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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
SHORT NOTES

The Rev. Fl. H. kaufman conducted
View Sanatorium.
A son was born last Saturday morn
ing to Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Roberts,
SIS Fourth avenue n.
Little David Wilson who was at st.
Mary's hospital last week for the re-
home.
No sessions were held at the Lin
coin school on Monday because the
furnace was out of order and the
building cold.
MIR. and Mrs. J, L. Colombo, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred h. Becker and Mr.. and Mrs.
Maurice Olson and son, Junior, spent
Sunday at Grandfather Falls.
Louis Pradt. Sr., has been appoint
ed chairman of Marathon county by
the Governors of the World Board of
Aeronautical Commissioners, Inc, an
organization devoted to the advance
ment of aviation,
A hail storm which lasted several
minutes was experienced last Mon
day noon. The stones were not large
and no damage was done, although
people walking along the streets found
il advisable to get under cover for a
few minutes.
Bowling is taking its important
place in the list Of indoor sports
again. Myron Smith attended meet
ing of the Wisconsin Bowling associa-
ton at Milwaukee last Sunday, aud
reports that Thursday. January 20
was the date set for the opening date
of the twentieth annual tournament TO
be held at Madison wausau bowlers
will doubtless attend.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
Consumer Takes Long Chance
When He Buys From the
Mail Order House.
GENERALLY IS LOSING GAME
Method Of Doing Business ls Very
Different When You Purchase
Goods From Your Home
Merchant.
(Copyright)

When you were youngster, did you
ever make trade, "sight uDseec p
OF course you did. What boy has not
risked his jackknife or his choicest mar.
Bile on such proposition and how oft
en- has he repented of his rash deed
when he discovered what he got in the
trade! He generally found that the
deal turned out to the advantage of
the one who made the proposition.
THERE'S little of the gambling In
stinct in the blood of nearly every man,
woman and child but even the hard
ened gambler likes to get run for
his money" The "sight unseen" prop
osition doesn't appeal to him in the
least. There are thousands of people,
however, who would be properly indig-
nant If they were accused of being
gamblers, who every day take chance
on the greatest gambling game in the
world. And worse than that, they are
risking their money on "sight un-
seem proposition.
When one of the thousands of per-
sons who build up and keep up the
great mail order houses of the country
sends his money away to pay for some
article that he has selected from the
mail order catalogue, he is taking
chance on getting what he expects to
get. The mail order house may be
perfectly honest and still the purchas-
er stands a good chance of not get
ting what he expects to get. The mail
order catalogues are filed with pic
lures that catch the eye. The de-
scriptions are brief, as they must be
when thousands of articles are to be
described within the confines Of one
book. No matter how hard the mail
order house might try to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, 1t would be an impossibility.
The buyer is simply taking a chance.
Buying "Sight Unseen"
How much more satisfactory 1t is
to walk into store in your home town
and ask to see an article which you
may have seen advertised In your
home paper. What would anyone
think of your business ability or your
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06

MIR. and Mrs. c. c. Hoefer of Kan
sas City. who have been spending the
summer at their cottage on Plum Lake,
passed through Wausau Saturday en-
route home.
Sen. and Mrs c. b. Bird and Miss
Marie Bird returned home from a
month at Plum Lake on Monday even
ing. The senator Joined the latter
two for week-ends during their stay
up north.
MIR. and Mrs. Bruen. of Kansas
City. who have been visiting the past
several days with Sen. and Mrs. c. B.
Bird. returned to their home on We'd
nesday. They have been spending SEP
TENDER at the c. b. Bird cottage on
Plum Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.. c. Parlin of Phil
adelphia. arrived in the city last Fri
day to spend a few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Karl Mathie. Mr.. Parlin. former
ly principal of the Wausau High
school. now occupies a post of con-
spicuous importance with the Curtis
Publishing company. Both Clarence
and George Parlin are now students of
the Harvard law school, Mr.. Parlin
left Monday and his wife followed yes
terday,
City Attorney Patrick t. Stone left
Wednesday for Tomahawk lake where
he will spend few days at Louis
Dessert summer home. So excellent
is the hunting reported in that coun.
try that he hasn't been able to with,
stand the temptation o enjoy short
period there. Mr.. and Mrs. Stone will
shortly be ready to move into their
home on Grant street, next to tn,
Universalist parsonage. on which the
finishing touches are now being put
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
"Buryina the Ratchet"

The origin of the synonym for for
getting old quarrels. Lets bury tho
Ratchet" Is traced to an ancient Gus
tom of the North American Indians.
After indulging in the most ruthless
warfare, tribes would assemble at
what they believed TO be the zeal. Of
peace" This. 1t was supposed, was
uttered by the Great Spirit, and in
the course OF a great council and
amidst singular ceremonies. they
would smoke the calumet. or pipe Of
peace, and bury their tomahawks I'M
der mound erected In the center OF
the smoking circle.
This was equal 10 on agreement
that all eninity was at an end. and
the spirit OF peace had settled on tn
camps.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
U. S. FAMILY GROWS SMALLER
Average Number in 1920 Was
a.3--Was AZ in 1900.

Washington Oct. l.--The size of
United States families Is steadily de-
creaSing, the average number In 1920
being a.; In 1910. As; In 1900, At !;
in 1890, 40, and In 1880. 8 the cen
sus bureau announced
The total population In 1920. 1885,
Ti0.620, was grouped into 24,35l ,616
families, residing In 20,697. 2N dwell
ings,
The average number of persons to
dwelling was ~ In 1920, while In
1850 Il was SO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06

coIDmon sense yUu wuInru snrU q
store at home and said: II saw a
picture in the paper tG lay Of suit
which liked very much. Please wrap
up one for me. Here's the money"
The merchant would think that you
were crazy, but that is exactly what
you do every time you send an order
to mail order house. You buy "sight
unseen" and you haven't ghost of
chance of getting your money back If
the article is unsatisfactory when 1t
reaches you.
How different is the proceeding
when you go into the st,re In your
own home town to buy a suit Of
clothes, or stove or yard Of ribbon.
You may have seen picture Of it in
the merchants advertisement in the
home paper and you know that, as the
merchant is reliable, you can count on
the goods being as he represents them
in his advertisement. But does he ask
you to take his word for everything?
Does he hide the article behind the
counter and tell you that you can't
even see it until you buy it and pay
over the money for it? Har1ly. If
the article is not already in plain sight
on the counter, the merchant produces
it for your inspection. If it does not
exactly suit you, he has others that
are little different and that he is glad
to have you inspect.
Get Merchants Guarantee.
Then, if it is a suit of clothes you
or pair of socks, you may ask If the
merchant will guarantee that it will
wear as long as an article Of that kind
could be expected to wear and he will
tell you either that he will guarantee
it or that he will not. If he tells you
that he viii guarantee it you will know
that you will get your money back or
another suit or another pair of so,ks
in its place if it doesn't wear like 1t
should. for the merchant, besides be-
ing an honest man in most cases, can
not afford not to make his word good.
He is dependent upon your business
and that of others in his own commu-
nifty and he cannot afford to misrepre-
sent his goods.
After having all this opportunity to
see what you are buying, you take yOAr
suit or your stove or whatever 1t is
you buy home or it is sent home for
you without any delivery charges, and
after you get home and take another
look at it and decide you don't want
it after all, you send it back.
You are not buying something "sight
unseen" when you buy from your n1rAe
merchant. You don't look at a picture
of an article in a newspaper, read a
short description of it, go to the post
office and buy money order and send
1T to the merchant with the instruc-
tons, "Send me suit of clothes'-or
stove or whatever it may be- land
I'll pay your delivery man so cents for
delivering it to me-"
There's world of difference in the
two methods of doing business and It's
not hard to figure out which Is the best
for the man who is doing the buying,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
REVEALS SPIES
IN STEEL PLANTS
lnterchurch Commission Tells OF
Inquiry in the Chicago
District.
USE UNDER COVER" MEN
Documents Quoted to Show That
"Spies" Employed by Steel Cor
poration Were in Unions, and
Even Held Office.

New York, Oct. 4.--The commission
of inquiry of the Interchurch World
movement has made public supple
mentary report on the steel strike OF
1919, describing the alleged use OF
"under-cover men," or spies, by the
steel corporation, and detailing its
dealings and efforts toward mediation
with the United States Steel corpOr-
alton.
Hundrers Of original documents are
quoted In the report on "under-cover
men in the steel strike" which de-
. clares that widespread systems of es-
pionage are an integral part Of the an
tiunion policy of great Industrial cor
porations."
Probe Chicago Plants.
The investigation Of the spy system,
1t says, was extended to other towns
in the Plttsburg region. and then to
the ChicagO-Gary district; ramifica-
lions leading to Ohio, Washington and
New York. were followed and data
collected, including original documents
from the notwithstanding compa-
nies, interviews with the managers of
two spy firms, affidavits and court doc
uments."
Documents are quoted to show that
the 'under-cover men" were inside the
unions, and that the manager Of one
agency had boosted that 1--WE expect
eventually to control the unions
which have fallen into radical hands
In the last few years" This same man
ager Is quoted as declaring that "a
member of the steel strike national
committee was their man."
The commission presented the de-
tailed affidavit of an operative who
worked for several years inside Chlca-
go unions, stirring up strikes and then
breaking the strikes. Many manufac-
turing plants are named and an at
tempt TO swing union election is de-
tailed. A Chicago spy agency, 1t was
declared, was indicted for conspiracies
and intent "to create riots, insurrec-
ton and murder" In Wheeling, In
the last month, 1t was stated, the
unions exposed officials there who
We're also spies.
Bares Espionage.
The report also traces the alleged
practice of industrial espionage
against the commission and the Inter-
church. movement, from November,
1919. to the summer of 1920. The re-
port OF an unnamed "under-cover
man." who pursued the commissions
investigators In Pfttsburg and inspect
ed the Interchurch offices In New York.
designated az document A, IL given In
full, IL was sent TO the offices of the
United States Steel corporation, 1t Is
stated, and was dated two days after
the commissions first interview with
f. II. Gary, chairman of the corpora
ton. The anonymous" report called
the Investigators members of the ].
w. w. and Reds"
Two other spy reports" against the
Interchurch We're detailed. one of
which described as document Il. was
alleged 20 have been mailed by Ralph
NJ, Easley Of the National Civic feder-
alton, 10 the offices of the United
States Steel corporation on March 20,
1920, with letter requesting that the
clergymen reported In II be "kicked
out of their nositions"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
81 INDICTED IN STOCK PROBE
Fltty.Eight True Bills Returned In
Quiz by Nebraska Grand
Jury.

Omaha, Neb., Oct. I.-Fifty-eight In
dictments, none of which was made
public. were returned by special
grand jury called By the attorney gen.
eral to investigate stock transactions
In Nebraska. the jury reported TO Dis
trict court here. Ninety-seven per-
sons were named.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
TWO MORE KILLED AT 0C0YA
Carey, Hill and Wife Of Pontiac. H..
Victims OF Grade
Crossing.

bloomington. Ill.,. Oct, AT the
same crossing at ocoya where four
weeks ago an Alton train killed four
tourists from Iowa, another train hit
the car carrying Carey HIN and his
wife. from Pontiac, and both were
Instantly killed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
Source OF Diamond.

While some diamonds are obtained
nom river sands. most Of them ara
obtained by mining. The diamonds
occur largely in a soft volcanic rock
Known as blue ground" This rock
Is taken from the mines spread out
IN the open air and allowed 10 decom-
pose; 1t Is afterward washed and
separated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
It's Lead Pipe Cinch if the
WAUSAU
PLUMBING & HEATING co

Does your work it is to be depended on
because their motto is to DO things
RIGHT at RIGHT PRICES.
Advertisement
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
THE HOOD TIRE

Offers the best by delivering the most
miles per dollar spent Past expert
ence with local people has proven this.
Let your next tire be HOOD.
BADGER TIRE STATION
Phone 1880 100 Washington st.
Advertisements
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06

A recent decision of the sales COM
mittee of the Holstein Breeders asso-
citation has set the date for the annual
sale OF November 10 instead of Octo-
Der q as was planned at first. This
later date, it is felt, will result in a
better showing.
The body of the late Private Henry
NJ. Rose, son of Mrs. August Rose of
this city, is expected to arrive at Ho-
boken the latter part of this week ac-
cording to word received recently by
Mrs. Rose. The body will be sent
here for interment.
Franklin Johnson, who for two
years has been a student at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. will attend Le-
land Stanford, Jr., university. Palo
Alto, Cal, this year. He is studying
mining engineering and during the
summer was at work in an Oregon
mine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
HAVE US KEEP 1T

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You need a powerful battery for
cold weather. We will keep yours in
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06

Our pleasures and comfort depend the prosperity of
Marathon county The Wausau Chamber of Commerce
ing to finance municipal barn for farmers Here's great
opportunity to give the Buy at Home"
dous impetus. Get behind i'll
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-10-06
AN INVITATION

WHEN YOUR BATTERY NEEDS At
TENTION do not get unskilled and
preJudiced work. Please realize that
no matter what make of battery you
have WILLARD SERVICE will give
you expert attention and make it last
as long as possible.
Storage Battery Service Co.
20S Fifth Street
Advertisement
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-19
BRYSON EXPLAINS
TOTAL EXPENDITURES

Mr.. Bryson offered an explanation or
the expenditures column Of the "Reca-
pitulation of All Funds" table OF his
report to show that the actual total
amount Of money which left the city
Golfers during the year was not IS. 1922 -
lis SO. as the table shows. He said that
$905.s79.O9 shown as having been ex-
pended from the improvement sinking
fund. the city sinking fund and the flood
prevention sinking fund In reality was
not paid cut hut had to he shown as
having bern expended because in trans
ferring these sums from banks during
the year it WAS necessary to issue checks.
The money, he said, still remains in the
hands Of the sinking fund commissioners,
with the exception Of S120,46 which was
actually paid out to retire bonds
He also insisted that the $9304S.G0 in
Guided in the table as having been ex-
pended from the bond proceeds fund does
not represent an Expense since 1t was
used to pay for Improvement"
The fact remains that the $9394S 60 is
not in the city treasury and actually was
paid out, so it is considered as an ex-
penditure.
II MS. Bryson's explanation regarding
the sinking fund expenditures" is to be
accepted the amount of money which
actually passed from the hands or the
city under the Jewett administration In
1920 still would be $2,561, 61754 greater
than that which, under Mr.. Bryson's
method of figuring, was actually checked
out In 1919.
Since s 20.46o worth of bonds were re-
tired in 1920 this sum should be deduct
Ell from the S9O5 SD 90 included in the
three ST Is zssSd the amount
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-19

lied Americans instead of the total num-
Der of alien residents here.
Treasury loans to European govern
ments under new credits established after
the close Of the war have aggregated
s, 000, 100000.
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming
today extended the Federal sanitation
battle against the typhus and sleeping
sickness. He soon will have 100000
available for the typhus prevention fight
in New York, this amount having been
voted into a bill now in its final stage
of passage in Congress.
This after the-war phase IN the gov
ernment's program Of financing Europe
was revealed in figures to be laid before
the Senate judiciary Committee. France
and Italy were the chief borrowers after
the armistice, although England and
other benefciaries Of loans continued
after the war to receive heavy cash ad-
vances made possible by credits pre-
Viously established.
Data showing how the s10,0O0. 900, 900
lent to the European governments was
expended over the entire period after
Americas entry into the war; Is ready TO
be presented by Secretary Houston on
his temperance Monday before the COM
mittee.
The facts disclosed by the new reports
assembled apparently indicate that most
Of the money loaned to European gov
ernments was spent in the United States
for American commodities. Apparently
heavy loans made after the fghting in
Europe had ceased brought buying in
America to unprecedented totals and pro-
vided a vital connection with the wave
Of profteering which swept the country
most Of last year.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-19

penditures in order 10 show what was
left as having been actually taken out Of
the treasury, according to Mr.. Bryson's
figuring. In this lrznuer 1t Is figured
that S7.773, = acl Ally left the treas
ury. The same deda ions must be made
from the total eNpen 1iture item as listed
IN the corresponding recapitulation table
in the report for 1919 This would leave
So 211 691 20 as having been actually paid
out In 1919 Deducting the 1919 figure
from that for 1920 gives S2.5G1 61T54,
which would still represent an Increase,
FIGURING In Mr.. Bryson's way. Of 49.1 per
cent.
In a letter accom- panyinG the report Mr.
Bryson sets out that the bonded in
debtedness Of s. 500 consists Of ST.
$4,000 at 3h per cent interest, S3,19j0O0
ut per cent, $50, 0oo at AZ per cent,
$40 900 at per cent and 100000 at 514
per cent.
He states that there was outstanding
against the city Dec. 81. 1920. 100000
in temporary loans, of which SJ9J000 is
to b paid back out of the general fund
this year, $4,000 by the board OF public
health and 100000 by the board Of sani-
tary commissioners.
He figures the total outstanding obli-
cations of the city at S0153, 800, which.
he says, would leave a bonding margin,
under the legal limit Of per cent Of
the assessed valuation Of S6,0l3,029.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-19
THUG THRILLER
rs TOLD POLICE
Nan Describes HoLd-up in
Which Coin Is SGUed.

A story of a hold-up and thrilling
escape that would rival any moving pic
ture robbery was told to the police to-
day by Ralph Himperdy, 100 East Palmer
street.
Himperdy was on Palmer street be-
tween Union and Meridian streets at $50
when a large limousine stopped near him.
Three masked bandits got out of the
car, covered Himperdy with revolvers,
and commanded him to hold up his
hands.
Instead, Himperdy swung a stiff upper
cut to the Jaw Of the leading bandit
and the robber staggered from the blow
and then turned and ran. His com
panions jumped into the automobile and
drove away. Five hours after the thrill
ing experience IIimperdy told the police
about the hOld-up. The robbers obtained
no money. Handkerchiefs were used as
masks and there was no license numbers
on the limousine. The automobile, the
police believe, probably was a stolen car.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-19
MAY BREAK OUT
IN u. S. INTERIOR

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-Typhus may
break out IN any part of the United
States as the result Of vermin-infested
European immigrants being admitted by
Federal officials, according TO DR.. Royal
S. Copeland, city health commissioner.
DR.. Copeland declared the discovery OF
three typhus cases IN Cortland, neal
Syracuse, n. Y, indicated that an indie
terminable number of the disease carriers
had penetrated the interior Of the coun-
try.
There are no means Of telling how
many immigrants infected with the
deadly typhus louise got past the health
authorities before we established the
process now IN force" he said.
1.-The period OF incubation for the ty-
plus germ is twelve to twenty days. For
that reason we may expect to know very
shortly whether any persons already in
fected with the disease were admitted
to the country before we undertook the
present precautions"