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mo-, chimed in commissioner
Walter Swanstrom.
"No," was the decision of COM
missioner McMahan.
"Yes," commissioner Becks firmly
responded. Y.
whats this ID man trying
to do-play politics?" hoarsely
whispered chairman O'Neil to deputy
Little. >....
"Vote it down, then" replied Lit
tie with extreme cunning.
It came the turn of commissioner
Harvey to vote. ....- .,. ,
"This is serious question: said
the Eveleth man. 81 will not go on
record as being opposed to an g.
hour day. move that this resolu-
ton be tabled"
The gang then woke up and voted
to table the resolution, although any
good parliamentarian will say that
chairman O'Neil had no right to en-
tertain or. put a motion to table
while a roll call actually was in
progress.
But the members Of the county
ring had, in a moment, Of careless
ness, shown organized labor and
those who believe in the S-hour day
as a matter of principle, exactly
where they stand. It is likely to
be serious matter, especially with
commissioner Swanstrom, for his dis
trict is heavy with aggressive union
men who will be sure to remember
his hostility to the modern idea Of
eight hours for work, eight hours
for recreation and eight hours for
sleep.
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Duluthians who seek an escape
from the Food Hogs certainly can
get cheaper milk by emigrating to
Two Harbors, bustling burg only
28 miles down the shore from this
City of Virtue, as the iron range
editors call it.
Down there at Two Harbors, Jen-
kins' creamery sells fresh, un-
skinned milk at ten (10) cents a
quart That milk comes directly from
William Cables celebrated herd OF
registered ~Guernseys.
Milk from a similar herd in Du-
luth sold for years at 20 cents a
quart. What it is bringing just
now, the Rip-saw has failed to find
out. AS these lines are written, how
ever, the Rip-saw's home dealer is
getting IA cents a quart for the
Bridgeman & Russell milk, pro-
duct that comes from anywhere and
everywhere and, at times, has an ex-
ceedingly strong suspicion of being
thickened up with some of those
magic milk powders, thereby con-
cealing the removal of cream for
separate sale or use. -...
In Duluth, the plain, common peo-
pie pay forty per cent more for the
milk trust product than they do in
Two fIarbcrs-for q fresh,- full-cfeam,
high grade product.
1t is not impossible that some Of
the milk handed out to Duluth peo-
pie by the monopolistic firm comes
from Hinckley. If so, it cannot be
any too fresh when delivered to the
consumers in Duluth and it is dol
lars to doughnuts that some Of the
precious cream has been separated
for making Primus butter. Absence
of that cream can be disguised with
the previously mentioned cunning
and convenient milk powders. In
fact an employe of the local monopo-
lists recently stated that a coming
system of selling milk will be to do
so in the form of the famous milk
powder, the consumer then adding
Lake Superior to taste. But that's
another story.
Only a few days ago, a farmer
near Hinckley came to Duluth. While
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expect to pass an interesting sum-
mer, listening to Col. Bessette's
thrilling war stories.
When not engaged in telling the
home folks and their tourist patrons
about his work at cleaning up the
horrible Huns, it is believed that Col.
Bessette will resume his old occu-
patton as a double-barreled boy.
That will mean a salary as gallant
warrior and another as forester,
cruiser, scaler or some other job at
the expense of the dear old state
treasury.
1t is whispered around that Bill
Orr is getting jealous of Col. Bes-
settle, as result of his prominence
and popularity, and that the sturdy
old pioneer will try to offset it next
year by running for congress against
Sailor" Carss.
Late in March, wild-eyed trailer
after Townley, half crazed Bolshe-
visit from Nett Lake. started q story
to the effect that Col. Bessette did
not 60 overseas at all, but that he
I, was seen in st. Paul, hanging around
the halls Of state legislation during
the winter, suffering with a hallucin-
alton that he was representing the
Sixtieth district as state senator.
Since Col. Bessette's recent return,
his word is ample proof that the
polluted python at Nett Lake Is q
malicious prevaricator. If he ever
visits Orr again, he either. will be
burned at the stake, over on Indian
Point, or else ridden out Of town on.
the decrepit Duluth, Winnipeg &
Pacific Railway.
The intelligent electorate Of Orr
will not permit a half-crazed and en-
tirely irresponsible tool of Townley
to attack our local institutions. It's
bad enough for him to waste SIS of
muskrat money for League MEM
bership.
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bas worked so hard and faithfully.
in his late position that he has be-
come wearied in brain and body. or.
onic DreeZes around Isle Royale are
expected to fix up Col. James body
while the fish diet on the boat will
tune up his weary brain. Deep lake
fish products make an ideal brain
food.
Col. Mulhern's friends have asked
the Rip-saw to caution him against
spending too much time in the men
agerie on the. SIS. America. Many
passengers in the past, as well as
employees, to say nothing of Federal
inspectors, have Jared lily by trying
to pull out the bristly whiskers of
the tiger in the ships menagerie.
There are traditions, however, to
the effect that Col. Mulhern is
something of a tiger tanner, himself,
along with other professions, voca-
tions, trades and occupations, there
fore he may catch the kitty as we'll
as tame the tiger. Stranger things
have happened.
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COLONEL FRED BESSETTE
RETURNS FROM WORLD WAR
Patriot of the Pelican Returns to Orr After Losing
Entire Regiment of His Foresters While
Hammering Horrible Huns.

ORR, Mimi, May 21.-(Special to
the Rip-saw)-Over two years ago
Col. Fred w. Bessette represented
the Sixtieth district in the lower
house of the legislature.
Near the close of that session, the
brainy Bingham sent thrilling dis
patch to the Duluth Evening Herald,
stating that Col. Bessette would re-
turn to the regions tributary to the
Pelican, as soon as the legislature
adjourned, for the purpose of re-
cruiting a forestry regiment from the
cruisers and lumberjacks in his leg
islative district.
It further was stated in the dis
patch to the Herald that Col. Bes-
sette would promptly take his fam
Gus regiment across the seas for the
purpose of cleaning up the Germans
in general and the Black Forest in
particular.
When the terrible forest fires oc-
Cured last October, the people of
Northern Minnesota believed that
they had a very vivid illustration OF
how Col. Bessette and his regiment
of wild woodsmen were cleaning up
the regions across the Rhine.
When it comes to putting q tim
bered region in condition for clean
ing it up quickly by fire, Col. Bes-
sette is considered an expert Of ex-
perts.
Col. Bessette recently returned
from his war work in the trenches
of France. the fields Of Flanders
and the hummocks of Hunland. He
went through campaign after cam
paign without scratch. The fight
Ing was so fierce that not a single
member of the gallant warriors regi-
ment survived, for he came home
alone.
Local cruisers, lumberjacks, set
tiers and even the noble red men
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APPEARANCES OFTEN DECEIVE.
"You must think I'm as big fool
as I look" he exclaimed, as they
quarreled.
81 think that if you aren't, you
have a great deal for which to be
thankful" she cuttingly replied
Boston Transcript.
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RELIEF FROM FOOD HOGS
EXISTS IN TWO HARB0RS
MILK FROM REGISTERED GUERNSEY HERD
COSTS ONLY TEN CENTS QUART.

Common Quality Of Milk Costs Forty Per Cent
More in Duluth-Hinckley Farmer Gets
Twenty-one Cents Gallon for Milk That Re-
tails for Fifty-six Cents-Duluthian Gets Eggs
in Atkinson for Eighteen Cents Less per Dozen
Than Same Grade in Duluth.
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FARRELL AND M'DERM0TT
INDULGE IN WORDY WAR
NEW DULUTH POLICE LIEUTENANT RE-
SENTS WORDS OF COMMISSIONER.

Farrell Heard That Bob McDermott Knocked His
Candidacy-Four Farrell Scouts Visited New
Duluth and Gary-RepOrted That Moral Con-
dtions Were Observation-Disclosures Calls at
City Hall-Refuses Suggestion That He "FOr-
get It"-He Is Sorry He Voted for Farrell.
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A FATEFUL ROMANCE.
He proposed by letter and she ac-
cepted by wire, and neither message
was delivered.-New York Sun.
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Public LibE@ry
Duluth. Mimi
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TURN TO PAGE FOUR.
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THE DULUTH RIP-sAW
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

stand how Mr.. Wilson. coming to Europe
to effect a just peace, could talk with
admitted criminals What is more, it
was known that to treat with the Bolshe-
WIKI would increase their power and en-
able them to unloose their propaganda in
France. After the Prinkipo proposal
our Bolsheviki, borrowing tie authority
of MI. Wilson's name, engaged in
fierce propaganda against Premier Gle
menceau, who has recently been the OBJ
Ject Of an attempted assassination.
1t has not been understood why Mr.
Wilson is so deeply interested in feeding
Germany and sends American soldiers to
Berlin to assure the distribution of food
while the Czechs, the Jugo-Slavs and the
Rumanians who have done so much for
the Entente victory, are in much more
precarious situation than the Boches,
and are not fed so quickly.
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The French public cannot know what
the Americans ana their representatives.
in Washington are thinking, and this
ignorance has naturally convinced them
that Mr.. Wilson's proposals at the
peace conference are the exact rehcc-
ton Of The will Of the American people
In order that | may show loyalty how
this belief does not conform to facts and
demonstrate its regrettablc results,
must make known to you the astonish-
mcnt with which the French people
have received the chief proposals Of Mr.
Wilson at the conference. 1t is certain
that the critical attitude toward the
French people is possible for the reason
that while Americans sometimes crit
else their President they do not Ike
foreigners to do so. But, truly, this is
an exceptional case.
In comirk to Europe, Mr.. Wilson has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Wonder Why Wilson
Didn't Visit Ruins

1t has not been understood in France
why Mr.. Wilson, who has come to make
just peace, thought it useless to esti-
mate the refinement of German barbar-
ism by visit to the invaded regions |
cannot understand why Mr.. Wilson hest
tates to declare for the total disarma-
ment of Germany - the disarmament
which the French desire in order to be
freed from the fear Of new aggression
and in order to disarm themselves.
They also cannot understand in France
why Mr.. Wilson opposes the immediate
delimitatlon of the Polish state, includ-
ing the Polish region of Danzig, without
which the new Polish state is impossible
Delay in this delimitation increases the
chance of Germany making junction
with the Bolshevilli over the dead body
Of Poland, from which eventgalty we
would have as an immediate consequence
the reconstruction Of pan-Germany.
Lastly, the French people cannot UNI
derstand why Mr.. Wilson causes his
delegates at the peace conference to
maintain that Germany should only re-
pair the damage caused in the invaded
regions, without taking into account the
gigantic war costs of her aggression i'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Enemy OF Group win
Imperialism Tendencies

~ another paper declares: "Thc
'2'i'wers Of Napoleonic ambitions in
'@'ee nave strong spokesman In
"sofe cheradane," although ! have
''sn an open enemy Of that very small
~'up Of Frenchmen Of npcriaIistic
.,'''ene'eS' On February A tried to
70" the high lights Of the American
s""' Of yle~ in an article published in
- Democratic Nouyelle.o wrote.
!. ~ regard" the conditions Of peace,
-, americans wish w to remain trne
a.. - '''Se'ln1 principle Of our policy;
~. 70 say, not " lei Ourselves h.
.. S" INTO annexations lmperia)jst,c in
'ss'sr' This hope entirely sbsro
A'De soon to show the reasons
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10, explained this extraordinary cen
sorship, saying any detailed attempt
to explain the policy Of the Washington
government or the movement Of Ameri-
can public opinion is placed on the in
dcX cxpurgatorius by our censorship, to
which has been added the vigilance Of
American experts in France Thus we
arc led to think that the policy Of Nh
Wilson is that Of all American
l have sought to discover why two
American experts have been added to
the French censorship in Paris. Vari-
Gus authorities who should certainly be
we'll Informed told me that this Ameri-
can censorship on news to be printed in
Paris and coming from The United
States was the result of suggestions of
very highly placed Americans. Can
a@cA an enomnity be permitted at a
time when secret diplomacy is pro-
scribed?
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le Dr* mas Debt to Steele MacKaye's Vitality

r is great figure indeed who wins
from the world of to-day the atten-
zion of his dues on his passing ami
n ysrsaries The writer's are more
Inmate. Il they have merit, a hundred
Tvs after their death their books are
tore US 10 keep their memories alive.
~ho singer and the playeNare too apt to
80. from recollection as the sound of
- voices dies in the ear. Eleven days
..o we passed without notice the twenty
7.b year since the death of Steele Mac
rayc This man brought to the American
.tessre the Frohmans, David Belasco and
-.ore than one other notable producer of
las. Himself the foremost actor-man-
,,tsr of a time still we'll within tho recol-
,'c.ion Of the elder generation, he has
..,petua.cd q work for the American drama
,sose Importance these successors nave
enthusiastically acknowledged AS play
.r.oht ss influence was almost equally
tent in his son, Percy MacKaye, he
has established & family dynasty in the
rama with the remarkable achievement,
tstween father and son, Of n play a year
ar fortv-seven years. The accomplish
nents of TINS man must not pass altogether
r;,hout assessment. This seems still to
10 fitting occasion for q timely tribute.
Eight years ago, Percy Mac Kaye, pay
isr tribute to his father in al issue of
THE Drama" thus happily summed up in
, figure the career Of his father:
"When, in 1905, the flying machine OF
Professor Langley rose in the air above
a, Potomac River, lowered an instant be-
fo,c the breathless onookers, then plunged
TO vreckage and oblivion in the river, the
srt Of aviation thereby did not suffer
failure, though the life-labor and the life
Of one bold pioneering inventor were
crushed by the tragic catastrophe.
when, in 1898, the vast dome and
prOscenium arch of the Spectacular rose
above Lake Michigan by the Worlds Fair
Grounds at Chicago, lowered there with
brief prophecy in the light of few sun
rises, then-ruthlessly estroyed-vanished
in wreckage of steel and concrete beside
the lake, the art of the theatre thereby did
not suffer defeat, though one nobly pioneer
ing experiment in that art, and the genius
Of its dauntless creator, ceased with the
hfework of Steele MacKaye."
The energies of this man required an
astonishing number of outlets Born in
1912 at Buffalo, the son of Colonel James
Morrison MacKaye, a stanch anti-slavery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

shown himself successfully as three per
sons.
First, he came as the President of the
United States, and thus was assured the
unqucstioncd and absolute respect Of the
French people.
Second, as the President of the United
States, he had occasion to make known
to the French people the will of the
AmeYcan nation-in which case if, by
hypothesis, the American desires did not
seem to the French the same as their
own, the French would have the right,
through cordial and frank discussion, to
point out the points of divergence. This
situation has, however, never left the
realm of hypothesis.
Third Mr. Wilson was just plain Mr..
Wilson, with ideas on peace strictly per-
sonal; that is to say, which may be
neither those of the American people
nor Of the French.
In this case, if the personal concepts
of Mr. Wilson regarding European
afIairs-on which the French have in
contcstably a right to have an opinion
are, moreover, of a nature to allow the
evaporation Of the victory which the
French gained at the cost of enormous
sacrifices even the proudest American
cannot deny the right Of the French to
discuss these personal ideas. | know
American loyalty too well to doubt that
in such a case the Americans would not
only recognizc-the French right to crit
else, but will admit that such criticism
is an imperative duty
As a matter of fact, only the personal
ideas Of Mr.. Wilson surprised, panied
and disquieted a great majority of the
Frcnchmen, who after so much suffering
during the war thought they had arrived
at the end Of their trials.
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Reason for Reserve
In Attitude OF French

ms IS why, as Mr. Wilson has dcvcl-
oped before the peace conference his
various proposals. the attitude toward
nm Of the great majority Of the French
mas become more reserved. ask any
loyal American TO place himself in the
position Of a Frenchman-w would he be
more moderate in his attitude toward
the Wilson proposals than the French
have been?
The conclusion of al this is that it Is
impossible that the French sbonld anv
longer be left in ignorance Of American
opinion. | know that what have said
may seem. exaggerated to my American
readers notwithstanding the confidence
they show IN mo and for which am
grateful. Yet 1 do not believe evao-
gerate- The Pan-German-B olsbev,x niao
OF which warned my reaoers Two
months ago - working out. In the sprinr
that IS, in few weehs-the Bolshe,1k
government hopes TO provoke revolt
II Bohemia and Hungary. and thus NIKE
an offensive against Poland with tine
powerful forces now beng organized in
Russia.
What IS more the financial situation
Of France is such that il the conference
does not settle the problem Of rcpara-
tons quickly the country VIII be brought
economically to the point of a prompt cN-
ploslon. If France goes. Italy and Eng
land viii 90 Also and the effect will he
felt across the Atlantic All this is &C
immense gravity, and this is why hope
that qualified Americans, representing
public opinion, Congress, whether Re
publican or Democratic, and the great
propaganda societies, such as the Amer
can Defence Society will rs soon IS
possible send delegates to Europe to take
INTO account the danger while there Is
yet time 10 avert it. la saying Come
and judge for yourselves" believe I
am giving counsel that is to the best adj
vantage of America.
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posed on France and the Allies Yet the
situation is clear.
The war costs Of France and Germany
have been published, and the amount in
round figures is 5000 francs for each
German and 4,S00 for each French Cit
zen. Thus the French must bear as wan
costs not only financial burden two
fifths greater than the Germans, but also
the immense and lamentable economic
consequences of the slowness Of repara-
ton for the invaded north (where the
losses amount to 100000 100000 francs.
IN addition to war COSTS, while the Ger
mans benefit from the inestimable adj
vantage gained in not having been in
vaded, and thus are Immediately able to
resume economic activity.
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ture and Rousseau. He found time to serve
for eighteen months in the Civil War. In
vaided out, we next hear of him in Paris
as an expert buyer of paintings for Ameri-
can bankers. During this visit to Paris
he became interested in photo sculpture,
which he afterward introduced to America;
but, more important, he met Francois Del
sarte and soon became the foremost pupil
of that master. After the siege of Paris in
1870 he returned to America bringing with
him new principles of Delsarte which he
had determined to apply to the dramatic
art
His first lecture on Delsarte was no.
table event, delivered at the request of
two notable committees including the
names Of the Mayor of Boston, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis Agassiz,
James Z. Fields and others. In New York
he was invited to repeat the lecture by
William Cullen Bryant, Henry Ward
8eecher, Peter Cooper, Edwin Booth and
others. This was the first occasion in
our country when leaders of literature, art
and the state united in active concern for
dramatic art.
Besides lecturing dramatic art, Steele
Mackaye also wrote, and at the age Of
twenty nine was recognized by William
Winter and other prominent critics as an
authority on his subject
In 1872 we find him applying his prn-
ciples of art to the theatre as manager,
actor, playwright and teacher Private
pupils came to him from all parts of the
United States. Actors such as Edwin For
rest, John McCulloch, and Maurice Barry
more, gratefully acknowledged his influence
and instruction. Augustus Thomas the
dramatist, has thus written of his work at
that time:
"Steele MacKaye was master of the
art of physical expression No man of his
day. or none that | know now. had on has
a better knowledge Of the purpose and eff
feet of gesture, of facial EXPRESSION and of
the eloquence of restraint His knowl-
edge of these was practical He knew
exactly what he wished before he directed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
French Bear Burden
OF Greater War Cost

ct the German people are entirely
and clearly responsible for the war
They had ocen trained for inc war Tor
twenty-five years. as published docu-
ments have shown A fac-simile map
from the Pan-German atlas shows that
since 1900 the German people had been
taught to consider the Bagdad railway
German, for it has clearly printed on it
"Deutsche B&gdad Eisenbahn."
At the opening of the war even Ger
man reserve officers knew perfectly we'll
their business was to conquer all Europe
which in large measure was carried out.
which in large measure was carried out.
The German people never protested
against this propaganda, out allowed
themselves willingly to be drawn on by
it for twenty years, because it CORE
sponded to their instincts.
Justice, therefore, demands that the
German people must repair, as far as
possible, the wrong they have done. Yet
Mr. Wilson's theory on war damages
would allow the existence Of a difference
in war costs to the detriment of Franco.
a difference so cnormoasethat it alone Is
sufficient to bring about the ruin of
France, an economic explosion and her
final scrvitudc to Germany
All this is we'll understood by the
French people, but above all the last
part of Mr.. Wilson's programme, rela