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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-18
To Introduce Bill for
Melting Silver Dollars

Washington. March l7.--Treasury
officials and congressional leaders
have reached an agreement on the
principal features OF program for
extensive government dealings in silver
az war measure, and bin to author
ize' the melting and sale Of more than
SOC, 900, 900 Of silver dollars now In the
treasury win be introduced In about a
week. .
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-18
Propose to Rechristen
All German Named Cities

New York March -ReehriStening
Of all cities, towns. villages AMI streets
III this country bearing German names
was urged III Il statement issued here
today by the American Defense society.
Members of this society are urged to
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-18
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ARREST I. W. W. oNoAp(l h.

Leadville. Colo. March 17.-TNelve
hours after his arrival here from chi
cago. v. Y. oHair, indicted jointly
with William Haywood. secretary
treasurer OF the I. w. w. was arregaod
BY Sheriff Schrader. STEPS had been
taken for the organization of q branch
Of the l. w. w. here. O.Hair will be
turned over to the federal authorities.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-18
Would Extend System.

j
But Mr.. coffcy does not believe the
finger print system should he con-
fined to criminal work alone. He
thinks that it wonid be an excellent
plan to take the prints of every child
as soon AZ IL Ii old enough to start to
school. The prints could be sent to
national bureau,iha thinks. and there
classified and filed away. together with
the Names and other data concerning
the child's parents. Then in later
years IL a man who could not be iden-
titled. was found dead. his finger i'm
pressions could be sent to tho bureau
and they would be able to find out
who his relatives were by comparing
the prints with those they had listed.
Nowadays. Mr.. Coffcy says, persons
lose track Of n certain relative and
never hear OF him again. Perhaps he
was found dead and buried al an I'M
identified person, while If tho. finger
prints were taken and sent TO the bt :
reau the relatives could have been
notified. .
There was a case that happened here
when an officer shot and Killed man
who could not be identified Mr.. COT
fey took hia finger prints and was able
TO find ont that he had formerly served
"A term In the Minnesota state prison.
The finger prints Of only two women
,, have been taken at the county jail
Mr.. coffey has carried on the work
I practically alone. but has done suct
efficient work along this line that hs
has attracted considerable notice from
many finger print experts Throughout
THE country.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-18

mothers OF older children TO afford
home comforts and protection as guard
against Juvenile delinquency.
III. Enforcement of all child labor
laws and full schooling for all chill
dren of school age.
". Recreation for children and
youth; abundant, decent, and protected
from private exploitation.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-18
COUNTY KEEPS
FINGER PRINTS
600 Men Listed BY Deputy
Sheriff Coffey Since
Work Began.
IS EXPERT AT TASK
Missoula Man Thinks Every
Chld's Mark Ought
to Be Taken.
IS EXPERT AT TASK

Deputy Sheriff William II. Coffcy.
the nnger-print expert OF the sherff's
force. has listed in his library of erimi-
nal records the finger prints of APP,
proNimatcly coo persons. 1t was two
years ago that be began the work of
taking the finger imr rcssions OF per-
sous who were locked mp in the county
jail and since that time he has studied
the system until today he liz rated
among the best finger print men in
the west. tie had no previous knowl-
edge of tho work when Nc took |, MP.
hut has worked and experimental with
II until he has become an expert.
The finger prints OF every person
who In confined in tho county jail for
more than ~ hours nre taken. Ink IL
places His thumb upon II ana then
makes an Impression on Il piece Of
paper by rolling the ball of the finger
across II. This insnrcs a complete i'm
preston. Not only the thub prints,
but tho Prints OF every finger on both
hands are t;rkcn. Then by an arith-
metical method the Impressions nrc
classified, and given certain rating
They are filed away with the picture
and description of the prisoner.
Classification Of Prints.
With the classification system In
vogue II Ia not necessary TO send out q
Photograph of = mans finger prints
when he Is wanted Instead, the rat
Ing of the Impressions In sent and
finger.print men merely look up theiI
| records for tho particular class and ar,
able to tell IL tho picture of the fugi.
tive Is similar to any they have rated
in that class.
There have been many times Mt tn,
, county Jail when conntcrfciters, cs,
capped persons and other men badl,
wanted. have been caught and re,
! turned to the authorities. Thus Their,
! have been times when n drunk wal
4 brought in and his finger prints taken
| Then Coffcy compared the fings
| prints records Of men who We're want
! cd ana in several cases IL was foun,
that the drunk was n dangerous crimi
/ nal Then again notices have com
! in. for some man who had been at tb
l Jail Just recently md who would hay
,,becns caught " the sheriff here ha
been notified sls,fyyrs T. t,Et' N
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
AN ALIEN CITY

Michigan City, Ind, noted as the 10,
cation of the Northern Indiana State
penitentiary, has elected and sworn in
to office an unnaturalized alien Ger
man for mayor 1t raised $4,000 for
the German Red Cross. 1t turned in
Sc for the American Red Cross. 1t
has two sectarian German schools and
only the German language is used. In
has 907 pupils in the public schools
studying German and 742 studying the
civil government Of the q. S.
That is terrible record. 1t is also
a serious arraignment of the United
States and the state of Indiana, for
lack of attention to these things which
give encouragement to the enemies of
the country in other sections. Also it
is to be noted that this did not happen
in Wisconsin. Had it been here in
stead of in the home state of the
Vice president of the Z. S. it would
have called for serious action on the
part of Federal officials The matter
of the alien mayor has been pending
in the courts for some weeks and is
seemingly allowed to go on without
the drastic action the case demands
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
niuniII hTlflN of last issue to actual 2Qd
Ltf1UULHttUV subscribers............. UOT
RIG PROFITS OF LIGHTING co.

1t will be hard to convince the most
skeptical that the Ladysmith Lighting
Co. is stating the truth when 1t says
that it cannot afford to furnish light
TO the people of the city at the rate
asked by the council, S cent maximum
and 8 cent minimum, in the face of the
annual report made to the State Rail-
road Commission.
1t earned dividends, or profits Ill Il
sum sufficient TO pay each customer
500. That would be Il nice melon to
cut up for the users of light and
power OF course nothing like this is
going to happen. not so long as the
Myers interests control.
The user of small amount OF cur
rent will go right along paying his dol
lar minimum and the big user of cur
rent his high rate.
1t is to be hoped that at the mass
meeting all this will be gone into, and
the city will decide to vote on the ques-
ton and settle finally whether Chi
cagO is going to continue to take the
profit or if it will be turned back TO
the taxpayers of Ladysmith
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
MOTOR TRUCK SOLVES TRANS
FORMATION PROBLEMS

Out of the war, strange industrial
revolutions are certain to take place.
One of these is in transportation. No
longer will the small town or the fast
developing young city, like Ladysmith,
be dependent on the few miles of rail
laid between populous centers. The
auto truck has changed the isolated
village to one in quick or nearly imme-
date touch with all the great trade
centers. We read of truck line out
of Detroit hauling several thousands
of tons of freight-dependent on no
hard and fast rules. mobile, in that
it can move without reference to train
orders. and reach destination in spite
of congestion of traffic. 1t is revOlu-
tioniZing transportation i'll short haul
territory. The railroads naturally,
will continue to serve for the long haul.
For Ladysmith this will some day
prove solution of the distributing
problem In no great distance there
will be wholesale houses here and they
will not depend on the railroad to
carry the goods to the customer. This
is nothing new in many sections, par
ticularly of the South, where the lack
of rail facilities has long ago been
made up by the use Of the auto truck.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11

Democrats appeared to think they
were responsible alone for the war and
ought to be left to run it and the Re-
publicans only to be good and follow.
That is the spirit to which many OBJ
iect. Former President Roosevelt has
been completely ignored by the admin
istration but no one will say that
there is an unpatriotic hair in his head
On the other hand. Secretary Baker
was notoriousIy pacificist. Think OF
the better administration of the wal
department with Roosevelt in the
place of Baker We are told that the
administration does not think serious
Y of the revelations i'll regard to the
lowness and f-confessed inefficien-
Y of the Ordnance department in
urning out arms, but the fact remains
nuuest Toned that there are not arms
ven now available. and it was months
fter tie war was on, before even Il
ontract was LET for their making.
Mr. Mccormack asked for a non
,arty administration of the war.
Every suspicion of politics ought to be
eliminated This is not Democratic
war. The strongest enemies OF the
administration except for one person
in the legislative halls, have been Dem
ocrats.
Certainly it is time to draft into the
work. in places where they best fit.
men without asking any question but
as to efficiency, no matter to what
party they have pledged i'll the past.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
CONGRESSIONAL SMELLING COM
MITTEES"

The Hon Jim Reed is one of the
Missouri senator's. He used TO be
known as 'BOSky dells' Reed, because
of his fervent flow of language and the
lowered pictures of OratOry with
which his speaking pathway was
Illuminated He does not like Hoover.
He has been investigating food admin
istration. Behind him it is charged,
has been Claus Spreckles. the German
sugar king who has fought the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Co, known as the
Sugar Trust, as one of his chief COM
petitOrS. The point established so far.
has been that by Mr.. HO0verS work
sugar has been kept down to it's
present price and without the action
of the food administration, that price
would have been near so cents pound.
Reed has never helped the president,
but with VIM. j. Stone, Gum Shoe
Bill" his colleague has been careful
to do those things that have hampered
the government. So he and Spreckles
make an excellent pair.
These smelling committees are
making some disclosures that are
clearing the atmosphere. The fact that
members of the war defense council
have made contracts with their own
number running into millions is not
one that reflects credit on the admin
istratiOn. The only way the war can
be conducted successfully is by non
partisan administration and no one
can say the Republican party has not
been loyal to the last. Yet when it
comes To cabinet council, we find that
none but Democrats are placed on
guard. In the days of the Civil War
the great Lincoln. had no fear about
putting Democrats i'll his cabinet. IN
Great Britain, the cabinet has been
made up OF members of all the great
parties.
Whenever the president will see
clearly that this plan is best for this
nation. he will have taken a long for
ward step in the achievement of the
idea of -partisanship. which he has
been preaching.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
ERRORS IN NEWSPAPERS

New York Tribune: Where do you
get the absurd facts you print?' is a
fayOrite query put to newspaper men,
In the view of these cynics, newspapers
spend most of their time misspelllng
names imagining incidents that never
happened, and generally manhandling
life as it is led.
There is just one answer to be mace
to the query above, and that is
Newspapers get such OF their facts
as are absurd from the absurd human
beings who for one reason or thou
sand refuse to relate facts accurately.
Newspapers. truth telling newspapers,
spend a very large part of their time
in correcting these misstatements,
running them to their source. and get
ting at the truth. \ certain proportion
of error gets by-not as great proper
ton as can be heard i'll any village
neighborhood gossip, for it is the con-
Germ of newspapers, of honest ones,
that is. to allow for errors and correct
them. whereas it is the concern OF
those other purveyors of news, gossips,
to create errors whenever they are
more interesting than the truth.
The next time you find an error III
your favorite newspaper, try an ex-
pertinent Try to capture one small
fact. yourself, in your own home town.
You will quickly discover just how
wary a bird the truth is and how very
unpopular
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
Start Tomorrow
and Keep It Up
Every Morning
Get In the habit of drinking a
glass of hot water before
breakfast.

We're not here long, so let's make
our stay agreeable. Let us live well,
eat well, digest well, work well, sleep
well, and look we'll. what a glorious
condition to attain, and yet, how very
easy it is if one will only adopt the
morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach.
can, instead, feel as fresh as daisy
by opening the sluices of the system
each morning. and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag
nant matter
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
well, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the
stomach, liver and bowels the previous
days indigestible waste. sour bile
and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing,
sweetening and purifying the entire
alimentary canal before putting more
food into the stomach. The action of
hot water and limestone phosphate on
an empty stomach Is wonderfully in
lamentations, gases, waste and
ac1dity and gives one splendid
appetite for breakfast. While you are
enjoying your breakfast the water
and phosphate is quietly extracting
a large volume of water from the
blood and getting ready for
thorough flushing of all the inside
organs.
The millions Of people who are
bothered with constipation, bilious
spells, stomach trouble; others who
have sallow skins, blood disorders and
sickly compilations are urged to get q
quarter pound of limestone phosphate
from the drug store. This will cost
very little, but is sufficient to make
anyone a pronounced crank on the
subject of inside-bathing before break
fast.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
REPUDiATES THE ST. LOUIS So
CIALISTIC PLATFORM

Mayor Daniel Hoan. of Milwaukee.
is the latest of the Socialist leaders to
repudiate the reasonable St Louis
platform of that party. and come forth
i'll defiance of Victor Berger and his
troop of Kaiser lovers
While he states that he was opposed
10 the war in the beginning and his
whole soul rebelled at the thought of
it. yet he either had to resign his of
flee as mayor while an uphOlder of the
St Louis platform of his party or re-
pudiate it Ito comply with the laws
of the United States. its constitution
and the governments request in con-
nection with carrying on the war
He could not be a loyal citizen of
the United States and a supporter of
the st. Louis platform at the same
time. Nor can anyone else, and
TO those who have shed tears over the
prohibition of the Milwaukee Leader
prohibition of the Milwaukee Leader
from the mails, this will come as q dis
tinct shock for Hoan has been placed
heretofore i'll the Berger column as one
of the chief opponents of that brand
of disloyaItY.
When you see or hear man sup
porting or commencing the ST. Louis
platform of the Socialist party, you can
put him down as Il traitor TO the L. S.
AT once, and make no error. His place
is not in your neighborhood; he be-
longs in an internment camp where he
at least will be watched He is the
sort Of dislOyalist that sets fires to
buildings and blows up factories with
Kaiser bombs.
Medill Mccormick, congressman at
large from Illinois, in speech in the
House on Tuesday, called the attention
of the government to the constant cry
of the administration to eliminte par
tisanship and also to the fact that the
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11

have spoken few words about the
Journal. That they have been plain
and perfectly understandable is our
hope.
The situation was not of our crea-
ton or of our seeking. We are too
busy making successful newspaper,
and caring for increased business to
give attention ordinarily to what the
Journal does or says. In it's neuras-
thenic condition. it has not found good
in anything. OF course it has few
friends So has the Kaiser. Therefore
it has seemed to be a sort OF duty TO
the public to turn little publicity on
the purveyor of pessimism.
i 1t has been the policy of the Journal
these many years to attack newspa-
pers, public men, private citizens,
things for the public good, and week
in and week out pick at the News
Budget When exposed, when the
xyster has been used and the bones
of the Journal scraped bare, then it is
that the editor of that paper an
nounces that he has chosen the path
of the penguin and dived from public
view The bully hates to be licked,
the vicious writer dislikeS it when he
is skinned and few ounces OF salt
are rubbed III the raw and bleeding
flesh When handed his own medi-
cine which he has been administering
to the public for years, his face is con-
torted and he begins again TO pick at
the counterpane.
We expect that the Journal will go
on in the old path. When one knows
no other way than that Of the editor
of the Journal, we can appreciate the
words of Eliphaz the Temanite, when
he said man was foolish to reason
with Improbable talk on with speech
es wherewith he can do no good
"WherefOre is light given to
him that is in misery and life I'M
to the bitter i'm soul"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to thank all the neighborS
and friends for their many acts and
expressions of Kindness in our great
bereavement, in the death of our hus-
band and son, John William Diedrich,
.Jr Also to the Catholic Order of
Foresters for their care and devotion
TO their deceased brother and their
helpfulness. And to those who sent
the beautiful floral tributes our CRATE
full thanks.
MRS. j. w. DIEDRICH, Jr.
J. w. DIEDRICH and family.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
A FEW WORDS OF COMFORT TO
THE JOURNAL IN IT'S HOUR OF
TRAVAIL

The following little piece appeared
in the issue of the necrophagous Rusl
County Journal under date of January
4th. 1919
The journalistic cutie fish,
commonly known as the tramp re-
porter smeared column of slime
i'm last weeks issue of the News
Budget, making wildly false gem
eral charges that no decent paper
would tolerate in it's columns. We
shall not go into the matter, for
two reasons. We don't believe
the public is interested in personal
diatribeS. and we have no desire
TO enter into controversy that is
a mere bandying OF epithets. We
willingly leave the News-Budget
TO its ''eXclusiveness'' III that line.
The courts offer full opportunity
for the settlement of cases of this
kind If it appears that anybody
believes the verbal effluvia of the
tramp mudslinger, the matter can
be taken up. otherwise, let him
revel in his slime.
It's nice, pretty piece. No one but
the Rusk County Journal head could
have composed it. 1t takes It genius
of high order to SO place words OF
the English language in juxtaposition
as to carry such messages of love and
affection. And the .pen-picture is per
feet. You see before you the ragged
tramp Shoes tied together with
strings. hat of ancient vintage, face
unshaven, eyes bleared from many a
contest with old John Barleycorn
lack of food, walking into town ON
the 500 right of way. and asking a
hand-out,
All It's a sad tale.
Yet he receives credit for something
that has evidently pierced the pachy-
dermatous editor of the Journal. And
maybe some of the few who read this
will come to the News-Budget office
and seek with rowing eyes this tramp
reporter" You are welcome.
Before ldki1lE our Spaue Ill Htliu ~
toss few more clods from the grave
of the Journal. we desire TO say that
the responsibility for the matter pub
lished in the News-B Budget is clearly
stated al the head Of this column. If
the Rusk County Journal can locate
any tramp reporter in the News
Budget office we will gladly present
him the latest works on Financing the
War, Report of the Sale of Liberty
Bonds, ST. George Miyart's, 'Happi-
ness in He'll and the Manicupist' S
Manual.
The penguin is bird that dives
when disturbed because it cannot fly.
SO like the Wingless penguin the edi-
tor of the Rusk County Journal takes
a dive and says he does not care to
DANDY epithets." Far be it from lis to
pursue bandying either as recreation
or business. There is no controversy
between the News-Budget and the
journal. There could not be. 1t is
more in sorrow than in anger that we
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
STILL NO SENATOR

Hon. Francis Newlands, recently de-
ceased. The governor appointed him
to fill the vacancy until the election
next fall. But here in Wisconsin we
have had vacancy in the senate since
last October and it will be weeks yet
before the seat is filled Thirty-fiye
states have acts permitting governors
to appoint. While we are haggling
over the termns OF the next step, the
enemies of the government are being
organized better than ever.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
HOw'S This :

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
F.. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have known f. ].
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price rs cents per bottle Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
HEAVY COPPER WIRE
TRUNK TELEPHONE LINE

Hans Hansen, and his crew of five
men, came to Ladysmith Thursday to
finish the telephone trunk line from
Chippewa Falls to Ladysmith. by way
of Cameron.
This is part of the big Improvement
plan in the phone service for this see
ton. The line is of the best No. l.
copper wire and costs 46 cents a pound.
1t will take 65 miles from the Cameron
connection as the wires are strung
double and weighs 22,400 pounds. 1t
will cost for copper alone, $10,3O400.
The crew is about three miles west of
the city.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-11
WOMAN'S CASE
STARTLES LADYSMITH

A business mans wife could not
read or sew without sharp pain in
her eyes. For years her eyes were red
and weak. Finally she tried pure La
voptik eye wash. The result of ONE
astonished l.er A small
bottle Lavoptik is guaranteed to bene-
fit EVERY CASE weak, strained or
inflamed eyes. ONE WASH will
startle with its quick results. Alum
mum eye cup f r E EN- Done VS.
Pharmacy.