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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12
RITTER SHOULD BE PARoLED.

Because we believe in fair play and because
we believe that no man should be made the
"goats" for old conditions in Kenosha county.
we say that Alex Ritter should be paroled
from the state prison at Waupun. Ritter has
served one-half Of the term imposed upon him
by the court He has served it honestly with
out asking any consideration from the prison
officials He has paid the penalty of an offense
against the state-paid it in a much harder
manner than many men who were guilty of a
much greater crime.
Ritter is probably no better nor no worse
than the scores of men who contributed to a
hateful condition in Kenosha county. He is
not entitled to any less consideration than the
rest Of them. Many of the men who contribut-
ed to the delinquency of Ritter, and others con-
victed along with him, are now free. They
found an easy way to freedom by appealing to
the governor of the state-not for parole
but for pardon They walked out of prison
after short service. They came back home to
spend the gains they had won by violating and
defying the law. Ritter, on the other hand,
went to prison broken in health and spirits and
what even he might have had saved up from
years of work was expended before prison
doors closed behind him.
We would in no way seek to excuse this man
or any other man in the commission of crime,
but we believe in fair play and we do not be-
heve that he should pay in penal service while
the men who urged upon him the commission
OF crime and played on his weakness walk the
streets free men. Ritter fell when he was
tempted. These other men went about deliber-
ately to bring about his guilt and along with it
the guilt of others.
Ritter probably thought he was being a
"good fellow" and his hope of reward was
small. The other fellows played keenly for
high stakes and got them. N
Ritter debauched only himself. Those other
fellows sought to debauch any one they found
In their way SO long as the debauchery added
dollars to their bullying pockets
The state board of control has turned pun
ishment into vengeance in refusing parole to
one of the Kenosha county men and it should
not put itself on record again. These men
were part of the system of debauchery in
Kenosha, but they were only cogs in wheel,
and they should not be forced to pay in penal
service when others have long since been freed
Personal hate should not enter into the ques-
ton of being fair. Fairness demands the re-
lease OF Ritter and these other men just as
soon as they have served the time demanded
by the state for parole. OF course, these men
are gust as worthy of pardon as the score of
others who have been granted executive Glenn
ency8 They are not seeking favors-they are
demanding the rights which would be extended
to any other prisoner under the law.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12
Happenings
rs Years Ago
July 8, 1898.

Considerable heated discussion was
occasioned last evening at the meet
ing of the city council when the M. R,
and K. street railway franchise was
brought up for discussion. The city
aldermen insisted that some conces-
sions be made to the city to allow
the line to operate here. Vice-Presi-
dent Bishop of the company was at
the meeting and his attempts to come
to an agreement with the city fathers
got the project still further from
something definite. A new ordinance
will be drawn up by a committee con-
sisting of Mayor Petit, Attorney Fish
er, Aldermen Calkins, Gonnerman,
FRANKIE and Berens, and this will be
presented at a special meeting and en-
bodying all of the suggestions of the
aldermen and attorney.
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The Referee
PRICES.

Cost of living now is about three
ffths higher than it was when the
war started in 1914, according to the
National Industrial Conference Board.
This is, of course, an average figure
for the, whole country and varies with
loca4ity-higher in some places and
lower in others. Most of us will agree
that we live in one of the higher" To-
ealities.
However, the Observation-Disclosures es-
innate is logical, since it covers actual
cost of living necessities, including
necessary recreaton) for a wage earn
er with five in family. Our real in
crease in cost of living is largely in
our Increased demand for Injuries
what Jim Hill called "the cost of high
living"
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ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS.

The city manager and members of the COM
mon council have called in the people of the
city to discuss arterial highways and it is ex-
pected that lot Of the people who have strong
ly urged that this protective influence be
thrown about principal highways in the city
will attend this meeting on Tuesday night
Ther6Ts, of course, two sides of the arterial
highway question and before the city adopts
the plan every one iterested should have a
chance to state his or her case.
1t is not the intention of city officials to
make arterial highway nuisances in Kenosha.
The plan includes the marking and policing OF
the two great highways into the city-the
Sheridan Road and the Geneva Road. These
two roads carry great proportion of the
through automobile traffic of Kenosha, and we
believe that it is wisdom to adopt the plan
suggested for the safe guarding of them.
= The idea of an arterial highway is to speed
up traffic and not to hinder and delay it.
Regular protection of these two highways from
the people who are always "cutting in will 90
a long way towards making these roads safer
for the traffic which comes to them
Some cities have gone too far in the matter
of marking streets as "arterial highways. ;,
We have In mind places in Racine where a half
dozen stops are necessary in an automobile ira
Verslng quarter or mile We do not be-
heve that such system of arterial highways
would be valuable in Kenosha Undoubtedly
this marking of the streets would have ten
dency to slow down traffic, but it is not certain
that any real good is gained from it.
1t has been our opinion that most people are
favorable to the arteriaI highway plan How
4 ever, there may be objections to it and obiec.
tons of serious nature, and it is just for the
sake of bringing out these objections that the
city officials have called the meeting for Tues.
day night.
Arterial highways once installed in Kenosha
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By MILTON BRoNNER.

Slip this news to Judge Ebert H
| Gary:
/. 1t is not only possible but prac.
ticable for the steel industry to work
its men eight hours day instead Of
r.
+ 2. And while it may mean employ.
ing more men-which is all to the
good-it doesn't necessarily mean g
greatly enhanced cost in the steel
tproducts.
8. Where tried out, both the men
and the employers like it and find il
pays.
4. It is not only possible but prac.
tieable for the steel industry to allow
its men to join trades unions and to
deal with the steel employees through
their trades unions.
It would be well to slip this to Gary
because. only the other day in his dual
capacity~.a as head Of one~of the biggest
richest and most profitable corpora
tions in all the world-United States
Shetland as president of the Ameri
can Steel and Iron Institute, he read a
report of the steel bosses in which
they declared once more against the
eight-hour day.
President Harding had mildly asked
them to consider it. They did-for
mere than year. And they brought
in the same old arguments and the
same old unsupported statements in
spite of the experience in other in
dustries aud in spite Of the damaging
facts about the industry brought out
by the Interchurch report
I'd like it slipped to Gary also be-
cause as a reporterI have a very vivid
remembrance of a. very rich old man,
his face almost purple with passion,
banging the desk in front of him when
Senator Kenyon's Senate committee in
Washington was investigating the steel
strike, and saying with all the empha-
sis of his being that he would never
deal with unions as such.
1t happens that the greatest rival of
the American steel industry is the
British steel industry. 1t happens
that the British is not so enormously
rich as the American But it also
happens that the British is the oldest
in the world and the one that has or
iginated most of the patents and i'm
provements in the industry. Its ex-
perience is, therefore, worth something
as evidence. And these are the high
spots about the British steel industry:
No Labor Troubles.
1. For a period of about 25 years
there has not been single strike or
lockout in the British steel industry
in spite of the wave Of industrial I'M
rest that has swept the world in that
period, and in spite Of the many and
bitter fights that have taken place in
other British industries.
2. This happy state of affairs is
due largely to the fact that the manu-
facturers through their association,
and the men through their Iron and
Steel Trades Federation have got the
habit of dealing with each other. The
confederation is trades union. It's
more. It's one big union in an indus
try. 1t is q horizontal union just as
the United States Steel Corporation
is horizontal concern.
3. The British steel industry has
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had the eight-hour day in effect since
1918. None of the men want to go
back to the 12-hour day and few of the
employers do. In fact, only those en-
ployers who are behind the times and
have not improved plants even talk
about it.
Had it Many Years.
4. Some great plants notably Had
fields, Limited-voluntarily introduced
the eight-hour day over quarter of a
century ago and have waxed bigger
and bigger. not in spite of it, but be-
cause of it.
3. British steel masters and British
steel workmen-both financially inter-
ested in big production-fnd that I'M
der the eight-hour day there is in
crease instead of decrease in steel
making.
6. The change from the u to the
eight-hoEr day neeessitated EMPLOYING
more men, but it also was found that
in the more modern plants it didn't
greatly increase the cost of steel per
ton.
Z. One of the reasons for holding
down the cost of steel per ton was
that the companies voluntarily bore
the increased cost Of eight-hour shifts
as regards the poorly paid men, while
the employees in the better paid jobs
voluntarily stood a decrease in their
wages when they got, the eight-hour
day.
8. In most British steel plants work
Is knocked off at 1 o'clock on Saturday
afternoons and not resumed until Sun
day night. 3
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12
REMEMBER THE SPANISH PRISONER.

In the last few days many people in Keno
sha have received appeals from people in Ger
many asking for financial aid 1t may be that
some of these appeals are heart appeals from
people who are suffering the pangs of hunger
and the Inconvenience of age and disease. It
may be that a lot of these letters are the, work
of professional swinders who have sought to
make the conditions in Germany an artery by
which they may prey upon the rest Of the
world in a search for easy money. We have
one of these letters from widow at Bitburg'
before us now and another is near by which
comes from an aged woman in Duisberg.
There is striking similarity in the appeals
for aid. Both of them seem to recall some
where that they had relatives which were close
to US. Somehow we fail to recall either them
or the relatives.
The famous prisoner who languished in the
Spanish prison because good American rea-
tive failed to come to his aid and accept for
tune for coming, always found some tie of
kinship with his victim and it is not certain
that these widows Of Bitburg and the aged
woman at Duisberg and the superanuated
school teacher of Berlin do not belong to the
same great class of easy money hunters.
Kenosha people are not urged to refrain from
helping the needy in Germany. If German
people are suffering, humanity calls upon us to
aid them the same as any other people. The
purses of the people of Kenosha should not
be tied too tight to open to the aid of the suf-
fering even though it may be among people
who may once have been counted as our enem-
les in war.
But people of Kenosha should not pour their
hard-earned dollars into the bullying pockets Of
swindler's band, and before a nickel is sent
in response to any of these appeals for money,
the person sending it should know more about
the people seeking aid. It's easy to write let
tiers and it is easy to get addresses in Kenosha
and other parts of America. One firm in New
York will furnish Kenosha director for a two
dollar bill. Just remember that these letters
bearing this story of suffering bear as well
hree-hundred- rnark postage stamp, and even
in Germany three hundred marks would be
little way toward relieving distress.
Kenosha paid a right amount Of money to
the Spanish prisoner" before they learned
that there was never such call in Barcelona,
but there is no reason why other Kenosha peo-
pie should do the same thing in answer to the
call of the probably taking" widow of Bitburg.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Half the families in the United
States have an income of less than
$500 a year, comments M. ]. Stickel,
eastern Y M. C. A. official. For con-
trast, he refers to the National In
dustrial Conference Boards estimate,
of some months ago, that the amount
needed for a decent standard of liv-
ing for family Of five is $1698 a
year.
There is something wrong with the
figures, for it's tommyrot to claim that
half the families in the United States
are unable to maintain a decent stand
ard of living. We have the highest
average standard of living in the
world, and it's at least half higher
than it was 10 years ago.
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LOCATED
BY BERTON BRALEY

ONG, long / sought for Already,
IA That realm of happy necromancy,
Where hearts are gay, and minds are free
OF everything but joyous fancy;
All UP and down the world | trailed,
Out to the sky-line-and behind it,
Pursuing Already, but failed
To find it.
ASKED the way of sages wise.
With cynic scorn their features twisted
They could not tell me where 1t lies,
They doubted if the place existed;
Yet somehow l could not forget
My hopes about that land elys1an,
Though Already had never met
My vision. -
TsHEN-alls at once the skies grew fair,
4 Within my veins new warmth was glowing,
| found a fragrance on the air
And felt Arcadian breeEes blowing;
No longer do l need to trace
The land where milk and honey-dew are,
Ny Already is any place
That YOU are
y copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Governor Blaine is to be commended on his
veto of bill which would aid loan sharks in
the state The bankers of Wisconsin are not
heartless. If any man has reasonable cause
to secure credit he can get it without paying
usury for the use of the money. The state
owes it to its people to protect them against a
loan shark the same as it owes them protec-
ton against any other scourge
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12
BABIES.

King of England gets called down
Sy hospital nurse for rocking a
cradle. It seems that the medical pro
fession is swinging "agin" cradle
rocking, claiming that it makes the
baby i'll
It's an iconoclastic age we live in
and no idea or custom is safe from the
reforfners and researchers. It's q
phase of the pandemic of social neu-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. restlessness.
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CONTRAST.

To get money to buy an auto for Wis
iting more members Of his congrega-
ton, Rev. Charles F. Taylor of East
Orange, N. j., has been chopping down
trees and clearing large tract of
land.
You may recall reading, few days
ago, that the deceased owner Of the
Police Gazette, pink sporting paper,
left an estate of close to two million
dollars
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SMASH.

The guest of an auto driver or o
er cannot collect damages for iniu
received through careless operat
of the carLunless the guest prot,
against the reckless driving before
smash. If the guest keeps silent.
is guilty of contributory neglige.
So rules the courts of appeals in
York.
Do you, as an auto driver, rea
that you are apt to be liable for d
ages in most communities if you
somebody a Stiff" and he gets mir
while in your car? This isn't just
It's the law.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12
July 9th.

A CURE FOR WORRY-Be\ careful
for nothing, but in everything by pray
er and . duplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto
God. And the peace of God, which
passeth all understanding, shall keep
your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus.-Philippians 4:6-7.
Trust in the Lord with all thine
heart and lean not unto thine own un-
derstanding. Proverbs SO.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

The Federal officials do not seem to have any
trouble finding seventy-five cent errors in the
income tax returns of some individuals, but it
does seem mighty hard for them to locate these
fellows who make beer and evade the tax on it.
Possibly little work along this line would do
lot to make the surplus of the federal geV-
eminent lot bigger
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Kenosha has it's Community Chest and the
person who encourages collections for any char
ity is violating the spirit of this big movement
The person who gives to these wild cat" col
lections is guilty of short -sightedness. Chair
ties will be well taken care of without any one
being subjected to double payments.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Drying upsLalze Algonquin seems to be near
ly accomplished and the next thing is to find
out just how the city is going to collect the
money for carrying out the drying-up process
Some one is expected to pay for the work
Some one ought to pay for the sufferings of a
lot of people who worked about the lake.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

George A. Yule has issued call for
a Republican convention to be held at
the courthouse Saturday, August 6, at
.ten in the morning. Delegates to the
congressional convention at Elkhorn
on August 10 will also be chosen.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

1t is currently reported that booze is flowing
like water out in the Kenosha lake resort reg
ions. Possibly the sheriff and some Of his
deputies could take day and go out for a clean
up. Of course, these fellows are going to keep
right on if no effort is made to stop them
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

H. J. Van Ryn, the Milwaukee archi-
tect, was in the city Thursday night
arranging for new plans for the pro-
posed school building in 1.-The Third,
ward.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

1t is rumored that the Citizens
League, a political organization in the
city, will organize again to enter the
field of politics in time to take part
in the coming elections.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

People going on vacations to forg'
things shouldn't forget how poison iv
looks.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Shelby now wants to issue bonds to foot the
bilR for the prize fight It is probable that a
lot of fools will be selling their liberty bonds
to buy them The poorer the security the bet
ter the bonds usually SELL
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are liable to be permanent and for this reason.
people objecting to them are urged to present
their objections now rather than criticise the
action Of the council later on
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

The people on the south side are stif ex-
pecting the park managers to find bathing
beach for them. They have been patient and
patience should be rewarded.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Even if spare rib prices are down
never hug a girl too hard.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Many June husbands are forgetting
how to drive with one hand.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Fish along the Atlantic coast chase
every bog Of sea foam because it might
be beer suds.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Wishing you were an iceberg is
nice summer indoor sport.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

But why should there be home for worn
out chorus girls? There's always vaudeville.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Another good way to get thin to music is to,
keep on working while the dinner bell rings.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Il Great Falls sounds more like it was
named for the Dempsey Gibbons fight
than Shelby does.
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Russia is mad at the Swiss, but the
Swiss don't give a yodel.
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Just like the children, Mt, Edna
breaks out with the heat.
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# the groom is poor and bald and bow-leg-
ged, it is romance pure and undefiled
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! Couple in love so years have mar
.ried in Wabash, Ind, so no longer
have the Wabash Blues.
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AS light summer pastime we S
gest lying on the floor counting he
in lace curtains.
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i Christian nation is one that contains I'M
derpaid girl employees and rescue homes.
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Stay away from Paris. They are
wearing no-piece bathing suits.
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Latest style is many little bows
They catch many big beaux.
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Atlanta, Ca, picknickers Who didn
know cows ate food went back hon
for lunch.
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Peach growers report their efforts
this year are bearing fruit.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-12

Many are taking advantage of II
warm spell to watch those who lea,
their shades up.
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Another fivver airplane is invente
Almost as safe as kicking a box
dynamite.
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Upon boy being born to Mrs. o.
lawski in a Detroit taxi, she may ha'
exclaimed "Orlawskil"
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The world moves. Army has new
smokeless powder. Maybe it is made
from smokeless cigars.
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BIBLE THOUGHT FOR
TODAY

Bible thoughts and Bible answers mem
orized will prove a priceless heritags
in after years. Encourage children
to Nook them up and memorize them
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Never pay bootlegger in the dar
Counterfeit thousand dollar bills a.
in circulation.
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Nice thing about hot weather is 8
man can't blame It on his wife.
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/, They took eight stitches in the head
of a Dallas, Tex, diver who thcught
the water was deep.