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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22
THE BRAVE SOLDIER LAD.

Far in the war land, ~
Where cannons are roaring, :
In the dark .dreary trenches
: Sits brave soldier lad; -:~a -
His thoughts are of baby and wife
far away, * < ID = III z#s e Z 81 g.
Where war is not known, II 4. j:
But peace every day. !
Z ,e4cs s. II 81 .q=5.
In the graves there are lying, . !. IS: +.
i Many brave soldier lads; =
Who died for the freedom, =s5 .s.s
Of mothers, sisters and wives;
And now to his dear ones $#$ 2s...,=zs .ss
This brave lad will go; :.=. 5.;:.s..z 81.
While his comrades must he
In their graves far from home.
God bless all our dear boys;
Who fought this great battle fs.
For freedom and right.
Rose Murphy, Age 4. .
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22

Writing from Cloquet Father
Simon says he will move out on the
Reservation again and will live in
the teachers cottage, and will hold
divine service in the old schoolhouse
till next fall when he hopes the new
church will be completed.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22

swing to amateur contributors on
all the isms Of current agitation.
That's the penalty, I presume, Of
promising fair show to everybody.
OF course, / am not considering that
the News Herald editor may be
thinking the same about it, and
that these mental wanderings may
be thus lost to the readers Of this
paper: :..&> - 2%5 +. - 9 !:
= zgs%, E o o o -
!. Now that the war is over, a little
inquisitiveness about that village
dock project may be quite excusable.
Let's wake it: up. Too long sleep
may not be good for it. = 80.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22
SCHOOL NOTES.
Editor-Randolph Samskar.

EuNLOr-RanQOlpn SamSKaf.
After this week is over there will
be no school on Saturday.
The Freshmen cooking class are
now studying about cereals.
A few of the Boy Scouts made
rabbit bojeau" Sunday night.
Hu1da Nelson was absent from
school last Monday afternoon.
The school let out half an hour
early last Saturday afternoon.
Christina Cinch, Marion Lince and
Nellie Hussey hiked to Rosebush
Sunday.
Earl Woods finished the library
table which he has been making, last
Saturday.
The English II class are now read
ing "The Deserted Village" by Oliver
Goldsmith
Alma 1saacson, who has been alb
sent for some time, returned to
school last week.
The second year sewing class are
finishing the aprons they have been
making. They will make waists next.
The Gitchee Ounce Camp Fire
girls were entertained at the home
of Grace Samskar last Saturday ev.
ening.
Hubert Scott caught four weasels
but three of them were partly eaten
by fox. Hubert says, Revenge is
sweet" - -.
| The English III class are studying
the writers Of fiction. They wrote q
book review of "Cranford" for last
Friday. F. ..r~ ~ !,
! Earl Woods and Hubert Scott
hiked out to Mr.. Scott's fishing
camp Saturday afternoon, and re.
turned Sunday. 4. !. IVY :. Wy.
The English II class wrote essays
for last Saturday. MIR. Qualheim
said that some of the best essays
they wrote may be put in print. :, :.
The English II class have just re.
ceived their list Of books for home
reading. They have to hand in their
first review inside Of three weeks.
The following amounts were con:
tributed by the school to the Arme.
nian Relief fund: high school, S.. 80;
7th and 9th grades, $3. 40; 5th and
9Th grades, So. %; 3rd and 4tE
grades. $500; 1st and 2nd grades
lsS3. 80, total sig. 80,
Il have forty acras lnf nn.nur13 1o.nd
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22
Follow the crowd next Saturday
night to the Princess theatre :. i.

. lngVOld Erickson OF 5DuluCns re-
Gently discharged from the military
service, came to Grand Marais Mon
day evening for a short visit with
relatives and friends in this vicinity.
Mrs. L. H. Lien has some aerial
vests at her home, which will soon
have to be returned the senders.
Those who may be interested are in
vited to call at Mrs. LIENS and see
the vests before they are returned.
Peter LeSage, who was recently
given his full discharge from the
service, arrived home Monday even
ing. He was with a contingent that
was about ready to sail for France
when the armistice was signed. He
was mustered out at Camp Dodge.
There was shortlived excitment
at the Winger garage last Thursday
evening, caused by an explosion of
gasolene. The blaze was quickly ex-
tinquished and no damage was done.
Another incipient blaze, from the
same cause, occurred there Saturday
evening.
The campaign in Cook county for
the Syrian relief fund is making
splendid progress. Very encouring
reports are coming in from all parts
of the county, more than the quota
being already raised. A full report
with list of the donors will be pub
lished in the News Herald next
week.
A party was given at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Woods last Friday
evening as, a farewell greeting to
Jack Woods, who left the next day
for Duluth to accept a position with
an auto firm in that city. The young
people of the village were there in
goodly numbers and they enjoyed
themselves immensely. Games were
played and lunch was served.
A basket social was given on Maple
Hill last Saturday evening for the
benefit of the Syrian relief fund.
The baskets were all sold at liberal
prices, the aggregate of which put
the Maple Hill district easily over
the top with it's quota for the fund.
Following the sale there was an en-
joyable social session while the
toothesome and plentiful contents Of
the. baskets were disposed Of. -
The Princess theatre was opened
last Saturday evening for the first
performance given there in nearly
three months. It was. closed on ac-
count of the "hu" and when the ban
was lifted it's manager, Victor John
son, was sick, lengthening the closed
season beyond all anticipation. Ap-
probation of the opening was shown
by capacity house. The manage
ment announces that there will be
a show every Saturday evening
hereafter, and that the show will
begin at 1880 o'clock sharp.
Mrs. c.. N. Ashford has received
notice from the commanding officer
at Camp Custer, Mich, that her son
Spencer will soon be discharged. The
letter, which is general in it's nature,
shows the writer to be solicitous of
the welfare of our soldier boys and
bespeaks for them grateful interest
on the part Of their fellow citizens.
In this letter the writer says that
returning soldiers are permitted, if
they so desire, to wear their uni
forms for three months after dis
charge and that they may keep up
their army insurance.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22
'NEWs-ETTEs or GRAND
55s s MARAlS AND VICINITY
Jottings Heard About Town oi
Things of General Interest
to Local Readers.
John Winger has been in Duluth
this week on business trip.

$5s JoAhl w A1ASCA A1S1S Uccu Ill OuLutn
this week on business trip.
Ed. Thoreson of Hovland, called
i on Grand Marais friends on Satur-
day evening.
Louis Ellingson, Chicago Bay, at
tended to business matters at the
aa1nty seat on Saturday.
Henry Reinhold of Duluth, visited
with friends at Hovland last week,
returning home by stage Friday
morning.
!. Paddy Sloan, who has been on the
= Alger-Smith line all winter, has re-
turned to Grand Marais> and is now
at Lanktree's camp.
"The Third Commandment of the
Decalogue" will be the subject of
evening sermon next Sunday in
Grand Marais church.
A dance will be given at Grand
Marais town hall next Saturday ev-
ening. Music will be furnished by
Moses Bros. orchestra.
Jas. G. Scott, having completed
: his term of service on the u. S.
grand jury at Duluth, returned
home last Monday evening.
The road from Grand Marais to
Cramer was snow-plowed the first of
the week. The work was done with
heavy road grader drawn by three
teams of horses.
Van Johnson's son bud" Informed
his parents the other day that par
ents don't spank their children any
more. He read it in the Duluth Ev.
enjng Herald, he says.
N'he Norwegian Ladies Aid society
nYill give a social at the church on
~ASday evening next week. A sale OF
faAcy goods, the handiwork of the
members, will be held in connection.
Many of the young folks motored
to Hovland Saturday evening to at
tend dance. They report a very
enjoyable time, despite the usual ex-
periences incident to winter motor
travel.
L. G. Lundquist returned Thurs
day evening from an extended busi-
ness trip into Iowa and Illinois. He
was accompanied by Ashley Ellick-
son, who remained in town a couple
days, leaving here on Saturday for
Illinois.
Mrs. Benson received notice early
in tthe week that Henry Benson, her
/sV4a lis at the Two Harbors hospital,
suisering with the 'fu." He was
taken. from a logging camp in Lake
county, where he was employed by
Olson Bros. He is improved and is
expected home today.
Carl Layman, who, as stated else
where in these columns, has dispos-
ed Of his interest in the North Shore
garage, left on Saturday for Virgin
ia, Minn., to accept a position in a
garage in that city. By his manly
traits and exemplary conduct fduring
his two year residence in Grand
Marais, Carl won the respect of all
with whom he was in any way as
sociated, all of whom wish for him
the increased measure of prosperity
that his ability and ambition deserve
They are sorry to see him go.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-01-22

l have forty acres Of good land
four miles west of town which
will sell cheap for cash MUIR
ply.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
The Railway Wage Increase

IN I3lO the average annual wages of
railway employees was $673; in 1919 the
average is $1,46O. The increase has
been Ut per cent. The wages Of the
organized employees (train crews, which
are about 20 per cent Of the total) have
gone, up from $993 to 5000, an increase
OF lo4 per cent. The wages Of unorgan-
lied employees have gone up from $500
to S1,325, an increase of 121 per cent
1t has been assumed that the railway
brotherhoods greatly profited from their
strong organizations, but relatively tho
unorganized have done better. Tb;a
supports the view that organized labor.
when it gains advances, pulls up the
level Of compensation for those outside
its ranks, or the view that organization
has little effect on the wage scale.
Various estimates have been rada ~
the decline that occurred in the DUR
chasing power Of the dollar Probably
AZ accurate n one as any In that of the
New York Labor Bureau. 1t puts the
general advance in prices between June.
1914, and October, 1913 (the changes
between 1910 and 1914 were slinht). ut
about b5 per cent In food the advance
was II per cent, but In other items less.
On this basis the average railway snn.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
The Victory Loan

The terms of the $4,000, 100000 Vic
tory Loan are very attractive. The rate
OF interest is satisfactory. The pro-
vision for interconvertibility of taxable
and tax exempt issues is excellent. That
Will not only keep the prices of the two
issues together; it will keep them up
But in any case the new notes could not
possibly go to the discount Of the pres
ent Liberty Loan bonds. They mature
in three years, and are then payable at
100 per cent.
Most important o. al, the amount is
unexpectedly low. The $4,500 100000
required by Secretary Glass compares
with expectations of five or six billions.
1t compares with almost S7,00O,0OO,000
subscribed to the last Liberty Loan,
offered at only AZ per cent. This is
the last great war loan. The terms of
payment, reaching over six months, are
easier than those of any previous issue
1t is now the duty of the people to
lend the government this $4,000, 100000
in order that it may pay off the banks,
from which it has been borrowing
heavily, so that the banks will be free
to attend to their primary function of
financing industry.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
What Is Beer2
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Referring to the interesting line Of
citations set forth in your to-day's editorial
when Is Beer Intoxicating?" will you al'
low me to contribute an expert opinion re-
ceived some years ago from an employc OF
Western brewery, who held that quantity
not quality, was the governing factor?
When asked how much beer would be re-
quired to make man drunk he said he did
not know. explaining that he himself had
never been drunk on beer. In reply to the
further question as to how many glasses 8
day he drank, he said: "vell, on de eferieh'
I guess a hundert-hundett and fifty
mebbc two hundert glcsses"
Course" he added, "f man wants 90
mex tam hog of himself. dots different
again" GEORGE WESTERVELT.
New York, March 81, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
The Atlantic FIeet

Z 1t was North River weather vesteraav
Gear and blue and a whipping wind. and
II ever that historic ditch Of water saw
q prouder sight than our Atlantic fleet
~ 1t swung UP stream to anchor NAV
the shades Of Hendrix Hudson and
Robert Fulton rise TO damn us. Now
YORK has grown uged TO pageantrv on
this spot There never wag bct,or
stage setting or better accommodations
Tor spectators. And yesterday the show
surpasscd our best Fleets Of war we
pave mad before, even ships fresh from
l'HntinH overseas. But never the weight
81 metal, the numbers, the variety tho
Whole lighting force Of our country AT
&ta summed up az here. Airplanes. de-
,9troyers, drcadnoughts-no even orr
OWn 9TH Division on Fifth Avenue 0avo
a more vivid scnse Of inyincible battle
power.
10 our 10000 guests we need not
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15

ploye has gained approximately $3.50 a
year IN actual wages. Living on his
former scale he has this sum for saving.
The railway administration assumes
the continuance of the cheap dollar,
something that they will contribute in
no small degree to making permanent.
But If railway employment long gets
more than it's share of the new dis
tribution men and women will be at
tracted to it, which means in the end
reestablishment of conditions. But a
silent revolution has occurred. The per-
son of fixed income has suffered loss
equivalent to 40 per cent and his losses
accrue to the masses.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
The Unhappy
Mexican German
Won kckhardt the Deported Minister Reported Have
Skinned His Countrymen
By l.. J. de Becker

NJ time being it is ~ Deutschland untsr '"'
Allies" in Mexico, as in Cuba. How
long this state of subjection will continue
is matter for better guessers than l am,
still I fancy that recovery would be quicker
here but for the conduct of the late Ger
man minister, Senor H. Won Eckhardt, who
skinned his fellow Germans in the interest
of Gott und Kaiser in the most ingenious
manner.
The story, as it comes to me from three
different sources, is too good not to tell,
especially as its variations agree in most
details 1t is, therefore, q composite, in
which | have taken S10,OOO,OOO as a COM
promise in financial estimates by striking
average.
The German prospered here during the
war. There is no doubt of that. He knew
in advance here, as we'll as in New York.
just about when the United States would
get in, and prepared as he we'll knew how,
by laying in large supplies Of American
goods, converting whatever accounts were
held against Americans into metallic cur
rency, and arranging for a series of "cloak''
consignees to whom shipments Of Amer
lean goods could be sent, even after the
declaration of war; or, if necessary, trans
ferring nominal control of his affairs to
some apparently loyal ally or neutral
IL Vas Good Business
Mexicans, for reasons to be told else
where, were tolerant. In many cases
friendship had been cultivated with Amer
leans. Only the British and French were
really to be feared he thought 1t looked
like good business. 1t was good business
Many Germans from other parts Of Span
sh America hocked into Mexico at time
when, had Won Eckhardt's foolish schemes
succeeded, it might have been possible to
divert Uncle Sans attention from war
5000 miles away to something unpleasant
a little nearer home. There was much
running to and fro. Dstrusting the banks
and having complete confidence in one
another, the wandering Huns followed their
custom of depositing money with SOME good
German house which would take care Of
1t for them, and pay per cent for the
privilege.
Mark how tho Hun commercial morale
was affected by war Mexico, before nc
complishing the impossible feat OF estab-
fishing metallic currency, had seen great
variety Of paper issues, some Of which
were almost worth their weight in copper
and some only fit to be ground up and
made over into newsprint. German busi-
ness men, not in ono instance but in many,
having taken hard money on deposit, de-
livered an equal face valuation in depre
ciTted paper with their notarcs, to be paid
the depositor on demand. 1t was legitimate.
1T whs good business. 1t increased their
hoard for active trading. To the dsor.
dered commercial German mind it looked
like what tho Yankees would have called
"smarb trick" In the days when Con-
necticut was famous for wooden nutnnces.
But propaganda was IN EXPENSIVE tux-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15

proffer the freedom of the city, for they
know that IT is theirs. Along trick our
sailors have done, bad task we'll per-
formed, largely under cover, with little
chance for public honor or applause.
New York appreciates their service none
the less. We owe our navy men every
honor. We give them our heartfelt
thanks and gratitude. We wish them
welcome and the best Of shore leaves.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
"Safeguardedv"

After holding that there was no need
of safeguarding" the Monroe Doctrine
in the society of nations covenant the
American delegation in Paris now an
nounces that the doctrine has been
"safeguarded.
The text of the reservation, as tele-
graphed from Paris, reads:
"The covenant does not affect the valid
ity of international engagements, such as
treaties Of arbitration or regional under
standings like the Monroe Doctrine, for
securing the maintenance of peace"
This reservation is clumsy and mala-
drolt The Monroe Doctrine is not "an
international engagement" t"-either for
the securing Of peace or for any other
purpose. 1t has no international status
1t rests solely on the fiat of the United
States. 1t is a statement of the policy
of single nation, supported by the
military and moral power Of that ma
ton. Neither is it accurate to describe
1t as regional understanding Pan
Americanism might be classed a re-
gional understanding, but the Monroe
Doctrine is nationalstic dogma, pure
and simple.
If the Monroe Doctrine is to be safe
guarded why not use language which
says clearly what it is supposed to
mean? The American delegates to the
second Hague conference drew up
declaration, before signing the conven-
ton for the settlement of international
disputes, which really safeguarded the
Monroe Doctrine. The second clause of
that declaration read: "Nor shall any
thing contained in the said convention
be construed to imply a REIMBURSEMENT
by the United States of it's traditional
attitude toward purely American ques-
tions."
The United States Senate ratified the
second Hague convention with a pro-
viso which reproduced this language.
The Monroe Doctrine amendment to the
covenant recently submitted by Mr..
Root was based on the Senate's reserva
ton of April 2, 1908. After reciting
the circumstances which induced the
United States to accede to the wish of
the European states that it should ioin
its power to theirs for the preservation
Of peace It said:
"The representatives Of the United
States of America sign this convention
with the understanding that nothing
therein contained shall be construed to
imply REIMBURSEMENT by the United
States of America Of its traditional atti-
tude toward purely American questions
or to require the submission of it's policy
regarding such questions (including
therein the admission of immigrants) to
the decision or recommendation of other
powers"
Here is clear, explicit, unconfused
declaration Of American policy. Why
was it sacrificed for the awkward and
inaccurate phraseology Of the Paris
amendment? Are clarity and definite
ness offensive to the trainers of the
covenant? If the conference is going
to indorse the Monroe Doctrine the
Endorsement ought to be at least work
manlike and unequivocal.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
Did Germany Blunder After All?

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: From the way in which the "repara
tion terms" are reported in this mornings
papers 1t would seem TINT their statement
is officially authorized. Germany is to nav
s5,0o0,000,000 for the first two years and a
yearly sum, not stated, for thirty Cor
twontyeight) years thereafter. Surely, it
requires n robust faith In tho power of
words to believe that Germany will con-
tinue to make these yearly payments be-
yond the time when she thinks it will be
to her interest to cease doing so. There
seems to havo come to pass what some of
us forecast and published early In 1917,
namely, that Germany would forco us into
tho war because she supposed that dis
tance and unpreparcdness would make our
weight In the scales militariy negligible.
but believed that in this way she would
insure the presence at the peace conference
of power which would vote to trent her
tendcrly. She miscalculatcd tho weight. but
apparently this time made no psychological
mistake p. HENRY LACOMBE.
New York. April TO- 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
Civilization Without Qualms

(From T'he Louisville Cosyscr-JourncI
1t was said long ago that to hold CALAIS
is to have dagger at the heart of England.
To internationalize the Kiel Canal is to
shove butchers knife through the viscers
OF Gerinany's recent conduct, to whica
civilization does not dcmur
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
Hnue american Goods

Az matter of fact. by one means or
another, most of the German business
houses have managed to maintain full lines
of American goods up to this time and to
sell on long credits at advancing prices
What moro they expect Is not clear, but
they expect something.
1t must not be supposed that while
Americans here havs taken ne protective
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
Plainly Stated

(Ffom The Indianapolis Ne,rs)
That league of nations scheme seems td
have got around TO the question of what to
do to the bleacherite who throws pop bots
tie al the umpire
New-York tribune., 1919-04-15
Subsolar Novelties

The Liberty Bonds you gave to your wife in
1917 and 1918. Always thought of in multpes
of $50. and considered only as an investment for
the children. Then when you are wondering
how much you invest in the new Loan your
wife takes them out Of the little black box and
you discover that they have grown into little
coupon-b bearing fruit trees, and the total crop
will pay 1919 down respectable sum of
Victory Notes. ARTHUR