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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

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INTERNATIONAL FALLS, PRESS, AUGUST 21, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS sion does not interfere" with the enjoyment of other advantages letain a little fairer percentage of our earnings we shall be happy, at the same time. pessimist. If the tax assessor and collector will only permit us to retain a little fairer percentage of our earnings we shall be happy, Unfortunately, some boys are obliged to go to work for selfsupport AND BORDER BUDGET at 14. We hop»e the time will soon come when that necessity and we are beginning to s'ee a gleam of light on this subject. Patience GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and confidence are justified, and with these great prosperity will be 'removed when society will recognize its obligation to give to every boy and every girl the advantages of the public Catered at the Pest Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Matte* is assured."—Forbes Magazine. schools to the! highest grade.—Minneapolis Tribune. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR CHAMPAGNE APPETITE ON POP INCOME Five dollars and costs. Wouldn't it "split your stocking.' DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON When will prices take a tumble? That s'eems to be the paramount question in the minds of many of us.' Prices will never AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND become the political religion of "Let reverence for the law tumble far, but will always be kept just ahead of wages. A dollar E S O A N WHEN YOU WANT TO—\ the nation."—Abraham Lincoln. will ne^er again, if it ever has, do its duty. No matter what wages FIX THAT FENCE Successor to G. Holmquist a working man gets the cost of living will be just over the hill and LAY THAT FLOOR Cabinet Maker, Furniture SEE If we are fortunate enough to land that state institution for still going. Every strike and an increased wage puts the cost ofj HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, living just that much higher. And then another strike follows General Carpenter, Contracttor the feeble-minded it will take one hotel the size of the Rex to take BUILD THAT SMALL BUILDING OR COTTAGE1 and Builder. in time. Rigid economy in every hom«e is the only way the workman care of the visitors alone who will come here to see their relatives 502 THIRD STREET or any Big Carpenter job—J can hope to succeed. He must learn to save. He must reduce in the institution. Everybody should boost for it. his champagne appetite to the plane of his pop bottle income and save. He must live within his income not outside of it. He also Labor unions cannot very well be formed amongst the farmers must save in other things than our shrinking dollar. His savings, because the farms must be kept going days, nights and Sundays in NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. if any, must be invested in things that appreciate rather than depreciate. order to raise enough to feed the Union labor men and others in The young man who has laid by a thousand dollars has the cities. This is one of the reasons why the rural population seen it while drawing interest for him depreciate almost half of NONTPELIEIt, VERMONT does not look with favor upon more intensified labor organizations. what it was when he deposited it. Half in purchasing power. Chartered 1848 Think it over, son and let's see what you can do about it—El}r The side roads which will be built with the money released Miner- from every township and county treasury, due to the fact that the Assets Insurance in Force main trunk highways are to be built with automobile license money THE BASIS OF OUR SOCIAL UNREST $75,000,000.00 $254,060,000.0a within a very few years will cause a hard surfaced road to be constructed past every farm to these main trunk roads. No one can The wave of social unrest which is passing over the world at Issues the best forms of Life, Terms, better afford to boost for the Babcock highways than the farmer the present time might have been predicted by any careful student on the side road. of history. Every great war in the past has brought an aftermath Endowment and Trusteeship Insarance of this sort. The unrest of today is more widespread and more It is very much hoped-that the city council will be able to let 'acutte because the war was such a vast affair in comparison with and Life Annuities. the contract for the fourteen blocks of hard surfaced paving in our all previous conflicts. city to a firm that are financially abl»e to go through with the coittract It takes but little reflection to realize that the world cannot be and that it will not have too many contracts in other places A request for farther particulars will not involve ripped up by its roots, as it has been during the past five years, so as to delay them in getting started on our contract. The right without unsettling most of the old economic relations and imparing any obligation. kind of contractors ought to be able to get this work done this faith in the old social order. War places a premium on force, fall providing they get the necessary labor. not on reason, on violence, not on deliberation and compromise. JOHN D. KIBBEY, General Agent This war has promulgated more than any other war in history, thousand foreign in There are a automobiles Bemidji every the doctrine of "force without stint" as the means of getting results. day during this summer season, each bring an average of four Surely the whole world can hardly be expected to pass persons looking for a cool outing place. Bemidji's experience this International Falls, Minn. without an infusion of iron in its temper. year will also be our experience next year if the county commissioners Ordinarily the material destruction which a great war brings Liberal Dividends Net Cost Low can see their way clear to get our main trunk roads gravelled. 7\ in its train would turn men's thoughts to economy and retrenchment. But where will the hotels in all the villages and cities enroute sleep But in the United States we have had no great material these tourists, when they come? The summer tourist trade alone destruction in the ordinary sense. On the other hand we have to this city will be worth tens of thousands of dollars pet year. spent billions so lavishly as to propagate the idea, that the resources Special Medical Visit This prosperity is coming and no one can stop it. So we should of the nation are absolutely without limit. This babel of voices begin to plan to take care of it. Hie well known Expert Specialist calling for the subsidzing of so many things out of the public taxes DR. WOOD is one of the results. Considerable sections of our people have There is no limit to the greatness of the future before America, lost all sense of financial proportion. They imagine that our resources before our beloved land. But we can realize it only if we are are boundless while as "a matter of truth we have been Americans, if we are nationalists, with all the wisdom of our burning them up at a terrific rate during the past two or three M. D., M. C. P. & S., L. M. C., ETC. hearts and all tfre wisdom of our braii^s. We can serve the world years. Has the Honor of Announcing His Visit to this District at all only if we serve America first and best. We must work The war, moreover, has impared the habits of industry among along our own national lines in every field of achievement. We millions of men, not merely among those who were actively in MOST IMPORTNT TO DEAF PERSONS must feel in the very marrow of our being that our loyalty is due the service, but among the still larger number who found themselves only to America, and that it is not diluted by loyalty for any other Deafness and distressing noises in the ears and head treated diverted into new fi'elds of work by reason of the emergency. nation or all other nations on the face of the earth. Only thus upon entirely new. and scientific principles. Many long standing Getting back into the old grooves is a slow process. We shall we fit ourselves really to serve other nations, to refuse ourselves cases of a severe nature have yielded to Dr. Wood's must not expect readjustment too quickly nor by unwise measures to wrong them, and to refuse to let them do wrong or suffer method of treatment. seek to hasten it unduly. It will take its own time as it has done wrong.—Theodore Roosevelt. after every other war in human history. SICK ME2M AND WOMEN In a word, the present unrset cannot be explained on economic THE CAUSES OF THE HIGH COST OF LIVING grounds alone. It is in part at least psychological and goes far Sefe DR. WOOD at once. He is a Specialist in Nerve, Blood, deeper than any mere question of wage and price levels.—Bostoi Stomach, Liver, Skin, Kidney, Bladder and all lingering (1) Currency inflation (2) vast exports of food stuffs to Herald. Chronic and Complicated Complaints from whatever Cause. Europe, partly contributed to supply foreign needs (3) high taxes DO NOT DELAY! No Disease Lies Dormant. (4) governmental extravagance in purchases of food and clothing ON LEAVING SCHOOL TOO SOON TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY both as to quantity and price (5) increased labor and materia! costs in the United States (6) failure of the administration to enforce Dr. Wood does not treat incurable diseases, or infants and children. The time of year is at hand when many boys and some girls the laws against combinations in unreasonable restraint of are trying to make up their minds whether they shall begin high He is a Specialist in the diseases of Men and Women only. trade. Some of these causes are remediable, some for the present 25 years practical experience as a Specialist. school this year, or whether they shall continue in the high school. are not. The talk that Congress can by additional legislative enactments There are so many considerations in favor of taking the high SATISFACTION GUARANTEED correct the situation is bunk. Such remedies as are practicable school course that it would be difficujt to mention all of them. are within the reach of the administration, which is so The one that would probably weigh with the boys most is that PRESS OPINIONS busy remodeling the world that it has no time for the consideration expressed in the desire for business success. From the Muskolco Herald From the Mining News of domestic problems, and which always prefers talk to action—Ex. The Bureau of Education at Washington is warning boys "Dr. Wood has made a great Dr. Wood has obtained a great against leaving school without the high school course. It tells ame for himself in his Drofession." reputation by1 his successful treatment HOW ABOUT IT? of nerve, skin, blood, chronic them that at the age of 25 years the boy who remains in school From the Sudbury Star and special dfceases of men and until he is 18 will have received by that time $2,000 more salary Dr. Wood has created a very favorable women. An exchange has the following to say in regard to a person ,mpression during his stay in than the boy of the same age who left school at 14, and that the Sir'l-ury by his diagnosis and treatment that wanted to be the whole works: Don't become too puffed up. former will, at the age of 25, be recei-^ing $900 a year more than From the Daily Times Journal of several intricate cases. Take a quiet walk any day through the village cemetary. On a the other. Dr. Wood has earned a great reputation From the Orilla News Letter in his profession by his neglected lot you will likely find a small tombstone and on it inscribed This difference of $900 a "year is equivalent to the interest on Dr. Wood, the well-known specialist treatment of chronic and complicated the name of man who in his day, was the whole works $18,000 at 5 per cent, which means the same thing as if the boy has obtained considerable renown troubles. in the town- Nobody moved without consulting him. He ran the with the seemingly larger pay had an investment of $18,000 bringing by his many cures of longstanding Hfcm the Bracebridge Gazette lodge, the gang and the politics of th'e hamlet. He was simplv diseases. him in 5 per oent interest. But $18,000 accumulated, if not Dr. Wood has a great name as a IT in big big brass letters. But time gathered him in and before From the Haleyburian dollars, in increased earning capacity, means that the boy who specialist in his profession. grass grew on his grave be was forgotten by all except his immediate remained four years longer in school practically earned $4,500 That Dr. Wood is a specialist of From the Tribune family. The town ran on just the same and there was no break great skill in his profession is endorsed year by continuing at his studies. Dr. Wood cannot be looked upoa by the fact that during his Gown in the machinery. So you want to remember that at best, That looks like pretty good pay for going to school, but if as other than a skillful and successful previous visit to Haleybury he was all of us are small potatoes and few in a hill. Don't get the the government figures are correct that is what the high school practitioner. successful in absolutely every case idea into your head that the town can't run without you. Lots boy earns each year of his high school course And not only that, he' undertook, which redounds greatly From the North Bay Times bigger men have gone away and nothing serious has happened. to the credit of the worthy doctor. but this boy with four years more of education is going to put some Dr. Wood—The sick and ailing de* Things will run all right after you are gone. more difference between himself and the boy who went to work sirious of consulting this well-known From the Cobalt Daily Nugget at 14, as the years go by, until he has reached his prime. The boy specialist should do so at once. The We note the arrival of the emi- NO ROOM FOR PESSIMISTS doctor has obtained considerable of 18 who left school at 14 may be earning more money at that ment specialist, Dr. Wood. The doctor eminence as an expert and successful age than the 18-year-old who has just left school will be able .o is no stranger to the district, practitioner, by his many remark— Judge Gary is rapidly becoming America's foremost optimist. command at the beginning, but his advantage, as the figures show, where during his former visit he able cures of rheumatism, fits, deafness, Here is a, sample of his latest utterances: "The people of this country is soon wiped out. was highly successful in the treatment catarrh, nerve, skin, blood and It estimated are rich and growing richer. is the wealth of of a number of chronic an'4 intra cable diseases of men a.nd women. The government finds that at the age of 25 after one has been complicated cases. No doubt many this country is equal to one-third or more of the total wealth of all Dr. Wood's treatment is upon in business 11 years, hie is earning $12.75 a week, while the other sufferers will avail themselves of entirely new and scientific principals countries that there is held by the banks $15,000,000 or $16,000,000,000 who took the high school course and had been in business seven the opportunity afforded them of and embraces the latest discoveries that the monety in circulation is about $56 per capita, as years is earning $30 a week, and that the total wages up to that consulting this celebrated specialist. in therapeutics. against about $34 before the war. What is it to be supposed will time amount to $5,112.50 and $7,337.50, respectively. Dr. Wood is New at the Fort Frances Hotel, be done with it? Why, invested and expended in order to increase This may not be thie highest consideration for continuing in I wealth. Perhaps you and will get some of it, and if so we will school- There are advantages to be derived from an education Fort Frances and Nay be Cbnsilted'Kaitil i*. expend or invest it, for we are like other human beings. There is quite: as important as increased earning capacity, but the increased s£- Tiesday next. .•. stiU room in this country for the optimist, but littk space for the earning capacity is a-concrete, demonstrable fact and its posses-J