International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926
December 18, 1919 · Page 3 of 8
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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, DECEMBER 18th, 1919 PAGE FOUR HAD TO SIT IN A first among the jobless. Their first boy sitting^: the same desk with him, studying the same lessons THE WTDtHATIOHAL FALLS PRESS thought is to find fault with the1 and playing with him on the school grounds. CHAUULL NIGHT Government and the country. They A still worse condition results when foreigners hold their child are fit and fertile subjects for |the 1. AND IQItMR BUDGET ren apart from the American ccynmoi^ school, teaching them oldworld W. W., the Bolshevist, the agitator GB4. P. WATHN, Mliw ideas i*i and old-world tongue. Experience has shown that and the demagogue. Clark Was So Run Down and Nervous—Gains There is only one movement in" 110 human material is as hand tlo Americanize as the! second generation Eighteen Pounds Taking Catered at the Peat •flee at lateraatlMMl Falla. 8eee«*-claaa Matte* America to encourage thrift. It 1? of foreigners kept foreign in schools here in America. Unless Tanlac. the Government's plan for the sale our common school is truly common, it cannot do its appointed of citizen who owns War Saving SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.5® PER YEAR work, which first and foremost, is the teaching of democracy. "I know Tanlac is something extra-%r Stamps, Treasury Saving Certificate?. ordinary because it has restored If we Americans find the common school not good enough There is no nobler endeavor. It The Press wishes its read'ers one and ,all a Merry Christina^ to health after everything else failed," makes the geitizen who owns War our children, fthere is but one real remedy, not to run away from it. and a Happy New Year. was the statement made by E. E. Saving Stamps or Certificates a partner to stay and make it good enough. This should be done for our Clark of 1200 Chestnut Ave., North, in the Government, makes him a own children's sakes as wiejl as for those of our neighbors of foreign Minneapolis, Minn., to a Tanlac representative part owner in his country, it gives Mexico seems to be: trying her best to bring an a thorou^n birth for to separatfe'children in their school dia.ys is to keep recently. For twelve him a new interest in the flag. from Uncle Sam. spanking years Mr. Qlark was a well known them strangers for life, and this is to breed industrial and social misundepstandings Thrift enables fa'ftialies to own and highly respected harness maker to the end of time.—Minneapolis Journal. their own homes. Russian joined in Minneapolis, but he is retired no»v. If it is true that 500 Russian Anarchists are eag'er to, go home Bolshevism because her people \^ere "I suffered from general run do.vn landless. Germany resisted Bofshevism and pay their own expenses if their families may accompany them, POWERFUL SERMON families own their own houses, 2,000,000 condition which had been brough on because 'her farm tenantry is it there seems to be little for the Government to say except Here "UNTHRIFT HABIT" are carrying mortgages, and 11,000,000 by a severe attack of the 'Fti' continued the vanishing point. Nobody ever are renters. Every seven your hat." Mr. Clark. "It left me in a heard of any threat of Sovietism Portland Editor, Though Sightless, years, one-third of the population of very weakened condition and ke among the thrifty people of De il Has Far and Clear Vision in Financial the city of New York applies -r me confined to the house from December In 1915 (the socialized p/ost office, telegraph and telephones of among the thrifty people of Dennever Question charity. One person in every ten who last, until the middle of June. plot against their o^n horn^s. Norway had an income of 19,900,000 krones and an operating revenue dies in our large cities is buried in a I was too weak to even start to They explode no bombs on their own EXPENDITURES TERRIFC of 21, 330,000 kronte's—a loss of 1,430,000 krones, to say nothing pauper's grave. any work, and when I would walk hearthstones. The greatest antidote ON MAD FINANCIAL SPREE These figures are from Government of the' loss of taxes. around the house a little I would become against the mad illusions and wild statistics. They are a terrifying so exhausted I would aim _st hallucinations which dreamers are San Francisco, Dec. 14.—Editors: story of poverty. Surgeon General fall over. I was so nervous at tim seeking to import from Europe and Victor Berger's paper, "The Daily Leader of Milwaukee endorses The following address delivered by Gorgas, who made tb€ Canal Zone I was afraid to shave myself, and finally transplant in America is that thrift th'e Plumb scheme for the socialization of railroads as do B. F. Irpine, the blind editor of the habitable, said in a public address: I had to quit altogether. I haciiiV. which will stimulate home ownership Portland Oregon Journal, before the all the socialists throughout the nation. Mr. Berber also says that 'Physicians have located the great trouble with gas forming on my and lift the uneducated out -f annual meeting of the California cause of general ill health in poverty.' Mr. Plumib must have secured his inspiration from those well known sumach, and with a peculiar flutter ignorance. State Press Association in San Frarcisco, Poverty is here directly attributable just under the heart. At one time I revolutionary socialists, Lenine and Trotsky. November 12 is sent you at the by an eminent authority to the had awful pains, especially across my request of the California State Press DAIRYING BEST ON great American habit of unthrift. chest, and for three weeks I had to Association. The Italian Parliament has recently voted $40,000 p'er mile cr CUT-OVER LANDS Poverty means dirt. Cleanliness sit up every night in a chair. I lost It is doubtful if America has ever a total of more than $300,000,000 for the purpose of the rehabilitation is a luxury. It demands leisure, in weight rapidly, going from one' been confronted with conditions su Dairying is the best type of far ning of the 8,400 miles of socialized, railways. As these railways peace of mind, hot water, soap, bath hundred and ninety-eight pounds to precarious. There never was a pyschology for the cut-over lands of northern on hundred and forty-five, an actual tub and good plumbing. The very were already capitalized at over $158,000 per mile, they will now oe so extraordinary. Minnesota, says A. J. McGuire ~i loss of fifty-three pounds. I tried poor cannot be clean, and filth and Expenditures are terrific. The people capitalized in round numbers at $198,000 pier mile or just about the Extension Division, University dirt mean ill health, consumption an all kinds of medicines and treatments are on a mad financial spreo. three times the capitalization of the American railways. And it Farm, St. Paul, in his bulletin on a pauper's grave. but got only temporary relief. Normal business principles are dea-!. Land Clearing, issued as bulletin 134 should be remembered that th'e Italian railways were constructed "A friend of mine noticed about Teach the people thrift. Teach Thoughts of thrift are foregotten. A by the Minnesota Experiment Station. by labor that received a wage that averaged three hundred per Tanlac in a Davenport, Iowa paper, them to lay a side a part of their man's hat at $20 has become a common Most cut-over land7 adds Mr. tried it and improved wonderfully savkigs. Teach them to have a cent less than the average wage of like kind of labor in this country. place. Portland dealers placed, McGuire, can be converted into pasture and advised me to take it. Well, sir thought of the morrow. Teach them them on sale and the supply was exhausted. at slight expense, and dairy cows to eschew $25 hats, $20 shoes and $200 I began to get better on my first bottle The dealers were plunged will yield a splendid profit from this BE AMERICAN coats off wages that cannot warrant but I thought it would be only into wonderment and awe. They are land without the necessity of removing^ these things. temporary just like I had gotten*, now buyng hats that will be sold at stumps, though sufficient land from all the other medicines I had Careful checking up of 'the persons who are causing troubl 1 Teach them not to be spendthrifts $35 to $40. must be put under the plow or at tried but not a bit of it—I kept and wasters for the ultimate lot of the United Statles at the present time reveals the fact that most of Nothing is stable. New York manufacturers least put in shape to produce hay to improving until now I've ^taken three the spendthrift and the waster is to and jobbers no longer them are of foreign birth and ia majority of them have never taken supply winter feed. bottles and feel like a different man quote prices of goods on future delivery. be at 65 years of age one of that the time to become citizens of this country. In connection with dairying the entirely. Tanlac built up my strength They tell you the price now 97 out of every 100, in part or in same bulletin says poultry raising These persons camie) her»e uninvited. They sought the hospitality and nerves, until now I've gained and say that prices on future orders whc(le dependent upon kindled, should have an important place, nd eighteen pounds and can shave myself of a free country and have the opportunity here of bettering their will be controlled by the market. friends, or the public for bread they hogs should be raised to a limited without being the least bit nervous. own condition in life if they choose. Meanwhile, operatives in the factories eat, for the clothing they wear, for 1 extent. A herd of 10 cows, 100 chickens, I'm not troubled with gas any the roof under which they find shelter. demand higher and higher wages Instead of appreciating what America has to offier them the\ and two or three brood sows, can more, and don't have any pains across and operators grant them. Operators Poverty is ignorance, and ignorance be supported easily on a farm witij go about seeking to destroy that for which the Pilgirms starved my stomach or chest at all. I have found that any price asked is poverty. They are twin 30 acres in plowed land. From 5 to the soldiers of the Revolution fought/ and the very things for which feel hale and hearty all the time aii will be paid, and the advanced calamtiies. They mean criminality. 7 acres of the farm may be devoted can eat anything I want, in fact I all real Americans have labor/ed sinae! this republic was foundjed. wage is granted and added with in* Go to the penitentiaries and there to potato growing. The field crops can hardly get enough to eat. I. ta'cc creased profit to the price at which study the inmates. There you will As self-appointed missionaries thiey come here and seek to make should be grain, clover, fodder/corn, a long walk in the morning and ine the goods go -to the retailer. The find the havoc that ignorance and us over into the land of tfyeir wa,rped dreams. potatoes and stock roots. Men practicing in the afternoon, late, and when public comes along and pays whatever poverty work upon mankind. this system of farming have Many of them are in the business fo:r personal profit, for excitement get back home I don't fetff tired. Tanlac is asked. Poverty peoples the pauper asylums been able to sell from $1200 to $1500worth has certainly lived up to its reputation and in order to gain notoriety or to gratify an insane: desire And so the pyramiding goes on. the poor houses, the insane of products a year from 30 and I' mglad to indorse it." People were excited during the war. to "change" things. asylums, the houses of correction, acres or less of cleared land. In many ways they are crazy now. Sold at Rubin's drug store at International the reformatories and other places of Few of them care enough about America to become citizens, Eighty acres, Mr. McGuire believes, They never saw so much money spent Falls and at S. E. Dimoa public detention. to earn property lor to assume the burdens of the taxpayers. is ample for a farm in the timbered before, never saw it spent so lavishly, at Littlefork and all other leading More than 8,500,000 people, over ten section of northern Minnesota. It is They ariel too craven to defend this in time of war and country never saw it come and go so easily. years of age, in America cannot read druggists. usually a mistake, he thinks, for a too roving in nature to establish a home. the daily newspaper. There is still man of limited meaflfs^to invest in All have forgotten that it was That such people should* feel themselves ordained to lead America with us the astaunding per cent 24.6 NOTICE more. It is also a mistake for a man government money that we have been of American drafted men in the late out of the wilderness is as laughable as ilt is tragic. to begin farming on timber cut-over spending. It was the great suim war who were illiterate. There is Even the Mormons, contemptible as most people regard them land without any capital. A man Honorably discharged soldiers, told of in billions that fed the shipyards, the climax in the terrifying story of should have sufficient capital to enable wishing to become citizens of the had the sense, industry, thrift and faith to go into the far west and the munition factories, the the illiterate young men between 21 him to devote the first year to United States, should appear at the develop a state where they could, for a time at least fill up their machine works, the spruce camps and 31 all directly attributable to the clearing the land, putting at le&st 10 Court House in International Falls, and all the other great works of harems without offending the sensibilities of those about them. habit of non-thrift in America. acres under cultivation. Minnesota, on January 13th, 1920. production. In all the history of- the Lack of thrift is the blight of children. But these foreign anarchists are swlarming over America seeking The stumps on the .*cut-over lands Each must have his discharge paper world, money was never poured into Statistics from the health bureau of northern Minnesota are not usually and be accompanied by two witnesses, the1 destruction of our government and the establishing of their industry with such prodical hand. in the cityof Portland are that regarded as an asset, but a thought both U. S. citizenes,'who can-identify own weird "dictatorship of the proletariat." The spirit of those days has become 5,000 out of 40,000 school children go ful resident of northern Minnesota him as the person he claims to epidemic.' Though* the great They resist deporation and become enraged at any who dare to school without having enough to recently declared that they should be be. J. 8. supply source that the government eat. This is in a city with a per to question their motives or the propriety of their seeking to "reform" so regarded. His reason was that maintained during hositlities is cut capita wealth exceeded by but one or America. they give opportuniy for the employment NOTICE off, the spending goes on. It is without two cities in America. The facts are tf productive labor that The foreigner who comes to our shores, should be made to conform end or shape or limit. The shipworker's confirmed by statistics from health the energy spent in clearing land of Children who are putting snow in $1200 automobile, and Milady'^ to our laws, share sour tax burdens, respect our traditions and bureaus in other large cities. A stumps was fully repaid in the increased the mail collection boxes in this city $2000 furs, the housemaid's starved body produces a starved brain be willing tcf defend our cduntry and our government against* 11 value of the land. thereby spoiling out going maiil *vill $150 tailor suit, the stenographer's it destroys the power to struggle. It enemies or he should be unceremoniously kicked out. Copies of the bulletin referred ro discontinue the practice at once or $200 coat, a woman's hand-bag at undermines the ability to think. It in this article may be had by addressing You Townleyites, Leninites, Trotskities, and alb you trouble severe methods will be used by the $250, a lady's gown displayed in a kills the power of initative. It stunts Office of Publications, University U. S. government. breeders, foreign or American—if you don't like America go and San ErancisCo shop window at the lives and hurries on ill health. The Farm, St. Paul. C. E. Nightingale, price of a bouse and lot. These are find a country some where which willsuit you—Anoka Herald. insufficiency nourished child has not parts of the long array of lavishness the strength to resist disease. •7" in this extravaganza of expenditure We have here from our lack of ANNOUNCEMENT MAKE THE COMMON SCHOOLS COMMON. People seem crazed with the notion thrift in America these things: that any extravagant thing, any prodigal 1st-—HI health, wasting disease, purchase, any figure of wage, and a grave in the potter's fields The melting pot of America is something that most of .13 any measure of profits obtainable. 2nd.—Stunted lives, inefficient men, Americans picture as a retort in which people other than themselves Do you realize what havoc habits lack of initiative, failure and a growing are stewing. We ourselves stand and watch the mfelting ol of unthrift are working in America? army of the submerged, which immigrant peoples into loyal and neighborly AnfieiHcans. In Portland in 1918, with an increase more and more increases ferment and of 47,000 in population, -we built 266 social unrest. As we stand and watch this melting pot, we are interested dwelling houses We bought 6300 3rd.—Increased numbers of penitentiaries, enough to spend time and money stirring the pot. But the most of For the accommodation of shoppers automobiles. We spent something pauper asylums, poor what we do we are) best pleased to do from the. ouftside, forgetting who finid it inconvenient tk trade over half a/ million for houses more farms, insane- asylumns, houses of that genuine Americanism cannot be made by smelting up old world tH&n ten million for automobiles. The during the day, our store will be correction, reformatories and other and mortgage indebtedness placed on ideas with nothing more than American gold American patronage. places of public detention. open the following, evenings until 9 homes for the purchase of automobiles And to these we may add the report The melting pot of America must melt Americans along M. o'clock P. was $7,000,000. of the Illinois Survey which declares with th|eir»imported neighbors. Otherwise America will continue Listen Sixty-six out of every that the cKief cause of immorality to be a mere mixture of peoples without assimilation. hundred persons who die in the United among women is poverty and its ally, If any one American institution can be called the melting pof Stages leave no estate whatever, ignorance. That Survey found that Dec. 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 and of the remaining thirty-four, only of America it is the public school. Here human meets human in 76 per cent of fallen girls had not nine leave estates larger than passecU^he grammar grade in school thie formative period of life. Here the future American is molded. $5000. At the age of 65, ninety-seven because of poverty, and that there H'eaje the American school child'can do vastly more in his short out of every hundred persons'" in was a very low per cent of immorality school life toward making future America truly American than any America are partially or wholly dependent among high school and college Only Six days left in which to do American adult can hope to do in a long lifetime. upon relatives, friends or the girls. your Christmas shopping. public for their daily bread, for their If in the American common^chool o'nly Poles, Russians, Italians, Here we have directly traceable to clothing and for roof under which to the one great cause, viz., lack of Gumans, Scandinavians, Greieks and Mexicans meet, whiSe Americans sleep. thrift, the chief danger that besets are sent to other schools, the common American of the nea1 Ninety-eight per cent of^the American America today. Lack of thrift with CARR & CO. future will be a composite of sloven foreigners, and not American people are living from day to its attendant products of poverty and at all.\ The fact that the teacher, the schooihousc and day on their wages, and a loss of employment ignorance give us an army of disappointed, the scho'o* would mean pauperism for fiiiid are'American will not have one-tenth as much Amcri^ani?-' discouraged and dependent but two per cent. men and women. If there'' isj Fewer than 6,000,000 -American' unemployment, they ar, of necessity,