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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

There are two excellent ways to de-
feat the will Of the majority Of the
people. One of them is filibuster in
the United States senate and the other
is a veto in Wisconsin The only
difference between them is that It
takes more than one to organize a
flibuster. Both gain the same end and
both are equally reprehensible.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Kenosha men should remember that
for the army is not on a
part Of registering for elections. Lack
of patriotism in registration to cast
your vote and be real part Of the
town is to be condemned, but failing
to register for army service is punish
able with Imprisonment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

So long as the censorship clause is
not working we may yet say that the
President is showing just little of
his lttleness by denying to Col. Roose-
welt the right to lead an army into
France. Isn't it funny what some men
will do when really strong political
opponent is concerned in the doing?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Sure it might have been an accident
that those fellows hit that man out
on the Geneva Road, but it WASH t an
accident that they left him along the
road to die. Six months, twice a year
for twenty years, would be about right
for starter in this case.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24
The Press and Censorship.

-ANAs -~~%N@ -~@~~
Tie Republican Publicity Associa-
ton, through its president, Hon. iona
than Bourne, Jr., today gave out the
following statement at its Washington
headquarters:
Some people seem to have acquired
the idea that newspapers are opposed
to the censorship provision Of the. es-
pionage bill because it would work in
jury to them. Our correspondence
with editors and perusal Of papers
from all parts of the country convinces
US this is not the case, and for several
reasons.
If a censorship law were enforced
against all papers equally, it would
work no special hardship upon any.
They would suffer no injury different
from that suffered by all the American
people. Newspapers would lose none
Of their subscribers or advertisers, and
there would be no material diminution
in street sales In fact, newspaper
man 5 work would be lessened if he
were content to take only such matter
as a censor S Office chose to give.
But neither the American people
nor the editors can or should be salts
fed with any such limited and unfair
presentation Of news regarding public
business. It is quite possible that pub
lie officials are sometimes subjected to
unfair treatment in publication of
news, but it is absolutely certain that
if the administration had power to
control news sources, facts given pub
Lefty would be immensely mCre unfair
in favor Of public officials than they
are now unfair against them
The sum and substance Of the at
titude of the press, as we gather it: is
this: editors are against dictatorship,
whether that dictatorship affects their
own business or any other business.
When the treasury department tried to
put the Riggs Bank out of business,
the press was against the department,
lot because it had any particular in
terest in the Riggs bank but because
it is opposed to dictatorship over bank
ing. When the federal reserve board
attempted to tell the banks they ought
not invest in certain British securities,
newspapers took the board to task, not
because they had any interest in Brit
ish securities but because they are
against dictatorship over investments.
Newspapers are against food dictators,
transportation dictators and political
dictators.
Absolute freedom Of the press is
the only safeguard today against es-
Establishment of all sorts Of dictatorship,
ostensibly in the hands of the presi-
dent but in reality i'll the hands of
bureaucrats put on the public payroll
as reward for political service. 1t
the administration could secure enact
ment of the censorship law it wants,
all the rest of it's programme OF auto
cratic rule would be easy.
$50 far as we have observed, edl-
tors believe in government by law.
They are willing to be responsible I'M
der libel laws. They believe in laws
regulating transportation, boarding OF
food, banking, and numerous other i'm
portant lines of enterprise. But Meth
er the editors nor any considerable
number Of other people believe in es-
tablishing relationships by delegating
to administrative officers the discre-
tionary power to make rules prescrib-
ing from day to day what the Ameri-
can people may or may not do
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

If the government will just cut off
some of the indirect taxes brought BY
the war there will be little or no com
plant against paying the direct taxes.
It's the added burden that is going
to break the camel S back
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

The Brockett street sewer is neces-
sary thing for comfort, but at that it
is a luxury. These people have strug
gled along for several years without
it and they can stand it for another
year as their gift to the conservation
movement.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

The men who have been collecting
garbage found an excellent employment
in collecting ashes. The cost to the
people will probably not be greatly re-
duced until municipal collection Of gar
bage shall include municipal collection
of ashes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Inspector Nelson says that a ma
jority of the dairymen in the county
are willing to meet any suggestions
that the council will make in regard
to safeguarding the milk supply Of
the city. Tt would seem that it is
about time for some one to wake up
the council.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

And the GAINESVILLE Gazette says:
1.-THE American theory Of how to pre-
pare for war is to have a grand debate
in congress with everybody's speeches
printed in the congressional record.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

The fight of the industrial commits
sion to prevent the employment Of
minors is one that is going to have the
support of all right thinking people.
The only thing that the people
will demand is that the law be i'm
partially enforced.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

The men who loot banks have long
ago reached the conclusion, that if is bet
ter to take their chaLces in the state
rather than the federal courts. The
federal judges belies that a man who
loots bank should be given punish
ment in keeping with his crime. Some
Of the state courts may believe the same
thing.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

The Wausan Record Herald says:
elf planting garden is an act of
patriotism looting one is an act Of
treason" If past experiences are re-
peated there will be a lot Of demands
for drum head court martials in this
county next fall.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

People who keep referring to Our
Neutrality have evidently missed the
facts in the mater We are no longer
neutral. We have a cry positive po-
sition in this war business and q. man
who claims that he is neutral is giving
first. aid to the enemy of the nation.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

We are not yet ready to declare our
selves in favor of that feature of the
movement which suggests
that the women spend less for clothes.
The skirts are short enough now.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

If you really want to travel, to see
France and possibly Germany, the way
TO secure passage is to enlist in the
National Guard
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Senator LaFolette and Governor
Philip seems to be agreed on one
question and that is the protection
of the people against the travages of
prohibition.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24


First Publication May II, 1917.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
KENOSHA COUNTY C0URT:-IN PRO.
BATE.
In the matter of the estate of James A.
AIcDougal, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the claims
and demands of all persons against James
A. McDougall. deceased, late of the town
of Salem, in said County of Kenosha, will
be examined and adjusted by the Cou0rT
Court of Kenosha County at the regular
terms of said Court TO be holden at the
County Court room, in the City Of Ike
nosha. in and for said County, on The first
Tuesday of September A. d. 1917, and on
the first Tuesday of November, A. D.
1917, at ten o'clock, a M, of those days;
also that the time until and including the
first Tuesday of October, A. ID. 1917, is the
time allowed and limited for creditors of
said James A. McDougall, deceased, to
present their claims for examination and
allowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the 18th day of May,
GEORGE w. TAYLOR,
County Judge.
BUCKAIASTER & HAMMOND,
Attorneys for Administrator.
First publication MAY 10. 1917
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
KENOSHA COUNTY C0URT-IN PRO
BATE
In the matter of the estate of James G.
Russell deceased
Notice is hereby given that the claims
and demands of all persons against James
g. Russell, deceased, late of the City of
Kenosha, in said County of Kenosha, will
be examined and adjusted by the County
Court of Kenosha County at the regular
terms of said court to be holden at the
County Court room, in the City of Keno
sha, in and for said county, on the frs
Tuesday of June, A. d. 1917, and on the
first Tuesday of November, A. D. 1917. at
ten o'clock A. NJ of those days; also that
the time until and including the first
Tuesday of October A. D. 1917, is the
time allowed and limited for creditors of
said James G. Russell, deceased, to pre-
sent their claims for examination and al
lowance.
Dated at Kenosha, the 18th day of May,
A. d. 1917
BY the Court,
GEO. W. TAYLOR.
WI County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24
COMMITTEE TO FOND DU LAC
Council Grants wisconsin Gas and Elec-
trio Co. a Years Extension for Com
plotting Underground Work In City
Buy Power Street Sprinkler.

The city council reveled in garbage
cans at the meeting on Monday night.
The big lobby on tho second floor of
the city hall was converted into the
show room of a can factory-there were
short ones and long ones-lean ones and
fat ones, corrugated ard uncorrugated,
iron bound and hide bound and pretty
nearly every kind of container that
human ingenuity has ever invented for
a dog to kick over and litter up the
back yard. The council spent some
time considering the cans and then
canned" the whole garbage question
until after the committee on Health and
Sanitation could get out and find how
some cities in the state - preferably
Fond du Lac-had really collected gar
bage and paid for the collection. Alder
man Boylan and the members of his
committee will 60 to Fond du Lac some
time between now and the next meeting
of the committee and make report to
the council at the first meeting in
June. Aldermen Shearer and Sullivan,
both members of the committee, had
most to do with the cunning up of the
cards this time. They asserted that
they were not satisfied that the council
had taken the proper steps to arrange for
going into the garbage business. Sulli-
van claimed that buying cans was 'Aput-
ting the cart before the horse The
men who made and sold cans urged i'm
mediate action as they declared that
there was no telling when the govern
ment would commander their plants
and make Kenosha wait long time
for cans The members of the council
showed a willingness to take chance.
When the bids on thousand cans were
opened Alderman Herbert Thomey who
offered a fifteen-g gallon can at $2.05
each was the lowest bidder. He held
that the bid was for immediate accept
ance and showed no willingness to hold
it open until after the council worked
out plans for collection. Other prices
ranged as high as 1915 per can. The
big sanitary problem of sterilizing the
cans came up and it was the real
sticker for the council No one could
suggest way to sterilize the cans
without the installation of rather ex-
pensive steam plant.
Fond du Lac is said to be collecting
garbage now on a plan similar to that
proposed in Kenosha and it is possible
that the members of the committee can
get "hand-me-down " plan which can
be trimmed to the measure of Kenosha
there.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

1t may be that after all the man who
put that chicken wire about
the Lincoln monument was just show
ing intelligence.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

No. Colonel Roosevelt did not ex-
plode or afy thing of the kind. He
just proved himself real patriot by
appealing to the men who had sought
to. serve as volunteers under him, to en-
the other branches of The service. A
nan would not have had
this consideration Of his country at war.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

BY the way, have you noticed the
police arresting any of these minors
playing in pool rooms or the men who
operate the pool rooms where they
play? Must vigilance committee
be organized in order to make these
places obey the lawse
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
mann Fl. Loeffler, Jr., 7o3 Balm avenue,
died Saturday night and was buried
Monday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Deals for the sale of the county road
bonds were being considered today and
it is expected that they viii be closed
up either late this afternoon or tomor-
row morninp
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Another way TO be patriotic is to quit
eating sauer raus 1t savors too much
of the German. In addition to this is
costs a. lot Of money i'd indulge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

Army was given permission to use the
streets of the city for the erection of
platforms to be used for free enter
tainments during tho coming state en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic
Alderman E. f. Schroeder, by the
unanimous vote of the council was
awarded the contract for the building
of the new barn on the city poor farm,
his bid being s1,975, which was ten dol
lars lower than the next lowest bid.
The work is to be started at once.
There was long wrangle over some
of the orders of the building inspector
III regard to electric wiring but when
the matte rerached vote the Inspector
was sustained in his order by a large
majority of the vote of the council.
No Fees for Police Pensions.
On unanimous report of the COM
mittee on Police the council declined
to grant the petition of the trustees
of the Police Pension fund which asked
that fees earned by the Officers be
turned into the fund. The city attor-
ney held that while under strict inter
probation of the law the police pension
fund would be entitled to the fees that
an agreement between the police Off
GERS and the city had waived this right.
It is possible that The trustees of the
pension fund will carry the matter into
the courts later.
City Buys Street Sprinkler.
The council voted without division
to go into the work of sprinkling and
flushing the streets of the city and on
a report of the street committee an APP
preparation of, $685. was made for the
purchase of Tiffin sprinkler and
flusher manufactured by the Tiffin Wa
gon company. The new city sprinkler
will be delivered within the next three
weeks and it will be used for the
sprinkling of all of the paved streets
of the city. 1t is claimed by the mem
bers of the committee that the motor
driven sprinkler will take care of all
the streets at q large saving to the
property owners and make it possible
to keep the streets in better condition
than ever before Many of the large
cities of the country are using these
sprinklers with great success.
The victory of the makers of rye
bread over Health department prosecu-
tions was made complete when the coun-
Gil without division voted not only to
remit the fines charged against these
bakers in recent court case but also
directed that the costs Of the cases
be charged to the city. The rule APP
plies only to men arrested on charges of
failing to wrap rye bread. The com
mittee on Health and Sanitation made
unanimous recommendation that this
action be taken.
The council had large amount Of
routine business and it kept busy up to
midnight.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24
Electric Company Gets Extension.

The council had long wrangling ses.
sion which continued up to midnight
but which did not bring great deal Of
real business. The Wisconsin Gas and
Electric company made heart-rending
appeal to the council for more time for
The installation Of it's underground sys-
tenn in the downtown district. The
manager of the company asserted that
the company could go on with the
work now and put in the cables but
that the cables woulG cost a great
deal more more than in normal times
and that this large increase would have
to be paid by the patrons of the COM
pany ultimately The members of the
council saw the sense of the argument
and postponed the time for the com
pany to get in its cables until year
from Monday. Under the city ordi-
nance the work was to have been COM
pleted by the second week in June of
this year. The workmen of the company
will continue the laying cf conduits
with the understanding that the cable
will be installed just as soon as it can
be purchased at anything like fair
price. The company in its communica-
ton to the council asked for an indefi-
mite postponement of the date for the
completion of the work and the mana
ger was so tickled when the aldermen
allowed year that he stood treat for a
box of cigars.
Park Board Has Cash on Hand
The annual report of the Park board
was presented to the council and the
most interesting part was the showing
that the board had cash balance earn
mig interest, in the rum of $48, 398.05.
The board Is expenditures for the year
Just closed amounted to $3,38884. The
report indicated that the board did not
contemplate any new work during the
coming year on any of the parks. A
considerable part Of the report was
taken in outlining plans for the develop
ment Of the Simmons Play Ground
which have been made public in former
reports of the commission.
The Fred S. Lowell Post of the Grand
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24


Don't worry about it hurting your
Ford.
Tractor wheels and axles carry the
load.
Ford car doesn't pull pound.
Special radiator keeps it cool
Force-feed oiler keeps it fabricated.
No Jars, jerks or jolts, and always
on high gear.
Car should last twice as long at this
work as at regular road service.
NOTE THIS-In 20 minutes after
you are through working in the field
you can have your car back on the road
simply disconnect tractor axle from the
frame and roll it away; replace drive
pinions with regular Ford rear wheels
and off you go.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24
Staude Mak-a-Tractor
$4,000 AND A FORD.
1000 Now in Actual Use
$50 Being Shipped Daily

Converts your Ford (roadster or tour
ing carr into most practical and effic-
lent farm tractor.
Internationally guaranteed to do the
work of four good horses on the farm
or hauling ON the road in connection
with a Ford that is in good running
order.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-24

This business has future too i'm
mense to estimate. Hadn It you better
get into it Immediately?
Address Wisconsin correspondence to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-30

Read NVr. WafsOn's speecEa de
aivere@ at Thomson, June 23.
1917. Ten cents per COPY:
ssSentyrfive cents per dozen;
five dollars per huRsdEed. The
ACT ef conscrfpfion is fluffy egK-
e'~& and explained. II II.
1SeHersoa&fsr PssbiisAsisg Co.
ESsOEs1sGas Co.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-30
a Bible for Every Soldier
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

selent tjeWs are not akin to ours, and the
texts Which justified them in butchering chill
dren, ripping up the bodies of soon-to-be-
mothers, aaad taking away the virgins to serve
as er-concubines, are abhorrent to our
present motto, which, in the words of cur
President, obligates us to observe, With proud
punct1llo, the incest rules and regulations in
the killing of the Bible-students on the ether
side.
BY the time this editorial reaches the vigi-
liant eye of the severe censor at Washington,
l will be almost 81 years old, and my expert
ence in Law and Religion will have under
gone sudden, rude, revolutionary and some
what shocking change.
l am now learning-as fast as possible
that Congress can enlarge its own powers, if
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-30
''Tlae 4tl1 Degree Oath OF ahe
knights OF Columbus"

TO meet the bluff and the falsehoods of
those Americans who have foresworn
loyal principles, and have become oath-bound
subjects of a foreign power, have carefully
prepared the above-named pamphlet.
The men who take that oath are traitors
to our Government, and spies in our camp.
They are armed and drilled, as military
men, and kept in readiness to use their steel
swords, and their up-to-date rifles against
their fellow citizens
This question Of Popery is the most impor-
tant question now facing the people of
America.
Get my pamphlet, and study the facts for
yourselves. Priced ten cents.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-08-30
4drsday, August 30, 1917

held IF the antI-draft people intended to 70
outside the city, Sheriff James r. Hicks declared
deputy sheriffs and disperse the gathering any
where in the county ~
II these officers should not be sufficient in num-
Der. 1t was said that the United States marshal
would be asked for some of the troops at Camp
Harris. A&,
A. M. Petty headed delegation of 200 citi-
zens who went before the city council tonight
with petition with 700 names attached asking
that Watson be allowed to speak.
Council rejected the petition but refused to
turn it to the petitioners The petitioners were
told by City Attorney Mcneil that sit will make
attorney" ~
Many of the signatures attached to the petit
ton were duplicated. Some OF the signers are
declared not to be genuine.
The anti-draft meeting had been called off be-
fore the petition presented, but city council
men did not know it,