V-V if fh *&&%*'?* sp? •V* J^-V & **-t-*-- ti- V. fl? -f fT '8c5 -m THE INTERHATIONAL FALLS PRE1SS S'J ROADTO LOWER E day? Unless he can sell it to large ,THE BEST SCHOOL AMERICA'S GREATEST ASSET numbers_of people, he cannot make it in- large enough quantities to turn it At the recent meeting of the M. E. A. one of the speakers said out at a marketable price. He-is faced that the school must do what the church and home used to do, but witlrthe problem of distribution. which they are failing to do now—giving the boys arid girls the necessary training in ethics and morality. 3Mr. A's first step is to hire and put No Class Linos in America, Says all* kinds relating to the life of the HEAD OF WORLD'S GREATEST on the road a number of salesmen. Whether the church is failing in this direction or not, is not municipality. £iW Samuel Gompers vV Ji.: "AD* FIRMS REVIEWS DISTRIBUTION Mr. A s£eks to lower his manufacturing now the question. But the school cannot take over what the home Interactional Scope COSTS N" should do and what it must do in the way of preparing boys and sost per unit by widening his market Declares Unions Keep Standard of In addtion to these representative and increasing ljis sales. Through girls for life. Nothing can take the place of the home as the fundamental Workers on Plane of Self ..community organizations, there are ADVERTISING IMPORTANT TO if*- his salesmen he will try to get his product and primary educational force in the nation. The lessons Respect. national and international unions. EVERY MAN'S EVERY DAY in the hands of the jobbers or taught here may not be from books, but many a man and woman are Most American unions have adopted LIFE AND EXPENSES sustained in goodness today by recollection of the principles instilled wholesalers, each of whom sells the Activities of A. L. Outlined and the term "international" because their product in turn to the string of retailers in their minds at mother's knee. Mother might not have been able Policies Explained by extends into Canada and membership By Stanley Resor with whom he has built up a to pass a primary grade examination in some subjects, but she was Aged Leader Mexico. National and international When you walk into a store today master of the simple lore of goodness and of truth. trade in somewhat similar lines of unions are formed by uniting 'all of and spend a dollar for an article, you merchandise. But with the wholesaler Our age is afflicted with new cults and new organizations of one By SAMUEL GOMPERS the local unions in a given trade.. are spending 49 cents—practically onehalf—to kind and another. Would, that the force so often misspent on them and with the retailer Mr. A runs Comparing the trade-ynion movement President of the American Federation cover the cost of getting that were concentrated on the strengthening and establishing of the home against two bad stumbling blocks, and of Labor with our political structure, the article from the manufacturer to the life. he finds that he is spending a good national and international unions really Editor's Note.—No man in the world shelf of the retail store. In other School and church have their proper and essential places, but deal of money without getting the results correspond to the departments of today stands so high in the esteem words, only one-half of the retail the churches and the schools are not backed' up by home influences he expected. The wholesaler if of labor as does Samuel .Gompers, government. The American Federation price you pay for a product covers the and no man Is given more respect by that make for righteousness and purity, churches and schools will cannot push his product neither can of Labor is, as its name implies, a manufacturing the other half cost of the employers, for while the latter find themselves helpless to stem the rising tide of immorality and the retailer. They both have thousands federation—a federation of unions goes to cover the cost of distribution. "were opposed to the organizations he lawlessness. of articles on their shelves corresponding to the federation of represents, they have admitted he At first glance, this high percentage they cannot afford to concentrate on The home is the best school for character. There is no other states. It is an affiliation of national was honest, fair and open to reason of cost marked against distribution substitute. any one. Mr. A has obtained a certain as well as being a clean 'fighter for and interenational unions. In its annual seems to be out of all proportion to the rights he believed due his followers. amount of distribution but he has conventions, these national and the cost of manufacturing. But this is He knows the ideals, the aims THE FARMERS' UNION not completed the circle he has not international unions are entitled to only half true. Our problem is not to and the strength of unionism^ as no yet reached the most important, buyer vote in proportion to their membership other man does. find better methods but to trim down of all—the consumer. As a natural result of the fifteen hundred farm bureaus in the on which they pay per capita tax and improve our present methods. Let United States there has emerged the American Farm Bureau Federation, to the American Federation of Labor. Needs a New Force us bear this in mind large scale production America has no peasantry. organizing the farmer along sane and constructive lines for In addition, each city central body, by machinery is of very present Some new force must be brought to America has no class set apart, collective effort. each state federation and each of the bear to get a sufficient distribution to definitely classified as being apart and, origin and that in effecting great The great objective of the new union of farmers, for such it five departments of the American economies on the one hand, on the reduce the percentage of selling cost irrevocably fixed as apart from the really is, is the determination-to secure better marketing facilities, Federation of Labor—mine, metal other it has introduced new elements and at the same time to gain the recognition great mass of her people. America hat this and other aims will be achieved, there is not much question, trades, building trades, union label of the consumer. has no class from which it is impos-sible which simply on account of their immaturity considering the farmer's numerical strength and sane leadership, a trades and railroad employees' department are more expensive than they to merge. Mr. A. cannot tell people by word of guarantee against the^ vagaries and inefficiency that have made the are entitled to one delegate. be. America is distinguished throughout should mouth about his product, but he finds Non-partisan leadership in North Dakota a hissing and a by-word. Many persons think that the American the world by the high standard of living this needed force in the publication of Distribution Problem Conditions for the farmer must be improved. The boys growing Federation of Labor is an organization which the masses of her people Distribution is the biggest and most the country more than 25,000— up in the country and facing conditions as they are today will desert of great power. In a most important enjoy. The comparison is sharp and through which a manufacturer of an important of these new elements. So the country, if the farmer is not given a square deal. sense this is true, but in the distinct. article of general consumption can long as our manufacturing methods .He will get this, without prejudice to other interests demanding sense in which it is understood by For this, the American trade union reach exactly the buyers he wants, in continue to develop along their present equitable treatment, not through the hybrid Farmer~Labor party, many of labor's critics, it is without (movement is primarily responsible. lines, distribution costs can never the cities and states where he is best whose men are without exception unfit to solve the very problems truth. The great power of the American America has no poletariat as Europe be eliminated. Machinery reduces able to sell his products, at just the they profess to be able to solve. Adjustments need! to be made, but Federation of Labor is the power knows the poletariat. time of year when he realizes there is manufacturing costs by reducing the they will be made for the farmers by men who, themselves farmers, of moral suasion. It is the united In the beginning, this was because the greatest likelihood of arousing interest. amount of human labor and undoubtedly know conditions and who also know that to remedy these conditions opinion of four million organized of the manner in which our ,country Moreover, these buyers can distribution is composed of certain it is not necessary to resort to remedies more desperate than the wage earners that has weight and was settled and because of its boundless be reached week after week, and year units which may accomplish similar disease. power. natural resources. It has remained results. One of the great problems after year, for only a few cents each. The way out is not through the stirring up of class hatred and The American Federation of Labor so primarily because of the today is to recognize clearly Through this powerful medium, Mr. suspicion, but by following the reasonable, scientific and judicious has no power of compulsion either trade-union movement. these units and to use them to the A is able to increase the volume of his program of action conceived by the Farm Bureau Federatioii. over its own affiliated membership or For this, if for no other service, the best advantage. output and thus cut his sales expenses. those outside its membership. It is trade-uniota movements of the United In order to obtain a better insight SPENDING MILLIONS FOR ROADS Instead of the wholesaler having to believed by many that the American States is entitled to be ranked as one into the problem of reducing distribution sell the retailer and the retailer in Federation of Labor orders strikes. of the country's greatest assets, if not, costs, let us go back and trace •urn having to sell the consumer, the While the calamity howlers, are enjoying themselves in other This is not the case. The American indeed, as the greatest asset of all. briefly the processes by which we arrived process begins to work in the opposite parts of the country, the south is making strides in seven-league Federation of Labor cannot order The growth of the trade-union at our present methods of manufacturing direction—the consumer is persuaded boots, laying the surest foundation for future development—good even one person to Cease work. The movement has substantially paralleled and selling and attempt to roads. to ask for the product, and the statement that the American Federation the growth of the machine or factory place the exact relationship between distribution from manufacturer to North Carolina has voted $75,000,000, Alabama $5,000,000. of Labor has no power of compulsion system. With the coming of the two. dealer to retailer is turned almost into Carolina is trying to get through an expenditure of $50,- is absolute. There is is no qualification steam and the subsequent coming of Because our own lives have not also 000,000 for road work. an automatic operation. whatever. It can say, through electricity and the use of these agencies spanned the whole period between Florida tackled the job by counties. Hillsboro county voted Morevore, through these 25,000 publications, its conventions, or through its executive of^. power in the development of homespun cloth and the automobile $3,000,000. Duval county voted $3,000,000, and now enterprising business the news of the new product council and its officers that certain factory life, the tendency of industry we sometimes forget that industry has men are asking $5,000,000 to build roads and link up the county travels rapidly the demand is increased policies or certain courses of conduct was to concentrate populations In system. not merely grown in extent but also manufacturing can be done on a are advisable, but only as there small areas and the tendency of employers has become an essentially different larger and larger scale costly peaks .oo^n.essee is v^tin& on $75,000,000 bond issue, and has spent is general unity of opinion and the was to keep thes^e concentrated thing. Once an article was made complete $883,000 in the last few months. and depressions are stopped and the moral force of that unity of opinion is populations, so far as possible, at a on the farm or in the town where Georgia increased its funds $780,000. Kentucky has contracts factory is able to produce a steady there any actual power to compel compliance. •mere subsistence level of wages. it was to be used, perhaps by the very estimated at $900,000. Louisiana $932,000 and Mississippi $844,000. output manufacturing costs are lowered I Unions Hit Class one who was to use it. Listen to the Good roads spell prosperity in capital letters. The trivial amount still further. And so the cycle of EX-REPRESENTATIVE But for the trade-union movement words of Darius Milton Raymond, of extra taxation involved is not worthy of consideration spread out cause and effect go$s on reducing entering into modern inudstrial life, who died in Reading Center, N. Y., as it always is over so many years. costs and widening the market ^ombating the ever present tendency two years ago, at the ripe old age of DIES III THIS CITY It would be well if the town and village officials in every community Advertising is still young, much ,!f employrs toward a mere subsistence ninety-seven years. In his youth, as were to get an inspiration from what the southern counties and younger than manufacturing by ma wage, combating their tendency his biography is told, farmers "killed states are doing, and begin local road improvement. chinery, younger than distribution, to retain the long employment day and dressed their own cattle and mogs Certainly wisdom calls for local authorities to ask a half dozen but more and more we are recogniz ALFRED SETTERLUND, LONGTIME that had obtained prior to the development had the skins tanned and their of the most intelligent and interested citizens to act as a planning ing that advertising bears the same relation of factory-life, America would RESIDENT, DEAD AT shoes made from the material of their commission whose duty it shall be to study the local situation and to' to selling that machinery does SEVENTH STREET HOME have had a class as distinctly marked own production. They raised flax lay plans and make recommendations for road development. Once to production. It is the item to which apart from the rest of society as any spun and wove it into cloth, the people see what improved streets will do for them and learn how we must look to reduce distribution Alfred Setterlund, aged 73, passed European country. which they fashioned into clothing in they can be financed with slight burden they will get behind the costs all along the line. away shortly after 11 o'clock Tuesday The idea obtains to some extent their own homes." Window glass was movement. Every foot of improved street is an insurance policy morning at his home on Seventh that trade unions are merely organizations almost unknown. The news of the guaranteeing the increased value of farms, real estate and business. OXFORD CONSIDERING street. The old gentleman had been of aggression, that they are election of Lincoln as president arrived COURSES FOR MIDDLEAGED failing in health for some time and for something in the nature of predatory HOW TO BUY WORLD PEACE six weeks after election days. the past three years has been totally bands formed to secure for their STUDENTS Today a man's work is limited not blind and practically helpless. members such temporary advantages merely to making, let us say, shoes, The Japs and the Germans glory in war. They teach their sons Mr. Setterlund was born at Karlsrad, as may be possible, no matter what (By Associated Press) but to performing one or two operations that the noblest deed in life is to die in battle. Every American Sweden, on March 24, 1849, and the cost to employers or to society. London, Nov^ 7—Jolly old chappies in the process. With the aid of mother believes, however, that service is greater than sacrifice. She immigrated to this country at the age Of course, those who out of shortsightedness of four-score years and ten, frolicing machinery this high degree of specialization believes in sacrifice when sacrifice is the last service, her son can of 16 years, going directly to Duluth, oppose the trade union on the Oxford playing fields, and doddering has reduced the actual labor of render. But she would have him so serve that he would not be where he resided for a number of movement seek always to spread this septuagenarians lolling in cushioned making a product to a mere fraction called upon to make the supreme sacrifice. years. false impression. punts on the upper reaches of of what it once was. By falsifying a telegram the German Bismark forced a wholly He was united in marriage with The truth is that no organization in the Thames, may become realities if During the youth of Mr. Raymond, unwarranted war of conquest upon France. Ever since that crusade Anna Hanson at New London, Wis., America is broader in its outlook or the plan for the entry of the old as a family produced most of its necessities of conquest Germny busily prepared for "Der Tag," when she would in 1873. attempts to more intelligently understand well as the young to the famous English and the things they did not produce rule the world. Austria, Russia and Italy were to be her quick assets. In 1877 he returned to Minnesota the general needs of our society university 4s carried out. were made within their immediate She would conquer France. Then England. With that accumulated and homesteaded in Traverse county, or to fit in more constructively and The suggestion is that a college be neighborhood. No problem of power she planned to work out her already plotted scheme helpfully. where lie became somewhat of a political established for adults, as Rusking distribution existed. Today, however, through the help of Mexico to invade our country across the Rio figure, serving that county as one An understanding of the structure college was established for the education with the exception of a few simple articles Grande. Thank God, all this was prevented. of its commissioners for several years of the American Federation of Labor of men from trades unions. Such that may be made oit certain Germany now says she cannot pay her indemnity. Germany may be helpful in leading to an understanding and. later he was elected from the a college, it is pointed out, would be a whines. farms, a family does not produce a of its activities and its policies. Traverse district to the state house of haven of refuge for extra mural single completed product for its own France is fearful of Germany, as she has reason to be. representatives, in which capacity he The form of organization around activities of the university, and would use. The German mark is practically worthless but Germany is not served two terms. ret^ich American labor movement enable many adults to carry on studies Why are we willing to pay such a bankrupt. Far from it. Germany is rich. The Germans are gettiner During the year 1906 Mr. Setterlund which they started under the extension rich fast. heluV"'* *s exactly ^e of or- price for distribution? Because it rep-, and family moved to this city and course idea apd which they have resents a saving on the retail price Gold is an arbitrary standard of exchange. The Germans are an capt*:,za^0" our they have made, their home here since been unable to complete. gle citry' American Federation of of an article. If you had to make your ingenious people. They find it to their advantage to establish another is constructed with its foundathe that time. Mr. Setterlund engaged in own shoes every time a pair wore out form of exchange among themselves. They appraise commodities ground and all powers projfrom the contracting business and many of and exchange commodities direct. it would cost you more in time and labor. ROSS W. KING RESIGNS the base upward and not •the homes and business buildings in For though the added cost of distribution Robert Brewer, the head of the Exchange National Bank of l) the top downward. The smallJnit this city were constructed under his raises the price of an article Ross W. King, who has been the Tulsa, Okla., who has just returned from Europe, says: "You can't of organization is the local direction. He built the Swedish Lutheran considerably, at the same time, manufacturing efficient manager of the O. M. Carr & legislate paper money into power, but you can establish a commodity Local uuions are composed of church, of which he was a member, costs are reduced to a far Co. department store in this city for for the whole world as Germny hasi done. Then appraisal exchange J»s of people working in the same and also the International hotel greater extent by the large scale eco- .1 the past five yars, has tenederd his we can make Germany pay her debts, not with marks but with products. in the same communities. These building at the corner of Third street SEVFi, An Examplo Given resignation, effective last Saturday. Bjal unions are affiliated into what and Fourth avenue. That is sound. This saving represents more than He expects to remain in International known as city central bodies or Besides his widow, deceased is survived a mere reduction in price it is a saving Falls for the present and may conclude This done, America should follow the Borah plan of tradine in Jty central labor unions. The city by two sons, Albert, a Minneapolis that has added to our comforts, our war claims for tight rivited assurance of peacj. to engage in business here at a Central labor union is, thus, a representative architect, and Henry of this city that has turned luxuries into everyday later date. If by this process we buy the peace of the r^orld, we would get organization composed of three daughters,1 Mrs. Mary Lemioux, necessities that has made life easier The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. world peace at a bargain counter price, and our sons would be saved delegates from all the local unions in Custer, Wyo. Mrs. Amanda McMicken, it has given us new products and services—stoves, King trust that they will continue to a city. By the same process, state federations city, and Mrs. E: A. Lindgren of MRS. O. PRESTON window glass, rugs, silks make this city their permanent home. Meyes, and her husband from Chicago, of labor are formed. In most Eveleth. —that were almost unheard of by men although it is likely that obsequies cities, there are, in addition to the city Funeral arrangements have not been Mrs. O. M. Preston died Tuesday of 1840, things which only the most will be held Thursday from the central labor union, delegate bodies completed as yet and are pending the wealthy could afford. at the Preston home over the White Betjhlehem church with its pastor, representing the unions in specific arrival of relatives. But what is the machinery that has bakery-at the age of 43 years. branches of industry, such as the building Mrs. Preston was born at Hot made possible these changes? Let us Rev. A. W. MacNeill, officiating. Interment trades, the metal trades, and the WEDDED IN ASHLAND take the case of one manufacturer. Springs, Ark., in 1879, and lived there will be made in Forest Hill printing trades. Through these repre- Alfred Langlois of this city was during practically all of her youth. In Mr. A. is the manufacturer of a food cemetery. sentat've community organizations, united in marriage to Miss Louise Roy product which he feels is the best of •1916 the Prestons moved to International r' the wage earners in each cty are of Ashland, Wis. The ceremony was its kind. He puts up a plant, installs Falls and have lived here continuously N brought together and are placed in a performed at the St. Agnes church in machinery, and prepares to turn out since that time.. Deceased 1 position to act unitedly and intelligently that city at 6 o'clock Monday morning. his product on a moderately large is survived by her husband, two for the conser vation. and advahcgment Mr. and Mrs. Langlois arrived daughters and one son.' r.. scale. But how can he sell the output of their own interests and here Thursday and' will make their The moie lender-eioie ddicioiis of his factory and! keep on selling that Funeral arrangements await the ar- na.ii'W ». for the consideration of, problems 6f home in this city. MacaiouPndiirt output in a steady stream day after