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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
PRISON HELPS
THE FARMER

Whether the officials of the inter
national Harvester Company are
more interested in marriages than lii
machinery may not be decided, but
figures given out by the census bu-
reau would indicate that the trust
had better pay closer attention to bu-
siness if it hopes to keep up the ex-
ploitation Of men who till the soil.
The census department shows that
in 1921 there has been a decrease in
the total value of farm machinery
sold as compared with the year be-
fore. The largest percentages of de-
crease appear in the horse drawn We
hicles and n tractors and traction en-
gines.
This is a tremendous falling off,
but while it has been in progress
price reductions on farm machinery
manufactured at the Minnesota State
prison, granted in response to a re-
quest by the Minnesota Farm Bureau
a
state $150,000 in a year
| A report from this prison shows
that 1,708 farm machines have been
| sold in the past twelve months, in
Guiding particularly binders, mowers
| and rakes. This represents an in
crease of 1890 in the use of binders,
1870 in the sale of mowers and 1870
| increase in the consumption of rakes.
The manufacture of farm machin-
| cry in the State prison comes as a
result of farm bureau activity and
should prove an inspiration to other
| states, for seemingly way has been
found to at least get the thin end of
the wedge into the iron ring the Har-
vester trust has had around the neck
of the farmer for years.
1t has been contended that putting
on the markets the products of prison
| labor would unhorse business, but if
| the Harvester trust be endorsed, no.
body will grieve very much.
| hilS ioIHtCAo pay IilelI oHdIe 1OI tiiS
| support of the restricted criminals
SO it is not bad idea for them to get
something out of the labor of THEN
| wards.
Farmers Institutes are starting ir
this county with one at Rchfield this
week. Programs are being sent out
/ by County Agent R. A. Peterson and
a fine list of speakers has been Sc
cured for the Institutes this season
IN connection with the Farmers In.
stitute, a Women's Institute is being
! held under the direction of Mrs. c. E
Hatch of Milwaukee.
|
Buy it in Wisconsin Rapids.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

EVER since the advent of the steam engine we
~ have been speeding up, and while that speed
has come with inestmabe benefit, 1t has not come
without its measure OF attendant harm When the
legislature of New \ ork first asked to grant a
franchise for eighteen miles of steam railroad the
right build this first railroad granted
without bitter opposition which Contended that it
would be unsafe because the engine would scare so
many horses that unwarranted toll of death would
result.
! The railroad came and those who opposed it were
right in their death toll predictions. The engines
did scare the horses. There were runaways and
what is worse, there wrecks the rails and
everncreasng list OF accidents have been recorded
the iron ribbed mileage multiplied.
! But for all this would the railroads
| from maps would go back the days
when even king would cry MY kingdom for a
horse"
The thrashng machine has many thrasher
arm. But would not go back to the days when
fayed grain on the floor.
Mill machinery and foundry furnaces take their
human toll. But cannot do without them.
We fly sky-high and all too often read of a
fallen flyer 1t IS the price pay to learn how
with safety to the swifter way
The auto brings its price in limb and life. We pay
it and speed away.
We have been impatienty seeking speed. With
the same Impatience must seek safety. The cost
OF speed has reached such alarming proportions that
the Safety First slogan born
Observe, we did not cry Gut 1t out nor did we
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
OLD MAN CROUCH

Cheer up, Old Crouch. You have
lived long enough to know that that
crouch of yours doesn't pay. You
are not only making yourself nliser-
able, but you are tainting the atmo-
sphere around you and making others
worry and suffer. YOU are casting
gloom and clouds in Sunnyland, and
haven't the right to do it.
You say that people si1un you and
give you the cold shoulder. It ism
their fault. People dodge trouble,
you are the cause Blame yourself.
not them
See that brave smile on the faces
of the aged and infrm who are wait
right on the brink of eternity for the
curtain to drop, heroically facing their
troubles-real troubles, Old Crouch
and there you stand in health with a
sour face. The difference between you
and them is that you count clouds
and sorrows while they count stars
and blessings and sunshine.
What have you to worry about,
anyway? You are alive, aren't you :?
And you get three square meals day
and you have an even chance at joy,
if you will only grasp it.
You say the world is against you
and nobody cares for you. Guess
that's right, Old Crouch, and the
world and the people in it never will
care for you until you change. You
can't change the world but you can
change yourself, and when you do
change you will see that the world
was right and you were wrong.
The present condition of things is
all for the best The world doesn =
owe you living but it will pay you
a living if you will work for it. Thank
your stars you are alive. You have
the dead ones skinned a mile.
You have skinned through the past
with a sour face and you were sihun-
ned by lovers of sunshine. IF you
pulled through with these handicaps
you can glide through the future in
fine shape if you have the gizzard to
change your method of thinking. You
have got to get envy out of your sys-
| TEN, Old Crouch. You may not be bic
enough to admit it, but the fact is
you envy the other fellow and il
makes you crouch because he seems
to have more fun, more blessings
more money and more friends thar
you have.
Wake up, Old Crouch! Get busy
think cheerful thoughts; help those
who are in shadowland waiting fol
| the outstretched hand. Be kind, spear
| softly, act gently, show sympathy
don't loaf, keep moving, and scor
you will find in the day time you are
too busy to crouch and at night too
sleepy to worry.-Exchange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

to the people the Safety First idea.
But it is worth whatever effort is ne
eessary. The promoter appeals to raw
eupidity, to that propensity to specu-
late, to take a chance, TO gamble on
the future which is instructive in all
Of US. He is no mean hypnotist and
endeavors to put caution to sleep and
by suppress sion of all conflicting i'm
pulses and ideas intensity the passion
for quick gain. His propaganda is
alluring, but there is entieement also
in other instincts, in self-preserva-
ton, IN security. in retaining what one
has. These are also primary human
instincts and are capable of being
played on effectively, if one can gel
the knack of it.
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UTE to its amazement Wall Street woke up
Y one morning recently to find Henry Ford the
richest man IN the world. What amazed them most
was that he had grown rich in spite of them
1n1e was when Wall Street refused to help Ford
when It looked upon him questionable risk and
wanted eleven per cent Now Ford is propping up
the plutoerats Of wobbly Wall Street with loan
OF nearly S200O00000. With finer spirit he is letting
them have 1t at four per cent
MIR. Ford made his. mammoth fortune in clean
and splendid way 1t is crime to be rich 1t is
not ethcaly wrong to acquire the greatest fortune
II you have gained that fortune by helping men Inv
stead of hurting them
John d. Rockefeller acquired a great fortune
Much OF MS fortune made by the most despic-
able practices He brazenly defed the laws of the
land He was aot man-heper. To gain his own
ends he would cruelty crush. His ambition was to
corner a commodity. He bought up hundreds Of pat
ents and suppressed them because they econofnized
Tor the consumer oil consumption
Ford created something. He made an instrument
that tina consumes more Rockefeller gasoline than all
the oil-consuming devices known before By his
inventive mathematical and mechanical genius Mr.
FORD caused enormous increase in the Rockefeller
wealth Compared to him John D. was a one-cyl- |
nder affair.
Rockefeller IS not loved name. He is not re-
vered. He IS a very old man His face is criss-
crossed with lines. Years ago troubled conscience
overlook him and he out to square himself IF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
School TO SAVE
HUMAN LIFE

Flat dwellers in city of New York
are now to be blessed in the erection
Of a bacetriology building in which
the public will be shown how to pre-
ent disease
A museum with models will demon
strate how to eradicate rats and flies.
how to ditch to do away with malar-
ial mosquitoes, and how to indulge in
home pasteurization of milk. Also
the sanitary handling of food and the
proper kind of plumbing that should
be installed in the interests of public
safety will be shown
Truly, New York is wonder city
Medically, there is nothing like it in
the world. Your millionairs pays SO
600 for an operation from skilled
hands that perform the same opera
ton on the needy free of charge. For
the poor the city is a surgical and
medical paradise
Forward looking men of course have
come to see that prevention is becom-
ing more and more neces sary in the
practice of medicine. In the old days
doctors were taught how to cure dis.
ease. Now they are being taught how
to prevent it.
1t is high time the national anC
state governments recognized the ne
cessity of following New York's lead
The elections are over Our new
government officials soon will be in
harness. What relief it would be
if they would spend some of the puo-
lie money for the preservation of the
public health.
New York has the advantage of q
great concentration of medical skill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

THEY tell about lake goin into
1 the barn to light his lantern so
he could go courtin' The farmer
next door kidded him: Il never used
"a lantern when | went courtin'," said
the farmer, and Jake said: 'No. of
course not; an look what you got"
There's lots OF Jakes out these days
with their lanterns, when they ought
to be out with their X-rays. What's
the use of looking at when you can
look in. Lantern marriages mean
pretty faces and heads with no
adornment but the hair The. only
advantage of courtin' with lantern
is that YOU can blow it out, an
then-ah, happiness doesn't come
from object 10 eye. but faith an
lasting love come from soul to soul,
an you don't reed any lantern to
see that.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT AND
To DETERMINE INHERITANCE
TAX-PRESCRIBED BY TAX

TAA-PRESCRIBED BY TAX
COMMISSION.
County Court-Wood County, Wis
eonsin-In Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of r. C.
c. Vehrs, deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
at a regular term of the county court
to be held in and for said county at
the court house in the city of Wiscon-
sin Rapids in said county ON the 3rd
Tuesday (being the 10Th day. of De-
cember, A. D. 1922, at the opening of
court on that day the following matter
will be heard and considered:
The application of Regina Vehrs,
executor of the will of R. C. c. Vehrs.
deceased, late of the Town of Port Ed
wards in said county, for the exam
nation and allowance of her final ac-
count is now on file in said court, and
for the allowance of debts or claims
paid in good faith without filing or
allowance as required by law. and for
the assignment of the residue Of the
estate of said deceased to such per-
sons as are by law entitled thereto;
and for the determination and adjudi-
cation of the inheritance tax, if any,
payable in said estate.
Dated November 21st, A. D. 1922.
By the Court;
w. J. CONWAY, County Judge.
A. j. Crowns, Attorney for Estate.
Nov. %. Dec. p.
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in
INVESTMENTS
MUCH NEEDED
Savings Lost to Stock Sharks Total
Vast Yearly Sums
LEARN FIRST, SPEND AFTER, Is
ADVICE TO NEW IN
VISITORS
By ARTUR CAPPER

Editors Senator Arthur Cap
per of Kansas was for many years
head of string of papers, both daily
and weekly, the latter farm papers
with immense circulons. Thousands
of his subscribers fell victims to men
with stock schemes and blue-sky sales
and thousands of them wrote to the
editor and publisher asking for adj
vice. In the following, he gives that
advice to all who care to read and
as Senator Capper's entire life is IN
dication of careful advancement, SUI
perior business judgment and the con-
fidence of his fellow citizens, what he
has to say may be accepted without
hesitation as the advice of one who
knows.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

DR. BASIL G. GLIDER
II SLEEVE, 81 years old, great
est OF Greek Scholars, orse PROBES
sof OF Johns Hopkins University.
IN splendid health, telling the world
he does not like to be 81. 1t is an
ugly number. Ninety is diyisibfe
by 2, 8, 6, 9, and 10, whereas 81,
well, one must multiply the link
Is by the sacred number 7. and this
Jars him. Then the meilowed sage
says he grows no less od-fashioned
with the years. He loves the clas-
sizes. but he has learned there is
really such thing as gentleman
An optimist2 No, nor vet a pes
s,rnist. He has seen the COUNTRY
go to the dogs So often and come
back that he is not in despair. The
professor has learned much since
ne LETT college and absorbed the
teaching of old man Txpe-don't
grow excited
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

that does not exist ii the country, but
the principles of health conservation
apply alike IN all districts.
Why cannot the national and state
health departments educate the PEG
pie to health conservation through
officially advertised instructions and
talks to the people signed by the pro
per authorities.
The newspaper is the vehicle e
spread this knowledge
We have said this before, but some
times it takes a surgical operation
to get an idea into the head Of the
government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
Many Are Ignorant

Students of this subject report that
it is not the unframed mechanic and
artisan alone who is ignorant of the
A B C of investment, but among the
victims of promotion are merchants,
professional men and even bankers.
Billions of dollars wisely invested
every year which heretofore have been
dissipated in speculation will evident
ly have a capital effect in mitigating
panics, business depression and I'M
employment. An increase, such as it
seems there is an opportunity to Sc
cure, in the annual increment OF saw
ed capital that will be permanently
saved by sound investment, will by
steadily charging the national capital
fund at a greater rate than hereto
fore, lower the cost and price of cap
ital, give to every kind of legitimate
enterprise a greater sense of secur-
ity and courage, tend to a steadier en-
ployment Of labor and to a lowered
price level and cost of living, conse-
quently, higher standard of living.
The country should not permit The
opportunity to slip by which the Lib
erty Loan experience opens to it of
adding yearly to the capital fund the
great savings of the people. A sys
tenatic, intelligent organized attempt
should be made to counteract the
propa ganda of promoters, not merely
in the negative way of legislation "a
gainst criminal practice, but by pos
tive propaganda setting forth the SUI
perior attractions of Safety First in
investment.
Beware Promoter
It is a. large undertaking to get
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
THURSDAY, DEC. 7, 1922
AIE:'

Let me be a little kinder,
Let me be little binder
To the faults of those about me;
Let ME praise a little more;
Let me be, when | am weary,
Just little bit more CHEEKY;
Let me serve a little better
Those whom / am striving for;
Let me be little drawer
When temptation bids me waver;
Let me strive a little harder
To be all that | should be;
Let me be a little meeker
With brother who is weaker;
Let me thing more of my neighbor
And little less of me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
Christian Science Church

Lesson Subject--"God, the Preserv-
er of Man.
Sunday Service-10:45 A. M.
Wednesday evening, Testimonial
meeting 7:45 o'clock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

Among all the impressive evidence
of American solidarity during the war
hardly any was more awakening than
the subscriptions to the Liberty loans.
The country had not suspected the po
tential capital fund of the American
people. It was amazed by the res
ponse of the people to the appeals
of the government for funds. And
this establishment grew as one great
loan drive followed another III swift
succession. There seemed to be no
bottom to the popular purse, as there
was no faltering in the popular pa
triotism.
More than q million subscribers
| offered nearly z million dollars for
the government bonds. This was the
elimination. The fifth loan was for
smaller amount which was over
subscribed, like it's predecessors.
Here, out of the income of two
years, a minimum of 21 million per
sons had subscribed for some % bill
lions of war loans.
Only Books Showed
Until this exhibit of the potential
| savings or capital fund of the people
| the only concrete indication of this
fEnd was the books of the savings
| banks, which prior to the war showed
upwards of II million depositors WITH
| balances of above billion dollars.
| And it may be remarked incidentally
here that three years after the war,
Notwithstanding the huge Liberty
Bond payments, savings deposits NOT
only have not declined, but have in
creased by a billion dollars, with an
increase net of 100000 depositors.
| The effect produced by this extraor-
binary demonstration of the savings
capacity of the people is seen in sew
| eral organizations, governmental and
private, since formed to promote saw
ing and thrift by publicity propa-
ganda. The Treasury Department
conducts such a publicity campaign
the Reserve Banks also and one or
two private organizations, all urging
| the people to save.
| Campaign is Needed
While the government and other
| agencies are very active in endeavor-
ing to induce people to save, it is evi-
dent that such campaign is direct
ed to the non-savers, and the only
| systematic campaign to help the saw
ers to preserve their savings by judi
cious investment is a constant cam
paign by the Treasury Department in
| behalf of Treasury notes, short time
| investments.
On the other hand. there is unin-
terrupted bombardment of savers oy
| swindling stock promoters and an ev-
en- more injurious crusade by well
meaning but ill-advised promoters of
new enterprises, wholly untried, usu-
ally undercapitaEzed, in such specu-
| lations as oil and mining and similar
| ventures.
At hearing before the Judiciary
Committee of the House in the pres
ent session of Congress the Federal
Reserve Board asked for additional
legislation to protect savers from
swindling stock jobbers, the board
! making the statement that in. the last
year these swindles had taken from
the American people more than half
billion of their saved capital. Prob
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

Father-"Do you think silk stock
ings are absolutely necessary"
Enthusiastically, up TO GER
tain point"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
ably injudieious speculations took
very much larger sum.

ably lnJudlcl0uS speculatlOnS took u
very much larger sum.
Private institutions engaged in le-
gitinate bond, mortgage and other
investments, it seems to me, should
aws>ks to the duty of educating the p
million savers of capital in the Unit
ed States in caring for their capital,
once saved. The people need cam
paign of primary education on what
capital is, and what investment is.
They unstintingly deny themselves
luxuries IN order to save, and billions
of this saved capital, of incalculable
value to the nation and all it's indus
tries, regularly are wasted in specu-
lation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
GRANDCHILD HAD
A CROUPY COUGH

"My grandchild could get no relief
whatever from a very bad cough, y
writes Peter Lands, Meyersdale, Pa.
until | gave him Foley's Honey and
Tar. " Coughs, colds, Group, throat,
chest and bronchial irritations quickly
relieved with Foley's Honey and Tar
Sold Everywhere.
Leprosy is comparatively a rare dis
ease; tuberculosis is a common cause
of death. We fear the leper, but are
rather Indifferent regarding the vic
tim of tuberculosis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07
COUGHS AND COLDS IN WINTER

Indoor sedentary life in winter has
direct bearing on the prevalence of
coughs and colds. Keep the bowels
active and overcome constipation with
Foley Cathartic Tablets. Colds,
coughs, Group, throat, chest and bron-
chial trouble quickly relieved with Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar. Sold Every
where.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-12-07

HE AND SHE TALK
used to make"
"And you don't make dough like
Dad used to make"
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Established Nov. %, 1857.

$500 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
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~ UNILE JOf1N So
1t Thanks-gvin' Day is good fer people
every way,-I wouldn't to doubt it. I'm certain
that blessed Lord forgives keeps His word
couldn't live without it! I've noticed that the thank
full who does the very best he to
Thanks ti .e - LIZ IN, nc slalelu-is ndpp1el d
giving cold, an thrves by bein' hateful I'd ruther
bless of bread with benedctions
sweey said than gloa DER ngrates splendor Id thank
the Hand that alters feeds an suits the blessn needs
an keeps conscience tender.
If must dine rabbit roast, bekase can't dig up
of gobbler stuffed with dressnl down my hare-hop
with smilen firm belief that after while we'll reap
richer blessin amt ashamed to kiss the rod that
chastens by the hand of God
yet spares my daily Twin II <<<1
and mebbe that is why Tn ITV' x<[[1ZN
i here, to celebrate another year zZzx--s.
] in praises and Ihanksgvin'!s
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It is a. large undertaking to get
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This New Treatment
Never F aiiS to End Piles

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