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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT
By S. w. STRAUS
President Of American Society for Thrift

One Of the important factors in
the development Of our eountry-one
of the best induces of national pro-
gress-is the amount of improved
highway construction now taking
place.
Just as the development of the
nations steam transportation lines
few generations ago marked the
beginning of a new era in the
progress of our people, so the present
period of highway improvement is
bringing about rapidly improving
conditions.
According to figures that have
been compiled by the Bureau of
Public Roads and the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
we are adding $4,000 miles of
improved highways to our system
each year and now have substantially
400, 900 miles of roadways of this
type.
In 1904 we had 1884, miles of
rural highways improved with some
type of serving, so that in the last
two decades about 250,0oo miles
have been added or enough to circle
the globe ten times.
These figures, of course, do not
represent the total mileage of
improved and unimproved rural
roadways in the United States which
on January /, 1922 was 2,941,2 94,
gain of $4,000 miles since 1904.
This amazing development of high
ways has in many ways revolu-
tionized modern life. Thousands of
persons who formerly spent their
lives in the great cities are now
getting out into the country where
their appreciation of this great land
is made more comprehensive and
where they are able to cultivate
gardens and secure the many bene-
fits of semi-rural existence. The
former isolation of the farming
community has largely disappeared,
and the people of this nation have a
better understanding of each other
than ever before because of this
closer contact.
New wealth is being created, new
interests in life are being aroused
and employment on an economically
sound basis is being given TO thou
sands of men.
The development of good roads is
splendid type of national thrift,
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
Monthly Newsletter To Be Published
This Year.
b. Dan shaffer. County Agent

A new feature viii be added to
the county agents activities this
coming year. A monthly news
letter viii be published and mailed
out to the farmers on or about the
first Of each month. The first
letter will be sent out about the first
of April. These letters will contain
items Of interest and different
phases Of farming activities viii be
discussed from time to time. One
section of the letter viii be devoted
to a sales and want ad section. This
service will be given to the farmers
free Of charge, and the success of
this section will depend on the CO
operation Of the farmers Of the
county. Farmers desiring toslist
their sales and other items should
communicate with the county agent
on or before the 25th of each month.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Series OF Meetings On Home
Manapement

The first meeting on home manage
ment will be held at the State Graded
School in Van Buskirk on April
first under the direction Of Mrs. A.
E. Anderson. On the following day
Miss Hale win be at Iron Belt under
the direction and cooperation of Mr.
Crosland of the Iron Belt high
school. On the third or Thursday
the work will be given at Saxon
under the direction of the Saxon
Womens' club and on Friday Miss
Hale viii work at the Presbyterian
church parlors under the direction Of
Miss Short. All women interested
in this phase Of home work should
plan to attend these meetings. A
series of four or more meetings will
be held on the Home Management
work and if we are to get the most
out of the meetings we should plan
to attend the entire series.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Nc siIo Ferms Are Here.

The silo forms ordered some time
past are here. Farmers planning on
building a permanent silo should get
in touch with the county agent and
find out how to build a silo that is
storm proof and fire proof. The
forms will be rented out to the
farmers at a low rate. It will be a
case of first come, first served. If
you wish to build a concrete silo
see the county agent and make
arrangements for the forms.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22
Carload OF Sodatol To Be Unloaded
Soon

The carload Of sodatol ordered by
the county agent will be unloaded
soon. From information received
by the county agent we can look for
the car about April or End.
Please keep this date in mind and
watch for further announcements.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Anyway. plenty of Investigations
will make it possible for congress
men TO keep from going on record
on important public questions before
the election.
The bright and shining political
lights of 1924 are not getting their
brillancy from oil.
Business is great deal ike
sleep-the harder you work the
easier it comes.
The top rung of the ladder is the
hardest one to stick to.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Nine injured as powder exploies
in Toronto (Ohiol high school, -
says a newspaper headline. We al
ways knew that high school girls
were using too much of it.
Wonder # McAdoo. who said he
was promised million by MIR.
poheny On certain conditions. will
deduct wnat is now regarded as a
certain loss, from his income tax
The mayor Of Chicago says he
doesn't know how much a chorus girl
ought to wear, but we are all con-
vlnced. after going to the theatre.
that she doesn't wear enough.
The trouble about most of the
advice 70 young girls is that it comes
from women Who have no girls and
haven't been girls for so long that
they can't remember what a girls
impulses are,
If mere mention of mans name
in the Teapot Dome investigation
eliminates him as presidential timber,
ii looks like some Of US common
people will have to prepare for the
lightning 80 strike US.
The federal trade commission
threatens to prosecute dealers for
fixing prices en- used cars, Let them
fix the priee-planty high-and
some Of the auto owners may be
they can make the old
boat last an&sner year
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Men who want to live long in the
memory of their friends ought to
give something of their substance to
their home community before the.
die and make certain that the COM
munity gets the benefit of it.
Nature detests a vacuum 50 when
she finds one in a human head, she
fills it with words.
Others may mind our business, but
to be successful, we had to do the
work.
Easy money is a hard test for the
morals.
High Tiers are seldom ever deep
thinkers.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Only one-third of the revenue re-
ceived by the forty-eight states of
nation came from general property
taxes in 1922, the last year on which
figures are available, according to
the census bureau. which refutes the
trite argument that tangible pro-
perty is bearing far more than its
share of the tax burden.
Shifting the burden to tangible
property does not seem to be the
difficulty half so much as the rapid
ly mounting costs of government.
The cost of state government in the
United States increased from a per
capita of $5.03 in 1915 to $11.S2 in
1922.
An analysis Of state revenue re-
ceipts for 1922 discloses that only
1922 out of per capita revenue
of S10.7l came from general pro-
perty tax and that the per capita
from special taxes, including in
heritance. income, corporation and
bank stock taxes, was s1.S1. Revenue
from licenses amounted to one
fourth of the total revenue raised by
the states.
These figures are interesting be-
cause of the lesson they contain We
can't complain SO much about the
tax burden general property bears.
Our chief complaint should be in re-
gard to the way the expenses of
state government have advanced
during the past seven years.
The only way taxes can be lowered
is to begin at the bottom, not at the
top { we want lower taxes, we
must insist not only on economy in
our local governments, but take a
stand against multiplying the
functions of government, which
necessitate the creation of new
bureaus and commissions and add
more expense.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-03-22

Policies makes queer bedfellows-
and so does the oil business.
When the oil line to Washington
burst, it splashed on a lot of people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02

IT HE State of Indiana collected,
during the fiscal year just
- closed, the neat sum of $4,-
TAI, 62o.S1 from the gasoline tax.
And the cost Of collection was
only $6,134.12.
Probably there are not many tax
collections escorted into the State
treasury with so little costly fuss.
or with so few expensive men at
arms in attendance.
The gasoline tax is one OF the
conspicuous fiscal successes of State
government. 1t yields the revenue,
which is the primary purpose of any
tax. 1t is simple and inexpensive to
collect. And most important 1t is
not CALLING to the taxpayer. He can
walk and go tax free. or ride and
pay. The matter is optional with
him.
Very few walked in Indiana, how
ever.
For the sum collected in tax last
year represents a large quantity of
gas burned on the highways of the
State
1t would be sufficient quantity to
give each car in Indiana a weekly
ration in excess of eight gallons. Or,
figuring twenty miles to the gallon,
last years gas consumption would
run a certain cheap car Ara, 500, $40
miles.
That's too far.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
MOUNTAIN
FOLK FOR
Ia TOILETTE
Two Thousand Go Through
Rain to Hear Wife
of Senator,
By Times Special

BIZ Times Special
OUNTAIN LAKE PARK, Nd,
.IIW Oct. 2.-No political event in
Ill a generation has attracted so
much attention in this mountainous
section OF Maryland as the recent
address of Mrs. Robert NJ. La Fol
lette, wife of the Progressive can.
didate for President
over 1000 stoical mountaineers
trudged from five TO ten miles in
the rain, or drove old nags hitched
to buckboards. or came Slowing over
dangerous. slippery roads in their
automobiles
Though efforts We're made to pre-
vent Mrs. La Fonette's appearance
in the local auditorium, news OF
these efforts did not reach the set.
tiers and it was only after they ar
rived for the meeting that they
learned Of the difficulties that had
been placed in the speakers way.
This town is largely owned by the
Methodist board of foreign missions.
Mrs. Sally II. Burch, local La Fol
At@tN WI hEAs LEAANtI TIC ltAiSS4DIl-
owned auditorium from the New
York headquarters Of the Methodist
board several weeks ago. On the
day before the scheduled meeting,
Mrs. Burch received a telegram from
the organization Washington Of.
fee saying that the mission officers
had just realized that Sept. % was
Sunday and that the auditorium
could not be used for a political
meeting on the Sabbath. Previously
citizens had been aroused when they
became aware, they said. that Re
publicans planned to make use OF
Maryland blue laws and enjoin Mrs
La Toilette from making her speech
". c. Huntington. owner and pro
prietor Mountain Lake Hoted, had
planned to turn over verandas of his
place for the meeting in case the
Methodists made trouble about the
auditorium.
This is a religious stronghold OF
Mennonites, Dunkards, ct cetera
They are interested in La Toilette
because they think he is working
for peace and clean government. The
stolid mountaineers did not applaud
Mrs. La Toilette at all They never
applaud anybody. Their coming was
eloquence enough, say old-timers
here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
Science

Within the last few years, the
United States has ceased to be the
greatest user of strange and fake
medicines. Education and Govern
ment regulations have put prac-
tically all the harmful medicines out
of existence. Today most Z COM
pounds must toe the ethical mark.
England, is now probably the great
est user.
In all ages man has shown de-
sire to use cure-alls, nostrums,
charms and fake medicines. Many
of these have survived from the
days of ancient Egypt, Greece and
Rome. The oldest is the compound
known as hiera which began in
prehistoric times and has continued
to the present day without changing
its name. It's active ingredier. is
aloes. Even modern doctors have
tried to justify its use through i'm.
provements Quacks in every coun-
try and every period in history have
made extensive use of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02

BY HAL COCHRAN

Sure, you've got wcrriesi We've
got our share about this bout that
or the other. 1t seem that they
come to us out of the - and when
one goes there enters ..r-ther.
It's easy to fret ard go fumin'
about and just feel that the world
has gone smash. We often lose
trust, but we cater to doubt, and
we let our old feelings get rash.
Then, where does it get you?
Why, no place at all! There's moth.
ing that's gained just by worry
You may think it helps, but it's only
a stall. Get that fact through your
head in hurry.
Just stop all your frettin'; much
more you'll be gettin', if only to
smile you wiz try. Whatever you're
doin', just cut cut the stewin'-in.
stead, keep your spirits up high.
Copyright. 1924, NEA Service, Inc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
HE'LL AND MARIA

WILL DAWES get off be pushed off the vice presidential
w tcket2
Has Dawes got off or been pushed off the stump3
He cancelled his speaking date Memphis set for Oct 2
alleging hall in which he speak has not been
completed The Memphis local Republican committee the
hall is perfectly available.
What is it all about?
First Dawes was stopped speech Minneapolis by
questions from the audience about his Lormer bank deal
Second Senator Brookhart has written Chairman Butler
demanding Dawes be eliminated from the ticket because
of the Lorimer bank deal.
What is the Lormer bank deal?
quite simple.
In 1912 United States Senator Lorimer who kicked
out of the Senate president of National bank Chicago
so shaky that it about to bust
Lormer switch State charter and have
a State bank
Under the law exhibit the total claimed capital
and surplus 250000 in cash and his bank officers had to
belonged the bank uncumbered and for
in the banking business Lormer didn't have the money
Dawes was president of the Central Company of Chi
Fcago and his cousin was the cashier
Lormer asked Dawes to help him out
Dawes did
auditor taken to the Dawes bank and
handed cash. being told fiat it belonged the Lori
mer bank.
The auditor handed Lormer his permit open his bank
and the money put back into the Dawes bank vaults
Lormers bank started the foundation of this e
failed and 1000 depositors stung.
of the Lormer bank discovered the Dawes
Lormer transaction and sued the Dawes bank for the
had said belonged to Lormer.
The the Supreme Court of Illinois twice and
twice the Supreme and all the intermediate de-
bank help pay the Lormer depos
tors who had been stung
The directors of Dawes bank pleaded that they had
authorized the transaction and that President Dawes and
his cousin cashier had authority do such thing.
said the of the Daweses binding.
the transaction that Dawes explain when he
gets back on the stump.
Brookharts letter made public reeng the
DawesLorier story Chairman Butler declining report
ers took a fast train for Washington
Pechance he going Washington where he be silent
with Cal.
He'll and Maria!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02

TT HE white Spider Gang" Of
| Brightwood has been broken
up. Five Of the boys have
been sent to correctional institutions.
And Juvenile court authorities are
thereby relieved. for this gang. con
sisting of a dozen or more boys.
ranging in age from 10 to 16, gave
endless trouble.
Smoking cigarettes at school. pi-
gard for property rights and vandal-
ism OF all sorts were among their
minor accomplishments. 1t was
tough, bold. bad gang.
For boyhood gangs, like people
are sometimes good but frequently
bad.
And. like people. the boys gangs
have persisted from the earliest time
down to Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn
and the white Spider Gang" The
gang Is a natural expression Of boy.
hood; It satisfies his craving for
companionship: It affords him an
opportunity to display his daring
and prowess. It gives him an out
let for his energies.
The spirit Of the gang is one of
the finest heritages of boyhood. For
there he learns q certain code Of
courage, squareness and loyalty.
The preservation Of this gang spirit
and the direction of its energies
into constructive. instead of de-
structive, channels is one of the
greatest problems confronting Juve-
nile courts and other agencies work
ing with boys.
For the gang spirit Is the spirit
that builds cities, State, armies and
nations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
| Ioosierisms
BY GAYLORD NELSON

YDNEY ANDERSON, Con
gresham, addressing the In
diana Millers, in session at the
Board of Trade, said: Il doubt il
any man can name me one law
passed recently that has added to the
happiness, comfort or convenience OF
mankind"
And he may be right.
For the laws that fundamentally
promote happiness, comfort and
convenience, are the laws for the
security of human life and the pres
ervation of human rights. And
those are embodied in the common
law, the slow outgrowth of custom
and experience in the relation OF
man to his neighbor and his neigh
boris possessions.
Our everyday actions would be
guided by the common law, If there
wasn't a printed statute book.
It has been the task Of law max,
ing bodies to adjust the common
law principles to meet the changing
conditions Of the modern world
There will always be need for new
laws as social conditions change.
But there may be too many frills
sewed on the common law fabric,
Perhaps no recent law has added tc
the happiness, comfort or conven-
fence Of mankind.
Still, there will be a proposal to
the next Indiana Legislature to curb
the activities of justices of the peace
and constables.
That law would be a comfort-at
least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02

wi B. GRAY of the Indiana Sc.
IH securities commission says
that the statesmen of fake
securities are again becoming active
in the State.
Blue, sky is a standard commodity.
Indiana, like other States, invests
heavily in it.
For many men are incurable OPP
timists and they can't resist the lure
Of owning a Respondent stock GER
tifcate Although it may repre-
sent no more tangible value than
the glib stock salesman's converse
ton.
They nurse a longing to pet an
orphan wildcat security until it
grows up into something almost as
robust as the Steel Corporation.
But the wildcat stock bites the
hand that feeds il and instead Of
leading its owner into the United
States Mint usually leads him itno
the cellar OF the bankruptcy court.
But the blue sky buyer. despite
his setbacks. is convinced that Four
Percent and Five Percent are good
old horses, but too slow. lie wants
TO get rich instantaneously-and he
usually does. Rich in experience.
II one longs for blue sky. why not
buy German marks?
A place on Illinois st, offers l.
100000 marks for $3.50. or 10000 900
for $15 real money.
There's a large slice Of hue sky.
for the par value of a mark was
once 23sc-10. 900 marks So.
$50. 1000. If marks should 80 to par
a SIS investment would yield a paper
profit Of s2.379.9S5. If
Quick, Watson, the needle!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
KnOz0 Indiana

Where was the first session Of the
Indiana conference of the Methodist
Church?
New Albany, in 1882.
What was the Colonization So
ciety?
A. group of people organized to col
lect money to send liberated negroes
to Liberia.
How was Indiana University
founded?
A State seminary was first estab-
lished. Later it became Indiana Col
lege, then, in 1888. Indiana Univer-
sity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
FiSherrnan'S Luck

An Idaho man was fishing In Lake
Crescent recently. He caught a big
northern pike; the biggest he had
ever landed in his long and busy
life. He was elated. He was crazed
with joy, and he taegraphed his
wife: I've got one; weighs seven
pounds and it is beauty"
The following was the answer he
got: $50 have I; weighs ten pounds.
Not a beauty-looks like you. Come
home. Idaho Yarn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02
La Toilette
BY DAVID I. WALSH

BY DAVID I. WALSH
Democratic Senator from Mas
sachusetts, Twice Governor
and Noted Liberal.
If I were asked who in the
United States Senate was the
most conspicuous peoples Sena-
tor-and by that I mean, Of
course, the freest and most I'M
trammeled spokesman for the
rights of the people, should
unhesitatingly name Robert
Marion La Toilette.
He is a courageous. independ-
ent, honest public servant
whose interests first and last
are not of any political party,
but of the great common people
of America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-02

DR.. Kennard, Ohio experiment sta
ton scientist, put newly Matched
chickens in two small boxes, with
out sunshine. He fed one lot with
the usual chicken feed, but to the
food Of the other he added two pints
of cod liver oil to 100 pounds of
mash. In twenty-one days a young
cockerel Of the latter bunch was
growing and all his companions
quickly became marketable birds.
In twenty-one days the unoiIed
batch degenerated and died. This
experiment shows that chickens,
with the aid of cod liver oil, can be
raised indoors without sunshine and
in restricted quarters.
II you buy a skylark, the bird that
rivals the nightingale for his wild
free notes, there's no need Of put
ting a perch or swing in the cage.
He'll. stick to the floor.