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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
Strictly Business.

EmpIoyee-rm afraid. sir, under the
present high prices shall be unable
10 live on my salary and
Employer-Well what Of IL? I'm
conducting a business, not life saving
ssociation.--LondOn Answers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
GOLD MEDAL.
skk .Il!!:!!::!'!! on


bring quick relief and often ward on
deadly diseases Known ss the national
Ssmsdy OF Holland for more than 400
years All druggists, In three sissa
a>sek tes ths nsass Gold Medal q. sxsrx k.m
and Aecept 40 inaitation
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
His ADVANTAGE.

"a butcher is lucky In these times"
"Why sol"
because he can always make both
ends meat"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21

Many man who imagines that he
Is born leader isn't even a success
full follower.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21

At dinner party 1t doesn't matter
that the anecdote is totally irrelevant
IL it's funny.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21

tons and interesting horse Book n Free.
ABSORBING, JR., the antiseptic linimen, iof
mankind, reduces Strained, Torn LiRa-
ments. Swollen Glands. Veins &C Musciesl
Heals Cuta. Soree. Ulcers. Aiiays pain, Pfles
e2S bottle q aeass delivered Book Esidsaes' ires
EtpusG. p .. =. $40 Temple Street. Springfield Misl
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
Will Not be One Day Without
PE-RU-NA

Mrs. Mary Fricke, 507 Bornman St., Belleville,
H. is just one of the many thousands Of ladies'
throughout the country who, after an agony OF
years, have at last found health. strength and
yigor In PE-RU-NA.
Her words tell of her suffering and recovery
better than we can do t.: 81 suffered with my
stomach. had awful cramps and headaches so
often could not lay on pillow. Saw your book,
tried PE-RU-NA and got good results from the
first bottle To be of a cure | took twelve
bottles. l have recommended PE-RU-NA to my
friends and all are well pleased with results.
will not be one day without PE-RU-NA. Have not
had doctor since started with PE-RU-NA, which
about fifteen years ago. am now sixty-three
years old, hale hearty and we'll Can do as much
work as my daughters / feel strong and healthy
and weigh near two hundred pounds Before,
weighed "a nttla one hundred ] hope lots OF
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
EncouraaIna.

"ShaII / settle the bill now, doctorr
"Not necessary. I can arrange with
your widow"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
Mixed Varieties.

well. what kind Of family tree
did you get from that expensive
genealoglstr
Il thought was going to get
peach. but he handed me q lemon"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
Skin Tortured Babies Sleep
Mothers Rest
After Cuticura
soap zss. 0intnss, rs and soc, T.leup Csc

JOBACCO--Try our Kentucky Natural Leaf
Tobacco. soc per pound, postpaid. guaran.
teed Freemont Farm. Boaz. Kentucky.
FRECKLES g. si!:si: :;..s.s :; :;;
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
THE MISERY OF
BACKACHE
Removed by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.

Muskegon. Mich. Tor six years l
was so weak in my back at times that
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21

The High Price OF Husbands.
$50 that's DIS husbands he worth
muchg" "Oh, yes. Her father gave q
hundred thousand for him"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1920-01-21
Ey:EZ:ll=ETNl

VIII reduce Inflamed, Strained,
Swollen Tendons, Ligaments,
orMusciee. Stops the lamenessa and
pain from a Spllnt. Side Bone or
Bone SPAWN. No blister, no hair
gone and horse can be used. g. q
bottle at druggists or delivered. De-
scribe your case for special inatruc.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
4 Ploi!ess Sho,c

Like all musical comedies, however.
1t worries along very well without a
villain or well-constructed plot II j.
enough for the devoted audience TO see
the little scarlet radishes popping out
OF the ground in the front row and be-
hind them the dimpling heads of lettuce
and the slim asparagus. 1t becomes
more spirited later, with great corn
stalks marching heavily up and down.
with acrobatic beans and peas tun,-
bling over the wires and reaching dizzy
heights on poles. How they cling with
their frail tendrls even IN the teeth Of
rainstorm and hail - we forgot to say
that they, TOO, were adequate in the
role of villain.
With mere loveliness a critic fortu-
nately has nothing to do save 70 reg-
lister undying admiration. Not for
worlds would we express a preference
between the rosebud and the sweet
pea or the nodding plumes of white
lilac that came on early in the show.
but llnger in the memory after MANY q
more gaudily costumed dancer has de-
parted. The csocus, which only flashed
in for day, laughing at the snow
banks and disappearing as suddenly
as she came, and the dafEodils dancing
in golden hordes, hold a first place in
many loyal hearts. There are golden
ballets Of nasturtiums and calendulas,
and gorgeous Futurist effects Of gladi-
olus, varied with prim little figures Of
mignonette and pansies.
And SO it drags on for many months.
1t holds our interest even to the la+e
November day when the last chrvs-
anthemum perishes. But We must have
a happy ending. and find it in the
chorus Of unseen voices that promise
a reawakening of the heroine as soon
as the fairy Of godmother Spring comes
N~--No
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The Garden Follies
By Emma Bugbee

The Spring Garden, now at the
height of its six thousandth season,
proves again that there is nothing
like the old classics, which had their
opening. when the sunlight first fell on
the Garden of Eden. Footlight
favorites of the tickle generations
wane, and their very names are for
gotten, save by those who frequent
chophouses; likewise, even Hamlet,
and the Greek tragedies, though they
pretend to sort of dramatic i'm
mortality, are but paltry successes in
deed when we study the long run Of
such Spring Garden favorites as the
rose and the wheat.
All mankind goes to this show as
regularly as April showers and May
flowers, and millions watch the un-
folding of the plot of crocus bed or
radlshes with thrill of suspense and
delight in the happy ending that
never falters.
1t is polyglot house which pays
homage to the eternal drama each
spring afternoon in the plant shops on
Vesey Street. Commuters, with the
dinner in a paper bundle and the
morning newspaper still folded and
preserved for the wife at home, drop
in for half an hour to gloat over the
beauties of infant tomato plants or
to make a date for Sunday morning
with that slender rose bush in the
second row
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

! leaps and bounds. Incoming steam
ships arc crowded. In the opinion of
the majority of the experts we shall
very soon be having an annual immi-
grafton much greater than that in the
years preceding the war.
Lastly, the sudden outburst of patri-
Otto desire 10 Americanize our unas.
simulated alien population is direct
result Of the war. The nation has
come all at once to realize how vitallv
necessary it is to weld our heteroge-
neous population into more homo
geneous whole. The problem of litter
acy among our native born, serious
enough in itself, has been very greatly
complicated by allowing m lions of
aliens who cannot speak or understand
or read English to land on our shores.
Ihe first stage in making Americans
out of our foreign born population
must be to give them a speaking and
reading knowledge of English. There
IS Inn to our national power Of
assimilation, To allow Immigration TO
continue in the years to come at it's
prewar rate, or at what will doubtless
be an even higher rate, is to resort to
forcible feed ne during an acute at
tack of national Indigestion. 1t is like
trying to keep boat bailed out with
out stopping the leak.
Especially illogical is it to urge the
wholesale admission of illiterate aliens
when we have just begun on nation
wide campaign to eliminate .lliteracy.
A further restriction of immigration is
a necessary and logical part of the
Americanization program. How can we
poss bly, hope to make any real and
permanent progress toward a solution
of our problem of national illiteracv if
we forever keep on importing mill
ions Of illiterate foreigners?
HERBERT DE c. WARD.
Harvard University, Cambridge.
Mass, May 10, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The Right to Live

Governor Allen, in his debate with
Mr.. Gompers, repeatedly asked the
question Of whether the public has
any rights in the disputes between
capital and labor. Mr.. Gompers
first evaded and then fatty declined
to answer. He fell back on the ir-
relevancy that to deny to men the
right to strike is to make slaves Of
them.
Mr.. Gompers confuses the right to
quit work with the right to strike.
The two things are significantly
similar but fundamentally different.
No one, as Governor Allen pointed
out, holds that men may not quit
work Individually. But strike is
more than q quitting. 1t represents
a conspiracy, usually directed from
above, to impose the will of a group
to the prejudice of the freedom of
others. If there are slaves under
present conditions they are the de-
fenseless members of the public
whose obedience is forced.
The strike began as an instrument
to attack employers-as a device to
make it cheaper for employers to
yield than to oppose demands. The
contest being between clements both
of which were selfish, the public was
neutral. But the strike now wears
new aspect. 1t many cases it has
become a direct attack. not on en-
ployers, but on the public The pro-
moters of the steel, coal and railway
strikes have advertised that there
purpose was not to make employers
suffer losses until they paid ransom,
but to freeze or starve the masses
if they did not see to it that the
demands of labor groups were in
stantly met. Yesterdays newspapers
carried the news that the chiefs Of
the railway brotherhood would tie
up the whole business of the coun-
try if the public failed to JOIN in
compelling a grant Of a minimum
wage Of $4,000 year to railway
workers.
This new condition the Kansas law
defended by Governor Allen deals
with. In brief. it is that with re-
spect to supreme necessities. no con-
spiracy may stop production and at
the same time prevent others from
doing the abandoned work. The law
is carefully drawn and so far seems
to have worked well. 1t may not
be cure for industrial harmony,
but 1t pssrjdss method Of handling
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

an emergency. In no wise does it in
terfere with any individuals right
to quit, and applies only to the es-
sentials of life.
The issue before Governor Allen
was whether the right to strike
IS superior or inferior to the right
OF others to live. The tactics of the
labor unions confronted the instinct
OF selt-preservation. 1t is safe to
bet that in the duel the instinct of
self-preservation will win. IF real
tests come 80 per cent of the popu-
lation will not consent to perishing
because it will not or can not do what
the remaining 10 per cent dictates.
The right to strike is strongly found
ed In custom, but the right to live
is more deeply founded on the laws
of nature.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
After the Journey

CFron, The Ncio Statesman
T'HE great blue downs rise grandly
up before me.
A barren wall receding swiftly south
ward
And far behind US into broad plains
merging.
But as the train whirls on, through
smokewreaths loom
Their ramparts, huge and huger grown,
converging
Until their swollen hanks close in and,
surging
Enormous in the window-space con-
The last small glimpse of sky. And
then unfold
Park!and and woodland, tawny and
green and gold.
Rocks Wheel and there struggling
patch of cover
Among bare thorns and hazel bushes
rallies
A flock of misty birches freckled over
With little amber leaves. Here, weed
encrusted,
A willow circled water richly glasses
Gold-dropping boughs: group of elms
gold busted
Muffles a farm, and like a vision passes
The yellow rain of larches. Smoke
goes trailing
Over the woods and fields. The light
is failing.
Then sunset, cleaning, darkness, and
the trains
Roaring through country stations down
the plains
MARTIN ARMSTRONG.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30

Dean Howells was an admirer of Val
des and did much to popularize him.
Valdes had nothing to say, but pleas
antly characteristic way of saying it.
He writes of anemic young priests
falling in love with ultra devout
widows. That sort of thing which
critics speak reverently of as "mysti-
cism" (There are only three or four
plots in all Spanish literature, i'm
agine). Sensing, of course, Senor
Blasco Ibanez, whose style has some
bones under all its weight of flesh,
have found nothing in Spanish authors
to reward my excursion therein. Too
painfully am l reminded of the liter
ary efforts of Mrs Mary Robert Rine
hart's Bah who specialized in love
seems" JULIAN HINCkLEY.
Cedarhurst, L. l., May 27, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
CrO,cing g Rich Quickly

First, as to the need of labor That
there is at present a widespread demand
for certain kinds of labor no one will
deny. This is a more or less chronic
condition with us, except in periods of
financial depression. But our past
experience has taught us-and taught
US to our sorrow-that labor which is
economically cheap is, as a rule, So
cially very expensive. The National
Commission on Industrial Relations
stated in its final report The Tpast
immigration policy of the United States
has created number Of our most diff
cult and serious industrial problems
and has been responsible, in a consider
able measure, for the existing state OF
industrial unrest. The great
mass of non-Eng speaking workers
who form about half the labor force in
basic industries has done much
to prevent the development Of better
relations between employer and en-
ployee."
Our choice thus lies clearly before
Us. Shall we grow rich quickly?
Shall we drive full speed ahead
toward a reckless and early exhaus-
ton of our natural resources at the
risk of lowering our standards of liv-
ing and of citizenship? Or shall we
safeguard the welfare and the heritage
Of future generations by limiting i'm
migration to point which is COM
patiblc with a normal growth and
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
A Rebel
(Fron To-Ddtl

tTFCH1 IO-DdIt
REAUTY to you is some white queen
who stands
Remote from common thing. In her
high chamber,
Lamp-lit and precious, rich with gold
and amber,
Passionless, with lily in her hands.
Stern at her guarded gates the people,
brutes,
Ill-favored, fetid, murmuring discon-
She does not hear nor know. The
lily's scent
Hangs heavy; there is charm Of hid
den lutes.
You are her maiden, mirroring her face,
But | would lead her through the
dangerous street
Where evil swarms and breeds, where
all the place
Is gray with pain and bitter with de-
feat,
Until she knew her kinship with the
Sullied to make pathway for her feet.
HORACE SHIPP.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The Best Seats

To see the show at its best, how
ever, one should attend an early morn
ing performance in the back yard.
Here one gets the benefit Of the drama
in true suburban settings, with
bIossoming apple orchards for a
background, played on garden
striped brown and green and studded
with the golden stars of dandelions
(bodily beautiful though treacherous
as the most poisonous movie vampire,
and as truly the gardeners enemv).
Pale pink and family fragrant petals
floating through the soft air fill the
theater with sweetness, while the
0riole whistles an accompaniment to
the crunching of the spade against the
hard-packed earth.
There isn't much plot to puzzle the
audience and fill the critics allotted
space. For an entertainment that has
competed SO successfully 70. genera
tions with the man-made melodrap1a.
and that now has the temerity to
match itself against movie horoines.
1t certainly does lack pep" A casual
critic even finds some difficulty in his
mind as to the identity Of the villain.
1t might have been that BIC cutworn
who was so happily dispatched in the
second spadeful but how could the
villain be dead and the play continue?
Perhaps it is the Demon Late Frost
who nips the frail tendrils of growing
beauties; or the unspeakable Labor
Shortage, who leaves the garden 10
grow rank with weeds and parched
with heat.
When the show was first put on in
the Garden of Eden We understand the
dramatic critic put all the emphasis Of
vlllany on the Serpent. Doubtless the
drama has changed since those simple
melodramatic days, and the serpent. in
conformity with the complexity of mod
crn life, has divided himself up into a
thousand varieties Of pest.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The High Cost of Cheap Labor
Unrestricted immigration Would Amount TO Forcible
Feeding During an Attack of National INDIGESTION
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: An active propaganda is now
going on for a lowering of the bars
against unrestricted alien Immigration.
Behind this propaganda there are pow
erful interests which desire cheap labor,
as we'll as various other influences
which have for years fought all immi-
grafton legislation. We are told that
there is in this country a shortage of
100000 laborers. (How these figures
are arrived at and how reliable they
are is not clear.) 1t is urged that if
this supposed deficiency can be sup
piled production will increase, food
will become more plentiful and the
high cost of living will be reduced
This is direct appeal to the pocket
book. 1t is purely and grossly mate
rialistic. The great majority of Ameri-
cans have love of country which is
greater and deeper than their desire
for immediate pecuniary gain, They
care, and they care very much, whether
or not their own financial profit is
gained at the expense of American
standards of living and of American
deals of government They are willing to
endure a little longer the high cost of
living rather than to have the country
suffer in the long run as the result of
a wholesale importation of cheap labor
whose immediate, or ultimate favorable
effect upon production and prices is
by no means demonstrated.
The present writer's reaction to this
plea for more labor is here stated as
briefly a $ possible. 1t may be that, in
expressing his own views, ne is also
stating those of numbers OF his fellow
Americans.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
A Week of Verse
Hands

From the Fortniohtiv Rcr1eu)
TEMPEST without; within, the mel
low glow
Of ming!ing lamp and freight over
all
Etchings and watercolors on the wall,
Cushions and curtains of clear indigo,
Rugs, damask-red and blue as Tyrian
seas,
Deep chairs, black oaken settles, ham
mered brass,
Translucent porcelain and sea-green
glass
Color and warmth and light and dreamy
ease:
And sit wondering where are now the
hands
That wrought at anvil, easel, wheel and
Hands slender, swart, red, gnarled-in
foreign lands
Or English shops to furnish this seemly
room:
And all the while, without, the windy
Drums like dead fingers tapping at ths
pane.
WILFRID WILSON GIBSON,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
III Advised Threats

The threats made to the Railroad
Labor Board by representatives of
the railroad unions disclose a con-
temptuous regard for the wage
mediation system provided by the
ESch-Cummins law. Wage disputes
are required to be carried to Fed
cral board. BY submitting such dis
pute9 each side morally pledges it.
self to respect the boards findings.
Yet Mr.. E. VI. Jewell, president of
the railroad shopmen, lays down the
destructive doctrine that if the
award doesn't suit the brothorhoods
they viii feel at liberty to acquiesce
IN the ''Outlaw' strikes such as re-
Gently paralyzed traffic at Chicago
and other freight centres.
Mr.. Jewell says that common labor
on the roads must receive a mini
mum Of $500 a year, on an eight
hour basis, and other labor relatively
higher rates. Otherwise the unions
vii not consider the award "iust
and reasonablo.' The trouble with
SQch a demand is that the Federal
BOARD must take into account the
present chaos in railroad service.
Inc roads cannot paw increased
wages unless the Interstate Com
merce Commission allows them to
Increase their operating income. The
railroad administration wrongly
kept income below expenditure, and
Iale it difficult even for the
e4.ment to grant railroad work
0' wage increases commensurate
win increases in other industries.
Inc railroad workers as well as
|e railroad companies have suf-
iefed from nlisdirected government
management. The evil results of
Iat management still affect both.
n tie present transition period be-
tween the policy of deficits and star
'suon hitherto pursued at Washing
.0h and the new order of relatively
lar rates and less meagre returns
" the railroad owners contemplated
'' tAe Esch-Cummins law it is i'm
possible TO expect an of-hand solu-
1'n Of the problems of railroad
t'ol'ts and wages. The board must
'ss' It's way, and its immediate
ward may easily fall short of the
@pectatlons of the brotherhoods.
mat may be regrettable. But it
SOoIah :. texcuse an attempt to scrap
"e board, which is a much better
= -ecnahlsm than any heretofore de-
,'See Tor adjusting the balance be-
,%een y railroad wages and earnings.
= t-'eFyoody hopes that a new regime
- - fa'lroading is at hand. If the
'"'F'ers are allowed to operate on a
1"0 economic basis they will pay
:, s'F employees fair wages as q mat /
y - u SelI-protection and intelligent
~ ss''iess policy, When the obstruc-
-, 'e attitude Of the Interstate Com
-. .V.ce Commission alters and the in !
:. w OF the Esch- -Cummins law is re-
''s'eo earnings and wages Will rise !
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
Anti i-Castilian

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Do not be deceived that the
understanding between the United
States and Spain will be improved bv
better knowledge in this country
OF such authors as Dr.. Perez enumer-
ates in his recent letter. Quite recentlv
l have been rummaging through NV
osd Spanish books for something worth
picturization Benito Perez Galdos ?
L happened upon two or three of his.
| should like to quote some of the Driq-
glsh love passages from "Mar;anela. +"
They would sound like the first literary
efforts of sub debutante. Parto
Bazan? Try that pointless, dirty
backstairs scandal, midsummer Mad
ness In this story caballero and n
quite proper religious lady go on a
spree. There are no complications Of
circumstances to Justify the relation
OF this incident, and the climax adds
the final touch Of inessentiality. The
caballero asks the lady to marry him
and is accepted. there being no OBJ
stacles whatsoever. One fairly gasps
at the last chapter. Is it possible that
we have waded through all this erotic
nlth for this?
believe that DR.. Perez is mistaken
about these books not being translated.
l have the translations of several Of
Galdos IF arr NO. ro;-4-i-o~- w;lli.-o
New-York tribune., 1920-05-30
The Gropers
lFrOnl Hrrnsy,A

tHFOnl HdTpersl
XHERE is so little that man may
know
After he names the stars and vanished
Kings,
Year upon year, infinite seasons go
Leaving him puzzled by eternal things.
The careful music of the living heart
Beating the measure for each hour
and day,
This song and men have never been
apart,
Yet why it was begun no man can say.
The flame which is the souls strange
entity
Consumes the very thing it wears for
cloak,
Burns every atom that man NAV be.
Yet lives, less palpable than drifting
smoke
And ecstasy awakened when my hand
Has felt another's faltering to speak
What is in this men so misunderstand-
This simple answer from the truth
they seek?
GEORGE oNEIL.