ffg, tY«i»c ^^Kis*sr: g**eae INTERNATIONAL F,AI-LS PRESS Playing Mother and Father to His Baby Brother Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents Down Goes the Prices on fWr vvtfr Bj JAMES MORGAN 1 .(Copyright. 1920, by James Morgan.) THE FIRST DARK HORSE tiiiftili l^PMMg $T -w 1795—Nov. 2, James Knox Polk born In Mecklenburg County, N. C. 1823-5—Member Tennessee legislature. pwt$p§p&i| 1825-39—Member of congress. iiiilisiiiil 1839-41—Governor of Tennessee. UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= 1844— Nominated for president by the Democrats and elected. 1845—March 4, Inaugurated eleventh president, aged fortynine. 1846—July 17, Oregon question settled. 1846-7—The Mexican war. 1848—Greatest territorial eon. quest in-American history. 1849—June 15, death of Polk, aged fifty-three. AMES KNOX POLK was the first dark horse to wiii the presidential race, and his figure remains among the pale shadows in the procession of presidents across the pages of history. When he was yet a boy the family This Is a common sight In Poland today, eight and ten-year-old children of James K. Polk moved from North Bothering and fathering their baby brothers and sisters. This photograph, Carolina to Tennessee, where he was secured by an American Jewish Relief worker at Brest-Litovsk, shows at too frail for frontier farming and was eight-year-old boy feeding his little brother from a bowl of hot soup just put to work behind the counter of a secured at a feeding station supported through American funds. The relief crossroads store. After a time in that workers found 10,000 children, mostly war orphans, living in deserted dug-outs excellent preparatory school of life he at Brest-Lltovsk. returned to his native state to enter It is to aid such waifs as these that the European Relief Council has college, and he graduated from the been formed by merging the relief activities of the American Relief Administration, University of North Carolina. the American Red Cross, the American Friends' Service Committee Becoming a country lawyer, he was (Quakers), the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, the sent to the Tennessee legislature married Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Kiiights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A. Sarah Childress, daughter of a and the Y. W. C. A. well-to-do man of business, and went to congress for 14 years, in the course of which he became first the Jackson ^ii»iiHiiHiHffl!ffliimiiiiiit«iiiiimmiii^iiiffiiiwiiiiHffliiiBwmifflitBiiiiiiiiniHiinMniiiiiiiiiiiiHui{!niiitiiiiiiiiiHiitiHimHim«iimiiiiiiimtiiiiiii:^HiifliffliitiiUBiiiiMiutti»»»Hiiiiiiiiig leader of the house and finally speaker. Next he took his seat as governor of Tennessee for a term. .After having been twice defeated in his effort to YOUR BOY obtain a second election to the governorship, those defeats were immedi- Is growing inch by inch. Get him started in the right direction The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. by opening a bank account for him. His first banking connec­ International Falls, Minn. Phone 81 tions may have a positive influence upon his success in life. The conservative business experience of the officers of this bank should make it your choice. 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They scoffed at such an abj':r'!!ty and were not persuaded of the We carry the Old Reliable Brands—Minnesota Linseed tratli until the arrival of a train from Baltimore. Oil Paint Co. and Certain-teed Trie obscurity of "Jim" Polk, which that smiif. unsmiling, uninspired little man of respectable abilities had preserved on the eminence of the speaker's Falls Lumber & Coal Co. chair, was deepened by the shining fame of Van Buren, whom he had displaced at the convention, and of Clay, apainst whom he was matched PHONE 81 before the people. Those two statesmen had taken it for granted that liiey were to be the champions of their respective parties. History suspects that tiiey concocted in a friendly visit two letters which appeared suspiciously CAMELS clo so together and which were suspiciously have wonder­ alike in discouraging the annex^! ful full-bodied mellowmildness of Texas at risk of war with Mexico. and a flavor as V«n Buren stood by his guns against refreshing as it is new. annexation, going down in the Democratic convention under the displeasure IS MOVING MORE FREELY Camels quality and Camels expert of the southern slaveholders and blend of choice Turkish and choice the alarm of northern doughfaces. Clay *Tt faltered In the campaign. Quibbling, rf Domestic tobaccos win you on merits. qualifying and taking a back track, Camels blend never tires your taste. And, he went domi at the election under the Indignation of the abolitionists, Camels leave .no unpleasant cigar6tty aftertaste ho polled enough votes for their v. We expect 10 cars of Hard Coal—stove nut *nd pea— nor ii?}pl$asant cigaretty odor third ticket to cause his defeat. Tolk lost Tennessee at the. polls, and What Camels quality ^nd expert blend can Is the only man, with the. sole exception and will he aWe to make delivery in about one week. of Wilson fn 1916, t?ho hqjs been to yow s&tisfaction m$$n .you should find Reeled without his. own state. For out at oooel will prove our say-so when .^evernl rinys thje national election yms ?n doubt, with thp result haqgtQg on compare Camels with any cigatctte you Falls Lumber & Coal Company a complete CQDRt In New York. At in. fkp wQtfd & any price! last It wn.f found that Polk had tarried c«mM p*cka&m of 2Q .-rjrjt .- the «tj).+e.byi 5,000—thanks to the in \$Qd tgMr ettmm) im tot 30 or PHONE g| Liberty party, which had drawn away thim J/wmww- cento ten itfiMiiiieflif carton mr ui more than that number of votes from •itfiT rinrtrnrf carton. 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