Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-01-06
LOOKING BACK
WARD TO 1922
Fanciful Retrospect of 100
Years of Ladysmith's Prog
ress.--Utopian Results
.1SERYICE TO OTHERS"
SERVICE TO OTHERS"
IDEA INSPIRES VISION
Ideal Conditions From Unity OF Pmr'
pose Together With Golden
Rule Principles

IA paper read by J. W. Carnw at the
first meeting of the Chamber Of Com
merce in 1929
What I say tonight is fanciful,
part of the symposium of the evening
and not intended to be an attack upon
any individual. any church, club or
institution. Nothing personal is in
tended. No encounter, physical ar
Zt1mentativs or literary, is sought.
BY method / do not now desire TO
disclose I secured Il paper written IN
the year 2022 which l now read to you.
It is as follows:
This is the unnumbered day i'll the
year GOETHE world holiday. I want
you to look back with me just one hun
tlred years The last century has been
the most wonderful of all the ages III
the advancement of the human race.
II seems strange now when each day
Of the week always falls on the same
day of the month, that in the old days
printed calendar was needed to keep
track of the days.
We now have no cities, no wagon nor
railroads, no telegraph nor telephone,
no mail no burning of coal nor wood,
gasoline nor OIL no killing of animals
for food nor by-products: no automo-
biles, wagons, boats nor other land or
wafer vehicles We have no courts, no
laws, no policemen, no eighthour d
= ten-hour day. The changes from one
hundred years ago are so great that it
is task to name them all.
1t is said that the impetus for these
wonderful changes had its beginning
in the year 1922 At that time the
affairs OF the world had struck bottom
after the great world war. Things in
that year started up with bound and
nave never stopped to this day.
/ have been asked to delve into his.
tory and TO recall TO you the doings
In 1922 of some one hive of people, in
those days called city, in which peo-
pie huddled together i'll a most unsan-
itary, mscientific and inartistic way.
/ have chosen to tell you of the happen
ingS in the city called Ladysmith, oe-
cause the regeneration of Ladysmith
is the most wonderful which history
records for the year 1922.
Pioneers Equal To Demands
I4adySnith in those oldcn days was
peopled by so.called pioneers. They
we're mostly young men and women
who had gone to new country TO seek
their fortunes. They were of the stock
at world c0nduerors-brave strong,
cheerful; ready TO work and to take a
chance. They were people equal to all
demands made upon them as I will
show
Ladysmith was u center for rail"
roads and wagon roads, cumberous.
IT course, compared with our present
mode OF travel. but up-f0-date then.
IL was also a county seat. Its court
house and Jail are now kept as his
toric relics OF semi-barbarous past.
It was the center of farming and man
Sfacturing activities. 1t had the peo-
pie and the ideal setting for a pros
porous and progressive community. 1t
had also a so-ealled Chamber of Com.
nerce. composed Of the progressive men
of the city. This club was not like
some Of the commercial clubs OF that
time. 1t did not 90 out into the high
ways and hy-ways to compel people
IN come in. 1t did not claim ten thou !
sand when there were but four thou
sand It did not think that the get
ting of new factories was the sunum
bonum. 1t was not blighting infiu-
ence that killed off originality. II dis
,mssed other things than the price cfI
real estate and the possibility of Sc
curing another sauer.kraut factory for
The town.
The great boom began logically. It'll
began in the churches. The pastors and
phe people suddenly awakened to the'