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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-09
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f1uence. My recommendation for the creation of the board contained the sug- gestion that it should be given author ity to make purchases of certain supplies for the counties of the state which l be- lieved would result in great saving to the counties I am still of that opinion and I believe that the objections or the county authorities to such provisions can be removed by reserving to them the au- thority to purchase certain supplies now furnished by the people of the respective counties The first report of the board to the governor win be presented for your consideration. l concur in the recommen- dations embraced in the report and be- speak for them your careful consldera- tion and adoption. The recommenda- tions will be embodied in bills which l trust may meet with favor at your hahas'
 THE NATIONAL GUARD
 The achievements of the national
 guard of Alabama in France have
 been given such publicity, both
 state and national, that l do not
 consider it necessary to refer to
 them here. except to say that such
 was the glory won by these men,
 that throughout this nation, and
 among our allies on the western
 front, the name "Alnbamian" has
 become synonymous with daring,
 Eallanfry and self-sacrifice.
 In the future, as in the past. the citl- zen soldiery will be our main depend- ence for national defense. Under the provisions of the national defence act of 1916 the new national guard is now being organized in Alabama. This act provides for liberal federal appropria- ticns and support, but leaves in the hands of the state it's constitutional right Of appointing officers and training the militia according to the discipline pre- scribed by Congress. The pay alone which will come to our national guards men within the next three years will be nearly three quarters of million dol lars annually, and the money coming into the state from the federal govern ment for other military purposes Will amount to approximately $250,OO0 annual ly In return for this the federal gov ernment asks of the state that 1t de velop force equipped thoroughly trained and disciplined which can be called upon for military service in time of emergency; and provide proper stor- age facilities and armories for the pro- lection and care of what will be, within the next four years, approximately S5,OOo,- eco worth of equipment In order to
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all cases. I dare say all men will agree that the state owes a sacred duty to the inmates of these institu- tions, as well as to the other children of misfortune of whom I have spoken for which no provision whatever has been made But of what avail is our unanimous agreement if no action is taken for the discharge of that duty?
 The time has come for action If there be among you men who profess sympathy for these unfortunates and acknowledge the obligation of the state and yet oppose measures for their relief because of the cost, let us hope that they belong to that small number who have failed to grasp the meaning and learn the lessons of the war. for it would be painful to know that any man who had learned those lessons and caught the vision of bet ter things would sacrifice them to his greed and selfishness, or to the selfish demands of a few influential constitu- ents who under the plans proposed for relief would be compelled to bear their just share of the cost. The sacred duty of the state toward these unfortun- ates should be discharged according to standards of the most enlightened civilization and no consideration of monetary nature should be allowed to block the way.
 Gentlemen, put this matter close to your hearts. Who among you having child in one of these unfortunate classes would not fly to his instant relief at any cost? As representatives of the people charged with the same duty are you satisfied to do less? May the God of the helpless give us the will and the courage to rise to the full measure of the awful responsibil- ity that is resting upon you and upon
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Is Your Life;
 You Must Keep It Pure
All Impurities Must Be
 Eliminated.

When the blood becomes foul from the presence of poisonous substances, which the body is unable to throw off. it can no longer supply the nerves. brain and muscle with nourishment and strength. The result is that you are misera ble, half sick and feel tired all the time.
 If you will cleanse the blood of all impurities you will find that your work will be a pleasure, you will eat and sleep well and enjoy good health.
 One of the best at blood tSs eleanssrs or ton of a successful physician. He used it for years in his practice for the treat
 You can still get this same splendid prescription, ready prepared, from your drl~-ist Just call for Prescription C. 1928, or the C-2223 Laboratory, Mem phis, Tenn, will mail you a $1.50 bottle on receipt of price.
 Prescription C-2223 contains no mer- cury, opium, morphine. chloral or strychnine While sold in concentrated form, and is to be taken in small doses, it's use will not harm the most delicate stomach. Write for literature-C-2223 Laboratory, Memphis. Tenn.
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FINANCE, TAXATION REVENUES


 I come now to matters which should first engage your attention-the aues- tions of finance, taxation and reve- nues. for upon their solution depends the extent to which you can go in all other matters involving the expendi- ture of money.
 There are three things of vital
 importance to be considered in this
 connection: The utter inadequacy
 of present facilities for the con-
 duct of n great state, the vision
 of better conditions and better
 state and the courage to realize
 the vision. The first Is universally
 admitted, the second is clear to all
 forward-IOoking men and women,
 the third rests upon your cOn-
 science and judgment.
 The recess committee on finance and taxation and the budget commission have considered together matters of taxation, revenue and appropriations and reports will be presented to you together with bills designed to carry out their recommendations.
 It is generally conceded that
 there is throughout the state a
 great lack of uniformity in the as-
 sessment of real property and
 visible personal property, while
 millions of dollars of personal
 
 taxation altogether because of the ease with which the owner of in-
 visible personal property evades
 his lawful tax burden.
 It is not to be expected that this legislature or any other legislature will be able to devise a system of as- sessment and taxation that will dis tribute the tax burden with even and exact justice. That is impossible and will be until there is complete change in human nature. The best you can hope to do is to provide ma chinery for equalization as nearly as may be possible and for adjustment of the burden so that it's weight will not fall too heavily upon those least able to bear it and for distribution of the responsibilities as nearly as may be in proportion to the privileges enjoyed and the protection afforded under the government.
 The report of your committee sug- gests changes in the assessment ma chinery which will, I confidently be- lieve, go far towards bringing about more equal assessments, while the proposed income tax will tend toward equalization in that it will reach the income from property which itself es- capes taxation.
 The principal sources from which increased revenues must come are incomes, excess profits and certain products of mines and forests. Opposition to the tax on incomes and excess profits has de- veloped recently, starting with resolution of the Alabama Bankers
 association, which is composed of
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CHILD WELFARE, FEEBLE MINDED AND EPELIPTTCS

Intimately related to the public health question is the matter of care for the welfare of the child, the feeble-minded and the epi1eptic.
 It is a well established principle that the state as the sovereign power IS the power and ultimate guardian and keeper of all it's people who by reason of mental or physical deficiency are unable to prop erly care for themselves and compete in the struggle of life with normal people under normal conditions.
 The welfare of the child must
 be protected. not alone for it's own
 sake, but that the state may con-
 serve the vitality and efficiency of
 it's future citizenship.
 We have given intelligent heed to the demand for the preservation of animal life and have made provision for official examination of cattle for tuberculosis and hogs for cholera and you have but recently taken expen- sive but wise steps for the eradica- ton of the cattle tick, but we have not been equally concerned about the health, life and welfare of our depend- ent and defective children, our feeble minded and our epileptics. Records show that more than 25 per cent of the men examined on the first draft were not physically fit for service, many from causes which might have been eliminated with intelligent care during childhood During the recess visited all state eleemosynary insti- tutions except the hospital at Mt Yer non At each I found crying need | for more and better facilities which | can be given only through larger ap- propriations for maintenance in some cases and for repairs and additions in
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PUBLIC HEALTH

l have heretofore called your atten- ton to the importance of developing the work of our state board of health. Pub lie health administration is a business. It is a part of the police power of the state and it's success depends upon the erergy, enthusiasm and business ability of those in whose hands the administra- tion of this important branch of the gov ernment is entrusted.
 All public health activities should be directed by the state board of health and every agency outside of the state wishing to do public health work in Ala bama should use the machinery which the legislature has created and project their efforts through established chan nels. No work. be ft health work or otherwise, can be of permanent benefit to the people unless those engaged in it coordinate their activities and build up a permanent organization through which all efforts shall function.
 The one object of public health admin istration is to control diseases which spread from man to man and from com munity to community and destroy the health and efficiency of the people. It is worthy of note that diseases like hook worm disease, malaria and venereal dis ca ses do not destroy life to any great extent but they do destroy the resisting power of the body and make it the easy prey to other diseases which do Kill. There is not county in Alabama that is free of these diseases. There is not a county in Alabama from which these dis eases cannot be practically banished by the pnoper application of scientific meth ods in prevention and control of disease
 The plan outlined by the state board of health to do it's first work in the rural districts meets with my endorse ment. No work which has for its object the betterment of society and the ulti- mate improvement of the race will stand unless it's foundations are laid upon the farm. The sanitation of the homes of our farmers should be the first consider ation of our health authorities. for as the rural population is strong or weak so is the strength or weakness of the nation.
 This department is asking for a largely increased appropriation. While consider ing the appropriation suggested by the budget commission I hope you will bear ir mind that this is the preventive de- partment of the state, and that all mod ern science seems to be in agreement upon the principle that prevention is Of first importance. Our population is our most valuable natural asset the problem of it's conservation should engage your earnest attention and the economic cost of diseas SC should be borne in mind.
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pared school code which embodies in concrete fashion the policies and plans for the reorganization of our entire public school system. The work of the Alabama education commission. as em bodied in the school code. l commend to your wise and favorable considera ton.
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starvation and generally bad conditions must, in order to conform to truth, re- late not to the present, but to conditions which obtained prior to the time when the convict department came under the control of the present management' headed by Mir C. B. Rogers. Conditions are by no means ideal but under MT. Rogers able. painstaking and personal supervision they are being rapidly brought to as high state of perfection as is possible under the contract sys- tenn
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EDUCATION


 The clearest and most significant ut terapce of nations duty and policy in the period of upheaval and readjust- ment following the great war IS sounded in the report of the English committee on juvenile education:
 @In the great work of recon
 struction which lies ahead there
 are aims to he set before us which
 will try, no less searchingly than
 war itself, the temper and endur-
 ing qualities of our race; and in
 the realization of each and all of
 these education, with it's stimulus
 and discipline, must be our stand
 by. We have to perfect the ciV1i-
 ization for which our men have
 shed their blood and our women
 their tears; to establish new stand
 ards of value in our judgment of
 what makes life worth living,
 more wholesome and more re-
 strained ideals of behavior and
 recreation, finer traditions of CO.,
 operation and kindly fellowship
 between classes and between man
 and man. These are tasks for n
 nation of trained character and TO-
 bust physique, nation alert to
 the things of the spirit, rever-
 entiaI of knowledge, reverential of
 its teachers and generous in its
 estimate Of what unc prOuuctioh
 and maintenance of good teachers
 inevitably cost"
 It was such a conception as thls that impelled me to recommend in my first message to you the creation or a commission to make an impartial study of our educational system. By a joint resolution approved February 6 you directed me to appoint com mission composed or five persons to make a study of the public educational system of the state. including all schools and educa tional institutions supported in whole or in part from public funds. to determine the effi- ciency of the same and to report it's findings with recomm mendations for in- creased efficiency and economy to the governor on or before July 1, 1919.
 Acting upon that authority, I ap- pointed the following citizens as mem bers of the Alabama education com mission, viz: Hon. Sydney J. Bowie, Hon. A. H. Carmichael, Hon. J. E. Dun- naway, MT. George H. Lanier and Dr. R. Fl McCaslin. The personnel of the comm isson, the national reputation of the men called to their assistance and the monumental report submitted are proof of the wisdom of the under taking. It is conceded the country over that the men who did the work in abama collectively constitute the strongest body of men ever brought together to study a state school sys- tenn. The various findings and recom- mendations of the survey committee were subjected to the most critical ex- animation and scrutiny by the com mission.
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Permit me to again direcs your atten- ton to this subject of d workmen's com pensation act. l understand most of you are committed to the passage of a just and equita ble compensation law whereby industry must bear the financial burden of certain human sacrifices Demand for this legislation is supported by agree
 ment of leading economists by profess
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-25
First Publication Sept. II. 1910.

First Publication Sept II. 1910.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY
COURT FOR KENOSHA COUNTY -
IN PROBATE
Notice is hereby given that at a regular
term of the County Court to be held in
and for said County, at the Court House
in the City Of Kenosha, in said County
on the first Tuesday, being the seventh
dar of October. A. d. 1919. at 10 o'clock
and considered:
In the matter Of the Last Win and Tesla
ment of Joseph Stake, Deceased.
The application of Adolph Petratis to
admit to Probate the last will and tesla
ment of Joseph Stake late of the City of
Chicago in Cook County, Deceased
In the matter of the Guardianity of John
Williamson, deceased.
The application of The Northwestern
allowance of its final account as Guardian
of the estate of John Williamson, Inc,
late of the City of Kenosha, in said coun-
ty. deceased, and for the assignment and
distribution of the residue of the estate
Of said deceased
In the matter of the Estate of Isidore
Poyijach, Deceased.
The application of Yalent Perrin for the
appointment of an administrator of the
Of Kenosha. in said County, deceased
In the matter of the Estate of Herman
Kruger, Deceased.
The application of Lizzie Kruger for
the appointment OF an administrator of
the estate Of Herman Kruger, late of the
Town of Salem in said County deceased.
BY the Court.
GEO. W. TAYLOR,
wa County Judge.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-25
First PUB. Sept. rs. 1919.

First Pub, Sept 1S, 1919
thereof be published in The Telegraph
the eastern district of Wiseonsin-In
the matter of Louis Glass, bankrupt
The above named bankrupt, having filed
his petition to be discharged. the court
made the following order thereon TO
wit:
On the Ninth day Of September A. ID.
1910, on reading tie foregoing petition, it is
ordered by the court that a hearing be had
upoa the same on the Eighteenth day of
October, 4. d. 1919 before said court in
tn, city Of Milwaukee il said district at 10
O'clock in the forenoon. and that notice
District Court Of the United States for
Courier, newspaper published in said
district. and that all known creditors and
ether persons in interest may appear at
the said time and place and show cause,
if any they have. why the prayer of the
said petitioner should not be granted
1t is further ordered by the court that
the clerk shall send by mail to all known
creditors copies Of said petition and this
order addressed to them at their places of
residence as stated.
Witness, the Hon. Ferdinand A. Geiger.
indge of said cou1t and the seal thereof,
at Milwaukee, in said district on the Ninth
day of September A. D. 1910.
IL 81 f. G. WESTFAHIl, JR. Clerk
Sept 18th and 18th
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-09-25

First Publication Sept. II, 1919.
STATE OF WISCONSIN IN CIRCUIT
COURT For KENOSHA COUNTY
NOTICE OF SALE on EXECUTION.
Charles L. Rockwell. Plaintiff
VS..
Louis Ralzer Defendant
BY virtue of an execution issued out of.
and under seal of the Circuit Court. in and
for the County Of Kenosha and State of
Wisconsin. upon Judgment rendered and
doeketed in said Court the oath day of
August 1913 in an action wherein Charles
Y. Rockwell appears as plaictiff and Louis
kaizer rs defendant. in favor of said plain
iii and against said defendant. for the
sum of Ninety Two Dollars Eighty two
Cents tSa2S2). which execution was direct
the said County of Kenosha. l have levied
upon al the right. title and interest OF
the said defendant Louis Ralzer in and to
the following described real estate:
Lot number twenty 600. in Block five
90 Of Pugh'S Subdivision. of part of the
Fast Quarter seq of Section one III.
Town One % North. of Range twenty
two (221 East. according to a plat thereof
now on file and of record in the Office OF
the Register Of Deeds for Kenosha Coun
ty Wis"
Notice is hereby given that Z the under
signed Sheriff, as aforesaid, will sell the
above described real estate to the high
est bidder for cash. at public auction, at
the front door of the Court House. in the
City OF Kenosha, County Of Kenosha, and
State Of Wisconsin, on the oath day Of
October 1919, at ten (10) o'clock A. NJ.
of that day to satisfy the said execution
together with interests and all costs there
on.
Dated September sth. A. d. 1919
JOSEPH M. MEYER.
W27 Sheriff of Kenosha County.
D-gyi)aclS
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NICHOLAS RICE
CALLED BY DEATH
One of Oldest If Not Oldest
Of the Kenosha Pioneers
Died At His Home
Wednesday Evening.
kENOSHAN FOR SIXTY YEARS
Came To Kenosha Way Back In the
Early Forties and Had Since Resided
In the City-Is Survived BY Large
Family of Children.
kENOSHAN FOR SIXTY YEARS


Nicholas Rice, one Of the oldest If
not the oldest of the pioneer citizen of
Kenosha died at the home Of his daugh-
ter Mrs. Arthur Heating, SIC Market
Street just before nine clock Wednes-
day evening after an illness which had
extended over long period of time.
Members of his family were with him
when the final summons came, with the
exception of one son Robert Rice who
is in the service of the United States
Navy at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Eff
forts were being made to reach the
son this morning and direct appeal was
made to the Secretary of the Navy.
Robert Rice is awaiting discharge from
the Navy after long service and it had
been hoped that he could reach home
before his father died.
Nicholas Rice was one of the first
of the settlers of old Southport. He
was a native Of Ireland but he came
to Southport as a young man in the
early forties and he had since resided
in the city. For many years he en-
gagged in farming but for the past
twenty years he had been retired.
He was one of the most familiar
characters among the pioneers of the
city. He had rare wit and Won
derful memory for the interesting
events Of early Kenosha and this made
him a prime favorite.
His residence in Kenosha dating
over a period Of nearly seventy years
had brought him into touch with prac-
tically the entire history Of the city
Mr. Rice took great and patriotic
interest in the war against Germany
and it was his pride that he had con
tributed two sons to the service. He
made frequent trips to the Great Lakes
Training Station where his boys were
in training before they went off for
sea duty.
The deceased is survived by ten
children. The daughters are Mrs. J..
j. Mahoney of Pleasant Prairie, Mrs
p. i. Corr, Mrs. Arthur Heating and
Mrs. Peter Beck of Kenosha. His sons
are e. N. Rice, Racine; Robert Rice
now in the service of the United States
Navy at Norfolk Frank J. Rice of
Ceutralia, H., and William f. Raymond
and Ardell Rice all of Kenosha.
The announcement of the day and
hour for the funeral will be made on
Friday.
Friends may view the remains Of the
late Mr. Rice at the Crossin chapel.
Funeral services over the remains Of
the late Nicholas Rice were held at ST.
James Church this morning. The ser
vices We're largely attended by pio-
neer residents Of the city. The remains
We're laid at rest at the family plot at
st. James cemetery.
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MISS ELSIE KASPER
DIES IN CHICAGO
to Tubercular Meningitis in Chi
cago Hospital at Midnight.

Miss Tlsie Kaspef, aged fifteen
years, daughter Of Miss Able Kasper,
453 Rowland avenue, and one of the
best known Of the students of the
Frank Junior High school, died at the
Chicago Fresh Air Hospital at midnight
Wednesday after an illness from tnber-
cular meningitis. Miss Kasper was TAX
ell to the Chicago hospital week ago.
Miss kasper was daughter Of the
late John Kasper, formerly we'll known
Kenosha business man. She was born
in Chicago but she had spent much of
her life in Kenosha. She was an nnus-
ually attractive girl and great fav-
orite among those who knew her. She is
survived by her mother and one sister,
Miss Edith Kasper, both of Kenosha.
The remains will be brought to Kc-
nosha for interment and announce
ment of the tiGe Of the funeral will
be made on Friday.