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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
LEGISLATIVE SITUATION.

In some cases, there is a woful
lack Of desirable candidates for
the next legislature. In other
cases, there is a wealth of unde-
sirable candidates, speaking from
the standpoint of the many, rather
than the few.
The next session of the legisla-
ture will be most important. Tn
der the cloak of patriotism, loyal
ty and other virtues, the Big Inter.
ests are very likely to attempt the
capture of many Of the advanced
trenches Of the people.
After all the horrors in Europe
and all the sacrifices, civilization
should advance, not 60 backwards,
in this country. No true advance
can be expected from the Big In
terests, the Fat Boys, the reaction
aries and the flunkies of those ell
ements.
Men who have advanced views !;
men who are in complete sympa-
thy with modern tendencies in So
ciety and government; men who
can be trusted to stand strongly
and faithfully, should be sent to
1.-THE halls of legislation next winter,
and no others.
Minnesota probably will vote
Dry and the next legislature
should comprise men who will not
betray the will Of the people. The
next legislature should embrace a
majority that will .ratify the
Dry amendment to the Federal
constitution.
The next legislature should have
a heavy majority of men who will
serve the people and not the pol
iticians; men who will serve the
many and not the few; men who
will favor equal rights for all and
special privileges for none. No in
justice to either end of the state
should be permitted, Neither iron
companies nor agriculturists
should be baited, badgered nor
treated unjustly by lawmakers.
Let each and every class show
honesty, fairness, loyalty and pa
triotism by seeking a happy me-
dunn, going to no extreme and,
thereby bringing security, justice
and happiness to the entire popu-
lation as never done before.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
sATURDAY--THE DULUTH RIP-sAW---MAY4 4, 1915

I did not listen to him,
And he's coming after me
With q million Yankee soldiers,
From their home across the sea.
Now that's why I called you, Satan,
For I want advice from you.
I know that you would tell me
Just what I ought to do.
My dear old Kaiser William,
There's not much for me to tell;
For the Yanks will make it hotter
Than can for you in hell,
I've been mean old devil,
But not half as mean as you,
And the minute that you get here,
will give my job to you.
I'll be ready for your coming,
And I'll keep the fires all bright,
And I'll have your room all ready
When the Yanks begin to fight.
For the boys in blue will get you,
l have nothing more to tell,
Hang up the phone and get your ha
And meet me here in hell.
Unknown,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

cleanliness and the common pro-
prieties. Many citizens think too
much of Duluth's good name to
complacently see it made joke
city.
The boosted Silberstein pres
tige must be held responsible for
giving Duluth a grossly immoral,
incompetent and undesirable man
for chief of police. But commits.
sioner Silberstein cannot be ex-
pected to do any better than l.,
has. He has neither capacity nor
DESIRE.
When the other commissioners
sit there calmly, complacently and
silently, the people who put them
there and who expected better
things of them, begin to believe
that they like the soft pedal bet
ter than loud peals Of publicity
and that they think more Of their
political welfare than of the peo-
shes and best interests.
If the present state Of affairs
continues many more months, i;
may become necessary to invoke
action by the st. Louis county
grand jury.
He who runs may read.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
ANGRY HUSBAND
MURDERS HIS Wife
Couple Quarrel Fierce|y; She
Packs Up to Leave
For Duluth.

Steve Foster, a Willow River
farmer, shot and killed his com.
mon law wife because she packed
up her buds and declared she was
going to Duluth. Foster now re.
poses in the Jail at Saltwater un.
der a charge of murder.
Foster and the woman lived on
a farm between Willow River and
Sturgeon Lake. They were not
legally married but had lived to-
gether for Is years. There were
no children. Foster was 81 and
the woman As years of age.
The shooting was the outcome
of a quarrel that lasted all the
afternoon. Angered by the WON
ans action in packing up and he,
insistence on going to Duluth
Foster fred three bullets into the
woman s, breast from a 32-cal. re-
volver. She fell dead on the din
ing room floor.
Foster stated that he then tried
to commit suicide with a shot CUR
but that the shell failed to ex
plode. He either disliked the re-
volver route out Of the world u
else never thought of using it.
After doing his terrible deed
Foster informed P. w. Swedbera
who was passing the house in his
car. Sheriff Hawley of Pine
county was notified. He arrested
Foster and lodged him in tire Pine
county Jail. Later, he was re
moved to the county Jail at Still
water. =
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
JUDGE MORRIS PICTURE.

Is the Duluth News Tribune turning
socialist, or was it trying to play a
joke on Page Morris? That very UNI
reliable and utterly unworthy publica-
ton recently produced a picture of
Karl Marx and labeled it "Hon. Page
Morris."-C. M. Atkinson in The Mesa
ba Ore.
If Col. Atkinson would mix with
the throng a bit more when in
Duluth, he would not blunder 80
over the identity of our own dear
Judge Morris.
That really and truly was a
portrait of "Hon. Page Morris ~
and not one of Karl Marx. Listen
Claude:
Page some time ago sprouted
whiskers.
The way Judge Morris wears his
face is an excellent political bar
Ometer.
When Arthur was president, the
lineal descendent of Charles
Stuart wore side-whiskers.
When Mckinley was president.
this scion of the F. F. VS. shaved
smooth, thinking, perhaps, that he
looked like a little like Thomas
Jefferson, if not Mckinley. JEFF
ferson was a statesman and, a.
though a democrat, Morris IS fore
bears also were democrats.
Then, when it looked like
Hughes for president, our mer-
curial jurist let 'em grow, think
ing to get on the band wagon
early. Hughes slipped a cog and
then perspicacious Page failed to
cut 'em off for fear that the pub
lie would think he looked like
Wilson.
When you come to Duluth, Old
Man Thereof, cut out a lot of that
social fol-de-rol and mingle with
the boys in the st. Louis Fotel lob
by. You then will not mistake our
own Federal judge for such COM
mon-place character as Karl Marx.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
WHY A CHIEF OF POLICE.

A chief of police generally is
supposed to exist for the protec-
ton Of the wives, daughters and
sisters of reputable families.
Duluth has a chief of police who
apparently has a special call to
protect favorite redlight ladies
from molestation, either by local
police or authorities of nation and
other states.
When chief of police McKercher
permitted a notorious redlight
woman and blind-pigger to leave
Duluth unmolested, after many,
many months of illicit rade, Du-
luth's most loyal citizens hung
their heads in shame. But when
the Big Chief permits that same
woman to return to the city with
out hurt or hindrance, it makes a
joke Of law enforcement, moral
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
A NERVY FARMER.

Talking about nerve, I wit
messed the best display along that
line that has ever come to my no.
tice, in a little town in Iowa, some
time ago." said a travelling sales
man.
"A we'll known farmer living
near the village, stepped into a
store and asked the merchant for
a loan of $25, which was promptly
forthcoming. He went across the
street to the postoffice, where he
bought a money order for the
amount which he enclosed will, All
order for goods to a Chicago mail
order house.
"Shortly after the farmer had
gone, the postmaster told Mr.. &.
q. Merchant how he had been
stung.
MAD! Say, but that merchant
was a little bit the maddest man
ever saw.
"a few days ago I was again in
the Iowa village, and the mer-
chant told me his experience. He
said the day following the trans
action, the farmer who had long
been a customer, and buying on
credit, came into the store, the
merchant called him into his office
and told him that he was owing
him so much, including the money
loaned, demanded the cash which
he got; and told the astounded
customer to get out of the store
and to stay out.
"Then the customer began to
see a light. He humbly apologized
In a short time he began to make
cash purchases at the store and
the merchant told me that man
today can be counted on as a good
customer and loyal to the store. d
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
LABOR.


I've builded your ships Ind your rail-
roads,
I've worked in your factories and
mines,
I've builded the roads you drive on,
I've crushed the ripe grapes for
your wines.
I've worked late at night on your
garments,
gathered the grain for your
bread,
l built the fine house that you live
in,
Iprinted the books you have read.
I've linked two great oceans togeth-
er,
I've spanned your rivers with
steel, .,
I built your towerinC skyscrapers,
And also your automobile.
I've gone out to wrecked ships in the
- life boats,
When the storm loudly cried for
its prey,
I've guarded your homo from ma
RAIDERS,
have turned the night into day.
Wherever there's progress you'll find
me,
without me the world could not
live; -
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

that he will not know what has
happened. If any other average,
clean, reputable candidate faces
Halden at the polls next Novem-
Der, the venerable beneficiary of
the political piecounter will 60
down to bitter defeat.
The people have decreed the
Punishment of Odin Halden from
the marble lined courthouse.
Struggle as desperately as he may
and beg as piteously as he can for
a revision Of that decree, it will
avail him not. At midnight, De-
cember 81, 1918, the so-called King
of the Courthouse will be sent in
to permanent exile.
The people have firmly made up
their minds and their decision can
not be over-ruled.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
JACKIE'S APPEAL.

We give you our service, you shut off
our beer,
But a Stacker can drink till he is
full to the ear.
We leave our good homes to keep
you from harm,
But Stacker goes by with girl on
each arm.
And laughs at sailor, poor unlucky
cuss,
You go with a Stacker. why criticize
us?
The Stacker rides round in a Ford
p, Of his own,
And charges two bits to take us
home.
We are doing our duty, his liver is
white,
Yes, we are in bed at nine every
night, .
While Stacker goes around as long
as he cares,
And laughs at the Jackies, that Is il
he dares,
Discipline we know is thing that
must be,
But honest to goodness we fail to see
When u the drinks of a Jackie are
water and pop,
Why the drinks of Stacker can't
also be stopped.
The Stacker can dance and 1t seems
rather hard
In a decent dance the uniform is bar
red.
We shoulder our rifles and take our
places,
And will 60 to death with a smile on
our faces,
But this is a Jackie that appeals to
you
And until we 60 over, girls, give us
our dues.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
THE. EMPTY COAT.

'Taint no use, a-hangin' there,
On it's peg no more!
Sleeves a-showin' too much wear,
Pocket badly tore.
Prob'ly, when the war is done,
It'll be too small.
Guess he'll have another one
If he comes at all.
But it's sacred in our eyes;
Somethin' like a prayer;
Now it looks so lonesome-wise,
Just a-hangin' there.
Seems like yesterday stood,
Watched him bout his chores;
Bringin' in the kitchen wood,
Stompin' cross the floors.
Laughed to see him snoopin' around
Like he used to snoop,
Whistlin' happy when he found
Ma was maxim soup.
Now that he amt here no more
Ma and me just glance
Up at the old coat he wore
Fore he went to France.
Nights, when all the doors is shet,
Fore I go upstairs,
Touch its sleeve an find 1t wet
Mas been cryin' there.
Somethin's smartin' my eyes, too,
Have to. wink 'em tight,
When I whisper, proud o. you!
Good night, lad! Good night"
Lon Brier, in The American Mag
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
THE AUDITORIAL SITUATION

To date, only two avowed candi-
dates for county auditor exist
Odin Halden and Walter Bergen.
While the time for filing does
not expire for some time, any other
aspirants will favor the people and
enhance their chances by plainly,
frankly and promptly announcing
their candidacy.
Already, auditor Halden has
started his web-spinning. His voice
is that of Jacob but his hands are
the rough, hairy ones of Esau. His
methods are those of a quarter of
a century ago. Like the cunning,
crafty, cruel leopard, St. Louis
county's champion offce-seeker
cannot change his spots.
Any aspirant who unduly delays
in taking the voters into his con-
fdence, must bear the odium of
being a creature Of the crafty in
cumbent of the auditorial office.
One of his oldest and favorite
games is to smother an opposing
aspirant with a surfeit of oppon-
ents at as late a day in the cam
paign as possible.
If W. S. Nc Cormick, William r.
Wasson, Ed. II. Hatch, or any
other reputable citizen wishes,
plans or expects to be candidate,
the people should be so informed
ct once. It is their right to know.
The county auditor should be a
public servant and the people
should have proper chance to
make their selection.
If Odin Halden and Walter Bor-
gen get on the permanent ticket,
Bergen will beat Halden so badly
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

And yet you would seek to destroy
me
With the meager pittance you give.
Today you may grind me in slavery,
You may dictate to me from the
throne;
But tomorrow I throw off my letters,
And am ready to claim what own.
You masters Of field and of factory,
am mighty and you are but few;
No longer I'll bow in submission, :
/ am Labor and ask for my due.
-Rudd McKillips.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
POETS CORNER
THE KAIsER's TALK TO HELL
The Kaiser called the Devil up

The Kaiser called the Devil up
On the telephone one day;
The girl at central listened to
All they had to say.
Hello, she heard the Kaiser say,
Is Old Man Satan home?
Just tell him it is Kaiser Bill
That wants him on the phone.
The Devil said, Hello to Bill.
And Bill said, how are you?
I'm running hell here on earth,
So tell me what to do.
What can I do, the Devil said,
My dear old Kaiser Bill,
If there's a thing that I can do
To help you, sure I will.
The Kaiser said, now listen
And I will try to tell
The way that I am running
On earth a modern hell.
I've saved for this for many years
And I've started out to kill.
That it will be modern job
You leave to Kaiser Bill
My army went thorugh Belgium,
Shooting women and children
down;
we tore up all ner DOunQry
And blew up all her towns.
My Zepps dropped bombs on cities,
Killing both the old and young,
And those the Zeppelins didn't get
Were taken out and hung.
I started out for Paris,
With the aid of poisonous gas.
The Belgians, darn them, stopped US
And would not let US pass.
My submarines are devils,
Why, you should see them fight:
They go sneaking through the sea
And will sink ship on sight.
I was running things to suit me
TIL q year or so ago,
When man called Woodrow Wilson
Wrote me to 60 more slow.
He says to me, dear William,
We don't want to make you sore,
So be sure to tell your U-boats
Not to sink our ships no more.
We have told you for the last time,
So, dear Bill, it's up to you
And II you do not stop 1t,
You have got TO fight US, too.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
A CHILD'S PRAYER.

"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my Soul to keep,
God bless my brother gone to war
Across the seas, in France, so far.
Oh, may his fight for Liberty,
Save millions more than little me
From cruel fates or ruthless blast,
And bring him safely home at last.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
THE SEASONS CALL.

"Clean up and paint up"
Don't you hear the call?
Indoor and outdoors
Work for each and all!
Clean house-and paint houge,
White or brown or red;
Tidy up the back yard
And paint up the shed;
Burn the alley rubbish;
Send the tin cans hence
After that-the thought is rich!-
Fix that alley Tense!
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
THE PEOPLES SCHOOLS.

1t is an encouraging sign to see
the patrons Of the public schools
take an interest in matters per-
tanning to local theory and prac-
tice. Entirely too many citizens
know entirely too little about edu-
cational systems and methods. En-
tirely too many Duluthians know
entirely too little about the teach
ers, supervisors and results in the
local schools. Any legitimate
means of imparting helpful in
formation must be commended.
Any honest effort to acquire in
formation cannot be otherwise
than beneficial.
The Duluth Commercial Club
cannot 60 wrong in listening to
heads of departments in the pub
lie schools explain their methods
and outline their objects. Hard
headed business men often need
information in detail and both
they and the schools will profit
from the giving Of such informa-
ton and the exchange of ideas.
But any propaganda carried on
should be done for worthy mo-
tives, unselfsh ends and in a
broad, general unselfish spirit. No
clique, interest or individual
should attempt to serve purely
personal ends.
Organization of clubs, associa-
tons and community societies is
legitimate and should be encour-
aged if detached from any selfish
or sinister motives. Any and all
school employees should aid in a
reasonable way if any undertake
ing is unquestionably for the sole
and exclusive benefit of the
schools.
But no employe of the board of
education should be permitted to
carry on propaganda to bolster up
personal interests. The represent
alive of no club or organization
should be given quarters in pub
lie school building and then per-
mitted to carry on a campaign
for the financial or political bene-
fit of some prominent member of
the teaching staff or some aspir-
ant for election to a dictatorship.
The public schools belong to the
common people because they are
in the majority. The rich, the
autocrats, the social aristocracy
not only are in the minority but,
as soon as their progeny sprout pin
feathers, ship them off to some ex-
pensive, exclusive private school.
The board of education, there
fore, should be controlled by dem
ocracy instead of autocracy. The
board of education should hold
itself responsible to the people,
the plain, common parents who
furnish the pupils, pay the taxes
and carry the burden of the edu-
cational budget.
Both the people and the school
board should strenuously resent all
improper interference by any pri-
vate clique, organization, club or
society.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
/, EVERLASTING TEAM WORK.

ut amt the guns or ornaments
Nor the funds that they can pay,
But the close cooperation that
makes them win the day.
It amt the individuals,
Nor the army as q whole,
But the everlasting teamwork
of every blooming SOUL"
-Kipline.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

The plain common people fur
nish most of the pupils, pay most
Of the taxes and are heavily in
the majority, therefore they
should name and elect a majority
Of the members of the school
board. IS
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
HOUSTON HUN-HUNTERs.

Houston, Mimi, folks donated
more than 500 for war work of
the Salvation Army in France.
The next week, the same people
gathered up all German text books
in the community and destroyed
them in a big bonfire. 'l-~-s :
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04
BRAINERD'S NEW SAWMILI

P. M. Parker and G. Il. Kellogg
of the Parker-Kellogg Company,
Minneapolis, will locate a new saw
mill in Northeast Brainerd. Tween
ty-five men. will be employed on
an annual cut of 100000 feet.
Not only will green timber be cut
but, like the Ripsaw, the new
plant will work up deadheads.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

The rich man who serves his
country and then demands a pub
lie office in payment has some
thing the matter with his mo-
tiYes.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

Sunday, Sept. II, 1893, at 3 80
p. NJ, street car jumped over the
approach to the ship canal at the
foot of Lake avenue and took a
header into the waters of the
canal. Ned TenEyck was not
there to rescue the trolley GER,
therefore it turned on it's side,
foated a moment and gently sank
in twenty feet of water. Later on,
it was fished out and put back into
service.
A that time, there was no aerial
bridge. There were no concrete
canal piers. The piers were cor
structed of timber and the canal
was only $50 feet wide. There
was not so much current in the
canal and the waters were less
deep than now. Incidently, it may
be added, there were no SCOTT.
steel freighters in those days. A
boat 300 feet long was considered
quite imposing.
The. street car that took the
plunge into the canal was running
10 or Is miles an hour. A block
from the canal, the motorman
found that the brakes would not
work He sounded an alarm and
could have used his reverse lever
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-10-24

DR.. Louis J. Pint, former state BAG
teriologist and at present connected
with the research laboratory of the
University of Chicago, told the Chica-
go medical society that he had sue
ceeded in isolating the germs respon-
sible for the so-called influenza cpl
demic which is sweeping the country
and that the regulation diphtheria an
titoxin is an absolute specific for the
disease. The germs responsible for
the disease, which he said is not inf1u-
enza he gave as staphylococcus aur-
Gus, which is usually responsible for
carbuncles, sterptococus, which causes
blood poisoning and vincent angina, a
throat disease. He said the epidemic
was mainly caused by the present war
diet and especially by the curtailment
of the usual consumption of sugar:
DR.. Pint said that he had treated rs
cases with the diphtheria anti-toxin
without the loss of single case. Mr..
Hoover should increase the sugar al
lotment in order to stop this disease,
if this is the case.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-10-24

our doctors and nurses are being
worked to death. Calls are coming -
from all directions for help f,on *.
over the country. The Times -5.aass:srS
editor received a long distance cclH
from Cooperstown this morning uc,sks-
ing for doctors. Two deaths ur1pN
up there last night and sesrr:i1 are
in critical condition. There is onlp
one doctor available for service IN
Griggs county, DR.. Almaow, a
Cooperstown, the other doctor there
and the doctors at Binford, TIanrafend
and other points in that county en-
sick in bed and the people Up there ;ssrx.
in sore need OF help. Our nurses and
doctors are overworked here and We
are unable to help them out. SINH
lar reports are coming from all oyrr
the state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-10-24

Walter Thomas Mills, that expert
socialist orator and contortionist, who
amuses his audiences more by his stor-
les and caricature of others than ne
does by sound argument, was in the
city last night and rested his weary
bones on one of Landlord Hamilton.s
fine mattresses at the Valley Hotel.
Mr.. Mills has quit campaigning tor
the nonce and after the deluge on the
fifth Of November will probably ME
himself back to beautiful berke1ey'
California, to spend the money he has
earned from the farmers Of North Da-
: kota and which he will take back to
California to spend. These 'saviors OF
the dear people get by without paying
any taxes in the state and then the
rest of us are accused and oiameo pc
cause we are not willing to have this
bunch carry off the state capital and
whatever else is loose for them to pick
up,