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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
Wisconsin Daughters of the
American Revolution Plan
Their Annual Session.
MANY SOCIAL EVENTS PLANNED

The eighteenth annual state confer
ence of the Daughters of the American
Revolution will be entertained by the
John Bell Chapter in Madison on Thurs
cay and Friday, October the 10Th and
10th. All delegates and alternates
must be elected by the chapter, and a
sufficient number Of alterrates should
be elected for each regent and dele
gate, to ensure to each chapter the full
representation to which it is entitled.
The conference will be opened on
Thursday forenoon at $50 clock.
This session will be followed by a
luncheon at the Woman's building.
The afternoon session will begin at 2
- clock, the first hour being devoted to
an inspection of the capitol. In the
evening will be held a reception in hon
OF Of the president general, Mrs. Will
ham Cumming Story, and the national
chairman Of magazine, Miss Florence
Finch. The Friday morning session will
begin promptly at $3.50, followed by a
luncheon at Lathrop Hall. The after
noon and closing session will be called
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
OPPOSE PENNY POSTAGE PLAN.
Mail Order Houses Alone Would Gain
State Meeting Shows.

Penny postage rates were strongly
disapproved by postmasters yesterday
a. their annual convention in the fed
eral building in Milwaukee. 1t was
pointed out that mail order houses
alone were the advocates of the reduc-
ton of postal rates, and that it was
purely a selfish motive on their part.
Statistics based on the revenue for the
year 1912 showed that the receipts to
the government of about $75,000,000
would fall of nearly one-half by the
adoption Of penny postage. Gustave M.
Keller, Appleton, in speaking of the
needs of the parcel post service, said
that better means of handling parcels
should be adopted instead Of the Gus
tom of using bags as now practiced.
Provision, he said, should also be, made
to insure not only the delivery of a
package, but insurance against injury
az well.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

All Of the people of the city who be-
reputation of having the best and most
up to date school system of any city
of the state will approve of the deci-
sion Of the school board to proceed at
once with the erection Of building for
the open air school. This school is now
to have a permanent home and it is
expected that its efficiency will be con-
siderably increased. Kenosha was one
of the first cities in Wisconsin and in
the country to give the open air school
a thorough test and it was the success
achieved by the Kenosha school that
led many of the cities Of this and other
states to make these schools for sickly
children who are unable on account Of
their physical disabilities to hold their
places in the regular school rooms n
part of their regular school systems.
In this connection it may be said that
the open air school is about as far re-
moved from a s'fad' as anything can
be that is out of the earlier routine
Of school work and that the results OBJ
tanned ct the open air school can be
shown to be such as justify the school
board In making any reasonable outlay
for its maintenance. It is doing a
great work at relatively small cost and
to have abandoned this work would
have been a step backward
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SEPT. %.

Sarah Padden, a young woman of
rare dramatic ability, will be seen at
the Rhode next Wednesday as Nora
Blake in Howard McKent Barnes play,
"The Little Shepherd of Bargain
Row." She is a native of Chicago
having been born in the late eighties
in the region which she frankly de.
soribes as back of the yards.' AS a
pupil in the parochial school connect
ed with the late Rev. Fir. Maurice j
Dorney's parish she first attracted at
tention by her elecutionary work. 1t
was through the efforts of this priest
that she obtained her first engagement
a minor part, with Otis Skinner s com
Pany. Miss Padden's tour is Fnder the
direction of the United Play Company
Inc. Seats now on sale at box Office
Phone 55. adv
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1914.

So far the opposition to the propos-
ed raise in water rates has not been
very general or shown much strength,
but this opposition is certainly entitled
to hearing and it should be given a
chance to make its objections known
before the council passes any ordinance.
We also believe that any hearing which
the state railroad commission proposes
30 hold on the petition of the city to
permit the increase in question should
be held in this city so that those who
are interested can be given chance
to be heard without putting them to
the expense of going to Madison. No
one can tell exactly how much money
is involved in this change in rates, but
j is certain that it will take tens Of
thousands of dollars from water CON
sumers and in matter of such i'm
portance no hasty action should be
taken and nothing done until the mat
ter has been given the most careful
consideration from every angle. A
glance at the annual report of the
company shows on what the objections
tc the proposed rates are based. The
company is making money fast enough
on the present schedule to take care of
any obligations assumed for necessary
improvements in a very few years and
from that standpoint no raise is neces-
sary. When the time comes that bonds
can be issued and absorbed by investors
again, any reasonable amount of bonds
issued by the water company and Sc
cured by the receipts Of the company
under it's present schedule would find a
ready market. These water bonds
would be gilt edge investment. All
that inventors would require would be
a verifcation of last years statement
and guarantee that none of the in
come of the company could be diverted
to other uses than the maintenance of
the plant At the beginning Of the
fiscal year in 1913 the company had APP
proximately $4,000 on hand It paid
all running expenses, built about five
miles OF pipe extensions at a cost for
Labor and materials Of over $4,000. in
stalled and ran chlorination plant at
cost of about $4,000 and at the end
of the year had increased it's surplus
to $4,000. On its own figures the OPP
position to raise in rates can show
that the plant is paying big dividends
70 the present schedule. If the plant
was privately owned corporation, the
commission would not think of making
any changes in the schedules without
giving the people of the city the fullest
opportunity to present their views.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
CLASSES IN MANY BRANCHES
BY Special Arrangement With State
University Work Will be offered In
Extension Branches for Kenosha Stu
dents Many Expected to Enter.

The free public evening school under
the control of the Industrial Board of
Kenosha, will open Tuesday evening,
October 6, 1914, for term of six
ronths. Glasses will be organized in
English for foreign speaking people,
mathematics, mechanical drawing, sew
ing and cooking, wood working, cleo
tricity, bookkeeping, stenography and
typewriting, retail craftsmanship and
other subjects at the request of ten
or more.
The English work for foreign speak
irg people will be in charge of teachers
OF the public schools. This is especial
~ planned for those who have only re
Gently arrived in this country, and
there will be classes for those who have
had some previous English work. 1t is
very important that those registering
II this work should do so early, in or
der that they may be assigned to the
proper class. Special instruction will
be given in these classes to those who
are making application for their citi-
zenship papers.
Special attention is called to classes
in mathematics for machinists which
will be given under the direction of a
machinist, mechanical drawing for ma
chanists which will be given under the
direction of craftsman, who has had
machine shop experience.
These courses should prove of unusu-
al interest to machinists who have not
had the advantage of a high school
training.
Glasses in bookkeeping, stenography
and typeWriting will be in charge of
81 instructor who has had number of
years experience in commercial colleges.
The sewing and cooking will be in
charge of domestic science teachers of
the continuation school and an effort
will be made to adapt the instructions
to the individual and her needs.
The registration will begin Monday
evening, September 28th from 1880 to
$50 in the office of the superintendent
at the city hail. and will continue every
evening during the week. A deposit
fee of $500 will be required for regis
tering but this will be returned if the
pupil is in attendance eighty per cent
of the time that the class is in session.
By special arrangement with the
University of Wisconsin Extension Di-
vision it will be possible to offer
courses for university credit and if one
class Of ten or more has been organized
the instructor will be furnished by
tie university.
This should be of special interest to
those who have only partially complet-
ed their university work.
Application for these classes will be
received at the Office of the continue.
ton school at any time before the
opening of the night school.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

The decision of the attorney general
that the city schools must be thrown
open to the children of any town that
is willing to pay tuition for them does
not necessarily settle the matter and
until that opinion is backed by deci-
sion of the courts in some test case,
the school board is not likely TO take
it too seriously. The board will prob
ably go right on doing the best it can
under the conditions with which it finds
itself confronted regardless of any at
tacks on its policy resulting from the
opinion rendered by the state official,
and it would undoubtedly resist any
attempt to deprive the Kenosha schools
of any of the revenue to which they
are entitled in case it becomes neces-
sary to refuse any of the children from
the county admission to the high school.
Kenosha school boards have always
been extremely liberal in admitting
outside children to the city schools,
but if it ever comes to the point where
the board must decide between barring
children from the city or those from
the country because of the lack of ac-
commodations, there would be nothing
for the board to do but bar the coun-
try children and take the consequences.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

With the opening of the city schools,
the resort season practically closes in
the county and the proprietors of the
different hotels and boarding houses
are figuring up the business done the
past summer. All of them agree that
the number of people spending all or
part of every summer in the lake re-
g'ons Of the county is increasing stead
lily. This development of the resort
business is one of the most powerful
arguments in favor of building an cleo
trio line west from Kenosha traversing
all of the lake regions to the western
limits of the county. All of these peo-
pie have money to spend and they
would spend some of it in Kenosha if
they had any way of getting here con
veniently. Moreover, it is figured by
traffic experts that the business these
resorters would give an electric line
during the summer months would en-
able road to show profit from its
years business right from the start
and that the prospects of steadily in
creasing business from this source
would be a powerful inducement to in
Vestors in electric railway properties.
In the present state of the money mar
ket there is, of course, no hope that
any proposition to build such a road to
the west could get favorable hearing
from the people who would have to
finance it, but when the time comes to
take up the project the summer resort
business of the county as factor in
securing the building Of the line should
not be overlooked.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

It is to be hoped that the state fair
will be favored with good weather on
all five days it is open this year SO
that poor support cannot be excused on
the ground of bad weather and some
idea can be formed as to whether or
not the people of the state want state
fair The state has spent considerable
money from time to time on new build
ings for the fair and improving the
grounds and will probably be called
upon to spend more In the future, but
there Is no use In maintaining the stats
fair unless the people of Wisconsin
want one badly enough to support it.
and there Is nothing IN all Of the
claims that the fair would draw better
If it were located In some ether city.
Il the fair cannot draw pat~onags
enough to justify continuing II IN Nil
waukee it cannot be expected to dc
better anywhere else in u
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
days, provided the forty eight hour lin
it is not violated.
Specific Responsibility Placed.

days, provided the forty weight hour lin
it is not violated.
Specific Responsibility Placed.
In section 1728h-3, a certain form of
fsgainful occupation is made the sub
ject of special attention. The section
reads:
Any person being the owner or lessee
of any opera house, theatre, or NOV
ing picture house, or any similar place
Of any name, or having in whole or in
part, the management or control there
Of, shall be responsible for any viola
ton of this act on the premises of such
opera house, theatre, or moving picture
house or similar place of any name.
Who May Make Complaint.
For the purposes of this act the
commissioner of labor, factory inspec-
tor, any assistant factory inspector,
truant officer, any police officer or any
private citizen may make complaint of
any violation of any provision of sec
tions 1728a to 1925 inclusive" THE
sections named are the child labor law
for cities like Kenosha.)
The Law Directs That an Investigation
Should Follow the Complaint.
Section 1728a-4, paragraph e. "When
complaint is made by truant officer, po-
lice officer or any private citizen to
the commissioner of labor, state fac
tory inspector or any assistant factory
inspector, the commissioner of labor
shall investigate or cause to be inves-
tigated, such complaint, and if pursu-
ant to any such investigation, viola
tion of any Of the provisions of section
1728a to 172Sj, inclusive, shall be
found, the commissioner of labor shall
prosecute or cause to be prosecuted any
such violation.
Although child labor law violations
are not directly the concern of the
superintendent Of schools, yet it can
be readily understood, that the enforce
ment of the compulsory attendance
laws, which is the business Of the school
officials, cannot be done without run
ming into the former. The two, COM
pulsory school attendance and child
labor, are two phases Of the same
problem.
Mary D. Bradford.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

to order at $3.50. An automobile ride
about the city win follow adjournment
Each chapter regent viii present a
shcrt written report of the work done
by her chapter from October, 1918, to
October, 1914, stating present member
snip. Chapters, which cannot be repre-
seIted, viii send reports to the state
secretary, Mrs. o. L. Trenary, Kenosha.
AT the closing session, a state regent,
a state vice regent, a state secretary,
state treasurer and a state historian
viii be elected. Any chapter, whose
representative cannot be present, may
present candidates by sending nance
to the state secretary.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

It is probable that in short time
wells will be sunk for all Of the
school buildings of the city. The pu-
pills of the Central school were using
the same water as all of the other
children in the schools and since the
board of education provided a special
well for them, the parents of the chill
dren in the other schools are unable to
see why the same precautions should
not be. taken for their offspring.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

The German Singing Society, Lieder-
Kranz has notified the Stadtverband
that instead of making cash allow
ance for the above subscription it has
voted to donate the entire proceeds of
their Flag Dedication and Dance to be
given on October 31st at Germania
Hail.
The above subscribed amount Of
$4,000 will Immediately be forward,
ed to the secretary of the German
State League in Milwaukee, who in
turn will send it to the headquarters
of the German-American National Al
lance in Philadelphia, from where it
will be forwarded to the Red Cross
Society.
Owing to the fact, that the ma
jority of the German associations of
Kenosha will have their next regular
quarterly meeting in October and have
therefore not as yet been able to take
upon this matter, the Stadtverband
Kenosha will receive further donations
from societies and individuals at its
next regular monthly meeting to be
held on October 18th at SchIitz hall
II the meantime H. J. Loeffler of SO
Newell street, as secretary of the
Stadtverband, is authorized to receive
donations and give receipts for same.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

The platform makers of all parties
are busy today at Madison and it is a
safe bet that the high taxes will be
bitterly Denounced in every platform
drawn up. Economy is always the
Watchword in all platforms, but the
difference this time is that the party
that wins will have to convince the
people of Wisconsin that il is the in
tention to enforce it in every depart
ment of the state government.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

Any day now it may be necessary to
start the fires in furnaces and heating
stoves and little precautionary in
spection of flues and chimneys will
save fire losses. Fires resulting from
defective or neglected fues and chin
neys are clearly in the "preventable =
GLASS and it will help the city hold its
record of having the lowest per capita
loss of all of the larger cities of the
state to cut down the number of fires
pf this class.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

The women OF Germany must DO
keeping tab on the Engiish suffrage
workers. An editor said somethina
they did not Hike. and few Cerman
ladies' caIae6 NO him and dsmanaed q
re&gaCka1nS He refused and they COW.
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

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uaae ss s = whan the moving
DsSasA aaAdssas Drop thaar price OF
padzufsnu aeApsa1 aeacanks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

The Street Railway company is Ere
paving Main street again. This is
the third time that the company has
been forced to take care of the paving
between the tracks and the managers
are beginning 70 realize that it would
have been lot cheaper FOR the COM
pany to have repaved the street.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
German Organizations in
City Raise More Than $500
for the War Relief Fund.
OTHERS TO CONTRIBUTE LATER

The following subscriptions for the
benefit of the Red Cross Relief Fund
tor the allied German and Austrian
Hungarian armies, were made at the
regular monthly meeting of the Keno
IL 49, L.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
PROSECUTIONS WILL Be MADE
Synopsis Of che Laws Relating to the
Employment of Children is Promul-
gated That Men and Women Who
Employ Them Will be Warned.

By the action of the industrial COM
mission of the state, the superintendent
OF schools is made responsible for the
issuing of all child labor permits for
Kenosha. The experiences of those at
the superintendent s Office during the
summer and during the opening weeks
of the school year have shown that
there is need of clearer and more gen
eral information in regard to the laws
under which those granting permits
and those desiring permits, must act.
/ am frequently petitioned to fix it
Sc" that some child can work who has
not complied with the educational re-
quirements, or who is a little under
age, or who has a promise of regular
work at some illegal form of employ
ment or during illegal hours. I do not
want to believe that the parents and
others who make these requests expect
me to help them evade the law regard
ing child labor. We know that the
child labor laws, while they may work
hardship in few particular in
stances are, on the whole, good, and
are necessary for the best welfare of
our state. It is our business to respect
the laws and to teach children to re-
spect them, and that is the thing we
intend to do without fear or favor
am asking the Evening News to
print again some of the paragraphs of
the law that we have found it neces-
sary of late to explain frequently to
people. Besides informing parents in
regard to the restrictions which the
state puts upon them, it may also re
mind the employers of children of the
regulations under which such children
may work in Wisconsin. But it is for
the benefit of the parents, chiefly, that
certain sections of the Jaw are here
given.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17
Occupations Forbidden TO Children Un
der is Years of Age.

/. No child under the age of six
teen years shall be employed, required,
suffered or permitted to work in any
tobacco warehouse, cigar or other fac
! tory where tobacco is manufactured or
prepared, or as pin boys in bowling
! alleys, or in any theatre or concert hall
or IN operating any steam boiler or
steam generating apparatus, or in any
ether employment dangerous to life or
limb, injurious to the health or deprav-
! ing to the morals of such child: nor
shall any female child under sixteen
years of age be employed in any capa-
city where such employment compels
her to remain standing constantly
| (Sec., 172Sa-2).
| 2. Night work in the messenger
service or delivery of goods at night,
is forbidden for the reason that such
duties might be "depraving to the
morals of such child Since it would
be impossible to we tch all such errands
and allow those that would be harm
less and prevent others that would put
the child in danger of moral con-
tamination, all night work of that sort
l. forbidden to children by section
172Sa-5, which reads: emo person
under the age of twenty-one years
shall be employed or permitted to work
as messenger for telegraph or mes
senger company in the distribution,
transmission, or delivery of messages
or goods before six O'Clock in the
morning and after eight clock in the
evening of any day.
No Sickly Child Can Get Labor
Permit.
The one authorized to issue permits
may refuse to grant permits in the
case of children who may seem physi-
cally unable to perform the labor at
which they may be employed (Sec.
ton 172Se-1.)
The hours of work are limited by
law. Section 1889 as amended in 1913.
No child under the age of sixteen years
shall be employed, required, permitted
or suffered to work at any gainful oc-
crpation, other than domestic occupa-
ton or farm labor, for more than forty
eight hours in any one week, nor more
than eight hours in any one day, or
before the hour of seven 'clock in the
morning, or after the hour of six
O'Clock in the evening, nor more than
six days in any one week. Provided
that employment not to exceed eight
hours and thirty minutes in any one
day may be permitted to children on
condition that the children so employed
shall be free from labor after twelve
o'clock on Saturday; provided that no
child so employed shall be permitted to
work more than forty-eight hours in
any one week, including at least four
hours in attendance at continuation
school, nor between six 'clock in the
evening and seven clock in the morn
ing.
As viii be seen, the purpose of the
modification to the old law as given
! above. is to enable child to earn a
Saturday afternoon for play, by work
ing half hour longer certain other
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-09-17

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