enforce Peace was a "Our laws have all been made by the direction of the robbing vided and what is now Northern great effort. and said "There's no one at ho ,n«. class, which is the ruling class, and are so interpreted and enforced Minnesota be made into a new state You're talking to the parrot." As you already know, the budget SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRES5 to be known as Lincoln. Charles is has been amended so as to include by our courts of state and nation as to protect the malefactors and no piker and the southern boundary an appropriation of one hundred send their victims away without redress. of his new state comes right dowis thousand dollars each for dormitories "The only way out of this is to change the rules of the game to the back door of the Twin Citie?. for the Bemidji, Mankato and Wino- change the laws. Abolish all special privileges. Take over by the She joined There is'nt a greater joker in either na Normal schools. state all the banks, the money, the public utilities, the markets and hemisphere than the same Mr. Bouc^J all the enterprises concerned with service of the public. and his bill added much to the merri It isn't time for the armory question A9" ment to the life in the big bungalov to come up, but if any are passed "Take back the titles the values of which the labors of the on Capitol Hill. Cnrisftna around Bemidji won't be found looking people have created. Take them all back in the name of the people, the other way, and it stands a in the-one body called the state, the nation. The annual tonnage tax riot is due Banking better chance of "copping the turkey" "In other words, democratize the industries and all the means to disturb the peace of the legislature than many of the other applications. by which the goods we all need and in the producton of which fully KCLUB in a few days, and while it may get The situation will not develop 5 per cent of the people are directly engaged and upon which all by in the house and the vote may be for a fe wmonths, however. close in the senate it is the opinio people are dependent. Democratize them so that they shall be the witk of those on the inside that the Issuing lame checks on a crippled common property of all the people—as our public roads and our will once more be stored away for bank account will land the signer in postoffices and our municipal lighting plants. Democratize their two years to become a home for aged a place where he will get his air control, so that no one class nor clique shall be able to use them spiders. filtered through iron bars if a bill by /Vlex-tr for private gain, but only for the public service and public good Mr. Briggs goes through. A similar Democratize the distribution of the product, so that each worker If a bill introduced by Senator bill is on the statute books, but the Xmas Bessette is cooked into a law the new one adds a few more teeth to be shall receive back from the state in social goods a full equivalent homesteaders of the northern counties she will used on lads who specialize in overdrafts for the wealth his laborf has produced." ought to be able to get old Hard without making arrangements Is it any wonder that such red flag sentiments as this is encouraging HAVE Times by the ears with a downhill for the same. Bolshevism in America pull. It provides' that counties may Democratization of industries is a fine phrase, but why not use start revolving funds and clear land Beltrami and Koochiching countics plain English and say destruction of industries? for the settlers. Twenty acres on a won't be taking any chances if they forty or forty acres on a quarter section grab time by the toupee and start at Thinking men have long pointed out that the campaign of may be cleared, but the totai once to improve the highways in the the Non-Partison league if successfully carried out could have but cost is not to exceed two -thousand county to be traversed by the Babcock one end, complete destruction of American principles of government dollars. In most cases the homesteader route. The overwhelming majority and the establishment of socialism. himself will be awarded the accorded the bill in both house If yon haven't joined our Christmas inking club, come It looks now, however, as if the plan of the league was to go a contract to clear his own la,nd and it and senate makes it certain that the in and do so today. would be up to him to do the work step further and follow in the footsteps of the Russian Bolshevists. people of the state will take it to Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should join and we ur?e as cheaply as possible, as the cost their bosoms, and as you know **ny The American citizen who follows this lead is simply digging would be assessed against the land you to join for you own good. money spent by counties wiirfje refunded his own grave as far as security for himself, his family and hrs the same as the present ditch liens. by the state after the amendment property are concerned, for once such a program, is established There are clubs to every purse—I cent, 2 5 cents, ft cents, The bill aims to keep the homesteader is carried. the rights of the individual are completely swept away. 10 cents, where you increase your deposits each week with on the land from the time he files, Live and learn and use common sense now, rather than wher and it would give him work and Vic Ppj^ers of Hibbing got a great the amount you started with. it is too late.—Geraldine Review, Mont. money from the outset. It ought to speech off his chest at the Lincoln eliminate hard times from the home-, Club banquet last week. It was expected We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 clubs where you pay steaders' life and enable him to hurdle that his talk would be in the in the same amount each week. HOW TO KEEP W \GES UP a lot of the troubles that now nature of easing himself into the rr But join—join today. confront him. It won't be of much ranks of the Republican oldtimers, The question of keeping wages tip.-kilTd at the same time making benefit to the lazy lads who work on but the impression we got from Vic'? the situation of the producer not entirely impossible is treated editorially FIRST NATIONAL BANK the Mexican plan (a little today and spiel was that instead of getting into less to morrow) but it would be a in the January 23rd issue of the Iron Trade Review. The the fold he was inviting the bunch godsend to the homebuilders who arc to go over and play in his"back yard. essential issue is the knowledge of the real wage and the efficiency International^alls, Minnesota in the north country to carve out Senator Nord's land bill appeared of the worker. In short, if the workman hopes to keep the wage's- homes for themselves and families. I Friday and already has been "okeyed .rV rtfr I'-WS* .W AS iM hski