Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-12-24
Even the hens are striking.

1t will probably be pretty dry
one.
Not too late yet to send the Herald
as Christmas gift.
Some people feel like the darkey1
who said, Il eat well and l sleep well
but somehow l CANT have no desiah
10 wo'k"
Members of the Usage Indian tribe
will receive a Christmas present OF
$4,000 each from oil leases during
1919. This goes even for the babies.
1t is too late to buy your Christmas
presents early but don't make the
mistake of buying your coal late for
next winter. One experience should
be enough.
An exchange gloats over home
boy having written a scenario for
moving picture that was actually ac-
cepted Most of the film scenarios
seem to have been written by chill
dren.
A Goldfish lays 45,OOO,OOO eggs each
year The thing to do is to catch one
and put him in the hen roost. Then
give the hens the laugh when they
strike in the winter.
The Herald last week purchased
ten tons of news print paper for the
market price on day of shipment
probably $3.50 or $3.50 a ton. The
same paper used to be plenty at $57
a ton. Now the mill that makes our
paper will not sell an order to a pap
er that has not been a customer in
pase years. Some papers are right
up against it," and do not know
where they can get next months pap
er stock. Readers can see just why
all papers have advanced their prices,
and why some will have to raise them
still higher, and why some papers are
apt to quit altogether before spring.
Speaking of movies why don't Lam
caster people patronize the local
houses better? Here is town of
5000 people and the same number
within easy motoring distance. We
have two good theatres showing just
as good films as you can see in Mill
waukee or Chicago. Sometimes we
get releases before Dubuque or Mad
ison. Nevertheless night after night
the houses have just sprinkling in
attendance and rarely enough to more
than make expenses. We would kick
like fury if we had no films. The old
town would be pretty dull-wouldnf
it? The films are doing entertain
ment work that cannot be supplant-
ed and very often project some sound
educational features. OF course there
are bad films but on the whole the
film is a great factor in modern adj
vancement Why don't people go? We
bite-why don't they?
Now the bond issue was showed UNI
der at a greater rate than Mother
Earth was during last weeks storm
we might conclude" Eventually if Not
Now" The project conceived by the
committee was a bold one on the face
of it and involved a comprehensive
plan of highway construction for all
sections Of the county. 1t called TOR
a definite program for ten years
building and cast into the discard the
piece-meal methods so long and ruin
ously prevalent in this bailiwick. The
cost was five million plus interest the
same to run over thirty years.
On the face of it the sum seemed
huge and together with high 1919
taxes, the thought that Madison was
taking too large hand in county al
fairs and some feeling among indi-
viduals that certain communities were
receiving the most benefit, combined
to defeat the measure.
that before we are thru with it good
roads are as inevitable as the march
oftime) we will spend considerably
more than five millions on highways
and still be ready to go further in
the matter.
The plain fact Of the matter is that
we are not so much concerned in how
much taxes we pay as what we get
TOW
money one way or smother and indi-
vidually and collectively our earning
and buying powers increase every
wear. 1t makes no substantial diff
ference whether we buy things as
unit in the form of taxes or buy indi-
vidually from a selfish standpoint ex-
cept that in mass buying we do bet
ter. One man cannot build good
roads even past his farm and sup
pose few did so what would the re-
suit be? The answer is collective
buying Of highways thru taxes.
The Herald is absolutely content
with the voters verdict. We believe
in the people saying what they will
do and do not want things to adj
vance "a bit faster than the people
want them to come. But Good
Roads" will come-some day.
In the meantime we will stay in
the mud and smile.
900
The reelection of Victor Berger
comes as no surprise to those who
know Milwaukee and the fifth district.
The men who voted for the man who
is under indictment and has been
kicked out of congress as unworthy
to take the oath did not and do not
expect congress to re-instate the fell
low. What they intended was a slap
in the face for the country, the flag
and the constitution. Do you imagine
that these men care for the things all
gnnd Americans hold sacrad2 If Won