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V" I K- OLDEST BANK AT THE HEAD OF THE LAKES. On Improved City Property. Building loans a specialty First Mortgages For sale, $500 and upward 6 per cent net to investor .. Start the New Year Right Bg Getting That Winter Suit and Overcoat At the 112 West Superior St., Dnlulh DEPOSIT YOUR SAVINGS IN THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK OP DULUTH, MINN. CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND, PROFITS—$2,000,000.00 Three Per Cent Paid On Savings Account*. Every Cood Smoker Appreciates a Cool, Fragrant Cigar that he can enjoy to the last puff. That is why the EL CORA Is tr. popular with particular people. It is DeUcious. Luxurious and Dainty. It is made upon honor, by sailed vorkuieii trow, the best grade of Havana Leaf. ASK YOUR DEALER. DULUTH CiGAR COMPANY 118 W. MICHIGAN ST. New Phone 913 Old Phone 16(MI. SERVICE Is What Counts In the matter of service we recognize absolutely no competitors. We confess it without a blush. If you are in doubt, get acquainted with our methods. To make our service more complete, we need you as a subscriber.. A good suggestion. Place your order today. Zenith Tel eplione Company MONEY TO LOAN RUTLAND INVESTMENT CO. 317 PROVIDENCE BLDG. Choice Overcoat Sale, to $25. The Big Du- SATUKDAY- _\ INCORPORATED 1870 Are You Saving Jjtoney? That question should«be met squarely and answer ed by every money earner. Most every one has an ambition in life which it will require a cash sur plus to gratify. The safest, surest way to acquire a cash capital is the savings bank way. The Northern National Bank wants a savings ac count with every Duluth money earner. Northern- National Bank ALWORTH BUILDING. Capital $250,000.00 Surplus $100,000.00 Int.rested personB are hoping that the doctors will soon be through ex plaining infantile paralysis so they may turn their attention to its cure. ill PLAY CHRI By CARL W. ACKERMAN, in Mil waukee Leader. OBERAMMERGAU, Bavaria—"This is not God's war it is man's war. So long: as there are armies and so long as nations prepare there will be war." So spoke Anton Lang, Christus in Oberammergau's world famous Pas sion Play, Monday, on the saddest Yuletide the little Bavarian village has ever known. Of her 1,800 population, Oberammergau has given 350 to the army, including Alfred Bierling, the St. John of the play, who is now an artilleryman in the German army. Through the United Press, Lang desired that greetings be sent to his friends in America and that denial be made that he had joined a machine gun company. 'Never Saw Front. "I have never been to the front," said this bearded man, whose face most nearly resembles the features of the saviour. "I am still alive. Please tell my many American friends that for me." And then Lang showed me his vis itors' book with the names of thou sands of his friends signed thereon. One signature was that of the kinc of Roumania. "Fifty of our people have fallen," Lang continued sadly. "How shall it end I see no end. I see another spring of fighting, bloodier than ever. And if neither side is defeated—then more fighting, with millions being killed and millions of others working so other millions of others shall be killed, with some of those millions be coming rich iri the war. Rccalls Christ's Words. "I recall Christ's words—'Who takes the sword shall perish by the sword.' That doesn't mean Europe shall perish by the sword, but I inter, pret the phrase to mean that he who starts war shall perish. ii Modern Version of Incident Be ing Staged by Association of Railroad Employes. DENVER, Dec. 28.—Once" upon a time, the story goes, three tailors convened and signed a px-otest against the then existing conditions. It was resolved that "We, the people of England." The modern version of this inci dent is now being staged in this city where six men, styling themselves JTire xvatlonaT Association of ''Railroad Employes, notify President Wilson that they represent the 1,500,000 railroad employes "not affected by the Adamson law." The nation's chief executive is as I sured by these tailors of Tooley street that their organization "wit in no wise be a union of menace to the peace and prosperity of the coun try." All of which 'the President is expected to interpret that the proto types of Tooley street do not favor trade unions or the railroad brother hoods. It is no secret that this "organi zation" is being encouraged by the1 railroad managers. A similar movement was started: last August by an individual in the! South who claimed to represent 1,500,000 unorganized railroad em* ployes and who was refused an audi I ence by the President. This Individ ual was &t one time the head of the secret service department of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, a branch of the Louisville & Nashville. When telegraphers employed by the former road threat ened to strike, three years ago, this individual had charge of the com pany's strikebreaking bureau. LI L, CHIEF OF POLICE Lewis Harthill, business agent for the Machinists' union has been ap pointed chief of police by MayOr elect Van Lear of Minneapolis. Mr. Harthill is well known in labor cir cles in Duluth. He has served the international union well in the ca pacity of business agent and has hosts of friends all over the country who admire him for his aggressive ness and loyalty to the trade union cause. Another appo4ntment made by Mr. Van Lear is that of O. M. Wassing, named as secretary to the mayor. "I do not care to discuss the police! policy OF other policies at this time," said Mr. Van Leac. "In fact I intend to act rather than talk. 1 believe a man should be judged by what he does rather than by what he "says, intend to give this city a good, clean administration and I will leave it to the people whether or not I succeed." Mr. Van Lear also said that he would make no other announcements of appointments at this time. ,H« will wait until he takes office before he considers changes in the police de partment and the assignment of men to such posts as license inspector and pawnbroker inspector. Both Mr. Harthill and Mr. Wassing, whose appointments were announced, are personal friends of Mr. Van Lear and have been identified with him in the socialist party movement. Harthill is ain official of the machine ists' union and Wassing is an attor ney. Mr. Van Lear made the announce ments today at his home. 4717 Blais dell avenue, where'he has. been. 111 with a severe cold for the -last five days.' He is reeoverinr -THE LABOR WORLD "I would be gl&d if there were no militarism in any land. Shall poison always be used to destroy poison? Isn't there another method Can not all militarism be destroyed by inter national agreements? Can not Am erica take the first step?" Lang was told how some of Rou manian soldiers said they did not be lieve' in God any more, because God wouldn't permit such muruer as the great war has brought about. Lang replied slowly: "•Yes, I-know. I receive similar letters from the front. But I reply this is not God's war it is'iftan's war. Nowhere in the Bible are nations told to murder—on the contrary, the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill.' But I know how the feeling is growing among sol diers, and I fear the war's bad effect upon religion. War Necessary Evil. "Sometimes I think the war is a necessary evil. The world seems to learn by experiencei "I hope America is never threat ened by such a war. As long as there are armies and as long as nations pre pare, there will be war. Until all unite and agree to limit their armies and navies to mere police forces, war will continue. Fifty or sixty years after this war ends there may be another. This is the saddest thought today. Why has England the largest navy? Why has Germany the largest army? Because of world trade. "How sad it is to see Christmas— and no end to war." Lang was dressed in his Red Cross uniform when interviewed, and had just returned from a cemetery where he«had buried an officer. The face of the famous Christus was placid—a picture of patience—but his words re vealed his own suffering. Texas Land Commissioner Re commends Remedial Measures to Help Tenant Parmer. BY DANTE BARTON. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—To tax un used land into use, to impose a gradu ated super-tax on landholdings of more than a certajin acreage, and to provide a specific inheritance land tax on a land inheritance of more than a certain acreage are the offi cial recommendations of the commis sioner of the general land office of Texas in a report just recently issued to the governor of that state! Confirming the findings and con clusions of the United States commis sion on industrial relations concern ing the evils of tenant farming and the growth of huge landed estates in the southwest, the report contains sweeping condemnations of the pre vailing conditions and urges radical changes in the taxing laws. Coming out. at a time when the high cost of living, when the non-use of cultivatablg land, when the indus trial unrest in a time of fevered pros perity a.re engaging especial atten tion and when human rights are as serting, themselves against antagonis tic property rights, the statements and recommendations of the Texas land commissioner are of immediate national significance. Texas is Mexieanizcd. "Texas is Mexicanized with large land holdi/gs by individuals, firms, corporations and the estates of de ceased persons," says the Commis sioner, Mr. J. T. Robisom Showing from the records the facts that sus tain this statement, the report says: "With the large land holding shown herein and the refusal of the owners to sell it at fair prices and upon easy terms may there not be a plausible reason assigned for the statement in the Federal Census ot 1910 that tenants in Texas increased during the last preceding twenty years from 57.6 per cent of all the farmers in 1890 to 52.6 per cent of all the farmers in 1910, Should noth ing be done to check this increased tendency to tenantry how soon will our state be a commonwealth of ab sent landlords As a rule tenants are somewhat in proportion to the price of lknd. The higher the price the more tenants." The United States commission on industrial relations showed by the tes timony it produced in the hearings of 1915 that by that time tenancy in a' great part of Texas had increased to 60 per-cent of the total number of farmers, and that in Oklahoma the prevailing percentage of tenancy was 54.8 per cent while "in the 47 coun ties where the tenancy is highest, the percentage of tenancy is 68.13 per cent." Wants New Classification. As a chief remedy of this danger ous condition the Texas land commis sioner recommends: "Put into effect that part of Article 8, Scction 18, of the constitution wriich sayy the legislature "may also provide for the classification of all lands, with reference to their value in the several counties/' for the pur pose of taxation, and when the land is so classffied or graded all land of the sanm class or natural quality ahould be ta:.~d at the same value. Thus .aw land of the same class by nature is an adjacent farm should be taxed th-* sara6 as is the farm land. A barbed wire fence which separates them wotild not then divide their value for taxation purposes as Is now the c—a. 2. "Place a specific tax per acre on land ow..ed by one above a cer tain acreage, and graduated accord ing to acreage after [the plan of the federal income tax law. In thisV re gard should be-had whether the land be adapted' I I |j I I I fjl a? to stock-farming DECEMBER 30,1910. A Group of Suits for this sale at W I I 78 Suits youthful midwinter models, consisting of Broadcloth, Gabardines and some. Velours—: all good colors have been grouped together for quick clear ance. All have style, dash and tone—none worth less than $25, After Christmas Clearance price, $12.75. 200 Blouses on Sale Plain and striped voiles—some have organdie collars and some have frills. or purely agricultural when the acre age limit is fixed. 3. "Enact an inheritance land tax law by placing a specific tax per acre on land inherited by one above a cer tain acreage and graduated according to acreage after the plan of the fed eral income tax law having regard to the quality of the land in fixing the acreage limit." In the same line of thought, the in dustrial relations commission recom mended: "The revision of the taxa tion system so as to exempt from tax ation- all improvements and tax un used land at its full rental value. Taxation Vs. Rural Credits. The Texas commissioner's report connects his taxation program with the possible extension of rural credits to those who need such credit most, and also with the development of rural education. It says: "It is possible that many oppor tunities would be developed where us. OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN opens this invest ment opportunity to all. The 6% interest starts with your first payment* Convincing proofs may be had by filling in the accompanying coupon "and mailing same to InterSslihg News for the Economic Woman Glass Block Mahy Suits in ths Re-adjustment Sale $12.75 the results of, this program would so fit into the federal farm loan act that many now homeless farmers could be turned into owners of farm homes. "The proceed.® arising from the graduated tar aifd thd inheritance tax should be used in co-operation with the counties for the establish ment of our rural high schools ann locate them within reach of the youths of the country as well as those in towns." "A country populated with edu cated, l'ome-owning parents and romping children has more value than landed estates and bleating calves," says Commissioner Robinson. "How a government can contribute by the might of its power to this oc cupancy and cultivation of the soil by the owner is a problem confronting modern statesmen." HIGH COST OF LIVING PROBLEM SOLVED 1o Meet Rising Expenses Increased Ihrift and a Higher IncomeReturnonYourSavingsis Imperative BUY TO SAVE. OUR 6% FIRST MORTGAGE Profit-Sharing Bonds combine the SAFETY OF A FARM MORTGAGE and the PROFIT-SHARING provision affords a gradually INCREASING INCOME YIELD up^ to 36% annually, derived from MOTHER EARTH. Our crops are certain and our product AL WAYS IN DEMAND. A Special After Christmas Clearance of a Few Odds and Ends A Group of Coats for this sale at Another Group of Coats at Another Group of Suits at $19.75 Style—semi-flare and belted mod els. Material—Ripple Cloth and 'Velour. Values—up to $35. A most unusual group of coats priced re markably low—$10.75. $25.00 Consisting of Wool Velours, Vel vets, Ripple Cloth and Wool Plushes- Some are fur trimmed, some have plush collars and cuffs |p others are plain—all are late mod 's. Values up to $30.75, now $25.00. Tqo| $25.00 All late models—in good style and with clever new touches to give individuality—a most beautiful showing some are plain wool velours, others are checks: some are plain, others fur trimmed: all the latest materials, all very styl ish none Worth less than $39.75, After Christmas Clearance price, $25.00. Slightly Mussed from Handling A little water and iron makes them just as fresh as new values up to $2-00, this sale, $1.00. CANADIAN KEY MEN WIN. CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—The Commer cial 'Telegraphers' union official jour nal reports that after two months of negotiation fhe committee represent ing telegraphers employed by th'e day section of the Canadian Press, On tario and Quebec section, has ac cepted an increase of $3 per week in :••'. tlieir minimum scale. Overtime at 7? the rate of 60 cents an hour for the '7 first hour, with time and one-half thereafter and a scale of $1 per hour for all Sunday extra. The increase to date from Nov. 1, 1916. The success of these workers was only made possible by means of a. thorough organization. "Night-lettered" is one of the new.! verbs that's how we got started ori\ the tenth volume of a complete. dl£ tionary of the Pnglish language. McKensy Lake Cranberry Co* 1J4MI42 Plymouth Building, Minneapolis, Minn. Gentlemen: Kindly mail me your booklet Dollars & Sense, explaining your 6% Profit Sharing Bonds, without any obligation to me. Name Street City -..State