Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1912-06-19
FISH famine PERIL
Use of Travis Is Said to Make
This Really Possible.
ITS PREVENTION is SOUGHT
Congress May Sanction the Parole OF
Federal Life Prisoners-superin-
tendent Of House Press Gallery
Proves Himself Veteran.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

Washington.-Rep Gard
her of the Sixth district of Massa.
ehusetts acted as a Snowman before
an audience in the bureau of the coast
and geodetic survey the other day.
He presented a series of moving pic
lures, one of which showed a French
fishing schooner in the North Sea
dragging up fish by means OF what
are called otter travis
There is a movement TO give legis-
lative force to an international agree
ment which will prevent the use of
travis of this kind by fishermen. The
travis go down deep, the object being
to catch big fish, but in their opera
ton 1t Is said they kill thousands OF
small fish and unless their use be pro-
hibited. it is possible, even probable.
K is said, that the world before many
years would be confronted with ia
mine in sea food It Is said that If
this should come the problem of feed
ing the world would become one abso-
lGtely unsolvable.
The house Of representatives has
passed a bill. which also has been
favorably reported by a senate com
mittee, TO allow the paroling of Uni
ted States prisoners. who are serving
life sentences, at the expiration Of the
fifteenth year of their Imprisonment.
Recently there has been a movement
In many of the states to extend the
parole laws to men serving life SEN
fences and as has been marked in g
number of instances recently, the gov
eminent seems to be inclined to fol
low examples set by the individual
states. AS things are at present, a
man who is sentenced by a federal
court to life Imprisonment has only
two chances of having his liberty re
stored, one by bringing forward incon.
trovertible proof that he was innocent
and was sentenced under a mistake
and the other by the pardon OF the
president
Story About Charles II. Mann.
Not long ago in one of these dis
patches there was a short sketch OF
Col. Charles H. Mann, superintendent
of the house press gallery. AS was
said then. Mr. Mann has been looking
after the interests of Washington cor.
respondents for so many years that
he has virtually forgotten when his
service began.
The other day Louis Brownlow OF
Tennessee. a Washington correspond
ent, made a discovery. Mr.. BTownlow
had been going through the files OF
old newspapers in the library of con.
gress. He walked over to the press
gallery and said that in a copy of the
Harrisburg Keystone of 1899 he had
found mention of the fact that Charles
II. Mann had just been appointed
postmaster IN the town Of Doyles.
town, Pa. The superintendent Of the
press gallery overheard what Brown,
low said and instantly speaking up
said; What did you say was the
name of the town in which rAy name
sake was appointed postmaster"
"Dolyestown. Pa" said Brownlow.
Now. am going to prove to you
that am the man mentioned in that
report" said Mr.. Mann.
The correspondents know that Mr.
Mann is a veteran, but they were all
fairly sure that he never had been
appointed sAstmaster In any place in
the year 1899.
Made Himself Out Ninety-Four.
Mr.. Mann vent over to his Office
and in few minutes returned with
commission made out to Charles
Fl. Mann as postmaster at Doylestown
Pa, in the year 1889. 1t was signed
by Ames Kendall, secretary of the
treasury. Mr.. Mann showed the com
mission triumphantly.
The correspondents took out thei,
pencils and worked out problem, the
result of which showed that II their
gallery superintendent Charles H
Mann. had been appointed postmaster
at Doylestown. Pa. In 1889. when be
must have been at least twenty-onf
years old in order to- be commits
stoned, he today had reached the age
of ninety-four.
Then 1t was that "Charlie" Mann
explained that his namesake who had
Deen postmaster under the Jackson
administration was his father and that
he had kept the commission as a fam
lily heirloom.
Titanic Memorial Progresses.
The movement started in Wash
fngton to raise money for a me
mortal to those who persisted in
the Titanic disaster with special in
tention to honor the heroic manhood
shown On that occasion is progressing
rapidly. The plan Of the "Women's
Titanic Memorial" as the organization
Is called, has received a peculiarly
warm welcome in the capital. One OIL
the reasons NJ this is that to no other
single American community was tht