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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

highly intricate, almost-intelligent ma
chimes, are entirely owned by Amerl-
can manufacturers, who regularly VS.
IT their plants and make preparations
for this country's seasonal supplies.
The American consulate at st. Gall is
very busy office, and it has to do al
most solely with the embroideries and
the machine-embroidered laces OF st.
Call and of the surrounding villages
for American consumption.
Lace Town Also Suffers.
Another town that has suffered Sc
verely by the war is Calais, which
though it has been looked on by tour
lists as merely threshold of CONT
mental Europe, is in reality one OF
the four greatest machine-made lace
cities of the world 1t is as CEN
ter of manufactured laces that Calais
in peace times is most widely noted.
Calais is a lace town. Almost
everything about it has some bearing
upon the filmy, delicate webbing
which it makes and distributes over
che world. Should tourist miss ms
Paris express-a thing, by the way
which is most improbable, for the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21
ERADICATING PESTS
FROM FARM GARDEN
Onion Worm Is Formidable Foe
to Deal With-Green AphiS
Saps Vigor of Cucumber.
(By M. ROBERTS CoNovER.)


War should be waged from the first
appearance Of any garden pests; for,
from the grub or maggot that feasts
upon the tender onion bulbs to the
tiny green aphis that saps the vigor
of the melon or cucumber through it's
foliage, their depredations advance
rapidly.
When your onions flatten their
green tops on the ground pull up sew
eral and examine the bulb. II you
find it wriggling mass of tiny worms,
you have a formidable guest to deal
with.
Dig up the affected onions and de-
stroy them, if the bed is not extensive
ly infested, then make an emulsion or
carbolic acid and soapsuds in the pro-
portion of one pound of hard soap,
one gallon of water and one pint of
crude carbolic acid.
Dissolve the soap in the water and
add the carbolic acid, stirring until it
forms an emulsion. Then dilute it
with seven and one-half quarts of wa
ter. Pour this down the rows, close
to the plants.
Holes eaten in cabbage leaves are
due to the cabbage worm; a green
creature, whose appetite demands an
extensive area of leaf food. Paris
green mixed with land plaster, in the
proportion of four ounces OF paris
green to twenty-five of land plaster,
will kill them.
This is busted over the plants from
covered tin vessel with perforated
bottom. When done during the
growth of the plant this does not rem
der them injurious as food, as the
growth is from the center.
But if your young cabbage plants
are nipped off just above the ground
with a smooth, clean cut, save your
plaster. A cutworm has been there.
He is the meanest creature ever held
on a charge of malicious mischief. He
delights in compost and you will lind
him near the finest vegetables.
This worm comes out of the ground
in cool, cloudy weather, or at night.
He will nip off any valuable plant IN
his vicinity and retire. circle OF
poisoned bran about the plants Will
destroy these worms. Two ounces Oh
paris green are mixed with twenty
| five pounds of bran This should be at
least three inches from the plants else
the poison will injure them.
A collar of stiff, brown paper, SO
large as not to choke the plant at any
stage of growth, is a protection, IL II
extends an inch below, and an inch
and a half above ground
A handful of tobacco stems, mixed
| with the soil in the hill, is destructive
| to pests, and does not injure plants
| When the striped beetle appears on
| the squash, cucumber and meicn
| vines, dust them thoroughly with land
plaster, and repeat after each ram as
soon as they appear
| When the radishes are afIected Win
wire worms, the second planning
should be made in an uninfested SCI.
| Do not destroy the toad that nops
contentedly down the garden path. he
is your faithful ally in subduing insect
pests.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

growth swept away by struggle in
which its people have no interest. St.
Gall is a town of one industry and
that for the export trade, says the
National Geographic society. 1t is a
world-famous center for the manufac-
ture of machine-embroidere white
goods, and it's wares have found sale
over the whole earth. 1t has done an
annual trade in these articles with
America of between six and seven
million dollars a year. 1t also had
heavy business with the countries of
Europe and South America and those
of the Orient Since the outbreak of
the war it's export routes have been
closed, while some of its largest Gus
toners have been forced by their war
expenditures to stop all purchase of
foreign-made Injuries.
The town has grown wealthy
through the centuries, and it has con-
tinually developed it's one industry,
built many factories, large and small,
where an important percentage of the
embroidered white goods of the world
are worked, and through all the
neighborhood around the city the
same industry has found development
as home industry, in which hand
machines are used.
Grew Around Monks Cell.
st. Gall perchss high up on noun
tain shoulder, considerably back from
the Lake of Constance. 1t grew up
around the mountain cell Of a learned
Irish monk, ST. Gallen, who, taken
sick here in the seventh century
while on pilgrimage to Rome, built
him a cell 1000 feet up the mountain
side, and, upon his recovery, vowed
to devote his life to the conversion of
the mountain tribes. Around his cell
there has grown up city of more
than thirty thousand, which bears his
name. and which is known to the dry
goods buyers of all countries.
An abbey was built, and it's Irish
monks, distinguished throughout Eu-
rope for their devotion to learning,
here made a safe retreat for their
studies. Centuries before the Renais-
sance the monks of ST. Gallen studied
both Greek and Latin, and painstak-
ingly copied many of the ancient
texts. These manuscripts are still
preserved in the library of St. Gall,
and they form priceless nucleus of
it's collections.
Considerable American capital has
been attracted TO this energetic little
manufacturing city. Some of the
great factories. with their scores of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21


in follows:
about
feetea pieces"
mundane OF
holiday recon needs
as
horsehide rubber center
So a lit N schedule OF sundries
Norhand to nave the opportunity
Americ o baseball
Fortye Ingerson be supplied
OF American
assorted.
items
jelly almonds
state
side
called bids 5OOo
cigarette
hundre O smoking tobacco
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

ITdID the HISIUIy UI IHO CHIOOu OCt1OOh'
from colonial times; by exhibiting
such relics and memorials of note
worthy personages and events, and
domestic life of the country, as could
be brought together into groups OF
objects representing the different
periods. One striking feature in this
connection, which has been added
during the past year, is the unique
American period costume collection
of nineteen dresses belonging to the
successive hnstesseS of the White
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

man. had always supposed that war
was war and peace was peace-but
now he knows differently. For he has
harvested three-quarters of ton of
unexploded shells dating back to 1865
and he hasn't the faintest idea what
he is going to do with them.
The shells, some spherical and
some cylindrical, had been resting
quietly in the mud of the Anacostia
river and were hauled out when the
river bottom was used to reclaim por-
finns of the flats Soon after the plow-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

half
juggling his discovery
he careful look
anda mosta
ton of he n carefully"
project of
in heaped
pileab the size of a
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

Martha Washington admnra
although effort has reproduce
bonne hand
kerch combs, display.
suit Thomas
of battle New Orleans
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

FT6Slu6nL LlnCOIu III WEST FUIUHdC
park.
1t was erected by the contractors
for the superstructure mainly to
demonstrate the beauty and effect of
Colorado Yule marble, the stone of
which the memorial is to be con-
structed. 1t has been greatly admired
by all who have seen it, including the
otticials of the government supervis-
ing the work of construction and the
many thousands of people who drive
or walk through the park. One of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21


of
heroic syrboina
columns side The
monoith Having served its
the Memorial hall standing coonnade
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

plies.
Bids have been asked for, and the
specifications show that the govern
ment requires everything from box
kites and comic masks for the
youngsters in the reserves to arms
and ammunition, boots and shoes, fur
niture and carpets, groceries, hay and
grain, paints, oils and glass, clothing,
lumber, tools and implements and 9TH
er supplies and articles of general
merchandise, such as would be used
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21
Museum Teaches Human Side of American History

National gives account
division history will
appeal division originally organized to illus
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21
Washington Man Harvests Old Shells on His Farm

his large peaeookng farm near Ge
he would have
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21
Dorc Column as Sample of the Lincoln Memorial

of
in
100000 marble memorial
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21
Uncle Sam to Send Toys TO the Eskimo Children

children his
shelter
the Prbof ne need
INC """'o oO"' - and varied
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-05-21

MONG the innumerable cities
and towns which have been
ruined by the war is st. Gall,
in neutral Switzerland. 1t has
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
Councils One Right
Act Will Not Make
Up for Great Wrong

We cannot accept the explanation of Mayor Faw
cett and three councilmen who have joined in plan
to load Tacoma's 1916 budget excess on to municipal
light users as satisfactory.
They argue that they are justified in taking this
unjust step because at the same time they are max
ing good an injustice done the water department 20
years ago.
When Tacoma bought the old water system it was
agreed the purchase should be by the CITY, not by
water users. Nevertheless, for 20 years the water
users have borne the heavy interest charges on a
grossly watered principal
Now the council has decided that the general fund
SHALL in 1916 pay the interest on ST. 900 900 of this
old debtwhich it should have borne every year for
two decades.
And at the same session. as The Times has shown
the mayor and three councimen adopted policy of
doing now to the light department just what the un
faithful public servants of generation ago did to
the water department They would saddle it down
with large number of expenses which the taxpayers
generally should carry
And then these four commissioners Justify them
selves by saying, "Yes, but see; we have done JUS
tice to the water department at last'
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF TACOMA WANT rs
JUSTICE NOW TO BOTH OF THEIR PUBLICLY
OWNED UTILITY PLANTS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13

that means the electric light US
ers-will have to pay that tax.
Why persons using city light
should be punished by being
made to pay the taxes OF vacant
lot owners and non-users of such
light ! cannot understand. They
would he justified in buying light
from other parties or going back
to cOalOil lamps as protest
against such an outrage as Mills
suggests until the commissioners
would get the cobwebs out of
their eyes and see clearly what is
just and right between man and
man.
There is talk of getting
down to business principles''-
and l suppose that means in q
commercial sense, to-wit: Giving
large users cheaper light" That
Is Illegal, unjust and in opposition
to all principles of free, fair and
enlightened and humane govern
ment. A government of the peo-
pie, by the people and for the
people is in direct conflict with a
business administration in a
commercial sense.
Our government Is paternal,
helpful, humane rather than q
heartless, soulless corporation
As proof of this, l would call
special attention to widows pen
sions. and. by the way, l was the
first one hereabout to publicly
advocate widows pensions-got
the idea from the way Red Mems
order takes care of its orphans.
And l think our legislature made
q great mistake when II changed
the law so as to cut out certain
classes Of dependent women with
little children. 1t was cruel
stroke. II Is had enough to have
bad husband, and the wife
should NOT receive. additional
punishment in having to 60 hun
CRY, and have her children ash
for bread when she has none to
give, .-s...
Charley Atkins is right--the
water department--that is, the
water us6rs--should be excused
from paying interest on the what
are called water works bonds. 1t
Is a public debt and all should
help pay it--vacant lot owners
included--and water users should
not have to pay It alone. Water
and light users should pay Just
what the water and light costs
any more ID robbery.
JOHN w. LINCK.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13

eight days a year. No man could
buy substitute. All would serve
in the ranks on precisely the same
terms side by side.
Under this system the young
men, would be trained to shoot,
to march, to take care of them
selves! in the open, and to learn
these habits of self-reliance and
law abiding obedience which are
not only essential to the effic-
iency of a CITIZEN-SOLDIERY,
but are no less essential. to the eff
ficient performance of CIVIC
DUTIES, in a FREE DEMOC-
RACY.
MY own firm belief is that
this system would help us in civil
quite as much as in military mat
tiers. 1t would increase our So
cial and industrial efficiency.
1T would help us to habits of
order and respect for law. This
proposal does not represent any
thing more than carrying out the
purpose of the second amendment
| to the federal constitution. which
declares that WELL REGULAT-
ED MILITIA is NECESSARY TO
THE SECURITY OF A FREE Ma
lTION.
i 1.-THE Swiss army is well
regulated militia; and therefore,
1t is utterly different from any
militia WE have ever had. The
system of compulsory training
and universal services is worked
admirably in Switzerland -
Its HAS SAVED THE SWISS
FROM WAR.
"ITsHAS DEVELOPED THEIR
EFFICIENCY IN PEACE"
Coils Roosevelt is strong for
military training camps like that
/ at Plaftsburg, N. Y, and Tacoma,
Wash. but he complains that
these Get the training only to the
men Who can AFFORD TO. PAY
THE EXPENSES. The govern
ment. The says, ought to PAY
THE COST OF such training 50
that III could be enjoyed as much
| by tie dollar-and-a-half day
workuihn as by the professional
or business man.
sSone people seem to think, !
tsaid tie colonel, that have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
ASKING
ACTION

WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept. Is.
The administration to6ey made
demands on the Mexican authori-
ties for the release of Edward
Ledwidge. an American, who is
purchasing agent for the Mexi-
can railroad.
He is held a prisoner by Next
can bandits in Chihuahua after
being taken from the train and
threatened with death tomorrow
unless a $4,000 ransom is paid.
According to Ell Paso advices
Ledwidge induced the bandits TO
release two of his friends and
take him as substitute.
The ransom money 1T is said,
has been forwarded by special
train.
villas officers are blamed FOR
the hold-up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13

1t Is over four days journey
east of this port, and five or sig
days from any European land. Il
was bound for Naples.
1t is easily possible that one Of
the worlds greatest marine dis
asters is imminent.
Second Disaster.
The Santa Anna is twin screw
vessel, $40 feet long and of 6,814
tons registry. 1t is owned by the
Fabre line, and captained BY
Capt. Pavey, one of the oldest Of
Atlantic shippers.
This is the second time the
Santa Anna has caught fire since
she has been pressed into war
carrying business. Once before,
100000 was lost when fire
caught in her hold as she lay It
her dock In New York.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
GREAT
DECKER
BEGINS

/. NEW YORK. Sept. 13.--Witll
the arrival Of James ]. Hill me-
gotiations started today in earn
est for the worlds greatest loan,
estimated at from half to full
billion dollars, desired by the
allies.
Hill is strongly in favor Of
making the loan, maintaining
that II 1t Is not made America
may find her banner crops o fail
ure, inasmuch as Europe without
MONEY could not purchase her
supplies In the American market.
The form OF the proposed loan
IL unknown, but It is suggested
that syndicate composed OF
bankers in all parts of the couli-
try be formed to underwrite Il
and that It be offered to the pub
~ a notes az five per cent, &C.
cured BY France, England and
Russia
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
Quit Light Use,
Urges x-Mayor

Editor Times: For ten years
] have been pounding away, on
every appropriate occasion, in
public and privately, at the tax
question you gave space to in your
paper Friday. You are one of the
very few who have grasped the
idea, or admitted they did.
At the Chamber of Commerce
meeting I was trying. to elucidate
the idea, and the chairman of the
meeting called me to order, think
ing l was complaining of some
personal grievance---when the
facts we're just the contrary.
] am one Of the beneficiaries OF
the present system, as are all
holders of vacant lots, and nom
users of city light and water.
am glad Commissioner Mills
made the motion he did, for II
will help people to see the milk
in the cocoanut." To tax the
electric light plant--of course
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13

under the title OF Acting Chief"
Comes As No Surprise.
II believe that the chief OF po-
lice is superfluous position. I
believe the commissioner of safe
ty can manage the department.
personally, through an acting
chief. believe the taxpayers
would be more than satisfied Wy
this arrangement" said he.
Mills offered slight objection.
The remainder of the council
showed no surprise.
Smith May Get Raise.
Chief of Police LOOMS gets q
salary of S2,10O q year. By
abolishing the office, and adding
$25 monthly to the "acting
chiefs salary, the city Will save
$500.
Detective Captain d. O.. Smith
Is expected to get the acting
chiefs berth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
POLICE Chief
OFFICE TO BE
VACATED JAM

Chief of Police A. p.
LOomis will be officially
canned" by the city council
Jan. 4.
by a vote of four-fifths Of
the commission today--Com.
missioner Mills being excus-
ed from vOting--the position
of chief OF police In Tacoma
was abolished for 1915.
The action was taken, 1t wa!
explained, in order to save de,
partmental expense.
But 1t was easily seen that
several of the councilmen were
advantage of a plausible
opportunity to get rid of Loomis
Atkins offered the motion IL
abolish Chief LOOMS position. II
provided that some other Official
of the department be given an
increase of $25 month, and acI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13

navy On par
with that of the big naval powers
of the earth. 1--WE rank as such,
we occupy our present position
and we arc a power potent Tor
peace" he said then, "because we
deliberately faced the fact that
we did not have navy worth any
thing in 1882"
In the same speech the colonel
pointed out to me where he was
pitching into the pacifists, just as
he is now doing. Here is what he
said then:
II spoke to you of the difficult
ties to be met with in getting the
navy built up. Among these diff
ficulties is the fact that there are
some very good people who,
whenever you say that you want
godo navy, say that this is a
lamentable illustration of the
lingo spirit and that there is no
reason why this country should
ever have war
Il know one excellent gentle
man In congress who said he pre-
ferred arbitration to battleships.
SO do I. BUT SUPPOSE THE
OTHER MAN DOES NOT.
WANT TO HAVE THE BAIT LIE
SHIPS AS A PROVOCATIVE
FOR ARBITRATION so FAR AS
THE OTHER MAN IS CON
CERNED.
That" said the colonel, ''is
what / said 10 years ago. Today
am hammering away at what
urged them"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
T.R. Says Every Citizen
In u. s. Should Serve a
Year I'm Industrial Army
BY gibson GARDNER

ew Ie enterprise ASSOCIATE
OYSTER BAY N. army
of the United States today added
of compulsory universal military training in America.
would further
the need for something like the to train the United States
in the of for defensive
IT believe UNIVERSAL COMP peace
than universal service would have military
at least year great INDUSTRIAL ARMY"
asked that
dirty handed laborers for year,"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
RED CROSS MAN
TO VISIT HERE

Maj. Robert U. Patterson, U. s.
Al, chief of the bureau of medical
surgery of the Red Cross, will
visit Tacoma Thursday and FRI
day OF this week to determine II
Tacoma should have a perman-
emit representative Of the Red
Cross here.
He is accompanied by DR.. w.
N. Lipsomb. who will speak to-
day to the employees of the Taco
ma smelter on Red Cross helps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-09-13
CITY TO DROP LOOMS
THREE DEALS PLANNED
TO GOUGE LIGHT-USERS
HOW COUNCIL PROPOSES
TO GOUGE LGHT-USERS

" - -
% A levy of a per cent tax .
9 on the gross earnings of the .
@ plant; that is, of all the 4:
@ money collected from light ::
@ users. .
o A levy of the full city tax /.
@ probably 10 mills-on the Z:
& $4,0O0,000 light plant. Z:
@ Cutting the street light 3
@ rate to 0.S75-cents, although ::
@ the home-owner has to pay {:
o cents for the light he uses. 4.
@ Selling the light depart :
9 ment a substitution site. .
o 9 o @ o o o o O o 9 O . o o
Pending before the city council
are four measures, the underlying
principle of which is that next
years taxes ARE TO BE MET BY
THE LIGHT-USER AND NOT BY
THE TAXPAYER.
In its budget sessions to date,
the council has shown in every
move it's determination NOT TO
LOWER THE ACTUAL COST OF
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT next
year BY WHOLESOME ECON
OMIES, but by shifting this cost
from the shoulder OF the general
taxpayer to the light-user.
So far, 1t has pursued this pol
icy so that it looks as IL the coun-
Gil would be able to point with
pride to tax levy of less than
Is mills-ON PAPER.
What Proposals Mean.
The proposal of 2 per cent
tax on the gross earnings of the
plant means simply that when q
man pays 81 light bill, he will
know that two cents of that is
going toward lessening someone's
taxes.
The proposal to levy a Is mill
tax on the plant is absurdly dis
criminatory--the city might as
well tax its own fire-fighting APP
paratus, its street-grading ma
chinery, or any other of its prop
erty.
The decision to compel the city
light department to sell the gen.
eral city street-lighting at 0.S75
cents means that an income will
be lost to the light department
which the small light-users must
make up.
Soak the Light-Users.
The proposal to sell the light
department several lots is just
the use of words to smooth over
a straight-Out theft. The city
doesn't sell the fire department
fire houses; the street depart
ment ground for street or ma
chinery for street work; or eSen
charge city office rent.
All these proposals mean that
the light-users are to be soaked,
and the vacant lot owners to get
the benefit of the resulting low
rate.