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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
Gasoline ak for
Highway Upkeep
Is Equitable One

Imposts on motor vehicles in the
form Of license fee or gasoline tax
a.e. properly speaking, not taxes.
They are just part of the bill we
must pay because of our ownership
and operation of motor vehicles. You
pay the price when you buy a car.
You then buy gasoline, oil, replace
worn parts, pay for repairs, and buy
new tires. The cost of each of these
mentioned things or services is c legi
innate part of the cost of owning and
operating a motor vehicle. When we
buy new tire we regard it as com
mercial transaction in which we pur
chase commodity in order to opers
ate our car and expect our dividend in
money or pleasure, or both.
Highway service is just as essential
and is just as much part of the legiti
mate cost of operating a motor vehicle
as anything else which we purchase
in order to enable us to operate the
vehicle with efficiency and economy.
As has been noted previously in
these articles, the saving resulting
from good roads will more than pay
ax we pay to get them. When the
public through the demand caused by
the amazing increase in the number
of vehicles is compelled to spend hun
dreds of millions of dollars to build
and maintain roads over which motor
vehicles operate, and which are es-
sential for their operation, the public
is rendering a special service to the
users of these roads and they should
pay an equitable share of the cost of
this service.
These arguments apply especially to
trucks and busses which are operated
for profit The railroads are required
to buy their right of way and build
their roads, but the roads for the
trucks and busses today. are being
built at the expense of the general tax
payer
The 100000 motor vehicles owned
in Wisconsin today, travelling on an
average 5000 miles each, will in the
entire year travel a total mileage Of
2,3OO,O0O,O 900 miles. No one will deny
that well built and maintained roads
would save the useis IF these vehicles
1c a mile. This is equal to the amount
that the state and the counties spent
at the peak point in a given year in
highway construction in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Highway Commission
has worked out figures, and the esti-
mate is low, showing that the total
rost of operating and owning 475,000
motor vehicles in a year would be
1919, 78O,5OO, counting fixed charges,
interest, depreciation, etc., and the diff
ferent elements of operating costs.
The license fees of these vehicles will
run $6,50O,O0O which they pay towards
the roads, or a little over per cent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
EAGLE LOSES TO GAINESVILLE;
STATE BASKETBALL RESULTS
Shy Radio

a(B RADIO
River representing Rhineander district
the High Basketball Tournament which
Madison yesterday lost it's first
GAINESVILLE a. GAINESVILLE is considered OF the
With big who heavy
exceptionally making strong bid for first
fighting tournament honors
According messages this morning Eagle played in
Beong the king the offensive was held score
which would indicate that GAINESVILLE forced the locals to
the time The defeat no discrdit
u to the half and 25 to IA
fast and furious game with Eagle
making uphill fight all the against superior odds
he S Ronald Adams and VIM. Pemkow
eight given below; these two
Madison station which broadcased the
Basketball all town listened
receiving Madison during the
Lacrosse 6: o. FOND 26; Arcadia 3.
oregon Is; Rice Lake H. Appleton Plattevile
GAINESVILLE Is; Eagle Mantowoc IS; Watertown
River Rapids 36 Wauwatosa H.
Rice Friday morning II comparisons
mean anything the local boys should win that game.
following members Of the team to Mad
Beongy Hoover Morgan Felt and Sanderson
A accompanied the team
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
HAS BIG JOB KEEPING
LII. OIL N'YAWK FIT
RICHARD ENRIGHT'S JOB POLIO
ING FOUR THOUSAND MILES
OF STREETS

What would you do if you had seven
million people to protect, keep in or
der and please?
What would you do if you had bat
tie front of four thousand miles of
ets,-further than the distance be-
tween New York and San Francisco,
and the biggest treasure houses of
the world to guard?
What would you do with this army
of people-more than three times the
size of Pershing's forces in France
and one-fifteenth the population Of the
United States and all camped within
a few square miles?
This is the job conferred upon Rich
ard E. Enright by the City of New
York some six years ago and his has
proved such a master-hand in organi-
cation internationally as the greatest
policeman of all days.
His title is Commissioner of Police.
His active force numbers twelve thous
and four hundred, picked, trained and
highly specialized fighting men,
Twenty-eight years ago he started as
patrolman and has climbed from the
bottom to the top He knows his bust
ness. That is why he has been Com
missioner of Police for six years Hi
office has always been political
storm center, and that he has admins,
tered his office twice as long as any
predecessor proves that Enright is a
strong man, handling strong mans
job.
He renders this protection against
the greatest of all obstacles, for re-
member, that thirty-nine per cent of
the population of New York is foreign
born Many of this fueds and quarrels
of Europe are fought out there.
He has driven the professional gam
bier from the scenes Of his operations
He maintains an active crusade
against vice conditions in city once
called the modern Babylon, until it is
now the cleanest large city in the
world.
| He has dealt with the criminal with
such efficiency and dispatch that the
lawless seek safer and more healthful
climates. There are nowI thirty-five
per cent less inmates in Sing Sing
from New York City than ever before.
He has established the only detec-
| tive school in the world. He has i'm
proved the conditions of the police
force by finding time to raise a relief
fund of more than a million dollars
for the welfare and relief of active or
retired police members, their family,
widows, orphans and dependents.
He has provided summer police
camp in the Catskill Mountains for
the recreation and recuperation of
members of the force. He has enlisted
the interest and cooperation in police
! affairs of number of New York IS
most Influential citizens such as Rod
man Wanamaker, Barron Collier, Cole
man Dupont, Edmond Guggenheim,
Dr. John A. Harriss, and Rhinelander
Waldo, adding greatly to the prestige
of the Police Department
He has dealt with the enforcement
of prohibition with an iron hand Pre-
ferment of charges against thirteen
inspectors for laxity and the final re-
moval of prohibition enforcement to
his own reorganized special service
division has provided the most drastic
courageous and positive advance in
law enforcement of any city in Amer
lea.
These are some of the things to be
credited to his organization genius
He always has done his job we'll
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
U. S. MARINE in WEST INDIES

Beginning tour of military duty in
The West Indies, with the prospect of
visiting many of the islands of the
Caribbean before he returns to the
United States, John Francis Swanson
formerly of Phelps, Villas County, Wis
left here recently with detachment
of U. S. Marines bound for the Repub-
lie of Santo Domingo. He will probab-
ly remain abroad for several months.
A small force of u. S. Marines has
been stationed in Santo Domingo
since 1915, when they occupied that
country to maintain order. Peaceful
conditions now prevail, and the Marin
es keep fit with drills and practice
marches, or by following their regular
military routine. Sports and games
are held at frequent intervals, while
moving pictures, band concerts and
social affairs are provided for their
entertainments The country is famed
for its relics of Columbus who landed
there on his first voyage to America
in 1892.
John, who is a son of Mrs. Kate
Swanson of Phelps, joined the Marine
Corps at Milwaukee last November,
and was stationed at Paris Island,
s. c., for several weeks before being
assigned to duty in the West Indies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

Chas. H. Johnson, town treasurer
of Conover was down Monday to turn
in the county's share of the funds of
that town He reported collections
very good in both personal and real
property assessments and that out of
more than 100 personal property tax
payers not one was returned delin-
quent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
WoMAN's CLUB MEETING

The Woman's Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. George Hall Monday
evening, March 31st. Program and re-
freshments.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year:
President Mrs. Emma Radcliffe
Vice Pres.-Fern Scott.
Secretary-Mrs. VIM. Fenton.
Treas.-Mrs. VIM. Hill.
Corresponding Secy.-Martha Han
sen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
Eagle River High Winner of N. A. L.
Basketball Tournament Last Week
EAGLE RIVER FIRST, BRANDON
SECOND, SURFING THIRD
PLACE WINNERS

Eagle River High won its second
tournament of the season when it de-
feated the husky Crandon quint here
last Friday night in the battle for
first and second honors of the North
ern Athletic League basketball tourna
ment, which was held at the local
sym Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
of last week.
The eight high schools competing
were
Argonne, Crandon,
Eagle River, Gillett.
Goodman, Laona,
Surfing, Wabeno.
Tournament honors in the twelve
games played were won as follows:
Eagle River.
End -Crandon.
3rd-Suring.
The games in the order played and
the scores are given below:
Surfing 13; Laona IL.
Goodman 2; Crandon 81.
Wabeno 4 Eagle River So.
Gillett %; Argonne 90
Goodman 4 Laona II.
Argonne II; Wabeno 49,
Surfing Is; Crandon 16.
Gillett 5; Eagle River %.
Gillett 2; Surfing Is.
Argonne g.; Laona IA.
Surfing 4; Laona A.
Crandon 10; Eagle River 25.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

Wells Grocery & Market present.
ed the three winning teams with box
es of candy. The Eagle Bakery and
The Oneida Baking Co.. each present
ed the winners of first place with
prize cakes, which had been on dis
play during the tournament days.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

Following the awards the gym floor
was converted into a dance hall for
the occasion and everybody was in
Eited to join in the festivities.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27
Taking Political Stroll
About Nations Capital
DEMOCRATIC SITUATION is NOT
so SIMPLE IN FACE OF FACTS
SAYS FULLER

There are many, many Republicans
many, many Democrats, and many,
many Progressives in this town. Had
one time to interview each individual
of each group and ask an opinion on
the political situation during these
pre- convention views. Fact of the mat
ter is-no one knows. There is an en-
tirely new political situation existing
through which none have gone--nor
have any a precedent to follow.
Perhaps the Democrats are on a
more even. keel, so far as the party
leaders and party bosses are concern
ed, and, it is possible the convention
will iron out into conclave closely
resembling several such former events
In Republican ranks, however, condi-
tions are entirely different, inasmuch
as state, sectional and national lead
ers men who in the past have mold
ed national conventions and brought
forth to their liking, have no control
over the situation.
How Coolidge is Sitting
Coolidge looms, one could almost
say dominates, not because the party
leaders want him but simply because
he is President and no other Republi-
can is in the cast with enough popular
appeal to give leaders a chance to
swing the convention choice in that
direction. Without doubt, Coolidge
commands the support of all the lead
ers. with the now seeming obvious ex
ception of LaFollette.
Reports from the country at large
indicate that the voters are dazed by
the rapidity of recent changing situa-
lions, resulting in a lack of crystaliz-
ed sentiment That means that the
party machines, which worked at all
times, will prevail. In the parlance of
free language, Coolidge is sitting
pretty"
Now, with the Democrats, the South
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The coaches were impressed by the
splendid backing given the local high
school in supporting the tournament.
It is a safe assertion to say that each
and every one of the sixty visitors
who were here, took back home with
them lasting impression of the com
munity spirit as exemplified during
the tournament in Eagle River.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

Coach Kracht then awarded the
trophies three silver cups of varying
sizes to the Eagle River, Crandon and
Surfing teams.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

A record-breaking crowd saw the
final contests Friday evening. Follow
ing the games Principal E. w. Kracht
gave brief address thanking the.
people Of Eagle River for their whole
hearted cooperation in making the
rst s4sketball tournament ever held
in Eagle River the great success that
it was. Each Of the seven visiting
coaches were then called upon to give
their opinions on the tournament and
judging from their commendab1e re
marks, it was very evident that all
were accorded every possible courtesy
and unlimited hospitality during their
brief stay in Eagle River.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

After winning the district tourna-
ment at Rhinelander a week previous
Eagle River naturally was looked upon
as the strongest contender for the
N. A. I. honors. Crandon, the runner
up, played good basketball, and in the
finals gave the locals plenty to do to
retain their title. The other teams com
peting were lighter teams, but that
did not deter them from putting up
some of the scrappiest and fastest
games seen on the home floor
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-03-27

County Nurse, Miss Ann Christman
returned Monday from business visit
in Madison.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
CUPID HAS CURIOUS
WAYS IN THE ORIENT
CHINESE STUDENT AT MER
GER TELLS OF UNUSUAL
METHODS OF COURTSHIP.

MACON, Ga.-Marrige customs of
the Orient are much more sensible
than those of America, Poon Kee Zip,
Chinese student at Mercer university,
thinks. Every province and eastern
country has a different nuptial cere-
mony, however, he says. Zip, who has
travelled widely, has related some OF
the queer fashions in obtaining wife
or husband on his continent.
In Mongol, of southern China, as
part of the wedding performance the
groom and his male friends mount
horses and with clubs rush into a
ring of young women friends OF the
bride in the middle of which she is
standing dressed in red. When the
men beat down the women they take
the bride and bear her off on their
horses, after which the young women
wall for their friend who is said to
have been stolen from them.
When a girl loves boy in MANIC,
another Chinese province, she losses
stone at him on the street, II ne
loves her they kiss and become man
and wife, but if he does not he walks
away. Girls Tilted in this way usually
commit suicide, Zip says.
A man proposes to a woman by
playing some musical instrument on
her porch for days at time in parts
Of lower Asia, it is said. Finally, if
she wishes to become his wife she
IONS him in the music and they are
married, otherwise she drives him
In Turkey there is now law lin
ting the number of wives husband
may have TO four, and the hrst OF
these must be by parental consent, ne
saws. On the other hand, while on
visit to India, Zip states, he saw
middle-aged wife who had SIX hus-
bands all living in the same house.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
nrARNESS OF MARS CAUSED
MO UNUSUAL PHENOMENA

soon. The wonderful discoveries late
ly made with the radio suggest the
possibility, however. Even should per-
feet electrical connections be made
between the earth and Mars it would
be by telegraph, telephone or radio
phone, and should there be intelligent
people on Mars as on the earth it is
difficult to see how intelligent COM
munication could be carried on be-
tween them.
Mars did not present a much
brighter appearance Friday night than
it ordinarily does. The orbit of the
planet is so much larger than that of
the earth that a few days journey
along it will make no appreciate diff
ference in the distance between the
planet and the earth.
To the average eye the planet ap-
peared Friday as large star in the
southeastern sky, the same as it al
ways does.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
HARDING MEMORIAL
GREETS TOURISTS
GRANITE BOULDER WITH A
BRONZE TABLET IS PLACED
ALONG SANTA FE TRAIL.

HUTCHINSON, Kans.-A memo
rial of granite with bronze tablet in
a little park surrounded by a three
foot stone wall marks the spot on a
farm near here where the late Presi-
dent Harding shocked grain under a
broiling sun in June, 1928, when on
the transcontinental trip that was
brought to an end by his death. The
memorial was dedicated August End,
the anniversary of his death.
1t was on the Chester O'Neil wheat
farm, eight miles west of Hutchinson,
that the late president shocked grain
in the "Ohio way" as he expressed it
to Senator Arthur Capper and Gov
Jonathan M. Davis, of Kansas, who
previously had showed the Kansas
way of doing it. Then Mr.. Harding
drove harvesting machine several
times about the field, so the news
paper boys could have a story" as
Mrs Harding said
The president and party had been
taken to the farm by a little group
of country folks, among them several
children With them the President and
Mrs. Harding chatted freely, the pres
ident taking some of the children in
his arms. These children and others
of Reno county, by contributions of
nickels and dimes, raised the fund to
erect the memorial.
A bit of ground at the entrance to
the field was donated by Mr. O'Neil
and a pretty little park was laid out
with shrubbery, blue grass and sur
rounding stone wall. Here on the top
of Rayl Hill, where thousands of tour
lists pass on the paved highway that
is part of the New Santa Fe trail,
the memorial will stand. Atop a flag
staff the American flag will fly daily,
for the children OF the Rayl school
have obligated themselves to be Gus
todians of the colors, to see that the
flag is raised and lowered each day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
U. S. Faces Big Lumber
Famine in Fifty Years

While Germany Has Doubled Produc-
ton American Has Gone Backward
Using scientific methods in manag,
ing her forests and importing enough
lumber to allow her forests to grow
and expand. Germany has doubled her
forest production in 100 years.
But, according to the New York
State College of Forestry at Syracuse
University, different story is told Of
the United States, where the original
forests have been reduced from $780,
100000, 900 board feet to 2,200000,00C
board feet. The remaining forests are
only able to grow about one-fourtt
of the amount of timber consumed
and what we consume represents the
least we should be growing.
In twenty-five years the population
of the United States will be, accord
ing to estimates, 150,000,000 On our
present basis of timber absorption we
will need 70,0O0,000000,000 board feet
per annum to meet the demand of the
year 1880 This will amount approx
mately to 81 per cent increase over
the volume of timber we use at pres
ent.
Statistics show the worlds consump-
ton of timber is doubling every fifty
years. Even in countries where wood
is scarce consumption is increasing as
the people learn new uses for wood
and become aware of many uses al
ready known in other countries.
The United States cannot grow
trees in twenty-five years to meet the
demand Our entire supply of timber
will have been cut and we will face a
timber famine of serious proportions
the reports shows and adds that the
sooner we adopt new methods in man
aging our forests the shorter will be
the period of wood poverty.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
THE WORLDS BIGGEST BED
OF CLANS IS OFF FLORIDA
Covers $50 Square Miles, But, Accord
ing to Expert Is Little Worked.

covers 1OU O4uotS NAAA~S' ~N'
ing to Expert, Is Little Worked.
Those who like the cool, juicy, hard
she'll clam, lying invitingly upon its
pearly shell, or find him tasty when
fried in a nest of brown pulverized
crackers, or in segments, as ne ap--
pears in chowder, may be interested
to learn that the largest bed OF hard
clans in the United States is off the
southwest coast of Florida, in the re-
gion of the Ten Thousand Islands.
This bed is forty miles long and hve
miles wide and its estimated area, 50
far as clam-producing goes, is loo
square miles. An expert who. writes
Of the hard clam and of its habltatss
for the government says that it is OF
minor importance in the Key West
fisheries because of the lack OF any
great local demand for it.
Its lack of Importance is also que
to the fact that more profit can be
made by the fishermen by conhning
their attention to kng6sh and spiny
Holsters. In 1918 only one boat was
engaged here in the clam catching
business. This was operated by two
fishermen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26

A wrapping machine for mattresses
replaces hand labor. saves materials.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
GEORGIA SCHOOLS
COST $19,291,646
THAT MOUNT WAS SPENT
DURING LAST YEAR. STATE
HAS s,033 SCHOOLS.

Approximately $1o,291, 90 was ex-
pended by schools throughout Geor-
gia under the supervision of the de-
partment OF education for maintenance
the past year, according to the fig
ures compiled by the department.
According to the last school census
which was made in 1913, total of
840,861 children in the state were of
school age, this of course being in
creased during the past year. Of that
number 471,754 were white, and 800,
107 colored The enrolment was
white, male, 232,867; female, 237,375;
colored, male, l28502, female, 1861
total white and colored, females, 1884,
| 066 males, 36l 1869.
A total of 1888 schools were open
throughout the state and under the
supervision of the state department,
including public or state aided and
district agricultural. There are a total
of 4,509 white schools and 3,528 col
ored schools.
There are total of 1904 teach
ers throughout Georgia, according to
the report; of this number there
are 1882 white teachers and 5,155
colored teachers. These figures include
teachers of all schools.
The number of teachers holding
professional or high school license
White, 1882; colored, 257; total $3.50.
Number of teachers holding general
elementary license: White, 7,447; col
ored, 5000; total, 1896.
Number of teachers holding pri-
mary license: White, 1866; colored,
i1720; total, 1886.
Number of normal trained teachers:
White, 6,603; colored, 1,577; total, g.
$780,
Total number in primary and ele-
mentary grades (grades ~: White,
411,744; colored, 272,072; total, 683,-
$40
Total number in high school grades
(grades 8-12): White, So, 498; colored,
1921; total, 61,619.
Total number in agricultural high
schools, white, 1873.
Length of terms:
Number of days of free or public
term: White, $40; colored 131; aver
age, 135.
Total number of days schools were
in operation: White, ISL; colored, 1874;
Average for state, 14o days.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-08-26
NO LONGER DETOUR ON
DAWSON-CUTHBERT ROAD
Bridge at Cobb's Branch Has Been
COMPLETED and Opened to Travel

The bridge on the Cuthbert-Daw-
son highway over Cobb branch has
been completed and travel is now
passing over it. 1t is substantial con-
crete Structure, a great improvement
over the old bridge.
While this bridge was under con,
struction travel for several weeks had
to be detoured by way Of the Brooks
Vile road or by the Morgan road;
Either way increased the distance and
was unpleasant to travellers.
At present the road force is work
ing near the Tuck place, formerly
owned by J. J. Sealy. Several months
will elapse before the highway to the
Terrell county line will have been
completed.-Cuthbert Leader