INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRES? PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS apple growers in the Concord section special tribute to the wonderful work ing blessings dbwn upon our heads." of the state, are carrying ofr the same and spirit of Minnesota Legion football, We have much to be thankful for.' type of cooperative effort*^?-This basepall, .and basketball, teams. All that we have done, all that we AND BORDER BUDGET briftgs an adequate financial return, He says: "Legion post teams are"introducing are,4s but the beginning. During 1922 is which stimulates the industry into a and advancing football in we must face new tasks, we must overcome H. J. MINER, Editor ad Miu|« rapid growth. Then work of the state towns which otherwise would have no new obstacles, we must work agricultural college and the state department teams, and are thus fostering athletics to build up a still stronger and finer •iterci at the Post Oflcc Imteraatlonal Fall*, Kln^ Seem£Claaa Matter of agriculture in developing and good sportmanship. organization. Our strength lies in our markets and reducing the cos of nearly five hundred Legion posts and "Minnesota teams have tried the experiment SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U.'S., $2.00 FQREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR The Strength of the" Legion marketing has been a large factor in, three hundred Auxiliary units. That ,3* HANFORD MacNIDER with encouraging results. this rapid growth of Massachusetts is where the seed is sown, the good The Elk River Minnesota Legion post, National Commander, Am. Legion Northwestern Advertising farming. New and improved varieties work done, the real spirit of the Legion organizing merely to furnish opposition You are the strength of the American Minnesota Select List are being produced at the ekperiment fostered. lift Exchange Bank 215 South Cth Street for the high school team,) developed Legion. It will be as strong as St. Paul Minneapolis station of the'Massachusetts agricultural you build it. Your work in your o^n to such an extent that by its coaching More than ten thousand officers college and the most recent and practice it gave the school have just been elected to guide our post is just as inportant—more important transported cheaply, and marketed methods of culture and fertilization one of the best teams in the state. five hundred Minnesota Legion posts Foreign Advertising Representative in your own community—than THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION cheaply. The rise of any of these taught at the college and other agricultural Hutchinson, Elmore,. and scores of anything national headquarters can and three hundred Auxiliary units schools of the,state units is instantly ^elt by the other two other Minnesota posts turned out successful during the new year. They will do do. We are your employees pledged YOUNG MAN COME Agricultural Club Work' and, of course by the consumer. teams. their full share, will give generously to follodr our cqnmiands in fighting EA'ST, IS ADVICE Cheap Transportation "The most significant development the battles of the former service men of their time and energy just as their I think one of the finest developments Two of the'requirements,"cheap production and the one which gives great promise and women of America. predessors have done, but they can accomplish in sports in recent years is revealed Massachusetts Executive Claims is the gro\yth of the boys* and girls' and cheap marketing Massachusetts little unless each of our Your national organization has carried in Minnesota by the organization His State Offers Surprise has enjoyed in relation to its agricultural club work over the state. 35,000 Minnesota Legionaires and 25,000 out an effective fight for the disabled of the "Four Star Legion Baseball To Farmers At present over 100,000 boys and girls neighbors and even to those westera veteran. That fight shall be Auxiliary members gives them League", which started last May are engaged in such work, large numbers states whose very existence is agriculture. hearty support and useful cooperation. carried on with all the added strength and played a schedule of fourteen New Agricultural Boom Will Enrich of whom keep- accurate records The third unit, transportation thai, its accomplished, legislation and games per club. The posts in this Those Who Till Bay State and write a report of their work at has become 1110*6 'and ttiore important hard-reined epperience can afford—to baseball league were those represent'ing The slogan of the Legion is ''Service." Soil. the end of' the year." to the marktBtihg and distribution get a square deal for these_men from Fairmont, Jackson, Sherburn, Each one of us must sferve. of foodstuffs, and'there lies the our country, the country they fought Alpha, Lakefield, Heron Lake and Each one of us knows where and how BY CHARLES H. COX THE BLOW TO THE FARMERS advantage to Massachusetts with its for. Brewster—from Martin and Jackson he can serve best. We must go forward. Governor of Massachusetts four million citizens. If Massachusetts •The drive for adjusted compensation counties. The object of the league We will not go back. So let Washington, Jan. 10—(Special Correspondence)—The can produce and market its agriculture opens all along the line. We was frankly set forth as being to promote each of us resolve to do his full share, EDITOR'S NOTE.— Massachusetts wallop Which the as cheaply as communities outside years ago dropped, apparently, from know your commander. We will give clean sport and to teach sportsmanship to render his full quota of service to farmers have received in decreased its borders and then add to that the race for farm production and its them everything we have got and with and furnish amusement. The the Legion and the ideals for which young men left the soil held to be worn prices for their crops is well indicated a reduction in rates through shortage your help we will surely deliver the teams were non-salaried. W. T. it stands, thus building up not only a out for the rich and cheap lands in the by the final estimates of the Department of haul it is a simple problem to solve goods. Payne, who represented Lakefield, Legion of former service men but a west. The lands in the west are no of Agriculture for the crop year to arrive at the decision that Massachusetts No organization in America has ever said: Legion of men and women who are longer cheap and modern farm science 1921. In the first place, the important can undersell its rivals without had such an opportunity for worthy has discovered that the eastern soil is united to serve their God, their country, "A Legion team will see that there farm crops of the United States its borders or enter an active competition not useless while economic experts service to our country, for the upbuilding and those who served loyally at is no crooked work. The main object have pointed the advantages of a this year were valued $5,676,000,000, or with a greater margin of profit of good, clean, constructive home and abroad when danger threatened is to promote interest in the national neighboring market to production. than will be gained by those bearing almost $3,400,000,000 less than last citizenship, as that which lies before our beloved land. game. So the fellow who went over That is why the governor, Charles H. year's crop, and $8,000,000,000 lessthan the overhead of a large freight or the American Legion. Cox is anxious to tell the world that to save those at home simply changed the crops of two years ago. Let us express cost. No man can doubt our right to the farm lands of the old state are MlCKIE SAYS: to another uniform to keep sports look at a few of the items: An investigation by Dr. Arthur W. once more to come into their own and speak for if any man has earned his clean for those at home. The Legion every acre worked means one more unit In 1919 the American farmer produced Gilbert, our commissioner of agriculture, citizenship, if any man has a first lien today has the trained leaders and OSS'. of productiveness to counterbalance 2,858,000,000 bushels of corn gave birth to a report which says upon his country, it is the man who trained athletes of the country. It the commercial slump that followed we. rOQNt 4MESBOH ft* OK, for which he received $3,852,000,000 in in part: has offered his life no man can be should take the lead not only in active the reconstruction period that followed IS* OOGMrtA«6S -OC OtUOt VUOA 1920 the figures were 3,232,000,000 If a man can purchase good farm the war. more interested in its welfare or more sports, but must have a big voice NDJUKTCCD *AN JO® and $2,190,000,000 in 1921, (estimate) land in New England at $15 per acre, jealous of its future integrity and in directing the future development of GOtNTfc OPFttt 1* WOQH RSI 3,081,000,000 and $1,306,000,000. while his western cousin must pay prosperity. half Young Man, .come east. athletics in the United States. The A& VAVJCM AiS *•€*. SW4W*' In 1919 cotton in the amount 'tif^l,421,000 fe.oesr -C &rc una Ptetvxue $150 if by expending reasonable energy Another Legion year is ahead, with Over half a century ago a great man men who saved the country can save vXc.« bales brought $2,031,000,000 in and a comparatively small sum great possibilities for great achievements. gave the opposite advice. The world its sports." "TU* feJRN for fertilization, he can get as much 1920 nearly 13,000,000 "bales brought If we can go before the people of opportunity seemed to rest beyond $903,000,000 in 1921 (estimated) 8,340,000 or more out of the land as the westerner of the United States with every former the Mississippi and the rich lands of The Command is "Forward" bring about $675,000,000. can if, for example, he can get service man and woman behind us, the prairie states waited only the (By ommander Arthur A. Van Dyke, his fruits to the finest market in the Wheat, 934,000,000 bushels in 1919 we can accomplish the things we hav^ drive of the plow to enrich whosoever Minnesota Department.) brought $2,009,000,000 787,000,000 bushels world a day after they are gathered, set out to accomplish. cared to labor. The young men went, We, Legionairres of Minnesota, look in 1920 brought $1,136,000,000 and as against a week, letting his fruit Back it up—put steam" into the organization, went by thousands from Massachusetts back over 1921 with pride in our past ripen on the tree or the bush instead in 1921 (estimated) 797,000,000 bushels that it may have a running alone, and many of them did find achievements and the satisfaction of of in the freight car and, if he can get bring $737,000,000. start to help surmount the obstacles opportunity. As the reports of the work well done. We have seen the it to the consumer for about onefourth Oats, 1,232,000,000 bushels in 1919 upon the way—turn in your 1922 dues wonders of the soil came back east Legion of Minnesota grow in membership, brought $880,000,000 1,526,000,000 the freight charges paid by his right now—get every former service from fertile Iowa, from prodigal Kansas, in spirit, and in service. We western cousin, what must he conclude bushels in 1920 brought $719,782,000 man and woman into the American and even further west, the farms have seen Minnesota forge to the and 1,061,000,000 (estimated) bu$iiels Legion. For, remember, the Legion of the old Bay State fell more and front and take an honored place Re-Building Agriculture in 1921 bring $321,540,000..:.. can only be as strong as you make it. more into the class of "has been,"' the among the leading Legion departments "It is especially important from every These are the major firm You are the strength of the American youth whose strength and ambition of the nation. At Kansas we united to point of view that Massachusetts Other crops show the same tend^cy. Legion—come on, every man Jack was needed to draw the* best from the secure for the Legion a great national 'and NewN England agriculture should In eafcfy case, except cottony a^lajjgqr of you"on the job, let's go! earth had gone on, the hired labor commander who in a few short be immediately rebuilt. Within 300 acreage was worked in 1921 thaif- in that replaced it was indifferent and weeks has proven himself to the nation miles of Boston are nearly 25,000,000 1920, cotton being cut down about careless. The production fell lower "Touchdown, Legion" as we of the great northwest already people, about one-foUrth of the population 4,000,000 acres. The year 1920 Jty.as and lower, the soil each year seemed In an article entitled "Touchdown, knew him. During 1921 we of the United States. Massachusetts one of the hardest years the. farmer. f(fr more stubborn and unyielding. The ^Legion" in. the current issue of the have seen grow up^around us a united at present is not able to and 1921 was not much better. farms that bloomed in beauty and American Legion Weekly, Hugh Fullerton, band of noble patriotic women whose grow food enough to feed the people "Xhe complaint against the Federal richness in the days following the famous sport writer, pays good work as our Auxiliary is bring­ of Boston alone. Reserve Board is not that it Revolution passed on into poorly "The Cape Cod strawberry growers 'deflated', but that it undertook to E planted, poorly worked areas that formed an association in 1915 and they accomplish the natural deflation "of a were a drug on the market and Massachusetts now have afeout one hundred members. generation in nine months", declares became more and more a the Manufacturers Record (published These men pool their orders in manufacturing state. Johnson's the purchase of fertilizers, baskets, in Baltimore, Md.) of December 29, During the late war the labor demands in a masterly editorial on the subject etc., and by proper sorting and other from factories forced upward PRICES This will be modern marketing methods receive and, in another place: "It is important the wage scale until the fafm lands AND about ten vcents per box more than to understand, of course, that the still occupied were drained of every one of the they formerly received for their berries. Federal Reserve Board did not merely sort of labor and agriculture in Massachusetts QUALITY Finest Ladies' This has encouraged a much raise rediscount rates. It pa^^d was. almost a lost art. POPULAR PRICE STORE larger planting and leads to a flourishing the word along to get government MEET and Misses' Nearly 4,000,000 people lived within Bemidji's Garment Shop industry. bonds out of the banks and it forced its borders and those 4,000,000 depended Garment Shops AT a drastic restriction of credit. The "Only one variety of the berry is and still do depend to a large extent JOHNSON'S in the State grown. It is called Echo, and seems evidence is complete as to the fact. on produce raised within the "ALWAYS BUSY" peculiarly well adapted to Cape conditions. Men were compelled to sell their borders. Less than 5 per cent of the The berries afe brought to products, market or no market arid population are engaged in farming industries. Announcement the railroad station where the agent the farms of the nation, from, ocean Wealth from the state's to ocean, were forced to bear' the takes charge of them, giving each man fisheries continues to pour in. The burden of a universal sheriff's sale." a ticket or slip by which a record ofhis annual fish stock received each year shipment is kept. If the berries There is where part of the blame at the docks runs from' 250,000,000 to lay for the misfortune of the farmers. are to be shipvped very far special iced 300,000,000 pounds. With nearly three cars are used. The cost of the ice has And the Federal Reserve Board ipiembers .billions of dollors invested in its factories who brought it about were of WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT been much reduced through the association's and nearly a billion of dollars the Wilson^ picking. When Chairman work. Formerly "the growers paid in wages each year, there is no Cordell Hull attempts to fix the had to pay thirty-five cents a crate for lack of cash with which to purchase having the berries carted from the blame op the Republican administration On, or about, February 10th we will open a Ladies' and Misses' Garment Shop. This the product of the farm the question station in Boston to the market district. he forgets the facts and credits is, shall that money remain in the state store wilt-be known as the "Always Busy" Store. Thousands upon thousands of dollars the farmers with memories shorter This cost has been reduced to to be respent at the doors of the manufacturer than th% prices they received after eight cents a crate, in itself a material or shall it go forth and return worth of fresh, new, stylish, crisp Garments will be shown there will be no two Gar­ the Democratic Reserve Board had saving. only in part? ments alike. Styles and Quality will reign supreme at all times. Satisfaction will be squeezed them. Thi brings us to the importance of Growers' Associations cheap food in the development of an "The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' our first, last and infinite aim. THIS MIGHT APPLY industrial community. Food to be Association, the onion and tobacco TO INTERNATIONAL FALLS cheap must be produced cheaply, growers of the Connecticut valley, the HERE IS AN INDEX OF THE MERCHANDISE THAT WILL BE HANDLED As has been previously and often stated in the columns of the Enterprise, FAMOUS SURGE0N_6ETS 0. S. UdNSfi the business man who sends, LADIES' AND MISSES' JUST away from his home town for his printing cannot consistently-complain 5c if the buying public follow his example COATS BEADS ONE and send elsewhere for their supplies. SKIRTS PURSES .'a HONEST The "Trade aft Home" idea is the GOWNS MILLINERY only one which" can bring to Humboldt county the full measure of prosperity NAME APRONS NECKWEAR to which it is justly entitled, HOSIERY BATHROBES and it applies in exactly the same degree SERVING to every bank, mercantile establishment, DRESSES FUR CHOKERS creamery corporation, lumbering BLOUSES concern and business of every OBLIGING SILK NEGLIGEE description that it does to the citizen KIMONOS 'HOUSE DRESSES in purchasing supplies for the NEIGHBORLY home.—Fern dale (Calif.) Enterprise. BLOOMERS HANDKERCHIEFS PETTICOATS ETC. ETC. ETC. BOOK SALE AT LIBRARY UNDERWEAR ETC. ETC. ETC. -J The public Library "will have a sale of bodes rummage on Friday and TWO STORES TWO STORES Saturday, 3an. 13th aod^l4th^ Same Certain pfiystcians mace it hot for Ur Lmrnt, tU yin^r, bf most the interestingbooks the •bloodless", surgeon in the world, when he cime td America mm AM BEMIDJI GRAND FORKS BEMIDJI AND GRAND FORKS lo neat little children suffering from hip disease. They saijd h« had ito library will be on sale because they liccnse to practice. Finally. New York state issued one to him. and ifir wear onlthe soonest prices 10,15 and him with the important document, in picture |hows hand ].. 'i: ^rlr