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The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-07-27
A SWISS MUSIC BOX OF LONG
AGO.

Recently I Glanced to call on
Mrs Woodrow, just after a little vi
sit to a lady across the street, who
had been playing some sentimental
old songs on fine Swiss Music box.
mentioned to her that l might fall
short in loyalty to our own matchless
Edison, but there never could be any
music so hauntingly sweet as that of
the Alpine music boxes. This was
very large one and yet it's tones
were always soft, gentle and low
as woman's voice should be.
Mrs. Woodrow's brown eyes be-
gan to sparkle as she replied: I will
tell you an experience / had over
sixty years ago with one of those
music boxes on its native heath, so
to speak
Our family physician had told
me | must take my husband entirely
away from his college duties to pre-
vent serious nervous breakdown.
Indeed, he said must take him to
the south of France for a long So
journ to restore his health | had
four small children and, of course,
they must go with US.
Crossing the Atlantaic was by
no means the pleasant experience
then that it is now in the modern
ocean steamers. Soon after we left
| became seasick. Not just nausea
ed and limp, but distressingly ill., so
painfully and continually and utterly
Frustrated that | had to be tenderly
nursed, and it was feared | could not
survive the voyage. However, after
landing | soon recovered, but con-
tinued my journey to France firmly
convinced that never again would
cross the ocean under any circum-
stances whatever.
Sojourn Abroad
Sol settled down contentedly,' first
in one place and then in another, and
DR.. Woodrow's health improved so
much he was able to resume his lee
lures in Heidelburg university.
He made several trips back home
while the children and | remained in
Europe and they pursued their educa-
ton. Any mention of trip on the
ocean filled me with shuddering mem
cries. Ships nights come and ships
might go but no sail appealed to me.
| was firmly attached to terra frma.
1t was nothing but little swiss mu-
six box that broke my resolution!
DR.. Woodrow and | were strolling
one afternoon in beautiful Geneva
when he took me into little shop to
rest and look at trinkets for sale
there. He had ceased to urge me
70 return to America, but as | rested
IN the shop suddenly the melody of
Home, Sweet Home" began to trem-
bic softly on the air. Of course nv
husband had selected that particular
air to be played 1t was no idle
tears that rose to my eyes as the
sweet notes continued. The music
was positively electrical in it's eff
feet upon me and drew my spirit to-
ward home now clothed in a deeper
sweetness than ever. l was COM
pletely changed in my attitude to-
ward the ocean. When DR.. Wood
row returned to me I confessed my
willingness to accompany him home
and was eager to start as soon as
BE could"
Were you as seasick on the last
voyage as on the first?" | asked.
She nodded her head emphaticallv
and replied:
"Oh, yes, l was just deathly sick
n my berth all the way across, but
during it all there was the thought
that every moment was taking me
nearer to America and Home. Sweet
Home
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

Their torpedo tubes ever are
loaded, ready to blow up this
great plant for saving any dead
heads sticking in the mud in the
political pond.
A lot Of greedy politicians are
planning to capture some trenches
in the marble-lined courthouse
just as soon as the Rip-saw's cur
tain of fire makes it seem possible.
The Rip-saw suggests that all
these anxious boys wait until they
get orders from their command
er-in-chief, the People. The vot-
ers are tired of doing the work
and then finding out that they
have servants who do not satisfac-
torily served.
Some of Duluth's liquor deal
ers desire license in Superior.
Those who know the ropes declare
that anyone who wishes to be sue
cessful in securing license in the
swamp across the bay will make
no tactical error in first buying
an automobile of the Kolkel au-
tOmObile agency.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19
AN INSIDIOUs DISEASE.

In discussing ills Of a munich
pality,, Thomas Brooks Fletcher
declares that paralysis Of the
cooperative nerve" is the most
dangerous disease that afflicts
communities. He then says:
"There, is a tiny microscopic
germ called 'selfishness' which
bores it's way through the tough,
dry skin of a citizen until it
reaches his heart, or the place
where the heart is found in a nor
NAL citizen, and this germ has a
strange control over it's victim.
It makes him hang back and let
the other fellow do it when
something important comes up
for the towns welfare.''
This diagnosis closely de-
scribes a tendency on the part
Of entirely too many Duluthians
to "Let George do it." It is in
line with that local condition in
which every second man Of prom
inence and business power sus-
poets the motives and intentions
Of his neighbor. It is closely &C.
lated to the paralyzing policy to
grab all you can and give as little
in return as possible.
Recently the Duluth CONNER
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19
SAWDUST
AND
SHAVINGS

In years gone by, Michigan
street commission houses have re.
fused to sell local grocers vege-
tables if they bought Of nearby
producers. There is much curl
osity as to whether or not the To-
cal firms will be denied the right
to buy and sell some Of the big
crop Of vegetables that the back
lots promise to produce this sea-
son..
When you write the Rip-saw,
tell the editor what department
you like best-editorial, Tales Of
the Town, Sawdust and Shavings,
Courthouse Dope, City Hall Chat
ter, The Political Pot, or what?
And when you write something
for The Public Pulse, make it as
brief as possible.
"Listen! What's that awful
noice?" inquired a visitor in Du-
luth from quiet Iowa town.
ooh, that's nothing but blind
pig granting in it's sleep,'' was
the reply. commissioner Silber-
STEMS hired man forgot to feed it
before he went to bed.'
An Iowa preacher delivered a
sermon on "Good Roads" and an
Iowa editor expresses the opinion
that the minister was actuated by
the Biblical theory that good
roads are necessary, for does the
Good Book not say, "He went up
into Heaven on high" How could
he 60 up into Heaven on high if
he did not have good roads?
Brothers Walker and Turner
found some fine seed potatoes
which can be secured for actual
planting at actual cost, $3.50 a
bushel, by calling at M. W. Tur-
ner's place Of business. This act
is a timely and patriotic rebuke
to those who have asked poor peo-
rple 81 a bushel for seed potatoes.
Some Of the submarines now
making their base at the marble
lined courthouse constantly keep
their periscopes on The Rip-saw.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

cial Club held it's annual election
Of officers. By rights, that should
have been the most important
meeting Of the year. Only about
fifty members out of thousand
took time or showed interest
enough to attend. To a man up
a tree, that looks entirely too
much like a case Of "paralysis
Of the cooperative nerve" A
specialist may be needed more
than the bell-wethers of the Du-
luth Commercial Club really be-
iave.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

the end of 1917, and that if this is not
possible, it will be no fault of the Du-
luth Street Railway Company.
Since the above arrangement was
made, the situation has, however,
been further complicated by the
bringing of test suit in the matter
Of the ten cent fare.
Relying on the opinion of two City
Attorneys of the City of Duluth that
the Company has a legal right to
charge this ten cent fare, and further
relying on the opinion Of the Com
pany's own counsel, as to our legal
right to make this charge, all our
plans for the New Duluth extension
have been based on our expectation to
continue to charge the ten cent fare.
This Company and its counsel will
cooperate with the attorneys for the
plaintiff in this test case to the end
that an early and final decision may
be obtained.
With the full cooperation of the
Steel Company in preparing the right
of-way through it's property in Nor
gan Park and in procuring the deliv-
cry of sufficient rails to build this ex-
tension, and a decision on or before
October 1, next, of the test case estab-
fishing the Company's right to charge
the ten cent fare, this Company will
build, equip and put in operation be-
fore the end of 1917 an extension
from the end Of it's present line in
Morgan Park to McCuep Street in
New Duluth.
It is hoped this pledge of the Com
pany with reference to building the
New Duluth extension during 1917,
with the prevailing high prices of
steel rails, all other construction
material and labor, may be taken by
your Honorable Body and the people
of Duluth as an evidence Of the Com
pany's good faith in the matter of
making extensions for which there
is a reasonable public necessity.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19
POLICE ARE UNDERPAD:
THEY TALKIOF QUITTING
Wages in Easier Walks of Life Are Higher and the
Employment Is More Attractive.

There is real danger that Du-
luth will lose about half it's 20.
licemen if their demand for a
raise Of at least $40 a month can
not be granted by the city. The
policemen Of Duluth always have
been underpaid and they find that
present costs of existence, to- say
nothing of decent living, are en-
tirely out of proportion with their
wages.
The city council wrestled with
the problem at a special session
last Wednesday morning. Chief
McKercher pointed out conditions
and his report was not at all OBJ
timistic. He put the problem
squarely up to the commissioners,
saying that he must not be held
responsible for. any weakening
and deterioration in the depart.
ment under existing conditions.
The charters infexible require
ments in the matter of finances
compel the city commissioners to
see no possible way for adding to
the cost Of the police department.
The budget for the year cannot
be amended or increased in any
legal way.
The situation easily can become
serious, even dangerous.
The following statistical infor.
nation, as compiled blythe Her.
aid, will throw some light on the
situation and satisfy taxpayers
and citizens that Duluth has a
very small police force in pro-
position to its population.
Duluth's population, as shown
by the 1910 census, was 1886.
The psesent estimated population
is 100000. The area Of the city
is 67.37 square miles,, It has SO
persons who come under the pay
roll Of the police department, in
GLIDING the chief, captain, lieu
tenants, sergeants, patrolmen,
mounted patrolmen, traffic Off
GERS, secretaries, stenographers,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

janitors, chauffeurs, mechanics,
jailors, matrons, bertillon experts
and others.
Toledo, Ohio, has 1913, 497 people
according to the latest official CEN
sus, an area of but 80 square miles
and 210 policemen, not including
the various persons named in the
latter part Of the above list. The
population of Albany, N. Y, is
little more than Duluth, yet it
has Is traffic officers alone. San
Antonio, Tex. with about 100000
people, has 100 men and 8 women
on the police force. Baltimore,
Nd. has 1,085 persons in the DO
lice department for 55S,4S5 popu.
lation, an average of about 1 po.
iceman to ech 500 Of population.
San Francisco has 9S1 law en-
forces for population of 416,912
and they are the highest paid po-
icemen in the world. The mini
mum pay of patrolmen is $1,40O
a year and chief gets $4,000. Ser
geants and secretaries get 800.
Minneapolis with So square
miles and a population of 3O1 ,4OS
souls, according to the last CEN
sus, has 1862 policemen; Science
tady, N. Y, has about 100 officers
to $4,000 population; Oakland,
CAL, has 235 men to 15O,174 pop
ulation; Washington, D. c., SO
square miles and 331, 900 people,
has us men; Peoria, ILL.,, has 80
men to $3.50 population; Bay
onne, N. j., has lis men to 55,545
population. And in the figures
which have been quoted, the sec.
retaries, matrons, janitors, etc.,
are not included as they are in
Duluth s total of SO.
The salaries of Duluth patrol
men range from 1850 to $1,000 a
year. The chief draws $1,000.
The total expenditures Of the de-
partment are only about $780, 900
a year.
For himself, chief McKercher
asks no increase in salary.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

The Rip-saw has had at least
two different communications
from the presumable local CORE
spondent of the Twin City Re-
porter, both times unsigned. Web
|ster's dictionary lacks words
enough to properly label the CO.
wardly cuss who writes letters
that he dare not sign.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

The Rip-saw probably has more
supporters to the square rod in
Floodwood than at any other
point in st. Louis county. The
members in "The Free and indie
pendent Voters" lodge up there
proposes to take a strong hand in
scrubbing out any dusty or cob
webby corners in the marble-lined
courthouse. They buy the Rip
saw; they read the Rip-saw; they
believe in the Rip-saw; they dis
tribute the Rip-saw. The Flood
wood boys fear no noise and the
Rip-saw salutes them.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

r., Duluth's Queen O. May is suf=
fering from bad cold in the head.
She sat down on a snow drift to
pick arbutus and to enjoy her
little May basket down on Mime
sofa Point, with said sad result.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19


state auditor Preuss are in a
deadly struggle for first place OIL
the republican ticket Of next
year with secretary Of state
Seminal layin' low and chawing
poke-root," says G. M. Atkinson
of Hibbing in the last Mesaba
Ore.
"But it is already written that
no matter whom the republicans
put up for governor next year,
he will get it in the neck. If it
be Burnquist-oh, what fall
there will be, my countrymen.
"The democrats profess to see
their chance, but all they are
grabbing in different directions,
as usual, and not acting at all as
if they really wanted anything.
"The great mass of iudepend-
ents, the majority vote Of the
state, want a new deal. They are
loking for the man, and all seem
to be looking at the one point
toward Hibbing.
"The man is here. He can be
elected and he would be a gov
ernor that would mean some
thing above petty peanut politics
to the great state Of Minnesota
a man the Steel corporation
would spend ten millions to de-
feat.
"a man like that, who has de-
feated the Steel corporation at
every turn and who stood be-
tween the people and the insati-
able money interests, who is big
and clean and honest and OF
marked ability, would be good
gubernatorial timber, don't you
think?,
"The new deal is coming, as
sure as fate, and the best in the
world is offered us if we want
it,"
The Rip-saw is wondering and
wondering if Bre'r Atkinson can,
by any chance, be meaning Vic
tor Power, the unbeaten mayor
Of "the richest village on
earth?" It may be so. 1t may
be so. Stranger things have
happened. a.,
The ''snake editor of the Du-
luth News Tribune has bit of
interesting, stuff in the paper of
May II, if true. While it
smacked a good deal Of coming
via grapevine" from st. Paul,
it was at least plausible. In the
spring of the year, "snake edit
ors" often "see things'' that
others cannot.
The Minnesota Bankers asso-
citation had a meeting in st. Paul
and a large number Of state
politicians, both democrats and
republicans, are credited with
appearing on the scene, giving
the meeting as an excuse. The
trouble was that entirely too
many showed up who were en-
tirely innocent Of banking or
even banks.
The dope has it that Lynch
and anti-Lynch democrats have
joined forces for the purpose Of
putting another democrat into
the gubernatorial chair. District
Judge Charles w. Stanton, of
Bemidji, is credited with being
the candidate of both factions
and, accordingly, will be
groomed and run against Burn
quist, or some one else, if he
fails of a denomination.
The fine race that Judge Stan
ton made for the supreme bench
is pointed out as a sign Of his
running ability. Fred B. Lynch,
Cyrus W. King, Henry F. Wes-
sci and z. H. Austin are repre-
scented as democrats who made
medicine and held the love feast.
All this, of course, does not
harmonic with Victor Powers
willingness to become a great
popular and independent candi-
date for governor in 1918.
X
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19
THE, POLITICAL POT.
AS the Pie-counter Boys and Patriots Make Merry
Medicine i'm City, County and State, the
Old Pot BOils and Bubbles Fiercely.

and night, he spins his web and
seasoned in methods and, day
sends out the strands to catch
and to hold support.
|. County offices now are on a
non-partisan basis which some
what hampers party machine.
Halden usually has had lot of
renegade democrats on his staff.
On the other hand, he has dou-
ble-crossed so many republicans
that a heavy vote from his own
party has gone against him for
many years. The larger towns
and cities, especially in the lower
end of the county, have quite
well turned him down. Some
claim that the Duluth end Of
the county gets only about $685.
900 for county roads, while the
iron range portion of the county
gets 100000, this year, chiefly
as sign Of royal disfavor over
the miserable vote given him in
Duluth when he ran the Last
time.
! One prominent young republi-
can expresses himself as follows,
VIZ.
eve must rid ourselves of
Haiden. 1t will take work and
skill to do it. But 1 favor the
plan the democrats have just
followed in st. Paul in state mat
ters-meet, make medicine and
then use it to cure ills we do not
desire.
'The democrats hope to get
the next governor. They have
no particularly strong or favor
tie candidate for auditor in st.
Louis county. 1 think they will
ingly would support a strong,
clean, efficient man put up I'M
officially by the republicans.
Anyway, the props must be cut
| from beneath the King Of the
| Courthouse. It must be done
and it will be done in 1915"
Nothing new in the congress
sional situation has come to
light. A retainer of congress-
man Miller recently secured a
complete file of the Rip-saw to
forward to Washington.
It is expected by many that
state senator Richard Jones will
run for congress against Mr..
Miller Or any other candidate,
on some sort Of ticket, possibly
a combination democratic-inde-
pendent-farmor- labor-socialist tic
ket, if that should come about. If
he would be heard from. He's
built on the "little giant order
and many of these little giants
have been great. successes in con-
gress.
If by any chance Clarence
B. Miller should decline another
term, the friends of Ray NJ.
Hughes will urge him to enter
the ring.
"The people of Minnesota are
net going to let Senator Knute
Nelson retire at the end of his
present term, March 4, 1872
said M. j. Bowling, formerly
speaker of the legislature of Min
nesota, at the Willard hotel, "ao-
cording to a recent Washington
dispatch. ''The people of the
state and nation can i'll afford to
let such a man retire in a crisis
such as we face at the present
time. His long service and i'm
portant positions on committees
of the senate make him too valu-
able a man in the United States
senate. It is the wisest and best
men who are needed, not only
now, but later after the war is
over. 1t is indeed fortunate that
at this time the senator is in the
best of health and vigor. If the
senator is alive and well, he will
again be mustered in for an
other term in the senate with
little or no opposition
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19
LITIGATION KEEPS TROLLEY LINE FROM
DULUTHS SUFFERING SUBURB.

CITY Commissioners Meet Duluth Street Railway
Officials in Conference Wednesday After
:. noon-Company Can Make Extension This
Year, But Declines Action While Litigation
Exists Suggestions for Compromise Do Not
Interest Implacable Opponents of the Double
Il Fare-Text Of President RObertsons State
d ment as Filed With the City. H.2r3.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

Booklets written. Prospectuses
compiled. Company reports pre-
pared. Political dope compounded.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

If you contemplate opening a
Townsite, Floating mine, Boost
ing City, Financing Factory, or
Launching a Political Campaign,
consult our Publicity Engineers.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19
JOHN L. MORRISON, Manager.

Publicity Literature of all Kinds
Written and Printed. - ~
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

Thine dope further provides
another term as state auditor for
j. A. O. Preus, on the g. o. p.
ticket and julius Seminal for
governor instead Of j. A. A.
Burnquist.
This will, if carried out, make
it impossible for Odin Halden to
aspire again for the state audit
orship, even if his previous dis
astrous experience failed to sat-
isfy him. At that time, portions
of his official history rose up to
smite him and turn him back
onto St. Louis county.
This would indicate, at this
time, that Mr.. Halden must
freeze to the marble-lined court
house if he continues to feed at
the public crib for another term
of office. Dollars are being
wagered against doughnnts that
his rule will end with 1918. But
King Odin is resourceful, active,
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-05-19

Photographs and Engravings
Furnished at Bedrock Prices. ze
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-01-18
VERMONT NOTES
News of the State Gathered
Here and There.
Fund Available for n Dewey Memorial
at Montpelier Now Amounts
to s3,70-.

The Dewey monumental fund in the
hands of the Vermont Historical
society now amounts, with in
terest Accommodations, 10 500 SO
The collection of tie fund was
commenced by the Dewey monument com
mittec. organized in 1899 and made 10 Of
Everett G.. Henton, james y. Phelps, Levi
i. Morton, John NJ. ThurStou and six
olll'rs. among ermonters throughout the
country, to erect ut the Vermont Capitol
: monument similar ~ the statue Of
E,han Allen At the state House in Mont
poiior The fund turned over 10 the a91o-
cation May 49, 1906, amounted to &.aGi is.
President william W S,ictncy. WHO pre-
sided al the annual meeting Of the Yer
l., j. Brock on a lumtcr JOB. Saturday
which Lyman s. Hayes VI Eelow; Falls
read paper on Navigation on the Con
necucut River" said the money war IN a
Montpelier bank and could be used for ITO
other purpose than to provide in his ma.
sivc State and town 4 suitable memorial
or monument TO commemorate Admira;
Dewey's victory at Manila Bay.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-01-18
UNIVERSITY NOTES.
Changes in Cynic Board mud Additions
tn Kske Walk Committees.

II. =. Camp, IS. was elected alumni
editor of the Cynic to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation OF \. W.
Ruttc-, II. At meeting of the Cynio
board, held Tuesday. j. T. Y. Andrews,
rs, was elected news editor IN place or
i. =. L&mpcrti. IS. resigned The fol-
lowing were elected to the board; Miss
Howe, u, 'rcachout. 1s Bartlett. IS. and
Smith, 10
The following men have been added 10
the kake walk committees. Seating com
mittec, Andrews, II medic; peerade com
mittce, Lyons. II, medic stunts commit
tee, Paulsen. ~. medic.
Alpha XII Delta announces the initia-
ton Of Mary Barry IS, Marceline
Laushway. 49, Mildred Kimball. 10. and
Gladys Smith. 10. Saturday at the fra
ternity rooms
l. o. Watts chairman OF the junior
week committee, has appointed the FOL
lowing to constitute the committee
eth. p, T.. Jones, LeBaron. Gallup.
Dwyer. Johnson. Harris. Leonard. medic
and Free, medic.
Keith was elected manager OF class
basketball at meeting of the jun
| ior class, held yesterday.
Judgment day for the freshman girls
| occurred yesterday. The senior and
freshman girls were gathered at 1880 at
| the home of Ruby Howe, II. on South
| Union street. The sophomore girls then
| appeared and escorted the freshmen to
the home of Helen Howe. 10. on North
| Winooski avenue. The freshmen were
| tried before a judge and jury and SEN
| tcnce was pr nounced. Refreshments
/ and songs followed.