Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-12-29

tenanCe OF the uduon"A NJ.
country, to improve the CIVIC NE =,
the people in every way possiDie' anu
n nrovide the means of better ana
higher living. All kinds of nationai.
| state and municipal associations send
delegates to this meeting. Inc associ-
at;on maintains an office in Washing
TON and from this city carries on
campaign throughout the year III DC
half of the subjects in when IL Is IN
terested.
-Four Preparedness Congresses.
There will be at least four prepared
ness congresses in Washington lhis
winter. There are great many differ-
ent organizations whose oDject 10 10
cause this country properly 10 prepare
for defensive warfare in case unhap-
niIv warfare should come. The men
who think that the navy should De
maintained at a high point OF pro-
fciency and should be increased large
lv in the number of its ships VIII nave
n congress of their own. The propo-
nents of what they call properly
nrepared army will have congresses
of their own. There will be meelihg
of Americans who believe In INDUS
trial preparedness, and an effort is TO
no made TO make the two kinds of pre-
paredness run along hand IN manu-.
A congress has just closed winch
might he called an anti-preparedness
congress. 1t was meeting Oh the
Womans Peace society. Some OF lhe
most noted men and women speakers
of the country addressed the gather
ing. These people are against any
kind of preparedness except what
might be called a spiritual prepared
ness. So it is thst Washington, gets
both sides of pretty nearly every ques-
tion and gets each side presented as
fully as its advocates can compass
presentation.
The suffragists and the anti-sunra-
pists hold their congresses in WASH
ington every winter. In fact 1t might
be said that there are congresses Oh
both the suffragists and the anus In
session ali through the year in wash
ington, because for long time now
this city has been hotbed OF pro ana
anti campaigning. The anti-suffra-
gists have lust ended one of their big
meetings. They have two forces OF
the enemy to fight at the same tme'
although the two forces are trying TO
carry the same point. The suffrage
and the anti-suffrage meetings are pep
perry and picturesque.
Holidays in Washington.
1t is not the way of Washington folk
to feel any anxiety over the answer 10
the question: rs it to be green or
a white Christmas?" The capltal city
seldom sees q white Christmas and
never an entirely green one.
In this part of the Potomac valley
the December season presents mix
ture of colors with the brown shades
in the majority. The holiday week is
rather a part of the late autumn than
a part of the early winter. The Dis
trict of Columbia is, so far as North
and South goes, a betwixt and between
country. The holiday season here,
however, partakes of the nature OF the
Southern merrymakings rather than of
those of the North.
There are in the city of Washington
about one hundred thousand colored@
people, and their "Christmas gift
spirit of the old Southern kind. In
a way it is entirely probably that the
colored people have helped TO give
the Washington Christmas the aspect
of the South on the same holiday Of
course, however, the main reason is
that the old residents of Washington
and their descendants were years ago
influenced more by the Southern spirit
of entertaining than by the Northern.
no matter what their political affilia-
lions may have been, nor what their
sympathies were as between the North
and the South in the time of war.
Christmas in Washington is much like
Christmas in Virginia.
The holiday season in Washington is
not altogether American in its mani.
festations. There are many represent
tatives here of Central and South
American countries and of the coun-
tries of southern Europe. So it is that
the ambassadors the ministers, the att
taches and their families make a
effort to think themselves at HON
when the Christmas season comes
and they try TO make their surrou<
,ings such as they would be in
native lands.
White House celebrats
The White House will ceH
holiday season after til
Virginia. President y
wife are both virgini'
lilies of both will 20
do honor to the 50
House had big ope
people think ii
it did have orig
would roar with t.
ing flames. But
been "dreadfully
its heating appa1
where once the
on. now there Il