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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
FRANKLIN'S C0LD-AlR BATH
Hemeiy Philosopher Was One Of the
Earliest American Advocates of
the Open Window.

The cold bath IN the morning Is a
social fetch that makes two clear
divisions Of mankind-the thoroughly
virtuOus who do not shrink from the
full rigors and the Laodiceans who
play with the hot water tap AS Ii Gus
tom 1t may be peculiarly English, but
one hears less Of a variation of it
that has respectable authority, says
the Manchester Guardian.
Benjamin Franklin. while represent
Ing the American colonies In London,
wrote in one of his informing letters
to French correspondent that the
shock of cold water hath always ap-
peared to me as too violent, and l have
found 1t much more agreeable 10 my
constitution TO battle in another ele-
ment-l mean cold air. With this
view l rise early almost every morning
and sit In my chamber, without any
clothes on whatever, half an hour or
an hour, according to the season, either
reading or writing The, practice is not
In the least painful, but, on the con
trary, agreeable, and If l return TO
bed afterward, before l dress myself,
as II sometimes happens, / make a
supplement to my nights rest of one
or two hours of the most pleasing sleep
that can be imagined"
Franklin was siXty-two at the time.
He had still TO live twenty-five of the
most active years Of his extraordinary
career, SO that in his case eold-alr
bnths seem TO have done no harm
Franklin was before his time in his
belief in fresh air, and he wrote some
savage things about the "aer0phohia
that at present distresses weak minds
and makes them choose to be stihed
and poisoned rather than leave open
the window of bedchamber or put
down the glass of coach"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
Barley Basis Of WEIGHT.

During the reign of Henry VIII
standards of length and weight were
established with actual grains Of
wheat and barley as a basis. Three
barley corns were an inch, and from
that was built up our table of inches,
feet, ellis tyards), perch and acre.
One restriction was that the barley
corn must be dry and taken from the
middle Of the car and laid end to end.
Under this same system 80 grains Of
wheat made a pennyweight, and from
that as a basis they worked out the
Troy pound in which Y ounces still
make pound. Originally the sizes
Of shoes were based upon grains of
barley. and it is said that these are
the same today as in the early days
There were Diagrams Of barley to each
size "Furlone" Is an old English word
meaning 'furrOw long" and Is based
upon the length a furrow would BE-
in square ten-acre field
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
FL0WER-PoT AS BRIDEGROOM
Chinese Girl Into Fuli-Fedaed
and Privileged Widow

China Is still land of strange Gus
toms. one of the most curious being
the ceremony of "a flower-pot mar
riage,
When the man whom a Chinese girl
is to marry dies shortly before the
date fixed for the wedding, the grief
stricken brlde-elect sometimes takes
vow never to marry. Should she
do So she goes through the ceremony
of wedding an ordinary fowerpot,
She is now considered widow, and
upon the parents of her intended hus-
band falls the responsibility Of main
tanning her. Usually she goes to live
with them.
In many cases, especially where the
family is poor, great sacrifices are nee
essary IN order that the daughter-in-
law las she is now regarded) may be
properly cared for. But the parents
have no option In the matter. And,
actually, they have no desire TO shirk
their responsibilities, for the faithful
ness of the widow" brings great
honor to the bridegrOom's family, 1t
being considered quite disgrace
should the bride-elect not wish to
go through the ceremony of marrying
the flOwer-pOt.
In the days before China was re-
public, the emperor, upon the facts
being brought to his notice, had @
handsome monument erected In COM
memoration Of the widows faith
fulness.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
GIRLS BEAT HIGH COST

Who says that women are at liberty
to make their hats tald dresses. but
man is the only human capable of
cobbling their shoes? And who says,
when cobblers' prices rival those OF
furriers and diamond necklace vendors,
that the ladies, reduced to the pro-
verbal tears, Will submit to wooden
clogs or barefo0ted discomfort? In
Florence, Italy, when the price OF
shoes jumped from 80 to 40 lire "A pair
to go and 300 lire a pair--Wth the
lire eQualng % cents in American
money-girlS instead Of going on a
shoe hunger strike had an idea. They
turned cobblers for themselves Where
upon the perfectly ladylike dressmak-
ing classes Of the Y. w, G, A. hotel en-
cOuntered determined rivals in the
shoemakjng and repairing class 8
which sprang up across the hall. Ac-
cordiug to Miss Emily Greenman Of
New York city, u w. G. A. eXecu-
tive who has just returned from b.
month sojourn in Italy, the one Y. w.
c. A. cobbling class soon spilled over
into four, due TO the demands of the
Florentine young women who eagerly
came to solve their high cost Of shoe
ing
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
"FiImino" the Hioh places.

Alpine climbing by cinema has at
last been achieved, with Mdlle JAS
mine, popular Partisan danseuse'
and Ernest Brod son of noted
French theatrical photographer, as
survivors of what Is considered the
most notable feat of mountain climb
ing ever recorded. according 10 an cx-
change. Of course. great peaks like
the Jungfrau and Mont Blanc can be
assembled by known routes, but the
range known as CharmOs, near Cha
monk, has always been considered too
dangerous for climbing, even by expert
AJpinists. Mdlle. Jasmine and Brod,
accompanied by three men carrying a
camera and supplies, succeeded in
crossing the whole range and COM
pieted four reels Of films showing the
most perilous chasms, ice slides and
roadless points. In some cases Brod
was lowered by ropes more than 200
feet over a precipice in order to film
Mdlle. Jasmine climbing wall where
q seconds hesitation or misjudgment
would have meant death on the rocLs
thousands of feet below.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
[ust Take Rightful
Place on Seas

sion than the Ka,sar's recognition
taat America was verify arranging
10 span the Atlantic with a bridge OF
ships
Csnn>t Depend On Foreigners
America emerged from the war
a .,edito- nation. whereas before it
had been a debtor nation. Prior to
1914 the maritime nations of the
world, to whom we owed vast sums
could surely be counted upon to send
their ships to our shores that We
II ght pay in our products the debts
we owed them. We must now com
pete with them if we are TO dispose
OF our surplus products in the avail
able markets of the world. 1t is not
to be supposed they will give us those
facilities which are essential to world
] commerce to enable US to compete
/ with them
OF the 1890 steel ships owned by
the Government S83 are tied up;
the other 447 the Government has
I been operating to make sure the
American flag shall reach every
needed port OF the world. This OPP
/ GRAFTON is being conducted at a cash
loss of S50,00G,000 a year and at the
expense of the deterioration of the
/ feet
President Harding and the present
Shipping Board aver, because of
reasons 70 be covered in subsequent
articles, that Government operation
/ of ships is impossible on the one
hand. and that for America to turn
back and depend on foreigners for
its sea carriage is unthinkahle on
! the other The only alternative is
to make it possible for private Ameri-
can initiative to maintain American
flag ships on the seas and to get the
Government itself out of the bust
ness of ship operation.
In my next article I will discuss
the composition of the Government
fleet and in subsequent articles the
problem of it's disposition.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
Fireworks IN History.

The business of making fireworks
and the business OF setting Off elabo-
rate displays are sometimes called
the art of pyrotec hny," the word 'py-
rotechny" being compounded of two
Greek words meaning fire art" There
is an extensive literature on the sub
ject
References may be found In the
writings Of Manilius and Vesplcus to
the fact that fireworks were set off in
connection with the circus In ancient
Rome, and Claudianus, who wrote In
the Fourth century, mentions "whirl-
ing wheels and fountains of fire in
connection with the celebration of Ger
tain festivals. Fireworks, and which
should not be cOnfounded with mere
bonfires, We're set off as spectacles and
ceremonies during the reign of Henry
VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth and other
English monarchs In those early
English days dragons spouting fire
were u popular form of fireworks. In
a book written on the subject in 164S
there is a reference to trees and
fountains Of fire sent high up into
the air"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
NOTICE or rRIMARY ELECrIoN

MOTTO OF PRIMARY ELEO IlON.
State of Wisconsin, County of Iron
SIS.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
at primary TO be held in the several
towns, wards, village and election
districts of Iron County and State
of Wisconsin on the first Tuesday Of
September. A. d.. 1922, being the
fifth day of said month, the following
officers are to be nominated:
A GOVERNOR IN place of John j.
Blaine, whose term of office will ex-
pire on the first Monday of January,
A. D.. 1928
A LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, in
place of George +. Commgs, whose
term of office will expire on the first
Monday of January, A. D., 1923.
A SECRETARY OF STATE, in
place Of Elmer S. Hall, whose term of
office will expire on the first Monday
of January. A. D., 1923,
A STATE TREASURER, in place
of Henry Johnson, whose term of Of
fee will expire on the first Monday of
January, A. D., 1928.
AN ATTORNEY GENERAL, in
j place Of William J. Morgan, whose
term Of office viii expire on the first
Monday of January, A d., 1923.
A UNITED STATES SENATOR,
in place of Robert NJ. LaFollette,
whose tenn of office will expire
March 4, 1923,
A REPRESENTATIVE IN CON
/ GRESS. for the Eleventh Congress
sional District, comprised Of the coun-
/ ties Of Douglas, Bayfield,, Ashland,
Iron, Villas Burnett, Polk, Washburn.
Sawyer Rusk, Price, Taylor Oneida
and Lincoln.
A MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY
for Iron and Villas counties.
A COUNTY CLERK, in place Of
Chas A. Noren, whose term of Of
| flee viii expire on the first Monday
Of January. A. D., 1923.
A COUNTY TREASURER, in
place Of Luella Tricr, whose term Of
office VIII expire on the first Mon
dad Of january, A. d., 1923.
A SHERIFF., in place of John
/ A. Norris, whose term Of office viii
expire on the first Monday of Jauu-
airy, A. D., 1923.
A CORONER. in the place Of jos.
CharbonneaI, whose term Of office will
expire on the first Monday Of January
A -, 1923
A CLERK or THE CIRCUIT
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
Protein E oods.

When we eat protein we consume In
reality 1S or 20 substances, known as
amino acids, each one OF which may
have quite special functions Ia nutri-
ton. Some proteins are deficient In
certain Of these acids which are lack
Ing In the proteins Of corn and grain.
and for that reason peanuts are al
excellent supplement TO a cereal diet,
whether in the form Of a meal or
press cake fed with corn and cereal
feeds 10 animals or as a supplement
TO wheat protein when used with
wheat four la bread making
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

He who would open new paths
through uncharted places must risk all
in the effort People afraid Of toll or
ridicue had better secure Ii safe berth
and crawl into it.. No one knows what
lies Just ahead until he pushes The
curtains aside and beholds. Fearful
souls shudder at the unknown and set
tie back upon the old standards If
they don't make the effort they won't
get anywhere. 1t takes souls Of the
Columbus mold to defy accepted ideas
and launch out into the realm Of UNI
proved convictions, says Grit. It's
easier far 70 dc in Rome as the Ko~
mans do than to brook their dis
pleasure by revealing their follies.
There's no chance of success so long
as one doubts the product of his own
thinking. You must be irreslStibIy
driven by conviction before you can
reyolutlonIze ace-acknowledged Gus
toms and traditions He who is afraid
to buck up will soon be compelled 20
back up.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

Ambition is more than wish; 1t Is
desire intensified into determined pur-
nose. All that is needed for the ac-
complishment Of our ambitions is a de
sire 50 strong that we will sacrifice
whatever may stand in the way Of our
success. The lax Of compensation
never fails. If we would gain one
thing we must give up another How
many people have you known who
complain OF failure through bad luck,
when your own knowledge OF them
tells you that their downfall came
through lack Of really trying? They
we're not willing TO forcgo pleasures
or extrayagances which interIered
with their success.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22
Cooking Chicken.

Old saying is, no one can eat quail
a day for 80 days H. j Jalmar, Bap-
list missionary In the Kongo, hasn't
tested the quail theory. But be ATE
chicken three dimes day for two
years.
Don't pity Jalmar for monotony Of
diet
Pity his wife, who had to plan the
meals 10 make them attopctiye she
evolved y ways Of preparing chicken
No man has task as dirlc2lt as
his wife has, In planning meals. Doubt
III Ask her.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

Eminent men do not hesitate 10 re
fer TO the present state Of civilization
as so complex as TO appear almost
battling. Civilization has at least made
the step forward from the complex
ties Of the battlefield to the deiibera-
- Of the council room
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

The strike is the workingman's sure
est way to lose the sympathy OF the
public. 1t is also the surest way to
lose the public's respect for the work
er's intelligence.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

II is proposed In Germany rnar ne
word servant" shall be struck out Of
all German law ana some other word
compatible with the new reign Of
equality substituted. They might use
the German equivalent OF the obso-
lescent American word help"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

Dread-noughts from which relief Is
especially craved are the six or more
ciphers to the left Of the decimal point
in naval appropriations.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

No doubt the nations viii feel very
virtuous while destroying their 0bso-
lete battleshIps.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

This is the first OF a series
.-.fe,es on the American Mer-
/ w..a-- BY The Chairman OF the
q 815.l
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

...c BOARD CHAIRMAN RE
Is RlsE AND DECLINE OF
Etg5cAN MERCHANT MARINE
\ Teils WHY NATION MUST
r. Issue or DISPOSITION or
-oYNENT OWNED FLEET.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-07-22

UrRX cprrTAI New scenic route \ Yellowstone Ma
uonal Park via Lander open.
Takes through the historic Indian country Jackson Hole
Region and Teton Mountains to the Southern Entrance.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

Congressman A. +. SABBATH has
made a fine public record. His votes
in Congress have always been on the
side of the people.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25
JULIUS LOESER RE-
| TURNS FROM EUROPE

Julius LOeSer, the popular president
of the big and prosperous hester Drug
Company has returned from a trip to
saw is very interesting when it is
taken into consideration that Mr..
Loeser is an anti-prohibitionist.
Being a good American citizen Mr..
Loeser took passage on an American
lsteamer-one of those run by the
United States Shipping Board. Scarce
lily had the boat crossed the three-mile
limit when the barroom doors were
thrown open and crowd of good
American citizens rushed in and pro-
Eceeded with Uncle Sam as the chief
bartender to violate the Eighteenth
Amendment to their hearts content.
1t does look like a travesty on the
laws of the land to prohibit the sale
of spurious liquors with one uplifted
( hand and with the other to ladle it
out to friends and customers.
/. But another grievance, said Mr..
Loeser is that while Uncle Sam feels
that his commercial interests deem
it necessary to sell spurious goods,
he buys his liquor supplies from
Europe, giving the foreign countries
the benefit of his money and trade in
beer, wines and liquors while there
are gallons and gallons of the same
in storage at home lying useless and
wasting while his money goes to the
European merchants. That is one
thing Mr. Loeser, being a patriotic
American, could not quite understand.
Taking it all in all it does look as
though the prohihitionists had made
a laughing stock of Uncle Sam"
among the right thinking people by
} this gross inconsistency.
Here we are in the drug business
with a large stock on hand and a
heavy overhead expense: but we are
| handicapped with the most Oppres-
| sive laws that could possibly be
| invented The more drastic regula-
| tons that are made in Washington,
| the more it will hurt the legitimate
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

dealers who have a government bond
to do business and gives bootleggers
a good opportunity to increase their
profits. Conditions are so drastic
these days that it is impossible for
wholesale druggist to continue to sell
liquor or to remain in business.
Take, for instance, whisky in bond.
The holder thereof is at the mercy of
the rapacious warehouseman who,
knowing that the whisky could not be
moved unless unbounded and the tax
paid, would advance the storage
charges, which originally were five
cents per barrel per month, to so
cents, one dollar. and in some cases
as high as S. per month per barrel,
which is positively confiscatory and
ultimately leads to the whisky pass
ing into the hands of the warehouse
man for storage charges.
The druggist is helpless, for the
regulations are that he can only with
draw whisky in bond to the extent of
ten per cent of his gross sales. He is
therefore compelled to allow most of
his whisky to remain in bond to be
unrelentingly confiscated by the I'M
principled warehouSeman
In the meantime suffering humanity
is placed at the tender mercy of the
INSCRIPTIONS bootlegger, who resorts
to all kinds of methods to prduce
his vile decoctions, redistilling de-
natured alcohol, perfumes and other
stuff and then doctOring it to resem-
BILE real whisky, bottling, labelling,
even to the forged bottle in bond
stamp, and selling the same to the
sick and afflicted at a most exorbi-
tant price, to the detriment of the
health of those who need the pure
stuff
If the Government would allow,
under strict regulations, regularly
licensed wholesale druggists under
bond to withdraw their pure, whole
some whisky as their business de-
mands may require, the Government
would receive much needed funds
in the way of taxes on spirits, the
people would obtain pure, unadulter-
ated whisky for their many ailments,
and the unprincipled bootlegger
would be driven out of business and
the grasping warehouseman would
not get the chance to confiscate the
goods of honest men.
I6.
William Ganschow, the well known
manufacturer, delegate to the Consti-
tutional Convention and popular mem
Der of the West Park Commission, is
not treasurer of the West Park Board
as incorrectly published. He is one
of the most active workers for the
best interests of the parks.
40
Charles Center Case, the we'll
known lawyer and former assistant
states attorney, announces the re-
moval of his law Office to Chicago
Trust Company building, 70 West
Monroe street.
/ Aid. Charles J. Agnew is making
good council record.
The one way system for handling
loop traffic worked like charm DUR
ing the street car strike Why not
keep it up?
Judge Frank Johnston, Jr., is gain
ing with the Democrats as a possible,
Mayoralty candidate
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

People who violate the law by
driving across boulevards without a
halt are responsible for many acct
dents and should be punished severly.
~6>
Judge Kickham Seaman, fair and
fearless, always makes good record
wherever he is placed
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

The drivers of mail motor trucks
imagine that they own the boulevards
because their contractor boss works
for Uncle Sam. AS a rule they pay
no attention to the rights of other
vehicles and cause many accidents.
Alderman Thomas r. Caspers, who
is making fine record in the City
Council is frequently mentioned for
City Treasurer.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

Joseph f. Haas, the popular Re-
corder of Deeds, may be the next
Mayor of Chicago. He is much talked
of for the Republican nomination
and has host of friends in the Demo
cratic party.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

William ]. Healy is making a good
record as Sanitary Trustee. He would
make a good mayor.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-11-25

Ambrose A. Worsley, the well known
lawyer, will probably have place on
the next Democratic ticket for judge
of the Superior Court.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-12
PASSION PLAY
VISITORSGIVEN
FAIR WARNING
Conspiracy of Bavarian Bust
ness Men to Take
Heavy Toll.
APPROACH TO ROBBERY
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

WASHINGTON. May 12-Intending
Passion Play, which will officially open
next Sunday, are warned from an an-
thoritatfye quarter to be on the lookout
as they pass through Munich. the capital
of Bavaria. Virtually ali oberammergan
pilgrims tarry in Munich on their way to
the sacred festival. Evidently. according
to the advices which have reached Wash
ington, both the business and professional
classes of the South German metropolis
are preparing to reap harvest from
their dollar-laden guests. Munich e1-
poets not only to entertain many tourists
bound for Oberammergan but also in
connection with the German Industrial
exhibition which opens this month and
lasts until October.
In consequence the city viii be heavily
overcrowded. Indications ar forthcom-
ing that prices Will be boosted 10 extra
ordinary levels Not only will foreign
guests, but local residents, suffer from
the resulting state Of affairs. Food costs
will mount. rents will be increased and
dearness generally, it Is anticipated, en-
sue. Observers in Munich send word they
fear an out break of widespread hostility
toward foreigners, IN consequence. such
as existed in the same region at the be-
ginning OF last winter.
BAvARIANS PLAN
TO MAKE HAY.
Although such a prospect threatens,
the Bavarians who thrive on tourist
make all the hay possible while the