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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-07-05

For SALE have 5-room cottage
in southeast part of the city of Viro-
qua, with full lot that l will sell at
bargain. Size of cottage 26Ix263,
with kitchen l2xl4 it good cistern,
wood shed, cellar, and nearly all kinds
of fruit trees. Anyone thinking of
buying good home can get this at
snap. Inquire of Henry Hendricksou.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-07-05
MARRIED

At Lacrosse on Saturday last. at the home of
the brides parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Bakkon,
by Lutheran pastor. Rev. Miss
Nellie Bakkom of Lacrosse and Mr.. Stephen Het-
land Of virouua. Of Mr. and Mrs. A ). Het-
land. All the hetland families parents brothers
and sisters were present. and a very happy time
il reported. Steph.n is one of the well-known
young men Of this place. After a short wedding
trip they will come to Viroqua, but their future
home will prpbably be in Lacrosse.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-07-05

At the circuit parsonage Viroaua on June y,
by Rev VIM MaeauIay Mr.. Alvin Fish Of Viro-
qua to Miss Ruby Shilling Of Liberty. They were
recommended BIZ Mr. John RandaIls and N IS 10
vah Eiah
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
.RA|NEY SEES CHANGE
IN WORLD TARIFFS
Congressman Predicts War Will
Bring International Revision,
Making Federal Board.

An international revision of tarir
laws after tho end OF the European war
is forecast in statement today by
Congressman Henry Z. Rainey. OF
Illinois author OF the Administration
tariff commission hill. which was intro
duced in the House late Yesterday.
In explaining the need Of tariff
commission. Mr.. RaIney says world
conditions are changed and even Ger
many and France may have to change
their stable tariff systems after The
war. A commission is neede d. ne says.
to enable the United States to make
such revision OF the tariff necessary Tor
the nation to keep pace IN the markets
of the world.
The Administration bill probably will
be rushed through the house within the
next 40 weeks. 1t Will be steered in
tine lower body BY Mr., Rainey. ranking
Democrat of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, because Chairman kitchin is
lu'ewarm In his attitude toward the
hl> The Democrats always have op-
posed tariff boards and commissions.
and Mr.. kitchin still is wary of them.
Congressman RHiney's statement,
however, says commission now is
necessary, but was not heretofore.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
GOOD WORK FOR CHILDREN

Washington has been singularly
successful in the progress made by
its Juvenile Court. Perhaps that
was partly because it has not de-
pended upon the personality Of any
one individual, but has received CO.
operation from all community
agencies dealing with children. 1t
has had only two judges, William H.
De Lacy and J. Wilber Latimer, and
both these men have been able to
develop the work of the court with
out any skyrocket methods, but
simply by sane and common sense
appeals stating the needs Of their
court.
Yesterday the District Committee
of the House reported favorably on
a measure which, when adopted
will place the Juvenile Court here
among the most advanced courts of
its kind in this country. Even this
bill is no one-man measure; it was
framed by a committee which in
cludes. as we'll as Judge Latimer
other recognized authorities in child
welfare, such as Bernard Flexner, of
Chicago; Miss Julia Lathrop, of the
Children's Bureau; the Rev. William
J. Kerby, of Catholic University, and
William H. Baldwin.
A principal feature of the law is
that which puts an end to the piling
up of criminal" records against
children brought into court for petty
misdemeanors. 1t does not fasten a
lifelong court record and forever
invalidate his serving on jury and
performing other duties of a citizen
because he has stolen a newspaper
or taken part in some harmless
prank, which grown-ups who were
not within the jurisdiction of 6
juvenile court like to tell with glee
when they recall their own juvenile
days.
There are still persons who think
justice is being thwarted if, when q
boy has committed an offense, they
do not see him hailed into court
tried by judge before a crowded
court room, and then made to serve
a term in a reform school or made t.
pay a fine, which his father, O.
course, pays. But one function of {
juvenile court is to save children
from the treatment they would ge
at the hands of such persons.
The names of those who framed
the proposed law are enough to rec
ommend it to Congress. A study o
its provisions will carry conviction
of its wisdom and sanity.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
THE WORD FROM THE WEST

President -WilBon went out West
believing, as many other people did
that the West was lacking in under
standing of TIE national crisis, and
sympathy for the efforts to prepare
it to defend itself. AS he has trav-
eled farther West, the attitude OF
the people has more and more indi-
Gated that the West has been done
injustice. 1t does understand, and
it does respond to the appeal in be-
half of national safety and national
honor.
Pittsburgh seems 20 have been
least responsive of all the communi,
ties in which the Chief Executive
has voiced his appeal. Des Moines
farthest West, the heart of region
that has been pictured as peculiarl,
unconcerned and unaroused, gave
the President the largest, the most
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
CONSUMERS LEAGUE WORK

Bargain hunters-not the thrifty
housewives who try to save reason
ably, but the type that just hunt
bargains for no further reason than
that they are bargains-should visit
the exhibit the Consumers League
has just established in Washington.
They should give particular atten-
tion to the articles that are exhibited
on the tables and in the, show cases
t!:St were made in Washington by
people who work in unhealthy sur
roundings and FOR long hours. They
should give attention also to the bot
tie of poison that is one of the i'm
portant exhibits.
Strychnine, laudanum, cyanide of
potassium are rather crude things
nowadays. Long hours bent over a
work table, bad light, stuffy work
rooms, insanitary plumbing, ETC., are
far superior as they leave no trace
and kill quite as surely. That is
what the Consumers League means
by the bottle of poison it has incor.
pOrated among its exhibits.
1t is a pity the visitors cannot al.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02

sympathetic, the most responsive
audience that he has faced. He
told it Just what he wanted: the as
surance that the people of his coun-
try would be ready to stand by nim
in whatever measures might be re-
quired to cope with the national
emergency, and the reception that
appeal met must have convinced
him that the American people are,
and are going to continue, a unit
,, whenever emergency may arise,
whatever the emergency may be.
1t did not need the revelations OF
such tour to convince most people
that, once the danger was made so
vivid that there could be no uncer-
tanty, this would be the response
of the country. The President has
made it very plain that the danger
is great. From the other side of the
water come mutterings which sug-
gest resentment at his plain speak
ing. 1t is perhaps characteristic
that Germany, which has spent Il
generation in the most effective Of
preparation for whatever might
confront it, should resent the ef-
fort of another country to take ac-
count of stock and attempt to put
itself in readiness for the hour OF
peril. 1t is too late for Berlin to
assume the role of injured inno'
cence; to pretend that it fears the
Presidents utterances are going ~
precipitate an unmanageable situa-
ton. The blame for that result will
be upon the German foreign office
and the German admiralty; not upon
the American Administration which
has been quite as long-suffering and
patient as self-respect could allow.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
A SCHOOL EMERGENCY FUND

Maybe, if enough things happen
Congress will provide an emergency
fund for the use of public schools.
Maybe, but there was, the Western
High School fire. The structure lay
open to the elements, with no funds
even to protect what was left of it.
much less to go ahead with the
necessary work of rebuilding, which
had to be done sooner or later. 1t
was good economy to have done it
right away. But the work had to
wait eighteen months until Congress
appropriated for it.
Today $4,000 school children are
without towels, and in some schools
they must go without drinking
water, until some scheme for provid-
ing individual cups is devised. The
towel proposition is hopeless. There
is no towel money left, and there is
no emergency fund.
Lesser things of the same sort
come up all the time. Much might
be saved by timely alteration, or
by needed improvement. But two
years is the average waiting time
for money for such a project. Even
the repair fund is never adequate
and, ridiculous as it may seem, rooms
must go without blinds, shattered
windows must wait for replacement,
and odds and ends like that must 60
over, all until Congress gets ready
to pass upon this mighty financial
problem,
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
MUSIC
Madame Yvette Guilbert Give:
First Of Two Matinee Con-
certS at the Belasco.

Madame Yvette Gui,bcrt charmed a
small but appreciative audience at the
Belasco Theater Yesterday afternoon. II
was surprising that the student world
was not largely represented for both
from An educational and a novelty point
of view the unique art of this inimita able
FrcnChwoman becomes an experience
that fits into the BACKGROUND of cne's
historical imagery of France of many
ages.
In this the first of her two special
matinecs. Nine. Gulbet pictured and
told in the costumes and music Of each
period legends of folksongs OF the ff-
teen sixteenth, seventeenth. and eight
centh centuries. She pictured figures
that might have stepped from the Abbey
paintings of the Arthurian legend OF
The Quest for the Holy Grail" and
thus attired gave two most interesting
dramatic presentations OF Christmas $
mystery carols of the fifteenth and six
tecnth centuries.
The first was the telling Of The COM
inE OF Joseph ana Mary to the
inn. OF their being refused en-
trance. OF the passing of the night
marked hv the Ginning Il the
hours. which interrupted the drama. and
finally the mothers 10Y in the word
| "Noc!." the birth of the Christ In the
Death of Christ" the spirit of the
church of Rome was felt with the
| noblv Chanted Last Words" the en-
| acted lance wound. the words to the
Mother. and the closing Amen"
Successfully then were given songs
of the Middle AccG, which mirrored
the French literature OF the time
glimrses OF the ligc and manners OF
| the time OF the Marie Antoinctte and
Nine. de Pompadour. and popular re-
frains from the .ime of Moliere. Ir
these Nine. Guilbegt showed her artis-
| try in pantomime Her sewing scene
| in lie Lien Serrc.' with its warning &c
Young married girls of the irksome
bonds Of matrimorv. was most delight.
| full as were her two other talES of dis.
astrous marriage with her humorou;
! miInicrv OF the shrew.
In English that WAS quite delicious
Nine. Guilbert told French ant
piquant story of "Colinette." and quite
| like a carefree Madame Sans Gene
gave two English folksongs. 1t will bt
rare opportunity to sec and hear thI.
unique artistic in Ten Types of Womer
in Ten Songs"
Miss Emily Gresser. a young vio,inist
who possesses considerable technique
but Is still amateurish, assisted hy Nine
Guilbert. and Ward-Stephen presided a
the piano. ]. MacB.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02

go to the various annexes to this
exhibit all over the city and see the
results of work under the conditions
the league is fighting. Almost any
tuberculosis hospital or home for in
curables is an annex to a Consumers
League exhibit. These exhibits ought
to be installed permanently alon e.
side of such institutions. The wasted
things that were once men and
women; the bent and bowed crea-
lures that once were upright citizens
many of these-not all but many
of them-have been given doses of
the poison of which the average bar
gain counter is the harmless by
product.
The proprietors of the best shops
in this city and others recognize
the value of the Consumers League
label on their goods and recognize
likewise that it can appear on real
bargains-the kind the thrifty
housewife buys because the quality
OF the goods and the workmanship
is real. The honest merchants of
Washington have foresworn the
sweatshop product. They realize it
does not help them. It's quality never
did any good to a real business in
stitution. The honest merchants
which means most of the merchants
OF Washington-are heartily in
favor of the projects the Consumers
League backs.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
Will Irwin and His Bride
Will Address Suffragists

VIII Irwin and his bride. who were
married yesterday in New York and
who are in Washington on their honey
moon, are to speak tonight at a meet
ing of the Congressional Union fo-
Woman Suffrage, in the Cameron
House. Mrs. Irwin, who was Inez
Haynes Gilmore, magazine writer, will
he asked to talk on the feminist move
ment in America. while Mir. Irwin will
recount some of his experiences as a
war correspondent in Europe. Mr.. and
Mrs. Irwin plan to sail for Europe
within a few days.
Mrs ellison Gardner is to preside at
tonight's meeting and a large number
OF prominent suffragists are expected to
be present.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
STRAND.

So urgent have the demands been
for a return engagement of The Battle
Cry of Peace" that Tom Moore has
secured the picture for next week, for
the Strand. The Battle Cry of Peace"
tells a vivid story of interest to every
red blooded patriotic American, a<i has
been adapted by Commodore J. stuart
Blackton from Prof. Hudson Maxim 5
book. "Defenselcss America" The
theater will be appropriately decorated
during this third week of The Battle
Cry of Peace" the attaches will be
suitably attired and special music by
the augmented Strand symphony Or
chestra will be a special feature.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
Donald N. McRae, Now Captain
McRae, Member Of Canada's
American Legion.
ANXIOUS TO GO TO FRONT
Sen of Lieut.. Col. J. n. McRae
Has Risen Rapidly in Mill
tary Service.

The romance OF war has called Donald
NJ. McRae. twenty-three-year-old
Washingtonia captain McRae. OF
the Ninety-seventh Overseas Battalion.
Canada's american Legion'-into its
ranks. and by June OF this year he cx-
poets to be in the thick of the fight
ing somewhere in France" or on one
or the other battle fronts OF Europe.
He left Boston Tech. where he would
have graduated this coming June, on
tho first of January. and went to To-
ronto with the determination of join
ing the Canadian contingent and going
to the front. or If that failed. of making
his way over to England and joining
the forces there.
Entered Service As Sergeant.
He was accepted at once as a sergeant
and placed in charge of the records
office. with the understanding that he
would have to undergo several months
training before he could receive a COM
mission.
Two days later, however. he was COM
missioned as lieutenant and made
record officer. and a couple of weeks
later word that he had Eeen promoted
to captaincy and aduJtancy reached
his parents in this city. His father is
Lieut.. Col j: II: McRae. who is now
on duty in the Adjutant Generals Of
flee at the War Department.
His rapid promotion was chiefly duo
to the military training he received
during three years and half at West
Point, besides year in Company II,
Western High School. in this city. and
another year at the Virginia Military
Institute.
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. McRae
occupy an apartment at the Toronto.
Twentieth and p streets northwest,
with their family. Young McRae is re-
membered by many friends here as
tall and of athletic build. with a lean
ing toward the military that first evil
denced itself when he Joined Comps ny
was not then compulsory.
Composed of Americans.
Letters which his parents have re-
ceived describe the quarters which his
detachment is occupying. in the exposi'
ton buildings at Toronto. where he
says the accommodations are very
comfortable. The American legion Is
classified as a battalion in Canada, bu,
contains about 200 men. which would
comprise a regiment in the United
States army.
TIE legion IA comprised almost entire
| ly, it is stated. cf Americans from this
| side of the International boundary. 2nc
! most of it's officers ar" West POM
! graduates who have seen active service
In the United States army. Sev'ra! o.
! its members have already been dec
Grated for mcritorious service in tht
European war and sent homo wounded
| In view OF their special training. the,
! expect to be sent to England StthiI
a few months, and to have the time
which most Of the Cxpeditionarv force
is held in training in EnGland consider
ably shortened 1h" legion is corn
manded by Lieut.. Gel. w. I. Jolly. :
veteran OF several campaigns with In
American army.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
THINKS HIS BILL WILL
MAKE WALL ST. HOWL
Bailey of Pennsylvania Intro
duces New Measure to Tax
Wealthy Men.

"This bill is likely to make Wall
Street howl and the Morgans and
RockefeIlers gnash their teeth" said
Congressman Warren Worth Bailey, a
Pennsylvania Democrat, Bryan fol-
lower and anti-preparedness advocate.
as he cheerfully introduced a bill 10,
tax vigorously the man with the big
income.
Congressman Bailey asserted that
the "hulabaloo" over national defense
is a rich mans Scare" and the wealthy
classes ought to be put to the money
test. He prophesed the patriotism Of
the rich would simmer down IL their
pocket books were hit.
The Bailey bill would amend the i'll
come tax law so that all income be-
tween $4,000 and. $4,000 would pay L
s per cent tax with a graduated in
crease that would result in a tax Jf
so per cent on incomes of S500,oO0 and
more.
Mr.. Bailey said the preparedness
hullabaloo" started with those finan-
cially interested in forcing Congress to
suuander money on the national de-
fenses' and continued: "It has been
kept going by politicians who hope to
profit financially out OF the terrors
which so-called defense leagues are
spre sding with amazing industry.
Whether the Morgans. Rockefellers.
Garys. Schwabs. and the Stotesburys
can maintain their PATRIOTISM at fever
heat in the face OF surtax on big in
comes running up to so per cent remains
to be seen.
IF the forces of big business are to
plunge this country into a saturnalia
OF eXtravaganoe for war purposes in
time of peace they should put UP the
moneN. That is why I have introduced
a bill which is likely. to make Wall
Street howl and the Morgans and the
RoCkefellers Enash their teeth. ] pro-
pose to offer those who are clamoring
put their patriotism to a money test"
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
LOEW'S COLUMBIA.

Anna Held will make her debut as a
photo-play star on the screen of Loew S
Columbia Thcater on Sunday afternoon
and during the first four davs of the
week in her former great stage success
Madame Presidente."
The last three days of the week John
BARRYMORE will he seen on the screen In
his latest picturization. that of Nearly
a King" which was especially written
for him bv William II. Clifford. II is
the tale of a Young American who has
the great fortune. or misfortune. to re-
semblc the Prince of Rulwana, an ad-
VCmtGrous snirit who is lust In the
thICCs of bcinc palmed off Oh a princess
he has never seen.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
BRANDEIS VS.. BRANDEIs

only objection to the nomination Of
Louis d. Brandeis is based on the
fact that he is a radical arc two
types. There is the type honestly be-
lieving this. There is the type know
ing it isn't so, but dishonesty trying
to make people believe it is so.
No mans politics, as such, could
determine the judgment of the
American people on this nomination
any more than the nationality of his
grandfather, or his religion, or the
color of his hair. In the matter of
going on the Supreme Bench the
one thing of superlative Importance
about any man, whatever his politics,
is whether he is fit to sit there as an
openminded, fair, impartial judge.
The Administration claque kicks
up a great cloud of dust, trying to
hide the real issue by saying that il
Brandeis weren't friend of labor as
against the corporations, weren't a
champion of the people as against
the interests" those now opposing
his confirmation by the Senate would
, be urging it. But Brandeis just the
same would not be fit to sit on the
| bench.
AS a matter of fact, sometimes
Brandeis has been with the corpora
tions and sometimes he has been
against them. Sometimes, for ex-
ample, Brandeis has been with the
shippers in opposing higher railroad
rates and sometimes he has been
with the railroads in saying that
they ought to get higher rates.
Brandeis, for another example, was
a director of the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company. Afterward he left
that company and went over to a
rival company which was fighting it,
and it is charged against him that
he then undertook to prove that the
leasing contracts which he had
helped to cohtrive for his old COM
pany didn't have to be lived up to
because they were unlawful.
All the facts in the United Fhoe
Machinery case will be brought out
J in the United States Senate. So we
can withhold our judgment as to
whether Brandeis was right when he
helped to contrive the "tying clause
in the leasing contract or was right
when afterward he tried to break the
contracts on the ground of then
illegality.
But we don't have to withhold ar
opinion as to the qualifications Of
Mr.. Brandeis to be judge when he
could be, in one case or the other
so absolutely mistaken. He couldn't
be right in both. If he was right il
the first case he was wrong in the
second. If he was right in the sec
ond he was wrong in the first. Bu
whichever he was at either time, tht
point which bears upon his judicia
incapacity is that right or wrong
in the first case, he was just as red
hot for his side of it then as he wa!
the next time.
A man qualified to be a Judge doe
not see things that way. He doesn'
see a thing all white when his per
sonal interests are engaged with it
but all black when his personal in
terests are engaged against it. T,
the eyes of man fit to be a judg,
white is always white and black il
| ALWAYS black
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
Tomorrow.

Meeting, District branch of the Legion OF
Loyal Women, Auditorium, Woodward &
lothrops, p. m.
Meeting. Pocahontas Memorial Association,
Hotel Bellevue, 4:30 p. m.
Dance and supper. Loyola Club. OF ST. 1g-
natius Catholic Church, oxen Hill, Md,
parish hall p. nj.
Meeting Study Club Of the Washington Cen
ter of the Drama League, Public Library,
p. m.
Masquerade ball Holy Name Society Of the
Holy Rosary Church. old Masonic Temple,
y. IN.
Lecture, Leon H. Vincent Friends School,
1911 street northwest II a. N.
Meeting Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
ltauscher's y. IN.
Meeting Cathedral Heights Citizens Associa-
tion, st. AlhanG Parish Hall o. m.
Meeting Benning Citizens Assoc iation, J. w.
browns residence, p. IN,
Address Mrs Kate Waller Jarrett 20o7 Co
lumbia road northwest, p. N.
Meeting. teachers and parents OF pupils a
Tyler School, in school : p N.
Times pure food show, Arcade. and p. IN.
Meeting Thomas jefferson Council, No. j,
Junior Order United American Mechanics,
Address. preparedness for Women" Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey. before Columbia
Union; ". c. T. l.. Gurley Memorial
Church, p. m.
Masonic-Naval No 4: Hiram, No. 10; Ma
sonic Board of Relief; Esther, No, 5, East
ern Star.
Odd Feilows-Coyenant. No. Is; Columbia,
No. 10; Salem, No. 90.
knights OF Pythias-Franklin. No. .: J. I.
Coldwell Company. No. :. Uniform Rank,
Cabees-Georsetown Tent No. 6: District
Tent, No. 9.
Ma .ioual Union-WilIism u. Collins Council.
Socialist party German branch. Workmens
Circle: city organization and educational
committee.
The Washington times., 1916-02-02
GARDEN.

Julia Dean will he seen on the screen
at Moores Garden Theater Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday. where she heads
the double feature program in The
Ransom" an adaptation of one OF
Richard Harding Davis stories. On
Wednesday and Thursday New Iork's
The Devils Prayer Book" featuring
Arthur Hoops and Alma Hanlon will
be the headlined attraction. On Friday
and Saturday, the bewitching queen
of the screen. Margarita Fischer, Will
be seen in THE Dragon"