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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
BRISTOL AS TRAIL BLAZER.

The people of the township of Bristol are
rendering an. unusually important service to
Kenosha county in blazing the trail for better
educational provisions for the rural schools of
that town. The debate on school consolidation
and the erection of the right mind of schools
should be as important to the. people of Keno
sha county as was the Lincoln-Douglas debates
to the nation in the days when the nation was
hanging on the edges of civil warfare.
We have a belief in the intelligence and pro-
gressiveness of the plain people of Kenosha
county which prompts us to say that the only
reason Kenosha county has not had consolida-
ton of its rural schools and the development
CT better schools is due to the fact that the
plain average citizens of these towns have not
had this matter brought properly to their at
(ention.
In the struggle to cut expenses, reduce taxes
ard make the farms little more profitable
these men and women have for time over
looked the real duty which they owe to the
children. It has just been matter of poor
business and we believe that when the facts
are driven home to these people that they are
going to right the wrong which has been done
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
MISSING BANK CASHIER
SEEN AT ST. CHARLES
A. c. Meininger Who Fled from st.
Louis Said to Have Abandoned
Car In Illinois.
tBy Associated Press Leased wire,

tBy Associated Press Leased Wire.)
st. Louis, Mo. A. C. Meininger,
missing cashier of the Night and Day
bank here, which closed yesterday
when the state director of finance, ].
C. Hugest, took charge of the bank,
due to an apparent shortage of $780,
900, was seen in St. Charles between
ten o'clock Wednesday morning and
two o'clock Thursday afternoon, ac-
cording to John Grothe, chief deputy
sheriff of St. Charles county. AS au-
tomobile abandoned by Meininger at
that place is being held by him, Dep
uty Grothe announced.
Meininger's populations from the
banks funds probably covered a per-
iod of years, according to Mr.. Hughes,
who said the examiners found that no
large sums had been taken from the
bank at any one time.
The only statement given out by
Mr.. Hughes was that he believed the
$150,0O0 capital and the $4,000 sur
plus was believed wiped out. Hughes
branded as unauthorized" a report
circulated here that the bank was in
solvent to the extent of 100000.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
You Buy a Site;
City Builds a House
fBv limited Pressl

Buenos Aires.-Action has been TAX
en- by the municipal council of Buenos
Aires to build home for any person
who can acquire plot of ground on
which to place it. Various efforts
have been made to solve the housing
problem which is one of the most diff
ficult in the world, houses being so
scarce that about So per cent of the
families of workmen are forced to con-
fine their lives within the four walls
of single room in "eonventillo., or
! tenement.
The latest plan call for aid on the
part of the city, which expects to in
vest fifty million pesos in constructing
cheaply good homes for persons who
acquire building sites.
Another effort in the same direction
is being made by private organiza-
ton called the Argentine Catholic I'm
ion, which has laid the cornerstone on
the first building of a group which
eventually will number Ill apartment
houses, where families will be able to
secure comfortable quarters at low
price. This group has been designed
in accordance with the most modern
ideas and will include a maternity
home, first aid station where medi-
cines and treatment can be secured,
ample Fairgrounds for the children,
and location for a cooperative store
to supply the needs of the hundreds of
families living in the section.
The work already under way includes
sixty-four houses. The first group
will be ready for tenants within six
months, it is expected.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
Mahogany Dump"
Worth 100000
INV Associated Pressl

Detroit, Mich.-Dozens of mahogany,
walnut and teakwood bars, tables and
fixtures from saloons raided in the
Detroit district since the advent of
prohibition, display of highly pol
ished and costly wood valued at up
wards of 100000, may be chopped into
frewood and distributed among De-
troit's poor. Or these bars and tables,
over which thousands of elbows have
been crooked and that in years past
have been made to glisten by constant
application of towels in the hands of
white aproned attendants may be con-
verted into benches for august judges
or into pulpits behind which clergy
men will stand and voice the argu-
ments for saloonleSs world.
While state and city prohibition
forces are making up their minds
which course to pursue in disposal of
the valuable store of wood, rats and
mice are playing havoc with the bars
and tables, that have been dumped in
heap near one of the city's police
stations.
Under state law prohibition Off
Gals confscate the fixtures in any es-
tablishment found to be dispensing Ii
quors. Lacking a place to store these
articles the officials have piled them in
vacant place outdoors, thus creating
that the police call the city's "mahog-
any Dump"
Judge William M. Heston of Record
er's court has decreed the collection be
cut into fire wood and given to the
poor. Others propose the water soak
ed pile be salvaged and that the wood
be used to make pulpits and judges
benches.
For display purposes the wood is
worth fortune but for fire wood it is
no better than the more plebian vari-
cites. City officials say that to cut the
bars into stove wood would cost more
than it would be worth for that pur-
pose. Therefore the proposal of Judge
Heston will not be put into effect, for
a time, at least.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

to the children in the past and provide against
a REPETITION of it in the future
Bristol has always been one of the Kenosha
county towns of wide vision. It has led in the
better things which should go to make up
township life. It has kept it's skirts clean from
communicating influences for the boys and girls
and it is eminently fitted to be the trail blazer
for great revival of education along better
and more useful lines. In the very center Of
the county it is in a position to- be the model
for the rest of the county and it is certain that
if the ownship of Brisol blazes the trail by de-
claring for consolidation of her schools and
higher education for her children that other
townships in the county must follow suit The
leaven of education works rapidly and if Bris-
toll will just point the way there will be no
doubt that the entire school system will be re-
organized and that the rural schools, so long
neglected will be destined to a great leap for
ward.
The best thing that any township can give
to it's boys and girls is an education. It's the
best thing for the town. An intelligent body
of young people growing up to the right kind
of enlightened citizenship is the most valuable
asset that any town can have. It's moral
and financial asset. If you make town bet
ter morally, more suitable for home for the
right mind of men and women the value of
every foot of land in the town is enhanced. Ex-
penditures for educational advancement are in
vestments worth while They are worth while
in the rural community as well as in the busy
wards of city life.
Bristol has great opportunity to carry out
it's traditions and become the real leader in the
educational awakening of Kenosha county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
LIFE AND CHARACTER READING.
january Sth,

The governing sign of this birthdate
is Capricornus and the birth planet is
Saturn. The astral colors are brown,
silver-gray, black and garnet. The
birthstone is either a white onyx or a
moonstones -TheI people born on this
date have two great faults, selfishness
and self-distrust. These faults must
be overcome before they can make any
progress in life. They talk too much
about their troubles to others and are
apt to magnify their perplexities. The
spiritual nature is hard to reach, but
once aroused, is capable of the highest
development. These people are not
quick to anger, but when their rights
are. meddled with, they can be pas
sionate and cruel in their denunciation.
January Sth.
One of the great lessons of life that
persons born on this date must learn
is silence and deep meditation and they
must search for method of overcom-
ing the habit of unkind judgment
They must learn discrimination about
methods of work and not ruin their
fine powers by too strict adherence
to precedent and public opinion. Men
Of this birthdate are often the victims
of overwork because of their deter
mination to achieve brilliantly what
ever they undertake and because of
their lack of judgment in reference to
their powers of endurance. The most
congenial friend or companion for q
man of this date is one born under the
sign of Virgo or Libra, and when
choosing a wife it will be. wise to
choose one under these signs. The
governing planet is Saturn and the sign
is Capricorn. The birthstone is white
onyx.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
Mexican Radicals
Bring Own Ruin

Mexico City-A region devastated by
radicalism which, by drastic oppression
is accomplishing its own ruin is the
description of the state of Yucatan
given to The Associated Press recently
by an influential business man of that
state. He requested that his name be
withheld because he feared the Social
list authorities in control of the state
Reviewing the five years of Socialist
absolute control in Yucatan, he pict-
ured state living from hand to mouth,
it's finances wreck, its teachers I'M
paid for six months and radicalism so
dominant that none but member Of
the Socialist party even dares to con-
test in the elections.
Manuel Berzuanzafi a youth of rs
years for whom the state constitution
was amended to permit him to hold
office, has just completed term as
governor and on January 1 was sue
ceeded by Felipe GARLIC, a cred" and
for several years a member of the
federal congress.
Business men of the state" the in
formant stated, "see but one hope and
that is that the Socialists will carry
their program of exploitation and ex-
cessive taxation to such an extent that
the mass of the people eventually will
turn and Dust them, At present Yucca
tan, once one of the richest provinces
of the republic, is destitute"
The federal government, according
to the Informant, has adopted policy
of hands off.
There is no evidence, he said, that
the conversion of Yucatan to Socialism
is the work of outside radicals. Radi-
calism there has not yet reached the
stage of pure Communism although the
leaders admit they aim to make Yucca
tan a model Soviet state. Neither is
there any evidence that Yucatan has
been made headquarters for "red"
propaganda in Mexico, South and Cen
trail America.
"But they don't need any help" de-
cIared the informant. "The Mexican
radicals have taken the state body and
soul and for years have been tinker
ing with it. They have succeeded in
making Yucatan a poverty-stricken,
disturbed, despairing region, shorn of
its former riches and an eyescre of
| tn erepublic."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
Work of State Free
Libraries Increases

Madison, Wis.-The state free library
commission during the last six months
of the past year distributed total
of 1886 volumes of books to people of
the state, gain of 1853 volumes, or
nearly 25 per cent over the same six
months of 1920, C. D. Lester, secretary
of the commission, announced today.
Travelling Libraries reached out to
1881 communities of the state and to
6,153 individuals during the six months
period, which shows a wide distribu-
ton and an increase in reading, Mr..
Lester said.
The Wisconsin system of travelling
libraries is reported to be the most
thoroughly organized and the most
widely used of any in the country.
During the past two years there has
been steady increase in the number
of volumes of books distributed and
in the number Of communities and in
dividuals making use of them.
Largest sweet shop in the world was
recently opened in New York.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
Chinese Exports
Reach Big Figure
(By Associated Press

Shanghai.-Chinas exports to the
United States from Shanghai within
the quarter year that ended Septem-
Der 30 reached total of gold $12, 7O9, 1877
and for the first three quarters of the
year gold $49,9O7,7S2. The figures are
given in a report that has been issued
at the American Consulate in Shanghai.
A noteworthy item of the report
shows that in the three months period
ending in September gold bars worth
$2,499,374 were sent to American and
the value of gold bars exported in the
nine-months period runs to $16,e46, 05s
In addition to the gold shipments gold
coins to the value of $s41 1865 were ex-
ported the first three quarters of the
year.
Silk exports lead the list of ordinary
commercial shipments as raw silk to
the value of $,1e5,67s was exported in
the last quarter of the period and to
the value of $17.04s. 7Oa in the nine
months period.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
''Dere Hank -
War, Fighting and Scraps.

Dere Hank:
The World War and the ID points
sure started about Ia kinds of wars
didn t they Hank ?aa Today thee papers
say Ireland is goin' have a Civil war,
but | don't expect it will be very civil;
the Greeks are still hammering the
Turkeys; the bolsheviks R fighting the
Firms; thee Germans are still holding
camp in Upper Silesia; America is still
fighting John Barleycorn; the ex-serv-
ice men are fghtin' for adjusted COM
pensation; Kenosha is going 2 fight 4
city manager government; "who won
the war" is still being fought out every
day; cats & dogs are fighting as usual;
in fact everybody has bone pick with
thee other & nobody seems to be right.
Hank thee only trubble with thee world
is a lack of common sense & when
folks stop preachin' to others what 70
do & look theirselfs bit, then we will
have real peace. Peacefully
BIyCK
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
AN EXTRAORDINARY PROFESSOR,

Paris-Professor Brandy, who is re-
garded by France as the father of
wireless telegraphy because his coher-
er made the use of Herzian waves prac-
ticable, has declined an offer of 5000
francs made by the. Chamber of Depu-
ties. This sum was voted toward the
upkeep of Branly's laboratory and to
aid his researches as the professors
financial position was considered any
thing but easy.
Professor Brandy wrote: 81 cannot
put myself in the same rank as Pas
teur and Lamartine, who were, with
every justice, objects of the same high
favor. They are too great names for
me to be compared with them"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
label TELLSHOW
HFINDS KENOSHA
Only Question of Price to
Secure Liquor Here,
Says Prosecutor.
MILWAUKEE Is BETTER

Winfred C. label, district attorney
of Milwaukee county, who is here b.
appointment of the attorney general to
have charge of the Fisher prosecutions,
has formed an idea of what conditions
in Kenosha county are. He expressed
it rather wildly in Milwaukee on Sat
urday night in answering some state
ment which Prohibition Commissioner
State had made against the participa-
ton of Milwaukee county in the battle
against the booze ring. In speaking
of Kenosha county, Mr.. label said:
"Kenosha is small city. It is in
Mr.. Stones territory. I saw stagger-
ing revelations in the charges made
by the grand jury in its recent inves-
tigation in Kenosha. A man could buy
whiskey from drink to a carload. All
he needed was the price"
And as to Milwaukee.
mo such condition exists in Mil
waukee. If Mr.. Stone thinks he can
do that here, all we ask is that he
bring the evidence to our office"
"a high school boy could have gotten
the information on brazen violations
of the liquor laws at Kensha," declar-
ed Mr.. label. His attack on Mr. Stone
was prompted by the verbal assault of
Mr.. Stone is alleged to have made on
Mr.. label. He is quoted as saying he
hoped the Trepte murder would "awak-
en- the district attorney to his duty"
and that the district attorney, "has not
tried to stop this moonshine traffic"
"If he would do less talking and
pay more attention to his own duty,
he would not be making a failure of
his Office" said Mr.. label.
"This Office has been acting as both
state and federal prosecutor" he add
ed. "a large proportion of the search
warrants issued here have been taken
out at the request of Mr.. Stone after
his department had failed to act"
Offer Made by label.
Declaring that the state prohibition
officials are very much satisfied with
the cooperation obtained from the dis
trict attorneys Office, Mr.. label declar-
ed, "W. Stanley Smith, state prohibit
ton commissioner, in a public letter to
one of his deputies wished he could get
the same cooperation in the rest of
the state that he gets from the district
attorney of Milwaukee county"
Saying he would call Mr.. Stones
bluff, Mr.. label said that he would do
nate $500 to any charity named by Mr.
Stone, if Mr.. Stone could show proof
that he had ever been denied warrant
on making the proper application to
the district attorneys office.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
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Mexico Ordered to
Make Explanation
by Associated Press Leased Wire,

(By Associated Press Leased wire)
Washington - The State Depart
ment has instructed the American en-
bassy at Mexico City to request of the
Mexican government an explanation of
seizure by the municipality of Saltillo
OF property o., the foreign, mission
board of the southern Baptist conven-
ton concerning which protest had been
made to the department by Senator
Harris of Georgia. The seizure in
Guided the property operated by the
mission board as girls school,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
EXIT THE COOTIE

London.-A society has just been
founded for the scientific extermina-
ton of vermin. 1t was christened the
Institute of Applied Pestology. Alfred
E. Moore, its chairman, believes it
will accomplish work of international
Importance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Now that Ireland has decided what kind Of
government she is going to have the next big
problem is to find out who is going to be boss.
That will be the real war for Ireland. With
the large number of Mikes and Pats in Ireland
it was homogeneous to think that there would
be boss there by the name Of cannon"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

No we do not believe that John Bradley
should be released from prison. Bradley was
guilty of deliberate murder and men who
commit deliberate murder should pay the full
penalty which they owe to society.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Mexico City, Standard time in gem
eral use the world over will be Mex
ico's official time this year, according
to a recent decree of President Obre-
gon. Hours will be counted from 0 to
"a beginning at midnight.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

The finest possible way to take the wind out
of the sails of wildcat stock salesman is just
to offer to sell him couple of shares of his
own stock. You won't be bothered with him
again in life time.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

A few more road hogs in the county jail
would make the roads Of Kenosha county lot
safer in the winter weather. An icy road way
seems to be real call to some fellows to play
the hog regardless of the danger of their hog
ging as to the rest of the people who use the
road
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Of course if the county board members in
sst that they won't make any provisions to
take care of prisoners who may be sent to jail
there are other ways to solve the problem.
These prisoners are convicted in state cases
and the state has place up at Waupun which
can open it's doors and take lot of them.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Don't make up your mind as to how you are
going to vote on the Commission-Manage form
of government until you have convinced your
self that you know something about it. Don't
just be bunked into voting against real gov
eminent for real city.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

A street bus which can be turned over by
being hit by fivver is not to be regarded as
the best possible way to safely transport peo-
pie over the streets of the city of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Argen-
tines agricultural industries were de-
scribed as alarming" by commercial
attache Feely in a cabled summary
made public by the commerce depart
ment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Recent court actions in which Kenosha men
were concerned should convince even the most
skeptical Of the value of a good reputation.
It's the asset deluxe no matter what kind of
transaction you are going into.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Sure there are heart pangs connected with
the barring of the delnquencies of people but
possibly the value of such letting in of the
light, to the whole people is more than COM
mensurate with the sufferings of the few most
directly connected.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Kenosha has at least one comfort. The pro-
hibition commissioner passed through here on
his way to Milwaukee and regardless of that
fact he refers to Milwaukee as ''the wettest
place on earth.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

AS yet it has not been announced that For
mer Governor Philip is candidate for any
thing at the coming election. There is, of
course, plenty of time yet for the former gov
ernor to be stung by the bee
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12
Happenings
rs Years Ago
January 9, 1897.

The following, onames appear signed
to a call for interested musicians to
get together for the purpose of form
ing local musicians union at the
Commercial hotel: Otto Klein, B. w.
Morton, ]. W. Howard, Joseph G.
Rhode, Philip Waltz, Herman Luhn,
George Vollmer, Edward Klein.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Chicago.-The prohibition law is not
a failure and while enforcement of it
probably will never reach the 1907
point of efficiency, it is rapidly ap-
preaching the highest possible point,
National Prohibition Commissioner
Haynes declared in an address.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

The Kenosha Typographical Union
held an interesting meeting at which
many matters of Importance came up.
B. H. Larrabee was elected to fill the
unexpired term of President Dwight
House, who had resigned. Louis Hans
mann was elected sergeant-at-arms. A
vote of thanks was extended to Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Zweenic, for their
reception to the members and friends
of the union on the occasion of the
unions semi-annual birthday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Washington.-A move toward party
solidarity and an effort to find ways
and means of Increasing the efficiency
of the Republican party in congress
was the two-fold purpose of the White
House dinner Saturday night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-01-12

Metropolitan newspapers are giving
prominent space to the speech of Con-
gresham Henry Allen Cooper of the
First wisconsin district in the House
of Representatives, in which he at
tackled the operations of the Pacific
railroads. In reply to Representa-
tive johnson of California, he de
nounced the methods used by the
roads to force eastern and central
shippers to use the Pacific roads in
preference to water routes which were
much cheaper and offered serious com
petition.