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The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-28


by the statement recently made by an en-
ployer in which he says that the negro boy
who was his porter at $40 per month, now
gets S35 week as skilled mechanic.
The question of women is also involved
1t may sound strange, but the question of
domestics is most important one. There
are none any more to speak of. And why
should there be- when the girls who former
ly did our cooking at six or seven dollars a
week can go to the factories and earn sixteen
and eighteen. But the point is that NONE
HAVE COME into the country to take the
place of those who have moved up And yet
the factories are short of female help, the
mills are clamoring for more wonderland
the housewives-well, they are giving up
housekeeping and going to hotels when they
can afford it-a very unsalutary influence
upon family life-and when they cannot af-
ford to give up their homes-they worry
along without help. The good old days of
having to break in" Hungarian, or Polish
or German girls seem to have gone never to
return.
Some years ago the laboring men of the
country began systematic campaign
against immigration. Labor felt that the
constant influx of foreigners who had to
work under handcaps, was detriment to
it. Labor felt that as long as an immigrant
was willing to work for less than native
born American laborer, so long would the
latter be at an disadvantage. And the feel
ing was correct so far as the individual stat
us of the laborer at that time was concerned.
In the person of the late Congressman Bur-
net of Alabama, labor found champion,
and after some years of effort, the Burnet
immigration Law was passed, which prac-
tically excluded immigrants. About that
time or shortly after, we went into the war,
and since that time, our condition is known.
There is no doubt that fundamentally, the
only way to remedy our present unastisfac-
tory condition is to reverse our un-American
policy of anti-immigration, and throw open
our gates to those foreigners who, like the
fathers of many of us, came here with the
sincere purpose of making their homes here,
rearing their children as Americans, and
giving the best that was in them, to the
land of their adoption.
1t is true that within recent years, our
foreign population has not been absorbed
That is our fault, not the fault of those who
came here. We need not repeat our old mis-
takes. But no one can deny that an ample
supply Of labor would be the fundamental
process in readjustment. 1t would mean a
lowering of wages for time-but it would
also mean lowering of the cost of living.
Indeed after the scale of wages begins to
slide backward, the cost of living will take
longer leaps proportionately, backwards,
just as it leapt forward.
1t is unfortunate that the poor man gets
the pinch first, but under the organiza-
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-28
OUR ILLS.

Some one asked US when this perverted
economic condition of ours will end; when
the dollar will revert to its normal value;
when labor will be less scarce; when indus
trial conditions will settle. The question is
the most momentous before the American
people just now-and rightly so. A vicious
circle has been formed-and the business is
growing from bad to worse Soon there will
be another rise in coal-and as soon as the
railroad employees receive their increase
in wages, everything will have to go up, be-
cause higher freight rates mean an increase
in the commodities that are shipped. AS
soon as prices go up, wages will have to take
another jump, and there you are again.
In the meantime the rise in wages is not
as high in proportion as the rise in the ne
cessities of life. There is an unequal strug-
gle-with the result that dissatisfaction is
growing all around U.S.
Now it may not be just the province of a
sectarian journal to discuss matter like
the high cost of living. Yet we do believe
that under the conditions discussion is not
out OF place-especially when the matter
discussed touches the Jews as well as every
body else.
1t seems to us that there will be no reme-
dy for the conditions that exist until we go
back to the fundamentals upon which this,
our country was built. We will never be-
come normal until we restore those condi-
lions which obtained while the country was
normal. America has been made by certain
forces-and when these are removed, we
suffer. And to this there can be no denial
The most important of the elements that
have gone towards making America what
it was before the war, was immigration. The
hundreds of thousands who came to our
shores annually and made this their home,
contributed millions upon millions to the re-
sources of our country; they made the bulk
of its population and they supplied the labor
market. They were the industrial balance
of power and it was the immigrant which
stabilized the industrial unbalance. It is
true that in times of crisis, the excess of la
Dor gave us the industrial unrest that we
suffered in crucial times. But the legisla-
ton of the last few years has practically
stopped the possibility of financial panics
such as we had in 1907.
For the last four years we have had no
immigration. First our anti-immigration
legislation, and then the war stopped the in
flux of foreigners Gradually we absorbed
the pre-war immigrant population. Let us
rather say that the industrial conditions
which the war caused, forced the pre-war
immigrants to higher labor levels. A num-
Der of new industries like that of the auto
mobile and truck industry, manufacturing
of moving picture films, and others permit
ted the withdrawal of men who had become
partially specialized in their own fields, to
become more highly SPECIALIZED in these 9TH
er fields which pay more. For instance, a
machinist who became an automobile me-
chanic made more as the latter than as the
former. But because of the lack of immi-
grafton, there is nobody to take the place of
the former machinist. The same kind of a
development has taken place in many indus
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1919-11-28
EDITORIAL
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ton of society at present-and it is the best
that human experience has so far evolved
this cannot be helped. The fact remains
that the scarcity of men and women in la
Dor, coupled with an extraordinary demand
for everything disable, have forced us into
condition where new influx of humanity
has become dire necessity, if conditions
are to be remedied.
AS the average reader knows, we Jews
are deeply interested in the question of i'm
migration We have suffered-by we, we
mean our brethren-more than anyone else,
because Of the terrible prosecutions in the
lands of their birth. Of course there have
been provisos in the immigration bills, and
there will be certain provisions in the one
that is now being drawn, but our policy for
the last few years has been narrow enough
to keep out those very men and women
whom we need.
We know all about the dangers of Boil
shevism from foreigners. What our anti
immigration friends do not know, is the Boil
shevlsm of the natve-born, who are exclud-
ed by immigration bills, and who do the
greatest harm.
Attorney General Palmer has stated the
situation, and we quote from speech of
his recently delivered. The thing that we
deem necessary with immigration, is per-
lod OF probation, and of this we will speak
later. From Attorney General Palmer's
speech, we draw attention to the following:
I'VE have been hospitabe people. In the
beginning the strip of land along the eastern
coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia. was
peopled by courageous freedom-loving men
and women who found here all the real es-
sentlals of life which were denied them
across the sea. In later times by reason of
the open generosity of the government their
most Doundless stretches of the West were
covered by the homes of men who became
owners of the soil, cause and effect never
dreamed of in the Old World, where the land
was only held by those classes who had held
1t throughout the centuries.
The new land owners thus felt themselv-
eS important factors in the makeup of the
great republic under a people which was
conscientiously designed to make one great
homogeneous people out of population
gathered from every corner of the globe. No
regret is anywhere expressed for this broad
minded and farsighted policy. But just to
the degree that we have been generously
and unselfishly hospitable we naturally re-
sent the abuse of that hospitality.
We cannot back track on the policy hal
lowed by more than century of usefulness.
We cannot be less willing now than we have
always been that the oppressed of every
cline shall find here a refuge from disorder
and distress. But we can insist with more
emphasis than we have employed heretofore
that those who come to our shores shall
come in the right spirit and with the right
purpose; that those who remain shall stay
with the intent to become Americans in
every sense
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
FLOATING Mine
ON The SQUARE
Unique and Interesting War
Trophy Was Moored This
Morning Along the Local
Victory Way.
AWARDED TO MAcWHYTEs
Mine Was Secured BY the Macomber-
Whyte Rope Company AS a Recog-
milton Of It's Efficiency In Making
Rope For Moorings

A floating mine of the type, but not
the nationality, that sent Kitchener of
Khartoum to watery grave in the
wreck strewn waters of the North Sea,
is now peacefully moored along the
Victory Way in Market Square.
The unique trophy Of the world war
has been brought to Kenosha by the
Macomber- Whyte Rope Company, to
which it was awarded by the United
States Department of the Navy as a
recognition of that firm S efficient work
in providing the wire-rope used in
mooring such mines in the harbors Of
hostile powers and along the sea-lanes
travelled by German submarines
The mine was anchored on the Square
by Corporal George Hlavacek, who
eluded many such internal machines
laid by the Huns upon the occasion of
his voyage to Europe aboard trans
port carrying Yankees to the firing line
While installing the mine on the stand
dard built for it he RECALLED the crowd,
that had gathered to watch the work,
with stories of both German and Bri-
fish cruisers that had been sent to Da-
Wy Jones locker by just such mines as
that now on display in Kenosha. He
also explained that the mine he was
mooring along the Victory Way had
been swept from the sea by a wire net
made from wire rope manufactured by
the Macomber Whyte Company at Mac
whyte.
Near the standard supporting the
floating mine placard carries still fur
ther information about the trophy. tt
reads
y. 5. Naval Mine, used in the great
war to protect harbors and help keep
German U-boats bottled up. 1t is a
part of Kenosha's work in. the war
The wire-rope used for mooring lines
and unwinding coils on thousands Of
mines like this was manufactured in
Kenosha by the Macomber- Whyte Rope
Company"
The unique reminder Of the DAYS
when the North Sea was a cemetery
for forgotten ships, attracted much at
tention today. Morning and afternoon
crowds gathered about the platform to
give it the once over and ask questions
about the mooring on display beneath
1t. The latter was especially interest
ing to Kenoshans because the unwind
ing cord, that leads from it to the
plummet and regulates the depth at
which the mine floats, was also made in
the shops of the Maeomber- Whyte Rope
Company.
incidentally the most interesting
comment on the trophy was contributed
by laud.lubber, who asked Corporal
Hlavacek IF this particular mine had
ever sunk German ship 'Nuff said.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
NEW AND OLD MELODIES.
Nash Band Has Attractive Program for
the Concert to be Given This Even
ing at Library Park.


An attractive program of both old
and new melodies has been prepared by
the Nash Band for the concert which
will be given this evening at Library
Park. The concert was originally
scheduled for Sunday afternoon but
was postponed because of the rain. The
program follows:
March, The Wallabieso Lithgow
Overture, Golden Fleece 'Lavelle
B." Just Gem, Intermezzo
AMBROSE ................. Tobani
4 Selection from the comedy opera.
The, FREELY ........... Firml
5-Serenade, "A Night in June King
6-March, N'362nd Infantry
..... ............s..a.. DeStabelle
Medley overture, "Bits Of
+ Remick's Hits ... Lampe
s. fHumoreske Dvorak
9-Suite- Tales Of Traveller
'The Grand Promenade at the
White House. ...... .Sonsa
10-Overture, 'FLustspiel,' 1874. Bella
M
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
Metropolitan Youths Work
ing In Kenosha Find So
luton For the Hous-
ing Problem.
THE ELECTRIC HOTEL
Yankee Wit and Few Dry Goods
Boxes Make An Unused Limousine a
First Glass Hosiery For Room
less Residents of Kenosha.

Not all of the Yankee wit in the
world was given to captains and lieu
tenants who outwit Mexican bandits
and escape before the ransom money
has been paid. A little of it was doled
out to two Chicago youths who have
solved the housing problems in Kenosha.
Early morning pedestrians on Wis
Iconsin street today witnessed rather
peculiar thing. While passing the Of
fees of the Evening News they glanced
casually across the street and saw a
youth emerge without warning from the
electric car that has been parked for
some time in the vacant lot adjacent
to the United Storage Battery Service
Garage. His hair was little frowsy
and his eyes not exactly as wide open
as they were, say some two or three
hours later. Manifestly the abandoned
limousine was his everyman IS castle'
that the plav-folk talk about-that is
those who have never tried to rent
one of those things in Kenosha.
Investigation proved the truth of the
suspicion and unravelled the semi
mystery surrounding the youth s unusu-
al entrance on the scene of action
along Wisconsin street.
The story is both unusual and inter
esting. The young man and his pal
came from Chicago to work in Kenosha.
They Sshoofed the streets for days in
search of rooms and finding none were
forced to sleep most anywhere. Pass
ing the vacant lot they saw the linn
CUISINE. 1t looked high and dry and
maybe comfy. Nearby were few
dry goods boxes. With these they
bridged the great divide, re-arranged
the cushions, presto--they had
erected the city's newest hostelry,
the Electric HOTEL, as they style it.
To be sure there were no presses but
livery stable was near and the proprie-
tor was kind enough to let them
hang their Sunday clothes in the har-
ness room.
cit IS not so worse,o one Of them
remarked recently. tits as big as
lower berth and better than some rooms
in the average hotel or rooming house.
It has no 'b.-b. IS at least; also no
quilt when the breeze blows in from
the lake. At that it beats the open
sky-stuff or the soft side of a bench
in the park. Just the same if room s
available any time soon we'll leave
the little Electric and take chances
on the BIB. $50
The car is the property of DR.. Helen
Harbert, who is not at all averse to it's
use for philanthropic purposes so long
as there is a proper regard for the
glassware, the curtains, upholstering ct
cetera.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
EYDE-HoLLIsTER NUPTLALs.
Pretty Wedding at Rockford Unites
Kenoshan and a Prominent Society
Leader of That City.


A wedding Of great interest to Ke-
noshans occurred at Rockford at two
0 clock on Tuesday afternoon, when
Miss Sauna Eyde of that city was
nnitesl in marriage with George Hollis
ter, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hollister of 585 West street, Kenosha.
The ceremony was read by G. ]. Smith,
reader in the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, at Rockford.
The nuptials were solemnized at the
home of the BRIDE sister, Mrs. Bert
Morgan of 1923 Hecker Ave-, Rockford.
Miss Eyde was becomingly frocked
in a gown of white satin with over
drape Of silk lace. She was attended
by Miss Minnie Binninger Of Kenosha,
who wore a creation in pink georgette
enhanced by corsage cluster of white
roses. The groom was escorted to
the altar by his brother, Mcneil Hol-
lister also Of Kenosha.
A wedding luncheon with appoint
ments in rose and white was served
at the Morgan home Immediately af-
ter the ceremony.
After short bridal journey through
the lake districts, Mr.. and Mrs. Hol-
lister will take { up their residence in
Kenosha, where the groom holds re-
sponsible position in the employe of the
American Brass Company. They will
live in their new bungalow on Bond
street and will be at home to their
friends after September LIST.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
FAIR WOMEN AND FUNNY MEN.
Unusual Combination Makes Alpha
Omicron Frolic on the Beach a
Most Enjoyable Affair.

st was the incest picnic I ever
went to because there were so many
funny men.
This was the comment Of one of the
younger folk who attended the Alpha
Omicron picnic held on Washington
Island between vespers and curfeW on
Tuesday evening. Arranged and en-
gineered BY Mrs. Fl. G.. Maddox, the
affair was one of the most delightful
events in the annals of the local club.
The men referred to by the youngster
were the husbands and friends of the
Alphas who acted alternately as guests
of honor and kitchen-police.
It is rumored that the word funny
was applied to them as the result of
the strange behavior of prominent
Kenosha "club-mano who was among
those present at the picnic. Appear
ing in near denesque costume, made
semi-modern by necktie, he did bare
foot dancing on the beach and almost
corrupted the morale Of the whole
unit. Another one Of the funny-folk
was all but lynched by the merry
makers when he told the story about
the French inscription on calling-card
and then lost the card just as his hear
ers were on the verge of nervous pros
tration in their curiosity to learn the
secret of It's. battling legend.
Other diversions for the frolic in
Guided a general swim as an entree, a
Weiner roast as a carry-on" event,
and the inevitable bonfire on the
beach to bridge the gap between eating
time and curfew.
The chaperons for the picnic were
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Pedley and Mr..
and Mrs. Chris YanCouvering.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
RETURN WITH GOLD oIzEvRoNs.
Walter Halle, Corporal Sanford Clark
and Ernest Harms, Enlist, Fight
and are Discharged Together.

Two of the Pleasant Prairie volpn-
teer boys returned home on Friday,
each wearing three gold service chew
rons. They are Walter Halle, son Of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Halle, who has
been wagonertin the supply train, and
Corporal Sanford Clark, grandson of
John Fox. Ernest Harms, who enlist
ed with them from here, returned with
them to Camp Grant and went to his
home in Southern Illinois. These three
boys were the first to enlist from here
in May 1917, at st. Louis. They went
overseas in January, being thirty-three
days in crossing. They were in the
famous Second Division, 18th Field Ar
tillery and saw much Of the severest
fighting. The boys all wear five bronze
stars for service in five major opera
tions, as follows: Defensive Sector,
Troyon, March 10, 1918 to May l8;
Aisne Defensive, June to June S;
Aisne- Marine Offensive, July Is to July
%; St. Mihiel Offensive, September 12
to September Is; Mouse Argonne Of
fensive, October 8 to November III. It
is remarkable that they stayed to-
gether through the duration of the war
and were discharged at the same time,
with no serious injuries.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
MORE CONCERTS COMING.
Concert COMMITTEES of Park Commission
Makes Out Schedule for Coming
Band Concerts.

kehosha music lovers were overioved
this morning with the definite announce
ment from the concert committee Of
the park commission that the band con
certs would continue until the tenth Of
September. The announcement of the
action of the committee composed of
, Commissioners Conrad Shearer and J.
K. Gottfredsen, was accompanied bv
the making public of the schedule Of
the concerts which are to be held in
the future. The complete schedule is
as follows:
Nash Motors Company Band-Librarv
Park, Wednesday evening, August Goth.
Since Band-Bond's Woods, Sunday
afternoon, August oath.
Nash Motors Company Band-Sim-
mons Playground Beach, Sunday even
ing, August 31st.
Since Band--Library Park, Wednes-
day evening, September 3rd.
Nash Motors Company Band-Library
Park, Wednesday evening, September
10th.
It IS possible that the schedule of
concerts will extend even beyond this
date as the committee asked the lead
ers Of the bands to notify the park com
mission In the event that rain inter
teres with any of the concerts SO that
another date could be arranged for the
concert.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
1.-THE REToRT COURTEOUS. ,
The Gentleman from Indiana Receives
an Anonymous But Most Inter
eStino Communication

esting Communication
1t was something more than week
ago that the Gentleman from Indiana
saw HTrue-Heart SUSIE at the Rhode
and resented the fact that Mr.. Griffith
had given humor to his play by intro
ducing /" a few hicks from Hoosier-
DOM and playing "Back Home Again
in Indiana" whenever they swal
lowed their gum or choked on a
" chuckleit sody''.
And now comes & the retort courte-
Gus &, an anonymous communication set
to the melody Of the popular favorite
" Mickey, pretty Mickey. (The or
iginal song is quite feitching.)
The revision reads:
\. Hickeyl Hoosier hickey!
With your hair of raven hue,
In your smiling. SC. beguiling
There s bit of the Hoosier, bit Of
the boozer, too;
Childhood in the wildwood,
Where you learned to smoke and chew
Hoosier hickey! Helluva hickey!
Can you blame anyone for poking
some fun at you.
The Gentleman from Indiana has sug-
gested that readers try the new song
on their pianos with the added com
ment that " the music is unusually
meritorious
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
MARRIED THIS MORNING.


Miss Dora Ellen VanDuzer and How
ard E. Lyons of Orange, Illinois, were
quietly married this morning at the
parsonage of the Park Avenue M. E
Church, the Rev. o. W. Taylor oficiat-
ing. Mrs. R. M. Guest and Miss Grace
VanDuzer attended the bridal couple.
The bride has a most of friends in
Kenosha to wish her every happiness
in her new life. She has made her
home with her sister on Charles street
for some time. The groom recently re-
turned from France where he had
served in the United States Army for
the past eighteen months. He is we'll
known farmer in Orange, Illinois.