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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

The Record had no personal in
terest in the Bancroft-Smalley cir
cult judgeship contest and the result
of the trial at Lancaster is probably
a good thing. Nevertheless, we are
convinced that the anti-Bancroft lit
erature used in the campaign, much
of which its authors admitted was I'M
true and unfair, was responsible for
Judge Bancroft's defeat. The Rec
cord took no part in the campaign
and our knowledge of the circum-
stances leading to Judge Smalley's
election is confined to this immediate
vicinity, but we can account for at
least one-eighth of the Smalley ma
iority of 500 in the little Bloomington
village precinct alone, for we are con-
WINGED that in the week preceding the
election at least fifty people who had
been inclined to vote for Bancroft
changed their minds and voted for
Smalley because they believed the
charges made in the anti-Bancroft
literature. Where Bancroft was lame
was that he did not take action to
stop the charges against him years
ago, when they were first made. ST.
lence and inaction on his part con-
WINGED a great many well-meaning
people that they were true.-Bloom-
ingtOn Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29
WHO WAS THE GENTLEMAN

The facts are Judge Smalley has
never lost the confidence of the peo-
pie. To those who care to investigate
it is plain that here never was at
more clean campaign than Judge
Smalley conducted and that there
never was sufficient evidence to make
a case Those who are now his enc
mics" will never be otherwise. If
enemies he has they are the same
interests that compelled Governor
Philip to appoint Bancroft Judge
when he had promised it to another
gentleman, more of Judge Smalley's
nature Platteville News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

Edison, the great inventor, has, or
is reputed to have propounded list
of questions few of which the aver
age college graduate could answer.
If one would dare to criticise so great
and useful a citizen he might say
that training a brain does not con-
sist in examining it full OF more or
less useless information. An ability
to answer catch questions confounds
the ignorant but by no means tricks
the really wise. A perusal OF the Ed
son questions proves this.
A trained brain has the facility to
find any information it seeks and
chow much gold is there in Timbuc-
too?" G.. what is the comparative arid
ity of the atmosphere in California or
New Jersey" are questions safely lett
in the encyclopedias and statistical
textbooks where they belong. The
trained brain, facile for every pur-
pose, will not clog itself with things
it does not need.
A greater man than even Edison
compared the brain 10 a storehouse
of impressions. He said the mind in
stinctively or automatically KEPT that
which it might need most and filed
away and gradually obliteratad the
useless. For that reason a good mind
is ever ready and keen to meet an
emergency, unburdened with damned
up matter. We would rather agree
with Lincoln on this than Edison.
However, we would answer now as
in schoolboy days, who is Americas
greatest inventor?" with great
shout, "Edisor."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

Question Which le Worse,
Most of the trouble in the world in
caused by two kinds of people-the
clever and the stupid
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

Home building, child bearing and
rearing, soil tilling, industry to sup
ply all wants-these go on ceaseless-
" and do not change. Other things
viewed with alarm" are mere froth
on the great current OF human life.
Sheboygan-Th English Lutheran
churches of the United States in
sixth biennial convention here, yes
terday voted that hereafter persons
affiliated with any lodge will not be
accepted into membership. The vote
followed a stormy session.
Resolutions were adopted in which
churches were advised to make IAN
immediate study of the anti-Christian
character of various lodges, so that
practice in dealing with the question
may conform as soon as possible to
the practice required by the word Of
God"
There may be lodges whose work
is negative and harmful and some
whose purpose is to tear down relig-
ion. If there are such they will not
last. The camorra, bolshevistic, de-
structive, menacing, cynical or what
not, class of orders inevitably will
wear out The orders whose main
purposes teach brotherhood, charity
and tolerance, have existed for CEN
turtles and will endure while the world
lasts. Their main purpose is brother
hood and this is the most important
purpose in the world.
-OOO-
Milwaukee, a little high school
flapper has pretty legs she wants to
show them. If we ruled no suits
were to be worn at the beaches lot
of girls would obey the law to be
bizarre and sensational"
This is the view of Mrs. Gertrude
Thurston, policewoman of Winnetka,
here at the policewomen's conference.
But once in while they have to
be told a few things about dressing
decently and obeying the law" she
said.
Little flappers with pretty legs have
been given to showing them since the
days of the patriarchs, who, if history
is correct, were not averse to viewing
we'll turned extremities. There is
uOJul1lS new dpOuI Il uuI 0COI
findings. At an eastern beach last
year the authorities ruled that girls
might wear bathing dresses in accord
ance with their conscience. 1t didn't
work-some of the girls had no con-
science.
Naval Secretary DENLY has taken
to task or dismissed several COM
manders who undertook to permit the
crews to vote on questions of disci-
pine and in general how the ship
should be run and where to. Some
how these fine ideas of democracy in
the ultra sense will not work where
team work is an essential. Necessar-
lily the organization, whether it be a
ship crew, an army or business,
must have a directing brain and will
ing hands who coordinate intelli-
gently but take orders. Human ma
ture, to date at least, is built that
way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

Money due the state from the fed
eral government for equipment
bought for Wisconsin troops in 1917
was made available to the adjutant
general last week by the assembly
which concurred in the senate bill.
This money. amounting to 100000,
will be used for permanent improve
ments at Camp Douglas. Assembly
man Frank H. Fowler, colonel on the
staff of General Hahn overseas, paid
tribute TO Wisconsin troops in urging
the passage of the measure
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Inconvenience by the assembly
was the fate of the senate bill strik-
ing from the statutes the two-cent
railroad fare law. The measure
passed the senate. 1t was declared
the erasure of the statute was needed
to enable the railroad commission to
take jurisdiction over the Interstate
rates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

Home building, child bearing and
rearing, soil tilling, industry to sup
ply all wants-these go on ceaseless-
~ and do not change Other things
viewed with alarm" are mere fr 9TH
on the great current of human life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

When a man rises to view with
alarm" say that the world is tot
tering on the brink or 1--WE have
reached a point to stop and reflect, "
the mental tendency of his brow
beaten audience is to egg him. The
crowd in its devil-may-ca attitude
wouldn't hesitate because the eggs
were rotten.
This because the great mass of peo-
pie mutely understand, although they
are not given to expression or eX-
PLANTATION, that the world is not much
worse off and perhaps little better
year by year as the years pass
Crises arise but we pass them
cataclysms come up but we overcome
them. The great fundamentals OF
activity in the race do not change
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

One purpose of the home is to rear
children in right living and right
thinking This purpose is augmented
feebly by the schools and more Or
less vigorously by the churches. Set
against it are fundamental desires
and positive influences of an ezra
neous nature. 1t is harder today to
raise children rightly than it was a
generation ago, yet we are develop
ing some very fine types, Youth
catches the spirit of the times quicker
than age and while age is vainly try
ing TO turn the clock back or to hold
youth in youth is winging on to as
pirations and conflicts that age can
not sense or grasp. So the drama
has gone on since world dawn. Real
goodness is inherent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

THE danger of dance halls S not
in how girls conduct themselves while
there, but in the primitive instincts
aroused there" said DR.. Valeria H.
Parker, assistant educational director,
American Social Hygiene association,
New York, who is in Milwaukee for
the police women's conference.
Motion pictures and automobiles
are two other dangerous factors in
arousing these undesirable but pow
erful primitive instincts" Dr. Parker
said. Younger and younger girls
are being affected"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

The Wisconsin senate refused to
confirm Governor Blaine's appoint
ment of Ruben G. Knutson, Lacrosse
labor leader, as member of the Wis
consin industrial board We do not
know what Knutson's merits or de-
merits are but we think Senator
Clark's voiced opposition is weak and
snobbish. 'Knutson is an eighth
grade man." declared Senator Clark.
He lacks the education and expert
ence to hold this $4,000 position"
Lack of an education beyond an
eighth grade or even less would have
barred many great men from doing
great things if the standard had been
set that way. This includes Lincoln.
Men learn more in the school of life
then they do in colleges. Some are
bettered by college training. Some
are made snobbish and foolishIy in
sistent upon their caste.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

King George and Queen Mary, land
ing at Belfast to speak before the
first home rule parliament in Ireland,
call upon their subjects in the emer-
aid isle to forget and forgive Bel
fast was decorated with flags and
orangemen were enthusiastic. Sim
Feiners who did not decorate and
cheer readily were reminded to do so
by lOyalists who, the dispatch says,
were quite capable of burning and
sacking the entire Sim Fem district"
So the Irish parliment begins, not
auspiciously, it would seem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29

Indianapolis-Pop from the bat
tie fields of France will be grown at
national headquarters of the Amer
lean Legion III memory of F. W. Gal
braith, Jr., national commander of
the Legion, who was killed in an
automobile accident.
A miniature shell-torn battle field
will be constructed by landscape gar
deners. Florists will plant and care
for memorial flowers.
The American Legion is gradually
finding itself and will carry on the
work of patriotic endeavor and use
fulness so we'll done by the Grand
Army now passing. The youth of
1917-191S showed as fine an idealism
as did the youth of 1S61-1S65. All
wars are fought by children. Ours
thrown into the World conflict will
develop into the finest citizens.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Ship Men Accept Wage
Cut Without Protest
Continue Work in All Yards
When Reduced Scale Goes
Into Effect

The reduction Of 10 per cent in ths
wages OF all shipysrd workers in the
New York district went into effect ve..
terday. There apparently was no Or.
ganized opposition 30 the move, and 4
survey OF the yards showed the EN-.
ployees working quietly at their Jobs.
lhe cut was announced a month APO
the shipbuilders declaring that it was
necessary because Of wage decreases IN
wilmington, Baltimore, Newport News,
New Orleans and other shipbuildine
centers. The local yards had to meet thu
new scale, It was asserted, in order "a
De able to compete with other plants.
thousands of boilermakers and shin.
workers, said John Fors, business agen,
Of Local 124 of the InternationsI
brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iro7
Shipmakers of America, are affected by
the decrease, $4,000 of them in Brook
lyn alone.
Other large groups are employed in
Staten Island and on the jersey SIDE,
t'ors said there had been no trouble 81
any OF the yards, and that no meetings
OF the men to discuss the step had benu
held nor were any expected.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Labor Chiefs Plan Fight
For State Recall Law
Federation President Says Ini.
tiative and Referendum
Also Are Needed
From a StafT Correspondent

ALBANY, April 1.-James P. Hol-
land, president OF the State Federation
Of Labor, declared yesterday that or
ganized workers Of the State of New
York. who are to meet at Aubany on
April II, would launch determined
tight to have the initiative, referendum
and recall placed on the statute books
Of the state.
Mr.. Holland said that this was the
only means to insure enactment of
laws which will represent the needs of
a majority of the people.
Need for popular coptroi OF the
making Of laws and their administra-
tlon both by executive and judicial au-
thority was never greater tran now"
said Mr.. Holland. "a glance at the
performances being carried on at the
State Capitol suffices to show that the
voice of the people is not being heard
even in whispers as the law mill
grinds out its grist of reactionary and
privilege bestowing enactments.
"The people of New York should
take possession Of their own govern
ment and run it in the interest of the
whole people. The best way to assure
that this will be done is by the adop-
ton of the initiative and referendum
in making our laws, the recall to con-
troll our administrators.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Printers Will Confer
To-day on 44-Hr. Week
Employer. in Commercial Trade
Will Meet Union Agents
at Chicago

CHICAGO, April l. Comms,c,,r
printers, organized in the closed sbor,
division Of the United Typotheta "a
America. named four representative,
here to-day to confer with internation.1
unions presidents in Chicago to-rorro,.
on the proposed forty-four-hour vee,
The unions carried referendnns -
1919 on this shorter week, 20 take o..
feet May /. 1921. The question is r. i,
thrashed out finally tomorrow bv ,on.
resentatlves OF the organizations cor,
ceerned in what is called the jntaen..
tlonal joint conference council IS 10,
printing industry. '''e
The council was created in 1o1a r.
the mutual consideration BY emnioras.
and employees who have contract',,a,
relations in this industry OF their Ta',' a.
tual problems. 1t marks an endes~o.
by both sides to arrive at agreement h.
Cancellation. '''e"' Dy
Concerns affected are largely in Nan
YORK and Chicago, the union shop diyi
sions Of local typothetes in these tw1
cities forming the bulk of the nation.l
organizations mem bership.
The employing clectrotypers' assoc;a.
ton will also be represented ne,~ to.nn~,
row. Harris Hatch, OF Philadelpbis
and John j. Foy will represent il.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Avert White Goods Strike
Manufacturers Drop Demand
for 25 p. G.. Mare Cut

A threatened strike of 10000 workers
in the white goods industry in this citv
was avcrted yesterday through the ac-
ceptance by manufacturers of the
unions demands for an agreement that
no wage reductions be put into effect
Announcement OF the settlement was
made by William Davis, manager of the
white goods workers union.
The manufacturers had proposed a
wage reduction of 25 per cent several
weeks ago. the previous agreement
having expired on March "a. Numer-
Gus CONFERENCES we're held, resulting in
deadlock, the workers taking a firm
stand against any cuts in wages. The
new agreement, retroactive to March
"a, provides for minimum wage scales
Tor week workers" and an extra half
holiday on Election Day to enable
women workers to vote.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
!. 5. Orders .235 Army Planes
At Total Cost of $1,5OO.OOO

froa The Tr,banes VosIais oton Bureau
WASHINGTON, April l.-Orders
were placed by the War Department
to-day with two airplane manufactur-
ers for 200 pursuit planes and 35 bomb
ing planes, at q cost Of approximately
Sl.boo,o0o Secretary Weeks announced.
Tho purchases are the first to be
made by the War Department since
the war, and mark the beginning Of the
task of placing the army air service
on basis Of preparation for any
emergency which might arise.
The 200 pursuit planes are known as
the Thomas Morse type, built complete
for the army by the Boweing Company
OF Seattle. The order represents an
outlay of S1,400,000.
The bombing planes are known as
the Martin type bombers, and arc to
be constructed by the l.. w. f. Com
pany. Of Garden City. l.. I. These
planes will be equipped with Liberty
motors, furnished by the War Depart
ment from the large surplus of this
type of engines now on hand. The
planes will cost approximately $4,000
each
The pursuit planes are of a lighter
type. for which Liberty motors are
not suitable
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Rail Union Heads
Agree to vi ect
Investors Monday
Accept Invitation to Confer
on Operating Economies;
N. Y. G.. Workers Reject
Cuts; Road to Arbitrate

S. Davies Warfield, president Of the
National Association of Owners of
Railroad Securities, announced yester-
day that he had received favorable
reply from representatives Of the four
railroad brotherhoods in response to
the letter sent them suggesting a con-
ference on the matter of cffecting
operating economies.
eve have a reply" said Mr.. WarGeld.
from W. F. Stone, president Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, stating
that he, together with the heads of
the three other brotherhoods or their
representatives, would meet the com
m1ttee named by the executive COM
mttee of the association on Monday
next at the Hotel Astor at 1O:3O a. m.
"Mr Stone stated in his reply that
nc desired to bring two additional rep
resentatlves, which was concurred in.
A subcommittee Of seven will act in
behalf of the full committee of twenty
five, reporting to the full committee
after Mondays conference, as was de-
termined at the Wednesday meeting
OF the committees"
Acceptance of membership in the gen.
eral committee, in addition to those
announced last Wednesday,, were re-
cclved from the following: Forrest r.
Dryden, president Prudential Life In
surance Company; John S. Drum. presi-
dent American Bankers Association and
OF the Union Trust Company, San Fran
cisco; w. w. McClench. president.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company; Louis +. Butler president
travellers Insurance Company; lrestus
}. Wade, president Mercantile Trust
Company, st. Louis; J. c. Tobin, presi-
dent Hibcrnia Savings and Loan So
clety, San Francisco; j. L. Chilberg.
president Scandinavian-American Bank,
Seattle; John G. Walker. president Life
Insurance Company of Virginia, Rich
mond. and j. f. Sartori, president
Security Trust and Savings Bank, Los
Angeles.
Representative of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Signalmen, acting for the
l,50O men employed on the New York
Central lines, yesterday rejected the
roads proposal that the men accept re-
ductlons in wages. Upon receipt of the
workers reply the railroad heads as
sured the signalmen at a conference
yesterday that no cuts would be put
into effect until an adjudication of the
matter by the United States Railroad
Labor Board.
The proposals included decrease of
10 to 13 cents an hour for hourly rated
men and $2G to $50 month for month
ly rated employees. For the New York
Central there appeared at the meeting
". j. Fripp general manager of the
Eastern lines; A. S. Ingalls,, general
manager of the Western lines, and S.
H. Payre, of the Ottawa division. The
worker were represented by Flip
kramiich and Lloyd Gimley, general
chairmen OF tho brotherhood.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02

mobilization Of the Russian SoYiet
army, which reports say has been prov
ing exceedingly dangerous to the Soviet
regime, has been halted. The Krss-
maya Gazette of March o7 announces
this was done because Poland, Hun
gary and Rumania had formed mill
tary alliance against Soviet Russia.
Refugees arriving here assert that
the Soviet administration is finding
that the condition Of peace, in which
the soldiers are learning at first hand
the facts at home, is bringing about
banditry and in some cases upTisirgs.
A dispatch from Siberia, dated March
90, reports the Irkutsk and Baikal dis
tricts to be in the hands of revolution
ists. The dispatch says this also is
the case at Chaliabinsk, where the
workmen are revolving. The Bolshe-
vik forces have been concentrated at
Nizhni- Udinsk, on the Trans-Siberian
Railway, northwest Of Irkutsk, the dis
patch says.
TOXIC, March 81 (By The Associ-
ated Press) ).--Anti-Bol troops
formerly commanded by the late Cen
cral Kappel. armed with four machine
guns, opened an engagement with the
Russian militia in Vladivostok at 4
O'Clock this morning, says a dispatch
from that city to the Nichi Nichi Shin
bun Of this city.
Fighting was said to be in progress
along Main Street, near the railway
station, and the city was in confusion.
The Japanese garrison in Vladivostok
has announced its neutrality, it is
said.
The Kappel forces are reported to
have seized Nikolsk, city two miles
northwest OF Vladivostok.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-02
Harding Takes
Up Rail Crisis
With Cabinet
Mass Of Data Considered,
but More Information
Will Be Obtained Before
Policy Is Decided Upon
Foreign Loans Discussed
Feasibility of Converting
Obligations Into Long
Term Bonds Brought Up

WASHINGTON, April t--Financial
and industrial subjects, ranging from
foreign loans to the domestic agricul-
tural situation. were discussed at
length by President Harding and his
Cabinet at t9-day's regular meeting
1T was indicated that no definite con-
cluslons resulted and that tho railroad
question among others still awaited
solution, which can be worked out
only when the Administration has
gathered more complete information.
Tho discussion of European loans
outstanding as a result of the war was
IN connection with the approach Of the
time for an interest payment. 1t is
understood that the President and his
advisers talked over the feasibility OF
converting the loans into some sort
OF long term negotiable bonds, but that
a decision was reserved.
In ITS consi sideration of the railroad
problem the Cabinet had before it de-
tailed information given tho President
yesterday by Chairman Barton of the
Railroad Labor Board, in addition to a
mass OF other data which has been
collected by Administration officials.
Although the discussion disclosed
that the Administration was working
toward solution, it was made known
afterward that further facts would be
corrected before rehabilitation policy
was adopted. ''~'
The point that wage and other con-
tracts mt 1.-l,n
were under government control. are
still in force was raised in a telegram
received to-day by President Harding
from the railway employees depapt-
ment OF the American Federation of
Labor. which proposed that EMPLOYERS
and employees be called into a general
conference on the subject of railway
organizatjon. The President had not
rephed to the telegram tonight, al
though there were indications that he
mas 10 plan for general conference
now IN mind. Officials close to the Ex
ccutivc expect him rather to work out
mrs pollcy through individual consulta
ton with the managers, stockholders
and employees.
IN the Cabinets discussion of the
question of continuing wartime agree
ments It was brought out that the is
sue involved far more than the mere
controversy between employer and en-
ployee Argument was put forward
that II the contracts in question were
to be regarded as still in sorce. that
would remove the right of NEGOTIATION
between the roads and the men on
many wage disagreements. 1t also was
pointed out, however. that thfs question
was not directly before the President,
but rather was q nut to be cracked bv
the Railway Labor Board.
In its general review of business con-
dltlons the Cabinet took particular no.
tlce of agricultural productivity. on
which report was made by Secretary
WALLACE OF the Agricultural Depart
ment. The substance of. his opinion
has previously been made public in his
appeals for relief to the agricultural
interests.