%x- -C ii THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS "PAGE FOUR' I IB INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS W- £8? 'S AND BORDER BUDGET -^h-" iHf H. J. MINER, Editor ud Maufer -V mt MIm- a the PMt Oflw Iateraattoaal Fall*. geeaU Ol— Matter at With this tremendous sale and this terrific catting SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR forcing you to buy. of prices we are .Z,_s Northwestern Advertising Representatives Take advantage of this price slaughter. Here's Minnesota,Select List is a sale that will appeal to all bargain sharks. 799 Exchange Bank 215 Paul MmMapoBs St. I Do your baying and save a lot of money with JAKE ON THE CORNER A STATE FUNCTION B, The people of Louisiana are to be congratulated if their governor did not go to Washington to ask federal assistance to preserve order in their state. Exercise of police power is primarily a state function, andl it will be a sad day when the states yield this, almost Overcoats the only prerogative they have not yielded to the! federal government. There was a time when the south was recognized as the Be Sure you get our big two For Men and Young Men. The new great champion of states' rights. Humiliating indeed would it be if 1 the south should be the first to acknowledge its people incapable of modefe—belt and pleated backs—A colored circular, read every grearbargain» worth up to $30.00 for home rule. 11 $14.95 bit of it, tell? you all about it. FOREIGNERS FIGHT U. S. SHIPS ~'A England, Japan and other nations with large merchant fleets will endeavor, are endeavoring now through propaganda among the Pre—Holiday Pre- -Holiday American people, to defeat any measure the United States government may take to put the American merchant marine on a competitive and 15th and 15 th basis with their fleets. We have paid foreign shipping in the last one hundred years a sum of *28 billion dollars. In the past s"even years we have paid eight billon dollars for the same service, not Anniversary Anniversary counting the money lost by our manufacturers through the preferential policy of foreign fleets. No wonder the foreign nations want us to stay where we are.—Wheeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer. OUR BIG CIRCULAR TELLS YOU ALL ABOUT IT THE LITTLE CHRISTMAS STICKER During? the wefcks between now and the advent of Christmas Suits and 0'coats Sensational and Extremely Suits and 0'coats day, the people of international Falls and the whole of the United Low Prices States are asked to purchase a little Yuletide sticker to be pasted on Christmas packages and mail of all sorts. Thfs little^ emblem of Every suit and overcoat in the store Another big lot in all the new models mercy sells at a penny apiece, or one may buy a dollars worth at included. Here is a great bargain— and latest patterns—The bargain of a a time and receive a button denoting .that the wearer has paid a One lot of Suits and O^Coats worth up lifetime. Suits and o'eoats worth up year's contribution to that organization popularly and reverently known throughout the world as the Red Cross. The local campaign to $35.00— to $40.00— has already started and the results so far obtained are reported as $19.95 $24.50 being encouraging, but this year International Falls and Koochiching county should go far beyond any previous year in the purchase of Christmas Seals. While the work of the national Red Cross reaches every portion Of the country, at times of flood, or disaster of any kind, in the furnishing PANTS AND JUMPERS MACKINAWS of nurses, doctors and supplies the local benefits of the fund The famous "Soo" Brand all wool and raised by the annual vending of Christmas Seals is very great and The famous "Soo" Makes—Fine colors, extra heavy pants—are lace, stag far reaching. all wool and best models— Clinics for the examination of the health of school children and and long—All $6.00 values bargain—$15.00 Mackinaws babies are held at intervals and needy sufferers are aided in various $9.95 $4.95 ways. A dollar given to the purchase of Christmas Seals will rebound to the benefit of the community in a thousand ways, and it should be the delight and chief aim of all to contribute their share to the fund this year. A total of 45,000 seals has been secured for sale in Koochiching FLANNEL SHIRTS MEN'S UNION SUITS county and the committe eshould dispose of that quota -with Extra heavy, brown, grey and drab Wool ribbed, fine soft finish, heavyweight—$4.00 ease- A little effort and the desire to aid this grand and necessary wbrk should send the total far above the prescribed quota. Let go! colors—$3.50 values for values for $2.19 $2.45 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL, AMERICAN Few of usi stop to realize how American an institution our public LEATHER TOP RUBBERS schools are. In England, the "public school" is really the boarding MEN'S DRESS SHOES school for the rich man's son. With us, the public school is for Gold Seal Brand best leather tops— Black and brown—the new toes—full the poorest and the lowliest, as well as for those most richly blessed first grade rubber—$4.50 grade stock leather. $6.00 values for with this world's goods. $3.19 $4.45 The growth of the aristocratic private school, with imported masters and manners, is assuming the proportions of a menace. Reds are not the only danger we have to face. Ultra-whites, snobs, aristocrats, are as unrAmerican as the most rabid Bolshevist. As against all class distinction and class pride is' our public school, the MEN'S DRESS HATS MEN'S LEATHER VESTS most democratic institution in our republic today. At bottom, our problem is a problem of education. The fundamentals Fine Velour Hats*-grey, Brown, Tan Fine mole skin shell, good heavy leather in democracy are social. Seek first democracy in education. Blade and Buckskin—They are lining and sleeves—full length The American child who goes to school with his neighbors, $5.00 and $5.50 values $8.50 vests for rich or poor, learns the-lesions of democracy—belief in humanity, $3.95 $5.95 hope for humanity and sympathy with humanity. Unless we preserve these, democratic principles, we must face a growth of classconsciousness which must in time be iatal to true liberty in accordance with the American ideal. The whole of American education means this, that we must HEAVY SWEATERS LADIES DRESS SHOES educate 110,000,000 Americans for democracy. The whole history of American education proves that the public schools were founded for All wool slipover style best colors Pumps and Oxfords, kid and patent the defense of the nation—«as a national necessity, as the only safeguard $8.50 grades leather—they are $8.00 values for the rights and) liberties of a free people. The all-American, $5.95 $5.45 national school can alone undertake the national task of making the true American mind. SPUD PHILOSOPHY MkN'S FLEECE UNION SUITS MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS The fer capita consumption of potatoes in this country is 3.2 Cone Now! Boy Now! Save Now! Good, heavy fleece lined union suits— Arrow brand—one big lot to close out rblushels, annually. The estimated crop this year is 433^000,000 They are $2.00 values worth up to $3.00 bushels or somewhat in excess of ouV bushels fper capita. A promin­ BARGAIN $1.00 98c ent New York paper which was fighting the present tariff law some weeks ago was very much upset because of the duty on potatoes UU""SEEKERS 1 reported by the committee—35 cents a hundred pounds, saying: "On DEC. 7 a million bushels of potatoes consumed a day 35 cents a bushel runs up to a*neat total of $350,000, or $127,750,000 annually as a. tariff SALE STARTS SALE STARTS charge'on the American people." The fluty eventually laid was 50 cents a hundred pounds, or about 30 cents a bushel, which, according THURSDAY THURSDAY to this newspaper's way of thinking, would mean a chaige of $109,000,000 as the charge on the American people. But thia was assuming, of course, that the price of every bushel of potatoes would be controlled and that the controllers wojuld add the 30 WOOL SOCKS OVERALLS WOOL MITTS LEATHER MITTS cents to the price. 65c values all colors. Sale White and Grey —50c val­ Horse Hide stock—$1.50 220 Denim—Good full size- N Now, it is hardly probable that the American people this year price values for Sale price ues for 48c 39c 98c $1.25 will increase their consumption of the succulent spud by 30 per cent in order to balance up with the overproduction. It is almost an economic certainty that the law of supply and demand will get to Work and reduce the price of potatoes below that of lean years. But DON'T FORGET THE BIG CIRCULAR TELL'S YOU ALL ABOUT IT the duty of 30 cents per bushel imposed will tend to restrict importations JAKE GREENGARD of potatoes so that the American growers will not suffer the grave slump in price which would otherwise attend a market flooded OPPOSITE THE THE STORE THAT with both the domestic and the foreign potatoes. It is thus seen BANKS Saves You Money how fallacious are these repeated assertions of the opponents of protection that the duties are added to the prices paid by consumers, and what a Brobdinagian falsehood is contained in the Democratic I INTERNATIONALPALLS, 'MINNESOTA statement that the tariff law adds $4,000,000,000 to the cost of living of the American consumer, for the principle that applies to potatoes bMT« 'i 4*1 mm allies to other products of American farm and mill. 4-i. MM!