INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS FAGE EIGHT POUND NOW RIVALS VIENNA DEATH BATE HAPPENINGS OF THE COUNTY PLIGHT OF BELGIUM BECOMES APPAUJNG -By Our Special Correspondents- Children Chief Sufferers in Land' Condition of Children Even Mcrt Stripped of Necessities, Harrowing, Declares Authority on City's Desperate Plight. #.« ».« JJ Says Relief Worker. fy a *6 a S5 :*J BIRCHDALE RAY ITEMS WHITE BIRCH NOTES ERICSBURG NEWS Five years of famine have resulted Poland Is In the destitute state for .. 8 ft 55 In greatly Increased mortality and want of food and clothing among the *.* *.* *.* *.* »,« •.* »,J KM MM 55 Vf V# V# V# V# t# morbidity In Vienna which before th« poor that Belgium would have been Walter Larson is busy erecting a Mr. Gregg went to the county seat (Ericsburg, Dec. 13, 1920) Wm. Carrigan and -Steve Evanof? war was counted as one-of the healthiest during the war, had there been no commission house on his claim. Saturday. have each purchased a team of young for relief in that country, according cities In Europe. Figures prepared to Dr. Vernon Kellogg, American Mrs. Truman Fickel was up from horses. by Dr. Gustave Bohn, head of th« Mr. Herbert Skog is visiting his Relief Administration official, who Peter Rosbeck has returned to his Vienna Health Department, show that Ash Lake last week. recently returned from Warsaw. home in Minneapolis. uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. -"Boquist. I All loggers of large and small operations in 1913 the death rate was 15.3 pei Dr. Kellogg was a member of Mr. thousand. In 1918 the rate was 22.8 C. B. Whitney and family spent have their roads cut and are Hoover's staff in Belgium, and at the Lemuel and George Wood have returned 1 wishing for cold weather to freeze per thousand, an increase of more than Sunday at the Falls. conclusion of hostilties, entered Poland to their homes after an absence TheCamp-fire meeting did not take 47 per cent. the swamps. as the Hoover emissary In charge plac» this week as planned on ac in South Dakota. Professor Hans Spel of the University Mr. J. R. Clausen is cutting pulp of food relief. He first entered Poland There are more ways than one count of the storm. of Vienna, says that "even in 1915, a few months after the German .wood in his back woods. We were favored with a visit from occupation. His report of starvation, receive a black eye. Jennings Erickson more terrible than the mortality statistics A sleigh ride party went to Nils Invars disease and suffering that existed is displaying a beauty caused by Deputy Game Warden Clyne of Bemidji, are those referring to the condition A.. A telephone was installed at T. at that time Is one of the most who was investigating the camp last Friday night and reported of children and their mothers. the heel of a two-year-old colt. Bergdahl's place Sunday. harrowing documents in the records beaver dam nuisance in our township, a nice time. Owing to under-nourishment few motto of American relief work overseas. A trapper near the Tom Codd farm pursuant to issuing trapping permits ers can nurse their babies, and the mllli^^ Margaret Hall spent Sunday with Dr. Keltogg made the following "'Miss Emma Meyers took her little shortage affects not only Infants, but states he has killed several wolves to some of our settlers. Mr. and Mrs. F'fte Woods at Ray. statement regarding the work after the sister Mayme to the cities for treatment all children in spite of al that hai with poison but the recent snow cohered armistice: the tracks so he could only finJ for infantile paralysis. been done to help. At Professor "With Warsaw as our headquarters, Mrs. Carl Sjoblom is going to cook While Walter Christenson and his Id Clemens Pirquet's clinic In the university one. we began operations in Poland Jan­ for Peter Skoglund in his camp this wife were absent from their home last Mr. Shearer left last Friday for uary, 1919. and within a few weeks some 54,849 children were examined winter. Wednesday, fire broke out and Irs t' there was established a steady Importation treatment in Minneapolis. Here's In 1918. Only 4,637 of ^hese Rev. Meyers conducted services at house was burned to the ground. The aa of food Into that country. Tons his relief and speedy return. or about one-thirteenth were passed the residence of Wm. Hanson last The Modern Samaritans are staging contents were a total loss. The loss and tons of It came from overseas skin good, fat good 23,609 were pale Sunday. About 25 people attended, a basket social and dance here is very keenly felt by Mr. Christenson through the Port of Danzig. and thin, or very pale and very thin. Mr. Dorman, and Mr. Tuev, nephews among them A. O. Enzman and family New Year's eve. "It was impossible to do all that as he had spent considerable "The health of these children shows of Ben Tuey of this place, have from Beaver township. the administration wanted to do, be money fitting up the place and had most disquieting features. Skin disease, departed for home after visiting their Melvin Nyman of Dassel, Minnesota, cause the need ot Poland was too great, brought in a large amount of personal rachitis and Barlow's disease are rife. Paul Meding. one of our pioneers, uncle for a time. but it was agreed that enough food a nephew to Mrs. Kucera, is spending property, which he was unable to "The chief medical officer of Vienna should be sent to Poland to care for is suffering from several fractured the winter with them. asks, 'What is going to happen to these save. Mr. Christenson's neighbors the four million people until the great The Manitou people are having ribs. One of his horses kicked him under-fed children, in whose bodies the are now busy erecting a new house agricultural districts could again provide their Christmas tree December 22 and while he was alone on his farm. We germ of tuberculosis Is latent, when The first big snow of the season arrived for him. for them. we have our Christmas cantata and have not learned if the injury is serious they reach the twenties, at which time today, and bids fair for good "But in addition to these four mifr it becomes active?'" tree the 23rd of December. enough to require hospital care. hauling roads for the loggers. lion people who so presslngly needed «,• {.J To combat these conditions the American relief, there was another call for relief t'J J.J Relief Administratior of which Mrs. Vanover is visiting her sisterin-law, Erwin Bradley has returned from INDUS PICKUPS A from a source that could not be resisted Mr. C. W. Bradford and HeiiiV Herbert Hoover is chairman fed last the children of the land. Many North Dakota where he was employed Mrs. Whkcomb at Indus th's Abel of International Falls spent the winter In the city of Vienna some of these were orphans, hungry, emaciated. week. Leslie Whitcomb is carrying on a farm for about fo ir week end at W. II. Ostrander's 800,000 of the destitute and undernourished destitute and diseased. So the the mail for Mr. Vanover. months. He states that his hardest Mrs. Carew is enjoying a visit from children, supplying them hunting. Anient an Relief Administration added work was picking potatoes but her sister, Mrs. J. Boland and little with a substantial meal of American to its work by Instituting a system of a food, served. In number of large brought him $10 to $15 a day. The A number from here attended the Park Hall returned from Jenkins daughter. feeding these children. In a few kitchens opened foi that purpose. pay was 10c per bushel. dance at Frontier last Saturday last week. He left today for Craig months a ftiiilion and a quarter Polish The conditions in Vienna are more night. Judging from the hour of their in company with Arthur Berg to help children were getting a free meal every Marcellus Carew has arrived home or less typical of those In Poland and Wm. Hanson who bought the camp return they had a good time. day of special food prepared to drill wells. to spend the holidays after more than other countries of Central and Eastern counteract the effects of their previous buildings situated on his land from a year's absence. Europe. Last year the Relief Administration undernourishment." the Virginia Lumber Co., last spring, Fabian Swanliind has purchased a Local timber cutters are stopping was able to reach some 3,500,000 To finsh the job eight great organizations has rented the same buildings to Mr. fine Studebaker car. He carries the under-nourished children and this all piece work owing to their inability Paul Mai is at present laid up .n have united under the name Berger of the same company for a mail both ways, to and from Baudette winter the program calls for the feeding saw mill operations while awaiting to sell their logs. There seems to bo of the European Relief Council to raise two-year period. A crew has already on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays. of a like numl.er, but eight of the absolutely no sale for logs now at all. the arrival of repairs. the funds necessary to carfe for the great charitable organizations of arrived to cut the cedar on the company's food needs and the medical needs of America have united under the name land. the 3,500,000 children of Eastern and The youngsters are looking an "Moose Bill" Mart'n was in town of the European Relief Council, of Central Europe. These organizations Miss Stella Norland, for whom waiting eagerly for the 23rd to arrive last week selling a few hogs he had which Mr. Hoover is the chairman. are the American Relief Administra Recently a big lumberman made a Miss Elizabeth Howard gave a shower in anticipat:on of a big time at the The child feeding task will be carried butchered. Dressed hogs were selling tion. the American Red Cross, the statement in the Duluth press to th^ last week was married at International Christmas tree. on not only by the American Relief Administration iiere at twenty cents per pound then. American Friends Service Committee effect that labor was hard to get and Falls to Mr. Griff Searles of hut by the American Red (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution keep in the woods because since pr I' rontier. Cross, the American Friends' Service AlisS Emma Sonderman has returned" Committee, the Federal Council of Many of the people in our community hibit'on went into effect the lumberjack Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint the Churches of Christ In America, the to her home to spend the holidays. are adding to their farms. Distribution Committee, the Federal had no place to spend his money 1 The young people enjoyed the skating Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A. We expect the high school Both Carl and Gust Sjoblom purchased Council of the Churches of Christ in and while his pockets jingled with and the Y. W. C. A last week until the fall of snow students all home in a few days. America, the Knights of Columbus, the a forty of land joining their coin he would not work. We fail to put a stop to it. But the storm has Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. An appeal1 farms this week. GRAY SAMARITANS agree to his line of reasoning. While blown all the snow off the ice so "lets for $83,000,000 has been marie and The Indus Farmers' club goes on formerly ten man's size drinks could do it again!" RESCUING CHILDREN the organizations named have joined record in favor of the passage and While skating on the river near be bought for $1.00 in a saloon now In raising the sum. adoption of the Caper-French bill for Sleepy Hollow the other evening, 50c to 75c is charged for a smell of The Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. Vanover's The Young Women's Christian Associations the truth in fabr'cs and woolens, and Ernest Rogers went thru the ice. the stuff—and it requires three such two weeks ago and decided to LAUGHTER OF CHILD of the United States are keenly instructed their secretary to send a He saved himself from a good ducking smells to make a drink. As it can be meet hereafter only once in a month. interested in the movement for the relief SCARCE IN POLAND copy of the resolution to our congressman. bu catching hold of a raft as he bought most anywhere.don't you see Next meeting will be January the 8th, of the 3,500,000 starving children went down. 'now much sooner the thirst}' one will of Europe because a group of their at Mrs. Broeffle's. members, the Polish Gray Samaritans, "In all the time I was in Poland, 1 be broke than formerly before getting O 1 There is at present a representative have been in charge of distributing food scarcely once saw a child laug! #.• MM 4 enough Mr. Barnes and Mr. Bugner went to children In Poland. They have been declared Dr Harry Plots, discoverer o: of the Northrup King & Co., seed MARGIE NEWS to International Falls on business r# rf MM 3 serving under the American Relief administration the typhus baccllus, in a report to house in Baudette to buy clover and a Saturday. The roads are in fine condition and have conducted food the European Relief Council on medical a great many from here are going McCLELLAN #J» «V f«M «V r« f« for this time of year. Cars kitchens and distributing stations In conditions among the Jewish population down with samples of seed and others make the round trip in a short time. of Poland, based on his recent all parts of Poland outside Warsaw. Rev lenson of Northome was in •V iV i# MM #,• #,• are sending samples. Looks good In all the relief work being done in Investigations there for the Jewish town Tuesday. Mrs. Thurman Litherland is on the to see them coming in here anyway, Grays has Europe, that of the Polish Joint Distribution Committee. Mr. Webb is quite put out over the ck list. girls, even if the price is not the best. been unique because all the "The most deplorable sight of all death of "Old Jerry," a horse well The \\'».'a-ther the past week has either though sent from America, were tlbe miseries In Poland Is the condition known in this community for many ficcti dVcijiedly cold and stormy. born In Poland or are of Polish parentage. of the children," Dr. Plotz said. The big snow was surely welcomed years. Well. Mr. Webb, he'd have •V service When the need for social "Infant mortality Is exceedingly high as it will now make sleighing good. died anyway, if Wes hadn't shot him. acute Rorn to.Mr. and Mrs. Cec'l Rogers In their country became because of under-nourishment and the ERICSBURG SCHOOL NEWS T: many girls of Polish descent answered high percentage of contagious diseases. International Falls, another girl. Walter Christenson and Thurman The ice is now thick enough on the Women's In large part mothers must resort to the call of the Toung Christian •V »v Litherland were Kelliher callers Association for overseas service artificial feeding as they are unable to river for foot crossing. No one has Amey E dum and Miss Koller were (By Gladys Eddy) Thursday. and enlisted in the preliminary training nurse their children. In many cities yet attempted with horses or cars entertained at dinner last Sunday at course that was given in several 1 saw underfed children, suffering with here. The report is that Chas. Gabrielson School will be closed for vacation the «dal home. cities of the United States. From this diseases, wandering about the streets Mr. Kline, the game warden of Bemidji, crossed with his Ford at December 20 to January 3. group thirty girls were chosen and sent with no place to go, begging for bread." was in our vicinity Thursday Frontier. D. D. Mdler of Bemidji, was in town to Poland where, since 1918, they have Tuberculosis has become prevalent and gave Ernest Miller and Thurman The Miller boys are back at school lately. Some of the people that wanted been caring for the children of the among the Jewish children, largely Litherland permits to trap the Beaver The telephone company enforced country. The distribution of cloth!if? due to the overcrowded conditions in again after an absence of six weeks to see him, did not. East and West ditch No. 5. out of has taken them into all parts of the new ruling of "no pay, no service" which they are forced to live, their Poland. l:«ck of nourishing food and warm on Monday last with the result th-xt Several Xmas trees have been Mr. Kinney was out from the Fa'is The Walter Christenson house with They are now spending their entire clothing, according to Dr. fclotz. the dollars came rolling in. Only a last Wednesday and straightened it shipped from here the past week to iall contents burned last Wednesday, time in arranging for the feeding of Typhus, which killed thousands of few on lines four and five are still in in if re a several school difficulties. children this winter. Groups of them Jews hist winter in the worst epidemic catching fire from a over-heated stove travel to strategic centers in outlying Pofand has ever seen will, recur again, during their absence. The neighbors By the time this appears in print Mr. Dunkel and Miss Nehren were districts where they set up distributing he said, as conditions are much worse :soon got busy and now have a new The dance in Boquists' new house stations, receive supplies, prepare amony the Jews than ever before. Xmas will be here once more. 'We out from the Falls last Tuesday atvl 'ihouse near completion. was a great succss. Even cars from meals, arrange for impartial distribution "Favus, a contagious skin disease, V'ish you all a Merry Christmas. gave instructions in their respective and train helpers to continue the is now rapidly spreading from child Loman and Frontier were in evidence. subjects. work when they are sent omto Hie next to child," he continued. "In Vilna After passing the hat the "musicianers" 1 lie school-will have a program and ROGERS SCHOOL NEWS there are 11,000 cases among the Jewiph'ochildren town. were well paid and enough money Christmas tree on Thursday eve, We will not give any Christmas program oV •. alone. Smallpox, too, Is *,• was left to give the lady a fine 4 the 23rd, to which the public is invited.. this year as there was not time 9 prevalent hroughout Poland and the COLUMBUS KNIGttTS aluminum cooking set to use in her We are going to have our Christmas enough to get up one after the Ukraine .nd children, with widespread new kitchen. AID CHILD APPEAL program the evening of the twentysecond. Thanksgiving program. .We will eruptions and temperature, Several men with teams arrived in Everyone is cordially invited. have been seen running about the have a Christmas tree at the school MAN CHIP IN LET EVERY st reets. There are thousands of cases town last week from Dakota to do house Friday afternoon. We have James A. Flaherty, of Philadelphia*" etffery year, which -vaccination would hauling. Anyone desiring to hire learned several Christmas songs According to Senator Irvine L. supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. prevent, but there Is no vaccine:" teams would do well to see them. Lenroot of Wisconsin, the first act of declared that the K. of C., In Wallace Kucera came to^school this which we will use at that time. All Dr. Plotz told how in Lithuanian new Congress response to an appeal from Herbert morning with a black eye. While of the mothers and any others who the will be the passage villages he found children, six and Hoover, chairman of the European Re^ of resolution Word was received in this place playing tag last night, he and his are interested are invited to come and a making peace witu seven years old, unable to walk or lief Council, had decided to take ani In that Charley Johnson is slowly gaining Germany. a recent address in Ne^v brother bumped headg^. spend the afternoon with us. talk, the result of malnutrition. In. exception in their policy of refraining* York City the senator in the hospital at Brainerd, but declared th-^t regions where whole towns had been from any national campaign for funds the repeal of the war-time of is not getting along as well as his The third meeting of group 9 of th^ powers destroyed during the war, be found We have lost all fear of freezing for relief or charitable work. families crowded in miserable dugouts. friends hoped 'he would. the president would closelyfollow this winter for Mr. Kucera hauled our Teachers' league was held at the Ray "The need of the starving and side the return to peace, and revision of school wood the other day. Mr. teacherage Friday evening, Dec. ?•. Is children of urope so urgent," Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler suddenly left present. A report federal taxation would be taken up Flaherty said, "that the Knights xf Columbus Rogers is sawing it for him. Six teachers were town last Monday. Mr. Fowler had immediately thereafter. Mr. Lenroot feel In duty bound to devote was given by each teacher on her asr themselves to thr common task of raising The Greatest Gift. been running a barber shop in town, Reading We have a new pupil in school now. signed chapter of the Circle referred to the natural impulse funds for the relief of these"children. when all at once he left by car. book—"Our Living Language." An of some of our citizens to shift the She is Lillian Maurstad of Drayton, is An an organization it our He had told no one he was expecting discussion was school burden of taxtion to others, a tendency North Dakota. She intends to make open held on Your Christmas gift to the European intention to eoi duct no distinct K. A leave. discipline proved interesting. which he deprecated. "With to her home with her sister, Mrs. David which a child relief collection may help C. drive for funds, although members Other problems, such as hot lunch, proper revision of our tax laws," said in saving a child's life jmd is earnestly Sjoblom. of the organisation are frequent contributors solicited. 8«nd checks to the Mrs. Backe left Saturday evening he,, "we can do much, to aid in bringing were also discussed. New work wa£ But to all charitable drives. local committee of tho Joint organizations in feel for Her new home in Minneapolis The first and second grades wrote assigned for the next meeting which about permanent prosperity. this case that the emergency or direct to European Relief united of all calls for the efforts Americans We regret to see them leave here as letters to Santa Glaus this week. There is only one just rule" of taxation, will be held at Ericsburgh, Jan. 29, 1 Council. 42 Broadway, Now and consider It a privilege to we they were among the first to settle They put them in the fire so the after which the meeting adjourned. and that is that every man e( York City. have partnership lc this great work in Margie, having lived here for sixteen elves would get the messages and should bear the burden of the government mercy." The years. •. ..U take them to Santa. Subscribe for Press according to his ability." N. ... V, iv-,. Of*#1 DEFECTIVE