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ELMO MASSENGALE countenanced. /_ When the successful candidate has Northwestern Advertising Representatives attained public office, he then ceases* Editor's Note.—St.' Elmo Massengale Minnesota Select List is the leadiifg figure in -advertising,, to be, in the minds of many of us, an 709 Exchange Bank 215 South Cth Street circles in the South.** As most honorable, patriotic citizen. Years of St. Paul Minneapolis people know, the big advertising expert honest life among us are discounted of today is a man of wide knowledge, and we begin to look upon him, too preat executive ability and In the business man' who is too busy to Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION. constant and close touch with the often, with suspicion. Whatever he register the working man who will economic needs and conditions of the does appears tinged with improper not take time from his tasks to cast territory wherein his work lies. Whatever consideration^done not wholly for the his ballot the housewife who thinks the head of the Massengale OBLIGATIONS OF '. This is the time of year when~ the new public good. And despite all, the man agency says will be accepted as absorbing that a woman's place is in the home AMERICANS TOLD facts by the merchants and in public life today who does not styles are eagerly discussed. the -society woman who cannot be BY LEGION HEAD leaders'of the Souths and can be accepted spend each waking hourjn sincere bothered the average of Tom, Dick by those of the North as ..the and unselfish endeavor to serve his -and Harry"" who don't take enough interest note of authority. Thrifty buying makes easy thrifty saving. Use of Ballot Sure Cure For National cjty, his state and his country is the in the welfare of their communities Ills, Says Soldier.—Points exception to the'' rule. The greater to keefc informed of the Up to a few years ago capital was A savings account is always stylish and its Way to Ousting Graft, Bosses and time and place of the elections. All proportion of mistakes made by men not sought in or did it hurry to the Red Menace. in public office are errors of heart satisfaction is lasting. of these constitute ^n alarming proportion^ South Dixie, was considered as a atfii not of headv ^'J5' of is our *adullS' ~!c»ti2enry who pretty section of the country ~aboufwhich By LEMUEL BQL-LES' H*w many public servants, having have} a rights to exercise a share/in one should-^and often did— This ,bankvhas hundred 5 of hapjpy^ deposit- given the best that was in them to' t^gedirection of" our "political destinies, write songs, novels- and-^^amAs maitily Editor's Note.—Lemuel1 Bolles, national rofs, and we itivite you to decide, as they did, the- office which tlrey held, have been but do not.: .0 remarkable for an impossible negro adjutant of the American Le^ There is not an ill in American "life Returned to their neighbors broken'in dialect and the number of roses that gion, talks like a 'soldier fightTSystraight to make regular deposits in an interest-bearing health, sick at heart, misunderstood, from the shoulder. The following today which cannot be cured, and intruded upon every scene and setting. should give food* for sober their honesty smirched left to finish account. cured promptly, if each voter will inform reflection to all American citizens their barren days reflecting on the himself as to issues with the Cash, as the country considered its who desire to see our nation purged acrid ingratitude of the public. means at his immediate disposal. use in Dixie, was a petty contrivance of all thit is evil in its civic and political Yon will find that REGULAR saving makes Stand hy Officials There is not a weakness in our social life. He handles the grave used strictly as a medium of exchange questions that face our nation without., Individually we can correct this your "rainy day" fund grow amazingly. structure which cannot be bolstered and not as a power of development. gloves, and draws "conclusions as sharp condition by standing steadfastly by if individually and conscientiously With blind allegiance the South clung "Teach your dollars to have more cents." and distinct as is possible for any. the officials we have elected to public we try to discharge the obligations to cotton as its great and only staple man regardless of his opportunities and exercise the privileges office. Doubtless we elected them or abilities. and.the shifting fnarket on that single because we had faith in their judgment. granted us by the constitution of the: staple spelled relative poverty of affluence Doubtless we selected them If America (the United States) ever United States. for the territory soyth of First National Bank from among their fellows because of goes crumbling away to political and Political bosses, machine rule .arid Mason-Dixon. their fitness for the task and because economic ruin the fault will lie not graft are impossible^ in that community A change has come to Dixie. It still of their particular qualities as American from the enemies without, but the citizens where the citizens, are awake has its roses and its negro population, citizen^. We cannot expect a within, not guilty, of crirhe commission International Falls Minnesota to their responsibilities where they but added to that has come a human being to be right all of the ljut guilty of as grave a fault, meausre up to the obligation resting great outpouring of industrial blood time. We can expect him to be ommiySion of the very duty. Ijhat gave upon the individual. In every community s& through the veins of southern 'progress humanly honest and sincere and them their freedom. there is that element, always and in instant response the South humanly fallible. If all the blood and tears, all the in the minority but bound together has developed until from a weak and America is secure against assaults: cioffin bands themselves came from lands and mineral resources. great effort and unselfish love and 4by selfish interests, thriving pr.etty sister in a cotton gown it from without. If that majestic structure the North. The South didt not furnish devotion that has gone into the erection What has been accomplished in the upon corruption of public officials stands today an industrial power to which has been reared by dint a. thing on earth for that funeral past by the South through advertising of the United States is to be and special privileges, the very existence be reckoned with in offices of the of so much suffering and sacrifice but the corpse and the hole in is only a promise of what it will wasted the fault will lie at the door of which is a malicious menace world's greatest banking, transportation, ever crumbles it will be but the result, the ground. of you and your neighbor and history accomplish in the future with its vast to democratic institutions. In the development and commercial of the careless indifference of mineral resources, its wonderful agricultural in the centuries to come will point lowest classes of society there is a "All From The North" units. the individual American into whose facilities, and its growing industries a pitiless finger at you and yours and dangerous criminal element, ever "And they laid him away, and the Figures may weary the average keeping has come this greatest of all all backed by the power of declare that the greatest advance in crouched to spring at the throat of clods rattled down upon the coffin. reader, but beneath them lies a romance responsibilities. advertising. human government, the world ever decent society and to fatten itself And they buried him in a New York greater than any fictionist ever knew was lost because you and yours from the results of rijt, turmoil and coat, a Boston pair of shoes and a drew with swift running pen if one A FINE OLD HOME PAPER THE FIRST STENOGRAPHER failed to do your duty, a simple^ easy, destruction. pair of breeches^ from Chicago and has but the ability tc^see aqd understand. duty that should be a joy and a matter Well organized governments are a shirt from Cincinnati, leaving him Of the entire output of the Isaac Pitman, contrary to coftimon These magazines with gravures arid of untold pride. constantly alert »to curb these elements. nothing to carry into the next world United States in corn the South belief, was notvthe first stenographer. all these works of art, America today stands in the-palh They have but little hope of to remind him of the land fromjwhich gives 54 per cent, of tobacco 84, potato Are very well for city folks who live The, first stenographer, so far ascan of a destructive force. Not a whirlwind success by an open breach of the he came, and for which he fought for 92 per cent, peanut 99, apple 16, be determined by the records unearthed by dint of mart: :o' to tear and rend but a slow, peace. Driven to cover and cowed four years, but the chilled blood in rice 85 per cent and sorgh\im syrup up to the present time, was But give me first and foremost, I creeping, insidious, relentless force to a sullen observance of the more his veins and the marrow in his 85 per cent. The annual peach crop "hold it is the prime—.• Marcus Tullius Tiro, the scholarly that attacks the very heart of yHur obvious forms of 'la\y^and'order, they bones." is nearly $44,000,000, sugar cane syrup secretary of Marcus Tullius Cicero. That fine old home town paper—:6ne country, drains the strength and work ^to bring about their ends by $90,000,000, oats $175,000,000, wheat It was advertising that changed the Tiro took down a speech delivered of the good old time. power and hopes and dreams of their more devious routes. These hardy $300,000,000, and cptton $2,000,000,000. South that TIenry W. Grady pictured. by Cato in the year 63 B. C. being jifad will never pause in its partisans are present in force at the w:th a live stock value in the South Today Southern people may buy The printin' isn't perfect, the ink's blight until you and yours have been polls. .They are never too busy to of $2,500,000. Southern made shoes, hats, suits, not uniform, aroused. cast their ballots. They are never O. G. SNYDER gowns, steam eAgines, automobiles The South's development a§ an agricultural, The type is set by hand perhaps,— 'too busy to lavish time and effort for Registered Optometrist Today in the United States, where and, in fact, almost any commodity dairy and live stock country considerably overworn, the candidate who will best serve popular government has reached its and Optician that is made anywhere in the United is due to one cause more than all others. The dear old press—I know it well— their needs. They are clamorously in highest development, a large portion Broken Lenses Duplicated States. Advertising was the force that it's covered o'er with grime— line when the rewards are- being of our citizens have abandoned the At Gledhill's Jewelry Store changed the South from a one-crop to Not only are Southern made goods But it prints-that old home paper— distributed. Fort Frances effort to exercise any of their political a varied-crop and live stock section. sold in the South, _but they are in demand one of the good old^ time. Unfair Attacks Made rights. So, in increased measure, It was not until the Southern newspaper and are shipped to all parts of The responsibility of the individual the urgent need exists for bringing and farm paper publications our own country and to foreign countries. I look for it each week as regularly does not, however, cease'with the home to every individual his own responsibility had given the widest publicity to the it comes,. casting of his ballot, nor does it begin for self-assertion in political benefits to be cferived from varied The upbuilding of the South industrially And when the postman brings it in, I life. there. It begins first in development crops and live stock raising that drop all other chums, has been due to advertising. of a proper attitude toward om" In war the qualified man who fails southern farmers could be induced to The success experienced rby the few I drink it iriyfrom start to fin, ridlcu-t public institutions and toward our to take arms in defense of hi§ country (lethrone"" "King Cotton". It took lous and sublime, Southern manufacturers who first FOR SALE—House and lot. Inquire public representatives. Office holders becomes abhorrent in the §yes of years of continuous advertising on the had thte courage to advertise encouraged That fine old home town paper, one in the United States have borne such of A. J. Scott, 909 Seventh street. his decent fellows. The obligation to part of these far-seeing Southern of the good old time. not only' other Southern capital attack and misrepresentation and have take arms at such a time is no greater publications to sell the Southern farmers CANOES, row boats and gasoline to enter the indijltrial field, but become the target,of such destructive than the obligations of peace in on the idea that prosperity depended brought capital from .other sections boats for hire and for sale. Harry Smith's cat may havevsome kittens bombardment that it is almost impossible the life of any good citizen1. If the not upon one kind of a crop, O. Erickson. Ranier. chg Jones is putting in new. pumps, of the country to start manufacturing to get the right kind of men to necessity arises, he renders this service" but upon many kinds of crops, plants in the South.^ list themselves for office or to accept My girl chum has got married and in the discharge of his civic duties. FOR SALE—Seven room house, new Papers Repaid These new manufacturers in their the kids have got the mumps. public appointment. Political campaigns But this is not true of all. Every, and modern in every respect. Easy While the Southern newspaper and Jack Wiltsey's built a lean-to, Johnson's turn advertised and becaume successful. though forced to disinfection country has its Bergdoll and every terms. R. B. Kook. tf roses upward climb. farm paper publications were never At the present time some of in recent years, are yet too frequently age its slackers. They occupy an enviable directly paid for such advertising, the perfervid competitions in personal Oh! I love the old home paper, boys, this country's largest advertisers, doing place in public opinion their FOR SALE—-Fifst fifty dollars will resultant proseprity ofNthe South has one of the good old time. an annual business amounting to children will live to blush at mention villification. A- man of -ideals offering take my 42 foot Box Ball alley. O. GEO. E~WRAY. repaid them many fold for the space millions of dollars, are manufacturers of their names. himself for public office must be. L. Gorden, Big Falls, Minn. so generously donated for*" the upbuilding located in the South. But with the political slackers-'r unhesitant to withstand misrepresentation of the Southern states agricultural The growth of the South industrially many of them are respected citizens. to have his motives questioned REFORESTATION IS FOR RENT—Room in modern home interests. has in its own turn made the We find them in ev^ry, community to have the most intimate de­ PROBLEM OF NATION suitable for light h^sekeeping. for But advertising has been not only rapid growth of Southern cities. During lady. Has-liot and cold Water connections. the ,means of building up the South the past twenty-five years there (Continued from page 1) Kiquire at Press office. It agriculturally. It has built up the have been Southern-cities that have South industrially from practically a doubled their population, not once FOR SALE—Heavy team, wagon, more under care and protection minus quantity, so far as manufacturing but time after tinfe. against fires." Some of the chief sleighs and harness at reasonable industries were .concerned, to The South today has a number of price. Call at Press office. 2tpd reasons why these forests are needed a pointK^where Southern industries cities which have developed into are as follows: rival the industries of the other sections great distributing Centers. In these WANTED—A frime store. Give full "Our manufacturing centers afe. Written Expressly For The International Falls Press of our country. cities are huge distributing and jobbing particular^ in first letter: kind drawing at an enormous rate upon business, loWest cash price, etc. Wm. houses representative of practically our timber supply—from two to four It was only a quarter ot century Big, Vigorous, Vital Messages, Inspiring, These are J. Bisted, Brainerd, Minn. 3tpd every line "of merchandise. Of times as fast per capita as the country or so ago when Southern people had so much importance as distributing Educative and Sensational. at large. to obtain even the simplest of manufactured FOR SALE—Five sets logging sleighs centers have certain Southern cities "Our railroads require 125,000,000 commodities from the North, in good order, four inch/ oak runners, become, that hundreds of 'manufacturers wooden crossties annually to maintain lit was this condition which inspired We have the Exclusive Right of Publication of The^e four feet six inch run. Johnson located in other sections of the their roadbeds in fit condition the late Henry W. "Grady, the beloved Articles in This Community. Lbr. Co., Ray, Minn. tf country have chosen them as locations and take care of new construction. publicist of th£~ South, to^write for important branch'houses. "Our average American uses 125 in one of his editorials, as follows: ." FOR SALE—14 horse gasoline engine -Articles in this issue by ./ pounds of paper a year—made largely "It was a one-galloused fellow, South as Playground and 4-side moulding maclune in front wood—and the growing circulation wh(^se' breeches §truck him underneath Adertising, however, did not stop first class condition. H. Rose, ST. ELMOJMASSENGALE of our newspapers and magazines his armpits and hit him at the at developing the South agriculturally Littlefork, Minn. 4tpd is increasing that very generous and industrially. It developed the LEMUEL BOLLES, Nafl Adj. Am. Legion other end about the knees. He did per capita' allowance. not b,elieve in decollete clothes. They South as a great winter playground. FOR SALE—One high grade, almost" "Our "average well-kept faunas—using buried* him in the midst of a marble There was a time when the South new men's suit, size 39. at a bargain. N£xt Week— the upper 'Mississippi\Valley as quarry. They cut through solid marble as'a winter resort was neglected. Advertising Too small for owner. Inquire of an instance—require 2,000 board feet "Evolution of School Systems"— to make his grave and yet,' the has changed all this and Johnson at Press office. of lumber annually for rfepair% and little tombstone that they placed now Southern resorts entertain By Secretary of Labor Jas. J. Davis. improvements. ~x\ above him was from Vermont. They thousands of visitors during the WANTED—Salesman for Inter "Deflation of Wages"— "Our Florida citrus crop alone, for buried him in the heart of a. pine months when the North has its inclement tional Falls, and vicinity. Commission marketing takes 13,000,000, of 5 board **By James L. Lewis, Pres. United Mine Workers forest and yet, the pine coffin was weather. contract only, for spare time *'11 feet each, every year." Advertising has acquainted people of America. imported from Cincinnati. They buried or full time. We will teach you to Vv -i with and sold to thenCSouthern industrial-and him within touch of an iron mine and sell income protection through our .-•.,•••» yet, the nails in the coffin and the agricultural products. It free school of instructidfi and help .. .. V... The members of the Episcopal Guild Watch for these articles written by the nation's iron in the shovel that dug his grave has built up Southern cities and peopled "you build a profitable business. were pleasantly entertained at the leaders. They will appear in every issue of the International the Southern resorts with visitors. Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance home of* Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. were imported from Pittsburgh. Falls Press during the coming year. They buried l^ixn. beside the best Green last Thursday evening in honor It is re^gnized by Southern Company, Accident and Health\ sheep-raising country on the face of gone people as the greatest factor in the Dpt., Saginaw, Mich., Capital $1,500,000. of Mrs. R. S. Luce who has South's' rapid, development of .its the earth and the wool in the -j ?t to New York to reside. yet, 1 r* J* •/, siH "-..Pr .£if $ & ImA md