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TAXING POOR MANS COAT OFF HIS BACK
Concrete illustration of What . Re publican Tariff Really Means
 Causes Workers to Think.

Concrete examples of how a pro- tective tariff operates are causing the working man, the Door man." to do a lot of thinking nowadays. He Is be- ginning to understand whether 1t Is not about time to call a halt on the Republican practice of taxing the coat of his back and threatening him with the loss of his shirt and his socks If he does not submit.
 All through the present tariff law, passed by Republican congress and endorsed by a Republican President as THE BEST TARIFF BILL EVER PASSED, are to be found discrimina- tions, the higher duty on the cheaper article. the lower on the shoulders of those least able to bear 1t the great CT burden of the protective system. Here are some illustrations:
 The cheapest wool blankets bear Q duty of 165.42 per cent; the dearest, 10455 per cent.
 Flannels. not more than 40 cents a pound. are taxed at 143.67 per cent; over 70 cents pound, 76.37 per cent.
 Wool plushes, cheapest, 141.75 per cent; dearest, s5.33 per cent.
 Knit fabrics, cheapest, Al per cent; dearest, 95.63 per cent.
 Stockings, worth from $1 to $1.60 dozen, 76.37 per cent; from g to 8, 69 per cent.
 Hats and bonnets, worth not over $6 a dozen, 62 per cent; over $2o q dozen, 35 per cent.
 Carpets. highest priced. 50 per cent; that used for mats and rugs, 12e.s8 per cent.
 Women's gloves, unlined, 4s per cent; lined, 34 per cent; longest gloves, unlined, 42 per cent; lined. 2s per cent.
 Mems gloves, worth less than g . dozen, 66.28 per cent; costliest gloves, 14.46 per cent: leather. unlined, 44.5s per cent; lined, 29.50 per cent.
 Buckles, cheapest, 77.4S per cent; dearest, 26.3 per cent.
 Uncut diamonds bear . 10 per cent. duty; imitation diamonds, 20 per cent
 The humble irecracker bears a STOP per cent. duty, while elaborate fireworks bear but 70 per cent. Mating. smaller and cheaper grades, 4S per cent; costlier, A per cent Watch movements, seven jewels, s6.o2 per cent; Il jewels, 4o.41 per cent; 1T jewels, s4.45 per cent. Underwear, cheapest, 66.90 per cent; dearest. 50 per cent.
 Dress goods of wool, cheapest. 1o5.42 per cent; dearest, s4.13 per cent. Velvets, cheapest, 105.22 per cent; dearest, 4s.55 per cent Silk handkerchiefs, cheapest, TIA per cent; dearest, 69 per cent. Scissors, worth 50 cents a dozen, 52.21 per cent; worth $1.75 Q dozen, 46 per cent.
 Table knives, fancy grades, E74o per cent; bone handled, 6S.43 per cent.
 Butcher knives, best grades, 5210 per cent; cheapest grades, 93.55 per cent.
 Files, smallest, s1.2s per cent; longest. s6.s1 per cent. Shot guns, worth from s to $10, 47.67 per cent; worth over $1e, 45.4e per cent.
 These are only part Of the dis criminations, gleaned from a swift coming of some of the schedules. Re duced to simplest terms, they mean | that the poor man is taxed higher than the rich man.
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Those who know and feel for Chair man Hilles say he really isn't to blame for the Republican presidential candi- dates announcement that he "is out of politics"
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President Taft congratulates the Republicans of Maine on what Chair man Hilles describes as "an old-fash- toned victory" Another such and Vermont and Rhole Island would so Democratic in November.
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The card-stackins at Armageddon goes merrily on. Eight Taft electors h Missouri announce that if elected they will vote for the Third Term can didate
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A Western Third Termer regrets that Roosevelt will not have time be- fore election day to say half he means He'll have plenty of time following n
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That the tariff board. in it's report on manufac- lures of cotton (Sched- ule I.) has suppressed findings of vital impor- tance to the cotton in husfrv fn fha nnhlic nd
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Wonder if Emerson was gazing upon . Moose calf when, several decades sgo, he wrote:
 '1 am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year"
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SUPPRESS. SION

to the government but inimical to the special privileges of a few New England manufacturers who were permitted by Senator Aldrich to write the cotton sched- ule to suit themselveR
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Facts Suppressed and Issues
 Evaded by Taft Tariff Board
By ROBERT KENNETH MAcLEA.
Formerly Consulting Expert of the Tariff Board.

Formerly Consuting Expert Of the Tariff Board.  public D possession
 
  peled to present the following indictment
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more than an effective cog in a "sta n d p t"
 political machine. that some of the men who clamored most loudly for
 a tariff board and some nf fha men annnintaA
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That the tarin board has perverted other facts. thereby avoiding exposure of tariff injus- tices that have benefited the few at the expense of the many manufac-
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earifr board falsely reported
 impossible to obtain abroad
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That the tarin board avoided altogether inves- tigating certain phases of tariff graft hidden in -'1okers" of the Payne Aldrtah law.
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make more eouita bie their tthe wool and cot ton schedules) effects " The board did not at- tempt to draw .conclu- sions. scientific" or oth- erRise. from ita ..scien-
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1t to make an intelligent comparison with costs at home: that the board was offered opportuAi- ties for obtaining such data, but did not use tharn. that such foraign
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That the tarin board has proved not to be the ''nonpartisan" and scientific instru- ment promised by President Tafe; that it's members displayed inexperiencs in busi- ness. incompetence and extravaganca have been forced reluctantly after a year's intimate association to accept the opinion that the tariff board has been nothing
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WILL
 That the tariti board's treatment of eco a O m 10 questions vitally affect ing the relation of the tariff to the prices sx- acted from con gu n CTS was disinsenuous and
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 lATlON t

make head or tail of the tumble of data presented as . basis for intelligent tarin revision. @
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PtRvtR. SION
turera

That the tariff board has not, as stated by President Taft to congress. drawn any conclusions that would ''be valuab bls in advising the congress and the people .
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PARTISAN

thereto worked all the time complacently in the Knowledge that the creation of the board was scheme to prevent genuine tariff reform as long as possible by gum. ming the cards and dela yins the game" . charge frequently made but which 1 for a long time discredited
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UNFAIR .-

lecturers divuiged nothing of simil, character or importance
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EVASION

tifcally' collected data. but sidestepped that responsibility by arguing that such deductions as its data justified were not called for under the specifications of its employment
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 iNEXACI

data as were obtained were in some cases suppressed and in others were inadequate for honest comparison. although 60 util- ized
 That the tarin board betrayed the con
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.GONVlCI.
 ING

pockets of the Iab borer to maintain an American standard of living
 From New York WorlA
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fishing data that should have been held for con- ddential Information of
 legislat tors: that compet-
 itors were given thereby
 valuable trade secrets.
 while the foreign manu- red nothing of similar
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boards report was ar-
 be incomprehensible to
 or laymen: that tables were deliberately disas- sociated or emasculated if not suppressed. and that . congress m a n would require the serv- ices Of q statistician and R clerk EiY mnnfha fn
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That the tariff board. in it's report on manufac- ElIppRFS. lures of cotton (Sched- o Nlo uIe L) has suppressed | SION findings of vital impor-
 tancs to the cotton in-
 dustry. to the public and to the government but inimical to the special privileges of a few New England manufacturers who were permitted by Senator Aldrich to write the cotton sched- ule to suit themselveA
 That the tariff board has perverted other | PFRWR. facts. thereby avoiding exposure of tariff injus- | SIUN tices that have benefited
 the few at the expense
 of the many manufac- turera
 That the tariff board has not. as stated by President Taft to congress; drawn any conclusions that would "be valua bls in advising the congress and the people of the changes that ought to be made to
 make more eQuita I c
 their (the wool and cot | ton schedules) effects :" | tVANI(lN The board did not. att
 tempt to draw .conclu-
 sions. "scientifc" or oth-
 erwise. from it's ''scien- tifically" collected data. but sidestepped that responsibility by arguing that such deductions its data justified were not called for under the specifications of its employment
 ".
 That the tariff boards report was ar- ranged so as to be iucomprehensible to either legislators or laymen: that tables
 were deliberately disas- sociated or emasculated I fMAScIL not suppressed. and
 that congressman n lAtlUN would require the serv-
 ices Of statistician and clerk six months to make head or tail of the tumble of data presented as . basis for intelligent tarif revision.
 v.
 That the tari1 board
 avoided altogether tnves- 1 fAvORIT. tleatin: certain phase. :a ISM -'1okers' of the Payne Aldrtnh law.
 VI
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v l.
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DISINGEN.. U0US

misleading.
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That such facts as the tariff board has reported sustain the charge. as to both
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That the tarin ranged SO as to either legislators
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-21

Il guess we can handle B. B.
Brown" be wired back with grin.
You might send word to the dispatch
er's office to run the train in on a
siding somewhere to permit the politi-
cal special to pass"
The ONCE force roared at the sally.
The political special was a congress
sional iunket that was to start on a
tour Of the country late ii the fail.
some three months aNer the T. C. &
s. charter became void Word was
sent to the dispatcher and the trafnc
manager went home.
Late that evening the private tele-
graph instrument II hia house began
to click. The traflic manager was AN
old operator and be had had q wire
run to his house. He answered the
call and then the key began to click.
Have been side tracked, Tarenson.
i've hours TIE message ran. Please
notify dispatcher 81 agreement made
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
MIRROR LAKE.

The Ladies' Aid society at Marion
Risley's Thursday was we'll attended,
there being fifty-One people served to a
fine dinner prepared by the members.
A sum of $3.50 was realized. The
next Aid will be at the home of Charles
Bass April %.
John DankerI, ST., who was quite
sick, is better.
MI and Mrs. Ray Montanye and
son, Ralph, and Mrs. Roy Golding
and children of Alderman were callers
at Joe Golding's Monday night.
Henry Risley made trip to Delton
Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. George Hammermeister of Bar
aboo has returned to her home after
caring for Mrs. G.. Hammermeister,
who is slowly gaining after being sick
with pneumonia.
The Excelsior Lyceum met at the
l.. Reynolds home Friday, March %.
A good program was given although
some of the mem bers were not present.
A story, "Henry and the Flea, was
given by Arthur Golding which caused
much laughter. The next meeting
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
"a Vale was held at llonton Satur-

La Vale was held at llonton Satur-
day.
John JepsOn went to Milwaukee
last week to see his son, who it is re-
ported is getting along nicely. II
Will be remembered he is in hospi-
tai there.
Mr.. and Mrs. John HOchmuth, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Schwartz, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. A. Richards and Mrs. j. Ra-
buck spent Sunday in Wonewoc.
Madames FL. P. Apker, F. F. Fun
mel and T. Karstetter we've shopping IN
Reedsburg Saturday.
The Is months child of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Zimmerman died Friday
evening with Group.
Miss Grace Paddock spent a few
days last week in Chicago.
Charles Briggs has purchased a
han dsome team of horses of August
ZelIman fancy price.
Harry ButterfeId of Baraboo spen t.
Sunday at the Paddock home.
George Golden soli his tie am of
d. aft horses Monday to Ca madam
shippers.
Mrs. Charles Gates is on the sick
list.
Laura Cameron has purchased the
bakery and confectionery store of
Jasper Cline and will take possession
April first.
Mrs. J. Rowin of Madison came
Saturday for visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Rumpf left for an
extended visit with relatives in Iowa.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
State of Wisconsin ! GO
Sank County 'S'

State of Wisconsin &C.
Sank County '''
County Clerks Office, Baraboo,
Wis, March II, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that an cleo
ton to be held in the several town
wards, villages and election districts
in the state of Wisconsin, on the first
Tuesday of April, A. D. 1912, being the
second day of said month, the follow
ing officers are to be elected:
Four Delegates at Large from each
political party in the state to the Ma
tional convention of each party.
Two District Delegates to the Ma
tional convention from each political
party in the Seventh Congressional
district.
Said election to be held and con-
Quoted, votes capvassed and returns
made according to law.
S. II. Wood, County Clerk.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
and North Freedom last week.

and North Freedom last week.
Miss Ethel Ward of White Mound
came up to spend few weeks with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
J. Voss.
Miss Clara Repha went to Logan
Vile yesterday where she is employed
at the William Westedt hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Harms, Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Albers and children
and John Albers Sundayed at Will
liam Gro meyers near Loganville.
Mrs. Henry Schroeder died Sunday
morning after lingering illness Of
stomach trouble. Funeral Wednesday
at the st. Peters Lutheran church.
Villa M Schroeder and crew are
busy saving lumber at H. J. LIGHTS.
Willie Knuth and Albert Bumgar-
ten Sundayed at William e. Meters.
Quite croud of young folks walked
in at H. J. Litch's Sunday evening in
honor of Ella LIGHTS birthday. A
very pleaant evening was spent.
Reinholt Hertz spent Sunday at
Charley Heritz's home.
Miss Maggie Hayes has returned
home after spending the winter with
her sister, Mrs. Currie Page in South
Dakota.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28

will be at the Spaulding school house,
April s. Come.
School closed in Dist. 3, on account
of bad roads, but as they are improved
school will be started again Monday.
Mrs. Jesse Woodwork and children
of Baraooo are visiting at the home of
G.. HammermeiS' er.
Hattie Charnley is visiting at her
parental home here.
Henry Kisley attended party al
DeIton Saturday night.
On account of bad reads our mail
carrier, Archie Murry, was unable 10
90 Tuesday and Thursday of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Porter of BarabOO
have moved on the Potterville place
recently vacated by the l.. Washburn
family.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
DEILONk AND NORTH
EXCEISTOR.

Miss Jessie Linsdorf is visiting
friends in Baraboo.
Miss Nellie Brogan of Baraboo is
spending a few days at the Grant
Dryer home.
June Butterfield is spending the
week with her aunt, Mrs. Ollie Cole.
A goodly number Cf Miss Ida
Lawrenz's young friends gave her
surprise last Tuesday night, it being
her birthday. All report a very en-
joyable time.
Clarence Christie and family visited
at l.. Sarr1ngton's in Delton Sunday.
The w. F. M. society will meet with
Mrs. Sarah Rudd Thursday afternoon,
April 4. All are cordially invited.
George Butterfield and family visited
at Ollie Coles Sunday.
The L. A. S. at M. Risley's last
Thursday was largely attended.
Miss Carrie Lawrenz, Mary Simp-
son and Margaret Harmon resumed
their school duties after spending their
vacation at home.
Miss Nellie Du Bots, who teaches
near La Vale, is spending her vaca-
ton at home.
Misses Hazel and Lila Dryer, stu
dents of the Baraboo high school, are
at home this week.
Glen Knowles cut his foot quite
badly while chopping wood one day
last week.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
FAIRFIELD.

Miss Else Getchell, who came home
sick last Wednesday, has recovered
and returned to her work in Beloit
Sunday.
Herbert GetchelI came home Friday
for a few days vacation from his col
lege at WaUkesha.
Miss Allie Newell is employed at
FLOYD Newe rs home in BarabOO for a
short time.
School in DIST. NJ. has closed for a
vacation. The teacher, Miss Higgins,
is at h>r home in DetOn town.
Mr.. AMI Mrs. Albert Chamberlain
returned to Their home in Reedsburg
on Friday after visiting with her sis
ter, Mrs. John Davenport.
Miss Olive Thayer of Baraboo and
Miss Lizzie Farber of near Reedsburg
spent part of Sunday at 5. II. Bur
toms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Burton and little
Lucille Simonds Of BarabOo were
callers at the S. II. Burton home Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erickson are the
happy parents of twin boys.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Newell en- er-
tanned social dancing party at their
home Saturday evening.
Little Irene Lusby, who has b zen
very Ih with pleurisy, is much better.
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OBITUARY

Lafayette Hayes of Monroe Center,
Wis, while visiting at the home of his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. .. r. Odell, 127 Ninth avenue,
died Sunday from heart disease. Dur
ing the winter he had been attacked
by pneumonia and after partly recov-
ering came to Baraboo to visit. He WIS
troubled with weak heart and this
caused his death. Just before he died
he remarked 10 his son-in-law; "l am
all in", and died almost Immediately.
Death was painless, the patient falling
into his last sleep.
Mr.. Hayes was born in the state OF
New York about IS years ago and had
spent~mosT of his life in Adams county
at Monroe Center. The body has been
taken to that place for interment.
His wife was not here at the time of
his death and besides Mrs. Hayes
there are six sons and two daughters
in the family.
Languid, yawning people, always
tired, without vim or vigor, no appetite
can't digest the food they eat,
tongue always coated, constipated, out
of sorts all the time, with headaches
and bodily aches and pains, bad breath,
saIlow complexion. Winters germs
in your system, need HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea, Greatest Spring Puri-
fier.-J. b. Donovan & Go.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-03-28
SOUTH WESTFIELD.

H. J. Voss made trip to Baraboo
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-11-28
MUST PURGE LAKE WATERS
National Experts and Representatives of
Many Cities Take Part in Great Con-
ference Held in Milwaukee on Mon
day Send Resolution to Congress.

| The greatest gathering Of officials OF
| Wisconsin cities ever held to discuss
lake pollution and disposition Of sew
| age of lake shore cities was held at
! the Milwaukee Club in Milwaukee on
Monday when more than thirty officials
representing every city on the lake
shore accepted the invitation of Mayor
G. A. Bading Of Milwaukee, and Presi-
dent A. J. Horlick of the Lake Mich
gan Sanitary Association, to attend
the conference.
1t was great gathering of experts
along sanitary lines and these experts
gave literally of their experience to
aid lake shore cities in fighting what
is declared to be the greatest menace
to their people.
DR.. Allen J. Mclaughlin of the
United States Bureau of Health, was
the guest of honor at the gathering.
"a most dangerous apathy exists
among our people to the spread Of
water borne diseases in our popula-
tion," asserted DR.. Mclaughlin.
"Such diseases are more dangerous
than the plague or cholera. In the
great cholera year, 1910, in Russia
there were $4,000 deaths, and ye5 in
the same year there were 1.125,ooo
deaths from typhoid in the United
States. 1t is the most important func-
tion of this and of similar associations
in the country to awaken the public
to a realization of the danger of water
borne Diseases
DR.. Mclaughlin pleaded FOR greater
consideration for the reports of sani-
tary experts in this country and prais-
ed in the strongest terms the report
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of the Milwaukee sewage commission
experts, Alvord, Whipple and Eddy,
which he had examined in the survey
of the great lakes region which had
been entrusted to him by the &c, ern-
ment.
DR.. Mclaughlin spoke Of the Imnoff
tank system, which several cities have
under consideration for the treatment
of their sewage and said the man who
declared the tanks a sinking nuisance
was mistaken and that they were no
nuisance at all, as could be- told by a
visit to Chicago where they were
in use.
He said in August, 1912 the gem
eral government had ordered All in
vestigation of sewage pollution Of the
lakes and rivers of the country in the
basin of the great lakes and that an
appropriation of 100000 was now an
der consideration for the purpose,
$4,000 of which was to he spent on
Lake Michigan from Milwaukee south.
He said the international joint COM
mission appointed by the treaty he
tween Great Britain and the United
States, and of which he was an ad-
wiser, would start an investigation of
the boundary waters in February or
March, and predicted that something
would happen speedily when the COM
mission got to work.
Former Mayor A. J. Horlick of Ra-
cine, president of the association, in
troduced Mayor Bading of Milwaukee
as POSTMASTER of the occasion, and the
mayor introduced the speakers.
The second on the list was DR.. 6.
B. Young, health commissioner of Chi
cago, who said there were Two methods
of sewage disposal, diversion aud dilu-
tion being the first and treatment the
second. He said he was absolutely
committed to treatment, as the first
method was outgrown and meant, at
the most, simply an attempt to trans
fer to the shoulders of some one else
the solution of the problem of the
community. He said this violated the
fundamental laws of sanitation.
Other speakers were DR.. Sutherland,
of the Wisconsin State Board of
Health; Prof. Edward Barlow, director
Of the Illinois State Water Survey,
who described the work already done
in the cities between the southern line
of Wisconsin and the city of Chicago;
Lieut.. Col. Charles Wilcox, of the
United States Army Medical Corps.
Fort Sheridan; Samuel Greeley, one
of the engineers in charge of the sani-
tary district of Chicago; William Geo.
Bruce, secretary Of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association, Milwau-
kee, who described his recent inyesti-
cations Of sewage disposal in Berlin,
where it is made an asset by being