'VM'" 4f *if ("f rir Tv, "sr-.v**"-. 1 1 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, SEPTEMBER 18, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS prosperous than ever before, farmers and wage-earn»ers especiallly. there were 140,000 more 'employees on the railroads in December, The man who has suffered from high prices has been the salared 1918, than in December, 1917, and wages had been greatly increased. man. I wish we could do something to help him. I'm open to suggestions." Yet the amount of freight handled had fallen of. The1 head AND BORDER BUDGET of a big corporation had figures showing that the product of his GEO. P. WATSON, Editor While the ones who have suggestions to offer are putting into mills had decreased 40 per cent per employee. presentable and! workable shape, it is an appropriate time to pay Catered at the Post Ofllee at International Falla. Minn., aa Second-class Matte* The samel story is told by businessmen everywhere. There a des'erved tribute to the qualities of the average salaried man, who is a lumbier mill operated by a Kansas City concern, for instance, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR lias borne the burden of the high cost of living incident to the war that was producing 70,000 feet a day five years ago and that now, and who* has suffered perhaps more than the men who have been with the same number of employees, turns out 45,000 feet. The The secret of Ithe new game warden's success is that he is /n big profitable business, more than the farmer who has reaped owner of a cement mill reports the same situation. A sales organization neither in sympathy with the lawbreakers nor afraid of them. a harvest of gold from his fields, more than the wageearner who with a contract for overalls could not get deliveries on has found increase after increase awaiting him on demand. time. An investigation disclosed that the factory, employing 700 This rain would have been a great thing for the school house The average salaried man has kept on the job he has fed and persons, had' been forced to com»e from a 48 hour week to a 44 lawn and trees, if the grass had. only been sown and the trees planted. clothed his family somehow he has done his full share in buying hour week. That meant the loss of 4,800 working hours a week, "P bonds and sticking away thrift stamps and in giving to all the war and the cuttng down of the product by that much. An eastern causes he has pinched and economized, taken on extra work evenings company handling suits reports a scarcity resulting from a five It is very gratifyih'^ to see the readiness with which our legislature and: spent his holidays and off hours in the home garden day we'ek among the tailors. A few years ago the tailors worked voted a fifteen cellar per month bonus for each month of he has done1 his duty in the main bravely, loyally, patiently, nobly. more than six days. That was too long. Now they are going to s'ervice by *our soldier boys. The biggest thing about him is that he hasn't kicked and howled the other extreme. The steel companies report a large reduction he hasn't threatened and menaced he hasn't bombed or bolshevieked in the last five years in the amount of tonnage produced per man. The applause with which President Wilson is bleing received, he hasn't often complained. He has, indeed, borne the And now the movement has begun by putting in a six hour day all over the country, because of his high office, will undoubtedly be middle of the big load and been a good citzen about it. He is not with higher wages—a small production at a higher cost. turned to cries which, in effect, will mean "Crucify him, crucify whit less of a hero thah'someothers whose work has been more It stands to reason that if the country produces less clothing him" should he decide to run for a third term. spectacular and whose suffering Ms been more sanguine. He der and steel and coal and shoes and lumber there is going to be less serves a tribute.—Savannah News. for 'each family when the product is divided up. We can shut our Governor Coolidge of Massachussets hit the: nail squarely on eyes to this big, fundamental fact and go off and bark at knotholes the herd when he declared that public officials who neglected or if we want to. But that will not alter the situation. WHY LIVING IS HIGH? refused to do their sworn duty and quit rather than be true to their It still remains true that there can be no material reduction oatb cffict were deserters and not entitled to their jobs back, The Star's Washington correspondent told on Saturday of in the cost of living until we get over the letdown that has come when they find the public are not backing them in leaving the some of the indications of a falling off in production per man that 6ince the had and bring back production prewar standards.—Kansas public property and the public welfare unprotected. had come up in Washington. For instance, it was shown that City Times. Some idea as to what will be the conditions in and around our city next summer and each succeeding summ'er season may be gathered from the fact that during the present season at the village of Alexander, which has a resident population of only three thousand, there are over five thousand non-residents of the tourist class spending the summer in and around tha:t little city who are getting their mail at the Alexander postiffice. The blind! piggers association agreed to raise the price of whiskey from twenty-five to thirty-five cents a drink, then the next day one pigger gave a lumb|er jack a quarter to go to another pigger's palatial store to see if he was being double1 crossed, the Jack got the drink for a quarter all right but was told that next time 1 it would be thirty-five cents. It's funny those fellows can't stay by their agreements. They aire such good sports, you know. After, as the presiding Judge Dean said "a more than fair trial" Townley and Gilbert who are at tbei head of thie non-partisan league, were found guilty by a farmer jury in Jackson county of conspiring to teach sedition during the war and sentenced to ninety days in jail, without the option of a fine. A stay of sixty days has been granted to apply, for a new trial or appeal as the law provides. The first thing required of leaders of m»en in this county is that they Uf should, themselves, be true to the country's best interests. There was some "tempest in the teapot" of the retailers association of our city laslt we|ek, when the message came, that a bill had been introduced into the legislature, requiring the merchants to mark their goods with the true purchase pride as well as the selling 4S3 49 5 486 490 price. One merchant threatened to go to Mexico if such a bill passed, another began calling the author of the bill all kinds of naughty names. Before such a bill is passed there should be an Smart Frocks for All Occasions amendment attached requiring every merchant to make affidavit as to the kind and amount of goods, apiart from his own trade, he has sent to the catalogue house for, instead of trading wi'th the home Are Ready in Our merchant who deals in such goods as furniture, driess goods, clothing and food stuffs during the past few years. Thes^ men can never build up this town by sending to some other town for merchandise they do nott sell in their own stores. SPERLING ITS ONLY NEED IS MORE SETTLERS Up in Northern Minnesota there is an empire awaiting development. It fs true that it is going to be a mighty task to bring about DRESSES that development, but the, labor will be worth the while. When cleared of stumps and timber that section of the state will for Women and be one of the richest dairying regions on earth. They call it "the land where clover is a wteed," and that is the literal truth. Clover grows luxuriantly there. And it is also a great country for potatoes, root crops and small grain. There isn't much good land left There are Sperling Dresses in our fall displays for Quality and making are much' finer than you expect in the Union. One1 answ'er to the question of more farming land for all requirements of the fashionable woman's ward­ in ready-to-wear dresses. the people lies up there in our own state.—Winnebago City Enterprise. robe. They are made to fit well and keep their spic-andspan Styles are the creations of skilled designers and freshness. THE THINGS THAT ARE REAL show in faicinating variety the leading fashions in Sperling Dresses maintain a high standard of street and afternoon dresses for the autumn. quality that is rare at their moderate prices. The other day some poor fellow and his wife were crossing a There are many delightful ideas to be seen in de­ railroad near Chicago. The wife's foot became fastened in the frog We are very much pleased to offer to our patrons of a switch. A fast passenger train was approaching. Desperately tails of trimming and in the new materials and rich dresses that are so fine and so sure to satisfy you in the husband worked ito release the foot, but he could not. And so colorings. every way. he took his wife in his arms, and they died together. We affect a contempt for some things nowadays that we like to call old-fashioned. Most of us are devilish cynical fellows, you know. Even socialistic advocacy of the abolition of marriage and Clever model made of navy French Stunning number in long straight a Smart dress made of navy trico- Serge with blouse effect. Bright, the destruction of the home does not shock us. And so it is good colored vest trimmed with silk and line dress made of fancy weave for us, now and again, to hear of such a tender little tragedy as tine, stylish coat effect, Trimmed wool military braid. Set in sleeves this. It reminds us that all the wisdom is not in the books and on brown tricolette. with braid embroidery. with cuff. the soapboxes. That in the quiet places thie good/ old-fashioned $35.00 $45.00 $65.00 -ve and respect for genuine things still endures, and that upon oc­ casions the obscure American will step forth right gallantly to lay down his life for them.—Pioneier Press. ft.. 0. M. CARR & CO. SALARIED MAN "STUCK" Attorney General Palmer said something (the other day when he was discussing the proposed investigation into the apparently "The Store of Quality" ids?' tco-high cost of living. He said that while economic conditions I were the fundamental cause of the high prices of necessities violations International Falls, Minnesota of laws designed '-to pnevent concerted raising of prices also IIS 4*. iW 'i/i ,H *!,* V,Si' might bfe partly responsible, and then he went on:?ugg^ |g* "Theile is no doubt that the majority of the people are more I,',