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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-23
Pacific and possibly Joined Asia and
America, In Indo-China anu Java.

The King of Spain will send two of his
racing yachts to Cowes in August for the
regatta week. and 1t is very probable
that his majesty himself will run over to
his "favorite holiday island" and take
the helm In the big races. The German
Emperor will once more send the Meteor
across the North Sea, and with Sir Thorn
as Lipton's Shamrock and Mr.. Myles
Kennedy's White Heather back again in
the % metre class. some fine racing may
be expected Shamrock and White
Heather opened the yachting season
auspiciously In race from Southend to
Harwich, which Shamrock won.
In yachting circles great interest has
been aroused in the Is metre class this
year. Two or three new boats are COM
ing out including one Quilt on the Clyde
for Mr.. Coats, the thread millionaire
who is an ardent and enthusiastic yachts
man. The yacht is not completed yet,
but 1t is hoped that she will be the glory
OF the Clyde, where most of the beautiful
racers are born. She will be launched
and christened in full time for the Cowes
competitions.
Among the people who are reaping a
harvest out of the London season there
is tribe of enterprising folk to whose
welfare the strikes and the heat and other
ference whatever. They are the E1agi-
leans of modern Babylon"
II one takes a walk on any of these
afternoons around the fifty named mag
ic circle that includes Bond street. Re-
gent street and Picadilly circus, one will
probably be able to count at least half
a dozen sandwich boards announcing that
this or that mystic parsonage with an
Oriental name and a duly registered tel
ephone number, is prepared during gener-
Gus business hours to oblige you with
trance and sychometry," "clairvoyance .
standardization" crystal gazing se-
ances, or other 'glimpses of the occult
Sometimes the sandwichman is himself
robed as a Wise Man From the East -
Just now one rather envies him the fez
and the bath towel as summer cos
tune
In any case. the truth remains that the
profession of magic continues to be as
rampantly successful in the business Lon
don of this very season as ever 1t was In
Babylon of long ago. Nay, more. 1t is
a profession which is, according to re-
liable information, startlingiy on the in
crease, Notwithstanding all laws for the
putting down of fortune telling.
The old fashioned gypsy who induces the
servant girl at the back door to cross
her hand with piece of silver must go
TO prison. But the West End "psychom-
etrist." with the Turkey carpeted Con
sulting' room and the impressive COM
misaire. who gravely assures you that
Madame" or 1.-The Professor" as the
case may be. lis extremely busy Just
now" but will be ''at liberty tomorrow
by appointment nourishes with all the
dignity of Harley street specialist.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-23
Save Some

From the Philadelphia Record.
Sillicus: IT takes a lot OF nerve to pro-
pose to a GIRL
Cynicus: Yes, but it's a good plan to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

son Of corruption. But if he musters
up courage to appear at a public hear
ing on some particular issue OF poll
dcal life, he is very respectful and
conciIiatory to the powers that be.
Similarly the Consumer in his at
titude TO the trust magnate. In the
smoking car and the hotel lobby he
wakes eloquent over the greed of
Dives
But put him on a jury, and place
in the dock a real live trust magnate
make the relation personal as be-
tween man and man. Let him OBJ
serve that the trust magnate wears
good clothes and looks Like a good feL
low Would he have the resolution
to put him on a bread and water diet
and make him cane chairs for a year
The Chicago verdict does not mean
that Uncle Sam is going to quit his
efforts to get the big combinations OF
better basis But it shows how
average human nature makes it diff
cult to regulate combinations thru
the criminal law. Meanwhile it is
to be noted that Uncle Sam has hand
| led the railroads much more success
fully thru the Interstate Commerce
Commission, than he has the trusts
through law suits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
THE PACKERS
60 FREE

After chasing the modern trust Cy
clops through the legal jungle for a
good ten years, the verdict in the
beef packers criminal case leaves
Uncle Sam back where he started from
considerably battered and very much
Winded, with scarcely time to think
out plan for another campaign.
1t is one thing to pass laws to put
your fellow citizens in Jail, quite an
other to get them behind the bars.
Some years ago there appeared in
a, comic paper a picture showing the
contrast between a lion tanner as he
was at the circus and as he was at
home.
At the circus, in the spIendor of
his red tights, and with his swinging
whip, he was a potentate. The lions
groveled before him and looked very
humble.
At home he was washing dishes,
and he looked quite meek in the
presence of his wife, who supervised
his work with stern oversight
In discussing the evils of politics,
the every day citizen is quite i'm
posing as he stands on the curbstone
or as he tells the newspaper man
how the editor should smite the dra-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

who required that woman in his
court room wearing mans hat
should remove it.
What constitutes a woman hat?''
wrote a woman journalist ON this in
cjdent. Nothing but ownership. If
d woman pays for a hat it is hers.
Nobody has authority to say what hat
woman shall wear, if it does not
infringe on the rights Of Others,
The woman's rights movement has
altogether changed its attitude on
clothes. The early crusaders of the
DR.. Walker type We're Indifferent to
the coquetries of style and to the
artistic motive. The fact that Al
pine dairymaids and Belgian female
miners wore trousers, and found that
they Hghtened their toll, was reas-
on enough to warrant the bloomel
movement.
To the common mind, trousers fol
women are subversive Of fitness
From the transcendental bloomerites
Of 1850, down to the frisky Parisians
in the harem skirts of 1910, the Grove
has always looked at them as analo
gous to a six legged calf or the liv
ing skeleton.
The beauty of any clothing, consid
cred from the view point of artistic
drapery, consists in long flowing ant
curying lines that answer and echo t.
the curves of the human body The
division of trousers into two legs
breaks up these lines into short awk
ward wrinkles running crosswise. Fo
such reasons women will never veal
them.
The bicycle craze of the Nineties
led to some daring ventures that were
soon laughed off the streets. To the
mind of Mere Man, the participation
of women in athletics, which is 81
necessary to their physical we'll be
ing, would be facilitated if they
would wear their gym boomers il
the more active out door sports Blu
feminine sentiment seems to feel tina
to be beautiful is better than to BIZ
strong and healthful.
The modern Suffragette movemen
is conservative on the clothes ques
ton. Even when the Londoners g
out for the festive pursuit of window
smashing, they must be properly ar
rayed in the latest spring styles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
REVIVING BANK
BUSINESS

The report of bank clearings for
March for 125 cities, issued by R. G.
Dun & Co, is full of hope for the bu-
siness man. A gain of TT per cent
over last year is recorded, and the
loss from 1910 is only 81 per cent
March WIS month of storms and
cold, which must have had some eff
feet in delaying spring trade in coun-
try districts.
This reyiying tendency of trade a.
gain illustrates how foolish it is for
the American business man to be a
fraid of his own shadow. For the
past two years, our country has been
full of pessimism. 1t is of course a
time of political and social unrest,
of some breaking down of party lines
and some drifting away from old
mornings.
These periods of change are not of
course favorable to development of
enterprises founded on fictitious cap
! ital, But any enterprise establish
ed on a basis of actual assets or of
an established trade and good viii,
is founded on a rock.
The people who are constantly pre-
dieting a devastating panic should
study American business history
more carefully They should learn
that our great industrial depressions
have come from two causes: First,
the needless fears of business men
second the confidence of bust
ness men.
The latter is the principal cause
of industrial depression. 1t leads
capitalists to tie themselves up in a
net work of debts, and fabricated on
another in top heavy pyramid. Some
day something pars the narrow foun-
dation of all this edifice OF. dreams,
and it comes down in heap.
AS far as the first cause goes, the
prophet of disaster helps to bring on
the very thing he breads. If he and
his kind keep tsiIl in these days of
change, there will be no panic result
ing from fear. And the very caution
now prevailing in the business COM
munity makes the danger of panic
from over-confidence far Less than
it is at the top of some high wave
of fancied prosperity.
AS far as political upheaval goes,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

1t must be patent to every one at
all interested in politics that either
the Republican or Democratic par
ties. If they want to succeed at the
coming November election, will be
obliged to nominate a man who is
well known as a Progressive Repub-
ucan or Democrat if they hope to
elect him at the coming election. This
country is passing through a pro
gressive period and the people with
out regard for party are going to e.
lect a Progressive for President this
falI La Toilette is the most relia-
bic OF all the Progressive men now
named for the Presidency. He should
be nominated by the Republican par
ty if they want to succeed. If he
is not nominated, and the Democrats
nominate a Progressive who has the
confidence of the people he is quite
likely to be elected. 1t will there
for stand the Republican party to
select wisely and well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

walton more important to the Ameri-
can people than that OF conserving
our bird life While Dy no means in
sensible to the aesthetic value Of
birds the farmer who is asked to aid
in their protection is entitled to know
the practical purposes they subserve,
and how far they may be expected
TO return his outlay of time trouble
and expense.
Since most birds eat Insects and
since many eat practically nothing
else, II is their insect-eating habits
that chiefly invited inquiry
In the Agricultural Yearbook for
1907 is the following
When birds are permitted to la
Dor undisturbed they thoroughly po
lice both earth and air. The thrush.
es, sparrows, larks and wrens, searcl
the surface OF the earth Tor insects
and their larvae, or hunt among the
leaves and peer under logs and refuse
for them. The warbIers, vireos, creep
ers, and nuthatches with their mi
croscopie eyes scan every part O
the tree or shrub-trunk, branches
and leaYes-and few hidden creature
escape them. The woodpeckers no
content with carefully scrutinizing
the bark and limbs Of trees, dig in
to the decayed and worm-eaten wooC
and drag forth the burrowing larvae
which in their hidden retreats are
safe from other enemies.
The flycatchers, aided by the warb
lers are ever on the alert to snaI
up insects when flying among trees
and branches; while the swallows anC
nighthawks skim over the pastures
and patrol the high air above tht
tree tops for such of the enemy ,as
have escaped pursuit below T hu:
each bird-family plays its part il
the never-ending warfare and the nun
Der of insects annually consumed By
the combined hosts is simply meal
culable. 1t is well that this is so
for so vast is the number of insects
and so great is the quantity of Yege
tation required for their subsistence
that the existence Of every greer
thing would be threatened were i
not for birds and other agents spe
cially designed to keep them il
check"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

No business man in any town
should allow a newspaper published
in his town to go without his name
and business being mentioned some
where in its columns, says an ex-
change. This applies to all kinds of
business-general stores, dry goods
groeers, furniture dealers, manufac-
turing establishments, automobile
dealers, mechanics, professional men
and in fact all classes OF business
men. This does not mean that you
should have a whole or half or even
s. quarter OF a gage in every issue
of the paper but your name and bust
ness should be mentioned if you do
not use more than a two line space.
A stranger picking up a newspaper
should be able to tell just what
business is represented in a town
by looking at the business mentioned
in the paper. This is the best pos
sible town advertiser. The man
who does not advertise his business
does an injustice to himself and his
town. He is the man who expects
the newspaper to do the most free
boosting for his town. The man
who insists on sharing the business
that comes to a town but refuses to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

AND CARE Of
CAME BIRDS
AND ANIMALS
E. A. CIeasby at the County
Normal.

E. A. Cleasby, Deputy Game War
den in the Education Department is
filling a two day engagement at the
County Normal. Mr.. Cleasby gives
a regular course in the study of pro
tected birds and animals. The term
Game Warden" has stood for de-
lection of and punishment for break
ing the law. The State now propos-
es to instruct the public in the value
of protected birds and animals SO
that the future citizen will not want
to break the law.
The State Game Warden Depart
ment, this year, is taking up this mat
ter of education, in an effort to show
the value of fish, mammals, and birds
to the state. This is not a new work
in the United States. Dr.C. F. Hodge
of Clark University, has done much '
work anolng this line in Massachusetts
His valuable book, entitled Mature
and Life" is being used in many
schools of the country
| In the Yearbook of the Depart
ment of Agriculture for 1906 is the
following:
AN officer, (meaning game war
DEM, who realizes the responsible
ity of his position can do much to
bring game protection into popular
favor. He may easily become an ed
ucator, however circumscribed his
field. Much of the wantop destruc-
ton Of animal Life proceeds from
thoughtlessness and few persons once
| impressed with the Importance of
preserving wild creatures, continue to
| destroy them. In North Carolina the
| bird and game wardens, in addition
to their official duties, spend a con
siderable portion of their time edu-
eating the public as TO the value of
| birds and game to the State. During
the closed seasons, they visit farm
ers, explain and discuss the game
plants. Each warden is supplied
with a selection of standard books
on birds, and is required to familiar
! ize himself with them, so as to be
able to answer the numerous ques-
tons propounded."
In Wisconsin we realize there is
need of education and the fish and
game warden department is undertak-
ing this work through the schools,
the farmers Institutes, school board
| conventions, teachers Institutes and
with the people generally.
Some Benefits of the Protection of
Animal Life.
The benefits Of the protection of
animal life may be briefly stated as
follows; to increase useful species
for the benefit of the people in gen
eral, to protect those species that
are beneficial as scavengers, to pro
hibit the introduction into this coun-
try, those species known to be in
furious, to preserve those species that
are of interest to the student Of ma
ture, and to conserve our mammals.
birds and fish so that those who
come after us may enjoy some OF
the things We enjoy.
Birds Act AS Scayenqers,
A great deal has been said of late
about the conservation of our re
sources, but know of no conser-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
EFFICIENCY

This watchword and fad of the
day is being discussed at a conven-
ton in New York of the American
Society for the Promotion of Effici-
ency. Among the ideas emphasized
at this meeting has been that the
element of human nature has got to
be carefully weighed as well as ply
steal motions and time elements.
No magazine of national reputation
felt that it could hold it's subscrib-
ers through the year 1911 unless it
produced one or more articles on this
subject. We believe we have read
some 784 times about the brick-lay-
ers who could lay three times as many
bricks with less effort by reducing
the number of motions from eighteen
to five.
And ye+ the study of efficiency is
nothing new. Any one who ever
worked in factory knows how earn
estIy the more serious operatives will
argue these questions as to how pro-
cesses can be most effectively per-
formed.
In every factory there grows up a
tradition of the best processes. E
very apprentice feels that these pro
cesses are bungling and if only he
could do the thing his own way, effort
would be saved. An apprentice be-
gins to be useful when he learns that
the shop traditions are based on
human experience and have worked
out roughly the most effective way
of performing certain motions.
But just as people are now using
very different locomotives and ships
from those once recommended by ira
dition, so technical methods and pro
cesses are bound to change. The
danger with some efficiency experts
is that they try to sweep out of the
way in a month or a year habits that
have been handed down from father
to SON The best experts place three
to five years as the time needed to
overhaul the processes Of a mill. and
probably that is too small.
AS the speakers have been saying
at the Efficiency Congress, you have
got to consider the effect of all these
motions on the human nerves and
muscle. If a se-called efficiency
device means that a man must work
faster, it is borrowing from his capital
of health to add to his wages or the
employers profits, and thus in either
event is depreciating capital. Any
correct efficiency device makes its
gains not by making a higher demand
on human energy. but simply by re
moving traditional obstacles to the
Of that energy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
AFTER ILLINOIS, PENNSYLVANIA
business NE

AFTER ILLINOIS, PENNSYLVANIA.
The extraordinary results of the
Pennsylvania primaries emphasize the
fact which Illinois presidential pref
ence primary so srtikingly indicated
the remarkable hold of Mr.. Roose-
welt on the confidence of Republican
voters.
Without the advisory primary this
fact might have been suppressed by
organizations and machines, by so
called delegates" who represent or
gained appetite rather than the rank
and file. This alone completely JUS
titles the presidential primary; in
deed, it absolutely demonstrates
it's necessity. The people must nomi,
nate as well as elect and they should
have every opportunity to express
their wishes and preferences direct
Iy, leaving no room for chicane and
misrepresentation.
The preferential and other direct
primaries hav emancipated the
rank and file, and the first and most
impressive result is the smashing OF
the Lorimer machine in Illinois and
OF the more intrenched and power,
full Penrose machine in Pennsylvan
la. There can be no doubt that in
both cases he voters deliberately
aimed staggering blows at boss
ism and machine domination. There
| is little reason to doubt that in Penn
syIVania as in Illinois the Taft can
didacy suffered severely because 0.
its association with the fortunes o.
an odious machine. The unsolicited
support of Taft by the Lorimerites
hurt the President in this state; the
open and persistent work for Taft By
the Penrose machine even more
seriously initiated against him il
Pennsylvania. Candidates must di
rectly and candidly appeal to tht
voters; the support of reactionar!
and spoils machines is not only vain
but positively detrimental and ia
Chicago Record Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25
$3.50 PER VOTE.

Col. Roosevelt was very sore over
the loss of the New York primaries,
and one probable reason for his sore
ness comes to light with the publica-
ton of his lavish expense account.
If the colonel had won he might
have felt that, while the $50, 1865
expended was rather steep for New
York City and county, the victory
was worth the money, for it is pretty
important that a candidate carry his
own state.
But the colonel lost, and an opera
ton in simple arithmetic shows that
each vote he got cost over $3.50.
However, it may be some consola-
ton for him to think that the opu-
lent trust gentlemen who paid the
freight for him, Messrs. Munsey, Per
kins, etc, are financially competent
and will not miss the money
The scoffers at the colonel's ce-
lestial pretensions are noting that it
cost his campaign league nearly
twice as much per vote to lose New
York primaries as it cost Uncle Is
aac Stephenson to win in Wisconsin.
And it is grumbled in a general way
that New York's maiden effort to
purge political campaigns of the use
of money, through the direct primary
device, has gone just the other way.
For instance, the indignant New
York Tribune complains:
The first primary under the new
law in this state brings the public
face to face with the excessive use
of money which has been complain
ed of elsewhere as an evil of the di-
rect primary system; but seldom has
the proportions attained in the recent
contest here. The only parallel that
readily occurs to mind for the Roose-
welt leagues expenditure of $50 900
in one county is Senator Stephenson
expenditure of 100000 to carry the
primaries of the state of Wisconsin.
Senator Stephenson's Iavishness be-
came a national scandal
Well. New York went into this di-
rect primary business with it's eyes
open and the shocking example of
that national scandal" before it.
Some day We shall all realize that Pc
litics is politics and human nature is
human nature, and that politics is
going to reflect average human
nature, no matter what patent de
vice is adopted to uplift politics.
Milwaukee Sentinel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-04-25

Mrs. Thurston is having her house
repainted and papered.
Mrs McChasney and daughters,
also Miss Warren, made a trip TO
Grand Rapids Monday.
Mrs Mabel Baker visited at Steve
Brigham's Monday.
Mrs Rasmussen, accompanied DR..
PauIson to HinsdaIe- We understand
she intends to work in the SAM
tarium during the summer.
Miscs Verna Palmer, after spend
ing the winter at home has gone
to Milton Junction to keep house fol
her brothers, who have rented farm
there.
Mrs. Frost went to MarshfieId, one
day last week, to consult a doctor
in regard to her health which is yer!
poor
Mrs. Alice McCrillis and little daugl
ter who were so sick last week have
so far recovered as to be able tt
come home again.