PRESS INTERNATIONAL tion not to buy. Economy is wise POEM BY UNCLE JOHN, Another case in point is the oil in- burial place of Sir of buying necessities, and it is well dustry of California,' which has been the architect of the great edifice. Upon also to have a pretty clear idea of Back First Line. AND BORDER BUDGET since late in 1917 a brilliant example it is this inscription in Latin—"If what necessities consist. A new talking Backward, turn backward, O time if you would see his monument look of what conciliation can accomplish machine record to bring relief your flight,—I am as blue as they H* J. MINER, Editor ami Manager for permanent industrial peace, where about ybu." The same inscription from monotony on the farm is a better make 'em tonight. ... I have been', 1 nearly 20.000 contented workers and might be written of the dollar which investment than a doctor's bill incurred blessed with aa appetite rare, equal litered at the Pnst OJBce at Iateraattonal Fall*, Mian., Seeoad-Claaa Matter many satisfied operators have had no you, and you, and you, have entrusted as the result o'f shattered to that of a cinnamon bear. Now, I'mlopsided, to your insurance company as a protection troubles that were not speedily and nerves. Naturally the government's dyspeptic, and lank, living SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR fairly settled by a "Commissioner of for the future. If you would aim is the investment of the public on stuff that has made me a crank.— rr. see that dollar, you have only to look Conciliation" accepted b^ both interests money in government securities, undoubtedly O, for some gravy like Ma used to Northwestern Advertising .Representatives as the final referee in all grievances about you. It is not lying idle in the safest in the world, but make,—Pass me the steak, brother, Minnesota Select List- some vault far away it is invested submitted. This official designated there is a business side of spending pass me the steak! 799 Exchange Banlc- 215 ~Souih/Cth Street "Federal Oil Adjuster" has and at work close at hand. SLPibl Minneapolis as well as of saving that must taken When I hark back to the smokehouse handed down over 300 decisions— Dollars Work. into consideration. The merchants of of yore, foaded with goodies at rorcijjn Foreign^ Advertising nav.rriismK Representative^ You pick up the telephone receiver from a managerial standpoint, of our some affecting^a few and some many this town, as well as those of everv from exit to door. Think of the THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION great business enterprises1—many 2nd workers and companies, every decision and are connected with a friend in other town, must be kept busy. If pantry, and spring-house, and cave, being cheerfully accepted. Production another part of your city It is a MAKINCT MAN AND complex are the agreements' iti existence our people are to have the convenience bursting with viands an angel might MANAGER FRIENDS between the workers and the was thus augmented—wages miracle that would amaze us more if of home town purchasing, then crave.—Now I front up to some vulcanized it were not so common. Your insurance employers. Agreements in modern industry for various gradations were specified, the people must keep the goods moving meat, doped' and embalmed dollar has helped to work that in America are generally for a working conditions were vastly imp^ved^and off the shelves of the merchants. till it ain't fit to eat. O, for some Government Conciliation Head Outlines stated period. Contractual relations all interests benefited in miracle. For the telephone system There is no loss, no waste in hom^ corn-bread, and hog-jowl and greens— Work, of Department in consequence. has been constructed by the proceeds between .employer and^employee are town buying because the money circulates Pass me the beans, brother, pass me Settling Labor Disputes. for the jnost part religiously lived up In the great Packing House industry of telephone bonds—and millions of in our own territory, andeventually the bans. ... 1 dollars of insurance money are invested to by both the worker and his employer. of Chicago and at many outlying gets back to the purchaser. Once we ate hominy, finer than Council Table Held to Be Modern The American working man has places throughout the United States, in these and other utility It is only when money is taken out silk. Now, it's ground, corn-stalks Place for Ironing Out. since 1917 no strikes of any grave bonds. developed into the most efficient of town that the harm is felt. Thrift with1 rack€t-store iyiilk,—Stuff that was You step into a train in New York worker in the world, and his daily output concern .have been recorded.. It is should be encouraged, but thrift does never inside of a cow—made out of .Council Table Held tb Be Logical End eat dinner, go to bed, and wake up in on the average exceeds that of true a few incipient 'or sporadic not mean no buying. Russell Sage, whitewash, the devil knows how! I of Misunderstandings Rising in Industrial Buffalo. Another miracle—and again the worker of any other country. The strikes of little consequence have occurred who left millions, was thrifty. He have grown weary of "crispies" and World. American manufacturer has developed which were of short duration. the insurance dollar has helped. For bought his straw hats in the winter "flakes"—copyright wafers and patented BY HUGH L. KERWIN, into the most wonderful genius the railroads could never have stretched Through the agency created by time and his flannel underwear in tfie cakes,—factory-made fodder (Director United States Conciliation their tracks across the continent in world industry, and surely with this the Department of Labor, Judge Alschuler summer time, when prices were down, that ain't worth a damn! Pass me the Service, Department of Labor.) combination it would seem that a was selected as. the administrator, except by the sale of railroad bonds. but even then he bought what he ham, brother, pass me the ham! And the insurance companies are community of interest should obtain and he not only has stabilized needed'. Healthy home trade will do Your Own Uncle John. Editor's Note.—Hugh L. Kerwin is that would make for unbroken and the industry, but has maintained large investors in those bonds. more than anything else to restore the director of the United States Conciliation You pass a beautiful pa£k or a fine profitable employment and for peace peace and continuous operation and sound prosperity. We are all in the Service,,a phase of*the work in American business. made it plain to all that there is a public school—they too are built by same boat. We cannot be prosperous Subscribe for THE PRESS. of the Department of Labor. His division bonds—municipal bonds—an investment All the latest local sad personal better way of settling disputes and at the expense of our local merchants, The Big Problem. comment. $ZM Per Year. has officiated in nearly 5,000 grievances than striking the plant or which is heavily owned by insurance and we don't want to be. The great problem comes after production—a industrial disputes brought to the government companies. You pass a row plants involved. division of that which hasbeen for settlement. He holds that To accomplish this great achiever of^ houses, each the home of a family produced. There arise differences man and manager can be friends and ment has entailed upon Judge Alschuler that is paying a few dollars a month of opinion between employer in complete sympathy if they will take a tremendous amount of work on and looking forward to the day when and employe contention as to wages the trouble to consider the problems minor grievances, eytensive hearings it can call that home its own.. Who hours of mployment, -grievance committes, of one another around the council furnished the money to erect this on general issues—but the net result, conditions of labor, bargain-, board. home, and took a mortgage as security? steady employment, stabilized ing, and many others. Now instead Very likely an insurance company—another production and general satisfaction is of precipitating strikes or lockouts The question of the relationship between certainly worth while. place where your dollars why not sit down like sensible business are at work. the employer and employee is The solution of the industrial problem men around a council table and Nothing more or less than the question lies not in carrying on the ageold Even on Farms. lu in(a spirit of understanding and goodwill of man's relationship to man, battle between employer and employe And farms—here your millions have settle the wage and other diffe rencs and as far back as history records the been at work, also. Thousands upon as though they were hostile faction^ on as nearly as equitable basis worker and the man for whom he with irreconcilable interests, but thousands of aeres have been planted, as the industry will permit. This is buildings have been improved and life works have been troubled in arriving in recognizing the fact that capital the conciliation way—this is the common at a solution of this greatest of all made happier because your savings and labor have common interests, sense way. economic problems. have been at work in the shape of each depending upon the welfare of It is conceded that independent arbitration In the early days of our Republic, the other. farm mortgage loans. commissions, shop commit So the story might be carried on indefinitely when industry was in a formative tees, adjustment boards and joint stage and the population for the/most but enough has been said, INSURANCE DOLLAR bodies representative of the workers part located within confines of whkt perhaps, to give you a^ little" picture PUTS ON OVERALLS and management have been valuable is now but a small portion of our, present of the multitude of activities which aids in makirip for peace and industry.. domain, labor troubles were few President of Insurance Company are being made possible through the This may be said also1of scores and far between, the reaspn, ibeing Tells of What Is Done With wise investment of your insurance of plans proposed for bringing closer that our industrial enterprises in Enormous Incomes. savings. Your insurance dollar is not together the manager and workers. those days consisted all together of a proud aristocrat, snobbishly living But after all is said and done, the "As Little Children small shops or factories under the It's Activities Reflected in All W^lks an idle lif. Rather it is a worker in 99 best method so far devised^is that of. personal supervision and management of Life and in All Business Activity. overalls, helping to build and maintain conciliation. Conciliation, in the adjustment of the owner. On the other hand mechanics the most vital institutions of modern of industrial disputes lays employed at these establishments BY FORREST DRYDEN, life. W down no hard and fast rules for the ISDOM for the ages was in every utterance were generally workers skilled President Prudential Insurance Co., It is paid for its work in interest guidance of the parties to the dispute. of the Galilean Prophet. But the in their trade or calling and able to of America. or dividends, of course, as is perfectly It meets the situation' face to one brought home most to all o£ us is perform all or any part of the work proper and right. And the interest Editor's Note. Forrest Dryden, face, and by advice and suggestions the admonition to accept the Truth of in the building or whatsoever the dollars and dividend dollars are put president of' the Prudential Insurance garnered by the conciliators from previous Life "as a, little child." plant turned out. From the tree in to work in their turn—a constantly Company of America is Widely known experiences and situations he Every week in International Falls Sunday the woods on through the various increasing army of dollar workers, throughout the insurance land banking proves his competency by being able Schools it is clearly shown how we. stages until the wood in the tree came adding to the security behind your world. His own company is one of the delicately to meet and handle each might all [profit if we would but accept out through the doors of the little insurance policy and reducting its greatest financial institutions in the delicate situation as it arises, during life as it is meant for us. shop or factory in the form of a wagon, cost to you,. world. His explanation of what is the process of negotiations. The ni^e Our children attend Suijday School, accepting every man who had to do with its So if you would look for your insurance done with the millions that pour into thing about settlement of industrial manufacture had contributed his part the inspired word as it is taught dollar—look about you. the insurance company's each year is disputes through conciliation is that questioning not nor indulging in petty in the making of every part of the, an enlighting article that gives to the at the conclusion neither party feels personalities about persons, cults or wagon, and the essential thing—the public a new conception of insurance DRIVING THE LESSON HOME. aggrieved. They have been btought creeds. fine spirit that existed between the and its results. together and have been advised by an employer and employee grew out of That is what we all need. To attend More clearly each day is big business impartial third party who has no power oua* churches with all the strifes of life the fact that the owner of the plant coming to see that relief must Stand some morning in the office other than one suggestive and advisory. erased with consciousness open to the worked side by side with his workers, be quickly given to the farmer if of a large life- insurance company They have taken up one by knew all of his people, and thereby good that is in evetrything willing to accept general trade is to be saved tQ the when the mail is opened. See th.e one the matters in dispute they have the inspiration which will make us contributed that personal touch which nation. Reports from five states great stacks of letters brought in and come to an understanding and reached in later years has been lost to American a better man or woman—ia-11 through the show an unprecedented number 'of emptied on the receiving tables, and industry. As our population increased an agreement, and every one connected six days to come. telephones discontinued by farmers let your imagination busy itself with with this council table procedure Then and then only will the Church with its increasing demand because they can no longer afford the the stories that lie behind these envelopes. for the output from mill and factory, feels that he has had a part in the fill its proper office in this community. Here is a money, order from cost of the convenience Still another agreement because it is based on understanding'and The lesson is plain. Let's all accept our both for the use of our own people reflex action is the heavy slump in ja cross-roads post office—only a few good Christianity "as little children." and for export trade, these industries faith. dollars yet a husband and wife had the automobile market. To the unthinking grew—slowly at first* it is true—but Let's go to Church your Church Some Statistics. it may be a far cry from the sacrificed for a month«to purchase the in later yars with a rapidity which —this Sunday—and with an open heart "•To prove conclusively that conciliation protection it represents. Here is a motor car to the tiller of the soil, but made necessary a complete revolution which will radiate true brotherly feeling is effective, the United States Department check for thousands—a great corporation the fact is that farmers and dwellers "3. to every fellow townsman. in their conduct and management. of Labor has since March has insured the life of its president. in small towns absorb the majority With the American inventive genius 1913, through its division of conciliation, in order that the business may of automobiles manufactured in this continuously at work perfecting machines utilized the good offices of its be protected in the event of his loss. country. Conditions on the farms are to simplify and increase the commissioners of conciliation in nearly Stiff, formal envelopes, and poor, now such that the old gray mare is output in all branches of industry 4,800 industrial disputs involving shabby envelopes—some addressed in being dragged into service and the there came the specialist—the worker dire9tly and indirectly over 7,400,000 typewriting, 'some in ink, some with "buzz wagon" set aside for future who is now forced, for reasons of increased workers. During that period they lead pencil in letters hardly legible— use, or sacrificed for ready cash. The production, to confine his labor have been unable to adjust but a few At: but everyone a magnificent testimony price of gasoline is a factor now seriously Feature Articles to making a particular part of the •J. more than 400 of the cases presented. to human faith. For the people from considered by the farmer who wagon or other product of the plant As an outstanding -example of what whom these envelopes come have in prosperous times is a liberal and un^l the finished article in later WitS'. can be and has been accomplished never seen the office of the insurance healthy spender. And so run reports :vWV'- years is the combined effort of scores aloAg the lines of conciliation in industry company nor met its officers they are all down the line. The farmers, their Written Expcessly For The International Falls Press of workers, each making, the small by an impartial government entrusting the dearest thing in the wives, sons and daughters .are exercising parts, perhaps in plants situated many •0 agency, the copper industry may be world—the, protection their wives of economy in clothing the talking These are Big, Vigorous, Vital Messages, Inspiring, miles apart, these uhits being brought cited: and children—to men whose names machine has been hard hit indeed, together and assembled into the completed Educative and Sensational. In 1917 the President's Mediation even are almost unknown to £hem. the farmer of his hardearned stripping prddiict. Commission and the Department of We have the Exclusive Right of Publication of These Surely there is no more solemn trust dollar is fast creating a condition The Personal Touch. Labor set up in Arizona machinery to I than this. pity the insurance man, that is felt seriously by hundreds Articles in This Community. The personal touch which contributed adjust any dispute that might arise. no matter how familiar the sight may of industries and now even in towards the fine feeling between A commissioner of conciliation of the Articles In This Issue be to him, who can watch the morning the halls of finance. Irrespective of the worker and his employer is no Department of Labor was selected and mail being opened without feeling geographical location, regardless of "INSURANCE DOLLAR PUTS ON OVERALLS" longer possible. Great manufacturing named "Administrator" with an agreement a renewed and deepened sense of obligation whether they are merchants, manufacturers, By Forrest Dryden, President Prudeaftial Ii plants with thousands of workers, between the owners and work- at this vast, silent, ritual of depend on the weekly pay or Co., of America. with managers, superintendents, and e^s accept his decision as final in a Confidence and Faith. envelope, it will" not be long before foremen, have destroyed the spirit of dispute, and further that strikes or "MAKING MAN AND MANAGER FRIENDS" Where the Money Goes. the people recognize the fact that the association which obtaind in the past. lockouts were prohibited during the By Hush L. Kerwin, Director United States Conciliation Now what becomes of these mil-, so-called agricultural bloc is not an Associations of manufacturers and life of the agreement. Service, Department of Labor. lions tjiat are sent to the insurance agricultural bloc at all—that it is an trade unions, increasing as the years After 4 years we find that since the companies from families allOover the I American bloc, the first tangible evidence go on, present new problems to be -j—Next Week creation of this plan Only 2 or 3 world Are they kept piled up in of the awakening of the American solved, such as wages, hours of service, strikes of minor importance havei been banks? Some of them are for sound people to the necessity of guarding output, and many others too numerous reported, and these were settled in' a "ALASKA LITTLE KNOWN TO NATION" 1 insurance practice dictates that the .the parent pf prosperity—the to mention. By Scott C. Bone, Governor of Alaska. very few hours. An unusual feature company shall, always have a large farmer. 'V*"'iv a'J:& of Many the present day employers of this solution developed after the Si No reserve in cash. one knows when object to and will not deal with labor Armistice, pr in February 1919, when "WASHINGTON TO BECOME LEADER"— a catastrophe or art' epidemic may BUY, BUT BUY WISELY. unions others recognize deal and in the face of a tremendous surplus V- By Governor Louis F. Hart of Washington. come, making .thousands of families with trade unions, while still others of copper on hand and a restricted suddenly dependent—the insurance While ^governmentlA"propl^ancla :h• though having no direct dealings with Ms irarket, the employes without question be always prepared. company must aimed at establishing economy among Watch for these articles -written by the nation's unionized workers yet have no objections accepted a decision which meant But what of the rest—the millions the people is all .right as far as it their .workers affiliating to leaders. They will appear in every issue of the In- .V a reduction of $1 per day in wages and millions which win not te spelled goes, the peopled will do well to remember with such unions. All sorts of conditions ternational Falls Press during the coming yea and prevented a general 'suspension by the piblicyholders for y^irs there is. a wide difference ar« with _in the' conduct, met of the £jn St. Paul's Cathedral 1 iSfe'SasHi jh1