The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1922-01-12

Ebert Hubbard, the First. Musher
is supposed to be the man who first
put the olive in olive OIL But that
isn't all that Musher has done. Two
or three years ago he carried page
, advertisements day after day in the
Washington newspapers concerning
the rates of exchange for money in
use between Spain and the United
States. At the time people won
dered whether Musher had gone
crazy and was wasting his money on
a myth whether that expensive ex-
plot had anything to do with Musher's
latest exploit does not appear, but if
there should turn out to be a connec-
ton, at least one United States
Senator might be called upon to ex-
plain his outspoken interest in the
reform" In the Fall of 1920 Mush
er engaged in shipping sacramento
wine" from Spain, and he brought
10000 gallons of it into the United
States. This wine had value of
about $4,500,00. 1t transpires that
Musher engaged Aaron Silverstone,
the son of Jewish rabbi in Wash
ington, to go to the Mediterranean
port of Malaga, Spain, where the
wine was held, and to remain long
enough to obtain quasi-residence, and
then to certify the wine as kosher
product. 1t turns out now that ST.
lverstone was not rabbi, but his
certificates sufficed. When the wine
was on the high seas Musher attempt
ed to negotiate with well-known
New York rabbi to meet the ship
ment and okeh it as kosher wine fit
for sacramental purposes. Failing
in this, he engaged numerous other
persons to handle the permits
necessary to get hold of the wine,
and among the names of those who
were supposedly rabbis appears the
names of Patrick Houilihan and
James Mcguire. Musher seems to
have disposed of most of his pro-
duct, despite the interference of
prohibition agents, who point to the
case as one in which there has
doubtless been good deal of boot
logging in sacramento wine.
THE PRESIDENTS NEW
YEARS RECEPTION
Democracy" had its day under a
Republican Administration when on
New Years President and Mrs.
Harding threw open the doors of the
White House to the public and shook
hands with thousands of their coun-
trymen, as they passed in line. This
time honored custom was abandoned
by former. President Wilson, who al
ways shrank from personal contact
with great crowds of people. The
White House functions are always
popular in Washington, but the
New Years reception is the only one
| in which everybody can join. A
bright newspaper reporter in describ-
| ing the reception at its close used
the following rather clever descrip-
ton: "The Presidential hand is
weary and languid tonight from the
cordial shakes of Cabinit officers, Su-
preme Court Justices, Congressmeen,
diplomats, Oldest Inhabitants of the
District of Columbia and just plain
citizens, not to speak of the extra
WEAKNESS derived from frequent
twistings into the position required
by the fraternal grips of the Mystic
Shrine, the Knights of Pythias, the
Loyal Order Of Moose, the Woodmen
of the World, and divers other or
ders charged with important and
benefcent secrets. If George Wash
ington had been a joiner, his arm
would have been too sore to throw
that silver dollar across the Patomac
It's a wonder President Harding has
the strength left to pitch horse
Shoe"
TREATY DEBATES WILL
BE INTERESTING
The program of Congress as it
has been sketched by the leaders pre-
sents little of unusual interest be-
sides the new treaties that have
grown out of the Conference for the
Limitation of Armament. Of course
there is a tariff bill in the stocks, ;"
and plenty of appropriation mea-
sures, as well as a group of issues
concerning the railroads, federal re-
serve banks, and the budget sys-
tenn" But the one absorbing ques-
ton that is likely to most interest
the country is the debate upon the
treaties. At the moment it looks
as though these treaties would be
ratified, but one who predictions