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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
a SaItara WithOut az Oasis.

"TETL need every drop Of water in sight the organ
w lied churches and Governor Pnchot have anything
to DO about it.
Sahara without single oasis is their conception Of
the United States under properly enforced prohibition
The eighteenth amendment, they declare, is held in con-
tempt mainly because Washington secretly encourages it,
defiance.
Prominent ministers call for showdown from Coolidge
and suggest that he direct charge OF bootleg
preston comparing the emergency with the whskey
bellion'' in George Washington's administration
Pinchots manifest attempt to from Harrisburg to
the White House bone dry plank leads observers to
believe that President may pass the buck and
SAY in effect he practically did in the anthracite
CRISIS ttcut bait fish. Since you don't agree with
way handling the situation suppose you charge
Nothing like giving bothersome ambition rope enough
to hang itself with.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
LUCY LOWELL TELLS OF GIFT
TO PAINTER BY URCHINS
Four Youngsters Show Sorrow When Artist Moves by
Giving Her Battered Statue
By LUCY LOWELL.

"HERE is no special moral
set forth In this article. It
Is only a story Of the UNI
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. called love
which exists between heart and
heart.
You are to picture case
ment window, long and wide,
opening toward the morning sun.
A circle Of iron railing rounds
the ledge, and just below Is
the pavement, along which rushes
the eternally high tide Of city
life.
Inside the window is a room
of pictures. Flowers of rare
color and charm are - massed
on canvases. Palms grow against
tropical skies. There are tenn
pies and rivers and mountains.
The window is quite like
frame holding many bits of the
world. all idealized by mind
loving beauty.
And directly below the glass
panels which always stand open
a girl, Flora Martin Spore, works
with brushes ana oils.
It was on a morning early
III LHS summer ClaL she u0tTO
a rustling on the ledge outside
the window and turned to meet,
for the first time, her gallery.
They perched on the railing
like sparrows. There were four
of them, all with the round
faces and the great lustrous
eyes of Raphael's cherubs. They
had wandered by from the Ital.
ian neighborhood round the cor
ner-urchins of the tenements --
and found adventure to satisfy
the instincts Of their breed.
Day after day they came.
climbing on the ledge and watch
ing. A vivid splash Of blue
sometimes caused them to Whis-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
Yes, But Alas
Wicked Europe Doesn't Like Ice Water.

Mr. W. Wheeler, the prohibition expert says Europe
COULD pay her debts she would go the water wagon
and send here what she spends alcohol She
could INDEED but she UOnt She does for water
Some countries in Europe could pay their debts they
would give horse racing lottery tickets etc. We
country could enough money to drain all the swamps
rgate all the deserts build all the canals and roads needed
merely by giving up soda water Ice and tobacco But
It WON'T be done.
Many things attractive the human being than
paying off national debts draining swamps or ripanr
deserts ligatng himself and with alcohol in the rriva
ton is something that men will abandon very slowly and
only when they must
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
Gold Is Gold
Trotzky Knows It.

Important travellers to Russia taken to the Russian
State Banks where they bags boxes filled with pod
bars then to the Central Bank where they millions in
foreign money and big bags filed with old Russian gold coin
This intended to show the visitors that Russia has REAL
money In addition to her paper trash if wants to use IT,
That condition Of affairs may be to Trotzy He is
an idealis enthusiast believes Communism and other
uopan theories but quite and entirely apart from BELIEF
ne KNOWS that when have boxes bags of real gold
you are better able to make your experiments than without
There nothing dreamke about solid gold Il can buv
men, service life and buy nations wars Ifeblood
as courage and might wars conquerors
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
SeIectiUe Immigrants or None.

X WEMBERS of the American Legion conven1ng at San
M Francisco told by Secretary Davis that we snouo
have selecve immigration none Present laws are
not sufficiently stringent. ~.
He sustans the conviction, often expressed IN tins
column that national safety requires examination OF
pective citizens ports Of departure the right OF u s.
refuse vses negbes and besides seeks Con
gressiona sanction enroll aliens the moment they ano
keeping track of them for five years. that any illegally
here, unawfuly engaged may be easier caught ana
deported -.
The melting pot will be permanently fouled If we con,
nue to admit inferior diseased strains to the SOUND
veins and clean opportunities Of the Republic.
Welcome and announcement await but those VINO
bring sturdy bodies and honest intents from abroad
These must pledge themselves Ito accept our IDEAS Gus
toms and institutions contribute intellectually to
national advancement
Meanwhile peril mpends through unchecked human Doo
Logging Anywhere from hundred thousand contra
band persons sneaked ashore borders dairy
Criminals sufferers from vile Infections lmbecles ana
orons are thus slipped into unwary communities, WITH
Heaven knows what aftermaths
Millions for pork barrels but pennies for defense against
possible and omnipresent perls
Features Syndicate 1nH and Herbert
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
Japan and Christianity
Energy Is Itself a Miracle.

Bishop Tucker tells his audience in the Episcopal Church
OF St. John the Divine in New York that Christians must i'm
edae rebuild the Christian churches hospitals and schools
destroyed by the earthquake Japan o make the
look favorably upon the Christian religion"
Ine Japanese assured by missionaries that they
sent an all Powerful Being controlling earthquakes and all
forces OF nature are naturally amazed destruction Of
50 Christian churches and little disappointed thai M
miracle stepped in to save them. ~ 49,
Being pagans it is hard make them understand that
natures laws rarely give way miraculous intervention in
nese days However, pagans and all admire and bow
70 energy Christian churches in japan are quickly
REBUILT the japanese will say: "That is nearly mracIe
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
Once-Overs
Copyright 1929 by Feature Service. Incl
GIVE THE KIND WORD DAY BY DAY.

Did you make it rule for the day, to drop word
of more persons with whom you
came in contact that day?
You try it. Following this course would insure much
happiness for yourself Those who sad and discouraged
would be benefited.
Those who struggling along under heavier burden
than they bear gracefully will take heart.
The thought that you interested and look to them to
make good may be just the stimulus weary needs
to go the top in his efforts.
Why live such selfish little ife3
Even though you have much to spend you
be prodga with kind words appreciation of the efforts
Of others.
Your own life will bear out this advice. Just word
was all you have needed at times to keep you going.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
Germany's Wild Times---
Financial
What Other Wild Times Will Gomez

shudder when you hear that food has up forty
per cent in fifty per and the cost Of living
fifty or sixty per cent Imagine how the Germans feel
Thanks Kaiser and the aftermath their living cost
in marks has gone up twenty-five million per cent What
mark in 1914 costs twenty-five million marks now
And printing marks by the thousands Of doesn't
solve the problem.
On the other hand In Germany Spectator the bull
side Of the market has enjoyed sensatons-articia
it Is true but real sensatons-byond any gamblers widest
dreams.
Some prices the Berlin Stock Exchange have gone
not a hundred FIVE hundred a thousand but ONE
BILLION per cent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
KINGIBASEBALL'SN NEW
MILLION-DOLLAR
CROWN
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

yesterdays mionares largely carried spades, pud-
ding irons plows, locomotive tenders and yardsticks
on their coats Of arms.
interest in prize fights and ball games keeps present
clips shortly have putocratic class with boxing
and catching gloves on their shields.
The Dempsey Firpo bout introduced miondoar receipts
to sporting history The world series fast follows breaking
all records by 81, O63, 600 attendance.
Considering the mounting salaries Of crack players and
the just divided between the league leaders
heavily represented by university men-folk will
quit saying that college education doesn't pay.
The Canadian Runs AntOk.
HE Canadian river catches the fever and out
to break precedents. Engineering hasn't yet devised
structures to withstand the crazy moods Of that tenn
peramental stream.
No one ever knows when it's ready to amok, leap
banks chew steel Orders as though tafy and wash
county from sight
Reports indicate the worst floods Oklahoma has
experienced At this writing resistless BROOM two miles
wide and five feet thick is sweeping barns farmhouses and
live stock pell NELL toward the capital.
Ffyfive bridges and eghytwo miles OF railroad have
already disappeared Three great transportation systems
are forced suspend operations An event likely dampen
ardor for Governor WaEons scalp. Drowning commOn-
weaths don't clutch at political straws.
Just one example of the wasted ENERGY which future
America will harness and put constructive tasks Power
dam and electric turbines much less expensive than
such havoc Conservation pays its way-and then
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16

X rEMBERs of the American Legion, converting at
WI Francisco, told by Secretary Davis that we sno
AV4 have seective immigration or Present laws
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
New Sea Mount

~ APETOWN.-The cable ship
Britannia, which has arrived
~ at Capetown. reports that the
great under-ocean CONFUSION on
August threw up q vast new
mountain, as high as the Matter
horn. in the bed of the Atlantic.
The mountain is seven miles high
and ten thousand feet in breadth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-10-16
Dashing Several European Hopes.

(ONGRESSMAN FRED BRITTEN longer advo
Gates the recognition of Russia The former leading
prepayment Of commercial treaty with the Soviets
returns from Moscow convinced that Bolshevsm is an
ephemera experiment. and intends oppose opening rea-
tions with visionary whose very foundation
is based on anarchy, murder, and theft
His advice would be far effective had his original
opinions been tempered with slight degree of
Legislators who suddenly grow hot and cold the same
proposition don't inspire much confidence hereabous
Senator Smoo speaking for the Debt Funding Commits
sion that delinquent foreign creditors viii
shortly be called to the scratch. 3
shan keep spending our money on fleets and
armies Thereu be less rowing and jawing abroad after
governments yonder realize that twelve billion dollars
must be entered on their books fixed liability.
Now you WILL get par value for liberty and victory
bonds.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
One Motor Vehicle to Every
Six People.


There is today one motor vehicle
for every six people in Wisconsin.
This is based On the fact that in the
year 1922, there were registered
361 ,062 passenger cars, 26,788
trucks, 5,917 motorcycles, and 2,135
dealers licenses, a total of 400,172.
Most dealers have more than one
automobile under one license num-
Der. The population of the state
by the last census was 100000
people
Seventeen years ago, in 1905,
/ ,492 motor vehicles were register
ed in 1912, 27,734; in 1915, 84,-
$50. In 1905 there was one car to
every 1000 people as compared to
every six people today. The in
crease isalmost beyond belief. In
the year 1905 expenditures for high
ways amounted to S3,000,000. In
1922 it amounted to $37,OO0,000 in
GLIDING township roads. Observe
that we multiplied our road ex-
penditures by y. In the same
period we multiplied the number of
motor vehicles by 260. That ex-
plains why we need roads and that
shows that the things which need the
roads-the motor vehicles-are in
creasing far more rapidly than the
expenditures on the roads.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
LIQUOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
is BETTER
Jail Sentences and Fines Melted Out
to Bootleggers Last Year Shown
In Report.

Madison hundred eight
nine years in Jail sentences and
fines of more than half-milion
dollars were melted out to moon
sinners and bootleggers in 1922, the
report Of w Stanley Smith, shows.
Most of the Illicit forged" booze,
labeled as bonded comes from
Chicago, Smith said
Enforcement in Wisconsin in the
third year OF Nolstead trebled in eff
ficieacy. The report showed that
in 1929, a total of 2,27l months
Imprisonment and S503, 565 in fines
was assessed on 4,308 convictions;
IN 1921, $3.50, 636 in fines was col
lected from 1914 persons and in
1929 $27,6 35 was collected from
the convictions of 152 persons These
figures do not include the plain
DRINKS" punished by Jail and fine for
disorderly conduct.
The S503, sos went into the com
mon school fund of the state, except
for two per cent withheld by the
local officials for expenses.
Milwaukee county collected 1885,
900 last year in liquor fines, and
violators were giver 14S months in
jail Convictions totalled 1859.
District attorneys and prohibition
officials had high batting averages,
as only 293 persons were acquitted
in 1922 as compared with 43OS con-
victions.
Other money paid into the state
from The operation Of the prohibition
laws included $26,740 in $40 fees
charged for permits to handle alco-
hol, paid by druggists, hospitals,
physicians, manufacturers, dentists,
and laboratories. Witness fees coli
lected by state prohibition enforce
ment officials came to $2,173, and
the proceeds Of confiscated auto
mobiles brought in Slips.
The report declared that bonded
liquor had disappeared from the
liquor traffic, except for that which
the druggists sell on prescription.
Sale of real beer by the near-beer
brewcries has been virtually elimi-
nated, it was claimed
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
Wisconsin Flax Seed Now
Goes TO Ireland.

Irish flax, grown in Ireland, viii
come from Wisconsin flaxseed, says
a Madison dispatch.
Forty bushels Of fibre flaxseed, of
a superior quality developed by the
University Of Wisconsin agricultural
experiment station, have been ship
ped to Ireland by A. H. Wright of
the agronomy department,
This is the third year the crop has
been grown commercially" Wright
said, "and the tests have shown it to
be SO far superior in yield to the
ordinary fibre flax that it is in de
mand in all countries where fibre
flax is being grown"
Twenty-Five bushels Of the seed
were shipped to Sweden Several
other orders from foreign countries
were refused for lack Of seed
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
HOW TWAS LONG AGO
Eggs Was Eggs. and Butter Was
Butter--Shimmy and MoOnshine
80 Blame.

Thirty years ago eggs were
three dozen for 25c, butter l0c
pourd, milk was sc a quart, the
butcher gave liver and treated the
kids with bologna, the hired girl
received 81 week and did the
washin', women did not powder
and paint Tin publie), smoke, vote,
play poker or shake the shimmie.
men wore whiskers and boots,
chewed tobacco and spit on the
sidewalks and cussed, lunch was
free. laborers worked 10 hours per
day and never went on a strike,
no tips were given to walters and
the check CRATER was unknown,
a kerosene hanging lamp and
steroscope in The parlor were lux
uries, girls did not go corsetless to
dance and teddy-bears and
nloomers were unheard of, no one
was operated on for appendicitis
or bought glands, microbes had
not been discovered, folks lived TO
good old age. Henry Ford had
only one pair of pants and straw
hat, peek-a-boo waists and bobbed
hair were unborn, BARRIERS shaved
for Zoe and cut hair for two-bits
besides greasing the hair free of
charge, young ladies only Kissed
when engaged and went to bed at
S o'clock, rhummy had not been
invented, carriers were worn above
the knees bv fair sex and the
gents wore none.
Today everybody rides in auto
mobiles or Fords. flies, plays golf,
shoots craps, smokes cigarettes,
drinks Bachus juice or moonshine,
blames the h. c. of |. or the Re
publicans, never go to bed the
same day they get up and think
they are having wonderful time.
These are days of suffragetting,
profiteering and excess taxes
Exchange.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
COUNTY NURSE MAKES MANY
HOME CALLS
First Annual Report of County Nurse
Josephine Gerry Submitted to
Board Wednesday.

Josephine Gerry, county nurse,
made 207 calls between March "a,
1922, and Sept. of the same year,
according to her first annual report
submitted to the county board at the
meeting held Wednesday
She was granted leave of absence
of four months and from the time
that she resumed her duties on Dec.
% last year to March l6 this year
she made l09 home calls, according
to the report.
my work was begun March "a,
1922" says the rep ut. "At that
time there was a slighc epidemic of
influenza and pneumonia at Mercer,
Epson, Iron Belt, Cary and Gle.
DR.. Urquhart was called to Mercer
by Chairman Ed. Evenson to ex-
anime the school children and to
make home calls where there were
suspicious cases. | assisted him
with the examinations. In the other
towns mentioned l made home calls
and inspected the schools to try to
keep the epidemic from spreading.
Circular letters were sent out to all
teachers to exclude all suspicious
cases.
"From March "a, 1922, to Sept. 4,
1922, 207 calls We're made, as fol-
lows:
Sixteen babies under two years,
advisory work done for them; Is T.
B.-7 were sent to Pureair, one to
Italy and the others were old cases;
one blind; two mental and defective
cases; six instructive work in
maternity cases; 60 were calls on
Mothers Pension cases-cases re-
ceiving aid from city and towns
others were calls on general medical,
surgical and old cases or follow-up
work; 16 schools were visited; 303
pupils enrolled; $50 pupils inspected;
lis with defects which were of
adenoids, tonsils and teeth, one case
of skin disease; two thyroid glands.
"Eypenses-March and April Sal
76, Hay 1881, June S23.08, July
$3.50, August $1,000.
"The county board granted me
leave of absence of four months to
take a course in public health work.
On Dec. %, 1922, reported for
duty and from then to March 16,
1928, 100 home calls we're made as
follows:
Eleven calls were on T. B. work,
one patient sent to Pureair, one de-
ceased; three instructive work in
maternity cases; six calls on typhoid
cases; two calls on baby infected
with ophthalmia neonatorum; one
case of neglect of children; others
were calls on cases of influenza,
measles, humps and cases reported
by teachers and supervisors; eight
schools were visited; 407 pupils en-
rolled; 800 pupils inspected; 101
with defects which were Of adenoids,
tonsils and teeth; Is cases were cor
rected since last inspection Of nurse;
10 thyroid glands; As children 10 per
cent under weight; SO cases of
pediculous capitus-head lice
Expenses December to March
1, 1923, $25.63."
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
PRISONER TRIES
TO ESCAPE
John Stone, Lumberjack Being Taken
to Waupun, Jumps Through
Lavatory Window
SHOT IN THE LEG
Sheriff Volant Wings His Man and
Then Trails Him Into the Woods
and Recaptures Him

Sheriff Joseph Volant's unerring
aim with his official revolver trust
rated the plans of one John Stone to
escape while being taken to the state
prison at Waupun last Saturday.
A bullet in Stones right leg stopped
him and he was recaptured.
Stone was sentenced to two years
at Waupun by County Judge Aspin-
wall last Friday afternoon following
his plea of guilty to the charge of
adultery involving Marenisco
woman.
Saturday morning Sheriff Volant
started with Stone for Waupuu.
Stone was meek and mild and
everythingswas lovely until the train
was nearing Wittenberg. About
two miles this side of Wittenberg
Stone asked and was granted per-
mission to go to the lavatory.
Sheriff Volant was sitting near the
window when suddenly he saw
pieces of glass flying in the air and
heard the sound of glass breaking.
He rushed to the lavatory and found
his prisoner in the act of going
through the broken window The
sheriff struck Stone on the head
with his club and tried to grab hold
of him but before he could stop him
the prisoner went through the
window. Volant then drew his
revolver and fired a shot at Stone.
The train was stopped and Volant
was easily able to take up the trail
Of his fleeing prisoner, who headed
for the woods. Volant followed
his tracks in the snow and a short
distance in the woods came upon
Stone, who surrendered under the
threatening weapon flourished by
the sheriff
A trail Of blood in the snow show
ed that the prisoner had been wound
ed and no doubt the wound prevent
ed Stone from making good his
escape. An examination later show
ed that the bullet from the sheriff's
revolver struck Stone in the right leg
and inflicted flesh wound, al
though not serious one.
Sheriff Volant and his prisoner
again boarded the train and made
the rest of the trip to Waupun,
where Stone was lodged behind the
bars
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24

arresting Migrants from soc to sc
per vag, effective April in any
part of the county.
The sheriff was instructed to use
his prisoners to help the city or
school district in any contemplated
construction work the coming
season.
A resolution was adopted to the
effect that the federal patrol be used
on Highway No. II from Hurley to
Gle and other roads leading out of
the city the coming year. Last year
the roads were patrolled only as ia.
IS the city limits.
Hereafter the county will pay one
half of the expense of providing
artificial limbs for transient paupers,
in accordance with a resolution
adopted.
The board adjourned until April
"a.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24
Logging Camps Begin To Close.

Logging operations In the woods
of Oneida and adjoining counties
are drawing to close. Weather
conditions are such as to make ac-
tivties uncertain and several OPP
orators have already closed camp.
Others will follow within the next
weel or two.
On the whole the winter has been
favorable for logging in upper Wis
consin. A large number of camps
were conducted in this part of the
state and the timber cut was the
largest in several years.
Since early last fall there has
been a constant demand for woods
workers. Wages have been good
and the Jack who stuck to the
job viii emerge from the bush this
spriag with a neat little stake. In
number OF instances it has been
impossible for some operators to
secure enough men TO fill the de-
manJ
From reliable source it is learn
ed that there will be considerable
summer logging in this territory
this year These are few COM
panics that log extensively the year
around. Rhinelander News.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24

One prophet without honor in his
home town is weather prophet dur
ing the month of March.
Clouds are formed by hot air and
war clouds are no exception.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-03-24

This country Of ours has too many
people who are making money with
1ut making anything else.