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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

To THE American who has sojourned
on the other side it is apparent that all
of Europe is economically dependent
upon the United States. Without
American food Great Britain would
starve. Without American food Ger
many did starve. Because of the en-
barge on American food Norway and
Sweden were compelled to join the
allies in the blockade Of Germany.
France can exc out bare existence
import both coal and iron. Italy must
America. Japan must import food and
steel plates to Japan that Japan was
compelled to turn shipping over to the
allies in the last stages OF the war.
Russia contains all the resources need
ed for her own industrial life and has
an abundance for export, but Russia is
in bloody revolution from which civil
cation is not likely to emerge for one
hundred years. During that time the
United States of America is the only
country which is entirely self-support-
ing, and it is the only country to which
all the other great nations of the earth
must look for some necessity. If this
nation enters league of nations it
should enter with a consciousness of its
decisive strength and with preserva-
ton of its necessary rights of self
determination. If it does not do this
it is Samson submitting to the shears.
Later, blinded, it may have to push the
pillars down; but why submit to the
shearer and to the national tragedy
Chicago Tribune
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

THE military terms decided upon for
Germany by the Big Five Powers at
the peace table will humble the great
est single military power the world has
ever known. They are as follows:
Army shall consist of 100, 900 volunteer
men of the rank and file and limited
number of officers All military air.
craft shall be surrendered or destroyed.
The army shall not be equipped with
artillery above the caliber of field guns;
all artillery of greater bore shall be
surrendered or destroyed. An allied
mission will supervise the munitions
plants to see that ammunition is not
manufactured secretely. German forts
along the Rhine must be destroyed, and
the imperial general army staff abol-
ished.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

THE Madison Journal very properly
says: A jurist who on the bench has
demonstrated his judicial fitness, and
who came to the bench with proven
worth as lawyer. ought not at every
lapse of term be compelled to go out
and wage political battle over the
state for the maintenance of his Job.
Justice NJ. B. Rosenberg was man
Of recognized ability as lawyer when
he came to the Supreme Court by ap-
pointment. He's the kind that has
built the prideful reputation of Wiscon-
sins highest court. He deserves to be
reelected without contest.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

Ex-PREsIDENT TAFT has performed a
good service for his country in pointing
out needed: amendments. to the propos-
ed league of nations constitution. Mr..
Taft has been, and now is, strong
supporter of the proposed league, so
anxious to see it accomplished that he
has been slow in pointing out the de-
fects in the constitution as it now
stands-defects with great possibilities
of future harm, or even probabilities
of laying the foundation of another
great war. Superior Telegram.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

The war has been over, in effect, for
four months. Governmental expendi-
lures attributed to war are greater to-
day than on the day the armistice was
signed The army of federal office
holders has not begun to demobilize.
Congress has continued to vote out bill
lions of the peoples money as if money
grew on trees. A national administra-
ton which teaches thrift to the people
practices waste on such scale as was
never before imagined in history. New
political schemes, involving vast addi-
tional appropriations, are Sprouted.
They are proposed in the names of So
cial betterment, but they involve the
impoverishment of the people and the
bankruptcy of their government unless
they are halted-a prospect made more
remote by the postponement of the
date of assembling congress elected
by the people partly in protest against
the present administration program
The greatest material, the greatest
moral, the greatest patriotic issue of
today is political extravaganza and
waste, reflected in abnormal living
costs, taxes under which business en-
CerprlSe Is staggering, currency ue-
preciated in purchasing power, and a
fear of the future which halts business
enterprise. An effort is being made to
divert the attention of the people from
the situation, first, by the theory that
everybody is going to be supported by
the government under the new free
dom, and, second, that scheme of
world reconstruction is under way which
will bring peace and prosperity to man.
kind through the phrases of new
world constitution.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

The world war is estimated to have
killed 1854, 900 individuals. The world
influenza epidemic is estimated to have
killed 6,000,000. That is something
remarkable The horrors of war have
been upon every tongue; the influenza,
except to those families that were
stricken, has been almost as much a
subject of jest as of fear. The war
has been spectuiar; advertised on every
hand as horror. The plague has been
silent, unseen. Some 375, 600 persons
died of it in continental United States
within sixty days. This is by estimate
of the United States census bureau. In
times past the world has stood aghast
at the ravages of cholera, yellow fever,
the bubonic plague, yet it is doubtful
if in thousand years all these COM
bined had a CHASTITY harvest equaling in
extent that of our present-day infiu-
enza in a single twelvemonth!- Madi-
son Democrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

1T WAS Corporal Manning who re-
ceived the distinguished service medal
of the Rainbow division, conferred by
Gen. Pershing as the highest award for
American bravery, when over fifty dec
orations were conferred in a recent re-
view of the division who are coming
home ADril 1St.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

SOME people say they won't adver-
tise, as everyone knows where their
stores are. Also everybody knows
where the cemetery is, but they don't
feel inclined to go there.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21
AT THE LYRIC

They say that every family has
it's hidden skeleton--its something
that is never spoken of, save with
bated berath, but in Charles Rays
family, or rather in his picture, "The
Family Skeleton" showing at the
Lyric tonight Thursday this fam
lily skeleton is only imaginary. The
queer part of it all is that the hero
suffers far more than if this trouble
had been real. How the skeleton is
laid by his sweetheart played by
Sylvia Bremen, is interestingly
shown.
Whac is described as the quaint
est play of quaint actress, "Sun-
shine Alley" starring Mae Marsh,
is the third Goldwyn Picture to be
shown at the Lyric on Saturday.
This is a fine comedy drama, and
should interest and amuse all, while
teaching q great lesson of human
kindness.
Mitchell Lewis, who distinguished
himself in "The Barrier" and sever
al other pictures will, be seen on
Monday in "The Code of the Yukon"
The story contains plenty of action
and should please picture patrons
who admire the French Canadian at
mosphere and stories of the great
Northwest.
Mary Miles Minter in "The Ghost
of Ray Taylor" will be the attrac-
ton for Tuesday.
A nationwide campaign is being
conducted by the Red Cross for the
purpose of collecting used clothing.
The clothing is to be distributed
among the people of Europe not in
Guiding those of the central powers.
Locally the Red Cross rooms will be
open ON the afternoons of Tuesday,
March 25th, and Thursday, March
9th. Someone will at that time be
in charge of the rooms to care for
the clothing which may be brought
Edgerton is urged to be as. liberal
as is usual in meeting her allotment
in this campaign.
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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

Il have client who would like to
loan from ten to thirteen thousand dol
lars on good first farm mortgage.
d. W. North.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

WANTED Four or FIVE tons of good
straw.-H. E. Peters. Is
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-03-21

Fancy weiners -ab. 18c = Pringle
Bros. Co.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
What Man Is

a WRITER in ''The Electrical Ex-
L u perimenter" asks the question
(surely an old and battling one) and
submits a Scientific" answer, as
follows:
"a man weighing $50 pounds will
contain approximately $500 cubic feet
Of gas--oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen
in his constitution, which at so cents
a thousand cubic feet would be worth
$3.50 for Illuminating purposes. He
also contains all the necessary fats to
make fifteen-pound candle, and thus,
together with his $500 cubic feet of
gases, he possesses considerable il
Illuminating possibilities. His system
contains % pounds and 10 ounces of
carbon, or enough to make 78O dozen,
or 1850, lead pencils, There are about
so grains of iron In his blood, and the
rest of the body would supply enough
of this metal to make one spike large
enough to hold his weight. A healthy
man contains 54 ounces of phosphorus.
This deadly poison would make 500 900
matches, or enough poison to kin 500
persons. This, with 2 ounces of lime,
makes the stiff bones and brains. No
difference how sour a man looks, he
contains about 60 Jumps of sugar of
the ordinary cubical dimensions, and
to make the seasoning complete there
are 20 spoonfuls of salt. If man
were distilled into water he would
make about 38 quarts, or more than
half his entire weight. He also CON
tains great deal of starch, chloride
of potash, magnesium, sulphur and
hydrochloric acid in his wonderful hu-
man system.
Break the shells of 1000 eggs into
a huge pan or basin, and you have the
contents to make man from his toe
nails to ths most delicate tissues of
his brain. And this is the scientific
answer to the question. What is
MANI"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

does It become. It can be safely dated
as far back as the sixteenth century
and it is strongly probable that the
famous and fatal English sweating
sickness Of the fourteenth century
was form of Influenza There was
famous and historic outbreak of
it in the first decade of the nineteenth
century, during the Peninsular cam
paign, when Napoleon and his con-
queror Wellington faced each other
for the first time on the rugged plateaus
of Spain. 1t put both armies ont of
business at once and drove them into
winter quarters In the middle of the
summer, and 30 furious was its onset
and SO swift It's spread that the
ignorant Spanish peasants said that it
must be due to an inhuensia dal
Estrellas,' AN influence from the stars
and Influenza it was called and has
remained until the present day, be-
cause we didn't know any better, and
according to some of our highbrow
bacteriologists of the Brahmin caste
dont yet.
$50 that it was quite a curious in
stance of history repeating itself that
the disease in this appearance should
again have been called the Spanish
flu though Spain was really no more
to blame for it then than now. If
the influenza happens to travel fastest
overland, with the caravans, 1t reaches
Europe by way Of Russia first and is
called the Russian Influenza If it
moves more swiftly along the water
routes, up the Red Sea and the Suez
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Homemade DYES

q LAST, according to a writer
IN Popular Mechanics" Amer
va is independent of Europe's
we industry, and is preparing to
Nsp'ace the full list Of essential col
wing materials formerly imported
s'om ! Europe. This interesting fact
: Beng demonstrated to the public
travelling exhibit Of dyestuffs
- processes arranged by a com
-'aaslon Of producers of aniline de-
''ssiVea. 1t seems that
comparisons Of German and
.'''ean-dyed fabrics Of cotton, wool.
=. s''H' subjected to rigorous tests
''amaneney, establish the excel
sass .s u the domestic product. Indigo.
~~''ns' earbanthrene blue, alizarine
s,''fs. and alphazurins ar. becom~
ss. 'e'iaois In commercially adequate
Ass. A total Of I74 aniline
x;,t shasf varioua ciassifcations
a''lons that will be made from
ss. TINE, ASSURES the textile in
'h&s the old dependence on the
oyea'uas has vanished"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Saving, Paper

TN THE process of manufacturing
Il paraffined paper and various
products, such as cartons, cups and
wrappers, large quantities Of i'm
pregnated paper stock are now
wasted, says "The Scientific Ameri-
can" And further:
"In the making of paraffined paper
alone, 1t is estimated, the daily waste
amounts to eight or ten tons.
"An opportunity for the recovery Of
large part of such waste paper and
impregnating material is offered in the
application OF q method recently de-
veloped ut the Forest Products Labo-
ratory, providing mill trinls are as sue
cessful as the semi-commercial laho-
ratory work indicates.
"The recovery method consists in
treating the finely shredded waste with
petroleum oil solvent in a series of ex-
fractions, which removes practically
all the parafFin. The parafiln Is after
ward separated from tho solvent,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Saving Coal

THE opinion arrived at during recent
l. years by electrical men that a much
needed saving of fuel would result
from the elcctridcation of railroads
appears to be confirmed by a report
recently presented before the Western
Railway Club, according to 1.-THE Elec-
trical Review" in which it was proved
that 1o0,000,0o0 of the 140 100000 tons
Of coal now burned annually by our
railroads could be saved by general
electrification. 'In view" SAYS "The
Electrical Review" "of the continued,
if not Increasing, need for conserving
the fuel resources of the country for
future generations, the urgency of
attacking the problem and at least
checking this gigantic waste should be
given prompt and careful attention"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Radiurn Bargains

TT OW can some people afford
l. 4 radium dabbed watches, clocks
and house numbers, although the
market price of radium is $4,000
a gram, and gram is less than one
five-hundredth part of a pound?
A writer in Popular Science Month
ly" answers "illuminatingly" that
because radium IS marvellously self
luminous, and a few micrograms zone
of which is millionth part of a gram)
mixed with zinc sulphide crystals wiz
paint your house number and keep it
luminous for years. That is because
zinc sulphide, being itself spheres
cent, is sensitive to radium rays.
Strange as it may seem, the more
radium used the shorter the luminous
life Of the compound
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

suburbs Of Boston and was piling up
among the young Jackies in the Boston
naval training district On September
8 an explosion of several hundred
cases occurred at Camp Devens, which
epidemic Of pestilence which this new
world has ever seen, prostrating four
teen thousand five hundred of our
soldier boys, causing seven thousand
cases of pneumonia and over eight
hundred deaths, in q population of
about forty thousand, all inside of
about two weeks. The flu kitten had
grown at a single bound into the pneu-
monia tiger, and proceeded swiftly to
devastate and lay waste in every direc-
ton, that the soldier boys in the can
tonments, then the youth and manhood
of the entire nation, until nearly half
million of our strongest and finest
had been slaughtered
Something happened in Camp Dew
ems to hatch or infame Spanish in
fuenza from little more than cold in
the head into q raging pestilence.
What, or perhaps who, was it? There
are several explanations, no one Of
them wholly convincing, probably all
of them played part in the
catastrophe, and all alike scarcely
creditable to the intelligence Of the
higher military command.
"The first and most plausible theory
is that of the one age and one sex
community. The population of the army
camps or cantonments consists almost
entirely Of boys and young men be-
tween the ages of twenty and thirty.
Now the spread of the influenza germ
through an ordinary civilian commu-
nifty is of an uneven and broken
character. The first case, say, is in q
young man, and the germ adjusts it.
self to the chemical composition, the
temperature and the resisting powers
of his tissue. He passes it on to,
perhaps, his mother, and here the germ
must make change of habit and ad-
just itself to a new type of soil and
host. The mother transmits it to the
father and again the germ has to ad-
just itself to new environment. The
father infects his little daughter and
the little daughter in turn transfers
the germ to the chilly and withered
tissues of her grandmother or grand
father. Every successive host of the
germ is q new and different country
with a climate to which it musb adjust
itself 1t can make no headway, gather
no momentum.
"But let the germ once enter one
corner Of community made up entire
ly Of young men of the same age and
under like physical conditions OF food
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

in London, you will
be able to call any
New York telephone number, get it
inside of fifteen minutes, and then
talk for three minutes for So"
This is how Marconi expressed
himself, according to 'The Scien-
tific American" in discussing the
recent successful elimination of
many preliminary experiments
which had been made in long dis
tance telephony and which had re-
suited in conversation on March
19 between Clifden. Ireland, and
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
Says ''The Scientific American:
when the Marconi engineer from
his. wireless hut in Ireland called
Glace Bay, instantly came the
answer, 'Glace Bay talking" From
that moment Clifden communicated
continuously with Nova Scotia, the
voices carrying strong and clear all
day. To quote General Manager
Bradfeld, of the English Marconi
company: Transmission was ab-
solutely instantaneous. and the
voices were as clear as over the
telephone. After the first mes
sages were exchanged, conditions
were so perfect that our engineers
continued their conversation all day.
saving the delay of writing their
comments and recommendation re-
garding improvements.
"Though detailed information re-
garding wireless telephoning between
Ireland and Canada is withheld for the
present by the Marconi Company, the
transatlantic wireless telephone prom
ises to be an astonishing success, as
the first efforts to talk through the air
were much more successful than the
first attempts at wireless telegraphing.
"The establishment of regular sys-
tenn of commercial wireless telephony
from New York to London is believeds
now to be merely question of time, and
before long Sydney, Australia, and the
furthest parts OF the earth will be
placed on the aerial exchange"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

port, Louisiana, IN the south, had
been infected" In most instances
there were from 5000 to 5000
cases and from 700 to 1,100 deaths,
according to size.
The germ enters the nose and
mouth and lodges in the cavities of
the nostrils and back of the throat
and larynx. "There it matches or
incubates from two to five days,
until it has grown sufficiently strong
and numerous to pour its toxins
into and overwhelm the system"
Then
"the prostration comes on with head
ache, backache, and a high fever,
running to 104 or los degrees,
rapid pulse, hurried respiration and
severe pains and chills. This goes on
for from two to four days by which
time in -sixths Of the cases the
cells Of the body get the upper hand
Of the invader, neutralize his poisons,
or toxins, and fguratively speaking
fire him OUT or engulf him within
the bodies of the white blood corpus
cles. Then the high fever breaks,
headache grows better and the patient
begins to sit up and take notice.
-Four -fifths of the danger is now
over and all the patient has to. do is
{ L.
ton is not 80 safe and sane as it looks
for though the germs have disappeared
from the nose and throat. they have
gone down into the lungs, or wind
pipe and bronchial tubes. Here the
fluids of the body usually overwhelm
them and they are coughed up and
got rid Of, perhaps to lodge in some
one else's throat and attack g fresh
victim. But in about one-sixth of the
cases the germs get the upper hand of
the situation and begin an invasion
of the walls of the bronchial tubes,
causing congestion, inflammation, and
hemorrhage which are due to their
destructive effects upon the blood ves-
sells. This results in tiny ulcers in
the walls of the bronchial tubes and
these may eat their way in until in
some cases they reach and open into q
blood vessel, when the patient has q
hemorrhage from the lungs and fresh
red clots are coughed up into the
sputum cup which may even reach q
pint or a pint and half. In many
cases the germs are swallowed and at
tack the coats of the stomach and
intestines, producing hemorrhage from
the bowels.
"Then the savage attack which the
germs and their toxins make upor
smaller blood vessels damages theil
walls so badly that the blood cannot
longer circulate through the lungs, ant
we get literal water-logging or dropsy
technically known as edema, of various
parts or in bad cases the whole of E
Lung and the luckless patient literally
browns in his own fluids. One Of the
bitterest things in the whole tragedy
is that the doctor has to simply stanC
and watch his patient drown, which
takes from one to three days, as power
less to do anything to help him as il
he had had his hands tied behind him.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Deer Decreasing

Hunting Is on the increase and the
deer herd is very much on the de-
crease. Figures gathered by the New
York State Conservation Commission
seem to indicate that il is only ques-
tion OF time before the number OF men
who hunt deer every season may even
exceed the deer. Annihilation of the
deer herd is only question of time
unless measures are taken to p.avent
it. The deer herd will be unable to
survive the drain if the breeding
females are killed. .soutimg.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

and lodging and occupation, all 1t has
to do is to adjust itself to the condi-
tions prevailing in the tissues of it's
first victim. And the rest is easy"
60 SWIFT was the work of
~ spreading the disease through
army movement that "exactly
thirty days from the date Of the
first explosion on September s at
Camp Devens the environments on
the Pacific Coast had been reached
and everything from American
Lake, in Washington, in the north,
to Camp Bowie, in Texas, and Gulf
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Speed Downward

|h. -" worlds reeord In shaft sink
q as obtained in December. 1919.
kn.s er"wn Mines, johannesburg,
~ =, Aar'sa, says "rhe Engineering
~. ."'h'ng Journal" The shaft AT
i<,ss '"' record was made In circular
. diameter ~ 20 feet inside
~ .-s s' and during December was
y - assss or from depth of sgs
s. 1ssss the average speed being
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

and fermented by natural process;
used by the field hands in North
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Ar
kansas and some of the Western
States.
POTATO WHISKEY - Made from
the peelings of potatoes, pruncs and
yeast, fermented; popular among log
gers and farmers in Maine, North
Dakota, Oregon and Washington.
MOONSHTNE WHISKEY tvariouslv
styled BLOCKADE" Dynamite" and
white Mule").-Made by Illicit stills
and widely sold in North Carolina
Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia.
Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and
Texas.
NEAR BEERS-Mild substitute for
beer. made from hops and bearing
only remote resemblance to 1t; used
generally throughout all dry states.
PERSIMMON BEER - Made from
ripe persimmons, fcrmented by nat
ural process and capable of develop
ing mild exhilaration if properly
aged; used generally throughout Ala
bama, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Georgia.
C1DER--Made from apples, pears
nnd similar fruit. aged and rein
forced with limited quantity of
brandy or evnn spirituous alcohol:
used generally throughout oil dry
states.