mp*?. wfJWsr pSip?T i1??- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE EIGHT THENEWPUBLICBEALTH least every "six "months, to the same TIME CONGRESS laws with reference to tlip money conditions. upon the American farmer. "BuF fie That is an impossible condition knows also that he cannot 'make for the farmer. Many a man who DID SOMETHING bricks without straw.' If you want has produced meat, for instance, has the farmer to increase production you Conducted by the Minnesota Public been compelled to sacrifice his herd in have got to furnish him the tools. You stringent times at an absolute loss, Health Association. have got to furnish him the op]M)rtunity. and many times at so great a loss as You have got to furnish him (Letters on Health addressed to to almost bankrupt him. the capital on convenient terms and at Dr. H. W. Hill, Shubert Bldg., St. J. H. Allen of Des Moines "Talks Joint Stock Land Banks Help. reasonable rates. You cannot hamstring Paul, Minn., with a stamped self-addressed "We are carrying the money from the financing of the farmer and Turkey" to Senate Committee envelope enclosed, will the investor to the producer at a less De get your needed increased production." charge than any other system ever has answered by mail. If of general interest on Banking and Currency. done. W e. have cheapened the rate it will be answered in this Repair Gravel Roads. of interest for farmers from one end Gravel roads will wear in places but column, also.) of the country to the other." AID FOR AGRICULTURE DUE they are easily repaired by dumping a How much should I give load of sand and gravel on the worn OHIO FARMER 1. Question: "I am an ex-service spots once or twice a year. man. My younger brother, aged to make this abetter world? Joint Stock Land Banks Have Re« eighteen has tuberculosis I think.... LOWDEN FOR ECONOMY duced Interest Rates on Farm TEL1S ABOUT Please tell me who to apply to." Mortgages From One End of A Answer: There are so many things CERTAIN man in New York filled out his Country to the Other. you can do that it is rather bewildering. LOAN SHARKS Term as Governor a Record of income tax report. 1 The very first thing, however, "The use of subsidies has been and is to make sure whether your brother Saving and Efficiency. It showed an income so large that his tax was Is an established custom or function of has tuberculosis or not—and the this government," said Joseph H. Allen 53%. And his total gifts to church and charity sooner you find out the better. Most of Des Moines, la., in appearing before for the year were $148. cases of tuberculosis go to a physician Simplifies Management of State Affairs the senate committee on banking and A. H. Judy Shows How Mortgage long after the most favorable currency to protest against the tax on With Results Profitable Think of it—thousands spent for luxuries and farm mortgage bonds. Brokers Put the Screws time for cure is passed. I judge your to the Tax Payers. pleasure for himself and $148 to leave the world "Those of us who are Republicans brother is still in the early stages, if on Borrowers. a little better than he found it! know that for many generations we The high cost of government has he has it at all so make sure first held out to the farmers that we were supplied the supporters of Frank O. Most of us do better than that but not so very send him to a physician if he can't levying tariffs for the purpose ol Lowden the platform on which they go and if he lives in a sanatorium WANTS TWO KINDS OF BANKS much better. building up manufacturing interests in are confident he will be elected president district (i. e. in a county that has or the East that we might create a home of the United States. Our average daily gift for all church causes is shares in a county sanatorium) go to market for the Iowa farmers' products. Governor Lowden was born on a the county sanatorium physician. In I had this instilled into me from the farm and worked his way through —less than we spend for daily papers Says Joint Stock Land Banks Are for time I was a child. The further propo* either case do what the physician school by teaching. He is a product —less than a local telephone call Farmers Who Want to "Go it sition of subsidies can be traced in of the Middle West, having been born says. If you know your brother has —less than a third of the day's car fare Alone"—Federal Banks for .Those the upbuilding of our railroad inter* in Minnesota, raised in Iowa and then tuberculosis, then get him into a —less than 3 cents a day ests. For generations we granted sub» With Co-Operative Idea. coming to Chicago. He worked as a sanatorium as soon as you can. There No wonder that 80% of the ministers of America sidies to the railroads in the form ot clerk in a chicago law office for $8 a are fourteen county sanatoria. The public lands, and now the development week while preparing for his profession. are paid less than $20 a week. No wonder that "There should be two kinds of land state sanatorium is in Cass county. of these lands is making the railroad banks," said A. H. Judy, an Ohio farmer, Later he entered politics. He the church hospitals turn away thousands of sick They are most of them pretty full property today valuable. was thrice elected congressman from speaking before the United States people a year. No 'wonder that China has only and some have long waiting lists, the Thirteenth Illinois district before senate committee on banking and currency First Aid to Agriculture. one doctor for every 400,000 people. No wonder voluntarily retiring. but generally, if you can't get into in January. "Now for the first time in history He was elected governor of the one, you can into another. If he is "The reason for this is that one set that every church board and charity society is agriculture has received, as I am willing state in 1916 by a tremendous plurality of farmers do not want to take stock not living in a sanatorium district, forever meeting deficits, forever passing the hat. to call it, a subsidy. The farm and his record as chief executive in any institution, but want to use you can nevertheless get him into loan act permits joint stock land has put him in the list of presidential whatever money they can get in their It isn't because we are selfish it isn't because we one of the other sanatoria in another banks to issue farm mortgage bonds possibilities. Friends of the farming operations, while other farmers don't want to help. It's just because no one has ever put district. But the first thing to do is which are exempt from taxation. governor explain that he had to be will join co-operative societies and up a great big program to us, and asked us to think of the Never before in the history of this to make sure if he has tuberculosis dragged into the race for president take stock in the co-operative land work of the church in a systematic businesslike way. country has agriculture received a single or not. No use guessing about it. fjerfaialy he does not seem to worry banks. The joint stock land bank answers thing in the form of direct subsidy. The Interchurch World Movement represents the united about the outcome of the campaign. Find out. Write again to let us the need of those farmers who program of thirty denominations. They have surveyed know the result. do not care to join a co-operative society "I thfak one of the greatest needs and take stock in a bank. The of the country today is a stronger, their whole task, no business could have done it better. 2. Question: I wish you would federal land bank, with its co-operative finer, happier Americanism," said Governor say something in your column about They have budgeted their needs no business could have plan, answers the need of those Lowden. "We can compel aliens a more scientific budget. They have united to prevent the the evils of meat diet. If people only farmers who have the co-operative to respect our form of government, possibility of waste and duplication. At least a million dollars knew how much disease comes idea. or get out, and that we must do. AS will be saved by the fact that thirty individual campaigns from meat! the same tiaie we are under the profound Some Farmers Need Big Loans. are joined in one united effort. necessity of earning that re*Spect Answer: Vegetarians think vegetarians "When it can be shown that a loan from right thinking men. We aXi is to be used by a farmer residing on And they come to the men or women"who love America are wonderfully resistant to are hearing strong preachments1 the land and to be used in improving —to you— this week asking you to use them as the channel disease, but how about China and against profiteering and extravagance: the land and in increasing production through which a certain definite part of your income India where the people are vegetarians Yet it is haydTy dawning on the public of staples, the limit as to the amount can be be applied to make this abetter world. in earnest—and die like flies of mind that we can be paying excessively of the loans should not be fixed too every sort of infection? Give me for government, as well as for Only you can determine what part of your income that low. (The limit on joint stock land sifgar, meat or fuel. your evidence that vegetarians diet should be. "Illinois formerly had 125 separate5 prevents disease—not your belief It's a good time right now to answer that question. boards and commissions handling its but your evidence. I will publish it. We're passing through the world just once how much affairs. No one man, no score of men, better will the world be because you passed through? were responsible. A premium was: AROUND LOMAN put on spending. •'Under my administration thesebureaus have been consolidated into United April 25 tb Jesse Kennedy is plowing to get in nine departments, whose chiefs reside W Financial to a big grain crop. ait the state capital and are held individually Campaign May 2nd responsible. One effect of Supt. Olson was a Sunday visitor this has been to reduce the tax rate ^INTERCHURCH of the state 33 per cent in two years. here and at Indus. Adoptfon of a budget system has been valuable adjunct in saving the taxpayers Arthur Metcalf is making regular money. I think efficiency and Wbrid Movement trips to the Falls with the Dan Patch. J. H. Allen. economy in government is one mighty step fn the direction of improved If The question now is: Does agricnivture Americanism.** ofSNbrth America M. Peggar has been discing for •1 get the benefit of the subsidy— two days the past week to get in his the benefit of this tax exemption? wheat- "The joint stock land banks claim The fiublicatSbmof this advertisement is made possible through the reoperation that agriculture is benefited. They thirty denominations. claim that the government and that O E E N I S Paul Mai of Indus with the help of the people as a whole will be more his Fordson got in a good field of than compensated by the increased How Ta Use It wheat la.st week. production and by the lowering of the cost of living. "Agriculture requires a different It Pays to Advertise A MONTHLY MAGAZINE A crew is working hard to get the kind of financing than that required timber out of the West Fork while for commercial business. We have the water is up. large commercial banks the country A. H. Judy. $2.50 the Year over that provide millions of dollars Send: 10 cents a Sample Copy foe- banks is now placed at $50,000). Here of liquid capital for Commercial business Oscar Pearson and Mike Horan is the point: You cannot say you will without income tax or any expense to have the job of dragging the Elwell only lend $2,500 and that you will whatever excepting what the Correct English Publishing Company road in this vicinity, make that loan to a class of farmers, bank may levy* Now a farmer wants Evanstoa, lllinios who only want $2,500, while at the a8m6 to finance his farm for the production same time here is a nian who wants, of cattle* he wants money to build up Our new buttermaker has the machinery $20,000 or $30,000, who is Just as capable a Herd of thoroughbred cattle. He mostly placed and we will of using that amount efficiently in: goes to his banker and says: 4I need soon be ready to receive cream. thfe production of food as is the other! $10,000.' The banker says: 'All right, fellow of using the $2,500. CITATION FOR HEARING OS PETI­ will finance you.' The banker writes "Since this bill (senate bill 3109) has All of our citizens who attended out a note for six months. TION TO SELL MORTGAGE OR been pending, the statement has gone Announcement the booster meeting for Amendment Long.Time Loans Needed. out from the joint stock land banks LEASE LAND. Number One at the Falls say it was that all applications for loans are held "Now can you imagine a man, upon fine. up until it is known whether this bill Estate of Henry R. Hoist, lasane a six months' accommodation, going is to pass. My neighbor, Mr. J. H. into an industry or business that cannot State of Minnesota Upps, was approached by a loan shark Millers Store in Fort Frances is Rev. S. E. Gregg was here Sunday be really developed short of five to )ss and offered a loan of $10,000 to take ten years? And yet the farm is a factory to visit our Sunday school and preach Koochiching County the place of a loan that was to have offering to the people of International and nothing else. No man would the annual sermon for the Odd Fellows. been made to him by a joint stock land IN PROBATE COURT undertake to build up a great manufacturing Falls a Complete stock bank. The joint stock land bank would business depending upon his In the matter of the estate of Henry have made the loan for 33 years, but ability to get capital, upon six months' of High Grade Merchandise Suitable the loan shark only offered to make R. Hoist, insane. All of the red clover and much of renewal basis. A manufacturer has to The state of Minnesota to all persons his loan for five years. The loan the alsyke has frozen out this spring have his short-time accommodations for the Whole Family at interested in the sale of certain lands shark did, however, offer to make the which will be a hard blow to the clover for liquid capital required. But his belonging to said estate. The peti loan of $10,000 at 6 per cent interest prices under those in their .own of seed. permanent capital, the thing which tion of Ole Boe as representative with only an additional charge of $500 duly makes the base of his factory, must be the above named estate, being for commission. town. In Addition WE WILL it obtained for along period of years. filed in this court, representing that Several of our farmers have been What Will Happen in Five Years? "The farmer wanting that kind of is necessary and for the best interests ALLOW A PREMIUM ON ALL unfortunate with their stock this "But the question is: What will of said estate and of all interested capital must go to a commercial bank happen at the end of the five years? spring. M. Peggar and Andy Amundsen therein that certain lands of said es and get it, and he must get it on a six PURCHASES OF FROM 10 TO When the influence of the joint stock tate described therein be sold each lost a mare and colt. S. F. months' renewal. So he is subject, like land banks or the federal land banks praying that a license be to him grant 15 PER CENT, IF PAID FOR Plummer a cow and a colt and Mike the commercial man who makes his has disappeared because they have ed to sell the same turnover everj 60 or 90 days or-at Horan a colt. Now therefore, you and each of you been killed by this bill, then what will WITH AMERICAN MONEY. any are hereby cited to show cause, if the loan shark ask my neighbor Upps you have, before this court, at the when his debt falls due? A million probate court rooms in the court farmers In the United States can make DURING PAINT UP AND CLEAN UP SEASON of house, in International Falls, county Miller's Store a mighty good guess as to what will on Koochiching, state of Minnesota, AND ALL THE YEAR AROUND happen. A million farmers in the clock the 29th day of May, 1920 at 10 o* United States can foresee how the loan A. M., why the prayer of said petition Fort Frances, Ontario, WHEN YOU WANT TO— E S O A N shark will put the screws upon Mr. should not be granted. Upps when the time for renewal comes FIX THAT FENCE Saccesaor to Holmqnlit G. Witness the judge of said court, around. LAY THAT FLOOR Cabinet: Maker, Furniture the seal of said court, this 3rd day "The farmer is willing and anxious SEE HANG THAT DOOR Repairer, Bicture Framing, May, 1920. to increase production. He knows that (Court Seal) John Berg, BUILD THAT SMALL General Carpenter, Contracttor the nation needs food. He knows that Judge of Probate Court BUILDING OR COTTAGE and Builder. the world needs food. He knows that Jevne& N or ton, 502 THIRD STREET or any Big Carpenter job— the nation Is depending on him. He Attorneys for Petitioner. knows .that the world is depending M6- rr**Tr "'-m*1?