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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
MINERS AID DIS
TRESSED

Kemmerer, Wyo.-The first note OF
practical sympathy to the terror
stricken wives and children of miners
who lost their lives in the mine OF
the Kemmerer Coal Company was a
telegraphed check for $4,000, signed
by President Lewis and Secretary.
Treasurer Green, of the United Mine
Workers.
Another aid is the prompt settle
ment of compensation under the state
law. In 33 cases a settlement was
reached almost Immediately by Dis
trict Judge Arnold, whose awards
totaled $133,07001. The remaining
sc cases await proof to be submitted
by claimants, most of whom live out.
side the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
PANAMA CANAL PAYS

New York.-The Panama canal Is
making profit of $5O0,000 a month
for the government, according to Col
onel Jay J. Morrow, governor of the
canal zone, who has arrived in this
city.
"The canal is now paying more than
3 per cent on the investment" said
the governor. "It costs about 100000
month to operate the waterway that
divides North and South America
During the first Is days of August
more than $1,00O,OOG in tolls was re-
ceived. During the nine years the
canal has been in operation 20,474
vessels have passed through the
waterway"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
ORGANIZED BAKERS
RESIST BREAD TRUST

Chicago. Bakers Internation-
al Union of America again reminds
organized labor and sympathizers
that its fight against the Ward Bak-
ing Company is still on.
On May l last this concern declared
for the anti-union shop. The union
lists refuse to accept individual bar
gaining, with increased hours, less
wages and working conditions that
are lowered as unionism disappears.
"In 1922 the Ward Baking Com
pany realized profit of over $4,000
000," the unionists say. "Their slo-
gan for 1923 double that amount to
be squeezed out of the workers and
bread consumers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
EMPLOYMENT LAGS

Albany, N. Y.-EmpIoyment reced-
ed slightly in the manufacturing
plants of this state in August, ac-
cording to the New York state de-
partment of labor.
Small reductions have been report
ed every month since March, it is
stated, but the total decrease leaves
the employment level as high as it
was at the beginning of the year and
there is no definite evidence of DOWN
ward trend.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
RAILROADS AN ISSUE?

Chicago. = Government ownership
and operation of the railroads is likely
to be the issue in next years presi-
Dental campaign, according to DR..
David Friday, director of the research
council of the national transportation
institute and former president OF the
Michigan agricultural college.
at is of vital Importance that a
thorough, impartial examination be
made of all the results of government
railroad operation wherever carried
on, and that the fact be made known
to the public" said DR.. Friday, who
insists that otherwise an election on
this issue would be "a farce"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
WORKINGSOF PROHIBITION
AND FORECAST OF MIGHTY STRUGGLE TO COME BETWEEN
ULTRA "DRY'S" AND ADVOCATES OF RATIONAL AND
REASONABLE MODIFICATION OF THE
VOLSTEAD LAW
Vetabe Plague On Both Political
terest In All Assemblies Of Men And Women

lings appointed under the most fla
grant and atrocious of all the "spoils"
systems with which the country has
ever been afflicted; a service which
is corrupted from bottom to top by
sets of political derelicts and graft
ers.
1t abounds in accusation and in fact
with biackmai, extortion, misappro-
priation, larceny and malfeasance
1t is a service of ''frame-ups" and
grand and petty graft.
Prohibition enforcement as it is al
ministered is fast corrupting both
Continued on page four)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21

of any proposal which will more than
temporarily "sidetrack" prohibition
and prohibition enforcement.
1t is truly a question which has
not been settled.
Strive and scheme as they may,
politicians and political parties are
totally unequal to the consummation
of any proposal which will more than
temporarily 'sidetrack" prohibition
and prohibition issues.
Prohibition, like "Banquo's Ghost to
Macbeth" comes back to trouble the
repose and quiet of their dreams.
A veritable plague on both their
houses.
Prohibition is the result of the CON
centrated powers and fears of the
World war when our boys were sent
across the seas to shoot guns at Prus-
slams and beg them to free them
selves from the autocratic kaiser
and during their necessary absence,
being deprived of a glass of beer
when they came home again.
Under no other condition could to-
tai prohibition have paralyzed So
called free people.
And unless there be a modification
Of the Volstead law, which will per
NIT the legal manufacture and sale
of wholesome beer and light wines
Of low alcoholic content, prohibition
and prohibition enforcement, collect
lively are certain to be an issue of
great pith and moment in the poll
tics of nineteen hundred and twenty
four
In any event, there are some mil
lions of people in these United States
who will, wisely or unwisely, do their
best and use their greatest effort to
make it such.
The rumblings of this mighty con-
test-between the forces of light, who
would preserve inviolate the sacred
guarantees of the constitution and the
blessed privileges of normal personal
and religious liberty, and the forces
of darkness, whose trend is altogether
in the direction of concentration of all
the powers of government in the fed
eral authority, to be administered in
the spirit of tyrannical paternalism
under a widespread and far-reaching
system of bureaucracies-is already to
be heard long and loud and deep.
There is resentment and revolt
against this new form of government
to the end that LIBERTY Liberty, thou
breath of reason; life of life itself"
SHALL NOT be supplanted by fear
and that courage and manhood SHALL
NOT give way to the yoke of servile
pomp-"When Liberty is gone, life
grows insipid and has lost its relish"
Liberty: Liberty: How many
crimes are committed in thy name ?"
1t has come to be very general
belief indeed, that total prohibition in
these United States is impossible of
enforcement.
At least all indications, after ap-
proximately five years of presumably
strenuous effort, point to and justify
such a conclusion.
But in any event, it may be regard
ed as certain, that any maximum de-
gree of prohibition enforcement shall
not be attained by the existing mani
fold prohibition enforcement units =
of the national and state governments,
as they are now constituted; service
collectively made up, as it is, of po-
! iitical retainers, henchmen and under
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
CAN'T LOWER RATES

Salt Lake City.-The federal dis
trict court here has issued a perma-
nent injunction against the state pub
lie utilities commission lowering tele-
phone rates of the Mountain states
telephone and telegraph company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
MUSICIANS RAISE WAGES

Hartford, Conn.-Organized musi-
clans in this city have raised wages $5
a week in motion picture houses and
So a week in vaudeville houses. The
workday has been decreased.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
RAILROAD RAISES RATES

Chicago.-The New York Central
has informed the railroad labor board
that it has granted increases of from
to cents an hour to clerical and
shop employees. The raise will date
back to last July and will aggregate
S1.241, ,682 annually.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
By WALTER P. DICKERSON

Though all the winds of doctrine
were let loose to play upon the earth,
so TRUTH be in the field, we do in
gloriously, by licensing and prohibit
ing, to misdoubt her strength.
Let her and FALSEHOOD grapple;
whoever knew TRUTH put to the
worse in free and open encounter.
Milton.
The Truth and Prohibition
Prohibition will work great injury
to the cause of temperance. 1t is a
species of intemperance within itself,
for it goes beyond the bounds of rea-
son, in that it attempts to control a
mans appetite by legislation, and
makes crimes out of things which are
not crimes. A prohibition law strikes
blow at the very principles on which
our government was founded"
Thus spoke Abraham Lincoln. to
the legislature of Illinois in 1912, as
quoted recently by former army
chaplain at meeting of the American
Veterans of Foreign Wars. (D
(D There are words on the subject
of temperance" - before temper
ance" became confounded with ''pro-
hibition" attributed to Abraham Lin
coin and purporting to be quotations
from his public utterances, which
never have been and which cannot be
verified or authenticated.
Some of these alleged quotations
are pure fiction unscrupulously invent
ed and applied with full intent to
deceive the public mind.
The quotation here used is of open
record at Springfield, the capital of
Illinois, and leaves no room for doubt
as to Mr.. Lincoln's attitude toward
what is now become a burning ques-
tion of the day and time.
They have their full realization in
the existing prohibition laws of the
nation and of states, which in them
selves are the very pinnacle of intem-
perance and immoderation.
The Politics of Prohibition
A basic fundamental claim in favor
of the enactment of prohibition in the
United States, was, that it would take
the liquor question forever "out of
politics"
Never in the history of prohibition
agitation has the subject been so en-
phatically political issue as at this
! time.
1t confines under constant CONVEX
sation and argument, everywhere and
in every section.
Whenever and wherever two or
three are gathered together, the topic
of prohibition and prohibition en-
forcement, takes precedence over and
above all others.
1t is the center of interest in all
assemblies Of men and women.
On the street, in public places, in
clubs, in fraternities, in business
houses, in the home, the endless dis
cussion of prohibition and prohibition
enforcement proceeds apace
Public affairs, national anl inter
national, as far as public consideration
is concerned, are largely subordinat-
ed to prohibition and prohibition en-
forcement
1t is truly question which has not
/ been settled.
Strive and scheme as they may
politicians and political parties are
totally unequal to the consummation
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
THEATRE WORKERS GAIN

Springfield, Mass.-A Is per cent
wage increase has been secured by
musicians, stage employees, motion pic
ture operators and bill posters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-21
Steel Workers Find Time
For Soccer Football With
Coming Of 8-hour Workday

BY International Labor News Service
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
PEQUAMING BRIEFS

Mrs. Robert Murphy left Tuesday
for her home in Fort Smith, Ark, af-
ter spending five weeks here guest
of her sister, Mrs. John Hopkins.
: Fred Olson underwent minor op-
Grafton Wednesday in the hospital at
Hancock.
A large amount Of lumber will be
shipped to L'Anse, where it will be
run through the planning mill and
then shipped to Detroit.
D. L. Hebard and daughters Mary
and Julia left Wednesday for Chicago
for a brief visit.
Henry Johnson of L'Anse has been
transferred here and will have charge
Of the carpentry work.
Guy Golden of Menominee was a
business caller here Tuesday.
The tug Hebard returned Tuesday
from Duluth, after towing the hy-
draulic dredge Alice Vivian to L'Anse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Duquette of
Detroit were guests few days this
week of Mr.. and Mres. Fred Wagner.
Harry Stein left Sunday for Phila-
delphia, Pa.
See the great D.. w. Griffith produc-
ton, "Orphans of the Storm" star
ring Lillian and Dorothy Gish, at the
Pastime theatre, L'Anse, next We'd
nesday and Thursday. One show only
each evening, commencing at S:15.
Admission, 2oc and 40c.-advertise-
ment.
r. G. Williams was L'Anse caller
Monday.
Martin Severson left Monday for
a brief visit in the iron country.
Edward Andersen has purchased a
Building & Loan house in L'Anse and
will make their home there.
Miss Anna Westberg left Thursday
Of last week for Albion, where she
will attend college.
A. ]. Cortlpassi, who visited his
sister, Mrs. Hawkins, left Thursday OF
last week for Ann Arbor, he being a
medical student at the University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Miley of Iron
wood visited over the week end with
Mrs. Miley's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Edward Deslaurier.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
PEQUAMING SCHOOL
TO ENTERTAIN PUBLIC

A carnival and short musical pro-
gram will be given Saturday evening,
October 6, at the Odd Fellows hall at
Pequaming by the students Of the
Pequaming school.
E. C. Caviani and the Olson orches-
ira will furnish the several musical
numbers. Mr.. Caviani is an artist on
the concertina, having but recently
left the vaudeville circuit. The Olson
orchestra also has a fine reputation.
A number of articles have been Sc
lected and will be offered for sale fol-
lowing the program. There will also
be some side-show attractions. The
money received from this entertain
ment will be used for the benefit of
the school.
Parents and patrons of the school
are urged to be present and assist in
making the affair a success.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
COUNTY HEALTH ASSN.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED

On Wednesday afternoon of last
week, Mrs. Fulcher of Lansing, of
the State Department of Health, Miss
Knevels of Marquette, superintendent
of the nurses of the upper peninsula,
and the county nurse, Miss Simpson,
met with the women of Skanee at
the Skanee high school to discuss
ways and means of retaining a nurse
for the county. Great interest was
shown by the ladies present and it is
hoped that the same interest will be
shown in the future also.
After Miss Simpson had spoken
about her work in the county and Mrs.
Fulcher had spoken of the importance
of this work and it's continuance, Miss
Knevels proceeded to organize a
branch Of the Baraga county health
organization and the following offic-
ers were elected:
Vice-chairman, Mrs. ]. T. Been.
Finance chairman, Mrs. Oscar Gus
tafson.
Publicity chairman, Pauline L,
Hartvigh.
Advisory board, Mrs. August Oh
man, Mrs. George Young, Oscar Elm
blad.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
BUILDING COAL DOCKS

Van Orden Bros. Of Houghton on
Monday started work on their new
coal docks which they will locate in
LAnse. The docks will be in tri-
angle spot between the Ford and
South Shore railroads near the road
which goes to the South Shore sec
tion house. Three large silo type coal
pockets will be erected, twelve feet in
diameter and thirty feet high, each
having capacity of seventy tons.
They will be modern and up-to-date,
SO that coal can be handled economic
ally.
The demand for coal here has in
creased greatly in the past year and
Van Orden Bros. are taking advan-
tage Of the opening in L'Anse, having
received practically all the business
here the past season. They are an
old, established firm, having been in
business in Houghton for years, where
they have a large trade. Their COM
ing here relieves the citizens Of any
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
sKANEE NOTES

See the great d. w. Griffith produc-
tion, orphans Of the Storm" STAR
ring Lillian and Dorothy Gish, at the
Pastime theatre, L'Anse, next We'd
nesday and Thursday. One show only
each evening, commencing at 8:15.
Admission, zoe and 40c.-advertise-
ment.
Erick E. Erickson was on the Min
eral Range line a few days this week
locking over some timber.
Victor Nelson visited Tuesday in
L'Anse.
Miss Ethel Gilman left Monday for
Marquette where she will attend tie
Normal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ruhl returned
to their home in Calumet last Satur-
day after spending several days here
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Hopkins
Mrs. Axel Erickson and children
visited over the week end in L'Anse.
Gust Lundberg has purchased q
four-door sedan which he will use on
his stage route during the fall and
winter weather.
Peter Peterson has received con-
tract from the Baraga Lumber com.
pany of Baraga to take out half 9
million feet Of logs and two Thousand
cedar poles. The timber will bs
banked on Huron bay.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
GIVES STATEMENT ON
CONDITION OF WATER

There has been a great deal of ru-
NOR and hearsay remarks concerning
the water supply of the village OF
L'Anse and it's relation to the present
epidemic oy typhoid. In order that
the people of L'Anse may know how
conditions are, the following infor-
nation is given.
During the past summer the ques-
tion of the village water supply has
been thoroughly investigated and
samples of the village water taken at
weekly intervals and sometimes twice
week. At no time have TYPHOID
germs been present in these examina-
tions, made at the State Laboratory.
The last report, dated September %,
gave the tap water Of the village as
suspicious but 70 evidence Of the Coli
group of bacilli, from which typhoid
comes. The lower spring which is
generally known as Larsor's was re-
ported as unsafe; the upper spring as
suspicious. While this is going to
press, reports on several samples of
water taken from several sources are
awaited from the Laboratory.
The village board of health have
had inserted in the Sentinel weekly a
notice that all water should be boiled
desiring from the start to avert any
possibility of an epidemic.
People from the village have been
obtaining their water for drinking
from various sources. Unfortunate
ly, because water is clear and cold il
does not free it from being a source
of infection. The water from the vii.
lage if boiled is much safer source
of supply. g
Parents have been instructed anc
advised to have their children inoc,
ulated with Typhoid Vaccine. About
10 children have had their first inoc.
ulation during the past week. Thi:
means of warding off typhoid infec.
ton cannot be urged too strongly, as
after three inoculations that child OF
person is rendered immune to typhoid
fever for at least two or three years
BY this means any typhoid epidemic
can be eliminated.
Any enc in the village can receive
this treatment free, at the office OF
the village health officer. All are
urged to take it both as protection
to themselves and to the community
Frank F. Marshall, M. D.
Village Health Officer
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
LYCEUM COURSE
STARTS NEXT WEEK

For thirty-fve years Edward Reno,
who will appear here on the Lyceum
course next Thursday evening, has
been a magician, and in that time he
has travelled all over the world, in
cluding Ida, Syria and Egypt.
Reno is constantly inventing. new
things in magic and illusions, also in
foreign lands he picked up many
things not known to many profession
ais. Magic, like everything else, has
progressed with rapid strides during
the past few years. Never was there
better demand for up-to-date illu-
sions and sleight of hand than now,
but there is no room nowadays for
anyone who does not keep strictly
abreast of the profession.
Reno has the usual light parapher-
MALTA, but performs his tricks while in
ordinary evening dress, and so adroit-
ly as to escape detection in every case,
In this respect he is wonder. He
does things that seem absolutely i'm
possible of execution without the aid
of supernatural agency.
Not the least enjoyable feature Of
Reno's performance the running
fire of comment with which he enliv-
ems everything he does. These frag-
mentary remarks are full of fun and
wit, with flash after flash of good
tempered satire aimed at himself OF
his work. He is a man Of fine. per-
sonality and engaging stage presence
with keen mentality and an artist.
ic appreciation of the success he has
achieved in his profession.
In his performance he springs one
surprise after another on his audi
ence, keeping all in state of breath
less wonder and delight.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
CATCHING TROUT FOR SPAWN

A survey of the streams in the
county was made last week by the
Department of Conservation for the
purpose of obtaining spawn from ma
ture fish in northern Michigan. J. p.
Marks of Paris, superintendent of the
hatchery in that city, was here over
seeing the work.
He will have a set of trap nets at
the mouths of the Ravine, Slate, Sill
yer and Fall rivers and the streams
at the head of the bay to catch the
trout, which they will strip of fry to
be sent to the hatchery at Sidnaw.
The state department also plans
on having mature trout caught here
and taken to the several hatcheries,
where they will be put in ponds until
they spawn.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
BURGLAR ENTERS GROCERY
STORE IN BARAGA VILLAGE

A lone burglar on Monday night
broke into the meat market of Carl
Cook in Baraga and also attempted to
get into the Real Pharmacy. He
pulled the bolts out of the rear door
in the meat market and ransacked
the shop, had lunch of bread and
boiled ham, with a box of strawber-
ries for dessert. At the drug store
he broke large pane of glass but
was frightened away by the alarm
given.
Louis Girard, clerk in the pharm-
acy, was called and notified the local
officers, but they were unsuccessful
in their attempts to catch the ma
rauder. :,
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
L'ANsE NEWS NOTES

The merchants of L'Anse have
agreed on a delivery system which
they will inaugufate starting next
Monday. Each section will have one
or more deliveries at certain hour
each day. NJ
The Oswald o. Deschaine general
insurance agency delivered drafts for
the following claims during the past
week: Martin Brogan, property dam
age, s22.50; Fred Nipert collision,
S134.05; Leo Foy, collision, S159.93;
Dan Connor, accident, S72.O0; Arthur
Tollefson, accident, S15.42. It pays
to insure with Deschaine.-adverti
ment.
Miss Agnes Brennan accompanied
her brother Thomas to Waukesha,
Wis, where he will take treatments
for rheumatism.
Miss Katherine Holmquist of Chi
cago arrived Monday and is guest
CT Mrs. T. D. Tracy.
Edward Kotila left Wednesday for
a two weeks trip to Mercedes, Tex
as, where he will visit with August
Kotila.
Mrs. Gilbert Chaput and infant re-
turned Wednesday from Alpena,
where they have visited the past few
weeks.
Rev. w. H. Rule is returned for
another year as pastor of the church
es of the L'Anse charge.
Thurston Ring Of Matchwood has
taken the L'Anse section, succeeding
VIM. Peterson, who resigned some
time ago.
Miss Grenafore Westphal left last
Friday for Ypsilanti, where she will
attend the Normal.
President Leo Paquette announces
meeting Of the Lions club next
Tuesday night.
The U. c. F. C. lodge will give a
bake sale on Saturday, October 6.
The LAnse High School football
team was defeated at Houghton last
Saturday, 13 to 0. The home boys
are all new men, this being the first
year in football here. They did excel
lent work, considering the short time
they have been practicing, two weeks
only. They play Sacred Heart at
Laurium Saturday.
James Jacobsen visited last Fri
day in Houghton.
Fabian Deschaine Of Marquette ar
rived Monday for a weeks Wait with
his brother. Noise T.. Deschsine.
Mrs. Goltsch accompanied hei
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-09-28
WELL KNOWN EDUCATOR
BOOKED FOR ADDRESSES

DR.. Renwick H. Martin, well known
educator and lecturer, is scheduled to
make two addresses in this section.
Next Monday evening, at eight
o'clock, he will deliver an address in
the Methodist Episcopal church at
L'Anse, and at eight o'clock Tuesday
evening, he win speak at the M. e
church at Pequaming. His subject
will be "The Making Of Americans. I"
DR.. Martin served for many years
as president Of Geneva college and
has high rank in the educational
world. AS secretary Of the National
Reform Association, he has been
heard throughout the country on the
important questions Of the day. This
association Is composed Of American
citizens who are ganded together for
national reform and DIR. Martin will
present one Of the important items in
that program. This meeting Is one