INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR rm THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS LEGISLATIVE AID FOR ducts at lower prices and under bet-j Quaker Minister Is MINNESOTA FARMERS ter marketing facilities. Another measure in the interests oi .AND BORDER BUDGET St. Paul, February 16.—One of the the farmer, passed and signed by the Grateful to Tanlac largest outstanding jobs that confronted governor, is that licensing all livestock H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager 'dealers, requiring them to pay the Minnesota legislature and the state administration at the a fee of $10 per year and give a surety as beginning of the year is already an bond of $1,000. iKatered at tfce Post Office at International Fall*. Minn., Second-Clara Matter accomplished fact. The legislature is. badly split over The forty-second session of the the proposition of a three-man ir SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR Minnesota legislature is getting results. seven-man'commission to administer It set out with a well defined the state highway construction, or idea in the minds of the members the naming of a single commissioner STARPOINTS THAT estimated from five to fifty years, depends that it was possible to do things in a with undivided responsibility. FORETELL PROSPERITY on the rate of clearing per legislative way that would give to farm by those in the county, and the The new auto tax to provide funds the people of the state enlarged opportunities, If you are one of those glooms who rate at which new settlers come into for the building of highways under a closer community of think business is going to be dead, the county which will depend to the Babcock amendment will" have a interests, and possibly better returns with its attendant unemployment, quite an extent on the showing made minimum of $12, it is probable, and for results accomplished. what do you think that the following by those already here. The ra~piditv an average of about $18 per car, is There is a strong feeling among the facts foretell? of development will be measured by was estimated during the fall campaign. members to "do things and not talk Most of the billions of Liberty This is. expected to produce the extent of cooperation between so much." The result is that with bonds are still in the hands of the farmers and commercial interests In nearly five and a half million dollars scarcely one-third of the session mass of the people and they constitute solving^be problems of land clearing, the first j'ear. passed, the committees are getting an enormous buying power. marjg^ting and land settlement. their work well in hand and are reporting VALUE OF PEAT LANDS Hundreds and hundreds of millions Legislation is being secured to assist many measures for action. that were annually spent in liquor development but the responsibility The important ^and far-reaching will now be spent in general merchandise must be borne primarily by those The deposits of peat in Minnesota measure referred to alove as having' and the building of homes. living in the county. are of sufficient magnitude to make gone through the mill—passed by Everybody now recognizes that our Fortunately Minnesota is looked the state forever independent of the both houses signed by the governor "banking system is a rock of Gibraltar upon with favor by prospective settlers coal dealers, F. A. Wiles, state inspector and is now a law—is generally known and that the Federal Reserve bank as a farming state as shown by of mines, told the senate committee as the Co-operative Marketing law. will prevent any panic no matter the last census report. Minnesota at an "educational hearing" on. what happens. This is one of the measures sponsored and Wisconsin are credited with onehalf the ore land leasing bill now before by the present administration Lower taxation is coming sure. of the gain in number of farms the legislature. As a result of the war the United leaders during the campaign, and was of the entire United States. Minnesota The interim committee which introduced States is by far the richest nation in outlined at a special conference of is responsible for about 30 per the leasing bill also reported senate and house members before the the world. cent of the gain for the entire country on the state-owned peat lands and An impetus has been given foreign session was formally opened. v. and one half of the gain in Minnesota recommended- an appropriation of trade w^hich cannot be lost—anyhow was due to new farms in It passed the house without a dissenting $25,000 a year for the next -two years not for many years. Northern Minnesota. There are 22,450 vote and went through the for experiments. Mr. Wiles said that National advertising has become a new farms reported for Minnesota senate almost as easily, but with the state could well afford to make great force—so great that it will constantly minor amendments, and was agai.i for the past ten years. One half extensive experiments and predictel and enormously increase, of these or 11,225 were in Northern passed by the house and promptly large returns for the taxpayers. steadying -business and producing signed by Governor Preus. Minnesota. Is Koochiching county "The state's coal bill is now about more business. getting her share and keeping pace Its purpose is to permit cooperative $65,000,000 or $70,000,000 per year," he The war standardized many, businesses, with other counties? If not, every associations of producers of perish- «and practicany said all 0 th5s can with the result that there is possible step must be taken to get able or non-perishable crops to com- usingMinnesota peat in- be saved by much greater efficiency in distribution. the possibilities of this county before associations into federal their stead of coal from outside the state the prospective settlers and start a Rev. Parker Moon groups for buying and selling opera- rai roads S a a a If all these facts do not foretell reviewed movement in this direction. This tions of state or national scope. peat. Because of now operated on prosperity, what in all conscience county has advantages that must be Nearly everybody in Southwest tor. -Finally, I got so bad off I was The Minnesota Farm Bureau Fed-j the large number of owners of peat do they foretell? advertised. If 'there are handicaps, Missouri either knows or has heard not able to get around with any degree eration and the state agricultural de lands and the fact that the state itself they should be recognized and a of the Rev. Parker Moon, who for a of comfort. I was also told I partment are already planning to put is the largest owner, there can never HOW SOON WILL KOOCHICHING systematic effort" made to remedy full half century has devoted^his life had heart trouble. the provisions of the law into effect be a trust formed to control this industry COUNTY BE CLEARED? them thru the farmers and commercial and talents to Sunday school and organization "I had read about Tanlac and, as by utilizing the machinery of the as the coal industry is controlled." organizations of the county. work -for the Society of had been very highly reconttneri^red Minnesota Potato Exchange as the Friends or Quakers. Those unfamiliar with conditions in At what rate may clearing reasonably to me, decided to try it. I got a. basis of the first state-wide cooperative Senators Nord, Bessette and Wold "Uncle Parker," as he is more familiarly -this county frequently ask, "How be expected to be done in the bottle and had taken only a few federation of farmers and producers. were appointed on the subcommittee known, came from fine, old future? If it is materially increased, doses until I could notice a marked soon will Koochiching be a farming It is expected this bill will to confer with Mr. Wiles concerning rugged Quaker stock and there is no: improvement in my condition. I noticed county?" meaning, presumably, when it must be done by harder work but bring to the producers better prices, the rate schedule in the ore leasing a better known or more highly respected the county will be cleared and farming by a different method of attacking especially that I was not troubled lessened producing and marketing bill. citizen in that part of the will be the primary industry, of the work of land clearing. High any more with sour stomacn costs and a large saving, through providing priced dynamite has hindered land state.- In referring to his remarkable after eating, which was a great relief. the county. To attempt to answer markets for much perishable Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hadler returned clearing in the past but through the restoration to health by Tanlac, he this question is largely a matter of material that now goes to waste annually. Tuesday from a vi^jt to the twin said: "I kept on taking Tanlac until I speculaion but available data will perhaps Farm Bureau arrangements have now To the consumer it is believed cities. "About five years ago I suffered a fully regained my health. My appetite help to make an approximate been made with the business men of will be brought Minnesota pro- general breakdown. My principal is splendid I enjoy my meals the county so that everyone may buy answer. The figures to follow in this dynamite at cost so that it may be trouble was nervous indigestion. Mv and I do not find it necessary nov.r article are given so that the facts may FARMERS PLAN PADLOCK FOR GRAIN EXCHANCi appetite was poor and my food seldom to take any laxative medicines of be known as they are and the situation used freely. This movement has already agreed with me, and' I had to any kind. I can sleep much better resulted in speeding up land met squarely. Northern Minnesota clearing operations. To further live on a very restricted diet. I sufferred and am not nearly so nervous. is just at the beginning of a a great deal from headaches "I take great pleasure in recommending wave for .more rapid development and hasten land clearing work, however, and dizzy spells I had severe pains Tanlac to anyone who need* to lighten the drudgery of it, and reduce it is well that Koochiching county a good system builder- or who suffers the cost, machinery must replace across the small of my back and was should take stock of her condition if man labdr to a greater extent. badly constipated most of the time. with stomach trouble. I hav^ the county, is to keep pace with other This can be accomplished thru the cooperative In fact, I was so weak and rundown recommended Tanlac to a great man/(' parts of the cutover area, the largest I was unable to attend to my duties. of my friends and am pleased loreach body of undeveloped land suitable ownership and operation of "This condition made me very others by givinjg this statement for agriculture still to be found in pullers, pilers and other equipment nervous and Icouid not sleep at night. for publication." the entire U. S. that requires more of an investment Tanlac is sold in International Falls The last census credits Koochiching than single farmers care to put into Frequently I would awake most at Rubin's drug store, at Littlefork by county with a few less than 1000 them, and requires several persons to all night and was in that conditio.! M. E. Dimon, at Ranier by Schiller & more or less for five years. My farms which is a gain of 500 during use them to best advantage. A land physician said he could not do anything Shelrud, at Northome by C. W. Field,, the past ten years. The best available clearing crew with dynamite, puller at Mizpah by Fred Siats, at Bescemar data shows the average size of and piler can accomplish far more for me and suggested a change by R. L. Norcross, at Margie by G. M. farm in the pounty to be about twenty with less effort than the same number of climate. I then moved to Texas of men working individually. Several and went back and forth three times Wilson, at Gemmell by E. W. Gosline,. acres. The length of residence oi but did not get the relief I had hoped and all other leading druggists. the majority of settlers would indicate communities are already planning that clearing has proceeded to to cooperate in the purchase and use of land clearing equipment. date, at the rate of an acre a year, RAGS WANTED GRAIN which is a satisfactory showing considering Five acres may.seem to be a large the condition of the country Will pay 10c per pound for clean, amount of land to be cleared each •at the time the land was homesteadeL good sized, cotton rags at The Press year. Assuming that each farmer and Office. It is not expected however that new settler the county clears five clearing will continue, n?r in fact acres a year hereafter and assuming CONDEMN HIGH PRICED is it being done at the present time that the number of farms triples "Committee of Seventeen," Aftei1 spent five months studying gram Fodbs only at that rate. STOCK the next ten years, quadruples in the Careful Investigation of the Grain marketing and its evils. The time which it actually will take following ten years, and £o on theii Marketing Evils, to Recommend It will urge the establishment "f to clear the county, which is variously by 1945, the end of the next twentyfive Prominent Hog Raiser Says Prices Line of Action. Hoover and Baruch farmer-owned elevator companies and neriod, there would be 30,000 Charged are Unwarranted—Makes Have Helped. sales agencies to operate on local and farms antl 1,010,000 acres of cleared His Own Hog Food, With Better terminal markets throughout the land which is approximately the TOOTH TALK NO. 7 Results. The famous "Committee of Seventeen," land and in the farmers' interests. amount of high land in the county, as known as the officially Farmers' Further recommendations to »e reported by the Minnesota Geological "That he is all through paying fancy Grain Marketing committee of 7th of a series of short talks on made are, export companies to market Survey. But this- would allow only prices for stock foods*- and hog the American Federation of Farm grain abroad and sales agencies 40 acres per farm. If the size of farms remedies and that he is raising some Bureau Federation, .opened-its session to operate on foreign markets directly LUCKYSTRIKE REPAIRS is to_.be .160 acres, the number ot of the best hogs ever placed on the in Kansas City on Monday, the at representing the producers and not settlers could necessarily be only onefourth Well equipped Dental offices can market" was the statement made recently Hotel Biltmore to go into the whole the "speculators, of the above number or 7,500 now repair plates and bridges. A by E. H. Beckstead, wellknown subject of marketing wheat and otiic.r The committee is determined to cigarette. FJavoris and the amount of land to be cleared broken tooth is no reason why a hog raiser and authority on grain crops. bring* about reforms of the abuses by each would have to be increased plate should be discarded a new live stock. On the program are Herbert Hoover from which wheat and other grain to about twenty acres a year. If the tooth or several of them can be and Bernard M. Baruch, who Mr. Beckstead's hogs are the envy growers now suffer. size of the farms is to be 80 acres, vulcanized onto the old plate, have been in close touch with pf his neighbors, and have "topped They will demand that the grain there would be 15,000 farms anch the making it nearly as good as new. President J. R. Howard of the Farm the market" for several years in exchanges throughout the .whole rate of clearing would have to be New facings can be put on bridges Bureau Federation for the last six Iowa. He states that for years ha country be opened to farmer-owned about 10 acres a year fromi now on bridges can be repaired or months preparatory to giving their bought high-priced hog foods and commission companies and that grain to have the county cleared in the next lengthened loose crowns can be views to the "Committee of Seventeen." hog remedies, but he is all througn producers perfect a system of cooperative twenty-five year period. By using reset and numerous other repairs Th is committee is the most paying extravagant prices for what marketing based upon the the above figures and your own estimate can be made that will save much important of all named by Mr. Howard he can make himself. He states that principles which have been so successful as to whether the rate, of clearing Chicago, 111., and the^r will forward in time and money, and add greatly and its decisions and recommendations what the hogs need are minerals, and on the Pacific coast and will be one, five, ten or twenty you by prepaid parcel post, enough to your comfort and attractiveness. will be watched throughout tells the secret of his wonderful success known as the "California Plan." mineraline to make a full hundred acres a year and whether a settler If you meet with an accident the nation., by explaining that he takes about Goodbye to Grain Gamblers can be placed on every quarter, pounds. (Adv.) 4t. that injures your plate or One of the main purposes of teleconference five pounds of ordinary mineraline eighty, or forty of land by 1945, you bridge work in any way, consult Abotfe all, the practice of short is to put an end to the (which is pure concentrated minerals can answer the question, "When will your Dentist about repairs before selling is to be stopped, if the "Committee "present practice of selling grain. and cost only a couple of dollars) and Koochiching county tie cleared." of Seventeen" can accomplish you discard it for a new one. You cotton and oth'er farm products which mixes same with enough bran or filler its purpose. can often prevent a needless expense. Chiropractor the sellers do not own at' the time of to make a hundred pounds. All hogs] NOTICE sale." The movement to market grain cooperatively and especially brood sows require is meeting determined The committee will go into the subject in a a re DR. H. C. AERAHAMSON DR. E. W. BUNCE, D. D. S. opposition on the part of grain dealers of buying imaginary grain, chiefly worms, and in the pink of condition,! I Are you interested in city politics and manipulator^who all alon F. Billings, wheat and corn, which never ex- an experienced protsthetist a re a to an If you are, .come to the High School Consultation and Examination isted except in the miiids of specula- have found wheat and corn a spi£cu a well balanced ration. This inexiv in charge Auditorium Saturday afternoon, Feb. lators' paradise and have made^immense Free tors and men operating on the boards ix re a in a he re 26, -1921 at 3:00 £. m. If you are not, OFFICE AND LABORATORY of trade. This practice has an adverse profits which rightfully should re an a it a come any way and bring a-friend who 311 THIRD STREET effect, says the. American Farm have gone to the producers. they need it, will produce far better litis BIdg. may be interested. Bureau, upon the entire grain results than any high-priced so-called International Falls. market C. H. Gustafson of Lincoln, Neb., Local speakers will appear on the and has been a detriment to grain president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau stock foods. orogram. Phone 474 Open Evg's & Sundays International Falls, Minnesota growers. Federation, is chairman of thS Send two dollars to The Mineraline League of Women Voters. The "Committee of Seventeen" has "Committee of Seventeen." Chemical Co., 1638 North Wells St, ..T W. A,* •. A •Hi