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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-19
Saw Rig at Auction.

I will offer my wood saving ma
chine outfit, which is in good con-
dition, at auction at the ALI. Tho
mann sale Friday, Feb. 81
nd. THEO. HALVORSON.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-19
Home Cooking Sale Saturday.

The Fortnfghtly Club of the Con-
gregational church will hold sale
Of home cooking at Parman's drug
store Saturday afternoon, Feb. 22'
at two o'clock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-19

Frisco, so don't. worry as it isn't
going to be so very long. Write as
soon as you get this letter. Lots of
love to all.
DICK,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-02-19

Have your window screens
painted and repaired now. Larsen
& Hansen, first door west OF Haas
meat market.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

lost They had completed twothirds
of the flight when the machine broke
down and they we're picked up by a
tramp ship in mid-Atlantic. On
May 25 they were transferred to
British warship off the Orkney
Islands, and the news of their rescue
was flashed around the world.
A Nonstop Flight
The nonstop flight was accom-
plished by Captain John Alcock and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

Lieutenant Arthur w. Brown, OF the
British Air Service, in June. They
took off from Newfoundland on
June Ia and landed at Clifden, Ire
land, at 9 $40 a. m. on June Is, after
sixteen hours Of terrible suffering
from cold and storms. After hav-
ing completed this trip safely, it was
Alcock's fate to be killed by a fall
recently.
Crossing the Atlantic by air end
ed for the year with the trip of
the British dirigible R-34, which
started from East Fortune, Scot
land, on July 2, and reached the Min
cola flying field on July 6. She
started on the return trip at mid
night on July 8 and landed in Eng
land in the morning Of July 13.
There were transcontinental
flights by American army aviators,
and there was also flight from
England to Australia. This was for
a prize Of $4,000 offered by the
Australian government. The sue
cessful flyer was Captain Ross Smith,
an Australian aviator, who left Eng
land on November IL and reached
Australia on December 10. His
route was by way Of Cairo, Delhi,
the Malay Peninsula and the islands
of Oceanica.
The long fight to get woman's
suffrage amendment to the Consti-
tuition through Congress was also
won in 1919. On May 21 the House
Of Representatives passed the Susan
B. Anthony amendment, and on June
a the Senate capitulated. Twenty
two states have already ratified the
amendment, and suffragists predict
that their work will be finished and
woman suffrage part Of the Consti-
tuition by February 1.
There are other reasons why 1919
will stick in the minds Of many per-
sons. So recent as to be still fresh
in the mind, there is the high cost
OF Christmas presents, which has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
[ Nonstop Flight

Zion, and they renamed the beau
tful canyon Little Zion.
Their descendants are still there.
fine, outstanding, honest folk who
till the tiny farms. Wheat, vege-
tables and berries, alfalfa and sugar
cane provide the necessaries of life.
and a sorghum mill earns dividends
IN rich syrup. Far up on the top of
a forested plateau overlooking Zion
Canyon is a mill which provides
them with lumber. Worked in CO.
operative manner, it's product is
lowered by cable over a sheer cliff
to the canyon floor three thousand
feet below and is taken out bv road.
For years Zion Canyon practically
was unknown. Then an occasional
tourist, hearing of the rainbow of
the desert, would come in. Their
enthusiasm was a source of sincere
amazement to the folk who had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
The Things for Which 1919 Will Be Remember
Labor Troubles and sSRed" Agita.
ton Almost COntinuous---Liv.
ing Cost Never Higher

mounted to an altitude this vear
where the atmosphere is too rarefsa
for many Of the bourgeois to er,st
One example will do for the fam,lv
man. Doll perambulators that ]ast
year cost SIT are this year priced
at $23 for exactly the same article
only not quite as well made. The
fellow who fingered the price tay
ON that affair will remember 1919
for many long year to come.
This is only in line with the cen.
eral scheme Of mounting costs, how
ever. Housewives will recall 1910
for that hopeful pronunciamento Of
President Wilson, in August, when
he assured the country that prices
were going to begin to drop right
away, almost, and that within thres
months the cost of living would he
notably less. They will then COM
pare the cheerful Presidential gen
eralities with the cold blooded facts
of the November bulletin Of the
Bureau Of Statistics Of the Depart
ment Of Labor, which said that the
cost Of living was per cent higher
in November than in October. And
housewives will remember 1919 for
quite a little while.
A good deal might be written
about the cost Of living in 1919 if
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
Having Seen Only Beauty Beauty Means Nothing TO Them

blue and yellow. Jagged peaks of
cream white come into view, rising
out Of pink cliffs until, at Spring
dale, the entire panorama of the
Zion Canyon entrance lies spread
cut in rainbow hues, pinks, deep
blood reds, dazzling whites, all con-
trasting with the vivid green of the
little farms in the valley and the
gray-blue Of faraway mountains.
Up the huge gorge the triplet-
crags of the Three Patriarchs
stand as though on guard at the
canyons mouth Further up, the
top of Angels Landing can be
seen, Gibraltar Of solid red, and
the sheer white precipice Of Ell
Gobernador breaks up above the
encircling, multi-colored cliffs.
The Powell expedition discovered
Mukuntuweap, as it was then called
by the Indians, shortly after their
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
" n ERE Is a new kind Of work
for some one.
- We have had uplifters

galore. Artists have de-
voted their lives to depicting the
beauties Of nature for the benefit Of
the people. Educating them up to
full appreciation Of wonderful seen
cry and beautiful things has been
the mission Of countless civic up
lift clubs and similar organizations
Now it is "downlifters" that are
needed for people who have been
born and reared in the midst Of
scenic wonders which almost defy
description. Most Of them have
never seen anything else, and they
prove the old assertion that beauty
is comparative by failure to real
sze that this magnificence is even
out of the ordinary.
They do not need to know Of ma
ture's marvels, having them on
every side. But to benefit by them
as others do they have to learn of
drab, smoky cities; fiat, unbroken
plains; swarming slums, and the
thousand and one features of a
lesser outside world.
They need education do,t7,avartl
to the appreciation of their own
surroundings.
The place is Zion Canyon, the
Utah wonderland, which has Just
been made a national park. The
people are those Of the little Nor
mon set dement's near its entrance
which, until the tourists began to
come, were far off the beaten
track.
Leaving the railroad at Lund,
Utah, the automobile stage cuts off
across a typical Western desert on
the way to Zion Canyon. Then,
suddenly topping rise, the road
drops down into the fertile valley
surrounding Cedar City. Out again
across stretches of desert, through
gorges between lava mountains, it
winds until, over the crest of an
other rise. the little village of To-
querville is seen in a cuplike valley
of green foliage and farms.
The Dixie country this is called,
and on up the Rio Virgin it's tiny
settlements are like emeralds in
desert setting. Up the Virgin the
skyline becomes more wildly col
orful. At Rockdale the pink and
red commences to mingle with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
Troubles of Labor

This also is fruitful Of discussion
and seems inextricably tangled with
radlcallsm. The two principal strikes
were the steel strike and the miners
strike. The first was born with a
great blare of trumpets and petered
out almost unnoticed. The second
was ushered in with threats of a
national calamity and ended in
compromise after a great deal Of
suffering that turned sentiment
against the miners and forced sey-
eral states to take possession of tie
coal mines and work them as a pub
lie necessity. In each of these great
strikes the radical element was IN
control at first and made big noise
but the conservatives among the
labor leaders were ultimately abls
to swing the majority with them.
Speaking generally, the radicals
figured 1919 as the beginning OF
their particular millennium. Many
Of them now regret that they did net
check up their figures more care
fully and verify the date by COM
paratlve research Among this
number are several hundred "Reds'
who were deported to their native
Russia. The radicals made an aw-
tul lot of noise during the year, but
the net result at the end was TO
show that they formed only very
small percentage of the population
of the country, while their method
CT warfare was built on the ancient
Chinese system of mounting devils
On stills, beating drums with great
vigor and burning stinkpots.
January 6, 1919, .sx-President
Theodore Roosevelt died at his home
on Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay. His
physicians said that the immediate
cause of death was eliot Of blood
which detached itself from a vein
and entered the lungs. One of the
contributory causes of his death was
the fever he contracted during his
explorations in Brazil, when he dis
covered the River of Doubt, early in
1914. This fever left a poison in
the blood, which had been a con-
tributory cause of several attacks
of illness he had suffered since that
time
The death Of Colonel Roosevelt
removed the most forceful and
picturesque figure there was in
American public life. His place az .
leader still remains to be filed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

never known anything else, and this
IN turn astounded the newcomers.
They left to tell Of what they had
seen, and more came. They were
received with characteristic hospi-
tally, but with the query:
I'VE are glad to see you; but tell
us, why do you Gomez"
Artists told them of "color
schemes and tourists raved over
'vlstas' and magnificent heights "
Scientists spoke of "stratas" and
the half dozen ages represented bv
them and left the settlers as puz-
zled as before.
A modern camp was established
by W. W. Wylie to accommodate
Inc tourists, and the movement
started to set Zion Canyon aside as
a national park. Wylie knew the
settlers we'll and understood them
In the little meeting house at
Sprlngdale he became the worlds
first "downlifter' and in easilv
understood language told them of
the unusual character Of the region.
how it was so different from any,
thing else in the world and whv
thousands of people from the cities
ana other parts Of the country
would come to see it.
Zion Canyon is now Americas
newest national playground, and
thousands undoubtedly will come to
new the region, with its half-mile
nigh preclpices, its cliff dwellings, the
huge rock amphitheaters and un-
climbed peaks. Ell Gobernador is
said to rival, if not surpass, the ia
nous I'll Captain Of the Yosemite.
as it rises sheer white to 5000 feet
above the red of the CANYON walls
The Temple of Sinawava is
circular amphitheater whose sheer
'NA' oui Ouiu TWO MASSIVE rock
pillars, once worshiped as idols bv
early savages. The red cliffs are in
urn surmounted by white ones. and
mountain peaks Of this white rise
out Of the deeper colors. untouched
by the foot of man.
AT present only the main CANYON
IS accessible, but with lions reser-
'a1ion as national park roads and
trails Will be built to parts of even
greater beauty.
And as the tourists come the
downll1tlng' process goes on, a
study Tor an artist or psycholo-
glst' until some day the settlers at
llon,s gate will realize the feelings
OF the outsider who comes, looks
and flnds himself without fit words
to describe his sentiments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

HERE are several good ways
to remember 1919. Any one
can think Of at least ten off
hand. Try 1t. But the
question Is, why should 1919 have
place in history7 The answer to
hat comes in smaller compass. In
act, should 1t be remembered? But,
es. Sure. Well, why7
PROHIBITION
That's right Anything else?
Jm-m-m--oh, yes.
The first transatlantic flight.
Right again. Next.
Suffrage.
Cheero! But that Is surely all.
Yes, unless-well, just what is the
about peace?
But there Is no doubt about pro-
libition, is there7 January 16, 1919,
Frank L. Polk, Acting Secretary of
State In tho absence Of Secretary
Lansing with tho Peace Mission in
Paris, issued a proclamation declar-
no the Prohibition amandren% +o
he Constitution adopted through the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

as tho ar1nistice ended hostilities
British aviators turned their atten-
ton to the Atlantic flight and sew
eral flying teams crossed to New
foundland to wait for q propitious
day for the attempt.
Meanwhile, the American navy,
declining to compete for "The Daily
Mail" prize, set about the job of
being the first to cross the Atlantic
by air. On May the naval sea-
plane, NC-4, piloted by Lieutenant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

Commander Albert @. Read, left
Rockaway for the attempt, and on
May 81 arrived in the harbor of
Plymouth, England, having COM
pleted the first crossing of the At
lantic by air. The route was from
Rockaway to Newfoundland, to the
Azores, to Portugal, to England.
Harry G. Hawker, the Australian
aviator, and his observer, Lieutenant
Commander Mackenzie Grieve, see
ing that America was about to win
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
captain Alcock, since killed,
made the first nonstop
flight across the atlantic

action Of the Legislatures Of thirty
six states in ratifying It. And ever
since large number Of Mortified and
'scandalized people have been trying
to prove that he was wrong. But so
far Mr.. Folks statement has with
STOOD all attacks.
Mr.. Polk noted in his proclamation
that the Prohibition amendment
would go into effect as part of the
law of the land January 16, 1920.
That statement is also questioned,
and Rhode Island, which refused to
ratify the amendment, has asked the
Supreme Court to declare the whole
proposition illegal and unconstitu-
tional. Rhode Island feels that she
has a peculiar right to demand that
her wishes shall be deferred to in
what shall or shall not be the law for
America. But taking no stand on
the rights or wrongs Of the question,
it may be noted that January 1e,
1920, abuts abruptly, and Mr.. Folks
proclamation still retains it's pristine
vgor, while In the interval since his
dictum was issued the prohibition
experiment has had a trial.
This has been done through the
medium Of wartime prohibition.
which went into effect July /, and
while the problem of whether prohi
ton prohibits cannot be said to be
definitely settled by the experiment,
there are some things it has accom-
plished. For one thing, it has
changed the name of whisky to
"hooch" and it has put the price up
from the old standard of value of
Is cents a drink or two for quarter
to 80 cents drink as minimum
and $1.25 as the present maximum,
with no discount for quantity. The
prepondcrance Of evidence, however,
is to the effect that the man who
really wants drink can always
get it.
There have been many attempts to
break wartime prohibition. On nu-
nerous occasions optimistic "wets"
rave been up on their toes ready to
i've into the food of liquor they were
ure was about to be lot loose, but |
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

the honor OF the first transatlantic
flight, decided to make the attempt
for a nonstop flight without waiting
longer on the weather. They had
already been camped several weeks
on Newfoundland, watching the
skies and the wind, when the Ameri-
cans came and went with business
like lack Of fuss. May Is Hawker
and Grieve took off from St. Johns,
and thereafter we're not heard of
for q week and were given up for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
Commander OF the NC.4, the
first flying craft to cross
the atlantic

this we're not the season Of good
will toward men. Therefore, it is
better to turn away from that sub
ject. And there presents itself the
topic Of labor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28
Prohibition, Suffrage, the Trans
Atlantic Flights and the Peace
Conference Are High Lights

tho Supreme Court killed their last
hope when on December Is it de-
clared the law constitutional.
And still one can get drink.
One last hope remains to the
"wets," that the war will end Off
cially before January 16. In that
event there would be day or two
with the lid off between wartime
prohibition and constitutional pro-
hibition. Hope springs eternal in
the human breast.
What about Peace?
And that brings up the question
of what is the situation about peace.
Setting that aside for the moment
to bring it up again later in it's
chronological order, 1t may be noted
that in all future histories and en-
cyclop@dias 1919 will occupy large
amount Of space, Tor 1t was on Jan
uary 10, 1919, that the Peace Con-
ference met In Paris, since when a
great deal Of printers ink has flowed
under the bridge.
The treaty was signed 1t Yer
sailles June 28, presented to the
Senate by President Wilson for rati-
flcation on July 10 and rejected by
the Senate on November 10. Hence,
America is technically at war with
Germany nearly fourteen months
after the cessation Of hostilities and
is preparing to conclude peace trea-
ties with Bulgaria and Turkey, with
whom she has never been at war.
Peace seems to be singularly like
prohibition. One doesn't know
where one gets off, does one2 Ex-
cept, of course, that it happened in
1919.
The year was also notable for the
first fight across the ocean. Some
time before the war "The London
Daily Mail" to increase the interest
in aviation and hasten the develop
ment Of the art, had offered a prize
of $4,000 for the first nonstop
flight across the Atlantic. AS soon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

garded the valley Of the Virgin at
its entrance as good place for set
tlement and led part of his people
there. To them Salt Lake was then
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

famous trip down the Grand Can
yon. They found it a place Of awe
and superstition among the savages.
Brigham Young, coming later, re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-28

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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12
HAD LITTLE USE FOR WATER
Highly Placed Personages of the Past
Evidently Wasted No Time on
Their Additions.

The American physician who sends
out a warning not to wash would at
one time have found many sympa-
thiZers among ladies of the English
aristrocacy. When Augustus Hare
was visiting Lady Waterford at High
cliffe in 1873 he heard one of the other
guests, Mrs. FairhOlme, remark: My
grandmother used to say that beauty
went out with open carriages. Why,
you are just like men, my dear she
told me, with your brown necks and
your rough skins and your red noses.
In our days it was different; young
ladies never washed their faces. They
covered their faces with powder, then
put cold cream on and wiped 1t off
with a flannel. That was the way to
have good complexion
One learns also from contemporary
memoirs that two French Kingston
ry III and Louis IV-were consistent
antiablutionists. The grand moDarque
used cold cream In place of soap and
water. Henry III not only summed
water, but lay all night with raw veal
chops on his cheeks, with his hands
tied with silk cords to the top of the
bed so as to preserve their Wilderness.
And Sir Anthony Weldon says of
James I: "His skin was soft as taffeta
sarsnet, which felt so because hee
never wasn't his hands, only rubb'd his
finger ends slightly with the wet end
of a napkin"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12
TOO MUCH FOR THE OCULIST
That Kind of Shortsiqhtedness Was
Something for Which He Had
No Cure.

A woman consulted an oculist about
her husbands eyesight, saying she
wanted very strong pair of glasses
for him.
81 fear cannot recommend glasses
without first seeing your husband"
the Oculist said.
''He won't come at any price," was
the reply.
''Then tell me something about him.
Can he see objects at a distance, or
does he experience difficulty when
reading? For instance, could he see
that pigeon flying above us?'
Rather" the woman said. He'd
spot pigeon on the wing quicker than
he'd see an. afrplane, especially If he'd
got bet on it. What / want yer to
cure is his shOrt-sightedness when he's
looking for a job. He's been lookin'
for work for the last ten years and
never got any to suit his fastidious
eyesight yet."-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12
swell Enough"

Unless an individual is placed In
some exceptional environment, he sell
dom works up to anything like his
fun capacity. Human beings are nat
urally drawn in the direction of ease.
They do not court effort. A man viii
do piece of work just wei enough to
get by with 1t. but only the excep
tional man will do piece of work any
better than the minimum of result re-
quired. Because of this universal hui
man tendency, man seldom reaches
the higher levels Of efficiency OF which
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12
life's Damage.

II is much easier to die than to
take vacation. A man who is sum-
moned to his last long voyage may set
his house In order In an hour; a few
words, written or dictated. will dis
pose Of his possessions. and his heirs
will gladly attend to the details. This
done, he may fold his hands on his
chest and depart this yexatious life
In peace. II is quite another matter
20 prepare for a few weeks away from
town, There are bills 10 be paid the
iceman, and the milkmaa, and the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12
Applied Brakes.

"The more responsibilities we have
to assume. the more care we take in
keeping cut Of trouble" remarked
Judge White recently. TOO many Of
us are like the chauffeur who was
driving his former employer home from
the athletic club. Said the man:
"James, I notice you don't drive as
fast now as you did when you were
my chauffeur No. SIR replied James.
You see, sir, you owned that car and
/ own this one LOS Angeles Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12

one that overlooks the railroad yards
In q smallish city on the edge of the
Allegheny coal fields not very far from
Pittsburgh II has hot and running
cockroaches on every floor and all
night switch engine service. It Is al
80 haunted. The ghost Of a red cab
bage which was tragically boiled to
death some IS years ago. about the
time the present carpets in the guest
rooms were last cleaned stalks
through the corridors in the still
watches of the night and shifts al the
keyholes."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12

laundryman must be choked of, and
the daily paper restrained from lit
ttring the doorstep. There Is hair to
be cut. and teeth to be tinkered. and
so on In short. II takes days to stop
the machinery Of living for fortnight.
and days to start it going again But.
my dear. one must have a Change
Chicago Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-08-12

On June In 1851 the first INSTALL
ment of Uncle Toms Cabin BY Har
ret Beecher Stowe, appeared in the
National Era an antislavery paper.
published at Washington. D. G. Mrs
Stowe received $50 for the serial The
following year me story was brought
out IN book form The book. on ac-
count of its subject had q great vogue.
1t was Translated into 10 lsnpuaoeS
More than 100000 copies have been
sold and the naturalization made of the
novel IS s1in being played Throughout
the country.