INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS credit of discovering the wonderful clover-growing qualities ot fi seated about everything in sight. The millennium, the Utopian the soil of this section. Sevieral years ago he called it "the land paradise so freely promised the downtrodden workingman has not where clover is a weed," and stated that the large amount of lime come, however. The directing genius of those who had been able AND BORDER BUDGET in the soil, the abundance of nitrogen in the air and the exceptional to amass w»ealth and gain large incomes has merely been withdrawn GEO. P. WATSON, Editor from industry, and the workingmen who are not starving are dead, number of beies combined to make it the best clover and clover seed or living off the public storehouses. A little arithmetic, sanely applied district on either continent. Catered at the Feat Offlee at International Falls. Minn., aa Second-class Matter Mr. Rulien who has 9,000 acres of land, started out a few at the proper time, might have saved them. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR years ago to demonstrate the wonderful possibilities of clover in In their efforts to better their condition. Amrican workingmen this section, and in anticipation of what was coming he invested must take into consideration the fact that there is only so It has been suggested that an ordinance be passed requiring $400 in bees, wThich he figured would help polinate the clover for much wealth being produced, and all of us are having a hand in "sedan" cars pull down the curtain over the rear window so that seed, and the result is that he ought to get a large amount of honey producing it. The so-called "capitalists" may be driven to banKxuptcy the people of the residence districts won't have to vomit any more this year. He decided that Alsike Clover was the best for this district, and ruin, but ISeyound the satiscaction such an achievement over the lollygagging seen through them as patrons are treated to a and the wonderful results achieved show the wisdom, of his apparently would give some of the bolshevist agitators and their ride throught our fair city. choice. followers, it would gain little or nothing for the wage-earner. Only The land from which he got such great results is valued at from by increased production can the living conditions of the people as a While being joshed last week at Fort Frances over the kind $10 to $75 an acre. whole be bettered. of beer and light wines legally dispensed over there, the "editor of Is there any other land in the world that can beat or even equal There is too much loose talk and superficial thinking about our this paper remarked "well there's no special kick in that stuff" when the record it has made? present day problems. It would help if more people got out pencil at once the rejoiner came. "As long as the stock of booze at the best We don't exclude the $300 and $350 an acre land of southern and paper and mixed some arithmetic with common sense. Pioneer hotel in International holds" out a fellow can get all the kick he Minneseota and Iowa.—Baudette Region. Press. needs." ADVERTISING AND EFFICIENCY A SOAP BOX ARGUMENT Judging from the comments from various parts of the county the doings of our legislators will be closely watched for signs of a By Joseph Fenton Advertising works for efficiency, because it draws in trade from bill requiring the county officials who are playing truant as far as the surrounding country and nearby towns, thus enabling the business their official duties are concerned, most of the time, to be good little of a place to be conducted on a biggter scale. A non-advertising We measured his crop of clover and found that it contained 16.8 boys and see to that seats are not vacant during "recitation it their town gets very little outlying business. People prefer to go way Conductors, in a recent statement in support of socialization and study periods." a greater distance to places that show more enterprise. When new of the railroads said, "Distribution is a question of Govenment and business is drawn in from the surrounding CQuh.try and the trade it is not right that there should be any profit on the cost of distribution. That "Welcome Hom&" day this city owes to its returned soldiers, volume is thereby increased, the stores can buy in bigger lots at Hence, I believe nationalization of the railroads should be sailors, marines aricl nurses is getting nearer. Duluth had lower prices. The expense charge for each article sold is reduced. brought about." theirs a couple of weeks ago, and the range towns have had their? Thus, advertising tends to create a community of active, enterprismg, This is a sample of the loose thinking and fool arguments that ^nd our sister city of Ranier had theirs last Saturday, and it was wide-awake stores, that do business enough and turn their we generally hear from the soap-box orators only. If profits on sure a dandy. The sooner International Falls has its, not only for capital fast enough so that their service is performed on an economical the distribution of goods by the railroads should be elimated then curst.ves but for the whole county, the better it will be appreciated, basis. This point of view is sustained by the fact that in any profits on the distribution of goods bought in retail stores should first thing we know the disagreeable fall weather and winter will bright and go-ahead town, there is always a large group of merchants likewise be eliminated. be here when we can't give the boys near as good a time as when who are liberal advertisers and who get the best trade of the Neither one or the other should be a function of the Government. the weather is fine. Then too w'e should have it for the "boys" alone community and nearby country.—Advocate, Hammon, Oklahoma. When Mr. Gerretson assums that transportation is necessary not ask them to share congratulations with the city council over for the maintenance for American standards of living and that the building of a few blocks of paved streets which should have bee" THE COUNTY NEWSPAPER this can be directed only by Government he says in effect that everybody completed years ago. 'J~ 4 will be better off when we double the cost of that service. The average man can live in a big city all his life and never The Plumb plan not only means the Socialization and partial DONT TRY AND LICK IT ALL UP, BILLY see his name in the paper, but the farmer and the average mac and 1 confiscation of billions of- private property but it proposes the administration women in any small town will see their names in their local newspaper of that property by a soviet administration. An administration Billy Noonan say§"tftat there is three per cent alcohol in Castoria at least ten times a year, and always connected with something by a class, for a class who constitutes a large majority and twenty percent in Tanlac. He must have had an awful that brings joy, all through life. The country newspaper is of our population. If Mr. Gerretson's argument is worth anything thirst to go to such extremes as to first swipe the baby's soothing the newspaper that spread happiness and content. at all we should begin with the socialization of the farms, syrup and then take a pull at the old lady's remedy. Here's hoping Don't you always want to read about the ball game you saw the the grocery stores, the shoe factories and every other productive, he won't try to lick up all that's manufactured. day before? If you witness a fire, you read the details of that fire distributive business before we socialize the railroads. with double interest. If you hadn't seen the^blaze perhaps you SEEKING FOR THE PROFITEER Mr. George B. Murray assumes that a few irten #n the railroads would not read the story at all. will thus exploit the people. Some thirty millions of our population Why is this It is because the things you know about are the WThat is profiteering anywray? In the confused hubbub of debate are owners of -the ralroads and the dividends paid to railroad things you lilce to re&d about. That is why country newspapers ever cost-of-living, about the only clear note is denunciation of the investors for the past ten years does not average as much as five have such a tremendous hold on their readers. They tell them about profiteer and demand for his execution at sunrise. But* the rule here, and one-half per cent per year. If capital is entitled any dividends the comings and goings of their friends and neighbors, the people i« similar to that in the compounding of Welsh rabbits—first catch at all then there has been ho exploitation whatever. Under the they know. your profiteer. Plumb plan there will be both exploitation and inefficiency to the Nothing on earth is as interesting to the farmers and people extent of billions. Let us then define: That man is a profiteer who takes inordinate living in this town as this news of their babies, the marriages of profits. The seller may be a producer, a middleman or a retailer. their boys and girls, their social and church events, the illness and CLOVER LAND THAT MADE A PROFIT OF $273.90 AN ACRE The essential thing is that, considring what the article costs him, deaths among their friends. Year after year the country newspaper he adds too much for profits. These accumulated profits, added all records the history of its community. If we didn't have the facts to back up this article we wouldn't along the line till the consumer's pocket is reached, spell high prices. Is it any wonder the country newspaper is the most powerful expect you to believe it. In other words, the thing sold should give full value. The buyer advertiseing medium on earth? Just as its power is great in holding should get his money's-worth. Well, then, how about the workman When we tell you that land near Baudette will produce nearly its readers' interest, so it is helpful in shaping thought and powerful who agrees to delivers--certain quantity of productive labor in return three hundred dollars an-,acre in clover seed and hay we are as an advertising medium. It turns the printed word almost for an agreed wage? If he loiters and loafs, is he a profiteer? making a statement that we can prove absolutely. Last week when into the spoken word. Does his empyower get^iiiTl value, his money's worth? And how Wm. Rulien made just such a statement to us, we thought he was No metropiolitain daily, no magazine, no billboard, no farm mistaken, and we told him we were from Missouri. An invitation about the union that is,,constantly striving by strikes and "\Vage advances journal—good as they all are—rings the bell wTith farmers and to his farm followed, and on Tuesday the Region editor, accompanied and reduced hours to cut down production? If its efforts tend small to,wn people as does their home newspaper. It is an integral by J. J. McCurdy, county agent, O. H. Oden, cashier of the First constantly to increase prices, is it engaged in profiteering? part of the community that cannot be filled in any other way—Fairmont National Bank, Fred Harmon, proprietor of the Rex Hotel and J. And the Government's officials who hoard vast war supplies Sentinel. W. Jowett, manager of the Warroad Telephone Co., made a trip to of necessaries that are no longer needed in order not to "disturb Mr. Rulien's farm a mile and a half from Baudette. the market"—that sacred high-priced market—are they profiteers? Here is what happened. Other officials who awarded huge "cost plus" contracts from which DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON the contractor received his handsome profits, no matter how much Mr. A. B. Gerretson, former chief of the Brotherhood of Railacres. AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND he inflated the price of wages and material—were they profiteers? Perhaps, after all, the profiteers of the country are not all engaged Then we measured his crop of clover seed and found that he WHEN YOU WANT TO—\ E S O A N in producing, buying and selling the necessaries of life. The had 153 bushels. FIX THAT FENCE Successor to G. Holmqnist newly awakened administration might find in governmental waste LAY THAT FLOOR A little arithmetic showed us that the yield was 9.1 bushels Cabinet Maker, Furniture SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Picture Framing, and extravagance in its own dooryard some of the things that have to the acre. BUILD THAT SMALL General Carpenter, Contracttor caused and are still causing the ball-looning of prices.—Minneapolis At the August first quotation of $27 a bushel we found.that his BUILDING OR COTTAGE and Builder. Journal. income from the seed was $245.83 an acre. or any Big Carpenter job—i 1502 THIRD STREET But he still had the hay, so we measured that and found that INCREASED PRODUCTION NEEDED he had 38 tons and that it was worth $22 a ton. This added $49.00 an acre to his income, bringing the total to $294.83 an acre. NATIONAL UFE INSURANCE CO Contrary to expectations we found the threshed hay of splendid The New York Sun presents interesting figures, presumably feeding qualities, and on looking up the wholesale market found it authentic, on incomees in the United States. They are based on income tax returns. 1917 quoted at $22 a ton. NONTPELIER, VERMONT These are facts that cannot be disputed. A committee of five It reveals that there were 3,302 incomes between $100,000 and $150,000 averaged at $125,000, this makes a total of $402,750,000. c'tizens proved them to their satisfication. Chartered 1848 We went into the matter of expense and found the following: There were 2,347 incomes between $150,000 and $300,000 each averaged 1 The cost of the seed was $ 54.40 at $200,000, this means a total of $469,400,000. Averaging A ccptfi Insurance in Force $75,000,000.00 The cost of cutting was 24.00 all other incomes in a similar way, it is estimated that of all incomes $254,000,000.00 The cost of threshing was 288.00 over $100,000 a year, the total was $1,643,500,000. The total cost of the crop was $366.40 It might startle some of our red soapbox orators if they were Issues the best forms of Life, Terms, The total proceeds were $4,967, and when the expenses \verc to sit down and figure out the result if all this income was taken deducted the total profit was $4,600.60 for 16.8 acres. away from those who got it and redivideed among the "masses Endowment and Trusteeship Insurance Mr. Rulien is developing and farming eight other farms, and He would discover that it would mean less than a nickel a day he is getting results almost as profitable from them. extra for each of the 110,000,000 persons in the United States. and Life Annuities. When it is considered that four bushels to the acre is not considerede It is the favorite wiail of the agitator that the people of high incomes are responsible for the workingman being downtrodden a big yield the extent of Mr. Rulien's crop can be realized. A request for further particulars will not involve Mr. Rulien is still threshing 125 acres to run through the machine, He asks the "wage slave," as he calls hm, only to look at the millionaire with his costly yachts, automobils, etc., if he would learn and he has already threshed about seventeen tons. any obligation. why he finds it hard to keep butter on his children's bread. With In 1914 Jas. Clark of Williams got eight bushels of clover seed such propaganda is the soil of bolshevism fertilized. per acre, in 1915 Mr. Sanford got eight bushels and in 1916 Mr. The futility of attempting to equalize,' incomes and abolish 'capital Rulien on another farm got slightly under nine bushels. These various JOHN D. KIBBEY, General Agent are oveer as a means of bettering the condition of the average person farms scattered a territory of 30 miles, which shows becomes evident with the use of just a little arithmetic. One millionaire's that it is not only the land in the Baudette district but all over International Falls, income divided among 100 men would mean a tidy little the Rainy River valley that will produce marvelous results from Minn The of the sum for each. But there are thousands of people1 for each millionaire, clover. yields various years also go to show that 1919 Literal Dividends Net Ctst Lew each. and a division would mean only a paltry amount for not an year for is exceptional clover. ***". y-^ 1 &c> v\3 Tie have to find this out in Russia. Theyi: have con- They begun To Dean Woods of the University Minnesota belongs the of