fr"" PAGE FQUR INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, APRIL 3, i919 THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS boundaries and fix the laws that are to govern the traversing of the UNITED WAR VETERANS seas if the people turn toward anarchy. It will not do for us to say that this war is Russia's, that Bolshevism AND BORDER BUDGET A National Organization will never- find a* following among the more intelligent GEO. P. WATSOIT, EMttor Composed of All Soldiers of All Wars nations of the earth. England today is enduring a labor revolt that Biiciei at the Peat Ofllce at Imteraatloaal Falls. Minn* aa Seeand-elaaa Matte* bears the Lenine trademark. The revoluitionists in Britain—and The United War Veterans, a National organization has been they can properly ^e called nothing else—demand for themselves founded to include in its active membership all veterans of the V. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR power and authority that, if won, will sound the knell of sound Civil War, Spanish War, and World War. government in the Empire. Even here, in free America, we have The objects are: To unite in fraternal bonds, through national, The kick used to be on ten cent beer, now it is on thirty cent seen the smoldering embers flare into flames, we have been scorched state, local and foreign organizations, all soldiers and sailors water. by the fires Bolshevism is here as wll as in Russia. For Bolshvism of the United States to perpetuate Memorial Day, as established is little else than industrial unrest gone mad. Bolshevism by the Grand Army of the Republic, and to preserve from neglect K. O. Fosse will make a clean city after April 8th, if you voters is socialism. Debs has always been a bolshevist. Now that his the graves of Our Nation's Dead to secure employment for and to will just take time to vote. last hope of freedom is gone, that he faces the pentitentiary, he assist our comrades, their widows, orphans and dependent relatives freely confess it. Lenine, he has said, is the greatest statesman to promote loyalty, mutual aid and co-operation among them in all Any man who thinks about these streets on his way to the polls of the age. lines of endeavor to 9ecure from Congress and other legislative ttext Tuesday morning will vote for a new mayor and city council The League of Nations is all very well. It will prevent bodies the enactment of laws beneficial to the welfare of our comrades, monarchs from plunging their peoples into war "to satisfy their and to secure employment for those who have returned to quarrds, nations will no longer fly at each others throats because civil pursuits in consonance with laws which prefer honorably discharged Mr. Voter, be sure to take your neighbor along with you when of petty, quibbling difficulties. But it will not check this new revolution soldiers and sailors for government service to provide and you vote next Tuesday for a cleaner, better city for your family to that is beginning to sweep the worlds this revolt of the establish homes for orphans and dependent children and justice to live in. dissatisfied, the idler, the loafer and the criminal against his more all mankind of loyalty to our country, reverence for its institutions, fortunate brother. obedience to its laws and to discountenance whatever tends to weaken Unless this country is made a good place for all of us to live It is a beautiful thing nations to meet in friendship and lay these sentiments. for in, it won't be a good place for any of us to live in.—-Theodore aside their differences between one another, but the time has come The organization consists of active members, called comrades, Roosevelt. when each must look down its own alley and stamp an iron heel and in addition thereto an honorary membership consisting of persons upon this new snake that is lifting its poisonous head out of our who performed distinguished or faithful service or engaged in The only issues in next Tuesday's election is a more decent garden of flowers—Muskogee Daily Phoenix. efforts for the relief of disabled and suffering soldiers and sailors, jr city to live in and a much more economical policy in spending the who to a conspicuous extent became interested in promoting the taxpayer's money. THE PROFITABLE HONEY BEE. moral welfare and physical comfort of troops in camp or in field, or who are honorably discharged soldiers or sailors of any of th.Allies Just as we said last week the issue of this election is not one A reputation for being temperamental clings to the honey bee of the United States in the World War. of "wet" or "dry" but one of common decency in the administration Most people let her alone, not because they love her honey less, It urges that members of other patriotic organizations continue of city affairs. but because they fear her sting more. For this reason the world has their memberships in such organizations, but join the United never yet had enough honey, and the market price is advancing War Veterans in addition, in order to have one united organization Spring is here and house cleaning will start on Tuesday, April steadily. of all soldiers of all wars. 8th, be sure you do a good job and it won't be necessary to do any The ant has ways more astonishingly clever than those Women honorably discharged from military or naval service, cleaning for a year. the bee but they are not worth as much study, for the ant produces and the mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters of all soldiers and nothing salable. The ant is merely a self-sustaining creature, sailors living or deceased, Who served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Every mother in town is going to wash next Monday so as to and nothing more. But the bee feeds herself an| humanity Corps in time of war, are eligible to the Auxiliary. ac liberty all day Tuesday to see that the men get out and vote besides. Last year after taking good care of herself the American The National Headquarters are at Kalispell, Montana. The for their family's interest Bee made a clean donation to her country of thirty thousand torts Commander-in-Chief is Commandant of the Montana Stat Soldiers' Home. of honey worth more than six million dollars. _. V" This city is only paying five cents per thousand gallons for/its Industrially speaking, the bee is a pick-up. Few men devote water, but it is charging thirty cents per thousand. What becomes themselves solely to her care they raise her on the side.. The TO THE UNIONS OF time as may be necessary to properly of the twenty-five cents INTERNATIONAL FALLS conduct the city affairs and at" all typical beekeeper isaquiet, confirmed desk man, a twenty-acre farmer, times, endeavor to merit the confidence a cripple brother or a widpw with a war pension. There are Gentlemen:—I have been requested placed in me by my fellow TV. Next Tuesday's election is one in which every mother and father great bee farmers in the Western lands of long distances and free by several members of Organized Labor citizens. should be vitally interested. Let us get busy and see that our city sagebrush but the bulk of tliat. thirty thousand tons of honey last to make a statement as to ho Yours very truly, is governed by men who will make International Falls known year came from door-yard colonies of bees. I would stand in the event of litior K. O. Fosse. troubles. throughout the state, as a decent place to live. Men have bred the thorns-7Off roses and raspberries, the spines I was a! member in good: standing off cactus and the horns off cattle but no one has yet bred the sting JOHN H. BROWN of the Long Shore Mens' Union at off a honey bee. The bee without a sting is no more use as a honey It is to Frank S. Lang, candidate for alderman in the third ward Superior^ Wis., and had considerable For Municipal Judge gatherer than a blowfly. The! drone bee stings nobody and he feeds that the people of the resident districts are most indebted to for experience with labor unions and labor nobody. Modern hives ar^ equipped with rolling doorsills that troubles,. the fine -cement sidewalks. He was chairman of the sidewalk committee To the voters of International Falls. Should any labor, troubles iariie here triptthe drones and roll tliem ji$to .the discard. Only the stinging bee and put up a big and successful fight for .cement as against I hereby., announce my candidacy and it becomes" necessary to .appoint with the honey-bags. can pa$S this magic doorsill. In spite of science for the office of Judge of the Municipal continually repairing the old Wooden walks. special police, I will consider, it Court at the city election to be and the experiments off agricultural colleges, the sting still my first duty to appoint members of held April 8th, next. I have lived in goes with the honey. union labor as special deputies. John Berg who is the best authority on the city water business this city for five years last past, am The bee is a forager, a freebooter but her thefts are better than I do not look for this condition to offered to be superintendent of water at $60 per month, but the job a property owner and I taxpayer. ever arise as the union men here some donations made in .name of charity. She steals honey tht am under no obligation to any faction, was given to John Fransen at $150 per month. This is a fair sample have always been good law abiding from near, and far, but fields and orchards fruit better wherever clique, corporation or individual of the way this administration has been spending the people's money, citizens. the works. ... and if elected to this important no wonder the people are demanding a change in city, officials. Yours truly, city office will be in position to, and It was once thought that a successful bee man had to be second K. O.Fosse. .will conduct it with absolute fairness. cousin to a snake charmer but this is proved to be foolish superdtion. According to the say so of the present administration no man Those Who krtOw the bee best agree that she is a regular Your vote and support will be appreciated. TO THE CITIZENS OF who works in the largest industries in our city, has any civil rights. fellow who lives at peace^wjith any man who has a few brains and INTERNATIONAL FALLS He musnt't run for any office. He mustn't vote. He niustn't even half a heart. Anybody, it is said, by taking a little good advice, Yours truly, express an opinion—but anyone who runs ia gambling joint, or blind J. H. Brown. beginning on a small scale, dnd using his wits can make the world I have been requested by the citizens pig, or hustles for dissolute women, has all these rights and then sweeter and his income larger by associating with this useful insect. of International Falls to be.come some. !42ik WALTER A. ENGSTROM a candidate for the office of —Pioneer Press. «,bC Alderman for 2nd Ward mayor at the coming spring election, April 8. There are enough people in this city who are not profiting from SYRIAN AND ARMENIA RELIEF FUND REPORT This request has come from men in To the Voters of 2nd Ward the blind pig and gambling business to. elect a clean set of city all walks of life and with whom I officials, if they will only stand together and not allow their minds Following are the collections for the Syrian and Armenian Relief have been associated and acquainted Having been urgently requested to be clouded by some immaginary issue the gang are trying for many years. Fund in Koochiching County, Minn. by the union labor of this city to file to inject into the campaign in order to get their williing tools to be After careful consideration, and I as candidate for Alderman of the must admit with considerable reluctance, reelected. Post office or Village Collector Amount second ward, I hereby: offer myself I have consented. I will go kay Mrs. Thomas Watson .$ 64.00 as such candidate. Beyond this desirable before the voters representing no If the water taxes are so prohibitively high during the winter Ericsburg Mrs. Gust Holm 81.65 endorsement I do not represent faction, organization or interest, but Mizpah Mrs, F. Gummert .. 38.70 any faction or interest, but have time when there are no lawns to water, and only a couple of baths as a plain citizen of International Indus Mr. D. J. Kennedy .. 12.50 filed trustihg that if elected I may be a week are necessary, what about the summer time when you want Falls and one who earnestly desires Laurel Mrs. Thomas Laidlaw .. 32.00 able to do whatever I can toward a to do his part in promoting the best to take a bath every day and sometimes twice a day, and have to water M. R. Adams and Big Falls more economical and bettep administration interest of this city. your garden and lawn? There is no relief in sight under the present .. 102.00 James McAndrews ... of city affairs. .HOping you I came to International Falls, September mayor and council. Chas. P. Swenson ...36.50 Frontier will see fit to aid my candidacy by 1, 1912, and since that date Bannock H. G. Hanson .. 14.00 your vote and influence. have lived here continuously and have Loman Respectfully yours, taken considerable interest in the THE NEW WORLD'S WAR A. E. Nelson .. 18,00 Littlefork Walter A. Engstrom. progress of our city and I now ask Miscellaneous .. 1.50 the voters to consider my candidacy International Falls Committee 520.85 Sunday's newspapers told us, in hopeful phrases, that the League THOMAS KINSHELLA for mayor upon its merits and judge Received from Schools throughout the County. of Nations covenant, which is to bring lasting peace to a strife-Weary me by. my past record as a citizen of Valley River Marion Ward .... 3.00 International.Falls. I appreciate to For Treasurer world, was nearing completion. Frontier Mrs. S. F. Vagts .... .. 3.00 the fullest extent that the years immediately Today the newspapers, in shuddering headlines, shriek an Mabel Stave ......... .. 1.00 Johnson ahead of us will be vitally Fellow Citizens ... .. alarm of war. Floss Cody Rogers 2.55 important years. To my mind, we Having been urgently requested by Joseph Murphy ....... 14.50 Bescemar Half of Europe has gone mad. Hungary, her wounds still are entering upon an era of progress a number of union men and other Delvina St. Lawrence .. 2.00 Border j''l and development which will require raw, has again snatched up the firebrand. Austria, yet weak from good citizens to file for the office Stella Johnson .. 6.75 Elmdale thoughtful consideration of the men of treasurer for this city, I have finally loss of blood, is staggering to her side. Germany snarls her readiness Esther Anderson ...... 50.00 Happyland who make-up. every department of consented and trust that my candidacy for revenge. Geo. M. Roe Indahl .. 24.00 the city. f.If .it is. felt by the voters for that office will be favorably Bolshevism, which to us has seemed a nightmare of lust, Total collection that I measure up to, the responsibilities considered by a gdod majority fe -''w $1062. ,3 butchery and crime, in its brief reign has found millions upon millions of the, .office of mayor, I ask of voters. F.S.Lang, S. N. Rubin, of followers. their support at the polls. I have resided in this city for over City Chairman. County Chairman., If I am defeated, there will be no twenty years past and hive been We have been rudely awakened from a dream that promised ill feeling and for my opponent I vitally interested both as a taxpayer to be sweet. We realize that it is no longer a monarch's thirst GAVE HER A CHANCE it?" have no thing but the best of words and a laboring man in the administration for power that threatens the peace of the world but the world's unrest. Urchin: "Well, you can't expect me to say. ^appreciate the honor that of its affairs. Mrs. Gnaggs—If I ha4 known what to be a ibank director for nothing, has been conferred upon me in urging I stand for a clean, economic and can you?"—Exchange. a fool you were I should never have The League of Nations is founded upon the reason and sanity me to make the run. If I am law-abiding administration and if married you. elected, it will-be my earnest, effort of the people. It is solely upon this hope that the glittering dovecote you see fit to elect me to the office Mr. Gnaggs—You might have guessed WHAT HE EXPECTED to give this city a careful, businessr I seek I can assure you that I will "i is to be builded. Men, weary of war's butchery having seen Said an Irish leader: "Min, ye arc it when I proposed to you—Edinburg like administration of affairs, with no do my best to fill the position satis^. the folly in the mad slaying of their neighbors, were expected to on the verge of battle will yez fight Scotsman. favoritism shown afid with "a square factorily. eagerly turn to it as their salvation. lifSV', or will yez run?" deal for all" as my platform. There Rt- Yours truly, STARTING RIGHT "We will!" came a chorus of eager And now with our beautiful structure all but complete, we see are no strings to my candidacy. I Thomas Kinshella. */&£ replies. will make no promises, but will go sr« it begin to crumble. We may well ask if the world is ready for a Stranger "Can"-you "direct me to "Which will yez do?" says he. before the people as a free and moral Dr. the optometrist Se Larsoir will m. Yt&iP'hof Nations such as we are writing, if after it is done it will the bank?" "We will not," says they. agent, asking their support and confidence, at the Victoria Hotel, April 8-9. Con- W ^serye its purpose. What have we accomplished if we disarm the Urchin: "I can for a^dollar." "Thank ye, me, min," says he, "I should I be honored at the salt him if jn hare defective eyes or nations of the earth, if we rewrite treaties, adjust international Stranger "That's rather dear, isn't though ye would."—Everybody^. electron. I propose to devote such need glaiiee. Artificial eyas fitted.