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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15

convalescing slowly from heart trou-
BILE.
The Amherst Junction schools have
been closed on account of a scarlet
fever epidemic.
Mrs. Sarah Steinberg will return to-
night from Chicago and Milwaukee,
where she has been selecting the
spring line of goods for the Steinberg
store.
Miss Ida Steinberg returned last
night from a five weeks visit in Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Gary, Ind
The marriage of Ed. Brehm and
Mrs. A. Miller took place on Thurs
day afternoon.
SATURDAY,.
Miss Flora Tebo leaves tonight for
Green Bay and Milwaukee on a short
business trip.
Clarence Christensen of Chicago is
spending the week end in the city Wis
ting with friends.
Misses Jane Taylor, Leona Hoffman,
and Anita Link left Friday for Stew
ems Point to attend the basketball
ment
Miss Claredona Krause will leave
next week for her home at Bruce, af-
ter visit in the city with her aunt,
! Mrs. Edward Hougen.
Earle Pease returned yesterday
morning from a months visit in Pasa-
dena, California, with his wife, who
has been several months in that city.
Miss Myrtle Purdy is absent from
her work at the Ahdawagam Fur
niture Co.'S office on account of illness.
Judge Edward N. Pomainville has
bee nabsent from his office this week,
being laid up with rheumatism.
Mrs. H. Jackson of Neenah is in the
city visiting with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. T. Rowland
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F Kellogg went to
Waupaca today to spend the week end
at the Elmer Harmon home.
c. A. Berron of Princeton was blu
siness visitor in the city today.
Miss Emma Lake of Kewanee is in
the city visiting at the Ed. Bodette
home
Mrs Fred Genrich of Wausau is in
the city visiting at the A. T. Atwood
and VIM. Kerneen homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Sierck of Wau-
sau are in the city visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Sierck
Misses kathryn Geoghan, Kathryn
McGlynn and Florence Weeks were
Stevens Point visitors today.
Miss Kate Kammerer will leave on
Monday for Milwaukee, where she will
enter Sacred Heart Sanitorium for q
two weeks treatment.
From Stevens Point Journal-Grand
Rapids people would undoubtedly en-
| JOY having the north and south fed
eraI road made crooked so as to pass
through their city. However it is nc
worse for Grand Rapids people to &C
around the corner to reach the road
than it is for those of Stevens Point
and the direct route lies thru this city
Mrs. Louis Blaubach and daughter
Helen of Spencer, were guests at the
Robert Knuth home on Thursday an6
Friday.
Will Gross of Wausau, is in the city
to spend the day and is a guest o.
his sister Mrs. Geo. W. Davis.
| Mrs. Metzger, mother of Mrs. Koh
Ter, returned to her home in Water
town after an extended visit with he
daughter and family.
i Miss Verna Martin will spend Sun
day in the city with Miss Priscill;
Akey.
I Snow or rain tonight and Sunday
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15
SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY

A very large assortment of exclu-
sive styles in coats and suits at 500.
It will surprise you what good valu-
es you will find at this price. I. E.
Wilcox 1td-w
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15
TUESDAY.

Miss Beatrice White underwent an
an operation for appendicitis at Riv-
erview hospital on Tuesday morning.
Miss Noreine Riley will entertain
the Tuesday Evening club this even
ing
Mr.. and Mrs. James Bronson and
son George left yesterday for Neenah
where they will attend the funeral
of a relative.
Mr. and Mrs. John Timm have re-
turned from Milwaukee where Mr.
Timm has been spending several weeks
in the interests of his health.
Mrs. c. Hagen is confined to her
home with an attack of pleurisy.
Eleven bankers and farmers from
this city were passengers on the Ban
kers-Farmers' special that left yes
terday afternoon at two o'clock for
Madison, where the Bankers-Farmers
Convention takes place. They will
return tomorrow.
". E. Nash is a Chicago business
visitor this week.
Earle Pease went to Madison yester-
day to attend the Bankers-Farmers'
convention.
Chas. Bender left yesterday on the
Bankers Farmers special for Madison
where he will attend their convention.
Clarence Christensen has returned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15

Grand Rapids people VIII find It
worth while to read the advertise
ments in the Reporter every day. Com
mence today
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15
FINE WEATHER
AIDS BUSINESS

The rising temperature and more
pleasant spring weather is starting the
merchants to advertise and get ready
for the increasing business. We call
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15

PRICES:
Rags $3.50 to $500 per hundred.
Rubber cents per pound.
Automobile castings, cents per
pound.
Inner tubes, cents per pound.
Magazines Is cents per hundred
Books $10O per hundred
Don't forget the place. Telephone
874.
LOUIS JOSEPH.
Statute. W. If 174 First St. N.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15

F. B. Warner is a Wausau visitor to
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-03-15
HIGHEST
CASH PRICES

Paid for all kinds of junk. We can
pay you more than you can get from
anybody else.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
The Dark Ages
ditor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your correspondent Il. c. p, in to-
days issue, makes the same mistake as did
II. C. f. in applying the term Ozark Ages"
The Dark Ages were over long before the
thirteenth century. The term is properly APP
piled to the period Of history from the fall
Of Rome to the coronation of Charlemagne,
the time when the Goths, Vandals and Huns
were sweeping civilized Europe back into
barbarism, and the Church. far from having
"a stranglehold OF all power" was striving
to maintain itself and some fragments of
ancient civilization against their onslaughts.
Dark Ages end and the Middle Ages begin
in the year 800 A. D..
In his lette- II. c. f. asked if any thinking
person would rate our civilization in ad-
vance of certain periods of Greece and Rome.
II the measure of civilization is the treat
rrent of man by man why then "Yes," de-
cidedly.
In neither Greece nor Rome were there
any hospitals, any charitable institutions at
all, nor any sense Of obligation to the poor.
Slavery was universal, and slavery of a sort
70 which the negro slavery Of the South was
but as a drop to the ocean in misery and
wickedness. In war the killing of the women
and the wounded and the sack of captured
cities were matters of course. There was
not even, in Greece, at least, respect for a
brave enemy. When Achilles slew Hector
he dragged the body behind his chariot. We
are shocked at the deportation of the Bel
gans but the Greek and Roman wars we're
expected TO pay for themselves by the selling
of the captives into slavery Yes, there are
number of points in which we are in ad-
vance of the ancient world, many points be-
sides these mentioned. NJ. A. HOWARD.
Aurora-on c ayuga, n. Y, Jan. 20, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
Marginal Notes

Frederic Harrison has made the long
distance discovery that the kernel of Mr..
Wilson'S address TO the Senate may be
found in a plea for peace without victory
between North and South made to Lin
coin by Dom Pedro of Brazil. But our
State Department has replied that no such
document can be found in its files.
Mr.. Harrison's emergence from the re-
tirement of his old age serves to remind
us of that mysterious document of his
which reposes in the archives of the Mod
ern Historic Records Association in this
CITY. The association possesses a number
of such documents bearing upon the past,
present and future of the nations, written
for it by the rulers, statesmen, philoso-
pliers, scientists, economists, publicists
and men of letters of the New World and
the Old. Some of these papers were pub
llished in the columns of The Tribune, with
their authors consent, a few years before
the outbreak of the war. But Mr. Harri-
son stipulated that his contribution must
be kept under seal for a hundred years.
!
1t is his message to posterity. None of us
now living, not even the youngest, is likely
ever to know its contents, but it is dimly
understood that it contains the English
philosophers forecast of his country's
future as he saw it.
When the founder of the Modern His
toric Records Association, Alexander
Konta, was asked the other day about the
masses of records of this war which the
society must be accommodating, he answered
that it has collected no records at all, be-
cause. historically, 80 per cent of them will
turn out to be only waste paper, so far as
history is concerned. The remaining val
liable per cent, Mr.. Konta intimated, is
carefully buried in the foreign Offices of
the warning powers. A single deliberately
DELAYED, changed, forged or suppressed
state paper, he concluded, will undoubtedly
be of more Importance to the future his
torian than all the "evidence in the case"
so eagerly proffered to neutral world.
Even that new handmaiden of history,
the motion picture, enthusiastically hailed
bv the historical recorders has proved un-
reliable. Just as convincing pictures Of
war can be made somewhere a hundred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30

glorious climax comes 1.-The Chronicle
one dollar the copy, only socially regis
tered contributors need apply, the favor OF
your subscription is respectfully declined
A very wholesome movement in whole
and in part, we submit. Only the forest
areas of North America can protest, and
it lies in the mouth of no newspaper 70
take up the defence of trees, however tall'
Accepting the fact that as civilization ad-
vances the consumption of paper pulp IN
creases. there can be no quarellng with
"The Chronicle" or any of its sister publ
cations. Greenwich Village and Fifth Ave
nue. are sisters under their skins, and the
distance between Polly's and the Colony
Club is not as great as the trip on the
Fifth Avenue bus would lead one to sup
pose. By all means let there be no mute
Millions or Guido Brunos at either end OF
Bohemia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune Of January II the Rev
Mr. Duncan takes exception TO two assertions
embodied in my letter on "The Sabbath and
Civilization" The first, "The founders Of
our country advocated no Sabbath laws MI
Duncan quotes, but does not challenge al
though but one adverse instance - neces-
sary to discredit IT.
Mr.. Duncan prefers to refute my second
assertion, 1.-THE greatest Of them (the found
ers) were not believers in Christianity IN
any form" IL was not necessary to REMIND
me that Washington was a vestryman in a
couple Of parishes in Virginia, as it Is from
this source that we get the best proof of his
disbelief. To quote General A. W. Greedy
in "The Ladies' Home Journal for April,
1896: His (Washington's) services as yes
tryman had no special significance from R
religious standpoint. The political affairs OF
a Virginia county were then directed by the
vestry. which, having the power to elect its
own members was an important instrument
of the oligarchy of Virginia" In 1873 Wash
ington left Truro parish in anger when the
vestry broke its contract with him after he
had subscribed heavily toward the rebuilding
Of the church at Pohick. Mr.. Duncan should
have included this fact in his mention of the
matter.
In 1885 Colonel Mercer wrote Bishop White
as follows: 81 have desire, my dear sir, to
know whether General Washington was a
communicate of the Protestant Episcopal
Church or whether he occasionally went to
the communion only, or if he did so at all"
He adds: mo authority can be SO authentic
and complete on this point" The Bishop
replies: Dear Sir: In regard to the sub
ject of your inquiry, truth requires me TO
say that General Washington never received
communion in the churches of which am
the parochial minister"
Subsequently, when asked IL Washington
took part in the ordinary services of the
church, the good Bishop writes: az never saw
him in the said attitude (kneelng), although
was often in company with that great man
and had the honor of dining often at his
home never heard anything from him
which could manifest his opinions on the
subject of religion" And again: 81 do not
believe that any degree of recollection will
bring TO my mind any fact which would prove
General Washington TO have been a believer
in the Christian religion"
"The Western Christian Advocate" accepts
this evidence as conclusive. 1t says: Bishop
White seems to have had more intimate rea-
tions with Washington than any clergyman
of his time. His testimony outweghs any
amount of influential augmentation on the
question"
DR.. Abercrombie says: "On sacramental
Sundays General Washington. Immediately
after the desk and pulpit services went out
with the greater part of the congregation,
always leaving Mrs. Washington with the
other communicates" Fearing the effect Of
Washington's example, DR.. Abercrombe ad-
ministered a mild reproof. Washington, he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
What Christ Died for Saying

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: President Wilson's address to the
Senate could have been in response to but
up the peace talk" and to that end he prob
ably thought it necessary to inject a remark
here and there which would take a tempo
rary rise" out of first one side and then tbs
other of the belligerent countries, ira itating
a reply. It's peace he is talking about any.
how, and causing them to talk about, and
that is better than nothing at all about
peace-that is worth his address. ~. can
guess what Gerard's message to him was
when he came over?
Of course, he said nothing more than the
Bible says, was said thousands of ears ago
and what Christ died for saying and which
part of the world has ever bee hshting for,
and which has for hundreds G ar found
its greatest progress among tLe Lhglish pee
pie, that people, that very peop from whom
President Wilson sprang, the Of Great
Britain. The problem ever o.. oeen and is
how to attain that end. That was the prob
lem Of the disciples of Christ. II is still with
US. They had no obscurity of mental vision
az TO how the world ought 10 live. "Do unto
others as you would be done by is what they
preached and that is all the Presidents mes
sage contains The thing was how to live it.
how to get the world to live it. The Church
OF Rome, with all its brains; Professionalism,
with all its enlightened thought through
it's multitude of ministers and eminent
thinkers, has not been able through all the
past ages to find the solution Is President
Wilson 10 find it2
Since the Immediate object Of the Presi-
dents message was TO revive and keep
going the peace discussion in official circles,
il was a masterpiece of diplomacy, and dis
cussion by the Senate is hazardous. Beyond
that lies the practical question Of what's to
be done now to attain the end Obviously
the first thing is TO get the German people
from under the spell Of the Prussian. That,
Mr.. Editor, is your work, or you failing, then
the army. Can you, you and your brother
editors, reach the German people and
awaken and dispel their hypnotic condition
or must there be another Waterloo 70 lay
hare the clay of their idol?
JOHN LEARY.
New York, Jan. 26, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
SABRE-TOOTHED TIGERS
Cave Men Found 1t Inadvisable to Arrange
Truces with Them

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: II is unfortunate that neither Pro-
fessor Wilson nor Colonel House is paleon-
tologist or they would have been better in
formed regarding the struggle which the cave
men of Europe had with the sabre-toothed
tigers number of millennums ago. The
redagogues of those days were the teachers
of the art of chiselling pictures Of animals on
the walls Of the caves. Being very amabe
like the two gentlemen referred to above
they suggested that some sort of an arrange
ment might be made with the sabre-toothed
tigers and other beasts of prey to prevent
the steady defamation of the human race by
these wild animals. The trouble with carry
ing out this philanthropic scheme was found
to be in the fact that when hungry the tigers
forgot all about the agreements or asserted
that it would never do to allow tigresses and
their cubs TO go hungry as long as there were
fat humans TO be had for the catching. In
this way it happened that it became the set
tied policy of the cave men that there could
be no truce between the two races and that
the war must be fought to the finish.
IL is to be presumed that the President and
his chief adviser know that Germany has
offered Switzerland to Austria in return for
yielding Trieste 70 Italy and that early in
1916 an attempt was made 10 conclude sep
arate peace with Russia by offering the Car
Constantinople providing he would not make
any protest 10 the absorption of Holland and
Denmark by the Germans. Mr. Wilson must
have known such plan was on foot or he
would never have paid Denmark such an
ABSURD figure for st. Thomas in the West
Indies. This scheme has by no means been
abandoned, and il is acknowledged in London
and Paris that revolutionary movements in
Russia may become so threatening that to
save the dynasty it may be necessary to grasp
the glttering prize of the war and secure
the permanence of the House of Romanoff
10 protest would be raised in this country,
because the taking possession of Holland and
Denmark would be quite as justifable as
the subjugation of Belgium and would fully
reconcile the German people to the loss Of
Constantnople. Then it is easy TO see that
the war would have TO go on indefinitely, as
England and France would be fighting for
their existence, with the certainty before
them that if they were defeated they would
be treated even worse than Belgium has been.
With England and France destroyed. how
long would it be before the sabre -toothed
tigers would be turned loose on the fat
lands OF the United States? R. S. II.
South Jacksonville, Fla, Jan. %, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
Suppression of the Republican Vote
70 the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your esteemed contemporary "Tbe
Times" is amusing in it's strenuous efforts
to prove that the Republican party is hope
lessly divided, but it does not require very
keen perception to know that "the wish is
father to the thought" 1t is also amusing to
see how carefully this so-called independent
newspaper avoids any reference to the sup
preston of the Republican vote in most OF
the Southern states, by means of which Mr.
Wilson received a popular plurality based
on the vote for President.
II any one presumes to raise this question
the cry of bloody shirt" and sectionalism is
shouted by the virtuous Democrats. until the
air reverberates with it. My only regret is
that the Republicans are too mealy-mouthed
about this outrage, and one cannot but wish
that we had Zach Chandler or John j. In
gals in the United States Senate to tell the
Democrats few things which would bite and
sting.
Your tabulations of the vote we're correct
and proved your contention, although | be-
lieve that if the vote for Representatives were
taken as the basis the Republican plurality
would prove to be even larger
PROGRESSIVE.
New York, Jan. 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
For a Traffic Commission

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Our urgent request that the Board OF
Estimate appoint general traffic commission
to study and to propose remedies for the
great traffic congestion has met with such
general support that we have many reasons
to hope that the board will grant our request
within a short time.
The suggestions OF the Police Commits
sioner on this subject were of unusual inter
est. as coming from capable and efficient
official whose traffic squad is doing so we'll
in regulation under the existing chaotic con-
ditons Many of the ideas of the commits
sCner for an improvement seem most desir-
able We go further than he does in regard
to the widening of Madison Avenue We be-
liove thoroughly in the widening Of that thor
oughfare and the removal OF encroachments
all the way from Twenty-sixth Street TO
Sixty-first Street. The action taken BY our
board Of directors some weeks ago indicated
Sixty-frst Street, as the upper limit, but sim
ply because they thought that above that
point the widening of the street would fol-
lew as a matter Of course. and believe may
state that the board is in agreement with the
commissioners desire TO go as far as Sew
tnty-second Street.
ROBERT GREER COOKE,
President The Fifth Avenue Association.
New York Jan. IS, l2l7.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-30
Silent When Words Counted
CFrom The Cicrciand Lcodcr)

ff rom inc ttflfidNu IfodffN
There was time when the President of
the United States might have spoken with
great effect upon war conditions and the mt
ending of hostilities Then he might have
Influenced the course Of nations which had
not taken their final stand, and the extent of
the vast conflict might, perhaps, have been
narrowed by the opinion and statements of
the United States government.
But then Woodrow Wilson chose the part
of silence and aloofness. He advised his
fellow countrymen not to have opinions or,
if they did not to make them known. His
chief desire seemed TO be to keep as far as
possible from any contact with the problems
of the half of the world which was at war.
He argued in the most public and strenuous
manner that this country needed no prepara-
ton for possible trouble because he had a
passion for peace" and was determined TO
hold the United States safe from any share
in the agones Of Europe.
Having taken and maintained that attitude
in the critical early stages of the war, is it
strange that the President should be dis
credited now as one seeking TO play lead
ing part in fixing the terms and conditions
which are some time TO end It? The feeling
of Great Britain. France, Italy. Russia, the
British colonies and other countries involved
in the war, on the side of the larger alliance.
is that those who have paid the price and
borne the burdens of the tremen ious conflict
are aloae entitled 10 determine the time and
the nature Of the final settlement Is IL not
as natural as it is reasonable that this senti-
ment should prevail?