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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-20

La Crosse - Rex Stanninger, "a
years old, of Minneapolis, and driver
of the automobile which struck and
killed John Franzen, entered plea of
not guilty. when arraigned on charge
of manslaughter here. He was re-
leased on $4,000 bonds, furnished by
his father, a Minneapolis broker.
Eagle River-C. II. Dryz, Chicago,
arrived to commence operations at
Pioneer lake, where he intends to
start his fox farm. He will ship in
about 20 foxes for propagation and
sale.
Kenosha-A still was found hidden
behind the furnace of house here in
raid by police and federal officers.
Shebet Kostak, tenant of the house,
was arrested.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-20

lie Crosse Harold Nix, 16. Virogua
is in a La Crosse hospital with frac
tured skull and both jaws and arms
broken as a result of fall from an
electric light pole. The boy was EN-
ployed as lineman by the Wisconsin
Minnesota Light and Power Co.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-20

Madison-On application of Gov. w.
L. Harding of Iowa, Gov. Phillip ap-
pointed C. L. Harrington, Madison, and
William H. Graves and A. II. Long,
Prairie du Chen, to confer with a
similar committee appointed by the
governor of Iowa, to make plans for a
national state park on the Mississippi
river.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-05-20

Kenosha-Federal officials obtained
from four men confessions that they
were implicated in the making of
"moonshine liquor" in the still found
In barn on the Robinson farm. They
declared that man whom they called
pete" was the operator of the STILL
pete" Is still at large. The moon
shine liquor was tested and found to
contain per cent alcohol
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
HEREDITY, Or?
By H. Addington Bruce

Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
TXCLAIMS a very learned savant, much
r.. applauded exponent Of the doctrines
- of the eugenic fraternity who would
reform the world by scientific breeding:
"Heredity bears not only on the features,
but on the physical characteristcs-the
blind, weight, tints Of the skin, the eyes, the
brain, etc. 1t rules also the intellectual side,
the morals, morbidness, etc.-in word, all
that constitutes individuality"
This is sweeping enough, in all conscience.
1t virtually leaves out of account the forma-
tive influences of education, imitation, food,
climate home surroundings, environment
factors in general. But can they sanely and
safely be left out Of account?
Two men, father and son, appear before a
physician. The son is in middle life, the
father quite advanced in years.
Both are afflicted with singular muscu-
lar tremor. 1t is slow, rhythmical, we'll
marked tremor, which becomes worse when
they their hands. But tests show in
neither father nor any specific organic
disease which might have such tremor as
a symptom.
Extraordinary" murmurs the physician
Here is surely case of an inherited tre-
NOR
Yet, moved by praiseworthy spirit Of
caution, he questions father and son closely.
He learns that the son has indeed inherited
something from his father-a little factory
for the making of thermom eters. He learns
that the son has further inherited his IA
theirs special job--the filling Of the Their
mometers with mercury.
Learning this, the physician promptly
makes a new and more hopeful diagnosis.
Instead of 'finherited tremor," he now says
"mercurial tremor," and begins to cogitate
remedial measures.
Those high-cheeked North American sons
of European ancestors-is it inheritance that
has made them so unlike their forbears in
appearance? Have not climate and geo.
graphical conditions played some part?
And what about the many born crimi-
nails" who, being placed as children in good
homes, display an amazing failure to follow
in their parents criminal footsteps?
Shall we say merely that in their case
good inherited traits happened to be "dom-
inant?" Shall we not suspect that the train
ing they received in their superior homes
was really what made them superior citi-
zens?
Observe, too, that young girl who sews
with her left hand. In every other respect
she is right-handed. So, likewise, with her
grandmother, who reared the young girl.
Did the latter inherit" her sewing left
handedness from her grandmother? Or did
she not, perchance, acquire it through the
influence of unconscious imitation?
Heredity undeniably is a potent force in
the determining of a human organism. But
let us not make the rash and terrible mis-
take Of crediting it wis omnipotence That
way all real hope for human progress ends
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
Editorial Digest
Corn and Coal


When the corn producers of the country
talk of organizing to fix the price of grain
they are told with fatherly assumption
of superior knowledge that it can't be done.
Perhaps it can't. But the coal producers
encourage the farmers to think it can.
Representatives of the soft coal pro-
ducers meet in Cleveland this week to
consider coal prices. Under the urgings
of the attorney general they admit that it
may be possible to make some reductions
in the price of coal. They will look into
the matter and maybe it will be done.
Now the farmers weren't asked whether
they could stand a cut in corn prices or
not. Conditions shifted and corn prices
Just tumbled. The farmers say fifty cents
bushel is below cost. That makes no
difference. There is no cost-plus business
about farming. Corn just went down when
it got ready regardless of the feelings of
farmers or of the bankers who hold the
farmers notes.
The farmers weren't asked whether they
wanted to do anything about it. Not being
blind they are going to the difference
between themselves and the coal operators
between corn and coal And while the coal
operators meet in a steam-heated hall to
decide the price of coal, what wonder if
the farmers get ambitious to do the same
for corn. What wonder they get to think
ing they can do it.-Lincoln (Neb.) State
Journal (1nd. Rep.).
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
BETTER SPEECH
By DR.. Frank Crane

BY DR.. Frank Crane
The proposition to have Better Speech
Week" ought to enlist our hearty co-opera-
ton.
It's the little things that count, particular
ly in the field of annoyance, and one Of the
most irritating of little annoyances is sloven-
ly speech.
1 know Of but one actress on Broadway
who can put every syllable of ordinary con-
yersation over to the back wall of the
theater. I would name her, only 1 would
get into trouble.
I went to hear an actor Of great reputation
the other day. I give you my word that I
did not catch over One-third of his utterances.
got his drift only because 1 am good
guesser
When will some one who speaks with au-
thority, and not as Scribes and Pharisees or
as /, coop all the members of the theatrical
profession up in one room, and teach them
the following Truth Number One: to wit,
namely:
That the first business of an actor is to be
heard
When folks pay money for a seat at show
they like to know what it is all about.
Also do the above remarks apply to preach
ers, orators, and other wOrdsmiths.
Here follow few words which the people
continually do mangle Gaze upon the shot
ted field!
Artic for arctic, asst for asked, ketch for
catch, cemetary for cemetery, Children for
children, chimley for chimney, deef for
deaf, deps for depths, differnt for different,
drawn, lawr, jawr, ETC., for draw, law, and
jaw, drownded for drowned. ellum for elm,
Teller for fellow, generl for general, COVER
ment for government, hunderd for hundred,
jewlry for jewelry, liberty and FEBRUARY for
library and February, noon and doc for new
and due, pome for poem. acrost for across,
and so on.
Also they drop the final g, as ta1kin' for
talking, they omit r where it belongs, saying
tab and forevah for tar and forever, and put
it where it does not belong, as Emmer and
nar.
They say Cincinnatuh and Mizzoorah, and
turn about and say Nebrasky and Arizony.
They assassinate the short wherever they
find it, and smudge out the other beautiful
diversity of short vowels with the primeval
grunt, uh. Thus they "Latun" and "nothun,'
and ~ gottuh do ut" and whats up. to
yuh?"
If we have first-class. twin six and beau
tiful language, why not speak ut?
Copyright, 1920. by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
The Majors VIII Be We7con1s

TT is greatly to be hoped that every chief
executive of Georgia's towns and cities
will accept Mayor Keys invitation to
attend the National Drainage Congress in
Atlanta on November the eleventh, and will
be accompanied by other officials and rep
resentative citizens. The matters to be dis
cussed at that great convention of scientists
engineers, landowners and public leaders
are of vital import to municipalities as we'll
as to counties and States
There is scarce a community in Georgia.
from the largest centers of population to the
smallest village, that will not derive far
reaching benefit from the drainage of swamp
and overflow lands. Approximately eight
million acres of that nature are in the Com
monwealth. At present they are not only
unproductive, but also, in many instances,
are menace to health; they will yield the
public treasury next to nothing in the way
of taxes, and well-nigh worthless to their
owners. But if properly drained, they will
be valued at from fifty to two hundred dol
lars an acre, will add substantially to the
State and county revenues, will produce
bountifu harvests of food, and deepen the
prosperity of all the region about.
Such developments will rebound of
course, to the good of towns and cities, as
we'll as to that Of rural districts. If the
eradication of malaria were the sole benefit
from drainage that of itself would repay a
thousandfold every dollar of the costs in
vOlVed. 1t is matter of record, moreover,
that in the course Of compare lively a few
years the increase in agricultural production
amounts to enough to cover those costs
Merchants and bankers and manufacturers,
no less than farmers, share in the resultant
gains, because the richer measure Of rural
prosperity leads naturally to more trade and
bigger business Long ago farsighted cities
came to see that the surest means to their
upbuilding lies in the development of the
outlying country's resources.
All these considerations call to Georgia's
mayors to join the county commissioners
and other officials in attending the National
Drainage Congress. Atlanta will welcome
them most heartily; and their visit, no doubt
will prove highly profitable
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
Greek Comedy and PURPOSE
T HERE is touch of opera bouffe in
the spectacle of Greece, with her

TT HERE is touch or opera DouIIe IN
the spectacle of Greece, with her
democratic spirit and traditions,
taking a nineteen-year-old youth for king
and prolonging the royal mummeries which
must have lost their spell when Constan-
tine made his inglorious exit Him the
powers of Athens will have none Of nor
of Crown Prince George; but they solemn
ly bid his third son, Paul, to ascend the
throne left empty by Alexander's death.
Was not the time suspicious for putting
off this puppetry, it is asked, and for pro-
claiming a Greek republic?
Evidently not, if we may judge from the
course of that liberal and sagacious lead
err, Premier Venizelos. He is by all stand
ards the greatest statesman Of modern
Hellas and in the estimate Of some close
observers, the ablest in present-day Eu-
rope. To his courage and wisdom Greece
owes largely her present freedom and pres
tige, her rise in less than decade from
third-rate to a second-rate European
Power, her vastly widened outlook upon
the Aegean and upon the world. Demo-
cratic to his hearts core and a firm be-
lever in republican institutions, Venice
los might have been expected to seize the
occasion of the death of the youthful King
Alexander to bring the monarchy to an
end. But he knows Greece better than do
most Of her own public men, and far bet
ter than foreign onlookers.
He knows that while the lingering mon
archy is more shadow than substance, it
serves nevertheless to keep quiet a politi-
cal element that might become a storm
center were the existing form of govern
ment abolished forthwith. Being a practi
cal statesman, more interested in things
than in names and preferring results to
mere formulas, he is content to let a we'll
nigh meaningless monarchy stand so long
as it lends a steadying influence and
leaves him a free hand for large and ur-
gent tasks. Among such tasks is that of
administering the affairs of the great ter
ritories which have been added to Greece in
consequence Of the war. Their popula-
tions," writes a current historian, "are to
be absorbed, assimilated, educated or re-
educated as Greek. There is a general feel
ing, even among the most liberal minded
Greeks, that the time has not yet come for
so radical a change as that from a mon
archy to a republic"
So 1t comes about that amid the still
echoing thunders of crashing thrones and
despite the call of her own glorious re-
publican past, Greece takes a king-a
youth not out of his teens; graceful
dancer they say; charmingly hammered, no
doubt; altogether amiable, let us hope; but
hardly Pericles for statecraft. May His
Majesty never lack as good a counselor as
Venizelos!
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
4 Long Stride For,Dard for
GEORGIA $ Public Schools
"HE ratification of the so-called local
school taxi amendment is source

"HE ratification Of the so-called local
school tax'' amendment is source
of rejoicing to all well-wshers OF
Georgia's educational interests. Henceforth
every county must levy from one to five
mills. the exact rate being left for local de-
termination, as a supplement to it's quota Of
the State school fund. Sixty-nine counties
were operating under this plan before the
adoption of the Constitutional amendment
made it obligatory upon them all; and so
marked was the advantage of those leaders
that in time their example alone doubtless
would have converted their neighbors
throughout the State. 1t is highly FORUM
ate however, that the question has been
submitted to the electorate once for all and
has been answered with decisive vote for
progress.
The new law strikes to the heart of a Pc
culiarly important problem in that it pro-
vdes at least the rudiments of a fair and
efficient system Of school finance. Our long
pressing need of more schools, better schools
and longer school terms and of more teach
ers and just salaries for them has pointed
always to one inexorable question-where
is the money coming from? For years Geor-
gia has stood high among the States as re-
CARDS legislative appropriations for schools,
and evidently her allotments for that pur-
pose from the central treasury are now as
large as the tax income will allow. But :
regards local support she has Jagged griev-
SLY. While Western States have spent from
oven to ten dollars per c>p. for public
5chools, Georgia has spent little more than
Two, Notwithstanding her bountiful resources
nd keen interest in education. The trouble
las been, largely, that wherets most other
-tates have looked chiefly to the counties
Or school maintenance, ours has looked to
legislative appropriations. The latter have
not been a penny too much, but the contri-
buttons from the local areas have been far
too little. 1t is by increasing those contribu-
TONS throughout the Commonwealth and by
that means alone, that we can procure the
sorely needed funds. AS a step to that end
the recently ratified amendment is of fun
damental value and foretokens new era of
progress and prosperity for the Common
wealth.
Many influences are to be thanked for
the success of this measure after years of
effort in the shc dow of hopes often deferred
The teachers, the forward-thinking school
boards and county officials, the newspapers
and numbers of Legislative leaders have
worked earnestly in its behalf. But If there
is one above all others to whom we are in
debted he is, by common pronouncement
DR.. M. L. Britain, State Superintendent of
Education. His has been the great co-ordi-
mating force among the hundreds Of loyal
1aborers in the long campaign, and his the
unshakable faith amid all disappointm ents
that at last the good cause would win He is
to be congratulated most heartily on the
outcome.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
we Must Endo,o Colleges

40 great and so sustained i the increase
~ in the enrollments of American col
leges and universities. that authorities
calculate there will be one million one hun
dred and thirty Eight thousand students in
two hundred and ten institutions by the
year 1850, as against two hundred and
ninety-fou thousand last term This is reck-
oned upon the assumption that the average
rate of increase during the last six years will
continue.
The Institute for Public Service, with
headquarters at New York, in commenting
upon these figures, which it compiled, asks
"Will the money to provide education for
the increased number of students come from
taxation, endowme Is, private gifts or larger
fees? Must present universities grow, or
must more universities be built?"
Provided, somehow or other those funds
must be, If America is to wax l. true great
ness and in prosperity worth the seeking. A
country that failed to answer the call Of it's
youth for education could not command sue
cess and Ger -inly would not deserve it. In
part the needful funds must be raised
through the medium of taxes; State univer-
stiles and allied institutions must look chiefly
to the public treasury for upkeep and de-
velopment.
But the greater number of our colleges
and universities, having been founded by
the church or by private philanthropy, de-
pend upon increased endowments and gifts
for their bility to serve the multiplying
hosts of young men and women who turn
to them for light and leading. In time, per-
haps, more institutions will be needed, but
the pressing duty is to sustain and develop
those already in the field. Especially is this
true of our Southern universities and col
leges, which are doing noble work under the
handicap of grievously limited funds and are
finding it ever more difficult to provide for
the eager Youthful thousands who knock at
their gates.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
UNCOMMON SENSE
Make Your Business Your Hobby
BY JOHN BLAKE.

t is we'll enough to have hobby, If
you don't overwork it. very eminent
lawyer made clocks in his spare time, and
got rest and recreation out of it.
Many prominent men play golf to keep
their bodies in good condition.
Fishing is a hobby that almost anyone
would indulge in if he had the time.
Amateur photography Is another hobby
which fascinates many men whose business
activities lie in an entirely different direc-
ton.
All these good and useful, but they
all must be practiced sparingly.
The people who go farthest are those
who make their business or professions their
hobby-who would rather do what they do
to earn their livelihood than anything else
on earth.
These people are able to concentrate,
because the job absorbs them. If you want
to- do a thing badly enough you are not
likely to be distracted Watch a man who is
running a race and you will find ample
proof Of that.
1t is certain that you will do best the
thing, You want to do You will not have
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
Nobel Prizes

Dr.. Jules Bordet, of Brussels, and
Professor August Trough, of Copen-
hagen, have, respectively, been award
ed the Nobel prizes in medical sci
ence for the years 1919 and 1920.
The five annual Nobel prizes for
achievements in literature, medicine,
physics chemistry and peace, are not
regularly awarded until December 10,
the birthday of the donor, Alfred Nobel,
Swedish inventor of nitro-glycerine
and dynamite. The prizes amount to
about $4,000 each, being the income
from an $8,0O0,00O fund.
Americans who have been honored
with the prizes in the past twenty
years are Thomas A. Edison, Elihu
Root Theodore Roosevelt and Professor
T. W. Richards. The prize in medi-
cine has never come to the United
States, although the award in 1912 to
DR.. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller
Foundation, New York, was considered
as much an American as French
triumph.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
Boston Claims More

A population of SOL .679 for Boston, in
stead of 747,923 as announced by federal
census takers is claimed by Mayor Pet
ers in a letter to Samuel l.. Rogers, di-
rector of the census, requesting that
new federal census be- ordered here.
Frigid weather, which made it diff
cult for canvassers to get about when the
census was taken, and q panicky feeling
Among foreign-born people over the
Search for radicals which caused them to
withhold information were among the eX-
plantations advanced by to mayor for al
legged errors in the federal enumeration
which, he claimed, omitted 1000 persons
in one ward and showed decrease or
$4,000 in another.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
What About the Fo1ks9

TINE dwindling of our rural population
does not disQuiet Mr.. Paul w. Brown,
editor of America at Work, a Mis-
souri, periodical, especially interested in ag-
riculture and industry. From the record of
his own State, Mr.. Brown infers that while
the number of farm producers is relatively
much smaller than twenty or even ten years
ago, their aggregate output thanks to i'm
proved method and machinery, is much
greater. The census of 1900 showed that
of Missouris Ole hundred and fourteen
counties, twenty had fewer people than at
the beginning of the decade-and those
twenty, curiously enough, were among the
most fertile in the Commonwealth. The CEN
sus Of 1910 showed a like decrease in forty
one additional counties; and the condition
thus disclosed was typical. it seems, Of the
chief producing States of the Central West.
But now see what occurred in the way of
output in that same region. during that same
period. 1.-THE total production of corn, wheat
and oats in Missouri for the fve-year period
just before the taking Of the 1900 census
was 1857, 900 bushels. For the correspond
ing period exactly ten years later, the pro-
duction of the same grains was 100000
bushels-a gain of 10 per cent: When
we turn to animal husbandry the
ing the annual average of horses. mules, beef
cattle and milk COWS for the same five-year
periods, we find that it rose from 1924 900
head to 4,427, 900 head-a gain of 81 per
cent" From these figures Mr.. Brown con-
cludes that the same sort of transformation
has been going forward in field and pasture
as IN factory and shop-economy Of labor
anc Increase of results.
Within certain limits, this argument holds
good and is reassuring. But the fact that
the gain in food production has not kept
pace with the growth in population must be
reckoned with; and also the fact that the
crowding of millions into cities. under the
strain of tense and narrow living, does not
make for physical or moral stamina Even
if labor-saving machinery were quite capable
Of solving the purely economic problems in
cident to the exodus from the farms, ma
chinery cannot reach the vaster human
problems involved.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-06
Enlistment Record

Adjutant General Harris office an
nounces that 1925 army enlistments
accepted during October broke all peace
time records. Fifty-six yer cent of the
months enlistments were for the full
three year period.
The educational advantages offered
by the army on it's new basis. General
Harris said, are given by nearly all the
recruits as reason for enlisting. The to-
tai strength of the army is now 208,-
ISL officers and men, Of whom 15S,4
are in the United States.