INTERNATONAL FALLS PRESS, JULY 10, 1919. PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS I'VE NEVER SEEN whose preverted ideals have no basis in honest purpose. Whether addition to creating the system consisting-of 70 routes, which are definitely, these are high or low, rich or poor, intellectual or illiterates it is ANYTHING LIKE IT but not specifically, described, intent in coming, the character record they bring, and the associations AND BORDER BUDGET creates a fund which "shall be they have left in thelf" homeland that should determine th'eir known as the trunk highways sinking GEO. P. WATSON. Editor admission or exclusion. fund." This fund consists of the Steele Had to Quit Railroading on Bntered at the Poat Office at International Falls. Minn., aa Second-class Matter Moreover, once admitted, continued residence should be based proceeds of( any tax impossed on their Account of Bad Health—Gains vehicles and can be used only ou upon good behavior, absolute loyalty to our form of government Fifteen Pounds Taking Tanlac SUBSCRIPTION RATES*: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR payment of principal and interest on and the adoption o*f our language. Any immigration law should any bonds issued unless there is an "If I could speak with everybody add to this a date aft'er which no newspaper should be permitted actual excess of money needed fo(such International Falls never had a finer and qui'eter Fourth of personally who has stomach trouble printed in a foreign language without a special license to be issued requirements, in which event July than that of last Thursday with the exceptions of four old and rhematism, I would tell them to by the federal state department. such excess money may be transferred take Tanlac for I have tried timers being arrested for running a gambling joint, and who were to fund known as the trunk The worthy should be excluded citizenship should by no means self and have never seen anything let off with a paltry fine of $5 and costs, there were no breaches highway fund, which is the operating like it." was the statement made by be compulsory, but a blessing to be sought. The unworthy should fund. of the peace. Thanks to our efficient city police. J. T. Steele of Shirely, 111. Shirley, be excluded and the adoption of our language should b(e compulsory In addition the legislature is authorized was formerly a conductor on the L. as should wholehearted loyalty. to provide for the taxation .. N. railroad, which! position, he The new Bemidji State Normal school will evidently start up of motor vehicles on a dicerent basis states he had to gove up on account ii'ext fall more like a full fledged teacher training school than like than other personal property is of bad health. RISING LAND VALUES one just starting. The summer school has already about 125 taxed but provides thai any tax so "A number of years ago, while railroading," students. Its location is id'eal, its faculty is the best, and the pro levied shall be in lieu of all other he continued, "I began suffering taxes except wheelage taxes, which from stomach trougle and rheu gressive section of country from which it will naturally draw its The Common question as people witness the wonderful increases may be imposed by any borough, matism and kept getting worse in students is perhaps more awtake to the benefits to be derived from in prices paid for Iowa land is: "What about the future?" city or village. In this connection spite of all I could do. My appetite the course offered by such an institution than any other section Will prices continue to climb, or will there be a re action? Are we it is well to remember that it is not left me and I would suffer terribly of th'e state. now, or will we soon be, at the high water mark? proposed to eliminate the motor from indigestion and gas on the vehicle from personal property taxation, stomach after each meal. My head The answers to these important queries vary with different but rather to "load" the ached a great deal of the time, I Mayne H. Stanton, son of Judge C- W. stanton, is to be con people, but the consensus of opinion is that prices of land will continue license fee with an arbitrary sumwhich also suffered agonies from rheuma^ gratulated on being selected as the secretary of the new civic and to go up. There are good reasons for beliving this to be represents that which is now tism and felt tired, wornout and no commerce association, which has been recently organized in B»emidji. true. One of the best reasons is the precedent furnished by other being paid as personal property tax. account all the time. I simply got to Upon returning from his military servic)e he became editor In other words it is proposed to years. One Gidden man told us the other day that his father had where I had to be as careful as a of the Bemidji Pioneer which position he filled with such effeciency baby about my eating, was very pale, have the license fee include the sold one of the finest half sections in Gidden township at $45 an personal property tax on motor that he attracted the attention of the business men of that progressive and finally became so thin and weak acre on the express conviction that it would be impossible for the vehicles rather than to have the motor was forced to give up railroading city as just the man for the most important position in price to go any higher than that. The same farm today is worth altogether. vehicle eliminated from personal the new organization. Ther'e is no question of his "filling th $250 an acre. Hundreds upon hundreds of similar instances could property taxation. "About this time I began to see bill" because of his natural adaptation for that kind of work and be related. In fact, those who refuse to believe that land will sell Tanlac recommended very highly and The constitutional amendment also his knowledge of its importance and its needs. decided to see if it would help me as for $500 an acre in this community five years from now are fewer authorizes the legislature to provide others said it had them. My stomach for the issue and sale of the than those who refused to believe, twenty years ago, that it could soon got in shape to where I couid bonds of the state of Minnesota in even be worth $100. People are learning from precedent, and precedent HIGH PROFIT IN FARM LAND eat cabbage, beans, meats, potatoes such amounts as may be necessary goes to indicate that land values will continue to rise. and just anything else I wanted without to finance the construction of the There is another very sound reason for beliving that the high the slightest trouble afterwards. trunk highway system. It is provided, An Iowa farmer recently sold his farm for $375 per acre. He So I kept on taking Tanlac and when level has not nearly been reiached in Iowa land values. Nine farmers however, that there shall nev came to Freeborn county and recently purchased a farm near New I finished my fifth bottle my rehumatism be more than $10,000,000 par value out of ten are farm'ers and nothing else. They have no interest ill Richland for $165 an acre. The buyer said that the soil and topography and all my other troubles issued in any current year and that factories or stock companies. They will not put their money into were exactly the same at his formed Iowa property. The had disappeared and I had gained the total amount of outstanding such things. And every farmer is making money—more money fifteen pounds in weight besides. only difference was the lack of tiling. This farmer will immediately bonds shall never exceed $75,000,000. than he has any immediate use for- What does he naturally do? That was nearly three years ago, but spend approximately $50 an acre and tile tine new farm thoroughly In order to finance this bond issue He buys more land. He puts the money into farms in his vicinity, I have held my weight and felt fine witftin the limits prescribed by and when the work is completed he will be exactly where he started to this good day. So I can testify where his interests are and wfiere he knows it is safe and as good the amendment it will be necessarv with the addition of a profit of $160 in cash per acre. It would to both the immediate and lasting as a government bond. If, then, there is lively competition in securing to receive from the motor vehicle seefm that making money in Fre'eborn county farm lands is just ». results that come from the use of •owners of this state an average f« farms the prices are bound to be high. The farmer with simple problem in arithmetic. Tanlac and I firmly believe if I had of $18 per car. The legislation fixing money to invest isn't going to stop to figure how great a per cent known about it in time I would have the fee will have to be passed at he can get on his investment in $300 to $400 land. He knows it continued my railroad work. No the 1921 session, but it is pretty MOST BENEFITED WILL PAY dcubt there are lots of people today is good and he can make money on it, and that's enough. definately determined what form this suffering like I did before I took The present high prices of farm products, of course, are closely legislation shall take. It is proposed Tanlac and if I can show them the There are 400,000 motor cars in Minnesota. A special annuui by the supporters of the plan to associated with th,e rising yalu.es of land. When the prices go road to health I think it is nothing load license on these at an average of $16 to $18 a ye*ar will be provide for a license fee based upon down to anyways near the pre-war level and stay that way for any but right that I should do so." three elements. First, the horsepower from $6,400,000 to $7,200,000. This, with the federal aid to roads length of time the price of land is sure to go down, too. But there Tanlac is sold in International of the vehicle second, apportioned to this state, will pay tbe $10,000,000 to- b& spent each is no assurance that prices of Mm products will ever go to their Falls, by S. N. Rubin and in Littlefork weight-, and third, its list price. the year for 10 years on state roads, under Babcock law. by M. S. Dimon. pre-war leviel. There is every person to believe that they will is also proposed that there shall be The motor car owners of the state agree to this tax. They do remain practically as they are for many years. That applies equally different classes of licenses to take INCREASED TAX ON AUTOMOBILES this because they know they will save much more—four tim'es as as well to the prices of all other coimmodities. We might as well care of the depreciation in the val TO PAY FOR ROADS much—in repairs, gasoline and th.e life of their cars when, they can of the car commensurate with depreciation adjust ourselves to the new order of things. And we might as which the owner gets drive over hard surfaced roads. well prepare for $500 land. Comprehensive Plan, Providing for when he lists his car for personal They are willing to pay the bill to make th'e saving. Being Bond Issue, Conies Up in Novem property taxation under the present ber, 1920. willing they can see no reason why any one else should object. It statutes. It is probable the rate per WAKE UP! ITASCA A new era in highway construction will increase the value of every acre of farm land in the state. It horsepower and rate per hundred in Minnesota was opened February will cost the land owniers nothing unless they also own cars. It weight will remain stationary in all 21, 1919, when Governor will not assess a c'ent of taxes upon any property except cars. And classes of licenses and that the rate If the dilatory methods pursued sg far by the Itasca county Burnquist, in! the presence of a number this is all there is to the good roads bond issue election on July per hundred dollars list price will, commissioners regarding theo Babcock road system continue it of interested citizens and officials be a sliding scale. ir this county. affixed his signature to an will be ten years before this county will reap any of the benefit?, act of the legislature known as At first it would appear that the In July St. Louis county will vote to issue $7,500,000 of its own granted that the constitutional amendment is ratified in 1920. No increase from the present ridiculously Senate File 78, submitting to the bonds. This will let the county get its share of good roads ahead of county in the state is more in ne^d of extended hard surfaced roads. low basis of $5 for three years people of the state of Minnesota the state road law. But the automobiles will pay the bill and the No county is better able to undertake the work immediately. for a license fee and an average for their rejection or approval an state will take up the bonds. It is not "high finance." It is not of $18 per car is a tremendous amendment to the constitution The majority of the counties in the state1 are going to issue ev'en getting something for nothing. It is just a simple, common which, ^if adopted, will put into effect jump. Further investigation, however, bonds and start work immediately. The attitude in St. Louis county, sence plan to get good roads by having what wears out the roads, the so-called Babcock plan proves this to be a mistake. expressed in the Duluth Herald, is indicative of the general attitude for a system of trunk highways is For instance, the average assessed what now makes and keeps bad roads, pay for a hard surface they throughout the state. public highways by the state. valuation of all cars in the state of can't wear out and can't spoil. "Unless St. Louis county votes next Tuesday to pave its trunk This date, which should ever Minnesota in 1918 was $140 per There should not be a single vote against this bond issue and remembered by good roads boosters car. Applying an average tax levy roads now, it will hav'e to wait yea:rs b/efore the state gets around to every vot'er should go to the polls and vot}e for it. The only votes of 40 miles, which is probably a fair in Minnesota, marked the culmination do it. against it must come from those who religiously always vote of the most rapid progress ever average of the levy on motor vehicles, "Many counties are taking advantage of the privelege of issuing against everything, and from those who do not understand.—News made by an important measure in we find that the car owners their bonds now to anticipate the state's building of their part of the legislatre and it should stand are paying $7.26. Raising this to $18 Tribune. the Babcock highway system. means an increase of $10.74. out in the history of road building second to none other except November "When the system is voted on a year from next November the IMMIGRATION 2, 1920 when the people will state will start building it, but it can only put a limited amount into LEARN A TRADE give their verdict upon the ratification it each year. Probably the counties that have anticipated the of the constitutional amendment A bill has been introduced in congress to stop all immigration states work, as St. Louis county has a chance1 to do now, will absorb submitted on that date. The Air Service offers to all men for five years and then impose more severe restrictions than in the On December 15, 1918, C. M. Babcock, the available fund for several years to comie. In the event it a chance to learn to fly and to acquire past. Whether the exclusion period is three, four or five years, commissioner of highways, announced would be five to ten years before a start was made in this county. an intfijmate and thorough it should be long enough for the country to dige'st the raw food it through the press of the knowledge of planes, engines, electricity, In the meantime, most of the rest of the state would be getting now has. state the form in which his recommendations foundry and machine shop ahead of it." It should b»e used also, for that purpose or else thle exclusion is for needed legislation work at government expense on full If the people vote authority to issue large sums of bonds :tt would take. His announcement wis useless. During this time the law should compel everyone who pay. Enlistments are from one to received with general approval a county, it is clear that they will vote ratification of the amendment. remains to learn to speak, read and write our language. Every three years without further military throughout Minnesota, and within obligation. The Air Service trains Already enough counties have so voted to. indicate what the popular illiterate should be listed and those who fail to adopt th'e language 30 days from, the time it was made enlisted men to become pilots or expert sentiment is. We run no chances. As The Herald says, the of the country should be deported. They can never be digested. more than 100 organizations including aviation mechanics, and prepares counties who do start now, and the number is rapidly increasing, The chronically disloyal should go with them. Commercial clubs, automobile them for the modern and fascinating .will absorb all the available funds for several years after the state clubs, civic organizations and county Our immigration laws are based upon the wrong th'eory. Tt game, which will be on a egins work. Itasca county cannot afford to get ten years behind boards and passed resolutions approving is not material that a man should bring money with him. Whether paying commercial basis in the very* the plan. near future. fn this matter. The roads are going to be built. There is no excus»e he has $5 or $25 or nothing is not the essential thing. Many of oui The full importance of this plan for longer delay in getting into action in this county. The Air Service Mechanics Schools, best citizens came with nothing but strong bodijes, stout hearts and is not to be comprehended without U. S. Army, are more completely honest ideals. These are what we want our immigrants to bring. Thieire should be no misunderstanding about certain features a complete understanding of highway equipped with modern tools necessary If they have these, it does not matter if they have no other baggage, of the situation. The funds expended by the county will be fully problems in the state of Minnesota. for thorough instruction in such as is checked.. The mere establishment of a reimbursed by the state later on. Should the county vote a large trades taught, than any institution trunk highway system, while it is Nor is it essential that they should intjend to become citizens sum of bonds it would not be necessary to use all this sum immediately. of their kind in the United States. worth hundreds of millions of dollars nor that they do become citizens. That should be as th|ey wish. If, And particularly must it be understood that the taxes will Is there any reason why you'should to the state, does not give to the after residence here, citizenship does not sufficiently appeal to them, not be increased one whit by building roads, for the expense will stand still and let others climb over people the full benefits tiTbe derive** they have the right to remain just as residents. But this should you when you have the same chan be borne by a wheel tax on automobiles. Moreover, Itasca countv by good roads. Its real importance they have? Surely the least you can not be so .easy as in the past. automobile owners will pay their full share of the cost of the system is seen when it is remejfibered that do is to find out just what there is in All noncitizens should have to register and to report every this trunk system is to be but the from the moment the amendment is ratified, even if Itasca county this proposition for you, without a main line of comprehensive sys change of residence, This government should know who they does sit tight and wait years for the state to build the roads in the obligating yourself in any way. tem of highways reaching into every are, what they are and what they are doing. Most of them are county. And what we pay would be helping the counties who have For further information apply U. nook and corner of the state and giving our country more than they take. We get from them -i been awake and started work at once. We have everything to lose S. Recruiting Station, International giving the benefits of good highway prosfit on their labor and ability. They may be resident agents or and nothing to gain by delay. Falls. transportation most to the isolated merely Courageous hearts that seek adventure or material advantage. communities. Th(e question of a $2,000,000 bond issue in Itasca county shtiuld The bars should be down and locked only to those who are of The constitutional amendment Henry Dawson and family arc be immediately submitted to a vote of the people—Graad Rapids which, In itself, deals with nothing moving to Superior where Mr. Daw~ the breejl that breeds trouble those who lack moral anchorage and Herald Review. 2 but the trunk highway system in f«n is no* employed.