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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
GERMANY AND SAAR VALLEY

Referring to the Saar Valley coal
fields, the rival claims for which have
occupied so much space in the news
papers of late Alonzo Engelbert aylor
says in the Worlds Work for May:
The rs have it. Indiana began the
legislative season by voting presiden-
1.-THE loss of Alsace-Lorraine and
of the Saar fields would not be very
serious to Germany if production in
the other fields were normal The
Saar fields are now producing about
$4,000 tons per day and the French
are experiencing none of the difficult
ties that attend the operations of the
German mines. The Saar output can
easily be brought to 100000 tons
per annum, and the output Of the
mines of Alsace- Lorraine to 10000
tons. twenty-five million IONS sub
tracted from 270,000,OO0 (Germany's
yearly production) would not repre-
sent very serious loss to Germany,
but 100000 added to 100000 tons
(France's yearly production) would
represent an enormous increment to
France, exceeding her import in 1918.
The coal of the Saar is of excellent
quality for furnace and coke ovens.
The loss to Germany rests rather upon
geographical than cumulative consid-
erations. The coal from the Saar went
to the industries Of the Upper Rhine
and to Bavaria; and if these are to
be supplied by Dortmund, longer
haul, this would represent a definite
impost upon the industries of these
sections. The future situation may be
summed up in one sentence. If Ger
man coal production RECEIVERS it's nor
NAL capacity, the loss Of the Saar and
Alsace-Lorraine may be regarded as
negligible; if German coal production
remains in it's present situation, the
loss Of the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine
mines is still negligible, because the
situation will be so bad that it could
, not be any worse"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
WHAT WORRY DOES

Walter Camp, author of Keeping Fit
All the Way, says few people realize
the effect that worry has upon the di-
gestiOn. He points out that if man
becomes run down the smallest deci-
sion gives him difficulty and seems
weighted with enormous possibilities
of disaster. can experiment was once
tried upon cat" he says; (which was
fed a dish of milk, strOked until it
purred, and played with for half an
hour The animal was then killed and
the stomach examined; the milk was
perfectly digested Another cat was
taken and given a similar saucer of
milk; then its fur was rubbed the
wrong way and it was teased and an
noyed as much as possible for half an
hour. Upon examining the stomach of
the second cat it was found that not a
step in the process of digestion had
taken place"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15

The Christian Science Monitor is
impressed that cit might fairly be
argued that the discontinuance of
fences is a pleasant symbol of friend
" and neighborhood relations, and
that the league of nations is, after all,
simply a movement to Obviate the
SUSPICIOUS necessity of each nation
surrounding itself with a fence" Per
haps, and then again perhaps not.
While John Jones might think of it as
a contribution to a greater neighbOr-
illness to remove the fence that distin-
guished the domain of the John
Joneses from that of the Frank Smiths,
living next door, it is conceivable that
he might hesitate about removing the
fence if, in doing SO, he at the same
time reIinquished to Frank Smith a
vote on how Mrs. Jones should cook
the breakfast bacon and eggs, or let
neighbor Smiths hungry cows and
chickens into the Jones vegetable gar
educational Republican.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
AS DR.. STEINER SEES PROBLEM

The best work of characterization
has been done by the public schools.
The underpaid, overwo led American
teachers have been the high priests,
or rather the high priestesses, of the
American spirit, and rather tardily we
have awakened to that facl. Their
work, of course, has been p:eponder-
antly with the children. The settle
ments come next. They have made
whole neighborhoods American; they
radjate Americanism at it's best, and
our great cities owe them larger
obligation than they realize. They
are the House of the Interpreter"
The churches which the immigrant
imports yield themselves reluctantly
TO this task, and have frequently OPP
posed Americanization. They are often
rationalistic churches and until lately
we're supported by their respective
governments. This menace has been
removed by the war; and in many in
stances the imm grants themselves are
opposing the resumption of such con,
troll.
4 leader among the hungarian peo-
pie of New York confessed to me that
his influence among his own people is
gone, and that they demand American
guidance and leadership. Contrary to
the general belief, Roman Catholic
priests are helping il; the oendeavor TO
American re their poop!e. and | know
OF many Y. M. c. A. secretaries who
are conducting classes in parochial
halls.
American Protestant churches have
attempted the task of Amerinanization
" without satisfactory numerical results,
because they are under suspicion of
PROSECUTING. They would be more sue
cessful if Outstanding and American
izing were not used by them as inter-
ehangeable terms. The foreigner is
usually not heather, and while his
brand of, Christianity may not be "our
Kind" it tends toward loyalty and re-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
HERE IS A RIDDLE

Dispatches from Paris tell of the
opening by the French government of
a chain of Paris restaurants which
will serve to the public not less than
100000 meals each day.
The food is to be scientifically pre-
pared so that the caloric content of
the days meals will be scientifically
proportional to the needs Of the hui
man body.
The price of the three meals is to
be SO cents.
But, the most interesting and sig
nificant thing about the proposition is
that practically all of the food to be
used in these restaurants comes from
America.
Now, the man or woman who would,
under present conditions, try to live
in an American restaurant on 80 cents
a day would be-well, we don't ike to
characterize him.
The question that seems to pro-
pound itself insistently is this:
How can the French government
get American food from America over
to France, paying all the freight bills
and distribute it at the rate of three
square meals day for 80 cents?
And if the French government can
do it, for 80 cents, why should the
same quantity of food over here cost
so much more?- Madison. journal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
COMMUNE WITH NATURE

Most of us miss about all the pleas
ure of life because we go with our
noses to the grindstone, and our eyes
glued to the mud on our shoes. There
is hardly a one of us who cannot in
an hours journey get away to a park,
a country lane, a river bank or a bit
of wood.
A pocket bird book will cost you
$1.50; take it and go out into the coun-
try. In the spring afternoons Or even
ings pick a quiet shaded spot and get
acquainted with the dozens of birds
about you. Meet the thrush bobo1ink,
wren, fly catcher meadow lark, and
a score more that now are marrying
and giving in marriage.
Or take a flower book and learn the
habits and faces in the wild gardens
OF the fields and woods Or a bug
book and scrape acquaintance with
the insect armies that are marching
in orderly array about their nations
business An ant city will afford in
struction and ethical advice to a phi
losopher for a year A bee hive, aye
the tiny entrance to it, will give one
more food for thought than the aver
age statesman's address.
To lay prone on the warm sod and
watch the ships of the sky sail their
wonderful voyages is a worthwhile
thing.
Most of us know nothing of the
worlds about u.s. Our wisdom is of
the counter, the ready chewed slang
of the thoughtless cities, and a movie
or burlesque show gives us relaxa-
ton. Your immortal soul deserves
better than that.-N. E. A.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
BABY DAY AT
LOCAL CHURCH

1t was an interesting sight Thurs
day afternoon to watch the procession
OF baby cabs vending it's way from all
parts of the city toward the Presbyte-
rian church, where a reception was
given to the little ones under the man
agement of Mrs Ostoff, superintend~
ent of the cradle roll department.
The parlors were beautifully deco
rated with dainty flowers and ferns,
as befitted the occasion. Toys OF all
kinds were provided and the little men
and women were soon happily play
ing. while the mothers, grandmothers
and aunts, as interested spectators,
discussed the merits (no dement's If
you please) of their respective bless
ings.
Small tables were placed about the
rooms where dainty refreshments
were served.
Thirty babies and small children,
sixteen mothers, four grandmothers
and ten visitors and aunts graced the
occasion and enjoyed the social get
together spirit of the day. The young
est baby was Raymond Grant Albert,
aged six weeks.
Sunday will be Mothers Day." and
special services will be conducted in
tie church, to which all mothers are
invited. Volunteers will be ready to
care for the babies in the church par
lors while the mothers enjoy the sew
ino
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
LIBRARIES OF SMALL TOWNS

In letter TO the Boston transcript
small town dweller complains that his
local library is a purveyor of light
popular fiction at the expense of liter
allure of the higher class, supposedly
educational institution being little more
than a house of entertainment. This
complaint, no doubt we'll founded, can
be brought against city libraries also.
The explanation in both cases is that
the masses of readers are looking for
entertainment rather than instruction
and therefore the chief demand every
where is for fiction. In one of our
largest cities recently man asked in
vain at his library for book that
should have been there and learned
that the same library had in circula-
ton 55 copies of a popular novel that
handles the Germans without gloves,
it being necessary to go on the wait
ing list to get hold of even one of
, these SIS copies.
In order to secure the largest results
in circulation from the expenditures, a
matter of great Importance from the
librarians point Of view, the popular
demand must be met in large meas
, ure. Obviously the problem is more
serious where the funds are more linn
tied. If the small town library dis
tributes fiction in lieu of the world $
best thought the public is more TO
blame than the selecting and purchas-
ing committee.-Ma Democrat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
Sheared

Whatever it was the Sick Man OF
Europe had seems to have been con-
tagious. News.
* * y
The Paris dispatches report the.
President as hammering ahead, but
do not say whose.-Boston Herald.
* y y
What did Germania think-that the
nations were going to make her Queen
of the May?-Chicago Daily News.
!: y *
Ii nations were as deliberate in de.
Gliding on war as they are in agreeing
on peace there would be no war
Newark News.
1t seems odd that the only people
deserving self-determination were
those subjugated by the Central Pow
ers.-Greenville Is. CO. Piedmont.
* * *
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, of Theron
gen, is very low, mentally. His brain,
we hear, is being treated by an osteo-
pathic specialist.-New York Evening
Sun.
Lennie will agree to almost any
thing, for the sake of peace, except
a democratic election, because that
would mean the end of Bolshevism.-
Chicago Daily News.
81 & $.
The man that got off that stuff
about how womankind is advancing
by great strides had evidently not
seen the new hobble skirts. Auburn
Globe Republican.
A Statesman is a politician you
agree with.-Chicago Evening Post.
The headwork of the Hohenzollerns
availed but little, in spite Of the
motto, Fats will win the war
Washington Star
Every time we get ready to swat
Germany in a tender spot, one Of those
darned points gets in the way.-Green-
vile (S. CO. Piedmont.
A correspondents statement that
Wilhelm is eating out his heart" sug-
gests that he must be biting on gran
te.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
All efforts to keep France from get
ting what she deserves is an effort to-
keep the Hun from getting what he
deserves. (S.C) Piedmont.
Macmillan Harden asks if the Ger
man people are to be made coolies.
Well, coolies are more useful members
of society than Junkers.-New York
World.
The Russian situation proves Colonel
ROosevelt's aphOrism: There may be
reason for not fighting, but there
can be none for fighting feebly. st.
Louis Globe democrat.
The outlook is not entirely dark.
1t now appears that there are improv
ing chances of being able to foist off
the Philippines on the Pilipinos.--
Nashville Lulnberman.
The German Minister of Finance has
sworn a solemn oath never 20 sur
render a foot of German soil. But We
should worry-we all know what a
German oath amounts to.-Hutchinson
Gazette.
Mr. Hoover says that the loaf wiH
be mightier than the sword in COMPOSE
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
ST. JAMES PALACE, LONDON
FORMERLY ROYAL MANSION

ST. James palace in London was
formerly the royal palace. 1t was
erected by Henry VIII and dedicated
to st. James. After the destruction OF
Whitehall by fire in 1897 it became the
chief residence Of the reigning sover-
eigns of England, and for that reason
the English court was referred to as
the court of st. James. After her &C
cession in 1897, Queen Victoria moved
the royal household to Buckingham
palace, but until the death Of the
prince consort in 1861 she held her
levees and drawing rooms at st.
James.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
CULTURE

'It is culture which gives character,
Intellectual and spiritual atmosphere
to a man or woman" says the Irish
Homestead. "The Danes attached the
greatest Importance to this. The
founder of their high-school system
realized that it is of the first import
ance to make man good human be-
ing. more important even than it is to
make him an efficient business man
of to equip him with scientific knowl-
edge. Therefore, as the center of that
education, Danes were taught the his
tory and literature of Denmark, the
story of their national heroes, the
poetry, folk songs and music which
were peculiar to their country, togeth-
er with a survey of world history; in
fact, they impaired a culture, a knowl-
edge of the best which has been
thought or done by Danes. The chill
dren at our national schools are laying
the foundations for acquiring knoWl-
edge rather than acquiring culture, an
economic policy or scientific education.
They are too young to comprehend all
that is involved in the idea of ma
tional culture. An IRISH rural univer-
sity would impart to its pupils
knowledge of Irish literature, the leg
endary history, the story of national
heroes, all noble deeds, all exaltatiCn
of mind manifesting itself in poetry,
music. song or action. We were made
by that past; we are the inheritors Of
it.
"But all that vast literature and ira
dition is today almost unknown TO
Irish people. It's beauties are only
known to scholars. Yet generation
after generation of our ancestors had
dreams of beauty, sacrificed them
selves for causes, did memorable
things and they were recorded, but
that record is little known. The music
is extraordinary in it's appeal, but it
also is known but to few. Without a
culture of some kind a man is spirit
ually boor. He may be an efficient
worker at his business, but he will
make any educated person feel that
behind his business efficiency his soul
is empty and he is hardly more than
an intellectual animal. One of the
aims, the central aim, indeed, of an
Irish peasant university should be to
give access to that cast treasure house
of Irish tradition, song, story, and mu-
sic to every person enrolled as a pu-
pill"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15

shape. Tourists this year-and indi-
cations are that there will be many OF
them-will not be apt to carry away
a pleasant impression of their trip
to Devils Lake if they are obliged to
use road as poor as the present one
to the lake.
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the centuries

tial suffrage to women and Iowa is
closing it whit the same action, says
the Springfield Republican. Presiden-
tial suffrage has been granted now in
20 states including Vermont, where
g veto by the governor is being chal-
ienged.-S Springfield Republican.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15

against "the peace of coercion" which
is being prepared by "an unsatisfied
and vengeful enemy" against the tout
ragged people of Germany.
That is because the Peace Congress
seems inclined to require Germany TO
make some partial reparation for the
irreparable thefts and destruction of
property which she has wantonly COM
mitted upon her neighbor nations.
The particular measure of reparation
which Mr.. Willard has in mind in max
ing this eructation is that Germany
shall be required to pay $25, 900, 900, 900
during a period of thirty years-say
1894, 100000 year To do this, he
protests. would rob Germany of any
shadow of, economic self-determina-
ton and put 100000 people to work
as slaves for the Allies and America.
II is neither moral nor economic"
That is to say, it is immoral to make
a thief surrender stolen goods. Also,
it would be uneconomic to give France
and Belgium a fair chance to regain
the industrial prosperity of which Ger
many deprived them.
Of course it was, in Mr.. Wizards
mind, quite moral and economic for
Germany to infiict losses of twice
twenty-five billions upon other coun-
tries, wantonly and for her own pecun-
larry gain. 1t was entirely moral and
economic for her to infiict such losses
of seven billions upon Belgium alone.
1t was in complete accord with the
moral law and with sound economics
for her to steal more than $900,O00,-
600 in cash from Belgium under the
guise of "war contributions and fines"
It was the height of morality and econ
omy for her to steal and to destroy
$1.150 900 600 worth Of Belgian ma
chinery, materials and factories.
! But to make the thief disgorge the
plumber, to make the destroyer re-
build the ruins-what an outrage!
Why, cries Mr.. Willard, "No German
Government which agreed to such a
proposal could endure for a day!"
Remember that Germany came
through the war unscathed; that not
one Of her cities was destroyed; that
not one of her factories was plum
dered, d.&Iantled and burned; that
not one of her mines was flooded and
wrecked; that not one piece of her
machinery was stolen and carried
away; that not one Of her orchards
or forests was cut down. Her indus
trial efficiency remains unimpaired,
just as it was before the war. Indeed,
it is actually increased, by the enor-
nous Inass of stolen machinery and
materials with which it has been en-
lowed
We expect ravaged Belgium to re-
habilitate herself We expect plum
dered and PROSTATE France to make
good under the crushing load of debt
which Germany has imposed upon her.
But to ask uninjured Germany to
make even fifty per cent restitution
of her thefts and vandalism, that
would be coercion" by a vengeful
enemy" upon an Outraged people,
Give us an ounce of civet, good
apothecary, to sweeten our magma
tion!-Harvey' Weekly
HERE IS A RIDDLE
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15
TIFF, WARNER ROAD


There has been much discussion as
10 the location of the cement road to
be built between Baraboo and Devils
lake with the $4,000 left by the late
w. w. Warner Of Madison. From an
engineering standpoint it should be
built on Lake street and along the
Chicago & Northwestern track to the
park. This route is comparatively
level and would be easier to maintain
because of the absence Of hills.
, From scenic standpoint the high
way should take the course of the
East Sank road. Here are hills, but
the view near the schoolhouse is fine,
overlooking, as it does, one OF the
oldest valleys in geologic time. The
Baraboo valley is beautiful land
scape, besides. This route brings the
road to the northwest corner Of the
park, through beautiful wood over
the terminal moraine and to the lake.
1t will be difficult to find more beau
tiful drive than this. A. c. Clas, the
Milwaukee architect; 0. w. Spidel,
the Milwaukee landscape gardener;
w. E. Barber president of the Wiscon-
sin Conservation commission; James
Neyin, a member; J. T. DOnaghey,
with the Wisconsin Highway comm S.
sion; H. E. French, city engineer of
Baraboo, and others favor the route
through the woods. Some of them
are very enthusiastic and say it will
be a drive difficult to surpass in Wis
~consin for scenic beauty.
Primarily the road is for pleasure
drive and should be away from the
railroad track. Thousands of people
come to this region on account of the
rare scenery and the road should be
scenic
1t is unfortunate the members of
the Claude family object to the loca-
ton through the woods as now de-
cided upon. They fear the park will
be ruined and that much of the wild
vegetation be spoiled This remains
10 be seen.
1t is also unfortunate the heirs of
Mr.. Warner demand the $4,000 be ex-
pended in strict Interpretation of the
will. The city, town and state are
willing to add to the $4,000 to make
a better and wider road, but this will
ret be tolerated, according to the SEN
| timent obtained by those interested in
the building of the road. The will was
made long before the United states
entered the war, and money should be
added to the $4,000 to make a road
like Mr. Warner had in mind All
that can be done under the circum-
stance is for public funds to do the
grading and let the $4,000 build as
wide a cement road as it will
The road is for the pleasure of the
general public; not only for Baraboo,
but for Reedsburg, Portage, Madison,
and all who come from far or near TO
see the lake. The other day a Reeds
burg paper gave the impression the
road was for Baraboo. This is not
true. The road will be for anyone
who drives a car, be that car from
Haddon Heights or Hackensack.
Baraboo appreciates the lake, APP
preciates the beautiful hills, and there
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15

is no thought or desire to mar the
beauty of the place or region. In the
Yellowstone and other parks roads
had to be constructed in order to
reach vantage points and the Warner
road will be pleasure route through
the centuries.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-15

spoct for lew ana order D. Eiward
A. Steiner in The American Ray.cw OF
Reviews.
Evening journal., 1919-10-20
NAAMAN'S BRIDGE
NEARLY FINISHED

Concrete work on the bridge over
Naamans creek, on the Philadelphia
turnpike, is being finished, but It is
not likely the structure will be opened
to traffic before spring or early sum
mer. Extensions OF ten feet on each
side Of the bridge were made necessary
by the widening OF the road. The old
bridge was twenty feet in width, while
the new bridge will be forty feet wide.
Worth Brothers steel Company has
secured permission TO lay a double
track switching railroad under this
bridge, at the eastern end, for general
switching purposes and to carry mate
rial TO and from the huge blast fur
mace which is being erected toward the
river. east OF the main line Of the p.
B. and w. railroad The abutmenis
and retaining walls Of the Worth Com
pany bridge are being put in and slabs
will soon be ready for use as they are
now in form.
The old turnpike between the Worth
plant and the present detour around
the bridge, is now in course Of recon
structiOn.