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

number Of things that seem to
escape the attention Of the Duluth
Commercial Club. We hear moth
ing about municipal milk de-
pots, coal docks, evils Of too many
middlemen or greedy food monop-
olists.
The Duluth Commercial Club
has overlooked the wearisome
burden Of two local telephone
systems. That state Of affairs
must end some day and consider
alton of ways and means should
not be longer delayed.
A considerable number of mer-
chants on the Mesaba range feel
peeved at Duluth and Duluth
business houses. Some of those
men deliberately and purposely
pass by this city and stock up
in Minneapolis. No pains should
be spared to coax, conciliate and
convince these men that Duluth
is their friend and the best place
for them to deal.
Problems unknown to the pub
lie may be common knowledge to
the Club members. Be that as it
may, with the advent of the New
Year, both retrospection and in
trospection can be made a profit
able indulgence by them. -
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
AMERICAS ONE VERY BAD
HABIT,

Nearly every nation has at
least one bad habit (policy, they
call it), and the United States is
well up toward the head Of the
class. Of course, our bad habit
doesn't hurt anybody very much
and there are instances on rec
ord: where it has been highly
beneficial to I certain few at
times when they were most in
need.
We have in mind the habit of
investigation that attaches itself
to every political and business
exigency that arises, and so fixed
is the habit that some Of the sub
jects Of the nation have come to
think it is really the remedy.
Whenever anything goes
wrong with any part of our ma
tional, state or local policies the
first thing called for is an in
vestigation, and the hope of rem
edy usually ends right there.
Some Of the investigating COM
mittees are expensive affairs and
are particularly attractive to the
lame ducks and other hasbeens
that keep the investigating habit
alive, mostly.
We have investigating commit
tees for everything under the
sun, and it is of rare record that
the committees ever bring about
anything Of good to anyone but
themselves.
AS an example, we have had
the wage question investigated
to FRAGILE, at a cost of millions
of dollars, and today the condi-
tions seem to be worse than ever.
The committee finds glaring
wrongs in the course of it's re-
search, reports it "to the prop
er authorities" and that is the
last ever heard of it.
Other matters of national and
state Importance have been in
vestigated up one side and down
the other and through the mid
die, and about all that was ever
accomplished was a little unin-
teresting "copy" for the news
papers that dabble in such dry
stuff. In other instances, before
the committee gets ready to make
it's report the whole affair has
been forgotten by the public, and
when the report does come there
are few who know what it
means.
The better the pay of the keen
gentlemen composing the COM
mittee the longer is continued the
investigation, and you really can
not blame them over much.
There is likely some better
way for getting at the things
that are of vital interest to the
common herd, but it's applica-
ton would be in the nature OF
an experiment, and therefore we
are a little shy of branching out
in a new direction.
Investigations, too, sometimes
turn out as very high grade OF
whitewash.-The Mesaba Ore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

There is nothing like having a
good moral character. Chief Nc
Kercher has bed chamber on
the same floor as the women's
cells at the city Jail. Policemen
are not permitted in that depart
ment however, unless they 60 IN
pairs, like travelling Sisters OF
Charity
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
THAT JEWEL, CONSISTENCY

Some weeks ago, the board of
education let a contract for ar
chitectural work to a young firm
net widely known locally and not
holding membership in any of the
local professional or commercial
unions.
The architects union and the
builders union raised a loud cry
and expended much time in COM
planning to the commercial organ
izations Of the city.
AS a result, the members of the
school board were sent rather
mandatory invitations, on ex-
tremely short notice, to appear
before the Duluth Commercial
Club to explain their doings.
Some of the members of the
board, waving etiquette and
questions of rank, made their ap-
pearance and plainly and bluntly.
told what they did and why.
The outcome was that the Du-
luth Commercial Club and other
business organizations, some of
them semi-secret in their nature,
refused to accept the belief of
a majority Of the school board
that the contract had been let to
what was entitled to be called a
Duluth firm, therefore passed
votes of disapproval and condem-
nation.
Even the Duluth News Tribune
came out in a characteristic edi-
torial against the action of the
school board.
Last week, the Rip-saw showed
inconsistency on the part of the
majority control Of Duluth's es-
teemed morning paper.
Opportunity now is taken to
remind Duluth's commercial or
carnations that the marble-lined
courthouse was designed by q
nonresident architect, without a
word of censure by them. Other
buildings, public and private,
have been designed by outsiders,
who did not even claim citizen
ship in Duluth, without a single
word of protest.
We most respectfully call the
attention Of Duluth's commercial
vigilance committees to the fact
that julius H. Barnes has en-
ployed a Chicago architect to de-
sign the addition to his West
Duluth rug factory. Mr.. Barnes
also retained an Eastern archi-
tect to design the Minnesota
Point natatorium.
We do not hear word of COM
plant against Mr. Barnes He Is
wealthy, philantrophic and q
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
EFFECTS OF EVIL EXAMPLE.

A jury of the district court at
Virginia has found Matt Harri
guilty of padding the payrolls
when he was county road fore
man last summer.
Harri was foreman for Com
missioner Penttila in the Sixth
district and his lawlessness may
have been partially due to ex-
amples set by his superiors.
Road foreman Harri may have
noted how Commissioner Penttila
bought maximum of road grad
ing machinery and, to keep the
district from getting lop-sided,
padded his payrolls. He also
may have heard the nasty rum
ors to the effect that the agent
for that road machinery split
commissions with Commissioner
Penttila. If any such split was
ever made, it is easy to under
stand how Auditor Halden has
been able to dominate Commits
sioner Penttila and dictate to
him
By his domination of a major
ity of the board of county COM
missioners, County Auditor Hal
den has, until recently, been the
board of county commissioners,
himself. Road foremen have
seen and understood that state of
affairs. What is more natural,
therefore, than to follow the ex-
ample of the dictator in the mar
ble-lined courthouse?
May not road foreman Harri,
in weakness, ignorance and in
fluence Of example, have come
his cropper by following Konge
Odin's selfish systemY
May not road foreman Harri
have seen and remembered how
the clerks in the auditors Of
flee came to Eveleth on the pre-
text Of checking up road machin-
cry but hustled for days at
building political fence for their
;dictatorial superior, kindly old
St. Louis county paying both
their salaries and expenses while
on the trip?
May road foreman Harri not
have seen how the county auditor
used the county carpenter and
courthouse janitors to do work
at his private place, all at the
county expense, putting on or
taking off storm windows, dig
cling up garden ground, shaking
'Orietal rugs, cleaning the fur
mace, making picket fence, or
doing other stunts helpful to the
purse of the autocrat of the
courthouse, all at the expense of
the helpless old county.
May not road foreman Harri
have noted how prime minister
Walker used the county carpen-
ter to put a new roof on his
kitchen, repair the rickety porch
and lay hardwood floors, without
dollar of cost to himself and
entirely at the expense of the
philanthropic old county?
AS father, so son; as auditor,
so commissioner; as commission
er, 50 road foreman.
May God, in his infinite mercy,
save the county treasury from the
blighting effects Of "too much
Halden" in the courthouse.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

volt that exist all the way from
Lake Superior to Rainy Lake and
from Koochiching's borders to
the County of Lake,
Final defeat and permanent
Punishment for Konge Odin have
been decreed by the people Of
the great county of St. Louis.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22
POETS CORNER
LICK THE PLATE AND LICK
THE KAISER.

THE KAISER.
Tom Hendricks Is my laughing
friend, who dwells in ClevelandO.
He has six children and one wife,
which proves he's not so slow.
His Hendricks Six is-no, that's
wrong; his Six require the "are, -
For, with so many runabouts, he does
not need car.
The slogan of the Hendricks Six is
wise-yea, even wiser:
To win the war, We'll lick the plate,
and thus we'll lick the Kaiser!
Now Father Toms like Uncle Sam,
and just like you and me;
In wartime he must Hooverize to
beat the very D.!
Yes, yes; the devil he must beat is
not alone the German;
Another demon dwells at home and
needs this little sermon.
This demon is Indulgence, who, in
spite of all the sages,
Is always on the watch to waste the
margin of our wages.
my folks has been a-tellin' me-,
says good old Uncle Sam,
"I'm with two-fifty billions; and !
reckon that am.
And they was also tellin' me, and
seemed to make it clear,
l. take in forty billions-or about
that-every year. .........-...
And yet I'm such reckless cuss I'm
headed for Distress
Unless I make my income more and
make my outgo less"
Now Sam and Tom are talking
straight; for every tax and loan.
Cannot be bled from turnips or ex-
torted from stone.
These billions are not stored and
stacked, nor are they running
loose;
They come by saving billions from
the billions we produce.
So my friend Tom becomes your
friend and Uncle Sans adviser;
To win the war, let's lick the plate,
and then we'll lick the Kaiser!
Suppose I owned a gold mine and
could scoop the stuff in tons;
I couldn't feed one soldier or give
one charge for the guns.
But if I save a loaf OF bread, or
Hooverize the meat,
I'll likely give somebody else a bet
ter chance to eat.
And if I plant these pennies saved.
they'll grow there, all unheeded,
Till Uncle Samuel asks for them the
next time that they're needed.
1 may not own a factory and run 1t
night and day,
But can have the old shoes patched
fused to throw away;
I may not own dairy herd, or yet
a single head,
But I can eat little less of butter
on my bread,
And, though I once was weak on
styles, I'm now a little stronger;
The new coats may be long or shoc,
Pm wearing old coats longer.
Your doctor thinks you smoke toe
much. Don't ask him his advice,
But save his fee and also save your
smokes-a pretty price. P.
Your car drinks too much gas; SO
let it rest in its garage
And ride the "civic chariots"-s
pleasing camouflage.
For each must save his margin By
the use of some divisor;
We've got to learn to lick the plate
and also lick the Kaiser!
So, comrade, you're conscripted fol
the Old Guard of the Home;
You're helping all the Allied Cause
from Washington to Rome.
You're the Maker-of-the-Margin; and
each simple thing you do
Makes it less or makes it larger; Sc
it's plainly up to you.
So here's the job; it's personal, and
you're it's Supervisor
You learn to lick the platter and
you also lick the Kaiser!
Edmund Vance Cook, in the Sat
urday Post.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

God bless our happy home
screamed the wife as she bat
tered hubby's skull with skill
let. With my worldly goods l
thee endow," he snarled, as he
heaved a cut glass bowl at her
golden head.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-12-22

Without plenty Of red autcmo-
biles, half the pleasure is taken
out Of the life of a fireman.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
TO DECLINE FREIGHT T.
FOR HAWAII Until
. CONGESTION CEASED

SAN FRANCISCO, October 2O-(As
ISOLATED Press) There win be no ship.
monts received for export Of freight to
Honolulu and the Orient until the con.
gestion in San Francisco railroad yards
Is relieved. Such was the announce
ment today Of the Southern Pacific
and Santa Fe railroads, following a
similar action by the Western Pacific
Railroad. The embargo while temper.
airy is expected to be in force for ut
least two weeks, perhaps longer, de.
pending on how fast railroad cars can
be rushed here from the east to take
care of the thousands of tons of freight
from Honolulu and Oriental ports now
piled up on the wharves. III 4.
Z Thirty:fve hundred cars Of exports
for Honolulu and the Orient are un.
loaded here in the railroad yards await.
ing steamer space, declares the South.
ern Pacific announcement. ~ 's N
The embargo means that no shipments
will be received from the east for
transportation to Honolulu and the
Orient until the present congestion is
relieved. ...' 1871!
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
CONGRESSMANS SON
=. INDICTED FOR HIS
FAILURE TO REGISTER

MADISON, wisconsin, October
21-(Assoctated Press) - Byron
Nelson, son Of John Mandt Nelson,
representative In congress from
the third Wisconsin district, was
yesterday indicted by the federal
grand jury on charges Of having
sought to evade the operations of
the Selective Draft Law.
Young Nelson Is charged with
having hastily left for Canada last
May In order to avoid registration
as required under the law and with
having remained there until after
the registration and the drawing
Of names under the law.
Owing to the prominence Of his
family and his fathers long
political preferment the action Of
Byron Nelson In leaving the coun-
try while others Of less social
prominence were submitting patri-
otica1ly to registration and draft
has attracted more attention and
caused more indignation than
might otherwise have been expect
ed. Especially among those whose
sons had been drafted and who
have gone to training camp, he
was called q Stacker and as such he
was subsequently posted.
Representative Nelson has done
what he could to save his son other
than to bring him back for regis
tration within the time that was al
lowable. He personally took the
case Of his son up with General
Crowder and then sought TO 60
still higher, TO the President him
self, He was told that IL was not
a case for administration interfer-
ence but case for the registration
board to handle.
When the federal grand Jury met
this week the case was presented
to II for consideration and the in
dictment was one Of several handed
down where other offenses had
been committed to be returned yes
terday. '... '.. .a-.-v.
II young Nelson does not return
voluntarily to face trial 1t Is the
expectation that Canadian officials
will throw no obstacles In the way
Of extradition. ...'. . ..'.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
BLAME FOR SUGAR
famine IS PLACED
Consumers Laid In Excessive
Supplies and Candy Manu-
facturers Helped

WASHINGTON, October 2Il-(Asso,
ciated Press The blame for the acute
sugar shortage along the Atlantic sea.
board is placed by the food administra.
ton upon the consumers, who rushed 70
lay in supplies at the first intimation
Of pending scarcity, and upon the
candy manufacturers, who failed Ia
limit their output as requested. ~.
Z 1.-THE distributors and the various
wholesale agencies are standing loyalty
by the administration and cooperating
with the food administration in every
possibly way, says a statement issued
by the administration board last
night, ''but the purchase by households
of larger supplies than necessary has
added to the difficulties Of the distri
buffers in meeting the present situa.
ton. r}
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
COMPLAINS !.
AGAINST HUN POLICY


WASHINGTON, October 2l--(Asso.
ciated Press) - Colombia yesterday
gave Indications that il is on the verge
of serious complications with Germany,
as are and have been other South
American countries and which may re.
suit in breach of diplomatic relations
between the two countries. The senate
yesterday passed resolutions protesting
earnestly against the German policy OF
summarizing neutral shipping and de.
claring that such action against the
ships of Colombia could not be con
Strued otherwise than as inimical to
the republic. ..G-. .t..r3s., e.
The, house is expected to immediate.
ly pass the resolutions which contain
provision that copies shall be present.
ed to the Berlin foreign office by the
Colombian ambassador with demand
for assurance that the outrages com.
planned of shall cease.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
.UN|TES WIRELESS AND
WIRE TELEPHONE LINE

TOXIC, October 9O-(special to
Eippu JijD-Dr. U. Torigata, chief of
the third department of electric expert.
mental bureau in the department of
communicatiohs, and DR.. NJ. Tonegawa,
chief Of electric experimental bureau of
the same department, who were jointly
conducting a series of experiments for
connecting the wireless Telephone to
the ordinary wired telephone, today
made a startling announcement that
they have perfected the invention. The
trials to connect the wireless telephone
10 the wired telephone have now proved
in every way a successes. :
DIR. Torigata is the most famous OF
the wireless experts in japan and
probably in tho world. The wireless
telephone wss inverted by him before
the same invention was perfected in
the United States. w. y. 49,.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
KERENSKY GOES TO
NORTH RUSSFRONT
Premier Will Investigate Danger
~ Which May Threaten Petro-
grad From Hun Advances

NEW YORK, October 2l-(Asso
eiated Press renter Kerensy. lief,
last evening for the. Russian Northern
front in an effort to strengthen the re.
sistance of the Slav forces and Mt the
same time to learn at first hand Just
low critical the situation may be and
how seriously the TeutOn successes are
menaeing the Russian capital. '.
In statement issued by the Russian
admiralty at Petrograd explanation is
given for the apparent lack of aggres
iveness on the part of the Russian
navy and in the Gulf of Riga and sur,
rounding waters of the Baltic. Count
Kapnist issued a statement in which lie
declared that the Russian Baltic fleet
could not face the German fleet at the
point of attack without abandoning its
defense of the Gulf Of Finland.
In Wednesday, fighting, Petrograd
reports, a German torpedo boat struck
mine and was sunk.
Artillery engagements alone were re-
ported from the British and French
headquarters yesterday. : No infantry
attacks or even minor raids were un.
dertaken. The Germans shelled the
newly acquired French positions in the
Aisnc sector but these the French cou
tinued to occupy. }'--
Artillery duelling continues on the
italian Austrian front.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
TWO U-DOATS GET
Their DESERTS
One Sunk While At Work When
Its Victim Exploded More
Tales Of Atrocities

cHRISTIANIA, October 2l--(Asso.
eiatcd Press --The recent loss Of two
German submarines has just become
known here. Parts OF one have been
found in KjOtvik Bay by Captain odin
Bearg, a fisherman. The other was
blown up by an explosion on board the
English ship Olive Branch while the
submarine was lying alongside.
Captain Berg announced two weeks
ago that q submarine lay on the bottom
on Kiotvik, four miles north OF Ham
merfest, and two hundred meters from
land. Berg thought II could be raised,
but the Norwegian patrol boats could
not find the wreck. Meanwhile, how.
ever, Berg has dragged Kjotvik Bay on
his own account, and has fished up
parts of the submarine. A private
company now proposes to send divers
to Kjotvik and salye It.
Forty-fiye men from the Olive Branch
have arrived OF Honningsvaag. They
state that the ship was loaded with am
munition. The U.boat which attacked
II approached the sinking ship after
the crew had been removed, when sud
denly there came an explosion, which
wrecked the submarine with the Loss
Of its whole crew. '.ta.s.
From Hammerfest came details OF
the sufTerings of the crew of another
English ship, the Hidalgo. All the
boats except one were DESTROYED and
two men killed, the remaining thirty.
Eve men embarked in the remaining
boat whieh eontained n mod sun,,f., ~
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
CHINA WANTS
TERRITORY BACK
Press Urges Restoration Now Of
Tsing-Tao-Fears What
Japan May Do ., -b.


PEKING, October Associated
Press The Chinese press is insistent
that Japan should restore to China
Using tau, the former German conces,
sion, and that Japan should withdraw
from shantung province, now that
China has aligned herself with the En-.
tente in the war. tH'
The Newspapers are also agitated
over the prospects Of japanese mum.
ton manufacturer, endeuvoring to en-.
ter into an agreement with China for
an arms. and loan alliance, the object
Of which is to secure monopoly on
the manufacture of munitions for
China. say.
The agreements propose control of
two aTsenals and the installation of
japanese military advisers. The
scheme is bitterly denounced by the
press. lsy> r..
Japan 8 claims upon shantuug Prov.
ince, and especially upon Tsing-tau, rest
upon the Japanese conquest of the
territory when il was wrested away
from Germany in 1914. Japan claim
cd 70 succeed to Germany's treaty
rights by right of conquest. But the
Chinese newspapers say those treaty
rights ceased TO exist when China de.
clared war upon Germany and that title
TO Tsing-tau now vests in China.
Recent statements by Japanese states.
men and Japanese newspapers are re.
garded by Chinese as Indicating that
they consider Tsing-tau japanese terri,
tory and urging that it be taken over
Immediately have caused much uneasi,
ness in China. sF
Before China's declaration of war
against Germany there was a marked
Discrimination to discuss the subject
publicly. Chinese spoke in whispers of
Tsing.tau and preferred to let the mat
ter rest, hoping that something would
turn up to relieve the situation. But
now, since war has been declared upon
Germany, aud China's rights are more
clearly defined, the press has been EN-.
boldened, and there is an insistent de
mand that the Chinese republic be per
mitted TO take over the Territory il had
leased to Germany in Shantung prov.
ince. .,.1 's
Japan's pledge to restore Using tau
to China is stated in a. note sent by the
Japanese minister, Eki Hioki, to tn,
Chinese foreign Office on May j25, 1915
II says: ~ .gEsJ
when, after the termination Of the
present war, the leased territory Of
Kiaochow Bay is completely left to
the free disposal of JaPap. the: Japan
ese government will fettnre the said
leased territory to ChiialI Hinder the fol
lowing conditions: s.,.
81. The whole of KiPoehow Bay Il
1e opened as a, cornmetcipl port. ! Z
Hi2. A consession irGieks the ssxeln,
five Jurisdiction of Japan to be es
abolished at place designated by the
Japanese government. ~ T.. -
"3. IL the foreign powers desire it,
IN International concession may be es.
abolished. . H. 49,
since China, has become a fellow bel.
iger'nt, the Chinese press insists that
Japan cannot qualify Its earlier pledge
and Should show good, faith by an i'm
mediate transfer of Tsingtau.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-10-23
MIDDLE WEST AND
SOUTH ARE BEHIND
Liberty Loan Total Nears Two
BiIlion-Huns Are Supplied
With Fine Posters

WASHINGTON, October 2l-(Asso
ciated Press)--Cnofieial figures Of the
Liberty Loan total last night place II
at $1,973,00o,OoO Apathy towards the
loan is being evidenced, according to a
statement from the treasury depart
ment, in 0 number Of sections through
out the South and in the Middle West
American aviatOrs, flying high over
the Hun battle lines, yesterday dropped
tens OF thousands of Liberty Bond pos
ters in the German trenches and bas,
camps far TO the rear of the advanced
trenches. Cs .2r.,t