Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-12-17
News of the
Badger State
Observation-Disclosures

calling upon The legislature to enact
laws against teaching any foreign
language in the grades of public or
private schools, and providing that
the basic language in high schools
and colleges be English, and teaching
Of any foreign language shall be incl
dental thereto. These resolutions
form a part of a memorial to the late
ex-Gov. Hoard. 1t was felt that no
other permanent memorial would be
as appropriate as such law.
Madison That Wisconsin farm
boys are coming back to take up their
work on Wisconsin farms is the mes
sage of c. ]. Galpin, assistant profess
sor of agricultural economics, Univer
sity of Wisconsin, who has completed
a survey of the subject in Dane coun-
ty. That Prof. Galpin is recognized as
an authority on this subject is indi-
Gated from the fact that the United
States government has just sent 2.
zoo copies of his recent book on Rural
Tile TO Y. M. c. A. nuts in France.
, Misunderstanding willow bolts into
wooden legs for disabled soldies is
enc of the latest activities of the fed
sral forest products laboratory, Uni
versity of Wisconsin. At the request
Of the army surgeon general the lab
oratory is experimenting on artificial
seasoning of willow. This process
turns out willow thoroughly seasoned
in from sixty to sev enty days, whereas
the natural process takes from three
to FIVE years. Willow is the best wood
for wooden legs.
Menofinee The Wisconsin Dairy
Mems convention elected officers as
follows: President, George McKer-
row, Pewaukee; vice-president, A. J.
Glover, Fort Atkinson; secretary
treasurer, Paul c. Burchard, Fort At
PEBBLES; j. Q. Emery, Edgerton: E. c.
Jacobs, Elkmound. and G.. H. Everett,
Racine. The association adopted res
olutions favoring league of nations
to enforce peace.
Madlson-To aid worthy and needy
students, especially returning soldiers
and S. A. T. c. men, who wish to re-
main in college, the University of
Wisconsin regents voted to devote S.
900 to additional scholarships this
year. They established fifty scholar
Chi 81 nF
Tor undergraduate student residents of
the state These will be followed by
fifty scholarships of 800 in succeed
ing years.
Green Bay = Green Bay business
men, acting through the Wholesale
Credit Mems association, have filed
objections to the revenue bill as pre-
pared for passage by congress. They
feel that while the bill is framed for
the present emerlenc it should be
limited to the present year, and that
new bills to fit the conditions as they
may arise in the future should be
passed for the succeeding years.
Fond du Lac-WheD F. H. J. Schmit,
Eighty-sixth division, was brought into
the operating room in hospital il
France, the nurse assigned him was
Miss Genevieve Dyer, from the ole
home town, who helped him celebrate
his birthday. He writes that when the
peace news became known, Nov. II
the hospital was "a wild place" Sol
diers, sick and well, sang all day long.
Madison = The first American uni
velsity to establish separate depart
ment of AmericaliiZation is the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. The purpose OF
the new project is the development OF
a concrete and practical policy for the
teaching of citizenship. The schools OF
the state of Wisconsin will then be
used in carrying this policy into eff
feet.
Marinette - Meddie Villeneuve OF
Marinette, who was badly gassed but
entered service again, went over the
top nine times with Company |, One
Hundred and Twenty-seventh infan
try. His brother Alex was killed in ac
ton Aug. g. The last time he went
over the top with a companion, he
took thirty-one German prisoners.
La Crosse - Erected at a cost of
$4,000, La Crosse county's tubercu-
losis sanatorium, twelfth in the state,
is open for patients. With accommo-
dations for forty patients, the sanato-
rum is now treating thirty-fve and
has waiting list which will tax the
capacity.
Racine-The R. d. Lang Manufactu-
ring Co. suffered loss of $4,000 when
crossed electric wires caused a fire
which swept the entire upper part of
the main two story factory building.
Endeavor = w. M. Ellis received
cable from his son, Lieut.. Robert H.
Ellis, Seventeenth Aero squadron,
who has been prisoner in Germany,
stating that he has arrived in Paris.
Madison--The rumor that students
would be granted three-weeks' vaca-
ion before Christmas is denied by
university officials. Civilian students
will be allowed leave from Dec. q to
Dec. 80. The second quarter will begin
Dec. 80.
Darlington - DR.. Albert Hayden,
IS, for thirty-fve years prominent
and active physician and surgeon of
southwestern Wisconsin, died at his
home in Shullsburg. He was well
known in state and county Democratic
circles.