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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM

The Huber senate joint resolution,
proposing an initiative and referen-
dunn amendment to the constitution,
was concurred in by the assembly, SO
to 20. Under the constitution, the
resolution will have to be approved
by another legislature before it can
be submitted to vote of the people.
The proposed amendment would give
the people power to propose laws and
to enact or reject them at the polls
and to approve or reject at the polls
any act of the legislature. 1t would
also provide for submission of amend
ments to the constitution upon petit
ton Of the people.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
CEMENT PLANT QUIZ

A joint legislative committee con-
sisting of one senator and two assem-
b!ymen would be appointed to inves-
tigate the feasibility of establishing
a state-ow owned plant for the manufac-
ture of cement, to be used in the con-
struction of public highways and
bridges, under the Nelson bill, en-
crossed by the assembly Wednesday.
The bill carries an appropriation of
$4,000 to defray expenses of the COM
mittee in its investigation. Oppose
ton to the bill was lodged chiefly
against this appropriation. The COM
mittee would have two years in which
to complete its investigation, report
ing it's findings to the 1925 legisla-
ture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
BOB'S TAX BILL ORDERS

After long conference with Rob-
ert NJ. La Toilette, Jr., chairman of
the Republican state central commit
tee, Speaker John F. Dahl Friday
said he would not urge the legisla
ture to consider his tax bill until the
governors measure had been dispos-
ed of. He declared that should the
Blaine bill be killed in the senate, he
would want to be assured that the gov
ernor would sign his bill before re-
calling it from the committee. A poll
of the senate disclosed, he said, that
10 votes, or two more than a majority,
are available to defeat the governors
tax bill.
A revision downward of all rates in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
NO AUTO INSPECTORS

The Wisconsin senate voted We'd
nesday to do away with state auto
mobile inspectors, transferring their
duties to game wardens. Senator's
expressed the opinion that this
change would do away with duplica
ton in inspection services. Further
provision is contained in the bill, as
engrossed, that would assess on addi-
tional so per cent on the license fee
of individuals who do not purchase
new licenses within 60 days of the
date of issuance by the state.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
ELLSWORTH, NORTH AMERICA

w. A. Tc,nann of this city received
a letter last week from a sister from
when he had not heard in twenty
three years. The letter was address
ed to w. A. Tcmann, Ellsworth, North
America, and had been sent to sew
eral different "Ellsworths" before
landing at the desired point. The let
ter was from Mrs. Ruzena Koleroya
of Proken, Austria, and contained pie
lures of herself and her two daugh-
tiers. Mr.. Tomann knew that his sis
ter had moved from the old home but
did not know her address or the fGct
that she was married.-Pierce CoIn-
ty Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
FOR HOME RULE

The people of Wisconsin will now
have the opportunity of voting on a
home rule amendment to their consti-
tuition:
When the assembly concurred in
the Quick senate resolution Wednes-
day, the proposition completed a Sue
cessful course through two legisla-
lures, as required by the constitu-
ton before submission to the people.
The vote on concurrence was 81 to IA,
and was taken wothout debate.
The proposed amendment would de-
legate to cities and villages the pow
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
KNOCKS HIGH SCHOOL FRATS

The LANCE senate bill, prohibiting
pupils of elementary and high schools
from organizing or belonging to any
secret school organization upon pain
of expulsion, was passed to third
reading by the assembly. In so do
ing, the assembly OVERRIDE the deci-
sion of its committee on education,
which had recommended non concur
renee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
EUGENICS BILL PASSED

The assembly finally passed without
debate and with little opposition the
Spoor bill repeating the state law re-
curing ante-nuptial physical eXami-
nations. The bill now goes to the
senate where opponents confidently
predict that it will be killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
HANSON BILL KILLED

The G. E. Hason bill. providing a
$1,000 exemption for household fur
niture from taxation was killed by
the senate. Final passage was given
Inc Ridgeway bill giving counties
authority to regulate dance halls and
other places of amusement. The
measure nctw goes to the assembly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
FABRIC BILL KILLED

The senate killed the Holly truth
in fabric" bill, requiring merchants
to label all goods sold by them, desig-
mating the materials used in their
manufacture. This measure passed
the assembly by large majority.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
DOUG'S OWN THEATRE

Chicago-Douglas Fairbanks, who
began his professional career on the
stage and left it to make more money
in the movies, has arranged to return
to it in theatre built at Hollywood
and backed by four motion picture
fortunes-his own, his wife's MARY
Pickford,) charlie Chaplin's and Jo-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
TITUS BILL KILLED

The Titus bill establishing definite
tenure of office for teachers in Wiscon-
sin, guaranteeing them hearing be-
fore dismissal, was killed by the as
sembly, after having successfully
passed the senate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05

Just to show what kind of brains
cur Wisconsin assemblymen have,
consider this fact: they debated two
DAYS ever a bill, and were about to-
vote on it when some bright clerk or
errand boy whispered to one of them
that it was already law, made by
previous legislature.-Spring Valley
Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05

Ell to determine thei1 local affairs and
government, subject only to the con-
stitution and enactments of the leg
islature.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05

seph Schenck's. Announcement of
this was made in Chicago Tuesday
by William Faversham, who will have
charge of all stage details. 1t is
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05

planned to make it the worlds finest
theatre, he said.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05

This drill has a patented, ad-
Unstable gate force-feed that
successfully handles any size
seed from alfalfa to bearded
oats without choking.
The force-feed compels the
seed to leave the grain box in
even, continuous streams, and
the seed is protected until it
reaches the bottom of the fur
row.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1923-04-05
Harvest Proves the Value
of theVan Brunt Drill
.JOHNEDEERE
VAN BRUNT GRAIN DRILL

That is why a field planted
with a Van Brunt Drill makes
such a pleasing appearance to
the eye-and why it adds extra
money to your bank account.
All of the grain is ready for har-
vest at one time. There are no
bare spots in the field, and you
can feel absolutely sure that no
seed is wasted in planting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16

Young people get the wrong view Of
life from these extreme stories. Nor
bid ideas are aroused and the high
emotion Of love is dragged down into
the mud of materially. This is the
wrong kind of sex education.
we possess a reserve of energy
and emotion which must have an
outlet Some get it in adventure,
mystery and detective stories. Peo-
pie used to condemn the dime novel
as spectacular, sensational, eXag-
gerated. Dime novels of the most
IIurid type were harmless compared
to the poison Of today's sex stories.
"Two types Of authors are guilty:
the half-insane type, who think they
are geniuses; and those who know
what they are doing and deliberately
prostitute art for commercial reward
We can spare such writer's; they
breed unhappiness and disease,
They say their works depict life?
Go visit Bellevue hospital or the
nearest insane asylum and see such
life in its disgusting phases; what
good does it do your
The Defense says:
/ Sex stories are not, as many peo-
pie think, cheap and smutty. People
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16

one Of the breezy magazines pub
Iished in the same office with Smart
Set made famous by H. L. Mencken
and George Jean Nathan.
Readers and contributors who
imagine magazine editors to be gray
boards are mistaken in the editor OF
"Saucy Stories. Miss Ramos is
young, good looking, tall, willowy
and has bobbed hair Of copper-red.
The swinging of the literary pena
dulum toward sex stories is logical, ;"
she said, explaining her editorial
viewpoint for NEA Service, Il pre-
sumo that a psychoanaIyst would say
all love stories are sex stories. I am
sorry to find that some think them
Objectionable.
"As the editor Of a so-called sex
magazine, I think of the sex story
as one that treats of love from the
realistic, rather than the romantic,
angle.
"Realism has vivified the arts and
crafts Of today. Gingerbread decora-
tions have passed from our homes
and furnishings; women have simpli-
fed their clothing-and discarded
much Of it. In literature the demand
now is for frankness. Witness the
popularity Of Main Street. Moon
! CoF trr-o+boraq
This demand naturally enters tbs
fiction magazine field. The more pre-
|teatious magazines do not dare jeop'
udize their circulation and advertis-
/ ing by dangerous experiments. They
DO not understand their public, and
they take no sporting chances; they
stick to the sturdy old themes.
ut is in the modern sex magazine
/ that the writer with a novel ana
beautiful experiment viii receive d
warm welcome, and it is here only
that he will get public. The Drei-
sers, the Cabells, the Andersons of
tomorrow will appear today in the
pages Of the unconventional maya
zines, and their stories will be sex
stories. There is a nenormous audi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
$40. 600 MORVEN FIRE

QUITMAN, March 16.-Morven, a
town 10 miles north of Quitman,
had 2 $4,000 fire yesterday morn
ing at 10 o'clock, burning the entire
business of one side of the main
street. The R. D. Edmondson store,
Notes Garage, the office Of DR.. j..
R. Clover, a restaurant and the town
caIaboose were destroyed. The large
glass windows Of the bank and other
buildings across the street We're
broken by heat 1t is believed the
fire started from steam engine
used in digging a deep well for the
town.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
KIWANIANS ORGANIZE
AT VIENNA WEDNESDAY

CORDELE. March 16.-With Rev.
T. W. Tippett as temporary presi-
dent the Vienna Kiwanis club was
formed at q meeting of citizens in
the Virginia hotel Thirty-fve to
forty enthusiastic business and pro-
fessionaI men had part in the meet
ing and the ladies who are heads OF
the civic organizations in the com
munity also took part. f. B. Dykes
was made secretary and treasurer
and F. w. Mann, vice-president.
This IS to be made a regular club as
soon as the charter can be secured
and the permanent organization per-
fected. Members of the Cordele
club sponsored the formation of the
new club.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
Sex StOAieS NOT Cheap
SOrdid or Harmful
Woman Editor of Saucy Stories Defends So
Called Septic" Literature From Attacks
Of Critics

typhoid carrier Our mental and
physica! health is endangered"
That is the burden Of an editorial
by DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk, medical
director of the Life Extension Insti
tute, under the heading 'The Putrid
Pen" in the February issue Of the
institutes magazine, How to Live
Journal"
Applying his opinions for NEA
Service, DR. Fisk said;
Books and magazines Of this sep
tic sex type appeal to an evil appe-
tite. This appetite is not as wide
spread as some think; it is like the
appetite for morphine: normal,
healthy people do not crave it, but
many become mentally infected and
develop abnormal tendencies. Clinics
and hospitals record the terrible
This is an age of self-lndulgence,
of luxury, Of the new freedom-par-
ticularly for women-of precedents
cast aside. Stories of love that are
high-minded, spiritualizing human
passion, create good. The other kind,
hay;ng a pathological trend, brutalize
it and appeal only to the animal
sense.
Magazines aping the miscalled
genius of these cowardly attacks on
our home circles add fuel to the fire,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
NEW YORK, March

NEW YORK, March Is NOR
al cleanup needed in the literature
Of today? Censorship? Or ostraciza-
tion of snappy stories and novels?
Friction grows as our fiction null
tilFies. Protests against sex are
answered by defenders of them
Vice crusaders have dragged several
books, and their authors and pub
fishers into court Some books have
been suppressed; others have been
acquitted.
A famous physician has now fired
broadside against what he calls
septic literature" and, in an inter
view with NEA Service, says sex
literature menaces the public health.
A woman editor Of one Of the
many magazines that have built up
calculations during the last few years
on frank fiction Of love says sex
stories are not cheap and sordid
and harmful.
The prosecution and the defense
are given here:
The prosecution says:
Literary pretenders who write sex
novels and magazine stories Of today
are guilty Of producing septic lit
erature.
Such authors are as menacing to
the public health, especially in this
age Of shifting moral standards, as a
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
CATTLENEN MEET NEXT
YEAR At CAMBRIDGE

ROANOKE. Va, March 16-Bain-
bridge, Ga, was selected for the
next annual meeting of the Southern
Cattlemen's association, and On. TAFT
Butler, of Memphis, Tenn, was re-
elected president of the organiz5a-
ton at the closing session OF the
annual convention here. M. II.
Jarnigan, of Athens, Ga, was elect
ed secretary and treasurer to sue
coed ]. P. Keen, of Blacksburg, va.
Vice presidents from each Of the ~
Southern states represented IN the
association also were elected at the
session. following which forty head
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
VIOLATING NARCOTIC ACT
MACON. March 16.-Joe T. Ever

MACON, March 16.-Joe F. Ever
cit, of Vienna, charged with violat-
ING the Harrison narcotic act,- was
given a preliminary hearing and re-
leased under bond of $250 yesterday
afternoon before Cecil MCygan,
clerk of the United States court.
Everett some years ago ran 4 drug
store in South Georgia, but sold the
business. He was brought to Ma
con yesterday morning by Z. W.,
deputy marshal.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
coRDELE KIWANIANs ACTIVE

CORDELE, March 16.-The local
Kiwanis club today voted to give
high school athletics the funds from
the coming chautauqua program in
in Cordele and went to work to make
it so large that a local athletic field
and an indoor court may be built
for the young athletes who have
made such a fine Southwest Georgia
record in basketball.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16

ence awaiting them, a steadily in
creasing demand. It is life they
want, a life they believe in, and have
an unlimited desire for.'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16
SCARLET FEVER IN FIT. GAINES

1JANLEr FLVLN IN + I. GAIINEo
FORT GAINES, March 16-A- few
cases of scarlet fever are reported
in the city, but Of very mild form
and they are not expected to give
any serious trouble. 1t is reported
that smallp4y has broken out in the
negro section Of the city but it, too,
is of . very mild form.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-03-16

of the finest cattle in the South
were disposed Of at auction.
The Glenwood post., 1923-09-13
DOING AWAY WITH UGlTNcSS
Citizens of Kansas City Have the Right
Idea in influencing the Taste
of the Public.

Speaking of city Identification, CO.
ordinate subject with city improve
ments on a Sl0O0O0000 scale, it is in
terestlng to note that Kansas City has
a "Citlzens' Anti-Ugly Association"
Its object IL to keep the town spruced
up. 1t calls attention to things that
ought to be done to make Kansas City
prettier and the things that ought not
to be done that will make 1t less pretty
than it is.
1t is greatly Interested in zoning and
in lesser esthetlc regulations such as
those that affect billboards, weeds,
tree pruning and Topsy-like cheap ar
chitecttre thul Jest grows" without
planning.
Its main influence at first is rropa-
gandist. Precept and preaching is the
idea but ordinances are also an aim.
There Is much in persuading the pub
lie taste and single object lesson In
beauty is worth hundred sermons. In
our own humble opinion, If you want
an appreciation Of beauty In city plan
ming and building, show bit Of 1t ac-
compllshed-nnd there'll be clamor
for more.-St. Louis Globe-Democrnt.
The Glenwood post., 1923-09-13

"a Got Him, Penzie," She Mumtled
smiled back. "Are you going to ask
me to believe that Frank Bosley took
this money and
Exactly. He came for the package
that his wife left, and you weren't
here. He had to have 1t quick, cause
he'd got scared and was planning a
getaway. so he came In for 1t; and
don't have to remind you, Carline,
that It's easy to find things in this
house. He found the package, and
there was the money beside 1t. Why
not take 1t, as longs he was going out
Of town anyway"
What are you talking about, Uncle
Jerry2 Why was he getting away
and"
Shaw. now, Car'llne, the idea Of
your being confused cause began at
the wrong end of my story. I'll take
the other end If you'd like 1t better.
You see, l been trying out little
sleuthing."
"Oh!" Mrs. Penfield drew a deep
DTeulH. Ou Tue INSTANT Her memory
caught up a few perplexing occur
rences In the past months.
"Yes, I've always had leaning
toward tread a good deal and fol
lowed what other fellers had done,
and all th0t; and when l got my
knockout for the woods, / naturally
wanted to go into something that ap-
pealed. had lot of personal recon-
mendations and u letter to man con
nected with the lumber company,
Through him and considerable red
tape, ! finally got sworn In as spe-
clal with the secret service, when they
were taking on n number Of extra
men to work on the Bosley ring. My
particular assignment has been to
shadow Bosley. Believe me, I've sweat
blood over that feller, darn him"
Mrs. Penheld's eyes were fixed on
his face. "That's why you came here
took the loft and"
Sure. I wanted to be round ms
casually as possible. I've worked ev'ry
scheme could concoct to worm myself
into that fellers life. But he was II
slick one In his own line. He's been
stringing me on u real-estate deal, and
I've allowed myself to be strung. OF
The Glenwood post., 1923-09-13
Courane,

Fear God, and take your own part.
There's Bible in that, young man; see
how Moses feared God, and how he
took his own part against everybody
who meddled with him. And see how
David feared God and took his own
part. =. So fear God, young
man, and never give in! The world
can bully, and is fond, provided it sees
man in kind of difficulty, of get
ting about him, calling him coarse
names, and even going so far as to
hustle him; but the world, like all
bullies, carries a white feather in its
tail, and no sooner sees the man TAX
ing off his coat, and offering to fight
its best, than 1t scatters here and
there, and is always civil to him af-
terwards.-Borrow.
The Glenwood post., 1923-09-13

- IT, and therefore 1t 10
good? That Is not enough. They can
rightfully tell us that, even though
system may minister to our physical
well-being. II 1t stunts US morally II
1t does not positively make us better
ethically 1t is an inadequate system.
The general answer to this asser-
ton is obvious. The very fact that
our industry, comm cree and finance
serve us so imply with the materials
and means for physical well-being
gives us the opportunity to build and
support our churches, to foster the
arts. to develop our great educational
system,-to be kind to one another.
But need we deal In generalities?
Do we not hnd In the direct effect OF
our business upon the Individual
much to improve his ethical stand
ards? To tougher his moral aberH
Is It not good for the personal char
acter Of the race to do business as
we are now doing itf
Let us take the business OF bank
ing, for example. Is it a mere mech
anism or is it vital moral force1
Does 1t do m IRE han, by facilitating
production. rise he physical stand
ard OF living, or Is there anything
inherent in the manner and methods
of banking that raises the moral
standard of living as wellf
Nine-tenths OF our business Is done
by means of credit. The great bulk
of that credit is obtained from the
banks 1t is obtained from the banks
because men have character,-bs-
cause they are honest, because they
keep faith.-because they can bs
trusted.
II they did not have these qualities
they could not do business with
credit, they could not do business at
the banks. We say banks deal In
credit. That Is but q way OF saying
they deal In honor and honesty. They
build the business structure with the
faith of man in man.
The part banking plays In our busi-
ness life IL growing. That means
that the faith Of men In each other
is growing. The more men who come
to the banks with characters that en-
title them to credit.-the more men
who realize that to gain credit at the
banks, they must possess themselves
with characters that win them un-
questioned trust, the higher becomes
the ethical standards of the nation.
Is not this great moral service
t1,nt In ,lrty, v+ t.
justification for our present financial
system than even its wonderful EN-
cheney III providing US with the ma
terial things Of life. No greater serv.
ice could be rendered the nation.