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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
NIGHT OPERATOR
FINDS JOB FULL
OF ADVENTURES
Big News" Usually Breaks" When
Rest OF World Is SoundIy
Sleeping.

Do more thangs happen in the night
time than in the daytime? Have you
ever stopped to consider how many
fires, floods and big disasters occur
during the night as compared with the
daylight hours?
The night telephone operators know
that for constant interest, romance.
adventure and mystery, the long lines
during the night, were they able to
broadcast their ever-continuous mes
sage-carrying story, would require a
Robert Louis Stevenson, Philips Op-
penheim, Joseph Conrad and Victor
Hugo, combined with a composite Of
Charles Dickens and Charles Reade on
the side, to correctly record the 60
ings-on.
When the, Black Tom explosion oc-
CURED during the war, 1t literally
turned the night time into day time,
not only in New York City itself, but
In the east generally, for the explosion
was heard even as far distant as in
New England and Maryland. 1t oc-
CURED about 1880 o'clock in the morn
Ing and Immediately calls began to
come in over the long lines. Soon
traffic conditions along the telephone
lines we're equal to any daytime con-
ditions then known.
frequently the newspapers relate
now Miss So-and-So stuck to her post
until everyone else was safe. and usual
y It is night operator who is the
heroine Police records alone show
how important part she plays in the
world OF fires. floods, explosions. bur-
giaries, murders and kindred calami-
ties.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
Predicted Posusr BY Radio

DR.. G. p. SteinmetE. whose Develop
ment Of electrical science brought him
to a place Of eminence In the scientine
world. said shortly before his death
that those adults Of today who lived 10
a ripe old age would see electric power
transmitted by radio over Q distance
as far as from Chicago to Canton.
China. He emphasized the word pow
or" and said much Of the worlds work
would be done by radio when Il was
fully developed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13

dewy with cold sweat. It was
romantic and mysterious to stand
here in the deep gloom and look out
upon the green valley shining in the
sun. But the impressiveness Of the
situation quickly wore off, and the
romping began again. The moment
candle was, lighted there was .
general rush upon the owner Of it; .
struggle and a gallant defense fol-
lowed, but the candle was soon
knocked down or blown out, and then
there was glad clamor Of laughter
and a new chase. But all things have
an end. By and by the procession
went fling down the steep descent
of the main avenue, the Pickering
rank Of lights dimly revealing the
lofty walls Of rock almost to their
point Of junction sixty feet over
head. This main avenue was not
more than eight or ten feet wide.
Every few steps other lofty and still
narrower crevices branched from it
on either hand-for McDougaps
cave was but vast labyrinth Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
All the Same

Simkins considered himself q hu-
morist. He sent selection Of his
original Jokes to the editor Of q news
paper and confidently awaited Q check.
His excitement ran high when he 10
ceived letter. obviously from the
newspaper ofice. :.
He opened It with feveE1aA haste.
There was NO check, however. Just q
small note, saying:
Dear Sir-Your Jokes received
Some We have seen before; soma Ne
have mot seen yet"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
The DiUa

The poster advertised the worlds
greatest diva and depicted very cor
pulent lady. Members of crowd as
sembled were discussing 1t.
"Queer spelling" ventured one.
"Don't they mean diverT
II don't think So" declared another.
ut Is evidently a foreign word for
something or other. She's too fat for
q diyer."-Louisville Courier Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
GOOD HEALTH IS ALWAYS
ATTRACTIVE

Good health, clear skin, attractive
color. bright eyes, quick wit, belong
to those who keep themselves fit,
and free from harmful gassy stomach
troubles, torpid liver and costive
bowels. with Chamberlain Tablets.
They stimulate the entire intestinal
tract to healthy activity and keep it
SO. Only Csc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
FEW CHILDREN ESCAPE IT

Stomach aches. so inseparable
from the years of childhood, can be-
come serious bowel disorders If not
promptly quieted. Chamberlain
Collie and Diarrhoea Remedy is safe
and depenable both for children and
grown persons. Immediately re-
lieves sudden and severe intestinal
pain, stops weakening diarrhoea.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
MCOLD mn THE HEAD"

b an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh.
ehe0e subject to frequent colds" are
generally in run down" condition.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE IL .
Treatment consisting of an Ointment. TO
Quickly through the Blood on the Mu-
cous Surfaces, building up the System,
and making you less liable to ''colds."
Sold BY druggists for over 20 Years.
y. ,. Cheney q Co.. Toledo, Q.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
Embarrassing Prize

Curate-We are getting up a rafiie.
Lady Mary, for a poor old fisherman.
Would you like a ticket?
Lady Mary-Rather But do tell
me, what does one do with him II one
wins him? -.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
Mishf Be Else.vke,e

Il knew your daughter was keen enl
classical music, but that's a popular
song she's singing. isn't 1T"
mot In this house." was the gloomy
vspiy. .--.... ~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13

Horse sense:-If you want to be
driven with loose rein you've got
to take 1.-THE responsibility Of keep
ing the wagon on the road.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13

The more children a woman has
the less time she has to brood over
her troubles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
MRS. JENNIE TAYLOR
Funeral Director
Assistant Embalmer OF twenty years
experience
Auto or Horse Drawn Heafso
Prompt and careful attention given all calls
Rising Sun, Phone 321 Md.
Funeral Director

FOR SALE
Ford Ton Truck, 1924 Model.
Nearly new; been run about 1900
miles.
Phone 1873. N. B. williams,
r. D. Colora, Nd
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13

There are people so constituted
that they never speak well Of man
till he is dead.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13

Many woman worries more about
owing a call than she does about
owing the butcher.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13

No Joy is comparable to that which
comes from doing your job well.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-06-13
TOMORROW
is on the way

If you knew today that tomorrow
fire would destroy your home
you'd prepare today.
You can't know what will happen
tomorrow. But you can protect
yourself against financial loss
through property loss.
Fire Insurance is only one of the
many forms of dependable property
protection we offer to those who
would be prepared for tomorrow's
eventualities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28

1t has always seemed to me that
women shonld play a larger part
than they do in the greater house
keeping of the state.
Zone of the factors IN the i'm
provement of conditions in Wiscon-
sin has been the selection Of able
women for positions in the State
service, particularly upon those
boards having to do with the well
fare OF women
RefornerV often stop fighting be-
fore the battle is really won; before
the new territory is completely oc-
cupied.
felt that the campaign of 1904
was the very crux Of our whole
movement We had passed our rail
road taxation and direct primary
measures in 1908; but the railroad
taxation law would be a barren vic
tory until it was supplemented by a
commission to control railroad rates;
and the direct nomination Of candi-
dates would fail unless we carried
lIAG EltCL4OAl anu StN NsA 81 hAAC NANACR
ton of the primary bill at the refer
endum that fall
Without the direct primary law It
would be an easy mater for the old
machine to regain control OF the
Legislature and not only prevent
further progressive legislation, but
undo part, II not all, Of the work al
ready accomplished
I felt absolutely sure that another
term, with another Legislature,
would securely ground and buiwark
self government in Wisconsin
I knew that the opposition under
stood this. too, and that they would
make the most desperate fight in
that campaign that they had ever
made.
began, therefore, delivering
speeches both inside and outside the
State as early as December, 1908
nearly a year before the election
As for the old machine, Congress
man Joseph w. Babcock early came
forward as commanderin-Chief. He
criticized the methods adopted by
Phillip, Phster and others in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
COOLIDGE HAILED
AT c. D. P. RALLY
Watson Says He's Glad La
Toilette Has Quit Party,

By United Press
ANGOLA, Ind, Aug 2S.-Repub-
Hcan workers of northeastern Indi-
ana were swinging into the cam
paign today with belief in Calvin
Coolidge" as their battle cry
The campaign was formally
opened with a picnic rally at Lake
James wednesday. Twenty-Five hun
bred attended the rally.
Senator Tess Of Ohio, the princi-
pal speaker, praised the Republican
Administration and branded cam
paign speeches of John w Davis
as lacking in a single constructive
suggestion"
HE makes an issue OF honesty In
government when the people know
that Calvin Coolidge is as ruggedly
honest as the day is long"
Senator Watson, in introducing
Senator Fess, stressed the impor-
lance of electing a Republican Con
gress.
We're glad La Toilette has shown
his real coIors and is at last out Of
the party" Watson said.
State Chairman Clyde WaIb, Ed
Jackson. nominee for Governor. and
other State candidates also spoke
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
campaign Of 1902 as being too open
"Gnmshoe Carnpaign"


He came right to Madison, rented
some rooms and began what he
called "gumshoe campaign" Men
were sent quietly ABOUT the State,
ARRANGEMENTS were raade for con-
trolling the employees of the railroads
and the big industries, and the Fed
eral officeholders were marshaled for
duty.
Upon our part the campaign Of
1904 was the most comprehensive of
the whole series. We went straight
to the people with the same facts
the same dry statistics-which we
had used so effectively upon the
Legislature in 1903.
& We prepared ten different pam
phIets and distributed over 100000
separate pieces of mail. Some OF
these pamphlets contained compare
tive tables showing transportation
rates upon all the principal products
shipped to market from every county
seat in the State.
Two or three weeks before the
close of the nominating campaign
we were surprised by an entirely
new tack taken by the old leaders
Word came that in many counties
second sets of Republican delegates
were being elected under such cir
cun1stances that it could have but
| one meaning-that the opposition
was laying the foundation either for
stealing the State convention or else
! boiling it and placing a third ticket
| III the field.
They were desperate, they knew
! that it was their last chance to win
the State under the old system, that
| the approaching nominating conven-
! ton would probably be the last ever
held in the State for the nomination
of candidates, as indeed 1t proved
| to be
When the time arrived for the con-
vention to meet, at Madison, they
! brought in a veritable army OF men.
I All their leaders were there-Bab-
cock, Phster, Phillip, Spooner and
| Quarles-
We realized we were facing a
crisis, that all we had been strug-
Cling for in Wisconsin might be lost
if we permitted these men by force
or by confusion to cast doubt upon
! the action Of the convention
The convention was called to meet
| in the university gymnasium, the
| largest auditorium in Madison We
felt It necessary to protect the door
keepers from being rushed and
swept aside by a crowd Of men not
/ entitled to seats as delegates
Guards Posted
SO the night before we had con-
structed at the delegates entrance A
barbed wire passage which would
admit of the delegates entering only
in single file. Stationed along the
line of this fence we had twelve or
fifteen Of the old university football
men-fne, clean fellows who were
physically able to meet any emery
ency.
The machine crowd formed IN a
body on the capitol square, a mile
from the university, and marched
down in large numbers, prepared to
take possession OF the convention
hall
They had printed fake" badges
and delegates tickets exactly dupli-
eating those issued by the State CEN
tral committee to all regularly elect
| ed delegates-theirs as well rs ours.
/ Copyright, 1924. NEiA Service, Incl
Continued in Our Next ISSUE
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
NELSON SCORES
CALLING WHEELER
To TRIAL SEPT. |
Terms 1t Prostitution of De-
partment of Justice in
Politics,
Ri Trited Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. 2S.-Bitterly scor-
ing what he termed as prostitution
of the Department of Justice to poll
tics" John NJ. Nelson, La Toilette
Wheeler national campaign manager,
in a statement issued today, pro-
tested against the forcing of Sena-
tor Burton x. Wheeler to trial on
charges of misusing his senatorial
office on Sept. l, the day he had set
20 open his speaking campaign in
the East.
: Wanted Trial
Senator Wheeler has been de-
nanding a trial of his case ever
since last May" Nelson said 1T
was only after he had announced
the opening of his speaking cam
paign in Boston on Labor day that
he was notified he would be ar
raisned that very day.
Having failed to prevent Senator
Wheeler from going on with the in
vestigation Of the Department of
Justice by a framed up indictment,
the Republican party now seeks to
prevent him from carrying the facts
Of this corruption to the people OF
the country by bringing him to trial
in the midst of this campaign.
Exonerated
THE action Of the Montana dis
trict attorney in arraigning Senator
Wheeler on Sept. 1 is a clear in
dication that the Department of
Justice is TO be used as an adjunct
Of the Republican national COM
mittee in the campaign"
Wheeler was exonerated in the
Senate by a vote of Sc to the state
ment says, and agents OF the Re
publican national committee, the De
partment of Justice and the copper
interests are moving heaven and
earth in an effort to make a case
which Will not be dismissed by the
judge for lack of evidence"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
J. L. WAYNE H0N0RED
Named President of Indiana Chapter
of Telephone Pioneers.

Indiana chapter Of Telephone
Pioneers has named ]. Lloyd Wayne
Of indianapolis, supervisor of traffic
for the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany, president. Other officers:
L. L. Monticure. Newcastle, senior
vice president; William Hirst, In
dianapolis, vice president; Miss Mar
garet Cooper. secretary; A. r.
Henry, treasurer.
Employees in telephone service
twenty-one years are eligible for
membership to the society.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS
INSTALLMENTS

After two defeats as Progressive can
Toilette is Overwhelmingly nominated
and elected in 1900. The political
bosses Duck the administration at evry
turn They are particularly bitter IN
their attacks on La Toilette and his
proposals for railroad taxation and reg
ulation. However, under La Follette's
administration. there is passed the rail-
road taxation bin. direct primary law,
a workmens CONDENSATION law. law
creating an Industrial Commission. and
other progressive labor legislation
With passage in 1911 of a law
creating an industrial commission,
Wisconsin led the States Of the
Union in its body of labor legisla-
ton Child labor was reduced and
the children kept in the schools.
Excessive hours for women workers
were abolished
The doctrine of comparative neg
Hgence was adopted for railways,
and the long hours of trainmen done
away with
The most carefully drawn work
mems compensation law was adopted
and the employers Of the State or
ganized, under a new insurance law,
an employers mutual insurance as
ISOLATION, similar to those which in
Germany greatly reduced accidents
and compensated the workmen.
Many other laws were added and
old ones strengthened, and finally
the industrial commission, modelled
after the railroad commission, was
placed in charge of all the labor
laws, with full power to enforce the
laws and protect the life. health,
safety and welfare Of employees.
New Departure
The Industrial commission was a
new departure Of the first impor-
tance-the first of its kind in the
country. BY, this measure the State
assumed to control and regulate the
most difficult questions Of santa
ton, safety, health and moral we'll
being which affect the workers Of
the State
In all Of my campaigns in Wis
consin I had been much impressed
with the fact that women were as
keenly interested as men in the
question Of railroad taxation, rea-
sOnable transportation charges, di-
rect primaries, and indeed in the
whole Progressive program.
They comprehended its relation to
home life and all domestic problems.
They understood what il meant for
the railroads to escape paying a mil
lion dollars of justly due taxes every
year.
They knew that the educational
system of the State must be sup
ported; that every dollar lost to the
educational, charitable, and other in
situations Of the State through tax
evasions by railroad and other cor
porations must be borne by added
taxes upon the homes and farms.
They understood that freight rates
were a part of the purchase price of
everything necessary TO their daily
lives; that when they bought food
and fuel and clothing they paid the
freight As a result my political
meetings were generally as largely
attended by women as by men, and
these questions were brought direct
y into the home for study and con-
sideration-
1t has always been inherent With
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
BOSSES ORGANIZE ARMY
TO SEIZE STATE CONVENTION

my OWN STORY is an exclusive
newspaper version of one of the great
autobiographies of modern times La
Foilettes own story of adventures in
politics as written by himself in 1912,
together with an authorized narrative
of mis- experiences in the years since
then
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
LEGION BOYS LEAVE
Adjourn After Rousing DemOnstra-
ton for New Commander

BIZ United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. Is
Evansville lost it's military atpos-
phere today as delegates to the an
nual State convention entrained for
home, following a rousing reception
for Thomas Mcconnell of Fowler,
the new State commander.
/, Mrs. Charles e. Combs, Bloom
field, was elected president OF the
womans auxiliary.
TT. Wayne was chosen for the
1925 convention.
Resolutions were adopted mem
orializing woodrow Wilson. A spe-
cia1 committee was appointed to
study law for veterans relief
passed by other States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28
Penny Stolen From Baby

Henry Feldin. 2233 Greenbriar
Lane, told police a burglar entered
his home by removing a screen and
took 50 from a pocketbook and
1 cent from the baby's purse
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-28

me to recognize the co-equal interest
of women. My widowed mother was
woman of wise judgment; my sis
tiers were my best friends and ad-
visers; and in all the work of my
public life my wife has been my
constant companion.
Mrs. La Toilette and were class
mates at the University of Wiscon-
sin, and naturally we had common
interests. The first year of our mar
ried life, in order to strengthen my
self in law, I was re-reading Kent
and Blackstone at home evenings,
and she joined me.
This led later 10 her taking the
law course as an intellectual pur-
suit She never intended to prac-
tice. She was the first woman grad
uated from the Wisconsin University
Law School
Helped in Work
On one occasion when my firm was
overwhelmed with work, and the
time was about TO expire within
which a brief should be served in a
Supreme Court case. I proposed to
Mrs. La Toilette that she prepare
the brief. 1t was a case which broke
new ground, and her brief won with
the Supreme Court
About a year afterward Chief JUS
/ tice Lyon. IN the presence of group
Of lawyers. complimented me on the
brief, saying, 1T is one OF the best
briefs submitted TO the court in
years, and in writing the opinion l
quoted literally from it because 1t
was so admirably reasoned and so
clearly stated"
1 said, Mr.. Chief Justice, you
make me very proud. That brief was
written by an unknown but very
able member Of our bar-altogether
the brainiest member of my family.
Mrs La Toilette wrote that brief,
from start TO finish"
Although Mrs La Toilette never
made any further practical use Of
her law, this training brought her
into closer sympathy and companion
ship with me in my professional
work
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-09-19
Tools of Insect World
SuYpass Those of Man

Most Of the articles in that great
chest of tools that mans inventive
genius has contrived were invented by
the insect world before he fashioned
the first, writes Ernest Babe, Phi. D..
in Popular Science Monthly. More
over. mans tools are usually inferior
in precision and versatility.
Saw, pliers, brushes. augers, hooks.
hammers, knives, lancets-all Of these
and yet other tools are in the insects
remarkable chest Nature attached
them to the insects bodies-to the
legs, to the head, to the abdomen,
wherever they were needed. They are
made of chitin, a material that. unlike
the metal tools Of man. resists the
action of water and the milder acids,
The insect tool chest Is truly complete.
one Of It's wonders being the closeness
Of the resemblance of the articles It
contains to the tools that man has
been SO long In fashloning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-09-19
FRIDAY, sEPTEMBER 10. 1924
HOW GRANGE WOULD END
WAR

The Oranges Of the country have
always been unit against settling
national disputes by force of arms.
and over and over again have de-
clared for international arbitration
as a better plan, The Grange now
goes one step further as a means
towards checking the war spirit, by
the following practical declaration Of
purpose:
"The National Grange believes
that in case this country should UNI
fortunately become involved in an
other war the government should
take over the manufacture of all war
munitions and draft all commodities
of commerce and trade that may be
necessary for the prosecution of the
war; also that men shall be drafted
for service producing munitions and
war equipment the same as they are
drafted for service in the army
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-09-19
Greatness Is Not to
Be Gagged BY Stature

Lombroso in his Men of Genius"
says that greatness and stature are
rarely found together. In consulting
biographies of number of great men
In American history, however, it has
been found that this statement does
not always apply. There have been
on the whole more prominent men
above, middle height than below, says
the Denver News. Among the short
men may. be numbered John Quincy
Adams, Admiral Farragut. Paul Jones,
Gen. Phil Sheridan. Stephen A. Doug
las. William Fl. Seward and Martin
Van Buren,. On the other hand we
find that Charles Sumner was 6 feet 4
inches; Thomas Jefferson, 6 feet 21s
inches; Charley Godfrey Leland, G
feet 21a inches; Andrew Jackson. @
feet 1 inch; Samuel Adams. Salmon
P. Chase and Jonathan Edwards de-
scribed as "over 6 feet" James Mon
roe, 6 feet or more; Bayard Taylor, G
feet at the age of seventeen; Georg
Washington, feet. Henry Ware
Beecher, Rufus Choate, Benjamia
Franklin were slightly under feet
Daniel Webster and Patrick Henr,
were about 5 feet 10.