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The New York herald., 1921-08-07

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He kissed her on her ruby ---
And whispered in her dainty --
Sweet one. these precious nectar sips
Are favored strong with onions, dear"
No. sir they can't abuse contributors and
get away with it.. Not while we are looking
for contributors. they can't.
T TERE is a ghost story, which we take
~ great satisfaction in telling be-
cause it is apropos of nothing. Now
we have used many stories from time to
time, but this is the first time we recall tell
ing story to illustrate nothing. 1t is a
ghost story about negro.
1t is impossible to know negroes as we
have known them for many years without
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
By DAN CAREY.

BY DAN CAREY.
SETTLING A CONTROVERSY.
Columbus and Lief Ericsson
Were having debate
About which discovered US
And if so on what date.
Columbus had been speaking long,
He'd talked about week,
And every time he paused for breath
Old Lief would try to speak.
Lief had started the debate
A mighty yarn told he
But few there were that he impressed
In all that company.
Blackstone sat upon the chair,
And gavel welded free,
Using brain and legal lore,
The both of which had he
Many shades had come to laugh
At these two sailors bold;
They stayed to listen to the tale
That each of them had told
Said Lief, Il took my ship with me
And sailed the ocean blue
Before the chaps of history
Had ever heard of you.
Il went through winds, l went through
tides,
! sailed awful sea,
Until saw a distant shore,
The Land Of Liberty
Columbus spoke he said to LIEF,
Now you have lied to me;
I'm the guy that first observed
The dwelling of the Free
When Isabella gave to me
The jewels from her hand
| sailed upon the Southern sea
Until found this land"
Long and loud each sailor talked:
Each claimed that only he
Had given to a waiting world
This Land of Liberty
Then Blackstone spoke I'm tired of this.
You birds go hire a hall.
This country that you speak of has
No Liberty at all.
iheir throats are. dry. their lips are parchcd
And soon they cannot smoke
You both thought you did something grand
think you played a joke.
But for you guys and your old ships
This people would be free;
Now every one Is cussng' you
In all the country
Columbus stroked his shining pate.
Lief his whiskers red:
Each was sorry that he spoke
And each for what he said
He found il first" Columbus cried,
Pointing straight at Lief
Didn't neither" Lief replied
I only saw a reef"
Now both deny that they found us
And neither will admit.
80 II they will not claim this land
Then who discovered it?
When Mister Blackstone spoke again
His tone was quite judicial
Opinion then he handed down.
And said IL was official
The court holds" the Judge remarked.
THAT both you guys are sane.
But both have lost all title to
This Eminent Domain.
Whatever rights you may have had
Have long since passed away.
rms land is not the one you found
10 matter what you say.
THE 'cussing that is going on
Is not for one of you.
III tell you who the fellow is.
Then courts adjourned. I'm through.
"'Ts Mister Volstead. Andrew j.
Who never sailed a sea.
He's the bird who took away
The tea from liberty"
T~HIs thing OF being a humorist can be
carried to excess For example, take
what Don Marquis did to seabury
Lawrence recently.
For several days Don devoted a. portion of
his column, the sun Dialp to panning his
contributors, making fun of them and vir-
tually daring them to quit writing.
Then Don announces that he is going
away on a vacation for a month and turns
his column III Ill Iuu
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
How Christopher Columbus Lief Laid Claim Finding the United
Why Each Has the Honoso Cites Ruling Black
to Sunnou IheirA Aboutac

renee, whose job 1t will be to not only run
the column but get the contributors in a
good humor again.
And old Don is probably. lying in a ham
mock under a lobster tree up in Maine laugh
ing himself to death.
A SONG OF Discomfort.
Last winter when the SHOWS were high,
was cold thought I'd die.
Shivers shook my trembling frame;
l suffered when / spoke my name.
My hands cold,
My lips were blue,
Tremors shook
Me through and through.
/ longed and sighed for Summers heat,
For pavements hot beneath my feet,
For wilted shirts and wet cravats,
For linen clothes and summer hats.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

It's here at last,
l now am hot:
Oh, how / wish
That / were not.
| must confess I'm hard to please,
For when I'm hot want to freeze;
But when have come the ice and snow
] long the most for Summers glow.
~ EAR Mr.. Contributor: What are you
doing to increase your output?
That question is being put to con-
tributors everywhere.
Those who write for the columnists real
ize more keenly than ever before that sue
cessful publication Is now question of the
best ideas and methods.
The methods of the past few years are
worthless. They must be replaced with new
ones.
other contributors are finding the solution
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

T~HIs thing OF being a humorlst can be
carried to excess. For example, take
what Don Marquis did 70 seabury
Lawrence recently.
For several days Don devoted a. portion OF
his column the sun Dial" to panning his
contributors, making fun Of them and vlr-
tually daring them 70 quit writing
Then Don announces that he is going
away on 4 vacation for 4 month and turns
his column over to poor old Seabury Law
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
Andre0li and Vetere
May be Arraigned
Two Men Held in Connection With the
Murder of Frank Iaquinta
to Face Charges.

Frank Andreoli, SO Newell street, and
Lawrence Vetere, 85S Garden street,
the two men who have been held in
the city lookup for a week, will prob
ably be brought into the, municipal
court tomorrow to face charges. The
two men were arrested in connection
with the shooting and killing of Frank
Iaquinta last Tuesday evening at the
corner of Garden street and Rowland
avenue. One of the men was arrested
on the scene of the crime directly af-
ter the shooting, and the other at his
home two hours later.
The police are still working on the
case and it is admitted that the third
man, who was seen on the corner by
one witness talking to Iaquinta just
before the shooting, and seen by an
other witness just as the shooting oc-
Cured, is still at large.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
FIVE YEAR OLDS
START A FIRE
Tots Playing With Matches
Start Bad Blaze at the
Higgins Home.
HOSE CLOSE AT HAND

Playing with matches caused dan
gerous fire on Saturday afternoon at
the home of Attorney Edward F. Hig-
gins at the corner Of First and Salem
avenues, when Edward F. Higgins, Jr.,
and playmate, Edward Palmehn, each
aged about five years, set fire to a
pile of papers in the basement of the
home and started a blaze which for
time threatened the lives of the
children as well as the home. The
two tots, who were playing in the base
ment alone, found some matches there
and accidentally while playing with
them lighted piece of paper, near a
larger pile of kindling and paper.
The fire spread rapidly and the lads
for a moment tried to stamp it out.
Fortunately the clothing Of neither
one of them caught on fire.
One of the tots finally gave up fight
ing the fire alone and ran upstairs to
summon his grandmother, Mrs. Hig
gins, of Racine, who was visiting at
the home. She hurried to the base
ment and found the flames mounting
to the supporting beams of the house.
Fortunately several days ago At
torney Higgins had used garden hose
in cleaning out the basement and when
Mrs. Higgins went to get water to
throw on the fire, she found the hose
all attached and ready for use. By
this coincidence the flames were ex-
tinguished without spreading to the
upper part of the house.
The fire department was summoned
to the home but when they reached
there. the fire had been practically ex-
tinguished, thanks to the presence of
the garden hose. Despite this, it is
declared that the damage will run we'll
up into dollars.
Both children had been warned time
and again not to take any of the
matches nor to play with any which
they found in their homes. 1t is con-
sidered very fortunate that both of the
lads escaped with no injuries except
a bad scare.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
DIDN'T REMEMBER
HUSBANDS NAMES
Mrs. Helen Drexler's One Son Was
Mighty Good Asset in
Getting Allotment.
tBy Associated Press Leased wire.)

tBy Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Chicago - Federal agents broke up
Mrs. Helen Drexler's matrimonial
government allotment plan just as she
was making plans to marry her seven
teenth husband in three years, accord
ing to her story today to Captain
ice. By listing as the son Of each hus-
band, the little boy born from her
second experience in matrimony she
added $500 month extra to the flood
of allotment checks she received from
the government, she said. Federal Of
fcials calculated she had received $500
month.
81 was working in Boston when 1
met Wilfred Taylor" she related. "The
draft got him and soon after landing
in France he was killed"
Mrs. Drexler's brother also was kill
ed overseas, and her little boy is Will
fred Taylor's son.
''I had to go to work or get mar
ried, so got married. Several months
afterward my husband Joined the
navy so I got two allotment checks.
John Kelly of the Brooklyn navy yard
was the next. 1 left him and married
another sailor
"Dear me, I can't remember all the
names. Finally I came to Chicago
and married three sailors in quick sue
cession. Albert Drexler, a Camp
Grant soldier was the sixteenth.
had sailor picked for the next but
your agents arrested me-"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
Doesn't Pay to Drive
Car While Drunk

Martin Nelson, 863 Pomeroy street,
found it an expensive affair to drive an
automobile while intoxicated, as he
was taught in the municipal court this
morning. Nelson was driving Ford
car north on Newell street without
headlights lit at six o'clock Sunday
evening when he damned into the au-
tomobile of Art Vollmer Of Newell
street, which was standing on the right
side of the road. Nelson knocked off
the rear fender. For these damages
Nelson was forced to settle for $45.
In court this morning he was fined SIS
and costs for driving an automobile
while intoxicated, the whole adventure
costing him about SIS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
Germany Regaining
Her Maritime Power

Hamhprg.-Germany's ocean freight
carryin trade is making steady pro-
gress toward regaining its pre-war vol
ume. Harbor statistics indicate that
the aggregate tonnage of vessels using
this port have reached 80 per cent Of
the peace traffic. .-rs>... ~
Announcements of steamers bought
back from former enemy powers fol-
low each other in rapid succession,
and harbor facilities are already prov
ing insufficient to accommodate the
growing traffic, now that big plants
such as Krupps and Erhardts, which
formerly manufactured war material,
are turning out peace goods in great
quantities for overseas consumption.
shipping authorities are urging the
revival of ambitious pre-war plans for
harbor extensions, on the ground that
with the rapidly increasing export
trade, the port will in two years time
be far too small, and freight business
will be lost to Scandinavian ports.
Germans expect the South American
trade especially to take big impetus
early next year, when the new Ham
burg-South American company's lin
ers will be placed in commission.
Besides the Hamburg-American COM
pany's new liners Bayern, Hansa and
Wurtemberg, three $4,000 ton passen-
ger and freight steamers will be placed
in the North American service by ths
North German Lloyd Of Bremen; to
be followed by the 30,OOO-tonner, Hin
denburg, now being completed New
services are also being planned by
both the Hamburg and Bremen COM
panies to the Far East.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

to the jury by the government. Gov
eminent witnesses occupied the stand
Tuesday and Wednesday morning,
when the defense began it's case which
was rested Friday afternoon. The
closing arguments to the jury were
heard Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning, and the case was given to
the jury after instructions from the
court which occupied more than an
hour at 12:45 p. m. on Saturday.
Bages Alleged Rum Ring.
The gofernment outlined it's case by
describing first the operations of the
ring. 1t was claimed that Walter
Burke, a Kenosha lawyer, Harry Feuer
and Jacob Grosscurth, Chicago whole
sale liquor dealers, together with Ed
Kosterman, former Kenosha banker,
Peter GALES, Joel Jacobson, Charles
Erler, Hyman Gordon. Kenosha sa-
loon keepers, and Louis Schrayer,
Truesdell saloonkeeper, conspired to
bring whisky to Kenosha and Milwau-
kee. Joseph Budar later entered the
ring, it was alleged, and Custer was
taken into act as intermediary in ne
gotiations with Herzog to halt pos
sible, prosecution.
This organization took one carload
of whisky to Kenosha, it was charged,
and then brought five carloads to Mil
waukee, four Of which were consigned
to Jacob Lederer," who became known
as "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere" Lat
er whisky was shipped to Schrayer in
Truesdell under forged permits, it was
charged
The government introduced Custer
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
SHOWS NEED OF
STREET ADDRESS
Street Address on Mail is
of Vital Importance for
Quick Service.
KENOSHA CAN HELP

If Kenosha people would have their
friends in writing them put on the
street address they would be assured
of quick delivery of their mail, says
Postmaster German.
For illustration. If Mary Jones
writes Sarah Smith a letter in Wau-
kegan and leaves off the street ad-
dress, the letter which reaches the
Kenosha Office during the night may
not be delivered until afternoon and
possibly the next day.
Such letters are handled BIZ . clerk
who must go through the city direct
DRY looking up the street address I'M
less he happens to know it. This
means the letter cannot be sent out
on the morning delivery and if too
many such letters come it may not get
into the afternoon delivery the same
day.
Often there is whole table COW
cred with such letters for the clerk
to look up addresses for. Occasion
ally some mail order company gets
hold of names of Kenosha people
without the street address and when
four or five hundred such letters come
in at once there is still greater delay
in getting them out.
A letter reaching the Kenosha post
Office during the night should be de-
livered to the person to whom it is
directed during the morning, if the
street address is given. What is true
of the Kenosha postofice is true in
other cities.
It is also advisable for every per-
son sending letter to put the re-
turn address in the upper left hand
corner of the envelope. Then if the
person to whom the letter is sent can
not be found the letter will get back
to the original sender in few days.
Otherwise the letter must go to the
dead letter Office in Washington and
is opened. Even though the writer's
name and address appears inside the
letter it will be at least thirty days,
and probably longer, before it gets
back to the writer.
I Carelessness on the part of the send
er is often responsible for delays in
mail reaching it's destination.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
Chicago Financiers to Take
Care of Wisconsin The
atre Funds.
GET S358,OOO BONDS
Kimbark State Bank and A. L.
Slazman Named in Big Trust
Deeds Filed on Saturday.

That the original plans for the erec-
tion of the Wisconsin Theatre on Chi
cago street just south of the Kenosha
post office are to be carried through,
is indicated by two trust deeds which
have been filed in the Office of the
register Of deeds and which indicate
that the plans for the financing OF the
enterprise have been worked out. 1t
was announced today by interested
parties that work on the big building
would be resumed at once and that
it was expected that the building would
be ready for occupancy by the first
day of June of next year.
The two trust deeds are given to
secure the payment of two bond issues
tota1ing $358,O00. One trust deed in
the sum of $250,O00 is made to the
Kimbark State bank of Chicago. This
secures the payment of 1850 bonds
running from October of 1928 to Octo-
Der of 1881. The other trust deed is
made to A. L. Salzman of Chicago. 1t
secures the payment of bonds to the
amount of $4,000, the bonds run
ming over the same term as those of
the former deed.
The Kimbark State bank of Chicago,
is closely alleged with the Greenbaum
banks and it is understood that M
Greenbaum, the head of the great
banking institution in Chicago, is to
be one of the trustees in charge of
the Kenosha enterprise.
Facts Not Ready Yet.
Mrs. Charles Mantkus, treasurer of
the Wisconsin Theatre company, and
the promoter Of the enterprise, said
today: can not as yet give out the
facts in regard to our plans. l had
expected the work to be resumed this
morning but I understand that it has
been held up on account Of some abb
stracts. 1t is the plan of this company
to carry out the original plans for the
theatre and the contracts will provide
for the completion of the work by the
first of June of next year. Just as soon
as this matter is definitely settled l
will be glad to give out the names of
prominent people who are connected
with the enterprise and am certain
that the standing of these people
will remove any doubt as to the build
ing being completed in keeping with
the original plans"
Men Mentioned Prominent.
The Chicago men who have been
mentioned in connection with the
financing of the proposition and who
are named in the trust deeds filed on
Saturday are leaders in the financial
world of Chicago. There is no doubt
as to their financial ability to carry
through any building program which
might be planned for Kenosha. For
some time it has been rumored that
these men had been interested in the
building of the theatre and cafeteria
| in Kenosha but no formal announce
ment as to the truth of the rumor was
made previous to the filing of the
trust deeds. 1t is said that the plans
which were announced sNme time ago
will be followed out in the erection
of the building.
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

as its star witness in Herzog's trail,
and he swore on the witness stand
that he had on eight occasions given
Herzog amounts of money which ag
gregated $16,5O0. Activities of the
ring were testified to by Erler, Roster
man, Schrayer and Custer.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

Havre.-Charles W.. Morse, ship
builder, announced that he would re-
turn to the United States today in COM
pliance with an order from Attorney
General Daugherty.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

Chicago.-Union leaders claimed
that $4,000 packing employees would
walk out today in protest against a
1912 wage reduction, while packers
said $3.50 of the men would be on the
Job.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

New York City.-The American jew
ish relief committee stated that a new
series of pogroms are. being perpe-
trated in the western Ukrain.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

Observation-Disclosures delegates un-
officially advocated extension of the
Chinese consortium as a practicable
substitute for the Anglo-Japanese ALI
-anca
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

teachers will tell you more about the
Postal Service.
Do these things, and you will win
the grateful appreciation of the peo-
pie in your post Office and especially of
Your Postmaster General,
Will II. Hays.
P. S--Don't forget to mail Christ
mas packages as early as possible.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

Observation-Disclosures Commits
sioner Haynes blames apathy of many
citizens as a force preventing a better
articulation of the prohibition law.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08

News Want Ads bring results
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-12-08
Trial Begun Monday.

Herzog's trial began on Monday, and
the first day was spent in the selection
of jury and the preliminary charge
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-02-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Prepared Especially for The Republi-
can By DIR. U. S. Wright.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10.
LESSONS ON CITIZENSHIP.
Deut. 8:6-11; Matt. 22:15-22, "a 40
And he said unto him, thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all
thy mind. This is the great and first
commandment. And a second like
unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy
neighbOr as thyself-Matt. 22:37-39
THE DUTY OF INDEBTEDNESS.
Every man is born somewhere. He
does not choose the place, and judg-
ing from the immigration reports
there are many who are not satisfied
with the land into which destiny forced
him. Yet his relationship to his land
is an immortal one, for it can never be
changed. The place of his birth is
fixed forever-having been born in
Maryland, Texas, Canada, France or
China, his birthplace is as eternal as
himself. A man will still be an Amer
! ltdll Ill UtdNeu. Liz lCooOll OC[AI 10
filled with the praise of the land of
the Hebrews that is perfectly under
standable by the child of any other
country. We are in debt to the land
of our birth. His government was
not of his choosing, for he found it
ready to his hand when he came to cit
izenship, and all the years that he has
| lived under it he has been indebted
to the work of all the great and hum
Bile folk who have shared the great
task of giving him a government that
would protect him through all these
years. 1t may suit him or not, but it
has laid an everlasting obligation upon
him nevertheless. He did not choose
the people among whom he would be
born nor the race from which he
sprung. 1t is nothing to my credit
| that I am an American instead of a
japanese, however glad l may be of
the fact. All the heritage of the An
glo-Saxon comes without any effort,
and the slow progress of the race be-
longs to its son with no effort of his
own. And he is in debt to all the
strugglers through the centuries who
have helped to make that heritage
one for honest pride. He did not choose
God, for man was made by Him, and
whatever the vagary of the teaching
about the Deity he endeavors to serve
there still remains the fact that he is
in debt to the only true God and must
settle accounts ultimately with Him.
For land, government, race and relig-
ion there is the duty of keeping the
sense of ones Indebtedness SO that
there may be the full impulse to pay
tack something Of that which we