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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
THE COMMON PEOPLE AND
THE DULUTH HERALD.

Many melancholy days seem to
come to- the Duluth Evening Her.
aid in these troublous times. The
Herald squirrel must be getting
almost afraid to jump down off
the top rail to grab a fat nut.
To those who can see throug a
ladder after some of the rungs
have been knocked out, it seems
safest to copper the Herald's bets.
If you wish to elect a man to Of
flee, establish a progressive fea-
ture in local government or put
through something for the welfare
of the many, over the protests of
the few, the wisest, most effec-
tive procedure is to have the Her
aid oppose it.
TheHerald was on the wrong
side of the fence in the last munic-
ipal election. The Herald sup
ported the autocrats instead of the
democrats in the last school board
election. The Herald backed
the food jugglers in the matter of
the revised peddlers' ordinances.
It now turns out that the Herald
placed it's money on the wrong
horse in the New York electi,n.
It's dollars to doughnuts that the
Herald will be the chief and al
most sole mourner at Auditor
Halden's political bier next year.
Of course there are compensa-
tions. Fat checks from the Big
Interests to the chief word Jug
gler, when detailed for duty at St.
Paul, help some. Political trees
at Washington and St. Pail, for
the "Old Man" to shake, give
both pleasure and profit. Then
last, but not least, there's that
fat, soothing Balm Of Gilead, two
big, profitable pages Of Mark 1t
Basket advertising every Frid ~
evening and quite a bit in be-
tween.
The scampering back and forth
of the Herald squirrel has
worn the top rail Of the fence
very smooth. Despite recent dis
appointments and hollow husks,
many fat nuts will yet grow and
drop to the ground on this side or
that side Of the dear old fence.
To. jump down on this side or
that side and make away with this
nut or that nut is both an art and
a science in which the beneficent
old Herald is highly proficient.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
COMFORT STATIONS NEEDED

Duluth is quite well supplied
with libraries. The movement to
supply rest stations and reading
rooms is worthy and commend
able. But, before much money is
expended for that purpose, GER
tain sections of the city should be
supplied with comfort stations
where men, women and children
can attend to pressing calls Of ma
ture and not endanger health AMI
comfort by being compelled to
delay such calls.
At the present time, there is a
comfort station for both men and
women at West Duluth. There
was another at the aerial bridge,
on the city side of the canal, but
military exigencies now cause that
to be barred to the public-a great
inconvenience and a very regret
able situation.
The transfer point Of the Du-
luth Street Railway at the head of
the Garfield avenue viaduct is
rapidly becoming one Of the bus
lest and most important in the
city. There is no city comfort
station there. Even men find diff
ficulty in locating comfort con-
veniences quickly and easily.
Women and children are practic-
ally denied anything Of the sort.
The people Of the West End be-
lieve that a comfort station should
be established at this point before
any rest rooms are established at
West Duluth on Central avenue.
West Duluth not only has COM
fort station centrally located but
it has branch library. TO the
disinterested, it seems that a COM
fort station at the head Of the Gar
field avenue viaduct is more
pressing need than rest and
reading room on Central avenue.
Both can come in time but the
comfort station should come first.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
POT CALLS THE KETTLE
BLACK.

The Duluth Realty Exchange is
after the Steel Corporation with a
sharp stick, and proposes to COM
pei the corporation to sell it's
products to itself as cheaply as it
sells to the outsider. The exchange
sells to the outsider. The ex-
change will 60 along with its har-
rowing publicity campaign until
some unwashed citizen Of the
Zenith City starts an investiga-
ton of the exchange, and then the
balloon will 60 up. If anything,
the Duluth Real Estate Ex-
change is just little more selfish
than the Steel corporation, and
that's going some.-The Mesaba
Ore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
THATMARMON CAR.

Chief McKercher has donned
that big blue uniform of his and
gone to convention, therefore
he will be unable to tell the peo-
pie just yet where he got that
mammoth Marmon car, why and
how.
Although the Big Chief has
taken a hint not to 60 riding
around so much nights; to spend
more time at headquarters; and to
get it into his granite dome that
his flamboyant actions make a
bad taste in the public mouth, he
has utterly failed to purge himself
of the suspicious and even charges
that a powerful public service
corporation handed him the man.
moth Marmon car in which he so
wildly and recklessly rides. He
even neglects to say who fur
nishes the gasoline-his corpora
ton friend, the city or himself.
When the people get it through
their heads that their chief of
police is violating the city charter
by accepting substantial favors
from a public service corporation,
they will not take it kindly. They
are not so bone-headed as to be-
lieve that q chief of police can
buy and support a mammoth
Marmon car at a cost of $3,400,
on a salary of $500 a year.
Once the people wake up, they
are ugly customers for q care
less chief of police to face. This
is the first time in nearly twenty
i've years that the people have
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
CLOSER COMMUNION. BENE.
FICIAL.

Some weeks ago the Rip-saw
urged the citizens to attend the
regular official meetings of their
public servants in city and coun-
ty. 1t may have been merely a
coincidence, but the last meet
ing of the school board was at
tended by so many citizens that
standing room was at premium.
The people had their way and
brought a majority Of the city
commissioners into line by an out
pouring at the two last weekly
meetings of the council. They
not only showed up in numbers,
but spoke in no uncertain tones.
Their servants know their mas
ter's voices and duly needed them.
There is only one public body to
which the taxpayers and citizens
pay extremely slight heed-the
board of county commissioners.
The people are not even certain
when and where that body meets.
No systematic effort is made by
the citizens to attend. There is
no incentive for the commission
ers to heed their masters. There
is every opportunity for men with
sinister motives to exert their in
fluence.
There is complaint and dissat-
isfaction with some men and some
doings around the courthouse.
Let the citizens of St. Louis county
pack the rooms of the board of
county commissioners whenever
that body meets. The result will
be greater care and economy in
the handling of public affairs and
greater heed to the wishes of the
voters and taxpayers.
Even the Duluth Commercial
club, not strictly a public organi-
cation, now considers it polite
and profitable to open at least
one meeting a month to the pub
lic-the plain common people
who are the backbone and main
arch of society.
Let there be closer communion,
greater sympathy and a better un-
derstanding between the few and
the many, the classes and the
masses, the public officials and
the taxpayers, the servants and the
masters.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
THE PEOPLE PREVAIL.

In the matter of the itinerant
dealers license fee, the city CON-
missioners finally came out to a
man on the side Of the people.
They cleared the record. They
put the city ordinance in harmony
with the decision of the supreme
court. They tore down all' SEM
blance Of a Chinese wall between
Duluth consumers and the food
producers Of the world.
Duluth's city commissioners
certainly heard vox populi speak
ing loudly and, like faithful pub
lie servants, loyal citizens and
clever politicians, announced to
the world that prohibitive policies
and class legislation in trade mat
tiers have ended in this great City
Of Destiny.
It was both a surprise and a
delight to see the people storm
the council chamber and tell their
city servants what they wished
done. The number was great and
their voices were extremely loud.
The people wish no injury to
the retailers. The revision of this
ordinance will work no injury. 1t
will not do much good in money
way but it will do no financial
harm.
This action by the people and
their city servants marks a new
era. 1t is notice to the middlemen
and monopolists that the man who
consumes proposes to have a word
to say. It is a notice to the retail
ers to clear their skirts, strength.
en- their bank accounts and get in
shape to consider the people and
become independent so far as pos
sible Of the dominating jobbers
and Food Hogs, or else 60 to the
wall.
There are not half a dozen re.
tailers in Duluth who are truly
and fully independent of the job.
bers and Michigan street. Most
Of Dulnth's retailers are working
for the jobbers and Michigan
street on commission and even
sufferance. They. have nothing
to say as to where they shall buy,
how much or at what price. They
are much in the same position OF
the brewery-owned saloons were
in the wet days.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
taken so much gasoline smoke and
dust from a chief Of policeA

taken so much gasoline smoke and
dust from a chief Of policeA
Over twenty years ago, the rec
ords of Chief Armstrong and Bob
Benson were vital, burning issues
in the mayoralty campaign and so
recognized by both Allen and
Truelsen.
The people roared loudly over
the miserable actions of Chief
Hansen and he went into the dis
card as soon as Onkel Heinrich s
backing was removed.
Chief Crandall went wild after
women and made other bad breaks
that prevented him from serving
the full time Of his appointment.
His acts and windup profitably
can be taken as a warning by the
present Big Chief.
Chief Troyer was watched like a
hawk and when nothing could be
laid at his door, false frame-ups
were attempted. Had he mixed
up with Marmon car like Chief
McKercher,' the people would have
ridden him out of town on rail
or thrown him into the lake.
Let Chief of. Police Robert D.
McKercher stand up and satisfy
the people as to the truth or fall
sity of the suspicious and charges
against him.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
TYRANNICAL BOSS.

Old George the Third never
was more tyrannical with the
Colonies than Konge Odin with
the county officials who are con-
temporaneous with him in the
marble-lined courthouse. They
have feared and trembled be-
cause of his political domination
for a score Of years. Now seems
a favorable time for all self-re-
specting officials to have a Bose
ton Tea Party, a skirmish Of Lex
ington and Concord or even a
genuine Declaration Of Independ-
ence.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
POETS CORNER
A CHANGE OF TRAINING.


She didn't raise her boy to be a
fighter;
But they went and took him from
her just the same,
And they stripped his giddy gar
ments off the Brighter,
And they strapped suit Of khaki
on his frame. ~.
She didn't raise her boy to be a
scrapper-
And, to do her training justice, he
was none;
But they carried off her ukulele tap.
per
And they coached him in the tech
mic of a gun.
She didn't raise her boy to be stab
Der;
And she loudly called the Govern
ment thief
When it took him off his regimen OF
clabber
And corrupted him with spuds
and army beef.
She didn't raise her boy to be a
killer;
But they got him when the coun-
try claimed it's own,
And his body, soft and puffy as a
pillow,
They whipped into a mass OF
Drawn and bone.
She didn't raise her boy to be a
shooter
Nor anything, in fact, except
fool;
But they handed him sergeant for
tutor
And they turned him out credit
to the school.
She didn't raise her boy as have
told yer
To live upon the military plan;
But they sent him back to her moi
just a soldier
But every single inch of him q
Man!
w. e. NESOM.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
EARNED HIS SALARY.

The Duluth Commercial club
paid Colonel Eva six thousand dol
lars a year to condescend to act
as it's secretary. The colonel s
duty was to see that no outside
capital slipped in to interfere with
Duluth's interlocking directorate,
and, looking at it from that p)ins
Of view, he earned the salary
twice over.--The Mesaba Ore.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
CONSERVATION,

CONSERVATION.
The hotels on the meatless days
Serve chicken, fish and goose;
The smiling guest we'll pleased pay
His "bit" the war to boost.
And on the wheatless days to come
He'll eat the corn pone,
Or hoe-cake till he fills his tum
So full he has to groan.
So why not have a chewless day
And go without our "snoos",
Tobacco, and our coffin nails,
And chewing gum, to boost
The war, the Kaiser can,
And wealth and food conserve,
And send it to the American
In France to brace his nerve?
And why not have a newsless day,
And talkless day, and then
A weepless day, a sleepless day
And a voorhees, day for men.
A ruleless day, schoolless day
Would certainly be in it;
And we might have foolless day
If one wasn't born each minute.
j. H. Warner.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
THE THREE-CENT STAMP.

Good-by, old stamp; it's nasty luck
That ends our friendship so.
When others failed, you gamely
stuck,
But now you've got to go.
So here's a flood of honest tears,
And here's an honest sigh.
Good-by, old friend, of many years
Good-by, old stamp, good-by.
Your life has been varied one,
With curious phases fraught-
Sometimes a check, sometimes dun,
Your daily coming brought;
Smiles to a waiting lovers face,
Tears to a mothers eye,
Or Joy or pain to every place
Good-by, old stamp, good-by!I
You bravely toiled, and better men
Will vouch for what I say;
Although you have been licked, twas
when
Your face turned t'other way.
Twas often in a box you got
CAS- you will not deny)
For going through the mails, w0t-
Good-by, old stamp, good-by!
All, in your last expiring breath
The tale of years is heard
The sound of voices hushed in death,
A mothers dying word.
A maiden's answer, soft and sweet,
A wife's regretful sigh,
The patter of baby's feet
Good-by, old stamp, good-by!
What, wonder, then, that at this time
/. When you and must part,
should aspire to speak in rhyme
The promptings of my heart?
Go bide with all those mem 'ries dear
That live when others die;
You've nobly served your purpose
here
Good-by, old stamp, good-by!
ia -EuEene Field,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
Duluth wants fewer small. wes

Duluth wants fewer small, weak
dependent corner stands and more
large, resourceful, independent
grocery stores, owned and man
aged by men who can and will
take advantage of bargains, big
job lots, cash discounts and other
conditions that will give better
goods and lower prices 70 the
consumers.
The man who stands in the way
Of what the ,epople demand will
very likely get hurt, financially,
politically and socially, if not
physically.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10
TRUE ENOUGH.

1t is easy enough to be happy
When. life is a bright, rosy wreath,
But the man worth while
Is the man who can smile
When the dentist is filling his teeth
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-11-10

his name, face and cause in the
faces of the voters of St. IL is
county.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
ITALIANS GIVE
WAY SLOWLY
BEFORE HUN
ADVANCE
Progress Being Made by
Invaders in the
~Irentino
TOWN OF FELTRE
is OCCUPIED
Other Positions Taken;
Fighting Amid Snow
Capped Hills
10y Leased Wire to New Mexlcan.)

10y Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
Progress is beng made by the
German armies push
ing southeast in the Trentino
in their efforts to penetrate the
italian defensive front in the
hill region and outfank the Pi-
ave river line. The advance
has been materially slowed up,
however, under the determined
Italian resistance.
Berlin today, in reporting
the capture Of additional posi-
tions east of Asiago, indicates
fighting is going on amid snow
covered hills-conditions that
work to the advantage Of the
defenders. The most impor-
tant progress claimed for the
Austro-G German forces appears
to have been in the Sugana val
ley, almost due north Of Bas-
sano, where the occupation of
Primolano and the capture of
a fortified position on Monte
LIizzer is announced in the Ger
man statement. Further to
the east the Italian line seems
still to be yielding somewhat,
as if a limited withdrawal we're
~ place in line-straighten-
ing process, with constant re-
sistance being offered during
Continued on Page Four.)
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
FRENCH
CABINET CRISIS;
MINISTRY QUITS
AFTER A DEFEAT
r." if NfN. r rHH.tNHH ."NM. .HH GINA. .fH
First Vote Against the
Government Since
War Opened
SEVERAL MOTIVES
FOR THE ACTION

(By Leased Wire to New Mexican.l
Paris, Nov. 1.-THE Painleve min
istry was defeated by a direct vote
in the chamber of deputies today and
later resigned.
This is the first time such action
mas been taken by the chamber
since the beginning of the war, as
up to the present it has been a point
of honor with many deputies not to
vote against the government, but to
express criticism by abstaining from
recording their votes.
Strong dissatisfaction with the gov
ernment's handling of the Bolo Pasha
affair Is believed the motive which
changed discomfort to active oppo-
sition. Two other things thought to
have had a part in the downfall of
the Painleve cabinet were the prem
ier's statement generating M. Malvy,
former minister of the interior, and
the fiasco attending the prosecution
Of faction Franchise, edited by Leon
Daudet, the accuser Of M. Malyy.
The ministerial crisis comes on
the eve of the inter-allied conference
and every effort will be made to set
tie it quickly. President Poincare
will begin consultations with politi-
leaders tomorrow morning.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
J.. S. CONSULATE
IN JUAREz BES|EGED
BY 100000 MEX|CANS
SEEKING PASSPORTS
Supply of Forms For
Required Information
Exhausted
NECESSARY
TO KEEP ORDER
(sy Leased Wire to New Msxican.)

(By Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
lei Paso, Tex, Nov. 1.-THE Ameri-
car consulate at Juarez was virtually
overwhelmed today by Mekicans
seeking to have passports, secured
from the mayor of Juarez, vised by
Consul e. A. Dow before the rigid
passports regulation goes into effect
tomorrow. Consul Dow estimated at
10 O'Clock that more than 10000 Mex
leans were c~ongregated about the
consulate filling the streets. The con-
sui said it would be impossible to
wise all the passports by tomorrow.
For one thing the supply of forms to
be filled out with required informa-
ton was exhausted. Mexican officials
estimated 1000 Mexicans living in
Juarez and working in El Paso will
require passports. On the American
side hundreds of Mexicans thronged
the Mexican consulates seeking pass
ports. They live in Ell Paso but work
in Juarez or have other reasons for
going over the river. Shortly before
noon the crowd in front of the Ameri-
can consulate in Juarez became rest
less but a detachment Of troops from
the garrison kept them in order.
Mayor Melchor Herrera and Rafael
Martinez, Of the Juarez chamber OF
commerce, fastened to the consulate
and mounted an automobile, consul
ing calmness and stated that since
the supply of forms was exhausted
the crowd dispense until 2 o'clock
this afternoon when it was believed
more of the blanks would be avail
able.
Few If any Americans yet have
been able to secure passports to enter
Mexico and return.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
HALLETT RAYNOLDS NAMED
NEW MEXICO DIRECTOR

Washington, Nov. 14.-Among the
directors of the war savings campaign
announced today were the following:
District No. 5-General Director, W.
F. Fleming, Kansas City; Colorado,
John Evans, Denver; New Mexico,
Hallett Reynolds, Las Vegas; Texas,
Louis Lipsitz, Dallas.
A director has not yet been appoint
ed for Arizona. The first conference
of the state and federal district d.
rectors will be held here tomorrow
and Friday to discuss plans for the
campaign.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
Billions in
Small Savings
To BE Gathered

Washington, Nov. 14.-Treasury Of
ficials went to work today on plans
for the newly announced campaign to
gather for war purposes $~2,OOO,OOO,-
900 of small savings within a year be-
ginning December 8, through a sys-
TEN of selling thrift stamps, war a v
ings stamps and war saving certifi-
Gates.
In virtually every bank, postoffice,
railroad station, school and retail
store in the country these stamps
will be placed on sale, for the double
purpose of encouraging the saving
habit and obtaining money in small
sums not available through sale OF
Liberty Bonds. Frank "A. Vanderlip,
New York banker, who is directing
the war savings movement announc-
ed today that directors of the cam
paign and advisory committees have
been appointed for every state.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
AMERICANS B|O|NG
TIME TO REPAY HUN
FOR TRENCH RAID
Comrades Of the Men
Killed Are Mad
All Through
NEW TROOPS NOW
IN THE FIRST LINE

With the American Army in
France, Nov. 14.-(By the Associated
Press.)-The third series of Ameri-
a battalions is now occupying the
first line and the second American
detachments to enter the trenches
have returned to their billets The
relief was accomplished on a brilliant
starlight night without the knowledge
of the Germans. Included among the
returning troops is the company
which bore the brunt of the recent
raid on the American trenches. At
retreat this evening this company
lined up in a little muddy street in
a village nesting under a hill some
miles from the front. Their clothes
were caked with mud and the roofs
and fences nearby were hung with
wet blankets and equipment.
Openings here and there in the
ranks showed how many men had
been killed, wounded and made pris-
oners in the trench fight. After the
company was dismissed an officer
of the battalion watched the men
splash off through the mud, and said:
There goes the scrappiest bunch
of soldiers in France. They are
mad all through and all are just bid
ing their time till they get q chance
to repay the Germans for what hap
pened to their comrades. They will
get their revenge before this war is
over. You can depend on them"
The second return battalions TO-
day were going through the same
series Of bathing and cleaning as the
first detachment. The men are to-
enjoy several days rest before TAX
ing up the training work again.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
Arizona Mining Men
Accused of Fraud

Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 14.-At the in
stance Of st. Louis stockholders, a
rants were issued today for Edmund
E. Walton, Josiah Ide, John H. White
and e. B. Mayo, charging felony in
connection with the operation of the
Little Olive Mining and Milling com
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
|WLL|STAS ROUTED
AT OJ|NAGA EARLY
TODAY; ANOTHER
ATTACK EXPECTED
Battle Started at Dawn
And Continued for
Two Hours
VILLA WAS AT
HEAD OF TROOPS
Wounded Soldiers and
Fleeing Civilians
Cross Border

10y Leased Wire to New Mexican
oJINAGA, MeA, Nov. a.
Fighting was resumed to the
southwest Of town at 9 o'clock
today and a small band Of Villa
5 followers advancing toward the
plaza from the direction of the
customs house east Of town, were
dispersed with machine gun fire.
Villa troops are massing on the
mesa to the southeast Of town
and a general attack 10 expected
during the day.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
Dutch Boat Sunk
Without Warning

London, Nov. 14.-An Amsterdam
dispatch to the Daily Mail says a Ger
man submarine on Monday ~torpedoed
without warning the Dutch trawler
IHuibertje at a point rs miles off the
Dutch coast. A Dutch boy of Is
years was killed. Ten survivors were
rescued after being sever hours in a
small boat, and we're landed at Ymul-
den.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-11-15
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE FOR THOSE
CROSSING BORDER DAILY

Washington, Nov. rehabilitation
Of new passport regulations so as to
permit railway employees and other
persons who cross the American
Mexican border in the coursesof their
calling to continue to come and go
a arranged today by the state de-
partment.