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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
WADING TO CHURCH.

If you WefIt to church on Sunday morning,
you probably took the water route" Most
people were forced to wade to church, and al
though they may have carried Bibles under
their arms and lofty thoughts in their minds, it
is pretty certain that they said some naughty,
naughty words when they struck some of those
sidewalks which were SO far off grade that in
stead of being sidewalks they were converted
into unpicturesque lakes.
The fellow who got into church with wet feet
probably found it hard to enjoy the sermon "A
bedraggled frock pulled through the water and
slush of sidewalk off grade probably caused a
considerable annoyance to number of the
women, whose singing in the church choir was
considerably tangled and out of tune on account
of their resentment against their neighbor for
having a sidewalk which was impossible
1t might have been good thing for these
|church-goers to have used the fly leaves of their
Bibles to write down just where these nui-
sances abounded in Kenosha. A good church
member is person who in interested in having
a good town, and a Sunday morning walk to
church over such walks as existed in Kenosha
on Sunday morning should have aroused some
civic interest. Of course city does not have
snow and rain like the one which came Satur-
day night every night in year, but real city
gets protection against just such conditions by
making survey of the walks and by ordering
property owners to bring walks up to a grade
which will permit the water to run Of them and
furnish reasonably dry place for people to
walk
Kenosha has struggled with these bad grades
in sidewalks for many years, and it seems i'm
possible to get the right kind of interest in bet
tering the conditions. The property owners
undoubtedly would be ready and willing to
change the grades and build new walk if they
would just get an official order to do it. How
ever, the expenditure of money on the part of
property owners is not likely to be voluntary.
Possibly some of the people who sat through
the church services unable to properly under
stand the gospel because their feet were cold
can start the movement
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

dockets of the municipal court indicate clearly
that the fight is going forward and with the
complete cooperation from the state enforce
ment agencies Kenosha is making progress.
Now movement has been started in Chicago
to stamp out the moonshine maker and the
moonshine peddler, and Kenosha officials should
hook up with this movement in every way pos
Isible.
1t IS declared that in a very short period the
poison beverage has claimed hundred and
thirty-four lives in Chicago Undoubtedly, it
has claimed many lives in Kenosha, and the
death certificates have been camoufaged under
another designation.
The stamping out of moonshine is a big job
Chicago newspapers which have been leaders in
their field have given such an encouragement to
law violations by the attitude they have taken
on prohibition enforcement that many people in
this district of the country have come to believe
that violation of the law is virtue rather than
a vice. This fact has made it decidedly hard to
stamp out the moonshine evil.
Kenosha can help Chicago and help herself
by starting right in to take possession of every
bottle of moonshine brought into Kenosha and
by prosecuting the man who has it. The way
to fight the moonshine business is to get the
man who buys along with the man who sells,
and the law opens the way to get both of them
When the fellow who has been buying moon
shine-some of them think that they are buy
ing real liquor and haven't sense enough to
know the differences placed in the prisoners
dock for possession alongside of the disheveled
man who sells it is certain that the big move
ment to eliminate moonshine is going to take
leap forward.
There is no dual standard in violation of the
prohibition laws, and the sooner all of the men
who encourage it are held equally guilty before
the law, the sooner progress will be made.
Let's hook Kenosha up with this great drive
lin Chicago and have Kenosha do it's part to
bring respect for constitutional government.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
LIFE AND CHARACTER READING.
January Is.

The sign governing this birthdate
is Capricorn, the sign of the goat and
the last sign of the Earth Triplicity.
The governing planet is Saturn and
the astral colors are black, onyx and
silvergray. The birthstone is a white
onyx or a moonstone.
The diseases most likely to attack
persons born on this date are indi-
gestion and melancholy. They are
often the victims of overwork, be-
cause Of their determination to achieve
brilliantly whatever they undertake,
and because of their lack of powers of
endurance.
These ailments and all others known
to man can be entirely dominated, for
ever cast out by those who realize that
mind is the master and the body~the
servant of mind.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
The Referee
CURIOSITY.

A railroad man figures out that it
costs "a cents to stop freight train
going five miles an hour. Wear and
tear and overhead increase with speed
of the train when brakes are thrown,
reaching $1.44 as the cost of stopping
when running Is miles an hour
Far off, in Sweden, DR.. Savante
Arrhenius, astronomer, estimates that
our sun Sc billion years from now will
be shining on our earth as brightly
and warmly as now.
The human body is chained to earth,
but its brain is exploring the universe.
Curiosity is back of it ALL with moth
ing too big or too little to be worth
investigating. What is your brain
most interested in now?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
HEROES
BY BERTON BRALEY

ssMY father!-Well / guess if he
Should find some giants kidnapped me,
He'd foller 'em right to their cave
My fathers awful strong an brave!
An when he caught 'em he'd yell Hey.
You let that boy go, right away!'
An if they didn't tell you
My father'd break 'em pldmb in two!
guess he'd learn EN- to be good,
That's how he'd do-my father would"
0VOUR father! Aw, he amt grand,
My father'd lick him with one hand,
And if some giants was around
Why just the minute that they found
My father lived here-tell you what,
They'd run like fun until they got
A million miles away fTheyd be
Afraid to THINK of touchin' mel"
4 ND THUS two ordinary men
Of five foot six or eight ten,
A little soft and fat and gray,
And commonplace in every way,
Are by their childrens honest pride
Heroic figures, magnifed
man must be perfect
If to his kids he's not hero.
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service.)
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unrest, for fear their own pocketbooks
will be injured, once realize that there
are those real grievances from imitation
and defation (which are what sun
stable money" means) they would do
something else than wiring their hands
IN bewildered anxiety
They would take measures to pre-
vent imitation and defation-that is,
to stabilize the purchasing power of
money. Nncidently this would not
only prevent the real grievances men
toned but would help their own pocket
books.
INSTABILITY
CAUSES BOLSHEVISM.
AS stated at the outset, of course,
there are other grievances. But it is
doubtful if any are so important as
those produced by imitation and defla-
ton. Lord D'Abernon, now British
ambassador to Germany and one of
the masters of this subject, once said
that he believed 80 per cent of the
worlds bolshevism came from unstable
money. That is higher percentage
than I would ascribe, but i believe
over 30 per cent would be a conser-
vative estimate.
And the worst of it is that neither
labor nor capital has yet clearly seen
the situation. Labor is therefore now
on the rampage and is quite likely to
hang the wrong man to the lamppost;
while capital does nothing except to
demand that nothing be- done. When
both sides demand and obtain stable
money over half Of their difficulties
will disappear.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

State papers, commenting on the MESA ge of
Governor Blaine, have shown a willingness to
be in accord with the governor on lot of. his
suggestions. Now if the governor would Just
be willing to show the same courtesy in consid-
ering opinions of some of the rest of us it might
be that Wisconsin would be on the fair way to
an honest consideration of it's needs and meet
ing these needs in fair and honest manner.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
BOOTLEGGERS.

A bootlegger's protective association
is discovered in Chicago by U. S. Dist,
Atty. Clyne. The association head
quarters furnishes bail, lawyers and
influence when its members get arres-
ted. Their customers might proftably
form similar organization, with fra
ternal features providing burial ex-
penses for deceased members.
How far has the organization Of
bootleggers gone? How much bribery
and lobbying are being carried on by
the rum ring? The expose will come,
red hot, some day. Possibly in a re-
tired bootlegger's memoirs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
STEAM.

Inland cities in April and May will
celebrate the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the first trip of steamboat
on the Mississippi.
The orators will concentrate their
eloquence in comparing 1923 with 1928
We certainly have progressed on a
stupendous scale in the last century.
But a lot of the progress has been
backward, not forward. The only
achievement that can really be called
progress is one that makes people bet
ter and happier.
On the average, are we as sensible
and contented as our great-great-
grandparents :?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
TOM SIMS
Says

Most of those who swore off are
swearing on.
Know thyself-but don't tell every
body about it.
He who hesitates is old-fashioned.
Shooting dice for living is shaky
business.
Curiosity killed cat and a, cat has
nine lives.
Some of these books being bound
ought to be gagged.
To be picture of health girl must
have good frame.
Many a plan to get rich quick has
poor ending.
Next month is the month in which
you pay 80 days rent for % days.
The concert of nations is singing on
American notes.
When a, woman gets her husband
up tree she makes a monkey out of
him.
The most expensive thing on earth
is the upkeep on a marriage license.
Cuss and the world cusses at you.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
IF YOU ARE WELL BRED.

In taking a taxicab the woman en-
ters first, assisted by her escort, and
takes the further seat. whether right
or left.
In alighting, the man leads the way
and helps the woman to reach the
ground safely.
If the taxicab has double seats, the
man takes his place with his back to
the driver, unless he is an old friend
of the woman he is accompanying.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
TOBACCO.

Americans during 1922 smoked about
$4,000 million cigarets, 5000 million
cigars and 400 million pounds of pipe
tobacco.
This was about 500 cigarets, go cigars
and four pounds of pipe tobacco for
every man, woman and child.
What effect is this terrific amount of
drug having on national composite in
telligence, efficiency and health? The
Indians certainly started something
when they handed the white mans
first pipe of tobacco to Sir Walter
Raleigh.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
GINNING.

Women talk more than men, Saws
DR.. A. A. Brill, the psycho-analyst.
John W. Raper, humorist, suggests
that Brill should attend a session Of
the United States Senate, which might
change his view.
If women really do talk more than
men, it's because custom and courtesy
make it easier for them to get an au-
dience.. Only reason the average PEI
son ever listens to anyone else's talk
is because he knows it'll soon be his
turn.
The chief thing that keeps Europe
from returning to normal is that most
of its politicians are primarily inter
ested in talking to the galleries.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
BUILDING.

Americans this year will try to erect
1880 million dollars worth of new
buildings, or about $40 for every man
woman and child.
This is the estimate by Copper and
Brass Research Association. 1t fears
that nearly a fourth of this gigantic
building program will have to be de
layed until 1924, because Of shortage Of
labor, materials and money.
Good news. When it comes to en-
ployment and prosperity, it's impos-
sible for America to bite off more than
it can chew. A good year is starting
No news is more fundamental.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Wait for things to turn up and your
nose is all that does it.
The only reliable weather forecast
is: Winter, spring, summer, fall.
An Iowa hen has broken the egg
laying record and more than likely the
rooster is Growing yet.
What is more costly than making
history?
Making love doesn't take as long as
it did once, but it doesn't stay made as
long.
Farmers raise crops in the summer
and questions in the winter
What man has often has him.
The best part Of will power is the
won't power.
If you are Disguised just think of
the money you are saving on ice.
Ninety per cent of the men looking
for trouble are single.
Too many public Offices are used for
private purposes.
What this country of ours needs is
more spunk and less bunk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
TODAY,S THOIIGHT.

and beware of covetousness: for a
mans life consistent not in the album
dance of the things which he posses
seth.--Luke 1918.
The first principle of all human econ
omy, individual or political, is to live
with as few wants as possible, and to
waste nothing of what is given to sup
ply them, j ohm Ruskin.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

1t costs eighty marks to send a letter from
Berlin to Kenosha, and it costs the equivalent
of over five hundred marks to send that same
letter back to Berlin. However, we are of the
opinion that most of us would rather pay the
difference and stay in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The telephone company began the
work of removing their Office fixtures
to their new rooms in the Benedict and
Tarbell building today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Collective bargaining will probably be a
good thing for the milk producers provided the
men who do the collecting do not get too much
of rake off, The cost of making bargaining
collective" has always been the greatest draw
back to every form of cooperation
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
LET'S HOOK UP WITH THIS MOVEMENT

Kenosha is to be congratulated on the man
ner in which the police department of the city
has kept persistently after the makers of moon
shine. The number of DRINKS about the city
Emay indicate that the fight has not been an
entire success, but the number Of entries on the
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
Happenings
Is Years Ago
January 15.Hs97.

Miss Lizzie Leik and Otto jNewhouse
were married in Milwaukee last Sun
day.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The high school boys will have an
other game at Simmons hall tonight.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
a BIBLE THOUGHT FOR
@ TODAY
IA
January 15tb

January 18th.
WHICH DO YOU PREFER ?-Resist
the devil, and ne will fee from you
Draw nigh to God, and He viii draw
night to you.-James Al,
QUESTION-How can we get near
to God Psalm 51:1O-12.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

News has been received here of the
illness of Jacob Harb at Helena, Mon
tana.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The Kenosha Athletics will play the
Chicago Dearborns next Tuesday night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Joseph Murray presented Kerry
Cow" at the opera house last night.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18
KIDNAPPED SENATOR ESCAPES.

(By Associated Press Leased Wirel
Dublin n DR.. Oliver Gogarty, mem
Der of the Irish Free State senate was
kidnapped last night by two men but es-
capped after being taken some distance
outside the city by his captors.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Another good way to prevent gray hair is to
have the brake Innings examined at intervals.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The funeral Of Florence Jorgensen
will be held Saturday afternoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

One pound of dehydrated spinach is
equal in food value to a 60 pound case
of the canned vegetable.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

chimney in the residence of R. II.
Burr was burned out last night
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The Social Whist Club spent very
pleasant afternoon with Mrs. w. S.
Lamb playing drive whist.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Cuss and the world cusses at you.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Wait for things to turn up and your
nose is all that does it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The only reliable weather forecast
is: Winter, spring, summer, fall.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

The most expensive thing on earth
is the upkeep on a marriage license.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

An Iowa hen has broken the egg
laying record and more than likely the
rooster is Growing yet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Too many public offices are used for
private purposes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

What this country of ours needs is
more spunk and less bunk.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-01-18

Ninety per cent of the men looking
for trouble are single.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

seat themselves about the sacred rock, or
shrine, the second division, the true snake
dancers, appear. They march two by two.
The dancers at the left side of the
column hold in their teeth the wriggling
body of rattlesnake! In their hands are
other squirming serpents. Some of these
snakes are monsters four and five feet
long, yet the dancers seem to carry them
with ease and the snakes themselves ap-
pear to enjoy it. Their tails writhe over
the shoulders and their heads undulate
above and around the head of the priests.
The dancers on the right carry ceremonial
wands tipped with eagle feathers With
these they tickle the heads, necks and jaws
of the snakes.
The snake dancers prance slowly
around the inclosure, lifting each knee
slowly to the height of the waist and then
planting the foot firmly upon the ground
before lifting the other.
AS the snake carriers reach the eastern
END OF the enclosure they spat the snakes
out on the ground" writes Captain
burke, and move on to the front of the
sacred lodge, at the same time emitting a
strange cry, half grunt and half wall"
The women now throw from flat bas-
kets finely ground corn -four in the air
over the dancers and upon the snakes, all
the time praying.
"As soon as the snake-bearers have
dropped their load, they go back for more,
and in their subsequent appearances"
says Captain Burke, "every man carried
reptile between his teeth; one of the
performers carried two.
After the snakes have all been carried
IN the mouths of the dancers, the chief
priest recites in low voice brief prayer.
"The Snake-bearers then grasp the rat
tiers coAvulsively in great handfuls, run
with might and main away, and dart down
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ancestors, and will not only prevent the
hoidlng OF corn and harvest dances. Int
VIII also put an end to the famous snake
dance ceremony. This move by the Com
missioner we oppose, because it places the
rellglous and social life of the Indians at
the arbitrary disposition of the Indian
commissioner or his representatives.. the
Indian superintendent
The most elaborate snake dance ;s +bo+
which has been performed for centuries
by the Pueblo Indians of our Southwest
These Indians, of whom the best known
perhaps are the Hopi and the Moo11i
tribes, are believed to be the direct De-
scendants of the ancient cliff dwoIlars
whose ruined habitations are one of our
few national monuments. Their dance is
strictly religious ceremony, designed to
propltlate the gods who control the
weather and particularly the rain god
In the arid, semi-desert region, where the
Pueblo Indians dwell, rain is quite the
most important matter in their lives. since
unless showers come along at Just the
right time and in sufficient quantity their
crops must fail and famine attack.
The rattlesnake is used in obedience to
a tradition of greatest antiquity. The
rattlesnake, for sufficiently good reasons
to them, is believed to be messenger be-
tween the Indians and the rain god.
The snake dance takes place in the
Spring, since that is the time of sowing
and termination.
First the snakes, great rattlers, are
gathered together from their lairs and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

them of their venom.
After the serpents are gathered, a
number are picked out by each of the
priests and the preliminary ceremonies are
gone through. Captain John G. Burke.
one OF the few whites who have ever been
IN the confidence of the snake priests. has
described an interesting portion of these
ceremonies, which may partly explain the
immunity of the Indians for the snake
bite.
eve have four kinds of medicine in the
Dance" Captain Burke says he was told;
-four kinds of roots-the red root, the
yellow root, the blue root and the root
without name. The priests ALWAYS. carry
these medicines with them, and when they
meet with g. rattlesnake they first pray to
their father, the sun. This being done,
the rattlesnake is picked up and taken
home
There the priest washes it in good
cold water in which the yellow root medi-
cine has been mixed. And then he him
sell, throwing away every particle Of the
ciothing he has been accustomed to wear
lmg' washes himself in the same water
men he fasts for one day and dances
through the night. In the evening of the
day OF the dance they first go and feed
the rattlesnake, and then they themselves
are permitted to go and eat"
When the dance begins the first division
OF priests make with gourds and rattles.
the sound of rain falling and thunder
roaring. They are followed by Indian
women in ceremonial dress. After these
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Tense Society, whose members
are sincerely interested in pro-
tecting the rights and looking
after the interests of the red
man.
Commenting on the new die
tum of Commissioner Burke,
the officials of the Indian De-
'fense, Society said:
eff the provisions of Com
missioner Burke's message are
put into effect, it would mean
forcing the Indians to abandon,
the traditions and religious
ceremonials which are as old
as the race itself. He bases
his objections on the amount
of time consumed by these re-
ligious ceremonials which, he
says, causes the Indians to
neglect their work. -..
"The Indian Commissioner
seeks to deprive the Indians of
the right of worshipping their
gods after the manner Of their