I 11 vV^'-V**?anv*Fv$jtf'- &*PQffi3pg*r* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE THRE* TWo Ninute Talxs To Amerkans 'Che. WHAT PUZZLED THE MAJOR PROBABLY ENJOYED THE JOKE ADD TO INCOME OF FAMILY Hard to Understand Why He Was Young Officer Might Easily Have 4B P^IFRRAAN Guessed How Much Captain Schley cited, in View o* Cack of Culinary Figures of Department of Labor 8hew American Knutrtodge. Was Able to Surmise. That Many Wives Have Other Than Household Duties. Association. America First When a group of American naval Homeward bound, an engineer regiment which had fought the entire war officers on shore leave in Brest were In a survey of family incomes, In le#on at Bordeaux was surprised to find several exchanging reminiscences, a middleaged nearly 100 cities of the United States, officer of the keen, alert type related citations posted on the ship's bulletin the department of labor found that in boards. While this regiment had this incident of his eai'ly days Johnstown, N. Y., three-quarters of LOOK AT AMERICA. been among the first to reach France in the service: the wives earn money. The Labor Review By How. President Corning Advertising Agency, St. Paul. LEAVITT CORNING, and its personnel had volunteered I was just out of Annapolis, and explains that this remarkable Copy for This Department All that is necessary in order to be a good American is to look with the idea of going directly to the probably not so sedate as I should condition prevails in Johnstown because Supplied by National Headquarters^ at America! glove making is the principal industry front, they were shifted to the base have been. In the long hours of the of the American Legion Founded by men who believed in God, in the sacredness of there and furnishes work which port in the summer of 1917 to build night, while taking my turn on watch, marriage and the family, that honest toil-not idleness should be docks and kept there during the whole I would frequently take a few turns women can do at home. This appeals about the ship and, if all was well, to them because they are able to earn of the hostilities. rewarded and that the material rewards of individuals practising POILUS ASK AID IN DEFENSE good wages without leaving their None having been sprayed with curl up in a dark corner and rest. the homely virtues of self sacrifice, self-control, industry and household. German 77's and all having been denied The late Rear Admiral Schley, then thrift should belong to him who earns them and to no political Warriors of France Fear Those Who the usual avenues of becoming a captain, was in command of the In almost one-sixth of the New overlords—all America needs today is an appreciation of the Did Not See May Not heroes, the regiment greeted the announcement ship, and he must have suspected York city homes visited women contributed ideals of its Fathers— Understand. of the citations with a earnings toward the support that we younger officers were not Who believed in law, in order, in reason— stampede to the bulletin boards. There walking as much as we should while of the home. In Boston one wife out Lemuel Bolles, national adjutant of Who, when it was necessary to break with the tyrant who it was revealed that the greater share on watch. of ten works in Buffalo one in twenty-eight the American Legion, has received the levied tribute without allowing them to be heard justified themselves of the men chosen for the honors consisted One night he gave me a small package in Cleveland and Cincinnati following message from the French to the world by appealing to the reason of the world and of a mess sergeant and five to slip in my pocket. "Return one in seven, and in Pittsburgh only war veterans, an organization of exservice said: cooks, who had "maintained a high this package to me when you come one in fifty. It is interesting to note men In France. The letter was standard of morale" by serving beans off in the morning!" he ordered. that investigators found that a surprisingly "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" transmitted through the New York office a la Bordelaise and providing other large percentage of town When the next night he did the The American Declaration of Independence came from an orderly of the organization, and reads in delectable dishes that helped make same thing and cautioned me to keep dwellers derive some income from gardens assemblage elected in an orderly manner by orderly, spber part as follows: the men contented. and poultry. Ninety-three per moving about, I became suspicious minded constituencies. "To Our American Brothers-In-Arms: Among the officers cited by the regimental and examined the package closely. cent of those visited in Cleveland had The Constitution of the Fathers forever did away with the "COMRADES: order was a major who had Although I could not get a clue to a garden or chickens.—Thrift Magazine. need of "revolutions" to accomplish reforms in the new government "The Poilus of France make this appeal been particularly conspicuous for his Its contents, I suspected that it somehow because it provided the means whereby the people themselves through us to their American good work in unloading shiploads of kept track of the distance 1 might peaceably and in an orderly manner go to the polls brother-in-arms and say to them in the food and ammunition when the Americans traveled while on watch. We were WHEN TEXAS WAS NEW STATE and vote changes desired. Nineteen times have the people done name of that justice for which they were in the midst of the Argonne near the equator and in the historic fought together, never forget what you this. drive. This major, a democratic and Spanish Main ocean lanes, and It First Lawsuit Tried, After Independence, came to do amongst us. By the blood So now when Socialism prates of the "need" of "revolution, peaceable if possible popular officer, was immediately besieged was so warm that I didn't want to Was in "Stone House" in which was shed by us together, in the but by bomb and bullet if necessary," Socialism thereby brands itself with congratulations. keep walking so I called a sailor and, Town of Nacogdoches. un-American, treasonable. name of our dead who lie side by side, don't see why they cited me," he "I handing him a bill, told him to take When it points to Russia as a Socialistic, paradise we accept the statemeni in the name of all the brave men who explained modestly. "I can't cook."— the package and shake it violently for —Russia is a Socialistic "paradise," the same kind of a "paradise" the So The first session of the District bear on their bodies the glorious marks Home Sector. several hours. cialists want to give us in America it is a Socialistic "paradise" in which the court of Nacogdoches county, Texas, of desperate battles, in the name of homely American virtues of the American Fathers are considered as being out After the cruise was over, Capt. held after the independence of the all the heroes whom our nations have of date a "paradise" in which all religion is scoffed at, the marriage tie and Schley called me to his cabin and told CASE OF REAL HARD LUCK state had been declared, was in the produced, let us not forget, let us the family circle are old fashioned and the abominable, uncivilized stone age me that as he was leaving New York old historic stone fort in the town ot doctirne of the nationalization of women is encouraged by the government o! continue together their sacred work, an inventor handed him a package, Nacogdoches, March 6, 1837, the Detroit Socialism, Sovietism and Starvation. No Wonder Washington Jones Was in let us unite our countries as our hearts saying it would show how far a man News recalls. The first criminal Aye Russia is the apotheosis of Socialism, the reasonable conclusion tc No Mood to Extend Sympathy were In the face of death, let us not walked if carried in his pocket. the premise that governmental ownership of all the business, all the lives, al! case in the district was also held in to His Side-Kick. lose the fruits of such generous efforts, "The first night you carried this the thoughts, all the homes of its people is desirable—and it is the exad the "stone house," as the fort was -designated of so many willing sacrifices, let us autithesis of Americanism which has ever proclaimed "that government best package," Capt. Schley explained, "it by the court. It was in the Argonne. A regiment look clearly into the future and continue that governs least," that is the servant and not, the autocrat of its people, thai showed that you scarcely had walked The first case tried in Texas dealt of colored pioneers from Dixie who for the maintenance of our liberty believes in freedom of action, individual initiative, individual savings ac at all and the next night it showed with a contested election between had been inducted into the service had counts, individual family life, exact equality for one and ail before the law: and for the honor of our race that you had walked as far as from Haden Edwards and Daniel Lacy. with no legal hindrance to the rational reasonable just development of the just received a batch of mail. But the battle to which our duty calls us. New York to Kansas City. I could not individual who wants to work and be rewarded for what he produces. Both claimed the office of county and neither Jefferson Madison Monroe nor "America has gained through her accuse an American officer on merely As between the outworn tyranny of Kaiser and Czar and the latter day district clerk. Though Lacy received his particular side-kick Washington sons in this war the right to immortality. tyranny of Lenine and Trotzky America is the safe rational middle ground the evidence of such an untrustworthy a majority of the votes cast, Edwards Jones was manifesting any great elation. Nations looked on with admiration whereon is found the hope and the safety of the world. machine. We will forget it." In fact, they both looked decidedly claimed that his opponent was not entitled Keep America steadfast to American ideals and bid those who seem in at the spectacle of millions of As I was leaving the room I glanced in the dumps. to the commission of election danger of becoming the dupes of the wily preachers of sedition and Bolshevism— young American heroes arriving on the back and caught a twinkle in the admiral's because he was not a bona fide citizen "Wash," mourned Jefferson. "I'se soil of France, to defend the sacred eye. I have since wondered "Look to America!" the hard-luckin'est nigger what was of the county. The jury returned a principles of honor and liberty inscribed just how much the shrewd old sea dog IwoMinvteIausToAmericans ever. I done just got a letter from verdict in favor of Lacy, ruling him a in the American Constitution. surmised.—Youth's Companion. mah gal and she's gone and went and citizen of the county on the day ol "Victory has crowned their banners, married another." the election. that and the blood shed for a just French Pipe Lines. "Oh, man, man!" wailed Wash. "You cause, that is a past which future The French undersecretary of state don't know what hard luck am. Me, I Electricity in Next War. generations will be proud to claim as for public works has given a contract just got a letter from the draf' board That the use of high explosives in "V. a heritage. But the sons of America for the construction of a pipe line from what says I'm exempt!"—Pittsburgh modern warfare has about reached have not finished their work, our common Arnica Arrrhlinn nj Le Havre to Paris to convey crude petroleum, Post. the end of its development, is the enemy does not acknowledge his the work to be completed opinion of a French inventor of one defeat, he hopes when he will have within a year. The tender for the work Oh, Don't Mention It. powerful compound of that nature. succeeded in sowing the seeds of discord was made by the Compagnie des Mazouts A number of the neighbor women Neither can poisonous gases, it is indicated, amongst us to renew the fight de Petroles. The lines, for there just stopped in to have a little gossip be made much more dangerous THE POWER TO PRESERVE AMERICA which he lost, thanks to you. We know are to be two, will pass Bolbec, Barantin, and one of them said: "Who do you than were those contrived in the that calumny will have no effect on Rouen and Pontoise, and will consist By Governor of Massachusetts. HON. CALVIN COOLIDGE, think I saw downtown yesterday? He world war. Flying mechanisms of you who have seen with your own of a large pipe having a bore of was buying some strange woman a various types promise much greater eyes what you saw, you who know us The power to preserve America is in the same hands today 25 centimeters and of a smaller having soda and I'll bet he never said a word menace, and it is probable that any that it was when the German army was almost at the and know what we are, but we fear a bore of ten centimeters. The about it to his wife." She then told new developments in scientific warfare gates of Paris. That power is with the people themselves, that those who have not seen like first will have a capacity of 4,500 tons not one class but all classes, not one occupation but all the name of the woman. visible in the next international you may come to doubt us and that of heavy combustible oil per day and occupations, not one citizen but all citizens. Our great It was not until the last neighbor disagreement will be electrical In is why we send out this appeal to the smaller will have a capacity of need now is more of everything for everybody. It is not was gone that little four-year-old Ruth their nature. Electricity's use in the you, comrades, that you may take men that the nation or the world needs today but the 1,000 tons per day. These two pipes last war was relatively small.—Popular said: "Mother, I don't think Mrs. So part in our defense. products of labor. These products are to be secured only ought to have an appreciable importance Mechanics Magazine. and So (mentioning the name of the by the united effort of all citizens. The trained business "Our cause is yours also, you cannot for Paris in itself and as a distributing woman who had told the story) has man and the humblest workman must each contribute. All go back on us, you saw us in action point, and though the initial Fireproofing Mine Timbers. any room to talk about other women's of us must work and in that work there should be cooperation. and you know that we do not need any cost is no trifle, being reckoned at husbands. I never told you, but one A coating of magnesia cement on There must be more food, more clothing and other proofs than our past records to 90,000,000 francs "at normal exchange," more shelter. The directors of industry must direct it the timbers of mines is declared to day last week Mr. So and So bought prove to all men of worth that if we the project, with proper management, more efficiently. The workers in industry must work in me a soda. And when I said, 'Thank be an economical and efficient assurance fought this war with so much heroism it more efficiently. The power to preserve America with ought to be successful. against fire, especially in the you' to him, he said, 'Oh, don't mention It was because we were defending not .-^lall that it now means to the world all the great hope that it holds for humanity, arid regions where timber becomes it.' And I never would have told lies in the hands of the people. only our soil, but the entire world. Penguin Cult in Paris. highly inflammable and is difficult to it if his wife did not think she was How can our people be made strong. Only as they draw their strength "We held back and stemmed the The cult of the penguin has come to replace. The magnesite stucco, which from our industries. How can they do that? Only by building up our industries so smart." formidable ,wave of German invasion, and making them strong. When they fail all fails. When they prosper Paris, writes a correspondent. In is abundantly available on the Pacific almost alone for four years, from the they all prosper. Workingmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor many houses and in more shop windows coast, is applied in two coats, Knew His Manners. Somme river to Alsace, bearing the are cold conciliations if there be no employment and employment can be had you will now find quaint, contemplative each in. thick, putting the second A man from one of the back country only if some one finds it profitable. The greater the profit the greater the brunt of the hardest shocks, our brave penguins as ornaments, or in on before the first has set. When ranches visited Los Angeles for the wages. Industry must expand or fail. It must show a surplus after all payments men leaving their lifeless bodies by pottery and china. The penguin porcelain dry, it is elastic, adheres firmly to first time and went into a restaurant of wages, taxes and returns to investors. Justice and the general welfare the hundreds of thousands on the coffee set is the latest design. almost any surface, and is stable and to have dinner. go hand in hand. The cause of America is the cause of education. Education fields of battle, without one word of Father penguin in delicate, deftlyshaped All went well until the waiter durable. It is an insulator, and resists with a soul, a trained intellect but guided ever by an enlightened conscience. complaint or without asking for quarter, white china makes the coffee Prosperity abounds but the great promise of the future lies in the brought him a serviette. The eyes of fire, water and climatic changes. because they knew that if France loyalty and devotion of the people to their own government. They are firm in pot, and the coffee, nicely hot in his —Popular Mechanics Magazine. the rancher flamed and, pulling a sixshooter were vanquished, the principles of the the conviction of their fathers that liberty is increased only by increasing the plump body, pours out through his from his hip pocket told the determination to support a government of the people as established and defended great Revolution were doomed forever, long, sturdy beak. Penguin junior, a The Success Trick. waiter his mind. by its patriotic sons. the declaration of the rights of man little slimmer, is the milk jug, and the "Take that blamed thing away at John Adams Thayer, the secretary The flags of the great empires of the past are gone but the stars and and the citizen would have been destroyed coffee cup, in the shape of a penguin's of the New York Publishers' association, once," he said evenly. "I reckon I stripes remain. It pictures the vision of a people whose eyes were turned to and trampled on, the poor and egg, is little penguin "thought of" but said at a dinner: know when to use a handkerchief without the rising dawn. It represents the hope of a father for his posterity. It was humble would have been forced back never flaunted for the glory of royalty, but to be born under it is to be a child not yet born. "The successful publisher must be having them darned hints thrown under the iron rule of lords, might of a king, and to establish a home under it is to be the founder of a royal quick in the uptake. He must be the out!" would have prevailed over right, crime iiouse. He who lives under it and is loyal to truth and justice everywhere. No Slackers. first, or nearly the first, to discern and dishonor would have been written He who lives under it and is disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race "There is said to be a great demand the merit in new writers. Of him Spanish Women Advancing. everywhere. as the very heading of fundamental above all men it may be said: Miss Chrystal Macmillan, British for $10,000-a-year men," remarked TwoMihuteTaiksToAhericahs. laws of modern nations. suffragist leader, who recently returned Mr. Gadspur. '"It isn't enough that he should "It must not come to pass that our "So I hear," said Mr. Dumbwaite. know a good thing when he sees it— to England from Madrid, says brave men died in vain, we owe it and "Any special requirements?" he must seize a good thing when he the woman suffrage movement is making you owe it to their memory. The survivors "Well, I understand there isn't much knows it.'" rapid progress in Spain. A number must not sleep on their laurels talk about a five-day week and a sixhour of women hold important educational Easy to Tell the Time. in false security. You must not imagine day in $10,000 a year circles. The positions and others are working One of the cleverest of foreign that it was we alone whom you Association. idea seems to be that a man can work as journalists on leading newspapers, America First clocks now common among the exdoughboys helped, you must understand that your six days a week for eight or ten hours but as yet there are comparatively who had an opportunity to liberty was threatened just as much a day without wrecking his health, few women physicians. The women go shopping abroad, is the clock without as ours all nations are more or less and he might even look in on the job of four Spanish nations, Spain, Argentina, hands. It in nowise resembles the dependent on each other. As for us, for an hour or two on Sunday, if necessary."—Birmingham Uruguay and Cuba, have now applied AMERICAN LEGION RESPONSIBILITY. ordinary clock with round face, but is Polllus, we shall never believe that it Age-Herald. for affiliation with the International made with groups of cleverly arranged was from pity, nor even out of gratitude By Ell Past Commander-in-Chief Grand Army of the Republic. JUDGE TOBBANCE, Women's Suffrage alliance. clusters of celluloid leaves. The leaves for help given by us to you in What the world at this time most needs is a new birth—not of freedom His Interpretation. in one cluster turn every hour—in the former times, that you came to our trat of service. He that would be greatest among you, let him be your servant. World's Two Big Capitals. Mortland Jones, the five-year-old other, every minute—so it takes but a aid. All true and consistent living is bondage. Unceasing, exacting bondage, bondage son of Rev. Rhys Price Jones, pastor New York is undoubtedly the largest glance to see the exact time stated In to duty, to responsibility, to sacrifice and to service. For more than half "France dead would have meant the of the First Presbyterian church in city, in respect to population, in plain Arabic figures. a century the Grand Army of the Republic with tireless vigilence kept alive condemnation of the whole world and this country. Whether it or London Franklin, refused to sing "America," the fires of patriotism. Long years ago the veterans of the Civil war forsaw France would have died rather than with the rest of the members of the is the largest populated city in the the peril into which the nation was drifting. They saw the menace of For Government Regulation. go back on her principles. Do not primary class in Sunday school. When ignorance settling down like a dark cloud upon various portions of our land. world cannot be definitely stated until "I presume you're mighty glad the therefore let anyone say you have They were fretted by an over-supply of foreigriism in America. The melting the census reports (of New York for questioned he gave as his reason the war is over." done enough for her it was not she pot seemed to have lost its power to melt, and the barriers of selfishness separated line of the song, "Land where my 1920 and London for 1921) are published "Well, I don't jes' know about dat," whom you helped, it was the Ideals the people from each other. The friendly road was little traveled fathers died." "My father didn't die," metropolitan London is smaller answered Mandy. "'Cose I'se glad to find the touch of elbows was to a lamentable extent lost. The Grand Army and principles for which she always than New York, but Greater London, he said, "and I won't sing it"—Indianapolis of the Republic saw that the only hope of the nation was in the children and have my Sam back home an' all dat, stood and without these Ideals of justice News. with about 8.000,000, is probably they bent their energies toward the Americanization of the schools and in but I jes' know I ain't never gwine t' and liberty a free nation cannot their earnest, homely way unceasingly preached patriotism to the youth larger than Greater New York. get money from him so regular as I exist. of America and love for Old Glory. And so it came to pass that when the In 1930. did while he wuz in de army an' de "France is still bleeding and will crucial test was applied to America and when her domestic foes seemed more Can't Do a Good Turn. "I want to buy a battleship," said government wuz handlin' his financial •dangerous than the armed Hun that the uncorrupted heart of the youth of the suffer for along time from the wounds First-Class Scout—Did you read the lady secretary of the navy. affairs." land responded to the call of duty and saved America. As a remnant of rear which she received, her young sons about the stout who swallowed his "Well?" «^guard of the Old Grand Army of the Republic is now crossing the final fording cut off in their youth, her lands devastated, rt teaspoon? "I wonder If I could get the chairwoman place, it turns to the new Grand Army of the Republic and salutes it in fraternity, Beyond Challenge. her commerce destroyed, her Tenderfoot—No what happened to of the naval committee interested?" charity and loyalty. Our work is nigh well done and we welcome the "Who would you decide is the author credit diminished. But what makes the men of the American Legion to the great duties and responsibilities that lie him? in our literature with the largest greatness of a people is not alone its toefore them. Our faith in them is supreme and we commit to them the performance First-Class Scout—Oh, he can't "Ask her to go battleship shopping vocabulary?" prosperity, It is keeping Its honor unsullied. of the sacred duties to which they have been called, confident that stir.—Boys' Life. with you."—Louisville Courier-Journal. "I should say the man who wrote they will not betray their trust. As long as this sentiment remains the dictionary." We believe that they constitute the first line champions of American liberty in a nation, that nation will live Two-Thirds Our Army Workers. Willing Auditors. And are the uncompromising defenders of a rational democracy regulated by in spite of all oppression. One-third of the men of draft age law. They can never entertain respect for those who hesitate in their allegiance "Very few people would rather listen Doomed. "Long live America, long live France^ to America, nor have any fellowship with those even indifferent to the In the United States are engaged in than talk." Young Author—Do you think my united by the blood of their sons. safety of American institutions. In short, we old Grand Army veterans believe agriculture and allied occupations, and "Yes," replied the telephone operator play caught the audience? "CH. BOURNEZ," that the American Legion is the best asset America has at the present one-third in manufacturing and mechanical "the only folks I know who are Manager—It did this time but I "General Secretary." time and that it will shape and guide her destinies for the next fifty years. industries. that way are on party wires." fear it will never do so auain. fflj" 3l r-v iV-j "X ,Wt, DEFECTIVE PAGE