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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03

been QUILTED by the British There
are 10000 front line troops, about 90
/ 600 service of rear 10000 officers
(enough of what's left of Russias 49,
100000 army and the rest civilians
and families of the troops. The officers
and civilians are of course the last
remnant of the educated people in Rus
STA and they are wonderful talk
five or six languages, are summers for
looks, have beautiful Persian lamb or
sable coats and few jewels (all they
have left of huge fortunes) and their
Kids are simply wonderful-so polite
and charming.
ITO think of such people, stranded,
knowing nothing of the future many
with relatives massacred, all having
cone through terrible hardships and
dangers, living for days amid the filth,
cold, wet and general awfulness on
these boats, is simply CHASTITY - yet
they are cheesful, they have a great
sense of humor and are grateful for
any little thing we do-never cry or
kick, l can imagine bunch of Amer
leans in such situation, just raising
the roof because everything isn't be.
ing done for them.
Some are being sent to Siberia, the
army to Gallipoli, others debarked
here in Constantinople or on the
islands nearby, fed at soup kitchens,
sleeping on stone floors in old bar
racks or monasteries, and being gen.
orally miserable.
I've been on subchasers, torpedo
boats-anything--chasing round the
harbor from morning till early the
next morning getting sick people off
to hospitals, kids out to our hospital
(Which is more o. an orphanage),
passing ups food, dishing out water,
Gosh, how the poor devils on one boat,
With no water for four days, scrambled
for it, lowering pals, bottles, anything
they get on ropes. for us to fill!
Everyone has Just about escaped
with his life, and that's all. One love
ly woman has only her husband, he's
in war, two beautiful daughters of II
and 10 captured by the Bolshis. One
kid of II has a big scar and cross of
st. George for defending a machine
gun post all alone A young looking
girl is Nine. Olga, served two years
with Cossack cavalry, says her health
is ruined, but is glad to have given it.
Another woman has lost every relative
in the two years constant evacuation
from the Bolshis Another woman,
whose estate was confiscated, saw her
brother tortured and then killed
Nobility Glad to Obtain Work.
THE captain whom l pulled off the
'Rion' doesn't know where any of his
people are. He's only %, but looks
50. He lied to get in the army, when
ne was Is. He has fought on every
front but hasn't cent. He had about
collapsed when | saw him. l dragged
lin off with me, got him hot Turk
ish bath, gave him clean underwear, a
bunk in my room and good meals at
our house. He's working for us now
Interpreter with me, and after only
one nights sleep insisted on starting
right to work with me. He's wonder,
very well bred, and just think of the
responsibility he has had, for boy of
90 Then I've Russian prince, who
am told, was a terrible highbrow in
Petrograd, working also as an inter
prefer on the boats.
Here comes the Turkish maid, bare
foot, on these cold stone floors of the
bakery-to scrub out We're getting
ready to leave, now"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03

Things are certainly in a mixup and
to see the many different troops here
and get all the dope of what's doing
all over the east, it doesn't look like
the peace conference settled anything.
"They were having election riots
when we were in Athens, and now we
read that Venizelos has been beaten by
the royalists, who want the old king.
whose abdcation the allies forced.
back, That will upset all Venizelos'
)licles of a reunited Greece, and the
allies undoubtedly will cut diplomatic
'elations with Greece If the old king
(his wife is the kaiser's sister, comes
back That will mean another mess,
suppose. It's a gay life for the people
mt here-one day they are in power,
ne next beating it for their lives.
Last evening | went with some PEG,
Die to a concert at the Russian 'Y'
The singers were from the opera at
Moscow and Peuograd, and were sim
ply great 1t was quite some gather
ing. too: all the Russian aristocrats in
town, looking very down at the heel
as to clothes, but otherwise still very
much the aristocrat. They are fine
types too, very refined and intelligent
looking. All speak about six Ian
guages.
"This afternoon ! am going with a
Russian Interpreter of ours and sew
eral of the Russian women out to the
boats in the harbor to try to locate
their husbands, 1t certainly is just
plain h for these people"
Privatons of Refugees Severe.
On Nov. %, so tired from working
and so busy, Mr.. Van Toor wrote only
a short letter home. This letter was
begun at II at night, and after e.
planning that instead of sailing 70
Adana as he had thought, he was in
the galley (kitChen) of a sub-chaser
He finished the letter the following
morning, saying; We've just finishe'
putting water on a Russian troop shil
Poor devils-no water for four days.
you've probably been reading o.
.be 10000 Russians on ships out here
in the harbor All Wrangel's army
and the rest of the decent people in
Russia are here, too. Gee, this cup OF
burning hot coffee is good. I'm wet
and froze. 1t was anything to
get aboard and away from the Bolshis,
They're alive and that's all. Condi
tions are so awful that they are indie
scribable. Have been getting off sick,
wounded, old people and kids to hos
pitfalls and orphanages. Kids are great.
All are wonderfully brave-how they
stand it I don't know.
TOOK a young captain, %, off with
me last evening for a good dinner and
a sleep at our house. He had been
seven days on the boat with scarcely
any sleep, three without food, His
voice was gone-he was the only one
who could talk good English and he
simply had to run everything. He's
a wonder, but was nearly dead.
May stay here several more days
don't know. VIII write when | can. l
am o. K"
The last letter received by his fam
lily, from Mr.. Van Toor, bears the date
Of Nov 28 He says:
"If I ever find time to write up the
notes I have made I'll write diary
of the last tan days.
Refugees Live on Shipboard.
Think Of 100000 people so crowded
on ships that some cannot even sit
down. Just food and water enough,
sometimes, TO get 'em down here.
Luckily all have winter clothes and
overcoats, Wrangel's army having
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
Inc free Seed Graft.

For a Four-Billion-DolIar Country to
object to a 100000 perquisite Of Con-
gressmen may seem like pikers play,
but the free-sced appropriation restor-
ed by the House to the Agricultural
BIZ, and even raised from the Original
S239,00O to the amount named, invites
attack by It's stupidity.
This free-sced provision has nothing
whatever To do with the admirable ac-
tiyitics Of the Agricultural Department
and its affiliated State institutions for
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
THURSDAY FEBRUARY ,, 1921


Senator Borah is very impatient tc
launch his disarmament project at once
and does not approve Mr.. Roots sug-
gestion that action on the Borah reso-
laton be deferred until the new adj
mnlstratlon has assumed Office with
out criticislng in the least the Idaho
Statesmans sudden passion for uniyer-
sal disarmament which is highly com
mendabie, 1t is not improper to point
out the inconsistencies OF the Borah at
utude OF today with the BOrah atti-
tude few months ago.
The Idaho senator was last ditch
er IN ms opposition TO the peace
treaty because 1t would bind us for
such time as we remained member
OF the League OF Nations. lei he Is
no" "ill'nE TO enter INTO a dIsarma-
meht compact with England ana
Japan a treaty which VIII be just as
binding on our honor as our accept
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03

Amjabiliiy cannot Ht0ue for lacl, OF
force. Girls who are smiling and
agreeable but limp and inert in the
presence Of difficulties, do not com.
mand respect The queen quality Is
fore" and The other graces of charac.
ter ore ihe understanding One who
cannot hammer her way through dlf.
faculties fails below the measure of
womonhod no matter how great her
persona! m.-pennsglyania Grit.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
orlain of MInerals.

According to one account, Gerbert,
afterwards Pope Sylvester II, learned
the use of the numerals from the
Moors In Spain in the tenth century.
Another account Is that Leonardo of
Pisa introduced them from the East
into Italy about 1902. The use of
them was not general until the lnyen.
ton of printing.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03

IN Mo spice islands the cloves are
sometimes cured by being smoked
over wood fire until they assume a
deep brown color when the further
drying IS unoompIi he'd by the sun
Occasionally Dho buds are scalded be.
fore being dried r bright sunny days
prevail artificial heat may be dispensed
with ana the buds sgn.dred from first
Ia laaf the crop loses about go per
cen, in dw.ug.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
Snow and Eireflies.

The oriental is always and ever pic
turosgue. The student of the Eas.
does rot burn the midnight OIL" He
works by snow and iirellies. There is
an ancient legend about a Chinese stu
dent who was too poor to buy oil. So
in the summer months he studied all
night by the light Of tirefies caught
and imprisoned in a paper lantern, and
In the winter by the reflection Of the
snoW.-Gcrtrude Emerson in World
Outlook.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
Keep Out the Moisture

A very effective agent for moisture.
PROBING wood has been found in an
aluminium leaf coating This coating
practically insuates the wood against
any change in atmospheric conditions,
and is particularly valuable for use
where accurate form and balance must
be maintained, as would be necessary
in an airplane propeller.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
Life.

Life is beautiful, and it should be
lived in beauty. 1t has and must have
Its shadows to be sure, but there is
a beauty in the shadow as well as in
the CLINT and glimmer of the sun.
Sometimes there are sorrows that are
good for us, because they clear our
hearts Of selfshness and teach us to
sympathize with our fellow human be-
ings Grief has made many heart
gentle that was not so before.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
UdIrY Market.

Sheooygan Fails, is.-On tn Wis
cons,n cheese exchange at PIymouth on
Monday % factories offered 3,5t4 boxes
of cheese The mds we're passed on
30 twins $40 cases Ionghorns and 30.
oxrs squares. The balance sold Is foJ.
lows; so twins al BE; 1850 daisies al
2it $50 double daisies at ~; 80 cases
young Americas at 2io; $50 cases long
porns at '6c and III toxes square
prints at 2ic,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03

have defeated Wra1gel, who with 1907
600 refugees is on the way down mere
in all the boats which could De rusheu
up to the Black sea. 80 the dope -
that will 20 to Adana, down south,
not very far from Beirut, and inland
bit, where it's pleasant ana warm
now. hut 6ercely hot in summer; I'M
less one moves up into the mountains
which I'll probably do, There Is a Dig
workshop there and several orphan
ages, hospitals. storehouses, etc, IN
the towns round about, and they have
put me in charge OF them all. be-
lieve it is running smoothly, so WINE
there's lots of work probably will be
able to handle IL all right. l hope so.
want to do the best ! can during the
year that am to be here.
To-day | went to see some OF the
things that Near East Relief owns
around the town. There's a bakery
that's a wonder OF elhciency-SO, 600
loaves a day, and, telieve me, they
have to have some system to do that.
Il has very modern Austrian ovens
and is right up to date, The Germans
ran it during the war and left it spick
and span.
Another place Is a workshop wnere
Armenian women and girls learn to
make lace and they work on beautiful
lingerie. waists, table linen, etc. Am
buying nothing now, but will try to
pick up some things for you before
come home"
Wrangers Defeat Heavy Blow.
The third letter from Mr.. Van Toor
was written two days later In it he
says: enc of the fellows here has
lust come back rom Sevastopol and
went up with Mrs. Wrangel When
she saw all the boats in the harbor
and the refugees piling up she broke
down. for she knew t was the end.
"All the boats they could get from
Constantinople, Gesuoyers, freighters,
cruisers, of all the allies-about 1000
n Advent up to bring back the reiu-
gees and some have returned to pick
up all the small boats floating around
in the Black set. A United States
naval officer told me his boat was the
last out and that everyone who want
ed to got out of town, very orderly
retreat, and it was fortunate they had
a calm sea so they could put out in
small boats
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
Foundation Of True Beauty

The truest beauty arises from a noble
character. A soul which is radiant
with love and truth lilnts even the
homeliest face into beauty which is not
transient, but which grows ever deeper
and more abiding as the years pass on.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-03
Refugees Live on shipboard.

Think Of 10000 people so crowded
on ships that some cannot even sit
down. Just food and water enough.
sometimes, to get EN- down here.
Luckily all have winter clothes and
overcoats, Wrangeps army having
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01
Veteran Blacksmith
is Called by Death
Klaus Balk, Aged Fifty-six, Long a
Blacksmith Here, Died at Home
on Friday Evening.

Klaus Balk, aged fifty-six years, a
we'll known blacksmith of Kenosha,
died Friday night at his home 800
Marian avenue, at ten o'clock after a
long illness from a complication of
diseases. He had long been employed
in the blacksmith department of the
Nash Motors company and was a
skilled workman.
He was born in Holland, August 2,
1855, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Balk. He came to>~American in 1908
and has been in Kenosha since that
time. Surviving him are wife and
six children: Mrs. Katie Hamelink, of
Portage, Wis, and Mrs. Mae Wiersum,
Mrs. Elizabeth Wiersum and John,
Walter and Peter Balk, all Of Kenosha.
The funeral services will be held at
the Hansen Chapel, Alb Park avenue, on
Tuesday afternoon at one thirty o'clock.
At two o'clock church services will be
held at the Pentecostal Mission with
burial following in the family plot in
the Green Ridge cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01
CHANCE WHEEL
AT BIG PICNIC
Salem Deputy Puts Quick
End to What He Terms
Gambling Device.
GULL AS WITNESS

The Old Settlers, picnic just like the
rest Of Kenosha county, is going to
be reformed and Deputy P. L. Olson
of the town of Salem was the crusa-
der who took the chance out of the
Old Settlers on Thursday afternoon
when he confscsted wheel of fortune
which he claimed was a wheel of poor
fortune for the people playing it. The
wheel was operated by one Emmett
Alguis of Kenosha and he was ordered
to be in court at nine o'clock this
morning to answer charge of having
a gambling device in operation.
The offense was one which has often
been overlooked in Kenosha county as
the man was operating the wheel to
deputy watched the operation of the
wheel for few minutes before he put
the kibosh on the game, "It's not
within the law" he told the operator
as he pulled it off the post and put
the cover on it. Olson looked about
among the people who we're willing to
take chance and found County Super
visor w. v. Gull of Brighton. He
picked him as the state witness against
Alguis and ordered him to come to
court. Olson and Gull were in court
on time but the man who had the
wheel failed to arrive by ten o'clock.
One Wheel Rolled Away.
One other wheel which had been in
operation at the Old Settlers grounds
rolled away before the deputy could
throw wrench in the spokes, but it
is said that the name of the man was
secured and it is expected that he will
be in court later on.
at was an innocent sort of thing"
said Supervisor Gull, "and I admit that
1 held one of the tickets for the turn
when the deputy took possession. It
was said that some one was not get
ting value for the money every time
it was turned but this was because all
of the tickets were not being sold.
There were lot of others had tickets
and I don't know why the deputy pick
ed me for the witness"
The Old Settlers club had granted
a concession for the wheel, but the
man who owned it was told that he
would have to operateIit at his own
risk and see to it that the operation of
it was within the statutes. No effort
was made to bring any of the officials
saf the club into court.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01
Death Summons
Civil War Veteran

Charles Nelson Richards, aged 76
years, veteran of the Civil War and
we'll known member of the Fred s.
Lowell Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic, died Friday afternoon at the
home of his son, George Richards, at
720 Lyman avenue, after long illness.
The deceased was born in Ohio, July
25, 1843, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Richards When the Civil War
broke out he was in Missouri and en-
listed in Battery G, End Artillery from
that state, with which he served gal
lantly for the period of the war. He
had lived the greater part Of his life
at Richmond, Wisconsin, and came to
Kenosha six years ago to make his
home here with his son.
He is survived by five children: Mrs.
Emma Saguin, Arboy, ILL.,; Edwin Ches-
ter Richards, Pasadena, California;
Mrs. Fife Allen, Minneapolis; Earl C.
Richards, who is now in business in
Paris, France, after being discharged
from army service there; and George
Richards of Kenosha.
The G. A. R. will be in charge of
! the funeral services at nine o'clock
Monday morning from the home of the
son on Lyman avenue after which the
remains will be taken to Richmond for
interment in the family plot in the
cemetery there
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01
New York Commune
to Seek New Power

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
New York City.-Communists in New
York plan to enter their first political
campaign this fall with municipal
ticket under the name of the Workers
League of Greater New York. Candi-
dates were selected at a convention at
tended by several hundred radicals last
night, but it was announced petitions
would be circulated to have their names
placed on the ballot. Hostility to the
Socialist party was said by speakers to
have inspired the move. Benjamin
Gitlow, former assemblyman, recently
convicted of criminal anarchy, was
nominated for mayor by his mother,
and his candidacy was unanimously ap-
proved by the convention. One woman
was placed on the ticket, Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes, for borough president
of Manhattan.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01
RESUME BUSINESS
WITH GERMANY
Business Men of Two Counties VIII
Not Await the Ratification of
the Treaty.
(By Associated Press Leased wire.)

by Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Berlin = American and German
business firms will resume peace time
relations Immediately without wait
ing for ratification of the treaty sign
ed here on Thursday, it is said in we'll
informed industrial circles of this city.
1t is anticipated that commercial
treaties will be negotiated and that
consular services will be reconstruct
ed within brief period. Spanish dip
lomatic representatives here who have
been in charge of American interests
since February 8, 1917, will continue
their duties in this respect.
The establishment of credit loans
and preparations to ship into the Am
erican market surplus products of
Germany such as news print paper, oc-
cupy the attention of industrial lead
ers here. Satisfaction over the sim
plicity and straightforwardness of the
American treaty is generally express
ed in commercial circles, where belief
is expressed that the same reason
ableness" will characterize the use
in later negotiations.
\ Count Ernst Won Reventlow, chief
editorial writer on the staff of the
Deutsche Tages zeitung makes a viru-
lent attack on the treaty and calls on
the nationalists to refuse to support
its ratification. He declares that the
United States rendered France "an
inestimable service" in arranging for
the treaty and also charges Chancel-
lor Wirth with lack of dignity in
failing to reject the American de-
hands.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01

Coast Guard Station, the Maccabees,
the Mystic Workers, the Eagles and
the United Order of Foresters.
Widow Survives Him.
On July II, 1917, DR.. Murphy was
united in marriage to Miss Lulu
Lampe, a popular and prominent
teacher. of the Kenosha schools and
one of the leaders in club activities
in Kenosha. He is survived by his
widow, by his father, Michael Murphy
of Racine, by four sisters, Mrs. Quinn,
Mrs. Mcdonald and Mrs. Dobratz, of
Racine, and Mrs. VIM of Oshkosh, and
by one brother. James Murphy, Racine.
Members of the class in which DR..
Murphy graduated at Marquette Col
lege will act as pallbearers at the
funeral services. Definite arrange
ments have not yet been made but they
will probably be held Saturday morn
ing at the St. James church with in
terment following in the family plot
in the ST. James cemetery
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-01
INVESTIGATE POLISH
LAND ORGANIZATION
District Attorney Investigating Com
A pany Which Would Buy
Farms in Poland.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Paul G. Dorsch,
special Investigator for District At
torney W. c. label, began investiga-
tion into the activities of a large
Polish corporation following com
plants by scores of Milwaukeeans that
they had invested from $4,000 to
5000 in a huge numbering enterprise
in Poland, without receiving dividends.
According to Mr.. Dorsch, two agents
left Milwaukee four or five months ago
with the money, presumably bound for
Poland. Another $4,000 to $4,000 had
been raised in Chicago by the corpora
ton, according to Mr.. Dorsch.
The plan, explained the investigator,
was to buy up large tracts of land in
Poland, erect mills and begin lumber
ing operations. The corporation was
to be financed by the sale of stock
in small shares.
The corporation, had been granted
a license to sell securities by the rail-
road commission, but circulars were
not marked in accordance with the blue
sky law There was no reference to
the fact that they were speculative
securities in Glass B, according to Mr..
Dorsch. An effort will be made, he
said, to have the license revoked.
Milwaukee stockholders began clam
oring for the return of their money
at the district attorneys Office a few
weeks ago when high dividends which
they alleged were promised them, fail
ed to materialize.
The corporation maintains Offices in
down town building.