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The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
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County auditor Halden and 4
prominent Steel Trust official
have promised the people of
Brookston to induce the next leg
islature to wipe out a heavy debt
that the village owes the state so
that the corporate life of the
place can be continued and the
private business houses and homes
rebuilt.
This self-appointed task Of Hal
den and the benevolent Steel Trust
official smacks very much Of poll
tics and political bribery. There
is the implied but unwritten con-
ditiOn that the BroOkstOn boys
vote for dear old Halden.
Both Halden and the prominent
Steel Trust official fail to remem-
ber that the members of the legis-
lature are the ones to make prom.
ises and carry out such financial
relief. If a local candidate for the
legislature made such promises,
his good taste would be question
ed. 'Anything to help Halden"
is the Steel Trust motto.
Every voter and, probably, every
future member of the legislature
will stand strongly for any possi-
BILE relief for Brookston's finan-
cial burdens. Such things can be
done without voting for Halden
and all the BroOkston boys know
it well.
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price and a commission Of SITS
in addition.
The "Food Hog" to whom the
spuds were consigned is not known
to have found any fault with the
quality Of the potatoes. Shipment
had been authorized and accom-
panied by draft to a local bank
in the customary manner.
Those closest to this deal are
satisfied that the member of the
monopoly saw a chance to bluff,
jockey and harass Messrs. Thomp-
son & Co., thereby getting heavy
concession as to price. Luckily,
the independent dealer saved the
cohsignors any loss and made a
neat little commission from the
buyer of the carload.
That deal neatly illustrates the
undesirability Of a monopoly and
the benefits Of independent deal
ers, especially if strong and hon
orable enough to give real COM
petition.
Once upon a time, producer
shipped forty bushels Of carrots
to a local "Food Hog and forty
bushels to an independent. The
Food Hog" firm paid a net price
of less than So for the forty
bushels of carrots while the in
dependent dealer paid over $40
for the forty bushels consigned to
him.
That little deal shows the DIFF
ference between square, independ-
ent dealers and crooked, woltish
monopolists.
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PROMINENT DEsERTERs

A great deal OF republican
noise is being made over the fact
that a large number Of "pron.i-
uant" democrats have gone over
to the republican side in this
state, and solely from patriotic
motives. The ''large'' number is
Anton Weiss, Of the Duluth Her.
aid; Dan Lawler (of the Lord
only knows WHAT Judge Stanton
Of Bemidji, and a time-serving
editor &C. F. Macdonald) at Saint
Cloud. If it is patriotism that at
tracts such characters, then IN
deed patriotism must be pretty
sticky.-The Mesaba Ore
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DOROTHY HILL DEPARTS.
Dorothy Hill, Chief McKercher's
favorite redlight lady, seems to
have hidden Duluth a final fare.

Dorothy Hill, Chief McKercher's
favorite redlight lady, seems to
have hidden Duluth final fare
well.
Dorothy conducted a number of
popular redlight joints in Duluth
without police interference. When
the Rip-saw turned the bright
spotlight of publicity onto her and
her pollution of local morals, the
dainty creature is reputed to have
shipped consignment Of furni-
ture to Seattle.
Dorothy came back here for q
couple of days about three weeks
ago. She took her remaining fur
niture out of pawn and shipped it
away. Some of it went to Henne-
pin avenue, Minneapolis, and some
of it to Lake Mills, Iowa.
Although the U. s. marshal was
looking for Dorothy, having a war
rant for her arrest for white slav-
cry, no tip was given him by Chief
McKercher.
Last year, when the q. s. mar
shall wanted Dorothy, he unwisely
sought information from McKer.
cher, without result. Later, Archie
Mckay, states attorney in Supe-
rior, went to McKercher to get
the sinful lady's location. The
Big Chief informed Mr.. Mckay
that Madam Hill was in Canada.
In fact, she was running one inn
moral dump in Duluth and another
in Superior, at that time.
Dorothy Hill, alias Mable Green
field, leaves unpaid debts in Du-
luth to the tune of about 81 900.
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le with Uncle Sans uniformed

tue with Uncle Sans uniformed
servant.
''Throw this fellow in the guard
house to keep that other prisoner
company, he commanded.
The buck privates hastened to
carry out the command Of their
superior.
McKercher brooded gloomily
and gnawed his nails for a time.
Then, it is alleged, he began to
below like a Galloway bull. That
had no effect, therefore he gritted
his teeth and pounded his chest
like a captive ape.
Brass buttons, ham-like hands,
threats, pleadings-all were in
vain. The big boob staid there
with Warwick and played check
ers with his nose until released
quite a while later.
It is alleged that, after s'Uncle
Bob" got back to headquarters,
his nerves were in such a frazzled
condition that his private lady
nurse had to bathe his aching brow
with cologne.
Chief McKercher must be los4
ing his grip. Saturday night,
October 16, he was flying east
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Chief McKercher looks sneaker
than ever since he recently was
compelled to dc time in the guard
house at the Armory.
Aside from the society Of plump
ladies, "Uncle Bob, :" as the DANES
fondly call him, enjoys nothing
better than throwing some help
less unfortunate into jail. 1t not
only seems to satisfy his primitive
sense Of humor but a 'congenital
streak of cruelty, as well.
Sturdy members of the Home
Guard are credited with making
Bluffing Bob and some of his Of
ficers gun-shy, when it comes to
halting trucks driven by men in
uniform.
A trunck belonging to a local
wholesale house was going at a
brisk rate Of speed along Superior
street to get supplies in the West
End. On reaching Fifth avenue
west the driver took advantage of
a clear road way to speed up to
point that met the disapproval Of
critical traffic policeman Wan
wick.
Half an hour later, the machine
returned and officer Warwick
halted the car and driver
"What do you want9'' asked
the driver, a man in an officers
uniform.
"You're under arrest for break
ing the speed limit. Come with
me to police headquarters %
"All right, hop in" said the Of
ficer-chauffeur.
The car proceeded on its way
until it was speeding eastward by
the police station.
"Here's the station" said traf-
fic cop Warwick.
"To HI with the station,
ere going to the Armory, - was
the reply.
The traffic officer protested
strongly, but without avail.
When the truck reached the Ar
mory, traffic officer Warwick was
thrown into the guard house for
interfering with military orders.
The predicament of traffic Off
Ger Warwick reached the ears of
Chief McKercher. He went in hot
haste to the Armory. Entering,
he approached the officer in
charge and exclaimed: .
''I'm the chief Of police Of this
city. I want that man released at
once"
The demand fell on deaf ears.
Chief McKercher then became
so insistent that he was annoying.
Patience soon ceased to. be vir-
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cents a pound in the melon price
was to make it impossible, or at
least very difficult, for the out
slider, the independent, the COM
petitor, to dispose Of his shipment,
or even to- force him to stand a
loss. Usually, the game seems to
be to force a loss on the poor
dealer who is outside the magic
circle.
Then, after the poor outsider
has been cleaned up and given a
black eye, the monopolists boost
the prices right back again, there
by quickly receuping any losses
from their short period of heavy
price reduction.
Often the monopolists are able
to average up on any losses by
raising prices on something that
the outsider does not have on
hand. If, for example, there is
a heavy cut in melons, the "Big
Four can and does boost the
price Of other products, cucum-
bers, tomatoes or corn, which the
competitor may not have in ample
stock just then.
Retailers, of course, will go
where they can buy the cheapest.
Although they may be groaning
under an excessively high price on
melons and may beg an independ-
ent to bring in a carload at lower
prices, if the monopolistic "Big
Four cuts prices to a point lower
than the competing independent,
all thankfulness for knocking
kown high prices is forgotten and
some member Of the ''Big Four"
sells those retailers their melons.
When fruit, vegetables or other
food products are consigned to a
Michigan street dealer, the shipper
is more or less at the mercy of the
"Big Four With only four
members in the Duluth Produce
Exchange, Inc, it is quite easy
fer a wolfsh commission man to
give the shipper raw deal. He
can claim that the shipment ar
rived in much poorer cond ion
than it really did. He can reply
that the market is glutted, whether
or not it really is, thereby laying
fine foundation for heavy cut
in price. The stuff may be put
through the process of being Of
fered and sold on the produce ex-
change and, with only four mem
bers, four monopolistic firms, a
veritable "happy family" almost
any old price can be paid without
interference. A firm not at all ex-
cessively greedy or crooked can
not very well prevent another flrm
from pulling trough stuff" so
small is the membership and so
closely allied are the members.
If, as claimed and believed by
many, there are interlocking
directorates and interlocking stock
interests in the "Big Four" so
much more easy is it to monopolize
prices and the distribution of
products.
It is charged that, the past sea-
son, the public was made to be-
lieve that the berry crop was short
and good fruit very scarce, hence
minimizing any tendency to kick
On the skyhigh prices. The facts
are that the crop was not short in
many places. Duluth's commits
sion row lacks independent deal
ers in number and financial
strength. The "Big Four" pow
erful, resourceful, combined and
aggressive, can quickly drive into
a corner the few weak, struggling,
over-worked independent firms.
1t is charged that when car
of produce arrives that some Of
the Food Hogs" follow the nasty
practice Of refusing the shipment
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When the Duluth Produce Ex-
change, Inc, embraces but four
commission houses, quite a tight
little monopoly Of the local fruit
and produce business is the natural
result.
If your monopolistic fruit and
produce frms.are benevolently in
clined, they can make legitimate
profits for themselves and enable
retailers to buy and sell at 'Iive
and let live" prices.
If, by any chance, all, or even
a dominant majority of the few
firms enjoying the benefit of a
food monopoly, or a food trade
monopoly, are strongly con the
make" if they do not care a cuss
what happens to the weak retailer
or the helpless consumer; if they
are inclined at all to "cut the
corners" with their customers and
correspondents; if they gouge,
bite and break all the rules of
the game Of fair dealing, then dis
content, criticism, dissatisfaction
and such hard names as "Food
Hogs" are bound to be the out
come.
There are tricks in all trades
but, in many trades, the tricks
are not pernicious in their nature
and really harm no one, especially
in the pocketbook. Many a bird
finds it pleasant and profitable to
be enticed into trap, if conditions
are better than in an untrapped
state.
If, by some harmless trick, man
is trapped into buying from or
selling to some firm, he is better
off than before, perhaps, if a
square deal is given him in the
trapping process.
But, in fruit and produce busi-
ness, either on a straight buying
J and selling basis, or On a COM
mission basis, it is very easy to
give the weak, the inexperienced
or the helpless fellow raw, rot
ten deal.
When the Duluth Produce Ex-
change, Inc, neglects, declines or
does not desire other fruit, pro-
duce and provision firms to hold
memberships, the situation is
viewed with suspicion. The
smaller the membership, the
tighter the monopoly can be made
and the worse the deals that can
be handed to producers, shippers,
correspondents, retailers and con-
sumers.
There is much complaint as to
the methods of the dominant firms
in the alleged Michigan street
monopoly of fruits and provisions.
The appellation Of Food Hogs"
is based on a wider and longer
ground than the burning of usable
fruits, vegetables and eggs some
thing over a year ago.
Melons were costing the retail
ers four cents pound on Mich
igan street. Their customers
could not pay four cents, plus the
retailers profits. In their ex-
tremity, they turned from the
"Big Four the monopolists, the
alleged Good Hogs" and begged
an independent to succor them.
The Independent dealer got in
a car of melons at a price whereby
he could sell at two cents a pound
: and make a profit for himself.
The "Terrible Trust - as out
side firms call the .'Big -Four, -
those alleged "Food Hogs" and
monopolists of Michigan street S
fruit and produce trade, promptly
cut the price to two cents and
then followed that by another cut.
The idea Of arbitrarily and sum-
marily dropping from four to'two
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up the draft, dispose of the po-
al Falls house for any deficit.
The independent dealer took up
the draft, used the wires and mar
keted the carload at the full draft
tatoes to best possible advantage
and then draw on the Internation-
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
TIGHT LITTLE MONOPOLY
HOLDS MICHIGAN STREET
LOCAL "FOOD HOGS" HAVE GREAT POWER
FOR GOOD OR FOR EVIL. ;::

Melons Sell for Four, Cents Pound-Independent
Dealer Offers Carload at Two Cents-"Big
Four Cuts Price to Cause Independent Loss.
Illuminating Story of Thompson's Potato Ship
ment-Illinois Apple Dealer Complains OF
Local misunderstanding Little Story OF
a Carrot Deal. I:::-.
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60 to the next legislature and Sc
cure all kinds Of relief.
While Mr.. Halden is entitled
to credit for any legitimate serv-
ice, he also is entitled to severe
criticism for misuse of conditions.
He merely is clerk Of the board
Of county commissioners. He has
no official power and, in the next
legislature, may even possess no
influence. He has tried to make
fire sufferers and voters believe
that all desired relief will and
must come through him.
Aside from making political
capital and influencing votes Of
the unfortunate, Halden is laying
foundation for an excuss to
spend three months at st. Paul the
coming winter. Steam heat in the
state house and highballs at the
hotel st. Paul bar are very CRATE
full to the twisty old schemer.
This advertising, by the way,
amounts to fully $1,000 and will
come out of the taxpayers, through
the county treasurer, by virtue Of
Halden's domination of a majority
of the county commissioners.
Honest, decent, candidates put
up their own campaign expenses,
Halden, as usual, makes the peo-
pie pay the bulk of his.
A small army Of clerks and dep
uties, many Of them working only
during the campaign, is swarm
ing through the county, at expense
of county time and the taxpayers
treasury, lying about Halden's OPP
ponent, abusing any one who is
against Halden, stopping at the
best hotels. using county autOmo-
biles, chauffeurs, oil and gasoline.
Halden's campaign is an orgy,
riot, an assault on honesty, de-
cency and the public funds.
Interviews with fire sufferers at
the Armory show that victims ap-
preciate relief but that they will
not pay for\it by handing over
their votes to Halden. Long be-
fore they met loss of property and
loved ones by terrible forest fires
they got wise to Halden's meth
DDS and promised themselves to
vote for him never again.
This perversion of Red Cross
relief should damn Halden in the
eyes of every decent, high-minded
person in st. Louis county. If it
is not stopped, heavy support Of
the relief work will stop.
In his desperate, lawless death
struggles, Auditor Halden is play
ing the part Of ghoul. He is
trying to climb to safety on the
shoulders of those suffering from
dire misfortune.
Such a man would dance a jig
at funeral; make a campaign
speech in a grave yard or tack his
campaign card on the coffin of
the dead. -..
Yet supposedly high-minded
citizens seem to feel that any des-
picable stunt is permissible if it
helps Halden.
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Odin Halden is charged with
prostituting the Red Cross and
it's forest fire relief work to his
political benefit.
If the local officers Of the Red
Cross do not know this, they
should properly inform them
selves. If they do know it, then
the people should put a ban on the
local Red Cross.
Odin Halden is a member of
the relief committee. He arrogates
to himself all the power and priv
ileges Of that committee. Red
Cross relief supplies are sent to
the hinterland and distributed by
shifty political agents Of the court
house autocrat.
Undeniable proof is at hand that
families entirely untouched by the
forest fires have been handed Red
Cross relief supplies. =
This wilful, wicked perversion
Of relief supplies is purely for
political effect in favor Of dishon-
est .Halden.
A load Of supplies was sent up
to Gowan, for example. 1t was
put in charge Of a man who freely
distributed the stuff, some OF it
to fire victims. but much Of it to
families that did not lose a single
dollar by fire.
1t further is charged that Hal
den's campaign cards and litera.
ture have been enclosed in Red
Cross packages Of relief supplies.
The cunning Kauppi, accom-
panied by one Tollonen, is touring
the Fifth commissioners district.
Kauppi is the discredited former
county commissioner whose pin
ding grocery trade at West Du-
luth makes Halden's service and
Doodle very acceptable. If Halden
can stick in the courthouse, Kaup-
pi hopes to ''come back;'' as COM
missioner. =
Tollonen is a Finish mercenary
who makes a living by selling in
surance and questionable stocks to
his ,compatriots. A few weeks
ago, he tackled at least one can
didate to hire him, asking $500 for
his questionable services. He adj
mitted that he was under. pay to
still another candidate. His mer-
cenary proposition was turned
down. Wherefore he sold his soul
and services to Halden.
This pair of fine birds assume
to appraise fire loss, give fire re-
lief and then they make house to
house, direct, personal appeal for
votes for Halden, undoubtedly at
Red Cross expense.
All this is further and conclu-
sive proof that Halden will steal
the livery Of Heaven in which to
serve the crooked politician.
When fire sufferers reach Du-
luth, one of Halden's small army
of flunkies, paid by the poor old
county, takes the sufferers in
charge and fills them up with the
glowing tales Of what dear old
Halden is going to do for them
After that, they are shunted along
to the Armory where the devoted
and sincere Red Cross folk give
them real and actual relief, instead
Of hot air and empty words.
Halden has been working over
time to make political capital out
of the recent forest fires. He
most literally in%rted advertise.
ments in nearly every paper in
st. Louis county, some Of them
fifty and even seventy-five miles
from any fire ravages, telling how
he was going to get tax interest
and penalties abated and even the
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-11-02
FIRE RELIEF SUPPLIES
CONTAIN HALDEN CARDS
KING STEALS HEAVENS
LIVERY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

Cunning Kauppi and Mercenary Tollonen Go Out
With Relief Supplies and Boost for Halden.
Red Cross Goods Given Those Who Suffered
No Fire LOss-Helpless Old County Bilked
Out of Heavy Sum for Halden Campaign Ad-
vertising-Promnent People Apparently En-
dOrse Despicable Methods
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-18
XMAS BAKE TO BE HELD AT
EMMANUEL y. Il. CHURCH

The Wom~n's Auxiliary of Emmanuel
Church, Seventeenth street and River
view avenue, will hold a bake in the
psrish-house of the church next Friday
afternoon and evening TO which the
members and friends Of the church are
cordially invited There will be on sale
bread rolls, rusk, iellies, potato
salad and cakes and candies Of all kinds.
There will be tables filed with fancy
articles and aprons suitable for Christ
mas gifts Grab bags and numerous
other things for the children will be a
feature 4 palmist viii be present
to bring Joy to both young and old.
Tea and cake also will be served
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-18
Sauces That Make
A Good Dinner
The Sauce Makes Great Difference in Any Vand--A
licious Will Give Tone to Otherwise Common
place Dish--Try Some of These.

If Won want to teach yourself to he
good sauce-maker, all YOU have to do is K
learn how TO correctly make a good whit,
sauce and good brown one. BY usins
these MS foundation sauces you can make
dozens OF others.
GOOD WHITE SAUCE.
One gill of milk, three gills OF meat
fish. or vegetable stock. one ounce OF
flour and cornflour mixed half ounce OF
margarine or dripping. half to two tea
Spooniuls of chopped onion, one hayleaf,
salt. pepper. few drops of lemon juice
or vinegar.
Put the loud into pan with the onion,
havleaf. and margarine or dripping Cook
gently till we'll favoured Then remove
the onion and bayleaf Boil the liquid
M and pour in the -four and corntiour,
after first mixing thinly and smoothly
with n little cold liquid.
Stir all the time it is being poured in
Continue to cook gently for five minutes,
stirring frequently.
Add the seasoning and lemon juice.
The other things to be added will depend
on the kind of sauce you are going to ma ke
parsley, caper, etc. Onion need not be
used always.
HOW TO FLAvoUR THIS WHITE SAUCE.
Perhaps one day you will want to
make anchovv sauce.
This is eaten with fish cakes, fried
fish. baked fish. or q little ran be mixed in
with cooked fish for fish pic or pudding or
for scallopS.
Half pint Of the white sauce, two tea
spronf,lls more or less, according to
whether y"u like a sauce very salty or
notl Of an hoy essence.
Stir the other ingredients into the hot
white sauce and use.
shrimp essence or fish pastes can be
added TO the white sauce. The latter is
thinned down with spoonful or two of the
bot sauce before being added. II It is put
IN In lump IT is very difficult TO mix IT in
evenly.
BEARNSISE.
Serve with outlets, chops. or grilled
fish or mushrooms.
Half pint OF the white sauce, one raw
volk Of egg, half an ounce Of margsine.
four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, ono finely
chopped shallot or small onion, two table,
spoonfuls of stock or extra milk.
Put the vinegar IN a saucepan. Add the
Shallots and boil till only half the vinegar
remains.
Add and mix m the white sauce. Beat
up the yolk with the milk, strain il into
he hot sauce. which may not be boiling.
Stir over gentle heat TO cook: but don't
let il boil, or II will curdle the egg.
Take the pan off the fire, add little
bite Of the margarine, whisking each bit
we'll in before adding the next
Add seasoning, and do not reheat the
sauce after you have added the butter or
margarine, or il will curdlc.
strain and it Is ready 10 use.
CApER SAUCE.
For II oiled mutton or rabbit. In ahfs
ccse one makes the white sauce with
stock III which the mutton or rabbit arc
bong ed
One pint of the white sauce, two table
spoonfuls OF coarsely chopped capers, two
tcaspoonfuls Of the capcr vinegar.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-18
FOR THE WEEK

CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK,
WEDNESDAY.
500 p. m.
W. II. NJ. s., Epworth Church
SIS y. m.
New Century Club, lecture, "The Riddl,
of Russia James Warwick Price
900 p. m.
Washington Heights W. G.. r. l.
THURSDAY
2-3O p. m.
W. II. NJ. s., Harrison Street Church
7.30 p. IN.
Standard Bearers. Scott Church.
FRIDAY.
2.30 p. IN.
W G. r. IT,, 100 West Eighth street.
3.45 p. m.
Junior League, Harrison Street Church.
Junior c. T., Second Baptist Church.
Junior c. T., Central Church.
Junior c. E., Esstlake Presbyterian
Church.
Junior G. F., Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church
7-30 .. m.
Girls Friendly. St Andrew and st Bar
nabas, Marshaiton.
500 p. m.
+. and s. Hospital Auxiliary.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-18

Mr.. and Mrs Paul Matthews are being
congratulated on the birth OF son.