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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-05-09

Villas County News $500 a year.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
Water Crew at Fires.

Live and learn is an old phrase
In this part of the country, and per-
1laps it was current in England when
The Jamestown and st. Mary's pill
grins set sail across the sea. 1t is
surely applicable TO a condition re-
vealed at d warehouse fire the other
night. Fire department officials have
said that a lack of water in the mains
in that neighborhood caused the flames
TO get beyond control. These officials,
30 runs the news. ARE considering the
advisability Of having the water de-
partment send an emergency wagon to
answer all first alarms of fire. 1t
would appear that it has been the
practice to have a crew from the water
department turn out to fires at the
third alarm to open valves and in
crease the flow of water in those
mains serving the firemen. No doubt
most persons have believed that fire.
men on arriving at fire had at their
command all the water that could flow
from the reservoirs to the fire plugs in
use. This appears not to be the case.
1t would seem wise that the water de.
partment should send q crew to all
fires at the first alarm, that it may
be at hand the moment it's services
are needed.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
The Drug Evil.

Secretary Hughes letter to Chair
man Porter of the House foreign af.
fairs committee gives assurance that
his department Of the government will
aid in every possible way In the sup
preston of the drug evil through the
checking Of the manufacture and I'm
portation Of the materials from which
habitforming narcotics are produced.
Most of these abominable materials
come into this country from outside.
IL the importations could be cut of
absolutely the problem Of drug sup
preston in the United States would.
as the Secretary says, be greatly SIM
permitted, for medicinal and scientific
purposes, but this quantity is very
small compared with the amount that
is poured in for individual consump-
tion in circumstances to lead to one OF
the worst evils from which any peo-
pie can suffer.
The country is aroused by the extent
and gravity of the drug traffic. Every
city has organized aggressive warfare
upon it. Police are making arrests
by the hundreds daily of addicts and
of peddlers. Courts are giving them
the heaviest possible sentences. the
addicts for cure and the peddlers for
punishment. But these processes of
correction are slow, for the habit is
strong, the profits of the traffic are
enormous and there Is powerful in
centive to continue in the face Of the
most severe penalties when caught.
The real cure. therefore. lies in cutting
off or cutting down the supply.
Just what methods may be adopted
to this end is not clear. The incentives
Of the traffic are so great that the
gravest risks will be run in smuggling
the materials into the United States.
Can effective agreements be made
with foreign governments to check the
exports? If Secretary Hughes can Sc
cure such agreements he will have con-
ferred one Of the greatest blessings
upon the American people ever gained
through diplomacy.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
No Grade Crossing Can Be Safe.

Here is a combination of circum-
stances illustrating the deadly danger
Of the grade crossing and the tragic
risk of dependence upon mechanical
and human aids to make those death
traps safe. At Hackensack, N. j., an
ambulance, hurrying in response to a
call to take a desperately sick woman
to a hospital, was hit by a train. The
chauffeur was killed at once, and an
interne was so crushed that he died
soon after. A relief ambulance was
later sent to answer the first call, but
the patient was dead upon its ar
rival on account Of the long delay.
In this case the crossing was
guarded" by gates. But the gates
were frozen and would not work. The
gate tender says that he stood in the
middle of the road and waved a red
lantern, but that the ambulance driver
did not heed. There is nobody to sup.
port this testimony. The occupants
of the ambulance are both dead. The
guard may have been inside Of his
shanty, out Of the cold, in point of
fact.
There is only one assured way to
make grade crossing safe, and that
i t. eliminate j. Sink The street b.
Evening star., 1923-02-17

ordinary men, Yet the time was not
so long ago when plain folk could
eat terrapin and canvasback.
We have been a stupendously and
stupidity shortsighted people in the
matter of our food resources and sup
plies. All persons in Washington with
little age and experience have noted
the decline in the number of shad and
the increase in their cost. Once a COM
mon and plentiful food fish. it has be-
come scarce and costly. There also
was the sturgeon. Folk in the Poto-
mac country couple Of generations
ago could eat sturgeon to their hearts
content. but times have changed.
And so the oyster is going. Any old
timer in Washington can tell of the
decline in the number Of oyster houses,
even though our city is many times
more populous than it was. They can
tell Of the growing difficulty in OBJ
tanning high-grade oysters and Of
their rising price. Unless sharp and
smart efforts are put forth for the
conservation Of the oyster and the
restoration and protection of the
oyster grounds of the Chesapeake the
oyster will become as rare as a terra
pin or canvasback duck.
Maryland, Virginia and the national
government should spare no effort to
save the oyster. 1t has long been a
source of profit to thousands of peo-
pie in this region. and with proper
safeguards profits can be realized from
it for all times, and Washington will
have steady supply of oysters.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

ed out an amazingly versatile career
by Joining his territorial regiment In
September. 1914. and serving with II
Hotivoly In France until 1919. though
he was fifty-one when the war broke
out. kenyon's richest fame came
from his discovery. while browsing
about the ruins OF ancient Athens In
1891, OF Arfstotle's Constitution OF
Athens" Universities throughout
the world have showered honorary
able activities in the field Of the
classics. Kenyon is tearing across the
United States. from the Atlantic TO
the Missfssippf, in the course OF an
eighteen day sotourn under the au-
spices OF tho American Classical
being at least one EnRlishman who
has come to ''the States not to lee
ture. but to learn.
Secretary Hughes, whose rebuke to
Chinese official diiatoriness in ad-
iusting the matter Of an American
life taken by Chinese soldiery is now
the topic Of the hour in. the far east,
is personally filled with inexhaustible
kindliness toward China. He divested
himself of good one this week when
somebody asked II DR.. Alfred SEE
pronounced Zee) was returning to
Washington az Chinese minister.
Hughes observed that SEE recently
was deposed as minister Of foreign
affairs at Peking. sharing the fate pre-
vtously visited upon Dr. wellington
koo. Looks as II China had run the
Gamut OF the political alphabet" said
Hughes. with succession Of foreign
secretaries all the way from Koo TO
Sze."
Pennsy lvania republican state
politician named Lafferty. who burns
incense before the shrine Of Boies
Penrose's memory, has introduced a
bill in the Harrisburg legislature to
appropriate 100000 for a statue of
the great keystone boss. Some of
Senator Penrose's foes think no more
of him in death than they did in life.
A Philadelphia newspaper, which
liked him not. remarks. anent the
statue project: I'VE are committed to
economy this session. For the leg
islature to appropriate 100000 or
any other sum for this purpose would be
10 erect monument moro enduring
than the brass Of the checklist polit-
ical toady to the states spendthrift
Inconsistency
Fiction is stranger than truth
Apropos the case OF Sister Cecilia,
the nun abducted from a convent at
Frederick. Md. this observers atten-
tion is called to a short story written
by the young English novelist, Aldous
Leonard Huxley, less than q year
ago in his volume called mortal Coils. y
II deals with the abduction Of q nun
from a convent in France and her
discovery twenty-four hours later in
"A hovel. where her kidnapers had
left her almost dumb with fear and
from maltreatment. In many details
the experience Of the imaginary nun
in Mortal Coils comedies with the
strange adventures Of Sister Cecilia
at Frederick and Baltimore. Huxley
is n son OF the celebrated English
scientist. He is only twenty-eight
years old. but already famed in the
world of bellies lettres
Copyright, 1872
Evening star., 1923-02-17
Save the Oyster.

The end Of the oyster is predicted
by q leading oyster dealer. and it has
been predicted many times by scien.
lists who devote study to shellfish.
The Chesapeake and its tributaries
are tho home, or at least one Of the
homes. Of the oyster, and it's friends
would be saddened to sec that home
deserted. This section was one of the
homes Of the wild turkey and wild
goose. They are gone. Years before
that it was . home of deer and bear.
Both sone! More recently it was q
home. q a& least . popular resort. for
the ApAiiard. the eanvasbsck and other
celebrated ducks. Though not all Eons.
ahsir wiea u hixh ahoye ths purse of-
Evening star., 1923-02-17
Congratulations All Around.

<AH-dl are III
order as a result of the vote in the
Senate yesterday ratifying the agree
ment for funding Of the British wa.
debt. The World War Debt Commits
sion and the commissioners sent here
by the British government handled the
matter in a businesslike way. and
when it came up to Congress to ratify
or reject the terms agreed upon par
tisan politics and small prejudices
were largely put aside and broad
and statesmanlike view OF the prob
lem resulted in speedy ratification by
overwhelming majorities in both
houses.
In the passing around of congratu
1ations no one will begrudge an eX-
ceptionally generous share to Con
sress. In creating the debt-funding
commission Congress had outlined
terms which. solely from an American
point Of view. were fair and reason
able. But when il came down to the
realities of a settlement it was found
that these terms were impossible from
q British point OF view. The American
commissioners, therefore. made con-
aessions which, while not going as far
as the British wanted them to go. went
farther than Congress had authorized
So recession from the original posi-
zion of Congress became necessary if
there was 10 be settlement. Upon
returning to England Chancellor
Baldwin. one of the British debt COM
missioners, in his now celebrated in
terview, expressed the fear that Con-
gross would not be willing TO eat
its own legislation. accompanied by
some rather untiattering comments
upon the l-mindedness of Ameri-
can congressman. But Congress has
shown that it grades higher in states
rlanship than the eminent British
financier does in diplomacy. Finding
that the terms it originally laid down
were not TO the best interest of this
country or Of the world, Congress con-
sents TO changing the terms, and in
the eating" process makes no wry
faces or gives other evidence that the
meal is unpalatable. Even the i'm
politeness Of departed guest is passed
ever as of too minor consequence to
interfere with generosity to a debtor
who also is friend.
Without crowding Congress out OF
tho limelight of public approval, the
work of the American debt-funding
commission should not be overlooked
at this time of felicitation. 1t was a
difficult and intricate problem with
which the commission had TO deal.
Primarily, the commission had to see
that American interests We're safe
guarded but it equally had to take
into account the interests of Great
Britain and of the world. There were
no precedents to guide it, for no such
stupendous sum ever before was owed
by one nation to another. That the
terms of settlement met the general
approval of the American people, and
now have been approved by Congress
almost without serious criticism, is
abundant testimony as TO the ability
which members of the commission
brought to their task. It is not often
that so big job is handled so ac-
ceptably.
Evening star., 1923-02-17

meath the tracks or carry it over them.
Then, ard then only, will there be se-
curity from disaster. rjot until this il
done will any street or road intersect-
ing railroad line be other than a
matter what devices are adopted or
how dependable are the guards. Be-
tween indifferent gate tenders and
needless drivers the tracks will con-
tinue to take their heavy toll as long
as street and rail line are on the same
level.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
News Thirty Centuries Old.

While the French and Germans are
deadloCked in the Ruhr and the two
nations are in angry mood that
menaces more war and while the
Turks and the allied Christian powers
are at the point of a break in the near
east, with infinite possibilities for con-
fiict and destruction, the world looks
aside TO the opening just cut into a
tomb in Egypt, keen to know what is
to be brought forth from that sepul
cher closed perhaps 5000 years ago
and more. 1t is possibly through weari-
ness of strife that this interest arises
in the relics of a far antiquity. Ger
tainly on the part Of great many
people today the question Of what the
burial place Of Pharaoh Tutankhamen
will yield is of more importance than
whether the French and Germans
crowd one another more dangerously
or the Turks and the allies come to
blows.
For many weeks the preliminaries
of this excavation have been bulletined
from Egypt. Controversies between the
eXcavators and the Egyptian authori-
ties have been noted with concern
lest they disarrange the plans for
full exhumation OF the trea sures. Now
the way seems to have been cleared,
and the contents of the tomb, the in
ner burial place itself, the most re-
mote and securely sealed of all the
ri,.a ~ ~
are being brought forth.
Interest in the find" is Of different
aspects. VIII the mortuary room yield
anything of historical value? What of
the art disclosed? Will light be shed
upon religious mysteries? Who was
the royal parsonage whose last rest
ing place is thus TO be penetrated.
whose very mummy is to be brought
forth? Was he the Pharaoh" Of the
Exodus? Was his the army that was
the fleeing Israeites?
Egyptologists are not alone in their
concern in this great exploration into
the past. To them the articles that
are being found are. Of course, of the
greatest interest. Every detail will be
studied, every significance traced, and
doubtless for a generation these ma
terials will furnish the basis for specu-
lation and perhaps for sharp discus
sion. But there is large lay public
interest in the results Of the enter
prise as WELL Students of Biblical
history are aroused to the Importance
Of the revelations. Students OF social
life in the remote past are keen in
their reading of everything pertain
ing TO the unfolding of the wells of
centuries.
Washington has perhaps a larger
percentage Of direct interest in this
matter than any other American COM
munity. for here are many representa-
tives Of all the sciences that find mat
ter for reflection and study in these
products of the excavations at Luxor.
1t is an old story that is being told,
day by day. story that goes back be-
yond written records, and the capital
is reading it as it comes. eagerly alb
sorbing every detail Of this remarkable
narration, so wildly illustrated by ac-
tual scenes from past of more than
5000 years.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
WHAT GREAT NATIONS
DO FOR THEIR CAPITALS

From the argument Of Theodore W. Noyes BE-
fore joint congressional fiscal committee in
1881
The nation has recognized the Pc
culiar obligation, coupled with and
propOrtionnte to supreme power and
control. imposed upon It in respect to
the capital. even while 1t wns woe-
fully failing to meet this obligation.
For example. the executive heads OF
the nation. in formal message to Con-
gress. have recognized and defined
this obligation. and urged that it be
met.
Practically all OF the Presidents,
either by word or act or both, declare
that the fact that the District is gov
erned by legislature which II has
not chosen and in which 1t is not
even fractionally represented, imposes
upon this legislature a peculiar obli-
CATION of sympathetic consideration
Of the Districts welfare, compelling.
according to some of the Presidents,
the careful ascertainment and the
scrupulous carrying out of the rea-
sonabIe wishes concerning its own To-
cal affairs OF the unrepresented COM
munity itself.
The thought that the constitutional
power Of exclusive legislation confer
red upon Congress imposes a special
and peculiar obligation is expressed
in varying forms Of words by many
Presidents, including Van Buren,,
Polk, Fillmore. Buchanan, Lincoln,
Hayes and Benjamin Harrison.
Peculiar Obligation Recognized.
Hayes and Benjamin Harrison COM
bined with their pleas for recognition
of the obligation based on power sug-
gestions of another obligation spring
ing from the national sentiment and
from national pride. Monroe was ss-
pecially pointed in his appeal to ma
tional pride In behalf of the nations
city. Following him in the same line
were Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan,
Grant and Mckinley.
Some Presidents have urged that
the peculiar obligation upon this leg
islature, not chosen by the District,
thus generally recognized, is to act
in respect to local legislation precise
ly as If it had been so chosen: that is,
it should represent in such legisia-
tion reasonable public opinion among
it's capital constituents. carefully as
certaining not only local needs, but
local public opinion, and meeting
those needs in a manner conforming
to that local sentiment so far as the
national interest permits.
The first President to urge specific
ally the application of the injunc-
tion, Put yourself in his place" to
legislation for the District by a legis-
lature not chosen by it was william
Henry Harrison, who. in his inaugural
message, said: ''The grant to Con-
gress of exclusive jurisdiction in tho
District of Columbia can be inter
preted SO far as respects the aggre
gate people of the United States rs
meaning nothing more than to allow
to Congress the controlling power
necessary to accord q free ami safe
exercise of the functions assigned 10
the general government by the Con-
stitution. In all other respects the
Regulation OF Congress should be
adapted to their peculiar position and
Evening star., 1923-02-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Fishing.

Fishing.
Everybody's fishin', everywhere you
go,
Fishin' fur a bank account or fiShin'
fur a beau;
Fishin' fur a compliment that may be
false or true;
Fishin' fur position to command the
public view.
Fishin' fur a place in life to call your
very own.
Fishin' fur fireside warm or fishin'
fur a throne.
Everybody's fishin, an you need q
holiday
To do a little fishin' in the plain old
fashioned way;
Fishin' in the big outdoors, beside the
whisperin' stream.
Where, when the fish amt bitin', you
can doae an maybe dream.
You sort O. want to concentrate upon
the simple wish
To do some real fishin just fur ordi-
nary fish.
Evening star., 1923-02-17
Big Things.

Snow removal in New York city is
a big Job. and the big city has TO at
tack it in a big way. II costs big
money, money in terms of millions. Up
to the most recent snowfall the New
York department of street cleaning
had spent this winter S2,500,000 in
clearing away snow, and when the
snowfall Of February came the COM
missioner Of street cleaning asked for
an appropriation Of 81 .ooo, 900. and got
it in the twinkling Of an eye. 1t is
possible that the snow was really re-
moved, but there is as yet no Official
report on this. New York is town Of
big things.
Evening star., 1923-02-17

Albert d. Lasker. chairman OF the
United States Shipping Board, intends
pulling up stakes In Washington on
June 13. whether there's q ship sub
sidy or not. Mr.. Lasker, unlike Wood
row Wilson. has no special partiality
for the 18th, but the date mentioned
happens to mark tho biennial ami
versary of his taking the helm at the
Shipping Board. Tho President and
all concerned clearly understood that
the Lasker chairmanship would end
after two years. so the man whom Mr..
Harding often calls "ths livest wire
in the United States" AYERS he 10
merely keeping q date with himself"
Presumably Chicago and his vast ad :
vertfsing business will lure Lasker
back to the windswept shores of Lake
Michigan. Advertising became his
profession by accident. His first love,
wooed at the tender age OF thirteen,
was Galveston. Tex, weekly news
paper called the Free Press. One of
Its earliest copies. reverent1y framed, |,
occupies niche Of honor in Chair
man Lasker's private office at the
Shipping Board.
DIR. Charles Browne. mayor Of
Princeton and representative ELECT
from the Jersey varsity town. Is a
visitor to Washington. He took time
by the forelock and came here to COM
manoeer suitable quarters in the
House office building for occupancy
next December. To his agreeable sur
prise DR.. Browne found a brother
Jerseyman. Representative Bacharach
OF Atlantic City. in charge of House
ONCE space assignment. so his honor
OF Princeton was we'll taken care Of
wound up four successive terms as
mayor of the city. though he Is a
Wilsonian democrat and Princeton lis
a rock-ribbed republican community.
Dr. Browne says he was at Prince
ton with Wilson-only he got paid for
going to lectures and | didn't" The
new congressman from Tigertown
was a classmate OF Roland S. Morris
of Philadelphia. former ambassador to
Japan, and is native of Philadelphia
They're telling with mingled rlee
and contumely at a certain club In
Washington OF the thrifty manner in
which a member recently attempted
TO settle his share of a subscription
dinner The price was IS a plate.
The member in question not long be-
fore had returned from a trip to ia
pan. After the guest Of honor had
taken his departure, a club attendant
passed the hat. Next morning when
he settled up with the committee Of
arrangements, the attendant said he
was s. shy" Some guest. instead
OF profrering. American legal tender,
had dropped a Japanese ten-yen note
into the kitty" Investigation and
insolence ensued. 4 yen is worth
about 49 cents.
One of the most remarkable Eng
llshmen who have visited US in recent
times is Washington's week end
guest. Sir Frederic Kenyon. x. c. B.,
since 1909 director and principal
librarian of the British Museum at
London. Archeologist. historian,