The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-12

The WASHBURN TIMES,
WAsHBURN, WIS.
PRINTING CO., Publishers
Horseless carriage; wireless teleg-
raph; tireless cooker; dustless brush; tail
less comet.
The Sane Fourth movement is neither
dead, nor sleeping. 1t viii save the fin
gers and eyes and lives of great many
young Americans next July.
Surely no member of the G.. A. r.
would join in a plot to blow up the
statue of General Lee i'll the capitol at
Washington. No wonder that the police
do not regard seriously the sensational
story telegraphed from New York.
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The effort of John d. Rockefeller and
the trustees, faculty and alumni of Johns
Hopkins University to raise two million
dollars for the expansion of that instl-
tuition is not likely to fail if all the par
ties to the undertaking do their level
best.
Secretary Wilson's cook book bids fair
to become as popular as was Secretary
Rusk's horse book, Of which many thou
sand copies were printed by the govern
ment. The high price of food products
has made housekeepers study economy,
and there will doubtless be demand for
all Of the million copies of the Wilson
book that have been ordered by Con-
gress.
Think of French titled families hang
ing up counterfeit paintings in their old
chateaux, that they may sell them as
old masters to gullible Americans. But
one American victim has turned. She
has brought suit in a French court to re-
cover money thus obtained from her by
fraud. If she wins, it may check the
INSCRIPTIONS daring of titled eXploiters
of rich Americans.
on the subject of cold storage. He has
studied food problems with a thorough
ness that gives prestige to his opinions.
Doctor Wiley declares that nine months
is long enough for any food to be kept N
cold storage or in cans. He says that
holding over the product of one season
to interfere with the output of the next
exceeds the limits of reasonable economy
and practical hygiene, and concludes
that ''the storage of strictly seasonable
products should be prohibited by law"
Six firemen lost their lives in a fire
at New Haven, Connecticut, because of
the explosion of a gasoline tank, which
penned them in a cul de sac with a wall
of fame. The growing use of motor We
hicles and gasoline engines is increasing
the number of gasoline tanks in business
houses and in garages. These should
be all located where they can be inspect
ed by the building department and by
the scouts that are sent out by the In
surance Patrol and the Fire Depart
ment.
Lord Kitchener breaches the doctrine Of
preparedness. He favors universal peace
while he carefully looks after the condi-
ton of armament and the munitions of
war. He would not be a soldier if he
didn't thus attend to business, and his
position is no criterion for civilians who
are asked to tax themselves for stupen-
dous military and naval programmes. A
happy mean between serenity and alert
ness will best please those who have to
foot the bills.
Gov. Pothier of Rhode Island has af-
fixed his signature to a law which gives
the Southern New England Railway
Company a projected auxiliary branch
of the Grand Trunk Railway, direct
line through Rhode Island with a seaport
outlet at Providence. The reaching of
the Canadian lines through American
territory to seaport terminals is evidence
that the st. Lawrence route is not re-
garded as the best for export or coast
business, even by the business men Of
the Dominion.
Two automobile testers were killed at
Detroit when the front wheels of their
vehicle ''dished" and they were thrown
against a trolley pole with the wreckage
of the vehicle that failed while they
were going at high speed. Fire from
the exploded gasoline tank contributed
its share toward the tragedy. The test
of an automobile shows only that the
vehicle is equal to the strain put upon it
for the time being. The next time a
similar strain is imposed there may be
disaster and death. The only safety lies
in rational going.
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The hatpin has proved itself a weapon
of defense in new observation-disclosures
against the tricks of impostors. In
Brooklyn, New York, the other day. a
young man fell in the throes of a simu-
lated fit, and a sympathetic young lady,
who Glanced to lend a hand in his resus-
citation suddenly said: ''I'll revive this
fellow" and jabbed her hatpin into his
arm. The fakir, who had been playing