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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
THOUGHT Gas Was Spirit.

Although discovered early in the
Seventeenth century, gas was never
put into practical use to any large eX.
tent until a little more than century
ago In fact, it's very name indicated
the superstition which surrounded it
in the early days.
1t was Van HelmOnt, Belgian
chemist, who in the course of some
experiments discovered that coal
yielded up "a wild spirit for form
so phantom-like and elusive that he
named it 'geist' (the German for
spirit)
Thus at its very christening gas was
enshrined in a veil of mystery that
for nearly two centuries obscured ii
because it carried the suggestion OF
intangibility to the superficial mind
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
Edwin s. Curtiss Dies.

Madison, March,. Edwin f. Cur
tiss. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. f. w. Curtiss,
1913 East Gorham street, died at Arkan-
sas City, Kan. Word of his death was
received from Mrs. f. w. Curtiss and
Lawrence BOwden, who left Madison
when word was received here of his
serious illness. Mr. Curtiss was born
in Madison 81 years ago. He was a
graduate of the university and for the
past year has been manager of a pub
lie utility at Arkansas City. He mar
ried Miss Nan BOwden, daughter of
Mrs. L. BOwden of this city. about
eight years ago. They have one child,
a boy six years Of age. Mrs. Curtiss
is survived by his wife and one child
his parents, brother, Frederick, and
one sister, Mrs. Charles Murphy of
Aurora, MINI. The funeral will be
held here.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03

Even those farmers who raise sugar
beets might properly ask in what way
their interests are being protected by
an increase in the duty on Cuban
sugar. 1t is currently rumored that
the contract price paid the farmer for
sugar beets during the coming season
will be from $500 to $3.50 a ton.
The average pre-war price with the
tariff at 1c was $5.57, approximately
the price that will be paid farmers
during the coming season, with the
tariff increased 5000.
Very few farmers grow wool, but all
farmers wear clothes. American grown
wool, the product of the American
farm, is one of the chief rallying cries
of the high tariff exponent.
FalIacy of Wool "Protection"
Farmers are clad in mid-Winter
mostly in cotton and shoddy, and yet
the wooden manufacturer today is
given 45 cents a pound protection on
the entire weight of the farmers
clothing on the basis that it is all wool.
He passes this additional cost on to
the farmer, but gives the wool grower
about one-third of this 45 cents in in
creased price of wool
A foreign piece of mems suiting
weighing eighteen ounces to the yard
is 1920 cotton, 800 wool and 500
wool shoddy, costing on the present
rate of exchange $1.09 yard. A COM
parable domestic fabric costs $1.75.
Under the Fordney Tariff the duty
would be 2496 of this $175, or 42c +;
the weight duty at 30c pound, 33Mc c,
and the landing charge 91ac, making
the foreign fabric cost here $195.
Under the present Emergency Tariff,
with it's 45c a pound weight duty, the
fabric would cost sos as against the
American price of $1.75,
The wool grower would get 15c pro-
lection per pound instead of the 45c
weight duty, the manufacturer keep
ing the farmer who buys clothing the
full 45c
The American farmer should be in
terested to find out why it is that his
common agricultural implements man.
ufactured in the United States can be
bought for less by the European farm
err than he has to pay for them,
thanks to the protective tariff. For
instance, he should inquire why he
has to pay 1891 dozen for a shovel
manufactured in this country while
the identical shovel exported can be
t,ornht in EurOpn for 81 IN
With these facts in mind it is time
that the American farmer let himself
be heard in protest against a protec-
tive tariff which most emphatically
does not give him square deal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
Gladstone Annoyed.

The prolonged debates on the adj
dress in answer to the kings speech
were matter of annoyance to Mr..
Gladstone, says the Manchester Guar
dian If the royal message, he once
declared. instead of being "a dignifed.
decorous and convenient" method of
meeting between sovereign and peo-
pie and of initiating the business of
the session, was to be made the sub
feet of all manner of amendment. it
would become mo better than a bub-
lie nuisance"
He even went so far as to hint that
it might be WHOLLY discontinued but
neither he nor any prime minister
since has had the courage to put an
end to the old custom.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
SUGAR TARIFF No
AID TO FARMERS
Consumers Taxed for Benefit of
Factories, Not Beet Growers.
WOOL BENEFITS QUESTIONED
Fair Tariff League Head Says Beets
Are Not important American
Crop.
BY r.. &. MILES.
Chairman of the Fair Tariff Lea

Chairman of the Fair Tariff League.
Sugar in the beet, the product Of
the farm, is given a protection of $50
ad valorem in the Fordney Tariff Bill
now before Congress-
Refined sugar, the product of the
beet sugar factory, is protected with
a specific rate equivalent to from 500
to 1000 ad valorem on the basis of
present prices.
For example, the Michigan sugar
factory receives a prohibitive protec
ton against the importation of the
product of the Cana dian sugar factory,
but the Michigan sugar beet farmer
receives practically no protection
against the Canadian sugar beet
In view of this farmers are asking
if the 60ad increase in the tariff on
Cuban raw sugar contained in the
Fordney Tariff Bill is an effort to pro-
tect the farmer or an effort to pay a
further bonus TO an already sufficient
ly protected beet sugar industry.
All farmers use sugar. They usually
buy it in 100 pound sacks. Every time.
a farmer buys sack of sugar he pays
$500 as the result of the tariff on
sugar Half of this goes to the Gov
eminent and half of it to the beet
sugar manufactured.
This is true because we consume in
this country twice as much sugar as
we make, but the price of sugar TO the
farmer is the Cuban price plus the
tariff But the farmer pays this price
on both the domestic sugar and the
foreign sugar. Therefore the farmer
pays half Of this tax to the Govern
ment and half to the manufacturer Of
beet sugar in this country.
Sugar Beets Minor Product
The farmer might feel that he was
getting some benefit out of this if the
raising of sugar beets was actually an
important American agricultural pur-
suit. This, however, is not the case.
The crop acreage of sugar beets for
1920 was 692,455 The crop acreage
for peanuts was 1,256,000, almost dou-
BILE the acreage devoted to the cultiya-
ton of sugar beets.
The following table indicates the
Importance of the acreage devoted to
sugar beets as compared with certain
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
MOVING DeY' NO PROBLEM
Nonads CT New Chile Simply Gather
Up Their Houses and Utensils
and Strike Trail

There is not an encampment more
picturesque than one of the Eomads
of New Chile. as the Chilpans call
their southern territory Notwith-
standing the Patagonian winter is
rough and cold. with heavy rains. the
Tehuelches prefer to remain in their
tOldos or skin tents that are like a
haif-hoop in shape. They group their
toldos around that of the head tribes
man, together with their imnumerabe
dogs and fowls and horses; and as
quickly strike camp as pitch it.
At "a word from the chief there is
bustle' everywhere. The young men
and boys. Iasso and bring up the
horses and the women, who are well
treated, place on their backs the boil
sters of reeds, tied with hides and the
skin ponchos and blankets, forming
the saddles.
Others strap their belts on. get pots
and pans. etc., together, OF put their
babies into wicker-work cradles; some
of them rolling up the skins forming
the covering of the toldos and tying
them and the tent poles on the bag
gage horses.
Meantime the men collect their
herds of horses and fill the water
skins, which are carried on the march.
The women mount astride of their
bolster saddles, their babies and pet
dogs are hoisted up behind; then they
take their baggage horses i'll tow and
set off in single file, the men driving
the spare horses.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
Two Injured by Bomb at Racine.

Racine, March. Police here are
Investigating the explosion of a bomb
at the home of Louis Marachino in the
italian district last night, in which
two small children were injured and
MarachinO's house badly damaged. The
explosion brought to a sudden end a
party at the MarachinO home, at which
a score of guests were present The
persons who planted the bomb es-
capped. Marachino has received sew
eral threatening letters that his home
would be blown up, following a quar-
rel with some Of his cOuntrymen. po-
lice announced
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
Flood Makes MANY Homeless.

Richland Center, March, Rain.
which fell for two days and two nights
caused a freshet which Washtd out one
bridge between Lone Rock and Rich
land Center, delaying all trains for
"a hours. The foot bridge across Pine
river caused the ice to gorge and the
river overlooked for two blocks on the
west side of town driving all the people
living in that locality from their home.
Tt is estimated 125 families took refuge
IN the city auditorium.
HaZeltine street was verftablo
canal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-03-03
Industry First Requisite.

IF you have great talents, industry
will improve them; if moderate abili-
ties, industry will supply their defic-
iencies. Nothing is denied to we'll
directed labor: nothing is ever to be
attained without it.-Sir Joshua Rey-
nOlds.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30

the Count to kiss her--kiss her-kiss her!
Just as number of holder spirits began
10 scramble onto the platform, Mile Haid
herself saved the situation. She turned to
the Count. Her face tilted upward. lie
bent. For the tenth part of a second his
Ups brushed her forehead The worlds
shortest Kiss had been planted In the pres.
encc OF 5000 witnessesI e
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30
Mrs. Isabelle Matteson, Who
Timed the Taxicab Kiss and Who
Is Now Suing for Divorce.

Mile Had had risen. She had gone
from bright pink 10 pailor. The young man
approaching her was also very pale.
tremendous hush fell over the audionco 40
'he young man reached her side. stooncd
and-kissed her hand. Immediately roar
OF dfsapproval swept from wall to wall
SHOUTS from thousand threats beat mn TO
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30

The crowd, far from satisfied hut once
more submissive. surged out of the auditor
ium. Some criticized Mile. Haid. Others
sioed at the Count. But even these agreed
me Count was under n disadvantage
Vlennas biggest auditorium was even
worse than street car or a train. Phi
inc inc Count in taxicab now. and pcrhapsw
you'd be surprised"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30

she leaped pounding at the pane of glass.
Ihen' and not till then. declared Mrs. Mat
teson, did the lips of her husband leave
the lips Of the vivacious blonde.
She hauled Mr.. Matteson to the nearest
street car for home. She later entered suit
for divorce. But. before she left the taxi
CAP. she got receipt from her driver for
the amount Of her bill. She paid him 80
cens-her husband and Miss Jonas. sho
charged, had established a worlds record
for continuous oscillation,
me Matteson-Jonas kiss. reckoned at 10
cents per quarter mile. cost Mr.. Mattoson
only ~ cents-and wife. Miss Jonas
bestowed It gratis-unless YOU count SIM
per AID spin. What contrast was tho
split.second smack Of Mile Lame Haid,
Mile. Had Is Austria's queen OF the
movies. She's the Mary Pickford of her
public beautiful. blonde, and rather re-
served In her private life. It was only
with great difficulty that she was persuad.
ca 10 contribute her services TO charity
iete. said services to consist OF Mile. Uaid
granting kiss TO the highest bidder in an
auction
The bids began. Swiftly they mounted
-lo0oO kronen. $4,000 kronen. 100. 600
kronen. 100000 kroncn 100000 kronon,
huoIerS or the fair Lame dwindled from
h"mdfcds to dozen. Every man in the
hall would have liked to kiss her, but few
could stand tie pace. Finally the bidding
narrowed down to heated contest be.
tween two men,
One million. sixty thousand kronen."
cried one
One million, seventy thousand kronen"
retOrted his rival
The crowd gasped BY pre.war exchange
that was s214.O0O! The auctioneer an'
nohnced the bid. lie cried for more
silence answered him. Going, going
nang Mile. Haid's kiss had been knocked
down to the young man in box five. i'm.
mediately recognized as n Count who wos
close friend Of Prince Joachim.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30
Miss Alice Jonas, of Chicago,
Who in a Bill Of Divorce Is
Declared to Have Given-and
Received-the Champion
Lopg-Distance Kiss.
THE longest kiss and the short.
est kiss on record,

cSt Mss On record. Il
That's the new notation two -
pretty girls, both blondes have given
the statisticians 10 post alongside Babe
Ruths list of home runs and the size OF
the 1922 cotton crop when they make the
next almanacs
Chicago-and taXicab-have lust pro
duced the champion long.distancc kiss. Ii
measured exactly one mile in length and
seven minutes in time. The figures ought
to be authoritative. for the time keeper was
the kissers wife. and-somebody else was
the kissee
Fienna-and kiss aucton''-are re.
sponsible for The shortest smack ever
snacKed. Strangely enough. il cost 500, 900
times more than the longest kiss 1t lasted
barely the fraction Of a second and for II
me kisSer pad the amazing sum of 1919
COZ kronen, more than $4,000 at current
rates OF exchange, $4,000 by pre-war
values. If the longest kisser had kissed
al the same rate as the shortest kisser.
DeloTe the war he would have run IN n
Kiss bill of SS9,SS0 O00
fui ieaVe cold reckoning 10 the almanac.
makers Consider instead lust how Miss
Alice Jonas of Chicago il said to have
pursed her lips into the onemiic quicker
ana how Mile. Lame Ilaid Viennese
blonde went TO The other extreme and
achieved a KISS which narrowly missed Tho
Kissing category altogether
Miss Jonas il is alleged. had a supper
da'e win Gerald Mattcson. rich commits.
sion merchant. Afterward he suggested =
spi" in taxi Neither the supper nor tho
sspin-nor the kiss. for that matter--mght
nave become charges OF public record had
nct Mrs. Isabelle Mattcson. his wife. beer,
IN ignorance of Gerald's plans
That is, She was ignorant M 10 the min,
when, standing on a corner waiting for hnr
street car she glanced into the window of
passing taxicab Then ignorance changed
10 aihazemeni. One passenger in the taxi
was Il vivaclous blonde. Tho o,hcr ,.a"
her husband! Mrs. Mattesons accom-, no
"hat happened then. she related In her
divorce suit about as follows:
she didn't have stopwatch, but She
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-30

'''c car ahead. 1t had dartcd on
o''o'e 'he occupants saw Mrs. Matteson.
MIS-. Matteson glanced at the cab meier
II registered The customary initial % ccn,s
one glanced ahead. The other cab was NOT
80, .'eeh lect away. She could see through
us rear window easily And what sho
saw was her husband and tho viyoci,,ns
piohde Kissing. Or rather as Mrs Marie
son expressed it, beginning TO kiss"
Mis; MatteSons cab Crawlcd close ia tho
cav ahead. u dropped back II crawlad
up again. Click! went the meier an
cents! Mrs. Mattcson peered over ,hn
shoulder of her driver. The position Of hcr
ap"hu ana the vivacious blonde hadn't
crSed quarter of a mile.
MIS-. Matteson was OUTRAGED Clio u.,.
hstonished. She has never. she declared
suspected her husband Of philanderinp ar
me desire 10 philander. She was getting
ne" light on him now with n vengeance
ne words Of certain popular song iinrIod
through her head:
In street car or IN n train
You'd think he'd been born
Without any brain.
'ut IN taXicab-you'd be surprised,"
Mrs Matteson was precisely tha,-er-
~ ioeu' ror now the meter of her taxicab
~, ~. ~ cents, ana She was quite sure
ma! me KISS being kissed in the fuei,ive
TAN was the identical kiss-and moi q now
which she had seen being kieeo1
'"ice'quarterS of q mile back
ENeh championship kisses. howovor
come TO an end some time traffic nolico'
man inadvertently semaphorcd this one IN
q STOP Ont sprang Mrs Mattcson as inc
, mo caps slowed up for the traffic tn naes
0'' 'he ruhninr'board Of Tho other taxi
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

TRUCE has been agreed upon by the
Il quarreling Irish-Free State sup
porters on one side and republicans on
the other. Ard Fheis, the convention
of the Sim Fein, on Wednesday ad-
jOurned for three months, at the end
of which period the people of the is
land will be called on to vote on Il
constitution, and also on acceptance of
the treaty with England. No election
is to be held until after that referen-
DUN. Michael Collins announced he
would resign the Craftsmanship of the
provisional government if in the three
months the opposition gained control
of the Dali Eireann. His majority
now is exceedingly slender. One thou
sand members of the Sim Fein met
with De Valera and formally organ
lied the republican party, and plans
were laid for a campaign in every
county against the Free State and the
proposed constitution.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

president HARDING informed
L the senate that he could not COM
ply with its request for the records,
minutes, conversations, etc, relating
70 the four-power treaty, because most
Of the conversations and discussions
we're quite outside the conference and
we're without record. He added: Il
10 not believe it to be compatible with
public interests or consistent with the
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
DREMIERS LLOYD GEORGE AND
Il n 1,o4 rrIro4oIr In

DREMIERS LLOYD GEORGE AND
L POlNCARE met privately in
France Sunday for the purpose Of ar
ranging the agenda for the Genoa on
ference on the economic and financial
regeneration of Europe. There are re-
ports that the conference may be post
pOned for several weeks. OF course
the European nations are exceedingly
DESTROYS that the United States shall
take part In the meeting, but this
grows more unlikely as time passes.
Secretary Hoover, in a Washington's
birthday address in Chicago, gave
what might be considered an unofficial
expression of the administrations
views on this matter. Without becom-
ing too specific, he made it plain that
the United States could not be ex-
pected to lend assistance to the nations
of Europe until they had worked out
some of their present pressing prob
lens, including unbalanced budgets,
overtaxed peoples, large armies and
an unbearable debt, both domestic and
external-all bearing their fruit of in
f1ation and instability"
Mr.. Hoover added: 1--WE find our
selves much torn between an earnest
desire to be of service and a rightful
desire to keep ourselves free from
matters to which we are not a party
and which we cannot remedy partici-
patton in which, nevertheless, would
undermine u strength, our influence
and our ability to render real service
in the future"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

tee, in one of its economical spasms,
reduced the estimates of the Depart
S~3,OS0,S91, and those of the Depart
ment of Labor by $1,227,7 12.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

THE resignation of Judge Kenesaw
L NJ. Lands from the federal bench
of the northern Illinois district is
cause for sincere regret, except per
haps IN the part of baseball fans.
Though often spectacular in methods
and speech, Judge Lands was always
fearless, just and ~impeccably honest,
and he had an uncanny ability to get
at the truth and a commendable
tendency to ignore unimportant tech
nicalities. If these latter qualities
were shared by the lesser judiciary of
the region where Judge Lands has
been exercising his activities there
would be less cause to complain of the
prevalence of crime there and of mis-
carriages Of justice.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

VXTHAT may develop into a new
w political party was born in Chi
cage last week when several hundred
farmers, Socialists, union labor leaders
and others started a movement for the
election to congress of men and women
of the working class. At present the
participants in this movement are
pledged to nonpartisan political ac-
ton. Radicals of many types and de-
grees, We're present 1t the conference,
but l. w. WIS were not admitted.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
NOTICE TO ABSENT Defendants
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY
To Joseph H. Capper, Lydia NJ. Cappsr
and %LOSenhina Moore lnee MaureIl'

To Joseph HI. Capper, Lydia N. Oapp'-
n Josephine Moore (nee MaurerI'
BY virtue of an order of the Court "
Chancery of New Jersey, made on tne I M
of the date hereof, in a cause wherein anS
City of Wildwood in the County OF GSgs
May is complainant, and you and oLle,s
are defendants, you are required TO appe@ai
plead, answer or demur to the pnn n.
aid complainant, on or before Aprn az
1922, or the said bill will be taken as
confessed against you. ror.
The said bill is filed to foreclose a CSn.
tifcate of Tax Sale to the said complsiIin
ant, dated February IL, 1919, on lanus II
the City of Wildwood and you, JosIrs
H. Capper are made defendant pscaGMv
you own said lands and you Lyola u nj
Capper are made defendant because yooSf
are entitled to an inchoate rigns
dover in said lands, and you Josepdaant
Moore (nee Maurer) are made deIehu ssiid
because you hold a mortgage on s@N
lands.
JOHN BRIGHT, SOLICITOR
Wildwood, n; ga
Dated February I. 1922 2-17-4tpfSlO't
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

d REPRESENTATIVES. of 16 railway
IN unions and of the United Mine
Workers of America met in Chicago
and entered into a defensive alliance,
but there will be no sympathetic rail
strike on April 1. when the coal miners
are expected to quit work. The agree
ment, moreover, does not become OPP
erative until it has been ratified by all
the organizations. If any of the labor
unions embraced in the agreement lis
made the victim of unwarranted at
tacks, or its integrity is jeopardized,"
ways and mea will be considered,
any action to be approved by each of
the II organizations. An executive
committee, composer of the chief ex-
ecutives of all the unions, will make
the necessary recommendations.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03

Published Weekly at Wildwood
JED DUBOIS, Editor and Proprietor
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
NOTICE TO ABSENT Defendants
IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY
To Richard o.. Bidwell and ElVlra =
RidWalI

Bidwell.
By virtue of an order of the Court asy
Chancery of New Jersey, made on tne r Il
The City Of wildwood VfheHV, in the County Of Of
Cape May is complainant, and you 70
others are defendants, you are requIHLee lin
appear, plead, answer or demur to tnS II.
OF said complainant, on or before apr as
1922, or the said bill will be taken
confessed against you. car.
The said bill is filed to foreclose q
tif1cate of Tax Sale given by Ko9et eoms
Kay, Collector of Taxes to the salu ,oonSs
in the City of Wildwood and you tA he
ard 0. Bidwell. are made defendanT1 1,ira
cause you own said lands, and you; E
u. Bldwell, are made defendant psS.99 az
dover in said lands.
JOHN BRIGHT, Solcityr'
Dated February 1e, 1922. 2-24-llpiss
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
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