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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23
Different Troubles

nave an electric runabout on nv
IanuS, You're lucky. 1 have a run
lfounG on my fingers"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

The tailor's goose has larger bill
than any other bird.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

What Was the Cost2
Jo-I was touched by her sweet man.
ner.
Jim-For how much?
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Juneau - The Agricultural Expert
ment association tested a cow belong
ing to w. E. Bussewitz. In seven days
she provided 625 pounds of milk, max
ing 30.2 pounds of butter. Her aver
age amount of milk per day was sc
pounds and her highest day was 90
pounds. Last year Mr.. Bussewltz haC
cow tested that produced 644 pounds
of milk and 80 pounds of butter in
seven days.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Manitowoc-Two Rivers is to have
council of the Knights of Columbus.
Members have been affiliated with
Manitowoc council A class OF fifty
candidates together with forty mem
bers who belong to the Manitowoc Or
der will give the lodge a start of
nearly one hundred. The degree team
from this city assisted by staff from
Chicago will put on the work.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Madison-A million dollars year
is eaten up in damage to farm ma
chinery left out in the weather thru
the winter by farmers of Wisconsin,
according to bulletin of the College
of Agriculture of the university. At
least 10 per cent of the states $780,
100000 worth of machinery is exposed
to snow and rain, the bulletin says,
whereas $500 implement shed would
pay interest at the rate of % per cent
on $1,000 worth of machinery invest
ment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Green Bay-A junior marine corps
division will be organized in this city
soon. Twenty youths have signed
their names to the roll. Sergeant E.
A. Treu is organizing the boys.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Neenah-Mrs. B. L. Smith received
a message from the government ask
ing what disposition should be made
of the personal effects of Capt. b. L.
Smith, who died fighting in France
The captain himself, who has been at
his home here for month now, wired
back that he hoped the department
would forward him his belongings.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23
FOR
EFFECTS
OF
LA
GRIPPE

II. George E. Law, 18h North
Nj; list st., Brazil. Indiana, has
EF] rIord Of cheer for sufferers
a WO1 Tacrippe and its results.
LIQUID or Tablet Form
Sold Everywhere
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Plainfield = Thirteen has proven a
"jinx'' in the extreme for Judge John
Murat of Portage county. For twelve
consecutive terms he has served IS
county judge, but in his thirteenth
campaign, the one of this spring, ne
was defeated for that Office by w. F.
Owen Judge Murat has been an Of
fetal in this county for over forty
years, having served in many capac.
tiles during that time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

La Crosse-Capt. Joel B. Moore Of
La Crosse, former Normal school
teacher, who was recently decorated
with the Medal of St. Ann in Russia,
has also won a Croix de Guerre, ac-
cording to a message received here.
He is believed to be the only La
Crosse soldier who has won two for
eign decorations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Wausau The Marathon county
roads and bridge committee will rec
ommend to the county board the build
ing of a piece of concrete road to con-
meet Wausau with the village of Scho-
field, the cost to be $4,000. The road
may be extended to Rothschild, if the
cost price of $4,000 is guaranteed.
This will be the first concrete road in
Marathon county.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-04-23

Kenosha - Valuable plans for the
new ST. Maries church have been lost
in the mail, and construction is de-
layed until they can be found. The
plans were ready for submission to
the officials when mailed in Chicago
last week, and they have not been
seen since. Tracers have failed to 10
cate them.
The sun., 1919-05-25
Men Whose Draw
ings Make Mill
ions Laugh Tell
How They" Broke
Into the Game
and w h at In
spired Char acters
They Invented

eight years. A two years spell OF
them in the Globe and almost FIVE
years in THE EVENING SUN make up
the record. And still their capacity
for humor seems to be fresh and in
exhaustible.
They Arc Real Artists.
Occasionally in the list of rising
caricaturists as in that OF the more
serious cartoonists We find indications
Of bewilderment on the part of the
artist and then admit to feeling OF
dissatisfaction which he doubtless
shares. But this does not happen
often, for clarity is an ESSENTIAL part
OF the equipment of either. It is
found in thinking more and exagger-
ating less, and when one reviews the
little pictures which have given one
the most pleasure they are usually
found to contain only a reasonable
amount of exaggeration. The outre
ones do not last. In the main the
successful caricature gives us counte-
nance and figure with great fidelity,
and the admirable way in which the
same person is shown in various en-
vironments, while the fitness OF the
other characters who come in to act
their little part and then disappear
are kept true to the main idea, can
not be too highly praised. In fact,
without making a pretension TO high
art quality, the cartoonist often pos
sesseS large measure of It. While he
executes carelessly he knows very well
what he wants to express, he indicates
perfectly the attitude and identity of
his persons and is sure Of the effect
he intends.
There are many artists who class
themselves with more distinguished
schools who fall in these very neces-
sary requisites.
Outside Of a few elementary lessons
in pen and ink drawing, | can't saw
that l ever had any real instruction.
l have always adhered to the belief
that cartoonist assuming that he
has some natural ability at drawing) is
better off with very little or no art
education than TO remain in the art
academy so long that the germ OF in
d!viduality has been exterminated."
THIS is the way c. 4. Briggs begins
his autobiography, and he adds the
following details: 81 broke into the
cartoon game by degrees, starting out
TO be a newspaper artist in 1896 in ST.
Louis with no particular aim except to
make good One of my proudest mo-
ments came when the Globe Democrat
actually ran cartoon concocted from
my very own head. Coming East after
the Spanish American war l spent two
years looking for job but eventually
hooked up with the New York Journal
in 1900. I was sent to Chicago to
work on the American and remained
there seven years, going from there to
the Chicago Tribune. receiving in 1914
an invitation to return TO New York
from the New York Tribune.
Series of cartoons are largely acct
dental, Mine, The Days OF Real Sport
originated back In 1910, and When a
Teller Needs a Friend started about
1912. The series by which ! sup
pose I am best known is the kid pic
lures"
The sun., 1919-05-25
TOM POWERS AT WORM
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His Great Life II You Don't Weaken"
is another popular favorite.
Categorical is Nilt Gross, author of
"Frenchy" and Sarge" in his replies.
Here they are: Broke into the arr
game in 1907 as vice-president and
general brush cleaner to sign painter
off a scaffold two days later, and thus
broke out of the game.
Next venture, 1910. I demonstrated
a self-filler fountain pen in a window
of shop in Brooklyn. Drew comics
and crowds with the pen. Broke the
window one day and it was 'finis lie
job
Il studied art at the National Acad-
envy of Design in 1911; completed
course of two years Cor a two-year
course) in three weeks with the able
assistance of the principal, who saw
in that brief time that l was too good
for the place.
Became an office boy on the Amer
lean in 1912. A year later I got a job
making comics FOR the American Press
Association. In 1915 I went back to
the Evening Journal as a 'comicker.'
There l started Then the Fun Be
gan In 1917 asked for a raise and
| then the fun began.
Still later in 1917 I drew a prize in
lottery and won a ticket to Yaphank.
"19lS. Woke up on a transport.
Still later, but same year. I devastated
town in the St. Mihiel sector. There
I saw a funny little French kid, which
gave me big ideas for comic series.
IS A. NJ. Funny noise.
sc A. NJ. Woke up in hospital.
1919. Back in the United States
drawing 'Frenchy and Sarge the
former a little war orphan brought
! back to the L. S, by doughboy. The
| Tribune was the highest bidder and
'Frenchy' is now going strong"
Good natured ridicule is never harm
full and the true cartoonist has it in
his power to do suffering humanity
lot of good, first by making it
laugh innocently and then by insnu-
, ating a little wholesome sermon. With
a lower motive the caricaturist would
never succeed. Is caIfcature neces-
sary? Well. is sunshine?
Caricature has existed not quite so
| long as sunshine, but 1t was in human
nature from the beginning, And it
will no doubt exist as long as the
race. Many years hence when the
whole of this struggling, nosiy, busy,
confident race shall have exchanged
| it's pleasures and occupations for a
green mound and lying epitaph;
when the follies OF our day shall have
been superseded by new follies. when
the fools now so active shall have
given up their inheritance 10 their
children, the latter will have the ad-
vantage OF knowing, intimately and
exactly. how we lived and had our
being in 1919. They may call up at
will our ghosts TO live over again and
10 love, quarrel, cheat, lie, swear,
struggle and suffer on blindly as we
are doing now. or as the caricaturist
assures us without denial on our
part) we are doing now.
And when our descendants have
The sun., 1919-05-25

individuals catalogued above would
care to be put into the last class and
many of them have answered Rosa
freely and graciously.
Here is what T. \. Dorgan ("Tad')
says:
II broke into the art game in San
Francisco. where l was born: always
wanted to be Gibson's only rival and
practised at all times. / went to gram
mar school in Frisco and at night
studied at the Johns Hopkins Art In
stitute.
Later I worked on the San Francis
co Bulletin and stayed there eight
years drawing sporting pictures. Later
on Mr. Brisbane offered me some more
Jack and ! came to New York to
work on the New York Journal.
have been here fifteen years and have
met my boss, Mr., Hearst, only once,
which breaks all records around this
joint.
Inspired by Thaw Trial.
II started Judge Rummy,', Bunk
and the other dogs during the trial
of Harry Thaw; they sort Of 'kidded'
the case and became popular. 1 have
been drawing these characters ever
since.
1.-THE Indoor Sports I thought OF
about seven years ago, when l was
confined TO my home with rheuma-
tism. I thought what lovely indoor
sport it was, this sitting around the
house looking like the wreck of the
Hesperus. Other indoor sports sug-
gested themselves and this series has
been going on ever since.
"As to personal details, 1 will say
that / am the champion pinochle
player of Long Island. that I raise
Minorca chickens and have lived for
four years in Great Neck without
calling on single actor And l
might add that 1t was Judge Rummy
who first called the Ford car a
fiivver."
Rollin Kirby of The World (caf-
toonist) evidently belongs in the Sec
ond class of interviewees and he re-
sists all the Establishments of Rosa.
He explains to her. however. politely
that he has a certain sort of horror OF
the kind of publicity" she offers. and
believes that the cartoonist gets a
greater amount of that heady arti-
Gle than he deserves" He adds: THE
only value to the public. as l see it,
| is the daily production OF the car
toonist, and the intime stun is bunk.
CasseI Began on a Farm.
John Cassel, whose strong cartoons
are notable in the Evening World. diff
fers from his comrade on the morn
! ing edition and frankly tells his be-
glnnings, his aims and ideals.
IT was born and raised on a farm
near Nebraska City, Nebraska, and
always liked cartooning best. but got
sidetracked TO magazines and book
illustrating. I am glad of It now. as
| it was excellent training. I worked
for years on Life, Puck and Judge
and four years ago decided to break
into newspaper life, and here am
doing editorial cartooning."
The sun., 1919-05-25

finished laughing consumedly at the
old fashioned caricatures that amused
their fathers, wondered at our follies
and exploded superstitions, wondered
who the statesman could have been
who figured so often in political car
toons but is quite forgotten, wondered
how this man should have been con-
sidered an orator who was only soap
box 'spieler,' wondered how the other
man could have been thought wise
who was but dull fool pretending to
see the truth, when our descendants
shall have turned over the strips"
and series of little drawings depicting
these things and have laughed at them
with a kind of good natured contempt
they will close the portfolio and go on
being as big fools as were their IA
theirs before them. It's in the blood.
Therefore, as human folly is mex
tinguishable, as people are and always
will be funny, and as the funniest
thing about them is that they like to
see their funny points made fun Of,
caricature will endure. This is what
confirms the born caricaturist in his
creed of the gospel Of a smile"
Maurice Ketten, cartoonist of the
Erening World, is a firm believer in
this gospel He is Frenchman who
while studying his art In Paris
dreamed of being n great portrait
painter. Chance in the person of Fer
dnand Xau, director of a Paris jour-
nal, turned him to newspaper work.
He filled a commission for a portrait
of this gentleman, and when he went
to deliver it the director offered him
a job on his paper. Ketten took It,
Chung to His Ambition.
A year or so later he came to New
York still ambitious to do portraits.
and he got commissions here, but was,
or thought he was, homesicli for Paris.
Returning home he found that he
had incorrectly diagnosed his disease,
which was a longing for newspaper
cartooning. So he returned to Amer
lea and took this kind OF a Job on the
, Denver Post. 1t was there in a sketch
of William Gillette as Sherlock
Holmes that he exhibited his sense
of humor and with II his fate to con-
/ tinue as a funny man was sealed. In
1905 the paper which he is working
for now sent for him.
The series The Hall Room Boys"
has the distinction of having run con-
secutively longer than any other series
in the evening papers. Its origina-
tor, II. A. MaCGill, who is a natural"
artist, that is, one who has studied
his technic as well as his subject
from life and never had an AGA"
demic training. entered the caricature
| field with the Pee Wee" series in the
| World. His series or grandiloquent
and misleading headlines, such as
81 900 Men Killed." in big letters fol-
lowed by agate typed "if Smith Hadn't
I Closed the Switch" made a Juror OF
laughter and interest in them was so
| broadcast that letters by the thousand
poured into the newspaper Office sug-
costing new headlines.
After six months on the World Mac
Gill went to the Journal, where the
| Hall Room Boys started and ran for
The sun., 1919-05-25

decided to stop the Hun. Got no nearer
to him than a couple Of bone dry
camps In the sunny s., and came back
after the war to resume making Jerry
again.
Up. 81 am unmarried. but will lis
ten to reason"
Marcus of the New York Times, Cas-
sci and Ketten of the World. Claire
Briggs of tho Tribune, Tom Powers OF
the Journal, +. Opper Rolin Kirby,
Robert Edgren and o. +. Williams
are among the recognized car
toonists of New York, practised
artists who take as many liber-
ties with their subjects as contempt
rary caricaturists, who work appar-
emily at their ease, but, however care
lessly their figures may be drawn,
rarely If ever fail to get their idea
quickly to the spectator, However
sketchily or even carelessly drawn the
figures put on paper by these men may
be, they are perfectly CONCEIVED and
wonderfully various and vivid.
The subjoined list OF comics" in
complete as 1t Is, shows their prepon-
derance: Tad" bud" Fisher, Harry
Connihan, George McManus, Frank
Fogarty, H. A. MacGill, Tom Powers,
Cliff Sterrett, Tom Mcnamara. Jack
Farr, Gene Byrnes, Goldberg. Arthur
Momand, Milt Gross. Hoban, Bob
Dean, MacDougal. not to name others
who work both in cartoon and comic
material. Whether these artists tell
the daily lives Of Ferdie and Reggie
or delineate scenes connected with
THE Joneses" or of "Polly." or amuse
with imaginary Indoor sports" char
acter and figure in each series are pre-
served with extreme fidelity, and the
grotesque appropriateness of every
limned gesture cannot be described nor
too highly praised. Indeed. they scarce
need praise. for the exaggerations OF
real life with which the name of each
OF these artists is Joined in the public
mind have made them famous.
Pestered with Questions.
Naturally they are subject to the
penalties of fame. The public, like
Rosa Dartle. want to know, you
know" 1t asks all manner OF imper-
tinent questions, such as Did you ever
study drawing? No, really?" and Had
you the idea at first of being a real ar
fist? Is It possible?" and do tell us
won't you, how that very clever idea
for 1t is clever, isn't 1t, Of drawing the
same people over and over but doing
different things-first came to your"
1t is no wonder that James Steer
forth hit Rosa Dartle with a hammer
II he had killed her Dickens's readers
| would have almost exonerated him fol
she was an annoying person; but 1t de-
ponds on circumstances whether the
contemporary artists will treat a news
paper Rosa Dartle with patience or q
blow. There are three periods in the
lives Of men known by name to tho
public in which their feelings toward
| publicity vary: the first is when they
would like to be interviewed, the second
is when interviewers really want tt
interview them, and the last is when the
subject has stalled. Surely none Of thu
The sun., 1919-05-25
Where They Sell Stamps
OTIS of smaller stores keep post

7 OTIS OF smaller stores Keep post
tage stamps to sell for the ac-
Commodation Of their customers;
but not all of these stores are careful
to keep their stock replenlshed, and
so when you go In for a stamp you
may he disappointed. and then in
some stores you fancy that the store
keeper when he hands over the stamp
and takes your or cents feels that
he is doing you a favor.
Hence the pleasurable feelings
aroused when you read this sign in a
store window:
The sun., 1919-05-25

known in the lives of both countries
body recalls them.
But here as in England the cartoon
list does not restrict himself to political
happenings or changes; he finds no
lack of subjects in the rascalities and
ridicules of common life. AS result
OF this rich field the cartoonist and ca
ricaturist, and with the skill and dill
gence they display in cultivating IT,.
have become valuable as portraying
the spirit OF their times. 1t is certain
that a man a hundred years from now
who would like to realize how we lived
to-day would be foolish TO discard the
files of Life. Judge and the work OF the
newspaper. cartoonists and caricatur-
lists as frivolous. They contain true
characters under frivolous exteriors
that will give him a better idea of the
state and ways of the people as they
live now than he could gather from
any more pompous and authentic his
tory.
Ii is, however, for the contribution
they make to the joy OF life that we
feel most grateful TO our caricaturists.
Future generations may take care of
themselves: we want to laugh to-day.
Happiness Is, aher all, one of the
cheapest commodities going, and it is
in the power of every man (who can
honestly earn food to ea) II he has the
will or the skill TO see it. We as a ma
ton are able TO see it quickly but our
caricaturists have taught us some of
our facility. They teach not always
by means OF works of art, but as mas
tiers of esprit they are often remark
able, showing extraordinary cleverness
and variety.
They're Just Born Funny.
Mainly they are comic artists Just
as they are Americans, born so. Gene
Byrnes, for instance, broke into the
comic game because the comic game
broke out in him. All OF us who were
once boys recognize ourselves in his
Jimmy Dugan." and most OF us would
like to belong to his gang of Regular
Fellers." This artist says that he
studies his fellow human beings, and
they believe him. for the evidence is
in his funny pictures.
"I believe in eating" says Byrnes
81 do not recommend that artists go
without food; in fact I think that
food is one OF the fundamental necessi-
ties for the success of comic artist
although that has been denied. like
wise believe that it is the ideas that
make a hit in the comic. They are
important. Sometimes start out
without any idea at all and wait to
stumble into one. I really try to wind
up with one, whether big OF small; the
size OF IL to be left to my reader"
Byrnes was born in Harlem twenty
six years ago and took a notion that
he could draw. He never took a lesson
in his life, but did take a prize once
for drawing an Indian Head" and
that set him going; he .has been goine
about four years now. He started on
the EreninO Telegram, and his Sunday
comic, wide Awake WILLIE" In the
Herald is one of the most popular