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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
"FOR EAST rs EAST
Nazimova in ''The Red Lantern De
picts the Tragedy of a yellow
Girl With a White Soul.

The New Majestic Theatre presented
a notable moyie-masterpiec on Mon
day, when it began it's showing
of ALA Nazimova in spectacular
and gripping vehicle entitled "The
Red Lantern. y
The picture is even more than it
promised to be. Advance advertising
suggested the exotic charm Of old
pagodas, almond-eyed maidens in man
DARN coats, and possibly a shameful
tragedy Of the type that happens only
in the orient. The film has all of these
and with them heroine, whose visit
ful tenderness and strange combina-
ton Of attributes yellow and white
make her an unfortgettable portrait
in the crowded gallery of moving
picture immortals.
The art Of the great Nazimova was
never more clearly apparent than in
her Interpretation of the goddess of
the Red Lantern.
The story Of the picture concerns
principally Mahlee, a Eurasian girl,
whose skin is yellow but whose mind
and soul are white; Andrew Temple
ton, an American, whom she idolizes,
and Sam Wang, Chinese charlatan,
who winds a web of intrigue about her
from which there is only one escape, an
escape artistically done because never
overdone, thing decidedly rare among
emotional scenes on the screen.
"You will be a great tai-tai Qady)
and after that-darkness. y
This was the prophecy for Mahlee
made by shaggy soothsayer who found
her sobbing her heart out among the
"chinks" in a crowded market-place
The subsequent action of the play full
fills the prediction most uncannily but
with an artistry that makes the picture
a cinema masterpiece.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

that approaches with raving and roar
ing and goes out to the muffled music
of CHASTITY choral silence and
tears.
One by one the "Four Horsemen y
dart in wild gallopade into and through
the lives of Marcelo Desnoyers, his
beloved Dona Luisa, Julio Desnoyers,
his only son and heir, and Chichi, the
little romancita who does her best to
make a broken life worth while. The
merciless chargers leave havoc where
all before was happiness, and in the
process thunder out an indictment
against Germany, that is unequalled
in the ANIMALS of poetry, story, and
oratory.
The great corral for the horses =
red, white, black, and gray = is the
battle of the Marine in which Mareelo
Desnoyers loses his castle and his for
tune but finds his own soul, spirit
strangely glorifed by the contempla-
ton of barbarism, war, and heroism.
The book, as far as the interest goes,
really ends here. AS a matter of fact
it worries along after this point through
a hundred narrowing pages, presenting
a minute description of modern war
fare, an attempt to forecast the final
victory of the Allies without making
it so certain as to leave no loop-hole
for escape in case Germany should win,
and an epilogue, pathetic but hardly
convincing, in which Mareelo and
Dona Luisa in company with Chichi
and all that is left of her little sugar
soldier" visit the unfowered grave of
Julio Desnoyers.
AS is proper in YEARBOOK intended
to promote pacifsm, the denouement
is almost hopeless. Marcelo has risen
above the depths of commercialism, in
which he has lived most of his life, to
the awful heights of heroism only to
see his son, Julio, undergo the same re-
deeming transformation and then go
out in darkness beneath the hoofs of
the four Apocalyptic horses.
But for Chichi and the purple Arabes-
que, who had once been her little
sugar-soldier their is still "the per-
fume of life and love" and the beauty
that turks forever in the curves Of
Grecian vase"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
A BOOK REVIEW.
Contributed by Mrs. R. E. Mailer)
Literary Editor.

Literary Editor.
The -Four Horssmen of the Apocalypse
Translated from the Spanish of Vic
ente Blasco Ibanez by Charlotte Brew
ster Jordan. Published by the E. P.
Dutton Co., 681 Fifth Avenue, New
York;
At the Gilbert M. Simmons Library
in Kenosha a waiting list has been es-
tablished for 1.-THE Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse AS the Postum
box has been contending for years -
there 5 a reason
AS much as six months ago a
European critic christened Vicente
Blasco Ibanez, the author of the far
travelling Four Horsemen the Vic
tor Hugo of the WorldWar'. That
is quite a novel decoration, as any
one will admit who has read the
Battle Of Waterloo in Les Mis-
erables'' or 1.-THE seige of the Castleo
in Ninety Three. 1t implies that
Senior Ibanez is a master of word
painting, passion, pathos, and the sub
tie, nameless, tenderness that distin-
guighed the great French poet, story
maker and philosopher.
Senior Ibanez is some but hardly all
of that. His Four Horsemen ride as
recklessly as Hugo IS fswraiths at Wa
terlooo but with them are none of
the real for-sure-n atural-as-life person
alities that glide across every blood
stained page of the Frenchman s mas
terpiece. In short, 1.-THE -Four Horse
men of the apocalypse is not a novel
at all; it is philosophical treatise in
volving thread Of plot on which sew
eral types 49, not men and women -
maintain tenuous existence rarely if
ever approximating life and through
which the war runs it's relentless course
gorily but magnifcently from the first
dull rumble at Liege to the last throb
Of the 75's that drove the Huns head
long across the River Marine.
AS picture Of war and an analy-
sis Of the political and sociological
elements behind war, the book is a
marvel; as story, a novel of Hugo's
force and power, it is failure.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
Society and Club Life
istration and at present as director of
the Army and NAVY Club.

istration and at present as director of
the Army and Navy Club.
" Eleven sons, one brother and two
husbands represent the stars in onr
service lag-Ought we not to be proud
Of the fact that every one of these
men volunteered for service under Old
Glory9
While the influenza was demand
ing its CHASTITY toll at the training sta
tions Of the country, we sent to Great
Lakes and Camp Logan AZ glasses Of
jelly, 10 pillows, 6 dozen fresh eggs,
besides fruit, soups and custards in end
less array.
take this occasion to thank the
members of the boa4d for their cheer
full cooperation and helpfulness and
all the Daughters for their interest in
the work and welfare Of the Chapter.
And now with the treaty Of peace
about to be signed and the stress and
strain of war work over may we not
look forward to year Of increased
membership and attendance and Of re-
newed social activity9
Respectfully submitted Emma
S. Brister, Regent.
The meeting closed with a most en-
joyable social hour, arranged and di-
rected by Mrs. Holm and her assist
ing hostess, Mrs. G. N. Temper.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
ARTHUR J. FORREST,
Sergeant, Co. D, 354th Infantry.

Sergeant Forrest received the
Distinguished SERVICE Cross for
conspicuous gallantry in action
with the enemy near Removable,
France, November /, 1918. While
the progress of his company was
held up by a rain of fire from six
enemy machine guns, Sergeant
Forrest alone went forward,
working his way to within fifty
yards Of the nest before being
discovered. Charging the nest,
he drove out the entire company
In disorder, killing one with his
rifle. His home is in Hannibal,
Mo.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
Per sOnaIs

Adolph Epstein was in Milwaukee to
day ON business.
Conrad Shearer was business visit
or in Milwaukee today.
G. D. Barnes transacted legal bust
ness in Madison today.
Victor Pappas and his sister. Mrs.
Thomas Kallas, are visiting friends in
Chicago.
Miss Mary Neubauer of 265 Sheri-
dan Road, visited friends in Racine
on Sunday.
Mrs. George S. Whyte will entertain
at dinner at the Elks club on We'd
nesday evening.
Mrs. w. R. Barnes entertained the
Tuesday Bridge club at her home on
Prairie avenue.
Miss Anna Kimball will spend the
summed at the Kimball homestead on
Prairie avenue.
Chief Bailif Henry Feldschau Of the
Municipal Court is spending ten days
vacation at Waukesha.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. A. Hermann is very seriously i'll at
the home at 500 North Pleasant street.
Miss Elizabeth Hurtz of Rogers Park
returned home last evening after a few
days visit with Miss Flynn on Lyman
avenue.
A license has been issued for the
marriage of Christopher j. Werwie and
Miss Cecilia Elizabeth Arents, both of
Kenosha.
The Board of Directors of the Ke-
nosha Chamber of Commerce held their
regular weekly dinner at noon today
at the Elks club.
Charles Soukup, Kenosha soldier
who has lately returned from France,
left this morning for Sturgeon Bay to
visit relatives in that city.
Andrew Tennessen has sold his prop
erty at the corner Of Grand avenue and
West street to Stefan. Hoffman,, the
consideration being seven thousand dol
lars.
Mrs. Anna Meyers has sold her
property at the corner of Milwaukee |
avenue and Broad street to Lewis Der
kowitz. The consideration is given as
so, 900.
The ironwork of the postoffce is be-
ing treated to new coat of paint.
This is probable as extensive repair
of the building as will be made during
the present year. )
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
Miss Emma Brister's State
ment On the Years Work
Features Annual Meet
ing Of the d. A. r.
ORDER FULFILLS The CREE D
Kenosha Daughters Of the American
Revolution Kept the Faith of Their
Fathers - oficers Elected For
Coming Year.

Regent .. Miss Emma Brister
LIST Vice-Regent ............
Mrs Harry Skinkle
End Vice Regent ........
1855. Mrs. A. E. Buckmaster
Recording Secretary ......
~. Mrs. Fl. J. Trowbridge
Corresponding Secretary ....
......... Mrs. J. Genske
Treasurer. Mrs. w. S. Brister
Registrar . Mrs. j. I'll. Holm
Historian. Mrs. George Adams
Genealogist. Mrs. Otis i. Trenary
y
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Mrs. E. G. Shepard of Selma ayea-
ue, spent Monday in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Martin H. Slosson will visit rel
atives and friends in Chicago on We'd
Inesday.
Group G. of the Grace Lutheran
Church will meet at the home of Mrs.
A. G. Hansen at 483 Pomeroy Street
Wednesday afternoon at two O'Clock.
The st. Barnabas Guild will inaugu-
rate the June Social Season with a
dance to be given at Guild Hall on
Wednesday evening. Special music will
be furnished by Miss Florence Kings
ley and Howard Sershon.
A score of the friends of Mrs. ].
Fred johnson surprised her at de-
lightful birthday party at her home on
Park Row on Monday evening. The
evening was pleasantly spent at cards
and at late hour a luncheon was
served.
Commencement festivities at Kemper
Hall continued today with gymnasium
exercises this morning and military
drill this afternoon Both affairs were
well attended and highly enjoyable not
only for the participants but also for
the spectators.
Little Miss Carolyn Meis inaugurated
the commencement season at the Dur
kee school this afternoon with party
given for her teachers at the Meis
home on Exchange street. The func-
ton followed another party given on
Saturday for her schoolmates and prov.
ed an ideal supplement for the pleas
ures of the earlier affair.
Kenosha Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
left today in large numbers for Green
Bay to attend the state convention of
the order and to participate in the fes-
tival marking the one hundredth an
niyersary of the organization Of the or
der. The Kenosha Degree Staff is to
exemplify the work of the lodge dur
ing the great centennial gathering at
the upstate City.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

lIIlMlMllO>R r 81
GAIL H. sAeER.

Corporal, Co. D, 1osth Infantry.
Corporal Sager was decorated
for extraordinary heroism in ac-
ton near Ronssoy, France, Sep
TENDER %, 1913. Upon being
wounded in the hand, Corporal
Sager bandaged the wound him
self and advancing alone toward
machine gun nests. which were
holding up his company, was
killed after proceeding only a
short distance. Corporal Sagers
widow lives in Buffalo, N. Y.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

The ironwork of the postofdce is be-
ing treated to new coat of paint.
This is probable as extensive repair
of the building as will be made during
the present year.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Mrs. Anna Meyers has sold her
property at the corner of Milwaukee
avenue and Broad street to Lewis Ber-
kowitz. The consideration is given as
SO, 900.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Mrs. E. c. Shepard of Selma avea-
lie, spent Monday in Milwaukee.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

A license has been issued for the
marriage of Christopher j. Werwie and
Miss Cecilia Elizabeth Arents, both of
Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Mrs. Martin H. Slosson will visit rel
atives and friends in Chicago on We'd
nesday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

The Board of Directors of the Ke-
nosha Chamber of Commerce held their
regular weekly dinner at noon today
at the Elks club.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Andrew Tennessen has sold his prop
erty at the corner Of Grand avenue and
West street to Stefan. Hoffman,, the
consideration being seven thousand dol
lars.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Charles soukup, Kenosha soldier
who has lately returned from France,
left this morning for Sturgeon Bay to
visit relatives in that city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Miss Elizabeth Hurtz of Rogers Park
returned home last evening after a few
days visit with Miss Flynn on Lyman
avenue.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

Group G. of the Grace Lutheran
Church will meet at the home of Mrs.
A. G. Hansen at 4s3 Pomeroy Street
Wednesday afternoon at two O'Clock.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
B. A. Hermann is very seriously i'll at
the home at 500 North Pleasant street.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
BANGi DOWN GOES THE LID
IN COBLENZ GENERALLY
Sale of Alcoholic Drinks to Soldiers
Reported Prohibited

A Coblenz dispatch OF July % by
the Associated Press says that the
lid on affairs generally in the areas
occupied by the American troops
again has been considerably frightened
by new orders in Amdenath and the
left bank of the Rhine held by the
American Third Division. The sale
of alcoholic drinks to soldiers has
been prohibited. A recent investiga-
ton showed that the Germans had
been selling soldiers an imitation
cognac at high prices, In the Bridge
head proper on the east bank of the
Rhine held by the American First
Division and in Coblenz the sale of
liquor is permitted during certain
hours daily.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
TRENTON COURT REFUSES
TO GRANT INJUNCTION
Saloonkeeper Asks That District At
torney be Restrained from Enforc-
ing the Law

Judge Rellstab in the United States
court il Trenton on June % dismiss
ed the application of William Doc
ner, West Side New York; saloon
keeper, to restrain the United States
district attorney from enforcing the
wartime Prohibition law.
The court refused to entertain an
application for a rule to show cause
why the United States district attor-
ney should not enforce the law in
question. The saloonkeeper's attor-
ney, who was New York lawyer
practicing in New Jersey, at once
served notice on the court that he
would apply in Newark for an injunc-
ton to restrain enforcement of the
nationa Prohibition law.
The court, in Diminishing the appli-
cation for an order, did so on the
grounds, and took the possession that,
even the granting of a preliminary
writ might create an impression that
the court was impressed with the sta
bility OF the contention as raised.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
Emphasizes Necessity of Drysl
Electing Enforcing Officers In
Sympathy With Dry Law

Sheriff Peters of Cook County, ILL.,,
in an interview in the Chicago Daily
News recently discussed situation
prevailing in certain Chicago subur-
ban towns that presents an object
lesson that is valuable to all citizens
who are DESTROYS of seeing Prohibi-
ton made success. 1t emphasizes
the necessity of electing officials who
are in sympathy with the Prohibition
laws. The story is introduced with
the statement that Sheriff Peters has
uncovered some curious, if not close
connections, existing between some
of the towns officers and leaders of
the elements that are persistently
violating the law. He says:
when you find constable of a
town who is saloonkeepcr you don't
expect him to see violations of the
dramshop acts or to be active in sup
pressing gambling or disorderly
houses. Take for example conditions
in Lemont when we raidcd II sa-
looms there a few months ago.
George H. Lew is town constable
and when my men entered his place
he drew a gun on them and had TO
be disarmed.
The Lemont raid was the most
spectacular made, all the II saloons
being entered at the same time and
slot machines costing from $500 to
$50 each were seized and loaded on
trucks. While my deputies were col
lecting the slot machines Lew tried
to raise a mob to take the machines
away from us but he failed And Lew
Lad taken an oath to defend the law.
Conditions had become so bad that
the better class OF people responded
to appeals from my officers for help.
No efforts have been made to remove
Lew from office SO far as is known.
"A man named Gilman was leader
among the violators and when his
case came up for trial he agreed 20
pay fine of $40 and to keep gamb-
ling machines out of his place. The
day he paid the fine, however. we
raided his saloon and found he had
put two new gambling machines in
it."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
CONGRESSMEN'S CELLARS DRY
New York World Polls Member
ship of House
Dry Majority Disapproves CALI
vans Charge
Few Stored Booze Against Day
of Drouth
Some Wet Members Refuse to
Hoard Liquor

A New York World representa-
tive, after Mr.. Gallivan of Massachu-
sets during the debate on the law
enforcement bill in Congress, had
made the statement that there are
members of Congress who have
stored up enough liquor to last them
and their friends twenty years, polled
the membership to ascertain the
truth of Mr. Gallivan's statement.
According to the poll 1913 Con-
gressmen out of 155 questioned de-
clared they did not have any liquor
stored away. Four Congressman
frankly admitted they had a little
liquor stored away for future use,
and the remaining % declined to-
answer. Most of these % were we'll
known vets who declared they would
not incriminate themselves.
According to the poll there are a
number of Congressman who voted
dry who are not themselves total
abStainerS.
One OF the prominent wet men,
bers of the House, New York Con-
gresham, said that his cellar is as
dry as the Prohibition bill itself, that
he was urged to store some away and
friends offered to get him the stock,
but he took the position that al
though he is not Prohibitionist him
self inasmuch as he is a member of
Congress he should not hoard liquor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
Topeka, Kansas.
June 20, 1919.

I'VE have had Prohibition for IS
years in Kansas, which is long
enough, it seems to me, and with a
population large enough, 100000, to
arrive at some definite conclusions as
to whether or not Prohibition makes
for increased drug addiction.
Several years ago the booze peo-
pie started a story which is still
going the rounds, that drug addic-
ton was greater in Kansas than in
any other state, due to the fact that
we had Prohibition. In our division
of foods and rugs we have travelling
inspectors whose business it is to in
spect food and drug establishments
instructed our travelling drug in
spectors to make careful inquiry and
investigation in drug store inspection
to determine whether or not drug ad-
diction was widely prevalent in the
state, and if so, was it growing evil
and what relation, if any, the evil, if
found, bore to Prohibition.
Their report was, after months of
investigation, that outside of the lar
ger cities, drug addition was practi-
cally unknown in the state, and that
the majority of what few drug
habitues were found in the larger
cities we're, as a rule, in people vino
had gone the limit on liquor and gen.
eral dissipation. The exception to this
rule was these few unfortunate cases
that developed the habit in an effort
to get relief from pain, because of
disease
II wish to make the unqualified
statement, and dare anybody to chal-
lenge it, that the number of drug ad-
diets in Kansas is so small as not to
constitute a problem and that the
years of Prohibition in this state
bears no relation to drug addiction,
but on the. contrary makes for a So
Der, sane and prosperous citizenship.
DR.. S. ]. Crumbine,
Sec. State Board of Health.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
PROHIBITION AFTERMATH
IN PHILA. EXTRAORDINARY
Chicago Packing House Located
Mammoth Fruit Preserving Plant
in Strawberry District Sending
Prices Skyrocketing

Prohibition indirectly produced an
extraordinary condition in the straw
berry market this year, says a Phila-
delphia news story.
Prices went higher than ever be-
fore because Chicago packing house
opened what was said to be the
largest fruit preserving plant in the
world in the heart of the strawberry
district of Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and bought the
product of great berry producing
fields virtually without regard to cost
to meet the tremendous demand for
ice cream and soft drinks produced
by the dry period
Strawberries that normally sold
for from five to ten cents a quart
were snapped up at from 80 to 81
cents. The price to the consumer never
went below 80 cents this season.
Strawberry syrup for favoring soda
water formerly sold at 65 cents gal
Ion is now quoted $3.50 gallon
Farmers are elated Many of them
made an average of $1,000 an acre on
their strawberry crop and they are
looking forward to big profits next
year
The packers, when the strawberry
season was over, sent their employees
to other work and closed the factory.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
SUPREME COURT HOLDS
BONE DRY LAW INVALID
North Dakota's Bone Dry Law Fails
to Get o. X. of Higher Court

The Supreme Court of North Da-
kota on July 20 ruled that the bone
dry law passed by the 18th General
Assembly of that state was not legally
enacted. The opinion was handed
down in the case of the State VS.. John
Schultz. Schultz was convicted in
the lower court of bringing liquor
into the state in violation of the bone
dry law. He appealed on grounds
that the act was not legally passed
and the Supreme Court upheld that
contention, the lower court being re-
verscd.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
Fort Scott, Kansas.
May %. 1919.

I have yours of the 10Th instant to
hand relative to the increase, or
rather report of increase of habit pro-
ducng drugs in Prohibition states,
and in reply to same beg to advise
There is 10 basis for such a report IN
this county, and in fact l do not be-
lieve there is any basis for such re-
port on the whole fact of the earth !;
this is report Matched by the liquor
interests, and is as near right as they
ever were in all their lives.
c. F. Young, M. D.
County Health Officer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-15
HE GOT THE KICK

According to the Chicago Tribune
Chicago saloon advertised:
"Provino-the Drink with the Kick"
A delighted passer-by went into the
place and ordered drink of this won
derful beverage. He paid ten cents,
gulped down the liquor and waited.
Nothing happened, absolutely nothing.
where's the kick" he asked.
"Oh, you want the kick, do you,"
said Peter Boschelli, and he came from
back of the bar and kicked his custo-
mer There it is" said he, "Have am
otherl"