TRTTS! p' "T^".^ n^i «(fc.- i- -w Jj ^^^t~^^^^^'^^n«|^!s1-©«f!!.^,-tji^'^^f'-i' T- '^rV tefeliiliis «?u, fVy- I ,r?'1"'* ^-s.*1- "i /,4-* *fi?4 »t»l,',V^1 ^"f- •&, '„_f 4 14 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX TwoHindteTalksTqAmerkans $5,217,0U0,000 of gold and $25,000,000.000 of paper, and now they have of gold $5,071,000,000 and of paper $29,000,000,000. The central powers—Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey— Association. America First went into the war with $600,000,000 of gold and $1,200,000,000 of paper. At the armistice they had $686,000,000 of gold and $12,305,0000,000 of paper, while now their paper has gone up to AMERICANISM $18,771,000,000. To reduce it to percentages, the ratio 2y FRANK O. LOWDEN, Governor of Illinois. of gold to paper at the start of the The first principle of Americanism is orderly development war was: Allies, 76.6 per cent central under and the through the law. The law provides powers, 49.7 per cent. At the armistice how wrong should be redressed. The ballot box is the the ratio was: Allies. 20.9 ark of our covenant. The Soviet government is an attempt per cent central powers, 3.5 per cent. to substitute rule by one class for rule by all New Triplex Springs Iron At the outset of 1920 the ratio stood: the people. It therefore is an assault upon the very Allies, 17.1 per cent central powers, cornerstone of our government. Ours is a government "of the people, by the people and for the people," and not 1.7 per cent. a government of the people by one class of the people, for Increase in Belligerent Countries. Out Rough Roads one class of the people. The idea of class rule is repugnant Naturally most of this increase occurred to every principle which our fathers wrote into the Constitution. If allowed to thrive it would be fatal to our in the belligerent countries. institutions. The idea of government by class takes The ratio between gold and notes In ROUGH different names and Soviet is not the only word which defines the twenty-three countries and colonies This comfort is now obtainable ROADS seem it. Sometimes it is Industrial Workers of the World which participated in the war sometimes the One Big Union and sometimes the radical Socialist party. Whatever smoothed out by the in a light car with fell from 71.3 per cent in July, 1914, its name and menace to our liberties is equally great. economy in fuel and tires wonderful new Springs Triplex to 15.8 per cent in November, 1918, We do not realize the value and significance of government. Good government is the best of all material possessions. It envelops us like the very and to 11.2 last December. Among of Overland and remarkably low upkeep 4. air we breathe, though we are usually unconscious of its worth just as we the eight principal neutrals the movement cost. are that without the air we breathe, we would surely die. Government is our was the other way, their gold Increasing Springs ho'd the Triplex 'N, greatest worldly possession, because without it the things that enrich and faster than their currency. Overland 4 is started wheels to the road, while the ennoble life could not be. The sanctity of the home, the security of life, liberty The ratio rose from 44.3 per cent in and property, the school-houses dotting all our land, the church spires and lighted by the Auto-Lite passengers ride in comfort. 1914 to 59.9 per cent last December. pointing heavenward, could not exist for a moment unless a worthy government Their astonishing qualities two-unit system. It has U. threw its protecting aegis over them. Nature's prodigal gifts are of no From 1914 to last December the ratio value unless a stable, just government exists to protect them. of gold reserve to currency notes, have created an entirely new S. L. batteries. It is equipped The American believes that in preserving American institutions, and in the tables show, fell in France from conception of light car riding with all the latest car holding America for Americans, native and naturalized, America can best discharge 62 per cent to 9.6 in Great Britain her obligations to the world. The international would pool America ease. essentials and conveniences. from 134 to 22.9 pe^ cent in Italy with the other countries of the world for the humanity at large. He who from 70 per cent to 7.5 in the United meets his duties at home, becomes thereby no poorer citizen of his community, States from 99.6 per cent to 52.3. and he who meets his duties as an American first, becomes no poorer citizen of the world. Americanization means that it is America and not the world While world paper currency was increasing which protects her humblest citizen in the exercise of his rights. It, therefore, seven-fold national debts, exacts from the citizen allegiance to America, and not to the world. It says represented by bonds and other promises to all "if America is not a large enough country for you, and if you want to to pay, rose from $40,000,000,000 consider yourself simply a citizen of the world, you had better move beyond to $260,000,000,000 bank deposits and our borders." We of America shall have enough to do if we take care of our the use of checks and other circulating own. Our first duty is to our people, and their first allegiance is to the Stars and Stripes. media made a corresponding advance, while meantime gold production fell off from $460,000,000 a year in SEIN ters "by "EST T5aU£ The situation Is 1914 to $350,000,000 in 1919. brought right down to date by the statistical The statisticians say that the most department of the National astonishing, not to say incomprehensible, City bank of New York, which has MONEY feature in the world's finances Just issued world figures to the beginning has been the inflation occurring in the Central Auto Co. of 1920. The tables are illuminating. year following the armistice. When the war started in 1914, thirty principal countries of the world LITTLE CHANGE World's Supply Is Seven Times had, in round numbers, about $7,000,000.000 What It Was in of paper currency. At the armistice it had jumped to about $40,000,000,000, TO SIGNAL MARS 1914. or more than five times as Down at the South, as Col. Watterson HOBO IS1N BAD" void with not one twinkle "fo guide high. Since the armistice it has gone would say, the hoboes this year his airy footsteps. up to about $51,000,000,000. This Is will find practically every hand turned FI6URES ARE ILLUMIHATIWS Thus another flight of fancy is outside the $34,000,000,000 which, it is against them, every kitchen door blasted by science, for it Is estimated estimated, the bolshevist government Be Gigantic Searchlight Would closed tight, for the high cost of living that an earth light just bright enough has industriously turned out. Knight of the Road Confronted is holding hilarious carnival in those to be distinguished by the eye of a Necessary. Statistics Give an Idea of Inflation of $2,000,000,000 More Gold Reserve. parts and the demand for labor is Martian would have to have 766 trillion World's Currency—Central Powers With Hated Work. Meanwhile what was happening to greater than ever before.—New York candle power. And when one Worst Off—Increase Mostly in the gold reserves back of the notes in Evening Sun. talks in trillions it doesn't mean a HOPE BLASTED BY SCIENCE Beligerent Countries. the thirty countries? In 1914 they thing. amounted, roughly, to $5,000,000,000. High Cost of Living Has Made It Hard This figure is given by Dr. Clarence HIGH SPOT OF ADVENTURE New York.—The world's paper money They are now about $7,000,000,000. for Itinerants to Pick Up an Easy Errol Ferree, professor of experimental is now seven times the amount it Notes have thus increased more than Light Bright Enough to Be Dlstinguishcd psychology at Bryn Mawr college, Existence—Not Like Good Pacific Coast Has for Many Years was in 1914, while the gold supply, 700 per cent and gold less than 50 per which is now seeking a $2,000,000 endowment. by a Martian Would Have Old Times. Been the "Hunting Ground" of back of the paper, has increased less cent. Dr. Ferree is the best About 766 Trillion Candle Power— Gentlemen Adventurers. than one-half in the five years since Back In 1914 the ratio of gold reserves known authority on light in its relation No other art has suffered greater deterioration If Martians Have Big Enough Tele, the war started. This comparison to outstanding notes in the thirty to vision. He reached his conclusion through price manipulation The Pacific coast seems to be favored scope They Could See Light Waves conveys a faint idea of the inflation countries were 70 per cent. By the by laboratory experiments than that of kitchen panhandling, and of the "gentleman adventurer," From Earth, is Claim of Prominent of the world's currency, which economists time of the armistice It had fallen to which confirm the deductions made a wail is now going up from a thousand for one, a Scot, has given a great collection Scientist. reckon as one of the chief causes 18.4 per cent, while last Christmas by the searchlight experts of the Sperry "jungles" all over the quiet land. of South Sea relics, arms, of skyrocketing prices and high time it had dropped still lower to 18.7 Gyroscope company, who believe Even the price of soap, which is occasionally armor and utensils to the University Any doting person who plans to cost of living. per cent. that it is possible to throw a beam of used, though not encouraged, of British Columbia at Vancouver. The guide, a weary wanderer from Mars The 700 per cent jump in paper The allies, so the tables of the National light visible to Martians. promises to make the American hobo other, an American, a veteran of the by placing the poetic candle in the money, too, Is exclusive of the issues City bank show, taken as a look like a mud-bedraggled soldier regular army who has seen much service window had better abandon the idea, of currency by the bolshevlst government group at the start of the war, had after a long vigil in a cootie-ridden in the army and out of it, has it can't be done. The little Martian of Russia, which has kept the $3,763,000,000 of gold and $4,900,000,000 trench. What the Engineers Find. given a Boxer flag to the Golden Gate would be lost in the deep and vasty printing presses turning out shlnplas- of paper. At Its finish-they Jasd This year's convention, in a sense, Professor Ferree's figures check up Memorial museum at San Francisco. will be memorable Inasmuch as the remarkably with the estimates made Both loved the open, the stir of arms war has revolutionized the craft of by the searchlight engineers, who and the savor of strange places. The hoboing and many novel and startling pointed out that it was unusual that Boxer flag brings up what today is almost suggestions as to how to live and experiments based on actual experience ancient history the siege of the travel without work will be presented give the same result as careful legations, the coming of the occidental by scores of delegates, hailing from laboratory work under ideal conditions. troops and the perils and sufferings of every section of the country. "Jungle" The calculations made by the men and women in that siege, have philosophy likewise has undergone a George B. Crouse, department engineer, furnished novelists and writers of great change and the high cost of living and P. R. Bassett, physicist of stories with much "stuff." The South has only served to rub a sore laid the Sperry company, showed that one sea and Its vast stretches have had open when the hand of Industry during candle power is visible at .46 of a the same lure for the adventurous, the national the war reached into box cars, down mile, while Professor Ferree's estimate, and now in their respective resting & joy smoke Into the trucks "underneath," combed based on the minimum candle places these relics and trophies are the "blind baggage" and pawed over power visible at three meters, shows there to show what two strong men of makes a whale the roofs of sleepers and day coaches a candle power to be visible at 56 of other lands found and kept. When we of ten thousand trains. a mile. The difference Is accounted say that the Boxer flag was with its of a cigarette! War's brutal order to work seared for by absorption, for which Professor owner through St. Mihiel, the Meuse and burned, It is true, but it did not Ferree may not have made allowance. and the Argonne combats, and at crush the spirit of the hobo cult nor The engineers' figures were also Ypres, we have let an Odyssey describe deprive the hobo of his wits. The predicated on the supposition that the itself. coming convention will be a parade of Martians have telescopes with a light wits, in fact, largely devoted to the gathering power of 8,000, which is Picture Lore. question of "How to get by with prices much less than the light gathering To paste new paper on picture backing, so high." power of the large telescopes on cut the paper the proper size, Many a sigh will go up from a thousand earth. But Professor Ferree, with float it in water till it is quite wet, apply bosoms when the old order of the aid of accurate means he has of the paste to the frame and, wiping things is mentioned. Five years ago measuring light, was able first to determine off actual drops from the paper, every hamlet, town and city in America the minimum amount of light press it In place. As the paper dries had a "jungle," or conventional rendezvous visible to the eye at three meters and It shrinks, stretching smooth. for hoboes, where they could then carry this out by mathematical If you want to hang a small picture cook their own "mulligans," "boil up" calculation to show the light visible from an invisible wire brad and find at Mars when it is 35,000,000 miles and shoot dice to see whether they difficulty in locating a .beam in which away, its nearest point of approach would hop a train for north, south, to make it fast, run your eye along east or west and where they could to the earth the mopboard till you see where that evade the surveillance of the "bulls." a is nailed. Hang the picture in line But today things are different. Five with that. Small pictures hung on years ago it was tolerably easy to approach Can Work by Massed Searchlights. wire nails with taut wire won't show the kitchen door, if the dog was The enormous candle power necessary nails, if Copyriffht HI# by the wire nor skew on their tied up and the backyard showed no to produce such a beam of light ft. i. Reynolds Tobacco Co. pass two nails are used to the wire traces of a wood pile, deliver a reminiscent ycall Is inconceivable to*the mind, but not Awaiting ynut may-mo, yoaV over instead of one. tale of home and mother, to the find toppy red baga, tidy Impossible of production. It would OU certainly get yours when you lay your smokecards on the table, To prevent ugly dust lines on the paper tina, handmomo pound kindly housewife and come away with not be necessary, Mr. Crouse and Mr. for a tidy red tin or a toppy red bag of Prince Albert and roll a half pound tin httmidora1 behind pictures drive a small beefsteak, pie and cake. It was easy and—that elaaay, practical Bassett believe, to construct one makin's cigarette! Youll want to hire a statistical bureau to keep count brass-headed tack in each lower corner five years ago to "mootch" the ordinary pound cryatal glaaa humido* single reflector. The same result with aponga torn Dioiifaner of the frame to hold It out from the of your smokestunts! Why, you never dreamed of the sport that lies bucolic sojourner for the price of that kampa Princm AJbart Sa would be attained by massing searchlights wall so air can circulate behind It auoh par/act condition meat, potatoes and onions with which awaiting your call in a home rolled cigarette when if a P. A» for the of tremendous Individual candle to "stew up" a "mulligan." power. And the difficulty would not packingI And five years ago it was possible Here's How to Do It. be the production of sufficient current Talk about flavor! Man, man, you haven't got the listen of half your for certain of the hobo gentry to talk to light them but the great cost 'of When a cork slides down Inside a the average restaurant keeper out of a smokecareer until you know what rolling 'em with P. A. can do for your construction. It is not likely that bottle It is very difficult to get It out meal and sidestep the dish pan. But contentment! And, back of P. A.'s flavor, and rare fragrance—proofs of there are enough searchlights In the unless one has the necessary tools, nowadays it appears to the American world to produce anywhere near Prince Albert's quality—stands our exclusive patented process that and they are not always available. hobo that there are but three words enough light to be seen by the naked A good way to extract it Is to grease cuts out bite and parch! With P. A. your smokesong in a makin's cigarette in the lexicon of the average citizen— eye of the Martians. the neck of the bottle with vaseline, will outlast any phonograph record you ever heard! Prince Albert "work" and "beat it." The largest searchlight made by then l*ld the bottle under cold water. Is a cinch to roll. It's crimp cut and stays put like a regular pal! Hoboes are purchasing no nourishment the Sperry firm produces 1,280,000,000 When the bottle Is as cold as possible, & in job lots these days. The approved candle power, but it would take 606,250 spear the cork with a hatpin, or even Prince Albert upsets any notion you ever had as to how delightful a '$% plan is to band together, each of these to produce 766 trillion candle shake It until it blocks the neck of jimmy pipe can be! It is the tobacco that has made three men smoke "Bo" taking a certain territory to canvass, power. So unless the Martians the bottle and sets straight with the pipes where one was smoked before. It has won men all over the nation turn the "collections" into a general have some kind of telescopes, it Is not neck. Then gradually heat the bottle fund and buy a calf or a pig on to the joys of smoking. likely that they will have the opportunity or pour hot water over It and the expanding the hoof, lead the animal to the "jungles" right away to catch a flash air will generally force the and there prepare the"mulUgan R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winttoo-Stlem, N. C. from the earth. cork out with a slight pop. mm mimM*tiM&m DEFECTIVE