,1, i, ')""y 1 '5,:' '%t? I Vvv -, INTERNATIONAL FALLS, PRESS N TIE INTERIIA110NAL FALLS PRESS HOW TOWNSPEOPLE AND WHY "MAIN STREET" tablishment of consolidated schools Ed. Christenson, who was accidently FARMERS CAN CO-OPERATE WENT DARK find «a common ground. Even closer hurt last Thursday while employed the tie can be drawn by making the Qn the construction work on the dam, AND BORDER BUDGET President Howard, Chief of Farm Bureau, A few short months ago the literary consolidated school a real live community is now at the home of his sister, Mrs: Writes on How to Develop world blazed with the praise of center. A. E. Ruelle. He is suffering from an The Greater Community Spirit. H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager a new" nov'el entitled "Main Street". My own home is on a farm out in attack, of blood poisoning. The ^iew book purported- to be a Iowa,'- five miles from the town of masterpiece ofi vivid andtruthfu'l tones (Copyright 1921, by Publishers Autocaster Clements. There we have that real Many a man is a good husband IDatered at the Pout OSce at International Falls, Hlam at Seco«d-ClM» Matter Service Co.) community spirit. We have a park o£ people and scenes in the average cause he hasn't the nerve to Townspeople and farmeris are not buHt by farmers and townspeople— thing else. country town. The blazing aforesaid SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $3.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR two alien races but- brothers facing and it is a real park. was done by other novelists, to whom Northwestern Advertising Representatives the same problems a spirit of cooperation Townspeople and farmers are not was given the task of reviewing the Minnesota Select List between them is absolutely book and who, of course, expected two alien races, but brothers facing NOTICE Bank South Sth Street 709 Exchange 215 necessary if our nation is to reach the same problem. the author of "Main Street" to be as St. Paul Minneapolis the Promised Land of Normalcy. One Change In Business J. R. HOWARD. enthusiastic as they when he, in turn, •v of the great tasks of our national wrote reviews of their books F. BUSSIERE FARM IMPROVEMENTS farmers' organization—the American A few short months have passed DECLINE 80 PER CENT Farm Bureau Federation—is to bring and "Main Street?* has fallen. It Announces that he has purchased to the town 'man a better understanding blazed like a rocket and went out like the sbock and business Deflation £uts Machinery Purchases, of the farmer and the farmers' one. "Main Street" did not visualize of the Indus Mercantile Co., Handicaps Production, Bureau Sur-^ a problems, while we consider it the average country town by long at Indus, Minn., and desires toretain •ey Shows. equally our^task to interpret to the shot and the people who were enveigled the good will and patronage DONT PLAY "BLIND MAN'S BUFF* farmer the town man and his problems.. into buying it Arere disappointed. Sales of farm machinery have fallen of all former as v^ell 50 to 95 per cent below in Minnesota WITH YOUR PREaOUS DOLLARS Example of Relationship. as new customers. Down east certain would-be highbrows this year, and improvements on farms The relation of the farmer and the are trying fearfully hard to lift and farm homes have decreased "almost banker serves well to illustrate our present day American literature by t-IND MAN'S BUFF' is a poor to nothing", the Minnesota point. Certainly their problem is its bootstraps. They pretend that game to play when we are spending The Farm Bureau federation asserted today, parallel. The banker conserves the every few weeks a great novel is produced our dollars. And that's exactly,what in .announcing the results of a fiscal wealth of his community, storing by some American writer. We we do when we send away to buy an statewide investigation into the effects and distributing it as need may article by mail don't believe they dupe themselves* of deflation on agricultural progress. arise and occasion justify. It is his Truth About but the solemn, nasty truth is that The mail order house gets your business to use this fiscal wealth in they are duping xthe American public. letter and cash among a thousand or The federation's review of conditions such a, way as will create new accumulations Compare any book of 1919, 1920 or ten thousand others and a clerk as reflected in machinery purchases of wealth and safeguard jerks your article from the huge pile 1921 with the works of a Mark^Twain, and improvements on Minnesota the interests of the community. It is and sends it to you. No picking it of a Howells, a Garland, a Bret Harte Ireland farms is based on reports from the farmer's business to conserve the over to suit your taste, no attempt or a Crawford, not to speak of the 69 county farm bureaus. The reports soil wealth of the community,, distributing to fit your special needs yoti get greater ones of a generation before, of the 'county bureaus, federation officers no choice at all. the products as the needs and one's heart sinks. The fiction of "said, were based on inspections But you trade at home, you today is hardly on a pair with the fiction when of a majority of tjie farms in the counties pick as your taste-dictates yourself famous a third of a century ago Free Lecture Sunday reporting, and on statements obtained yourself. for quality, you can chuose in the dime and half dime, novels of from retail dealers in lumber, you can to it yourself that and see our fathers. It is not a bit too much Evening 8:00 tile, fencing and farm machinery. special needs are filled. Be- your to say that no wild West story or Three of the 69 counties placed purchases POOR WAY TO BUY. sides, the man in the store is your recent issue can compare in interest, of farm machinery at 50 percent neighbor^ and tries to please you. REV. A. W. MacNEILL description, entertainment or even use of normal the other 66 declared 'To please his customers he must buy his goods with quality in of the English language with the that decreased buying power had compelled and in order to sell at all his price must be reasonable. BETHLEHEM mint) writings of Edward W. Wheeler in farmers to reduce their machinery Don't invest your precious dollars in "Blind Man's Buff." the eighties. And all of Wheeler's purchases to 25 per cent or stories sold for S cents a copy. Today CHURCH even 5 per cent of normal. your Grays and Spearmahs and Bowers Koochiching and Mille Lacs TRAIJF AT HOME! Only- and the rest demand $2 a throw, counties estimated farm machinery the price sinking to $1 when the same sales as large as in normal times. book appears a few weeks later in In 38 counties, the farm bureau reports Sunday morning, 10:30: "The the drug store windows. predicted, inability to buy equipments Man Four-square". Singing There are epochs in art and literature. will be a serious handicap in the street painting the elm on the THE NEW CALL Today's is not one of the the planting and harvesting of next by the Boys' Choir. OF THE WOODS boulevard with a brown or the oak great epochs in American fiction. .year's crop. In many of the other in the backyard with a scarlet, as a counties, farmers said the lack of new sample and as a beacon to you to go A PROBLEM OF PROHIBITION These are busy and exciting days in Everyone Cordially Invited machinery would not hamper them, and see and be inspired by the master the nature world. The concert season Prohibition has made America a because they are exchanging both paintings, that are hung in the outdoor is about over. The woodland orchestra more efficient nation. There is tio machinery and labor, and repairing world. has disbanded. King Frost doubt about it. every serviceable bit of equipment has heralded.his coming on .every tender While dry conditions have decreased with parts taken from cast off implements. "DICTATED, BUT NOT READ" I O I A O E sumac leaf, where all who pass crime, prohibition has also added can take warning. And throughout to the efficiency of the criminal. The While five counties reported sales Tuesday, Oct. 4, and Thursday, Oct. 6 Did you ever get a letter from JAMES R. HOWARD the outdoor world there is a hurry sober thief is the most efficient one. of farm machinery normal or at least somebody or other with the notation One of the Member* of and bustle to get ready for his rigid He plans and excutes most effectively. 50 per. cent of normal, not one county at the bottom "Dictated but not autocracy. of society may indicate, but always, reported its farmers making the usual read"? With his arrival the woddlands are if we, are good farmers, having in The sober, efficient thief is now amount of repairs and improvements If you did, you probably remember mute. Our feathered friends seem America's problem. With his advent mind an accumulation of fertility on on their land and buildings. Reports what you did with it—dumped it into aS'' temperamental as other operatic have come robberies which cannot be which the drafts of future generations from 11 counties estimate upkeep expenditures the waste paper basket. stars. With such a cold manager in may be drawn. executed with a brain dulled or excited at more than half of normal You dumped it firstly, because if charge, they refuse to sing. As long All know that the farmer is the principal by liquor. The sober, efficient criminal 50 report such expenditures are the man who dictated it didn't have as two weeks ago there was warning producer of the fiscal wealth is a dangerous one to contend from 50 to 95 per cent less than normal. enough interest in what he wrote that things were not. right, when the of the nation. The banker is interested with.N To cope with the situation about to read it over, why should you voices of the bluebird, meadowlark in the fiscal wealth, and if tfie must be more skillful officers of the "Decreases and increases in the have any interest in it? rid song sparrow were missing from farmer fails to produce not only the law and a more vigorous prosecution purchase of the equipment necessary Secondly, you gave it the backhand chorus. They had sensed 1 rouble banker's business but all business of the wrongdoer. to produce crops, and in the upkeep flip because it was an open insult to brewing and- had silentfv departed. suffers. The farmer's problem is 'certainly The hope of the situation is4 that of farfri homes and f^m buildings reflect you. He, the great man forsooth, rL heir going deadened the enthusiasm sober America will have different the townsman's problem. The the agricultural, progress of the didn't have time or inclination to read of all nature life in wood and period of stagnation from which we ideals in all directions and the sober state as nothing else can," the federation what he himself had to say to "you, meadow. A few birds still remain are just emerging is but sad proof of thief "will have a more efficient law said in announcing results of its. but arrogantly felt that you must with us, such as the robin, but their this. enforcement with which to contend. investigation. "The fact that improvements find time to read what he had to say rollicking voices are seldom heard, Farmer Wilt Now Help. Will be at the above America's police system, devoid of the on farm homes virtually have to you, misspelt words, bati grammar aiid it remains for the humble cricket am el a graft incidental to the liquor business, For several decades cities and ceased, and that in half the counties and all. to sing the swan song for this year's stated. Are you troubled will be greatly improved.—Gratid towns have had various forms of organizations of the state purchases of machinery The country is full of business men concert season. Already the blackbirds with headaches, nervousness, Herald-Review. to work on economic and Rapids have fallen off to a point where the who are making this and similar mistakes are wheeling over the marshlands, dizziness, or eye disorders of social problems." They have accomplished efficiency of production is seriously in every letter they send thru and the mallards have" started any kind. If so, consult him "CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN" much. Most of this time the threatened is due solely to the absolute the mails. And tjien wondering why on their migration. What is^evidently If Glasses are needed he can TO AID SERVICE MEN farmer has been unorganized, riis inability of the farmer to buy. so many of their letters are ineffective. to be our loss, will be the Youth's fit you accurately if not own problems have been neglected An opportunity will be given every The farmer will not deliberately curtail gain. n,eeded, he will tell you veteran of the World War in Cass, and he has been in no position to aid production. Reduced production, except Letters are at best a poor facility of so. But because the birds are going or Hubbard, Clearwater, Beltrami and the townsman. That time has passed. in rare instances, means reduced communication in business matters. gone, does not iftdicate the woodlands American agriculture is now organized Koochiching fcounty to receive assistance income for the individual farmer. But They are cold bits of dead hlack pnd Glasses straightened or are no longer in favor. It is -as agriculture never before in in the settling of claims for unless the deflation that has brought dead white. They are from one who minor repairs made while the manner of the appeal that has the history of the world was organized. compensation, advice as to hospitalization the farmer's products to pre-war is thinking along one line on a certain you wait, and without been changed. With King Frost' in Problems peculiar to the agricultural or vocational education or information prices operates as effectively on the subject—and not putting down charge. charge, Nature no longer entreats us industry are being attacked relative to any problems supplies the farmer must buy, he will all his thoughts on it by any meafts—• to come forth through a call to our much has been done in finding their arising from his war service, Sept. 28 be forced by economic processes over to another who is probably thinking PLEASE CALL EARLY sense of, hearing. Instead it makes solution. and 29, when the local "Clean Up" which he has no control, to produce along another line on the same subject. its appeal by way of the eyes. jAnd Campaign is on. The Red Cross and not only is the farmer in a position less. That eventually means Then if you'll add just a bit of muGh American Legion are participating td aid himself, but he now King Frost has seen to that. And higher prices for the consumer." offensiveness to the mixture, the letter comes to the aid of his town brother. in his manner of invitation he is not in^ this work at the request of the might better have never been written. In a national way such programs as going to miss anyone. He has a government and a united effort is being NO MORE SHOUTING WHEN YOU bucket of ga/udy colors and \fields a made to help every ex-service good roads, reduction of freight rates, No man should permit himself to taxation—all problems of vital concern rapid brush. He is busy now decking man who needs assistance of any sort. slight his letters in the smallest degree. to the town man—are receiving the hillside in its most pleasing The "Clean Up" Squad will make its No really good business man the heartiest support from organized array. Soon he will be passing down headquarter at Bemidji. Its members .One the floes. oT agriculture. include: a medical examiner and a great inventions This is Cooperation! of the 20th century? representative of the Federal Board is the "am'plifier," THE GAME 1$ ON for Vocational Education Examiner, In the local units opportunity is afforded the indention for the closesti co-operation. a Compensation and Insurance Claims' of the Contact Examiner, and representatives Schools, roads—the particular features telephone scientists^ of America. SUGIJ from the Red Cross and the on which co-operative spir­ -The accompany[ing American Legion. They may be seen it might be developed—are immaterial. copyrighted daily between the hours of 9 A. M. to Only yesterday from down In picture, printed by 4 P. M. Persons having made previous •Missouri came the story of one example this paper by special arrangements claims which they believe were of town-country co-operation: with. Popular Science not satisfactorily adjusted may apply Through its agricultural committee Monthly, the commercial club of Columbia, for re-opening of their, cases as well shows the instrument Missouri, is furnishing a market news as used in as men desiring vocational training [the open air.^f A or awaiting claim adjustments. service to farmers. The plan is to (concert in Chi- An especial effort is being made to list free of charge any grain, livestock, {cago, carried over products, farm machinery of get in touch with every man in the or in a phoney wires, was county who is in any way entitled to all kinds, and even land or farms heard three miles assistance. Where it is not possible that the owner would buy or sell. The away from where y\ because of illness or disability to present committee, believes that owing to the .this amplifier was claims in person, the local Red almost prohibitive' high freight rate at 'stationed Yama Y. [Farms, N. Cross workers will endeavor to assist existing today, that it is to the advantage earlier, "ara- An in getting necessary information of the producer to sell or !plifier'U wasv used to members of the squad., buy whenever there is an opportunity 1 in-the conventions 3. ,t As this is the most, intensive effort near at home. hat nominated Schools Come First. :Harding and -Cox, which has yet been made to locate fend men ^on the all claimants and adju|t their claims When the question is asked me, "In platform, speak[ing satisfactorily the cooperation of every what-particular can country and town in an ordinary resid^it is asked in reaching these best co-operate," the word school immediately ftQne of voice, could be heard distinctly in the farthest corner cases. Additional information may be comes into my mind. Country This rCmarkablc invention is result of study 1y scientists for the. ifcest device to, dctcct air raids in advance during the war. secured at Red Cross headquarters. and town co-operating in the es- tv A .. ,• -V?.