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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
AMUSEMENT BAN is LIFTED
Resolution Condemninq Secretary
Wilson for Connection With
Brewers Congress Adopted.

Minneapolis, Mimi, May 6.-The
board of bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal church reported to the gen
eral conference of the church Friday
in favor of lifting the church ban from
dancing, card playing, gambling and
attendance at horse racing, theaters
and circuses.
In making this radical recommends
ton the "a active bishops who formu-
lated the report declared that the
American people are too far advanced
longer to be restricted by church
rules as to what their amusements
snail be. 1t is suggested that each in
dividual follow the dictates OF his own
conscience.
representative from Missouri of.
fered a resolution condemping Score
tary of Agriculture James Wilson and
virtually threatening to vote against
the Taft administration. This was
adopted by vote of 544 to PAL after a
sharp fight on the floor of the conven-
ton. An effort was made to have it
referred to special committee and
there was sharp debate before it
passed. The resolution was the out
growth Of the Brewers congress, of
which Wilson was made honorary
chairman.
The resolutions were signed by
Rev. j. W. Anderson, Rev. w. p. Bur
ris and Rev. w. E. Christy, all of Mis-
souri,.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
DENY COMPENSATION PLEA
Risk Board Acts on Case of Street
Car Conductor Killed While TAX
ing Place of Motorman.

Madison.-The application of the
widow of Robert Neumann, Milwau-
kee, for compensation under the
workman's compensation act, for the
death of her husband, was dismissed
without award by the railroad COM
mission.
Neumann was a conductor in the
employ of the Milwaukee Street Rail
way company. He took charge of
the controller in the temporary abb
sence of the motorman and turning
onto a switch the car was thrown
from the track and Neumann was
run over and killed. 1t appeared at
the hearing that Neumann had never
been instructed in the duties of mo-
torman, that it was a strict rule and
always enforced that conductors
should not attempt to rup the car or
in any way operate or manipulate the
motor.
The commission found that Neu-
mann, when operating the motor,
was not performing a service incident
to his employment, and that the wild
ow is not entitled to recover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
ASK A RAISE FOR VAN HlSE
Alumni Committee Suggests That
President of State University Be
Paid $4,000 Per Year.

Madison,-The executive commit
tee of the alumni association of the
University of Wisconsin has passed
resolutions urging the regents to in
crease the salary of President Chas,
r. Van Hise to $4,000, the amount
received by President George e. Vim
cent of the University of Minnesota
and by President e. j. James of the
University of Illinois.
A bulletin of the United States bu-
reau OF education, just issued,
brought to the rotice of the alumni
the fact that the president of the
University of California receives
$12, 000 of Illinois, $4,000; of the
University of Minnesota, $4,000; of
Cornell, 10000; of Pennsylvania
State college, $4,000; of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, $4,000; of the Uni
versity of Michigan, $500; of the
University of Missouri, $500, while
President Van Hise receives $1,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
OUTLAW is SCORED
PROSECUTOR ARRAIGNs ALLEN
AS CoLD-BLOODED MURDERER.
Lawyer for Slayer Declares Client Did
Not Shoot Until After re Had
Been Wounded.

Wytheville, Va, May 4.-Floyd AL
len, typical native of Virginia's isolat-
ed hills, probably for the first time in
his life, has arrived at a realization OF
the determination of the law when it
deals with the man who has taken
human life.
At the opening of his trial Thursday
for the murder of Commonwealth At
torney William M. Foster, Allen,
propped u2 in an easy chair to allie
viate the pain of his own wounds,
heard a new prosecutor thunderously
denounce him as the arch-conspirator
in one of the most atrocious crimes
in the history of the world.
j. c. Wysof, chief counsel for the
state. in his opening address charac-
terized the Allen gang as ruffians, out
laws and cold-blooded assassins. He
laid great stress on the charge of con-
spiracy.
The opening address of Attorney r.
H. Willis for the defense was brief.
He declared his client had been the
MED that Allen killed Miss Nancy
Ayers; it was the bullets of either
Clerk Dexter Goad or one of his dep
uties which killed her, he said. He
denied the existence of a conspiracy
anc declared Allen did not draw his
own gun until after he had been shot
and hen he drew it from his hip
pocket, not from his vest pocket. be-
meath the sweater.
Judge D. W. Bolen of Hillsville,
who had been Floyd Aliens counsel,
took the witness chair an2 detailed
the shooting at the courthouse. He
declared that Claude Allen fired the
first shot
S. B. Weddell, former resident Of
Hillsville, said he saw Floyd Allen
there the day before the tragedy. AL
len told him that day, the witness de-
clared: Il will kill Bill Foster before
the sun goes down tomorrow night If
l am convicted"
Weddell said he had always been a
close friend of the prisoner.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
HIGH COST CHECKED
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SUCCEED
IN REDUCING EXPENSE
OF LIVING.
COOPERATIVE UNIONS CAUSE
President Taft Sends Second Install
ment of Consular Reports Regard
ing Excessive Rates In Europe to
Congress-Prices at Fair Level.

Washington, May THE president
on Monday transmitted to congress
the second installment of the reports
of consular officers Oh cooperation and
the cost of living which are the result
of the investigation he some time age
directed should be made. The coun'
tries included in this installment are
France, Belgium, the Netherlands and
Denmark.
1t appears from the information col.
1ected, the acting secretary says, that
the rising cost Of living has directed
attention to and augmented the nsem-
bership of the cooperative societies,
more especially in France and Bel
GUM. The French cooperative asso-
Citations are in the main arranged
upon the same system as those in the
United Kingdom. The tendency is to
wards small societies and the great
majority of the associations represent
groceries and bakeries. The most sue
cessful distributive societies are In
the manufacturing cities of northeast
It
societies relief funds are administered
and insurance against illness and
forced unemployment is supplied.
Arrangements are made with dentists,
doctors and artisans for their services
by members on commission basis.
The operation of the agricultural So
cities has been especially successful In
southern France. The French govern
ment has given encouragement to
these societies by furnishing expert
advice, granting subventions, and per-
hitting long term loans by agricul-
tural credit associations. The general
buying is done principally through dis
trict unions. High-grade farm machin-
cry such as is beyond the reach of
many individual members is pur-
chased from the SURPRISES or is loaned
gratuitously or upon the payment OF
nominal fees
IN regard to industrial cooperative
production it appears that plants
owned and operated by the operatives
are not uncommon in France
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
PICK ALTERNATE DELEGATES
Republican State Central Committee
Announces Selections-Gn Sue
ceeds Quinlan on Committee.

Madison.--The republican state
central committee has chosen alter.
nate delegates to the national con
yention as follows:
AT large-Senator ]. ]. Blaine
Boscobel; Theodore Kronshage, Mil
waukee: John Motteneck, Appleton
and Lieut. Gov. Thomas Morris, La
Crosse.
District alternates-
First-v. F. Richardson, James
Vile; Henry Lockney, Waukesha.
Second-C. S. Porter. Fox Lake;
Eugene Mcintyre, Waldo.
Thira-A. v. Peterson. Soldiers
Grove; Solomon Levitan, Madison.
Fourth-Henry Disch and John
O'Rourke, Milwaukee.
Fifth-C. A. A. MCGEE and August
Luedke, Milwaukee.
Sixth j. Torrison, Manitowoc;
Ernest Craveius, Berlin.
Seventh. B. Squire, Sparta
George F. Cooper, Black River Falls
Eighth-Edward O'Connor, Han
cock; E. v Werner, Shawno.
Ninth-Col. George D Wing, Algo
ma; Congressman E. A. Morse, An.
tigo.
Tenth-Charfes A. Ingram, Dur
and; DR.. P. H. Lindley, Chippewa
Falls
Eleventh.. E. Husband, Balsam
Lake; Frank A Lowell, Rhinelander
James J. Gill. 0conto. was elected
a member of the state central com
mittee to succeed William B. Quin-
Ian, circuit judge-elect, Marinette.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
LAW TO AFFECT ELECTORS
Space in Campaign Pamphlet viii
Cost Them $500 Each-Expense
of Literature Is Stupendous.

Madison.-If the presidential cleo
tors chosen by each party to cast
their vote in the electoral college
desire to get back their qualifications
before the people as the other candi-
dates are expected to do, it will cost
each about $500. The last session
of the legislature enacted a law,
which also applies to candidates as
presidential electors, under which the
secretary of state is required to is
sue a pamphlet in which may be
found the qualifications and picture
of each of the candidates for Office
in every political party. 1t is not
compulsory for a candidate to take
space in this pamphlet, but the new
corrupt practices act is so stringent
that this is about the best method
left for getting before the people. :"
While the law has been tried in
Oregon with success, the task of fur
nishing information to the Wiscon-
sin electorate, nearly four times as
large as Oregon, which in 1908 was
Ill, 900, will be stupendous. 1t is
estimated that the pamphlet will con-
sist of about 100 pages. In it will
be found the pictures and a state
ment of all the candidates for gov
ernor and other state offices, includ-
ing the senate and assembly. Be-
sides space is reserved for the various
candidates for congress and United
States senator, If any.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
MINERS ARE DIVIDED
WORKERS HOLD NUMEROUS
MEETINGS.
Supporters of President White Favor
Peace While Foreign Element
Want Strike.

Wilkesbaere. Pa. May AT the
numerous meetings held throughout
the anthracite region by tie miners.
at which The situation was thoroughly
discussed and instructions given to
delegates 10 the convention to be held
here May II, when the concessions
offered by The operators viii be acted
upon, the sentiment among the work
ers as to Whether the concessions
should be rejected or accepted was
about equally divided.
Many of the older men, and partic-
ularly those who are strong support.
ere of National President White. are
heartily in favor of peace and ex-
pressed their intention OF demanding
that the report Of the committee be
adopted. Others, many of the foreign
born mine workers being among them,
who are strongly in favor of rejecting
the report of the subcommittee and
demanding that there shall be strike
If the operators refuse to grant recog-
milton of the union, which embodies
the collecting Of the union dues from
the mine workers by the coal, com.
panies by the check-off system.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14

The Voice From Below.

Do not be afraid, do not cry out,
for life is good. l came from low
down, from the cellar of life where
darkness and terror reign, where man
is half beast, and life is only fight
for bread. It flows slowly there, in
dark streams, but even there CLEAN
pearls of courage. Of intelligence and
OF heroism, even there beauty and love
exist. Everywhere that man is found,
good is; in tiny particles and invis-
ible roots-but still it is there. And
these roots will not perish; some will
grow and flourish and bear fruit l
bought dearly the right to believe
this; therefore 1t is mine, my whole
life, my whole life long. And thus 1
have won yet another right, the right
to demand that you, too, believe as 1
do, for l am the voice of that life,
the despairing cry of those who re-
main below, and who have sent me to
herald their pain. They also long to
rise to self-respect, to light and free
dom.-F'rom Maxim Gorky's Suppress
ed Novel, The Peasants"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
IDlscoNTENT OF ONE WOMAN
Ordinary Duties and Pleasures of Her
Sex Only Bore and Irritate
Her.

have been pushed on to make my
discoveries in regard to the life of
woman by two feelings feeling Of
Rlienage and a feeling of sex discon-
tent.
For several years now / have felt
myself alien to this world, and alien
not because Of race or color, but alien
because of changing economic condi-
lions. 1t seems to me that sociologic-
ally, SO to speak, hang In void mid
way between two spheres-the mans
sphere and the woman's sphere. a
professional career, which takes much
time and energy, puts me beyond the
reach of the average woman's duties
and pleasures. do not regret these
changing economic conditions. For
although they made my youth meager.
they have made my maturity rich.
Sometimes l think / am the only
woman in the world who would not be
young again il she could
This feeling of alienage is Of COM
paratively recent growth. But that
other feeling-sex discontent-has OPP
pressed me all my lie. NOT since L
started to do my own thinking have
been IN any doubt as to which sphere
most attracted me. The duties and
pleasures of the average woman bore
and irritate The duties and pleas
ures of the average man interest and
allure. This seemed the most shame
full of all my discoveries. But ! soon
found that it was feeling which |
shared with the majority of my kind.
] have never met a man who at any
time wanted to be woman. have
met very few women who have not at
some time or other wanted to be men.
1t was only after careful observation
and long thought that discovered the
reason for my sex discomfort. ] had to
go back to the very beginning --Inez
Haynes Gilmore in Harper's Bazar.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
10 DEAD, Is HURT
CONFEDERATE VETERANS sPE
/. ClAL orr N. o. G. NJ. RAILWAY
WRECKED IN MISSISSIPPI.
CAUSE OF DISASTER UNKNOWN
Enroute to Annual Reunion at Macon,
Ga.-Engine, Baggage Car, Day
Coach and Three SIeepers Roll
Down Embankment.

Hattiesburg, Miss, May 8.-The
first section of the Texas Confederate
reunion special, enroute to Macon, Ca.
was wrecked at Gums Mill last Mon
day, on the New Orleans & North
eastern railroad, six miles north of
Hattiesburg, killing four trainmen and
six or more passengers, and injuring
at least twenty-five.
FIVE bodies were brought to Hat
tiesburg on the cars of the big spe-
clal which remained on the track, and
nVe or six other bodies were reported
under the wreckage. The dead and in
jured:
Mrs Charles Holmes, Bay Springs,
Tex.
Mrs. James Cameron, Henderson,
Tex.
Two unidentified girls, aged three
and fixe; parents thought to be under
wreckage.
Engineer Billy" Wood, Hatties-
burg.
Fireman c. c. Jones (coIored), Meri-
dian, Miss
James S. Downing, Atlanta, Ga.
DR.. Boone, Mr.. Denham and one
other man from Mansfield, La, are
missing and thought to be under the
wreckage.
Five bodies are positively known to
he under the wreckage.
The train was from New Orleans,
and was occupied entirely by the vet
Grams and wives and families.
The cause of the wreck has not
been ascertained positively. The train
was running at about thirty miles an
hour and was crossing an embankment
with trestle in the center Just as
the engine reached the tres1le it was
seen to rear up and leave the track.
The five cars followed the engine,
some tumbling down the en-. bankment
on one side and some on the other.
forming tangled mass of splinters
and twisted iron. Two of the cars
dashed against poles of the Cumber-
land telephone, thirty feet from the
track, demolishing the poles and sew
ering communication with Hatties-
burg.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
The Worlds Great Rivers

The longest river in the world is
the Amazon, which runs through Peru,
Ecuador and Brazil in South America.
1T is 3,944 miles In length. The sec
ond longest river is the Nile In Africa,
which is $500 miles long. The Mis-
sissippi is only the third longest river
with length of $500 miles The Mis-
souri,, however, is its longest branch.
and including it the Mississippi mas a
total length of 1920 miles. The Mis-
sissippi drains most of the territory
between the Rocky and the Allegheny
mountains. embracing an area of L.
257,545 square miles, while the Mac
kenzie river, which has a total river
system of nearly 1000 miles. drains
an area of little less than 100000
square miles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
VOTE sl06,OOO FOR
BLACK RIVER FALLS
Sum Is Finally Agreed Upon by
Legislative Conference.
NON-PARTlSAN BILL PASSES
Elect on Measure Affecting Cities
Throughout State WINS in Senate
and Assembly Socialists Worked
Hard for Its Defeat.

Madison.-Blaek River Falls will
receive q food fund of $106, 600.
inns amount was agreed upon hy
the conference committee appointed
oy the two houses. The compromise
agreed upon left the appropriation
OF $1,000, as provided in bin No.
ia, as it was. This reimburses the
reiler committee for money expend-
ed in construction work and for fill
ing in overlooked lands. so they will
not be menace to the community's
health The cut by the finance ccm-
mittee of the appropriation in No.
ia of $4,000 to $4,000 was al
lowed to stand
The assembly originally voted
$4,000. and the senate cut this
amount to SIS, 900. The assembly
rejected the amendments of the SEN
ate, and the appropriation was adj
justed by conference, the committee
advising $S5, zoo instead of S65, 200
for sanitary purposes and the relief
of restitution and $1,000 for drain
age purposes.
1t is generally felt that with the
appropriation made. the situation at
Black River Falls can be cleared up
and the people of that city put fairly
on their feet.
The nonpartisan victory was made
complete and the fusion ticket for all
larger cities of the state at the pri-
maries and general elections finally
apprc yed, when the senate session
concurred in the Stern nonpartisan
measure, which had been passed by
the assembly after a hot legislative
conflict. The assembly passed the
bill by vote of IL to IA.
Every means in their power to
stave off defeat were resorted to by
the socialistic delegation, but the mi
nority movement was unsuccessful
The bill as passed is the substitute
amendment introduced by A. II.
Long, is statewide in its application
and will take effect in all cities hav-
ing primary elections. Smaller muni-
cipalities, where candidates are in
dorsed through nomination papers,
are not included
After considerable discussion the
senate concurred in the assembly bill
appropriating $4,000 to be used in
repairing the levees on the Wiscon-
sin and Fox rivers at Portage. A
second bill appropriating $4,000 to
cover the expenses of a committee
of three members to be appointed
by the governor to investigate the
situation and recommend plan for
permanently improving the levees
was also approved.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
caus Farm reaching a Farce.

Madison. - Revelations of some
surprising conditions in the rural
schools of Wisconsin are limited at
by DR.. Charles Mccarthy of the leg
isIative reference library, in state
ment just issued. The teaching of
agriculture is akin to farce, he
thinks. He declares that every coun-
ty should have an agricultural school
of its own and a well paid, compe-
tent inspector. If farmers Institutes
were abolished, he asserts, and the
money used to support county
schools, the state would reap vast
benefit. He indicates that the next
legislature will have to face this
problem.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
LOOK FOR JUMP IN
PAY OF TEACHERS
Conditions in Wisconsin Give
Rise to Belief.
SUPPLY LESS THAN DEMAND
increased Wages in Other Desirable
Occupations, Scarcity of Educators
and Improved Standards Expected
to Br.ng About Increase.

Madison.-That the average sal
iry of the teachers of Wisconsin will
be materially increased this year is
the belief of the state superintend-
ent's office and educational author
tiles. There are two agencies mill
tating to increase the salaries of
these 10000 teachers.
First, there has been an increase
of salary in other desirable occupa-
tions and teachers are becoming
scarcer.
Second, the standard of the teach
ing profession of the state has been
increasing gradually and there are a
larger number of high school, nor
NAL and university graduates seek
ing positions who demand a higher
salary than the country school teach
er, who can offer instruction only
in the rudiments.
in fact the salaries of teachers
have been increasing gradually for
the past ten years, and will increase
more rapidly this year" said Charles
L. AAoA PSl, NhACA NlC1 n III bllC OltiCC vi
the state superintendent of public in
struction. I'm the country districts
men teachers We're receiving an aver
age salary in 1900 of s43.S4 and
the women teachers $3179. Two
years ago the average salary of men
teachers in the country schools was
S66.69 and of women teachers
$44.29. There has been a similar in
crease of salaries in the city schools
In 1900 male teachers in the cities
received an average salary of $918.24
and in 1910 the average salary was
1,086.46. In the same ten years
the average salary of women teach
ers in the cities has been increased
from $4O892 to $527.73'
There has been a gradual increase
ployed in Wisconsin. According to
recent figures compiled at the office
of the state superintendent only L.
us men are now employed as COM
pared to about 1901 women. There
are about $500 teachers employed
in country school buildings of only
one room.
while the higher cost of living
has much to do with the increase in
the salaries of teachers in the past
ten years and will have much to do
with the problem this year, there is
still another factor to play a still
more important part" declared Mr..
Harper 1.-THE number of teachers
who are graduates from the normals
and the universities is increasing.
These people are going into the
graded schools and the higher class
country schools, and they are de-
handing higher salaries for their
services"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
shriners in Convention

Los Angeles, Cal, May 6.-Some-
thing like 5000 visitors have come for
the yearly convention of the Mystic
Shrine, which opened here Saturday.
1t is the largest meeting the organiza-
dations of the city are taxed to the
utmost. The convention is scheduled
to adjourn on May II, and the inter
vening time will be taken up with
automobile trips and entertainments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
SEED FIRM MAY QUIT STATE
Salzer Company of La Crosse Says
Labor Hour Law Causes $780,
600 Extra Annual Expense.

La Crosse-Unless the hours-of-
Jaw are amended to permit plants
which operate only a few months
during the year to work their crews
overtime during the rush season, the
John A. Salzer Seed Co. either will
have to move into another state or
increase it's expense of operation
$4,000 per annum, according to a
statement made by an official of the
company. The firm is at present OPP
Grating with crew of 500 employees
but with its employees, who are large
ly women, unable to work more than
fifty-four hours per week the COM
pany has been unable to cope with
it's orders.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14
Racine Youth Posed as Girl.

Racine. = Earl Mitchell, a well
dressed and good looking boy of 10,
is under arrest charged with bur-
glary. When his room was searched
much womens apparel was found.
The boy admitted that although he
worked in wagon shop by day. lie
posed as a woman at night. He de-
clared that he kept company" with
another young man who treated him
to ice cream and candy, believing
that he was a girl.