•*. ^-i^'^,\ ~tiif, ~J •», INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, OCTOBER 30th, 1919 PAGE FOUR ELLS SENATOi THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS LOMAN But industrial warfare is an everyday occurence. This is a striker'dden land. Always there is concerted idleness on the part of ABOUT BEEF COSTS Mrs. Jennie Moffit was a Falls vistor the workmen somewherie. AND BORDER BUDGET last week. '-'c The steel industry is now hampered by a grteat strike which is GEO. P. WATSON, Editor siowly dwindling away. The coal industry is threatened with another Burton Carscadden, was firing on the Loman train last Sunday. great strike in a week. The longshoremen in New York have This May Throw Some Light on Entered at the Peart Office at International Falls. Minn., aa Second-claaa Matter paralyzed shipping in that great harbor by their strike. The magazines C. A. Choquette and son Pony wh.are the Price You Pay for hjave suspended publication whilie1 a dispute in the printing SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR living at Baudette are here for a Beefsteak. trades is fought out. The railroad men are formulating fresh demands visit. which they, are ready to enforce by brandishing the strike "Fertilize your Business" with generous and persistent advertising Supt. of Schools G. A. Olson spent weapon. Tesstiij ing recently before a body oi and you will more than double your crop. consoladated Friday vsiting' our senators in Washington, a vice-president And whilte! the strike fever spreads, while industry is demoraliz school. of one of the large packing concerns ed by these stoppages, while workers everywhere, are losing their The overwhelming dry vote of Ontario last week put an awful (F. Edson White of Armour and M. F. Smootz is getting a Fordson wages, whil'e prices are foroed still farther upward by this enturmous Company) made the astounding statement crimp in those who had been hoping against hope and bolstering and plowing outfit to use on his farrn that so far in their fiscal year, economic loss, the President's hand-picked Industrial Conference up their hopes by making financial investments in the belief that the which would cover the past eight or at Indus. finds itself unable to agree on any counsels of conciliation, any nine months, his company had "made Canadians just across the river were back numbers. method of abolishing strikes and subsiltuting the dispensation of no money whatever on beef." Emil Anderson and S. F. Plummer This statement is doubtless well industrial justice without warfare. each shipped eight quarters of beef A North Dakota farmer had a very sick wife on his hands and nigh incredible to the average man. to the Falls Sunday. We have just been entertaining in Minneapolis Sweden's delegates Yet it was made in full knowledge that was very much worried over her condition. After considering the tot the International Labor Conference in Washington next the senators had access to the company's matter he called up the undertaker in the nearest toiwn and asked Some of our young folks went up books. Week. They have had a miessage for us, if we: had ears to hear it. to the Norman school house last him to come out. When the undertaker arrived he found a very Recovering from the first shock, this Sweden) it appears, has practically solved the problem of how to Saturday night to a dance. same average man will say, "Yes, but sick woman instead of a dead one and said "Why, John, what you •A abolish industrial warfare, and for more than a decade has had the packers are shrewd what they do want is a doctor," but John says "Nothing doing I belong to the not make on the beef they more than The Rebekah lodge are giving a industrial peace and prosperity. Nonpartisan L'eague and I ain't going toi have nothing to do with make up on the hides." dance and supper in the I. O. O. F. The employers of Sweden and the trade unions of Sweden have But even this illusion was destined the middleman."—Winnebago Enterprise'. hall at Loman November 14th. each formed national associations, which co-operate in settling all to be shattered. Mr. White explained that his statement included everything controversies on a basis of justice to both sides. All labor agreements Last Friday's snow has put a stop SOME CONTRAST that was derived from the steer as arte referred to thjem, and all settlements must have their approval. to clearing and plowing. Last year purchased—the hide, fat, even the intestines There is a spirit of co-operation and mutual tolerance. we plowed till November 23rd. which are used largely for' The v/eto message in favor of whiskey written by President «.« sausage casings. Not all the workmen belong to the unions. Those who do not Make Money, Nevertheless. Wilson should be read and compared with the address delivered at N. P. Nielsen was a Falls visitor are treated with respect by their union brethern. It is recognized Well the packers make money—how Gettysburg by President Lincoln.—Minn/eiapolis Journal. last week. He will soon begin work that unionism is a matter on which men may disagree, and on which do they do it? Mr. White admitted on his big pulp wood job, on the that they did, quoting figures secured ?-.ich is entitled to his own opinion. There is no effort to drag on Christensen place. by auditors of the Food Administration, FREEDOM FOR FREE MEN the nonunion m-en into the organizations, and their right to stay out to the effect that packers' profits is- respected. Bernard Karnofsky has just returned on food commodities of all kind last from servce overseas and has the year were 1 6/10 cents on each dol? The United States is the world's besst hope, but if you fettei The Swedish plan may not be applicable to American conditions lar taken in. These would include rare dstinction of serving as guard her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in all its details. But it is plain that somehow we must arrive1 at an such things as sausage, shortening, of honor for General Pershing. in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good canned meats, etc., in addition to fresh industrial armistice, so that the contending sides can com»e togethei •V meats, hams and bacon. On all the and endanger her very existence. Deave her to march freely through and formulate a perpetual treaty of industrial peace. E. J. Helmer has finshed his contract products of his company, Mr. White the centuries to come as in /the years that have gone. Strong, generous Its first article, should provide that strikes are forever abolished of repairing the West Fork explained, comprising both foods and and confident, she has nobly serveed mankind. Beware how brdge and will soon move his outfit inedible commodities, the profits during and that peaceful means of setting all disputes on a basis of complete to the Nielsen bridge to rebuild it. the same period were 1 8/10 cents a on trifle with hie(r marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordred justice are to be adopted. on each dollar sale. liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere V# In the1 mind of the American people the, conviction is slowly All of which would lead many to Paul Mai made a trip to the county will go down in ruin. Our ideal of the future is that she say that the packing business is not hardening that the strike', with its paralysis of commerce and industry, seat this week. With his new Fordson well understood. It isn't. Yet as one should continue to render tha|t service of her own free will. She with its rough and sonyetimies bloody battles, with its heavy he got done threshing some earlier of the leading industries of the country, has great problems of h'er own to sblve, very grim and perilous than last year and is using it to cost to the combatants and to the public, with bitternessies and hatreds its workings and, above all, its plow. profits, should be familiar matters to ,, oblems, and a right solution, if w»e can attain to it, wtoiuld largely it engenders, must be1 cast out forever. us. It is quite useless to orate against enefit mankind. We would not have our politics distracted and And if labor would realize the truth, the strike is its worst the high cost of living without digging Henry Frosch had the misfortune embittered by the dissensions of other lands. We would not have eniemy. Therle is a better way. into some of these fundamentals. to get hit on the head by a falling cur country's vigor exhausted, or h*er moral force abated by everlasting By-Products at Market Values. The strike must give, way to a peaceful, a just, an American tree about a week ago. He was One of the most enlightening bits of meddliing and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, method of settling industrial disputes. found unconscious in the woods, but Mr. White's testimony was his explanation is getting on real well now. which afflicts the world. Our idieal is to make hier ever stronger It is up to the Government to lead the way. It is up to all of the way in which cost •V and beltter and finier, because in thiat way alone, as we belie-vte, can good Americans to follow—Minneapolis Journal. price of beef is arrived at. If a steer Mrs. D. H. Ogden of Durand, Wisconsin is bought at $125.00 and hides are shse be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare is visiting her daughter, Mrs. bringing $16.00 in the open market, of mankind.—Senator Lodge in Leslie's. A FEDERAL FARM LOAN ments his principal is reduced little then $16.00 is credited to the cost of S.. F. Plummer. She has her 4-year AND WHAf IT IS by little, so that at the end of 34 1-2 the steer. If hides are selling at $23.00 old grand-daughter from the Falls that amount is credited. The visceral years it is completely wiped out. with her. SOCIALISM fat, offal and everything else that What is a Federal Farm Loan? it In what amounts and on what basis •V comes from the steer are likewise is a Joan made to farmers through are Federal Farm Loans made? Albert Palm arrived this week after credited at their prevailing market Socialism makes its direct appeal to the working class. the Federal Farm Loan System, by Federal Farm Loans are made in a long delayed term of service values. What remains is taken as the a Federal Land Bank, upon Real Estate amounts from $100 to $10,000. The It tells them that they are the salt of th»e earth that they can cost price of the meat. The beef carcass for Uncle Sam. He had the honor of Mortgage Security. This system maximum amount that can be loaned is then shipped to one of the local nevler- do wrong to a capitalist that they produce ajl the wealth and helping locate and destroy great quan, was established by Act of Congress, on any farm is 50 per cent or one-half distributing branch houses, and tities of ammunition that the Germans ought to have it all but at present they are robbed by thte capitalist known as the Federal Farm Loan Act of the appraised value of the land, the manager there is given the cost had cached away. and land owner who live in luxury on the toil of the workers. It which became a law July 17, 1916. The price with instructions to sell the beef plus 20 per cent or one-fifth of the at a profit if he can. But in any event, Federal Land Bank of this district tells 'the workers that if they will only place Socialism in power appraised value of the permanent insured Register of Deeds Langraff brought whether the local market be lively or (No. 7) is located in St. Paul, Minnesota, improvements. they shall have, luxury and a heaven on earth existence. dull, he must sell for what he can get, a bunch of landseekers to Indus last and is chartered to do business caOsEAdnextqhiss. a RF HMCM—J No other political party promises any such glittering prospects for the commodity is a perishable one week. They were much pleased with in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota For what purposes can a loan be and must be sold. as th'ese. Nonpartisan league is trying to play an understudy to the farms seen, but found the pres and North Dakota. made? Manufacturer's Profit on By-Products. ent owners know the value of good this wonderful prospect, which the Socialist movement holds out. Is a Federal Farm Loan different The money can be borrowed to discharge However, there is another hitch to land. existing indebtedness, for the from a simple interest loan? If so And, after all is said and done, it's a wonder that these radical the packing business, quite as little purchase of land, and for the purposes in what respect? understood apparently, that goes to elements gain so slowly and have so little powers, when you come The John Palm family of Litchfield specified in the Law, such as the show how a loss on fresh meats may Yes, a Federal Farm Loan differs to consider that for 30 years they have conducted ,a wonderful propaganda have just moved into their new purchase of live stock, or for any be accompanied by a profit on the total in many particulars from a simple interest in this nation, and the fact that the Socialists have been expending home here. Mrs. Loman and Mac amount of business done. Take, kind of productive improvements, for loan. The most important advantages are at the Falls for the present. We for example* the banjo strings aforementioned, fertilizer for needed buildings, drainage, more than a million dollars a year and have-had thousands of a Federal Farm Loan which are made from the are exceedingly sorry to see any of and for proper equipment of volunteer workers for their cause. They have circulated a are: intestines of sheep. The department our progressive farmers leave, but The Federal Land Bank System is 1. Low rate of interest. thousand pamphlets and leaflets where the opposition has circulated that makes banjo strings (and likewise anxious to see many more come. a true co-operative movement, in 2. Long term of loan. surgical ligatures, tennis strings, one! which the farmers who are borrowers, 3. Amortization plan of repayment etc..) "buys" the intestines from the Then, too, Socialism appeals to all the discontented elements in will own the capital stock. If the Albert Palm, who has spent 20 of loan. sheep-killing department, paying exactly capital stock was sold to private in months overseas dong some splendid the same price that these bring society. Calamity howling is its chief stock in trade. The rate of interest at this time dividuals, they could arbitrarity fix fighting for his Uncle Sam returne when sold to the outside market. On is 5 1-2 per cent, which rate is uniform Socialists contradict themselves by telling us that the less effort this basis the string department manufactures the rate of interest to suit their personal this week and will settle down here. throughout the United States. we make the greater will be the result that what men decline to its strings and sells them, desires. The borrowers under Albert was in the midst of many battles Federal Farm Loans run for a period bringing a profit into the business. do voluntarily thiey will do with joy under compulsion that the the Federal Farm Loan System, by but returned without a blemish of 34 1-2 years, but can be repaid In like manner the fertilizer department virtue of the fact that they are stockholders, except a sore hand which he got withdrawl of the motives that actuate them will incite them to activity! in part or in full at any interest date buys blood and tankage the soap are not subject to arbtrary shaking hands after returning to after five years from date of loan. Isn't it funny? department buys fats the glue department Minnesota. fixing of interest rate for private All Federal Farm Loans are made buys hoofs, horns, bones and We are told that the liinculcatijon of class hatred fosters a spirit gain. sinews and so on through the list of on the Amortization Plan. The mortgage of the brotherhood of man! Isn't it great Socialists tell us at By making a Federal Farm Loan "by-products." The fertilizer, the never falls due, thus relieving CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETITION one time that municipal and state ownership of industry has proved you secure your money at cost and soap and the glue, just as the music the farmer from any anxiety about FOR ADMINISTRATION strings, bring in a manufacturer's protect your esate in case of death. a howling successs, and at another time Ithey tell us that public its renewal the semi-annual payment profit. Therefore, you can see that in a Estate of Lee Oksee Mick of $32.50 on each $1,000 is all that ownership is "no glood" under capitalism, that it cannot be 'of any In all cases these by-products, very real sense of the Federal Farm State of Minnesota ever falls due. whether they be sold to outside manufacturers benefit to the working class until a class conscious Socialist party Loan System is a system of the )ss Give. an example of an Amortized or to one of the manufacturing County of Koochiching is in power! farmers, for the farmers and by the loan. departments in the business (at In Probate Court farmers. Socialization of industry has been a failure everywhere, and A farmer who borrows $1,000 thru the same prevailing market price), are In the Matter of the Estate of Lee credited to the cost of the meat portion the Federal Farm Loan System pays just because th,eire is always stagnation and a lack of efficiency. The Oksee Mick, Decedet. of the animals, ^ust as in the instance AMERICAN LEGION TO COOPERATE $65.00 a year in semi-annual payments The State of Minnesota to all persons z"eal which the Socialists predict is always lacking there Sis no incentive of the hides mentioned above. WITH RED CROSS of $32.50 each, until the loan interested in the granting of administration Thus the "utilization of by-products" to perform lacking there is no incentive to perform the of said decedent: The petition Colonel Henry D. Lindsley, chairman is discharged. This is of course 6 1-2 system of which we have heard much, of Ora Belle Mick having been filed best and! most efficient service on the: contrary, there is found very of the Executive Committee oi per cent interest and 1 per cent on and the method by which it is conducted, in this Court, representing that Lee the American Legion, has sent the littl'e zeal, if any at all. Under Socialism it would be, "Let George commonly say he is paying 5 1-2 show the packers' manufacturing Oksee Mick, then a resident of the following communication to the Legion per cent nterest and 1 per cent on county of Koochiching state of Minnesota, profit on a great variety of commodities do it" all along the line.—Minneapolis Tribune. Organizations in each state: died intestate on the 31st day of the principal. But the ways it works ranging all the way from August 1919 and praying- that letters Dear Sir: pharmaceuticals to glue, do, in reality, out is this: His first payment is applied of administration of his estate HOW TO AVOID STRIKES bear the burden of fresh meat prices. The American Red Cross begins as follows: $27.50 on interest be granted^ to Ora Belle Mick, surviving its drive for membership in November, and $5.00 on principal. The interest spouse, and the Court having on the next payment is figured at and not only for the good work fixed the time and place for hearing The strike ought to be abolished. It is barbarous and out of & Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, in said petition: Therefore, you, and each it has done, but also for the help 5 1-2 per cent on the reduced amount date. It does not cure the ills for which it is invoked. It causes of you are hereby cited and required discussing maladministration of of principal of $995.00 (because of his it has always extended to the American to show cause, if any you have, before railroads by the Government, untold sufferings and losses not only to those who are actually Legion, it is believed that we first payment on principal of $5.00) m4 this Court at the Probate Court room said: battling agaiinst eacli other, but to innocent rifeutrals who have no and applied as follows: $27.36 on interest would co-operate in every way possibly. in the court house, in the city of International "There never was a Government! Will you therefore notify ali Falls in the county of Koochiching, responsibility for the conditions and no power to chang|e them. and $5.14 on. the principal. He operation that was not wasteful State of Minnesota,- on the continues making payments of $321.50 your posts to this effect. and inefficient. It is inevitable under The strike is often attended with violence and disorder, and al- 22nd day of November, 1919, at 10 our 'organization that it should each six months during the 34 1-2 (^Signed) fr o'clock A. M. why said, petition should ays with loss of rearnings to workers and (otf profits to employers, be so. It is not^the province or years but the nterest payment is Henry D. Lindsley, not be granted. sides-come out of a prolonged struggle in a weakened and the prerogative of a Democracy Chairman, National Executive Committee, constantly growrig smaller and the Witness, the Judge of said courr, like ours, instituted for the best SL impoverished, condition, no matter whaft thp settlement. And usfilially arid the seal of said couft, this 22nd payn^ent on the principal is steadily American Legion Government on the face of the oi day October, 1919 0~-. sq grwing larger, that at the end of The co-operation of ths America a the public,,or,^considerable section it, ^uffeers almost as earth, to manage the business of John Bcmr A the thirty-four years, he is paying Legion will be invaluable Don't be -'"Vv C^ the country." 2 inacK irr.iirli as as tli** the n»rtirifv$nt« participants in in the warfare warfare. (Court Seal) Probate Judge. A-^W.. O. L*. at the Red Cross Roll Aug1. 6. $1.71 interest and $30.79 on the principal. •—Congressional Record, George*' E. Brlckae*. $W-ar is a gr^E^^fSeJtJipugh fortunately it does not ocfci&lbften By*jneahs~ of his small pay­ Call, -November 2-11. Attorney for Petitioner. 4 if.