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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Foolish Food Fads

Abe Martin, WHOSE funny sentences
are read in daily papers by thousands
Of Americans, says that Farmers are
so prosperous this year that they are
eating their own chickens"
A Milwaukee business man, speak
ing of the food at country summer
resorts, said that he found that the
green corn and other vegetables came
from the same commission houses as
those which supply his grocer. The
great difference in favor of his home
table was that the city vegetables
were several hours fresher then those
sent first from the country and then
back to it.
There is doubtless much humorous
and deliberate exaggeration in these
stories and yet the statement is fire.
quently repeated seriously by stu
dents of rural life conditions that
many dairymen send so much of their
milk and cream to the cities that
they resort to condensed milk for
their own tables.
1t is an undeniable and really i'm
portant fact that all of us have the
''import mania. If this only sue
ceeds in increasing 'the high cost Of
existence it is bad enough; but
when people actually undernourish
their own bodies and, what is Of
more Importance, those Of their chill
dren because of this sort of craziness,
it is time to suggest that they study
their own food supplies and needs.
Some people are so constituted that
they cannot enjoy healthful home
grown fruits and vegetables when
they are reasonably cheap. Instead,
they eat only out of season half green
and railroad ripened fruit and vege-
tables that cost exorbitant sums
All of us have something of this in
us. "Have you d little food-fad in
your home'' that is interfering with
the health of yourself and your grow
ing children? If SO, kill it as you
would poisonous reptile.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06

effect July /, 1919. That it h as
caused certain amount of discon-
tentment that with certain type of.
men, has led them easily to become
law violators is likely true enough,
but the majority of the evidence
shows beyond a reasonable doubt that
on the whole, it has worked the
other way. AS far as New York and
other large cities are concerned, six
months or a year from now will tell
better whether prohibition is fail
ure, and aid TO crime. No one who is
very familiar with drinking men and
the source of supply feels that as yet
any of the big cities have been very
dry and naturally drunken men have
got into trouble just as they did un-
der the regime of the saloon. Just
this week one man killed another in
Chicago while laboring under the
drunken deIusion that the other man
was responsible for his losing his po-
sition with an express company,
which goes to show that Chicago is
not a regular Sahara as yet, though a
year from now it may bear some re-
semblance to dry spot. Personally,
we don't think Sheriff Knott has
made much of an argument, or one
that will be accepted by the world as
one.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Economy Would Help.

Somehow the price of living stays
up in spite of the prayers OF everyone
that it will go down. Reduced to
common terms, it is case of the de.
mand being far greater than the sup
ply, condition that was bound to
come, and was fastened by four years
of excessive demand for raw and man.
ufactured material all over the world.
A shortage in raw material such as
leather, prevails, combined with de-
creased production of labor in all
lines which has demanded and need
ed an increased wage, has created an
alarming condition with no great re-
lief in sight. 1t is time when the
steadily lessening purchasing power
should be used with caution instead
of extravaganza. Even with economy,
a weeks wages barely keeps up with
the outgo in all directions; but if less
was spent for many things that the
average American family knew moth
about generation ago, it would not
be as hard to combat the ruling ten
dency of the time, Of which the pres
emit generation has known no equal.
If the War Savings Stamp idea of
two years ago had been continued in
practice after the necessity of buying
them as test of patriotism had
passed, il would have beenquite pre-
tentative measure in keeping down
the financial stringency that many
people now labor under,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06

Everywhere in the fields there We're
people down on their knees searching
for grasses to eat. Those near the
railroad lifted their heads and gazed at
our train as it rushed past, and
caught glimpses Of terrible faces. An
old man sitting at the top of an en-
bankment waved handful Of grass at
me where / stood at the car window,
then threw his head back and laughed
a maniacal laugh. began then to feel
the cold chills with which was to
shiver for days on end"
OF Kars she writes:
ut had been raining for days. and
wherever one looked one saw nothing
but misery and mud. Between the rail-
road tracks were unsightly pools and
puddles, through which many human
scare-crows trudged back and forth
"They were multiple Lazarus, and
the train was the rich mans table.
They were begging for crumbs l be-
gan to hear for the first time the whin-
ing indescribable phrase that sounded
to me like 'O-na-ne, O-na-ne.' 1t was
so feebly, so plaintively murmured,
'O-na-ne.'"
Mrs. Egan asked what it meant and
was told the nearest equivalent was
"Oh, my soul!" But" she says, ut
was more than that; it was prayer
for mercy
Describing a makeshift hospital be-
fore the arrival of the Near East Relief
workers, Mrs. Egan writes:
''The sick in their unbelievable rags
were lying around on the foors-bun-
dies of unimaginable wretchedness.
The doctor was not doing anything at
all for them. What could he dot He
had not so much as single ounce Of
medicine of any kind. The little pe0-
pie were more pitiable than the
adults. The ward, If may call Il sssiz,
had in 1t not one stick Of furniture of
any kind, and the children were all
lying on the dusty and rubbish-s1rewn
floor with nothing under them and no
covering save the rags they wore"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06

Members of Eagle Post No. ia are
asked to call at the post commanders
Office and receive the new Legion
buttons which have just arrived. The
buttons are gooti looking. Every SER
vice man should wear one. Join the
Legion now and wear the emblem of
an organization that stands for the
best In American citizenship.
The first Legion post to buy and
operate an airplane is the Ironwood,
Mich, Post No. 5. This post is play
ing in luck, anyway, because the city
War Relief Association transferred
to its account the sum of $4,000 90.
One-quarter of it was used for club
rooms, one-Quarter for the airplane,
and 100000 was put into Victory
Bonds.
OF $4,000 miles of barbed wire en-
tanglements constructed in France
during the war, only 5000 miles have
been rolled up, says the American
Red Cross, indicating that the last of
the mess will be cleaned up about
1927. Now some of the old-timers who
did night patrol duty will rise and
remark that the estimate of $4,000
miles of wire is too conservative.
Government insurance may be rein
stated within eighteen months after
discharge from service or after the
date of discontinuance whichever is
the later date.
The American Legion post at Min
ocqua has proposed a Community
Building for that town, as place
where all public affairs can be held,
and as a memorial to the men who
served in the World War.
Philip OFT, G. W. T., in charge of
the navy recruiting station at Rhine
land sends the following:
Applicants for enlistment for week
ending January 20, at the Rhineland-
er station, % men. Applicants ac-
copied, 2 men.
Travel with the navy. The pay in
the .. S. navy is clear money. No
doctors bill or the boardin' missis to
pay every month. Now is your chance
to come and talk it over Don't wait.
This is the time to start. Your
chance is as good as anyones.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
MANY PEOPLE NOW
OWN THEIR HOMES
Man Who Wants Home of
Own Can Get 1t on Easy
Terms Home Own
ers Increasing.

Practically every man with fami-
~ has the desire for a home of his
own, and there is many man cooped
up in hotel or boarding house that
might be living in home of his own
if he only knew how easy it is to get
one. 1t is not necessary nowadays to
have saved up thousands or to be in a
lucrative position to buy and main
tain home. With a few hundred
dollars one can now buy a lot, have
house built for him, move in, and for
probably the same amount of month
" payments that he was formerly
paying, buy the house on the month
" instalment plan system, just as if
he were still paying rent.
This paying for a house out of the
rent has become immensely popular.
In fact, probably two-thirds of the
homes built today are sold that way.
1t is perfectly safe undertaking and
profitable investment from the fact
that any new home building district
is bound'tO increase in value as the
influx of people keeps on.
The small payment plan has been
boon to the average working man to
whom house is vitality necessary to
the health Of his family and who was
always under the impression that he
must have at least thousand ever to
get home. 1t has been called the
rent payers awakening.
In these Individual homes the ideal
family life is possible. Children are
brought up amid wholesome and clean
environments. In after years they
can look back with pleasant memories
to home Jan influence not engen-
Hdered by frequent changes of abode in
fats and apartments.
The man who owns his home has
increased his assets of self-respect and
independence. He has high ideals
and deep sense of the responsible
tiles of life. He is generally optimis-
tic and bears the varying vicissitudes
that come during a lifetime more
easily than the man who is living for
the moment. He studies civic prob
lens; he wants to know who's who in
nlunielpd4 affairs, as he pays taxes di-
rectly out of his pockets, and thus
the matter is brought closer to him
than in the Indirect way of paying
rent.
It has been said that the village,
town or city which most abounds in
homes owned by residents is the most
desirable because it is the safest COM
munity in which to fix ones resi-
dence. This may be said with equal
truth of state and nation. It is next
to impossible for sedition to gain
footho1d in land in which the peo-
pie have invested their earnings. 1t
is a healthful sign of the times that
more and more people are beginning
to realize the Importance of becoming
home owners.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Road PatrOInen Needed.

To do the maintenance work alone,
and without reference to road con-
struction, 1,6O0'men will be required
to patrol highways in Wisconsin dur
ing 1920. OF this number 800 are
needed for the state trunk system
and 100 for the county or secondary
trunk system. For the maintenance
of the 5000 miles of state trunk sys-
tenn highways in Wisconsin there will
be expended during 1920 the sum of
So, $780, 100000. This has nothing
whatever to do with highway con-
struction for which there will be ex-
pended in the state this year Gnclud-
ing state and federal expenditure
about ST., OOO,0OO.O0.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06

in fact. The order of the Industrial
commission relating to fireworks
which became effective September |,
1918, was not repealed or modified.
A bill was introduced in the last
legislature to sweep away this order,
but this bill was badly beaten and
never became law.
The fireworks order provides that
no frecrackers, rockets, torpedoes,
Roman candles, bombs and other
fireworks, and no pistols, cannons, ex-
plosiye canes, blank cartridges or
other similar appliances or displays
shall be stored in place nearer
than 200 feet from. a neighboring
building, excepting wholesale storage
in original packages. It further pro
vides that such fireworks, except
rockets and Roman candles, shall not
be discharged within 500 feet of any
building.
AS result of the fireworks order
there was not single death due to
fireworks in Wisconsin last Fourth Of
July, and there were no fires of any
Importance. Prior to the issuance of
the order many municipalities had
already by ordinances barred fire.
works.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Fireworks Law Still Holds.

Retail grocers and others should be
wary of buying supply of fireworks
for use next Fourth of July, accord
ing to statement issued by the in
dustrial commission. This advice is
given because some wholesale dealers
in fireworks are getting retailers
throughout the state to lay in sup
ply on the strength of a statement
that the law which forbade the use
of fireworks last year is no longer in
effect.
This statement has no foundation
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Don't Drop War Insurance.

To relieve any confusion that may
exist in the. minds of former service
men on account of the special pro-
vision of lapsed War Term Insurance
which authorized reinstatement up
to December 81, 1919, regardless of
date of discharge, announcement is
made by Director R. G. Cholmely-
Jones Of the Bureau of War Risk In
surance that the provisions for rein
statement of lapsed or cancelled in
surance, within 18 months from date
of discharge. upon payment of only
two months premiums on the amount
Of insurance to be reinstated, provid-
ed the insured is in as good health
as at the date of discharge or expi-
alton of the grace period whichever
is the later date, and SO states in
his application, still hold good.
The provision that discharged ser
vice men are permitted to reinstate
at any time within three calendar
months following the month of dis
charge by merely paying the two
months premiums, without making
a formal application or a statement
as to health is also in force,
The provisions for reinstatement
do not protect man until he actual
" reinstates If he waits he may
not be in as good health as he was at
the time of discharge and conse-
ouently may not be able to secure
reinstatement.
Don't put off reinstatement. Do
it now.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06

plight of America today is as nothing
compared to the scourges that are
rapidly wiping out the whole nation
of Armenia.
Capt. Stephen G. Peabody, Apple
ton, Wis, who just returned from
Samsoun, Turkish Armenia, epitom-
lied his message to the people of Wis
consin in the foregoing paragraph.
more than half million people
will stare or freeze to death before
the winters over in the Near East"
said Mr.. Peabody, who submitted his
report for the Near East Relief So
ciety to j. w. Thompson, Wisconsin
secretary.
Millions are without food, clothing
or homes, Mr.. Peabody reports, and
the Near East is looking toward the
west as the last desperate hope of
survival.
1t is bitter cold in much of Arme-
MIA. The people, clad in rags, sick
and cold, look upon death as a God
send. Most of those still hanging on
to life are CARRIED in bit of gunny
sack.
A dangerous crisis has arisen in all
the relief work in Asia Minor due to
the cut of all funds. The effect this
cut will have in the Samsoun area is
the discontinuance of work in out
side towns where the danger to life
and property is still great; discontin-
uance of the large 100 bed hospital
where the majority of the patients
were free patients coming from that
entire region for treatment; the cut
ting off of food for refugees whom we
were able to give one meal day Of
bread and hot soup.
The starvation and suffering which
will result from this cut will be as in
tense as during the war. 1t cannot
be! America who has undertaken the
feeding and clothing of the homeless
starving refugees and has done so
much for them during the past year,
cannot desert them now. Also the
cut IN funds will prevent the taking
into the orphanages of any further
orphans, thus stopping the splendid
work of the British in taking from
Turkish homes and harems of Chris
tians imprisoned there during the
war.
The cut will force us to discontinue
many of the plans for building up the
native industries through that region
thus giving the refugees work and
making them self-supporting.
GAS one of the British officers and /
came into Fatsa, the first foreigners
there since the war, we were met by
an old Armenian who welcomed us
and said in broken English, orr
faces are the faces of angels to us not
only because of the food and clothing
that you have already brought to our
suffering people but also because of
the interest and help in the future by
the big powers that you represent. } "
Are we now going to desert that
confidence? /Of course not. We will.
Fundamentally support the drive for
funds TO maintain the work already
started.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06


In Armenia, as described by Mrs.
Egan in her article.
was likely to kill them instantly. This
was too terribly true. Yet in the whole
length and breadth of the land there
was not an ounce Of food of the kind
necessary for such cases. At Kars
saw one man die with bread in his
teeth And il you will consent to look
with me upon too awful thing will
add that he showed evidence of having
eaten too much grass.
Il went hungry in Armenia, and
associate remembered pangs of my
own with all my recoHections of the
terrible land. had plenty of food
with me, but for days on end / could
not eat. 1t was a physical impossible
ity.
"And came to point, too, when to
look upon things that had to be looked
upon set my hearfato quaking in a
horror difficult to describe"
OF her first sight In Armenia of the
terrible condition Of the people, Mrs.
Egan writes Of the scenes on her way
to Kars:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
MinOcqua After Creamery.

According to the Minocqua Times,
efforts are being made in that town
to organize a creamery company, and
build a creamery. Over $1,000 worth
of stock has been subscribed. It is
expected that $4,000 will be required
for the enterprise.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Suffering in Armenia.

Americans today are seeing their
loved ones taken away by death as the
result of an influenza epidemic Last
year the nation suffered even more
from the dreaded scourge. But the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
START ACTION FOR
new HIGH SCHOOL
Enthusiastic Meeting at High
School Last Evening Put
Project Under Way.
Need is Shown.

A large number of people attended
the Parent-Teachers Assn. meeting at
the high school last night and heard
an interesting program delivered. At
the conclusion of the exercises the
meeting resolved itself into one for
the purpose of discussing the new
high school question.
1t was unanimously voted that the
new high school is an Imperative
necessity and a committee was APP
pointed to instruct the high school
board to that effect. In the mean
time plans will be secured from the
state superintendent S office showing
in detail plans for buildings that
have been found suitable for other
towns similar in size TO this. When
these have been examined, a commit
tee will be appointed to visit them
and ascertain if they can Be used to
advantage for the purpose here. ard
the approximate cost Of the structure
fully equipped The shool board will
then call special school meeting for
the, entire district in which the peo-
pie will first vote as to whether or
not they want new high school,
and also appropriate the necessary
amount of money to be paid by bond
issue That the first proposition will
carry there is no doubt. The amount
of the bond issue will not be known
until a certain plan has been decided
on and bids made on the project.
Whatever the amount may be, it
can in in no way be burdensome
and it will be more than Offset by
the direct increase in value of every
piece of properbk lying within the
district. It is true that compared
with what the cost would have been
five years ago, it will cost far more
to build one now. Unfortunately,
the need had not arisen seriously
then. All authorities agree that The
cost of building operations will not
decrease any for some time and indi-
cations are that it will be higher
The necessity for larger building
was easily seen in the crowded condi-
ton of the main room last night and
the daily conditions under which the
faculty and students work are much
worse. 1t is evident that new
building will soon be real and it is
our hope that the needs of the future
will be taken care of as well as TIE
present.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06
Crime Has Increased.

Sheriff Knott of New York City re-
Gently made the astonishing state
ment that prohibition had actually
increased crime rather than dimin-
ished it since prohibition went into
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-02-06

The vital problem of new high
school for the Eagle River Free High
School District is one claiming mucfr
attention from those who have looked
into the matter. Naturally enough,
the project presents many angles that
will have to be thoroughly under
stood before definite action can be
started. For that reason we asked
for and recei5 ed the following COM
lnunication from citizen yell in
formed on school matters. What is
written is worthy of every readers
attention whether it fully conforms
to his ideas on the problem or not.
Only by getting together and inter-
changing ideas and plans can the new
high school become reality. The
paper follows:
'sTbat the district needs new
high school is evident from several
viewpoints. The progress of the COM
munity, the increase in the school
population, the present crowded con
dition of the school, the right our
children have to the best education
obtainable, and the duty of the citi-
zen to provide the means for that
education, are but few of the fea-
lures that should be considered in
studying the project.
"Twenty-seven years ago, in 1893 to
be exact as to date, the present high
school building was erected for the
needs Of the community at that time.
1t took care of them comfortably,
there being only two-year course in
the high school department and a
much smaller attendance ia the
grades than at present Since that
time Villas county has undergone a
vast change. Its progress has been.
steady. Hundreds of settlers, most of
them with large families, have turned
the uncleared acres into profitable
farms. The Eagle River high school
has had to care for its share of the
increasing school population, until
today it is crowded beyond the legal
limits of safety for its occupants. De
signed for high school enrolment of
about forty-five, that department is
now crowded with over eighty stu
dents. Partitions have been re.
moved, Railways turned into class
rooms and desks put in every avail
able space, until it is now crowded to
a point that is beyond comfort and
that interferes with the best work of
the students. Not only is the assem-
bly, room inadequate for the attend
ance but the classrooms are likewise
crowded The senior class that gradu-
ates in June is less than half
the size of the new freshman class
that will enter in September Con-
sentative estimates put next years
high school enrolment near the one
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-11-18

considering that they appear to live on the fish men also desire.
 If it should appear to the casual reader that the men of Alaska are a blood-thirsty lot a careful perusai of the answers to the questiOnnaires indicate the contrary. Considering the evidence submitted as proof of the depredations of various species of animal life against the interests of man, those who write appear con servative. Few, if any, appear to de- sire the extermination of any species, except, perhaps, wolves or coyotes, Reduction in number of certain spe- cies of fish, fowl, or beasts to a point where the harm they do is negligible, is the general demand
 This matter of increasing the mum Der of fish, fur and game, which is of so much importance. to Alaskans is still unsolved and all who care to secure a copy of the questionnaires sent out by the Alaska Fish and Game Club, are invited to write to Secretary Charles D. Gar. field, Juneau, Alaska.