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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
Montana Has Best
Schools in Union
Schools of the West Flourish and Those
of the East Deteriorate
Is Report.

New York.-The state Of Montana
has the best all-round public school
| system in the United States, according
to the results of comparative study
of the state school systems made pub
lie recently by Russell Sage Founda-
tion. The report assigns seconl place
| to the schools of California, third to
Arizona, fourth to New Jersey and
fifth to the state of Washington.
Other findings Of the report are that
the school system Of the United States
as whole has doubled in efficiency
during the last fifty years, having an
index number or rating of 26 in 1870
and one Of So at the present time.
Since these index numbers are figured
on the basis Of 1000, the school system
of the country has now an effective
mess or efficiency of only So per cent
according to the report.
The figures show that during the
past thirty years the west has been
coming hp educationally, while the
east has been going down. The great
est increase has been made by Utah,
while the greatest falling off is in
Maryland. In the west the state that
has the best and most consistently high
record is California
The most notable educational change
that has taken place during the fifty
years covered by the report, is in the
attendance in high schools. There are
not hundred times as many pupils
enrolled in high schools as there was
in 1870. The number then was 10000
and now it is nearly 100000. The
high school attendance has increased
with great rapidly but the new pupils
have been mostly girls.
In the matter Of teachers salaries,
the lowest average salary is SIS per
month for the state of North Carolina.
while the highest is SS8 in California,
both being based on a year of II
months
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

run off to somebody else who processes to help
you in some pleasanter way.
You need an expert, not so much to prescribe
remedies, as to find causes So do not take
matters into your own hand and try to treat
symptoms. Let your doctor know that he can
depend on you to consult him before it is too
late, and that you will not dose yourself behind
his back. That only confuses things and
makes it harder for him to understand the
case.
And take his advice. That is harder than
taking medicine; but it often does more good.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

Madison may be wonderful city with a
wonderful city government but the rest Of the
state is convinced that an injection Of discre-
ton into the police officers that would not be
out Of the way Student pranks is one Of the
things which go with university life. If a city
wants university it must be able to handle
student pranks with discretion. Madison failed
terribly The tragedy is lamentable but it was
unnecessary.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
ITALY HARD HIT
BY WORLD WAR
Richie KilnbaIl, Just Re
turned from Europe,
Makes Revelations.
BELGIUM IS NORMAL

@Italy is recovering from the world
war more slowly than any country in
Europe. The devastation here, even
IN the northern sections which were
invaded by the Austria Germans, is not
so extensive as that in France but
the industrial decentralization is more
marked than that in either Belgium
or Germany. Constant strikes keep
transportation so paralyzed that the
country is in imminent danger Of los
ing its industrial prestige in southern
Europe and its commerce with other
countries"
This is. the intelligence brought to
Kenosha by Richie KimbaIl, recent
~ returned from abroad, where he
made Investigations for the Guaranty
Trust company of New York City, and
now a guest at the home Of his sister,
Mrs. N. A. Rowe, at the corner Of
Durkee avenue and Park Row.
"The strikes in Italy are peculiar
Mr. Kimball says further. "There will
be walk-out at 2:30 and a settlement
at 300. A train will be switched to
q siding, held there for an hour while
its crew parley with employers about
few cents increase on the hour or
few minutes less work on the day.
AS soon as an agreement is reached
the train will start again and move
on either to its destination or to the
next siding, as the strikers may de-
termine."
Belgium is Normal.
Contrary to most reports" the Wis
ltor continues, conditions in Belgium
are almost normal. Food is plentiful
and factories are running much as
they did before the war. The devastat-
ed areas are recovering rapidly, prob
ably because the people have worked
| so unitedly and so courageously to eff
feet an early reconstruction. The dam
age done to Belgium outside of Lou
vain and few other storm-centers
has been greatly exaggerated by the
newspapers"
Germans Want a King.
Mr.. Kimball reports that most peo-
pie with whom he talked in Germany
favor restoration of the monarchy
They are opposed to the Hohenzol-
lerns, but not to a limited kingship
which they believe to be the only prac-
ticable government for the German
people.
German Industries will come back,
but slowly" is Mr.. Kimball's predic-
ton. "Just now they are seriously
handicapped by lack of raw material
and coal. They are also disturbed
spasmOdically by the unrest caused by
Red agitators, who are, none the less,
becoming less and less popular even
among the Socialists in Germany. All
classes seem to realize that what has
happened in Petrograd must not hap
pen in Berlin or Munich"
AS regards politics in Germany, Mr..
KimbaH says that the people seem dis
posed to abide by the terms of the
treaty SO long as there are no more
episodes such as the French occupa-
tion Of Frankfort by units Of colored
troops. This, the Germans contend, is
an undeserved humiliation.
"And everywhere in Germany as
we'll as Italy, the ex-Kenoshan adds,
"there is praise for the man who de-
fed the Allies, Gabrielle d'Annunzio.
To US he is just a poet; to them, the
greatest hero"
|
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
COmmoner Attempts
to Prohibit Strikes
(By United Press)

Washington. - Prohibition Of all
strikes and lock-outs during ga tempo
rary period Of investigation by ma
tional board" was proposed to the Sen
ate committee on labor today by Will
liam Jennings Bryan, who is seeking
to restore industrial peace
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
Corn Market
Shoots SkyWard
nv Associated presaA

Chicago Big jumps in the corn mar
ket took place today. July deliveries
touched $1737s, net gain of IN
cents over the close on Saturday. The
failure of the supplies to reach the
cities from the country made buyers
anxious. 4A
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
Railroads Demand
Astounding Minimum

Chicago-UnIess the Railroad Labor
Board grants the demand of shopmen
for minimum of $1,000 a year, with
an eight hour day for common labor,
employees representatives cannot guar
sntee that the report Of the board will
be accepted by the workmen, B. NJ.
Jewell, acting president of the rail-
way employees organization told the
board TODAY.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
House Agrees
on Adjournment

Washington.-W Without record vote,
the House Of Representatives today
adopted the resolution offered by Re-
publican Leader Mondell providing for
sine die adjournment of Congress at
four o'clock Saturday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
ARMTsTICE m TURKEY.
(By Associated Pressl

London Turkish nationalist forces
and superior command of French
tropos occupying Cilicia, Asia Minor,
have concluded twenty day armis-
tice. which at its expiration may be
renewed, according to a Constanstino-
pie dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
HAVE INTERESTING CONTESTS.
Motorcyclists Have Merry Time Sunday
at Lake Geneva at Picnic.

at Lake Geneva at Picnic.
One hundred and thirty-fve men,
bers of the Kenosha Motorcycle club
had merry time at their picnic on
Sunday at Lake Geneva. After the
dinner the following contests were
staged and won by the following:
Hill climbing, Harold Smith and
Hugh Gamble, tied for first, Arth Foth,
third; slow race, Art Foth, first; tin
ker race, Tom Fliess, first, Fred Rudy,
second, Ray Anderson, third; unhill
foot race, Otto Moldenear, first, E.
Shepard, second, w. Plew, third; least
gas race, Harold Smith, first, Tom
Fliess, second, Merrill Carlson, third.
There was dinner at noon at the
Hotel Geneva with dancing in the
evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03
LoWden Is I'll
at Chicago Home
(Rv Associated Pressl

Chicago Governor Lowden candidate
for the Republican nomination for the
presidency, was confnedo to his rooms
in the Blackstone Hotel today because
of cold contracted yesterday during
the Memorial Day exercises.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

It's too bad that man can't take his money
with him when he dies. If he could, his sons
would find something to do besides quarrel
about the estate.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

About the cheapest way to settle the Mexi-
can problem would be to move the oil wells
over to this side of the Rio Grande
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

Pity the poor statesman who must help along
German monopoly or favor tariff to give
some American concern license to rob the folks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

President Wilson laughed at circus parade
the other day. Perhaps there was dark horse
in the procession.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

A New York municipal court judge told the
rent hogs they could go to hell. Nobody cares
how high the rents are in hell.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

You can tell more about the strength of the
Palmer boom when you learn whether it sur
wives that jolt in Georgia.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

A presidential year is called an off year.
Nicholas Murray Butler is beginning to think it
an off year for college presidents.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

The wider the split between johnson and
Wood. the more room there is for Hoover.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

Riley, Palmer's assistant, urges anti-prof-
teering legislation. If he isn't careful, he will
make Palmer riley.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

Bryan may join hands with the eastern crew
of politicians, but he will never join hands with
the corkscrew
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

The story that the rebel government has taxi
en- root in Mexico is probably a misprint. Sure
ly it means loot
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

Last year births in America exceeded deaths
by 81 per cent. This applies to fool ideas as
well as mortals.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

American flyers serving in the Polish Kos
ciuszko squadron have to sneeze to pronounce
the squadron.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

Sans army-not to mention few companies
of Schnidts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

The city landlord is fastening the town man
back to the country by putting his back to the
wall
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

It is better to adopt the English custom and
say that Debs will stand for The presidency. He
won't run.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

What this country needs is somebody who
can put the profteers in fear Of the old-fash-
toned hell.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

A few years more at the present pace ane
the old dollar will have to reach up to touch
bottom
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03

And so Harry Lauder is going into movies
His Something in the Bottle was suggestiv.
of reels.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-03


well as nortals.
American flyers serving in the Polish Kos
ciuszko squadron have to sneeze to pronounce
the squadron.
There were Is regiments of Smiths in Uncle
Sans army-not to mention few companies
Of Schmidts.
It is better to adopt the English custom and
say that Debs will stand for the presidency He
won't run.
What this country needs is somebody who
can put the profteers in fear Of the old-fash-
toned hell.
And so Harry Lauder is going into movies.
His Something in the Bottle" was suggestive
of reels.
A few years more at the present pace and
the old dollar will have to reach up to touch
bottom.
The city landlord is Fastening the town man
back to the country by putting his back to the
wall
Bryan may join hands with the eastern crew
Of politicians, but he will never join hands with
the corkscrew
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1920-05-06

thousands of acres of virgin timber
that had already attained a vigorous
growth when Christ was crucified.
In sizes ranging from five to twenty
feet in diameter, the brown trunks
rise perpendlcularly to height of
from ninety to hundred and fifty
feet before putting forth single
limb. which frequently is more mas
sive than the growth which men call
tree In the forests of Michigan.
Scattered between the giants, like
subjects around their king, one finds
noble fir, spruce, or pines, with some
Valparaiso live oak, black oak, pepper
wood, madrone, yew, and cedar.
John Cardigan settled in Humboldt
county, where the sequoia sempervir-
ems attains the pinnacle of Its glory,
and with the lust for conquest hot In
his blood, he filed upon a quarter
section of the timber almost on the
shore of Humboldt bay-land upon
which a city subsequently was to be
built. With his double-bltted axe and
crosscut saw John Cardigan brought
the first of the redwood giants crash
ing to the earth above which 1t had
lowered for twenty centuries, and in
the form of split posts, railroad ties,
pickets, and shakes. the fallen giant
was hauled to tidewater In ox-drawn
wagons and shipped to San Francisco
in the little two-masted coastlng
schooners of the period. Here. by the
abominable magic of barter and trade.
the dismembered tree was transmitted
into dollars and cents and returned
to Humboldt county to assist John
Cardigan In his task of hewing an
empire out Of a wilderness
Time passed. John Cardigan no
longer swung an axe or dragged a
cross-cut saw through a fallen red
wood. He was, an employer of labor
now, well known In San Francisco as
manufacturer of split-redwood prod.
ucts, the purchasers sending their
own schooners for the cargo. And
presently John Cardigan mortgaged
all of his timber holdings with a San
Francisco bank, made heap of his
winnings, and like true adventurer
staked his all on new venture-the
first sawmill in Humboldt county
The timbers for 1t were hewed out by
hand: the boards and planks were
whipsawed.
1t was tiny min. judged by present
day standards, for In fourteen-hour
working day John Cardigan and his
men could not cut more than twenty
thousand feet OF lumber. Neverthe
less, when Cardigan looked at his mill
his great heart would swell with
pride.
Here" said John Cardigan to him
self exultingly when long-drawr
wall told him his circular saw was
biting into the arst redwood log to b.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1920-05-06
CHAPTER II.

young nalf-breed Digger woman,
who had suffered the loss OF the latest
of her numerous progeny two days
prior to Mrs. Cardigan's de1th, was
installed In the house as nurse to John
Cardigan's son, whom he called Bryce,
the family meme OF his mothers peo-
pie. A Mrs. Tully, widow of Cardi-
gan's first engineer in the mill. was
engaged as housekeeper and cook and
with his domestic establishment re-
organized along these simple lines,
John Cardigan turned with added
eagerness to his business affairs. hop
ing between them and his boy to
salvage as much as possible from
what seemed to him. In the first pangs
of his loneliness and desolation. the
wreckage of his life.
While Bryce was In swaddling
clothes he was known only to those
females of Sequoia to whom his half
breed foster mother proudly exhibited
him when taking him abroad for an
airing in his perambulator. With his
advent into rompers, however, and the
assumption of his American preroga-
tive of free speech, his father develop
ed the habit of bringing the child
down to the mill Office, to which h0
added asplayroom that connected with
his private office. Hence prior to his
second birthday, Bryce OWNED that
his father was closer to him than
motherly Mrs. Tully or the half-breed
girl. Moreover, his father took him on
wonderful journeys which no either
member of the household had even
suggested.
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1920-05-06
MODERN LIFE AMONG THE OLD, OLD REDwooos

Here's good readng-a stirring tale by an able author
about red-booded people in an unique environment Peter
B. kyne is as Indigenous the redwoods Of which he writes
with loving appreciation Nevertheless, he has sailed the
Pacific, been soldier the Philippines and has served
captain in France with the A. F. And the sheer merit
of his literary workmanship has given this clerk in California
country store deserved nationwide popularity as short
story writer and novelist
The characters in "The Valley Of the Giants flesh
andbood peope-Americans- sort we know-our kind:
John Cardigan pioneer umbeman among the redWoods,
strong with great heart the soul of dreamer and the
mistaken faith of the fronesman; he loves his redwoods
while he cuts his way fortune through hem Colonel
Pennington the modern captain of industry with more con-
science than circular saw, no bowels OF compassion and
contempt for the law except means Of camoulage.
Bryce Cardigan presentgenerao American of the right kind
who takes up the fight when his father falls the fray and
successfully battles against odds to his heritage
while his heart divided between his blind sire and his dear
est enemy Shirley Sumner, niece OF Colonel Pennington,
fstclass American GIRL with mind of her own heart red
blood and good craftsmanship
And the story is as timely its environment is unique.
There is only redwood country and when the California
redwoods are gone the redwoods gone from the EARTH
John Cardigan and his like have laid most OF them low and
threaten those that remain So It is that great cry has
gone up from the people to save for future generations some
of those forest giants that uIgrown when Christ was
bon-Wh their cousins the sequolas they are the oldest and
biggest living things EARTH So it is that the Save the Red
woods league has sprung into existence. So it is that
gress is investigating the conditions preparatory to egsa
ton for the establishment of RedWoods national park
The American of the future will be able to the Big
Trees (Seqoa ggantea) in all their glory Yosemite Sequoia
and General Grant national parks assure that But unless
money provided for the purchase of great grove of redT
woods (Seqloia sempervrens by congress, California
public subscription the redWoodS are doomed to the and
saw with the exception of few small and inadequate pre-
serves. And among these redwoods lies "The Valley
of the Giants
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1920-05-06

her, and I'm thinking I'll have to come
here often. for the same. She was
like this sunbeam, McTavish. She
She"
Aye" murmured McTavish huskily.
Il ken. Ye wouldna gle her common
or a public spot in which to wait for
We. An yell be shuttin' down the
mill an Ioggin'camps an layin' off the
hands in her honor for a bit?'
Until after the funeral. McTavish-
And tell your men they'll he paid for
the lost time. That will be all. lad"
When McTavish was gone, John
Cardigan sat down on small sugar
pine windfall, his head held slightly
to one side while he listened to that
which in the redwoods is not sound
but rather the absence of 1t. And as
he listened, he absorbed subtle COM
fort from those huge brown trees. so
embiematic of Immortality; In the
thought he grew close to his Maker.
and presently found that peace which
he sought. Love such as theirs could
never die. . j. The tears came at
last.
at shutdown he walked home bear.
ing an armful of rhododendrons and
dogwood blossoms, which he arranged
in the room where she lay. Then he
sought the nurse who had attended
her.
I'D like to hold my son." he said
gently. MAY II"
She brought him the baby and
placed 1t in his great arms that
trembled so; he sat down and gazed
long and earnestly at this flesh of his
flesh and blood of his blood. You'll
have her hair and skin and eyes" he
murmured. my son, my son, l shall
love you so, for now l must love for
two. Sorrow shall keep from sou,
please God, and happiness and worldly
comfort shall leave you when go
to her." He nuzzled his gr.szled
cheek against the baby's face. "Just
you and my trees" he whispered,
''just you and my trees to help me
to hang on to plucky finish"
For love and paternity Ind come to
him late in life, and so had his first
great sorrow; wherefore, since ne was
not accustomed to these heritages OF
all fiesh he would have to adjust him
self to the change. But his son and
his trees-ah, yes they would help.
And he would gather more reGwoods
nowl
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1920-05-06

There's no satisfaction equal to the
consciousness Of measuring up to your
limits. The man who does the merely
ordinary things can never take the
pride in his achievements men Of
vision take. They see what lies be-
yond the ken OF calculating mortals.
Struggle to them is second nature.
They delIghk In hard things because
they are hard. And to them come the
great victories that never tarry long
enough to be made sure to the weak
ling and the fearful 1t may cost toll
and struggle 10 land the crowns men
pray for but they have no value with
out sacrifice. When men purchase re-
wards that demand the strain Of every
capacity to win them, they are train
ing the personalities In reserve that
when set to work mark the superman.
Grit.