INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS their employers in this great nation. NOTICE: FOR PUBLICATION trained to make the most of life and in 1914. It would be an injustice to i' are its fine things, to the playing of These the same employers who force labor to return to the 1914 level. are music and the painting of pictures opposed to trade unions and deny it America is not a nation of backsliders. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land AND BORDER BUDGET where they can, they all leave with their employees the right to organize The citizenship of America believes Office at Duluth, Minnesota, October for their mutual protection and some useful trade. Whatever happens in progress, in going ahead and 22, 1921. H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager to them in life, they will be help. Examine in your own mind the not backward. It is contrary to every NOTICE is hereby given that Albert found on the rock of self-support and list of those whom you have heard D. Heritage, whose postoffice address American thought and a violation of Katercd at the Foot Office at International Falls, Minn., a« Second-Class Matter is 621 Third Street South, Virginia, self-preservation. Their self-respect demanding deflation of wages. You every American ideal to encourage a Minnesota, did, on the 22nd day of is as secure as their livelihood. will find they are employers of that policy of sliding backward from the SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $3.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR January, 1921, file in this office Sworn type. Their demand for wage reductions 1921 standard to the standard of 1914. Statement and Application, No. 013301, DEFLATED WAGES is simply a part of the trade Let's forget 1914, in business, in industry to purchase the Lot 4, Section 34, Northwestern Advertising Representatives UNDER ATTACK BY Township 70 N., Range 20 W. 4£ union movement in America. They and in our every, day interest Minnesota Select List Principal Meridian,, and the timbe JOHN L. LEWIS have decided that extensive reductions in humanity. Let's look forward and 709 Exchange Bank 215 South 6th Street thereon, under the provisions of the in wages will reduce the efficiency St. Paul Minneapolis beyond the present and strive for the act of June 3, 1878, and acts amendatory, of labor unions. They are Means Curtailed Buying by Public Is attainment of better things. Let's known as the "Timber and Stone Law", at such value as might aware that organized labor contends country, the ideal system of education Contention of Labor Leader.—Says work for the upbuilding of our country Foreign Advertising Representative be fixed by appraisement, and that, THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION for the average young boy or Demand Does Not Come From for a wage scale that will enable the and all that it contains. Let's pursuant to such application, the land a girl in our land consisted of at least worker to maintain his family on Mass of People But From Capital. swear new allegiance to that true and timber thereon have been estimated LABOR HEAD ASKS decent American standard of health a high school training and the acquisition Americanism that is founded upon and valued by applicant the FOR EVOLUTION OF timber estimated 18000 board feet at By JOHN L. LEWIS and comfort. It is this fact that sets of some practical trade. the rock of justice and the square SCHOOL SYSTEMS $3.00 per M, and the land $13.00 that This has been no idle theory of this class of employers against labor deal. A nation is what its people said applicant will offer final proof in mine. The. theory has been in practical Editor's Note.—John L. Lewis needs unions. make it. Americans have made this support of his application and sworn no introduction to readers of American Secretary Declares Present Methods operation in the home school Prices Not Down the best country in the world by going statement on the 29th day of December, newspapers. For years he has Do Not Give Proper Equipment.— 1921, before the Register and Receiver started and maintained by the Loyal But, we hear some say: "Prices constantly forward in the path of stood out a brilliant figure in the of the United States Land Office, Children Face Life With Unworthy Order of Moose, at Mooseheart, not would come down if labor would progress. Let employer, employee battles that have been fought between at Duluth, Minnesota. Tools.—New Suggestions Made. far from Chicago, along the Fox river come down." Experience does not and everyone else stand together and labor and capital, a target for Any person is at liberty to protest in Illinois. Experts have been generous abuse as well as unlimited praise. As prove this contention. Employers not only maintain the 1921 standards this purchase before entry, or initiate By JAMES J. DAVIS president of the United Mine Workers enough to praise this experiment are not making such promises. We of living and of industry but make a contest at any time bef he has been constantly in the public Secretary of Labor in the higest terms. They have hear some say that prices have already them better as the years go by. The patent issues, filing a corroborated af^ eye and whether one agrees with his fidavit in this office, alleging facts pronounced it riot only a remarkably come down that manufacturers harmony, concord and unity that is beliefs or not no one will deny that which would defeat the entry. Editor's Note.—James J. Davis is successful thing in itself, but a model have reduced th^ir prices and that what he may say on any problem so essential to the future of our known in labor circles throughout the. Witnesses: Charles Mattson, Frank to the rest of the country in sound now confronting American labor will labor ought to do the same. Some country cannot be inspired by a- deflation United States. The mere fact that E. Cusson of Duluth, Minnesota, and be said honestly and with as much education. even go so far as to say that prices of wages and a return to the he was made a member of the President's Benjamin H. Hoyer and John W. Huey force as the man can bring to bear have reached the pre-war level, and, standards of the year 1914. of Virginia, Minnesota. cabinet at a time when the The idea of Mooseheart occurred to on a subject that is his whole life's keenest brains of the nation were unfortunately, they induce some people ROBERT D. BLACKWOOD, me when I was a worker in the iron work. needed to guide its destiny shows in to believe such statements. This mills of Pittsburgh. There I saw Register. itself that he was a man whose opinions Do your Christmas shopping early. encourages some to denounce labor Oct. 27-Dec. 22—Pd. heads of families die and leave their The cruel theory held by a minority must be respected? for fighting to maintain its wage of employers in the United States dependents totally helpless, the children standards. with little or no education and that the worker should be forced to The national system of education driven to work without the slighest labor for the smallest possible wage The fact is that prices of the articles needs reformation. training. Often they were dispersed that can be forced upon him is the that the worker must buy have It has stood still in its fundamentals PAINT so that brothers grew up apart an® theory that has caused the greatest not come* down to the pre-war level. while every other art and science has unknown to each other throughout and bitterest struggles between capital And let us all hope that prices, will advanced. their lives. and labor. never again reach the. pre-war level. The American youth of today is being While the number of such employers Only a few days ago there appeared turned out of schools not fitted What Mooseheart Is FOR EVERY PURPOSE— is small they are largely men who in the daily newspapers an to give his best in the battle that Mposeheart is not an institution. It are in control of the gigantic manufacturing an ever growing complex economic article telling about the "terrific is not a secterian retreat. It is not a Inside and Outside House Paint and producing corporations slump" in prices of the necessities of situation demands. He is being bedecked reformatory. It has no officialdom to of America that give employment to life, and demanding that labor accept with educational "pretties", a rule it. From the first it has been a Automobile Paint scores of thousands. They stand together wage reductions for that reason. And dress uniform that must be cast aside free and untrammeled experiment. In Boat Paint under that dire banner, "Lower on the same day there appeared In to give place to the dull drab of the the first place, Mooseheart is a home Wages and Higher Profits", a slogan the same newspapers an official statement working garb and the time he loses .Mothers are there, so that they need Kalsomine in making that change is a precious that openly asserts their right, from Washington which said not be separated from their children. or might, to seize from both producer that the general average of prices of time of strength and enthusiasm, of Babies have been born there, of expectant and consumer. plastic years that yield too easily the necessities of life throughout the mothers left without aid by We carry the Old Reliable Brands—Minnesota Linseed many times to the fingers of circumstances country still was 60 per cent above less fortunate members of our Order. Force Wages Down These are the men that seek without the average for 1914. Here we still and environment, of ideals This home at Mooseheart is a comfortable Oil Paint Co. and Certain-teed. that may rest, excuse or opportunity to find prices 60 per cent higher than be shattered by the rude little town of homes, cottages, they were before the war, and yet hand of necessity. drive the scale of wages downward offices, school buildings, work shops, Children should be trained to an appreciation regardless of how low that scale may these employers are demanding that a hospital, an auditorium and everything of the finest things in life have fallen through general economic labor stand for a reduction of wages that belongs to a home community. Falls Lumber & Coal Co. to the pre-war level. One fails to but they can never secure those fine conditions and these are the men that The tract consists of more see anything fair in such an attitude things unless they are equipped to expend fight most bitterly the upward trend than 1,000 acres, and the farm that to best advantage every power of wages and are the last to yield to on part of the employers. Organized supplies it with milk and other foods PHONE 81 labor asks only a square deal. nature gave them at birth and America's a pressure that they know will crush is at the same time a model school of educational system today is them if they do not yield. The conditions Not Back Sliders agriculture. In the midst of the place Wage standards were far too low neglecting too many .of those powers of the wage earner, his life, is a lake for water sports and the and feeding'to excess others. happiness and welfare of his family wholesome exercise they promote. are not considered. While America And we-have not forgotten a football We Americans have long been justly may be proud of the fact that these field, a USSeball diamond, and a playing proud of our, free public school system. men are in the minority as employers space for all. We have an orchestra, For the more easy-going life wc and a band of more than. 100 yet it must face the fact that they lived a dozen years ago it did very are in a dominant, commanding position pieces. The students who form these well. Now, it seems to me, our deepest and by the very largeness, ot bodies do not simply scrape and toot fundamental notions of what a and make noise they are under the their operation can and do cause a system of schooling should be are in general depression when ever the)* training of a skilled and inspired instructor, need of a complete reshaping. We can force a lower scale and set an and they play the best of have been sending our children out music and play it well. Some of example whose psychology is bad for into the world to work their way upward, MR. FARMER their fellow employers as well as the the houses and buildings were designed but with blunted tools in their by Mooseheart students, from materials nation of workers. They make their hands. Now they need more accurate shaped in the schools and proposals of lower wages not because fitting for the work they are to do, shops. While the students were about their business is endangered but and we must supply it. because they believe they are in a it. they fashioned ornaments for Life's Real Needs these buildings, as well as blocks and strategic position that will allow them Let us look at the matter more in lath. to "put it over." deta:l. Every year a certain proportion The cry "Deflation of Wages", does School Is Gaining of our children must begin work Even now barely well begun,Mooseheart not come from the great mass of the and leave school at the end of the has grown in the eight years of American public, because the public grammar ge^des. They leave these its life so that 1,034 children, from is aware that deflation of wages grades with the elements of arithmetic. babyhood to young man—and womanhood, would leave industry strangled and geography, history, English and enjoy its advantages. It is impotent. Deflated wages means other languages—hardly much more. distinctly on the make. We are now smaller earning power and smaller Those who are fortunate enough to WHAT KIND OF A DAIRY HERD HAVE YOU NOW? building a village for babies under incomes for the workers. Smaller incomes finish high school have, of course, school age. They receive, in babyhood, means Curtailed buying power. gone much farther into mathematics WHAT KIND WOULD YOU HAVE, IF YOU HAD a care that is scientific and Curtailed buying power means and history and the languages, and practical but yet sympathetic and less demand for the products of farm, USED ONLY GOOD REGISTERED SIRES? into the past and present activities of homelike. At every stage all instltutionalism factory, mill, mine and shop. Less demand the world—what we call cosmogony. is carefully avoided. No means restricted production. But the point I am making is that NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY, AS THEY ARE VERY uniform has been adopted. The children this system of education strikes me as Restricted production means less employment CHEAP. wear individual clothing, and for the workers and a beginning at the end instead of at the when they arrive at a suitable age beginning. All these studies given further shrinkage of their Incomes our children have been useful enough they select their own. At all times and their buying power. The public CO-OPERATE AMONG YOURSELVES AND WE they romp together as a happy family, but except for mathematics and English understands all of this, and the public WILL CO-OPERATE WITH YOU. as much as possible, out of doors in study, they all constitute a training has no desire to bring about the operation the country air and subject to the influences for finer things of life rather of such a vicious and destructive WE WILL LOAN MONEY TO ANY ASSOCIATION, of the natural lovliness about than for life's first practical needs. circle. Let me hasten to say that I am not them. At Mooseheart the rod is Having Hard Time OR GROUP OF FARMERS FOR ONE YEAR, WITHOUT for curtailing in any measure the spared. We /ind it an effective punishment We do not hear the cry for deflated to deprive the misbehaving INTEREST, TO BUY REGISTERED BULLS. training of the very humblest of our wages, from the wage earners themselves, children for enjoyment of the finest of the privilege of going swimming,! for they realize better than things in life. The point is that this or seeing the football and baseball COME IN AND TALK IT OVER OR WRITE US AND anyone else what deflation of wages training should come at the proper games, or the movies. For we regularly would mean to them. They know GET A BOOKLET "CO-OPERATIVE BULL ASSOCIATIONS." time, and that life can mean nothing exhibit moving pictures in the that deflated wages would bring UR^on to him until he has been taught some auditorium, and we are favored witti them hardships, suffering, privation means of earning his livelihood. Our the latest and best. and denial of many of the rea» *1* colleges themselves yearly release to Trades Are Taught necessities of life to just the extent the world great crowds of eager Where we do go far beyond the to which the deflation process might young people highly trained in the public school is in the vocational be carried. It is strikingly manifest appreciation of life's finest things. training that we make compulsory. that the working people of America "M- FIRST NATIONAL -BANK, International Falls, Minn They know the1 great deeds and the The utmost skill is applied in fitting are having a hard enough time to get works of art of the far past. They each child to the trade for .which nature along upon their present wages, without FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Littlefork, Minn. have a deep understanding of natural and his own tastes have adapted subjecting them to the process of and economic law. They have been him. The boys learn carpentry, farming, deflation. FIRST STATE BANK, Big Falls, Minn. taught,,to understand and enjoy life, moulding, machine-work, metalwork, Nor do we hear the cry for deflation and measure the present against the and work in concrete, and the of wages from those business RAY STATE BANK, Ray, Minn. background of the past. But all this like. The girls are taught housework, men from whom the working people is for enjoyment and understanding, stenography, secretarial work, and buy their food, clothing, tools and a it is not training for actual work. kindred pursuits. They know dressmaking other supplies. Reduction of wages Many a college graduate enters the and domestic science. Whether —and that's what deflation means— world wise enough, but actually bewildered as wives, as wage-earners, or as would seriously affect the welfare of and helpless. destined to a. career, girls who Jeaye these business men, for it would reduce Chance for Youth Mooseheart are equipped for mastering the volume of their business. I would not for anything surrender life, for understanding life, and People can spend onlyJas they earn. or curtail the training we should give enjoying it. So are the boys. If you will look around a little you our children in appreciation of the But the point of this, the everlasting will also discover that the demand fine things of life. But long ago It point of it, is that while these for deflation of wage? is not coming struck me that for the safety of the younjr people leave Mooseheart to from the class of employers who give individual and for the safety of the take up life, and while they are a humane thought to the welfare of ,m-m smm-m -xM0 Stit 7 -4^ si*' -A.