INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, DECEMBER, 25th, 1919 PAGE FOUR "IT US HIDE HE TIE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS can be cleared at from $15 to $60 per works with brains or hands increases his personal efficiency and acre, depending entirely upon conditions therefore increases his individual jproduction." found thereon, combined with WELL AND BAPIT "The cost of high living is the cost of buying things out of season AND BORDER BUDGET the skill of the worker. It is diffiicult sto^ buying things out of season and you will effect a material to fix an average because of the GEO. P. WATSON, Editor* saving. Do not buy things for which exorbitant prices are asked, wide diversity in the character St. Paul Woman Was Almost a Nervous land found in this section. Lands when something else will do just as well. Wie must all recognize Wreck—Restored to Health ••tend at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., as Second-class Matte* from which large pine timber has the right of the manufacturer, the wholesaler and the retailer to By Tanlac been removed, is much more ••xpensive make sufficient profit to pay his hunning expensies, a salary for himself SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR to clear than the hardwood and a reasonable interest on his investment of capital this "Tanlac has built me up from almost lond. On the pine land, however, a nervous wreck to a well and statement appli'es with equal force to the farmer who has a big capital mixed timber still remaining1 will offset happy woman." was the statement to a large extent, the cost of clearing investment land we should not: forget that the average return A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL. made by Mrs. William Brabeck of this land as nearly all of it on the farmer's invested capital, has been less than 3 per cent per 781 Lawson st., St. Paul Minn., while be worked up into cordwood, post",, year for a quarter of a century." talking to a Tanlac representative pulpwood, and railway ties. Taking the other day. the country as a while, experiments The state organization of the American Legion after, careful "I suffered from nervous indigestion $10,000 DOLLARS FOR waived this limitation upon the suggestion which have been conducted by various investigation by their own independent committee have unanimously and was so badly run down and PLATFORM SUGGESTIONS of Chairman Hays that more powder manufacturers, show endorsed the action of Governor Burnquist in sending members nervous that the slightest sound or good would result by opening the that the stump land in Northeastern noise irritated me so I could hardly of the national guard here on request of the sheriff and also regr -tting Through the Republican National competition to all young men and Minnesota can be cleared more cheaply .stand it," continued Mrs. Brabeck. Committee,. Mr. Truxtun Beale, former women 25 years of age or under. the action of certain local officials which was evidently based than any other general section of "I couldn't rest at all at night, and I United States Minister to Persia Chairman Hays formally accepted timbered area in the United States. on false information. forgot what it was to enjoy a good and an ardent Republican who has Mr. Beale's offer in the following The average cost of removing birch, night's sleep, and when I got up in the best interests of his party at letter: ash, spruce and pjne stumps in Minnesota the morning I felt as if I hadn't oeen The members of tbe Wm. Robideau post did a wise thing when heart, "offers cash prizes aggregating Dear Mr. Beale: has been found to be about to bed at all. I felt tired out all du $10,000 for the best pla'tform suggestions The Republican National Committee they used the appropriation of $500 made by the city council for 15 cents per stump, compared to ing the next day, and couldn't do ten by young Republicans in accepts with pleasure the offer southern pine stumps, which is about fixing up club rooms for their members.' The club rooms are in the minutes sweeping before I gave completely thfe country. made in your letter and will gladly 30 cents and 45 cents for Michigan basement of the First National bank building, and are already weii out and had to stop and rest. His offer has been formally accepted co-operate in an effort to make of white pine, maple and birch. A little equipped with reading room, gynasium, canteen .and shower bathb. My appetite was poor and what little by Chairman Will H. Hays, the prizes a source of large usefulness. over 50 cents for Illinois oak, wal I did eat upset me. Many times A good wholesome place which the. boys greatly appreciate. of the National Committee, and the It is our opinion that more! nut and gum 55 cents for Pennsyigood gas would form so Uad on my stomach contest will open at once and close will result if the competition vania apple, ash and chestnut, and that I would become so nauseated I March 31, 1920. be open for all young men and women from $1 to $2 for western fir. A few Ther'e is no question but that Governor Burnquist did the right -would have to go to bed. It was out A first prize of $6,000 will be twenty-five years of age or under, and years ago, Professor A. J. McGuire, of the question for me to do my and proper thing when he ordered Adjutant General Rhinow to given for the best manuscript received we will proceed accordingly if thi at that time superintendent of the housework for every few moments I bring a company of national guards here on call of Sheriff Mcintosh, $3,000 for the second best if this is agreeable to you. Your sug-j Northeast Experiment Station, logestion would have to stop, I became so exhausted. and $1,000 for the third. as to judges^ is satisfactory, cated at Grand Rapids made a very who found it impossible to get deputys he had appointed to serva, For two years I had been Manuscripts" are limited to 6.000 as is also the assumption by us of careful, study of the cost of clearing to forstall what he evidently believed to be a movement whereby in this condition, and the suffering I words and must be addresses to all expenses and detail in connection timbered land and his report after valuable property in this city and county might be damaged in view have borne has been terrible. Walker Blaine Beale Contest, DiH with the conduct of the contest. We, a thorough demonstration is as follows of the oft reputed threats of the I. W. W.'s who were con/trolling One day my husband brought me sion of Young Voters, Republican will, with your permission, herea ter a bottle of Tanlac, and before I finished National Committee, 923 Woodward refer to the rewards *as the Walker the labor element in the logging camps and refused to let any on~ 255 pople, average diameter 14 inches. that first bottle I began to feel building, Washington, D. C. Four Blaine Beale Prizes, in memory "»f Cost of explosives per stump work who did not.xarry a red card. A f'ellow who has no ax to much better, and now I have taken typewritten copies must be subn1. your son who was killed in the service. 12 cents. grind or does not premediate wrong doing never objects to either six and feel just fine. My nerves ted, one only of the number being If you indicate your appr al 255 jack pine, Norway pine and policemen or soldiers being around. They are the guardians of liberty were never better and no kind of signed. of these suggested changes we will white pine, average diameter 14 1-3 noise or sound even disturbs me now. and projection and are welcomed by him as proof of the security Under date of November 20, 191(J. proceed immediately. inches. Cost of explosives per stump I sleep like a child, and every morning Mr. Beale, in a letter to Chairman With assurances of the committee's 18 cents. of his person and property. I get up feeling rested and refreshed. Hays, quoted William Roscoe Thayer's appreciation, I am 395 birch, ash, spruce, pine, et.\, My appetite has come back description of a National Convention, (Signed WILL H, HAYS. average diameter 20 inches. Cost cf THE H. C. L. AGAIN and I can eat anything I want,- and with its scenes of turmoil Mr. Beale, under date of Novini-1 explosives per stump 16 cents, my strength is increasing every day. and strife, as given in his life of ber 24, 1919, expressed gratification One large land clearing operation in My stomach was never in better ndition. Roosevelt. In this chapter Mr A very interesting pamphlet issued by Fjanklyn Hobbs & Co., at the way the National Commic ee Noreheastern Minnesota in 1909, nine I've gone back to my housework, Thaver said: Chicago, entitled "The Relation of Wages to the Cost of Living had accepted his suggestion "a •.! thousand stumps were blasted, a conthe and I can do it all now and the "A spector from Mars might liberal manner in which they intend siderable number of them large pine and the Money Supply," brings out many angles of the high cost family washing, too. I just can't saj' have remarked, 'but for so important to carry it out." He suggested stumps and the average requirement enough for this Tanlac for it's remarkable of living problem that do not occur to the av'erage person. In leading a business as the choice of a as judges, Dr. David Jayne Hill, Dr. was less than three-quarters of a how it's made me well and up to their analysis of the situation, they state that the price candidate who may become President Nicholas Murray Butler, and the pound of dynamite per stump. Jorgen happy, when such a short while 40 of the United States you ought of all things, meaning the average price of everything we use an Hon. Albert J. Beveridge. This suggestion Juhl of Askov cleared thirty-five acres I was so comepletely broken down in to have quet, deliberation, freeplay, has been approved. consume, which is commonly referred to as the average price oi in 1911 with the use of anly 1,300 health." not for those who can shout the loudest To the young men and women of pounds of dynamite or about thirty.America: commodities, is fixed, regulated, raised or lowered by the average Sold at Rubin's drug store at International but for those who can speak the eight pounds per acre. Mr. C. F.. The Republican National compensation received for one hour's work by every man and 'every Falls and at S. E. Dimon wisest.' committee- wishes to express its Saunders of Bergville, has reported at Littlefork and all other leading woman. "And to'vthis remark the howling.3 that the average cost on blowing gratitude to Mr. Truxtun Beale for druggists. They point out that the high cost of living is not due to somebody whirling dervishes who attended the his patriotic suggestion. The committee stumps, as demonstrated in his four convention might have responded, if year experience in disposing of 10.000 getting behind the prices of things and showing them up, stating urges the popular participa use of their product, written so that they waited long enough to heart it on his land, ranging from 10 inches tion in the coming national election that the price of an individual thing may be shoved up or dovv every man can understand. As to through by yelling, 'Hail, Hail, the to four feet in diameter, is about 9 1-2 and is eager for the active co-operation by manipulation, but this can only be temporary. whether a stump puller should also gang's all here,' and would have of the younger men and women cents per stump. He has cleared 100 To quote them in part: "In order to propeirly consider the ques. be used on his land, the newcomer darted off to catch up with their of the nation, so many thousands of acres at a cost of $10 per acre. will be best guided by the opinion of tion of living costs, must first recognize that the cost of living is fellow bacchanals," etc. It will be noticed that the experiments We whom did their all in the late war. his neighbor who will have determined Commenting upon this depiction The Republican party shall continue conducted from which these an eff'ect and not a cause. It is caused by something else and if we that question beforejiis arrival of a National convention, Mr. Beale, to be the instrument in this figures are taken, were before the in wish to change it we must begin at the cause and not howl at the by actual experience. Stump pulling crease in the price of explosives, due in his letter, said: country to apply to new and chinking effect." machines ordinarily drag vast largely to the late war, and the "If these conditions were strange conditions the wisdom of experience quantity of soil from the ground alongwith "So many things have happened since August 1, 1914, that it is same is true as to the present price for the nomination of a President and the efficacy of an honest, the stump for in northern Minnesota, difficult for any of us to go back of that date in our minds realize they were still more strange for zealous service. The delegates to of labor, as compared to the time of and because of the ample rainfall, these experiments. working out and formulating the the national convention will be 'lad our condition or that of our fellows at any time previous to that the timber growth develops a wide principles and planks of a political of the opportunity to study the p-. jposed Dynamite is perhaps the cheapest eventful day. Since August 1, 1914, prices on the avera'ge have just weep of lateral roots lying close to platform. platforms submitted by the and most expeditious way of removing slightly more than doubled and th'e average wholesale price of all the surface, tap-roots being rarefy stumps, all things "considerea, "A political platform would sure-' young voters of the land. found. commodities on August 1, 1919, was exactly 103 per cent more than though the stump puller finds much ly have more clearness if ahouglit We suggest that you adhere to che the scholars of tj^e country than following rules of the prize contest: favor in the' eyes of many Northeastern While I agree with the authorities 5 it was five years ago. who have conducted these experi- /. the turmoil and noise df a politi :al 1. Submit four typewritten copies Minnesota farmers. There are "On the first date, the average expenditure of 'every individual many who believe clearing land is ments, from which our figures are retaken, convention it would have more co isistency of your manuscript. Sign only on-. in this country, from millionaire to pauper, was $358.77 per annum. Write on one side of the paper. accomplished in the cheapest way b.v I have a scheme of my own of $ if made away from its jaring If prices were to remain exactly where they were on August elements it would have -fewer 2. Manuscripts must not exc3"d a combination of dymaniting the larger clearing land, which, although very 1, 1919, the average expenditure of these same people during the six thousand words. stumps and pulling the smaller slow, is much cheaper. Let sheep or out in the libraries and studies jf cows do it for you, while they are at evasions and ambigu Mes not mi 3. Send all manuscripts to Walker. 5 still many others who prefer rext twelve montss would be $728.86, the increase being 103 per ones to use dynamite only for "starting" the same time making you money. under the pressure of its clas.i .. Blaine Beale Contest, Division of ha is re a os of iv in at is a a am 6 stumps and for splitting the larger Remember you "can't taste brush in interests, and the great organic young voters, Republican National money' spent. It may be spent for bread and potatoes—it may be ones. committee, 923 Woodward Bldg., mutton," Remember the old dairy truths qf sociology and economics spent! for fancy shoes—-it may be spent for furs and gowns—or even Washington, D. C. Clearing land nowadays is not the cow will give you just as much and for the guidance of a party could be for automobiles and diamonds—that amount of money if multiplied job, it was in grandfather's day, nor just as rich milk while feeding on the more profoundly considered and 4. All manuscripts must be in am a he an to clover, tomothy peavine and blu I by 107,600,000 (Ithe number of people in the country) would give us more effectively expressed. judges' hands not later than March 31, 1920. grass around the stumps on land "There never has been a time clear up the farm. Modern methxls $784,000,000,000, which would be the amount of money paid out in which can be bought at from $15 to when the two great parties have differed.* 5. Announcement of prize winners have not only expedited the work, bat United States for expenses of eveiry nature by every person." have $25 per acre, as she would if pastured so fundamentally in principle will be made prior to the opening of made its accomplishment possi "Price's are high because wages are high and becaus'e the supply on the $300 per acre lands of Iowa as now, differences that go to the the Republican National convention ble at a considerably lower cost. It of money is unusually -lairge,. The only way to beat the situa,'on in 1920. is estimated that an experienced agricultural and Illinois and the sheep will grow very foundation of society never a blaster can remove anywhere just as much wool on her back an is to save some of the money We earn (today and spend it at time when so many brands of quack Republican National Committee. as much mutton on her ribs in the medicine have been so energetically The North America Review, at Mr. from fifteen to 100 stumps in the ti ae some future time when our wages are lower and the price's are lower stump pastures of northern Minnesota, hawked about as cures tor the distempers Beale's suggestion, has been given ordinarily required to pull one stump and when th'e dollar we earn today will buy* as many potatoes as a with the facilities available to the as she will on the high-priced of the state, and therefore the right of first publication of *ny dollar and ahialf would buy today. lands of our sister states. manuscript passed upon by the farmer in the eighties. never a time when an honest platform I "It has been stlated that prices will never be any lower and that judges. In a hardwood timber country, the and straight thinking, holding For those who are able to buy dynamite, larger timber can be removed, cutting out no false hopes and promising no blasting is the most satisfactory wages will never be any lower. Similar statements were made in the tree as close to the ground as pes- 1 way of getting the stumps out of short cuts to the millennium, is mote LAND CLEARING PROBLEM IN 1867 when wheat was selling for $3.75 a busheil and before the close sible. These can be worked up into the land. It is also the cheapest. One important than now." NORTHERN MINNESOTA of 1870 it was selling for $1.25 a bush'el. Similair statements were logs, ties, posts, cordwood, etc. Cut man can blow all the stumps out of For these reasons, Mr. Beale inscribed made in 1890 when cotton was .selling at 35 cents a pound and before the small stuff close to the ground Many prospective immigrants seeking his field unassisted in less time than $10,000 to the Republican the closiei of 1893 it was selling at 15 cents pound. Similar statements and when dry burn everything md. la a place to build themselves a his neighbor can ordinarily remove National Committee to be offered in Then in about March, while the sho.v farm home on the lowpriced land of the same number with a team and a were made in 1890 during which y»ear pig iron averaged over prizes as here outlined. The only is still on the ground go over the stump puller even though assisted by stipulation that he made was that the northwest, hesitate iat locating in $18 per |t!on and by 1894 pig iron dropped to $12.50 per ton." tract and sow timothy and clover a timber region, realizing that the labor another man. Other advantages of the committee assume the responsibility "The man who has been loudest in his complaints about the high and when the snow goes off, you arfc and expense of clearing timber dynamite for stumping, are that the of furnishing the machinery cost of living will pfrobably be loudest in his complaint regarding almost sure to get a good catch. As and expense required for reading the land is a great deal and this is one blasted stumps are split-and in best falling prices and falling wages when they cime—and they will come shape for burning and handling economically soon as the clover and timothy is manuscripts submitted. "Of course." and about the only reason that practicallya 11 of the. good agricultural and come out of- the ground well ^rooted and up a few inches, he added, "it is not my idea that as sure as the sun sets. free from clinging soil. turn in your sheep or cattle and lands now lying idle in northern Minnesota, such a platform would necessarily "Legislation may reduce the cost of an individual thing for a The cost of blowing stumps will plenty of them. Be sure to k«eenough be adopted by the National Convention, are not being farmed. period of time as legislation did regulate the cds of some things vary with different farmers. Some stock on this land to keep but the educative effect on the In„ the prairie section of Northern during the wlar, but l'egfslation will neithiejr raise nor lower the cost who have not the'knack of placing the grass well cropped and the new people at large might have a beneficial Minnesota, which is found in the extreme and gauging the charge rightly, will of living for the whole people. Legislation might benefit an individual northwest portion of the state, brush and stump sprouts trampled indirect result and may aid use two sticks where the observant a considerable distance further down and killed. If the soil is you in your well directed efforts to heavy, if he alone has a product which he was permitted to sell at man would use one. The best way north, nearly all of the agricultural th^ average hardwood stump at the interest young people in politics." a high price whether it be a bushel of wheat or a day's labor. for the newcomer who has never used Mr. Beale's original proposal contemplated lands are nnder cultivation and thousands end of about seven years, if treated "The relation of wages to the cosit of li'ving is not a matter for to. hire one of his neighbors dynamite is in this way will come out with the opening the competition of acres of swamp land in this politicans to tamper with. It is as fixed'in the economic fabric as who is experienced in its use, to breaking plow. If the sol is lig'it to graduates of Harvard, Yale prairie section is annually being **eclaimed.by clear a small tract for him. While assisting, drainage ditches, "but in and sandy, it requires longer treatment. the warp is "fixed in the wool of the cloth and the tearing out of the Princeton, Columbia, John Hopkins the new settler can obse'rve Northeastern Minnesota, which is in You might say "seven or Michigan, Wisconsin, California, warjp would delstroy the jfabric."The how the charge is gauged and handled. University of Virgina, Unversty of the timber region, the development is eight years is a long time to wait.'* cost of living will go,down as wages go down a«y salaries The powder cpmpanies also publish Kansas, Unversity of Pennsylvania naturally slower. go, down, as incomes go down, and as -the individual worker who exhaustive instructions in the ("Continued on last page). an£ University of Texas', but ^he Lan^ in Northeastern Minnesota kS-V*V l&Sa