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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETS

granted an increase in salary of
$50 each, viz: Edna Bergquist,
Ruth M. McCabe,, Mary G..
Rooney, 2. D. Scott. Jessie Case
was given an increase in salary
Of $25 a month.
Carl Swenson who transfers
children between Colbyyille and
the Washburn school was hired
at 500 month.
An offer of the Morgan Park
company to install a forge in the
woodworking room at the Nor
|. gan Park school, free Of cost,
was accepted.
Thirty-six visitors chairs were
purchased for the Morgan Park
school.
Becoming i'll from conditions
at school, salaries Of Joseph Baily
and Mrs. Jessie Matlock were al
lowed for the month of Novem-
Der. 49,.
Principal Paulus Subdued.
The committee also reported
that Principal G.. M. Paulus had
accepted, in writing and as final,
the decision not to grant his re-
quest for salary for certain past
services. . ...... ...
In view of the increased cost
Of living, it was voted to grant
the normal increase of So a month
per year in salaries so as to be-
come effective Nov. 20, 1917, in
stead of September, 1918, in the
cases Of all. teachers drawing $75
a month, or less.
Director Brewer reported that
the new Lester Park school would
be completed in time to install
seats and open the school at the
beginning Of the second semester,
if desired.
Supt. Hoke reported that his
Investigations show that the
study of the German language
has been abolished in the grades
in some schools but few have
abolished it in the high school.
Most of the colleges will not &C.
cept students with one year Of
German and one year Of some
other foreign language.
Punishment For German.
Director LeDuc introduced a
resolution bristling with indict-
ments of the Imperial German
government and breathing high
patriotic sentiments, concluding
with the proposition that. the:
study Of German in Duluth's pub
lie schools cease forthwith.
Director Brewer moved an
amendment providing that the
resolution take effect at. the end
of the present school year. The
amendment was adopted by the
following vote, viz: yeas-Direc-
tors Brewer, Colman, Davis,
Firoved, McGiffert, Armand;
nays-Directors LeDuc and Eos
ter. Director Amundson previ-
ously had been excused from the.
session.
The resolution, as amended,
then was passed without dissent.
Teachers Loyalty Pledges.
On motion of director LeDuc,
supported by. director Colman,'
Supt. Hoke was instructed to
have a loyalty pledge printed and
then signed by every teacher and
principal employed in the public
schools Of Duluth.
On motion of director LeDuc,
supported. by director Proved,
Supt.. Hoke also was authorized
to have cards printed, framed
and displayed in all the schools,
telling pupils what constitutes an
American citizen and emphasiz-
ing the fact that the hyphen has
no place in the United States.
Several matters of slight pub
Tic interest were given attention,
after which the session adjourned
a. 10 AK a m
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SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

The juicy beefsteak is extinct.
There amt no such animile.
Duluthians need not 60 hungry
when they can get a goldfish for
a dime at the 1O-cent stores.
Duluth's little crop of war
babies is said to be ripening SLOW
ly but steadily.
The opinion still persists that
the Architects union and the
Builders union are exceedingly
hard losers.
If the Dry folks had not ban
ished booze from Duluth, dear old
Danculovic might not have be-
come a blind-pigger.
When "Silver Joe" Konkel
goes forth to mend his mayoralty
fence these days, he should keep
his ears we'll covered.
Wife beating is becoming a
popular pastime in Duluth and
that muscular amusement is not
confined to roughneck circles.
German efficiency never would
tolerate such needless and expen-
sive waste as the maintenance Of
two telephone systems in one city.
Hibbing maintains a municipal
stallion and bulls. Superior, a
coming sheep center should es-
tablish a municipal Shropshire
ram.
There's no real foundation for
the report that a night school
class in the polite use Of tobacco
will be started after the holi-
days.
During the cold snap last week,
chief Mex ercher actually was
walking on the street: The bot
tom Of his feet must be very
tender after a summer Of wild
riding and raiding in that Nor
mon car.
Local Croatians, with a few ex-
ceptions, love the United States
and president Wilson far better
than they do Austria-Hungary and
emperor Karl.
You can give the Rip-saw a
Merry Christmas and yourself a
Happy New Year by subscribing
for the great family journal with
out further delay.
Your plum pudding will have
to get along without the blazing
brandy this Christmas unless you
stand in with some blind pig.
When monthly reports are rem
dered as to night school enroll
ments, additional figures as to per-
centage of attendance for the
month would be enlightening to
all.
When Victor Power, mayor of
the Richest Village on Earth,
.wearies with bucking the octopi,
he can relax by retiring to Ben
nett Park, where the goldfish
swim and the noble elk eat home
grown hay.
- y
The local merchant who can see
no difference between the Rip
saw and the Twin City Reporter,
should be compelled to take a
thirteen weeks course of stud y
in Supt. Hoke's night schools.
Hibbing, the Richest Village
on Earth, is getting together a
Zoo that would have made old
Noah's ark look mighty small.
Dear old Duluth, trailing along,
does not even own its own fox.
X 4
Former saloon-keepers and
Christian druggists who violate
the municipal dry ordinance are
steadily finding out that the way
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as to the rate of their renumera-
ton.
Mr.. Boerner said that the rate
would be the same as paid to
other architects, 5 per cent on
the cost of the work handled by
the firm.
Whether or not the heating
plans should be drawn by the
chief engineer of the school
board, thereby saving is per
cent, was the next question. Di-
rector LeDuc opposed the plan.
President McGiffert suggested
that the matter be left to the
committee on maintenance Of
buildings and grounds.
Director Colman Tardily Erupts.
Director Colman was absent
from the meeting when the ar
chitectural contract was awarded
to Messrs. Croft & Boerner. He
took opportunity at that late
date Of siding with the old regime
by saying that he was opposed
to the employment of Messrs.
Croft & Boerner and that he es-
pecially was opposed to the pay
ment of 5 per cent for their serv-
ices. He further thought that
some arrangement > should be
made whereby the school board
would retain the plans and
specifications. =
MIR. Boerner assured Mr.. Col
man that a copy Of plans and
specifications would be furnished
the board.
Contrary to all recognized
rules of order, not having voted
in the affirmative on the reso-
luton to hire Messrs. Croft &
Boerner, Mr.. Colman then moved
that the employment. Of that
firm be re- considered. The mo-
ton received no support and
died, along with Colman's New
Rules Of Parliamentary Proce-
dure.
It finally was agreed that
Messrs. Croft & Boerner should
have thc contract on the same
basis as the Lester Park school
contract was let.
! The bid Of "A. Anderson, in
the sum Of $515, for the old
dwelling at 407 E. Seventh St.,
! was accepted. Oscar Helene Sc
cured the old dwelling at 20
West Third St. for Sill. Andrew
Smith was sold the old barn at
20 West Third st. for $40.
Treas,rer's Monthly Report
Treasurer Colman submitted
his monthly report as follows,
viz:
GENERAL FUND.
Receipts ..................-....$lOl, 347 "A
Disbursements ......... 75,399.77
Balance Observation-Disclosures. Z0,94( .o(
October overdraft.... 66,622.7
Overdraft of fund.-. 40,675.06
BUILDING FUND.
October balance...-........$82,4 33 IS
Disbursements .............. Is, 923.52
SINKING FUND.
October balance. ,531.30
Disbursements ........ 3,763.14
Balance ............-.-..-.--.....$1O 9, 768. 16
Balance in building
and sinking fund.....$166,278
General Fund
overdraft ................ 4O,675.O6
Net balance in three
funds 1925, 6O3.53
-.. BANK BALANCE.
American Exchange
Natl 32;623.5O
Firt Natl ................... 12,616.94
City Natl ........,...-. 51,473.3S
Northern Natl. .-........ 29,473.38
$125,57O.21
Outstanding checks. 366.6S
Total in all banks....-...$125,6O3.53
Supt. Hoke's Monthly Report.
Supt. Hoke's report, as SUBJ
mitted for the month of Novem-
Der, showed an enrolment in day
schools of 1918 as against A.
568 for the same month in 1916,
an increase Of COS.
II
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Truancy, 60; personal illness,
IS; quarantine, 1; lack Of cloth
ing, 1; moved, 1; Indifference or
neglect in home, Ill; assisting
at home, 10.
The home training department
showed that canning work by
Boy Scouts, exclusive of the sum-
mer months, yielded the follow
ing results, viz:
Fifty-one boys at the manual
training high school canned 1893
quarts Of vegetables; at Denfeld
high school, 10 boys canned 2ss
quarts; 16 boys at Lincoln Jun
ior high school canned 7OS
quarts; AZ boys at Irving Jun
ion high school canned $50
quarts. The total was 2,O74
quarts, canned by 122 boys.
Red Cross work for the month
Of November yielded 4S8 dresses,
143 pair Of boots, 80 hospital
bags, 12O comfort bags, Y slips,
5 boomers, IA bonnets, 20 wash
cloths, l sweater, l pair of
wristlets.
New Music Teacher Hired.
'Supt. Hoke reported that Miss
Grace Goodman, of Northwest
ern university, has been appoint.
ed to the position Of musical
teacher in the Lincoln Junior
high school.
About 40 pupils in the H. S.
commercial department have been
provided with penmanship in
struction once a week. Progress
in penmanship work during the
month of November was reported
by the supervisor.
Night school gymnasium classes
in five buildings showed a total
attendance Of 1877, covering 81
sessions.
Reports from eight community
centers showed a total attend
ance of 1854 for the month of
November. f..
Boys clubs in six schools re-
ported 70 sessions and a total at
tendance of 1908. Girls clubs
in ten schools showed sc sessions
and a total attendance Of sos.
Mothers Clubs Organized.
Mothers clubs have. been
formed at the Lowell, Whittier,
Madison, Bryant, Radisson and
Monroe schools. Mothers clubs
previously have been organized
in the following schools, viz:
Stowe, Longfellow, Munger,
Webster, Morgan Park, Irving,
Adams, Franklin, Fairmount,
Merritt, Emerson, Cobb, a total
of 18 for the entire city.
Two meetings Of the Mothers
club federation had total at
tendance of SO.
A municipal Thanksgiving sing
and program was attended by
1900 people. The community
sing at the Merritt memorial
church was attended by 100. The
Mothers club at the Irving
school was attended by 100.
Community sings were attended
as follows, viz: Stowe school,
500; Denfeld high school, 1000;
Lakeside, $50.
Total attendance at all the re-
creational activities was 12,42C.
The request Of the residents Of
Lester Park district to have the
Duluth telephone installed in the
Lester Park school was not
granted for the reason that it
would cost $2S a year more than
the board now is paying for
telephone service.
Telephone Contract Authorized.
A contract was authorized
whereby the Zenith telephone
company provides telephone serv-
ice at the rate Of 500 per tele-
phone per year.
H. L. Joyce was made custo-
dian Of the supply storeroom at
a salary from $50 to 500 a
month and book-kccper to sue
ceed him was authorized.
The report Of the committee on
cohoo1c xuoc oIorfoI WIT h mt
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Total in all banks........$125, 6O3.53
Supt. Hoke's Monthly Report.
Supt. Hoke's report, as SUBJ
mitted for the month of Novem-
Der, showed an enrolment in day
schools of 1918 as against A.
568 for the same month in 1916,
an, increase Of COS.
During the month Of November
a total of 238 absences were in
spected, distributed as follows,
viz
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Some time since, Minnesota
commission Of public safety
frowned on the plan to feed
sheep in northern Minnesota. The
members of that commission
should read about the profits
from raising and feeding sheep
in Douglas county, Wisconsin.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-14
OLD GLORY.

Pensacola is wearing Old Glory in its
coat lapel, it is flying it from its house, it IS
displaying it in its place of business. Now
Pensacola has an opportunity of singing it.
Elsewhere in this issue is reproduced the
music and the words of "Old Glory" The
verses are original and the tune IS the stir
ring Welsh battle song, Men Of Harlech, Z
tremendously effective
Not that we want to fight; not that we
are wearing our hat over our eye; we are
melodious, not truculent- what better
thing to sing about than Our country?
Clip "Old Glory" from The Journal and
Paste it on a piece Of pasteboard; play it on
the piano; sing it in your home, whistle it
on the streets. hum it at your work
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mountains, and began to be formed
in the middle West. The first one in
the state of Ohio was formed in Gin
cinnati in 1878, and today there are
upward of 900 associations in Ohio
with total assets of 225 millions Of
dollars.
From the small beginning, less
than 85 years ago, there are now up
ward of 5000 building associations in
the United States, with a membership
Of over three million and total as
sets of one billion, five hundred mil
lions of dollars.
The First Association.
The first building association wa:
organized in this city in 1880 under
the name of the Pensacola Building
and Loan Association, was limited t.
1000 shares which were readily sub
scribed, and was very successful. Il
was followed by the Workingmen';
Building and Savings Association il
1883, which is still in exitence, anC
has had a phenomenally successful
career of over 30 years, during which
period it has handled two million dol
lars at a minimum expense, ha:
loaned about S900,000 in average
amounts of 5000 each to almost 1 900
different people, and has not en-
countered a single loss.
The Mutual Loan and Savings As
ISOLATION was Incorporated in 1880
and during its existence issued 37,006
shares, with receipts of s2,500,000
loans of over million, the expense
being less than per cent, and tht
profits in both associations nearly
half million dollars, with similar
record Of no losses to record against
loans.
The Pensacola Home and Savings
Association has been in successful
operation for over quarter of :
century, and these three societies
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Us 1T NOT BETTER TO WAIT
ILL ROAD is CLEAR ERE MAR
RYING?" ASKS BRIDE.

"Then, too, my father died when 1
was 10 years of age, and left my
mother with 10 children.
81 had to help her.
"By going TO work and helping sup
port the family / believe l did my
duty.
eff | had married at once / would
have had to leave my mother to take
care Of the younger children alone
"As it is-we are happy. Yes, Mr..
Burgess came to see me three times
week regularly-and sometimes
oftener-during all the IS years of
our courtship.
elbow are we spending st. Valen-
tines day? Why, very much as US
ual.
"My husband is at his work, but"
and here Mrs. Burgess sniled-"l
shouldn't be surprised If he'd bring
me box of candy just to remember
the day.
Owe had a good many boxes from
him while we were engaged"
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have contributed in no small degree
to the upbuilding of our city, and to
the ownership of many of their own
homes.
There are so many people that do
not comprehend the system Of build
ing and loan associations, and are #
the opinion that it lisa complicated
piece of machinery, whereas it is so
simple that a boy in knee pants can
readily understand it. A number of
persons agree to pool a certain
amount monthly into a fund, which
shall be loaned to one Of their mum
Der, who shall give good legal secur-
ity for same in first mortgage upon
such property as may be approved by
the directors and attorney, and shall
then pay into the society one dellar
per month on each 500 of the princi-
pal, besides interest at a moderate
rate, so that in course of few years
usually six or seven years., the loan
and all interest upon same viii be
wiped out. All shares taken out for
investment mature in the same period
of time, and average from 6 to per
cent interest per annum on the in
vestment, if carried to maturity.
There are no initiation fees
charged and no fees for withdrawal
Of stock, the main idea being econo-
mical management, and the funda
mental principle of building associa-
items being to encourage thrift and
home building for the betterment of
the family and of the community,
leading to good citizenship.
1t follows therefore that it is large
ly to the interest Of every one who
has the prosperity of the city and
its citizens at heart, to lend substan-
tial aid and encouragement to the
local building and loan associations
in our midst, as they have done and
are doing more for the upbuilding Of
the city and prosperity of our citi-
Gems than any other single enterprise
that has appealed to the support Of
the general public in the past thirty
years.
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mExIco's IDEA OF PEACE.

AS Mexican complications have syn.
chronized with German crises, there can be
no serious doubt that they are of Teuton
origin Authorship Of Mexico's identic note
10 ali neutrals proposing to end the war by
Stopping exports to beligerents, must
therefore be ascribed to the Kaiser. Only
the fact that Germany IS desperate-des
perate in the failure of food and submarines
can explain a piece of diplomacy so
clumsv-co coming, too, at a time when the
United States rejects Germany's PROPOSE
tion to discuss anything until the redemp-
ton Of the Sussex pledges Of May 4, 1916,
have restored Germany to international
honor
Ibe question Carranza raises has already
been answered BY the United States to
Austria and Germany Months ago the
governments which SO blithely acknow-
lodged il the words Of Chancellor Beth
mann-Hollweg, that the invasion Of Bel
oiun was in violation Of international
law, asked the United States to violate
neutrality By an embargo on exports which
confessedlv could benefit only one side.
The position of the United States is SO well
known. and the principle is so clear SO un-
questioned, and SO we'll established, that a
very brief photography Of the law Of ma
tons would be the most appropriate an
sWer As Germany cannot hope Mexico S
proposition will be accepted BY any other
nation. the move reduces itself to an at
tempt TO involve the Monroe doctrine; but
with the motives so we'll established it will
not be hard to solve the problem of curbing
Mexco's constructive hostility to the allies
without violating a principle to which we
stand committed The whole thing simply
means that if Germany went to war with
the United States, the first formal battle
would probably be on Mexican territory.
To ANYBODY possessed of a sense of bal
ance. he fact that a government which is
unable to restore order in its own country
should attempt to palm off a peace nos.
trum on fourteen nations. must appeal as
colossal buffoonerv. Tt is farce on a ma
tional scale, 1t is absurditv heaped higher
than Popocatapetl, it is burlesque broader
than Ixtaxihuatl: the vastness Of the Joke
grows on one. like a landscape, and the EN-
batt1ed millions Of Europe, when they re
cover from the first shock of amazement
NAV throw down their arms, unable to hole
them steady climb out of their trenches
too narrow to hold them. and shaking will
Homerie laughter, French and German
English and Austrian, Italian and Turk
Belgians, Serbians, Montenegrins, and al
the others NAV fall on each others neck
and roll on the ground and CRY and dane
and shrek in an ecstacy of JOY; and 60 bacl
10 their homes when they are able t,
traveA. better friends than ever-becaus
YOU know, nothing brings people closer to
gether than ioke-but this is the onl'
way Mexico's proposal could bring abou
peace in Europe.
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GERMANS IN THE UNITED STATES.

G6NMANS In HE UNITED STATES.
Consul Rolls determination to remain in
Pensacola, no matter what the eventualities
between the United States and Germany,
should be gratifying to all right-minded
people. 1t is course that we hope will be-
followed by all Germans; even if they are
not able conscientiously to renounce their
country Of nativity, they can fill an import
ant place.in commercial and social life here;
and though it would be unnatural for them
not to sympathize with the Fatherland,
nevertheless, COMFORTING themselves with
dignity they will continue to share the con-
fidence Of their neighbors and will not be
molested in their person or their property.
Between the United States and Germany
there is political issue, but no hate no
racial antipathy, no inherited grudge. The
United States insists upon the inalienable
rights of its citizens-rights for which it
has fought more than once already Ger
many justifies itself on the grounds that ne
cessity knows no law Germany deplores
Belgium, and deplores U-boat ruthlessness
but honestly believes she could not do 9th
erwise But to explain motive is not to
justify it. If Germany considers only itself,
so the United States can consider only
| itself, and it cannot acquiesce in German
advantage at American loss
Because of honest beliefs, friend fought
against friend brother against brother,
father against son during our Civil war
But they loved each other none the less
Bitterness was aroused after, not during,
| the war; civil administration, not military
necessity, wrought the wounds which have
not healed in a generation. War at its
worst is ennobling
Fortunately the public question between
Germany and the United States, if not in
our chancelleries, will be decided thousands
of miles from both countries The armed
forces making the supreme sacrifice, will
respect the motives of each and the battle
emulation in heroism-will be entirely
without wars hate, civilian by-product
Germans in the United States and Ameri-
cans in Germany should no more be affect
ed in their relations with their neighbors
than Spaniards in Alaska or Chinese in
Terra del Fuego.
After the question IS settled and Consul
Rolfs-and his brother officials-resume
their functions. Americans and Germans
will esteem each other all the more that
] they respected each other so highly during
critical period
So here's to atriotism-American pa
triotism in America, and German patriot
ism in Germany; but here's to something
infinitely greater than either, universal
eternal: here's to love Of fellow mani
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THE SCRATCH PAD
BY THOMAS EWING DARNEY.


AS Kaiser Bill would say, Column
bia is the jinx of the ocean
Many man who expects valen-
tine today will receive only a bill.
Every time Germany disclaims re-
sponsibility, sensible people hunt the
cyclone cellar.
The trouble with most fashionable
dinners is, there is too much noice
and too little brains.
Speaking about scraps of paper
Old King Connie has lot Of them
but he hasn't torn them up.
When mans credit is torpedoed
the first thing that happens is the
corner grocery sewers diplomatic re-
lations.
Maybe Bethmann-Hollweg would
look at things more cheerfully if he
could see an occasional Charlie Chap
lin film.
Whatever U-boats may do to un
defended merchant ships, the German
sea dogs are very careful to leave the
British lion alone.
The fact that Germany wants tn,
United States to paints its ships t
look like a BARRIERS pole suggest
the thought that some U-commander
may be in need of a shave
Among the horrors Of war TO
which Germany is responsible, moth
ing can exceed the ruthlessness o
her proposal to hold the newspape
correspondents a. hostages 1h