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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-10-20
CUT THIS OUT

$4,000 down will buy 120 acres on
Chaseburg ridge with all personal pro-
perty, including 10 cows, 6 horses, 18
hogs, tobacco crop, corn, hay, small
grain and machinery. Look this over
before you buy anything and look it
over now as the farm must be sold
before Monday.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-10-20
Improve Your Digestion

If you have weak digestion eat spar
ingly of meats, let at least five hours
elapse between meals, eat nothing be-
tween meals. Drink an abundance of
water. Take one of Chamberlain
Tablets Immediately after supper. Do
this and you will improve your diges-
ton.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-10-20

Got Her Good Health Out of Bottle
Mrs. Edward Raifsnider, Wabash,
Ind, says that she owes her good
health to Chamberlain's Tablets. She
suffered from distress after eating and
constipation and was completely cur
ed by the use of these tablets.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-10-20
MONEY TO LOAN

On real estate, rates reasonable
All business confidential. Lewis Real
ty Company, State Bank Bldg, La
Crosse, Wis.
Patrolmen Wanted
Vernon county is in need Of several
patrolmen. Send in your application
to Highway Commissioner Alex Ris-
tow, viroqua, Wis. 31-H
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-10-20
win Nnt Paw nehts

I hereby give notice that will not
be held responsible for any debts con-
tracted by my son Arthur.
41-4-p ISAAC ELLEFSON.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
'TRINE RESPONSIBLE

ZatiOn or women IS the 1naNi- table conseauence Q. holshevismfs atti- trde toward family life Tn 1918. the soviets formally declared that religious carriage was an invention of ninth cen trry priests. and they substituted civil rarriase as de-reed in 17s2 by the French revolution. On top of this it was de-
 ared that divorce could be had on ap-
 rs lon of one party without any
 rounds being given. This legi4lation has dissolved Russian family iifes and it encoura ges the comm:ssaries in their attempts against other citizens families When local despot fancies pretty peasant woman, he himself signs her di- vorce decree: and tells her nothing of the fact until Red Guard with a de- cree and a bayonet appears at her door. beats or shoots her resisting husband and carries her, fainting. to the com missarys house.
 So standardization is made a fact and according to< the cynical arstocrat Lrnacharsky. who heads the education commissariat at Moscow this is a eu- zenie and political advantage The in- stability of family life inslires a mixture If h'eoi. ard sproriaes hcathv brood of r1nzsters who when brought up nationally will spread Russian com n-rnism all over the world. he says
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bine women with their ravishers; some are kept by single poIsheviks in Nor mon-like harems. and some-the com munized ones-are ordinary white slaves. with their slavery officialIv recognized and regulated by law.
 The central bolshevik government has never nationalized women. But it winks at the standardization work of us underhngs; it publishes laws of marriage and divorce which make na- tionalization easy; and for the rest. the local soviet bosses care little what Lenine says. They obey zealously when they are bidden to murder and steal. but when the Kremlin oiigarchs with an eye to negotiations in Copen- hagen or elsewhere. bid them go easy, they close their ears and continus on their own sweet way. That and the fact that the average bolshevik is not welcome lover, having qualities which revolt every decent female. made widespread nationalization and communication inevitable, once the more desperate and reckless provincial folsheyiks. by personal example, set the pace.
 The fact of this local nationaliza- ton and communication was admitted hy the bolshevik propagandist. Karl kadek- who was lately in Berlin, and mas now slipped home through Poland. Before leaving Radek received dozen radical sovialist newspaper men, who demanded the truth and the ingenious hadek, in order to exculpate the soviets. produced a decree by Petrov- sky. chief commissary of the interior, directing the local soviets of Kursk and Orel. both south of Moscow, to ensure that mo nationaliz should take place by force.r To the decree was appended a list of twelve soviet Russian provinces where nationaliza- ton was partially practiced
 Radek insisted that Petrovskys ordinance was honestly meant. but he admitted that little attention was paid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
NATURALIZATION OF. WOMEN IS COMMON ALL OVER RUSSIA
FOrcible Abduction of Wom- en Legalized by Bolshe- viks as Far Back as
 1917
By JULIUS osTMANN

Berlin, March l5.-Eighty-two thou- sand young girls~and women in soviel Russia have been nationalized or com munized. These s2.O00 are living with influential commissaries. with Red Guard officers. with local bolshevik Losses. or indiscriminately with bol- shevfks of all kinds. This is the real, official truth concerning nationaiiza- tton of women. about the reality of which bolsheviks and anti -bolsheviks lave engaged in violent dispute ever since the soviets seized power from Kerensky
 The S2.000 victims are scattered over the thirty provinces which acknowl- edge Lenine,s rule. Some have been forcibly made wives under soviet sec ular rites by single bolsheviks some have become reconciled, like the Sa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
CONTAMINATION BIRTHPLACE

Four systems of nationalizing or commanding women flourish in diff ferent parts of soviet Russia The crudest form is in Kronstadt Before bolshevism was heard of by foreigners kronstadt invented communication. This was in midsummer of 1917, when a boy-dictator of 29, by name Anatole Lamanoff commanded the Baltic fleet and bossed the soldiers and sailors in l me hronstadt forts and the city of Nronstadt with it's 60000 Russians
 Fists, Let's and Films. one of the most turbulent populations in Europe.
 The inventor of communication was lamanoffs assistant and predecessor r as president of Kronstadt soviet. the soldier Lubovitch. Lubovitch commun- Fed the wives and daughters of thirty offlcers of the Baltic fleet, When the March revolution broke out. these of- ficers, with sixty others. were seized and thrown into the naval preliminary prison where they starved and rotted for six months
 What should he Ere with the. wo- men folk? Every kronstadter--unIess he was bolsheviS boss--was obliged hy local law to work and no work no pay was the rule. The wives and daughters of the officers could not work. and soon they had no money left. So Lubovitch passed a decree
 'e'tioiia tiNlHS tHtfn. lhlrty-tWO girls snd women were involved Before the decree was published some of the vic tims escaped by steamer to Oranien- baum. on the mainland. but twenty Tour remained and were declared the common property of the garrison Trina Plieshkoff niece of Admiral Sap sai, high naval officer. killed her self three weeks later The Kronstadt soviet then reconsidered the matter, and, in truly Russian fashion, changed it's mind. When seven of the women. summoned before it. explained that. being spoiled ''bourgeoises," they were no good as cooks and housek eepers, the oydictator proclaimed against communication" and the decree was revoked.
 A fortnight later 1.amanoff fell. and Iubovitch was again dictator. He tried to restore communication and impris- vaed a dozen girls in the building of
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at the tme registering at
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Elderly People Have A
 Daily Health Problem
Stomach muscles and digestive organs
 slow to act as age advances

HOST people find the years MI slipping by without real
 ixing 1t, until suddenly confronted with the fact that they can no longer digest everything they would like to eat. It then becomes their daily task to avoid what they know to Be chronic con- stipation.
 When exercise and light diet fail it will be necessary to resort to artificial means. Strong physics and cathartics, however, are not advisable for elderly people. They act too powerfully and a feeling of weakness results.
 What is needed is laxative containing effective but mild properties. This is best found in Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin which is combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin. It acts gently and without gripping, and used a few days will train the digestive organs to do their work naturally again without other aid.
 Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin has been on the market since 1892 and was the private formula of Dr. W. B. Caldwell, who is himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

past 30 years of age and still active in his profession. It can be bought at any drug store and one bottle is enough to last even a large family many months. It is a trustworthy preparation.
 In spite of the fact that D.. CdId- ,ueil's Syrup Pepsin is the largestselling liq,sid laxatiVe in the toorld, there being oVer 6 million bottles sold each year, many who need it's benefits hd,e not yet used it. It yon haVe not. send yosr name and address for q free tridl bottle to. Dr. ", B. Cdldweu, SIT Washington St.. Monticello, Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

First seventh Day Adventist Church 2 O. F. Frank, pastor. Services are held in the Seventh Day Adventist church. sevnth avenue and Nineteenth street. north, on Saturdays Sabbath school 9:S0 a. m. Preaching Il o'clock. Preach ing also Sunday nights. 7:345. Subject for next Sunday. "The Test of the Rem. nant Church."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

Among the earliest strikes in the United States were those of the shoe n, akers in Philadelphia in 1Ts6 and 179S, of the sailors in New York in 1908. the skipwrights at Bedford, Mass, in iS17 the Albany printers in 1921. and the New York matters in 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Second Church of Christ-Sunday serv- ice, Il a. m, and 7:9O D. m. subject "Un- realty" Sunday school 9:S0 a. m. Wednes- day evening. testimonial meeting, 7.D p. m Reading room and free library, l70i Jefferson County Bank building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

The manufacture of pulp has been started in various parts If Japan, and it is expected that witt ii [, lew years home production will be sufficient to meet the demands. About S00.o0o tons of pulp was consumed in 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
ALTRITRIAN

Altrurian Church-L. A. Fealy. bishop. Services will be held Sunday, Il a. rn., at the church. All Farley building; subject ''The Living Christ" Eecture every Thursday, Il a. m. on Practical Christ ianty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
AT CHURCHES TODAY
Ccontinued from Page Eigho

preaching by Rev. John T. Lewis at Il a. m and 7:S0 D. m. No meeting at night on account of meeting at West End.
 Pratt City-Regular worship and preaching by r. ". Smith, at D. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

A recently patented rifle target is com posed of plungers which absorb the en-
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NATIONALIZATION METHODS

The method by which a young Rus sian girl is acquired for bolshevik' $ harem, or kidnaped for the common use of the public is simple. The local soviet first publishes decree legal king seizures of women in general. This decree is called ''rasporia- znenie and once it is issued nation alization or communication is law. The execution of the law cannot take place until a specific order for Kidnapping has been issued by constituted au- thority. This order is merely decree in- typewriting op dirty slip of un- stamped and imprinted paper: but it is supposed to need the signatures of two commissaries.s This rule is often violated and sometimes single commits sarles sign orders to carry off girl, or if they like, dozen girls The decree declares merely that "Comrade lvanoff or "Comrade Dukhoff' is hereby ordered to choose as nation alized property five, ten or twenty girls of specified ages. Executive power is given to the decree by an armed red guard or several red guards Thus made irresistible. the "comrade" enters houses or cabins. and calls out names. Resistance by the girls is seldom made if they belong to the reasant class. Terror overoomes the sense of shame When the victims be- lcng to the educated 'fntelligentsiya" violence is used. When husbands, fathers or brothers resist. they are teaten. shot or arrested for. tria. by the extraordinary commission on charge of "counter-revolutio Per- haps the woman or girl commits sui eide. Perhaps having secretly armed herself with a pistol or dagger. she rretends to obey, aed, when opportun- ity offers. kills her tyrant or her
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to it. The soviet oligarchy. he added. was not centralized despotism. like the czardom. but only the half-ac- knowledged government over a group of loosely linked provinces which re- sembled Persian satrapies. and the whole trouble of Lenine. both in war and peace. said Radek. was that the satraps who ruled these satrapies did exactly what they liked.
 So. one after the other. local gov ernmental soviets. district" soviets and "cantonar' soviets have decreed that unmarried girls may be grabbed as wives against their will And in all t0ose soviets where anarchism, not communism. has mastery. girls, and even married women. are grabbed in- discriminatory as ths white slaves of the male community
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04
RAIDS FOR GIRLS

All over Russia flonrishes tine fourth kind of standardization This is girl-raid- ing. It consists simply in hunting for women without even the authorization of a soviet decree and Is carried on by disorderly Red Guards and by the com mittees of rural poverty.
 Moscow professes to condemn this. At the third communist convress. Commis- sarv Petrovsky declared that Arab Slave Raiding in Central Africa was nothing as regards horror, com pared with the Kidnapping of women by dis
 rdery military units. Scores of kid naped women. he added had committed suicide. The bolshevik newspaper Bied- nota admits that when villages are
 ounded up by Red Guards for food requisitoninG the prettiest girls are picked out ordered to follow the soldiers and whipped if they refuse.
 Red Guards lately entered villages ten miles from Moscow and produced de- cree bearing the forged signature of Ienne, authorizing the kidnaping tof all girls aged over fifteen considered suit able by Comrade 0eorodnikoff' The raiders whipped twenty girls severely and forced them to march so fast that several perished
 Later also near Moscow, half-dressed girls were taken from their cabins on a winter night, wrapped in horse cloths anu toiftca ihNO thO JOicct- VI some nothing has since been heard This kind of naturalization" provokes wrath in the more respectable" bolshevil<s and in fact the grim extraordinary commits sion shot several cosnrnissares for forg- ing official papers authorizing them to kdnap women. Bu. the Krenlin govern nent refuses to take any step which might alienate its most savage adherents, who are usually also it's most faithful supporters and the drama of wild na- tionalzation.r as Russians call this sort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
BRITISH ARE WEAK
English Athletes Not Enthused
Over 1920 Olympic Games.
Few 1912 Stars AvaiIabIe-OnIy
Material Screen Men,"

New York, Jan. 7.-Reports from
England indicate that the English
athletic authorities are actively en-
gagged in preparing for active partici-
patton in the Olympic Games to be
held at Antwerp. Belgium, next sum-
mer. Despite the fact that Great
Britain lost hundreds of her best ath-
letes during the war, the United King
dom in making selections for the
games next year, will have more ma
terial to draw from than ever before
according to experts. This somewhat
anomalous situation is due to the Gre
alton of a great new body of athletes
as the result of military training and
outdoor life at the front.
Very few of the Olympic team of
1912 will be available FOR the coming
games. Some of these men are dead
and others are too old to compete. 1t
is also true that the majority of the
new athletes are green men. They
are good material but they need pol
ishing and experience. However,
English sportsmen believe that they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
3 MORE SHOCKS
Mexican Casualties May Run
Into Thousands.
Damage Wfdespread-Toll May
Never Be Known.
REPORT VOLCANIC ERUPTI0hS
Floods Add to TerrOrs of Catas-
trophe on Ranches.
Oil Wells at Tuxpam Are Spout
ing Since Quake.
REPORT VOLCANIC ERUpTIONS

Mexico City, Jan. Hundreds,
possibly thousands of lives were lost
as a result of the earthquake. which
shook the state of Vera Cruz Saturday
night. So widespread was the dam
age done by the shock and SO wild are
some of the. sections that suffered
from it, that it is probable the num-
Der of casualties will never be known.
Private dispatches received here
from Vera Cruz and Jalapa state that
1000 persons lost their lives at Couzt-
Ian. These reports, which are said at
both cities to be reliable, confirm in
formation given out last night by
Presidential military headquarters.
Thirty lives were lost at Teocelo.
where three churches and forty houses
were destroyed.
Volcanic eruptions have occurred
at Cofre de Perite, from which point
to the volcano of Orizaha the shock
Flood waters pouring down the
Pescados river have inundated Ishua-
can, MahauXtlan and Tlapanala,
while many ranches are under water.
Durranca Grande and Los Simones are
also suffering from floods, it is re-
ported from Vera Cruz. Twenty bodies
have been recovered from the Pesca-
does at Jalcomulco and Apazapan
Three Shocks Yesterday.
There were three slight shocks yes
terday, according to information given
out yesterday afternoon at the astro-
nomic observatory at Tocobaya, a
suburb of Mexico City. They were so
feeble that they could be detected only
by instruments. Subterranean noises
are still noticeable in the Pedregal, a
rocky waste near this city, and great
cracks have appeared in the earth.
Travellers returning here from Vera
Cruz say some streams were dried up
as a result of the shock and it is
feared that many mills near Orizaba
which depend upon water power will
be compelled to CLOSE.
Several oil wells near Tuxpam have
been spouting petroleum since the
earthquake, according to advices from
Vera Cruz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07
TOPEKA BANKS ELECT
Prudential Trust Company.

The Prudential Trust company, at
its annual stockholders meeting late
Tuesday. reelected the former Off
GERS. S. E. Cobb. president; F. D. Co.
burn, W. W. Bowman and D. W. Null
yane. vice presidents; j. e. Kirk.
treasurer; I. E. Henry. assistant treas
urer. The directors of the company
are S. e. Cobb. f. D Coburn. W. W
Bowman, D. w. Mulvane. Joab Null
vane, Thomas Page. N. A. Low. Lee
Monroe. ]. B. Larimer. l. NJ. Penwell,
C. L. Mitchell, W. H. Davis E. C. Ar
mold, Charles Wolff. A. d. Kendall, of
Valley Falls.
Bank of Topeka.
The Bank of Topeka elected Thorn
as Page to its board of directors to
succeed David Bowie at its annual
stockholders meeting late Tuesday
The present officers were reelected:
s. E. Cobb, president: Joab Mulvane,
vice president: S. F. Hughes, cashier:
H. D. Wolf, assistant cashier, and D.
A. Wolf, assistant cashier.
The directors elected Tuesday are:
S. E. Cobb. Joab Mulyane, D. w Null
vane, f. D. Coburn. Chester Wood
ward, w. w. Bowman. W. II. Davis,
Thomas Page, NJ. A. Low, Lee Mon
roe, Charles Wolff. e. c. Arnold, A. D.
Kendall.
The Kansas Reserve State Bank.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas Reserve State
bank held late Tuesday afternoon, the
following directors were elected: F.
A. Anton. F. P. MacLennan, E. D. Nc
Keever, Theo. Mueller. F. C. Kaths
S. J. Crumbine, c. r .Silverthorne, F.
A. Derby. H. E. Short, J. H. Lee, C.
e. Eloridge, Geo. Godfrey Moore. Earl
Akers. =
The directors reelected the old Of
ficers as follows: F. C. Kaths, presi-
dent: Frank p. MacLennan, vice presi-
dent:> Earl Akers, cashier; Theodore
C. Mueller. assistant cashier.
Reports were read showing the
growth and progress of the bank.
December 81, checks were mailed
stockholders covering a per cent
semi-annual dividend.
Owing to the increased business of
The Kansas Reserves. the Bank, the
Investment company and the Building
and Loan association. an additional
sixty-five feet of floor space has been
taken over at the rear of S22 Kansas
avenue. An opening has been cut
thru from the present banking room.
The bookkeeping department of the
, bank and the directors room will &C.
cupy this new space.
State Savings Bank
The officers and directors of the
State Savings bank were reelected at
the annual stockholders meeting
, MONDAY. Inc OIIlcerS are as IoilOWS'
William Macferran, president; e. L.
Copeland, vice president; ]. D. Cos
sett, cashier: Horace Macferran, as
sistant cashier. The directors are A.
B. Whiting, NJ. A. Low. n. P. Garrett
son, r. F. Carver. F. M. Stahl, E. L.
Copeland, c. F. Menninger. E. c. Ar
mold, "A. A. GODDARD, w. n. Hall and
| W. Macferran.
Citizens State Bank.
The Citizens State bank of North
! Topeka reelected its officers and di-
rectors at its annual stockhold ers'
meeting Monday The officers are:
NJ. F. Southwick. president: d. NJ.
Dibble. vice president; E. S. Gresser,
cashier, and H. c. Mckinley, assistant
cashier The directors reelected: NJ
f. Southwick. E. S. Gresser. D. NJ
| Dibble, J. N. Stewart, w. A. Luthye, G
A. Frisbie. F. O. Morns. E. c. Arnold
! and S OFT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-07

will be well represented on the cinder
track, aItho admittedly weak in field
events. 1t is understood that Aus
traha and New Zealand. which have
strong teams, will unite to enter the
games as separate from the mother
country.
Not Enthused Much.
England is not, and never has been,
particularly enthusiastic over the
olympic Games. altho she proposes to
go in to win if possible. The English
man makes sports a hobby to which
he turns his attention after his regu-
lar days work is done. He objects
strenuously to the specialization and
long training necessary for Olympic
athletes, claiming that this virtually
amounts to professionalism, even tho
the competitor receives no money.
The man who devotes his whole at
tention to sports is. to all intents and
purposes, professional, it is main
tanned.
1t is too early to forecast what
Cambridge and Oxford universities
will produce in the way of athletes,
as they have just resuE ed work in
terrupted by the war. Cambridge,
however has at least one star runner
in G.. M. Butler, quarter-mile cham
title by covering this distance in 40
As seconds and experts believe he can
lower this by a second.
Have Some Stars.
Among the promising new sprinters
is ". A. Hill, a youngster who re-
Gently captured the English cham
pionship for 100 and 22O yards. Hill
is already a ten second man in the
hundred yard dash, and it is believed
that he is capable of doing better
with training. Sergeant NJ q o r
Mawby also has done the hundred in
9 $40. Mawby is not a beginner, but
lately has developed greatly.
Great expectations are placed in A.
G. Hill, an old-timer, who holds the
English championship for the half
mile and the mile. He has done the
half in 1:55 and the mile in AIS As.
He also won the four-rnile champion
ship of England in 1910. Hill is about
"a or 35 years of age but it is claimed
in sporting circles that he is capable
of doing sensational work. 1t is
rumored that he has done the mile in
AIS in practice.