rru^a INTEKNATlUlNAi- itxumj PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS ASKS CONSIDERATION ftor we ihust have taxes, and incomes ANT MARTA* ON PR0BISHENM^* ^^W^4W^K» 8 OF NEW TAX REFORM 1 must be taxed. How much better it (The following interesting discourse WHITE BIRCH TWP. would be to have a simple, workable ANQ. BORDER BUDGET plan that would not cause hindrance Senator Francis E. Warren, Head of on the merits of prohibition has been J-J & $ & & & J-J 8 & 8 & $ $ $ J-J Senate Appropriations Committee, in investments, withdrawal and withholding clipped from the Frazee Press.) vr ri r... Edward McClellan made the trip H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager Favorable to Canada's Idea. Depression of captial from industrial "Mester Eddieter:— a .. __ to Kelliher on Monday. Traced to Unjust Taxation. channels, and the incidental tightness Ay tank to tell ju rite heer Mester Entered at the Post Office at International Fall*, Minn., Second-Claaa Matter and tenseness that make living conditions Veekly Mans, det ay bleev in probishen Ole Gulicksort of Glenwood, is stopping more or less unsatisfactory to By FRANCIS E. WARREN en tank ets best ting for humanty SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $3.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR at his old homestead during the everybody. in yenrel dat ewer happen. hunting Reason. Editor's Note.—Francis E. Warren, Let's Try This Ay know plenty mens det newer is chairman of the committee on ap-' Northwestern Advertising Representatives If it should appear that there is propriations for the United States ben vort von red sent till dem cont Minnesota Select List Senate. As the nation knows this Our genial mail carrier threw an justification for hesitancy on the part get more boos. Den he \yest get 709 Exchange Bank 215 South 6th Street means he must be a man of unusual of Congress to try forthwith a general awful scare into some of young men ability, of wide knowledge, of keen chants to sobef up en see tings in St. Paul Minneapolis appreciation of financial problems and sales-tax plan similar to that difrents lite, en vonder how he ben by telling around that the game warden situations and an expert of economics. On him rests a responsibility that which Canada has adopted, which was up in our township for two* sech offel fool. Some feller ben so Students of this subject report that Foreign Advertising Representative would stagger the average man and THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION taxes the sales of middlemen as well nights looking for headlights. soked up en dronk oil time det coont its industries, regularly are wasted in to him there looks 100,000,000 citizens for the wise distribution of the vast as manufacturers, why not try the heer birds sing en dint lenow vinter speculation. sums t0 which they contribute. plan proposed by Senator Smoot, to from sommer. Von of dem perpetchel Chas. Gulickson of Belle is visiting URGES EDUCATION Many Are Ignorant levy a manufacturers' and producers' sokes sobered up en got kvainted with his brother Ole Gulickson. it is not the untrained mechanic and INi INVESTMENTS With Congress in a turmoil over tax of threq per cent on goods sold med his family, but he had to act artisan alone who is ignorant of the proposed important changes in our for consumption or use without further foolish en kick a cuppel chairs over A of investment, but among the Raymond Litherland is busy working revenue laws and being swamped Savings Lost to Stock Sharks Total process of manufacture? before baby vood come to him. Tawt victims of promotion are merchants, on his contract on the township* with oceans of advice from economists—real Or, if not that plan, why not try a Vast Yearly Sum.—Learn First, he ben stranger mans. professional men and even bankers. road into the Christenson place. and theoretical—with unfavorable modified general consumption or But to be -coorse, probishen. get Billions of dollars wisely invested Spend After, Is Advice of Kansas business conditions, signs "turn-over" tax plan, levying a half som bad points som ays, en oil becaus every year which heretofore have Senator. of depression, stagnation, passing of ANNUAL CIRCULAR AND of one per cent, or even a quarter of tirty per cent of mens dont got been dissipated in speculation will dividens, withdrawal of money from TRAPPERS CATALOGU one per cent, or such rate as may be enny brains en boun to keepen on evidently have a capital effect in mitigating By ARTHUR CAPPER investment and failures here and estimated to produce the required med Yon Barlycorn. Von been borned panics, business depression there, the only clear ray of light is amount of revenue, "not to be applicable! The Northwestern Hide & Fur Co. evver minnet en most of dem live and unemployment. An increase, one that points out the why -of the Editor's Note.—Senator Arthur Capper to foodstuffs and products, but of Minneapolis, have just issued their tooJ Vors den sockers. Sockers ben of Kansas was for many years such as it seems there is an opportunity condition and that why, seems to be head of a string* of papers, both daily to? apply to expenditures. Annual Circular and Trappers' Catalogue. goo'd in .spring time ven vaater es to secure, in the annual increment and weekly, the latter farm papers the present methods of taxing incomes The proof of any tax plan is in the Both contain much Valuable with immense circulations. Thousands cold, but dese human sponges hav to of saved capital that will be and excess profits, methods so of his subscribers fell victims to men information pertaining to the Domestic working thereof—and in the working soke up evverting in site oil time, en permanently saved by sound investment, with stock schemes and blue-sky sales drastic that in some cases they and thousands of them wrote to the only. Hence my belief in giving yest so long so ve get des bunch med and Wild animals and their will by steadily enlarging the amount to practical confiscation. editor and publisher asking his advice. the sales-tax theories a test. hides and skins with complete price us ve goen to hav trubel en fitin en national capital fund at a greater In the following he gives that advice Figures, often tricky things at best, to all who care to read and, as Senator list. Each stockholder in our vast corporation plenty feller in yale for most ennyting rate than heretofore, lower the cost Capper's entire life is indication of indicate that with $6,500,000,000 on knows that simplicity in from perty larsony to murder. The Trappers' Catalogue gives prices careful advancement, superior, business and price of capital, give to every deposit in this country distributed judgment and the confidence of managing our affairs, the elimination of all kinds of traps and trappers' Ef des human sifon ent abel to by. a kind of legitimate enterprise greater his fellow citizens, whatT he has to say among 11,500,000 depositors that every of red tape and of complex regulations supplies which they claim to be at may be accepted without hesitation som, den he get bissy en xnek som sense of security and courage, depositor should have $570 and every as the advice of one who knows. that can be understood only by offel stoff det got trehundra kik to the lowest prices. It also tells how tend to a steadier employment of labor inhabitant $62. On the face of it experts disagree, so that regulations to trap wild animals, how to take off skvare inch en von drink ben better and to a lowered price level and Among all the impressive evidence this may seem a small sum for the have to be further regulated—would and care for the domestic and wild as two bairls vot dem yust to get. cost of living, consequently a higher average "free-born American" to of American solidarity during the mean more success in our business Cors ders lot of dose feller hitten animals' hides and skins so as to standard of living. war, hardly any was more awakening show for a period of toil that may be in other wQrds, more prosperity in bulls eye, but dem hav to pay for bring the highest values. Also a set The country should not permit the than the subscriptions to the Liberty many years yet taken in comparison way of "dividends" for all. of animal tracks reproduced from de bull, ju bet. Vot ay meen is dat opportunity to slip by which the Liberty with the average of only $158 per depositor Loans. The country had not nature, together with two patterns So it is up to us to strive toward a ven dem get sukces for maken good Loan experience opens to it of in the world's figures of savings suspected the potential capital fund time when thrift and production may for making stretching boards for strong hom bru dem only need von adding yearly to the capital fund it is to be seen that we citizens of the American people. It was receive every encouragement from skunk and mink showing sizes of a drink. Dont live to tek enny more. the great savings of the people. A of U. S. A. did heed the warning, amazed by the response of the people small, medium, and large skin. No our board of directors when -useless Dat pays for de bull. systematic, intelligent, organized attempt to the appeals of the government guiding cry of war-times, "economy, .-extravagance may be in the same degree farmer or his boy should be without Yens tole me yesterday he ben over should be made to counteract thrift and conservatism." for funds. And this astonishment discouraged. If we work together them as furs are again very high and to nayber en-von of hes boys mek the propoganda of promoters, not grew as one great loan drive We Remain Sane the domestic animal pelts are some, conscientiously toward /that som stuff med rasens en jist en troed merely in the negative way of legislation followed another in swift succession. With savings depositors to the end, we shall surely again see normal higher than last year, too valuable to in a cuppel leefs of home grone teebakka against criminal practice, but There seemed to be no bottom to the number of one-tenth of our population times, reduction of prices, and the let go to waste, as some do, or to sell to geev et som kick. He took by positive propaganda setting forth popular purse, as there was no faltering with Liberty Bond holders estimated sort of prosperity to which we are below theii market value. Write glass ful en fel doun. Det vas last the superior attractions of Safety in popular patriotism. to number between fifteen and Northwestern Hide & Fur Co., for entitled. Vensday en oil he ben doin evver First in investment. More than 21 million subscribers twenty millions—less, of course, than We can be just as patriotic in peace this instructive printed matter, mention since is to yest lay still en tolk bout Beware Promoter offered nearly 7 billion dollars for the there were during and immediately times as we were in war times. And this paper, it will be sent yot* notten in pertikler. His onkel he took a to to It is large undertaking get government bonds. This was the culmination. following actual war times—we may free. now, as much as in the days of war, som en it vork just opsit. He didnt the people the Safety First idea, but The fifth loan was for a safely depend upon the stability of is the time when "the United States of ben abel to say enyting sins, en Yens worth whatever effort is necessary. smaller amount, which was oversubscribed, our corporation and believe that our America, Incorporated, "needs a get fonny en say he vish he cood TOOK NO CHANCES The promoter appeals to raw cupidity, like all its predecessors. Tom Joneses and" Bill Smiths and friend." get littel of det kind for me. Mi gudnes, to that propensity to speculate, Here, out of the income of two Other stockholders are not holding ay dont say much only ven ay The proprietor of a local shoe store to accept a chance, to gamble on the years, a minimum of 21 million persons a listening ear in the direction of the tolk. is very proud of one of his young future, which is instinctive in all of had subscribed for some 22 billions voices that preach radicalism, communism, Evver day ay ben ree|en bout som sons, who not very long ago entered us. is no mean He hypnotist and OBSERVATIONS of war loans. hi—1* or some other ism, by whatever feller vot get killed drinken mo^j the employ of his father, and this endeavors put caution to sleep to (By Billy Noonan) name, that may propose departure Only Books Showed shine en. ay Jvotider'1&6w long 'ide-T^tts-much enhanced by the boy's and by suppression of all conflicting from the safe and sane policies of et vil be afore mens get som sens en cleverness in the matter of a pair of potential Until this exhibit of the impulses and ideas intensify the our government. stop diggen graves itfed rasens en 'shoes sold to a stranger. The lad savings or capital fund of the people The undertakers .are predicting a passion for quick gain. His propaganda jist en lewis lye en tings det vooden had shown this man a satisfactoryeven the only concrete indication of As fellow-stockholders, all of us are very successful hunting season. is alluring, but there is enticement mek good hors linemerrt. How pair, but the customer said that he this fund was the books of the savings keenly alive to the fact that, in the also in oth^r instincts, in selfpreservation, interest of good business and the yu tink? had not enough money with him, ask- banks, which prior to the war With beer as medicine the lads in security, in retaining Vel looks lak vinter ben reddy to: ing if he could let fifty cents go over showed upwards of 11 million depositors smooth running of our corporate machinery, will soon be enjoying poor health. what one has. These are also com in, en ay mek Yens hall up littel: until the next day. The boy consentyag with balances of above 5 billion we must raise money for primary human instincts and are capable of vood so ve dont frees. Yust ed, for which, after the stranger had dollars. And it may be remarked incidentally our expenses with the least possible After winning by such a small majority of being played on effectively, disturbance to bus'ness progress if we got invitashen from Ant Selma to left the shop, the father severely repcom here that three years after the independent party in North if one can get the knack of it. to wedden annvershary by her rimanded the lad. the war, notwithstanding the huge would attain the highest success. Dakota can't afford to be very independent. en Onkel Wally nex veek, en ay spos "You'll never see the man again," Liberty Bond payments, savings deposits Much has been said and written GOOD HAS SHAME BEATEN ve.otto go, so mebby ju get nex letter he said in conclusion. not only have not declined but about the tax scheme in Canada, TEN THOUSAND TIMES Ant Marta. from Osaikis. "Oh yes, I will," sail the youngst have increased by a billion dollars, which Jias without doubt brought into "The_ best way to spend money," "I wrapped up two shoes for the left with an increase net of 300,000 depositors. the Canadian treasury a huge sum, begins a newspaper article, and we A publisher about to sell the writings THOSE DEAR GIRLS foot, so he's sure to come back." and apparently no burden has been stopped right there. of a noted American scolder, in The effect produced by this extraordinary Exchange. felt by the taxpayers. Indeed, one Betty—"Jack says I am the first book form, advertises its contents as demonstration of the savings writer referred to the levy as "a The average homesteader in northern "the shame of the world." In other girl he ever kissed." Europe would get along better if capacity of the people is seen in painless tax", and, if any tax can be Minnesota is a peaceful lad but he words, it is deemed attractive, for Marie—"I've known him to lie she would cut out the whine, women several organizations, governmental truthfully.,, called painless, the sales could be arrested for what he thinks money-making purposes, to blazon about oth^r things, too." and song, remarks ah exchange. and private, since formed to promote tax of Canada seems to justify the of city hunters. over the country the fact that the saving and thrift by publicity propaganda. description. It became effective in world has shame. .•"The Treasury Department May, 1920, and, in its first year of "Bachelors are fools," says a woman What's the matter with us Twentieth conducts such a publicity campaign, operation, levying a rate of two cents lecturer.^ We admit it. but they Century folks anyway? Why is the Reserve Banks also and one or on the dollar, yielded $50,000,000 in are not reminded of it as often as the it that so many of us Americans are two private organizations, all urging revenue. A similar levy in our country married lads are. always knocking something, always the people to save. would, it is estimated, yield about looking for the bad in anything, always Campaign is Needed six hundred millions annually. Without When it comes to election charges ready to believe that wrongs While the government and other we're pikers on this side of the line. doubt it would be fair to all are advancing on us, always suspicioning agencies are very active in endeavoring would put a premium up6n economy, Over in Canada one faction accuses some abomination or other? to induce people to save, it is the other of causing the low birth and yet could not be said to carry The "shame of the world," forsooth! evident that such a campaign is directed any extra imposition upon the luxuries rate. Most certainly there is shame in the to the non-savers, and the only and extravagances of those who Savings Account world—always has been and/ always systematic campaign to help the do not want to be economical. The #A «.« #.• V# will be as long as it is inhabited by human savers to preserve their savings by distribution, in other words, would be people. But there is ten thousand judicious investment is a constant universal the collection would be RAPID RIVER ITEMS times more chastity, ten thousand campaign in behalf of Treasury notes, economical chances for dishonesty 4 tidies more good on ,'this earth than V# V# O short-time investments. and evasion would be minimized. there is shame, and there always will Roy Roe, who has been employed On the other hand, there is uninterrupted Congress Hesitates be—BECAUSE THIS EARTH IS INHABITED as an engineer in the Dakota harvest bombardment of savers by But regardless of the fact that our BY DECENT HUMAN fields, is spending a few days at his swindling stock promoters and an own country, has already had considerable PEOPLE. even more injurious crusade by well homestead. experience with sales taxes as This is the time of year when the new Rules are made to have exceptions. meaning but ill-advised promoters of imposed by the Acts of 1917 and 1918, Eddie Larson and Willie Gelhaug There is no rule where there is no styles are eagerly discussed. new enterprises, wholly untried, ust^ally the administration of whicfc has been visited the Arne Skipley farm Saturday. exception. The human heart in the undercapitalized, in such speculations satisfactory and successful, there mass is sound and moral and lovable. as oil and mining and similar seems to be a hesitancy on the part Thrifty buying makes easy thrifty saving. In only the exceptional human is the ventures. of Congress to do away with the onerous, Mr. Moren of Ranier took a canoe At a hearing before the judiciary heart shameful. And that's all there's annoying lines of taxes so difficult A savings account yis always stylish and its to it. trip up the Rapid last week in quest Committe of the House in the present and expensive to collect, affd to Habit does a lot of things. Habit of a suitable homestead. satisfaction is lasting. session of Congress the Federal adopt instead—even on trial—some Reserve Board asked for additional will even change the heart. If it is sort of sales-tax plan. Oscar Skipley visited Clementson going to be a habit with the mass of legislation to protect, savers from This bafik has hundreds of happy deposit­ Chambers of Commerce, business Monday on a shopping tour. us to look for shame, cussedriess and swindling stock jobbers, the .bpard and commercial organizations of all ors, and we invite you to decide, as they did, general infamy, we may be sure that making the statement that' in tfi'e list sorts throughout the entire country, Among our local people who have the filth will cling to us and it may year these swindles'had taken from and many individuals generally, have to make regular deposits in an interest-bearing visited Dr. Kirby at Thief River Falls even turn into a cancer afflicting the the American people more than half advocated the proposition as the most are: Mrs. Dave Olson, Mrs. C. P. whole. a billion of their saved capital. Probably account. intelligent, fairest, and least oppressive Eidom, Mrs. F. Seymour and Mrs. T. injudicious speculations took .a of all forms of taxation. The indorsement Cobey. All speak well of the popular WHAT ADVERTISING MEANS very much larger sum. of many others would no Youi will find that REGULAR saving makes doctor's plasters. N Private institutions engaged in legitimate doubt follow if more thought were The editor of the Spring Valley your "rainy day" fund grow amazingly. bond, mortgage and other given by the mass taxapyers to the Mrs. T. Cobey has been too ill to Mercury believes that "if one merchant investments, it seems to me, shcrald fact that the men of modest incomes attend her school duties at Eidem's "Teach your dollars to have more cents." awake to the duty of educating the in a town advertises, others are are really finally paying the big surtaxes school. A young lady substitute is sure to do the same thing. If they 21 million savers of capital in the of the rich—for it is a fact that taking her place. We all hope for United States in caring for their capital, all advertise they will do a better the more the latter's incomes are Mrs. Cobey's speedy recovery. once saved. The people need a business. They will have better taxed, the more is added to the price First National Bank campaign of primary education on stores and better stock sand the town of the product from which such incomes EVAPORATE!} what capital is, and what'investment will attract and draw outside business. are derived. A sort of endless is. They unstintingly deny themselves When you see a town that chain affair, and veritably a chain luxuries in order to save, and does not advertise you see just the International Falls "What's the matter?" that has us all bound tight 1 Minnesota billions of this saved capital, of incalculable kind of a town that loseS its trade '*1 sold an article on 'Fresh Milk' How much better wojjld be a more "i value to the nation and all to another.", -/-v.... universal distribution of the .burden— and the editor condensed itl"—Ex.