INTERNATIONAL FAIvLS PRESS Vt PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS -badly done: If any of the details are she lives on an Ohio farm, but she ces for this work it is worth $115,480.50. ing all of the lofcal upions in a ghi$n: not exactly as they remember, they trade. lives on almost' every other farm. She can't retire on her savings—she Comparing the trade-union movement think that is the reason. These few She is somebody's mother, maybe has to keej^. on. Not earnning! AND BORDER BUDGET demand detailed realism that would your own. She has earned nothing. No. How do you define the with our political structure, the be boring beyond tolerance to the No, but during her thirty working ordinary woman's contributions to national and international unions H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager other millions. years she has served 432,983 meals her family wealth?—Collier's Weekly. really correspond to the departments The critics should pay more attention she has made 3,123 garments, 32,000 of government. The American Federation Batered at the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., aa Second-Cla«» Blatter to naturalism and less to realism. loaves of bread, 5,390 cakes, 7,932 Hard work is the best cure for of Labor is, as its name implies, They keep running after rabbits instead pies, 1,500 gallons^of lard she has hard times. a federation—a federation of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR of following the fox. grown 1,432 bushels of vegetables, unions corresponding to the federa-. No Art Interest and has raised 7,660 chickens churned Northwestern Advertising Representatives tion of states. It is an affiliation of /O. G. SNYDER Minnesota Select List It will be several decades yet befbre 5,530 pounds of butter put up 3,625 national and' international unions. In Registered Optometrist 709 Exchange Bank 215 South 6th Street producers can make pictures jars of preserves scrubbed 177,725 its annual conventions, these national and Optician St. Paul Minneapolis that do not also classify as entertainment articles of laundry and she has put and international unions are entitled Broken Lenses Duplicated for every grade of intelligence. to vote in proportion to the membership in 35,839 hours of sweeping and washing At Gledhill's Jewelry Store AMERICA'S GREATEST ASSET would have had a class as distinctly America has no sincere or even conscious on which they pay per capita and scrubbing. At accepted pri­ Fort Frances marked apart from the rest of society interest in art. It is first and tax to,,the American Federation of as any European country. Unions Keep Standard of Workers almost completely interested in industry. Labor. In addition, each city central The idea obtains to some extent On Plane of Self Respect, Declares One can prove it by a thousand body, each state federation and each that trade unions are merely organizations Samuel Gompers, Aged Leader of means. of the five departments of the American The American Federation of Labor. of aggression, that they are For instance. Your.hero is yourself. Federation of Labor—Mine, Metal something in the nature of predatory Then the national hero becomes the Trades, Building Trades^ Union By SAMUEL GOMPERS bands formed to secure for their one who expresses in the highest degree Label Trades and Railroad Employes' members such temporary advantages President of the American Federation the achievement the people of Department, are entitled to one as may be possible, no matter what of Labor. the nation would like to achieve individually. delegate. the cost to employers or to society, Many persons think that the American of course, those who out of shortsightedness Editor's Note—No man in the world Until recently we were all a fighting Federation of Labor is an organization today stands so high in the -esteem oppose the trade union people, and our heroes were fighters. of great power. In a most of labor as does Samuel Gompers, movement, seek always to spread But now we have no soldier for A Savings Account is and no man is given more respect by important sense this is true, but in this false impression. the employers, for while the latter a national hero, even tho the greatest the sense in which it is understood The truth is that no organization were opposed to the organizations he of our wars has just ended. by many of labor's critics, it is without 'Always Stylish represents, they have admitted he in America is broader in its outlook I should say that the popular hero truth. The great power of the was honest, fair and open to reason or attempts to more intelligently understand of America today is Henry Ford. as well as being a clean fighter for American Federation of *Labor is the the general needs of our society the rights he believed due to his followers. When he makes some changes in power of moral suasion. It is the or to fit in more constructively He knows the ideals, the his plant and pays his debts, the public united opinion of four million organized aims and the strength of unionism as and helpfully. is so interested that the metropolitan wage earners that has weight no other man does. An understanding of the structure newspapers print three and four and power. This is the time of year when the new of the American Federation of Labor columns on their front pages about The American Federation of Labor America has no peasantry. may be helpful in leading to an understanding it, and continue to comment for days. has no power of compulsion either styles are eagerly discussed. America has no class set apart, of its activities and its Now we will make a comparison. over its own affiliated membership or marked apart, definitely classified as policies. The form of organization If a person were to show a motion those outside its membership. It is being apart and irrevocably fixed as Thrifty buying makes easy thrifty saving. around Which the American labor picture ten times better than ajiy yet believed by many that the American apart from the great mass of her movement is built is exactly like the made and he were to show this with Federation of Labor orders strikes. people. America has no class from A savings account is always stylish and its form of organization in the political music better than any ever composed This is not the case. The American which it is impossible to merge. life of our country. The American in America and if he were to give Federation of Labor cannot ordei satisfaction is lasting. America is distinguished throughout Federation of Labor is constructed away as a souvenir a volume of poetry even one person to cease work. The the world by the high standard with its foundation on the ground far better than any yet written statement that the American Federation of living which the masses of her This T^ank has hundreds of happy depositors, and all powers proceed from the base in America and he were to have of Labor has no power of compulsion people enjoy. The comparison is upward and not from the top downward. painted on each of these volumes a is absolute. There is no qualification and we invite you to decide, as they did, sharp and distinct. The smallest unit of organization miniature better than anything yet whatever. It can say, through For this^ the American tra4e-union is the local union. Local to make regular deposits in an interest-bearing by an American artist—do you suppose its conventions, or through its Executive movement is primarily responsible. unions are composed of groups of if this were done, the newspapers Council and its officers that account. America has no proletariat as Europe people working in the same trade, in of this country would give it certain policies or certain courses of knows the proletariat. the same communities. These local three columns on the front page? conduct are advisable, but only as In the beginning^ this was because Awaken Youi will find that REGULAR saving makes unions are affiliated into what are To America there is general unity of opinion and of the manner in which our country known as city central bodies or city Indeed not. and the editors would the moral force of that unity of opinion your "rainy day" fund grow amazingly. was settled and because of its boundless central labor unions. The city central be silly to give such space for if they is there any actual power to compel natural resources. It has remained labor union is, thus, a representative did the public would be largely bored. "Teach your dollars to have more cents." compliance. so primarily because of the organization composed of delegates For people don't care to be artists trade-union movement. from all the local unions in a and aren't particularly interested in I WHO IS YOUR HERO? For this, if for no other service, city. By the same process, state federations what artists achieve. the trade-union movement of the tof labor are formed. In But the hero has been changed First National Bank United States is entitled to be ranked By DAVID WARK GRIFFITH most cities there are, in addition to from the soldier to the industrial as one of the country's greatest assets, the city central labor union, delegate leader and I think in fifty1 years, or Editor's Note.—David Wark Griffith if not. indeed, as the greatest stands so high above all other motion bodies representing the unions perhaps a hundred, America, will asset of all. picture producers that he may be said International Falls Minnesota in specific branches of industry such awaken to an appreciation of art. to be in a class by himself. His grasj) The growth of the trade-union of picture making is only equaled by as the building trades, the metal When it does, I think the golden, era movement has substantially paralleled his grasp of the "cinema's future the trades and the printing trades. of art will come again for whatever needs and wants of the public, and the, the growth of the machine or motion picture is a part of every man!s Through these representative community interests us as a people, that we can life. factory system. With the coming of organizations, the wage earners do better than any one else. steam and the subsequent coming of in each city are brought together Perhaps motion pictures will do electricity and the use of these agencies In introducing motion pictures as and are placed in a position to act more tQ stimulate this artistic interest of power in the development of America's fourth or fifth largest industry, unitedly and intelligently for the conservation than any other force. One must factory life, the tendency of industry one might also identify them and advancement of their remember that our children today, was to concentrate populations in as America's largest and most popular own interests and for the consideration ten, twelve, fourteen years old, have small areas and the tendency of employers target for criticism. THE .of problems of all kinds relating had more dramatic experience than was to keep these concentrated Where lives a person who hasn't to the life of the municipality. all their ancestors combined. populations, as far as possible, at said: "The movies are awful" or said" STORE Take your own family.. How many 5TORE International Scope a mere subsistance level of wages. something to that effect? plays each year did your father In addition to these representative That is as it should be. It proves Unions Halt Class see, and his father? Three or four, THAT THAT -onr.-.n-nity organizations, there are motion pictures are important and But for the trade-union movement or less. And as we go back, the less progressing.- You hear no such criticism national and international unions. entering the ever present tendency S plays they ''saw until in the time of SAVES from all sides of our American Most American unions have adopted of employers toward a mere subsistance the masques only one in many years the term "international" because music, painting, writing or staged That wage, combating the.r tendency —if ever. their membership extends into Canada is because the public does not e^-v to retain the long employment YOU So we have a peculiar condition in and Mexico. National and International pect any great improvement in these day that had obtained prior to the our audiences—a dramatically mature unions are formed by unit- arts, but does expect it in motion development of actory life, America MONEY MONEY audience of youths and a dramatically pictures. youthful audience of adults. With A savage and ruthless denunciation no intent to strain for a paradoxical of motion pictures by one of the most El equip, it is a truth that the older a prominent dramatic critics in this motion picture audience is, the jrounger country, first awakened me to the Taking the Shrug Out 3 it is and again, the younger it is, fact that motion pictures were to become the older it is. the dominant educational and They Ask Censor entertainment force in the world. I of Skeptical Shoulders These mature persons know nothing was too busy at the time to give of the history of the stave, its much thought to the future. But I conventions, customs, privileges, liberties realized that this shrewd gentleman or experiences. They see nothing saw in them feomething more powerful It is not easy for the man who hasn't investigated in motion pictures that has been than his beloved stage or he could common to the stage for a hundred not have spurred'his thoughts to such to believe that suit qualities that years, yet, because they are superlatively a high tide of fierce protest. brought $50 and $60 last winter are down to ignorant of stage drama, they We do not spend much time criticising are horrified at something that is apsolutely $35 and $40 NOW. something u'nimportant or dying. commonplace to the playgoer. If the public ever stops com* plaining about its motion pictures, we But inside .this store is actual proof that the With a confidence that only such shall become alar,med. for outdoor thing is being done and that the garments prospering ignorance can bring, these Enter Prohibition. persons are determined that the public haven't suffered by the wing clipping. Criticism has its fads and fancies shall not see these things which just as much as anything else. At A* Copyright, 1820, Oregon City Woolen Minff they think shouldn't be seen. This is If you haTve been skeptical—even tho you present it is popular to criticise the AD wool Maclrinaws the type that demands the censor. motion pictures harshly. In a way I do not plan on an immediate purchase—as a So the censor now will have to feel that prohibition has had something play with pictures for- a few years matter of general information, we want you If yoj. re lacking for a really good, warm, all-wool to do with this public irritability until ithey get tyrannical and are cast mackinaw, come in and try on of thaw Jacobs' regarding pictures. People substituted-'the tome to come and let us lay before your eyes— Oregon City Mackinaws! out, or become merely clerical and uri-' motion picture shows for important. the customary drinking diversionAnd Michaels, Stern Censorship is an. ideal, and when quarrelled with the. films because They re the ones you've been you try to localize an ideal in three they didn't get the same effect. reading about in The Saturday persons who need their small salaries There need be no alarm about motion Evening Post —Snappy, new Winter Suits and play politics to get them, models—see them. ,, pictures as long as the makers it isn't difficult to believe that the strive to interpret life as naturally ideal may get ostled. The .type of Many new styles—plaids and checks as they can. Superficial critics shout mind that demands censorship has —in the most wanted colors. Here with outraged despair about something $30 $35 $40 in all sizes for men and boys—better advanced the argument that we censor in a motion picture not being choose one nowl meats and therefore should censor realistic. Realism isn't the important pictures, and I presume they would thing. Naturalism is. feel quite satisfied to have the same Courtroom scenes?"" I believe are 't person decide the fitness of a pig's criticised more generally than any "JAKE ON THE CORNER" carcass and a film. others in motion pictures. That WoVotVAvKeio tke Wool is oWtv, because Mr. and. Mrs. Audience went WHAT MOTHER EARNS to court- in a condition of high interest, Opposite The Banks 7 Established 1904 by Mitchel Burton when either they or someone close to'them was involved in the action, That excellent country newspaper, JAKE GREENGARD the West Point (Neb.) Republican and whatever occurred affected them vividly. They remember how impressed carries the following story in its current -1 they were with everything issue and declares that every international Falls Minnesota occurring. When they are not so newspaper in the land should print impressed by a courtroom scene it} a it. We agree, and here it is: International Falls' Fastest Growing Store SS "She never earned any money— picture, they immediately think it'is