Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-03-29

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facts in connection with working chill
dren as compared with those who re-
main in school. The basis of Mrs.
/ WooIley's talk was an eloquent idea
that something be done" for the
brilliant children who have TO leave
| school and go TO work because OF
/ economic pressure and also for the
| duIler minds who are .pegging away
at academic studies that they cant
do" while they could benefit from
vocational training in the grades.
| No Limit TO Amount.
That the corrupt practices law
| places no Limitation on the amount
which candidate for delegate to
a national party convention may ex-
pend for political purposes, although
such candidate il required by the law
TO file statements OF campaign expend-
iture; tat one candidate may not
make contribution 10 the campaign
fund OF another candidate, and that IL
one candidate writes and forwards let.
| tiers in the interest of another candi-
date. thereby mourning expense. such
| action is in violation of the corrupt
practices act, are points made by At
torney General Owen in an opinion 10
Secretary OF State Donald.
The attorney general point out that
the political purposes prescribed in
pend money are:
For his own personal hotel and
travelling expenses and for postage,
telegraph and telephone expenses.
For payments he may make to the
state pursuant to law.
For contributors to his duly regis
tered campaign committee.
For contributions to his campaign
| committee Ii a candidate has no per-
sonal campaign committee he may
make expenditures for the following
purposes:
For maintenance of headquarters
and for hall rentals incident to hold
ing public meetings.
For necessary stationery, postage
| and clerical assistance to be employed
! for the candidate at his headquarters
or at the headquarters of the personal
| campaign committee incident to the
writing, addressing and mailing of
campaign literature
For necessary expenses incident to
the furnishings of and printing OF
badges, banner; and other insignia, for
| the printing and posting of handful
posters, Autographs and other cam
paign literature and the distribution
| thereof through the mails or other
wise.
For campaign advertising in news
papers, periodicals or magazines as
prescribed in the law.
For wages and actual necessary
personal expenses of public speakers
Tho attorney general points out that
| under the above prescriptions it would
be unlawful for oae candidate to make
disbursements in behalf OF another
| candidate, even to the extent Of writ
| ing letters In his behalf if the marting
Of such letters and the payment of
postage thereon constitute material
expenditure This, of course, would
not apply to the mere occasional cor
| respondence in keeping with the
forms CT polite society as distinguished
from political purposes.
J BIamas Bad Roads.
More than SIS 200, 900 dollars year
for carriage alone would be saved il
the roads were such as the times de-
mand," said John A. Hazelwood of the
Wisconsin highway commission.
Freight charges for transporting
the produce of this country from farm
to market are less than one-seventh
the carriage cost" he said. Freight
charges have been reduced from seven
cents per ton per mile in the last fifty
years to less than one cent per ton
per mile The carriage charge for car
rying produce from farm to market Is
over $500,000,000 The cost in Euro
pean countries is from eight to ten
cents per ton per mile from farm to
market, while in the United States,
according to official statistics, the
average cost for hauling produce is
twenty-three cents per mile. European
countries have a system of splendid
hard-surfaced roads; in this country
we are just waking up to the impor-
lance of building good roads"