frAGEFOUR IT WAS A WINNER Tfc LEADERS IN GRAND THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS trami county has made the first organized effort to promote land clearing FOR E SAYS A 1.0.0. F. OF MINNESOTA work. land clearing association AND BORDER BUDGET has been formed, $5000 raised to employ a land clearing specialist, and H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager it is planned to clear 15,000 acres this year. Each of the 3000 farmers' wili 'I'm Enjoying Perfect Health Since Wertz of Moose Lake, Minn^ and H. A. Levin of our clear 5 acres. The land clearing department Eatered at tkc Foat Office a* lateniatioaal Fatla, Mlna., mm 8ccoaiGUu Matter Taking Tanlac," Says Minneapolis bo were successfully elected to Grand Master and Deputy has been instrumental in Man. aster, will assume the responsibilities of their respecter' bringing this organization about. office." SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR r' June during the Grand Lodge convention at Virginia. Mr. Thompson,' who is also superintendent "After hearing so much about Tan of of the N. E. experiment lac I put it on trial in my case and station at Duluth gave an account of it has certainly proved a winner for LEGISLATIVE CORRESPONDENCE YOUR CHANCES IN A TORNADO the work done at that station to me," said W. G. Jargenson, of 524 demonstrate the best methodls of Essex St., Minneapolis, Minn., an Nature is never constantly at rest, Recommendation that has been clearing land. It was shown that the employee of the Northwestern Telephone agreed upon by the Senate and House never completely at peace as we humans cost of clearing was reduced, cultivation Co. subcommittees on motor vehicle taxation understand peace. made easier, and the fertility of "Before I got hold of Tanlac my provides for a schedule! which The earth hurls itself through space the soil increases by seeding down the troubles for three years standing had the subcommittee estimates will make at a terriffic speed annihilating to land between the stumps, pasturing pulled me down until my work was a the average tax $17.88. The schedule anything in its way. Somewhere on for four or five years and then stumping. daily grind. My kidneys were badly provides for one and eight-tenths per earth volcanoes are constantly vomiting It has been found that 65 per disordered and were continually cent on pleasure cars and two per liquid destruction. Earthquakes cent of the stumps can be pulled with worrying me and I had pains in my cent on trucks, applied on the basis rocks the crust of our world here or a team when the land is handled in back and joints that were almost unbearable. of the list price, f. o. b. factory of there every few days. Sun and frost this way. The pasture land has My sides hurt me terribly the year in which the car is made. crack solid rock. The resistless tides brought in a return of $14 per acre also, and at times the pains were so The value depreciation is 25 per cent smash man-made works. Seeds burst in the form of butterfat. severe as to almost drive me wild. after the second year and a 50 per and roots tear through walls. In speaking of the department of Nothing seemfcd to do me any good cent allowance at the beginning of In this favored country of ours we land clearing of the university Mr. the fifth year, to continue during the anc^ I hardly see how I rrlanaged to are fortunate in that we are singularly Thompson explained that their work life of the car. The minimum tax Is hold out at my work. free the destructive forces of from will include teaching, investigation, "When I got Tanlac I found the per year. $12 nature. But not entirely free of the and extension which will take the very thing I was needing, for it just lesser. For instance, on occasion, the form of trains, land clearing demonstration built me right up and has put me in Senate and House committees have tornado darts down upon us. It devastates plots and land clearing units the very best of condition. My kidneys gotten together on the consideration a small area and then disappears organized thruouti the cutover country. no longer bother me and I never of possible primary law legislation. into the clouds above. The have an ache or pain at all. In fact Members interested in changing the springtime is the most favored season It was suggested by the club that I'm just enjoying perfect health and present law point out that no one has for the tornado. a land clearing association be formed any thought of "killing the primary gladly give Tanlac all the credit." But nervous, timid Americans have in this county but Mr. Thompson law" as certain organizations and Tanlac is sold in International Falls little cause to lose sleep over the tornado—not pointed out that the work is yet in persons would like to have the people at Rubin's drug store, at Littlefork by if they will reflect on the an experimental stage and there is of the state believe is intended. M. E. Dimon, at Ranier by Schiller & chances involved. The weather bureau much difficulty in getting men qualified As the discussions thus far would indicate Shelrud, at Northome by C. W. Field, people roughly estimate the for the land clearing work. there is a demand for-legalized at Mrzpah by Fred Siats, at Bescemar number of tornadoes in bad years as Legislation is now being considered conventions of the various parties to by R. L. Norcross, at Margie by about 300. Even so, the average number that would give the land clearing recommend candidates. Delegates Wilson, at Gemmell\by E. W. Gosline, killed in a year by such storms is department more funds with which to would be elected in March, probably, at Big Falls by A. B. Paul, at Ray by only about 150, so that the destruction carry on their investigational and to the county conventions, which Thos. Watson, and all other leading of life per tornado averages only demonstration work. The Commercial would select delegates to the district druggists. one person—one in, every 700,000 of club is investigating this legislation and state conventi.QBNjt. The preliminarv the population. with a view to obtaining its enactment draft of the to be introduced as a part of their development The recent big wind in.: Georgia the state. He was at one time considered in both housts simultaneously program. ripped over a territory .of, less than as a possible successor to Mr. is now practically completed. The Land Clearing Department .will half a mile wide by less than five Preus in the office of state auditor. DR. J. O. WERTZ, Moose Lake, Minnesota miles long, or two square miles. At cooperate with the Farm Bureau in Grand Master Elect of I. O. O. F. of Minnesota The Senate has passed the bill providing that, the territory covered is usually arranging a brushing contest in the Rep. Rodenberg'si bill for publication for a state securities commission county this year. Further meetings much less than a square mile. The of school text books by the' state (a "blue sky censorship) of will be held in the county to formulate total area of continental United has been indefinitely postponed. three members. Salaries $4,500. plans. Mr. Thompson commended States is 3.026,000 square miles, so the showing that has been made in that a tornado represents, on the average, The workman's compensation bill The return by elevators of grain less than a pin prick on our this county in pooling orders for has been passed the House. dockage to growers or pay for it at a i-A-- map. dynamite. valuation made by the railroad and m?. Thus, as one of the pouplation of Koochiching county welcomes the A civil service bill for state employes warehouse commission, is the intent America, you stand onlyone chance in assistance of the Land Clearing Department ha? been offered in the House of a bill passed by the Senate. 700,000 of being killed in a wind and will cooperate heartily by Reps. Child and Pattison. Employer storm. And the square mile in which in putting forward a land clearing of the military department, A new hog barn at the state fair your home is located, has less than program. Mr. Thompson's visit has mechanics, artisans and laborers are grounds, to cost $250,000, is favored one chance in over three million of awakened a vital interest in land exempted. The measure calls for a by the House committee on state and being devastated by a weather disturbance clearing problems and a fuller appreciation commission to be appointed by the county fairs also $50,000 for maintenance that takes a notion to fire a of the value of the cleared governor, to serve without salary. of the state fair grounds and cannon ball earthward in the form acre. to fit up the new cattle barn for the of a tornado. Rep. Nimocks lias resumed his efforts National Dairy show in October. "THE LITTLE MOTHER" to secure capital punishment of THE WILL OF A STATE'S PEOPLE murder in theTirst degree, but instead Motion picture censorship by state Can you imagine taming a gun-toting, trying to push through a statutory of authority was definitely killed, for The people who are still arguing big-fisted, blind pig bartender measure he proposes an amendment the present at least, by report of the against California's action in voting with lemon pie! to the constitution proposing electrocution Senate general legislation committee an alien land measure into law, jthus Well, he was—and so were his boon when death penalty is recommended recommending the indefinite postponemei\t preventing the Japanese' immigrants companions, an all around collection by a jury. of Senator Peterson's bill. from holding land in that state, are of as choice bums as ever sought —OBSERVER. Tl.ie senate insists, however, that the finding comfort in the fact that as safety in the sanctuary of silent forests issue will again come up in a bill to many as one-third of the ballots were on the border of civilization. 'MORE CLEARED ACRES" be introduced in the House. The cast against the measure. In other It was a soft vo ced. mild-mannered, senate committee voted to recommend words, only two-thirds of the voters silver haired little woman, born in for passage Senator Gjerset's bill prohibiting declared against the Japs. Cut Over Area of Koochiching County Boston and equipped with all the culture the exhibition of "indecent" Huge Liability, says M. J. Thompson. Irrespective of the merits of the of that staid old bean center who pictures or "other representations of Time Has Arrived to Convert calmed these desperate men, winning case., which is another story, wc lewdness." Our Broad Acres Into Large Permanent from them the affectionate title of rather look on a two to one vote in an Asset. election as "little mother," a term still lovingly a landslide. W. G. Eckhardt of Chicago, representing applied by the community which she'^ The friends of the Japs 'are keeping the Committee of Seventeen, serves as an editor and publisher/ up the agitation, as they have a "Every additional acre of cleared which is proposing a nation wide Newspaper men attending the Minnesota right in democracy, but there surely land adds $100 to the Valuation of the pooling of farm production, addressed Editorial association's recent ~must be a revulsion of sentiment—a land." says M. J. Tompson, in charge the markets and marketing committee meeting in St. Paul will long remember veritable revolution of opinion—to of the newly created Land Clearing of the House on the subject of the thrill of Mrs. E. J. Harwood's change the result, of that recent referendum Department of the Minnesota College "futures trading." in which he likened quiet talk as she narrated her experiences in California. of Agriculture, in an address to the the Chicago bo.ard of trade to Monte at Roosevelt in the far northern Internationa! Falls Commercial club The majority of the people rule. Carlo and the old Louisana lottery. part of the state where she ows and Right or wrong, their expressed determination at their regular meeting March 1, Rep. Howard in reply to Mr. Eckhardt prints the' Roosevelt Reporter, a is, and should be, the law. which he attended by special request. urged that, if conditions in weekly newspaper. Mr. Thompson's clear and forceful The people of California hve declared Chicago were such as the speaker had Quiet was her talk yet it gripped themselves, and as true American presentation of the subject of land S. H. A. LEVIN, International Falls, Minnesota the usually unemotional newspaper citizens we should respect their de- P°r ^%as h' I clearing and land utilization created et leni 8 t0 before the legislature of Illinois and I ,nterMt Deputy Grand Master Elect of I. O. O. F. of Minnesota folk from the frail "little mother" |ive| Q]1 the par( of the cision—at the verj'* least so far as have tat state clean her own' house. came the story of how good overran their own stare is concerned. T-, ,, ... business men and farmers, who turned 'v^p- riOV^rfj said similar conditions the battlements of evil, how thrift shooting at it. termination to birld hc-r own success out in goodly "numbers. conquered despite strange handicaps. do not obtain In grata trading 111 Miii» "Our shack happened to be between anew on the rains of failure. Mrs. A WEALTH OF OLD RELICS Mr. Thompson pointed out that Listen to a part of"the "page one'' neapolis and Duluth. fcfee predicted the blind pig and the railroad track Harwood's present prosperity is a stump land worth $25 per acre was story by the modest "little mother" th&t if the bill to abolish trading in but when I called this fact to the attention rare tribute to thrift. With her fortune worth $75 when the stumps are removed, The domestic and social scenes ill from Roosevelt. futures was passed by the Minnesota of my husband with the further swept away, she might .easily thus increasingjhe value $oO. the film pla3% "The Woman he ChOse*' legislature it would merely result in "In my j'Outh I was surrounded by suggestion that some of the bullets have become discouraged. Instead Furthermore the average yearly income Grand Theatre March coming to the the practical destruction of the markets every luxury. My parents saw to it might stop with us, he agreed she went to work, kept on worki fr4om cleared land in the most 7 and 8, will hold additional charm of Minneapolis and Duluth and that I was properly educated, oh, very that I was right and then, man fashion, and saving and the old hand pres?iias common three year rotation is $50 for the lover of antiques, old-fashioned put the grain trade of the Northwest properly educated, icluding courses turned over and went back to given way to a modern machine. per acre, figuring $30 for grains, $30 bric-a-brac, exquisite tapestries, in the control of Chicago and other at two finishing schools. I married a sleep. Up there away from the comforts for clover and $90 for potatoes. Thus potted ware, fragile china and quaint distant markets. man of wealth and we came west, to "The next morning I opened neg'otiotions she had known, surrounded by rough by clearing the land the sale value !s furnishings. There is further unusual "Pass this bill," he said, "and you Minneapolis. Then one day the blow with Dan, the bartender, and men, exposed to the perils and deprivations increased $50 and the production value charm in the queer and humorous old abolish the Minneapolis and Duluth fell, my husband's fortune was wiped having learned the truth of the saying of the wooded frontier, she $50 or a total of $100. "More folks who attend the betrothal banquet. markets, but you do not stop trading out. All we had left was a claim at that the way to a man's heart is fought and won her good fight. cleared acres" are therefore an asset Your nature loving and artistic in futures. Right now I can telegraph Roosevelt and thither we went, our through his stomach, I offered him a Yet we hear many persons say. *1 to both the farmers and business men soul will leap to meet the beauty of an order to Chicago, for the purchase Comfortable, fashionable city home lemon pie. My strategy succeeded don't get ahead. I can't save a cent." the scenes where the wedding guests in the cutover district. Every acre of or salt of grain and in three minutes giving way to a tar paper shack. beyond my fondest hopes. Dan was Sure, they can buy many things they cross the placid moonlit river in canoes land until we produce something on the deal will be made and recorded. "My husband was a lawyer and he would be better off without, but they my friend and my friend he remained garnished with bowers of foliage, it is a liability rather than an asset. The business is simply transferred used the front of the shack for his think they can't save. It is, after all, and his friends were my friends so lilac knd wild-flower. There are 20 million acres of cutover from Minneapolis to Chicago. Once office while the partitioned rear room that if the boys were inclined to become pretty much a stafe of mind determine These little incidents as we mention land in Northern Minnesota, 2 you have banished our market here, was our parlor, living! room, dining boisterous they were quieted to save and you will save., million of which is unfit for anything them may not carry much sentimental it cannot be recovered. It is gone room, kitchen and bed room. Mj' The easy way to get the habit of With the admonition, 'stop that noise but timber, 4 million has uncertain significance, but when you forever, and 5,500 elevators and 800 husband had proceeded me and the —you'll disturb the little mother." saving is by putting your small value, 8 million is fit for farming purposes see them there is a strange something mills in Minnesota aione will be first night after I arrived I was change, first into 25-eent thrift Then Mrs. Harwood told of how that is going 'to dig way down into and 6 million rs peat land. forced to transact their legitimate futures stamps, exchange the thrifters fot $5 frightened nearly out of my wits. At men, confessing to her their black the innermost recesses of your heart There are one million acres of farming business in other states." He Savings stamps. You can get th^v some most unusual hour*of the night deeds of yore, would seek sympathy, and take you back to ^he days of land in Koochiching county tiesides described Duluth as the greatest foreign at the postoffice. You have had a I was awakened by the. crack of motherly advice—and rlemon pie. Auld Lang Syne, to that small dear the peat land, of which about market for grain in the United notion to do something like that. Why shots. I shook my sleeping-husband, What may havfe'beeri h^r influence in little good, old town called i?£)ME. 20,000 acres has been cleared. not go ahead and do it? When you States and Minneapolis as the greatest telling him that the Indians m&st be turning lawlessness into respect for It is practically impossible to describe spring wheat market. think of the many persons less favorably The land clearing movement began upon us. He smiled and said np, ,that the laws of mart android may1, well the charm of "The'Woman He situated than you who actually in Minnesota last year. Wisconsin it was only the gang over at- Dirty be imagined,* Chose" by ap application of the customary are saving money, you know you The appointment of S. B. Duea of Dan's blind pig across the street Two great truths come from the last year cleared 150,000 acres-and we descriptive adjectives. Pipestone county as private secretary could do it if you determined to do so. that they met there every night— life story of the "little mother." By have three and one-half times as to Governor Preus will prove a popu-"1 -much Start in today and see a month from cutover land as Wisconsin ^drunken lumberjacks and all manner her tender solicitation, bad men were Piano, good condition and tone, for made to realize their mistakes and now how it feels to have money that lar one. Mr. Duea has been a close of desperate characters—and that Land clearing must therefore fbe very sale at 918 Seventh street. See J. M. were helped to correct them. Then otherwise would have been spent personal friend of the governor for much speeded up if we are to keep when the 1 a. m. freight came through ,Gish for terms. tf years and is well known throughout there is the striking example of de- with nothing to show for it. pac^ with our neighbor state." Bel they would amuse themselves by