PAGE FOUR INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, APRIL 24, 1919 THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS One Hundred' of Oddfellowship FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS SOLDIERS WILL HAVE INSIGNIA Years FOR ROAD MAKING SHOW SERVICE AND BORDER BUDGET Aggregate Sum of $343,800,080 Available 'Victory Medals' for All Who Fought This Year. States to Expend in the. War for Civilization GEO. P. WATSOX, Editor (Continued from page one.) an Equal Amount With the Federal Entered at the Post Olflee at International Falls, Minn., as Second-class Mattel Government Washington, April 21—After, conferences The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is firmly established with the allied governments. in the United States and Canada, and is gaining strength every year "The Congress at its last session, Gen. March announced today a design SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR is in a strange country money may purchase comforts and pleasures, accepting the recommendations of has been approved for issuance but Fraternity only will fulfill the desire for companionship. And the Department of Agriculture, not to every soldier who partiripated in WE BID YOU WELCOME in Australasia, Alaska, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Hawaii, only made available from the Federal the war on the allied side of a "victory Holland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Porto Rico, South treasury large additional sums for medal" in commemoration of his •American,- Sweden and Switzerland. roacl construction in co-operation service to civilization. It is with great pleasure that we welcome to our city today with the state, but also made some The obverse side of the medal will April 26, 1819, was made theofficial birthday of the order on Grand Master Wm. A. Pittinger, Grand Secretary A. L, Bolton and important amendments to tiVe federal bear a winged victory and on the September 21, 1867, April 26, is therefore recorganized as the official the members of the various Odd Fellow lodges through our county aid road act. reverse will be in the language of anniversary of the Order. and also from Fort Frances and othter Canadian lodges to celebrate These amendments will have the the country in which it is issued, Lodges of our Order existed in our county many years before effect of greatly lessening the difficulties the words "The great war for civilization," the One-Hundredth anniversary of your splendid o^der. founded Washington Lodge, No. 1, on April 26, 1819. A lodge Wildey of selecting and constructing and the arms of the allies. was organized in New York city in December, 1806. Some of the You are members of one of the greatest fraternal orders of the needed roads. The amount of federal A campaign ribbon also has been members of this lodge, Shakespeare Lodge, No. 1, withdrew and in world, and by your faithfulness to its teachings you have been the funds available for road building adopted to consist of a "double rainbow" January, 1821, organized Franklin Lodge, No. 2, from which sprang, means of untold benefit to mankind, not only in your direct ministrations on March 1st was over $72,900,000. series with the red in the center. in November 1821, Washington Lodge, No. 3, and Columbia Lodge, which under the law must be match This ribbon will be similar for to the needy members of your order but also by the great influence No. 4, on January 3, 1822. ed by at least an equal amount from all armies and is to be .issued in of your lives and actions upon all who have come in contact On March 20, 1820, a lodge was founded in Boston, Mass., and the states, making a total of $145,800,000, the United States soon. on December 26, 1821, one in Philadelphia. with your benovelences. including approximately $9,800,000 A lapel button for civilian weir Thomas Wildey founded Washington Lodge, No. 1 in Baltimore from federal and state sources also has been adopted. It will be May your visit to our city be mutually helpful and may your on April 26, 1819, but in the light of authentic history he in no for roads in the national.farests. of bronze except in the cases of .soldiers order continue to grow and bless the world with its high ideals and sense was the founder of the Order in America. He did not know wounded in action when it will "On July 1. $95,000,000 more of federal practical helpfulness. of the existence of lodges elsewhere in America until he visited be of silver. This medal will rep funds will become available for Boston in 1823. resent a star in a wreath ,with th general road purposes and $4,000,000 letters "U. S. for the American What Wildey did to entitle him to a foremost place in our for national forest roads, which, with Out on first. soldier in the center. order's history, was to unite the scattered lodges by forming grand equal contributions from the states, A design for the Victory medal lodges. He was the great organizer of the Order, and he not only will provide and additional $198,000,000 Its a thoughtful providence that gives the Pussy Willows a two has been turned over to the national for federal aid road work, maki.g bound lodges together into a bundle, a grand lodge, but he joined weeks start ahead of the Dogwood. are commission of which Charles an aggregate sum of $343,800,000 for these grand lodges into one great body by establishing the Grand Dana Gibson is chairman. the calendar year. Lodge of the United States, in January, 1825, and for eight years he To indicate participation in the was its chief executive officer. "In other words, the 1919 program In the spring the birds all answer to their master's call. more important engagements extra for federal aid road building is greater In 1823, a man became a member of old Washington Lodge I« the spring the young man's fancy strongly turns to games of clasps will be given to be attach :d than any previous annual, road of Baltimore, whose memory is deserving of notice, for he gave to the ribbon of the medal. ball. building accomplishments in this the Order its first uplift. Brother Mathiot began and successfully country. It is so great-, in fact that prosecuted a movement to drive liquor and the resulting evils DEBS BEHIND BARS the states undoubtedly defer taking from the lodge rooms. The use of the flowing bowl in the lodges Judging from the splendid music and fine appearance of the city TO SERVE 10 YEARS up part of the federal funds until caused much odium to be cast on the Order, and when Brother band last Sunday we are going to have, some music here this summer 1920, because experienced contracting Mathiot's crusade against this impediment had eradicated the to liven things up. Scialist Leader Styles Self "Flaming and engineering organizations must undignified practice the Order's advance was as rapid as astonishing. Revolutionist" as He Enters Prison be devoloped from the stagnant conditions On our anniversary mention always should be made of of the war period before any James L. Ridgely. He joined the Order in Columbia Lodge, Baltimore, This city needs a revival of the church-going spirit rather than Moundsville, W. Va., April 14—Eugene exceptional amount of road building May 27, 1829. Twice he was elected Grand Sire, and twice he a reduction in the number of churches. If half the peopl'e here go to gets under way. V. Debs, several times sofcialist declined the honor, on the ground that he could serve the Order church next Sunday there will not be standing room for them. candidate for president of the'United "The states and their civil subdi-J better in other fields of labor. He was Grand Secretary of what States, today began serving his visions also will carry on a large now- is the Soverign Grand Lodge from 1841 to his death in Novetn-* 10 year sentence in federal prison amount of road work without federal ber, 1881. When this city council buys water for five cents a thousand here. aid. The extent of this is uncertain Wildey was the organizer of the physical forces of the order gallon and shells it to the taxpayers for thirty cents per thousand Debs gave himself up to federal authorities and will depend upon local labor, industrial Mathiot .was the reviser and reformer of the degrading and demoralizing gallons they are making a net profit! of five hundred per cent. What in Cleveland late yesterday and agricultural conditions. effects of allowing strong drinks to be passed around during on arriving from his home in Terre The present indications are that approximately are they doing with this five hundred per cent profit? the sessions of the lodges Ridgley was the order's great intellectual $280,000,000 will be spent Haute, Ind., He was convicted some architect and leader. He was a scholar, and his contributions in this way. months ago of seditious utterances to the order's literature are as great in volume as they are varied It would be a fine thing if a few others could s*ee their way clear during an addres sin Canton, Ohio. "The purpose pf the federal aid in theme and prolific in thought. Had he given the order nothing As the prisoner stood in the doorway to emulate Supt. Millington's example and make a generous donation road law is to encourage the construc else but the last grand charge, his memory would be entitled to of the pentitentiary he said: tion of roads of a substantial nature to our city band, without special solicitation, as he did. It lasting gratitude. 'I enter the prison door a flaming revolutionist, by the states, and to provide adequate is gifts received in this manner which are' thrice blessed and several my head unbent, my spirit safe guards for securing systematic times more appreciated. untamed, my soul unconquerable." and economical action. Long experience BRIEF ANNIVERSARY THOUGHTS Debs was met at .the Cleveland station has shown that the best results Odd Fellowship is not of ancient origin neither is it necessary will be secured if the work is by a party of friends, including When President Wilson rose to address the guests at his recent to surround it with the halo of ages to give it glory and dignity. David Fulton Harson of New York, performed under the supervision of dinn'er to members of Congress, he accidentally pulled from his Its teachings give it fame and its deeds exalt it. the state highway departments, the editor of the Call. He had been pocket a bit of red cloth. He explained that it was his "conjure method of the control depending upon scheduled to address a meeting to It is a child of the early part of the last century. From a very local conditions. protest against his incarceration »f small beginning it has devolopel into an institution which is today bag," used for the rheumatism and other purposes.—Leslie's Weekly. "The greater the administrative which he had not been notified until nearly worldwide. The single lodge with a few members which and technical ability of these departments, he arrived in the city. However, le took firm root 100 years ago to day, has been transformed into an A man has no natural rights except to what will promote the the greater will be their usefulness accampaned deputies to the federal earth-encircling organization. to the taxpayers of the state building without protest. All structures rest upon a foundation. Upon what underlying general welfare. All our legislation is based unconsciously perhaps Under the federal law, the state high Debs began his term as a clerk principle does this great brotherhood rest? on that principle. We justify legislation that makes for the ge :r il way departments have been strengthened the prison hospital. Warden Terrell •It rests upon the great Mosiac injunction to love our fellowmen well being of society. If prohibition promotes the general ood, and developed in a way that said he gave Debs the clerkship, the as we do ourselves, which means that we shall do for him as then it violates no right of any individual. Because no individual could not be equaled under any other lightest work in the institution, because we would wish that, under like condition, he should do for us. It type bf national road legislation that has any right to a scheme of things that, however harmless it may of his age. means that we should rejoice with him in his gladness, sympathize has been suggested. be to him personally, is a detriment to society—Minneapolis Journal. Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, socialcialist with him in his sorrow, help him up when he has fallen and, which agitator and speaker, passed is still better, uphold him when he totters tat he may not fall. It JOE LANGLAS BADLY through Minneapolis early yesterday is a command which was the fore-runner of the Golden Rule it WOUNDED, BUT RECOVERING After a long and bitter struggle for better government in city on her way to Jefferson Barracks., is the basis of civilization, and the corner stone of our great fraternity. affairs, International Falls entered upon a new era-Avith the election where she was to be given over to April 12, 1919 the federal prison authorities today last week of' K. O. Fosse1 as mayor. A el'ean up of the lawless element Sir Walter Scott tells us that in 1797 he saw the unhappy man Miss Sophie Langlois, to serve five years in the federal whom he made the name part in the novel called the Black Dwarf. which has infested that city for many years is promised by the International Falls, Minn., prison for violating the espionage Isabelle De Vere went to him in her hour of great trial. She wanted Dear Cousin -»ew administration. The border city is to be congratulated and act. Mrs. O'Hare has spoken in Minneapolis no money, but merely help. I will try and drop you a line to no little credit is due George P. Watson, publisher of the International several times for the state let you know that I have arrived at Let us listen a moment to the conversation between them: Falls Press who has fought long and hard for the victory just socialist party, the last time April* 6. Washington, D. C., landed at New Said the Black Dwarf: "Why should one being desire aid She was convinced of hampering enlistments won.—Blackduck Times. Port, Va.,, the first of the month, from another? Why should not each be sufficient to itself. I have by likening mothers of soldiers then came here. I a msorry to tell required sympathy and help from no one." to brood sows. you that I have lost one of my legs W henever the wording of the city charter is against progress "That," replied 'Isabella, "is the lot of wild tribes of nature, seven inches below the knee, had an or economy and the wishes of the baser el'ement, great emphasis is WHAT IS A USED MOTOR but chiefly of those that are destined to support themselves by repine, operation on the leg and., then lost it CAR ACTUALLY WORTH which brooks no fortune but it is not the law of nature in laid by the legal interpreters for the city on tlve necessity of taking I was two days on the battle field before general. Even .the lower orders have their confederacies for mutual the wording of it literally, but whenever} thie literal wording favors they found me. I am well now defense. Bu^ mankind—the race would perish did they cease Tax collectors in Cuyahoga county, and will get to come home in two progress and economy, then these same guys report that the charter to aid one onother. From the time that the mother binds the child's Ohio, have violent ideas to the or three months. Will close for this is not constitutional and should be revised. If the charter is wrong" comparative value of a 1910 and a head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the deathdamp time, will write more next time. or ambiguous we had better geti a new charter and one that means 1919 car. Here the table by which from the brow of the dying, we can not exist without mutual Your Cousin, they Jist automobiles for taxation: what it says in common English. Help. All, therefore, that need aid, have a right to ask it of their Joe Langlois. 1919 cars purchased after January fellow mortals, and no one who has the power of granting, can refuse Red Cross Convalescent House, 1, 1919, 90 per cent of list price 1919 without guilt." Walter Reed Hospital, BOOST THE BAND cars purchesed prior. Wash., D. C. Here we have vividly portrayed selfishness and its effects ou to Jan. 1 80 per ^cent of list price. the one hand, and the Spirit of Fraternity on the other. 1918 cars 50 per cent of list price! BEEKEEPERS' SHORT COURSE A band is one of the great factors in promoting community life, Odd Fellowship is tjie incarnation of this Spirit of Fraternity. 1917 cars 40 per cent of list price. It tells its members upon their entrance that they cannot be true xhere is nothing like a band to draw people together and to provide 1916 cars 30 per cent of list price. Dr. E. F. Philips with his force of Odd Fellows if they are not fraternal to their fellow man. for amusement for all classes of people. We are fortunate in having 1915 cars 20 per cent of list price. Extension workers together with the Love of kindred is implanted in the soul of man. Note the 1914 cars 10 per cent of list price. a good band in Winnebago. It is a musical organization that is Extension department of the University affection of parents for their children and their children's offspring. -The schedule was worked out and growing btetter and better all the time, and that is affording One of Minnesota will give to the Note the affection of children for their parents and other relatives. adopted by the county auditor's office beekeepers of Minnesota a one week much pleasure to all our people. The band should be aided in every It is an old saying that blood is thicker than water. These bonds some years ago in co-operation sjiort course commensing April 21st possible way.—-Winnebago Enterprise. -of attachment exist in animals, but they cease with the maturity nf with the Cleveland Automobile Club. and ending the following Saturday at their offspring. In the human race however, these bonds prevail It was abandoned for a time and now University Farm. St. Paul, Minn. during the lives of the parties. is again in force. They say it works THE PRICE OF PEACE DRY' ATTORNEY CAUTIONS The short course has been exceedingly out equitably enough. But then, figuring But beyond the limitations of blood relationship there exists AGAINST HOARDING LIQUOR successful in California and a used car's value when it's another natural love in the human soul, and that is the love of humanity, Don't fail to see this six^reel government New York. All states are begging to to be sold and when it's to be taxed the love for man as man. Selfishness may smother it, lack film at the Grand theatre Washington, April 1—Seizure and have it given. Minnesota is fortunate are two very different things, to be of proper training may obscure it, and passion may obliterate *i: next Saturday afternoon and evening confiscation by states of private in having secured it. The short sure. but it is affection of the soul nevertheless. Odd Fellowship seeks in addition to the usual run of goodfilms. stocks of intoxicating liquor accumulated course is intended particularly and in to foster this affection where it lies hidden, and to expand it to stiil in anticipation of nation wide the first place for commercial beekeepers, SOME AVENUE greater proportions. It has for its objects the enlargement of man's It will be run as part of the Victory prohibition will be possible and probable men and women who keep Loan Drive. It tells war secrets, affections, the imbuement of his ability to do good and the cultivation after the prohibition law goes bees for commercial purposes. A wife was entertaining her frienis it shows desperate fighting, it shows of those inborn fraternal feelings which cause us not only into effect, saays Wayne B. Wheeler, with an account of her only matrimonial the various war officials as well as to heave a tear and pity for sorrow, and cheerful word for the general counsel of the Antisaloon FIRST ESSENTIAL quarrel. President Wilson in both America and down-hearted, but as exemplified so beautifully and practically in league. Although the league has taken "After making it up with one another," the parable of the Good Samaritan. The priest and the Levite Paris. It shows General Pershing no steps to thi*end, Mr. Wheeler "How would you like to sign "up she said, "my husband planted with many other officers and the rank did not obey the command to love as fellowman the Samaritan believes the states themselves will with me for a life game?" was the a tree in remembrance of it." and file of the army and navy. did. take action. The latest decision of way a baseball fan proposed, y1. "If you had only done that," said You should see it as a matter of Odd Fellowship seeks to convert the priest and the Levite the supreme court is that states- have "I'm agreeable," replied the girl, another -woman to her husband, education in thoughts and ideas of into good Samaritans, to extend Friendship to its highest idga-I, the right and power to prohibit possession "where's your diamond?"—Indianapolis "what a splendid avenue we might War and Peace. Brotherly-Love, which gives cheer in the warm breezes of summer pf intoxicating liquors. Star. have had and its aid when we are exposed to the cold blasts of winter. -5k SB &\