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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
BENEFIT MOVIE
FOR THRIFT SHOP
Proceeds of Moving Picture
Show to Help Maintain
Nurse at Clinic.
AT ORPHEUM THEATRE

AS the saying goes, "a live wire
cannot be stepped on" The Thrift
Shop members refuse positively tc
be stepped on even by the apparent
ly overwhelming fact that during the
winter months their shoa on South
Street music remain closed. The sue
cess of the Thrift Shop in carrying
out the philsnthropic purpose Tor
which it was started, is rivalled by few
such enterprises in the city. The sale
of cast-off garments, shoes and hats
donated by friends of the Thrift Shor
and the untiring labor of the girls
have been the means of maintain
ing a nurse at the Kenosha clinic
whose services have been given free
to those who need them. Sixty dol
lars weekly go into the clinic fund
from the proceeds of the shop.
Give Benefit Movie.
But among such inevitable calami-
ties as death and taxes, is winter
The Thrift Shop is forced to discon-
tinue activities at the indication Of
real winter. This also means the dis
continuing of proceeds from the sale
of donated merchandise, and presents
to the club each year the intricate
problem of continuing the weekly funC
to the clinic. This year, the manage
ment of the 0rpheum theater is CO.
operating with the Thrift Shop clut
in raising an amount sufficient to carry
through the winter.
A benefit movie will be given fol
three days, February 10, 16 and II, for
which two thousand tickets are on sale
by club members. The picture which
has been scheduled for those DAYS is
Back Home and Broke" che latest
offering of Thomas Meighan. The
club is expecting to raise at. least $500
son this venture, and possibly more, de-
pending upon the degree of appre-
citation by Kenoshans of their charit-
able purpose. The tickets may be
used at any performance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
ParOchial Schools for
Protestant Children

New York City-Plans for week day
schools for the religious instruction Of
protestant children in New York City
were under consideration today by a
committee appointed at meeting Of
400 protestant clergymen.
Resolutions advocating the estab-
lishment of such schools were adopted
after an address by Judge Thomas C.
T. Grain ofkgeneral session, who de-
clared that half million protestant
children here were entirely without
religious instruction. He said 5000
members of the protestant teachers
association had assented to go, after
their school hours to the school to pc
established and teach the children.
The courses of instruction will be
determined by UNCONVENTIONAL boards.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
SURPRISE MISS MALMsTRoM.

Miss Ethel Malmstrom, 440 Alleman
avenue, was pleasantly surprised Satur-
day evening by group of friends, in
celebration of her birth anniversary.
Music and games were the entertain
ment features and were followed at II
o'clock by refreshment course. The
following guests were present: Alma
Krah, Ellen Aversion, Florence Mowry,
-Fleda Frederickson, Marie Gieyer, Wal
ter Brett, Elmer Gordon, Clyde Roemer,
Fred Bogvilo, Nels Halberg and Elmer
Peterson.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
HONOR CONGRESSMAN COOPER.
Given Reception at Congressional Club
and Attends Brilliant Function.

Dispatches from Washington state
that probably the largest and most
brilliant reception ever given in the
capital city, or in the annals of the
Pan-American union was that of
last week when members of the Official,
diplomatic and resident circles were
numerously represented. The Ma
rine band and also marimba band
Of Guatemala furnished the music
Congressman and Mrs. Henry Cooper
were guests at the reception. On the
same evening reception was given at
the Congressional club in honor of the
speaker of the house of representatives
and Mrs. Cooper was one of the assist
ants.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
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tBy Associated Press Leased WIre)
Detroit, Mich. - The governments
claim against the Lincoln Motor Car
company for alleged oyer-payments
on war contracts, was slated for final
settlement in United States district
court here today. Attorneys for the
government and the receiver for the
Lincoln company had reached an
agreement on the amount to be re-
turned to the government and Judge
Arthur j. futile was prepared to
make the amount public, along with
his approval.
The claim was one of the largest
filed by the government against con-
Germs that manufactured munitions
during the World war. Over-pay-
ments totalling $9,1s8,561 were made
to the Lincoln company, it was al
legged. The company was charged
with numerous Irregularities, one
charge being that ''the finest automo-
bile factory in the country was built
during the war period at government
expense"
To this plant, it was charged, the
company added 100000 Office build
ing and a $4,000 dining hall.
The profits of the company were
declared by the government to have
been 700 per cent on the money actu-
ally invested.
The complaint also declared the
company had changed it's contract for
the manufacture of Liberty motors,
raising the profit on each motor from
1925 stipulated in the original con-
tract to $1,276.
The government paid $4,000 for
each completed motor, it was said.
Another declaration in the complaint
was that the government paid a NOR
tization amounting to 100000 on
the 52acre plant, site and testing
ground, which was said to be worth
but $1,000,000.
Henry M. Leland, former president
and Wilfred G. Leland, former vice
president, it was charged, received
salaries for the year of 1918 100000
each.
The Lincoln company was taken ov-
er at a bankruptcy sale by Henry
Ford last year for $8,000,0O0 The
amount agreed upon by the attorneys
who affected the settlement is to be
paid by the receiver from the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the Ford inter-
eStS
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
MURDERERS ARRESTED.
tBy Associated Press.i

Tokio-During the first ten months
of 1922, one hundred and four murders
were committed in Toxic and in each
case the murderer was arrested, ac-
cording to the Metropolitan police re-
port. This corresponds with 108 cases
for the same period last year. Of
burglaries there were 1879, compared
with lit last year; thefts 21,999
against 22,425; fraud, 19,149 compared
with 24,905 and usurpation 1901 and
$3.50. The report says that zone seri-
Gus feature of the criminal oFenses
is that they were committed more by
intelligent people than by illiterate."
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
MISS sHAFFER ENTERTAINs.

Miss Hazel Shaffer entertained last
evening at her home on s. Chicago
street, in honor of Miss Alice Ball,
who leaves soon to enter the Nurses
Training school at the Evanston hos
pital, Awards for FIVE hundred went
to Mary Doherty, Gladys Vollmer. and
Marian DeDiemar. A delightful lunch-
con was served. Valentine motif was
used for appointments and decorations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
LEAVE FOR CALIFORNIA.
Farewell Party Given for Miss Susan
Lathrop Monday Evening.

Farewell Party Given for Miss Susan
Lathrop Monday Evening.
Mrs. Charles Lathrop and her daugh-
ter, Susan, of 433 Congress street,
left today for San Jose, California,
where Miss Lathrop will enter the uni
versity. En- route to San Jose, they
will stop for brief visit at Los Ange-
less. They will make their home with
Mrs. Lathrop's sister, Mrs. F. c..
Whitney. Mr.. Lathrop will remain in
Kenosha and attend to his business
affairs. Miss Lathrop, who popu-
lar student of Kenosha High school,
was the guest of honor last evening at
farewell party given for her by Miss
Dora Johnson, COZ Edward street. Five
hundred furnished the entertainment,
followed by delicious luncheon late
in the evening.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01

The funeral services of Charles G.
Ball, the Kenosha man who was killed
in an automobile accident at Wauke-
gan on Saturday were held this after
noon at the home of the brothers of
the deceased at IL South Newell street.
Interment was made in the family plot
in the Green Ridge cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
TO ATTEND MILWAUKEE, LEAGUE.
Mrs. Lulu Murphy to Represent Paro'
chial P. T. A. Organizations.

bAtS. Lulu murphy 10 hepEeSeHG dIO"
chial P. T. A. Organizations.
Mrs. Lulu Lampe Murphy received
a letter yesterday from Mary Cald-
we'll Keyser of the League of Cath
Ollie Parent-Teachers' associations,
Milwaukee, inviting her to one Of it's
sessions to be held Tuesday, Febru=
ary 6, at three-thirty o'clock. The
meeting will be held in the Knights
of Columbus clubrooms, 1882 Grand
avenue.
At this meeting, Miss Mary Conner,
president of the Wisconsin State
Council of Catholic Women's Organ
izations, will address the meeting on
the subject, "What Can Be Done by
the P. T. A. in Parochial Schools 2"
Mrs. Murphy, who is active in the
parochial Parent-Teacher work for
Kenosha for a reciprocity of sugges-
tions, benefting both the Kenosha
and the Milwaukee organizations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01

The remains of Mary Schlowitz, the
four months old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs E. Schlozitz, who died at her
home, 253 N. Chicago street, early this
morning, will be laid to rest in the
Green Ridge cemetery on Wednesday
afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
SETTLE BIG CLAIM
WITH LINCOLN MOTORS
Government to Get Over a Billion
and a Half Refund on War
Contract Profits.
tBy Associated Press Leased Wirel

by Associated Press Leased Wire)
Washington The amount
agreed upon BY the depart
ment of justice and the re-
ceiver for the Lincoln Motor Car
company in settlement of the
governments claim for alleged
Over-payments on war contracts is
$1,550,000, according to William
Ritter, assistant attorney general,
who said today, However, that
this figure was subject to the APP
prevail of Judge futile of the fed
eral district court at Detroit.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01

j. Erin Kaiser was a visitor at the
auto show in Chicago, on Monday.
Mrs. Albert Johnson, 602 Edward
street. is Chicago visitor today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
Lnnchenn in Interim.

A luncheon will be served from II
to l O'Clock, for which tickets will be
distributed at the entrance to the hall,
arranging the exact time of serving SO
that the individual programs may be
scheduled accordingly. The ball is for
the friends of the Elks as well as the
lodge members themselves. Tickts are
now on sale by She members THE COM
mittee in charge includes D. G. Travis,
chairman, F. L. Wolfe, George Alleman,
T. II. Nehlsen, C. E. Hawley and J. M.
Hansen.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
ELKS' BALLTOBE
FINEST OF YEAR
Plans and Arrangements
Being Perfected for
Charity Ball.
"HUSK" O'HARE MUcIC

On February 18th Kenosha society
will dance for charity at the twenty
first annual ball to be given by the
B. P. 0. E., lodge number 75O, from
900 p. m. to 200 a. m. The committee
in charge is making every effort to
make the 1923 ball the finest party
ever put on in the city. They have
engaged the original "Husk" O'Hare
Super Orchestra of ten men, under the
personal direction of Mr.. O'Hare, to
furnish the music.
This is the same group of artists who
were featured monthly from coast to
coast on the Gennett records and was
the exclusive feature at the College
Inn, Chicago, for four months. The
orchestra was also the attraction at the
opening of the new million dollar Tri-
anon ballroom, Chicago, alternating
dances with Paul Whitman and his New
York orchestra.
To Give Excellent Program.
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01

Let the NEWS do your printing.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08
THEY WANT A DICTATOR

a recent dispatch from New York re-
ported that friends of a woman who
had died under circumstances which ex-
cited their suspicious would call upon
Governor Smith to take charge of the
investigation. Thus is exemplified a
tendency that bodies no good for demo-
cratic government; If permitted to run
to its logical conclusion it would carry
the country hack to the sort of govern
ment from which the Pilgrim Fathers
fled.
1t may have been true that the local
authorities were not doing their duty.
In such condition. too, an increasing
tendency appears. The two tendencies
are running mates
Men do what men have done. In poll
tics and government particularly the
force of habit is very strong. A potter
term is precedent
The more thoroughly government is
centralized, the more prone are people
to depend upon it for the administration
of their intimate affairs Time was when
it would have sounded ridiculous to
call upon the governor of any state in
the Union to perform any function be-
longing to a county official. Then each
county official was conscious Of "A def
mite responsibility resting upon him. and
him alone. He realized that if he did
not perform his assigned functions prop
erly he would be held to account. Con-
sequently there was no need for run
ming to the governor with every little
lob of local administration; if ANYBODY
had displayed such lack of the fit
ness of things governmental, he might
have found himself under the scrutiny
of alienists.
But nowadays there is a tendency &c
appeal to the governor" for "protcc.
ton against the slightest offenses. And
some governors evidently enjoy such at
tention; they encourage it. and now ant
then demand it. A few descendants o
Ham are seen playing Senegambiar
polo; the governor and the adjutant gen
eral have nothing more important to dc
than to stop the game and punish tn,
players. In earlier days the town con
stable was thought to be eminently com
petent to attend to such matters. If
man is to be judged by the nature o
his work. then some present-day gov
ernors might have been rejected as con
stables in earlier times.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08

able that even a peace-loving countr,
like the United States might eventually
become aggressive if it accustomed it
self to a huge standing army in time o
peace, no such danger could possibly
grow out of the ability of Americans
! to spring to arms upon short notice
To know how to handle gun is one
thing; to "tote' it around on all occa-
sions. brandishing it continually, is an
entirely different thing.
Similarly. a nation constantly under
arms. with hundreds of thousands of pro-
fcssional soldiers eating out the sub
stance of the land is not to be compared
with country whose people are so
trained that they can leave office. farm
and factory and form themselves. into a
mighty fighting force whenever there is
a need for the exercise of military
strength. Their sheer knowledge of their
potential power gives people of that de-
scription self-confidence. And the fact
that they have to change from one mode
of life to another when they are called
to arms is guaranty against resort to
that potential power without cause.
Under Americas reserve system, when
it shall have been perfected. the prac-
teal equivalent of the mobilization of
hundreds of thousands of men will be
experienced whenever the citizen officers
are called together. 1t requires no little
time, of course, to make soldiers out of
raw recruits. They form a well-nigh
hopeless aggregation unless there are Of
ficers to train them. When the United
States entered the world war its first
big task was to make officers out of
thousands of men who were themselves
raw recruits that had to be done before
a beginning could be made towards the
training of the great body of the coun-
try's expeditionary force. With thou
sands of men already trained in military
leadership, the task of creating an army
adequate to any need that may arise
will have been more than half per-
formed.
From the standpoint of fighting abil-
ity the United States will be a military
nation. but as it will have no vast
standing army it cannot become mill
taristic by mere reason of knowing how
to fight.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08
A GREAT POTENTIAL ARMY

A military nation, not a militaristic
nation, seems to be the dream of the
man who headed Americas expeditionary
force in the great war. General PERISH
ing was recently quoted as saying that
he hoped to be able to mobilize the
country's citizen army once more before
his retirement from the service. This
does not mean, it was explained, that
great environments throughout the
United States will be peopled by hun
dreds of thousands of recruits, but that
the reserve system will be developed 10
high state of efficiency.
How can nation be military with
out being militaristic? To one who
would seriously ask that question, mill
tary" denotes vast standing army. But
in the best sense the word represents
the ability to do certain thing, rather
than the actual doing of that thing. Can
nation be military, even in this sense,
without becoming militaristic in the
sense of having predatory inclinations?
The United States has set out to
answer the latter question i'll the affirma-
tive, and he must be a sorry citizen, in
deed, who would entertain any doubt as
! to the outcome. Whereas it is conceiv-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08
Pungent Paragraphs

Civilize the coal mining industry
Chicago Daily News.
A married man hugs his wife. A
single man hugs delusions.-Wilming-
ton News.
A hck town is one where they have
more faith in men and not so much in
belts.--Baltimor Morning Sun.
a June husband has borrowed one OF
our shirts to show his wife what but
tons are.-Ann Arbor Times News.
Many a married man has difficult
time keeping his conscience quieted and
his wife contented.-Springfield News.
Trim the fringe off fathers trousers
and use them for making Johnny a
cowboy suit.-Wilmingto News.
With cold waves, hot waves, radio
waves, wild waves and permanent
waves. it's n wonder the Star-Spangled
Banner still waves.-Wall Street Jour
nal.
Jud Tunkins says when a man gets
himself on his mind he's liable to dis
cover that he feels the lack of space
same as fat man in n flat-Washing-
ton Star.
When dad was young and read real
literature nobody could have made
him believe that he would ever build
house without trap door.-Milwaukce
Journal.
Edith-Do you thing my hands show
any sign of toll? Marie-The one with
the engagement ring on its shows th..t
you've been working.-Boston Tran
script.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08
NOT ASKING CONGRESS

The millennium is almost here. An as
ISOLATION of citizens in need of help has
openly and publicly declared that it is
not going to appeal for federal aid !
This unquestionably marks an epoch in
American history. 1t is something I'M
usual. We might almost term it unique.
It should be reduced to writing and
framed and be given place of honor
in the halls of Congress. Meeting in
Chicago the other day. the American Oil
Mems Association decided not to go be-
fore Congress with legislative program.
While it acknowledged that the petro-
leum business was suffering from va
riety of ills, some OF which could be
cured or at least helped by legislation,
the oil men decided not to appeal to Con-
gress.
With Washington full of lobbies and
special pleaders for almost every indus
try and occupation in the land from
union labor to wheat growers, this IS
something revolutionary. The next thing
we know, some organization will go even
further and actually refuse to accept
federal appropriation or decline to have
a special bureau created for it.
We are totally unfamiliar with the
motives behind the oil mems decision
not to ask Congress for anything, but
but whatever the motives, the resulting
action is something that deserves imita-
ton What would be the result were
every lobby suddenly to be withdrawn
from Washington? What would be the
II ,,+a
legislative action suddenly would with
draw all requests and cease to bring
pressure to bear on Congress? What
would happen were every appropriation
to be turned back and every bureau
closed and the army of bureaucrats dis
missed? What would be the result were
every organization to abandon its "leg-
islative program" and decide to mud
die along for few years as best it
could without asking Congress to dc
anything?
While an answer to these questions is
not possible because there is not the
slightest indication that any such things
are coming to pass, yet it is Our idea that
the result in each instance would be most
gratifying to the large masses of the
people. Cost of government would fall
UNNECESSARILY. Taxes could be reduced,
unnecessary and futile laws would not
be enacted, undue influences in politics
would disappear, congressman would be
able to vote without their vision
obscured by false issues and idle
dreams. In fact, we would get
back to normally as the late President
Harding would have said, much more
rapidly than is the progress at present
Why should the oil industry appeal
to Congress? 1t is Our candid belief
that the kindest thing Congress can dc
for the oil man is to let him alone Giver
an opportunity, the oil industry will
work out its own salvation. The same
in Our opinion, applies to about 80 pei
cent of the special interests that are con
stantly appealing for federal aid If thu
farmer would go to farming and thu
laborite would go to work and the CAPT
talist would get down to business ant
the railroads would concentrate on haul
ing freight and all of them Individual,
and collectively would quit talking, w
, believe the country would manage t
amble along without serious setbacks
Congress, as a cure-all for bushes
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08

lame ducks and as the first financial aid
to every busted industry, has proven
time and again, to be powerless. Most
of the appeals for federal aid have their
origin in the desire on the part of some
politician to ride into office on an ap-
preparation from the federal treasury.
The oil men are to be commended.
They may be having their troubles. but
so arc the remainder of us. Let us
work out our own problems within our
own industries and cease trying to fasten
OUR burdens on the government.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-08
THE SOLDIER AT YPRES.

The Canadian memorial to the dead
of the Dominion at Yypres is of d
bowed, sad-faced soldier, the grim
firmness of the warrior still in line
of mouth and set of chin. In eyes and
slope of shoulder and unconsciousness
of posture he shows the sorrow fol
comrades gone.
This comes nearer than all the
mementoes we have seen pictured to
exhibiting the soldiers real attitude
toward war. he did not enter battle
elate, with arms thrown SPECTACULAR
ly, with the air about him of glorying
in struggle. He did not think of him
self as hero that all the world was
looking upon with awe and admira-
ton. War for him was a hard duty,
to be endured, but not to be enjoyed
He went through his labors as one
who had made up his mind to do
everything his temporary trade called
for, but his heart and his humanity
were in revolt. The last offices to the
dead tore at his feelings. The scene
for him was one to put out of his
memory if he could.
If all the monuments to the fallen
could indicate, as this Canadian monu-
ment does, that war is strong mans
duty that is yet hateful TO the strons
the personal ambition of princes, the
Vaccinations of diplomatists and NIL
itarists and writer's upon national
destinies" would have less influence
in the world.-Toledo Blade.